Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-15
THE REHASH OF EIGHTY-EIGHT
Republicans Again Try to Brace Up ThoIr
Side of the Contest.

The old court house on Chapline
street last evening was again subjected
| to Il tariff strain. Ii was the occasion
of mass meeting of Republicans sprung
on an unSuSpccting people by the Union
| District Club. The cavernouS interior
was somewhat relieved by unique deco
rations of patriotism in red. white and
blue, but more especially in bunting
| flag that formed a moulding around the
room with continuous line OF stars
embematic OF the number Of new
States they'd squeeze into the Union,
if they felt they had dead open and
shut game. The meeting was well ad-
vertsed, and in response good sized
crowd gathered.
Shortly after eight o'clock 5. &.
Smith, President Of the Union Club,
called the audience to account, and B.
S. Allison was asked to preside over the
destinieS of the meeting. After stating
that that it was not the purpose Of the
Republicans to run the campaign on the
grandioSc style, but rather in the plain,
unvarniShed way, he introduced as
the first speaker, \. w. Campbell,
who started out by saying that without
protective tariff in this country there
would be no such thing as diverSili-
cation of labor on large scale. The
speaker went back several decades in the
legislation of the country, and pursued
the same old familiar tactics in bring
ing the question down to the present
day. Mr.. Campbell then went on TO say
that but for the tariff on wheat as late
as lSsS. wheat would have been import
ed into this country from India, and
after remarking that labor flows into
this country, but does not How out, said
that the reason that labor seeks the
United States is because it is better
paid, yet Notwithstanding the fact that
we have absorbed millions of foreigners.
we have continued TO maintain that
high scale of wages which continues TO
draw foreigners on. The speaker
then alluded TO net deficit
at the close of the thirteen last years
Of Democratic rule. and the balance
that was in favor of this country during
SO many years of Republican ascend
ency. Now the Republican party con-
tends that every thing which has its
natural resources in this country should
be produced here as against anything
made elsewhere. The men who rule
the Democratic party contend that there
should be, as Il matter Of equity, only
enough tariff with sufficient revenue to
carry on the government economically
administered Where protective tariff
begins, revenue tariff ends.
The Republican party hold that
the raising of Sevenuc and the
tariff is not the chief end and aim OF the
tariff. but that sufficient amount OF
revenue should be raised as will pro-
tcct our home industries by forming an
embankment against the impOrtations
from abroad. After the usual analysis
of Reeds ruling, and also the force bill,
and explaining other misdemcanorS OF
the last Congress. he gave way to w. ii.
Uearne, who in eudeav0rlng To reply to
Pcndlcton, gave the boys such diet OF
figures that they got dizzy and almost
lost the line Of argument.
After the audience had recovered the
chairman introduced n. T. Whitaker
who surprised the audience with quite
acreditablc speech, and was followed by
Dan Maxwell who started in to tell one
of those pointed stories, but as Dan had
some difficulty in getting the story off, the
point dropped out somewhere along the
route. Dick Robertson then took the
floor. and announced his allegience to
the working classes, and before he got
through.warmed up to considerable ex-
tenn. Letters Of regret were read from
Aurustus Pollack and w. =. Hubbard