Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-19
ENTHUSIASTIC GATHERING.
ADDRESSED LAST EVENING By
PROMINENT POLITICIANS
WERE APPLAUDED
by the Large AssembInEe.
Club Selected Natty New Uniforms
and Made other Arrangement For
the Observation-Disclosures OF Other
District Democratic Organizations.

Club Selected Natty New Uniforms
and Made other Arrangements For
the Campaign-Meetings Of Other
District Democratic Organizations.
/ A rousing big meeting of the Webster
District Democratic Club was held last
evening at their headquarters on South
Chapline street, and the chief questions
of the present political campaign We're
thoroughly and entertainingly discuss
ed by Hon. John o. Pendleton and At
! torney Frank C. Cox.
| DR.. j. R. Man1ey called the session to
order at O'Clock, and Joseph Handlan
was chosen chairman. In accepting
| the office Mr. Handlan remarked that
the large gathering manifested that old
Webster district was maintaining her
reputation as very effective supporter
of the principles of Democracy, and
| highly commended the organization for
I the excellent start it was making III
the present campaign. He then intro
duced Attorney Frank Cox as one OF
! the speakers of the occasion.
Mr.. Cox responded in his usually
pleasing vein. He began by calling at
tention to the Importance of the occa-
sion, in as much as all present were in
terested in the same object. He thought
that it was a very important campaign
principally because the Democratic
! party was united for the pur-
pose of relieving the coun-
try of the government OF an empire
and to suppress the trusts, whose de-
pressing effect upon organized labor is
being more largely and explicitly dem
onstrated every day.
/ He further said the national issues
of this campaign are exceedingly I'M
portant. THE Republican party was
endeavoring to do now what was never
attempted before They were utterly
Ignoring the Constitution
OF the United States, and showed no
regard whatever for the principles OF
| government that were advocated by our
forefathers. Just as King George re-
| fused to give us government most be-
| fitting to US, SO had President McKin-
| ley refused to grant to the suffering
Filipinos the sort of a government that
would serve to ameliorate their deplor-
able consideration"
| He advised his hearers that the only
way possible to right these wrongs was
to elect William jennings Bryan, and
at this juncture there was an outburst
of applause. He concluded with the
subject of trusts, pointing out that the
only party that has always stood for
the people is the Democratic party.
Hon. John o. Pendleton, who was the
next speaker, was greeted with a storm
- IL IN, Mo n,
simple words what he thought of the
leading political issues of the day, and
clearly explained why the people should
vote for William Jennings Bryan. He
arged that the people should most
strongly oppose the party that legis-
lates against the interests of the coun-
try. The citizens of the United States
were not enjoying the results of this
era of civilization that they
SO much deserve. He advised
that if the people were sat
isfed with this Republican legislation
that serves to depress the masses and
elevate the few, they should vote for
that party. The Democratic party, he
continued, had always believed in the
government of the people, for the peo-
pie and by the people, which was taught
by the founders of this country. In
speaking OF legislation upon the tariff
] question, he said the Republicans de-
pended very much upon what they con-
sidered the ignorance of the people. 1t
was his opinion that if there is any
man who is responsible for the
Depressing Conditions
in this country from '93 to 81, it was
the one who is now sitting in the
White House to-day. The Mckinley
tariff had brought about the manufac-
ture of enough goods in two years to
last for four years. He spoke of the
supply of articles being so much greater
than the demand in 1898, after two
years of the effects of the Mckinley bill
that all the old plants and the many
new plants that had been quickly
erected, were compelled to close down,
and so the panic came on. Outside of
this question of the panic, he next
showed that the Republican party was
still hostile to the country. He referred
to the local mills that have sold out to
the trusts for two or three times more
than the value of their capital stock
This kind of legislation, he explained,
was robbing the masses and feathering
the nests of few.
After the passing of the gold standard
bill and the demonetizing Of silver, Mr..
| Pendleton argued American debtors
were compelled to pay back on a gold
basis every dollar they had borrowed.
Taking up the question of trusts, he
pointed out their dangerous effects
upon the country. The trust was
nlOnCDOly and such he demonstrated
by a series of excellent arguments, was
most distasteful and impending to the
progress of civilization. hepeople of the
trusts had the consumers of their par
ticular goods by the throat, compelling
them to purchase necessities at their
prices or do without them He
thought that if the people of America
understood their interests. Mark Hanna