Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-03

Special to the Register.
HUNTINGTON w. Va, October 2.
I'm the presence of an audience that
packed the great Davis theatre, in this
city, from back of the stage to the
tcpmost gallery, the second debate OF
the Holt White series took place in
this city tonight.
Mr.. White opened the discussion by
declaring the paramount issue to be
prosperity. He dwelt at length upon
the natural resources of this State,
which he declared to be now the most
prosperous and progressive in the
union, and wished to know of his hear
ers if they wished to exchange present
conditions for the uncertainty that
would follow the election of Bryan.
He spoke of the depression of bus
mess during the Cleveland admins
tration, saying it was due to the DEM
ocratic tariff, which was based on free
raw material He said Senator Elkins
had added thirty million dollars to The
wealth of the State by placing two
dollars tariff on lumber The Demo-
Gratis claimed that prosperity was due
to the good crops sent by Providence.
If that was so, wasn't it about time
they were getting on the Lords side.
He took up the money question and
said that the country had not more
than six dollars per capita more money
in circulation than it had in 1898, thus
showing the fallacy of the free silver
argument.
In the Matter of Expansion
he pointed to Jefferson as the first ex-
pansionist closely followed by Monroe
and Polk, and told how they had gov
erned newly acquired territory without
the consent of the government. The
American flag had never been taken
down under fire and never would be.
He had no patience with those who re-
garded Aguinaldo as a second Wash
ington, and his followers as patriots.
He wanted women of this country treat
ed fairly in the matter of taxation and
representation before troubling his
mind about the malay tribes in the
Philippines or of the mixed tribes in
Porto Rico. The only hope of Aguin-
aldo and his party lay in the election
OF Bryan.
Mr.. Holt replied in a speech of an
hour and a half, that was the most mas
terly and powerful argument ever heard
in this city. He first took up briefly the
prosperity question, showing that the
financial crisis came before the Demo-
Gratis had enacted single statute under
the Cleveland administration, and that
prosperity began to return before the
Republicans had passed an act under
Mckinley. The immense crops in the
West had been responsible for a great
deal OF this prosperity, as they found
ready markets at high prices on account
OF the failure of crops in foreign coun-
tries. And the depression of the coal
and lumber trade were already making
themselves felt in this State in spite of
the existence of the gold standard and
the Dingley tariff.
He Illustrated This
by pointing out the number of coke
ovens in the State now cold, and the
number of miners working less than
half time. But there was another issue
of more Importance even that that OF
the dinner pail. 1t was the issue pre-
sented to the country by Mckinley S
policy of setting up colonies and de-
tendencies whose people were to be
governed by official prerogatives out
side the constitution. These things
were evidences to show that Mckinley
and the administration had turned their
backs upon the teachings of their faith
ers, and fixed their hearts and their
hopes on colonial empire. He drew a
striking contrast between the expansion
of Jefferson and the imperialism of Nc
kinley, quoting FROM Bourke Cochran
that jefferson had purchased territory
to avoid war, while
Mckinley Was Making War
to secure territory. The one had
taken territory to be finally erected
into States, the other was trying to
take territory that never could be
erected into States. He tod of the
treaty with the Sultan of Sull, which
had been confirmed by Mckinley, Au-
gust 20, 1899. and silently pigeon-holed
by him until called to light by a reso-
luton offered in the Senate by Sena-
tor Pettigrew. According to the stip-
ulations in this treaty the countenance
OF the government ard the protection
OF the flag were to be given to sys-
TEN of laws administered by a Sultan.
recognizing slavery, polygamy and the
Mohammedan religion. He severely ar
ralgned the present Republican lead
ers for their departure from the ira
dltions OF their party and the teach
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