The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-28
CAPTAIN D0VENER
Opens BIS Campaign Before the
olay-Unlon Republican Club.
VERY LARGE And ENTHUSIASTIC
Describes the Crowd That Listened
to the Eloquent speaker-comrares
tho Present Depressed Conditions
With Republican Protective Pros.
perlty-DemocratIc Promises aud
Their FuIhlIment.


Last evening at tho headquarters OF
tho Clay.Union Republican club at
Bl,hotl's hall on Eighteenth street in
East Wheeling large aud enthusiastic
meeting was held, which was addressed
by the Republican congressional candi.
date, Captain B. B. Dovener. This was
the captain's first speech in his home
siuce his nomination and his audience
was one entirely fitting to the occasion.
Captain Doveuer began by saying that
in former campaigns he had been gov.
etned by partisanism growing out Of
conditions covering period OF thirty.
two years, from 1851 10 1892, but he !elt
Tonight that tho distressed situation in
which he felt his country to be With all
OF her interests and industries threaten.
cd. some With parylization, othOrs with
destruction, that the time had come tor
| him and all other true lovers oil our
country to take broader view and to
stand upon higher plane Of patriotism
and Alnericanism.
II am not here tonight to wound or
| offend or to call 10 severe account those
4 who were deluded by tho promises Of
the leaders Of their party two years ago,
but to contrast conditions past and
present and will try to convince all who
hear me tonight that the positions OF
my party on all great economic quCs-
tiOna affecting tho interests OF the pco.
plO and the whole people, regardless oil
lection or condition, have been right.
This is proven by thousand object
lessons in our immediate mids. There
is q large distinction between recollec.
ton and remembrance. You will
rocoll6ct that two years ago they prom.
ised you il the Democratic party should
gain control OF this government they
! would legislate so wisely and favorably
in the interests OF labor that
labor should receive its just re.
ward aud the "robber barons," as
they denominatcd the manufacturers.
should not fitch from you and
grow rich on the product Of your labor;
that revenue aud tariff reform would BIO
in your interests, that the Democratic
party was the only true party that
shielded and protected the rights Of
American labor. Now then, l ask you
4 in all candor II you have any rcmem-
brance OF their carrying out single
pIulss or promise made ct that time, OF
| in fact at any time. With very short
recess Congress has been in session for
more than Quo year, n Democratic Con.
gross with largo majority in one
branch and working majority in the
other. and President. In fact they
are In complete control Of tho govern
mont. assuming all control and entirely
responsible for all legislation. Have
they done one single act that would lead
you to believe that they were honest in
their promises and pledges? Nothing"
Ono year ago. said tho captain, Con.
cre.s was called In extra session by tho
President to repeal the silver purchase
bill, which was claimed to be the cause
| OF business etagnation, npcertaintyNand
! disaster, in financial aud commercial
affairs. and that its repeal was demanded
that business confidence would bo
restored and the country re'umc its
former prosperity, and tho people said,
amen" It was accordingly repealed
with the aid OF Republicans in both
houses. The people awaited patiently
for the promised revival; days passed
into weeks. weeks into months, aud yet
the revival came not. Then the peo-
pie said there must bc some
other cause and tho trne cause
has now been made ciear-iewas solely
duo to tinkcring with the tariff laws.
Factories closed down, people thrown
out OF employment. millions OF dollars
thrown out OF circulation, MI awaiting
the result OF tho Democratic action in
Congress. There ia no twelve months
under Republican administration that
will compare in far reaching disastrous
results with the twelve months Just
passed under the present. administra.
ton. A tariff law has finally passed in
many respects ns bad or worse than tho
Wilson bill. Many southern products
have been protected. while northern
products, both agricultural and manu-.
featuring, havo boon left to the mercy
| OF Europe and the Dominion OF Canada.
The captain then made number OF
citations from the Gormau-Brice mon
grol tariff measure Just passed, which
he said in tho language OF Senator
Mills, Of Texas, docs not meet the ap.
DtQDuLluH Va ulle tluksWIlh bcIIuSIhbS
in tho United States, and could not
even obtain tho signature OF Free
Trade Grover Cleveland. He said tho
difference between tho leaders Of the
Democratic party and its rank and file
I reminded him OF the story OF the white
boy and the colored boy who went out
coon hunting. Colorei boy owned tho
dog, and no treed the coon; colored boy
climbed the trec and shook tho coon
down; the coon was killed; tho white
boy threw it over his shoulder and
started for home. Colorcd boy Gays,
"What part Of this coon do | get?"
White boy said, Didn't We agree 10 go
Into cohoots on this coon huntW COL
orad boy said, Eyes" White boy eaid,
"WSII, get tho coon and YOU get tho
cohoots.H That's the way with the fell
loSs who voted for Cleveland in '02.
Tho bosses got tho Offices and the work.
ingman largely responsible for Cleve.
lands election now sees that no got
nothing but tho CohOots.
Then in clear and convincing man.
ner he showed tho difference between
tho revenue tari1 Of European c0un-
tries and the protective tariff system OF
tho United Stntss; that in European
systom articles entering into tho actual
neCOssnries OF lie aud not produced
within their country arc taxed amply
to raise revenue for tho support Of tho
Government. and that many articles nro.