Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1884-09-06
WINDY WILSON WALLS.
(Fyom tAe Wheeifno Intellioencer. J

From the Wheeling Inteflgencer.l
MARTINsBURG, w. VA. August 3o.--The De
mocracy of Berkeley had general % rally OF
Friday at the Court House. commencing at
the audience by Mr.. A. Parks, President of thu
Cleveland and Hendricks Club. How was hi
received? Well, you would have thought, ha.
you been present. that a cyclone had struct
this county, not that the people were wild witt
cheers, but the manner in which Wilson strucl
those present. Call him no more Windy, bu
mad bull in a china shop. Candidly speaking
he is tit subject for lunatic asylum.
He started of by saying that he was nc
stranger in this community, that he had ON Q
former occasion assisted this people in turning
the corrupt radicals out of office In this State
that he was not here now for the purpose O
making speech that will please the Republic
cans. AS he proceeded he became Wild and
boisterOus in his declarations, claiming thai
the Democrats has managed the State at 3S1:
per cent less than the Republicans did wheI
in power. One of his wild declarations wal
that when the Democracy cane into power
they found that the Republicans had robbed
the School Fund of $50 200, and that the amount
to this day could not be accounted for except
$4,000, which had gone into the pockets OF the
"thieving defaulting sheriffs of this State.''
His excuse for the Democrats using the
School Fund was that the State was In debi
$250000, caused by the building of the State
Capitol and improving the Hospital for the In
sane, claiming that Article IL, Sec, 4. of the
Constitution, authorized the Governor to Dor
row from the School Fund to meet a deficiency
in the revenue. but never once alluded to the
sections that prohibit the State from going in
to debt, and when the revenue is short requir-
ing the Legislature to levy tax sufficient to
meet the deficit.
A LAME APOLOGY.
He made a lame apology for Governor Jack
ing for him the right to construe the law fol-
htmself,yet he begged leave on the same terms
to say that he believed the Acts of 1881 were
constitutional. at is claimed, p" he said "by the
RpDnDliearg that fhav have a ficRaf in In
field. 1t is no such thing. They have a black
and tan lOneration-something that ID
bury the putrid sinking thing out Of sight,
Steve Elkins, yes, he is a nice thing. amt he
If had a young dog that would go near him
would cut his head off,
Turning to Gov. Hamilton, who sat at his
right, he said, " promise to send you the glad
tidings on October 18th that this State has CIV
black and tan Radicals. am burning tar up
on their backs. I'll make 'em howl" Judge
Brown, Judge Maxwell and w. II. II. Flick
were were abused most shamefuiiy; His abuse Of
respected. was not only ill-timed, but was
downright impudence, brazen audacity and
presumptive ignorance.
WHY HE is MAD.
After carefully listening to his arraignment
of Flick, the only intelligent conclusion that
can be drawn from his speech Is that he Is mad
because Flick, while in the Legislature in 1869,
Voted to n keep tbp from
wanted, and to which he was not elected He
claimed that the men who made the Republic
can platform were lying falsifiers or too ignor-
ant to make a platform of principles, men who
are not fit to be trusted with power in this
State.
The speech, of more than two hours dura-
tion was nothing more than an appeal to the
passions engendered during the war. To call
1t waving the bloody shirt" does not express
It. If there were Republicans in Berkeley who
none now. The Republicans are enraged and
indignant, and consider that Mr.. Wilson 8
speech is an insult to the intelligent people OF
this county. Ye gods! what contrast be-
tween the gentlemanly scholar E. Boyd Faulk-
ner and the man who aspires to be the govern
or OF the people OF this state Shades of Pat
rick Henry and Governor Wise look down up
on the people of the daughter of old Virginia.
Tell us, are we to be governed for four years by
a man whose craftsmanship cannot aspire
above vilification and abuse of men who for
years have been living honorable and upright
lives.
