Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-10-20

broad shield of American law !"
| Applause aud laughter. TWAS to
give him cheap government and
not tax the necessaries of life need
lessly.
The tax on ten yards of broadcloth
is $40 and the tax on ten yards of
common cloth $lS. That is in the
interest of the workingmana De
risive laughter.
"Why, my friends the Democratic
party is not only the friend of the
workingmen--it is the workingmen.
| Cheers. So much so that it was
recently called the "dirty sock De
mocracy." Laughter.
Gen. Golf would release the tax on
whiskey, and tobacco and oleomarga-
rine--which was favorite theme Of
my friend Flick two years ago.
| General laughter. Then where is
the money to come from to run the
Government The Republican tariff
bill is framed that way.
What will you do, too, with the
surplus production which high tar
iff stimulates Berkeley county's
farmers raise three times as much
wheat as the people of the county
can use. Your great industries run
six months in the year and still the
| goods pile up. say not only the
American market for the American
workingman, but markets all over
the world Applause.
Here the speakere quoted ex-Sec-
rotary McCulloch as to over-produc-
ton and in condemnation of protec-
ton.
The Mills bill gives you free salt
and free lumber and free wool, and
thus opens up new fields of occupa-
ton, new fields of labor. Last year
we imported $45,O00,OO worth of
wooden goods that could not be made
here because of the merciless tax on
wool. You have no doubt supposed
there was some benefit to the wool
grower in the tariff on wool. When
/ went to Congress | thought SO,
too, and | was resolved to vote to
restore the wool tariff to what it was
before 1883. But soon found that
the tariff on wool depressed the price
of wool"
| dOFF.
Chairman Miller advanced and
said:
"FELLow CITIZENS: / have the
pleasure and honor of Introducing
the Hon. Nathan Golf, the next Gov
ernor of West Virginia. Applause
Hear him for his cause, and be silent
that you may hear"
Gen. Golf was greeted with thun-
derous outburst which equaled, al
most, all the previous expressions of
the kind rolled into one. 1t lulled
once and burst forth again, and only
finally ceased when Gen. Golf with
uplifted hands mutely begged the
crowd to be silent. There had been
some disorder, but as Gen. COTS
clear tones rang out into the farther
est corners of the building all became
still, and remained so except for fire.
quent renewals of the applause, until
he finished.
Gen. Golf said:
81 am profoundly grateful to meet
so many of my fellow citizens of the
counties of Berkeley and Jefferson &
Morgan as are here to-day. We are
all citizens of the same State; we all
want to accomplish the same end. 1
am not one of those who hold that
all the good men are in one party. i
believe there are good men in all par
ties, that there are many good ones
in the Democratic party; and l
know there are as grand men in the
Republican party as God ever I'm
mense cheering, drowning the rest of
the sentence. The Republican par
tvs policy has made the starry ban
ner of my nation the grandest the
sun every shone on [great cheering
the people happy, the country pros
porous beyond precedent in the his
tory of the world Renewed ap-
| plause.
"My opponent opens and with one
of his hops, skips and jumps across
the stage, says a very little about
Cleveland and his administration.
Did you notice what little he had to
say about the administration He
tells you Cleveland made the seattle
barons" move on. If Cleveland (turn-
ing to WILSON, did what you say why
did the Seattle barons" come back so
soon? For they are there yet, just
the same. (Much laughter) Cleve-
land issued fine sounding proclama-
ton and then pigeon-holed it and
the cattle kings knew it. He boasts