Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-31

bill passed through the Republican
Senate, and the uniform failure attend
ing those efforts, and gave some very
interesting inside facts IN a very plain
way.
The cight-hour bill, that other Re-
| publican source Of congratulation. WAS
taken up, aud the speaker said Demo
Gratis in the SOS, offered an cight-hour
law three several times and IL was re-.
jected, and finally they got one
passed, in 1864, by having General Banks
introduced it. That bill was passed
and it has been passed" ever since
Then the Republicans passed another
law. and provided that If any govern
ment employe worked over eight hours !
he could bring suit and recover the diff |
ference. Republican speakers dwelt /
upon this, but they always forgot TO say
that If the employe worked over eight /
hours, after saying he was willing to do |
1t, he couldn't get a copper, aud If
man wouldn't say he was willing 10
thus work over eight hours he could
keep on looking for a job.
Tin plate was next taken up and venti- !
lated and ridiculcd. and in closing he
said the great western tin mines, Of
which Republicans talked so much
about, was made up Of an ore which no
furnace could reduce, and besides that
every foot OF 1t belonged to English
men.
The force bill was in turn riddled and
denounced, to the great satisfaction Of
his audience.
The speaker then went back TO the
Mckinley bill and ran over the Sched
ues. showing in vivid manner how
the necessaries of life, purchased mostly
| by the poor, had the tax
heavily increased. while such things
as seal skins, black silk.
ETC., had been either very slightly in
creased. or not at all. lie especially re-
ferred to the heavy increase in the tariff
on carpets, and said II was deliberately
done at a time when not one per cent.
of the carpets used in this country were
imported. II was clear swindlc on the
people.
THE GUBERNAToRIAL CONTEST
The Governor then took up an inter
esting matter thus:
ANONs b4i'l' - 1iOAuii lAAA4' llhAtfl
want to advert to. They say they car
ried the State for Goh. Laughter.
understand Goif takes up about two
thirds of his speeches glorifying him
self, and then at the proper time he
always brings his audience down on
this question. One would suppose he
had been abused; that he had been
defraudcd of a great American right.
! fLaughtcrl He said he was elected;
we said he wasn't. laughter. He
said ne would take the GubernatOrial
chair: said he wouldn't; and If my
memory serves me tonight, he didn't
| fCheerS. understand some OF them
| have been talking a good deal since
then. and are going about regretting
that they didn't take itanyhow. want
to say that ! was prepared for just
that kind Of gentlemen, and they'd
have gotten the warmeSt kind of re-
ception. TChecrS. I'll show you he
wasn't elected. II you'll be fair with
me and give me your attention,
I'll show you GOf was not
elected by from 5000 to 10000
majority. [Cheers. He had his con
stitutional right to contest the election, /
and they gave his case to tribunal, to
try. and that tribunal said they had been |
guilty Of fraud and corruption. |
TCheers. Then he had another consti- |
tutlonal right-one that IS vouchsafcd |
to every lawyer-and that is when he |
lost his case, he could 90 down to his
hotel and do his 'cussin, and then 60 |
about his business. Applause.
.If he thinks he was elected, he would |
he a good man 10 nominate again, |
wouldn't he? Well, do it; nominate
him, and you'll see where he Will land.
And we won't need the use Of money,
either: we won't need the services OF a
John Wanamaker.
Governor Wilson here turned aside
moment 10 artistically skin Wanamakcr |
and Quay alive. and then he said:
II promised Ia show y0u that Go0 /
wasn't elected. I'll do il. You will all /
hear me out in saying that in 1854 We
had the hottest campaign ever known
In this State. helped 10 some extent
TO make It hot myself. Applause.
We polled the largest vote ever polled
I'm the State uD to that time. In leel
we polled l37,js7 votes. We polied IN
1855. l5Q.4lO votes. That is an Increase
Of yotes-of male citizens, II years oi
are--of2i. sj3. That would have meant an
Increase i'm population IN West Virginia,
multiplyinc that y, s53 by 81, Of lO9,-
965i On the same basis, taking the
whole vote. Republican and Democratic.
t5o44O. and multiply it by 81, gives US
= nonulation in 1883 OF s7G,92O. Now,
the Republican party, by It's agents
every man oi them Republican
this State, have completed /
the population for 1890, and they give /
MS but 7G0. 400. which, deducted from I
SD 900. leaves difference Of ll6,52O /
nonulation which GofT and Hubbard and /
Elkins and the Wheeling IntcI1Cncer, /
and the whole caboodle Of Republicans, /
from the north TO the south OF the 4
State. have % account FOR before they /
can talk about COTS being elected.
lCheers.
"And they are also talking about the
last Congressional election, and are say /
ing their men were elected. Now, on I
that point. | want to say | administered /
the law AZ found it on the statute /
books, aud rs 1t there stood, IT was en- I
forced" Cheers.
The Governor then went on to show .
that the Republican party. with It's .
record OF rascality, was the last politi- T.
cal organization which should complain I.
Of unfairness. From this, although he
had before referred to the Force bill,
he took II up, and read it In a new and
bright light. He detailed the limits to
which Johnny Davenport had carried
Federal interference in New York, and
others in 900 marshals
in the first named city, and hundreds in
the last. many Of them eX-cOnylcts,
nearly all Of them of bad character and
toughs. aud many Of them armed with
revolvers and bowie knives, at the eX-
pense OF the National Republican Com
mittee. and after drawing this fearful
picture. he appealed 10 those before
him that worse things would inevitably
come TO pass should the force bill be
passed by Congress, as II would be pass
ed should the Republicans triumph at
the coming election.
In conclusion Governor Wilson point
ed out the great importance OF the
Democratic legislative ticket, and urged
all Democrats to refrain from scratch
ing and to vote straight.