The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-15
LAST MOTIFS INJECTING.
Eloquent Orators EntertaIp and Inforn
a Good Crowd.

treme heat and closencss OF tho atmos-
phcre. 1t looked to one who went up
tho stairway toward the door as II the
house was moro than packed, because
as many were standing up on tho out
side as occupied the seats. The pHrquct
circle filled up slowly on account oil this
mistaken impression.
Mr.. James K. Hall called the meeting
to order and named b, /. Caldwell rs
chairman OF tho gathering The first
speaker introduced was Mr.. W. IL. q.
Curtis, who made great speech.
MIR. cURTls's SPEECH.
Mr.. Curtis said:
Mr.. Chairman and Fellow Citizens of
Ohio County and OF West Virginia:-A
convention in this house this afternoon
nominated man for Congress whom 1
regard, and ono whom We all must I'D.
mire, as the grandest and most faithful!
type OF an American Republican that
the state OF West Virginia affords. In
deed, + may challenge the nation to pro-
duce more faithful Republican than
he. am. indeed, proud to know that
Ihad the honor to holp nominate aInan
to-day ms q candidate for Congress from
this First congressional district OF West
Virginia, and II live to cast my vote
in November next l shall help elect
TINT man, who stakes everything for his
party's interests and nothing for him
self. That true devotion to his party
which has characterized his political
career through several congressional
conventions and campaigns is the
grandest recommendation OF fidelity 10
party interests ever presented to this
or any other people. Ny fellow clti-
zens, you all know that l refer to Cap
tain b. B. Dovcner, tho "plumed
knight" OF West Virginia When |
stood before convention OF this people
two years ago, in the town OF Mounds
vile, pleading this mans cause, re-
member OF telling the members OF that
convention that Captain Dovener had
never sulked in his tent, and
mover would After the vote OF
that convention was taken, and it
was demonstrated that another gen.
tleman was the choice OF that
convention, and that Captain Doyener
was third time defeated for the nom
ination, l wondered II I had o'ershot
myself when told those delegates that
he never would sulk in his tent, but,
gentlemen, he was true to his friends
and true to his party. There Is not a
bit more alloy in Captain poyener's Re-
publicanism than there Is honesty in
the. alleged principles upon which the
Democratic party is fighting this politi-
cal campaign. After the result OF the
vote Of the Moundsville convention was
announced, and cries for Doyener were
heard from the representative men of
the First Congressional district, he
stepped forth and congratulated the
members OF the convention upon hav-
ing placed the standard OF protection to
American industry and free ballot and
an honest count in the hands OF man
whose character was highes than the
mountains, and who would not allow
that banner 10 trail in the dust. He
told III then that he Was one OF those
who believed whatever fighting We may
do before the nomination, when the
choice has been made he Is my man and
always was.
And if it was his blessed privilege to
be up under the flag, where he always
was, he would give no uncertain sound
when his political patriotism was APP
pealed to on behalf OF tho material ne
cessity Of his country as against those
who he believed advocated nothing but
obstruction and destruction, to this
country. You all know, gentlemen,
that no kept that promise. and that the
hills and valleys OF this First congress;
sional district echoed and re-echoed
with tho stentori0n voice OF the gallant
captain pleading his party's cause.
Gentlemen, We owed such man tho
nomination. 1t belonged to him. He
had earned it by his fidelity aud politi-
cal patriotism. The Republican party
Of this First congressional district owes
him its hearty support. We as dclcga-
ties to-day did our duty by nominating
him rs q candidate, and the Republican
party OF the First district will do her
duty OH tho Sth Of November next by
giving him tho old time Golf majority
OF 1854!
We have man who will meet John
o. on tho hastings in the Pan Handle
and follow him into the interior coun-
tics and capture his entire congregation.
We have man who Will tell those
people over at Washington City that 1t
Is the opinion Of tho people OF the state
that the distinguished West VirginiNn,
William l.. Wilson, was sadly mistaken
when he told his Democratic brethren
at Chicago that Republican success in
this campaign when we look to tho
party platform, tho party candidates or
the utterances Of the party leaders,
means that the people arc to BIO strip
ned OF their franchise through torCe
bills in order that they may BIO stripped
Of their substance through tariff bills.
We have man who will tell them that
the force bill, tit docs become a law.
will have no terrors for the people OF
West Virginia, as they are always used
to force bills, enough OF her citizens
having been stripped Of their franchise
in 1883, to scat fraudulent Democratic
governor. And that tho people Of West
Virginia want to be stripped OF their
substance through tariff laws, just like
those that have been stripping them
for tho last twenty-five years.
We wero indeed surprised that the
eminent Wcst Virglnian who was 50
highly honorod at Chicago could so
easily forget on a short western tour
what a protective tariff had done for
his native state. Had he pictured the
West Virginia wilderness OF q quarter
Of . century ago, which has been do
veloped into cultivated farms and pros.
porous towns under this Same law that
Is to strip the people Of their substance,
1t would have been more in keeping
with the facts rs they are. Those same
laws, which havo such stripping quail
ties, have given the people OF our own