The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-26

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fore Ianswer that wby,gwhAs Is the re-
sult3ot that. itllrneas tvtthhi road that
YOU men work for2l 1ilg
Tho niigi.ting shadow u rlIiryani,n,.
n"Thc.yetysheettthat shbE you. shows
that it8wc were earning our average
amount on that PietEourGh line, we.
w6tldNc running $4,000 u dry ahead ot
last year. What does That tnean?3 Sew,
cntS.fye per cent Very nearly OF that
would heipald IN iwhgsa.sriot only yonr
wages, but the wa es OF tho coke burn
fcr Meicoalnian. tho, matt who, digs Iron
hnH-tlia lgh In the "a Glory n y Every
whtr+ tho busy hum otFsrdustrys would
hnyc been heard and this eomphnyt that
youi !sery.c and serve 10 Ysll would lie
paNslng on 10 prosperity u the rnte OF
uros In tbialItlls sheet tfatiI now pre- S
sent to YOU. Why don't wo hhveSlt?
Whlt IL the ro1sonY w hat 81 the ress0n
That that line, Tint that busy sGeat of In
duGlty, Ii ina!quiet asSthe' grave? Y ii Is
because the shadow OF Btyunism has
spread over lis. tits hecaiisc there IS a
.langerlin the minds OF tho people that
we shalt dshonor olirselycs9by repudl-
ptlnE our national debt and pay 4. in
IlttYsccnt dollars by5dropplng, to d slI-
yer basis and bringing Paralysis and
ruin everywhere. II ia l,iis Want Of con-
fdnncc. The banks won't loan. the mon
ey. The persons WON'T 'Nhy tile goods
and tho contracts TINT are Being lot To-
day ,nre being made almost universally
dependent apon Mcltiuies's election
tApplausc.) There Is u gentlemen sit
ting on this stage to-day %hc has Just
closed an important Contract and It
means thousands and thousands Of 'dol-
lars for labor, and Il means ~ great de-
veopment tnyour state. buein that coli
trat II is written; TlIlss Contract, shall
be null md void II William Jennings
Bryan, the Boy Orator of'ihe Platte, is
elected (Applause.)5 l have had to de-
cline shipments Of coal because tho
banks. could not carry the, solvent con-
Germs that wish 90 buy. There Is no
manufacturing establishment in this
busy town OF yours but what viii con-
firm the statement that all Tint we need
iFowi II TO remove the sha5ow that the
free silver hcresy has castauphn our un-
stained banner. JNst removs this fsha-
dow from the business world and restore
confidence and again thd, busy hum OF
industry Will be heard, the wheels Will
move. and as Mr.. Ingalls, Nell said, In
stead or eight hundred thousand railroad
men there will be q million railroad men.
tApplause.) gA ~ 81 "a 4 I5.
,"Arc you 10 be driven from the per-
Torrance otyour duty both 70, your COM
pany and to yourselves TO, your nation,
10 your state and to your; Tome by ap-
pcals to party? nm a party man. I
have never voted % Republican ticket in
n national campaign In INK life, Two
- Ax.. 1,,I -
oubtlcss-stumping this tpWp and this
Mr.. Bourke Cochran, Mr., Wilson and
myself all occupying the SANG car, run
ming from Piedmont to Wheeling and
whoopIns 1t up for the Democratic par
ty Everyone OF us Is whooping 1t up
for Mckinley to-day. (I.onES continuous
npplauss.) We stop at no halfway
llouses-thcy; are generally badly kept.
daughter and applause) As said in
Baltimore, we have n double- barrel gun,
and we are going to let them have both
barrels. (Applause) Why shouldn't
we? a. ,. gnyI ~
Men Who Know Their Duty.
Railroad men, you knowsSour duty.
You are brave men. Think s6f what n
railroad company is! Just fake one of
the companies that Is In part represent
ed here to-day-the Pennsylvania Rail,
road Company-and1 speak'of 1t instead
OF our, own as II Is illustrative OF what
It is. See what q huge affair; II, Is. 1t
has more than fifty times the capital and
more thanten times as many men in its
service as had the East 1pdiaiC Company,
wheS, that trading corporation drove the
French colors from the Orient, annlhi-
1at ,t.1I,H III, -
the Ganges, won India for England and
caused the Union Jack to iloat over q
nation of more than two hundred and
titty millions Of people, from Cape Co
NORM to the eternal suns ofsthe Hima-
1ayas. Greater than the company that
did all that'ls the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company to-day. Applause.) Its
capital is threatened. its usefulness is
threatened, the busy towns along Its
great line are threatened. the manufac-
tories and the enterprises everywhere
nre threatened. its employees wages are
4 20 be out IN two. Why Shouldn't 1t and
n Ats employees unite with the|other rail-
roads to stop the onward march OF Bry-
( anism? CHEERS .und applause.) TAX
r ing part in Il political campaign? TAX
Ing part;to save our country. applause
Taking part to save our homes. our prop
VllS. Pal W NaoSS
our salaries, the comforts OF wife anG
! children. ny shouldn't We band to.
gether. my brethren, whether We bt
presidents or brakemen, all together. one
pull. a strong pull. . pull all t6gGther, fol-
mckinley? (IIong continued applause,
At the conclusion OF President Cow
ems talk he was applauded Wildly, the
alusion TO Ma or5 Mckinley seeming
10 please the audience greatly. Mr..
Gilmore Brown. OF this city, then in
PRODUCED President William 4. Lynch,
of the Wheeling & Connellsvtlle Rail-
road Company, who spoke as follows:
z 9 President 1ynch's Speech.
cat this late hour ]; Will ..not detain
you long, but there are twoior three
points that will make among the
many arguments In favor Of, free oliver
coinage at l6 TO !. One that is put for
ward very persistently by onr free
siivorgfrleHds, Is that 1t Is Constitution.
al. that It Is required by the Gonstitu-
ton OF the United States THAT Is an
argument; that always :comessvery close
to a lDemocrat's heart, and; when
first heard that argument I ,iDyest..gat-
cd 1t with some care and, I-concluded
that II the constitution OF the United
States really required the colrages OF
sllve: under present existing circum-
stances at the ratio OF 10 toll thenswe
ought to amend the constitution. But ]
don't, SO read the constitution. I don't
believe that the constitution arcqulres
free silver coinage at that ratio. il
might permit rat other ratios, but II
doesn't require It at any ratio II
might permit !tEat the commercial ra-
Ito, hut at the ratio OF 1g to / fTdm sat
tstied that the constltutlonStTtot only