Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-12
A Great Day for the Republicans IN
the Old Tenth Legion at
Woodstock.

Woodstock.
1t was court day. The people came
They seemed to say, We want to hear ana
they did hear.
The Republicans had the good fortune
TO have for speaker distinguished e1-
Governor of Name. now member oil
Congress, Hon. Nelson p. Dingley. lie
said 1t gave him supreme pleasure to say
Maine and Virginia were sister states (;
Virginia the older, but Maine proud to
say she was anxious to help, incorporate
with her in her efforts to bring again to
the front the State that was the first once,
and now the thirteenth. Maine, he said,
stood tor protection, and she had good
government and her people said BY their
last vote, the largest she ever gave, PRO
lection protects u.s." and 80 It
has and does. And there is, be said
no State superior that know Of to this
State of Virginia IN all the limits Of this
great Union in climate, soil, resources and
great good men-and she can, II may
modestly suggest, do no better, nor more
than say, We want "Protection." Want IL
because there were years when you had
nothing but pinching want, as these good
people tell me. That when our furnaces,
FORCES and workshops stop LAS my own
people tell mel there are hungry mouths.
How could it be otherwise, he said. Who
will feed and care for our people when
cheap goods made by foreign labor
| fill our storesi We are great nation,
but our paupers, made 30 by Democratic
policy, and multiplicity of tramps must
be cared for Now, he, the speaker, said,
can we help the outside world feed her
poor by buying their goods because cheap
and then support our men willing to work.
but who can find nothing TO do because
labor - cheap; that wages in this eoun-
try were Il per cent. higher, on the whole,
| than in the British province. He asked,
are you willing. working men, willing 10
stand reduction of ~ per cent in wages
Willing TO place your wages on par with
them [Applause and replies OF No!
No! He said THAT on this subject,
very important one to you workingmen,
VIZ. the tariff, the Democratic party
dodge-protection they do really want,
but don't come up and say free trade, but
adjustment, reform, and that means a
subtle entering wedge for English Golden
club free trade. The speaker said he
feared he was OBTAINING the audience.
They said, "no 90 on~ and then con-
tinuing he said that he was glad he could
say we are one people, our interests, senti-
ments. hopes and aims are the same. We
don't want an administration based on
solid section, this country has too much OF
grandly diversified interests to have a
solid section, north, south, east or west
He spoke also on the Blair Bill. We wish
every candid, fairminded man Of the State
could have heard him. lie said in his
calm, quiet, earnest way this much 1--WE
wish we could give his very words): The
Government Of the United States made it
necessary to have all men who could or
would be voters, intelligent and educated
That was to say, these people, if you mean
TO call them Africans, or by all and any
names, of all races and kinds and kindred,
they should have the benefit of an edu-
cation to the extent that public federal
money could go. Republicans say let the
surplus in the treasury reasonably go to
foster intelligence and learning The
Democratic acts, therefore, say, we don't
do, and We mean not do. and we so say
because Grover don't do, aud his Demo
cratic House with Senator j. w. Daniels
and c. T. o., 81. c., don't do. (Some Of
this is comment but don't it hit.)
The audience WAS composed of our best
men, who assembled in Twins Hall. They
sat and they listened, and when the Hon.
Nelson p DinRley had concluded his
splendid presentation Of our cause the
hall not being capacious enough to hold
those who wanted 10 hear the speakers,
the meeting adjourned to the Court House
square.