The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-08
POLITICAL DRIFT.
WHAT Is BENG AcConPllsnEn NJ
LOCAL PARrIsAHs.
Republican Rally ut Martins Perry
presentation TO the Young Mems
GARFIELD Cuba Pleasant AZ.
fair to Come on satur.
day Afternoon, &c.

day Afternoon, &c.
A good omen Of the campaign is the
and interest tnat the ladies
are manifesting in it. Already have some
Of our clubs been made the recipients Of
beautiful flags and banners, but last
night an affair came of at the New Nc.
Lure House that eclipses anything OF this
nature in this or any previous campaigns.
For several days past q large number OF
our principal ladies' have been actively at
work preparing On agreeable surprise 1911
the members OF the Young Mems Garfield
and Arthur Club, and last night the re:
suit of their noble efforts was made ap-
parent, A beautiful silk flag had been
purchased and this the ladies In
tended 10 present TO the club. Dur
ing the afternoon some OF the
members Of the club had been made
aware Of what was intended, but the in.
formation had only been circulated among
a very few, and as consequence the en-
tire club did not appear, although about
City OF them were on hand. /,
The club met at Germania Hall and
headed by the Wheeling City Band, which
the ladies also procured, marched to Vet
eran Hall, New Mcclure House, where
they found large crowd OF ladies and
gentlemen awaiting their arrival. The
President OF the club presided and intro.
duced Mr.. A. W. Campbell, who had been
selected by the ladies to deliver the flag to
the club. Mr.. Campbell in short speech
recited the lessons that are taught by the
flag Of the Union, the respect that Is ieit
for Il by all nations Of the world, and the
pride that all Americans shonld feel In IT.
he also took occasion to contrast the
professions and principles OF the two great
political parties Of this country, one OF
which, the Republican, believed that the
power Of the fifty millions OF inhabitants
OF It resided in the General Government
and not in the States OF that Government,
while the other party, the Democratic, had
advocated a theory that virtually declared
that the Union was o rope of sand, dis
soluble whenever some State might choose
TO try the experiment OF secession. The
flag OF such q government as the States
rights element contended for could never
inspire respect at home or abroad, and il
the Republican party had no other claim
ON The public favor 1t should be kept in
power as tue representative Of an indis.
criminative nationality.
Mr.. Campbell then handed over to the
club beautiful silk flag and holsters for
carrying it. The flag was elegantly
mounted and is the most beautiful march.
ing club flag in THE State. Accompanying
the flag was magnificent silk banner. the
giit OF Mr.. P. E. Person.
DR.. T. o. Edwards, in accepting the
beautiful presents on the part OF the club,
said:
LAp1Es:-Upon me however unworth-
ily) has deyolved the pleasing duty, on
behalf OF the Young Mems Garfield and
Arthur Club, Of accepting this flag from
your fair hands, aud Of conveying to you
our hearty, grateful and manly thanks,
less for the gilt itself than for the impulses
and sentiments that prompted 1t, for 1t
speaks TO US OF broader and deeper feeling
than those that rise spontaneously in the
minds OF every good woman for the pros.
perity and pleasure OF every good man, OF
deeper and broader sentiments than those
WHICH Tl6b tiC hVatN6 w VIZ apo VI
our fair friends for the personal prosper
ity OF the young men OF this club; II has q
grayer import, q political significance in
these troublesome times 30 fraught with
danger to our free institutions, It tells to
US in no unmistakable terms that we have
the sympathy OF our lady friends for the
principles and platform OF the great party
that we have endorsed, and from whom
can such sentiments come with greater
force and grace than from the women OF
America, from tho womanly hearts OF free
women who applaud and commend q
great and glorious party that was strong
enough and grand enough TO do and say,
in spite Of opposition North and South,
that no man or body OF men shall tear
IRON the arms Of shrieking, covering
woman the child OF her bosom and sell Il
into damnable slavery, that from this time
forever no law shall permit q man to take
from the side OF woman the husband OF
her heart, the natural protector OF her
honor, her home, her little ones, and sell
him for filthy dollars. ~ ~.
Ladies, you wear upon your persons to-
night, as articles OF adornment, the sow
enfr OF 5the black woman's bondage.
those chains upon your graceful necks,
those bracelets upon your fair arms were
upon her touched by the magic wand Of
Republicanism changed from CALLING
iron into bands Of glitteripg gold, sym.
bolical Of the rays OF this glorious sun OF
liberty that rose at the master bidding OF
the first Republican President and sent
its hope giving rays into the astonished
and grateful eyes Of the southern bond
women. iaaeae-N lt.-s,st
Comrades, what does this flag mean to
US, something more than the good wishes
Of our fair friends, more than graceful
combination Of beautiful colors woven by
def hands. II means II Is the free flag Of
our free country, the flag OF our land.
It represents the principles and nearly
the emblem that our fore fathers struggled
for through bitter and bloody days down
in.o that gloomy Valley Forge, that there
were men then who did think thht It was
useless 10 struggle more that all the blood
and treaaure had been wasted. That there
were also men who were gifted with the
spirit OF prophecy that fulfilled itself, men
who had that personal magnetism which
makes heroes OF all they come In contact
with, and finally on through TO the yicto-
ny at Yorktown, where they gave this flag
a place in the heavens.
II means to US second Valley Forge
during the dark days Of go and '65, when
men did think, yea did meet in Conven.
tons and say this thing Is failure, 1t Is
useless to struggle longer, all this blood
and treasure has been spent in vain, but
then as before. men did write. brave words,
brave men and women did do brave deeds,
rich men gave their money, poor men
gave their blood, and finally up to sec.
ond and better Yorktown, under that
old apple tree at Appomattox did crushed
and defeated treason bend its neck to that
grand Republican, Ulysses s. Grant. And
a second time was that old banner given
OF its perpetuity among the flags
Of the world. 1said better Yorktown,
aud why? For the Republican party had
by this time given the world assurances
that we had a National conscience, our
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