Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-06


had been ln MoIgautoWn, and blockS-oL-
Five Dudley 10 Clarksourg, and ASKED the
meaning OF this unparalleled collecnon or
high governments officials in West Virginia
40 bis mind II fOreshadowed a desperate
attempt to carry West Virginia
for Harrison, and he warned Demo
Gratis and the people 70 be on
I their guard. He quoted from recent in
terview with Elkins, in which he said that
/ IL the tariff were reduced or taken on, 1t
would throw half q million people out OF
work, in New York City alone. and put
against Mr.. Elkins the testimony OF Henry
/ Clay. the man who was almost the father
of protection, as was set forth in his letter
to Bronson, Of Georgia, and said II Henry
/ Clay, the father Of protection as he be-
| lieved in il, were alive to-day, he would be
a Democrat "WhO would have the greater
influence with this audience" he said :
Henry Clay, or the present Secretary Of
Warp
Mr.. ELKINS' VIEWS.
Governor Fleming then quoted from an
interview with Mr.. Fixing, 10 which ne
/ accounted for the growth of West Viz
GINA towards Republicanism," as owing
TO the fact that the people Of West Virginia
were beginning to realize that the state
was not progressing as her neighoorlng
| States OF Pennsylvania and Ohio, this De-
cause Of the bhghting effects OF Demo
/ cratic rule, and then quoted from other ad-
/ dresses, in which Mr.. Elkins had referred
/ 10 West Virginia as unusually and excep-
/ tionally prosperous and said that he we'll
/ knew that neither Ohio nor Pennsylvania
had made such strides as West Vlr-
/ GINA in recent years. The Gov
ernor followed this up by say
| ing that Mr.. Elkins had himself been, OF
late years, a large investor in West Vir-
| ginia industries and lands and mines. The
| Democratic State of West Virginia had
been enticing enough for Mr.. ElkinS, who
/ had made bis choice Of it after much dello-
/ Grafton, and with him had come such Re-
/ pubhcans as Mr.. Blaine, ex-Secretary
/ Window, lately dead, Mr.. KearEs, Of st:
/ Louis, and others. They thought enough OF
/ West Virginia to invest millions Of dollars
| here, and yet Mr.. Elkins said wealth and
/ enterprise was seeking Republican States.
! The trouble was that Mr.. Elkins was not
I coaSistent. TIE 'oyerpor made compar-
ison o. rf-- ~. ~.,s,..
| TIE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
/ under Republican and under Republican
and under Democratic control. Under Re-
/ publican rule they increased the railway
! mileage In West Virginia but twenty-five
miles, while under Democratic con-
troll 1t had increased TO 1,466 miles:
/ Had the Republicans continued
/ IN power how long would it have
! taken TO have gotten q railroad TO Camden,
/ On the Gauley, in Webster county. About
/ one thousand years" Applause He
/ quoted Mr.. Elkin's remarks Of q similar
nature, about how fast mines and coke
! ovens would have multiplied had the
State been Republican, and the Governor
/ said that when the State was under Re-
I publican control he had never heard
/ OF coke oven in West Vir-
/ ginia, while the number Of tons
/ Of coal mined were comparatively
| small. From this the Governor referred
I 10 what the Democratic State government
had done for the coal miners and mine
/ owners Ten years after Republican con-
/ troll ceased, but million and a quarter
| tons were mined in West Virginia, and
/ but $500 miners were employed. Last
/ year there were ten thousand miners, and
/ seven and half million tons Of coal were
| taken from the earth. The increase in the
/ production Of coke was
EVEN MORE MARKED,
/ and yet Stephen B. Elkins dared to find
/ fault with the Democratic party in West
/ Virginia. He read what Mr. Elkins said
/ in the IRtelligeneer about the mal-adminis-
/ tratiOn Of the institutions of the State, say
/ ing the methods in vogue were not calcu-
/ lated 70 inspire confidence, either in or out
/ of the State, and cOntrasted with it Mr.. FL
/ kins speech in the Opera House, on the oc-
| casiOn Of the boom convention when he said
/ the State had no debt, the people were lib
/ erty-lovlng and law-abiding, crime was
rare and promptly punished, and the laws
were well executed, amply protecting capt.
! tai and labor alike. On one occasion Mr..
| Elkins was making political speech and
in the other he was telling the truth TO
| business men in business way.
The Governor then referred to some
/ things which had been said about his Fair
mont speech, and the Republican threat to
/ ''Open the books of the State" when they
/ got control of the State, and show up the
Democrats. We'll" said the Governor,
lit occurred TO me to open some Republican
books. while they had control of the State,
and found that there was loss from de-
faulting sheriffs alone Of Sl00,0O There
were payments and appropriations which
would startle the people. found they had
reassessed the lands Of the State, and that
board had set for a year or
more on that valuation, ana at q cost in ex-
cess Of $1,000, aud many other extrava-
gences." The Governor contrasted these
extravagenceS with the business-like mat
tiers under Democratic control, and made
AN EAnAloIANE OO1lfAhloON
Of the two systems, citing a number of
items, all favorable 70 the Democracy. His
narration and explanation of the last act OF
the last Republican Executive of the State,
in March, 1871, was g particularly inter
esting thing, Governor Fleming showing
that in that year, while the people were
engaged in prosecuting the election and
registration boards, the Governor Of the
State was on the other side, defending
them, and using the money OF the State for
that purpose.
COL. ROBT. WHITE.
Governor Fleming concluded at ten
minutes of ten, amid applause, and Chair
man Corcoran introduced Col. Robert
White, who asked his audience to remain
but about three minutes. He set his audi
ence wild with enthusiasm in about one
moment, and was greeted with cheer upon
cheer as he hurled his arguments at the
enemy, and poured out unanswerable Dem
Ocratic arguments. He said he was just
back from the skirmish line in New York
and West Virginia, where he had been
fighting in the ranks, and be knew, from
personal observation, that the Democracy OF
the country were standing shoulder TO
shoulder, in solid ranks, ready on Tuesday
10 meet and bury the Republican party as
IL had met ana buried the old Federal
party, the Know Nothing party and every
other party which had ever opposed the on
ward march Of the triumphal Democracy.
The Colonel said he could talk all night on
the subject Of that Ubiquitous measure,
the Force bill, but he did not intend to do
il. He q did want to call attention
to that iniQuity, however, as he had done
elsewhere, and to point out the tremen-
dOus possibilities contained In that most
desperate measure Of the Republicans he