Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-02
HOLT AND WHITE DIVIDED
ONE STUMP At BLUEF|ELD.
FIRST OF THE SERIES OF JOINT
DEBATES ARRANGED BY THE
COMMITTEES
WAS. A GRATIFYING SUCCESS.
THE UTMOST COURTESY SHOWN By
EACH CANDIDATE FOR THE
OTHER.
Second Meeting to be Held at Hum
ti9Eton To-Day-Judge Holt at His
Rest, Fairly Outdid Himself, and
Won Rounds of Applause from
the Great Audience.
Special TO the Register.

BLUEFIELD, w. Va, October l.
Holt and White had the first of their
series of joint debates here to-day. and
large crowd turned out to hear them.
Holt opened in an address of an hour
and ten minutes, in which he fairly
surpassed himself In the clearness and
lucidity with which he stated the is
sues and drew his conclusions there
from.
He said the Republicans claimed
there was no Imperialism, but he did
not care whether it was imperialism
or Hannaisrn that the Mckinley admin
istration was engaged in. he was OPP
posed to it, as were all Democrats and
many Republicans. He showed the diff
ference between the expansion OF JEFF
ferson and the Imperialism of Nc
kinley, one being the acquisition OF
contiguous territory for the purpose of
making it into States, the other the at
tCuPL W ldhC lOlCiSn tCiLIlOly Lual
could never be made into anything but
colonies and dependencies.
We have no Just title 20 the Philip
pines, having bought from Spain only
the right to shoot down the people of
those islands, which we had been en-
gagged in doing ever since.
He said Aguinaldo and his followers
had been made the allies of this coun-
try and that our turning against them
was
One of the Greatest Wrongs
ever committed by civilized people.
He spoke of the Porto Rican tariffs
and declared that island was being gov
erned outside the Constitution. He
quoted the treaty with the Sultan OF
Zula, under which Imperialism, Dolv-
gamy and slavery were recognized and
given the sanction of this government
and the protection of our flag. He be-
sought the people to vote for the party
that would preserve the Constitution
and maintain the government Of the
fathers in all its purity.
In his hour and half reply, White
gave a great deal of time to the pros
perity that he said was widespread all
over the country, giving all the credit
therefor to the Republican administra-
ton. He spoke of the coal trade and
the lumber trade in this State, saying
that Elkins had added thirty millions
OF dollars to the wealth of the State
by placing two dollars per thousand
tariff on lumber. He wanted to know
If the people were willing to make a
change when they were doing so well
under the present administration. He
argued that Jefferson was the original
expansionlst, and pointed to the acqui-
sition of the Louisiana territory and
the government thereof, as evidence
that he would be with the Republicans
now if living. He sought to justify
McKinley's signing the treaty with
The Sultan OF SuIa
by saying that he did 1t with the under
standing that it would not be binding
until ratified by Congress. The Re
publicans never favored slavery, OF the
denial of rights TO anybody, but there
was party in the country that was
taking away the rights Of certain cit
liens and abrogating the thirteenth and
fourteenth amendments. He created
great enthusiasm among his colored
hearers by saying: q am not afraid to
say it, if elected Governor, / will veto
any Jim Crow car law that might be
passed"
In his rejoinder of twenty minutes.
Holt said prosperity was not due to the
policy of the Republican party, but to
the large crops in the West and the fall
ure of crops in Europe. The movement
of large agricultural products made
business for the railroads and for the
car shops, while the large prices secured
by reason of the great foreign demand
put money in the hands Of the farmers
10 be distributed TO all classes. He had
just been along the line of the West Viz
ginia Central railroad and there found
the coke ovens fast going out of blast
and miners are being thrown out OF
work every day. In this section too he
had found that three thousand coke
ovens out of the five thousand were now
cold and the miners were working an
Average OF Two Days a Week.
Lumber has gone of in price. The
mills that are now saving are stacking
their lumber in the yards to wait for a
better market. The full dinner pail ar
gument he said was not now making
such Roadway in the anthracite regions.
where the wages paid were not enough
to keep rfle pail full. He said that some
tnlng to eat was not all that men want
ed anyhow: that they were not animals
to howl when they we're hungry and go
to sleep when they were full and the