The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-26

assert ltTbtll anu "NplNlu NtI position,
All We have done in the correspondence
referred to is to prepare the way for Il
petition and 10 suggest, il ii he sulli-
GENTLY signed, a,plaCe for conference. II
ut least one thousand representative
men sign this authority Il convention
will be called. Otherwise this move.
ment will end with this correspond
cnCe."
"What is the prospect as to sigma.
tures?"
I'VE are sending out slips to furnace
men and mine owners, and the indica.
tions are that several thousand names
will be obtained
80 THIRD PARTY INTENDED.
at is suggested that there will be Il
third party formed in the SOUTH"
mo one thinks Of this. We have been
misreprescnted in Congress and before
the nation. All We expect to do is to
secure an honest representation OF the
high tariff views OF our people, whether
the representatives be Democrats or Re-
publiCans, and to convince the world
that fair argument and fair election
may be held in the South. II the Con-
vention is called We shall invite Mr..
Randall and Mr.. Mckinley to speak.
We have reason to expect one OF the
strongest conventions Of men that ever
met upon the American continent. We
have vast region here that is not the
home OF planters, that has no aristoCra-
Cy, that is prOpled with vigorous race
men OF braun aud brain, able TO work
themselves and utilize the cheaper labor
that flows from the cotton fields. The
upliited plane, averaging nearly 1000
feet above the level Of the sea, reaches
from Wheeling to Birmingham and from
Atlanta to Huntington. Its area is larger
than New York and New England com.
bined. The Goals Of West Virginia cover
an area larger than Massachusetts; the
seams are forty feet thick. The hGmatte
ores bordering the great Valley OF Nir-
ginia extend to Alabama, in almost un.
broken leads, a distance greater than
from Montreal to Washington. Draw a
line from Wheeling to Sheffield, through
coal, iron, gypaum, salt, zinc, Manganese
and marble, and forge, mine or quarry
might stand at every mile stone. Devel'
opments here has been rapid beyond
precedent. In my county OF ROckbridge
Va, a new furnace producing 200 tons
OF ore day goes into operation this
week, and three new furnaces are already
started. In Allegheny county there is q
present output Of 100000 tons year,
drawing 100000 tons from the mines. In
Roanoke and along the Norfolk Il West
ern railroad there is even more rapid
development, and beyond the Chatta'
nOoga and Birmingham new furnaces
light the Southern sky. Thequestion ID
not one Of powerto produce, but Of place
to sci"
HOME MARKETS.
"What would you propose in that di-
rection?"
"Not to invade the Northern and
Western markets, but to protect by {
tariff our home markets and to open the
way TO new markets southwark"
us there Il llibustering spirit still II
the land?"
eyes, but not to be proven by the ole
methods. We hope TO see the day wheT
there will be free trade with Mexico
Central and South America upon COndi
tons ola uniform tariff against the quite
world, for into these markets the new
South would come with instant endur
ing advantage"
"What wrong has been committee
that would warrant so important semi
political movement"
"0tthe thirty.thrco Congressional dis
triCts referred TO, and nearly every on
instructed In favor ola high tariff, nCarl
every member voted for horizontal ~
ductlon aud tariff reform"
"what grcat result can come iron
uniting these distrlCts?'
They will hold the balance Of powG
In future Congresses"
a DLow AT sgCTioSALlsM,
GLOW would this balance Of powe
effect the present national partiCsW
at would strengthen the Republican
party In the first instance by breakin
: up the solid South. II might benell
the Democrats in the second instance b.
breaking up the solid Moth. In an
event, Il would have power TO prOieC
Our industries and Our people, and 4
assert with dignity and decisive result
the determination OF the great body q
men who believe that government
were made for the people, and that Oh
highest patriotism lies In the dircCtio
OF general prosperity
GENERAL PRYOR SPOKE ron TILE SOUTH,
allow arc General pryOr's views, q
published In the Herald, received In tn
South"
General Pryor has expressed whit
was In the thoughts Of ten thousan
Democrats In the South. He has NJ
spoken so much to the South as for III
= South, and has rendered the South he
and inCalCulNblC service
"Do YOU think General Pryor will !
present ut the proposed conyenlion2'
" "lle will certainly be invited
b. "You seem to think there have bee
great changes In the South2'
"There was not railroad track or