The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-05

the division Of time, and debarrlug
other speakers. accept your proposition,
so join us at once in preparing place SO
that the meeting can open promptly Mt
o'clock. Respectfully,
"a. L. HOLT, :.
Chairman" ,
Knew Not Their Danger.
II our Democratic friends had been
sensible Of the danger they were run
ming into, they would not have arranged
the meeting on the same day that Cap
tain Dovener and other speakers were
s to be there, but instead with that blind .
ness characteristic OF the Democratic
party. they advertised and drummed
UP about 500 Democrats to come into
: the meeting. About the same number
OF Republicans were there and the con-
sequences were we had an opportunity
to speak to both parties, which we
would not have done, and would have
had TO conteIk. ourselves by talking to
Republicans, II they had not made this
attempt to interfere with our meeting.
Colonel Arnett was not there. neither
was Rankin Wiley. The meeting. was
only advertised to get out q crowd for
the bench legs.
DR.. NJ. S. Holt was introduced by j,
S. Withers and was to speak one hour
and twenty minutes. which he proceed
ed to do. After having spoken not
quite an hour, the doctor. seemed eN-
hausted on questions OF material and
fact with which to finish his speech and
wandered about In his mind. asking II
his time was not up and fighting the air.
During this time there were no cheers.
strange to say within this Democratic
county.
Dovener Received With Cheers.
Captain Dovener was received with
cheers and from the very start seemed
TO have caught the crowd, and was
cheered to the echo all through the two
hours in which he reviewed the qurs-
lions at issue, the silver question, the
tariff question, the trusts and imperial
ism. AS he closed, the immense crowd
gave three rousing cheers for Mckinley,
the Advance Agent OF Prosperity" and
the President OF the United States for
the next four years. In the meantime
the Democrats saw this and got up 4
crowd of boys around the stand to en-
deavor to do some cheering. Holt, will,
cNeH llluIe "cdhilcSS tildii III ilS oPcHhit1
undertook to close, and did SO in such Il
manner that even the cheering boys,
gathered around the stand, could not
arouse enthusiasm. The speech was 4
bitter disappointment, not only to Hollis
friends. but TO the Democratic party.
1t was certainly n field day for the Re-
publicans In old Gilmer.
What Holt Said.
DR.. NJ. S. Holt said in substance:
1.-THE Chenille Pathfinder. your paper
published here, last week stated that
the Democrats had lied to you last cam
palgn and they will lie to you again,
you will, therefore. pay no attention 10
anything that Is said by the Democratic
speakers. rs they will lie to you again
as they lied to you In the previous cam
paign. My father and my mother lived
In this county and they are buried In
this county. l do not come to You to lie
over their graves. l want to show you
that William Jennings Bryan stands on
the same ground he stood in 1896, and
that William Mckinley does not stand
where he stood In 1896. want you tc
believe me and tell you that partisan
Presidents never have made good Prcsi'
dents. The surprise Presidents makt
good Presidents. There were only three
votes cast for Lincoln In Gilmer county
in 1860 yet these men were never
ashamed of the vote they cast. Tht
men who voted for Mckinley will set
the time when they will be ashamed OF
the vote cast for Imperialism.
Money Question an Issue.
'.Thomns Reed, President Harrison
Bouielle and many other promincntR Re.
publCans refuse TO sanction the policy
OF imperialism adopted by Mckinley
and the Republican party. More brain.
has left the Republican party than /:
left In II. | claim that the money ques
ton Is an issue In this campaign. ant
win never be settled until 1t Is settled
right. It took William Mckinley many
| years TO learn that the gold standard
| was the correct thing. The Republican
party should not condemn Grover Cievc
land for what he did when he blazed thu
way for. them. and they are following
him. The money question cannot cnteI
| this campaign as paramount issue
| Imperialism comes first as the most i'm
portant question before the American
| people. IS
"'rhcy say We do not discuss the tariff
!
there are no grounds to discuss the DIFF
fcrcnces between the two parties.
Tho tariff bill that Mckinley signed
the Dlngiey bill, fell short dnuch NOR
in raising revenues for the government
thun the bill that Grover Clcvelan'
| signed.
Question of Imperialism.
THE Republican party has givel
them another Issue-lmpGrialism come
into this question. The Republican
gave 100000 OF men the franchise, nov
we claim that the Filipinos are no
WORSE than the negroes. William Nc
klnlcy declared that to govern peopl
without their consent was criminal ag
erosion. and now they call every On
traitor who opposes annexation AM
/ propose to govern the Flllpinos with
out their consent. The negrUes did no
fight for liberty and the FlliplnOS did
We bought n title TO that? What oil,
we buy? We bought their sovereignty
We did not buy their lands. We wer
the allies Of the FlllplnoS and ] don
care what they say. General Anderson
on July 4th. 1898. writes to the Filipino
that he wanted TO be on the best o
terms with them, and lSguinNldo, rely
Ing upon kindly expressions, became a.
ally OF the Amcricantpeople,a anu don
cnrc what they cay.
Nov. | want 10 say'somc hing apoli
Porto Rico. | used to be II ltapubl!c;lf
used to edit 4 Republican paper.
used to believe In 4 tariff. Now. III
4 Republicans propose to put tariff o.
Porto Rico md collect and pay II bac