The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-09-29
THE CAMPAIGN OPENED
With Fine Speeches to the Gen.
traI Republican Club.
THE NEXT CONGRESSMAN
And n Member of the Next Lcsisla.
ture addressa u Packed Audience,
Their Telling Arguments arc
Enthusiastically Received.

Ihcir Telling Arguments nre
Enthusiastically Received.
Tho rooms Of the Central Republics
club, in tho old court house, we're
densely packed Saturday evening on Il
occasion Of the meeting to ratify Il
nomination Of Hon. W. 7. Hubbard I,
Congress-. that many were unable to e
In. Probably hundred people locke
III and went away. 1t was a splendi
meeting.
President Otto presided, and intr,
duced tiou. ". z. Hubbard, who ws
greeted with cheers.
Mr.. RUBBARD's REMARKS,
After passing alluaion to the ol
Court House, the piuce OF meeting, a
the place where he used to come to pe
justice for clients, and where he nov
came to get the justice to which the Re-
publican party is entitled, and ate
making personal acknowledgement t,
the friends in the city OF his birth VIII,
took an interest in his candidacy, Mr.
Hubbard said that he supposed nothin,
like G formal address was expe ted
Ho said:
I'VE are here for friendly talk, anG
10 get to know one another better, and
consider with one nuother what it is
that We want and the methods by which
We are to reach it. The political ques,
ions that address themselves to the cisi.
z-ns Of this city OF Wheeling are really
nothing more nor less than business
questions. 1t is n question OF what YOU
want done for your interests. Your
political interests and your business in.
tetesis are nowadays very largely the
same. Aud the question is, what is il
this city aud it's people want done? for
We all know the legislation OF Congress
may have a great influence on the inter
esss OF this city, both directly and indi.
rectly. What arc those interests? !? and
NOW shall they be served? And having
theseimportant interests, whom do you
want to engage as your attorney to rep
resent them? This may be considered
entirely apart from any question OF per.
sonal qualifications, for when you deter.
mlne what you want done, you at the
same time determine who you want to
doit.
TIE POLICY OF THE REPUBLICAN, pARTY
directly fosters the interests Of this city,
both in its manufactures and its com.
merce, and is now being expressed in
legislation beneficial to the whole coun.
try: and especially helpful 10 this CITY
and community. There may have
passed Congress to-day, certainly will be
Il law within a few days, the Mckinley
bill, and that bill contains more for the
prosperity ol this community than any
measure that has passed Congress With
in my recollection. All the branches Of
our industry that are affected BY it in
any way are helped. Look at the metal
schedule, n part in which this commu.
nifty may be supposed to BIZ particularly
interested. Consider the effect the pro.
posed duties on tin plate will have.
was interested and rejoiced to read in
Major Mckinley's speech that many
mlllB had been reported to him rs rendy
to engage i'll this particular branch OF in.
dustry, and especially that among those
assurances was letter from the Whita.
ker Iron Works, at the head OF which
is your honorod candidate for the State
Senate Lapplau5el, saying that whenever
the law assured protection to that indus.
try that concern was ready to engage in
it. 50 you see this matter comes right
home 10 us, and is business matter for
our consideration.
And in the past, like legislation has
created in our midst industries formerly
foreign-as the pottery industry, which
has become SO great an element in the
progress aud prosperity Of our city. And
that suggests that it is even more i'm.
portant that oar industries should be
varied and diverse rather than that they
should be extensive. There may be de-.
preston in one branch OF business while
others thrive, and it is the multitude OF
our business interests rather than their
magnitude that make for the welfare of
our city.
II our manufacturing industries ure
thus aided, no less is ou, trade and com.
Inerce helped by this policy OF protection.
1t is significant fact that
TIE CoAsTwlSE TRADE
OF the United Statcs-that is, simply the
commerce between the sea ports OF our
own country-is twice rs great as all the
foreign commerce OF this country. And
that leaves out OF account, too, the trade
Of the Western waters, in it's tonnage
and importance more than the foreign
commerce OF the country. Is it to the
interest OF this city that q policy shall
be followed which will expand com.
merce between this and other countries,
or Que which will build up trade be.
tween different States and parts OF this
country? II coal, for example, be per.
mltted to come into the United States
from Nova Scotia free, all the manufac.
tories along the sea board will bring it
in and those markets will be lost to
West Virginia GOAL. The transportation
OF these West Virginia products, in the
profits OF which our own people share.
will be gone. The fact that this great
commerce. between different parts OF
this country exists and grows under the
fostering care of the Republican policy
has bullta a monument to that policy in
the new Union Bridge, which We all
recognize as 30 potent n factor in the
vigor and prosperity which now animate
our CITY. App!ause. The transporta-
ton OF coal and other West Virginia
products constitutes in large part the
reason ior the establishment OF such en-
terprises. All its revenue must come
from handling the products OF the United
States. But for the development OF our
homo production, due to the policy OF
protection, the market ior MANY OF thcoc
products would be filled by like products
from abroad. IN the gains from this
domestic commerce this community
shares directly and indirectly, aud here
again i: appsaE4 that the question 10,
you to determine is really aquestioa o,
YOUR OWN BUSINESS INTERESTS.
Some one might say tho. this is q yer,
se'"-" lew to take, and that we ought
to look to the interests OF the whole
country. 1agree that one who coult
shut his eyes TO the interests OF tn.
whole country would not be fit to repre-
sent even a small part OF that country
but oil It's other parts are represented b,
men seeking and serving the business
interests OF their own communities. ant