Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-17
TWO LOCAL. CANDIDATES
Made Fine Speeches at Martins Ferry,
Last Night.
IL Gallagher, Candidate Tor Com
mon Pleas Judge, and W. B, Fran
els. Candidate for Prosecuting
Attorney. the Orators-A Good
Meeting Throughout.

IN On -Se corn-v rlcke1-J. A. Gallagher,
candidate for Judge or Common - 90
Conrt. and ". 3. Francis, canoluS'-1 lO'
Prosecuting Attorney. ,4
ina meeting was well attended anu
.be addresses were atc.ntiyely listened
10 throughout. 4 ..,.o,,,h ,-s-
I'll. Irwin. President Of the ciuo' pre-
sRsn. over the meeting and IN a lew
Wi marked words introduced the nrsI
sneaker CT the evening, Mr.. j. A Oa'-
Af.er q Short prelude he entered IN
mon the pres znt STATE Of discomfort OF
- ~,aopla as o nation. Nearly all have
ag~ss1 uDon the fac, Tia, the money
question Is the cause. while others s-ilI
3arsist in -el,ing YOU, and esp5 claIIy tAe
FARMER thai these hard times are cause0
bv the present tariff and wan them 20
vc-a ON .he .2rim. Not a man can polnI
en- q single product that is nanutac-
+u-ed alO1g this valley mat IS no,
0r,-1e+-d enough 20 allow tde manu-
fac-ursr q profit on his goods. ana con-
se9ue1tly something else must be the
taa-rer. and not the tariff question.
To hear our opponents talk YOU would
shfrl- -het FL was something entirely
new and uuneard Of. but let me say Il
ia MOI. It IS a system We have had for
ages ND 20 ab0u. twenty-five years ago.
THey Try 20 tell YOU, TIA, YOU still have
biwa-allism. H5re Mr.. Gallagher clear
" defined bime.allsm and m0nOme.al-
lism showing what kind OF a money
system the Republicans were advOcat-
ing The .mpOr-an, article in bimetal-
lism is mat ycu and / have a privilege
10 pay our debts with either one or the
ether me ais. /, makes no difference
vi icl. and .le one W. can &c, the easiest
Will be the one we VIII pay them with.
This was the system for years until '73,
when cur silver was demOnedzed. Sup
pose in 1873. when W had $500, coo 900,
that some che would have said. Lets
make our god and silver dollars twice
as large as they are now. and then the
purchasing power of them will BE-
GrOa-er. You would have said: 1t an
no as biz a fool as that yet: I dom
van, 20 make money scarcer and hard
er 20 gsc.'
wow that very thing which you would
not have agreed 70 was int sntionally
or unin-eudo1aily done in 1873 right
under your eyes and YOU never knew II.
Had iJ stopped there &c would no, have
Be so bad. but (, did not end there.
Germany, France. Italy and other for
eisn nations followed by demonetizing
their silver and since that time silver
1cs never Shared ID rights that gold
has
Abou. 1875 the people began 10 feel
the effects. and many eminent States
l1cn, both Democrats and Republicans.
ioie-7ld what the results would be. and
The people So, about and tried 10 have
silver remonejized for the money power
held their strip on The sw-r,a kers and
every at'empJ made by tbe people was
de-e@'ed, manly through ,le money
powers.
Eight months ago had YOU asked a
Democrat whether Jhe money question
was going TO De the issue of the cam
paign and he would have tod YOU no:
but Jle people -daj sent the delegates to
the Chicago convention charged them
10 make Che issue clearly on the money
question. and thar is why it is an issue.
The people brought i- about and not
the politicians.
Years ego che De0p.a thought that the
epuoIc3nS would re ,ae first to bring
about The free coinage of silver. from
Che declarations i'm their platforms Of
1855 and 1892 Then they advocated
bimetai,iSm. and that commits every
advocate of -Le Republican party to the
free coinage Of silver; but this year
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