The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-23

lairo consisted OF ten coaches. all crowd
cd clear out upon tho platforms. Each
coach held more than hall as many
more people MS 1t was intended to seat.
a MONSTEIt DEMONSTRATION.
Tho Crowd wns Simply too Largo for tho
Town.
Bellaire never say anything like the
crowd that was packed within her cor.
porate limits last night. 1t was too
big n throng for the town TO hold. Not
onc.tentli OF tho people tried to got into
tho procession. Tho streets were Jam.
med from house to house. Rcd fro,
Roman candles and all sorts Of blazing,
Sizing and cracking fireworks made
life precarious for the pedestrian.
a parade was to prccede tho meeting,
and the procession WIS held to allow
the Wheeling delegation to head it.
Chief Marshal Martin Cowen and his
stall, mounted, greeted the delegation
on its arrival, while the Bcllairc Nc
kinlcy Escort club opened ranks and
presented Tin canes as the Wheeling
crowd swarmed down the stairway into
the street. There was 10 organization
about the Nail City delegation, but it
was all there, and as enthusiastic rs any
of them. The procession was to have
marched over the following route:
North on Belmont street to Thirty
fourth street, east on Thirty-iourth TO
Union, south on Union to Twcnty-fith,
west on Twenty-hfth to Belmont, north
on Belmont to Twcnty-sixth, cast on
Twenty-sixth to Union, north on Union
to Thirty-sccond, west OH Thirty-sccond
to Guernsey, north on Guernsey to
Thirty-sixth, west on Thirty-sixth to
Noble, north on Noble to Thirty,scventh,
east on Thirty-sevcnth to Belmont, and
thence to the meeting,
Owing to the latcncss OF the hour and
the inclomcnt weather, this was some
what shortened, however. The pro-
cession was headed by the marshal and
stall, followed by the IIcatherington
band, OF Eellairc, and the Wheeling
party. Then came the Mckinley escort
club OF Bellairc, several hundred strong,
wearing tin hats and things, then car
riagcs with the orator. the committee
OF reception and distinguished citizens,
after which marched Martins Ferry,
Bridgeport and Bclairc delegations,
each headed by 4 band.
The Martins Ferry delegation made
n credltablo appearance. They burned
red fire in proiusion and carried mag
nilicent silk flag, large portraits OF Nc
kinley, banners. sheets OF American
tin and other American tin OF all shapes
and sizes. The members OF the Rcpub-
lican Club wore American tin plate
Mckinley buttons and round tin plate
badges made OF American tin plate
manufactured by Morgan Bros. at the
Pittsburgh exposition in 1870
In the procession were all shapes,
sizes and forms OF tin plate. Tin pans,
tin canes, tin horns, tin buttons, tin
coons, tin hats, tin badges, tin banners
and big sheets OF tin glistcned and
shone in the rays OF the red fire and the
torches.
THE MEETING.
There had been somG doubt MS to
where the meeting would best be held
The stand on the public square could
not be lighted owing to the wind, and
the Elysian thcater would not seat one
tenth OF the people. 1t was therefore
decided that he should speak from his
carriage in front OF the Windsor hotel,
on Union street, adjoining the G. & 2.
station. This was not by any means u
model arrangement, but it.was the best
that could be made, and proved i'll tho
end rs good rs the average outdoor
meeting on an inclemcnt night. There
was an abundance OF room for his audi
encc, and all OF it was taken. There is
no use estimating the crowd by
thousands. No Democrat was so parti-
san as to deny that the crowd was
from fifty per cent larger to twice that
OF Governor Campbell ut Belaifc. II
any orator could have made larger
audience hear whathe said it would have
been just that much larger, for nobody
talks more audibly, more clearly, more
deliberately than Major Mckinley. 1t
is 4 pleasure to listen to him, SO keen is
his intelligence, so precise his cnuncia-
ton. lie leaves. much 10 the intclli-
gcnce OF his audience, and. that his aud
icnce was worthy of his confidence was
amply demonstrated by the ready and
apt responses to all his good points.
TIE SPEECH.
1t was some time after the orator had
begun to talk before anybody more
than ten feet away knew it. His car
riage was freed OF its horses and then
carried bodily back to the sidewalk, a
distance OF thirty feet. Alter tho cheers
and confusion died down somewhat it
was discovered that Major Mckinley
was saying things and good things to
hear, too. Then the order became re-
markable Tor such crowd under sucl.
circumstances. No congregation i'll a
church was ever quicter, SO iar. rs his
voice could reach. E
He said: Governor Campbell said
when he was here that his election
would be death blow to protective
tariff. Let us assume that this is cor
rect, that his election this year means
all that he says it does. Then l want to
know what answer you will make to that
challenge here in the Ohio Valley,
where all its industries, from East I.iv-
pun 70 oeilaire, arc sustained by tho
protective tariff, and whose fires Would
all be put out il tho protective tariff
laws were repealed. want the people
to think OF that, and l am willing to
meet him on that challenge here and in
every part Of the State. A Democratic
revenue tariff never started factory,
never opened 4 mine, never built 4 rail
road, never lighted 4 fire in glass
house, or pottery or M iron mill. On
the contrary, you older men remember
that from 1850 to 1850, under Demo-
cratic tariff, every mill and factory was
compelled to shut down and thousands
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