The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-17

sr. LOUIS, Nov. l6.-Despi!e lowering
skies and steady drizzle OF rain sutti.
cient to dampen the ardor OF any but an
enthusiastic party man, electric lights
never shown on more enthusiastic
gathering OF St. Louis Democrats than
that which gathered in the great music
hall to testify their appreciation OF the
results of November last, and do honor
to Adlai Stevenson, vice president-elect
Of the United States.
The speech of tho vice president
elect was very brief, contonting himself
by merely returning his acknowledge
ments tor the honors OF the evening.
He said:
"AIR. President AND FELLow CITIZENS
Il eau only say from the bottom OF
my heart thank you for the cordial
treatment you have given me tonight
] accepted with pleasure the invitation
Of your committee to meet with you,
to mingle my rejoicing with yours in
the great victory we have achieved. |
congratulate you upon the fact that
you did stand up for Missouri. APP
plause. And trust you will not for
get that we stood UP for Illinois" Ap'
plause greeted the close OF the generals
remarks, and it was some minutes be-
fore silence was sufficiently restored to
permit the introduction OF Mayor f. A.
Noonan. The mayor was brief, and
was followed by Hon. Charles 4. Jones,
OF the st. Louis Republic, who made the
principal speech of the evening dnd by
lar the most sensational one.
His dcf to New York was particularly
pleasing to the Missouri audience and
the declaration that the time had come
for the western Democracy to assert
itself provoked great applause. Col.
Jones said: "This is a glorious
year for Democrats. II there is
any body in this audience who
is not Democrat would advise him
to become one just for the sake OF feel
ing good all over. AS general rule
man has to get religion before he can
enjoy the satisfaction OF feeling what
ever he believes is right and what
ever the other fellow believes is
wronc.s But he can revel in this
feeling this year simply by being
Democrat. On every question that
entered commandingly into the recent
campaign the Democratic party was
emphatically right and the Republi-
cans radically wrong. With that mar
velously clear vision, which hind
sight after the event always gives,
Republican leader now admit this.
President Harrison in his mortem on
the corpse says just as We Democrats
have been saying, that his party was
the victim OF McKinleyism as more
extreme form OF protection than Repub-
licans themselves would stand.
Mr.. Jones then went on: Fellow
Democrats, the victory won last Tues
day was more than victory, it
was revolution. 1t means that
Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Mich
igan, Iowa and Minnesota will soon be
securely Democratic, andeven Ohio may
get in il she tries again. With the great
states OF the central west Democratic,
the northwest will join hands with the
southwest, .inclosing the Democratic
circle and then it will be seen OF all men
that the Democratic party has come
west togrow up withthe country. Ihave
nothing to say against New York
She did gIoriously in the campaign just
ended. But believe we shall all like
it better when the time comes, as ! be-
lieve it will come, when We wont have
10 look at all New York Democrats
through glass that masnities about
hundred diameters. Heretofore
when tho Democratic factions in
New York city got to scratching
and caterwauling over some petty local
matter tho Democrats of the rest OF the
country have had to get up with their
hair standing on end and ask in
fear: as the party smashed, and
have we all gone TO the demnition bow
vows" Now tho New York factions
can suuabble to their hearts content
and no more attention will be paid to it
than to similar squabbles in st. Louis
or Chicago 1t was not wholesome
political condition, when one presi-
Dental election after another, with
all the stupendous consequences, hung
upon the carrying OF one state.
1t distorted the relative importance OF
states and the relative importance OF
party leaders. Perhaps the greatest
and most far reaching significance Of
Tuesdays victory is that it looseus the
clutch OF New York upon the throat OF
the party and transfers political con-
troll to the sunset side OF the Alle-
ghenieS.