The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-11-05

free trade scattered broadcast ike IN
inslaiops loo seeks % poison the minds
OF men.
This extract was read in Captain Dan,
tords most effective manner and was
followed with the declaration With dFa-
matte effect: THAT prophecy came true
in ls92, when tho policy Of Profession
Eas overthrow" and the predicted
change has been verified by that
mighty orator, experience, Of whom
ex.Pfesldent Harrison speaks. This
was followed with tumultuous cheers. ]
believe the people have been study
ing the elementary principles Of this
question, have been taught By bitter
experience, and I need not enter into
detail at all. An old farmer in one Of
the northern counties Of this district
who had always been faithful 70 Demo-
efaey alter the experience Of the past
nineteep months anpounced his intep-
sion 10 vote for protection. The party
leaders Rrestled With him and talked
Of tho markets Of the world, etc, etc.,
but the old man came back to his NUT.
ton and said: "You fellows know more
about these questions than ] do, and
You can talk better, but 1 know that
when the II cents protection was taken
OH wool only got II cents instead Of %
cents,"
He compared the wagcs OF this coun.
try with other countries, and with toll
ing effect pictured the position Of
Cleveland, Wilson aud Hurd upon the
free trade doctrine, aud the position Of
the workipgmsn upon products that
were 80 psr cent labor. He loved the
dear consumer because he was one Of
them, bpt there was another very dear
American he loved as we'll, and that
was the producer; the man who in the
mine. tho workshop or upon the farm
produced soiaething-proiect him and
the consumer Is protected at the same
time. Independent manhood Is the
pride Of America; the man with bis
own home and family, with steady ems
ployment at good wages, 10 q citizen Of
honor and pride. who only needs to
know the right to perform II. There is
no danger TO our institutions. our cpgn-
try and our homes from the men who
are well fed and well clothed and hap
PLY housed, and the way 10 got these
10 to open the way for q higher and
nobler manhood, aud not TO bring
them into competition with those
who know but little Of the
Independence OF American citiaAnship
and iesa OF American manhood, The
czar Of all the Rusaias lies dead tonight
and the seepter passes from him to his
successor as heritage, bat Ia this
country there must be an appeal To the
sovereigns, the voters OF America, to de-
eide who shall rule this land, and each
successive year that sovereign power 10
wielded. o grander heritage than that
given in any other nation OF the world.
Notify the present Congress by your
votes next Tuesday that there shall be
no more tariff tinkering, and there are
men in the United States senate who
will watch the result Of this test OF
your will. and you can stay further
proceedings, and lean assure YOU, yoters
Of Bellalre and this Ohio Valley. that
the farmer will meet you at the polls
next Tuesday as he has never done be-
fore. He'll be there in grander style
than he has been for years to exercise
bis rights as an American who has had
his market paraiyzed and his crops do
preciated, and II you will wake up early
next Wednesday morning and secure a
copy OF the Wheeling 1SBsLLIdEScER
you'll find In Ii "that same old coon"
and he'll have smile on his face as
big as the moon over the returns from
Ohio, this diatrict aud the nation,
Never was q man greeted wit heart
Ter chees than Captain Dantord, and as
he retired after delivering one OF the
best speeches he ever made, the spon-
,taneous applause OF the audience was
terrific.
David Armstrong, finely built iron
worker, from Cleveland, followed with
q speech that put everybody in a good
humor. He said we are in q terrible fix
in this country. Not long ago we had
trouble to keep from working three
times in twenty-four hours; now We
have trouble 10 working three times In
twenty.four days. Now, Il the shadow
OF what the Democratic party will do
places us in this shape, what will be.
come OF Us with the substance here?
Prior to 1872 we had no trouble Of this
kind, aud 1 am proud tonight to be on
the same platform with the next repre-.
sentative from the Sixteenth district,
after hearing such q speech as he has
just made,
He proceeded to tell them in an in.
imitable way why working mon should
support the Republican nominees for
Congress this year, and told many anec.
dotes that kept the audience in good
humor until the close. The meeting
was one OF the best local meetings ever
held in Bellaire, and 1t was we'll the the.
atre had boon engaged, for tho city hall
would not have held half the people,
Capt Danford is confident this dis
trict will 90 as strongly Republican as
it did QUE year ago for Gov. Mckinley
He Is in ine fettle and good spirits.
His election Is conceded BY from 1000
to $500, but II 10 claimed It will reach
1900. He Is averse to talking for the
newspapers about his own canvass, but
having made thorough canvass oil the
counties OF his district, he SAYS the
Republicans will carry the district by
at least 8, 500.