Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-09
Column Article. a.

IL fed SINE to reach the depot IN time LOT
the train, and / must, therefore, bring what
have to say to a close, and 1t Is TINS:
That so long as God gives me strength TO
speak TO my fellow men, so long shall L
talk to them the good honest Democracy IN
which was schooled and in which be-
lieve.
Now, my friends, 1 should be playing
the part Of Hamlet, with Hamlet left out II
did not gay another thing that lam going
to say and which I have reserved, upon
the teaching of the new testiment
that the master of the feast brings
on the best of his wine last l
tell you, my friends, that the st.
Louis convention did the thing itself
that should immortalizs it. 1t did one
thing which of itself should command the
esteem and respect and gratitude OF the
American people. 1t did one thing which
set magnificent example for all time to
come to the American people and, indeed,
70 all other people who have anything to
do in the choice of the rulers, and that
thing was to renominate Grover Cleveland
by the unanimous voice Of the Convention.
Cheering
Now, my friends, when speak Of Grover
Cleveland do not speak OF stranger TO
me. 1 never saw him until after he was
inargurated President of the United States,
but / have seen him many times since,
talked with him much, consulted with
him much, and although have not seen
him for months past, 1 know that man, l
think, and think l know him well, and
if there is brave, honest, upright, cour-
ageous, patriotic man on the face Of Cod
earth. Grover Cleveland is such man.
TGrest applause. Why, my friends, ii
ne is not such a man, if his administration
has not been q grand success, if the people
have not found that he was worthy to sit
Ia the chair that Jefferson and Madison
and Monroe and Jackson occupied, II such
is not the fact, how can it be accounted
for that he received every vote in the con-
venticn at st. Louis, and there was not
disssnter from one end of the Union TO the
other. [Great applause.
IL 90 not get such Endorsements as
that. Traitors to their country and to
their party do not get such an Endorsement
as that; men of small brains do not get
such an endorsement as that; men OF doubt
ful integrity do not get such an indorse-
| ment az that. No, it is because Grover
Cleveland is an upright and honest, a
brave, an able map, that the whole Demo
cratic party in the United States, from one
end to tbs other, he it State, or be 1t Ter
ritory, be it on the Atlantic wave or be il
where the Pacific rolls her mighty volume
of waters on our western coast, be it on the
great lakes or be it on the gulf, every man
of the Democratic party, every one who
has the least claim to honesty himself, IL
heard TO exclaim: Give us Cleveland fol
tour years more Applause.
snow, my friends, bsye spoken to you
longer than there was any necessity for me
to speak, and longer than l ought to have
spoken, considering that our Pennsylvania
friends have 80 long TO march to make
and little time in which to catch the train
give you my very heartiest thanks fol
the kind compliment you have paid me,
and wishing you, one and all, happiness II
all your life, bid you good night"