The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-07-06
THE MASS MEETING.
General Lees Name Chesred-Brectin
ridge Says 1t Will be Clean Campaign.

General Lees Name Cheercd-BrectSin'
ridge Says 1t Will be- n Clean Campaign.
BALTIMORE, July ga mass meeting
was held in the main hall OF the Acade-
my of Music this evening which was
largely attended. As Governor Jackson,
arm in arm with General Fitzhugh Lee,
entered the box reserved for the orators
OF the evening, be was greeted with u
round OF applause which broke out
airesh and was long continued.
The meeting was called to order by
Governor Jackson who presented Gov
ernor Lee.
Governor Lee rendered his grateful
acknowledgements for the applause with
which the announcement Of his name
was received. He alluded to the pro-
Ceedings OF the convention and congrat-
ulated the young Democrats before him
on not having to contend with the great
question us to the right OF State to
withdraw from the Union. The deCi-
sion OF that question had been left to
the sword, and BY the sword the ques-
ton had been decided, and to-day Vir-
ginia Joined all the other States OF the
Union in the single sole desire to pro-
mote the glory and grandeur and growth
OF the American Republic. Applause.
He eulogized the public action OF
President Cleveland, and at the mention
OF the Presidents name the large audi
enCe broke into applause, which was re-
peated when reference was made to the
action OF the st. Louis convention. t,
The name OF General Robert Z. Lee,
as it fell from the lips OF his relative,
was received with tremendous applause.
General Lees saddle, said Governor
Lee, was not stained with blood, as
charged by John Sherman, for General
Lee had fought, as others had fought,
for what he thought to be his constitu-
tional privileges aud rights. H.
Referring to the tariff issue, he de-
nounced as untrue the charge that the
Democratic party was free trade party,
and declared that the Mills bill was the
embodiment of the Democratic doc
trinc of protection TO the many and
not OF the rich men or the few.
Governor Lee was followed by District
Attorney John r. Fellows, OF New York.
Referring to the ancestry OF Senator
Harrison, Col. Fellows paid tribute to
the memory OF William Henry Harrison,
but suggested that grandfNther's fame
was somewhat like grandfather's clock
which stopped short, never to go again,
when the old man died"
A cordial reception awaited Repre-
sentative Breckenridge, OF Kentucky,
when he stepped upon the platform.
The first necessity, he said, OF political
reform was the defeat and disintegration
OF the Republican party. To this end the
whole labor OF the Democratic party
ought to be directeS 1t was no
easy victory which the Democratic party
was about to gain; and il the Democracy
went into the battle Understanding
the strength OF the enemy it might meet
with defeat. He felicitated himself
that he had lived to participate in
canvass which was free from
sectional hate and sectional feeling.
[Applause.1 The barriers of section had
been torn down. The miserable person.
alties of politics had been driven with
the whip and with scorn into the OBJ
scurity, and out OF the confusion OF poll
tics had come clear and definite issue
upon which statesman could argue and
about which gentlemen could talk.
I Applause,