The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-10-28

preciates the right OF citizenship.
Tells How He STANDS.
1t may be alright In a local matter
where no issues are at stake, to vote
for personal friend OF a party other
than that under whose banner we are
aligned. but when IL comes TO the
control OF the Congress OF the United
states or national issues. ! care not
who the candidate may be, IN he be
blood OF my blood or bone OF my bone
If he oppose the principles of my
party. then | cannot vote for him. II
! vote for one who is against the
principles which tell me is for the
good OF the people. then I stand before
a liberty loving people as unworthy
OF American citizenship.
There Is no Question but that the
majority OF people believe in the doc
trines as enunciated by the founders
OF this great republic. l am advocat-
ing no new doctrine. Neither is the
Republican party presenting IL. II
sprang from the necessity OF the peo-
pie who first established this country;
who cemented the colonies into this
mighty nation today"
Protect Home Industry.
Senator Con referred to the fact
that when the colonies were settled,
England prohibited the establishment
OF mills or manufactures in order TO
protect her own industries. But az
ter we had won our independence,
one of the first acts. he said. was the
passing OF legislation favoring manu-
factories and protecting American in
dustries. The first congress passed
II and the first president signed H."
he said. From that time down to
this. every era of prosperity and hap.
piness In the land came when those
who believe In protective tariff were
in power
Livery time when the smoke dies
out Of the stack, when the fire dies
down In the furnace and when the
hum OF industry Is no longer music
cratic times Of tariff for revenue only.
! defy any man to successfully con.
trovert that statement.
1T behooves us who believe in and
contend that this Is our country and
this Is our flag to see to IL that con-
gress shall legislate for our people
and not for the world at large
Not In Vain.
II travelled over this state when
there were no railroads. and in many
places, no roads, sowing the seeds OF
Republicanism. l thank God that
he has in His mercy allowed me TO
live three score and ten years TO
realize that those seeds we're not
sown in vain.
in a way was one OF those who
founded this state, helped to establish
II from wilderness. In my youth.
as ! came back from college. over the
Alleghenies. l stood on the dividing
line between West Virginia and Vir.
ginia aSd looked westward. into
wilderness. Gods wonder presented
before me. its wealth inestimable.
But the curse of slavery was upon
It, About this time the Republican
party came into power. under the
nf n fasaf sNF h.
great, a man among men. a martyr
Tor cause, a statesman among
statesmen, a president among presi-
dents, Gods greatest gift OF man to
men. Abraham Lincoln.
His First Lesson.
Il took my first lesson in Republican
campaigning soon thereafter Begin
ming at New Cumberland with my
comrade in arms. Atkinson. we traV-
eled down the Ohio Valley through
Brooke, Ohio and Marshall counties.
speaking for the cause EVERYWHERE
we were given good treatment-we
were royalty received. We were SOW
ing the first seeds in the great wild
erness.
About this time they were begin
ming to construct the c. & o. and the
n. & w. They were the lights OF de
velopment of West Virginia. For
never did you build railroad that IL
did not encourage industry. and es-
pecially industry in Wheeling. They
wanted the pharaphernalia that IL
takes to develop towns. You sent the
rails and the hardware needed TO con-
struct buildings When this was sent
a town was built And when a town
was built people found a market for
their labor. II all seems so plain that
1 wonder why the Democrats have
never realized IL.
Il have many good Democratic
friends. We can not make anything
berating each other. II some one says
that Coz Is bad man. does that
prove that the Underwood tariff bill Is
good thingi n some one says that
Sutherland is a bad man. does that
prove that the Wilson administration
is TO the best interests of the coun-
try2 The only thing to do Is to do
what is naturally best by building up
the prosperity Of the country.
Promises Broken.
"T1l demonstrate that the Demo
cratic party is unworthy of confidence
by the theory they themselves laid
down. and N I don't succeed. IL will
be because my tongue has lost all its
cunning. The Democratic party at its
last national convection gave US al
wonderful platform, and surely they
will not object TO being governed by
their own gospel. n accused the Re
publican party OF promising tariff re-
vision and then not fulfilling that
promise. IT the hepuDlcan party IL
to be blamed because II has been I'M
faithful in its promises what OF the
Wilson administration.
They told you that the party that
il not faithful to it, promises should
be retired from power. They charged
that the Republican tarif was respon-
sible for the high cost OF living. They
said that wages are established by
connective conditions and not by the
tariff Though they blamed the pro
tective tariff for the high cost 81 liv-
ing. n any man believes that doctrine
he now cOntroverts President Wilson.
Wilson says that the high cost Of liv-
ing IN not owing 10 the tariff. Has u
not been demonstrated In the United
States that protective tarin does
not Increase the cost OF living2 The
Democratic tariff bill has been In n.
feet a year. and what necessities Of
life have been reduredf None. On
the contrary. every article We use "a
higher today than when the Demo.
Gratis got into power.
President Wilson is n scholarly
man Of high character. but he a. q
theoriat Five or six millions of
voters have lead nine millions into an
awful volcano ~ destruction because
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