Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-06

Ex-Congressman John o. Pendleton,
the eloquent orator of the Panhandle,
addressed meeting of Benwood voters
last night. The meeting was held in
the Benwood city hall, which was
crowded, although the weather could
not have been more unfavorable. There
were nearly, if not as many present at
the meeting held the previous Satur-
day.
Ex-Congressman Pendleton spoke for
an hour and half. His address was
a series of convincing arguments,
forcefully and eloquently expressed,
why the voter should vote the Demo-
cratic ticket next Tuesday. In open
ing his speech he touched upon the tar
iff question, showing that the period
of industrial depression of 1898, was
not due to Democratic administration
or Democratic laws, as alleged by Re-
publican orators, but to the over-pro-
duction of manufactured goods, caused
by the Mckinley bill, which was the
law of the land until August, 1894
The artificial stimulus of production
of manufactures flooded the markets,
diverted investments from other chan
nels, resulted in the production of
to supply the trade for a few years,
and in due time caused a suspension
of these manufactures and stopped the
employment of labor. He urged his
hearers to vote for a system of tariff
that is more equitable, designed to ia
vor the masses more instead of classes
and corporations; for a tariff levied
only for purposes of revenue to operate
the government economically admins
tered.
In connection with the tariff question
the speaker said the country could not
be prosperous or the condition of the
masses improved unless needed finan-
cial reform was secured. All par
ties in 1896 had agreed that the gold
standard was a bad thing and each
promised to get rid of it if put into
power.
The Republican party agreed to
abolish the gold standard by means of
an international agreement with the
nations of Europe, while the Demo-
cratic rarty had pledged itself if put
into power, to abolish the gold stand
ard independent OF the consent of any
other nation.
The speaker asked if the Republican
party had redeemed its pledges in this
particular. He said no, and gave
reasons, urged in the last presidential
campaign, when the money question
was discussed, why the Republican
party had no intention of keeping it's
promises to the people The Repub-
lican party had now at last quit max
Ing promise and there was no place in
the country in this campaign where
the Republicans were making these
promises again.
Mr. Pendleton discussed the ques
ton of territorial expansion, and the
other questions involved in and brought
out by the late war. He made a con-
vincing argument against the reten-
ton or annexation of the Philippines,
demonstrating that it was contradic-
tory to the policy of our form of gov
Hrnment, and opposed to our best in
terests to go seven thousand miles
across the ocean and bring into this
country an make it a part and parcel
of our republic, about twelve hundred
islands, with a population-ten mill
ion Chinese, Malays, Japanese. all yell
low and mongrel races-and make
them citizens equal with us. These
people possessed nothing, could do us
no good, and were opposed to being
brought in themselves. To keep them
in subsection to our government would
make it necessary to tax the masses of