Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-31
THE LAST MEETING
General Golf and His Friends Close the Con-
greSiOnsl Campaign
At NORTH END RINK, LAST NIGHT.
Bad Weather Fails to Keep the Republicans
In Doors
The GENERALS SPEECH 4 LONG ONE

General Golf and his political friends
he'd the last meeting of the campaign
last evening under circumstances the
reverse of propitious. All day long the
sky was overcast with clouds, and frequent
dashes of rain during the afternoon made
the outlook for the evening very unsatis-
factory for the General and his partiSans.
As night approached, the weather,
ifany thing grew worse, and a disagreed
Die mist began falling. The Republicans
were not to be daunted, however, and
shortly after seven o'clock Kramer's
band took up its position Just IN
front of the Lincoln Club and soon had 4
crowd of several hundred people a~tttacted
by their always excellent music. The
Plumed Knights and the members OF the
Club turned out in about the usual
number, each individual equipped with
fire or roman candles, and when the
General made his appearance and the
line of march had been formed, the street
was alive with spectators, the sidewalks
being all but impossible in the vicinity of
the Radical headquarters.
About half past seven o'clock the Club
and band, escorting the Candidate, began
the march through the muddy streets
to the North End Rink, where the meeting
intended to put the finishing touches upon
the Congressional struggle was TO be held.
The rendezvous was reached in fifteen
minutes from the time of starting, after a
prOdigious expenditure of red fire and hre
works. The building, which had been
very handsomely fitted up, contained
about five hundred people before the arri-
val of the funeral cortege, but after
the General had entered the edifce
filed up until, when the meeting was
called to order by Chairman Whitehead,
the room was about three-fourths full.
Chairman Whitehead nominated Hon. N.
B. Scott for president of the meeting, the
appearance OF the candidate
for Senatorial hOnOrs eliCiting
a moderate degree OF applause. The
president addressed a few words of an
Introductory nature to the audience, in the
course of which he credited General Golf
with lifting his voice in the halls Of Con
gresS, two years ago, on behalf OF the
stricken people of the Ohio Valley, ut a
time when their homes were destroyed by
the wild rush of waters constituting the
dood o 1SSi,a reference which the audience
somewhat failed 10 appreciate.
General Golf began his speech by allud-
ing to the prediction made by Judge John
Brannon, Friday evening, who p~rophes'ed
that when the sun had decended on next
Tuesday evening, the political life of Cen
eral Golf would have been ended. The
General seemed to think this prediction
was not based upon proper foundation,
and took occasion before leaving the sub
ject, to pronounce a glittering eulogy on
John Roach, the shipbuilder.
The General complained that his com
petitor had the habit Of talking all around
what he was pleased to call the vital is
u G of the day" which, TO his mind,
meant such issues rs he felt ut liberty to
talk about without e~ndangering his cause.
lie talked until about ten minutes of ten
o'clock. repeating much of his Alhambra
rink speech, criticizing ut length the re-
marks of Judge BrannOn and Mr.. Frame,
at Friday nights Democratic meeting,
touched upon the tariff, and devoted a
great deal of time TO a glowing eulogy of
the Republican party, reviewing its
history from its birth in 1856
to date, much to the apparent salts
faction of the majority of his hearers. At
the termination of his address there were
heard loud calls for Mr.. Scott, who, in re-
ply, addressed a few words to the crowd,
which had by this time largely diminished.
The audience then adjourned to the street,
where General Golf and MeSsers. Scott,
Whitehead, and W. j. w. .COwden entered
q carriage in waiting, the Lincoln Club re-
formed its ranks, and the march down
town began, the column hating in front
Ofthe Mcclure House, when the Candidate
retired for the night.
Thus ends the public demonstrations of
this campaign, but the work does not end
here. To-day and tomorrow both parties
will do much quiet missionary work
work, too, which counts the most in the
end-and the party leaders will be busy as
bees until the polls close Tuesday evening.