Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-30
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of il. or 81 200, 600, 600. found market
and a consumption at home among the
farmers themselves; One-fourth OF 1t
found market among the American
cities. but where did the other one
fourth 90. and who bought 1t? And II
there was no market for that one-fourth,
where would you be to-day? One
fourth of that crop found its way across
the Atlantic, and was there sold IN the
market which the Mckinley bill Is at
tempting to destroy. The spirit OF re-
taliation which will be aroused will de-
stroy the American farmer.
After some further consideration OF
the Mckinley bill, Mr.. Pendleton took
M the Federal election bill, and handled
# in the same mastery manner, win
ming frequent applause.
He also took up the surplus which
the administration OF President Cleve-
land turned over to President Harrison,
and asked what had become OF it, and
from this ne made splendid argument
I'm favor of economy in governmental
matters.
When he yielded the floor to Mr.. Hub
bard. Mr. Pendleton was presented with
handsome bouquet Of flowers by Miss
Maggie Wilde, the speaker retiring
amid great applause.
MIR. HUBBARD's OPENING.
Mr.. Hubbard was introduced by Mr..
j. w. McIntire, the Republican chair
man. and spoke for an hour and twenty
minutes. being received with applause
as he stepped forward.
He began by saying that the Repub-
lican party was business party, able
10 transact the business Of the country
in spite of opposition, and as the rep
reSentative Of that party, he pro-
posed to ut once get down TO business:
he had no time either for generalltics
or profanity. Ny friend wants to know
what the Republican party has done
for the masses of this country. How
does 1t come that there are maSSed here?
And how does IL come that there is
country for them to be in? IL Is be f.
canSe Of the patriotism of the Rcpubli- /
can party and because of the yalor OF its /
soldiers. 1t would not have taken him |
long to tell what the Democratic party /
has done for the country and for its |
soldiers.
The speaker then went on to enumer-
ate the bills passed by Congress, con-
ferring bountieS, etc, and said that was
what the Republican party had done in
fulfillment Of one Of its promises made
at Chicago. Other promises had been
made in that platform, and they also
had been fulfilled. As Illustrations, he
cited the silver bill, detailing the cir
cumstanceS connected with il, and then
said the Republican party had done
something more than that. My friend
needn't have said the Demo-
cratic party is not responsible.
We all know that. He needn't
have said the Republican party was
responsible. We all know that. Why,
the Democratic party is not able TO
even say what il wants. The Demo
cratic party only waits until the Re-
publican party says something. and
then the Democratic party says no. The
Republican party said it was in favor
of protection to American Industries.
and the Convention which nominated
me endorsed that. Now. what did the
Democratic Convention do? IL said Il :
protective tariff was uncOnStitu
tioLal. Unconstitutional Well p.
You've noticed another thing about
the Democratic party. 1t is opposed TO
the Republican party on everything.
After Illustrating this with one or two
scraps Of history and laughable anec-
dote. Mr.. Hubbard said the Republican
party, in carry out its promises. had
passed the Mckinley bill. "Now, my
friend wants to know what in that bill ,
is for the benefit OF the farmer. If
L. L. IL e l,fI l.
tell him"
Mr.. Pcndleton told Mr.. Hubbard to
use his own copy, aud Mr.. Hubbard
said; Now, my friends, you see what's
the matter with Hannah. If | was de-
pendent upon him, couldn't go very
far with my facts"
Mr.. Hubbard then produced a copy Of
the bill. aud said there was duty on
cheese. duty ON railroad ties, a duty
on horses. duty on cattle, duty on
hogs, duty on sheep, duty on wheat.
and so on. In reference to wheat. he
said Mr. Pendleton had stated the i'm
portaton last year was but 1000 BUSH
els, but he omitted To state how much
might have been imported had there
been no tariff. He dwclt upon the duty
on barley, on which he said 10000, 900
bushels had been imported last year. :
and predicted that the increased duty
would lessen the amount. Mr.. Hub
bard referred to Mr.. PendlctOn'S claim
that the wealth of the coun-
try was unequally divided between the
farmers and the manufacturers, and
said there was no trouble To understand
that. Under the Walker tariff there
was little encouragement to manufac-
turers. and they did not flourish, but
when the Republican party came in and
put protective tariff on manufactured
goods the manufacturing interests Of
the country grew. docs that hurt the
farmer" he asked, and he drew con-
traSt between manufacturing pcnnSyl-
yania and agricultural Virginia, claim
ing that land was worth $50 an acre in
Pennsylvania aud but Sll in Virginia.
Mr.. Hubbard referred to Mr.. Pendlo-
tons illustration about tariff wall
around New Martinsvllc. and said that
was just what existed, illustrating IL
by the town license against peddlars.
lIo said that license was put on 10 pro-
tect the merchants Of New MartnSvilc,
and wanted to know If that was good
thing for New Martinsvlle, why the
same idea, enlarged, should not be a
good one for the country.
"Somctimcs the tariff is tax, and
sometimes it isn't. The Republican
party says that if an article can not be
produced in this country it Is tax; but
II the article can be produced here, the
result invariably is that prices come
down gradually and the people are ben
Gifted. He illustrated this by a story
about Middlebourne gentleman who
owned hcarse with plate glass in IT,
The plate glass originally cost SIS. The
hearse met with an accident, and when
the owner came tn replace the orig
inal French glass with better Amcri-
can glass. and found ii cost but Sl2
And one of the beauties OF 1t was that
the machinery for making the cheaper
and better glass was made in Wheeling,
The speaker said it had not been long
since West Virginia Democrats were
protectionists, and read an extract from
a REGISTER editorial OF several years
ago. and cited Judge John Brannon as a
protcctionist candidate. lie referred to
the Mills bill. and said the
Democratic party was ever willing to
do the bidding of the extreme South
and let the remainder OF the country 90
~ v-rprl, and rufu He defended the