Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-18
EIGHTH WARD DEMOCRATS
DISTRICT VOTERS LAST
EVENING.
TWO EXCELLENT ADDRESSES
Made by the Hon. w. e. Raymond.
Candidate for Congressman in the
First District, and the Hon. John
A. Howard-Other Political Mat
tiers.

/! tiers.
Notwithstanding the cold, damp, dis
agreeable weather, a crowd OF about
seven hundred Richie district voters
stood for hours waiting on and listening
to the Hon. W. E. Raymond, Demo
cratic nominee for Congress in the First
| district, and the Hon. John A. Howard.
| The speeches were delivered from the
recently constructed Democratic plat
form at Jacob and Forty-third streets.
The Irwin club, of Centre district, and
the Webster district Democratic club
did escort duty to the stand. Owing to
the cold weather the crowd was consid-
eralbly thinned out before Mr.. Hay
mond, the last speaker, was finished.
Should the weather continue as cold
as it was last night open-air meetings
will have to be dispensed with.
Chairman Herman Bentz gave the for
NAL greeting and introduced the first
opOahOl I'll IllC CfOuiuS, tuC IIOn
A. Howard.
/ In opening his address he said he
could not let campaign go by with
out speaking in the Eighth ward, to
his old friends and neighbors. He said
there must be quite a number of Re-
publicans in the vast audience which
confronted him. He conceded to them
the same honesty of purpose
which he himself claimed. The speak
er said he wanted to present to them
several issues, and after the careful
consideration which he felt sure they
would give them, he thought they
would find it their duty to vote against
Mckinley.
| What difference does it make wheth-
er VIM. Mckinley or William ]. Bryan
attains the height of his ambition
and become the highest executive pow
er in the country to men who work in
the factories and mills for their daily
bread? Only this, If they vote for Nc
| Kinley, the corporations which control
their wages and also control the prices
of their commodities will continue in
power. Every Republican knows Nc
Ktnley has promised no release from
the trusts in case of his reelection
Every Democrat and Republican
knows that William J. Bryan is against
the trusts, honestly and everlastingly
When you go to the polls on the 9Th
of November, he said, and enter the
booth and pull down the curtain, You
vote either for or against the trusts
And what does that mean? You may
| lay yourselves, your wives and child
| rem liable to the vast combinations
which not only control your wages but
| control the prices you pay for the ne
| cessities of life.
The speaker stated that the combi-
| nations denied the right of labor to
| combine for self protection. In the
| days when he lived among them, he
said, there was no more ardent worker
than himself to help organize and
| maintain union labor Should the
trusts triumph the laborers down
| themselves to almost abject slavery
| He went on to state that in the old days
energetic workmen who saved some lit
| tie capital, could start a little factory
| of their own and in that way better
| themselves, but should the trusts tri-
umph in this campaign even this
would be denied them.
"The only thing 1 ask of you" con-
tinued Mr.. Howard, SIS when you go
| to the polls and the curtain is down,
that you think for yourselves, like any
| American workingman ought TO do; to
vote to down the trusts and for the
man who is against them"
He said that the present administra-
ton bought 100000 Mongolisns at 81
a head. After the have subjugated
head. After we have subjugated
them, what will they be used for ?
The trusts have secured the right to
| destroy organized labor When men
strike, what will happen? These Mon
golians will be brought over to take
the vacant places and they can do it.
do you want government by injunc-
ton? If so. vote the Republican
ticket. You got government by in
junction right here in the Eighth ward.
The Democratic platform denounces
this form of government, and Mr..
Bryan promises you that in case he is
elected he will abolish that system of
government. Do you want repetition
of the Idaho horrors of hardly a year
ago? President Mckinley, as COM
mander in chief of our army, sent COL
ored troops to imprison striking union
miners in a bull pen, to stave them,
and on no warrant al all, except that
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