The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-08

tMlssihslppin and It's outpcsts in Mime
sofa, Floridh and Oregon EApplhuse.)
az sticks Ike q tar-heei (applnuse) down
IN the old north state. and IL wrltes 16
to Ton theiBaddlc-bhs OF tho Arkansaw
traveller. n loud npplauscl)N}1 1T pours
down It's riytlets from tho mountains OF
West Virginia. and Smakes a grcnti lake
In New Mexico. Arizona, Wyoming, Id
nho, Utah. Nevada. Montana and Colo
RADIO 1T stands guard ehround the ma
tonnl capitol IN 5tha District iof Colum-
bla tcheers) and II camps on the from
tlcra OF loklhhotna. II sweepsfiike a
prairie fire over Iowa and Kansas, and.
puts SupS q rcd llh.- on the confines OF
Nebrnekn. u marshalss It's massive bat
ftallons8 IN Ohio. Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri! ~
Last, but by far from least, when /
see this. grand }arraygnnd think of tho
British gold standardithat was, recently
%lnfurled over tho ruins OF Republican
promises ut st. LoLis, 1 think, too. of
tho battle. Of New Orleans, of which 1t
WINS Enidi There stood John Bull In
martial pomp, but there was old Ken.
ttucky."[ lAnplnuse)
Brethren OF the east, therci Is no south:
there is no north, there Is no east or west
IN this uprising OF the people for AmerI-
can emancipation from the conspiracy
OF Europeans kings, led on by Great
britain, whichtseeks to destroy one half.
of the money OF the world and to make
American manufacturers, merchants.
farmers and mechanics mere hewersl OF.
wood and dtawerslof water.
Only one Golden Thing.
There Is one thing golden, which per.
nit me. in the same good humor which
has characterized your conduct, to COM
mend to you here. It is the golden rule
to do unto others ae you would have do
unto You. eorget not the greed OF
devils, and that IN acqulcscence in the
VIII OF the majority. Is the vital prlnci-
pie OF the republic. Democrats, as YOU
have been Democrats,a as ! trust you ever
Will be, acquiesce gracefully In the will
of this great majority of your fellow
Democrats md only aslt to go with
them. ms they have. often gone with you.
applause Do not forget, gentlemen,
that for thirty. years We have supported
the men that YOU have named for Pres
ldent, SEYMOUR Greeley, Tilden, Ham.
cock, and twice Grover Cleveland. DO
not forget that we have submitted
cheerfully to your compromised plat-
form and repeated pledges OF bl-metal-
Ism, and have patiently bore repeated
dlsappolntments as to their ful1llmcnt.
Do not forget ut the last national con-
ycntion OF the Democratic party in 1892
you proclaimed yourselves to be In fa-
vor OF the use Of both gold and silver
as a standard money Of the country. for
the coinage of both gold and silver
without discriminating against either
metal; and that the only question left
open was the ratio between the metals,
Do not forget-iand I refer to the fact In
no inferior sense-that just four years
ago In a Democratic convention In this
city. the New York delegation, stood hero
solidly and ~immovablyl for a candidate
committed to the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver and gold ut the ratio
OF 16 to !. And II we are still for 1t,
let 1t not b~eSforSotten that we have 1t
In some measure to their teachings. CAP
plause.) That we owe much; gentlemen
of the east, Is readily acknowledged and
will ever be most gratefully remember
cd. We owe you much, gentlemen OF
the convention, and for what we owe
you Of. the east Is the force bill, and the
Mckinley bill, and the Sherman Inv,
the triple infamy Of Republican legisla-
ton. The first was aimed not more at
the south than at the great cities OF the
east, and chief among these the great
Democratic city OF New York. That
bill got Its death blow in the senate, but
there was not: a single Democrat In,
New York or New England to vote
against It.
Dead Issues.
II you gentlemen have helped to save
the south, 1t has also helped to save you
in the cast; but whether the south
should be saved. or not, these great
American Republican senators from the
west, Teller and Wolcott,, and your
Jones and your Stanford, of California,
sank their partisan feeling on the altar
OF their patriotism and came forward to
the rescue of American institutions.
No man: gentleman. in.this high noon
OF our country's fraternity can revive
force bills now In this %reconciled and
reunited republic. Our opponents them
selves have abandoned them. There Is
none that can stand between the union
OF hearts and the union OF hands that
Grant in his dying vision saw was COM
ing on angels wings 10 oil the sons of
our common country. When Chicago.
dressed southern graves In flowers, she
buried sectionalism under a mountain
OF fragrance. When southern soldiers
Oh Yesterday. cheered the wounded hero
OF the north in Richmond, the south
answered back: Let US have peace;
peace. union and liberty now and for
ever"
as the majority OF Democracy is not
sectional. neither does 1t stand for any
privileged or classed legislation. The
active business men of this country, Its
manufacturers, merchants, farmers,
sons or toll in the counting room. fac
tory, field and mine, know that con-
traction of.the currency sweeps away
with the silent and resistless force Of