West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1894-07-05
NUMBER 36.
TRUTH AND EI.0euENCE.
Wit and Wisdom OF n Brilliant
Orator.

Orator.
Hoa. Champ Clark, member OF
Congress fom Missouri. recently
addressed Democratic club.
Among other things ho sand:
"The Republican party to-day
bases all its hopes OF 1894 aud 1896
on the continued depression OF
business. In the whole history of
politics it is the first time that any
great party welcomed hunger,
nakedness and enforcement of idle
ness as allies.
Every furnace whose fires arc
out-every wheel that stands idle
every ship whose sails are rotting in
our harbors--overy laborer out OF
employment-eyery farmer on the
road to bankruptcy-every mer-
chant whose trade has diminished
every factory whose doors are
closed-every railroad in the hands
OF recoivers--all these were pro-
duced by Republican wastefulness
and upon these--charging them
upon Democrats-tho Republicans
are plotting u return to power.
"They have such high hopes OF
success that even the grandson of
his grandfather shied his tiny caster
INTO the ring at indianapolis the
other day to compete for Clcvcland's
shoes with the Man from Maine
and the Buckeye Napoleon"
''lf we do not hurry up and pass
u good Tariff bill very soon, there
by setting the wheels of business
revolving once more, and a plague
should unfortunately follow on tho
heels of this Mckinley panic, and
IL the cattle should have the mur-
rain, the sheep the rot, the hogs
the cholera and universal drought
should prevail, Republican Pres
idential lightning rods would leo
plentiful as fiddlers in that place
not tit to be mentioned to cars
polite.
"The greater the distress o: tho
people, the higher mount tho hopes
of the Republicans.
"a year ago speech by Hon.
Thomas Racket Reed sounded like
the Dead March in Saul;' now he
capers in an clophantinc sort OF way
to the music Of hls own 'Presi.
Dental March,
"ln the summer OF 1898, when
the Michigan Chesterfeld-lI lion.
julius Caesar Burrows tuned his
Amllan harp, it was the MINOR key
OF The Heart Bowed Down.; now
it gives forth a strain inspiring TO
his followers as was 'The Camp
bells are Coming to the beloagucred
heroes within the walls OF Lucknow.
"Last summer when | first beard
the Demosthenes of Iowa-brilliau
young DollIYer, his oratory was
lugubrious as 'HaIk from the
Tombs;' now it is as defiant as
'The Marsellaise' or Dixie
"Why all this merrimcnt, this
clashing OF cYmbals, this furbish-
ing up Of rusty Presidential booms
IN the camp Of the Philistines /? It
is because Of treason in the camp OF
the Democracy.
II it could be definitely ascer-
tained this night that every DEM
ocratlc Senator ls going straight
way to carry out Democratic prom
ises, partially at least, by voting for
the Wilson Bill as 1t left the House,
there would be such slump in Re-
publican stock that Messrs. Reed,
Mckinley and Harrisou-I name
them in the order Of their brain
would be willing TO DIS
count the Presidential salaries 90
per cent, and Democratic Pres.
identlal candidates would spring up
as suddenly and numerously as did
ROdcrick Dbu's clausmeu from the
heathery hills OF bonnie Scotland.
"What the Democratic party
most needs is Tarpeian Rock from
which to throw its traitors"