The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-26
HOT snor foA ruE nOLrERs,

General John l.. swift Nn,ls the Blaine
fagiO the mast.
Speech Before hs Mod exx Cub Of Bot.on.
Notwithstanding the eliyh! "seaturn''
that few days since somewhat chilled the
political atmosphere in this vicinity the
next President Of the Republic will be
James G. Blaine. Still, in one sense, Msssa
chusstts lisa doubtful State, it being doubt.
iul whether she will give 10000, 10000 OF
10000 majority for Republican principles
and the Republican ticket in November
next. .
When men pirate about not wearing
about their necks Republican collar"
hear them out, snd then say, Nobody
wants you to-" BIZ. when any one, called
Dy whatever political name, attempts to pu.
the Democratic collar around the nations
neck, vote him down on the spot.
A man csnnot live among his fellows for
generation and have bis children pass
into mature yearu, while: nil his WAYS are
under constant watch, and still retain the
loyal affection Of his loyalty, and he be a
bad man. Pot that down IS something
settled.
When a learned college president expos.
tulated with femslu crank for wearing
trousers, by saying AT was utterly repre-.
hensib!e and unladylike and unscrip,ural
90 to do" the female in male attire a,ietly
remarked: "Well, president, it is win me,
trousera or nothing" Mercy" said the
good president, anything but that last ex.
trenity. The bare possibility is revolving"
The bare possibility Of the return of he
Democratic party, the last resort Of the ill.,
dependent, ia too revolving an alternative.
When the Senate Of the United States
unanimously confirmed James G B aine
as secretary Of state did it stultiiy aud per.
juro itself BY giving high placs to person
Of low and Objectionable public morals?
NO matter low much bad boy sings ~
want TO be an angel" it is wise 10 put the
Jam on the top shelf and to lock no the
step-lsdder. Tha. is our receipt and treat.
ment at all times for Democratic miscon.
duct and innate "Cussedness." Va
Before We deliver Faneuil Hail over to
Tammany Hall; before we surrender Ply
mouth Rock and Bunker Hill to q s did
South and political rar,y s,lid at any
price Tor national domination; before we
place Democratic President to succeed
AbIsham L:ncolp amt U. S. Grant, we 70.
qulre something more convincing than tho
nackneyed phrase that political candidates,
IKE n'ars wife, must beabovs suspicion.
Ihls canvass will turn OIL the one fsc.
whether the party that hiss made this re-
public what it is shalt now give way TO a
party the triumph Of which a! any election
IN thirty years would have been calamity
Of the first magnitude. .2eI -
From Lexington Common and Concord
Bridge the rank ana file Of the Republican
army Will once more clash with the British
iorces that temporarily occupy Boston in
the interest OF Tree trade under the banner
OF independence; and there will be blows
to give, as we'll as blows to take, in this
canvhf. 81 n
General John A. Logan will have the
vote OF the loyal soldiers as no one but
Grant ever had it. The brave officer who,
in lace Of death, carried the fl " will not be
deserted by the boys in blue, because his
grammar is not 10 TO the mark that meets
the tas,idious taste Of Mr.. Congressman
Lyman. =
To tho East, where among it's pine clad
hills our standard bearer lives, to the West,
with the heart Of ita people as big as their
own prairies, the West that demand the SO.
lection OF our candidate; 10 the North,
whose countless lives OF toll are now tremb.
ling in the waiting balance OF eventt; to
the South, with it's dusky millions pleading
to Almighty God that the only national
friends they ever had may not be swept
from power-to one and all Of the Rspub-
licAn hosts We send greeting, that the State
holding beneath her sods the ashts Of
Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson and
John A. Andrew, will never belray the
cause OF freedom and progress, but will cast
her f,urteen electoral votes, every one for
James 6. B aine, Of Maine, aud John A.
Logan, Of Illinois, for President aud Vice
President Of this nation, - II. -