The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-19

can county committee were free from
20 n m. The street cars were also
nneked. while more private vehicles
were upon the ground than on a big
day of State Fair. Scores OF them
were lined up all overthegrounds.while
many packed the race course and quar-
tar stretch behind the speakers stand.
The meeting was made up OF about as
many strangers as Wheeling people.
Throe states were well represented, and
all were there to hear what the fore
most champion Of protection had TO say
to the people. :.
Gov. McKinley's voice tina. q much
larger crowd could have heard. Had
this been known, thousands more would
have been present.
GEEAT SCENE.
The scene when the distinguished
orator arrived was one of the most
glorious ever enacted. When the pro.
cession entered the race track north ot
the stand u great cheer went up from
the assemblage, and when the Americus
club appeared, twirling their red, white
and blue umbrellas, the great crowd
arose to its feet, men waved their hais
and ladies their hankerchiefs. and all
shouted themselves hoarse.
When the carriage in which sat Gov
ernor Mckinley, Hon. A. J. Clarke
Hon. William L. Hearne and Hon. n.
B. Scott, OF the county committee,
came in view, the enthusiasm was
wildly increased, and it continued till
the speaker and other prominent gem
tlemen were in the stand, when II
broke forth into even more tremendous
volume, lasting several minutes. The
clubs maached on down the race' course,
going through evolutions which'evoked
cheer after cheer.
When all had returned to the grand
stand and the tumult OF approving
cheers and futtering OF handkerchieis,
hats and umbrellas had ceased, Chair
man Hall called the meeting to order
| and named Hon. A. ]. Clarke, OF this
city, for chairman, and the gentlemen
whose names were printed in yester-
days INrELLGENcER as vice presidents.
Mr. Clarke was greeted with cheers.
He advanced and addressed the vast
crowd in voice audible to its furthest
confines, in the following words;
Mn. cLARK's REMARKS.
FEn1ow ClTlzENs:-We are in the
midst OF a campaign of conflicting
ideas. On its issue hangs the prosperity
OF this nation for years to come.
What shall its policy be? Shall it
continue to be one OF sound money and
OF protection to labor and capital, OF
shall it be one OF free trade and wild
cat currency? Shall the party who has
kept us one people; that has varied our
| industries until our manufacturing,
mining and agricultural interests are
the wonder and admiration OF the
world, and until the average wealth OF
our people, despite Democratic croak,
ings, is unequaled by that OF any other
people that breathes the breath OF life;
shall the party which by ITS wise ad.
ministration OF the government, has
given us prosperity unprecedented in
the annals of time; shall such partyba
repudiated, and party that has never
had a policy but one OF destruction be
given the reins OF power?
Shall the party that was wrong in the
war; that degraded labor by upholding
slavery; that in the midst OF the rebel
lion denounced the legal tender notes
and afterward in time OF profound
peace, championed that widest OF
crazes = the, greenback heresy; that
shrieked for free silver and debased
currency; that in 'S4 and 'SS, masquer-
AIDED as revenue reform party witt in
cidental protection, but now in Its eyo-
luton OF evil, openly advocates tariff
for revenue without any protection at
all; shall the party that has opposed
everything right done by the nation,
and has been on the wrong side OF ev-
cry public question for more than 80
years, and which if true to its record
will continue to be eyerlastingly wrong
shall such a party be again entrusted
with the destiny Of this land? [Cnes OF
"Now1 1t seems to me, that il men
were silent, the very rocks and hills
would answer mighty-No! lGreat
applause
II such be the voice of patriotism, as
well as of self interest, why not then-
as we intend to do-re-elect as our
President the man who ranks with the
proudest of his predecessors, and is the
very embodiment OF all that the Demo-
| cratic party is not? A man who has
shown himself big enough and worthy
enough to wear, with ever increasing
credit, the now famous "grandfather's
hat"-who, for the past four years, has
given us a prudent an honest, and a
prosperous administration at home;
and who, without bluster towards the
weak, or trucking to the strong, has
made the American flag respected on
every sea and in every cline LCheers.l
Such safe, such magnificent man
is Benjamin Harrison!
To-day we have with US one OF his
staunchest friends, and stoutest allies;
a man who believes in and practices
the principles OF the Republican party;
who as against every free trader in this
fair land, wherever found, is the
splendid champion OF American pro-
lection and American prosperity; is
your friend and the friend Of every
American, be he white or be he black;
whose sympathies are as broad as the
Republic itself; and / am profundly
honored in naming as the orator OF this
magnificent meeting that brilliant
statesman whose fame is too great for
any single state-the Honorable Will
liam Mckinley Of America.
These remarks we're frequently
broken in upon by wild applause, and
when Mckinley was introduced the up
roar was deafening.
DrKINLEY'S SPEECH.
An Eloquent and Convincing Argument Of
tho Live Issues.