The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-07

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But something happened In 1892. And
s IL you don't watch out something will
happen in 1900. In '92 many Repubii-
cans stayed away from the polls; you
were too busy to vote. And what did
your ihaction create? Black despair
came upon us; idleness and depression,
want and misery: mines were abandon
ed; rats and bats came to our homes;
labor was unemployed; burrows crept
into the faces Of fathers. and mothers.
And the Democrats scaled the tariff up
and down, cross-ways and every way,
while 100000 of men were begging for
work or bread. Coxey's army went
down TO Washington, and the Demo-
cratic administration stuck its head out
the window and said, Get off the
grass" (Cheers) ~.
q Then came the election OF '99.sfWil-
liam Mckinley was elected, and happi-
ness and prosperity has supplantcd
lidlenass and gloom. There is to-day no
man who wants work and cannot get
1t. Are not the farmers prosperous?
You don't get twelve cents a pound for
your wool. and other prices that are
prices. Everywhere there Is not. COM
parative prosperity but real, actual
prosperity. tCheers.} We have become
the dictators of the commerce; of the
world. The American stomach can mo
longer consume the American crop! We
enter the markets of the world, and ore
Its masters.
imperialism"
Proceeding, the speaker proceeded t,
dish up very appetizing dish labeled
imperialism" a word which Demo-
Gratis love to roll under their tongues.
Imperialism" there isn't a Democrat
who can tell what the word means.
There Will never be Imperialism In this
country; 1t can't flourish under that
glorious flag of stars and stripes. No
body here wants imperialism, and 1t
can't be forced upon US by any man or
party. The Democrats talk about the
constitution, and 1t had recalled to him
the time when bayonats were used to
stab the Union and the constitution to
death; he had thought of the Demo-
cratics efforts in the south to take from
the black man his constitutional right
Of suffrage. File ON such Constitution
al arguments. a,,
Captain Dovener.
The next, speaker. said Chairman Par
kinson, is 4 man who needs no introduce
ton In the First congressional district;
4 man who has been winner over the
Democracy. in three campaigns, and
who has. sent the Democratic nominee
for Congress this year to the bush
Congressman B. B. Dovener. The cap
tain was given n hearty greeting by the
audience He opened by telling good
story that pleased the crowd. What is
the Issue this year? A Republican has
no difficulty In answering the question,
but, our Democratic friends have! been
in trouble on that score for the past
three or four campaigns. 1t was free
trade In '92, and 1t lasted till 90, when
free silver came to the fore, and It has
been proved that that would have been
our ruin; so there has to be another
Issue" this campaign, and Imperial
ism" is pronounced the paramount Is
sue" In the good, time to come the
speaker feared that some Democrat
would wake us and inquire of Gabriel,
What's the, paramount issue this
year?" tLaaghterj
The Democrats say they are against
trusts and Imperialism. Well. so are
we. There is no such, issue MS .''lmper-
ialsm" and we don't propose to allow
Mr.. Bryan to make that. an issue and
place us al the other end of it.
The Democrats say they are for the
laborng man. Well so are we, and we
would pay him in u 1oO-cent dollarwhlle
Brynn would give him n 53-cent dollar.
Bryan and Aguinaldo.
Tho Philippines and Porto Rico came
into our possession as an incident of the
war; the war was not waged for their
CONQUEST. That Is a fact, and even
Democrats cannot deny 1t. We licked
Spain In that, war for Cuba's regencra-
ton, and In licking her we came into
Possession OF Porto Rico and the Philip