The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-23
qHE CANPBHLLS COMING.
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the blacksmith shops, machine shops
aud among factory employees than there
formerly was in the halls Of Congress,
He said; 1.-THE people are thinking, and
are discussing this matter and gaining
information which will help them TO
better understand the question and more
sensibly vote"
He then eulogized Candidate Camp
bell, and told how that gentleman had
been wounded in the war; how he re-
Celved q pension, and how when he got
into q position where the pension was
no longer needed to help keep him, he re-
turned tito the government with thanks,
and a statement that no no longer need
edit.
Mr., Cultivate soon drifted into ma
tional affairs and gave q fairly good
Democratic speech on national politics.
AT one point q gentleman In the au-
disnCs interrupted with q question,
"How Is It we can make ware in this
city and ship 1t to England, and then
sell It back here for less than II cost to
manufacturer" This seemed TO tickle
Mr., Cultivate outrageOusly. He rose
to his toes, came down to his heels again,
slapped the table, opened his mouth,
closed II again, opened 1t again, and in
a dramatic manner answered the ques
ton with, "Ah, how is II? How 1t Is 2
Gan anyone tell2 That man has been
reading and studying the tariff ques-
tion,h
He very enthusiastically attributed
the difference between the wages in this
country and free trade countries,
not to the tariff, but to the better organ,
izatiOn OF labor In this country, He
wanted to know how protection could
protect q painter or briCklayer, and cited
the tariff on the steel trOwel, and brislle
brush, as a proof that protection Is u dis
advantage to those tralesmen,
Mr.. Olthwaite's greatest fault was his
desire to talk all night, He got out a
book OF statistics, but in very few
minutes after he sprung statistical in
formation on the good natured audience,
1t began TO melt aud fade away, Even
Allen o. Myers could not stand cold air
when 1t waited tariff statistics to his
hearing, 80 he buried his ears In his
coat collar and went to the hotel with
the remark "Dam6ireze."
MIR. Cultivate did not notice Mr.. My.
ers' departure, and after talking nearly
an hour longer, said. snow, gentlemen,
after | have read some statistics from
this little book, TO prove that duty on
wool, iron, steel, glass, coal, lumber, salt,
etc., Il, unnecessary, will close and al-
low my distinguished friend Allan o.
Myers 10 talk to you"
With this the audience howled "Al.
Ian 0. Myers" till its collective throat
must have been sore, and Mr.. Cultivate
turned smilingly To compliment Mr.. My
ers, to find no Que hut Billy Cotfland
on the stage, the reporters even having
led. Mr.. Cultivate talked a while long
or, and Mr.. Ootilaud sent to the hotel
for Mr.. Myers,
Mr.. Qpihwalte's speech was much
moro argumentative than Mr.. Camp
bells, but not nearly so friovlOus, aud
for that reason was not interrupted by
applause,
Mr., Myers came aud talked few
minutes, He devoted his time to suor.
ing Colonel Poorman and Governor For
aker, and justified his remarks by the
statement that they were responsible for
his being in jail some time since,
Those who wanted to hear him were
much disappointed,
All the speakers Oodlled the working
men, and said little pleasant things sim
liar to those which are heard in a variety
show from the ballet girls who want to
catch the applause Of the working.
men In the audience.
About 100 Wheeling Democrats went
down on the Rellaire, The Opera House
baud accompanied them aud furnished
nearly all the music for the occasion.
Mr., Campbell goes to GAINESVILLE, where
he speaks tonight.