Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-09
oAmPBELL's RESPONSE.
A Complete Refutation of All That MAJOR
HcKinIey bad Presented.

A Complete Refutation of All That Major
HcKinIcy Bad Presented.
"Ladies and gentlemen" said Cover
nor Campbell, II concur most heartily
with Major Mckinley that this is the
greatest and best and proudest Nation
on earth, but, unlike him, would dis-
tribute that greatness, and that wealth,
as God distributes the dews Of heaven,
upon the unjust as we'll as the just
Prolonged applause and cheers.
You, Flndlay glass worker, who have
had your meagre wages reduced; you,
steel workers OF Cleveland, who have
mad your pittance further cut down,
you must not grumble, because your
poverty adds 10 some other mans
wealth. [Cheers. A Voice-Give 1t to
Kim.
II will take care Of him now il you
will lust let me alone. Laughter J
This Is u good natured fight, for we are
both good men, however, as only one OF
us can be elected Governor, and am
there already, why / had better stay.
IGreat laughter. The Major has not
pointed out one wage worker,
as I requested him in all
this broad land who has had his
wages raised on account OF the
Mckinley bill. Applause The Re-
publican song this year is with sugar
and tin we are sure TO win" Laugh
ter. They took tariff off sugar to
make it cheap and they put on the
tariff on tin to make it cheap. Great
laughter
But no acrobat was ever able to ride
two horses going in different directions
without falling 10 the ground renewed
laughter1. l will ask whether sugar was
not reduced by the Mills bill and wheth-
or in the WAYS and means committee
when the question was up for discussion
he did not oppose any reduction In
sugar. .s.,,s-,.,en,enx,..
teous query of Governor Campbell" !"
said Major Mckinley, "that the Mills
bill did reduce'the tariff on sugar [good,
good, I about 1s or 20 per cent. In the
WAYS and Means Com mittee room OF the
House of Representatives In the last
Congress that revised the tariff / was
IN favor OF reducing the tariff
on sugar raw and refined, so per cent,
thinking. we might need the revenue,
and giving no bounty TO the sugar pro-
ducers. That was my position" APP
plause.
81 Just wanted to know" resumed
Governor Campbell, whether the peo-
ple owed all Of that free sugar to the
Major or not, and 1 have found they
don't" Laughter.
We are paying about sixteen millions
duty upon tin, an increase OF one million
under the Mckinley bill. Finally they
claimed TO establish the industry In
pioua. There is a man in this audience
who was told by the proprietor Of the
Pioua works that he had spent 500 es-
tablishlng that industry. Great laugh
ter.)
TneS spent establishing that indus
try was In the purchase of a stamp to
make this badge inscribed, ''made out
of steel and California tin" Laughter ]
"How about the eighty cent dollar?"
cried some one from the audience.
Major Mckinley in Congress, replied
the Governor, said that the Republican
marty had done all the financial leglsla-
tion in this country for thirty years. II
there are any eighty-cent dollars In this
country 1t is Republican dollar. Tho
Governor now devoted some time to re-
futing the Republican claims that tin
was manufactured in the United States.
and insisted that the few samples were
merely being manufactured for cam
naign purposes. Again the cries OF
''silver, silver" broke.out from the an-
dience. "The only trouble and
nv friends have about the money
OF this country" said the Gov
ernor. "Is not as to the kind
of dollars we get, but as 10 the distri-
button Of these dollars among the people.
[CrIes OF Right, right" and Democrat
ic applause.
The Major predicted that after his
bill passed wool would be worth forty
cents pound. The only thing you
farmers need now Is to find some fellow
who will pay you that price. Great
aonlause. John Sherman says the
effect Of protection in ell industries has
been to greatly reduce the price. So
the price OF your wool is to be reduced
by the tariff. Laughterl. The Major
wants 70 KNOW IL "Ouiu pun soi ia Ou
tea and coffee? My answer is, under
the Democratic tariff from 1916 TO 1851,
tea aud coffee were free, applausel,
aud when the Republicans retained
them on the free list they
only made that one step in the direction
OF the good old Democratic days.
Prolonged applause and cheers.
At the conclusion Of the joint debate
the Two speakers were taken In q car
riage, and under escort OF various
marching clubs, were driven through
out the city. while cannon doomed and
bands played In triumph.
A WEar vIxGiNIA GIRL