The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-31
TIVE WINDY WILSON
Switters and ltoRrs to Rn Audience TINT
gssWs idNs. Rapidly.

'h'. Auo nateu nuiu ~ Wls Two n0urS
and the smallpart Of the audience tha
remained till he was dono thought /
was twelve, they were 80 tired.
Nor Republicans "intruded their un
invited piesence on the stage"
Hon.W. O. lIaudlan, A. A. Fran.heim
Mayor Seabright, Mike Stein. W. \
Gosiiorn, Alex. Bdtss, p. +. Weir. DR.
J. A. Campbell, Eugene uanke, County
Commissioner Volliuger, Councilman
Emsheimer, u. +. McMechep, J. NJ.
Doddridga, P. F. Farrell, NJ. Edwards,
George Woods and others filled thu
chairs there. At tho opening. all tho
seats downstairs but liO-by count
were filled, and number Of people
stood in the rear, while there were posi-.
h'y 100 In the gallery. at the end tesa
than half the audience remained.
The speech was just such rambling.
dcmagoelc harraasue rs "Windy" might
De expected to pcrpetrato In tive hours.
AZ iirst there was Bome applause. Later
this gave place to yawna. lc read A
string OF figures to prove various things,
and said when he went 10 buy an article
which cost so before the Mckinley bin
way passed, he found II had goue up
2 80. He declined to say what the
article wae.
He asked il there were any Republican
reporters present, that they would print
tedious statement in Response 10 Mr..
Elkins' claim that labor makes O5 per
cent OF the cost Of American manuiac.
tured products. lilo said there were. by
the census OF 1880, 2j3, So manuiaclur.
Ing Embellishments in America, with A
capital OF s.. 700, ,223 ,506, manufacturing
yearly products worth s. 800 GG7, ,7Oj,
These establishments paid in year only
SCi70l9,G74 in wages. That is, the
wages OF all tho mechanics in America
only equal less than eighteen Der cent
OF the value OF the manufactured
product. There hes been fCfty
per Cent tariff and only IS Der cent
wages. Now the ;aria is Got per cent.
If labor abroad cost nothing, is per cent
would be enough protection to equaiiza
wages. Ho said the Mckinley bill WIS
oppression with seven adjectiyes before
1t, each adjective louder than the ono
before. lie allowed S52,O47, ,O3S for fuel
in q year-"fcei" is ''rew MATERIAL" No
labor in oail-S55, ,S04, 4,i07 for taxes.
$l39,5l1 IFS for insurance, interest, etc,
and Still, figured out profit per wear of
S797, l40,4 ,44G, and the laborers didn't
save csut, while farmers, their whole
families working all day, cannot realjzs
per cent Oh the investment in their
land.
Part Of his speech was go denapogic
as to be amusing. 1t was something
like this-not just like this, but almost:
THE Democratic party whipped Great
Britain in 1776. Where was E.k;ns
then? l know you, you British! III
show you up, you fsnds! You 'Repub.
licans tried to make monarchy out OF
this in the first place I'll show you,
You hounds! Your patron saint, Alex.
ander Hamilton-who was he? Ho was
in favor Of centrailzad power, toward
which this Internal force bill
ia the biggest stride yet. Thomas
Jefferson was q Democrat, God bless
him! Where was your little General
Goti then? Why, you British, you Rs.
publicans, then under another name,
were going to Eecede up there in Con.
necticut when the Democratic party was
whipping England again in 1872, but the
victorious guna OF Old Hickory at New
Orleans warned them to desist.i Where
was Bill Hubbard all that time? want
you naturalizet citizens to stay here aud
hear me out! I'll show you who's the
friend OF the British! IN show you
who put prices up on the necessaries Of
life SO high you can taste
em when you gather around your frugal
board. Where was the Wheeling INTEL.
LlGESCEE when we Democrats whipped
Mexico out OF her b0otsp Where was
Capt. G. Wesley Atkinaon when We
Democrats annexed the Louisiana terri.
tory and California? Where was the
whole caboodle OF RepubicaEism? I'll
show you" The lSTELLyGENCEg doesn't
vouch ior this as verbatim, but 1t Is the
sense OF what he aaid.
Coming, about 10 o'clock, TO the DEM
|ocratic steal OF the State in 'SS, he said:
These Republicans say they carried
the State two years ago. General Go1
said hc was elected Governor. We said
he wasn't. He said be would take the
Governors chair, anyway. l said he
wouldn't. [Cheers. limy recollection
serves me tight he didn't. was pre-
pared for just that kind of gentleman.
} I would have given him the warmest re.
} ception he eyer saw. II you will listen
J to me I'll show you he wasn't ELECTED hv
. 5000 TO 10000 majority. He had his
right TO contest, and he did, before The
tribunal named in the Constitution.
That tribunal said he was guilty OF
fraud and corruption. Nominate him
| again aud III snow him under, aud
not want any money to do it with,
either.
Here ho divergsd to abuse Wana.
maker twelve minutes. Coming back
to GoH, he said the increase Of votes
from 1856 TO 1883 was 2l,S53, go there
must have been frauds. Then he told
about being swindled out Of something
himself way back in the sixties by Re.
pubIicans, and coming down to date
! once more, hc said he had nothing to
explain; he had enforced the law us he
r found 1t. lie abused Shat he first called
"niggers" and afterwards negroes, apd
| said he would rather depend On white
I votes and be defeated then he victorious
! by the aid OF negro votes.
In closing, Wilson said: AS Demo:
r crate, let me importune you not to
, scratch name on the ticket. We oil
0 havo to eat crow once in while. am
;. deyouring good big plate,iull, and
3 nearly every Democrat must take more
j or less Of 1t. hear tha. some OF you
n are talking Of cutting Bob Simpson
t Don't do il. Simpson Is good fellow
He may have faults, bnt never SAW a
Y man who didn't, except myself"
Y He then went into detail Ns TO why
/ the Democrats should support the Leg
o islative ticket. Fe started to thank thu
a part OF tho audience that remained, ba
s his words were drowned in the sigh O.
It relief that went UP, aud the auhienc,
r went ont.
i Charley Seabright, who was on tn
d stage, wes ssked his opinion as to Wilson
& as compared with James Owen O'ConoI
J and replied tina. he believed he like
g O'Conor better.
!, JoIS o. PESpLEroN has never under
!. taken to overthrow the testimony OF J
?, D. Brookover, one Of the Wetzel count