The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-04
MARTINS FERRY.
An Entnusiastic Demonstration
The Winding Up OF the Campaign
In Belmont county.

- Quite a large number Democrats at
tended the procession and speaking at
Martins Ferry last night There were
from five to SIX hundred torches in line.
A feature of the procession was large
wagon containing from fifteen to twenty
little girls dressed in red white and blue
followed by number of men on horse
back.
After marching through the principal
streets, the procession proceeded to the
SQUARE, where there had been stand
erected for the speakers. Mr.. Cochran,
the chairman of the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee of Martins Ferry, called
the meeting to order and nominal
ed our worthy citizen William l..
Hearne as chairman, who, after
inviting the Democrats of Belmont
county over to hear our speakers at the
Fifth ward Market house tonight, and
then giving them most cordial invl-
tation 10 come over after next Tuesday
and Join US in a grand celebration over
the election of Tilden and Hendricks,
introduced the speaker of the evening,
the Hon. T.. B. Eshelmsn. Mr.. +.
made most excellent speech of over one
hour and half.
The speaker 10 the course OF his re-
marks eloquently and forciblv retuted
the charges of the Republican party that
the Democracy had been the cause OF the
present stringency of The finances OF the
country, and showed conclusively that
the Republican party itself was TO blame
for the disastrous results which so har-
raised the nation in the past few years.
The party, said the speaker, who had
made these accusations, mad accused
Horace Greeley of disloyalty; mad &C
cused Jefferson of desire to destroy
the churches and the Bible; and
had said of Jackson, that
his election was a crime against God and
humanity But the acts of these men
had refuted these charges and proven
them libellous, and In like manner
would the acts of the Democracy put &c
shame the libellous ISLANDERS OF the Re
publican party. The speaker reviewed
the financial question, and referred u
length to the demon etizatIon Of silver
and the increased burdens that had been
heaped upon the shoulders of the people
by the Republican party. He tool
up the bloody shirt Us 1t wa
Haunted by the Radicals, and in mau
ner as dignltied Us terse hurled back Il
the Radical camp the ca lumnles that haC
been neaped upon the people of the
South, and sdduced proof beyond con
tradIction that the outrages over which
the Republican party gloated, were in
the main myths. To substantlate this
assertion, he quoted from the statement o.
Judge T. j. Mackey, who had been {
Republican since 1865, and who was now
advocating the election of Hayes and
Wheeler, as follows: Il was led to be
lieve from information received, and
from my knowledge of the character Of
the men engaged in the management of
Gov. Chamberlain canvass, that il
formed part OF their genera political
plot that armed collisions with the
blacks should be forced on tho
whites, thus supplying raw material
out of which they could manufacture the
bloody shirt to wave before the eyes Of the
country as true emblem of the 5" nth
Carolina Democracy, with q view OF in
fuencing the result of the elections
pending in Ohio and Indiana. and then
by electing Hayes and Wheeler, the
candidates whom have supported in
my canvass in this State.
Mr.. Eshelman was followed by
colored gentleman who spoke at
length, and the meeting adjourned with
three cheers for the reform movement.