Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-27

very excellent speech delivered by Hon.
John X. COwen, OF Maryland, at the
Grand opera house last wednesday
night
MIR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLow CITIzENs:-
] have been along with Mr. Wilson since
half-past 8 this morning, doing what ne mas
been dOing-talking from the rear OF a rail-
road car-and my throat is not quite in tue
condition that j would ike 10 70 be 70 ad-
dress an audience Of the kind have before
ne On the farm, however, where 4 was
born. / used 70 notice that horses would De
sOre-shouldered, but when they got little
warm 10 came along all right ana tney
didn't finch and If you viii bear Win the
harshuess Of my voice Tor snort uule, L
think / have SCCtCh-lrish pluck enough 20
null I'D iu the collar before i get through.
Applause.
have rather mingled emotions coming
10 address this audience here on the bank
OF the Ohio. I never crossed that river
but what il carried me back 70 ooyhood
davs-because that was my native state,
and when get near 10 the "reminiscences
OF the olden times come over me aud am
sort Of half gloomy l0oAing back on tue
past and thinking Of the OOyhOod long gone
bv. and its memories. But tonight l am
not here 10 give you "reminiscences OF boy
hood.
NV first duty tonight is TO tell you what
I have seen today, and i think can say
with Mr.. Wilson, judging trom the country
that we went through, that their faces are
not toward the sunset AS i saw those au-
dienCes it didn't strike me tnere was on
them the glow of the sunset. think their
faces are radiant with the sunrise they are
watching since the new tariff went into Ell
feet Applause.
From t5e mountains aud the valleys
through which we passed In Mr.. Wilson's
district and from the assemblages which
gathered 20 hear him and see him-their
standard bearer should say that they
have not forgotten him and that when NO
vember comes around and the polls have
closed the name Of WiisOu-the apostle OF
Tariff Ref0rm-wil sJiu stand among those
who represent you in the House. Ap-
plause
paigu. Pardon me If i talk plainly ana
without rhetoric i believe that truth, es-
peciauy Democratic truth, needs no orna-
ment What are, il plain language, the
issues OF the campaign. Let US set them
forth on two sides and see which we ought
70 chose.
The Democratic party told you that they
would repeal the sherman law. Ihey
have done IT, Does the Republican party
propose 90 restore itt j guess not IL was
a Republican measure. To has met with
Democratic repeal. 40 was passed as part
Of the scheme of high tariff 20 bull silver
aud protect s.lver-because they are al
WAYS protecting somebody az somebody
else's expeuse-aud iu 1890 they thought
they would protect silver and by protecting
silver catch three or four western states,
and carrying out logically their system or
protection, they started government ware
houses they bought pig silver ana issued
United States notes payable IN gold Tor IT,
We repealed It. DO any Republicans pro
pose 70 put back on the statute book their
measure which we have repealedt
Voice from house: You mean you help
ed repeal
Yes, grant yOu-I am honest enough to
say that the Republican party aided US n
repeating the measure which they had un-
wisely put upon the statute book. APP
plausel - Em manly enough 70 acknOWl-
they saw the error OF their way.
5IaUsel And, convicted of their sins,
Iney come 70 the mOurner's bench. ZAP
plauseI
Now, speaking for myself, am not one
of those who believe that poor man wants
poor money i am not afraid 70 say In
business town like this TO body OF ousl-
ness men that think every dollar that you
have should be either gold dollar or rep
resentative payable ia gold on demand, and
that gold had been selected by the wisdom
and experience Of the world as the best
stand ard and measure Of value. Ap-
plausel.
/ am not for mouksying with silver any
more daughter and Applause.)
The man who thinks that by legislation
he can make sixteen ounces Of silver equal
20 one ounce Of gold, l want him 20 do nv
farming for me and make one ton OF my
hay always buy fifty bushels Of potatoes.
naughter) We have repealed, therefore
AS my friend has said on the left, with
the aid of the Republican, on that sub
iect-ths Sherman Silver Law. And no
body proposes, as understand, to restore
it.
What else have we douel We told you
that we would strike the Force Bill or the
Election Law from the statute book. We
have done it. Does any Republican pro-
pose to restore itl Has any Republican
convention said they would put u baCkt
Has Major Mckinley, General Harrison or
our friend Reed from Maine, or MIR. Lodge
who not only few years ago wanted
that Dill but q much worse bill 20 be put on
the statute bOOk-dO they now say the
Democratic action in the repeal OF the
Force Bill or the Election Law was I'M
wise, and that If they again get into power
peredl Has the little bird whispered any
where that it is 20 come backl Not once.
They have seen that the unwisdom was
such themselves without references 20 the
constitutional power and the unwisdom Of
taking the acts and endeavOring to control
the South through marshalls and supervi-
sOrs was such, that they do not wish 70 put
Il back.
Speaking on another subject before a
committee of the Senate OF the United
States. i said that the laws amount 70
nothing except that they are the emOOdi-
ment of the habit and customs Of the times.
When they are not the embodiment
Of the habit and customs Of the times
they are worthless words on parchment.
EOrCe Bills, as j said, will not force In
South Carolina; fugitive slave laws will
not catch slaves In Massachusetts, and pro-
hibltiOn will not prohibit ia New York or
Chicago. Laughter and Rpplause)
There are the issues that we made, got
the verdict, entered Judgment aud the Re-
pubGcans don't even make q motion for
new trial. Laughter and applause.)
What next did we say we would dot We
said we would come back to old-fashioned
homely economy. 10 has passed as far as
we could make 10. Tue Republican idea
that 10 was a billion dollar country aud that
we ought 20 scatter our SurDlus-whlCh OF
course they did-Tanner said when be got
into the pension office, "GOd help the sur
plus. but God wouldn't helpit and il went,
we would come back TO Old-fashiOned econ
omy. Wedid The provisions are twenty
eight 10 thirty million dollars less than
they were. Twenty-eight 70 thirty mill
lions dollars is Of course not very much 20
Republicans. They dish out nearly half
that much 70 Louisiana fellows Tor making
sugar. But stu that is a snug little sum
on Uncle Sans cashbOOK aud 10 is On the
right side. Possibly il is not all that might
have been there. lt is the first chance we
had. and we have 20 learn. We are NOV
ing along endeavOring 70 restore Old-faSh-
toned economy. We have done it without
iuiuring the honest soldier in his pension.
It's true the pension roll has 70 a certain