The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-06-05
G0RF'S GREAT SPEECH.
At The Banquet Of the Home
Market Club Of Boston.
He DROPS IN INCIDENTALLY,
hut Ncvcrthclcss Is Made All the
More wclcomc-IIo Speaks Eio. (
nucntiy on Protection and
tho West Virginia, Steal

More Wclcome-IIc Speaks Elo.
lucntiy on Protection and
tho West Virginia, Steal.
l'osTos, June 4.-Gen. Nathan GofT
o! West Virginia, was one OF the speak.
ers at tho Home Market Club dinner
Saturday. General Golf Is a member oil
the club, and was on this occasion an
unexpected, but a welcome guest. He
was in Boston on personal business, and
that he could Join his iellow.proteetion
lists in welcoming Speaker Reed at that
time was only known n few minutes be.
fore the procession started from the re.
ceptionr Rooms to the dining hall.
aorf's SPEECH. -.
When tho distinguished West Wiz.
ginian arose he was received with cheers
and great applause, the entire company
rising and waving their handkerchief.
lie said: ,. :
Nix. PRESIDENT, GENTLEMEN OF THE
lIoME MARKET CLuB:-Your generous
reception tonight is even more than
cordial; but, cordial as It be, | cannot
for one moment, at this late hour, think
Of obtaining you with speech. Coming
into your city, us l did, on purely
business matter, l was overjoyed to
know that the opportunity would be
mine, with you, to pay my respects to
the distinguished gentlemen who are
tho guests of your club. l have listened,
az you have, to their words Of wisdom
and OF eloquence. Ialways feel at home
in the Home Market Club. l felt 80
much at home here that I became a
member long ago. Applause. I have
Eeen the work that this club has been
doing. met itin canvass that made
little over year ago, over the mount
aims through the valleys Of my own
State. I found there that the Home
Market Club Of Boston had been sowing
the seed, and that I was reapine the
harvest. [Applause.l You gave the
voters OF West Virginia, as you did OF
other Southern States, food for thought,
you gave them reason for conviction.
And lam here tonight, in a word, only
to thank you for tue work that you did.
You did 1t grandly, as your cause was
grand. In the keeping oi the gentlemen
who have spoken to you tonight, the
Republican party is safe, and conse.
guen.ly the Nation is safe. [Applause.]
The people Of the country have faith in
the Republican party, and always feel
that their interests are protected when
ever we have Republican Administra.
tion. The people have faith in the Ad.
ministration OF Benjamin Harrison.
lApplause.] The people have faith in
Thomas 3. Reed. Renewed applause
The people want Thomas B. Reed and
the Fifty.tirst Congress to give them
protective tariff bill. [AppIause.]
A HIGH rRoTEcTIoNIsr.
I am protectionist and 1 believe in
high protective tariff. [Applause.] 1
am one Of those who believe that the
way 10 reduce the surplus is to increase
import duties. | would give to the
American manufacturer and to the Ame-
rican iaborer the American market.
["That's ,ight."] You can manufacture
better goods in America than were ever
manufactured over the sea; and you can
do it, my friends, because you have free,
intelligent and educated labor with
which to do it. [Applause. And you
can manufacture goods as cheap in Bos-
ton, ns cheap in New England, as cheap
anywhere in the United States rs they
can over the sea if you pay labor the
same wages ns they do. ! do not want
TO SEQ the American laborer brought
down to that level. ,t. 80
Mr.. Goif coutended that it did not fol-
low that, when We increased import
duties, we increased the cost OF articles.
He urged that coal from West Virginia
was the finished product OF 10, 600 voters
in that State, and that, like many other
things, it could not be classed as raw
material, and .queried why it should not
be protected. He continued:
Now, ord only, for didn't intend
TO talk so long, and beg your pardon
for Obtaining you. Cries Of "Go on ri
| want to saya word too about that cues.
ton that the distinguished member of
the Committee on Elections alluded to.
! want to say that the people OF this
country-and the distinguished Speaker
will pardon me when l BAY that am
now one OF the people-do expect that
the Fifty.iirst Congress will give them
ap election law. [Applause.] The Dem.
ocratic party OF Massachusetts is entitled
to every vote that it can honestly cast
and the Republican party OF Mississippi
is entitled 10 every vote it can honestly
cast. Applause. The Democratic par.
ty in Massachusetts has counted for IL
every vote that is cast for it. The Re.
publican party in Mississippi has moi
counted for it the votes that are cast for
it. [Applause.]
THE WEST VIRGINIA OUTRAGE.
The Democratic party in the State OIL
Rhode Island, 4 short time ago, elected q
Democratic Governor; and the Admins
tration. Republican in character, with al
good citizens, joined with our Demo
cratic friends III inaugerating a. Demo.
cratic Governor. The Republicans oi
West Virginia elected a Governor short
time ago [yreat applause], and the Dem.
orratic Administration, then In power,
with the schemers and those who die
tated its action, nuilfled the action Of
the people Mt the polls and seated a de.
iea,cd candidate. [Applause. How
long, oh how long are these things to be
done, and we are told that we have Re,
publican Administration? Voices
"That's it, Gentlemen, there is more
in this question than believe you think
Either this thing should be done right
or the basis Of representation should bt
changed. [Applause. These men are
not entitled to representation in tn.
!. Congress of,the United States on vot'
they do not count. IA voice-""Tha.'
In closing, Mr.. GoE expressed the be