The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-10-10
rnE aRKAT CROWD.


All morning various delegations were
arriving, All manners of locomotion
were employed in getting the people
here, and they were here in legions. A
genuine Monongalia Republican rally
and love feast was the result OF the
enormous assemblage.
A bunting decorated stand was erect
ed in front OF the new court house for
the speakers occupancy. After march
60 aud parade, preceding the oEatorical
portion Of the programme, with half
dozen bands at good distances apart
and visiting the principal streets. which
we're gay with national colors and Day.
ton portraits, the crowds assembled to
hear the speakers, Messrs. Dayton, Elk
ins and sturgiss.
Mr.. Dayton's face Is familiar here.
He 10 an alumnus Of the university,
but was not, as report has It, student
under Professor Wilson. He graduated
previous to the time Wilson was made
president.
Hon. s. B. Elkins was the first speak
er, being introduced by Mr. sturgiss in
very neat speech reciting his worth as
o citizen and his distinction as states.
man. Mr.. Elkins was greeted in the
old time Republican way OF cheers and
they were cheers from hundreds Of
throats. He presented the business
side Of the protection idea, telling what
it's practice had actually done rather
than to theorize upon what any new
and untried species Of legislation might
do. He told OF the increased trade, the
upbuilding OF the home markets, the
raising OF wages and the savings Of
workmen due to thirty years ofpro-
lection.
CONVINCING EVIDENCE.
No better evidence. he said. is needed
to show tho good and benefcent re-
suits Of such a policy than tho depres-
sion resulting from the threatened tear
ing down OF this bulwark OF American
safety. He asked when in all those
thirty years federal troops had been
called out 10 shoot down American
workmen q was tho case at Chicago.
lie spoke for over an hour, and hls talk
was a convincing sermon on the truths
OF tho blessings OF the Republican attl.
tude in the matter OF tariff legislation.
MIR. Elkins took the position that ail.
yer should be restored TO its righttul
place as currency in this country, in.
timating that the prosent position ot
that metal is not satisfactory to him,
which ia somewhat different from what
his stand on the silver question is as
reported by some OF tho Democratic
organs not far away.
He sAid that the grand nothing
which ia sometimes called the German
bill Ia tho greatest enemy to all tho
people Of tho Second district that has
yct been devised, except Mr.. Wilson, as
Il aimed blow at every industrial GU
terpriae in tho district. He made the
statement that not q furnace had been
lighted, not saw mill had been started
and work in no coal minc had resumed
in tho Second district since tho passage
OF tho bill. lie denied that the mill
workers and miners in the Davis road
region had their wages reduced, but hc
did say that many OF tho men there
yore idle in tho mills because OF lack
OF orders, duo to tho importation Of
Canadian lumber. Mr.. Elkins' speech
was we'll received.
mr.. DAYTON.
MIR. sturgiss introduced Mr.. Dayton
by remarking that while both their
names had boon usod in connection
with tho nomination. Dayton was now
his candidate rs we'll as tho peoples,
MIR. Dayton asked Tho people TO re.
member that in 1892 Democratic pa
pors, as vol rs others, printed columns
Of nutter TO show that everything wns
most hopeful, and that tho year closed
was ono OF the most successful from q
husineRa atandpoint in tho history OF