The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-15
The Debate
BETWEEN CEN, GOFF AND
hon. v. l. WILSON
Rank Free Trade Arguments by
the Latter
Answered by Patriotic Utter.
anccs by the Former.
4 Memorable Scene of the Wild
est Enthusiasm.
COPF'S SIGNAL VICTORY,
The plaudits Of the People Make
the Welkin Ring.
Effect of Wilson's Words OH Bit
ter PartiSans.
They CRY SHOWN with the Factories!
aal Down With Wagcs"-A
Shameless Episode.
cORF'S SIGNAL VICTORY,
The plaudits Of the People Make
the Welkin Ring.
Effect OF Wilson'S Words OH Bit
ter PartiSans.
rher CRY "Down with the Factories!
and Down With Wagcs'-A
Shameless Episode.

and Down With Wascs"-A
Shameless Episode.
4olal rTapnhan Of The Ia'eitignccr.
MRussDrRG, W. Va, Oct. l3.--GoiI
IA, met Wilson, and the victory is Colts.
Ot course the Democrats will not be-
licya this. They cheered Wilson only
less heartily than the Republicans
cheercd Coli, and as usual the Regista
will represent Gen. Goir as ground up
into pieces and the Republicans leaving
tnc State to avoid further punishment.
What a party the Republicans must
lave had, and what phenomenal being
Gen. COL must have been, when this
campaign opened! There has not been
aDomocratic meeting in the State that
the Republicans have not lost heavily,
according to the Regi'terj and Gen. Golf
has been "paralyzed" and wiped out
oixistcuce" and "dissecLed" and used
10 wipe up the floor" with at least once
hyrycry Democrat who has met or fol-
IGged him, from Senator Kenna down to
Henry $. Walkcr-yes, clear down to
'Windy' Wilson-GIl this, according to
the Register; yet Republican meetings
aea.lcnded by crowds growing in size
apl enthusiasm, and Gen. Golf comes
up smiling once or twice daily, and
HaSes votes each time.
The meeting here was General Colts.
Ills greeting was strikingly more cor
dlpi and enthusiastic than Mr.. Wilson'S,
anil when he scored point the large
audience went wild. The hall, rink
holding about as many us the Capitol
rink in Wheeling, was crowded almost
literally to sutIOcatiOn. The Capitol
rink never had within 800 people OF US
argca crowd in it. l doubt ii IL vote
was made either way. Certainly the Re-
pubcans lost none, and from the re-
SpOnses once or twice the Democrats are
not open 10 conviction.
THE EXTREME or rAErIsANsiIP.
Once General Golr sounded Il warming
that to elect Cleveland and Demo-
cratic Congress this year would be to
bring back the state OF affairs which pre-
vailed underline revenue tariff OF 'lG.
"let EN- comet That's what we
WANT sang out Wilson's partisans.
III you desire to pull down your fac
tories said Gef, "that is your .privi-
Iegcw q
Pull them DOWN. they shouted.
"Woii do itW
The only point which it could be
claimed Mr.. Wilson scored against Gen.
GOtI was one which could have been
turned against him with deadly effect.
Gen GOir stated that in the lifties, under
the revenue tariff, wheat was as low us
81 cents bushcl, while other things
the farmer had to sell were proportion
aIcly cheap, aud the articles the farmer
must buy were high priced and not Of
good quality,
Ia response to this Mr.. Wilson read
from the records in the county clerks
office Of the prices obtained ut q sale in
1855, when wheat sold at 81 Sll a bushel
anil horses, cattle and the like on Il SINH
sm'y high scale. 0fcourse Mr.. Wilson in
tended to create the impression that
Gen. GOf i figures were a misreprcsen-
tailon. instead, Gen. Golf told the
truth, and Mr.. Wilson Gndeavored by
pointing to an exception to disCredit as.
Sertons he knew to be true. Gen. Coil
did not respond 10 this, doubtless for
lack OF time.
The fact is that prices did rule ruin.
ously low under the tariff act OF 1916,
until the Crimcan war broke out in Eu-
rope. UnlcritS artificial stimulus wheat
went as high us 81 so in Jefferson
county, six months after it had been
purchased at the same mill for so cents,
1t was under this stimulus that the
prices quoted by Mr.. Wilson were OBJ.
tanned, rs he must be aware. The mill
here referred to is ut l.eetowu.
This instance is not the only one ii
the discussion, of Mr.. Wilson's Olsen
geau0uS practices. He pointed Will
Piite 10 the free schools" that were es
taDlishel by the Democrats in Jefferson
and Berkeley counties before there wal
Republican party. Persons in tina
audience remembered with burning
cheeks the pauper schools to which III
referred, the only way poor mans sol
could acquire even the rudiments OF al
eiNGilion under Democratic rule in Vir
S'nm, until the Republicans established
world.
The words quoted as from John Jar
rett to the effect that when recent.
UoR advanced suddenly from > 10 1 cent
apound the workmcn in the mills 80
no advantage from it, were Of c0urE
never uttered by MIR. Jarrett. HOY
could an cx.PreRident OF the AmalgamG
ted Association say such thing, whC
mat Association's sliding scale gives III
WGtSmcR share in every rise OF tn
sste!I'ngprice? Mr.. Wilson may not knol
iNIS. II not lie certainly isnot equippe
TO discuss the tariff.
M Wilson was more frank when b
admitted that he voted against bi
NIich would have reduced the surplu
0eeslSe the passage OF that bill woul
nave removed the necessity to reduC
the ariE. Skilliul as he is in jugglir
words, that admission and its full stgnit
G9Nce cannot be rctracted nor explaine
away Nor was his reference to Il
IGasNng OF tie Confederate flag telieitou
THE EPPECT OF IT.
The partisan feeling OF both sides W,
aroused and intensified. Fair mindl
people who had not heard Mr.. Wilst
before and hadheard from Democratic a
lHority what agreat orator he was, we
SoreIy disappointed, AS u speaker he
not to be compared to Coil. His positit
on the Ways and Means Commit
4G0ee not seem TO have equipped hi
IGF lariI discussion. All the talk abo
ms special fitness for these debates |
cause OF hlS connection with the ira