The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-03

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The entire route was lined with people by
Thousands, and the passage Of the Presi.
dent was an ovation from the start to the
close.
After lunch the President was driven TO
the Fair Grounds, where he was intro.
duced by President Mitchell, Of the State
Board oil Agriculture.
TnR PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
] President Hayes then spoke as follows:
Mr.. PRESIDENT AND FRL1ow CITIZENS OF
lspIANA:-The guests OF the city OF
indianapolis and the State Board oil Agri.
culture are not likely TO mistake the mean.
ing OF the enthusiastic assemblage which
we have seen in the State, which We now
see here on this Fair Ground. The re-
cephons and welcomes so hearty and 50
enthusiastic are not for any individual off.
ctal, orotherwise. The welcome and the
reception which brings together
this vast crowd Is not for any
human being. You are here but 70
welcome the coming Of better times;
you are here 70 rejoice over and
be glad and to welcome the return Of a
solid currency; (applause) to welcome the
restoration Of individual and OF national
credit after long night OF FIVE or six
years Of depression, Of gloom and OF finan.
ctal disaster, and 10 welcome the glad time
coming. That is why we are here and
why we are 80 glad to be here, and that
Is why the people are 80 enthusiastic.
COMPLIMENTARY TO INDIANA,
Before coming we learned something In
detail Of Indiana. We looked around To
see what We could learn OF the State, and
when we heard from your commissioners
and your chairman their account OF this
great State we were able 10 compare their
representations with what we had learned
from other sources. We understood per.
tecly we'll that Indiana could raise and
perhaps has raised in single year So.
000, 900 bushels OF wheat worth $50 OOO,.
900. Applause. We understood that
Indiana had raised and could continue TO
raise l50,000,000 bushels OF corn, worth
from S40,000,000 TO $50,000,0O6. We
understood that Indiana raises cattle, and
hogs and horses and other products
that can be raised in the best sections Of
the best continent on the globe. Great
applause We understood that Indiana
had coal and iron and timber and manu-.
tacturies, and that the good things that
she did not have already she was begin
ming to have, and the country Is begin
ming TO have market for her surplus be-
yond the sea. Cheers. But the advau-
tage ol Indiana does not stop with mate.
nal advantages. speak OF them as we
understand them. We learned also that
Indiana has cared for cattle and horses
and crops, and not only that, but
she has fostered her educational
interests by building ten thousand school
houses, (cheersl and we learned further
that in proportion to the population she has
the largest school fund in the Union.
[Cheers. So my friends we are glad to
come TO Indiana, because we know that
whatever the good time may bring to any
part Of this country they are sure to bring
this State the lions share OF whatever
good belongs 10 the prosperous times.
[Applause and cries Of good.
INDIANA HISTORICALLY.
Indiana has history Of which her citi-
zens may well be proud. With popula-
ton grown more largely from the South
ern section Of our Union than any other
OF the Western States that were Of the old
free States, she had her peculiar difficulties
and her peculiar embarrassments In our
great struggle for the preservation of our
National Union. It was but human that
men should sympathize with the parts OF
the country from which their fathers i'm.
migrated. This led TO some difficulties;
but l don't intend to stop to crit.
else or remark upon It. But never
theless, no State Of the Union probably,
In proportion TO It's population, sent more
men TO the front than Indiana. GApplause,
and q voice, 'DThat is fact Mr.. Presi.
dent."l Indiana soldiers, from the be-
ginning to the end OF that struggle, carry
ing the flag and keeping step to the music
OF the Union, were everywhere among the
gallantest, bravest and sturdiest soldiers
who maintained the Union cause and the
Constitution.
PANEGYRIcAL.
And when We come to speak Of Indiana
among the old friends and neighbos Of
Oliver ?. Morton, [cheersl we cannot pass
without pausing moment to pay tri.
butte to his memory. Mr.. Morton,
las Senator and debator, was
absolutely matchless. Mr.. Morton as q
leader OF Q political party land to this my
friends OF the Democratic party will agree
with my friends Of the Republican party)
there was not living man in his time,
who was above him. [Great ap-
plause. But It is not as Senator, q de.
batter, or o leader Of party alone that we
would speak Of him, but his power before
an audience was wonderful. Crippled as
he was, from necessity sitting in q
chair, he was wont TO hold spellbound
thousands Of his countrymen by the hour.
No other man, under Ike circumstances,
could do what he did in this respect, and
yet 1t Is not because Of this that mention
his name, his distinction having no con-
nection whatever officially with the gov
eminent Of the United States; having no
connection with the civil and military af-
fairs OF the government Of the United
States, but was simply that OF the govern.
ment Of single State. They have had
great war Governors in other States, I
am not here to dlsparage the ability, the
patriotism or the courage or other great
qualities Of Jno. Brough Of my own State,
or oft other War Governors in Ohio.
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,, Illinois or in
any other State, but to make this truth.
ful statement that no other Governor in
any other State, under such difficulties as
he encountered, bore up the flag Of the
Union at 1t was borne up by Oliver P.
Morton. Cheers and cries Of "Good.')
THE GOOD TINES. --N
Returning to the good times Of the
country l would ask what shall We do with
them when they come. A voce, enjoy
them. Yes enjoy them Is good. What else2
Another voice, "foster them."l That's It,
try 70 keep them. See to It that they come
TO stay. [Cheers.l There seems to be q
circle in which We are perpetually travel.
ing ut one time prosperous, and at another
time not quite g prosperous, J'e.o,, wind, Wind:
comes around period Of dis
tress once In twenty years. We should
notify to lengthenth Is unfortunate period.
i But In twenty-one or thirty years when
hard times come, who do they hit HARDEST
lnhn., hik that nnnnnnitv hardest Irhinh Il