The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-13
CAPT: DANFORD
Opens the Campaign In Bcllnire
Before II Large Crowd.
lie MADE THE ISSUES PLAIN.
And Convinced the Audience that Tiirir
DUTY isto Continue to support the Party
of Protection nni Homes, Moncy-,iu
Repeats Ills Truthful Statements AZ 10
tho "CrImo Of '7a"-riir Meeting Opens
the Campaign Auspiciousiy.

Tho first Republican meeting OF the
campaign was held In tho Elyslnn
theatre In IicllRirc last night.
und II was an c%ye-Opcnrr to the deluded
m0rtnls who had laid tho ilatterinS
unctlon to their souls that the Rcpubll-
ans were Indifferent In this campaign.
II wac the greatest local meeting ever
held In tho city and the enthusiasm
mnnlfeEted left no doubt Of the earnest
Interest OF the Republicans In the cause
OF honest money and Il chance to earn
IT," llcatlorington's brass band FUR
nlRhed the music and every note seemed
to have ginger In II. The bnnd headed n
short parade aud the great crowd gath
cred at tho corner OF the square.
L. Mr.. a. II. Stewart presided at the
needing, ana II Was announced that DIS
Republicans Ind enrolled Themselves AZ
nctlve and earnest and ready to do all
In their power to advance the cause of
sound money and prosperity. II was
nl6d announced thnt Mr.. James Wilson,
OF the Bellalre nall works. and Hunter
s. Armstrong, OF BCllairc. would address
the Republicans OF Belmont ut any time
! meetings are arranged. The country
round about BCllnlrr IN MISC organizing.
~ NitAN'As VI NlE llt'llllH ilSL ltlkAN W III
continue MS officers OF the BellRIrc or
GanlzntlGn until IL subsequent meeting
HrrangGS details nnd selects n full COM
plcmcnt OF officers FOR vigorous work.
Mr.. a. 7. Stewart, chairman OF the
meeting last night, In u short but earnest
speech ndmonlShed Republicans to be-
MERIT to make the victory complete and
sweeping this fall. 80 as "a prevent dis
tirDnnCe Of business and consequent
distress OF the comnon people by rcason
Of such hercstcs az free silver. lie then
presented Hon. Lorenzo DanfOrd, the
congressman from the 0ver-the-rlver
district, who WAS received with a storm
OF applause. He was at his best and Rs
he took up the money question step by
step his convincing truths found hearty
rcSponsc from the splendid audience that
illlel the theatre. He ridlculed the
charge OF i crime In 20 and gave the
facts as they appear In the official record.
and he made the issue ms now presented
as clear as man can make 1t In one brief
speech. He struck n telling blow when
he said this nation could prosper only
when all the people p~rosnered. The pro-
gress Of the nation depended wholly
upon the prosperity OF It's people and this
Is true OF this nation more than Of any
other IN the world.
The Republican party, he said, had pl-
lotCd the old ship OF state for thirty
years upon the principles II stood for to-
day, and no people on earth cvcr pros
pered Ike the people OF America during
those years. No nation had ever adj
vanced as had this n during the thirty
years Of Republican rule. and 10 Insure
our growth in civilization and wealth,
the wages Of the laborer must be paid in
as good money as the b]ondholder gets.
His wage must b.. kept US they have
been under the protective policy. at the
highest notch known in all the countries
OF the world. Here he paid high tribute
TO the manhood OF Americans. Mlsled
sometimes through adversely brought
on by the whitening blight OF radical
changes In the policy Of the government,
they were honest in trying 10 learn the
right thing to do for themselves and
their country md he appealed 10 them
to learn wisdom from the history OF the
past, to find for themselves the truth as
1t was revealed In every radical change
that has ever been made in the policy OF
the government.
Captain Danford is so close to The peo-
pie, Mingling with them ms he does IN his
every day life. that his warning and APP
peal went home TO all his hcarers, and
the good seed sOwn by his splendid adj
dress last night will bear fruit In stimu-
latlng Republicans to more active effort
and In strengthening new recruits who
want prosperity through the safest
channel II can be brought.