The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-10-24

duCed Hon, J. Y. lelnIeln, OIL btluRe'
port, as the presiding officer. With
very few words, Mr.. Heinlein intro
duced Gov. Mckinley as 'our next pres
ident." The governor expressed his
pleasure at being once again In his own
state, and referred briefly and gracefully
TO his tour ia tho south.
For nineteen months, he said. the
Democrats have been in power, and
nearly all that time they have been
busy tinkering with the tariff, and at
the same time the people have been
busy changing their minds: And 1t has
not taken the people half as long to
change their minds a. 1t has taken
Congress to change the tariff laws.
In this time the people have been
educated. This has been compulsory
education. While the tuition was free,
the ultimate cost has been large. It
was education in the school OF expert.
ence. The People have most OF
them been thinking. and those
who have not been thinking
have been feeling. The Democrat
wants prosperity just as the Re-
publican does, and nobody is going. 10
vote this year for mere party name, but
for what they think Is really best. In
the elections which have already taken
place the Republicans have been victo.
rious by large lnajorities. There never
was 30 swift and sudden q revu!sion OF
public feeling as since the election at
which the Democrats were triumphant
The governor reviewed some OF the
elections which have occurred, aud
compared tue large Republican plurality
this year with the Democratic victory
before. From Maine to Oregon the
same fact was to be observed.
A reference to that typical Repubh.
can, Tom Reed" provoked the widest
enthusiasm.
The governor told Of his visit to Lou.
isiana, and told OF the wonderful change
OF public sentiment there as he himself
saw 1t. This also caused great enthusi'
asm.
Why was all this change? he asked.
Because for nineteen months the Dem
ocratic Congress and President have
been running the country, aud little else
has been running. No human being
could estimate the loss to the people.
Il has been estimated that the cost to
the people has been as great as that oil
the civil war, and Governor Mckinley
said he did not doubt tho truth OF this
| estimate. There was less steady en-
ployment and at lower wages than in
1902. This part OF the speech was fre.
quently interrupted by such remarks as
| ''Too truem You're right" etc.
The houge, he said, disagreed with
the senate, and the president disagreed
with both [laughterl and the people
disagree with all three: Gfeas laugh
ter and upplause.l Why did not the
president sign that bill? Voice: "He
went tishing."] No, he did not so fish
! ing TO avoid signing it. He simply re-
fused to sign it because it did not con-
tain enough free trade. lie said 1t
Represented the very communism OF
pelf." / do not know what the com.
muuism OF pelf' means, but l know
pelf means plumber, and no law ever
pluudered American labor and Amer.
ican capital as has this new
tariff law. Cheers. The conditions
OF affairs under the Mckinley act aud
now were eloquently contrssted. Under
the law OF 1890. our tariff law. every
man who wanted WORK could get It at
remunerative wageg. How many men
who were steadily employed in 1882 are
working now? How many who are
| working now are getting the same
wages as in 1892? Voice: "We're glad
to work for our board."l Yes, to-day
they are clad toget work enough to keep
themselves aud their families. Voice:
"They voted for change. and they got
it."1 Yes, as my friend out there says
they voted for change and got it:
and l think they will vote for another
change. Voice: "Yes, and we'll get
that, too" Cheers and laughter.
Gov. Mckinley went into a practical
consideration OF the workings OF the
tariff, and said every time q hundred
tumblers were imported somebody on
this side was deprived Of That much
employment and that much wages. The
same thing applies to iron, steel and
everything else. Who is benefited
The foreign laborer who makes the
goods.
The Democrats say this new law
makes things cheap. This is true. ls
there any Belmont county farmer who
thinks he is getting too much for hla
wheat or wool? A Nebraska Demo
cratic farmer told him that two years
ago he yo Cd for free wool, and he came
Within five cents OF 1t, for he sold his
wool for five cents a pound. The lasi
time he saw that man. .he was carrying
Republican banner in q procession
| Chsers.
Nothing is cheap II II is imported and
deprivos M American citizen OF EN-
ployment. Tho costiest thing in the
world is idleness and poverty. When
goods were cheapest in this country
men were poorest. The interdepend:
ence Of "psotected" aud "nou.protected'
industries was plainly shown.
They say the trouble 10 with our
money. 4 lot OF people are going about
now talking about l6 to l. Out IL
Hutchinson, Kan, a lot Of workingmen
carried q banner on which they said the
Ia TO they wanted was sixteen days
work Tor one workingnIan; Tree trade
makes sixteen worknen Tor one days
work, and they did not want that
Capital will not be invested for nothing
anv more than labor will work for moth
ine. There is q dilierence-capital car
wait for its dividend, but the working
mau cannot wait for his dinner. LGrea
laughter and applause.
The Democratic party, he said, Is to
ANYTHING to get power and then 1t Ii
never for anything that got it power
II they are in favor OF FREQ coinage
lfor instance, why don't they enact suct
alaw? They elected president whom
they knew would veto any FREQ sttve'
bill, TVoice: "Or pension BILL" Oh
,,ov. ha diI veto n good many, but hl