Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-06

nv town at Vallandigham meeting
twelve Young ladies, dressed in white,
rode in a wagon draped all in white, and
bearing the legend: Fathers and broth
ers, preserve us from negro husbands" "
Every one OF those young ladies was
dressed in calico | sold them at 45 cents
a yard. Laughter Oh, tell YOU,
CALICO RULES THE WORLD!
Renewed laughter.l And it is bound
10 rule Ohio! Voice: "Bully
for calicO"-Peals OF laughter.
That wagon was labeled, "White hus-
bands or nOnew AS | looked at those
old maids, | said to myself None"
Laughter.
And now, YOU Democrats, | want you
to be honest. Do you dare TO predict
whether your Presidential candidate
next year will be hard-money Tlden, or
soft-money EwingP Can you guess one
plank of your platform? / confess that
the Republican party has made mistakes
in the past. 1t may make them in the fu-
ture. But il has been--it is-a party OF
grand achievements for the good OF the
human race. Some people think 1t has
lived long enough, and ought to die. |
confess that so far as system OF iuture
rewards and punishments is concerned,
the party is ready to die and go TO
heaven. But | give notice here that 1t
has made other arrangements lOr theiu-
ture, and for long time 10 come.
GENERAL GIBSON
came upon the scene, and the platform
was cleared, as he expressed 1t, to give
the old man a chance"
He announced that it was not his in
tentiOn to shave much system about
this speech; but, boys, it III be bully
speech" Speaking after such an array
OF elOquence was like fOraglng in the
rear OF Sherman's army-a man would
not get goose day. Besides he did
not know that it was necessary to pound
away at the Democrats so much unless
it was on the same principle as a darkey
once pounded a skunk. The story in
Gibson's own words will serve To Illus
trate his peculiarities as well as any
thing:
cone day a friend of mine was riding
along a country road, and he passed
darkey who had skunk. II was dead
skunk. But the darkey was pound
ing away at the carcass for
Gods sake. The man rode on, and after
an hour or so, coming back the same
way, he found the darkey still beating
away at the skunk Hello says my
friend, what are you pounding that
thing for? It's dead Il know that,
massa; it's been dead for an hour; but
Tze a goin' to keep on beating till he
knows there's future state OF punish
ment"
Of such anecdotes his speech was full.
The General is an avowed tlaunter OF
the bloody shirt. lie said that away in
one corner of his brain was little cham
ber filled with bitter memories; upon his
body were scars won in honorable bat
tie with his country's foes; he had worn
Il shirt pierced through and through and
made bloody by rebel bayonets; he had
breathed in love OF liberty and hatred
of traitors with the smoke OF battle and
the smell of hman gore. "And | will
talk of it. | will preach it from the
house tops, so help me Cod
And he did.
He declared this country TO be "a Ma
tion-a Nation with big y. Not only
Nation with big y, but with every
letter a great capital"
He was frank, withal. He said il he
had $4,000 Federal soldiers he would
20 to the South next yearRnd "hold an
election that would count"
His speech, which was declared by
partisans to be the best stump speech
they had ever heard, ran on, in a rambl-
ing, desultory sort of way, until after
IL o'clock, and his audience remained
to the last. What with his ancc-
dotes, his droll manners, and his
sallieS OF peculiar wit, he kept
his hearers convulsed with laugh
ter nearly the whole time, though at
times he was really eloquent in high
degree, and exhibited rapt feryOr
worthy of a better cause.
He and Sam. Cary are representatives
of a class of orators that are disappear
ing. II the Ohio politicians want to
see lively meeting, they ought to pit
the two against each other for joint dis
cuSSiDp