The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-29
HERO OF REFORM,
William L. Wilson Renom-
mated for Congress by
West Virginia DEM
oCratS.
HIS RINGING DECLARATION
Faults and Merits of the Tariff
Bill as Passed Set Forth
in Frank Terms.
HIS RINGING DECLARATION
DENUNCIATIoN OF TRAITORS
The Great Fight to Be Kept Up
Effects Of the Passage Of the
Bill.
Bill.

MARTINsBURG, W. VA, Aug. %,
1Ss4.-The Democratic Congressional nom
mating Convention for the Second dis
trict met here at eleven o'clock this
morning for the purpose of renomin-
ating Hon. William L. Wilson, Chair
man of the Committee on Ways and
Means. In accepting the nomination, Mr.
Wilson said in part
''The honor to which you summon me
today is not a new one for me to receive
at your generous hands. So many times
has it come to me in the past-never
coldly or grudingly-that should vain
ly seek for new and stronger language
in which to assure you of my increasing
gratitude for your approval and support
But if fitting and sufIicing words are
slow to come. 1 beg you not to doubt
that l am more deeply moved and more
affectionatelly touched by your action to-
day than L have ever been before. That
action comes at the end of one of the
SACctcSt IIOilSHCOuS
giles that has marked our political his
tory, and it comes in such a way as to
stamp with your approval as constituents
and democrats, the services which your
representative was called upon to render
for the supremacy of Democratic prin-
ciples and the fulfllment of Democratic
pledges. It is no mock affection, (for
nothing could be more bIameworthy and
criminal on my part on this occasion,)
but the simple candor which is due from
me to you, when I say that but for what
seemed a duty and call growing out
of that struggle, 1 should gladly ask at
your hands an honorable discharge from
further service and permission to take
my place once again in the ranks of the
militant and ever faithful democrats of
the Second Congressional district.
HIS IMPAIRED HEALTH.
I'm other campaigns l have accepted
this trust at your hands with full
knowledge of the labor and strain re-
quired for a thorough canvass of so
large and so stoutly contested a district
as our own, but also with confidence
in my ability to meet that labor and
strain. Today 1 cannot possess that
confidence and in view of the large and
dangerous drafts made upon my strength
and health I shall be constrained to ask
at your hands some remission of the
labors of public canvassing, which I have
heretofore so greatly enjoyed. I shall
not, however, be a drone in the ap-
preaching contest, and shall spare no
reasonable effort to meet personally if
not upon the hustings as many of the
people as 1 can.
Fellow citizens, this is enough for me
other thoughts that fill your minds to-
day. Boundless as is your kindness to
me, it is something beyond that which
has gathered this great convention and
great assemblage.
THE RECENT SESSION.
1.-THE Congress which adjourned yester-
day was charged by the American peo-
pie with a duty clear unmistakable,
transcendant-to wrest from the grasp
of private and selfish hands the power
of federal taxation; to lift from the backs
of the American people that burden of
tribute to privilege and monopoly which
under thirty years Republican legislation
had grown constantly heavier until it
far exceeded their legitimate and neces-
ment; to reclaim and make forever sure
that heritage of American youth. which
is the true meaning and priceless boon
of democratic institutions-equal opportu-
nifty in land of equal rights. This was
the inspiring mission which the Demo-
cratic party had long sought from the
American people, power and authority to
perform To this mission the Immediate
representatives of the people gave them
selves earnestly and faithfully. In that
work they were at all times cheered
who for eight years, in defeat and vic
tory has led in the movement of tariff
reform. While he scrupulously abstained
from Interference with the work of those
entrusted with reform legislation, he was
instant in season and out. Of season, in
urging that the pledges on which he
had come into power should be fulfilled
in the letter and in the spirit, and that
the blessings of reduced and just taxa
ton should be fully and honestly secur-
ed to the American people.
HIS OWN PART.
In this great work your own represen-
tative, thanks to your kindness in grant
ing him long public service, was as