Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-26
A LITTLE BLOWOUT.
REPUBLICANS HAVE PUN IN THE AL
HAMBRA RINK.
Tia Address Of TIE Evening BY Augustus Pol
lack-A Discussion Of The ISSUES
Of ths Day


He has 9 digoiSei appearance
and a que command Of language" He
is supposed to be running for 3 position on
tie State Republican iicke', and in fur
,heranee Of bis interests as a candidate
made q public address last Right. Summed
that address was an array of assertions
which Mr.. Ptllsck couldn't snbstantiate,
and very few orators would attempt to sub
stantiate.
Mr.. Pcllsck was booked to srefk before
the Pottes' Club and the U. s. Grant
Club of tie South Side. At 7:30 these or
formed ut their ball and
marched to Mr.. Pollaek's residence.
Thew made q highly creditabls appear
snce, the Pottsrs in particular. with
glossy silk tiles broadeloth coats, white
gloves and silken bsdges, made a very I'M
appearance in their effort to pose
as horny-handed and oppressed sons OF Toll
AZ the Lincoln Club rooms they were met
by the Plumed Knights and the process
ion. TO thu number of about 80, led by
Col. William Turner, and accompanied by
a goodIy number of small boys, filed
m~ournfully down street. Mr. Pollack was
found and taken captive. BY some mys-
process
COL, BIRDIE HART
was spirited into the line; snd then, amid
the sounds of martial music, the glare OF
red fire. the shouts Of the omnipresent
American youth, the bewitching smiles Of
fair maidans, the equally bewitching smiles
of Col. Hart, and ths frantic wsvlngs Of
the baton by Col. Tu'ner, the line OF march
To the Alhsmbra Rink was taken up. The
procession didn't get lost along the route
II arrived safe, thanks TO the well lighted
street and electro car tracks
As,nsll audience, composed OF women,
children and other "srdeat Republican
voters" had gathered swaiaI ; the speak
ers. They cheered Justify when the pa
rsde filed in and the distinguished orators
we're led to ths platform. In TIE mem
While the msjority of tie marching orgsni-
adjourned to tho LaBe0e Saloon,
whe.e Col. Turrer and his associates enter
tair ell them with tie song, Tee e's q
new o ia town" and OTHER patriotic Re-
publican campaign di;ties, for q ccnsite a.
ton, said eouside ration being free drinks.
The remainder of the audience whose ea-
thusiasm had already ben worked up suf-
fciently high to stand the Impending
braced themselvei, and the oratory
began.
After q few preliminsries they got down
to work in fine shape. Mr.. Isaac L.
Stewart was elected Chairman, and in a few
appropriate words introduced the speaker
Of the evening, Mr.. Pollack.
Mr.. Pollock thanked the audience for
the reception they had rendered him and
then proceeded, as be said, to discuss tbs
issues of the campaign.
ON THE TARIFF QUESTION,
be thought the loyal support Of the cuu
try would rally to the support of the Re-
publican party ss it rallied twenty-four
wears 2 {. We are indebted to that loyal
sentiment for the preservation of this
Uuion and the elevation OF
American labor. Upon that party
the country must rely now for the protec-
ton of American industries. at this
point Chairman Stewart was compelled to
appesl Justify for order. The audience
ceased talking and Mr.. Pollock began
again. The protective system, dating
back to the very origin of this government,
has been upheld by the Republican party
since then on up to this time. Mr.. Pol
lack evidently overlooked the fact that
prior to 1861 the Democratic party had
control OF this government, and under its
moderate tariff the country had been more
prosperous and had developed more rapidly
than ever before or since.
On the issue Of protection, he said, the
Republican party stands to-day. The
fight is squsrely made. II is protection
against free trade, or, in other words, o
tariff for revenue only. Here the distin-
guished orator neglected to explain how a
tariff for revenue producing over $780,
900 900 annually could be q free trade
tariff, or how any tariff at sill could be
free trade. But, then, il vas probably
only what he would call q lapsUs hHgus,
or some other sort of = lapse. We csnno.
doubt, ventured Mr.. Pollock, that the
party that declares for free trade will carry
It's declarations into effect, at the earliest
possible day. It is recorded on
on history that these same men were for
free trade before the war, and hsil pre-
dominstely Ccheersl from that section that
hiss so little lot In u country's pros
perity.
THE REELECTION OF NIB. CLEVELAND.
with q Democratic Congress will not only
revive, it has been revived, but will re-
usw and intensity the destructive ten
dency of the Democratic party, to hurl the
cation from that high and magnificent ped
estal of shining prosperity that our beloved
land sits upon to-day. Our political oppo-
nents claim that the levy of taxes for pro-
lection is unconstitutional and not only
unconstitutional but leRalized robbery.
Why? All authorities on taxation hold
that the taxing powers Of government are
unlimited. What Mr.. Pollsck meant by
saying that the taxing powers Of govern
meut are unlimited is q matter Ell guess
work, unless il was that it justified robbirg
the poor to make the rich, II protecting
one class at the expense Of another, just as
the blessed protective system does. MIR.
Pollsck,s views seemed 10 be slightly mixed
and he failed to elucidste this point to gen.
eral satisfaction.
The speaker then took q big jump
from this phase of the question and
landed on the Mills bill, of which be
sil: THE truth shall and must be told.
that the proposition is to reduce the tariff
23& per cent. ond not A 81, as is claimed.
Ooe of the most significant facts connected
with this tariff business is that
from the outset of the agitation
the msn who have been the most aristo-
cratic and exclusive, who say ''mud sills
Of society" when they speak Of labor have
always held that the protective tariff was
unconstitutional. He then connected the
history Of the protective tariff with the
cotton crop, the solid South and 153 cleo
eofsl votes in some indefinite manner too
misty for the audience to understand.
The benefits Of this protective tariff de-
sends like rain from heaven: 0ysr all.
No man, however ignoble. WIS excluded
from them. Here again Mr.. Pollack gave
the O South q crushing blow in neglect
ing to explain Why its farmers had not
grown rich and powerful under the same
protective tariff that benefited Northern
manufacturers so greatly.
But why enumerste these little