Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-10
front he was enthusiastically cheered.
When quiet was restored he said:
cANrpRFII's Speech.

| front he was enthusiastically cheered.
When quiet was restored he said:
cAN1PBELL's SPEECH.
"MR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GEN
TLEMEN: He would be churl, indeed
who would come among you a stranger
and not be touched by this warm greet
| ing. Yet do not know that l come TO
YOU an entire stranger. l remember,
while carrying on the campaign
/ in Ohio, when the Wheeling
/ BOYS came over and got
/ little acquainted with me. Applause. ]
| I am here making my first speech in this
campaign because | want lite credit
on account for the debt owe the DEM
ocrats Of Wheeling. Why, this is the
| first spot outside my native State upon
which I set foot. was four years OF
age-I will not say how MANY years ago
that was, as there are ladies in the aud
fence. Laughter. Bnt it was long
time ago. We came to Wheeling by
steamboat | was told il was in Vir-
GINA, and I ran out o. the gang
blank to say l was in Vir2iEa. Besides
that, l claim little kinshfb TO the peo-
pie of Wheeling. Ny grandfather was
born in what is now West Virginia.
That makes me once a grandson OF Viz
GINA. Besides, am a son Of Ohio. and
Ohio is a daughter of Virginia, and that
makes me twice a grandson Of Virginia.
So 1 want you TO understand that ! am
at home tonight.
''As your chairman well said, we are
entering most
IMPORTANT POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.
Now all campaigns are important to
these who are running for Office, but
this is important 10 all the people, of all
the States The people are inst as
much interested in who is elected 20
represent the First Congressional Dis
trict Of West Virginia as you are.
Why? because certain institutions OF
our country are on trial. You remember
five or six years ago, after the Demo
cratic party had been nominally In
control OF the Govern ment, we gave up
the administrative portion of the Fed
eraI Government. We left behind US
record OF four years that will stand I'M
iii the end Of time as a monument or
honor 10 the Democratic party. APP
ulauseI. We left the country, in spite
OF the bad legislation for the preceding
thirty years, in good condition. We
left 500, O0O 600 OF gold reserve in the
Treasury Of the United States. On top
of that We left $4,000, 600 Of surplus.
Where. in the four years OF the sue
ceediUg administration, did all that
surplus, and a portion OF that reserve
20? The Democratic surplus went
where the Irishnau erected his hole
in the ground. Laughter and ap-
Dlause
I'VE left the country with system
of book keeping inauEurated by Hamil-
ton, and carried on down to Grover Cleye-
land. Where, at the end OF four years,
was the surplus aud the system OF book
! keeping? Before the administration
which succeeded US had run It's course,
there was gone, not only the surplus,
but the
SYSTEM WAS CHANGED.
The treasury was a bankrupt concern.
The funds apparently to its credit,
were not properly 50 credited. In
1892 the people took the liberty
of turning out these servants, and re-
placing them with the people who have
been there before Appropriations had
been going on and on, in wastetul eX-
travagance, until the only answer made
10 the charges of the Democratic news
papers. was that this was billion dollar
country. In 1892 We elected
Democratic House and Senate,
aud y6a wat t6 -l0CE oPs- that
we keep both of them. Applause.
Before we came into power, during the
last few weeks Of the preceding ad-
miniStratiOn, we found them resOrting
TO ever subterfuge known, to tide over
until the Democrats took charge, in
order to get out from under before the
drop came.
I'VE found them in the condition
which we had predicted for number
of years. Their false stimulantS grew
stronger under Mckinleyism, until the
patient had to have sixty stimu-
lants, instead of forty-sx to
keep hun alive The patient
was on the verge Of delirium tremens
We predicted what camo in the last
days Of Harrison's administration. We
predicted that the farmer would Starye
because he had no person TO sell his
products 10. We predicted that the
manufacturer had stimulated his pro-
duct into false channels, and with no
market, his goods wedId rot and
crumble in his hands. / predicted 1t
myself, and they called me calamity
croaSer.' We did CrOak calamity. We
croaSed when the Mckinley bill
passed, and exactly what we predicted
came true. You called in the doctor in
1892, when the patient was about to
die, and some OF you abused the doctor
because he found the patient ia that
condition. Applause and laughter
RFpUBLICANs RESPONSIBLE.
Until few weeks ago, there was no
statute in the books relating TO tariff
but was put there by the Republican
party. They were responsible for the
condition OF the patient until the Demo
cratic party diagnosed the case, pre-
scribsd and administered the medicine
ana produced its effects II didn't take
long 10 diagnose that case. There
were several troubles. First, his blood
was thinning out too fast; so we
went TO work the first year and
stOUped 500, 600, 900 OF extravaganza and
unnecessary expenses OF government,
and cut $1,000, 600 of salaries. Idon't
know think the DEMOCRATS should
have had that q year or TWO. Laugh
ter.
.'Iben we found trouble in the silver
question. Ia 1890, Or. Sherman was
called in 70 see the patient. He said
the trouble was in coming too much
silver. The remedy was no; 20 coin it,
but 10 buy it. run it into bricks, pile il
uD In the treasury department,
and then give out papers
certifying that il was deposited there,
and could be received for the paper.
We continued under Or. Sherman, buy
ing silver and piling it up. I don't
blame people for being Pooulists If