Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-08-23

aau.ts on protection. which is and has
been the salvation of American labor.
Look at him! He has free trade under
one arm and a flfty-three cent dollar
under the other. and thus he offers him.
self TO you. You have had enough OF
free trade. beware OF free silver.
The Democratic party has the knack
OF finding out something which IS
against the interests OF the peope' ana
the people, strange to say, DelleVe IN
them-sOmetimes
He then con+rasted the TWO platforms;
said the Republican platform was Amer
lean from beginning 10 end. and was the
pledge of a party which favored amer
lean interests and which believed IN the
hest money in the world, and that upon
lhat ideal platform stood an ideal Amer
lean citizen. He gave brief Oiograpl-
ical sketch OF the Republican candl0ale'
and eulogized him for time, but sooA
returned 10 his former trend OF thought,
with the assertion that Democratic sue
cess would plnge the country mo un-
told business and financial difficulties.
He then attacked the Democratic pat
form. asserted that millions OF Demo-
Gratis were opposed 10 l., and that every
anarchist every communist and every
man who wanted to live without work
ing or to live off OF some enc else was
in favor OF il. and would yo.e for IL. IN
The course of his discussion he said
What this country wants IS mora
business. rather than more money
Open the factories rather than open the
minis Il does no. profit man if be
has a store full Of goods and there IS no
demand for them and he cant sell thsm.
Democrats tell you that the money issue
is important, Don't believe them.
Stick to the tsriff-.hat is the idea.
That IS the thing which mas made this
country prosperous and great.
What will il profit you, IL You have free
silver and no work? s. The Re
publcans are for a policy which will
make business. and when there is bus
mess the money will be on hand.
He then went into statistics, and quo
red that from 1889 to 1890, wages IN
creased in this country from 1886 to
S547 per capita. and yet the Democrats
said the people were ground down by
gold. If that is true, give us some more
of that sort. But they say the country
is in an awful fix. Well. if it is, who
has a miserable make-lhift Of tariff.
Which is not sufficient TO run the bust
ness of the government, and as result
they had to increase the debt.
The Democracy misTepTesenj us. l
am not fighting silver. I am for sill
yer. am in favor Of the largest use Of
silver; but we want 10 make the silver
equal 10 gold, and the Democrats want
TO drive the gold away. I am for silver
and paper and gold, while the Democ-
racy want to drive away the gold, and
leave YOU only silver and paper.
Taking up the Wilson bill, ne said
West Virginia had suffered a loss Of So
10000 in business as result CT the
workings of the Wilson bill, in the mat
ter Of the lumber, coal and other sched-
ules. That is what the Democracy owes
West Virginia tonight And who led
in it? William l.. wilson, My gra-
cious. why cant a man be for his ccun-
try?"
A little further along he said:
81 am talking for my p0cke.bCOk to-
night. and some of you ought 10 be
thinking end voting for your pocket
books, toOw
Now. I come TO this silver question
l don't want to keep YOU people here
all night. You are best people l ever
saw" Cries Of go on Win some
apparent disappointment he then went
on TO say that the Republicans were in
favor of the largest possible use of sill
yer. consistent with the stability Of the
dollar and its full value. The DsmOc-
racy wanted 70 use silver in unlimited
quantities. That word unlimited is a
bad one. You do not want that. You
would not want unlimited wheat.
Now. they propose to so work this gov
eminent as to nload on the people all
the products Of the western silver mines.
Why they would send il here by the car
load and food you with silver. That is
BRYAN policy And do you know who
is behind Bryan? Five hundred and
forty-seven millions Of silver interest.
Ii is the greatest combine in the history
of the world. The Standard Oil Com
Dany is not a circumstance to H. That
interest is not working this government
very much-at present, but jhey are
working The Democratic party and
through it propose to get hold of the gov
eminent as their own interests. Win
the people Of this country lie down and
submit to this?"
At this point the arrival of the Eighth
ward Republican club interrupted the
speaker, and for five or six minutes il
was impossible for the speaker to pro-
coed. When order was restored Sen
acr Elkins continued, in about the same
vein, and concluded about half-past
nine His speech was puncuated by the
applause which came from the big Dem
ocratic meeting on the next street.