Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-15

Applause1 l have the honor and pleas
ure to introduce TO you Hon. c.
Watts" Cloud and long-condnued
plsuse) q
Mr. Watts. when permitted. = g 3
saying - s.
.NIr Chairman and fello' y Of
{ hiO cOunty-This receptiN as
sure you, gives me great y e and
much qualification. 1t recalis\J me-if
a recall was necesSsry-tbe generous
support which Ohio county gave to me
AZ the late State Convention in Wheeling
Park. (Applause) And I want here and
now. al the outset or my remarks, 10
thank the Democracy Of Ohio county for
giving me Ihat support, and for being
one Of the first counties in the State 10
bring me into this campaign. AS you
probably know, am very modest man
(applause), not in the habit Of being q
candidate for office. Qaughter), and if
Ohio county had not given me the ear
nest support she did, l would probably
not now be in the field. (Ap-
plause) This is part in jest, and part in
earnest-the last part is earnest. l ap-
preciate that action, and l want to say
TO you, that if chosen by the voters of
West Virginia, on November Sd, l shall
in fact be the Governor Of Ohio county
as well as of every other county in the
State. (Applause) 1t shall be my priv
ilege to be counted as one Of Ohio coun-
tvs friends" (Applause)
General WATTS then referred to the IA
vorite Republican charge that ne Wa1
not a good enough friend Of silver, and
then passed 10 a consideration OF the
mast Democratic administration OF th9
Government of this State, and narrated
how Republican committee OF Re
nubIican Legislature had visited and in
vss-igated the institutions Of the State,
for twentv-six years under Democrauc
management. and had been forced 10 re-
uor- not only that there was nothlng
wrong. but that they had Deeh Wen
managed. p,,,f-
can objection 10 him-that he was the
enemy of labor. and that he was inter-
es-ed i'm a coal mine. and oppressed the
miners. They may make some peoPle
believe that, but I'll bet the last nNe
dollar bill that is in my pocket that
,hey will never make a miner IN NesI
Virginia believe it," (Applause) He
referred 10 his long fight and consis-
tent stand for free silver commencing
as long ago as 1878, when he TOOK
up the campaign for Hon. John Il.
Kenna. then i'll in Cincinnati hospl-
tai. and traced his subsequent course
sep by step. He then passed 10 a consid'
GRAFTON Of the financial isue and made
a rapid. vet comprehensive review or
the situation and conditions now con-
fronting the country. In the course Oh
this he summoned Stephen B. Elkins
as q witness. and quoted from a report
of one of his speeches in the ln,elligen-
Ger of June 20. 1894. in which the West
Virginia Senator took very strong
ground in favor of silver. In the course
F. of mis- remarks on the financial question
he said:
After I was nominated for the office
cf Governor in this city. l went 20 Wash
ing.on and handed in my resignation Of
The most lucrative Office in the State.
(ApplauSe.) And l wish TO say that
whenever the time comes when the ad-
ministration occupies one position and
my people and my party occupies an
o-ber I shall stand with my people and
Marty (applause0 I am, my friends,
a Democrat. (applause) and can say
mar with as much force since the Chi
c4go Convention as I could before. CAP
n19usa When mat convention met IN
Chicago. il represented the great Dem
ocratic party of the country. Zap
nIause II was lawfully called and reg
ularlv controlled. and by a two-thlrdS
vote II placed in nomination the neXc
President OF the United States. zap
Dlause) As Senator German has SAID
,be neonle submitted their cause to the
cour; of last resort and that court was
the Chicago Convention OF the Demo-
cratic party" (Applause0
In Introducing his historic references
% senator Elkins. out of the files OF The
Inteligencer, as referred to above, Cen
eral Watts said:
.You men of West Virginia, who arc
intelligent-yOu men who are doing your
own thinking this year, and who, take
+. ara going TO do your own voting. ZAP
pausel / want to call your attention TO
,ha words of your United States Senator,
Stephen B. Elkins. in a speech made this
wear | want TO read 70 YOU what MI.
EIkins said at the Parkersburg Conveh-
ion which nominated my distinguished
oDponent for Governor he then read
a norton of Senator Elkin's remarks
commencing with: The truth is, silver
has become too abundant throughout
The world to Justify its free and unlim-
fpd coinage etc" That is what he said
this year. He said two years ago, IN
snssch which hold in my hand, printed
i'm the Wheeling Iutelligencer OF June
20. 1894: The business of the country
had gone along under the Sherman act
and was even prosperous, but in all this
( there was a great wrong done-it was
/ the crime against silver. The President
/ and the gold mOnOmetallists who follow
/ him. are attempting TO account FOR the
/ panic under false pretenses. They dis
/ credited silver al home and abroad, and
/ dealt It the hardest blow 1t has ever
/ received. Silver is the money or
The Constitution, as much as gold
+ And the people will have silver for
/ money. and will fight for il, and the
/ contest Will not end until silver has its
/ r,sl,S. The people are too intelligent
, 90 permi, values 70 be measured by gold
alone he production of which is rel
aively diminishing. This would mako
money dearer and property cheaper
Silver should be used as we'll as gold.
The time will come when silver
will perform its function as we'll as
gold. and the truth is that there is
not 100 much Of IL, but not enough.
And yet that gentleman is going through
the State making Spechss for Mckinley"
(ApplauSe)