The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-30
DgpEWis Speech
a. Cooper UfAon-cloveIand To-day not
lite Cleveland of Yesterday.

a. Cooper UrAnn-ciovcland To-day not
tie Cleveland Of Yesterday.
At tho Cooper Union meeting in New
York Wednesday night Mr.. Chauncey
Depew, among other things, said:
"Whcn l escaped from the cholera
bacilli at quarantine the other day |
found that the only party in harmony
and internescine wal in this city was
among the Democratic microbes.
Laughter But it is difficult to con-
vince the Democrats that he was born
in the objective case. When he wanted
to put down the rebellion he said: Il
object. Can't do it, But we did il just
tho same. He said you can't recon-
struct these states upon the ruins OF the
old slave republic. We bnilt this grand
republic OF freedom OF fo~rty-four states
lust tho same. [Cheers. As VIC meet
him to-day he is still in the objective
case. You point to him the enormous
crops that come from the farms and he
saws that they will not bring any price in
tho market. You point to him the
prices and that they do bring in the
market and he snys that those prices
will not last.
1.-THE difficulty with Il Democratic
brother is that the figures he makes ne
always makes in advance and on the
wrong side. They are always to prove
that the country Is going to the eterna!
bow-wow and in hot haste, and es-
peciallyi II the Republicans are in power.
Figures will lie when q liar makes them.
Cheers. That is what the axiom is
made out to be when we look at the
figures our Democratic friends have
made as to what would be accomplished
by the Mckinley bill.
But one thing that makes IL Demo.
cratic friends uneasy and sets them
bowling with rage is to tell him We are
going to have prosperity in til"
Here Mr.. Depew tlourished q plate OF
tin which he took out OF a box of Ameri.
can tin which had been sent to Mr..
Reid by an American tin manufacture
ing firm during the course OF the meet
ing. The action elected loud cheers.
HE says reciprocity is a shan, and
when you tell him that it has produced
in the last eight months Sl06, 100000.
he says reciprocity is unconstitutional
and you cannot prosper under it
Laughter,
81 acknowledge that ! have been OF
great assistance to tho literary bureau
OF tho Democratic party OF late" Mr..
Depew continued, and then AMID much
laughter he described how the speech
which he was credited with having
made in the Aston house eXtolling Mr..
Cleveland as tho typical American, fear
less and unlinching, was posted on
every farm fence, pinned on every
Democratic bedstead and printed on
the editorial page Of every Democratic
newspaper throughout the land. He
had five men employed fourteen hours
a day opening letters from indignant
citizens demanding to know why he
made that speech. There were two
things about it he wanted TO make
clear. One was that the gentleman he
described in his speech as a typical
American was not the man who wrote
the letter OF acceptance and the other
was that no did not make the speech.
Iaughter.) The Grover Cleveland who
was described in that speech was a man
who would go to the state for his
opinions. The Grover Cleveland who
wrote the letter Of acceptance was a
piuchback imitation OF the mar he de-
scribed.
Mr.. Depew in u brilliant p~eroration
then paid n glowing tribute to Presi-
dent Harrison.