Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-12-24
FOR TARIFF REFORM
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING AND BANQUET
LAST EVENING.
The Gentlemen Cheer the Presence Of the Ladies-TwC
Notable Speeches -Ex-Prssldent Clevelands
Remarks-HOn. William L. Wilson Gov
ers the Ground in a Graceful Effort.

leries were filled with brilliant array
of people, of whom ladies made Il prom
inent part.
1t was half past : O'Clock. when the
banquet was begun. The boxes at this
time were empty, and it was not before
the dinner was nearly over that ladies'
began to come in. The speakers table
was in the center. On either side OF
Chairman Everett Z. Wheeler sat en-
President Cleveland and John G. Car
Isle. of Kentucky. Among the other
gentlemen at this table were Governor
Horace Bois. of Iowa: Governor-elect
Russell, of Massachusetts; Congressman
Wilson. of West Virginia: Hon. Carl
Schurz, w. L. HenSel. of Pennsylvania;
Horace White. Thomas l.. Johnson, Of
Ohio.
At other tables were Henry Willard,
Daniel Lamont, Senator Brice, of Ohio;
George Hoadley and W. l.. Trenholm.
At $3.50 o'clock Mrs. Grover Cleveland
accompanied by Mrs. John &. Carlisle,
and other ladies entered one OF the
boxes in the first gallery. Mrs. Cleve-
lands appearance was the signal for
every man at the tables to arise to his
feet. and amid a waving of handker-
chiefs, Mrs. Cleveland was given three
cheers. which compliment she acknowl-
edged bv rising and bowling.
When the feaSting was finished Chair
man Wheeler in Il brief speech intro
duced eN-PreSident Cleveland as the first
sneaker of the evening. The eX-Presl-
dent spoke at some length on the sub
ject of The Campaign of Education. y
In closing he said:
Need | speak Of the result OF our
labors? This happy aSSemblage called
/ together TO celebrate the victories
achieved in the cause of Tariff Reform
tells the story of our success.
( We will rejoice tonight, not only in
our success and the manner OF its
achievements. but Is American citizens
we will especially rejoice in the proof
which our victory affords of the intelli-
gence, the integrity, and the patriotism
of our fellow countrymen. we nave
again learned that when reused to
/ thought and action they can be trusted
rightly To determine any questions IN
volving their interests and the welfare
of their country.
Let us not fail to realize the fact that
our work is not done. Our enemies are
still alive and have grown desperate
Human selfShness is not easily over
come and the hope of private gain at
the expense of the masses OF our people
is not yet abandoned. II would be
shameful. and pitiable disgrace, II by
over-cOnfidence, we should lose the
ground we have gained, or if we should
fail TO push further our advantage. The
result of our labor thus far is, indeed,
"a signal tribute to the judgment OF the
/ American people" In full faith In
! this Judgment our work should continue
upon the lines thus far followed until
/ the enemies of Tariff Reform are driven
from their last intrenchment. As the
people have trusted us, let us, above
all things, be true to them. Let the
| light of our campaign be carried into
every part of the land where 1t has not
/ been seen. and where ii has been kim
died let it be kept brightly burning,
still showing the way to better days for
the people, and disclosing the plans OF
inSidiouS foes"
After the applause which greeted
Mr.. Cleveland's remarks had subsidized,
Hon. John G.. Carlisle. of Kentucky,
spoke on Popular Government"
Hon. William l.. Wilson, Congress
man from the Second District OF West
Virginia, spoke on the "Fifty-frst Con-
gresS." He said: If the blundering
OF Congress is to be measured by the
/ force and sweep of the condemnation it
has provoked, Mr.. Reeds Congress has
not only surpassed Mr.. Keifer'S Con-
greSS, but has achieved for itself a pre-
eminence in blundering unapproached
by any of its fifty predeces-
SorS. and if recent political
experience proves anything, it
/ teaches that the Democratic party never
blunderS more fatally than when it
abandnnS or palterS with its true prin-
cipleS. and that it never appeals so
strongly to the heart of the masses or
to the enthusiasm of the young as when
/ il goes before them in the strength OF
B these principles alone. On the other
hand the Republican party aS dominated
to-day never blunderS so effectively as
when it has free scope and opportunity
for the application of its principles;
never meets with such crushing repudi-
alton from the people aS when 1t dis
closes to them its true politics and
methods.
The campaign was not fought on any
obscure or minor issue, but upon the
iouestion on which as Mr.. Burke truly
said call the great contests of freedom
have been waged-the question OF taxa
tion. History is in the main record ol
the successful attempts OF small class
among every people to get control OF
the government, that they may use the
taxing power for their own aggrandlze'
meut.
1T is one of the safeguards of our
freedom that an evil principle intro
duced into our political system works
out its own extreme and dangerous
manifestation. and brings its own train
of abuses. all tending to arouse atten-
tion and to kindle indignation. The
protective principle not only gave an
extreme and dangerous manifestation
of itself in the Mckinley bill, but 1t
was the evil spirit that tempted, or COM
PEELED the tlfty-llrSt congress w
career which inSures for it sinister
name in our legislative history. -
THE Fifty-Second Congress will en-
ter upon its labors with one lesson that
none of its members can mistake, and
that lesson is that its shortest road to
irretrievable bankruptcy will be to fol-
low the footsteps of its predecessor:
and its surcst road to popular approval
will be TO present as clear contrast as
possible to the temper, the methods and
the Legislation of that predecessor. In
this one lesson it will find no small
part of that justice, temperance, and
foresight which We invoke for it to-
night