The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-10

1t, and can give good reasons for being
Republican,. Great applause.) The
fruition OF all this has come ir'fgreat
victories for our party and In our COM
plete control OF the state. {cheers.)
Why We Are Republicans.
before the campaign gets real warm
f,and VIC become engaged in answering
the carplng criticisms OF the Demo-
cratic party-for that's all they can do
lit Is well for us to review our party
record and see II we know why we are
Republicans. I never knew n Democrat
at a Republican, meeting who didn't 20
away sweeter and holier for that ex-
perience. Cheers and laughter) The
Republican party, my friends, was al
most the child Of Inspiration, We re.
member when It was believed to be al-
most a divine right to traffic In human
souls In this country. But God touched
The hearts OF some OF this country's
good men, and from them sprung into
existence the Republican party, dcdl-
Gated TO freedom, equality and the law.
| Wherever our flag floats there Is lib
erty. Liberty everywhere. Liberty that
says In the language Of that late fellow
citizen Of yours whom mentioned,
Carries his sovereignty under his own
hat Great applause.) :. 1872
Another thing that we believe, that
this Is one country with one flag, one
faith. one destiny. Isn't It true that
never before In the history of this
country has there been so much
Of prosperity, and peace and hap
plness and self-respect? There Is no
ot,,I. IN rAt h y
and Dixon line; no bloody chasm; we
are one people. with one flag and one
faith. If anything was needed to make
us one people 1t was accomplished one
day two years ago, when the angels
looked down upon that great and cour-
agaous and good man. William McKin-
ley prolonged applause) and he took
his pen In hand and signed the commits
slons OF Joe Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee
us generals In our army. (Tumultuous
applause.) 55lIj
No Standing Still.
Another thing We believe. We be-
lieve 1t tonight, too. We are pro-
crossing and developing. There is. no
standing still, to stand still means des-
olation and death: the law Of life is
growth, development and progress.
The Republican party back In the six
ties declared In favor OF progress and
internal Improvements. And what has
been done? We have enlarged our mar
kets, new industries have been born
and nourished, on all sides we have
grown and expanded. and lately largely
through the instrumentality of your
splendid congressman. Captain Dove
ner, you have improved a river on
which flows more commerce than on
any other river in the world. Gap
| plause.) .R. ~ ~
~ want to tell you another thing, and
I'm talking to the young men. J, No
young man of to-day can afford to con-.
meet himself with decayed and dead
organization that always yclls 'calam-
lty' and 'unconstltutionality.' Can
plause0 Two years ago when ran for
Congress in the Fourth district, had
the chairman Of my committee ascer-
tain how MANY of the young men of
the district would vote the Republican
ticket-and l want to tell you that We
found that three-fourths of the first
voters OF 1898 cast their ballots for the
Republican party. (Applause.) They
are In favor Of advancement and PRO!
gressivcness and prosperity.
Sound Money.
Another thing We have always be-
lieved In. We have always believed in
sound money. And we believe in tito.
night more than ever before. We be-
liere that every dollar Of American
money should be Just as good as any
other. have done some good things In
my day-and come mean thIngs-and
one. OF the best things I ever dId-what
we did. Captain Dovener. was when
YOU and voted for gold standard
and sound money dollar. worth one
| hundred cents the world over. (Grent
applause.) Our friends. the enemy. OF
course, believe In sixteen to one
though We never hear 1t NOWADAYS. Ia
Bryan saying anything about 16 to L?
| Not word. Nowhere do we hear any
thing about 1t. My Democratic friends.
you've got to come up and take YOUR
medicine. In 1896 you said Is 10 i wns
the panacea for all the Ills and every
evil; you declared that the very life OF
the nation depended upon the success of
IS to !. If l6 to Twas good In 1896. why
isn't 1t equally as good in 1906. Why,
In the name OF all that Is consistent.
have you relegated 1t to the rear, in Ia
vor of that monstrous cry OF Imperial
Ism among free people? (Applause.)
| y,
money Issue. The Issue Is whether we
shall have sound dollar, or ATTEMPT
the experiment OF running this nation
| on fifty-cent dollar. We were tod
| at Parkersburg by the Democratic cam
didate for governor that the govern
ment could make money. There was
never more fulacious doctrine. Every
year the government passes the hat
around: everywhere we are called upon
TO pay for the support OF the govern
ment. II We can make money why don't
we make it and pay our debts?
(Cheers) The only power that can
make money Is God. and He has placed
gold and silver deep down in the bowels
OIL The earth. and men sweat and work
to attain II. Bryan said we needed
more money and that 16 to would do
1t: Under n gold standard we have rats
ed the amount of money In circulation
per capita from s21 four years ago
to s26 In 1900 OF gold one hundred cent
dollars for every man, woman and
child In the land. 49, i
The Protection Policy.
Our policy has been for protection
for America and Americans. In 1892
there was peace and plenty in this
country; labor received good pay, we
had, more duSuries than ever before;
the farmers were getting good prices:
the mines were active: banks sound.
homes happy In West Virginia and ali
over this land. But something hnppen-
ed In 1892" The speaker noticed that
this very day In Wheeling the Demo-
Gratis had nominated for the Legislature
the man who was the president OF the
Wheeling soup house organization after
that something happened. Great APP