Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-19

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ator from this district. an announce
ment that was received with great ap-
plause.
Mr.. Pollock said that one difficulty in
this country. and especially In this vi
cinity, was that the calamity howlers
were abroad. They claim that all the
disasters Of the late panic were due to
the election OF Grover Cleveland. Fur
Their than this they persist in shutting
| th cir eyes TO the restoration OF business
: to its normal condition, and will not ad-
nit any apparent signs of prosperity.
Mr.. Pollock then read extracts from
the interview with President Roberts,
of the Pennsylvania railroad, publish
ed in the REGISTER of yesterday.
| Continuing, Mr.. Pollock said that Mr..
Roberts presented the causes OF the
late financial troubles in their true
light. There was no doubt that the
panic was bank panic,
which naturally brought on
feeling OF distrust be-
tween all parties. That these causes
arose long time before the election OF
Mr.. Cleveland and that the financial
stringency begun a long time before
that period, although the crisis was not
reached until it was precipitated by the
| Wall street tinaDciers and the demands
| for gold. Mr. Pollock then read the
following excerpt from the New York
World as best illustrating the legacT left
| a Democratic administration by FRESH
! dent Harrison.
Mr. Harrison in one of his circle swing
! ing speeches acmonished the voters thus:
"Put in your spare time thinking"
Excellent advice-none better. IL the
people think long enough these are some OF
the things they will remember:
That President Harrison found the treas
ury full and left it empty. He converted
surplus Of Sl00,00O,0O0 into a deficit OF
$4,000, 00O
That he received from Democratic
Administration nearly SlO0,00O,OOO OF gold
in excess of the reserve, and left to his
successor less than 81, 100000
That during Cleveland's first Admins
tration there was a net gain in gold i'm
ports of $54, az, 900, and during Harrlson's
Administration there was a net loss Of
1922, o24, 600.
That by virtue of President Harrison's
signature the sherman Silver bill, passed
by a strictly Republican vote, became
law, and that this law caused the monetary
panic OF 1898, from which the country has
not yet recovered.
That by President Harrison's signature
the Mckinley bill became law, raising
tue duties 10 the highest average since the
war, Duttressing trusts and depicting the
revenues.
That this law was condemned by the
people by over 1900, 900 majority in 1890,
and again in 1892 by verdict still more
sweeping and severe.
That Benjamin Harrison's Judge and
District Attorney saved VIM. w. Dudley
from the consequences of his revealed
crime in instigating the bribery or voters
in Indiana.
That not Republican principles or vir-
tues but Democratic laundering and negli-
gence have given the discredited and dis
carded party of Harrison, Reed, Quay,
Elkins & Co. its victories this year
If the people think hard enough they
will probably conclude that the punish
ment las been sufficient.
The chairman then introduced Hon.
j. j. Woods, who after paying deserv-
ed tribute to the efforts of the previous
speakers, begged to be excused until
some future occasion.
Hon. ]. B. Wilson was urged to ad-
dress the meeting. He said that as he
had recently spoken to the electors OF
the Sixth ward upon the issues OF the
day he was about TO decline, but as he
had heard something new since
then he would say few
words. II cannot" said he,
understand what the calamity howlers
and their newspaper in this city are
driving at. They seem to make it
point to continue the recent panic by
croaking against the evident revival OF
business prosperity. One OF the best
arguments against the stand they take
In this respect Is the action OF
some of the calamity howl
ers themselves. Their mills
are in full blast and yet they complain
of poor business. Mr.. Whitaker is one
of those who are especially prominent
in this respect. lie obtained about
$50, 900 insurance at the time OF the ire
at his plant. still he is expanding every
cent oflt in rebuilding and betterments
1t seems strange that he should pursue
this course II IL were true, as he claims
in his speeches in this vicinity,
that the business OF the country
was going to the dogs.
The owners of the mills and industrial
improvements in course of construction
in this section cannot get the work
pushed forward fast enough.
"In the face of all this calamity howl,
DESIRE" said Mr.. Wilson, "to read an
extract from the Pittsburg Dispatch, a
croaker of the most pronounced kind
on the hard times question. 1t Is dis
patch from Harrisburg, and is
forcible denial OF the cutlery
OF the Republican party against
the Democratic claim Of the restoration
of the business OF the country to It's
normal condition. The article crept
into the columns of the IntelLtgencer
somehow the other day, but il must
have been bad medicine for most OF its
readers. II would have never got in,
however, had Hart been at home, which
goes 20 show that in his absence the
editorial and news end of that paper got
very much mixed"
Mr.. Wilson then read as follows:
HARRISBURG, October l4.-Iron aud steel
mills in this locality are enjoying an era OF
unprecedented prosperity. At the Penn
svlyania steel Works the production OF
rails and Bessemer steel last week was the
Tho thrap furnapag in