The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-04-28

His address was impromptu, and in
part was rs follows:
"The last time I had the good fortune
to address this club this country was in
O state OF peace and prosperity. Work
was plenty, capital was rejoicing in its
productive strength. and labor was en-
joying tho right TO sell its service at
prices which brought happiness and
comfort to all our homes. The thirty
years which had preceded had wit
messed the gradual and steady rise OF
compensation for service OF both brain
and muscle, until every days work was
worth in results twice what 1t had been
worth since the last domination OF this
union BY southern statesmen and their
principles.
$50 firmly rooted seemed our pros.
perity that all our citizens thought it
beyond the reach OF heat and cold, and
all changes Of sun and weather, and
most men felt that it was beyond the
touch OF oven human folly. 1tseemed
to be beyond laws and beyond politics,
something inherent in the constitution
of things, something to be calculated
upon with unerring certainty like the
rise. and set Of suns and the regular
.motion OF tho planets and the eternal
stars.
ut is not. the sdisorganized crowds
(which seem 10 be aiming, butina an aim.
less way, towards tho capitol of the na-
ton; it is not the miils,runuing onlhalf
and quarter time and no time at oil,
nor capital pilod up unused at the cen
tres oi trade, nor even labor unem.
,ployod for noarly, year past, which
completes tho saddest portion OF the
picture. To me. tho sight most odious
Of all Ia the utter inability OF the people
TO reach,their own instruments and to
compelithesfu sfulfillmento OF their own will,
Here in q land where government by the
people was iondly hoped to havo found
its truest and latest expression, the
people'seerl to be powerless to control
their own legislature, and to correct by
sober reflection the mistakes Of the
most thoughtless day in American his
tory-the day when the present Con-
gross and the present executive wore
chosen to preside over the unhappy
destinies OF tho citizens OF tho United
States.
GOVERNED DY soUTHERN MEN.
"Why is this and what are tho causes
We're We left to the tender mercies OF
the northern Democracy, I venture to
say that no such condition could exist
for oven q single hour. II is because
we are under tho domination. I will not
say OF the south, but OF southern mon,
elected to Office without those safe.
guards which surround tho election Of
the northern Democrats. For the sake
OF the south itself hope to sec tho
next election bring us to an end OF this
unseemly domination. all election laws
have been repealed, and tho south hay-
ing been set free from fear which
never had any sound foundation, will
bo left at liberty to decide. hor destiny
according to her industrial needs, which
arc the samo as those OF tho north. In
stead OF set OF men who represent the
obsolete politics and principles OF a
dead generation, their successors, let us
hope, viii then represent what tho
north longs 10 see, an industrial, pros.
porous south full OF the life OF a new
country"
Addresses were also made by Con.
D. II. Hastiuga aud Congressman John
B. Robinson.
Letters Of regret wero read from Col.
Fred D. Grant. Governor William Nc
Kinley, Gen. J. NJ. Schofeld, Senators
Sherman, Hoar, Hawley. Cameron and
Allison. Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, James
L. Garfield and many others.