The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-15
Pelidleton's Speccl, the Subject OF
Captain Dovcners Talk
TO TIE CITIZENS Or BENwo0D
Last Errning-ineon,istrnsy or "Johm
{ o." Position Clearly shown by tho
sCap,alnS-Iargcst Meeting Ever Held III
Bsawooi-Elk,ns Cadets doing to Cans
ton friday-sl,.footer. Order Uniforms.
Senator EiklnS Illness. d

) - that held by the Republicans there
last night, aud Captain u. Il, Dove
4 nsr never made bctter speech than
! he. did upon this occasion. ZIG
1t was tho original Intention to hold
\ the meeting In the city hall, but the
crowd was 80 grpat, that the meeting
was made an outdoor afrair and the
stand from Which Senator ElkIns
spoke, situated Just across tho street
from the city hall. was hurriedly TRIM
med and put In condition for tho speak
ing, The crowd that assembled oc-
,4eppled every inch OF the space in the
big lot and all stayed until tho meet
Ing was at an end. Every point was
applauded to the echo and In fact 1t
was the most remarkable meeting ever
held atithat place.
The crowd even surpassed In num-
bers the memorable Gofr meeting IN
- 1855 and measured with the Elclns
) meeting held on the Same grounds. 1t
was larger by several hundred.
The loyal members OF the Atkinson
Z Club, OF the Eighth ward, and the Nc
I, ktnley and Hobart Sound Money Club,
Sa,dnnnr.crs ,n,ici Sue 20, ,SS,I. Sr,,t,,
cornsi - pS,,.n.'S ~, W ar,' .a,,.nn
With nnn,o,,ss ,,',,o, ~ srr,,,,S IN,
msnbar. ~ ,hnsa Ivy. ''eSa tyatIN.., Ia
ssrwr crs1t, ,,r ,b,, t n.suast tSou ,,an.
Z syScs, In ,h,, ot,,,Inn "' 'eI ~, ,snnot
) fbcv nsvcr S,iI w my nh" ..nlo. a. nm,
part OF the city or for that matter with
in four miles OF their club rOOmS
nj nc 'ee'ins'
:, 1t was after O'Clock when Mr.. John
P. Jones, OF Benwood. called the meet
IN, m or,I,- ,,a i,..I,,co5 N,
" '''''ou' o. @
ehairti'ah me next Sheriff OF Marshall
county, James c. Doyle. who WIS re-
Is ceiyel with harry o,nlaus, AIR
APP
osie NJ Jew appropriate WORDS pre-
scented the speaker OF the erenIng.Cap-
tain b. b, Dpvener, and the crowd ten
+ dar,d him n, oy,,L n, s,annc5
" do
iorwaFu 10 ADDRESS the meeting.
W. Captain Dovener said he felt greatly
Ihon9red by the presence OF such a
4 large crowd. and especially. on account
OF the short notice given that he was
TO speak there last night, He had been
: assured by the committee that the peo-
Z pie would be there all right. and he
< SAID: Sure enough, yJu are hare"
The speaker then waded into Mr.
PeRdleton's speech made In Benwood
q Saturday night and the way he tore II
y. was greatly enjoyed by all present.
n with the exception OF n few popocrnts,
who were not at all in q good humor,
Y IN beginning Ills speech. Captain Dow
ener. invited any person In the crowd
~ ~ 4 4
It would be answered, As soon us he
began talking about J0hu O.. m idol
+ dear to the heart Of the average Ben
wood PdpocraI. an ;ncbrlatcd gentle
= man In the crowd took exceptions 10
what he said. and Captain Dovenpr
never had more fun In his life, than
:; he did with that man and neither did
the crowd
The speaker referred the speech
Inadt. by Mr.. Pendlcton and compar-
cd 1t with his utteranccs In the cam
pa.En OF 1882 when he spoke in Ben
wood At that time he told the peo-
pie what they wanted WAS free trade.
q and II they would only vote for free
trade and Grover what glorlous times
we would have In this country. NV
men would have more work and better
wages and such Il thing as strike
tbin% ,nG th"t ,yos1 a. w 'wo"IS hc no
strikes why: Because there is M
person working now u inaugurhte a
s si Il" sme ot1. pdrt u. nis
we'll ,hat thew were S, not verified Can
tain Divener also spoke In Bcnwo0d
lin ,1Ssc. and last night !re quoted from
that speech In which he predicted ex-
~, "a MOL,
should the Democratic ticket be sue
cessful
1t Is the same man and the same
Y party that Is once more trying to de-
celve the people into voting for u fall
lacy, but the voters OF the country
/. will not be fooled again. The people
! are aware It Is not the money that has
! caused these hard times. but the want
OF work to earn the money. He told his
hearers OF the amount OF silver mo-
ney coined each Year since the pas
sage OF the Bland Allison act In 1878
and compared II with that coined IN
the eighty-one years previous fie
also showed the amount OF money In
the treasury vnults at the present time
unca!led for and unused merely be-
1. cause there Is no demand for labor.
p,ul,,ton,. Record
ro,, r,,,or., -, 49,, ,,,,, 49,,
Iapta''l NV 'htn ''uh '''" Wy
Mr.. Pendleton's record on the money
question In Congress- and reminded the
+ crowd TIA, he bod hccn o,.c,od on n
+.
free SILVER platform ana H'ade Speech
in Congress condcmninG the Issue as n
ronk fallacv Can,,i, Dovcurr rcad
extracts az the sprcct, as /, vas print
4 ed in the Wheeling Register, August
"a, 1888, To read thai, speech now With