The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-17
DEMocRArs AT FAInMoNr

Have n Big blowout saturday Nigh,--Ex-
Governor Taylor, Of Tennessee, Declines
to speak-CoL ~AAcCorklo Talks CalRm-
lily to n Prosperous People.
Special Correspondence Of nc intelligence.
FAfRMoNr, W. VA, Oct. l6.-Last
night the Democrats OF this county
made a demonstration here. The meet
ing, which was to be addressed by ex-
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, and Mr..
W. A. MacCorkle who wants to be gov
ernor Of West Virginia, was extern
siyely advertised and was attended by
Democrats from all parts Of the county.
Being Saturday night, the miners and
working classes In general we're a. iels-
ure and thronged the streets. More
than half OF them we're Republicans,
but they helped to swell the crowd.
Good feeling prevailed, and when the
Young Mems Democratic Club, hand
somely uniformed, paraded the streets
before the speaking, headed by the
Fairmont band, the members were
complimented by Republicans and
Democrats alike for their neat appear
ance.
The speaking was in the courthouse
yard and about 1000 people. were
there when the meeting was called to
order and Ex-Governor Taylor intro
duced. He spoke less than three min.
untes when, for some reaso or other,
he declined to proceed and abruptly
closed, saving to the chairman, "Pm
not going 10 speak here" Mr.. Taylor's
conduct was iuexplicable and was a
matter Of much comment.
Colonel" MacCorkle was then intro
duced and made his usual speech. AS
everywhere else, it was disappointing
to the Democrats who had been told
that MacCorkle was a great orator.
They were surprised to find him a very
ordinary speaker with nothing in par:
ticular to say regarding thu issues OF
the campaign. His speech was a col
lection OF assertions without argument
to sustain them, and the whole was a
calamity howl after the most approved
calamity pattern.
1t is no exaggeration to say that MI.
MacCorkle's remarks fell fat. It was
no kind OF a speech to make to q Mari
on county crowd. No county in the
state is more prosperous. Fairmont, in
particular, is experiencing an industri-
al boom, the like OF which has nev
been witnessed in the state, and when
MacCorkle averred that there was no
prosperity under the Mckinley bill,
people smiled and wondered what sort
Of a break the would-be governor wal
going to make next. Two glass facto-
ries in Fairmont protected industries),
built since the Mckinley bill, and just
beginning operations, a large new addi-
ton built to the town, made necessary
by the increase OF population, 175 new
buildings erected in the past year, new
coal mines protected industries(, not an
idle man in The Fdirmont, everybody EN-
ployed at good wages, the new city
forging ahead at a rapid rate, and every
body happy owe the prospect OF better
things to come, is the situation
here. Yet here was the Democratic
candidate for governor gravely making
the assertion that things are going to
the bow-wows under Republican protec-
ton, and working of his other calami-
ty chestnuts. Half Of his audience were
amused; they were Republicans. The
other half we're Disguised; they were
Democrats.
The meeting was successful except
the speech, which lacked the essential
ingredients, logic and t%ruthtulness, to
make it successful.