Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-06-11

/ frantic Republican doctors, but ne
could not be made TO believe that he
was well when he was very SICK.
At Canton on Friday. October ,, Ad-
vance Agent Mckinley addressed a
delegation from West Virginia, AMI up
in the front rank of that delegation was
the editor of the Fourteenth stree Of
gan. On that occasion among other
things Agent Mckinley said:
Business activity will return. confidence
will come back courage Will take the
place of fear. work VIII be resumed anu
prosperity will come 10 bless and oenehl
US all
Nearly a week later, on Wednesday
October 7, he addressed a delegation
from Asland. 0. He concluded an ad-
dress Of platitudes with this -four
ish:
our policy seeks TO give a situation to
every man in this country who wants 10
work
II was not alone at Canton jha- broad
promises were made with no plan for
their fulfllment. At Chicago, one
autumn night, Colonel Ingersoll drop
ped his Bible lectures long enough to
defend the policies of Mckinley and
his party. With mixed metaphor and
sentences that may have sounded well,
but read jarringly, he said that good
times would follow hard upon mis- can
didate's advent at Washington. Pros
perity and protection hand in hand,
would fit from port to port, span The
rivers open the factories and put a
smile on the face of the land. Looking
back on those days of promise, 1t
seems remarkable that anyone shonld
have believed in them. 1t seems eX-
traordinary that anyone SHOULD have
believed in them. 1t seems eXtraor-
binary that anyone should have lister
ed seriously to this paragraph from an
Ingersoll speech delivered at Chicago,
Thursday, October S:
The Republican party is the friend Of
labor. Labor is the great oak;
labor is the great pillar. and the deft and
cunning hands of labor NIL the world win
things of use and beauty. The republican
party Is the friend Of labor ana all my
Sympathies are with the men who toll:
The Republican party is the conscience OF
the Nineteenth Century. am proud 10
belong 10 il. Vote the Republican ticket
and YOU will be happy here. and II there
is another life, you will be happy there.
Even on the paid platform Of mis-
party Colonel Ingersoll could not re-
frain from slap at the religion of his
fathers.
The country would welcome any &C
tivity at Washington that would find
reflection in the world of commerce, but
it is beginning to see that promises be-
fore election day are not always to De
trusted. 1t is beginning TO wonder
what the President meant when, for
example, he said, in talking to a New
castle. Ind, delegation on Friday, oc-
tober %:
start the factories and put American
machinery in motion. Plenty ana pros
perity will return 10 US again.
Exactly one month earlier, he ad-
dressed an audience of visitors from
Wood county, o. To these voters he
repeated much of the fallacious argu-
ment of other we'll known addresses,
adding:
what we want to do Is to start the idle
mills start the factories and open the
markets which have been closed. This
we can do by restoring tn. G com I.nSte
from next Tuesday you will have an op-
portunity 10 say what you think or the
means which are offered TO cure your ills.
What will your verdict be-?
Did the President think that he would
press a magic button when he crossed
the threshold of the White House--a
button that would send life into every
idle factory in the country? He and
his campaign orators said that such a
renewal of activity would follow al
most upon the day Of his election; but
here we are. seven months Deyold that
day on the road of Time, and his ad-
ministration has done nothing TO le-
deem the promises of the au,umn Of
last year
Tariff measures that out-McKinlev
his own extravagant notions OF the ma
tons needs have dawdled aud dwin-
died before his eyes His own advisers
are vacillating of policy. Some of the
men who made his path to the White
House a golden one are now saying
that unless he hastens to a fu'fllment
of promises their support will weaken.
So important a member Of his Off
cial family as the Secretary of the
Treasury has confessed and avoided
the lack of results following the new
regime at Washington. In the States
that elected him there is an increasing
cry of hard times.
The country has lost all faith that
the administration will ever be able
to fulfill its promises of year ago,
and robbed and cheated labor is wild
with indignation at the infamous fraud
practiced upon it, for it was promised
bread and is given stone.