The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-22
GAINES NOMINATED
At Hinton by the Third District
Republicans.
ENTHUSIASTIC CONVENTION,
Full or Harmony With n Big II.
a Stirring and Eloquent Speech
, by Hon. s. G.. Burtiett-Good
Republican Gospel.

STIRRING and Eloquent Speech
by Hon. s. G. Burdett-Good-
Republican Gospel.
Special Dispatch 10 The Inieiiigencir.
lIiSroS, W. Va. August 2l.-The
battle Is over and Alsjor Theophilus
Gaines, OF Fayette, will lead tho Repub.
lican lsts OF the Third district to vic.
tory In November. The convention was
harmonious and enthusiastic, and al
though the friends OF Major McGinnls
made hard fight, numbers being con.
sidered, there is no hard feeling, and the
nominee will 80 into the fight with the
undivided support of the Republicans Of
this district. The convention was held
in the Opera House, and was called to
order promptly at II o'clock, and DR..
Rucker, Of Greenbrier, was called to the
chair temporarily. Full delegations
were present from nearly every county
in the district, particularly kanawha,
here full representation OF forty.seyen
being present, and business was disposed
Of in business.like way. The morning
session was occupied in preliminary
bueiness, the appointment OF commit.
tees. eict and u recess was taken until
2o'clock.
The Committee on Organization re.
ported A. S. Fuller, OF Greenbrier, as
permanent chairman, and the Repub.
llcan editors as secretaries, sf which report
was adopted. As the other committees
were not ready, Hon. S G. Burdett was
called upon and responded in charac.
teriBtic speech.
BURDETT's BRIGHT SPEECH.
lie said: Gentlemen, we stand to. day
lace to faco with sweeping Republican
victory. The nominee Of this conven.
ton will undoubtedly be elected to rep.
resent the old Third district In Con.
grtes, and by majority so large that
even the tive" issue nor the entire list
OF Democratic abbreviations will be able |
10 overcome it, but will cause the Dem.
ccratic cheek to grow pale in it's pres.
ence. The migratory" gentlemen will
be found to have become stationary, and |
will be at the polls next November.
The ''youpg unmarried voter from Sim.
mons creek" will be there 10 vote, and |
his vote will be counted. Our Demo.
cratic friends will awake to the realiza.
ton Of the fact that "John Cooper &
Co.'s pay rolls" and that the general |
reputation" Of the men whose names
appear on these rolls is, "that they are
Republicans" General Gotr was elected |
Governor two years ago and was de. |
irauded out OF his high Office by the un-
just and shameful subversion Of the |
constitution, and the most contemptible |
methods known to political warfare, that |
would cause the lace OF Digger Indian |
to blush with shame. But we will elect
General GoG in 1892 by majority go |
large even the Democracy will not dare
to tamper with it.
DAY OF DOOM At HAND.
The day Of the Democratic doom is at |
hand as surely as was that OF Babylon's
wicked king when he beheld upon the
wall the worda, "Thou hast been
weighed in the balance aud found want
ing" No Ex-Governor OF West Vir-
ginia will ever again have m opportun-
ity to seryea year after his term Of Office
has expired, and no Democratic Cover
nor of West Virginia will have another
chance to pocket a Republican Cover
nor's salary. The Democratic party is a
party OF croakcrs and objectors, and has
originated no great idea tor the last fifty
years. 1t hes been the cardinal doctrine
Of the Democratic party to oppose every
good thing emanluting from Republican
source, because forsooth it was q Re-
psblican measure. 1imngine sometimes
that il our Democratic friends get to the
good world their eyes will scarcely open
upon the beauties OF the celestial city
before they will begin to pick aaws in
the joints of tho pearly gates Of the
new Jerusalem, and to criticisa the arch
iteclure Of heaven itself.
TIE GIAHD OLD PARTY.
But turning from the Inconsistencies
OF the Democratic party, what Republic
can is there who is not proud OF the his.
tory, achievements and leaders Of his
party? What name shines with brighter
iuslre in history than that Of Abraham
Lincoln, or whose name awakens deeper
emotion than that OF murdered Garfield,
beside whose dying bed weeping na-
tion bowed in tealful grief? And there
was Grant! The colossal figure Of, the
century, figure giving more majesty as
tho years roll on. And still living there
is tho Plumed Knightof Maine, who
through all the vicssitudes ol fortune
walks erect, u king among his fellows.
And there ID John Sherman, and brave
Tom Reed, with hundreds more whom |
might name. After four years Of bloody
war there came the work OF restoring
the waste places, and out OF the ashes
aud desolatiun OF war has arisen new
South, g!ander, greater, better than ever
before. Knoxville, Chattanooga, Birm.
ischRm and d hundred other cities have
become great manufacturing centers.
WiIdernesscs clothed ehort time ago
In eilenco and desolation hsvo been
swept away and mighty cities have
taken their places. The treasures stored
in the mbuntaiu sides have been dragged
out BY the muscled hand OF iabor aad ten
thousand glowing furnace fires brighten
the heavens where silence reigned be-
fore. 0,1f.,
s'TItE TARIFF IS A TAX r..
And what nRys our Democratic friends
to say? Why standing in the midst
OF the greatest prosperity tho nation has
eyer known, standing in tho presence
of sixty.iour millions OF enlightened
people, with quarter Of a century OF
Unparalleled progress, with the hum Of
industry heard upon every hand, they
cry "sho tariff is tax," cry grown
thrradbare in tho days OF Andrew JACK,
son, cry, tho truth OF which has been
disproven by our country's history and
the universal experience OF mankind.
The Comnlittcs on Resolutions being
ready to report, Mr.. Durdett stopped at
this ispoint,and amid laundering applause