Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-23
GREAT PROGRESS
Made by the Principles Of Democracy
in the West.
FAULKNER TALKS OF THE TOUR.
The Democratic Speakers Who Went Through tht
West on an Organizing Tour Were Well
Rscsivsd Everywhere, and Did
Great Good Work - The
Need is Newspapers
Sns.tnL Tslenram % ths RsoLs!er.

SpseSdg telegram to the Rs0ister.
WASHINGTON, October Ex-senator
Faulkner, before returning to Martins
burg, talked with the REGISTER corre-
spondent very entertainingly about his
recent long trip through the west. He
said: "Yes, reached home last Sat
urday evening, after one of the most in
teresting and instructive trips | have
ever taken. In thirty-five days we
travelled over 5000 miles and held
thirty-six meetings. We found the De-
mocracy of the northwestern and west
ern States thoroughly aroused to the
importance of organizing the party and
making a vigorous fight for victory
in '92.
washington was the best organized
State we passed through. The organ
ization of the party in the States or
North Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Cali
fornia, Colorado and Nebraska, and the
Territory of Utah, was not as efficient
as we are accustomed to in the East. In
four OF them, however, State organlza-
tions were thoroughly perfected, tdere
being representatives in the conYen-
great energy and enthusiasm was mani
tested, and by the spring OF 1892, the
party in all of those States will be thor
oughly organized in every county. The
meetings were all large and enthusiast
ic. After speaking at the most proml-
nent place in each State our party was
divided, and in charge Of committees,
would be taken to other points OF I'M
portance where meetings would be held.
'I was struck with the fact that In
every place where we spoke the towns
were provided with most beautiful opera
houses, and I'm all the hotel accommoda-
tions far exceeded those OF cities OF the
same size in the East. The trip was
very exhausting and laborious, but the
generous hospitality extended by the
people of the West, and the earnestness
and enthusiasm of the Democracy fully
repaid every member of the party for
the labors which it imposed upon him
was surprised at the number OF West
VirCinianS that ! met in every city AT
which we stopped, and l am glad TO say
that their energy and enterprise have
nlaced them among the foremost in tha
battle for success with that aggressive
nopulatiop. Heretofore, business has
so monopolized the attention of those
rapidly developing communities, that
the importance of thorough political or
ganlzation has been lost sight OF, ops
this will not be the case in the future.
zone of the most gratifying evidences
of political regeneration that l noticed
in the West, was the large number OF
Young men, many OF them educated In
the East, who, Notwithstanding the ties
of inheritance and family traditions,
were cSpouSing the cause of Democracy,
and rallying TO the support OF its policy
of tariff reform. The terrible burdens
imposed by the Mckinley bill seem TO
have aroused them from their lethargy,
and stimulated their energies in behalf
of the people in opposition 10 the criml-
nal policy of favored class legislation.
"What we want more than anything
else liz the West to assist the active and
aggressive leaders is the newspaper
Three-fourths of the morning dallies
are Republlcan, and in the counties the
Renublicans have q large number OF
wide-awake papers maintaining the pol
icv OF their party. The press is
great power, and those who have
watched it's course in the East, must
realize and appreciate the assistance
we have received from it in the great
contests in this section for
revision of the tariff, and a reduction of
the war taxes. 1t is but just and fair,
however, to the Republican press, for
me to add that they treated all OF our
party with the greatest consideration
and fairness"
And it should be said that the Sena-
TORS appearance bears out the asSer-
tion that he had received the best of
treatment in the West. lie looked In
excellent health and was full OF ANNA
tion and enthusiasm.