The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-27

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seventy cents q day and that in shin
plasters that you could not count on
over night to be worth what you took
them for; then Lincoln was elected, the
war began. we began to prosper under
better wages. but 1t took all these years
to care for YOU boys, to pay for this
house and to save the little bit of
money In bank that IL keeping life and
soul together to-day; but all these years
pap stuck to the Democratic party, and
now when the Anarchists. Socialists,
Popullsts and scabby Democrats nomi-
nate Populist, Bryan. for President
and label him u Democrat pap says he
don't know which Is the meanest thing
to vote for n Republican or PopulIst;
you boys remind me OF the COW. that
was passing along the road with her
calf, on meeting mule the calf turned
and followed the mule, the COW. called
and called but the calf still followed the
mule. then the COW said well you little
fool, you'll find out the difference when
fIeedlnS time comes. ~
Z; Our constant reading and home dis
cushions, and the hard times we expert
enced during the Cleveland admInistra-
tton, fully decided us that what we
needed most In 1886 was not free trade
and free silver under Bryan, but the
promises OF a man like Mckinley, to
light up our furnaces and to start our
factories to running, and to pay US, as
Mckinley put 1t, for our days labor in
dollar worth "a hundred cents every
day in the week and every week in the
year" So Jim and Bob. who was just
of age, and 'fopped" and voted for
Mckinley.
Z As four years have passed. let us take
an account OF stock and see where 40
stand, and whether we have bettered
our condition; four years ago we had no
work. no money, very low wages, and
were living on potatoes, bread and
water: to-day. having had plenty Of
work and good wages. have some hun
dreds of dollars In bank; when Jim gct
married we all helped him to buy
house near by for his wife and baby,
and they are awfully happy: Bob is
working In the Riverside at good wages,
and our youngest son, Harry, who Is
nearly Of age and to whom we gave
good education. is book-keeper In q
near by mill and is getting 5000 per an
mum, and mother is happy and pert as
ever.
We read more than ever and thereby
keep fully posted on the marvellous
changes that have come over our coun-
try during the past four years; the an
nexation OF Hawaii, the Venezuelan af-
fair: the war with Spain for the free
dom of Cuba and to revenge the loss of
the Maine: Dewey's famous victory at
Manila: the destruction OF the Spanish
fleet and the surrender OF her army ut
Santiago; the close OF that war giving
us the Porto Rican and Philippine is
lands: the wonderful position In which
we were placed in the eyes OF the ma
tons of the world: and what Is still
more astonishing is the fact that until
this year we had to borrow from Eng
land, Germany and Holland,
and now. just think of 1t, we
are loaning millions Of dollars to Eng
land, Germany. Russia, Sweden and
France; Is 1t any wonder we can do so
when read In the morning paper that
one bank in New York had on deposit
the Immense sum of sl59.OOO.OO We
feel proud Of the way we voted, and
bigger and better and broader and more
liberal In our views in every way be-
cause OF the great benefits to our coun-
try and to us mentally. morally. physi-
cally and politically; we feel that we
owe II to our constant reading, for by
stopping off on our contound swillins of
beer we are able to take in the best
papers and magazines OF the day. and
have money to save by 1t.
Now another presidential election is
near at hand with the same candidates
rs. in 1896; but on very much changed
platform as regards Bryan: we thought
we had smashed that windmill In 1896,
but to-day we find him as full Of wind
as ever: he still wears his coat of many
colors, black for Anarchists. red and
scarlet for the Socialists and Populists.
moonshine for the free sIlverites and an
almost indistingulshable American flag
labeled, Democracy. dim because Of
their lack of real patriotism: Bryan Is
trying to quietly pass over his cheap
silver dollar as not being SO para
mount as 1t once appeared. although he
said In 1896. III there Is anyone who be.
licves that the gold standard Is good
thing, or that 1t must be maintained, /
warn him not to cast his vote for me,
because ! promise him 1t will not be
maintained in this country longer than
l am able to get rid OF It," Surely IL
there Is spark OF honor In him, he
means. IL he Is elected that he will bring
about the use OF his cheap silver dollar,
which means dishonest currency; he Is
encouraging lack OF respect for our
courts; he Is melting the workmen
against the manufacturers. the poor
against the rich. thus encouraging riot
and iuwltssness. so much so that a
writer In the Register strongly inti-
mates that II the workmen Tor rather
the Democrats) do not win In this
coming election. that we might see n
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