Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-20

seekers were repaid by seeing the
crowd and all the interesting con-
cOmitants that appertain TO the
average crowd. They saw MCKINLEY.
And that wasalI They had heard his
speech before aud read 1t in Republican
newspapers many times before. With
few sentences revamped it is the same
ole speech Of last campaign.
Judging from the lack OF enthusiasm
and demonstration Of any kind, the au-
dience recognized it as an old time aud
worn out acquaintance. There was alb
solutely nothing new in it and not one
OF the issues OF the day was discussed,
excepting the pension issue, on
which the Governor took out the
old time bloody shirt, heated his iron
by the coAl-oil-lamps OF the campaign
marchers, and pressed it into a shape
sufficient for exhibition. But the dis
play did not seem to catch the eye Of
audience. They recognized the old
time dilapidated garment and did not
respond to the wave as Republican
audiences have been wont to do in the
past.
The majority of those among the au-
dience who live in Bellaire were work
ingmen. They have memories. Many
Of them can recall the workings of
MCKINLEY's special brand Of protective
tariff from its inception.
These will remember what their
wages were then and they know what
they are now after thirty years trial
Of MCKINLEY's theory.
They know their wages have been
going gradually, but steadily and
surely, down ever since the war, ever
since the introduction Of the theory
still advocated by MCKINLEY on the
basis of protection TO labor"
No wonder MCKINLEY's audience was
not enthusiastic. His story is too old;
the fake has been exposed too often.
The protected" workingmen Of Bel
laire and every other manufacturing
town in the country have felt the ef-
iects of it too severely to be fooled by
such buucombe as MCKINLEY shouts
from his campaign platform any longer.
1t Is campaign powder that was burnt
long ago.
LESS than twelve months ago." said
the eloquent Governor of Ohio, "these
old hills echoed back the hum OF INDUS
try, now silenced.'
And yet we have Mr.. MCKINLEY's
high tariff law still with us!
The Governor gets around this fact,
however, by declaring that the threat
OF Democratic free trade" is responsible
for the depression. But he did not ex-
plain the pauics of 1873 and 1876, when
there was no threat of Democratic
free trade" and those times were worse
than the present state Of affairs.
He says the Sherman law is not to
blame. And therein MCKINLEY Is out
of line. not only with the country, but
with his own party leaders, Tom REED
among them. All OF which the Cover
nor acknowledged in his unqualified
condemnation Of the Sherman law. On
that subject he blows hot and cold in
the same breath. He acknowledges
that the silver dollar is worth only
about half It's face value and is me-
mace to the stability OF the country's
currency and in the next breath de-
cIares the country never had better
currency than it has to-day, and that
the sherman law has nothing to do with
the existing strinFency in the money
market-that nothing on earth is to
blame but the "threat" that the Demo
cratic party will carry out the peoples
of,-repeated and imperative demand for
tariff reform-an equal distribution Of
taxation.
Mckinney is a great tarker and fine
orator, but that is all.
In every case the tail end Of his argu-
ment is deadly parallel to the prem
ises.