The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-09-11

NSuedko,1 Al tut18s Nk9 6muruceQ In
the contention which Is upon rs this
year. In connection with these ques.
tons, as editors and Publishers, you
have the grayest responsibilities. You
help TO make public sentiment, and
right public sentiment Is what Is
most needed at this juncture Of our ma.
tional affairs.
The Pres Aroused.
Never was the press Of the country
more aroused 70 these Issues than now.
Nsyer did the Republican cause have
such mighty support from the newspa-
pers of the United States IS It has today.
This help u not confined 70 the Repub.
licnn press alone. but includes many Of
the greatest newspapers which have
hitherto advocated the Democratic
cause. (Great applause.) All this is an
evidence that THE PEOPLE APPRE-
CIATE THAT A GREAT CRISIS Is
UPON THEM. and that the way 70
avoid that crisis is for patriotic men Of
every section Of the country to unite
and get together in the common cause
of country. (Great applause.) 1t is
the selfish concern, therefore, that
prompts me to express the hope that
West Virginia may become permanent
y Republican state. CHEERS and cries
of 1t will go Republican this fall all
fight) and that what she gained so
gloriously in 1894 will not be lost in
1906. (Great applanse.) The Repub.
hcau party acts higher than that-it is
not merely the success of individuals or
party. but the good of the country il
seeks and it Is in that spirit animated
only by patriotic sentiment, that / wish
always to constantly speak and act.
(Applause.) There is in my Judgment
no state whose prosperity is linked more
closely to Republican policies than West
Virginia. You have extensive river
commerce, both on the Ohio and the
Kanawha, and this is never so prosper.
Gus and active as when our great steel
and iron interests, your mines, your
mills, your factories are busily en-
ployed. tCries of That's rightly
Your railroads, reaching now more
than 1000 miles, with their employees
are all better off when every field of in
dnstry is employed. Every railroad
employe from track man to manager
appreciates this as he never appreciated
it before. Then, have you considered
that perhaps no other equal territory,
no other $4,000 square miles of the soil
OF the United States, mighty as her re-
sources are, could contain SO many in
terests whose development, growth and
progress are dependent upon the MAIN
tenance of the great Republican doc
trine Of protection? (Great applause. y
Your development is new. Your rich
resources are scarcely touched. You
have the best Of coal in inexhaustible
quantities, an area three-fifths as large
us that of your entire state, producing
last year more than eleven million tons,
q yield exceeded by only three other
states of the Union. Your product of
coke exceeds 1,25o,0O0 tons, equal in
quality to the output of any other state,
except possibly Pennsylvania. Then,
in timber your interests are Of remark
able importance with an annual product
of over 100000, 900 feet, your sawmills
giving employment to thousands Of men
and boys, with an annual payroll Of
thousands of dollars, not including your
logging operations. The product Of your
staye mills the output Of your great tie
industries, which certainly added as
much more in wages when running in
fun and successful operation prior to
1893. Your oil product has approx
mated ten million barrels per annum.
This industry is but in Its infancy and
the possibilities Of your oil fields are al-
most incredible. But your wealth does
not end in railroad and river trade, iron,
steel, glass, coal. coke, timber, oil, pot.
terry or other manufactures or mineral
products, for West Virginia is u great
state in her agricultural resources. zap.
plause.)
Industries Have Suffered.
About one.half of the state is not in
use for farming and grazing, but agri.
culture is the chief interest in the mn.
1orlty OF your counties, while wool
growing and stock raising have assumed
large proportions. How much the sew.
eral industrials have suffered in the last
three years you know better than can
tell you. How much the wool growers
have lost those who have sheep aud
raise wool know accurately They know
what the experience of the last three
years have cost them to the very cent.
AL these interests are directly affected;
all are benefited or injured by our in.
dustrial legislation. You know and the
people know that every one of them were
advanced by Republican policies and
that all of them have been moro or less
injured by Democratic legislation.
tGreat applause and cries of You are
rightly. With such almost inexhausti.
BILE wealth in your midst; with such
possibilities of development and growth;
with SO excellent foundation for in.
creased business and greater general
prosperity, ! bid you not spare men Of
the opportunity to arouse them to their
true interests, to the immense import.
ance to the issues of the present cam.
paign, as they affect their welfare in
/ every business calling or occupation that
can be named. Your interests as PEG.
pie no longer run on sectional ties.
(Cheers). Thank God the last lingering
entrangements between the north and
south are forever effaced. (Great ap.
plausel. And the appeal for the restora.
ton of the American system of protec.
ton and the continuance of sound
system of finance is indefinitely more
important to West Virginia than any