The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-10-13
DULL AND DREARY
Were the Speeches of EIkins
and Dayton.
THE FIRST GUS OF THE CAMPAIGN
Draws Very Slim Crowd and the
Speakers Words We're deceived by
an UnappreciatiYe Audience.


ny of lack of general and full ad
vertising, were scattered Ger the
bills and dales of the broad expanse
of all Menongalia and adjoining
counties for days snd weeks preyi-
Gus to last Tuesday heralding some
thing that did not come to pass,
that there would be a grand out
pouring Of Republicans that day,
who would assemble at Morgantown
to listen to Hons 5. B. Elkins, A. g,
Dayton, 5. H. Gramm and G. c.
Sturgiss tell the people the same
old stories that to make people
rich aid prosperous is to tax them.
They came, a seant fraction Of
the thousands expected. Here and
there over town a house was deco.
rated, and these ooked lonely in
their gaudiness. The court house
bell rang at 10 o'clock. The regular
October session of court began that
day Quite a number, the usual
number, of people gathered around
the temple A steam boats whistle
announced that the Point Marion
delegation was about to arrive Res
ident Republicans and small boys
FASTENED to the wharf. Forty two
people got off the boat, chiefly Sim
McLain's celebrated Fayette county
musicians
There was rest taken until after
dinner. and then many of the Demo
Gratis of town and all the Republi-
cans, visiting and residential, in
town, got themselves to the court
house yard There was plenty of
room left for more Democrats and
Republicans, but they were not,
hence they came not. There was no
court in the afternoon, so that jury
men, witnesses and all others having
business in court failed to swell
that crowd to the anticipated enor-
nifty or anything like it.
Upon the orators stand were
Messrs. Elkins, Dayton, Sturgiss
and Gramm, with few lesser lights
Of the party which claims that the
tariff is not a tax, among whom were
"Taw see Daee,o arrayed in a broad
smile and brown oYereoat. Ellfworth
Glasscock was not there, neither was
Frank Cox. Mr.. Sturgiss seemed
to preside. He probably wished to
feel good hot stove rather than ex-
pertinent with the warming effects
of tariff arguments, but he didn't
say so, and buttoning bis ulster
close around his throat he intro
duced Mr. Elkins, whose private car
was sidetracked at tae station but
let that pass.
Mr.. Elkins delivered a speech
which any voter may have by the
small outlay for a postage stamp
sent to any one Of his various ad
dresses. Probably many, If not all,
of our readers have read this speech.
However, they will surely pardon
few brief remarks concerning it. Mr.
Elkins said that in 80 years there
had been an increased trade and
broadened markets in this country,
that there had been large increase
in wages and that the amount Of
saving had trebled in that time.
We'll, alas for proud progressive
America il this were not true. He
said that the government debt WAS
now trifling, but somehow he forgot
about the way Harrisons admins.
tration had juggled the niekels aud
dimes surplus so as TO make agHila-
BILE cash, used it all up and left the
present administration the legacy of
a treasury as bare as Mother Hub
bard's cupboard Then how he
pounced on the administration for
issuing bonds How he did presume
on the ignorance of his auditors!
But everybody knows about The
bonds and how the Republicans
forced the issue. He spent a great
deal of time on this years railroad
strike, but there was an eloquent
mumness about Homestead He
made frantic appeals for the resto
ration of McKinleyism, for be it
known that Mr. Elkins is Of the
class most benefited by that defunct
law which was made at the instance
of the tariff barops Really. he is a
notable example, one of the few of
the kind we have in West Virginia.
He characterized the Wilson bill
as the worst enemy to all the people
that had ever been known, except
Mr. Wilson himself, which was as
much as saying that that law may
help the laboring man but it didn't
help him And here Stephen sulked
a little. He brought tears TO the
eyes of all when he said that not a
furnace bad beenslighted under the
new law The people would have
been better pleased il he had not
said that Then came the grand
climax. He told the familiar fact
that the Mckinley law took the tar
if off of sugar, which made it cheap
err for the poor man, but minated
that putting a tariff on other arti-
Giles made them cheaper Now there's
a paradox from the EIkins factory.
Mr.. Wilson don't hurt my pocket
as much as he does my feelings, "
said he. Poor, tender, Stephen It's
a great pity about you. Don't cry;
these nasty Democrats shant be con
tinued in office more than 100 years.
His remarkable statement that the
Republicans have no trusts to de
fend them is referred to the records.
'Now / want to tell you about lum
ber," said be. "We have had to
close down our mills on account of a
lack of orders, for now we have to
compete with the Canadian product
1t is a sweet reflection that "the vii
est sinner may return" 1t is en-
tirely too, patent that the reason the
mills on 5he Davis road are not now
in operation is chat the workmen are
thrown out of employment in order
to force them 10 vote for DAYTON.
The calamity howl was con
tinued by Mr.. Elkins for over an
hour. Mr. Dayton was then intro
duce6 by Mr. Sturgiss. He didn't
keep the people waiting for the end
20 minutes. The first 10 of these
neeting periods Of time we're devoted
to reading extracts from New York
papers showing that this country
had had good times up to 1892. He
said then
Il look upon protection as father
who takes care of large family of
sons, each of whom tries to help the
other along This poetic smile
was very deep-lnd the man who
runs against Wilson must be deep.