Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-22

was finally taken in tow by a Republican
brother and escorted to the outside of the
crowd.
After his introduction by w. II. Schrebe,
the chairman of the meeting. the gentle
man from New York proceeded to draw
comparative pictures OF the condition Oh
the working men and the people at the
present time and under the Harrison ad-
ministration At the outset the audience
seemed to be lacking in enthusiasm
and as he continued along the line OF ms
threadbare subject they continued to grow
more lukewarm and it was only by bring
ing in McKinley's name that they were
aroused in the least from their lethargy.
He termed Mckinley the Achilles OF
prosperity. Notwithstanding the era OF dis
tress which has prevailed in this country
during the operation of McKinley's own
law from 1890 to 1894. He said that there
were two things the Republican party
must prove before the people this year to
get their suffrage. One was that the pol
lev of the Democratic administration was
responsible for the disaster which we
have endured. and the other that the prop
osition offered to the people this year by
the Democratic party was wrong.
In each of these points he utterly 1aliea
to prove his case He tried to explain the
fact of the panic. the reduction of hours
and wages under the Mckinley law by
stating that il was owing TO lack OF con-
fidence and anticipated reduction OF tariff
He said that this was all caused by the
Democratic victory of 1892, yet failed TO
show why the Republican victories Oh
1894 and 1895 had not changed conditions
and brought greater prosperity and re-
newed confidence.
He said that if the Republican party had
been in power and the Mckinley law in
force we would not have been compelled
10 make a bond issue, but failed to tell MS
patient hearers why the revenue uhuer
the Mckinley law decreased lower each
wear under it's operations; why Secretary
Foster had been preparing for bona issue
at the close of Harrison's administration
and how it was that the first bond issue
was made long before the Mckinley law
had been repealed.
He denounced the scheme Of free coinage
as a plan of robbery on the part OF the SILL
yer mine owners. saying it would put a
profit of At cents in their pockets, which
under the Sherman bill went into the
treasury of the United States TO dollar
and in the same breath prated about the
fifty-three cent dollars that would be dis
tributed among the people. He referred
to free coinage as new scheme ana forgot
to mention that it had been tried for s.
years in this country and long before TINS
government began.
He said that this nation by pleading tor
free silver was lying in the gutter and in
viting the contempt and disgust OF the
civilized world He probably had not READ
Bismarck's recent letter and was ignor-
ant Of the fact that the civilized countries
of the world had been trying by inter
national agreement for many years to Sc
cure free coinage of silver and also that
VIM. Mckinley in his letter of acceptance
had declared his purpose, if elected, to
secure as quickly as possible the free
coinage of the white metal.
He spoke of the followers of Bryan as
an aggregation of vice. conceit and inefii-
cheney. He idolized and eulogized gold
and said that silver was only fit for spoons
and articles of household use. He ridi-
culed the proposition advanced by the
silver advocates that silver had been re-
duced in price by closing the minis to its
coinage in 1873 yet almost in the same
breath. contradicted himself by denounc-
ing the scheme to raise the price by leg
islation.
Following Mr.. Healy. DR.. C. A. Aschman
made n brief address In German which.
Judging by the lack of applause, was as
tame as the one delivered before 1t.