West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-11-19
HON. w. B. C0RNWELL.
CHAIRMAN OF TUE SECOND DIS.
TRiCT EX ECUrIyE COMMITTEES
TALKS TO THE VOTERS.
He Tells OF the Situation and In sists
That We Maintain Organization
For Battling with The
Gold Standard.

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Your executive committee having
honored mo with the chuirmanship
aud management OF the campaign
OF your district, few words from
me relative 10 our recent defeat
will, | hope, not be considered out
OF place or post mortem.
Every person can vt this time
ascroe some cause that led to the
overthrow Of our party; but IN my
| judgment 1t may be summed up in
few words. We had not only the
sins OF the CeVeland administra.
ton to answer for. which came in
power under the garb of Democracy.
and which used the livery Of heaven
TO serve the devil in, but we had
against us this same administration
as well.
A few months ago our great par
ty was prostrate, without princi-
Pile, without u leader and without
one star Of hope in the future. IL
had been bodnd and gagged by it's
so called leaders, and delivered
absolutely into the hands Of gang
of money barons aud political pi-
rates. All no once il awoko as n
giant from his sIumber, and W tn
II llerculean oifort broke the chains
by which its betraycrs had bound
It, and wrote new Declaration of
Independence recond Bill of
Rights.
II chose as its leader mau who
declared If elected, would use every
means in his power TO drive every
trust from tfe country. This decla
ration immt diately arraYed against
us all the corrupt money power of
both political parties. Many hon
est men who still cling to the
leaders they honored and trusted.
were by them induced to userlhc 10
the principles which they had spent
their lives in lighting. Thus it was
that our cause has been temper
arly defeated.
The man who believes that this
victory gained by the cohorts of
monopoly is permanent, must be-
lieve also that patriotism ~ dead,
and that an era of plutocratic cor
ruption has been permanently en-.
thrOned.
While William Mckinley will be
for tho next four years tho chef
executive Of this nation, 1t will not
oblterato the fact that even by his
own allies who are past masters Of
corruption, he was charged with
having secured his nomination bv
the most detestabie methods known
to American politics. Mother will
the people forget that he will enter
upon the duties of his Office as the
mortgaged candidate of Mark
Hanna, and the chosen champion
Of trusts and monopolies.
The mon who contributed to his
ctmpaign did not doi for thcir I'D
mira,ion Of Mckinley or for mere
sentiment. 1t was cold blooded
business transaction, for WHICH they
will exact remuneration and de
mand tribute of the government.
through the President, their SPECIAL
agent.
The promised prosperity will not
come. The mills cannot remain
open when the people are too poor
to bay their products. There cin
be no substantial prosperity IN The
country when the great agricultural
interest lahguishos, ard languish H.
must, when one half Of Che rodomp
ton money Of the country is dc
stroyed.
The fight has just beg0u. -Four
years more Of this gold standard
starvation policy. and it will be
wiped from the face Of the earth.
McKinley's election means higher
taxes aud less money 10 pay them
and that Will speak to the ears and
hearts Of the people more cloquently
than my campaign orator.
| Don't lay aside your emblem Of
battle, but renew your energies and
the people viii right this wrong.
/ They will not soon forget those who
carried our STANDARD and led our
forlOrn horc at this hour OF the
party's peril, and VIII as assuredl,
turn to them ugun as The needle Of
tho compass turns 10 the Polar
Star. ". y. CoKHwPIL.
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