The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1894-09-21
.TMo wRsr YIRelNIA cAMrAIeNs.

1t has been a matter Of wonder
to many just what the feelings
Of Mr.. Wilson, of West Virginia,
Chairman of Ways and Means,
and Senator Faulkner, also Of
West Virginia, Chairman of the
Democratic Congressional Com
mittee, have been, and will be,
toward each other. Mr.. Wilson
is the prophet of the cuckoo
brood which is to continue the
tariff agitation through the fall
campaigns, all through the rest
of the Democratic administration
no matter what happens in the
tragic rush of theories and vag.
aries. The Faulkner plan is to
accept the German bill as a step
in the right direction as a mea-
sure of as much free trade as it
could be and no more protection
than it had to be; an act, if cal.
culated to make Mr.. Cleveland
regret, even to the point of cry
ing over it, that his daddy had
presented him with cat instead
of a bow. WOW" was neverthe
less pretty good, all things con.
sidered; for what really could be
expected of party that had I'M
dertaken to adjust the revenue
and financial system of the gov.
eminent without any. practice in
the business whatever There
is nothing to indicate that the
feelings of Mr.. Wilson towards
Mr.. Faulkner nor the feelings of
Mr.. Faulkner towards Mr.. Will.
son have changed in the slight
est particular. Mr.. Wilson is
still for free coal, Mr.. Faulkner
is for it when he comes into the
Presidential presence, against it
when he is at home in West vir-
ginia, and also when he is trying
to conduct the Democratic Con.
eressional campaipn.
We hardly feel qualified to say
whether Senator Faulkner's
lightning change act or Mr. VIII
sons open antagonism TO the coal
interests of his own State may
be the more acceptable to the
voters of West Virginia. 1t is
not hard to imagine that they :!
will have little use for either -
for think what some of the
Democrats of West Virginia used
to say about this free coal prop
osition There was Governor
McCorkle, who addressed the
members Of the Ways and Means
sComns bee of the House last win
tes, partly as follows, and ne, il /
should be borne in mind, demands
not only that the Democrats
shall not put coal on the free
list, but chat they shall not re-
duce the duty on it at all. Gov.
McCorkle said
Il do ask that this committee
will not lay its hand upon the in
dustry which will paralyze my
beautiful State, and will render
sterile her fair valleys. l know
the people of West Virginia, 1
know the miners of West vir.
gipia, i know the coal land own
ers of West Virginia, and l know |
the men WHO dig the coal, and |
they are here today. do know
the storekeepers in West Vir-
ginia, and in fact, 1 know the
people from the wealthy coal
baron down to the poor devil
whose house is at the mouth of
the mine. If you take the tariff
off coal ] believe it will hurt you;
but putting aside the refinement
of theories and controversies.
the proposition remains that you
will hurt every man, woman and
child engaged in the coal indus.
try"
Another prominent opponent
OF the Democratic plan of putting
coal upon the free list, or even
of reducing the duty on it, was
ex-senator Henry G. Davis, OF
West Virginia, an eminent Demo.
crat, perhaps the most eminent
in the State. In his testimony
before the Ways and Means Com
mittee Mr.. Davis referred to Mr..
Wilson own district. He smoke