At the close of Mr.. Wilson's speech (harang-
ue), Ex-Governor w. 4. Hamilton, of Mary land,
was introduced. He dwelt almost solely upon
national issues, warning the people of this State
that the eyes of the Democracy of the whole
union were upon them, claiming that a "Solid
South " with New York and "Ingyannie y
would elect Cleveland. But gentlemen. should
West Virginia be lost he would be defeated
without carrying other Northern States, to
make up for this loss. Governor Hamilton
spoke for over two hours, making q strong eff
fort to hold the Democracy of Berkeley in line.
Hendricks Club. headed by the Martinsburg
City Band, marched through the principal
streets. They were orderly and well behaved
which is characteristic of our people. Over
one hundred burning torches made quite a
handsome display on the streets. The Demo-
Gratis have cause to feel proud of their club and
marching to the beautiful strains of music by
the new city band.
MIR. WILSON AGAIN.
After marching through town the procession
halted in front of a handsomely decorated
stand in the Square from which, after music
by the band, another wind storm arose. Mr..
Wilson was the first speaker, and in a speech
of over two hours he rehashed his speech de-
livered in the afternoon in the court house. II
anything 1t was more vile and disgusting. He
claimed that the mean, low, sinking, dirty
radicals " at Chicago had made meaningless
platform. though the plank on regulating In
ter-state commerce suited him, and upon the
principles there enunciated he had always
stood, though the "stinking, mean radicals y
condemned him for his course in the Legisla-
ture for trying to prevent railroads from rob-
bling our people by extortiOnate rates. Said
he: "They claim am Communist, dema-
eogue. Let me say to them all that they are
collectively and individually liars. / am no
enemy to railroads. Gentlemen, DOM under
stand me to crawfish. stand by my record.
that am sorry for"
While in one of his mad breaks some one in
the crowd cried hurrah for Maxwell. Stopping
suddenly he exclaimed "Shut up you black
guards!" Quite number of ladies were sit
ting near and am sure they formed O most
exalted opinion of the man who aspires to be
gentlemen. At another time while Dragging
on the many wonderful things he had done
while in the Legislature, the mention of the
name of Maxwell by some one in the crowd
MIN to break forth in O storm of abuse
on poor Maxwell. You would have thought
that he was some South Sea islander. Wilson
got so wild that he never found his way back
to the point where he left off when he started
on his mission of abuse on Judge MAXWELL
When introduced he had an audience of seven
or eight hundred, yet by actual count he did
not have one hundred listeners when he closed
his harangue. He claimed in his speech that
he had once talked bill to death. Whether
fence to pieces on last night. After his speech
in the afternoon some friend of his told him
of the manner in which he had abused Judge
Flick. This must have riled him, for at night
he made another assault on Mr. Flick, which
If anything, was more abusive than before
Take his speech as a whole it was grand af-
fair to rally the Republicans to their ticket,
both National, state and county. IfChalrman
Leonard will send him back here to make a
speech the night before election the Republi-
cans will pay his expenses.
FAULKNER's SPEECH.
Hon. E. Boyd Faulkner made the closing
speech. Heavens! what treat to get from
the mire and filth in which Wilson had led
his audience to the pure atmosphere OF reason
audience that he was a Democrat because that
party, in his judgment, had always been the
Trend OF the WnOle people. he LOT one was not
one of those persons who believed in arraying
one class of citizens against the other; he be-
lieved in legislation that would mutually bene-
fit the whole people, legislation that would
build up and develop this great and growing
State Mr.. Faulkner's remarks through the
half hour that he spoke were well timed and
such as tend to make men think and reason
rather than lead men to run wild through wild
prejudice.
The result of the days work. so far as it effects
the Republicans, is that whatever differences
hox fhpir N
healed and from now on they will present an
unbroken line.
"THE ADVANTAGES OF THE MOD
ERN DANCE. Lecture by Rev. w.
f. Hatcher, d. D., of Richmond, Va.
This distinguished and eloquent
preacher, editor of the Religious Her.
aid and pastor of one of the most
prominent churches in the South, will
lecture in the Baptist Church, Tues
day, 9th September, at Sp. M, on
THE advantages of the Modern
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