Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-17

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81. LOUIS, November 16.-Despite low
ering skies and a steady drizzle OF rain sur
6cie3t IN dampen the ardor of any but an
entbusiastic party man, electric lights
never shown cd q more enthusiastic gath
ering OF ST. Louis Democrats than tnat
gathered in the great Music Hall 70 TESTIFY
their appreciation Of the results OF NoVem-
Der sth, and TO do honor TO Adlal Steven
son, vice president elect OF the ChlIeu
ME speech OF the Vice Presidentelect
was very brief, cOntenting himself 6y
merely returning his acknowledgements for
the honOrs OF the evening. He said;
s.Mr. President and Fellow Citizens:-l
can only say from the bottom OF my heart
| thank you for the cordial treatment you
have given me tonight, Applausel /
accented with pleasure the invitation OF
vour committee 70 meet wieh you, 70 min
gle nv rejoicing with yours IN the great
victory we have achieved.
81 congratulate YOU upon the TACT that
Won did stand up for Missouri lApplausel.
And trust that you Will not forget tnat we
stood up for Illinois"
AppIause greeted the close Of the Gener-
al's remarks and il was some minutes be-
fore silence was sufficiently restored 10
permit the l.,roduction OF Mayor h. \.
NConan.
The Mayor was brief sat was followed
bv Hon. Chas. II. Jones, of the 90, Louis
RrpubIic who made the principal speech ot
the evening and by far the most sensation
al one. His def 10 New Gosk was par
ticularly pleasing TO the Missouri audience
aud the declaration that the time Lad come
for the western Democracy to assert itself
provoked great applause.
Col. Jones said: This ls'a glorious year
for Democrats. If there is anybody in this
audience who is not Democrat j would
advise him 10 become one just for the sake
of feeling good all over. AS general rule
man mas to get religion before he can
enjoy the satisfaction OF feeling Whatever
ne believes is right and whatever the other
fellow believes is wrong. But he can reyel
in this feeling this year simply by being
Democrat
ION every question that entered COM
mandingly INTO the recent campaign, the
Democratic party was emphatically right
and the Republicans radically wrong.
With that marvelously clear vision, which
hindsight after the event always
gives, q Republican leac6r now ad.
nfits this. President Harrison in his post
mortem on the corpse, SAYS, Just as we
Democrats have been saying .at MS party
lyUs the victim Of AicHinleyisn,, which is a
more extreme form Of protection than He-
publicans themselves would stand.
ut was magnsnimous in the President
10 admit this but we are compelled TO re-
coCnize the fact that his diagnosis Of the
case is correct. The Republican party was
and is the victim of its repu6licanism.
"NO party in American history has had
q grander leader than the Democratic
l. = ~i. 70 ai oh
In him is embodied the highest type of
American .citizenship-the highest type Of
citizenship possible under Democratic
institutions, and consequently the
highest type Of all-the plain,
resolute man, devoid of selfish EN-
bitiOn, patriOucally loyal to his country's
good. in sympathetic touch with the great
mass Of the people and determined to make
life easier for them, unbribed by flattery
and uuawed by power, intexiole in his de-
votion to a lofty ideal OF duty
NrJOnes then went on, "Fellow Demo-
Gratis, the victory won last TuhSday was
more than a victory, 1T was revolution.
II marked the opening Of a new era in
American politics.
Democratic Illinois means that Indiana,
Wisconsin, Michigan Iowa and Minnesota
viii soon be securely Democratic, and
even OHIO may get in If she tries it again.
with the great States Of the central
West Democratic the Northwest will join
hands with the Southwest in closing the
Democratic circle and then it will be seen
of all men that the Democracy has come
West TO grow up with the country.
II have nothing 10 say against New
York She did gloriOusly in the campaign
Just ended ButI believe that we shall all
likeit better when the time comes, as / be-
lieVe il will come, when we won't have 70
look at all New York Democrats through
glass that magnities about a hundred diam
eters.
Heretofore when the Democratic fac
tious in New York City got 10 scratching
and caterwalng over some petty local mat
ter the Democrats of the rest of the coun-
try have had to get up with hair standing
on END and ask in fear: Is the party
smashed and have we all gone 10 the dem
milton bOwwowsN
''Now the New York factions can squab-
bic to their hearts content and no more at
tention will be paid to it than to similar
sCuables in St. Louis or Chicago.
1T was not q wholesale political condi-
ton. when one presidential election after
another with all the stupendOus con-
sequences hung upon the carrying Of one
State.
1T distorted the relative Importance Of
States ana the relaJlVe Importance OF party
leaders. Perhaps the greatest and most
far-reaching significance of Tuesdays vic
tory is that il lOoseus the clutch Of New
York upon the throat of the party and
transfers political control to the sunset side
of the AllegEenies.
1T means an emancipated party, dis
euthralled West and magnificent future
of prosperity for this great Mississippi
Valley"