St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-30
WILSON UNDAUNTEO
In Accepting denomination
He Sounds the Keynote of
the Campaign.
FROM FAILURE. SUCCESS.
FROM FAILURE. SUCCESS.
Victory Of the Trusts in the
Senate Means Their
Speedier Death.
THE PEOPLE ARE AROUSED
To the Deadly Menace Of
These Offsprings Of
Protection.

MARTINS BURG, W. Va, Aug. 29.-
Chairman Wilson, of the ways and
means committee, the Democratic tariff
leader in the house of representatives.
was renominated for congress today.
Mr.. Wilson made notable address to
the convention. He said:
The honor to which you summon me
today is not new one for me to re-
ceive at your generous hands. So many
times has 1t come to me in the past
never coldly or grudgingly - that !
should yainly seek for new and stronger
language in which to assure you of my
increasing gratitude for your approval
and support. But If fitting aud suffic.
ing words are slow to come, | beg you
not to doubt that am more deeply
moved and more affectionately touched
by your affection today than have ever
been before. The action comes at the
end of one of the greatest and most
monstrous struggles that has marked
our political history, and it comes in
su ch way as to stamp with your ap-
proval, as constituents and Democrats,
the services which your representative
was called upon to render for the su-
premacy of Democratic principles and
the fulfllment of Democratic pledges.
1t is not mere affectation, for nothing
could be more blameworLhy or criminal
Oh my part cn this occasion, but the
simple candor which is due from me to
you, when l say that but for what
seemed
A Duty and Call
growing out of that struggle, / should
gladly ask at your hands an honorable
discharge from further public service
and permission to take my place again
in the ranks of the militant and ever
faithful Democrats of the Second con-
gressional district.
'In other campaigns / have accepted
this trust at your hands with full
knowledge of the labor aud strain re-
Quired for thorough canvass of O
large and stoutlv contested a district
as our own. but always with confidence
In my ability to meet that labor and
strain. Today l cannot have that con-
fdence, and in view of the large and
dangerous drafts made upon my
strength and health | shall be con-
strained to ask at your hands some re-
mission of the lab0rs of public canvass
ing, which | have heretofore greatly
enjoyed. l shall not, however, be a
drOne in the approaching contest and
shall spare no effort to meet personally,
if not upon the huStings, as many of
the people as l can.
Fellow citizens, this is enough for
me to say of personal nature. There
are other thoughts that fill our minds
today. Boundless as is your kindness
to ME which has fathered this great
convention and great, great assem-
blage.
The congress which adjourned yester-
day was charged by the people with a
duty clear, unmistakable. transoendent,
to secure from the grasp of private and
selfish hands the power of federal taxa
ton; to
Lift From the Backs
of the American people that burden of
tribute to privilege and monopoly which
under thirty years Republican legisla-
tion had grown constantly heavier until
1t far exceeded the legitimate and nee.
essary taxation for the support of the
government: to reclaim and make for
ever sUre that heritage OF American
youth, which is the true meaning and
priceless boon of Democratic institu-
tions-eGual opportunity in land of
equal rights.
This was the inspiring mission which
the Democratic party had long sought
from the American people power and
authority to perform. To this mission
the immediate representatives of the
people gave themselves earnestly and
faithfully. In that work they were at
all times cheered and encouraged by
their great leader. who for eight years
in defeat and victory, had led in the
movement for tariff reform. While he
scrupulously abstained from interfer-
ence with the work of those intrusted
with the reform legislation, he was in
slstent, III season and out of season,
urging that the pledges on which we
had come into power should he fulfilled
ill the letter and the spirit, and that the
blessings of reduced and just taxation
should be fully and honestly secured to
the American people. 9
In this great work your own repre-
sentative, thanks to your kindness in
granting him long public service, was
assigned an important and most ard
uous part. No man could fifty under
take TO frame revenue bill tor nation
OF seventy million people, unsurpassed
i'll worth and in the magnitude and
variety of their industrial and CONNER.
clal Interests. to purge monopoly from
that system, to replace class exaction by
public taxation. privilege by equality, to
tighten the burden OF the people, secure
larger rewards for their labor and freer
play for their industry. without being
appalled, by the greatness of the trust
committed to him. and the thickening
difficulties in the way of it's successful
performance. No man could worthily
approach such work without putting
away from him any petty personal am
bition and any selfish concern for his
own political future. No man could
hope for any measure OF real success
who was not willing to dedicate to such
task every power of body and mind !;
with an humble invocation for strength
and wisdom from the uufailing source
of strength and wisdom. / cannot claim
to have risen to the full height of this
duty, but
1 Have Never Faltered
In the belief that you, my friends and
constituents, expected and desired me
to enter upon my work in this spirit,
ard in this spirit to persevere to its
close. l knew that you were tariff re-
formers without reservation; 1 knew
that the Democrats of West Virginia
were not protectionisss for West Vir-
ginia and refornierS and free traders for
other states. But even ii l. had kncwn
otherwise l should not have gone aside
one step FROM what was to me the clear