Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-20

and there is not a farmer but is get
ting good prices for his products"
-Four persons in front of the stand APP
plauded this statement. Encouraged
by this demonstration, the speaker
said: There is general prosperity
throughout the land, acknowledged by
the press everywhere"
No applause this time, but voice
asked" What's the matter with the
Bellaire mill?"
piled Capt. Danford.
Proceeding, Capt. Danford stated that
he had never been corporation attor-
ney, but was always on the labor side
of every trouble. Referring to the
Bellaire strike, he said he had nothing
to say about it, but added: The Re-
publican party promised to start up
the industries, and has done SO; but
no party has anything to do with wage
scales, or with the settlement of diff
ferences between employers and en-
ployes" He said the Republican par
tvs responsibility ceased when the
mills started.
Touching the coal strike, he said
there was not a Republican who did
not deprecate it, and charged that
Democrats encouraged it. The same
statement was made concerning the
Bellaire strike, and the faithful yelled.
He could not see any sense or reason
in charging the Republican party with
the condition of affairs in Bellaire. He
spoke at length of the great business
revival of 1897 and closed with
catering compliment to Senator For
aker, whom he introduced.
Senator Foraker was applauded as
he advanced to the front of the plat
form. He INDUCED in the usual plati-
tudes about splendid gathering"
great enthusiasm" and determine
ton which | see depicted in your coun-
tenances to vote the Republican
ticket" Then he evened up matters
with Danford by eulogiZing him. He
expressed the conviction that Bellaire
would Join the procession Of Republi-
can prosperity.
Senator Foraker said there was no
political question to discuss, as free
trade and free silver are dead. The
only question was whether the voters
will indorse Bushnell, Hanna (great
cheering) and Mckinley. Last year
deice, but his place has been taken this
year by General Prosperity.
Senator Foraker took up State is
sues. He charged Governor Hoadley
with wasting surplus left by his pre-
decessor and leaving deficiency in
stead Then he, Foraker, helped the
thing along, but the State went back
ward again under Campbell, Mckinley
I,-- Il ,ll -. Ia
during his administration. Com ng
down to the present Governor. he eulo-
gized his administration in the most
fiattering terms. Bushnell was bust
ness Governor, and "a triumphant sue
cess" He should have 100000 plural
ity in November, for there's nobody
running against him that / know Of"
Foraker passed from State issues to
the question of prosperity" He adj
mitted that prosperity did not
follow the election immediate
ly, and accounted for it on
the ground that there was a fear of
obstruction in the Senate to Republi-
can measures. He reviewed the efforts
to pass the Dingley law which is re-
sponsible ''for the prosperity you are
enjoying to-day" and showed why
each one of the forty-three Republican
Senator's is hero, and how easy it
was to hoodwink the majority The
revival of business, he asserted. dated
from July oath when the Dingley bill
was passed.
The employment of idle men in the
United States had infinitely more to
do with the advance in the price of
wheat, he said, than short crops
abroad. Sheep have advanced to three
or four times their value a year ago.
The return of prosperity is evidenced
in the big railroad business.
Senator Foraker saw the hand of
Providence in the election last year,
and in the choice Of the Republican
party as the agency to bring about the
return of prosperity; just as in 1892,
the same Divine hand chose the Dem
ocratic party as the agency to teach
the American people lessons of humil-