The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-12

wheIning verdict OF last Tuesday
week. we can. II needs must be, say
for Vermont, as Lowell said OF her
sister commonwealth OF MaSsachu-
sei:~
rut Of o1d deed, she nccG not bras
How Gllp broke sword and fotter,
Fling up again the dear old flag,
She'll do yetmoro and better.
Major Aettiniey's ,,e.pon,..
Major Mckinley spoke az follows:
"Mr. Chairman and Fellow C!tizens:--
I give you welcome, generous welcome.
from an overlooking heart 10 my state.
my city, and my home. I would be un-
Just to my own feelings and irrespons!ve
TO the kind sentiments uttered by your
spokesman. II permitted to pass unob-
served the fact that In the preliminary
contest for the nomination OF President,
the state OF Vermont gave to me her
united vote. (Applause.) The Green
Mountain State Is endelred to us all by
tradition and history. song and story,
but above all In good work manifest In
glorious results. Whether in the days OF
the revolution. when her hardy noun
talneers repulsed the best soldiers OF the
world, or In the rebellion. when her SOL
dlers displayed the same reSolute cOur-
age at Big Bethel, Crampton's Gap.
Saynge station, or Gettysburg, or In the
no less important and decisive conflicts
in civil life, the people OF Vermont have
always been true 10 the best ideals and
highest obligations OF duty. and active.
distinguished and useful In every great
emergency. No one will deny TO them a
glorious part in achieving the Indepeud-
ence OF the colonies. None will question
n ri aIH h.
slons OF human slavery and In the final
triumph OF the union in the hour OF its
greatest peril. (Applause) Nor in
our later trials will any doubt that tho
example and voice OF Vermont havraI-
ways been most potential on the side of
Justice, honor and right. (Cheers.)
Some OF the newspapers have asked me
to interpret the result OF the elctInns In
Vermont on September l: but II seems TO
me that they are their own best inter-
prefer. (Appinuse.) They have sim
ply declared what every student OF your
history must already have discovered,
that your thoughtful and patriotic citi-
zens are as true as ever-aye, truer than
ever TO the tenets OF good morals. good
politics and good government. (Grent
applause.) They have shown by their
ballots, by greater preponderance than
honor OF the government, to the main
tenance OF law and order. and the testo-
ration OF that sound. wise and economic
system. which has always been our chief
pride and source OF strength, than Mt any
previous period In our eventftll career.
(hpplauss.) The value Of your exam
pie Is certainly greater than ever in the
past, rs the Issues upon which your VIC
tory was won are the same as those
which now engage the attention Of the
entire country. The free silver orators
and organs of Vermont, lily concealed,
II they did not positively assert. what Is
being proclaimed everywhere, that their
solicltude Ia the relief OF those who might
temporarily profit by degraded currcn-
cy. no matter at what sacrifice OF the
plainest precepts OF good morals. In no
case and at no point do they propose 10
pay our national and private obligations
on the plain 0ld-fashIoned principles OF
good faith and honesty which have al
ways heretofore distinguished the
American people. (Applausc.) PRhC-
TlCALLY ADMITTING THAT THE
EFFECT OF TIE FREE. TSLINIT-
ED AND INDEPENDENT COINAGE
OF SILVER WOULD DE AN M
MEESE LOSS TO THE SAVINGS AND
RESOURCES OF OUR PEOPLE.
AND THAT ITS ADOPTION WOULD
REDUCE THE PLANE OF THEIR
SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL COSD1-
TION. THEY YET SERIOUSLY PRO-
POSE THAT WE SHALL RISK THIS
HAZARDOUS EXPERIMENT. YER
MONT HAS SAID IN TONES THAT
CANNOT Re misunderstood
THAT SHE WILL HAVE NOTHING
TO DO WITH THAT FATAL l2XPER-
IMENT. (GrRt applause and cries OF
Good, Good.") Indeed, they arc urg-
Ing us TO attempt by legislation to make
fifty cents worth of silver TO pass cur
rent ns y legal tender onc-hundrcd cent
dollar, good for all public aud private
obligations. The mere statement OF the
proposition ought 10 lead 10 itR instant
rejection. We can not by law make
every man honest, but We certainly will
never make q law encouraging them 10
be dishonest, (Applause.) To me the
question OF free trade Ia n question OF
humanity, th, voice Of labor pleading for
It's own; and the question OF free silver
q question OF public morality. honor and
good fhith, and It's success would be n
blot on our hitherto spotlcss national
credit. (hpplausc,)
lviII Not Fnitsr Now.
"0bscurc the real Issues and It finally
resolves Itself into that, but will It pre-
vail? answer forever no. (Cheera)
The American people, ns n nation. like
those OF the state Of Vermont, are on
tIrcly above 20 unworthy nh imnntation.
(Applaukr.) 4 people that could, as n
weak and STRUGGLING cOnfCderacy OF less
than five million inhabitants. emerge
from an eight years war OF blight nnh
destruction and proceed Immediately to
gather up and pay of ltH enormous revO-
lutiOnary debt. Including the i1dcpcnd-
Cnt debt Of oil the stateS, aEErcgating
tl35.OOO. co., or 127 per capita, at the time
OF It's assumption, will not fnlter Mt the
present temptation. CHEERS and cries
Of That's right.D 4 people who would
tax themselves most heavily TO equip
and maintain the armies and nnvIas Nf
the Union and continue the most extern
Blve and expensive war In history. will
not turn their backs upon the soldiers
0f that wnr. nor seek TO pay their pcn-
I!ons IN dollars worth only half their
fac" value, (Grcat cheering md cries nr
"toud.O a people who emerged from
that var with nm interest bearing
drbt OF 3?.9S2000. 900, or so per capita.
for our entire population IN 1865, win not
nov, after having honestly paid three
fOirthH OF that Errnt debt, eyer sock d.
rectly or Indirectly 10 rcpudlato ono dol
lar OF II or chcapen the coin Of payment.
Applause and cries Of Good, mnIor.")