Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-07
THE magnificent ADDRESS.
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tate of this State has increased from s95,
300. 900 in 1870 to s142 900 600 in 1896

tate of this State has increased from $685.
100000 in 1870 to s142. 900 in 1896.
My friend, the Governor, discusses the
production of coal within the last two
years. Allow me to say that the coal in
dustry of West Virginia was fostered,
created and perpetuated by the Demo-
cratic party. and that it could not be
stopped if the Republican party would
attempt it by all the laws which their
Legislature could enact. In 1872 the State
produced 100000 tons of coal In 1896, I'M
der the powerful fostering hands of the
Democratic party, we had increased this
to over 100000 tons. In 1880 we pro-
duced the small amount of $4,000 tons of
coke, and in 1896 we had advanced to the
second place in this great commonwealth
of States in that great production. Allow
me to say that it is peculiarly unfortun-
ate for the present. Chief of the Republi-
can party in West Virginia to discuss
commercial progress in the production of
coke and COAL when at this time Re-
publican Senate is refusing TO construct
the Nicarauguan canal which would give
to West Virginia the practical control of
the coke market of South and Central
America and the Pacific coast The COM
pletion of this canal would within five
years double the output of coal and coke
in West Virginia
Under the administration of the Dem
ocratic party we spent $261,000 on the
practical building of the penitentiary,
S56O,OOO on the Hospital for the Insane at
Weston. We practically recreated the in
stitution at Romney; 1921, 900 upon the
building of the University at Morgan
town, and the State Normal schools have
been> created by the Democratic party.
During that period under the administra-
ton of the Democratic party the State
has erected the splendid Second Hospital
at Spencer at cost of $4,000, the cap
itol building at cost of 1851, 900, the Re-
form School at Pruntytown at a cost of
$4,000, the West Virginia Colored Insti-
tute at a cost of $31 900, amounting in the
aggregate for these last expenditures
alone to the sum of $500 900. The Demo-
cratic party found the receipts of the
State fund for the year 1870 amounting
with the increase of the hospital fund to
1923, 476.75, with aggregate receipts of $751;
92111. 1t turned over the State to the
Republican party with receipts in the
State Fund of 1896 amounting to s1.053,
80, with an aggregate of $1,524, 45. 1t
found in October, 1871 nothing in the
General State fund; and with but $12S, 667
in the General School Fund and with but
an aggregate of that amount in the
Treasury. In January, 1897. the Republi-
can Legislature found a General State
Fund of $23s $50. 60, a General School Fund
of 1927 ,076.9S and a School Fund of $780,,
21S2, with an aggregate of 1921, 329.43 in
the treasury. 1t turned over to the Re-
publican Treasurer of the State in March,
1897. the vast sum of $1,0S5000, as the re-
suit of nearly quarter of century of
Democratic management.
Gentlemen OF the convention, with this
splendid creation of a mighty State
springing practically from the loins of
the Democratic party, how idle how in
finitely idle. do Republican boasts of sue
cessful administration appear to be. The
glowing furnaces, the splendid educa-
tfonal system, the roar Of the locomotive
the glare of the coke oven the study thud
of the pick, the buzz of the saw the whirr
of the mandatory, the peace, the pros
perity, the happiness, the credit of this
splendid State all stand in reverent obeis-
ance to the splendid management, the
progress, the thrift, the economy and the
patriotism of this splendid Democratic
party.