Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-25
WORK Or CONGRESS.
PUBLIC ENEMIES ONLY BURT BY REOENP
LEGISLATION.
Senator Voorhees, Plainly Shows hs Democrats
We're Net Droas-Silysr, the Tariff and La
bor-A Brilliant OPsaing ioT the Indiana Gam
paiga

palgn
TERRE HAUrE, IND, September e.
Senator Daniel ". voorhees, opened the
Democratic campaign here tonight Ia the
presence OF l,2J0 people, the capacity OF I
the building Ex-DeDuty Commissioner
OF Pension Mclean, presided. Il
The senator's speech, which required
two hours "a delivery, was read from man,
uscriDt the first time he ever addressed
his home people except eXtemporaneously
Senator Voorhees, was in good voice, IN
spite OF his recent severe sickness, ana
the speech was freely applauded- Sena-
tor Voorhees, is billed for twenty-five
speeches in Indiana. His speech tonight
was IN part as follows;
"From the beginning Of the present cen
tury, when jefferson was lnaugurated
President down 70 the present hour, the
- Democratic party, Through good ana
AthrOugh evil report, through sunshine ana
noOAgh.s.orn. in peace aqd in war, 10 its
-ictory, and in Us times OF de-
ever failed TO assert the power
,ple. and interpret the cOnStitu-
was interpreted ~ its founders.
democratic party MS never reCOg-
any control OF tue people except
Their own, nor any master except them
selves. Every concession ever made by
statue TO the greed and lawless avarice Of |
money
Is tue work of 80 - fiCng infc6n grOl
Of legislation
NO one the record ever
will call tell earned title
A.nS Tue as the only great
der ofithe latter half
Htury. Tue leaders Of
party are now venement
yrespOnsib ility Of the panic
ar and half TO their political
The panic of 1873, created Oy
elton OF silver aud the enormous
On OF the currency in circulation,
Cd during the five years il lasted
d more Of the accumulated values
rty and more OF the values Of pro-
aoOr than all the cyclones, earth
nd volcanoes Of the earth put to-
lin the same length of time. might as
n be charged TO the Democratic party as
panic Of 1898.
REPUBLICAN LEGACY TG DEMOCRATS.
s'When the Fifty-third Congress was
led together, in August, 1898, the Nc
Iinley tariff law for the protection and en-
hment OF a limited number of American
ems by the plain and distinct robbery
all others was by no means the only
lister evil that confronted US and de-
Anded prompt and heroic treatment
he treasury was practically bankrupt to
begin with. Harrison had received il from !
Whis DemOdratic predecessor four years be-
fore fun, with a surplus, but under sys-
tenn Of tariff taxation which was for the
protection OF private gain and not for the
public revenue il now contained but beg
carly balance, II any balance at all, to the
credit Of the government.
",The stability OF the public credit was
also menaced by vicious legislation on the
subject of silver, as well as by the plumber
Of the treasury and the destruction OF rev.
enue by the doctrine Of protection. More
than 20 years ago the great and unforgiven
and unforgiva6le crime Of silver demon
citation took place at the hands Of the Re-
publican party, and although afterWard
partially restored. yet from that tine to
the present hour silver money, instead Of
being treated in the money world as II Is
in the constitution, as the constitutional
N cO-eQual of gold IS q standard Of currency,
has been kept in a manned and crippled
condition, spprned, dubbed and stoned at
\IEeCX, ppuftAN By those Interested in
RtraCtsScSu 81 currency as the narrow
of gold alone.
When in 1890 a bill was pending before
bgress and had passed tire Senate by 10
iority for the coinage Of silver on equal
rms and conditions with gold, juggling
bmprOmise was brought forward by Sen
tor Sherman, the ablesJ arch enemy 70
liver money in the United States, aYow-
dly TO defeat the bill for its coinage, and
b an evil moment the Senators and Repre-
sentatives OF States having silver bullion
70 sell accepted the terms offered by the
Senator from Ohio. When Congress con-
vened on the 9TH day Of August, 1898, the
first, the sharpest and most imperative
call 70 patriotic action came from an inn
pOverished treasury, a decanged currency
Of unequal values and paralyZed circula-
ton. drew the bill which repealed the
Sherman act, but while removing that ad-
mitted obstruction to the general welfare l
was careful to substantially reassert the
Democratic national platform Of 1892
SUFFRAGE TO ALL AFFORDED.
1.-THE next great achievement Of the Dem
OcratiC party was 70 wipe out system of
federal election laws, fastened upon the
country by the Republican party more than
QuartenOf a century agO-a system in
imicable to liberty, an impeachment Of the
peoples capacity for self-gOvernment, an
invasion of natural and inalieuable rights
more OdiOUS ana indefenSible than the
British stamp act against which our
fathers tOpk up arms more than 100 years
ago
The beal Of the Mckinley act. when
all the Gin umstances and conditions are
CalmlIAo sidered, will DO found to have
bec Ost StupendOus struggle against
consolidated capital ever made
merican history. The whole |
protection was at stake ia the !
|Or tue repeal OF the mckinley |
here proclaim that the back /
protective system is broken /
try forever; that il may drag /
in a crippled and lingering /
% for a short time, but il is /
speedy and total extinction.
" and primary object Of tariff /
abolition OF tariff duties on /
hd uecessarieS of life as far as \
Ie with safety TO the revenues |
)Ort OF the government 10 fol- /
ore that legislation which from !
sources supplies revenue aud !
e treasury with funds for pub
bout laying taxes on the wear
= Of the plain people, or inCreas-
pcOst of the beds they sleep on, or Of
Knives or forks with which they eat
be hailed as wise craftsmanship, gen
d reform and rich benefaction 70 the
boring clashes. 10 view Of this fact
Universally conceded, 1 do not hesitate
hA-5sclare that the bill which passed both
les Of Congress and became a law on
18th day of August, 1894, whatever
erits or defects may be, will do more
aggregate toward the Inevitable re-
Al