The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-04
GARFIELD's MOVEMENTS.
ON HIS WAY TO NEW YORK.
Reception at Erie, Pa.-HiS
speech at the Dedication of
soldiers Monument at
Geneva, Ohio.

field left his home, at Mentor, this after
noon for the East, travelling in specia
car, placed at his disposal by the LAX
Shore Railroad Company. He was met a
Geneva by Congressman Conger, OF Mich
igan, Ben Harrison, .orth, Of Indiana, ant
General streight, Of Indiana. The part.
went to Buffalo where thev will wait ove
one train and then go TO New York to at
tend the conference Of the National Re
publican Committee, and distinguished
men OF that party, including many promi
nent journalists.
RECEPTION AT ERIR,
ERIE, August 8 3.-About. 9, 800 people as
ssmbled at the depot to welcome Genera
Garfield and party. They were received
with music and firing OF cannons, ant
other demonstrations Of delight. A
stage had been erected short distanc,
from the depot, TO which the party wal
conducted. Gen. Garfield briefly thanked
the crowd for their cordial reception and
introduced the Hon. 0. D. Conger, o
Michigan, who spoke for about 10 minutes
Gen. BENZ. Harrison, OF Indiana, wa
about to make speech, when the depo
bell rang for the departure Of the train
and he simply said: Eve are advised
that the train on which we are travelling /.
about to start and speech making must be
deferred for the present, as Gen. Garfield
is man who never gets left"
HELPS DEDICATE A SOLDIERS MONUMENT
CLEVELAND, August8.--A soldiers mon.
ument was dedicated to-day at Geneva
with imposing ceremonies. Speeches were
made by General Garfield and Congress.
men Conger, 0rth and Harrison, General
Straight and others. General Garfeld's
speech. as reported in shorthand for the
Cleveland Herald, was as follows:
"FELLow-C -CirIzENs:-These gentlemen
had no right to print on a paper here that
| was to make speech, for the types ought
always 10 tell the truth, and they
have not done 1t in this case. cannot
look cut upon great audience in Ashta-
bula county. recognizing so many old
faces and old friends, without at least
making my bow to them and saying good
bye before l 20. | cannot either hear
such speech as that to which have Just
listened without thanking the man who
made it and the people who enabled him
to makeit; for, alter oil, no man can make
speech alone-it Is the great human
power that strikes up from q thousand
minds that act upon him and makes
the speech. 1t originates with those
outside of him, il he makes one at all, and
every man that has stood on this platform
to-day, has had speech made out OF him
by you snd by what Is yonder on your
square, that is the way speeches are made,
and II had time to stay here long enough
these forces with you might make one out
OF me. l desire the only things in this
universe that are immortal. Some people
think that soldiers are chiefly re-
nowned for courage. That is one
OF the cheapest and commonest quail
tiles. We share it with the brutes.
can find you dogs and bears and
lions that will fight and fight to the death,
and will tear each other. Do you call that
warfare? They are as courageous as any
OF the soldiers II mere brute courage Is
what you are alter. The difference be.
tween them and US is this: Tigers never
hold reunions 10 celebrate their victor
les, when they have eaten the creatures
they have killed that is the only reunion
they ever hold. Wild beasts never build
monuments over their slain comrades.
Why? because there are no ideas behind
their warfare. Our race has ideas, and
because ideas are immortal and II they be
true we build monuments to them.
We hold reunions not for the dead, for
there Is nothing on all the earth that you
and can do for the dead. They are past
our hope and past our praise. We can add
to them no glory and we can give to them
no immortality. They do not need us,
but forever and forever more
we need them. The glory that
trailed In the clouds behind them after
their sun had set, falls with It's benediction
upon US who are living, aud 1t is to com.
memorste the immortality OF the ideas for
which they fought that you assemble
to-day and dedicate your monument that
points up toward the God who leads them
In the glory OF the great world beyond,
and around those ideas, under the leader.
ship Of the immortality Of these ideas
we assemble to-day reverently TO follow /
reverently to acknowledge the glory they
achieved, and the benediction they left
behind them. That is the meaning Of an
assembly like this. To join in and TO
meet with you, my old neighbors and
constituents; 10 share with you the mem
ories that we have rehearsed, and the in
spiration that this day points to, that this
monument celebrates. 10 to me joy, and
for it l am grateful 10 you. BE-
fore go ! want the pleasure,
and to give you the pleasure, OF
hearing few words from some distin'
guished gantlemen who are on tho plat
form. would Ihad the time To introduce
them all to you, but ask you to hear for
a moment what you will, ] know, be de-
lighted to hear, a word from the descend
ent Of that great Ohio man that we so
honored forty years ago. l ask YOU to
listen to General Ben Il Harrison, ,ot Indiana