The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-09-30
Expose Free Trade
Of John w. DaH5s
Congressma
sDANDs FOR WELFA2
OF the Mills and Mil SNol
ers and Farmers and
Farm Produces

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whose prospects are exceeeln
bright and getting more - eyegy
day to succeed CongEs Eien
as the Representative 81 the lover
branch OF congres 1.-The lFirlt a.
trict, is not q public GpeGpeEs
lays no cl6im TO eloGUt
or oraAorical douEis8 0
man OF clear strong eOngo Z
which he is able 70 stosa
emphasis OF sincerity ana :tl
crisp sentences. OF the ecee5l
business man OF large allg
that is. what MI L.aughllni
erybody knows.
However, at the great HataeIG
meeting in Wheeling. opening the
Republican campaign up there. 1LEs
Laughlin was one Of the GpealIeEl
and he quite surprised and delighte9
his friends with the speech he de-
livered. It was a brief. 6Crcslu
presentation OF the dominant fl1llee
in this campafgn-the pFotectlV
tariff. at was the good. solid RS
publican doctrine, and It aroused the.
big audience to keen degree Of t-
terest and approval
Clarksburg dgured in Mr.. Ill
Inns speechs and for that 1eascls
well as 1t is wise that the yotsE
this part OF the dietrict leQualnf
themselves with the position o. tie
splendid business man Who s 4os
Republican candidate for ConGro-
the Telegram spreads the speech be-
fore them, and urges careful
th6ughtful reading OF s. IN part
Mr. Laughlin said:
The First Congressional DiStFle
OF West Virginia, which q 6houl
feel honored to represent IN Con-
gross. is one Of the great indultEiall
districts Of this country. The deval-.
opment that has been made In tie
last decade in this district, which i1
cIudes the counties OF Hancocl
Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel. Nh
rion, Harrison and Lewis, Is truely
remarkable:
First-We make more tiupIate in
this district than any other In the
United States, employing more than
G. 1000 workmen.
second-We have IN lais . .ttrfct
two of the largest pottertes of theiP
kind in the world, one located @
Newell. in Hancock county making
tableware: the other at Mannipgton.
making sanitary ware, owned byl
George Bowers and his friends.
Third-In this district Is the laFs
est concern of its kind in the world
making tumblers. located at ;FalEz-;S
mont, employing seven to eight hn-
dred persons. with a payroll of fpEt
thousand dllars a month. we .aA!9O,..
have in Fairmont the largest alnslils,
bottle factory Of it's kind in the
world. where bottles are made, By:
automatic machinery, with capGc
1ty OF eighteen car loads per day.
Fourth-At Clarksburg Is TO b
found a plant making carbon for
electric lights, which is the largest
of It's kind in the world.
Fifth-From manufacturing To-
mining. we have in Harrison ana
Marion counties the uniformly
thickest developed coal vein in the
country, where coal can be produced
probably cheaper than In any other
section of the United States.
sixth-In Lewis county We @nds
gas wells OF greater production than
are to found in any part Of the
country
have named the largest Of the
Industries in their particular lines.
but we have also as you know. tre-
mendous Establishments making
tubes, sheets. tin cans, enameIleG
ware and other steel and iron prod
ucts; various kinds OF glass. pottery.
clay products. leather. stogieS. scrap.
cigars, all employing an army OF
skilled wormen, the mainte1anee Of
which requires the maintaining o6
great mercantile embellishments
scattered throughout the district
Protected by tae TaElG.
The industries OF tin plate ana
pottery, tubes and sheets, IN tact
all iron products. were created and
have grown o their great Size un-
der the influence OF the American
protective tariR systBm- Au others
industries have either directly OF In
directly been beneated ~ this pol-
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