The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-28
LOCAL CAMPAIGN.
rdE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DEMON
sTRATIoN TosIeHr.
Arrangements for the Reception Of the
Distinguished: GentIemen : Gossip
orthe cub Rooms and Local
Political News Notes.
THE wooppoRp NETTING.

Political News hotes.
- the wooDpoRD MEETING.
The arrangements for this meeting
are now complete, and from the in
it promises to be grand ova-
lion to both General woodiord and
Hon. George O. sturgiss, our candidate
for Governor. The place for meeting has
been changed from the Capitol Square to
the wharf. The Committee claim that the
leyee will be better in many respects than
the place formerly agreed upon. The
speakers stand will be erected near the
waters edge, allowing the audience
to both see and hear the speaker.
In regard to receiving the distin.
guishedl visitors, the Campaign Com!
mittee have laid out the following pro.
gramme: The several ward clubs will
meet at the depot OF the p, w. 4 Ky.
Railroad at II o'clock this morning, and
In conjunction with the Young Mems
Garfield and Arthur Club will escort Gen.
Woodford to his rooms at the Mcclure
House. The clubs will again assemble at
the D. & o. depot at 4:SO o'clock =. N. Tor
the purpose Of paying q similar compile
ment TO the Hon. George o. Sturgiss,
the Republican candidate for Governor
AT seven o'clock sharp the various ward
organizations and all Republicans who are
interested in making the event q success
will meet at the Capitol Square where
they will form in line OF procession and
march to the wharf. tits absolutely neces'
sary that the clubs be prompt in arriving
at the Capitol ct the specified timeso that
there may be no delay.
Let there be q full turnout Of the Re-
publicans OF the city to greet the logical
and eloquent orator from New YORK, ana
likewise tender an ovation 10 our candidate
for Governor.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
The very few Unterritied on the Islaad
have banded together for the purpose oil
keeping up a semblence Of an organiza'
ton in that old reliable Republican Sew
enth ward, and to do this the more effect
ually have put up a miserable shanty on
Zane street, near York. This shauty they
digniaed with the name OF wigwam OF
tabernacle. AS piece OF architecture
this wigwam is miserable failure, Tor II
resembles nothing known to that art save
a Welzel county tobacco house, and one
OF the poorest class at that. When this
shanty was completed It's builders and
makers called 1t good, and saidi "Behold
the like OF this Is not in all the county o.
Ohio beside, let US invite Bridge Cracraii
and Col. Arnett over TO dedicate It,
and they were invited and Fri
day night fixed for the dedication,
When the time came a. reporter
of this paper went over 10 witness the
imposing IN ceremonies. A fife, two
drums and dozen Of small children were
there before US, and all raising as much
fuss as possible, we suppose for the ppr-
pose Of raising crowd. Attpr neafly.an,
hour Of this kind Of work, and as the crowd
Ibid not augment any, 1t was thought best
| TO 20 to work. Judge James p. Rogers
mounted dangerously high and very
ricketty platform and said he took great
pleasure fnintroducipg Col. w. w. Arnett
AT this time the number OF men, women
and children did not exceed fity, and the
seats were as bare as krnetts speech was
Of facts.
The Colonel who is rather sleepy In
diyidual, began by saying that his party
was a reasonable party and reasoning
one, a party OF stable principles, and then
followed with long list Of adjective
misnomers for that same party, that
elected no enthusiasm nor caused any
commotion, The Colonel saw that some,
thing OF more astonishing patqre must
be given his conservative hearers, and
launched cut agian with the ven
turs that the Democratic doctrine
OF States rights in restricted sense
was not half 80 rnprehensible as
Radical Centralism. "0ur cardinal
principles are as eternal to-day as they
were In the days Of Jefferson, and will
ever continue to be so until eternity grows
old. They are founded upon the SUB.
structures Of truth, justice and equity.
The doctrines OF the Democratic party
on the tariff question have never under
gone any change; they have been the
same from time immemorial, yea, time
wherein the memory OF man r4nneth not
to the contrary; they have never changed
nor never have been changed.
And now gentlemen es 10 another ques-
ton. am one OF those who. are OF the
opinion that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments TO the Constitution were
never properly adopted, and will tell you
why think so. Il prescribes that all
amendments to the Constitution shall be
voted upon by. all the States, and that
two.thirds Of these votes must be neces-
sary TO incorporate these amendments
into the Constitution. The Democratic
party has always said they were illegal, as
the Southern States were out Of the Union
at the time, and were taken by tho throat
and told that unless they would vote to
ratiiy these amendments they would never
get back, and to save themselves from an.
Inhalation they SO voted. ] did It at Rich
mond, Va, TO relieve the State from mill
tary desrotism. The amendment accord.
ing to this party are nullity and
void and are 30 ruled by law in such
cases. The States Of the South In their
eager efforts for peace voted for them
knowing them to be fragrant violations OF
law. We as a party, repeat here, always
contended that these amendments were
illegal. They said SO in 1878, and before
God they are. We accepted them for the
sake Of peace. and do not now propose to
interfere with them"
The Colonel then turned his attention
to the Electoral Commission and It's work,
and INDUCED in the usual Democratic
billingsgate in regard to 1t. Gen. Garfield
then came in for his share OF abuse at the
hands OF the speaker. Other less impor.
tant matters were passingly alluded to by
Mr. Arnett in his closing, among which
we may -single out an expression TO the ei.
feet that the sectional feelings in this coun-
try towardthe South were iostered and kept
up by the Republicans, that the South was
In FIR naaca. She waR inst poinO In hava