Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-14
EIGHT TO TEN THOUSAND.

weather the attendance would have
been from
EIGHT TO TEN THOUSAND.
Among the clubs present was the
famous Randall club of Pittsburg, with
the Cathedral band; the Point Marion.
Pa, club. with band; the Reeves
VILE club, with band; the Montana
CLUB, with band, and a number
of others. A special train from Pitts
burg brought several hundred Allie
gheny county Democrats, and scores
came down by boat as early as last
night. In all respects it was grand
Democratic rally, with which not even
the adverse elements could seriously in
| terfere, and this portion OF the State
| has never before seen IT'S equal, ADD
NAV never again. What It's extent
would have been under more favorable
conditions can only be conjectursd, but
! il would surely have been entirely out
! of proportion to even the very extensive
arrangements made by Chairman Whar-
ton and his capable Committee OF Ar
| rangements
The Meeting, which was called to or
der at o'clock, was presided over by
! Hon. John j. Brown.
On taking his chair Major Brown well
| coined the visitors from two States, and
| in doing so paid glowing tribute to the
! orator OF the day. Although al aged
| man. whose beard and hair were snowy
white, Major Brown is possessed Of
sonorous and far sounding voice and his
address, although brief, was resonant
with the truths of Democracy and was
| received with hearty applause by the
vast audience. Closing he introduced
| as the first speaker Of the day
EX-GOVERNOR A. r. FLEMING.
| Governor Fleming was received with
cheer upon cheer He said that as he
| looked upon the thousands before him
| he felt that the Republican charge OF
| apathy in the Democratic ranks had
been most amply disproved. No one
could look upon this great outpourng
OF the Democracy Of the central and
western portions Of the Second District
| and not believe that the Democratic
voters in Mr.. Wilson's district were
aroused as they never had been
before, and that they were
| determined to secure the
reelection OF w. l.. Wilson by a larger
majority than ne ever before received.
Touching upon the tariff and upon the
work OF the present administration and
Of the Fifty-third Congress, Gov. Flem-
ing made ringing and eloquent expo
sition OF the Democratic policy and pur-
poses, and passed from that to an ar
raignment of the Republican party,
which provoked the widest applause.
| Gov. Fleming began his address at one
| o'clock and concluded at lao. 10 the
course of his remarks be paid his re-
spects to the Republican calam-
! ity howlers In no uncertain
terms. while Mr.. Wilson, who too
Quietly slipped upon the platform. I'M
| known to Governor Fleming, took
! chair auasi voted himself to his favor
eFgst ne, "a 40 REeIsrnR. As be
looked over the crowd Mr.. Wilson said
it was the largest he had ever seen in
the State.
MR.. WILSON BEGAN HIs ADDRESS
by saying he began TO fear there was
some truth in tbs allegation OF the
enemy that rain made Democrats. A
voice, "this crowd beats 200;" abiding
to the Dayton audience OF last Tuesday.
Cheers and laug hter. He said to the
intelligent citizen this was no off year In
politics. Eternal vigilance was the
| price OF liberty in politics as in war, and
| like war, politics was serious business,
for good or bad government involved
prosperity or loss for every American
| family. The former was about to be
illustrated by the benefits to come from
the new tariff legislation; the
later by the measure known pop.
| Referring to the advent Of the present
| Democratic administration, he said no
President ever took his seat at more
! critical period in the life Of the nation
than did Grover Cleveland. Even then
the sky was darkening with the coming
of a most serious fnancial storm. The
Treasury, left well filled at the close
OF Mr.. Cleveand's first term.
was bankrupt and a falling of
in manufacturing was already
beginning to affect wage-earners, farm
| erS, manufacturers and business men
alike. He then reviewed at length and
In detail the Republican legislation and
policy which, operating through long
series of years, had brought about these
results, and from that passed to a con-
sideration of the many difficulties
which the incoming Democracy found
confronting il before reforms aud relief
for the people could be accompl ished.
His review Of the work OF the last Con-
gress was concise aud mastery, and the
parallel he drew between 1t and the Re-
publican billion dollar Congress was
cheered to the echo.
Upon the question Of federal taxation
he said, under the Republican system,
taxes have been laid, not upon basis
of actual necessities OF the Govern
ment, nor yet upon the ability OF the
people 10 pay, but upon the necessities
| OF the people and upon their ability TO
| consume a certain amount OF the neces-
sarieS or even Of the luXuries Of life.
In other words, taxes nave been laid
upon the wants, nay even upon the
backs OF the people to an extent not to
be measured By the money paid into the
/, Treasury OF the Nation, but by a sum
| represented by four, or it may be five
times that sum, which has gone into the
poe kets OF
SPECIALLY PROTECTED CLASS.
Upon top of that system OF robbery OF
the great mass Of the people, is another
and the chiefeSt Indictment against the
protection policy, and that is its rob-
berry OF the producing citizen OF one
! half his opportunity to labor. Pleading
! for an extensions OF thes American
marke, abroad, he said that although
there was In this country manufacturing
ability 10 supply all the wants Of the
country by operating six months in the
year, the Republican party had persist
emily and deliberately insisted upon a
policy which restricted the market for
| these manufactured products, while 81
the same time compelling the cousum-
/ ing public TO paw the largest price TO