The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-05-17
ELI PERKINS on POLITICS.

'''6''i SeiSLu, OFSSon.' Cdtleu on
Melville D. Landon (EIi Perkins,
and The result is given in the fol-
lowing
What are your politics ?" ask
ed Eli. looking over his glasses.
Straight Republican, replied
the reporter modestly.
Republican" replied Eli.
savagely; well. you have got
gall-to come here to interview a
rock ribbed Democrat-a Randall
democrat. What do you want
me to say 2"
1--WE want toinquire if you are
altogether pleased with the work
of your party?H
"Well--no-I'm not, said Eli.
scratching his head. I'm not
altogether pleased.
well. what is the matter 2"
I'm tell you, my sou. said
Eli. scratching his head. I'm
afraid the party has gone back on
US Randall Democrats. I'm afraid
they've lied to us. They said
Tariff for revenue" in the plat
form and then they let a lot of
one horse rebels from Tennessee
and West Virginia knock Tariff
for revenue into tiithereens. Why
instead of getting the revenue,
weare running in debt $3.50. 600. I!
900 a year. They told US they
would not lower wages. Then
they cut the Tariff 80 per cent.
and down went wages 30per cent.
and the boys are mad. The Free
Trade Democrats got US Randall
Democrats by the throat. They
wasn't honest. Wewere led into
a trap-a Free Trade Trap
s'Whars other lies did the Free
Trade Democrats tell you Y
They said Protection didn't
protect wages nor create new in
dustries, and they made us be-
lieve that tin couldn't be made in
this country, Why, up in Port
land yesterday JosephS. Megler,
the great Washington salmon
Gamer, told me he had bought
his tin from an American manu-
facturer for S4.S5 a box when he
always paid Sc. so for Welsh tin. !"
Then. F" continued Eli, when
the crash came and our mills
stopped and wages went down,
what did those Free Trade Demo-
Gratis tell US ? Why, they lied
again and said IT was the silver
bill. The silver bill Why, the
Republicans bought $4,000, 900
worth of silver in thirty years
and coined it and the country
was prosperous. We put Cleve-
land in and he bought 81. 900. 600
worth of silver at the market
price, As per cents for a dollar,
coined it, and put it out for Sl4, :
10000 and we went all to pieces.
The silver bill! 1t was that un
democratic Free Trade Tariff,
and we Randall Democrats know
it now"
We'll, what do you Randall
Democrats propose to do 2" ask
ed the reporter.
I'VE can't do anything" said
Eli. IF we were in power we'd
put that Tariff back again. We'd
stop selling gold bonds for per
cent. interest to Rotchschild. but
sell them to American Democrats
at 3 per cent. We'd help strug-
Cling Hawaii. We wouldn't sink
a republic and put uegress on a
throne. We wouldn't make wool
free. Kill our own sheep and buy
$50, o0o. 900 worth of wool from
Asia. We'd keep our dollars at
home. We'd put that bounty back
on sugar and run sugar all over
Texas, Louisiana, Nebraska and
California and take out cotton,
We'd put a Tariff on fine linen
that is. costing us 100000 600 a
year in Germany and Ireland,
make the factories come here as
did the tin factories and send flax
all over Minnesota and Oregon
and by the way. | met one of
those Free Trade Democrats yes.
terday,' SAID Eli, up at Port
land. He used to be a Randall