Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18
TWO OLD ISSUES
We're Made the Slogan and Trusts
Were Given the CODY

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SPEECH OF SENATOR THURSToN
AT MARTINS FERRY LAST
NIGHT SHOWED CAREFUL
COACHING HEDGED ON IMPER-
IALTSM AND SPOKE AMBIG-
UOUSLY OF TRUSTS TALKED
ON NATIONAL ISSUES AND THE
BURNING QUESTION WITH THE
WORKING CLASSES WAS DIS
MISSED WITH A JOKE.
Last night Senator John NJ Thurs
ton, of Nebraska, addressed Republi-
can meeting at Martins Ferry. The
distinguished orator in his metoric
fight through Chic makes four stops
to aid Hanna in carrying Ohio for
Judge Nash. Salem, Martins Ferry,
Ravenna and Akron are on the sched-
ule in the order named, and then Mr..
Thurston whisks back to his native
prairies to look after the campaign in
his own State.
Without doing violence TO a spirit of
eminent fairness it can be stated that
the hours speech Of the Nebraskan was
not exactly what was expected by the
audience assembled to hear him. While
pleasing to the casual listener and en-
tertaining enough, it was entirely too
superficial for those eagerly seeking
enlightenment upon the great political
issues of the day. The orator did not
delve deeply into the questions which
are uppermo5t in the minds of the peo-
pie, and there was a pronounced dispo-
sition to hedge on Imperialism and
the subject of trusts. Protection and
sound money" was the slogan, while
the laboring men present were put off
with remarkably brief, not to say
fippant discussion of trusts. He treat
ed the closing of the mills by the Amer
lean Tin Plate Company as joke and
dismissed it with a wittlcism Men
who have been discussing the absorp-
ton of local industries by The giant
combinations of capital, and who ex-
pected the Senator to set them Alright,
went away hungry. They were told
that some trusts are bad and some are
good" and that to vote the Republican
ticket is the way to place curb upon
the former and promote the latter. He
told the working men if they are not
getting enough wages under the pres
ent administration they would get less
under Democratic rule, the logic OF
which there was no attempt to de-
fine.
Mr.. Thurston's utterances on imper-
ialism did not SAVIOR of that independ-
ence manifest when he rose In his seat
in the United States Senate and said,
LET the men whose loyalty is TO the
dollar stand aside while the men
whose loyalty is to the flag come to
the front" His words indicated care
full coaching to suit the Ohio situation.
He was in favor of leaving the question
to be settled by Congress, as President
Mckinley has already decreed.
The meeting was called to order by
Committeeman Samuel Westwood, OF
Martins Ferry, who, in well chosen
words, named Judge John S. Cochran
to preside. The latter made red hot
address in which the ensanguined
shirt was tossed from pit to gallery, and
which must have made the barn burn
ers" of '63 turn a fiip-fiop In their
graves. j. ]. Gill made a few remarks
in opening, and C. l.. Weems closed
the meeting with characteristic adj
dress. Senator Thurston's speech was
along national lines exclusively, only
deviating but once to deal a blow to
organized labor when reference was
made to the circular of the Trades
Council of Cincinnati. Salient passages
in Senator Thurston's speech were az
follows:
'IMr. Bryan, yesterday, in Kentucky,
said it is of the utmost Importance that
the State must be carried by the Demo-
cratic nominee. If that is true, how
much more important is i to the Rpub-
lican party that the Presidents own
State shall be carried by his friends.
The whole world is waiting to see If
Ohio will stand by the administration
Twelve thousand miles in the Orient,
another man, rebel guerilla, is also
waiting to see if Ohio will stand by the
flag.
"Tewenty-fve years ago James A.
Garfield stood upon the site of a manu-
featuring plant in your valley and told
you if you should stand by the protec-
tive policy the banks of your river
would be lined with busy spindles.
With the exception of four years you
have experienced the prosperity pro-
phecied in those words, and opine
there is no disposition upon the part OF
the voters to return to the conditions
prevailing under the last administration
of Grover Cleveland.
"a circular sent out Dy an alleged
labor organization of Cincinnati says
there is an overproduction. There is
no such thing as an over production.
Manufacturers do not pile up goods in
warehouses to mould and rot. Every
producer in the country to-day is maxi
ing ware because he sees an opportunl-
ty to sell it. There may sometimes be
an overproducuon of agricultural pro-
ducts, but OF manufactured goods, new
err"
"The trouble three years ago was
American jobs had been sent across
the water. To-day jobs are in the
street looking for men. There is one
thing which Americans can do for
themselves, namely, see to it that ey-
cry days work there is to do, IS
wrought by our own workmen under
cur own flag.
"They told us three years ago that
we didn't have money sufficient to do
the business of the country. The