The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-09
GARFIELD ATH0ME
VISITED pr rnE PInsr VOTERS CLUB
OF CLEVELAND.
He Make. a Characteristic speech,
which Is Repeatedly AMI Inthusias.
tlcaiIy Cheered-iIe wants IL
Understood that lie is
siiIi Young Man.

CLEVELAND, October s.-The Firsl
Voters Garfield and Arthur Battalion ol
Cleveland went 10 Mentor this afternoon
by special train OF six cars and called on
Gen. Garfield at his Lawnheld home.
The train stopped at the iarm and the
battalion, headed by q baud Oi music,
marched TO the residence, where Herman
W. GrAnner, President OF the organization,
made brief eulogiStic speech, to which
Gen. Garfield replied, thus:
Mn CHAIRMAN AND YOUEo GEETLEMEN:
This is no ordinary eventin the history
OF any man-indeed, in the history oi any
peopie-when, as ! am told, there are four
hundred young men here who have made
this journey, not from any personal pur.
pose, but 10 express that great, general
and earnest purpose that arises In the
hearts OF active, intelligent young men
when they first grapple the great qles-
tons Of their country. know ot nothing
quite like this iu our history. With all
the pleAsuB II brings me, ! am bound to
say that II brings little disenchanlment
to me In this: Always, until this time, !
have been accustomed to consider myself
a young mau. Laughter and applause
II before your arrival anybody had
raised the question, should have asserted
with good deal Of indignation. II any
body had denied It, that ! myself was
young man, But they tell me that you
are 10 east your first National vote at n
Presidential election. II that Is 80, young
man Is am, was voter before any Of
you were born. Applause1 Now, II
you aTe young men, and voting, borrow.
Ing the language Of Rip Van Wlnkle. when
he woke from that long sleep, "Who In
the world am II" Laughter and ap.
plause must have passed the
very flush Of youth at least. But, young
gentlemen, have not 30 far left the cout
0i NV youth to travel 10 the land, but that
very well remember the state OF youEg
manhood from an experience In 1t Oi some
years, and there Is nothing to me 10 this
world 10 inspiring as tue possibilities thHt
liz locked UP 10 the head aud breast oil
a young man [applanse the hopes that lie
before him, the gleat aspirations abovs
him. All these things with heuntried path.
way oil lie opening up its difficulties aud
dangers, inspire him to courage, and force,
aud work. II isa spectacle that the very
Gods would look down on even In ancient
Roman days with more than ordinary In.
terest. [Applsuse.l
Now lot me say word or two in answer
to this great kindness and compliment In
your coming 10 my house, about some Of
the thoughts that | know yet into the
heads OF young men TO inspire them, aud
some decisions that are likely to get into
their tninds. Let me speak OF one dclu.
sion that l think, from the remarks OF
your chairman, you are not likely TO have.
II Is delusion that effects all men more
or less, particularly the young men, the
delusiOn that good things and great things
are some way oil yonder, away abroad,
That is one Of the delusiOns that l hope
you are not learning fast To illustrate,
that right over here, fifteen miles,
where spent my childhood, there Is
lovely little brook, aud gorge
where we used TO 70 down and find slate
stones and whitlle them out into pencils
for ourselves that were better than all the
pencils brought from abroad, but II any
schOll boy ever brought into nur school
what IL not iu auy English dictionary,
but In the school boys dictionary, a
"boughten pencil" he could get whole
Landtul oi our homemade pencils for 1t,
and yet every one OF ours was better than |
the best that he had brought from
abroad. There was deluSion among us
that outside OF Us, away from US, was
glory, was greatness. Now, Gs 10 our
country, let Us not get any such delusiOns
into our heads. know that It Is a good !
thing for US TO know MI about abroad, and
to know what ii is to enlarge our minds
by It, but wantyOu to feel IN the depths
Of your heart that there Is no abroad iu all
this world that Ia half equal TO the glory OF
being an American here at home to-day.
Great applause.
Right here in this yard Is a splendid
specimen OF American nsovereignty, the roof,
and crown Of this world OF sovereignty.
Enlarge II into the millions oi men who
vote aud you have the grand august SOY. |
eTeign OF the last and best born OF time.
the American Republic. [ApplsuSe.
Now that that sovereign shall be un.
shGckeled forever; that tha, sovereign shall
be unpsrishable where Il stands at the bal. |
lot box 10 own the supreme will Of the
NAtionvth that that sovereign shall be unin.
timidated by mortal man when II utters
that omniflc word that commands the con.
tinent, that 10 the great purpose that all
irua Americans should keep In their mird'.
IL 6re,tApplause. When | see such band
Of earnest young men as meet me here to-
day, feel certain that II they would des.
play themselves as 4 balot.bOx guard to
defend the purity oil the American ballot
box, [applausel TO stand around 1t as the
cradle Of our heir apparent Of American
sovereignty. Such guardians. such de.
Tenders will keep tue Republic pure and
keep itftee.
Young gentlmen. your visit 10 me gives
me compliment Of the highest sort, and
while It disenchGnts me, as ! said little
while ago, Il still reaches the hand OF
youth out 10 me, which take with cor.
diAlity and earnestness; and for your ten
dered support to me, which ia not for. my
slke, but Tor the oi thee Of which
am now the representative, give you oil
the thanks Of which my heart Is capable.
[Applause. The house Is small, the farm
Is small, the township Is email, the county
is 8 small one, hut all there is In II to give
OF generosity and hospitality and welcome
that Is In my hands to give Is yours while
you stay. Applause and cheers. l bid
you welcome 10 all there 10 Of Us, gentle
men.