Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-01-09


will cease TO control our country, and the
people shall rule. All hail the day when
men of Jeffersonian simplicity and Jack
sonian principles shall rule our State and
nation.
Mr.. NJ. L. Mclaughlin, a young at
torney recently admitted to the Ohio
county bar and an eX-Republican, was
next called upon to respond to the
toast, "Bimetallism" Mr. McLaugh-
lin made an address which was for
chile and to the point. He said he
was pleased TO speak to so many an
archists. We come together to cele-
brate the memory of an anarchist.
We celebrate the day that an anarch-
ist defended this country from the
English, who came across the waters
Andrew Jackson hated the English be-
cause he knew they came TO destroy
this country of ours. Referring to the
subject of the toast, the speaker said
the sentiment expressed by Don Cam
eron in the United States Senate
should be of that of every true Ameri-
can. Cameron said Il am opposed
TO the gold standard because England
is in favor of it," Cameron spoke of a
speech Gladstone made in the House
of Commons when he spoke as an Eng
lisman and a representative of the
great creditor nation of the world.
Gladstone said if England was debtor
and a producing nation instead of
consuming nation that he would favor
bimetallism himself. Mr.. Mclaughlin
said that the gold standard literature
distributed last fall was sufficient to
make every farmer and every work
man in the shop bimetallist. He
asked the question what caused the
working men of this city to be crowd
ed? Because the consumers of the city
have not been given the thing to buy
with. Farming had become unprofit-
able and the boys from the farm came
to the cities and added to the compe-
titiOn of labor. a motto was displayed
on banner during the last campaign
bearing the inscription: open the
mills and the minis will take care OF
themselves" 1t is not a question of
opening the mills. The mills have been
opened so long that the mills, the
shops. and the warehouses are full
The question is not how shall we open
the shops but how shall We clear out
the products of the shop. The speaker
said he could not understand why all
the manufacturers took the stand they
did in the last campaign when they all
labored for the gold standard. AS the
increase Of money meant the Increase
of consumption it meant all to them
There was only one explanation why
they fought bimetallism, and that WIS
II I.1 I. "a
the east hCwled for a gold standard.
Chairman LANCE called upon Mr.
Samuel Hartman. Mr. Hartman said
that it was very fitting that to-day we
should remember all the great
efforts that have been made to estab-
lish a free and Independent govern
ment on this continent. We should
remember the millions of treasure, the
blood and suffering that had been
spent to make this a land Of the free
and the home Of the brave. He gave
several good points to the audience
concerning bimetalism, and ended
with an appeal to his hearers to be
active and alert and say as Andrew
Jackson said: BY the eternal, l shall
save the country
r. S. Kincheloe was called upon. and,
while taken by surprise by the chair
man, responded happily by telling a
celebrated story of Andrew Jackson
and ending by making a few appro-
pirate remarks.
+. A. McCabe was also called upon
and made a two minutes address, in an
eloquent vein. He said that Demo-
Gratis and believers in bimetallism, in
spired by the character and example
of Jackson, should pledge renewed de-
votion to this country and its interests
without WAITING for the consent or aid
of any other nation on earth.
J. B. Wilson was asked for a brief
speech. Mr.. Wilson made the charac-
ter of Andrew Jackson the subject of
his remarks. He said that Andrew
Jackson was a typical American citizen
and a man who was controlled by what
he believed was right and for the best
interests of his country. No man has
risen since his day to take his place
until in 1896, when young man stood
up in the Chicago convention and an
swered the arguments Of the ablest men
in the party. That speech OF w. J.
BRYAN made him one of the greatest
men in the country and the worthy
successor of Andrew Jackson. Bryan
stands to-day the most typical Ameri-
can and worthy successor of Andrew
Jackson that we have ever had.
NJ. +. Tighe was also called upon and
expressed a number Of good thoughts
He urged all members of the Bipetal-
lie Club to work unselfishly for a
cweenino victory in 1900.