Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-06
DEMOCRATIC ORATORS
Mako the weIkin Ring With Democratic
Eloquerce.

Mako the Nelkln KING WIN DehoSfahe
EIoquerce.
BALTIMORE, July 5.-A mass meeting
was held in the main hall Of the Academy
of Music this evening, which was largely
attended. As Gov. Jackson, arm in arm
with Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, entered the box
reserved for the orators of the evening, he
was greeted with round of applause,
which broke out afresh and was long con-
tinued. Representative W. @. Brecken-
ridge, of Kentucky, entered and was
warmly welcomed by Senotor Reagan, Of
Texas. The meeting was called to order
by Gov. jackson, who presented Gov. Lee.
Governor Lee rendered his grateful ac-
acknowledgements for the applause with
which the announcement of his name was
received. He alluded to the proceedings
of the convention and congratulated the
young Democrats before him on not hav-
ing to contend with the great question as
to the right of State to withdraw from
the Union. The decision of that
question had been left to the sword,
and by the sword the question had bsen
decided, and to-day Virginia Joined all the
other States of the Union in the single,
sole desire to promote the glory and gram
deur and growth of the American Repub-
lie. Applause
He eulOgized the public actions of Pres
ident Cleveland and at the mention of the
Presidents name the large audience broke
into applause, which was repeated when
reference was made to the action of the st.
Louis convention in making stronger a
ticket already strong by the selection of
the Noble Roman" for the Vice Presi-
dency.
The name of Gen. Robert E Lee as it
fell from the lips of his relative was re-
ceived with tumultuous applause. Gen.
ersl 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 constitutional privileges and rights.
Referring briefly to the tariff issue he
denounced 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
trine of protection to the many and not Of
the rich men, of the few.
Governor Lee was followed by District
Attorney John X. Fellows, of New York.
Referring to the ancestry of Senator Harri-
son, Colonel Fellows paid tribute TO the
memory of VIM. Henry Harrison, but sug-
gested that grandfather's fame was some
what like q grandfather's clock, which
Stopped short, never to 90 again, when
the old man died"
A cordial reception awaited Representa-
tive Breckenridge, of Kentucky, when he
stepped upon the platform. The first
necessity, he said, of political reform was
the defeat aud disintegration of the Repub-
lican party. To this end the whole labor
of the Democratic party ought to be
directed. 1t was no easy victory
which the Democratic party was
about to gain--and if the Democracy
went into the battle under estimating the
strength of the enemy, it might meet with
defeat. He felicitated himself that he had
lived to participate in q canvass which was
free from sectional hate and sectional
feeling Applause The barriers
of section had been torn down,
the miserable personalities of politics had
been driven with the whip and with
scorn into the obscurity, and out of the
confusion of politics had come clear and
definite issue upon which statesmen could
argue and about which gentlemen could
talk. [Applaase.
The doctrine Of the Democratic party
was that every man should bear his share
and only his share, of the public burden.
Applause.
He severely criticised the Republican
party for what he charged to be its class
legislation, for supporting combines, and
for giving away vast empires of the public
land. He eulogizsd the administration o
Grover Cleveland, and said that never in
the whole history Of the American Repub
lie bad there been an administration t.
which the epithet could be more wisely
applied that it was safe administration.