Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-21
Mr.. Dave X. Brooks and Col. and Mr.. Frank
Hearne Receive Some Attention.

To TIE Editor Of ne Register:
We are truly sorry to part company
With Hon. W. L. Hearne, Col. Frank
Hearne and David K. Brooks. The loss
Of the Messrs. Hearne had long ago been
discounted and We did not like their de-
parture in the least bit. But we are sur
prised at the abrupt and untimely disappear
ancs of D. r. Brooks from the fold. We
shall have heavy miss of thee David. We
could better have spared better man.
Didst thou not FIRE one hundred guns in
honor of the nomination of Cleveland aud
Thurman and the triumph of tariff re-
form at st. Louis? Did not the very
hills of Wheeling on that momen-
tous day amid the thunder
OF the guns echo and re-echo with the
notes of your enthusiasm. What has
wrought this wondrous change, what has
produced this marvellous mstamorphosis,
and why has the music Of the Spheres be-
come as the apples of Sedan? II iss we'll
known fact that Tariff Reform will reduce
the wages Of the workingman and make
him the slave Of the monopolist-(see Re-
publican newspapers), though monOpolists
and bosses have not found it ont. This
was too much for Mr. Brooks. He has
long been friend of depressed labor, an3
is well known as philanthropist in all
matters connected with the welfare
of the lsboring. Any proposition
that had tendency to place
labor under the control of the monopolists
was more than David could stand. Hence
this Jump. The Republican party favOrs
cheap goods, cheap clothing, cheap whisky,
cheap tobacco, high wages, tree labor and
has erected q Chinese wall TO keep out Of
il the monopolists, bosses and labor kings
who are n6eking into it. By-the-way,
WHY have the monOpolists made such q
mistake, sud why are they one and all
cursing the Democratic party? So David
has found his party, has jumped into it
and will proceed TO battle for the rights Of
labor ~ be has done in the past
The Alessrs. Hearne have made mistake
and il will not be long before they will be
of that opinion. They are both gentlemen
of high character and intelligence, and are
at heart good Democrats.
Now that the Mills bill has been COM
pleted they will, upon examination, mud
very little in it to which they would seri-
ously object. They should recolleet that
with an overflowiug Treasury the time for
reduction of taxation was at hand, both
Custom House and internal revenue. This
question was bound to come. The longer
1t was put of the stronger became the cry
tor a reduction OF the tariff The time to
make that reduction is now, before the
pressure becomes too strong and too rsdI-
icaI. This bill is offered as q fiuality
upon the subject. Let the Senate pass
IL snd we shall have no tariff agitation for
dozen years to come. Conservative and
thoughtful gentlemen like the Messrs.
Hearne must see that the manufacturing
interests of the country should accept and
ratify 50 mild aud moderate measure as
this much abused and denounced Dill Of
Mr. Mills The careful reader of the
Mills bill will see that there Is no such
reduction OF the tariff in il as was proposed
by the Republican Tariff Commission, by
President Grant, President Arthur, Secre-
tgries Folger, McCulloch and numerous
high protective tariff men of the Repub-
licsn party when they thought that
the Republican party would have ths
opportunity to revise and reduce the tariff.
That opportunity has not been given that
party, but has fallen to the Democratic
Hence these tears. The free raw material
clauses in the Mills bill will do more to
develop manufactures, to create both q
home and foreign market for them, to keep
labor steadily employed at higher wsges
than any bill ever presented TO our Ma
tionsl Congress, and is in reality the most
thorough-gOing protective measure for our
manufacturing interests that has ever gone
through our lower house Of Congress. We
think that upon q close study of the ques-
tionth Messrs. Hearne will come to The
same conclusion. We know also that no
one will be quicker to acknowledge a
mistake than these two gentlemen and We
confidently expeGt before November to
find both Of them occupying their old
place as honored and respected leaders IN
the Democratic party. The old seats at
the council board await them, their belts
still occupy their accustomed inches IN the
wigwam, the latch string is yet there and
a hearty welcome will greet them. If
they have thought that their old time
sweetheart has proven too eoquettish and
too much disposed to fiirt, they must now
he convinced that il was not so much Of q
shower after all. Come back, gentlemen,
come back, and you will find that dear
old Democracy is not 30 much Of q hirt
after all. HARMONY