Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-02

DiCcs when they knew that NC va 49,
going 10 vote for the ticket when tney
said they were going to vote for. ZAP
nlause) Nv friends, I call your a1'eh-
ton TO it. because l want 10 snow you
What . trapsparent fraud the boitng
Democratic organization is. It has all
the characteristics Of Q gold bug RepuO-
licen. excspt the courage to vote Tor me
Presidents ideas aud stand o! tAs
American foreign policy. cereal ap-
piause.) The gold standard IS a lyrah'
IN time Of peace, and q coward IN tme
Of war. The gold standard rules WIN
a rod Of iron when it has control, ana at
the very moment OF danger 1t deserts
like q traitor ard goes TO fight for me
country's enemy. Great apDlause.)
I call your attention TO the fact that
the advocates Of the sold standard ofer
Won no hone Of relief. They give you
no plan. The only ming that taey can
say to you is 10 be con,en, for what YOU
have. and thank God that i, IS no worse
than it is. Great applause) / think
that it is possible to carry conten,ment
too fer. I heard of man once who
had always been taugl, TO be content
with his lot. and finally ne became very
poor. and traded eff his coat for a loaf
of breAd, aud JhCn q dog came along and
snatched away the bread before ne had
q chance 20 eat K. re felt q little in
buJ finally the Old feeling Of
c0n.enrmen- came back TO him, and as
ne watched the dog turn around he cor
ner, he said TO himself: Wei, th3nk
God, l s,il have my appetite left"
daughter and app'ause.) So, my
friends, cur opponents seem 10 think
that even if we do not have the money
thar we need. we ought TO be e. afUl
that we still have e need Of money which
no gold standard csn lake away. GAP
p,ause.)
They 20 on the theory that the people
will no, wake ND while these syndicates
are operating. or Jbat if they do wake
up, il viii be so la.e that The syndi-
GATES VII have had so much that they
do MOI care ior any more. They re-
mind me of the man living down n the
swamp, and the neigibor enquired once
from his servant whether he did not
euff=r from the mosquitoes. The SER
want said no, that his master was not
troubled By the mosquitoes, and the
man inquired Why to VII ca The servant
replied: Why, by night, master is so
drunk that he does not know that the
mosquitoes are biting him and by morn
ing the mosquitoes arr 50 drunk they
do not care TO bite him any more
daughter and apDl2use) My friends,
o. sssr-fr n
liey5 the distress of the people. simply
wait until the people have sufficiently
recovered from the last infection, and
then they attempt to GGlict them again.
They remind me of q story that Was
told of a doctor lie did not live in this
State. and therefore it can be no reilec-
ton upon any physician here. Oaugh-
ter) He was called to attend child.
and the child grew worse and worse IN
til finally It's lie was despaired of. The
doctor said 10 the mother: Nothing
more can b. done. Don't punish the
child by giving It any more medicine.
If = IS restless, just give it littla
water. That is ell that can be done
The mother watched he child during
the night. and In the morning she
thought It seemed better. She watched
it through another day. 2nd she thought
it was still improving. she watched 1t
through another night, and still sha
thousht that the child was growing
stronger. And then the doctor came
gain: somewhat surprised not to have
heard Of It's sath before. He examined
The child. He heard what the mother
had to report, and then ne said to her:
"M,dams. the child is better. Th child
is STRONGER than when I was here be-
fore. Is it continues to improve as q
has improved for the last thirty-six
hours it will soon b. strong enough TO
take some more medicine" Great ap-
plaUse)
Tie very m0men. that there was talk
% ASSERTING the wonometalllc coctr'ue
our gold began to slide away,and men be-
gan TO talk abou. The loss in the value OF
stocks; and then those men who had
profi.ed by the present financial policy,
those men VINO had grown rich by The
sale of bonds. were the first ones 70 re-
Dudiate the Presidents foreign policy,
while the people Of The South and Wes,,
who had been made 10 work harder in
order that the Eastern fnsDci5r might
grow faJer-jhese people were tae ones
10 come TO the supper, of he
ticket. call your attention
to another hing, and that is that instead
Of declaring themselves gold standard
men, they call themselves advocates Of
sound money, because ,hey are ashamed
to use the name even NAT describes their
position. Great applauseJ Instead of
saying that tley are for gold. they pirate
about an honest dollar, when they know
that Inc gold dollar is the most dishonest
dollar in the land to-day. and they love
Utmost when it is mos, dishonest. Great
applause.)
Now, my friends, We are engaged in a
struggle between TWO monetary sys-
tens, and that struggle VIII result in the
filai triumph Of god monOme,alism, or
1t vii, result n the overthrow OF the
gold standard IN the United States.
(Cries Of: That is what we want" and
There is no midG.e ground.
The man who Is in favor of bime-ail.sm
must act with bimetaliis.s; the man who
is in favor of The gold standard win
act with the gold standard men, no MAJ
ter what he may say to you. a voice:
"How about the tariff?") Well, when
ever We get The money question settled
by international agreement, we will Try
agreement on the tariff
question. Q0ng and continued ap-
p.ause). The very Nope who are try
ing TO injec, into this campaign a tariff
question, the very people who are COM
planning about the InportatoI Of man
ufartured goods from abroad are trying
to import, free Of duty, q foreign fnan-
ella. system. Great APPLAUSE The
very peop,e who talk about an Ameri-