Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-30
WILLIAM L. WILSON.
HIS ELOQUENT AND MASTERY En-
POSITION Of ISSUES,
A Large Meeting at Washington Hall
Last Night - Synopsis Of the
Finest Speech Of the
Campaign.
"ON WHAT OUR PARTY STANDS

NdlhPa'Eh
ION WHAT OUR PARTY STANDS
II was a good and memorable meeting,
last night, and as fine a speech as a man
could care to hear. The truth was saiu
when Hon. William J.. Wilson was
STYLED the "silver tongued orator" ana
to this all who heard him will bear teSll-
mUny.
The Young Mems Democratic Club,
eighty.six strong, headed by Kramer :
band, escorted Mr.. Wilson from the res
idence of DIR. Hardestv, whose guest he
was, to the Academy OF Music. The
hall. when they entered, was crowded
TO lis utmost capacity and the standing
room in the rear was NJ a high Preml-
UNI.
THREE RoUSING CHEERS
were Given when the club entered and
,nrr. more for the speaker, while the
ladies', OF whom quite a number were
present, waved encouragement with
their handkerchie(s.
The meeting was called to order by
Phi!o l.. Kimberly, Esq AND Col RONeft
White was made chairman. without
OBTAINING the audience with q speech,
ne at once introduced Mr.. Wilson, VINO
smoke for two hours, with the exception
Ol a lew moments. But how uescti"e
that speech and its reception? Nooraih-
arv pencil could do it. People Tor
blocks and blocks away could near
the continued and enthusiastic cneer-
inc. and 10 Radical ears 1t carried 4
kuqll OF death in advance OF the lnal
stroke. II was not applause, SIMPLY, 1t
was
CHEER UPON CHEER,
caught up and repeated again and again.
And the speech was worthy 1t. Such
chaste and eloquent language Is rarely
heard, and the speaker displayed q
depth oil learning and a breadth oil
thought that will make him eve Il favor.
tie orator in this vicinity.
SYNOPSIS OF TuE SPEECH.
Six years ago, he began, the Amerl-
can people declared at the OalIot-boN
their deliberate condemnation OF the
Republican party by the selection OF a
majority OF Democrats, IN the House oil
REPRESENTATIVES, the potential body Oh
Congress. And in this &C. they de-
,,arrd their confidence in the Demo.
cratic party. In England certain ana
authentic expression Of opinion by a
majority would at one place in power
Il government in accord with their
views. In our country, such a result
could be less quickly attained, ami now
the Republican party has held the relus
OF government two years without being
under the law, and four years
IN DEFIANCE o. II LAW.
Applause. Mr., Blaine, after carrying
his own State [app!ausel came here 10
tel. YOU how to carry West Virginia
CcheerSl and hc made a quotation OF the
language of Robert Waipoie 10 George
III. lie should have reflected that in
the sense Walpole used that remark,
The. Rcppblican party was d~iScrcdltej
and dcthrOned six years ago. After
that period OF gloom, when corruption
in the Republican party had brought
the shadow OF hard times to millions OF
dresides, the people arose and reversed
the majority i'm Congress, throwing II -
the Democratic party, am the good
times we enjoy to-day, and OF whlcH
Blaine and other Republican speakers
ar, so fond Of Boosting, &rH due 10 the
thrift. economy and honesty OF the par
~ which has had control. and though
Tor six wears the Radicals have held on,
they have not had control OF the House
for six wears and the senate Tor two.
LApplause.l
i'll were called upon to tell you
TIE PROMINENT ISSUE OF TO-DAY,
| would say it is the struggle OF the pcO-
ole 10 recover the right OF s~eli-gOvern-
mcnt. When the fathers OF the AmcrI-
can Republic gave US our great charter
of government they declared that gov
ernments derive their power by the
consent of the governed; but the Re.
publican party declared IN 1915
that the governmental power was
derived from corrupt returning
boards and Joint commissions L%applauscl
need not now 90 back to the theft OF
Louisiana and Florida. Every impartial
person will now admit that they belong
81 10 Samuel j. Tilden; but | might 20
further and say the administration Oi
HAYES rests on Kellogg and his return
ing boards and on such men as Judge
Durel. who issued his order and then
resigned To Cscape-Lapplausc aid
cheers, drowning the words
But men sometimes use their lU-gottCn
GAINS so nObly that We can often over
look the theft; tyrants rule so wei,
sometimes, that We try 10 forgive the
means bv which they rose 10 power;
but how has the Republican party used
It's mower? 1t has used it solely to ad'
vance the interests of the party; AMI
HAYES has used his high office solely to
reward those who elevated him. From
his nigh counsel down 70 the petty tilel
who stole onehundred votes IN Florida,
Gr has rewarded them all. lie has
disclosed one thing to his credit-hls
gratitude is immense. LAppIausel lie
lashad cabinet portfolios to dispense and
missions to give, and nobly has he done
il. But there was one man, hcenOrmIty
If whose offense was so great and his
deserts so large, consequently, that they
mad nothing good enough for him then,
and they
NOMINATED HIM FOR PRESIDENT
ut Chicago. tremendous an,p!auNe ah''
cries OF "329."l II We Democrats were
discussed to avoid the issue OF the fraud
of 1876, the nomination Of Garfield 10y
the Republicans brings il again 80 bold
~ forward, that We are compelled to
NEE; il. No man connected with that
iuiamv, played SO prominent Il par. as
Garfield, whether it was as visiting
statesman, upsetting the returns OF
West Feliciana parish; or sitting IN the
Custom House at New Orleans, with
Amy Mitchell; or Fastening to Wash
ington 10 take his place on the Commits.
sion: or whether mounting the seat OF
the Judge and declaring he could not 90
behind the returns. All! When the
fraud was completed and they drew
around it's loathsome form the mantle
nf State sovereignty, they could not
withdraw it, not even tho they saw the
ass ears protruding beneath the lions
skin. And the most disgusting feature
of this fraud was its shelter behind State
sovereignty. Where was LouiSiana'S
sovereignty when Garfield, closc,ed in
the Custom House, made up her re-
turn? And vet. when they had tram
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