Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-10-26
SENATOR SHERMAN
Talks to an Audience of Four Thousand
at Pittsburg on Party Fealty.

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PITTsBURG, PA, October 25.-OlG City
Hall was packed tonight with an audience
of 1000 people who gathered to listen to
Senator Sherman talk of politics and
party He had come direct from his home
in Mansfield, and was met 0y a reception
party composed of members of the Central
Committee. Upon being introduced Sena-
tor Sherman said in part:
When, in 1855, you, or your ancestors or
ganized the Republican party, our object
only was 10 resist the extension eff slavery
over our western territory, Afterwards
in 1861, the only object of the Republican
party was to maintain the union of these
States, to preserve our country as an in
heritance for your children and your
children's children Cheers. In 1876
the object of the Republican party was to
make good the promises contained in our
notes. and 10 make all our money as
good as gold and silver coin-every
dollars uworth dollar for dollar.
Now my countrymen, the great issue be-
tween us, not so great as In the past but
still worthy of discussion, is how shall we
levy the taxes to support the national gov
ernment That is the question that IS to
be discussed mainly tonight. Why, my
countrymen, in a republic like ours, where
every power rests with the people the only
way they can speak the voice of the people
is bv a party organization. One man is
nothing, boss is nothing, kind Is moth
ing. IL is the voice of the people that
speaks a party organization.
| said while ago that there can be but
two parties. That is not exactly true.
There are usually but two parties, but
some times people who think they are lit
tie better than their neghbors go off to
rOost by themselves and call themselves a
third party. Laughter and applause.
They think they are better than the mass
of the people; they want to go off on some
side issue-some side shOw-sOme big
woman or big snake, Qaughter), the tenn
perance question or something oil
that kind. They don't know what
they think. | have had more eX-
perience in political life than
some of YOU at least, and | never saw any
good come out of third party yet: lAp-
plause | am as good a Republican as
ever lived. We are all Republicans and all
Democrats in the general meaning of that
term, because we are all in favor of form
of government in which all the powers rest
with the people. Therefore these names
do not signify anything We must Judge
of party precisely as we would judge OF
men-'by their works shall We know them,
and Judged by this test the two
parties that now stand before the people
of this country, one is like heaven
and the other is like hades. Laughter
and cheers
| told you the Republican party started
out to prevent the extension Of slavery,
and it did it, And finally when the voice
of the people elected Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States cheers
there was the end of slavery all over the
territories.
The speaker then went into an exhaustive
review of the Mckinley tariff bill, paving
an eloquent tribute to its author. He dealt
principally upon the iron and steel and tin
plate industries, and told Pittsburg that
they better hurry up or the east would get
ahead of them.