The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-27
SECOND DISTRICT.
Elkins.Dayton Meeting at Dnvis
~ Monster,
TIE REGION OF GREAT GROWTH
What Capital Has Donr for II rortlon or
West v!rslnIa which Only n Few Year.
Ago was Drnsr Forrsi-With Dcvriop-
mrmt Ems Come Republican Sentiment.
EiLinsnnd Dayton Make tond Sp-cr!,ci,

Special Correspondence.
DAVIS, W, VA, Oct. 2i.-Ncvcr be-
fore In the history OF tho town has
such n demonstration been Witnessed us
that which to-day and Tonight Mt
tended speeches BY Senator Elkins and
Congressman Dayton, at this place,
and which has already been reported
by telegraph to the IntcllIgenccr. Davis
and the adjoining country IL tho
stronghold OF the Republicans of Tack
or county, The district Is new. and
where there was not human hnSSta.
ton few years ago, there will this
year be pollCd nearly ono thousand
votes. The industries are lumber, coal,
tanuerlcS and pulp mills for making
paper. 4 phenomenal growth has
marked the development Of this re-
Eion. 1t has been more prosperous all
the time than most districts Of the
country; but It's resources are cSpcci
ally affected by tariff. and every
change or threatened change looking
toward free trade has been felt here
sooner than In older settlements where
tS' Industries nro more varied.
For this reason, the people here have
learned politics from, observation. They
have been quick to observe that wages
and prosperity diminish with every adj
vance toward free trade. The hundreds
OF men who work In the woods md In
the suw-mfllS saw IN" result when the
reduction In tho tariff on lumber forced
the milllonalrc3 IN this region to cut
one dollar per Thousand feet on the
price Of lumber. The coal miners
learned at once that the tariT hurt the
coal and coke business. and TINT when
these Industries were crippled, the men
who worked must share u part OF the
lOSs. At no place in the state. per-
haps In the United States. has tn.
working man had Il clearer object les
son OH tariff and free trade. and the III
rect and Immediate effect on his pOck-
et-bnok
For this reason the voters hero are
nearly all Republicans, because no man
ever votes against the interests OF HIS
pockct-book II once made to sec clearly
wherein those interests lie.
A Remarkable OutpourinG.
1t needed but the announcement that
a meeting would be addressed here by
the senator and congressman, to bring
together crowd whose size and en-
thusilsm were enough 10 strike with
dlsmny any ambitious Democrats who
might be in this vicinity. Mills shut
dowr, men came In from logging camps
miles away; residents Of districts be-
yOnd this immediate vicinity were here
In numbers. large delegations come
Ft-axY, -
AlleghenitS: excursions on the railroad
brought many from towns in this and
adjoining counties: and when the
hour came for Mr. Elkins to begin his
address in the cnmmodous opera
house, 1t was packed from wall TO
wall. The procession that mnTctNrl
through the streets. headed by the DAY.
IL Mckinley Club. and band from
Cumberland. looked like an army. Mr.
Eiki@s raid that the demonstration
surpassed In enthusiasm anything he
had seen this campaign.
The occasion inspired him, and his
address surpassed expectations. From
the first he held the attention OF his
vast audience. He spoke OF this town
with It's thousands Of busy people as
the SJundfst argument Cor ilH. policy
or the Republican party. That policy
had led business men 10 invest here and
to change a forest to a city. Senator
Eikins spoke Of his first visit to Davis
a few years ago when the only inGabl-
iant was Robert Eastman, n gentle
man from Eastern Virginia, who butl:
n cabin here that he might he In the
midst Of the finest hunting region In
the state.
Mr. Elklns then took up the Issues
Involved In this campaign. dealing crst
with the tariff and then with III. TluU.y-
question. Ne referred 10 the long and
uninterrupted prosperity. Of ttrr COM
try under Republican rule from 1851 -
1897. when. by false representations and
by appealing tn ignorance, the Demo-
Gratis induced enough voters to cast
their ballots FOR frea trade To give over
the administration to the Democrats
The rCopia saw their mistake and cor
reatcd II ut the first opportunity, which
was In 1891. At that election tlra pe0pr
passed 81 free trade and protection
pure and simple. No financial question
entered into that campaign.
The dcplnrable and disastrous ~
suits OF the four years OF Democratic
rule were pointed ont Prosperity has
been succeeded b. the hardest times
this country has known FOR genera
ton; the national debt was Increased
Ave hundred million dollars in interest
and principal, aud general depression
was rvaryw!llre. In 1892 tn. burden was
Imaginary, Vow II IS real. The party
which brought the hard times now asks
the privilege Of adding 10 It by pilnE
free silver on free trade. That party
does not propose to change the tariff
az It row is. but would increase the
burden by adding free silver. Free sill
Yer would be as disastrous as free
trade. Eryan admits that Eis election
would bring n panic. Has not four
years OF hard tlmcs, panic and disaster
been enough?
Senator I:lklns then referred to the
congressional candidates IN this district
and said that this district could rn
more aifGrd to he represented by Junior
rruwu than lha United States could
afford to ele2t Bryan.
MIR. Dayton tells exactly what he viii
Do. He VIII vote FOR protection You
know exactly where h. has stood ana
wh"r" hr VIII stand IN this vital ,iUz".
ton. lie has n REGARD, and 1t IL y good
one. Mr.. Brown has no record nNd
does not want any. a man who has no
record and who wants none Is dan
c"rnug man. Do not trust him. Dayton
was OF" OF the FIRST to propose n rcvr-
nUc bill The Democratic senate vntti
/, down. Ths silver IEt"resta declared
they would starvc the government tn
death II they did not get fYen coinage.
DO not vote FOR man IN th'2Sc DANGER
Gus timc1 who VIII rot toll y0u WHIT
he will 60; but vote for Dayton, who
you al know will vote right.
SILVER Question.