Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-16

|miIft&m. Hs evoke b III enormous
cont * the Phftpptnes. ID money and
American lives, and emphasized the
fact that. the end III no IN sight. He
said the conditions OF which he spoke
ought not to be tolerated, even IL con-
sidered as q simple business PROPOSE
tton.
Mckinley has assumed a position OF
asserting himself as greaFer than tho
Constitution which creates his Office.
Every citizen who has a doubt -
tween the Constitution ana someuhlng
else, should resolve that doubt In ia
vor of the Constitution. Mckinley is
subject to a power that is driving him
against the interests of the people. BY
maintaining colonies, we are simply
drifting into those conditions which
our forefathers fought to escape. That
is the purpose and intention of the
administration. If the voters neglec.
their opportunity in this election, it
will mean another step toward the dis
solution of this government.
They say they must follow the\ dag.
We love that banner because it rep
resents all that the Declaration of n
dependence contains. Our soldiers
have fought under it. under the in
ppiration which their knowledge of
their exceptional privileges gave them.
Follow the fag-yes, but don't follow
1t when it is carried by those who
would destroy it and what it repre-
sents.
The speaker charged that there was
a purpose OF avarice in the admins
tration's policy in the Philippines. AS
a matter Of humanity, the common peo-
pie ought to interfere. Our government
Is the oppresor. 1t matters not what is
said about Aguinaldo and his people:
they have In them the desire for free
dom. His cause is much the same as
theacaase OF Washington. Is it our duty
to interfereg We can do it by casting
u ballots for William Jennings
Bryan.
MIR. P~endIeton's Speech.
Chairman fancy next introduced
Hon. John o. Pendleton, who made sew
eral announcements, and in his open
ing remarks aroused a great deal of
enthusiasm by his predictions OF DEM
ocratic success. Mr.. Pendleton regret
ted that the lateness of the nou pre-
cluded his entering into an extended
discussion of the issues of the CAM
paign.
Mr.. Pendleton held that q party in
power should properly be judged by its
conduct in office. He said he had in
tended l0iefy reviewing Republican
tariff and financial legislation during
the past thirty years, as he desired
to show how trusts have been foster
ed, and how the Republican party has
permitted the wealth of the ma
ton to be transferred from the
pockets of the many to the pockets
of the favored few. He explained what
a vote for Mckinley would mean. and
contrasted it with the meaning of a
vote for Bryan. The Democratic can
didate stands for war on the trusts,
for an end to militarism, for the de-
struction of imperialism, and for a re-
TURF to the cardinal principles Of free
government.
Mr.. Pendleton briefly discussed the
trusts and Imperialism. He said the
Republicans assert that there are good
and bad trusts, and their party will
regulate the bad ones. Mark Hanna
says, however, that there are no trusts.
Hanna is recognized as the crusher of
labor, and greatest friend of the trusts.
Mr.. Pendletop explicitly showed the
operation of trusts, as to destroying
competition, depriving labor OF en-
ployment, increasing prices and there
by enabling the paying of enormous
dividends upon watered stock. He dis
cussed specifically the sugar trust and
the Standard Oil trust. He asserted
that more than 800 trusts have been
organized within recent years, their
capital embracing more than one-tenth
the wealth of the entire country. He
showed that the trust tends to fur
Their amassing the wealth of the nation
in the hands of a few, and the masses
will be impoverished.
Monnett Commended.
He arraigned the Republican party
for its failure to deal in the past with
the trusts, as it promises for the pur-
pose Of getting votes, to do in the
future. He commended Attorney Cen
eral Monnett, of Ohio, for his fight
against the Standard Oil trust, and
showed how his conduct caused his
party to attempt to relegate him to po-
litical ~obscurity.
Mr.. Pendleton said Senator Spooner
told him a few days ago that Bryan
was a dangerous man because he would
practice what he preached. Mr.. Pen
dleton thanked God that the party had
such a candidate.
The speaker then referred to an in
terruption made by a man in the audi
ence at the Ryan meeting last Satur-
day night. The man i~nterrupting said
he had the affidavit of a man
who said that Bryan asserted
in a committee meeting in Congress
that the laboring men are beggars.
Mr.. Pendleton said he was a member
of the committee, was present at the
time, and remembered the incident. It
was upon the occasion of the visit Of a
delegation of glass manufacturers, who
were asking favors of Congress.
What Mr.. Bryan said upon that oc-
casion was that he was tired of manu-
factnFers coming before the committee
Ike a lot of common beggars and ask
ing special favors. Mr.. Pendleton then
took occasion to eulogize Bryan as the
friend of the common people; the
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