Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-02
A SPLENDID MEETING
Was That Held By Martins Ferry
Democrats, Last Night.
The Addresses Were Made by Hon.
John o. Pendleton and Hon. Ross
j. Alexandria Big Silver Club
Organized at Benwood-The Cur
rent Political Notes of the Day.

The Pendle.on-AleXander meeting a9
Martin Ferry, iasc evening, more than
came up TO the expectations OF those in
charg5 of it. In fact it was one Of the
most successful political meetings THAI
HIS been held in the town Ior some
time past AS early at s-ven o'clock
people began to cCngregat9 at Inns
Hall, 'Che headquarters OF The Bryan BIZ
melail.c Ciuo, wheIa the mesAng was
10 be nsld, and at elglt O'Clock, wnen
tl5 meeting began, the nah was packed
10 Us fullest extent.
About Iour hundred people in all had
assembled for une purpose CT nsaring
Hon. JCnn y. PelGIu,.n, the suauncn
tIea silverite OF taIs city, and Hon.
ItOss J. Alexander, on u belnoAC
county able expOnents of fires and I'M
limited coinage o. SILVER, explode une
fa.lac.S CT tne Republican god stand
ara.
The meeting was called to order by
TAcm2s j. Erwin, pp,slden, OF the Bry-
an club, and ne, acting as chairman, IN
PRODUCED the nrsc speaker OF The even
ing, Hon. Ross j. AleXaLdor, OF Bridge
port.
VIZ. Alexander, after few remarks
on vne issue Of rL. campaign, entered
inCo his speech in regaTu 70 the accu-
mutation Of wealth. by tHs Eastern
powers, and the manner in winch they
had been engineering atfaiIs unC-r Re
publican legislation.
At first he syated 1t is proper TO sea
where we ale at in ms campa gn; 10 see
waeah,r Or not we nave broken 2Say
from cur former principles and views.
Away back in the early history OF
cur country when IAomas Jefferson,
that grand old Statesman, annunciaCe1
the principles of the Democratic party,
il was the same as j. now is. | can see
no Change in l. Whatever and tle chi
cagO platform as adopted agrees wlth
Il IN every respect In Lnis country, tha
CREATES On earth, thIre is a state OF dis
coniuan.ment. NhaC has brought his
about. II mas been produced by IN
equal ana unfair legislation. Some OF
Them are: the national banking act, con-
fIaO1On act, ih5 act OF increasing
.he public debt anu paying it in coin,
decentralization CT silver, and the re-
demption act
Here Mr. Alexander tCoh up each one
OF these acts AMI discussed them freely
giving the faC.s Of Jite matters in figures.
lie quoted here and there from that
great statesman, James G. Blaine, show
Ing that ne. on OF the best Republicans
ever known, favored the free coinage OF
silver in all ais speeches, and Told OF
The harm that wCuid be produced by the
demon ti2ation OF that ntal as money.
The record OF VIM. Mckinley while IN
Congress was taken up and shown 10
the public. How he voted on all silver
Questions. He even voted no on the
question to suspend The coinage Of silver
ur,il an international agreement could
be reached, aud now ne is at the head
of party mat want to do that very
thing.
NJ. Alexander, after speaking for
over an hour, gave way 10 Hon. John y.
p ndi-ton. who addressed the audience
for nearly an hour and a hall. MI.
Pendleton said: l am glad TO see so
much interes. being taken in this mat
Ter. not only here but all over the coun-
try. The things that make it so inter-
Esrug is that new ideas are spTingIng up
and are being taken in hand. The De-
mOcracy of The country has come out lot
The free and unlimited coinage OF Sill
yer while the Republicans have rais7
lir cry for the gold standard, and Iree
coinage of silver, providing an inter
national agreement can be reached:
Those questions are being discussed
every place at present. both in pubic
and private.
The great masses to-day are not enjoy
ing what they consider fair and just
treatment and they are looking for some
one to carry them out of the slough OF
despond. Now you people who are anxious
and ready to strike the blow 10 deliver
Yourselves uphold William Jennings
Bryan and you will have struck the blow
that will Hberate the masses of American
! people from the position they are now be-
ing held in.
Why is it the American people are not
ENJOYING prosperous days? The Republic
cans tell YOU that the country is enjoying
great wealth. When they say that they
speak the truth, for this country Is
Weather than any two continental coun-
tries OF Europe, for the reason that 1t Is
con1paratively new and has vast resources.
! In the early days there were very lew
CAPITALISTS and now we have 3O'O0O people
| who own more than half the money IN the
/ country. In the early days everybody
had money. but now the capitalists have
! the money and they have taken 1t from
Won This is why the people are discon-
! tented. They find It growing worse ana
/ the biting feeling of despair Is being lelt
more and more. What the people want
now ia some one who can lead them out
of this position. some one who can solve
/ this problem. and that man is w. D.
BRYAN. the Democratic nominee for Pres
| ident from Nebraska. The depression OF
business is not due TO the present tariff
as the Republicans cell you.~ Here Mr..
+ Pendleton went on to explain very eXplic-
itly how the depression was due 10 the
oyer-production under the Mckinley tar
if bill.
The tariff has nothing to do with this
campaien. 1t is the financial legislation
| that has been favoring the money power
Of the country. and if 1 can satisfy you in
REGARD to that question the triumph OF
Bryan ana Sewall on election day Will
raise the common people to higher grade
Of prosperity Here MIR. Pendleton went
back. telling of the decentralization of sill
yer in foreign nations with the Unied
Safes following them up in 1873 He spoke
Of the vast debt contracted when gold and
silver were the money of the country and
how through the influence OF foreign
money powers silver was demonetized in
order that they might be paid in gold.