The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-08-04

Tho Great neetiSk IN . CIV 70, k-Declal
Ing fur hinine aud Logan.
The { sthering Of the lrish.Ame.ican Ia
dependents at Chickerirg Hall, New Yorl
City, Monday, July IS, to declare +,
Blaine and L I'm, Was the largest poli.ica
sssemslsRe ever held since tbs campa;s.
began. Among the prominent peopl,
presen! and on the sssgs we're Prof. Pete,
A. Tarpey, Gen. Dennis F. Burke, Gel
Joseph 2. 0'Fiynu, Captain o'Mesghe,
Condor, Captain Philip Carr, P. ~
o'Reilly, Hugh N ;Cermo.t, editor Of tn.
Jersey City Herald, Austin Ford, Ps.rics
toru, D Is. sneannn, Lee sculptor, Stephen
+ FA.lan, John Coz n Ausutou and o,ueru.
Tne NESTING WAS Called 10 oluer BY A.
E Ford, OF The Lish World, whu nd:
FRLL.w ClE!zsS:: IL IL indeed q dis.
tingulshsd hunor Tor a man Of my Yeas 10
be called upon to preside over th ] srrs,
nesting. This Ia uAe OF the moat 10 Il
'snt meetings ever held in the city ui New
York. To think Of thousands OF Irisu
Domocr.ls assembled together to indolse
che nomination Of the Republican party.
Wld applause, continuing Iur tive min
1:es. It 10 not m!ue tonight to make q
LIs.cn to you. ! have The pleasure no " to
Ill iroduce 10 you N An known all over ,he
world, man whcss MANS il en.nr,ned In
'he hear 8 OF the Irish people, The Rev.
George ". Pepper.
REV. GEO. ". FEPPERs SPEECH.
At this announcement the entire sssem-
blase ar 'e and chee"ed Mr.. Pspp. r en-.
husiastically. nr. Pepper, after some in.
troductosy remtrss, raid: 7ra
The R'pnoiicau party is Il 9 party Of IT,
lustrious namss-ihs char ,;on, the con.
lessons, and the n 'rtvis OF liberty. There
is Abraham Lincoln, name that will
never b. listened TO but with emotion. rev.
.renee and aft. 'on. Applause There
ID Horace e. ley. tho tlreless VI man
wherever thrc lc 1out the wo Id humanit,
wn outraged, there beat the hear, and
saere we're the sympath;es Of Horace Gree.
ley. [Ap. ls ls- Til; ;e is the eloquent
and srnolarly CHARTS sumner, who, when
the scholastic no Ord " - BRIGHT and
green upo his b oT, consecrated his life
to the negro. There is Judge Chase, the
earl And lifelong friend oi Daniel o Con.
neil, who wrote the letter on behalf of the
Aoolitionis,s 10 the great Irishman, thank.
ing hin. There is Judge Robert Emmett.
the nephew Of the irish patriot, " no Was thu
6rst chairman If the frs, Republican con.
vention ever held. There is John A. Lo.
gan, the intrepid, bold and splendid
soldier, who doDg bis talents and Ills elo.
qlerce ln,o Inc Cause Of his country-a
more gsiisut man never drew sword |
His whole army life IL one OF the noblesl
Incidents Of American history. There were
Seward Stanton, Giddings, Morton. Tine
would lnll to tell ut Henry Wilson, whose
courage and patriotism are part Ut our
history; Of Wade, the pieueer abolitionis:
III Oil, OF Sherman, who in early If.
espoused the Republican cause, and whose
speeches are . s!oleao1ss OF erud,,ion If
Garfield, who, when he had I. 4 ID all the
Ieasurt OF learning, crst them down and
-ntestd the army Is the sold er OF liberty
OF TODD and Bsough, who sent forth the
Oalo soldiers with an energy and epIen
aor which they never poesess-d before; OF
Bancroft and Motley, whose mirts uoiuid.
Ell the principles OF history. Toe il 4 fence
OF spch nAnes ia indescrIbaple. | yrnsya,e
he Repu blicsn party for. its great men,
[Applaute IS lp
THE PARTY CT PEACE.
The Republican party is the party OF
peace, CHARITY and magasnimitv. Now
mat the unity OF the government is es:ao.
iisteo; now that the soldiers OF both arm.
ss have returned to their ACCUSTOMED pur.
suits; now that wars czssd ,hunders no
opger shsks the skies, the Republicans in.
4cslpe upsn their banner the radiant word
fesce. II demands that the wrongs CT the
past be fol sotu ., and that the warmth OF
an enlarged charity WOO from all hea RI the
coldness OF arrangement, "a the sun in
The heavens takes fom the Hjyer the
chills Of the night winds. remember
we'll 1he agitation and the feeling w.th
which Ge. ell Robert E. Lee d, scrioed to
me the maj l-'ur. ~ and splendid conduct
Of Grant when he told the Coniedera.
chief to retain all his horses as the poo :pso.
pie would need them tor the spring c,upe.
Such is the Repr !, can party. Its fame
res,s upon It's immortal achievements,
Applause ! 1t is the party that spen,
lnres billions in money and quarter Of a
million lives Of it's best ci,izsns, v no poured
out their blood in torrents, that the ata1s
upon our f x might shine with keeuer
and more triumphant splenuor-the par
~ whtss Car is:ian and Sanitary Commls
slons trsalz d vast and resplendens char.
i:i.s; the party that, having stamped on,
rebellion, il now paying of the National
debt at The rate Of hundred milliot
every year; the party that hiss studded the
south with schools and made ia lowlands
oleom with cotton the party that ennobtes
labor and crowns the sweat upon the hon.
est brow; the party that wsurg liberty
from the very throat Of the oppresaor, and
MS throned our country upon q shining
eminence like that Of Tabor crowned with
an eternal III
0 AWARM TRIBUTE TO BLAINE.
In this time OF extraordinary changes,
when thrones and royalties are falling in
the Old World So il struck by thunder.
bolts, this grand party needs mighty
leader. 1t demands the greatest pa riot
and the greatest diptoma'ist, and combin.
ing both characters in one perscn, the most
erinent cit z N in the whole country. 1t
needs patriot who loves his country as
the Roman loved the city Of the Seven
lille; Or the Athenian the city Of the
Violet Crown. II needs the statesman
whose brilliant record as the cham piou Of
American principles Is known wherever