The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-11-15
REED as A pnornEE.
rhs warning He Gave The DsmoeFaH
Recalled In Striking Way.

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Recalled In Striking Way.
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minls.ra,iOn and the Democratic party
By the American peOpleiS unprecedens'
ed in its force add unanimity. But the
Democratic leaders esunotsay tina; they
did not have fair warning. The Press
repeatedly pointed out during tho OBJ
stinate battle on the tarih that the pas,
cage Of the bill which the people nGo
already condemned would assure1ly
bring about sweeping Democratic de-
feat in every northern state. Ex-
Speaker Reed, in that memorable de.
bate in tho house on August Is. ioretolu
in mastery sentences that were pro-
phetic the overwhelming catastrophe
which the treaciterous and Incompetent
Democratic managers we're preparing 10
bring upon their party. On that occa-
sion VII. Reed said:
"The gentleman from West Virginia
and his compatriots appear before US
now, not as the triumphant retormers,
marching TO glory At the sound OF their
own sweet voices. They arc little babes
in the wood, aud 1t will be found pretty
soon that they were Ief. there by their
uncle in the white house. And can
hear the coming OF the little birds bear
ing the ballots that are TO bury. them
out OF sight. But their fate Is OF small
consequence, Their disappearance IS
the least Of this event.
"ireat God! has not this country sui
fered enough during the past twelve
months, that these men should come
and assure it that these ravages are TO
continue? tell you, when the peo'
pie OF this country get an opportunity
to express their opinion OF It you VIII
listen to it moro intently and with sad
der hearts than you have to-day.
wish could congratulate the country
upon something, and | wi!l--upon the
speedy departure Of inconpetoncy.
"You will cry for the mountains to
fall ION you after you have passed THIS
bill. You know you are in the last
ditch, bat l want TO tell you that yon
are in the deepest part OF that ditch
The Democrats OF the house, con-
scious of their own dishoror, knowing
that they were defying the will OF the
people, aware that their course was alb:
soIuteIy indefensible upon grounds OF
Justice and patriotism, endeavored in
vain to howl down the great Republi-
can leader as he outlined the fate oil
their party and pointed to their own
political extinction. But Thoms b.
Reed would not be howIed down. His
fearless words rang like clarion above
hostile shouts and Misses. and they are
echoing yet in the ears OF democratic
politicians as they contemplate, IN
panic aud amazement. the mighty ava
lanche OF ballots under which their
party is submerged, Grover Cleve'
land, as he read the returns which
told that his administration had
been condemned US no other
administration had beon condemned IN
American history, must have been una
Bile to shut out their sound. William
L. Wilson, as he witnessed his own
state torn from the Democratic moor
ngs and carried bodily into the Repub.
lican columns, must have recalled with
acute humiliation that scene which lie
and his followers listened in powerless
wrath and dismay to the indignant
prophecies which pictured the punish
mont in store for them. The wreckers
Of American prosperity have Indeed
been buried, and buried deep. In all
tho list OF prominent Democratic repre-
sentatives hardly one has escaped.
Wilson, Bynum, Springer: Dockery,
Harter, Holman, HatGhIs and many
others almost equallyfT known are
upon the roll OF disho4o. lid defeat,
Kentucky. Missouri. fTennessse. West
Virginia and North Carolina have rein
forced the solid north in the patriotic
task of crushing the party whose abom::
Unable tariff policy ,ha8 impoverished
the whole American people Thomas
b. Reeds prophecies ave been fulfilled
to the uttermost w4rd. The people
American institutions and given Repub.
lican principles the most magnificent
yindication they have had since the Sec
ond election OF Abraham Lincoln.