The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-02
THE MAIN MEETING.
Mr. stevenson at tho Grand-Ho is Dis
appointment.


Dir. stevenson at tho Grand-Ho is n Dis.
appointment.
Mr.. Stevenson was escorted to the
Grand Opera House by the Young
Mems Democratic club. The house was
filled when the meeting opened. DR..
A. F. stifel was called to preside. On
the platform were also 7. S. Riley, j.
W. Nichols, A. A. Franzheim, Charles
Rixey, A. D. Garden, W. @. Handlan,
Robert Simpson, ]. G. McEldowney,
Gibson Lamb. c. W. Brockuuier, Judge
]. W. Kennedy, Hon. ]. b. sommer-
vile, John Corcoran, DR.. j. A. Camp
bell, r. A. McCabe, and others. The
Democratic candidate for state senator,
Mr.. Tarr, stood up in the. hall till an
INrELLlaEScER man called the attention
OF leading Democrats to his presence,
when he was brought upon the stage.
Mr.. Stevenson is taller and Simmer
than one would think from his pictures.
He is older, too, his hair being very
gray, almost white, and the top OF his
head bald. He is stopped little in the
shoulders, and the back OF his neck and
head are almost a straight line, upward.
Beetling brows, a more prominent nose
than portraits give him, and q big gray
mustache add to the ensemble an APP
pearance OF premature age. His head
is remarkably small even for slightly
built man.
His gestures are almost entirely with
the left hand, the index finger extended,
and the others clasped. This hand was
seldom at rest.
ADLAI BROUGHT OUT.
Dr. Stifel, in brief, but very grace
full speech, frequently interpreted with
applause, introduced Mr.. Stevenson.
The enthusiasm with which the vice
presidential candidate was greeted is
seldom exceeded anywhere. Time and
again it broke out anew, and cries OF
Stevenson" alternated with yells Of
"Hurrah for Cleveland"
Mr.. Stevenson expressed his high APP
probation OF the reception he had re-
Ceivad, and then proceeded to consider
the issues involved in the present pres
idential canvass. He quoted the alleged
euogium on Cleveland by Chauncey NJ
Depew, whom he pronounced the great
est Of living Americans. This quota
ton was, of course, cheered to the echo
Mr.. Stevenson and.%his audience both
had evidently overlooked the remark
OF Mr., Depow, printed in The associated
press reports in all the papers yester-
day: 1.-THE peculiar thing about that
speech is that never made ii.
To this quotation Mr.. Stevenson
added an eulogy OF mis- own, so enthusi-
astic as to be almost fulsome. He said
when Cleveland left the presidential
chair he left a surplus of 100000, 900.
After three and one-hRlf years OF Re.
publican government the question had
ceased to be what shall we do with the
surplusP and has become, how shall we
provide for deficit.
He denounced the Fifty-irst Con-
gress as havingmade lavish, unwise and
unnecessary appropriations. 1t had
also passed the Mckinley law, and this
led to discussion OF the tariff. The
Democratic party, he sud, does not ad-
Vocate free trade. It recognizes the TACT
that SS0O,000,0 900 at least must be raised
every year to meet the wants OF the
government when honestly and eco
nomically administered. The Demo-
cratic party recognizes the needs Of
labor and OF capital, but to take money
from the masses with one hand and
with the other bestow it on favored
few is no less robbery because done I'M
der the form OF law.
THE OLD PRINCIPLES.
The Democratic platform this year
sounds like an old Democratic platform.
II IS return to the doctrines OF Thorn
as Jefferson, when he stood up ior the
rights OF all the people.
Mr.. Stevenson then went into re-
view OF the tariff legislation OF the past,
giving the average per cent Of the first
and succeeding protection acts. OF the
Walker tarillot 1916 he spoke at length.
saving it was the tariff doctrine until
1857, when so happily had it affected
the American people that the rates OF
import duties were again reduced to 10
per cent, the lowest rate known since
the war Of 1912.
Then the speaker read from Mr..
Blainos Twenty Years in Congress, "
injecting comments between the sem
fences as he went along. This, he said,
was not an extract from any campaign
document but from sober history writ
ten when no political campaign was GO
ing on.
In 1861 the Morrill, war tariff law was
passed. When the war closed the Re-
publican congress removed from the
people the burden Of internal revenue
taxation, but not finger was lifted to
raise the burden imposed by the tariff.
Instead, the rates Of duty were gradual-
y raised. Four years ago the Repub-
llcans said the tariff ought to DO re-
formed, but they preferred that it
should be reformed by its friends.
When they got into power how did they