The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-20
BUSINESS MEETING.
The Business Men of Ohio County
Effect an Organization
TO HELP The REPUBLICAN, TICKET
An Able, Earnest and Effective
Speech by B. F. Caldwell. the
President-..Good Committeeman
Have the Work to Be Done in
charge-.The Officers Elected Last
Evening.

An uulOuTueu ueoblug VI 'HO luz
ness Mems Republican club was held
at the Central clubs headquarters, in
the Lutz building, last night, to perfect
the organization. the temporary
chairman, W. B. McMechen, called the
meeting to order, and the committee
on permanent organization reported as
follows: For president, B. F. Cald-
well; first vice president, W. B. McMe-
chen; second vice president, John Q.
Riheldaffer: secretary, ALI Q. Davis.
The report was unanimously and en-
Enthusiastically adopted, and on taking
the chair Mr.. Caldwell made splendid
address; which was frequently APP
plauded. He spoke as follows:
GENTLEMEN OF THE, BUSINESS MEN's
CIUB:-Had my wishes been considered,
1 should have preferred to have re-
manned a private lin the rear rank. be-
lieving that membership in club
having for its object the interests OF the
whole people, and especially our own
city, county and state, yes, and the
United States, is an honor Of which any
man can Justly be proud; but your COM
mittee has called and | cheerfully re-
spond. 1 am not parliamentarian,
and l don't think it is necessary to be
one to preside over your deliberations.
The rules Of order will not be rigidly
enforced, but l would ask members to
aid me as best they can that our meet.
ings may result in perfect harmony and
be the means Of doing much good in the
campaigning IN which we are about to
enter. Let us all unite as one man to
battle Tor our ticket, as the candidates
are all pledged to the great principles
and policies as laid down in the Mime
apolis platform, and which has been en-
dorsed by all good Republicans every
where.
Let us not lose sight Of the fact that
our opponents are pledged to do the
very opposite OF what we believe 10 be
the best interest OF our whole. country;
indeed, they openly declare IN their
platform adopted at Chicago that the
entire policy of the government must
and will be changed If they get in pow
er. Our protective policy they demon
strate as robbery, and that all duties, il
any be collected, must be for revenue
only.
Now, gentlemen, do you knowor have
you thought OF the effect fsuch poll
cy on our industries? have reference
toour own here in the city and imme-
date neighborhood. 1t means one Of
two things, the closing Of our mills and
factories, or OF lowering OF our wages
to level with what is paid abroad.
Mr.. Cleveland, it was said, was several
years in advance OF his party, when he
gave to the country his celebrated free
trade mess age, when he spoke Of our
policy, say our policy because ours
has always beena protective policy, aud
he had reference to protection in all its
forms and said it was vicious, illogical
negotiable and should be abolished;
but gentlemen, he was not the first
Democrat that advanced such doctrine
by any means. The Democratic party
has alHaysheldt hatprinciple, butin their
conventionsthey have ususally straddled
the question, and they went through
the south preaching free trade and
sailors right, and through the north
protection; but to-day the party does
not straddle. II comes down with both
feet on one side, and that is on the side
OF free trade. And all over the country
you see the leaders and leading news
papers falling over each other IN their
haste to be considered in front on the
Chicago platform.
Gentlemen of Wheeling, Ohio County,
and West Virginia, what reyour duties
as business menu say, if We are any,
thing, we are strictly manufacturing
city, county and state. We cannot
make living in agriculture. You all
know that, for to-day three-fourths of
| all we eat comes from the West. Then,
l ask, what is your duty? To me, it is
clear. Go to work on every working
man and mechanic and on every miner
and farmer; show the mechanic and
mill man, glass man, pottery man, the
the fallacies of the Democratic doctrine,
and it can be done by illustrations, so
that every city and county in the
state will be largely Republican.
l am working man. stand here
this evening just from the bench.
thank God am compelled to labor. 1t
makes man sleep we'll; it makes him
eat we'll. He does not have to have
special dishes prepared to tempt his
appetite. believe he lives longer and,
If he loves his work, he always has a
bright future. Go to his house. It is
we'll furnished. See his children; they
are well dressed; see him and his wife
out, and he and she are as well, If not
better dressed, than the richest. Go to
our markets. Who buys the best cuts
and the most OF them? 1t is not the
rich man. Ask who, and you will find
it is the working man in some pros
porous factory. II it ia not prosper
GUS concern the workmen do not fare
we'll. Now, the way to keep them
prosperous is to give them just what
we have to-day-protectio against for
eign manufactures, such goods as we
can make at home, and l tell you there
is but little but what we can do.
/ am timer, or, rather, what at
present ia called tin plate worker. /
have worked at the bench for now
over forty years. In all that time,
have worked on material which was en-
tirely OF foreign make. ] want to live
forty years longer and work nothing
but American product to even up, and
if am allowed to live for even one year
1 propose, as far as possible, to use
American tin. We have got it now and
it is increasing at rate that strikes ter
ror to our Democratic friends.
/ cannot let the present opportunity
pass without relating what occurred
with me few days since. A gentleman
building five houses asked me to give
| him a proposal for the roofing. He