Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-24
GOV. HILL IN OHIO.
RAIN DOES NOT DAMPEN TIE ARD0R OF
HOLMES COUNTY FARMERS.
They Turn Out In Masse to Welcome tie
Celebrated ExpOunder Of Democratic PriH-
cples-At Warwick's Hcms-The Dis
tinguished Orator Leaves MassillOn
f5r Wheeling This Morning

MASsUI.ON, October Ex-Governor
Hill and party left Massillon this morn
ing for Millersburg, the county seat OF
Holmes county, in the Sixteenth Con.
gressionai district. The inhabitants OF
Holmes county, which is purely an agri'
cultural county, with a population OF
81, 900, are known throughout the State
as ''moss backs 1t was raining when
the Governor arrived at Millersburg, but
that did not prevent the gathering OF al
enormous crowd at the station, who
cheered the Governor Justify as he en-
tered Il cab and was driven to the village
tavern. A reception was held in the
hotel parlOr, and handShaking by horny
handed sons OF toll taxed the Governor
strength for two hours, when, after
lunch, he proceeded to the village opera
house and addressed an audience
composed Of residents of Holmes
county. The house was crowded
by 1900 people, and as many
more had been unable to secure even
standing room in the hall, when the
Governor, who was introduced by Judge
VIM. Reed, said in part:
THE rain pouring down upon Us to-
day will not harm us half so much as
the reign of the Republican party in the
national government. The surplus oc-
caSiOncd by the operation OF the
recent tariff laws will result in Con-
gresSional representatives bartcring
this surplus among themselves in order
TO obtain unnecessary public buildings,
costing hundreds of thousands OF dol
lars for their respective localities, and
these eXtravagant appropriations are
supplied by money taken from the
pockets of the people through unneces-
sary import duties. The Mckinley bill
is unique in more respects than one,
but chiefly in its apparent solicitude for
the American farmer. a brisk foreign
demand makes prices high and the farm
er happy. His interest has always been
supposed to be in the direction of an
increase Of our foreign trade. \ muir
mur Of protest, however, is now being
heard all over the country. 1t became
audible in the cam paign OF 1sSS,
and it is now so fierce and threat
ening that it has frightened even
the creature and legislative agents OF
favored manufacturing industries, who
begin to realize that without the sup
port of the Republican farmers their
government bounds will cease.
The Governor then talked directly to
the farmers and how each individual
should be interested, showing how tar
ifs on each article affected the pro-
ducer, adding; "And it looks as
though this additional protection
on eggs was added to keep
Rutherford b. Hayes in line. The mere
statement of exports and imports shows
the bald abSurdity of McKinlcy's pom
derous conclusion that damaging for
eign competition in our home markets
is the cause of agricultural depression,
and that the remedy is to increase the
duty on agricultural products
the importation of which form
such an iniiteSSimal part OF
home production and exports. The Gov
ernor's remarks were frequently inter
rupted by applause. and at the conclu
sion he was driven 10 the depot and ro
turned to MaSSillon.
Governor Hill spoke at MaSsillOn to-
night, the home of John G.. Warwick
and the citizens of the town turned out
en- maSse, despite the inclemcnt wealth
er. Congressman Springer, of Illinois,
spoke in the rink to a crowd and Gov
Hill spoke to an enormous crowd in the
Opera House, and when both speakers
had finished they simply changed places
and people in both halls heard the two
distinguished advocates of Democracy.
The Governor held reception in the
hotel parlors after the meetings, which
lasted until after midnight. In the
morning the Governor and party start
for Wheeling, West Virginia, in Calvin
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