The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-13
BEL1AIRE.
Grand Republlean Demonstration on
Saturday Night - Torchlight Process.
demonstrating ddrOsaes-Rep ublIeanS
In High Glee and Confident OF success.
n

. Tonight In Bellaire witnessed one {
IS the greatest political demonstrations W
+. ever had. Early this morning flags, LAT
a terms, notices and decorations Of a
K kinds began to appear, and by night ther
was great display and preparations wer
9 made for an illumination. Many fine di.
plays were made with lanterns, colore
lights and lights in the windows. A bon
fire was kept blazing on Cemetery Hi
+ and FIRE balls we're thrown about. Thett
: I balls proved too dangerous, several per
. sons being burned by them. Esquil,
= Phillips, Of Wheeling, accompanied tn,
I procession, firing rockets from a hant
trough at intervals.
! THE ToRcHLIGHT PROCESSION
) formed in squads all over town, and col
lected on Belmont street at the square
The numbers that appeared were perfect
surprise TO the Republicans themselves
/ Eight hundred and twenty torches weie
filed, and men were clamoring for torch
es, more torches, when the procession
moved Of. The route led up over all oi
Gravel Hill and then back down 10 lower
Bellaire, and ended at the stands on the
square. Both ends Of the procession
could not be seen at once, even from In.
dian Run, until many dropped out, some
on Gravel Hill, some at the stand, and all
along the route. There were fifty horse.
men in line and great many others gal.
Looping back and forth along the line Of
march. The wagons made creditabIe
show-having only three days to prepare.
A boat on wheels contained thirty.eight
girls each with the. name Of state aud
the Goddess Of Liberty, Miss Ida Jones.
The girls sang whenever there was a
chance Of being heard. Another wagon
contained young ladies dressed in calico,
with the motto, s'Calico ruled the world
. and will rule Ohio" A skiff Of boys bore
the inscription, "our future voters Fifth
ward" Heatheringtons had barge
drawn by six mules. Armstrong 4 Smith
had q wagon with planning mill men max.
ing sash, aud the mottOes, "Shennan re.
sumed specie payments and we resumed
work, ,""We're paid in gold" Another wa.
gon had a m6ftising machine at work.
fhe colored men had wagon, the glass
men ono and there were many others, aud
some carriages, with nothing specially
shown. 0ne had dangling a rag baby,
witu the motto, "John Sherman killed It
January lst. Funeral October ID" A
tour-horse wagon had sleigh bells on the
horses. There we're many notices carried
in the procession, among them "Free trade
and ruin; tariff and projection; touch OF
Pinafore."
Three rouSug cheers and one cheer more for Char.
Icy Foster III the Calico store"
We vote as wo shot "hardly ever"
I'VE vote clean ticket"
On Gravel Hill, the old stronghold Of
Greenbackism, there were few, very few,
dark houses. Across one street, between
two Greenback houses, was a streamer,
The prodigal's return" that called forth
rounds OF appreCiative applause. The
stand had "FOster" in large red, white
and blue letters, and the Goddess OF Lib.
erty, life size, above it.
As the procession was parsding the up.
per part Of town, speaking was begun on
the stand by
BIB. DovESER, ESQ, OF WHEELING.
EHe advised soldiers to be careful about
voting for Ewing and Rice, because OF old
comradeship; Ewing has gone back on his
principles, and when such men as Cracrait
support him there must be 'something
rotten in Denmark" Ewing aud Rice
made him think OF the old farmer who
left his sheep to be divided by his two
sons, share and share alike. The sharp
son placed, his brothers. pet ram on one
side together with all the scabby and
worthless sheep, and the good sheep on
the other side, His brother surveyed the
two focks, and said to the pet ram, "Billy,
we have been old friends, but I'm afraid
we'll have Il. part; you're in too scabby a
hockv" The boom the. Democrats talk
aboutis like the old deacon's church at
Joppa that was looking up-it was on its
back and could not tleok any other way.
CLAIMING RICHARDS, OF CINCINNATI,
next spoke. His speech was ringing
one. He thought the cause OF SO many
gathering at this meeting was that the ma.
ton which thee hundred thousand men
bad died TO save was again in danger. The
men who so nearly destroyed it have SC
nearly obtained possession OF the Govern.
ment-have so nearly captured the Capi
tal." A small section OF the country
rules the whole. In many States OF The
South four or FIVE thousand men elect 9
Congressman, while up here it takes thirty
thousand. By violence this is accom-
, plished. They want no loyal bayonets
because they want none to interfere with
their friends In the business. Samuel j.
rilden was reported as saying that he
disapproved of violence and shotgun
policy, and straightway he had himseI
} interviewed, and denied saying any such
thing, because he did not want to otfeuc
those on whom he relies for his election
should he be nominated. So long Ms there
are bull dozens and red.shirts, with theil
shot-guns, so long we must have bayonet
10 protect the polls. These men do no
like hayonets. Did they ever like them
Did Voorhees, ever like them? He shO
them-stahbed them in the back. They
want no supervisors. Shooting op
ponents is sometimes inconvenient
, for there may be expensive
, trials; no. conviction, but lawyer'l
: fees, and people Of the north make re
marks even II Mr.. Tilden didn't. So the,
said, let all vote and have q fair and FREE
election. But they printed their ballot
on tissue paper and put in a dozen at
/ lime, putting names on the poll.books III
|, , Esome instances copied in alphabetical or
der from directories) to make it tally
: Even then there we're too many ballots
8 and, according to law, a blindiolded chill,
drew out the surplus tickets Even
: child can tell tissue ticket with hi
! fingers, and they were left In.
t Here the torch lights interrupted tn
4 speaker, and alter quiet had been OF
!. tanned he ended by calling on the peopI
: Iof Ohio 10 give filting answer to the cour
try waiting to hear how the infamous doG
trine Of states rights was held by th
/: people.