The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-10-30

IN nave 4 CndnCe TO vote. q
enance to voice our sentiments. We
want TO exercise hat right. We want
10 use the ballot to the best advant-
age. and the Republican party is 20
ing 10 win. Two years ago that same
right presented itself. You probably
voted Tor the Democratic ~candidates.
md 10Y you r reaping the benefits.
nrmiy believe that the Republican
party Is coming into its own. and
Nnen the votes are counted IL viii
snow that the men of Follsnsbee have
acquitted themselves like men. II
gives me great pleasure now to intro
luce 70 o Mr.. William Follansbee.
who will address you"
Mr.. Foiisnsbee Greeted.
As. Mr.. Foliansbee came upon the
speakers platform. an expectant nush
thrilled the audience. A little man.
gray haired. with a pleasing person.
anty and a smooth mellow voice. be
talked &c the men. his men. as father
would talk TO his children. Not ex-
hortative but instructive. Showing
them the pitfalls of Democratic rule.
and the enlightenment and
~ OF Republican rule. In part he
said:
Fellow workmen. I come not here
tonight as a Dictator: ! come not here
10 instruct any man how he must
vote i speak not to you as a man
who Is your employer. but as a man
who has the Interests of yourselves
and families at neart. II Is my inten-
ton gentlemen 20 tell you why I vote
Tor the Republican party and show
you why | think you should vote the
Republican ticket.
As a man who takes a degree or
delight In the tariff questions. and as
n who has nelped to write tarifr
bills. ! feel that l can inform you on
some points that you may not be ac-
quainted with. I helped TO write the
Payne bill. and a better bill for pro-
lection was written. But I dfu
help TO write the Underwood bill
The former protected the goods
which you manufacture. while the
latter takes on that protection.
Up to Each Man.
I am here to make what We might
term a fellowship meeting. not a
speech u a few minutes open-heart-
ed talk, not as an orator. but a man
TO man talk. | win try TO make my
points plain. | shall not say to any
man how he shall vote as that is a
deep-seated right invested by the
Government OF khe United States IN
any citizen. Btt IL you 20 10 the
polls and { 20 p~erpetuate present
conditions. then you must take the
blame. Then you cannot say you
told us to vote that way"
1t was not my intention TO make a
political speech. but learned
through Mr.. Banheld that you were
10 have a meeting and he asked me
10 say a few words. I want to tell
you why ] vote the Republican ticket
want TO have Republican congress.
men, so that when l go to Washing
ton | can talk to them and learn what
Is best for me and my business. 4
want to have friends there who feel
Tor the interests of this district.
Il want to talk to the men who
wrote the tariff bills that proved a
benefit TO this country. The Demo-
cratic party is a party OF the south.
II is not my intention to make any
difference in them. we are all Ameri-
can citizens. But they are moi busi-
ness men. The Democratic party has
always called the Republican party
the "Robber Barons" who demand a
high protective tariff. and which cost
them so much sor their manufactured
articles they buy. Look at the Demo
cratic party and tell me do you not
n the party OF the south depicted
in every instance.
Differences shovn.
Take for instance Mr.. Understood
the a who wrote. the disastrous mea-
sure n who Is leader in the House.
Mr.. Simmons. the leader In ths
senate. he Is from North Carolina. 1
went To Washington and there 10 Mr.
Underwood and Mr.. Simmons. both OF
whom are personal friends OF mine. L
said. you do not know the business in
~terests OF this country. I showed them
the scale Of wages IN this country and
the scale OF wages In Wales and I ask
without tarin TO protect the American
Garner.
4 believe I know my business al
though these men told me I did not. 1
told them to compar the wages and
then go ahead and write the tariff bin
y our Democratic congressman told YOU
last year. that he would reduce the
arm aud increase your work We have
more men wanting work right now than
ever before. There are soup houses
right In the city % Philadelphia to-day.
\ rev days z a canning factory ad-
for ATTY men in that CITY. and
w nv MY AANNA .
10 stop the riot.
a practical experience. My wife's
father Is a truck farmer and peddles
MS apples, peaches. pears and plums up
and down the streets OF the cities. He
tells me that the women inform him
they cannot preserve fruit because
of the cost OF sugar alone. We ask the
Democratic friends how does the sugar
go up when the tariff IL on. will tell
you. SUGAR is In the hands OF the sugar
trust. the independent producer is
y because Of the reduction
OF the tarim and the raw sugar Is thrown
INTO the positive control 81 he trusts.
Ala for the South
Y don't like the rulers OF the south
because Or their inconsistency n they
zee two or three mill men talking to-
gether. then we are forming u combine.
they can allow the cotton planters
20 Organize and control the cotton mar
ket. do not think ~ D. right TO legis-
late for two different conditions.
sympathize with the cotton planter. but
] do not believe iu passing bills 10 aid
The cotton planter 90 the d-isparagement
1f others.
The Democratic party b. prone 20
place the blame for the conditions on
the European war. 4 few figures may
helm. Tn the first nine months of 1918
thetr earnings were $4,000. 600. with
var. in the first part n 1914 fhff-
had fallen or over SEQ. 00O. 900.