Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-20
NEWS AND COMMENT.
STEVE ELKINS.

.rstor. Oratory is not IN STEPHEN > iins'
!, wonI1 not serve his purpose at Gil
MIA Mr. ELKISs wants most Of all Is to
;uprsss upon his audience that Is not one
!, ihe ordinary stump speakers, nor pol
;6c;sp. Int simply business man Wa0
4, ius, stepped ont of his Office, as isWsre,
,,.Ls sresch because he feels himself
e,rI d upon to do 50 out CT pure love ior
s;s I,ow man, whom the Democrats are
threatening to reduce to PoVery ard rum
Nv means ef that horror Of horrors, ths
N,u, bill. Consequently Mr., ELKINs
affects an argumenia'iye, conversational
sty,e; that IS, he do:su't attempt to maze
aspeech bat simply to talk to the peoFle as
betyeen mau and man. And to prove ID nus
audience tha. he isn't simply q polnch
.t,mn sneaker, he half reads and hall
speaks his speech-snatching up his eye
slssses acd pu.tiog them on, Whenever ne
~apts 90 ind his place in his manuscript
nnd sn,tchinC them cfT again when ne
s.makes believe to dila.s upon parhcu'
isrly imprI sIiye point.
And yet STEPHEN B. ELKINs Knows
tha. s9,e,h by heI.t, for he has been re-
nestiog i. over and over for weeks ana
wseks In fact tGiJ very sreech was re-
ported pretty fluy in the IateihgeHeer ana
fbuy answered in the REGIsTER, when he
deliveyed it at Cation several weeks ago.
and srain \. McuqdSyi!le, day before yes
tgdly. And we oil know that STEVE
E1EINs stands slucss next to BLAINE
himself IS a sharp, shrswd, uns;rupulous
p,liician. In fact, we remember that
FLKrSs p,rsnlslly managed BLAINEs
canpligu in lSSl.
Bat by assuming this style we rave
stteup,ed b.isly to de'crtbs above, Mr..
ELKISs GAIN the sympathy OF his audi
spcs- and thea he gets in his work. "
So much for Mr.. ELEISs' style.
Npw, for what he says. Well, ne
practically ignores thu who'e subject b.
ans he star.s out a7d bases his whole
sryumeut upon the entirely false assuuP'
tion that the issue in this campaign IS be-
tweeu prot sctiou and free trade. Dir.
ELKINs, in fact, lodged the Thole question
as 10 rrhsiksr or not reduction Of our con-
Jssscd'y high and srorbitant tariff taTa''o"
ougp 10 be mqdc Mr.. ELHINs simpls
went of into lorg ard, Cf course, con
vinciup" argument in favor of protection
% American Industries and against free
trsGe. NobCdy disputes that protection
b all right, ard that it is not only.unde-
sirab'e but impossible to have free trade IN
this couItry. For what does JOHN SHEE
NAN cay, who baS dienly wheeled
hound, l:Sc Mr.. ELEISs, aud denied his
whole record ali that of his party? Even
Mr. ELEISs ss fyxy sp ljticisn as he is,
dare not call Mr.. SHERMAN fres trader.
SHERMAN says:
''I, is, therefore. s'mp'y an abSu-dity - talk
nov sbou. tho r5ec t-aic tariff and To talk about
aprrtce.iye tsriT /, unnecessary, because h'|
wt Of usts cov't HR prSsjb'y frame tGriB hGt
n,, pro iu,s oge hs rtr q GHd Jor'y M A'oa dol-
lars !n gr1l,g tt,g, cmg,g protecting oar domestic
nd u."
And the Mills bill would produce $780,
ODO COZ in gold, Yet, Lord bless ~
SrEyE ELEINS almost wept in the Opera
Houss last eight over the American work
ingman, who would be pulled down, he
saii, 10 the level Of the pfupsr labor of
.Earops ct,., etc, etc., if the Mills bill be-
c,me lss' Aud, by the way, STEVE
ELKINs' love for the liborirg man seems
70 be beyond all bounds, ildgiDg, that Is,
from his spscrl. Al one time, last even
ing, hs became 50 enthusiasts over the
dear working mau ths. be said that ii he
had it in his power he would multiI ly
ths wages Of labor by four" We
do not exactly comprehend tie
Hop. STEVE, because if he hasn't got
the power to d. this or to help to do this,
Who has? HsenPl)ys thousonl of lshortrs
10 tie various big enterprises, out of
which he has gown wealthy, but We
never beard o' tlew getting anything but
ths lowest market pcice for their labor.
LOok at the graf Chicago cAb'e car str ke.
SrEPHEN B. ELKISs is a member Of the
YEgEES syndicate ,ciich orras me Chicago
ea5'e-car sqs'cm. This syndicate had con-
finually Gu. down the mems wages and
made tier hours u, work 80 lorg and ire
gular tha. they sct lally eoul not live un-
Der ii. They struck. The newspapers
have been fall Of this tsrIib'e affair and
oil our re,1ers are fam liar with it. Now
this millilnaire syndicate has caio'ei il.
starviog men into declaring TIE striks of
by promising them about One-third Of
what they demanded, but when
ths men returned - go t.
wo-k the syndicate would take only
o few Of them back, aud now the poor
wretchss srs contsm plating another strike
And STEPHEN b. ELEISs is an influential
menhec Of this YEREES syndicate Did
Rs sry one ,rord IN behqf Of these starring
hen We haveL't hssrd of it, probably
bscause he has been tco bn,y here in We3t
Yirg lIa on the stump telling the workiug-
men 10 = PrOsps rous lhsy are under high
tlr n and that If he had dis way he would
"multiply their wages by fur"
ELEISS will not deny any of this
III cannot deny il. In this coEnCtion
We may say, th-re is a remarkable similar
ity between ELEINS and the L publican
party. Toe aLts-eleciiln professions of
ho'h arc diam,t;ica lJ opposed to their
~ rs.-slec.ion practices, Mr. ELKINs is en-
all-wOol friend Of tbs workinguisn on the
s,ump. bat in reality he is a reprs snia,ive
ponOpOlist from the crown Of his ioy'al
bead TO the so'e3 cf hiI snpls shoes By
thi1 we msan no Teae; i'm on Mr. ELKISS'
privats character, for be is m pss estima-
fle gentleman tIr whom we have warm
fegs-d. Bat in his character as a pcliti-
cisn We take no stock in Mr.. STEPHEN B
ELKISS lie is the incarnation OF Blaine
ism, for under tie tu.elage Of the ''un-