The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-06-13
VOLUME XXv-NUMBER 249.

follow; they know peace and pood ordar
WIZ prevail, that capital will be made
secure and labor safe, contented and hap.
pyi that enterprise will revive, and tie
eFle! blunderS oi the Government and
public corruption be lifted from the
shoulders oil labor, and that production
viii increase and lands advance In yalue,
bu! they know that, in language Of Gov
Morton, It had become inevitable that
good government in States wIs not A
free will offering on the altars Of The
country.
For years the Democrats had contend
ed in Congress and before the people for
free Republican States throughout The
South, and finally it became inevitable.
because right and truth were too strong
to be longer suppressed.
In this the Democrats find reason 10
stand more firmly, with their party out
OF power, with no patronage 10 dispense
and no money 10 distribute, bat animated
by the spirit Of our institutions and in
spired by the sentiment OF right.
Local sell.gOvernment il inherent In
the people; the Democratic party during
the past ten years has restored one State
after another, till now the tread Of the
soldier is heard in no legislative hall, but
IN every State the people are governed by
laws Of their own enaCLinE aud by officers
Of their own choosing.
My fellow citizens My home is in the
West and my associations have been with
the people Of that section. Among YOU
am personally, almost stranger, yet
! am received by you with open arms and
cordial greettngs-nCed say | am graft.
lied because Of this fact. 1t has more
than a personal Significance; does it not
proclaim that We entertain no sectional
political sentiment or sectional politics,
Some may think that we should have an
Eastern policy and others that il should
be Western, but it seems to me that
New Yorker and an lRdianan should un.
derstand it better, and our legislative and
administrative policy should be as
broad and comprehensive as the indus.
tries, trade and commerce, which il NAV
affect. Does the trade Of the great cities
Of the Atlantic stop with the mountains2 ?
Does it not reach beyond the Mississippi
and across the Missouri? Every new
home that is built upon that receding
border, every new farm that Ia made far
out, even within the shadow Of the Rocky
Mountains, and every additional bale Of
cotton that Is produced in Louisiana and
Texas, add something to the greatness
and wealth Of New York and Boston, and
Philadelphia and Baltimore. ls there a
New Yorker who, Us he walks up and
down this great Broadway, hears and
feels only the throbbing Of local local
commerce? Let such n man break over
the narrow bounds and habits Of his
life and visit the great cotton and grain
growing regions, not let him stop till he
hears the waves OF the Pacific dashing
against the golden shores Of California,
and he will be able to better understand
and appreciate the magnitude and COM
plicated relations of the interests which
are effected by the financial policy Of the
country. Successful enterprise and de.
velopment in remote parts OF the country
are M certainly and almost as directly
connected with the prosperity ofthis city
as are the permanent and valuable i'm
provementso on your more distant streets.
| have said this under the influence Of the
sentiment that in respect to production
and trade, the East, West and South are
one, and that wise and Just policy will
alike and almost equally promote the
prosperity OF each, il your judgment
should be as comprehensive as the lutlu-
ence Of your commerce and "a far reach
ing as the distant lines Of your trade.
The proceedings terminated with brief
speeches by other prominent gentlemen.