Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-03

street corners to crafty the thousands
who could not gain entrance to the hall.
! Then he visited Covington.
| The vast hall was so thickly packed
with people that it was next to impossi-
| BILE 10 move. Even the aisies were clCg-
/ ged with standing men and women. In
the beginning was started what looked
like an attempt to break up the meeting.
but It was quickly suppressed and there
| after the candidates utterances were
greeted with the utmost enthusiasm.
! The disturbance was created by a gang
OF rOughs in the gallery and while it
lasted it threatened TO create trouble.
Mr.. Bryan appeared upon the stage at
500 O'c.ock and the ovation that greeted
his entrance continued without abate
ment for eight minutes. When the ap-
! pause had subs;ded Hon. Louis Rem
leen, VINO acted as chairman of the
meeting, attempted to introduce Mr..
Bryan, but the gallery would not permit
him to talk. Hon. Gustave Tafel thea
| tried to get something like order, but
with no better success.
Eventually Mr.. Bryan stepped to the
! speakers stand and raised his hand in
mute appeal for silence. For a mo-
! ment he was successful, but at the end
| Of his first sentence the noise in the
upper part of the house was renewed
and the candidate was obliged to resume
| his sat Then. Olway j. Cosgrave,
! president of the Duckworth club, under
/ whose auspices the meeting was held,
pointed out as the chief off nders three
men in one Of the balconies and asked
the police to remove them. In doing
so, he characterized them as black
guards and entreated the rest of the
/ audience 10 give Mr.. Bryan fair play as
a fellow citizen and an American. This
| effactually silenced the crowd and after
the trio Of belligerents had been sum-
marily elected, Mr.. Bryan went on with
his speech He said
Mr.. Chairman, Fellow Citizens, La
dies and Gentlemen: We are compelled
to face an enemy in this campaign which
| is not only we'll organized and well
equipped with means for both legitimate
work and for illegitimate work, but we
are also compelled to face an enemy
which is not entirely honest in it's deal
! ings with the people. (Applause). And
before addressing myself to the para
/ mount issue of this campaign, l want
10 call your attention to two or three
cuestions which have been raised by our
opponents.
We have declared that the money
ouestion is the paramount issue ana
some of them are not willing TO meet Us
on the money question and have sought
TO raise other questions to confuse the
nuhlic mind. Ny friends, Just one WORD
about these other questions. some ol
our opponents have attempted 10 ar
ra,gn us before the bar OF public OPINION
upon the charge that we are attempting
| to disturb order and to overthrow ne
law. want for a moment TO meet mat
nroposition. There is nothing in our
p,atform that justifies that charge. II
thev say that our declaration IN favor
NJ an income tax is an attempt to dis-
credit the Supreme Court | deny II.
There is nothing in our platform on the
/ eubiect which is half as severe as the
minority report uttered against the
Judgment of the Supreme Court. (Great
app,ause) Let me call your attention
10 the criticism which Abraham Lincoln
made of a decision OF the Suprme Court
and when you read his cit!cism you Will
find how far we fall short Of him in crit
;cism. and yet there are good people in
This country to-day who think that
Abraham Lincoln was not only great
man. but a good man and patriot.
| tremendous app.auseD here Is mis-
! language in June, 1851:
I'VE believe as much as Judge Doug
lass perhaps more, Che adds in obedi-
ence to and respect for the judicial de-
nartment of the government and we
think that the Dred Scott decision was
erroneous. We note the court that
made IL has often Oyerruled its own de-
cisions and we shall do what We can to
have it overruled.'
This, my friends the position taken
by Abraham Lincoln, is exactly the po-
s;tion which we take to-day. (Great
9nDlausel We expect that decision al
some time in the future to be overruled.
We expect that in this nation it will
/ sometime he possible to make wealth
bear its share of the burdens of govern
ment Great applause and cheering)
/ | call your attention to the fact that the
men who are critiCisng us for still
favoring an income tax do not them
| selves critic.se the income tax. 1t is
strange my friends, how suddenly some
! of these people who have been in court
all their lives as defendants against
charges of violating the law; it is
strange how these people have suddenly
come to advocate a decision of the Su-
preme Court. Men who under the in
come tax would have to pay tax in
stead Of telling you that they are not
willing TO pay the tax jump onto us and
charge us with disrespect to the court.
! If these men who want the protection Of
government and vet want others to bear
The burdens of government were honest
and courageous, they would tell us that
what thew objected to was not our crit.-
c.sm Of the court, but the law itself, be-
cause they do not want to pay taxes.
! Great applause)
! Another thing, our opponents want you
to believe that we are opposed to the en-
forcement of law. So far as this criticism
! is directed against me as candidate /
assert what have asserted before, that
there is not a citizen in all this land who
believes more thoroughly in the enforce
ment of every law upon the statute books
! than I do. CApplause) And my friends. If
bv the suffrage of my countrymen l am
r7odo the chief executive Of this nation.
7 will promise you that I will so enforce
the laws that some of my critics will come
and on their knees beg not to have the
laws enforced (Prolongued cheers and
! anpIause) Let me suggest to you, my
friends a reason for the opposition Of
some of those railroad presidents which
they themselves do not suggest. They
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