Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-25
HON. WOOD DAILY
Opens the Campaign Ia Berkeley-He Rips
Elkins Up the Back.

SDectdt Telegram 10 me he9tStF.
MARTINsBURG. w. VA, October FL
Hon. C. Wood Daily, of Keyser, opened
the campaign for the Democrats in
Berkeley tonight to an immense and
enthusiastic audience. Both opera
houses were engaged and he was COM
PEELED to speak in the Court House,
which could not admit more than half
the crowd. Steward w. Walker, Chair
man of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee, introduced him in an appropri-
ate speech. Mr.. Daily expressed his
pleasure at meeting large and enthusl-
astic audience on his first appearance in
this city. He said that the Republi-
cans seemed to forget the past history
of this country when they stated that
the country has been more prosperous
since 1870 than it was before that time.
And when he read from Mr.. Blaine, the
great high tariff priest and apostle Of
protection, that the most prosperous
era of our country was during the
Walker tariff, free trade, :" and which,
he said. gave the lie direct to Mr.. Ell
kins and other Republican speakers and
newspapers when they state that it was
not. the enthusiasm could hardly be
suppressed He quoted Sherman, Grant
and other Republicans in support of the
Democratic idea of the tariff.
Farmers" said he, ''listen to what
Mr.. Allison says in regard to home
market: Il believe that no one
will claim that the agricultural interest
is directly protected. Unfortunately
for the former the market price OF
wheat is fixed by the price which the
surplus will bring abroad, or the price
of wheat in London or Liverpool. At
that market he comes in competition
with the pauper labor of Crimea and
other countries? Now, what becomes
of General Goff, Mr.. Elkins, and the
other Republican home market men,?
He then quoted from the committee
APPOINTED under President Arthur, for a
revision and reduction of the tariff, in
which they state that under the tarlf
of 1916 manufactures and everything
else increased twice as much from 1916
sc as they did from 1s70-s0. He showed
the fallacy of Mr.. Elkins' argument in
favor of the Silver bill. He then took
ND the Mckinley bill, and read
from Mr.. Elkins' speech, in which
he said that there was not a pound OF
tin manufactured in this country and
that the Mckinley bill made it free. lie
then read from the bill itself, which
places tariff on tin of four cents
mound. He then took up Mr.. Elkins'
speech as reported in the IntelIigencer
When he finished with it the thing which
on it's face is for the masses. there was
hardly paragraph in it that had not
been shorn of its pretended fairness and
its fallacies exposed with facts taken al
most exclusively from prominent Re
publican statesmen.
The Mckinley bill was dissected and
it's delusions to the farmer and laborlng
man exposed, backed by unanswerable
facts. He showed up the Force bill in
its naked form, and his scathing denun-
citation of the attempt of the Republi-
can bosses to colonize the State brought
forth well merited applause. When he
closed he was presented with lovely
bouquet on the part of tbe ladies of the
audience. The Mechanics band was in
attendance and enlivened the occasion
with music.