The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-09-26
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enthusiastic Republicans from oil parts
OF the state were here. Ex-President
Harrison was chairman Of tho great
gathering aud introduced Governor Nc
KinIey, who delivered tho address OF
tho day, in which he brought out
startling fact in connection with the su-
gar schedule of tho Democratic tariff
bill, fact which has not been general
ly known heretofore.
TIE Ex.PREsIDEST's SPEECH.
In his opening speech General Harri.
son said, in part:
My FELLOW Crrizrxs:-The delightful
duty has been assigned me by the state
central committee OF the Republican
party OF Indiana to preside over this
great meeting. I am to be It's chair
man, not Its speaker; ahd l congratu-
luto you on that fact Laughter. l
brought the distinguished gentlemen to
whom you arc to listen to this ball this
afternoon without sending any courier
In advance to find whether there were
enough people hero for him to speak to.
TCheors. notice in the audience here
to-day with great satisfaction tho pres
cnce Of many OF our older citizens. The
old men arc fond OF talking OF tho
good old times" but tho times to
which they look back with so much de-
light are gtoritied in the fact that the
processes OF nature and OF Providence
have coveted the things that were bard
and brought out in the memory those
things that wero sweet aud pleasant.
But the good times which have in
mind were not good old times, but very
young good times. Applause. So
young that only tho unweaned babes
have no memory OF them.
THEN AND NOW.
Only two years ago this country was
not only tho most prosperous country
in the world, for that it had been bc-
fore, but It stood upon tho highest pin
nacle Of prosperity that had ever before
been attained. [Cheers.1 Tho last two
years have been years OF distress and
disaster. The losses OF them defy tho
skill Of the calculator. It has been said,
and / think not without reason, that
they exceed the cost OF tho great civil
war. The great national Losses, like
those OF the great civil war. have some
times their adequate compensations.
Great as was the cost of the war for tho
union, We feel that 1t was adequately
compensated in tho added glory that
was given to the flag, and in tho added
security that was given to our civil ln-
stitutions and the unity of tho nations.
[Cheers.
But tho losses OF the last two years
have no such compensating thought.
TIE DEMoc Ratio TARIFF.
think that l remember to have
hoard once Of an inscription upon a
Tombstone that ran something like this:
IT was we'll; thought to be better; I
took medicine, and hero l lie." Laugh
ter and applause1 Our Democratic
friends have passed tariff bill that is
approvod-so fur as can learn-by six
Democratic senators and by nobody
else TLaughterl. We hear of little
coterie OF senators whose names l
could not mention, perhaps-for they
have not boon well identified, but
their number has generally been
fixed ut round half dozen-who do
cided whit the tariff bill should bc, and
they a.e plcased with it and nobody
else. rApplausc.l Mr.. Cleveland has
repudia:ed it, aud has declared that 1t
involves perGdy and dishenor, that it
was go shameful in its character and in
tho influences that produced it that he
would not even put his name to it. All
OF the leading Democratic papers in the
country have condemned it-both OF
tho old stalwart variety and OF tho mug
wump variety. The Democratic chair
man OF tho ways and means committee
had condemned it, aud tho ontiro Dom
ocratic majority In the house OF ropro.
sontatives. Now that is groat misfor-
tune.
Il ia misfortune that tho Democratic
party was not ablo to evolve tarin bill
that that party would accept as o settle-
ment OF the tariff question.
WORSE TO COME.
II VIC had been told by our Domo.
cratic friends that We wero at tho bot
tom OF tho wcll dark, damp aud dismal
as It is, wc would have begun to look up
to 800 whether wo could not
find some star OF hope; We would
havo begun to anoint our bruises and
try to build Bomo sCAtIold by which
wo might climb out. But we
nre told that there nro lower depths yot
In storo for Us. And so this country is
to be hold In state OF suspense upon
this question. 1t can be ended in Just
ono way, aud that is by overwhGlm-
ing Republican victories in November
TGreat applauso.1 When New York
gives Levi 2. Morton 10000 majority
fapplause1 and Indiana her state ticket
25GOO Zap plauscl and illinois aud those
ptntos that havo way cred fall again into
limo, and tho nOxt Congress Ia Republic
eau, therc will DO an assurance that wo
hayo found tho end Of this disastrous
condition. [Cheers.
ONLY IN NAME.
l think tho Ohio Democrats tho other
dav declared that all these disastora OF
which wc speak camo upon tho country
under tho Mckinley bill. Woll, to be
sure, the Mckinley bill wRs u law until
that Goth day OF August when tho Ger.
man bill was passed; but II was law
only IN name. II had beOn arrested.
Wo wcro listoEing from day to day TO
prophecies that IN two weeks or three
or four II would bo rcpcalod. 1t
was not a law In tho sonso that
any merchant or manufacturer could