The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-29
VISITING MENTOR
GETTING TO BE EPIpEMIc AMoNG
..... 4 q. OHIO PEOPLE. 0
A DrI.gatiop orTwo Hundred fsom Por
age ,oun,y Make the Pilgrimage.
Among them Being snrn.Id's
l,y,s sehooImans =. Pupils, Co,n- as
laLln .radss aud frIsnds.

CLEVELAND, 0cta b r 2S.-About 200
Portsge county people visited Mentor To.
day by a special train. General Garfield
addressed them as follows as reported for
1.-The Herald: Judge Day. ladies and gen.
tlemep. l once read OF a man who tried
10 wear the al NOR aud WELD the sword Of
| 8 ,me ancestor, hut iound them too large
for bis stature and strength. II l should
Itry at this moment to wear and
sway the memories which your
presence a~aEens, l should
be overwhelmed aud wholly unsble to
marshal and master the qnick coming
thropgoi memories which this semi.circle
OF old friends and neighb bors has brought
to me. Here are school fellows OF twenty.
Q ght = years ago; here are men and
nOmen Z VINO I Seae' my pppild quar-
Ter OF century agn; here are ven
cradle men aho, twepty.Une Years ago, In
the t9Snof Kent. knilched me pponsthe
stormy sea vi political lie. see other
who were soldiers In the old regiment
6hichI had the Honor To c,lmmand, and
enuld flisten t0tlie tVuchii g and thought.
ful words 0f my friend, the venerable late
Chief Justice Of Ohio, who has ju.t tpo.
Ken, without remembering that evening
in 1851, Of WHICH he spoke too
modestiy, when he aud | sio. d 10.
selberN in tthe Lold church at Hiram,
at.d cslledsaipon thet young men 70. ~
fuith TO bAtIle for the Union and
be enlisted lbeip,e they silent, and thus
laid the foundation Of the AZ | Regiment
How can forget all these things. and all
that has followed. How eau forget thst
twenty five years Of my life were 81 braid
I'd and inte, ming 'ed:Withthe lives Of The
people of .Pottsge county, and when see
men aud women from al lis townships
standing ut my door | caunot for
get these thugs while life and
spl1Jd roF my lie cahs belize that! The
freshness Of ynnth, the very springtide VI
lite, tbs brigh,euiug ON toward noondav,
,alfwere witii'y you. Uf you. My bsighbots. |
my iii+nd my cherished Gom, AIDES. in ali
the ie'1t or OF g. cial, student, military
aud pUlitea lite and friendship you are
here, SO close to my heart that can
not uust myself TO Nh attempt 10
marshal lhete memories with anything
like cOhelience TO know that my neigh
bIrs aud friends in Portage county sincr
the fist day OF my Congressional life,
have never sent to any Convention q
delegate who WAS hostile TO me, tha,
iht0ugh all the storm Of detrac,ion that
'0afed around me, members OF the old
guard OF ioItAge county have
never wavered in their faith
aud iiieudship, hut have
.to d an uubroken phalar <. with their
locked shields above my bead, and have
given me their hearts in every c,ntesti
i man can carry in his memory jewel
mure preciuuslhan this. am sure Judge
Day hiss rever heard what 1t IL. Well,
gentleman, on the eve Of the great
event Of closing great campaign,
luok into your Ihce- and draw from you
such cpnsolaiiun III even yon cannot un.
dera ard, aud Whatever the event may br,
kutp past Is secure, aud whatever may be-
fall me hefeaf er, II ] can SUCCEED
in keeping the hearts Of PQf.
shall knowsI do pet gosfar wong In
anything, for they ara men who love the
truth for trulh'bpake far more than,ihey
love any, man. Ladies' and gentlemen, ali
the doors OF my hou,e are open To you,
the hand II every membe.of my family
is outstretched u YOU, our hearts gree.
you. We ask you to cnme in.