Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-09
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
Gen. Garfield on his way to New York.
Enthusiastic Receptions along the
Line of Route.

Gen. GaTneld on ms way to New u X.
Enthusiastic Receptions along the
Line of Route.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 3.-Gen. Garfield
left his home at Mentor this afternoon
for the East, travelling in a special car
placed at his disposal by the Lake
Shore Railway Company. He was met
at Geneva by Congressman Conger, of
Michigan, Ben Harrison and Ortiz, of
Indiana, and Gen. Streight, of Indiana
The party went to Buffalo, where they
will wait over one train, then go to New
York, attend the conference of the Ma
tional Republican Committee and dis
tinguished men of that party, including
prominent journalists.
A soldiers monument was dedicated
to-day at Geneva, O., with imposing
ceremonies. Speeches were made by
Gen. Garfield, Congressman Conger,
Orth and Harrison, Gen. Streight and
others. Gen. Garfeld's speech, as re-
ported in shorthand, is as follows
FELLOW CITIZENS: These gentlemen had no
right to print in paper here that was to
make q speech, for the types ought to always
tell the truth and they have not done it in this
case. But | cannot look out upon great
audience In Ashtabula county, recognizing so
many old faces and old friends, without at least
making my bow to them and saying goodbye
before | go. cannot either hear such a speech
as that to which [ have just listened without
thanking the man who made it and the people
who enabled him to make it; for after all, no
man can make speech alone. 1t is the great
power that strikes up from a thousand minds
that act on him and makes the speech. It
originates with those outside of him. If he
9 kfS 0t all and that has Stood
on this platform to-day has had q speech
made out of him by you and by what is yonder
on your square. That is the way speeches
are made, and if | had time to stay
here long enough these forces with you
might make enc out of me. Ideas are the only
thing in this universe that are immortal. Some
people think that soldiers are chiefly renowned
for courage. That is one Of the cheapest and
common qualities. We shareit with the brutes.
I eau find you dogs and bears and lions that
Will fight to the death, and will tear each other
Do you call that warfare? They are as c0ura-
geous as any of these soldiers. If mere brute
courage is what We are after, the difference
between them and US is this: Tigers never
hold reunions to celebrate their victories.
When they have eaten the creature they have
killed, that is the only reunion they ever hold.
Wild beasts never build monuments over the r
slain comrades Why? Because there are no
ideas behind their waIfares. Our race mas
ideas, and because ideas are immortal, if
they be true, We build monuments to them.
We hold reunions not for the dead,
far there Is nothing on all the earth that you
and [ can do for the dead. They are past our
help and past our praise. We can add to them
no glory and we can give to them no imnaor-
tally. They Go not need us but forever and
forevermore we need them. The glory that
trailed in the clouds behind them after their
sun had set falls with its benediction on us
who are living, and it is to commemorate 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 leadership Of the Immortality of these
ideas we assemble to-day reyerently to fol-
low, reverent}y to acknowledge the glory
they achieved and the benediction they
left behind them. That is the meaning of
an assembly like this, and to join in 1t, to
meet you, my old neighbors and constituents,
to share with you the memories that we have
heard rehearsed and the inspiration that this
day points to that this monument celebrates,
is to me Joy, and for it I am grateful Be-
fore 60 l want the pleasure and to give the
pleasure of hearing few words from some dis
ting uisbed gentlemen who are on this plat
form. would had time to introduce them
Ill to you, but ask you to hear for moment
what you will, I know, be dignifed to hear-a
word from a descendant Of that great Ohio
year. ask you to listen to Gen. Ben. Harri-
son. Of Indiana.
ERIE, Aug. 3.-About $500 people
assembled at the depot to meet Gen.
Garfield and party. They were received
with music, firing of cannon, and other
demonstrations of delight. A stage
had been erected short distance from
the depot, to which the party was con-
Quoted. Gen. Garfield briefly thanked
the crowd for the cordial reception,
and introduced Hon. o. D. Conger, of
Michigan, who spoke about ten min
utes. Gen. Benz. Harrison, of Indiana,
was about to make a speech when the
depot bell rang for the departure of the
train, and he simply said: "We are
advised that the train on which we are
travelling is about to start, and speech
making must be deferred for the pres
ent, as Gen. Garfield is a man who
never gets Left
BUFFALO, Aug. 3.-Gen. Garfield re-
ceived a grand ovation at the hands of