The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-24

ley, who was the chief speaker. spoke
~ follows:
"NiR. PEEstDEST, GESrLENES or TIE
REPuBlIcAx CLUE or THE CRY or NV
Y0gK, LADIES AID .GESTLENES:-1he
MINNEAPOLIS convention recorded the
conqueFing Will Of the Republican par.
~ and registered its decree in the nom
ina.ion oi Benjamin Harrison, OF tndl-
ana [applausel, asthe Republican presi-
dental candidate and Whitelaw Reid,
Of New York [applausel, as the Repub-
Iiean candidate for Vice President.
BENJAMIN Harrison was chosen as the
standard bearer Of our great party be-
cause It was tho choice Of the majority
OF that party that he should be chosen,
and in our political organization the
choice OF tho majority is the choice OF
Ill Applause. We are here tonight,
citizens Of New York and representa-
tiyes from every state and territory, 10
speak words Of ratification Of the splen-
did work Of that national convention.
[Applause A Republican national
convention never makes mistakes. lap
plause. They never have. The sober
sense and judiciouA judgment aud up
right conscience of'that grand party al
WAYS leads them TO do the sensible
things in national assembly.
BLAztSG THE PATH OF PROGRESS.
at made no mistake thirty-six yearI
ago when IL made sts frat national nom
nation for President Of the United
States. II selected John G. Frement
[applause1 the great Pathfinder lap
plausel aud from that moment the Re-
publican party has been blazing the
path Of progress in which mankind and
civilization has walked. tApplause.J
Il made no mistake in 1860 Lcheers for
Lincoln when it nominated Abraham
Lincoln [applause Tor President lap
plause1 the immortal and never TO be
forgotten Lincoln Gapplausel who placed
liberty and equality in the constitution
ofthe United States, where II had never
been before and where under God it
shall remain forever. Applause. 1t
mado no mistake in 1864, when
it renominated Abraham Lincoln,
and it made no mistake in 'GS when it
nominated the great hero Of the war.
Ulysses S. Grant [applausel, whO closed
his lips on the word Victory at the
wilderness and refused to speak, but
fought it out on dhat line until the final
grand surrender at Appomattox Court
House. LApplauAe.l Il made no mis-.
take when it no minated Hayes. APP
plause.1 No mistake when IL nomina-
ted Garfield. [Applause. No mistake
when Il placed in nomination for the
first time Benjamin Harrison, Of In
diana [applausel, who defeated the
chosen idol Of the Democratic party in
his own state and routed the entire
Democracy Of tho union. Applauae.
And it has made no mistake In placing
him in denomination. Long continued
applause,l
TIE ENBoDiMES 0P REPUBLTcANisM.
ale is tho embodiment OF every
principle OF the Republican party. The
Republican party made no mistake in
1884 in choosing that splendid Ameri-
can citizen, that great statesman, for
whom and 10 whom every heart goes
out tonight In feeling sympathy for his
great family bereavement. Cheated by
fraud. oyertakeu BY a crank, or he
would have been President Of the
United States. as he ought to have been
from 1881 to 1888. Applause. We
have a right to be thankful tonight.
when Lord Salisbury Kisses -has
given approval to our doctrine OF pro-
lection, and the New York SuE in its
leading editorial this morning charac.
terizes the Chicago convention as q
ratification for Benjamin Harrison
[applauseJ-is 1t any wonder We rejoice
tonight? LCries Of NO. The stars
even are with Us for they shine In all
their glory tonight above pointing TO
Reid and Depew in tho upper tiers1.
The Republican party loves all Of its
leaders. Every one OF them. But it
loves its cause and its country more
than any Of them.
AN HONEST CURRENCY.
1.-THE Republican party stands to-day.
as it has always stood, for an honest
currency, whether 1t DO gold or silver
or paper money, and insists that each
shall be the equal OF the other for debt
paying and in legal tender power. The
Republican party is opposed TO any base
currency, currency that cheats the
laborer and the industrial classes, and
insists that every dollar that Is put in
circulation shalt be the full and legal
measure for our exchanges and our
merchants.
"The Republican party believes to.
night, as 1t has always believed, in IN
honest ballot and fair count. APP
plause. II wants this country to I'M
derstand that 1t docs not pay to steal
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES It Is the sutfrNges
OF an individual or OF IN entire state.
II insists In every section Of the country
tho constitutional guarantees shall DO
respected and upheld. II insists that
all shall be equal, tho richest and most
powerful and the poorest and'tnost
humble, and political privileges to mono
will II deny.
WHAT PROTECTION MEANS
RTho Republican party stands to.
4 IS 1t has always StoOd--ior pro-
tcSnve tariff Applause and cries Of
Mckinley tariff an American tariff,
tariff which shall protect the Amer
lean home, the American hresido, the
American workman, tho American in
dustries [applausel o protective tariff
that shall be placed on oil foreign COM
poting goods high enough to make up
the difference in the wages paid in tho
United States with those paid in Eu-
rope. Whenever Europe will give to
her workmen tho same wages that We
give to ours, thcn we will remove our
tariffs and meet her in the neutral mar.
lcts OF the world [opplausOl aud II
will DO the survival Of the fttost.
[Ronewod applause. Elevate your
nnnhikinn I'M 70 ours. We say 70 EnEopo,