The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-08
DANIELS SPEECH.
TnIry for Hill and Eituperntion for the
. - RcnnblIcnm NpnrtY. .


Republican Party.
Mr. Chairman OF the National DEM
ocratic Convention:-In receiving this
from your hands as temporary presid-
ing officer OF this convention. I beg
leave to express q sentiment which l
am sure Is unanimous that no national
convention was ever presided V c with
more ability, or with more fairness than.
by yourself. Cheers and cries Of "IIar-
rity, Harrity." 81 can express no better
wish for myself than that, may be
in some feeble way model my CON
duct by your model and to practice
by your example. (Chcers.)
THE high position, gentlemen to
which ! have been chosen Involves
4 great personal honor and a keen! re-
Z sponsibility. For the honor, 1%thank
you. The responsibility Iwould be
wholly inadequate to bear did ] de-
pend upon; myself. but your gracious
aid VIII make 1t easy and its burden
light That aid l confidently invoke
from you for the sake OF the great cause
under whose banner we have fought SO
many battles, and which now demands
Of us such staunch devotion and such
loyal service that / regret that my
name should have been brought In, wen
In the most courteous and serious COM
plication with that OF my distinguished
friend, the great senator from New
York. tApplause.)
But the very fact that l have per-
5mltted 1t to be done refutcs the sugges-
ton that has been almost provllcntialiyl
made on this floor that either I or
those whom / have the honor to. repre-
sent would ever heap indignltys upon
sthattbrave and illustriOus head. Great
~applause.) eNotcandId man, no dispas-
%sionate judgment, gentlemen. can ever
misnterpret your meaning. The senator
from New York himself knows, as you
know, and as ] know. that there Is no
personality In the prefcrmcnt which has
been Slvensto me. He must know, and
the whole country$that watches these
proceedings, must know. that; it Is solely
due toithe~ principle that this great ma
5orltyyof Democrats stand for and that
they know / stand with, them i2F(hD-S
$plause), and that ills given In the spirit
OF the constructions tried by these rep
4 resentatlves of the people from the
people, whom all Democrats will ever,
bow to as the surest and orlsinalsource
of all power The birth or the Demo-
6Gratlc5 pnrtyswas$ co EVIL with the birth
of the sovereignty OF the president. 1t
can never die until tho declaration of
american Independence Is forgotten and
that sovereignty Is crushed out. Great
a%pplausc.)
Where Daniel Letter Go.
] am happy, gentlemen; to know that
rs the majority In this convention Is not
personal neither In; any sense is:it sec.
tional Itqblows the palmetto and tho
Splnesi In Maine and Soithy Carolina. II
begins with the sunrise Inc maryland and
spreads Into n$sunburst3 IN LouIstan M
and Texas. (Applnuse.)
1t stretches in one 5unbrokcn column
across the American continent from, the.
Atlantic shores OF the Old dominion.
4ands Georgia, md 1t aheds dts Rsllyeryi
beams over the golden gates Of Call
fornin (applause); IS It sends f6rth!itsEpi3
oneersl from Plymouth: Rock and waves,
over the goldenSwheat fields of Dakota.
llt3haa It's ,s%trongholdgy In Alabama and