Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-26

Of how the treaty Of Paris was hung up
in the Senate until the Republicans
could secure enough votes to pass It.
Bryan was In favor OF passing this
treaty with string to it. This string
was a resolution giving the Filipinos
their freedom. Had this resolution been
passed we would have had the treaty
and the $20,000,000 He then told of the
trouble in passing the treaty and the
narrow margin it passed on. This treaty
is the most Infamous act since the
treaty was passed robbing Ireland Of
her liberty.
Mckinley offered bride of $1,000 to
Aguinaldo and a position as Governor
of the islands. Aguinaldo refused this.
There might be some excuse In a king
dom for the following answer. but
there Is none in republic. Mckinley
wired to Otis, saying: Let there be no
useless parleying with these people"
He told how the men, women and
children, whether cOmbatants or nom
combatants,- were killed by the Ameri-
cans. He related the incident Of the
tlring on the bridal party, as told by
Private Jones. "Yet war Of this charac-
ter was carried on, when Aguinaldo
and his followers were fighting for the
same thing George Washington and
our forefathers fought for. The blood
OF these people is on the head of Will
lam Mckinley, and if you should vote,
Fellow Republicans, for Mckinley this
November their blood will be on your
heads.
The people are kings of this country,
yet William Mckinley sent soldiers TO
China contrary to the Constitution
When the South seeded Lincoln did
not send soldiers there until Congress
had declared war; But Mckinley says
we have outgrcwn the Constitution. He
declared war on the Boxers without the
help OF Congress. 1t is to be hoped we
will not go into the expansion business
and meet with the same fate as the old
Roman empire did.
We offered the people of Porto Rico
the same freedom as the people of the
United States yet we tax them on i'm
ports and exports. Wepromised to make
them citizens, but instead we made
them subjects. hope you will vote this
tall for for the man who will give the
people their rights (vOice from crowd:
We Will Applause.) He touched
briefly on the Cuban postal scandal
and drew lesson from it.
This is not a Democratic or a Repub-
ucan speech, but it is an American
speech. When l enlisted in the
Union army l was passing Alexan-
drla, saw upon a wall this sign:
Price, Birch & Co., dealers in slaves
l always remembered this, and now I
compare 1t to this administration, and
say Hanna, Mckinley & Company,
wholesale dealers in Filipinos. For did
not Mckinley buy 100000 Filipinos
at 81 head?
He spoke of trusts in an able man
ner, first giving a definition of them.
Blackstone says: Where there Is a
wrong there is a remedy" and half
million Republicans have decided to
give the Republican leaders in Novem-
Der good thrashing to purify the Re-
publican party.
When the country was in danger Tue
Democrats marched shoulder to Shout
der to help defend it. Now the Repub-
Hcans will march with the Democrats
to the polls to save the country in No
vember.
liz oPOhC vi Ills SpcdhluS uOuI years
ago in Benwood for Mckinley, and he
was there tonight to give his reasons
for appearing for Bryan. II the Repub-
licans knew the facts as do Mckinley
could not carry three States. Mckinley
as a weak man, and what he says one
day he will retract after seeing Hanna.
Hanna is the prime minister of this
country.
When a house is afire the first thing
We do is to put out the fire. Now, my
Republican friends, bring bucket and
help put out the blaze of Imperialism.
Jacob Ingertron, of Chicago, was the
next speaker. He spoke OF the bitterness
of imperialism, that no one knew bet
ter than the Germans what imperialism
was. He spoke OF she full dinner pail,
and showed that everything it con-
tanned, and even the bucket and handle,
were controlled by trusts. He also spoke
OF the dangers of Imperialism. The
meeting was very successful, and the
applause at times drowned the speak
er's voice. The entire square around
the speakers stand was packed. Both
OF the speakers were old Union soldiers