The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-11-03

which we champion here tonight, an
on the contrary is not going out, US ou
Democratic friends are trying to max
you believe. loud applause.l
THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION.
The speaker took up the Democrat
platform on the question OF the Tarii
and congratulated his hearers that 70
, the first time in the history OF that part,
for many years We can tell Just hos
they stand. Hitherto they have 81
shaped the Tariff plank that Henr.
Watterson could declare that it mean
Free Trade in Free Trade sections, Will,
Col. Ben Wilson could declare will
equal emphasis here in Wheeling that i
meant the highest of high Protection
Hitherto they have
"Wircd In and wired out,
/ i!eiYins the people NIL III doubt
Whether the snake that male the track
Was going south or coming back"
[laughter] but this year they have
thrown off their mantle and are clamor
ing for Progressive Free Trade through
out the world. For the life Of me
cannot see how the citizens OF the First
district OF West Virginia can vote with
Il party whose avowed object is to Grip.
Pile our great Protective system, aud rs
the New York Sun says, and it is good
Democratic authority, TO ultimately de-
stroy it. The speaker here told an
aneCdote in u very leliCitous manner,
which showed that prejudice WAS the
only reason who the citizens OF Wheel.
ing should vote for Cleveland and Pro-
gressive Free Trade, instead OF Harrison,
Morton, Col, aud absolute Protection.
| [Cheers.
After referring to Mr.. Pendleton in Il
kindly manner Mr.. Atkinson stated that
he had heard his opponent speak at the
Capitol rink for an hour and half few
evenings since, and from beginning TO
close he was so handicapped with the nn-
fortunate position Of his party upon the
tariff that he was like Emery Storrs'
steer that jumped u ten rail fence with
forty pound bull dog hanging to his
tail. He could neither hook in front nor
kick behind. Loud laughter.l My
good brother, after devoting the first
half hour OF his speech to u contrast OF
the empires Of the Old World with the
Republic OF the new; the next half hour
to talking about the wonderful surplus
which the Republican policy OF PrOtec.
ton had turned into our treasury, de-
voted the last half hour 10 sheiahiaing
the men who had accumulated wealth
by their industry and labor, and de-
cared that il elected to the American
Congress, and he found men getting
wealthy whose industries were protected
he would vote to lower the tariff in their
particular cases, and thus stop them from
becoming milliOnaires. Laughter.] He
reserved to himself the right to Judge
when the tariff was too high and there.
fore claimed the privilege to use the tariff
tinker's knife according to the dictates
OF his own good judgment.
rENDLETON HANDICAPPED.
Right here my brother is mistaken.
Ii elected to Congress he will not vote
his own sentiments. He will vote us
the caucus of his party directs, and
everybody knows that the Free Traders
of the South absolutely hold that caucus
up by the tail. loud applause.l Who
would have thought two years ago that
the great Democratic party would form
uinte and favor SO deadly a thrust at the
tariff system as the iniquitOus Mills bill,
And yet from North to South and East
to West, with few honorable excep.
tions, the whole Democratic party
stands MS Il unitior that bill. They even
hold it up before the country as the
great panaceI, the Great King Cure All,
the wonderful Democratic st. jacobs
Oil, that will relieve our country from
ali its ills and evils, pains and woes
Loud applause.l Everybody knows
that my honorable opponent will vote
on every question that comes up, pre-
cisely us WattersOn, Mills and company
direct. When they say to him, thumbs
up" up will come his thumbs
Laughter. When they say "wiggle'
waggle," like little man he will face to
their music. Laughter.1 No Demo.
crat has ever yet gone back on that
element in his party that holds the bait
in his pocket. Laughter. In this case
the President and the Free Trade ele'
nent hold the bait, and you may be
sure my brother will rally around them
[Cries: "That's SO.
The speaker here related an anecdote
OF boy in fishing party being rescued
from drowning, because he had the
bait IN his pocket, which brought down
the house.
The good old Democratic party in this
campaign has lost sight OF the old cry OF
"Reiorm." 1t used to be "Tilden and
Reform" Hancock and Reform,
"Cleveland and Reform;" but this yea
it is Cleveland without the "Reform.
According to their ideas OF Civil Service
Reform they have deemed it their duty
to sweep every Republican otliceholdel
out of position in West Virginia, excep
one postmaster in Lewis county, whose
salary is seventy.tivc cents a quarter
Laughter. Their idea OF the Civil Serv
ice is to scoop the Republicans out anC
, put the Democrats in; and ii mistake
not that will be the policy OF Presiden
larrison's administration after tue
fourth Of March next, Great cheering.
To not leave Democratic olliCeholder
enough in West Virginia to tell the tai,
of the abuse OF the great American idef
) OF Civil Service Reform. Tremendou
cheeriug.] Mr.. Cleveland nus used tha
plank Of the platform OF his party re-
iating to reform us the traveler'uscd tn
J platform Of a railroad car, namely, to &c
in on, and like the traveller when he get
, inside the car, his eye falls upon til
} notice Beware Of standing upon tht
. platform. 1t is dangerous to do that.
Loud applause.] Itell you tonight i
is absolutely dangerous for DemoCra
| TO stand on the Democratic platform
this year. Loud laughterl
POINTS FROM HISTORY.
The speaker next took up the oil
"iraud cry" so peculiar to Democrat
! campaigns, and said it would not be
! campaign without that issue to meet Ol
the platform and in the press. The or
!. OF fraud about our candidates is an old
familiar sound. The speaker here re
, lated an ancedote OF an old churcl
!. . deacon on steamer on the ocean, tha
: illustrated this thought and produced uI
: roarOus applause.
: Mr.. Atkinson then took up the tarit
! question and discussed it for about q
hour. He said that ii had a TIVE
: fold object, namely: revenue and Prote,
+ ton. lie showed that the tariff could b
so shaped as to raise more revenue tha
J the Covernmentneeded, while still atFort
i :.., vary Iiftlr protnrt,on IN our iT