Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-29
CAPTAIN DOVENER.
His Partisan Speech at Glenville Riddlsd
With Hot Shot.

His Partisan Speech at Glenville Riddlsd
with Hot shot.
GLESviLLE, August q, 1888.
To ne Editor o. ne Rs0isteT:
SE:-Black Dovener, Republican can
didate for Congress in this district, met bis
Republican brethren at this place a few
DAYS since to make known to them his can
didacy, his own party organ having as yet
hardly recognized his name among the
present aspirants, it realizing the small
prospects tor so small timber. Mr.. DnyeneT
then attempted to give the early history OF
the tariff, but being unable to make plain
its history or It's workings, said he would
devote his attention to the analyzstion OF
the tariff of '46, the benefits of which, b.
said, 80 much has been claimed by tariff
reEormers. ''But that the apparent Pros
psritY was not attributable to the Wake
Tariff, bat 20 the wars in EGrope which
caused the Americans to become
exporters, and that on the re-
turn of peace the financial crisis
Of 81 came" which be endeavored toim-
oress on the minds of his audience WAS the
result of the tariff Of '46.
But such is not the case, and the fact l.
supported by history that the wealth CT
the country, the increase OF wages and in
crease of manufactures aud agriculture,
and railroads and cur foreign trade, was
greater during the lowest tariff period be
tween 1850 and 1850, than ut any other
decade of our history before or since, name
ly: Wealth, % per cent. wages, II per
cent manufacturers, 81 per cent agricul-
turs, 80 per cent railroads, 2 80 per cent
and while in 1860 we were carrying DO
per cent Of our foreign trade, We to day
carry less than IS per cent, our pay over
S14O. 900 rs freight 10 foreign sailors.
Mr.. Dovener in his criticism stated that
under the tariff OF 40 the American people
became exporters and that the law OF sup
ply and demand became the regulator oil
trade, and not artificial laws as under
higher schedule of tariff. In this admis-
sion the worthy speaker surrendered to
fatal extent bis position on the tariff.
Because the index Of the increased
wealth and growing prosperity ofthe conn
try is that il exports more than IL imports,
aud that its carrying trade on the seas
keep pace with its Industries on land,
which Is the natural result when the laws
ofsupply and demand regulated trade, and
not artifcisl laws.
Mr. Dovener cited the Morrill, tariff Of
1912, and said that after the passage OF
those tariff acts continued prosperity bad
attended us ever since. Ignoring the fact
# the great financial erisis of rs; the in
Vulnerable failures all over the country,
and the long financial depression, produe-
ing over 90, 600 labor strikes, sending from
the mills and furnaces over q million men
to become trarps.
Again Mr.. Doyener in reference to the
free whisky plank in the platform, in its
defeose, stated that it Ill became the DEM
ocratie party to insinHste that the Repuo-
lican platform And party was in favor Of
free whisky. when, as he claimed, in their
platform of1684, the Democrats favored the
entire abolition Of the internal revenue
system, and in the support thereof he
had the audaeity to, read from pretend
cd platform the above declaration. As an
excuse for such false and bsse statement,
we presume hs intended to work upon the
eredulity Of his Republican brethren for
political motives. These are bat \ few Of
the errors with which Mr.. DoVener's
speech was filed. II Is q sample Of Re-
publican campaign oratory. OBSERVER.