The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-28


tho appointment oi committees, read
hia annual address. Among other ut
tGrancea was this; Our country at
this moment is passing through Altman
cial crisis with far reachipg results, and
with no immediate prospect OF solution,
business enterprises arc ut standstll!i
banks and capital in every form are be-
ing wrecked, and this is equally attribu'
table not ouly TO various causes easily
determined but also to the lack OF dcli-
nito policy on the part Of tho admins
tration, which makes 1t impossible for
the business community to plan for its
own preservation. Itis not enough for
the chief executive Of the nation to
counsel patriotism and quiet on tho
part OF citizens when executive lethargy
and indcCision means tho wrccking OF
private fortunes and the shaking OF the
nations credit"
Secretary Hedges read letters Of re.
grot at inability to DO present from e%.
President Harrison, eX.ViCe President
LOvi 7. Morton and WhitelRw Reid.
ex-President Harrison, in tho course OF
his letter, said:
~ have been acting upon o resolution
made before leaving Washington, that
would give the spring and summer
months to rest and avoid all public oc-
casions and addresses | hope your
meeting will be successful, and l think
| may add, without transgressing the
proprioties, that there is nothing in tho
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any great gain to the country as the re-
suit OF the inauguration OF Democratic
politics"
Ex.Vice President Morton says that
previous engagements prevent his At
tendance.
The letter OF tho Hon. WhiGelaw
Reid, in part is US follows:
"You find the country in an untortu-
nate condition. Tho duty OF every one
Of us is to do everything right in our
power to help tho President and Con-
gress to relieve the situation. Our
party will not be uniaithlul to that
duty. Mr.. Cleveland can confidently
count, in Congress and throughout tho
country, on more support in tho first
vital question oil tho day from tho Re-
publiCans he tried to defeat than from
tho Democrats he helped TO elect.
"The industrial situation is only
what most OF us have long beloved in.
ovitable. In An address before the ma.
tional convention OF your League, last
summer ~ Buffalo, had OCCASION to
say there was no intelligent business
man, no matter what his politics, who
did not know that the changes in the
currency and the tariff threatened by
our opponents, whatever their ultimate
consequences, meant, 0t tho outset, u
general disturbance and unsottlGment
OF businesst or at least eighteen months
That result is now upon us, happily al
leviated somewhat by the shrill pro.
tests OF certain administration spokos.
men that they did not mean what they
said and will not perform what thOy
promised,
"WhateYer thoy meant, or whatever
they meant 10 perform, tho demand Of
the hour is now, ~ i. has been every
hour since tho 4th OF March last, to end
the uncertainty and lot business mon
know where thoy stand. Congress, to
which body the constitution confidod
changes in the taril and currency,
could have boon called together in n
fortnight. The delay for six months or
more argues on his own part cxtraor-
dinary confidence in the superior wis.
dom OF the executive for meeting Il
crisis which has spread distress over
the country, or extraordinary fear Of
what his Democratic Congress might
do.
"a leading Democratic congressman,
Col. Breckenridge, Of Kentucky, speak
ing in Mr.. Clcyc!and's presence at the
last annual dinner OF tho New York
chamber OF commerce, just after the
election, said that it was the deliberate
purpose Of their party now to revise
the policy which the country had pur.
sued for the last 80 years. Why not do
it then? Why pit still and look on at
the continued robbery which they say
Is going on? For four months they
have tacitly approved 1t. For two
months moro they proposed TO sit still
without lifting hand to stop II. And
Rll tho time tho manufacturers and
indeed all tho business men OF the
Guuhblg hlc lltlN ~ hAlo bllluhb ullh tulu
that this robbery must stop; that the
policy OF tho last 30 yoars Is 10 be abso.
lutoly revised. We have u right to do.
mand that tho party in power end the
agony. A surgical operation should
not be prolonged for months"
After the reading OF Secretary
Hedges annual report the convention
unanimously adopted the report OF the
committee on resolutions. Tho to9o.
luton ayers constant belief in tho sys.
tom Of American protection and views
the present disturbance Of financial
conditions as resulting from lack Of
confidence on tho part Of the people in
tho present executive Of tho nation
and the dominant party In Congress-
fearing leBt the President aud tho
Democratic party may bo through the
FREQ trade principles Of tho Chicago
platform. Tho fear that the Demo.
cratic Congress will destroy tho pro.
tcctiyo policy Of the last thirty years Is
the chief cause OF the business hci.
fancy and depression.
After tho traugnciion Of sono routine
business the convention adjourned un.
I'll tomorrow.