The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-23

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steady lusre; ana when the people O
the United States saw the star .theI
rejoIced with exceeding great Joy.
To the roll OF our illustrious heroes
Paul Jones. Truxton Hull, Decatur
Lawrence, cambridge, Oliver Hazard
Perry, Matthew Perry, and brave rug
ged, old Farragut, was added the namI
of dewey"
We are here to-day to cordially well
come ADMIRAL Dewey 70 West Virgin.
1 "a, and to say to him, not only how
much we respect and love him az 9
man, but how much we appreciate hil
courtesy In assisting US to dedicate
with appropriate honorS, the tablet
erected by the state Of West Virginia
to the men and women who defended
Fort Henry.
With Admiral Dewey In Manila Bay
was q young officer Lieutenant Dod-
bridge, who was born and reared IN
this city. We bid him cordial vel
come home. His friends and admirers
have presented q handsome sword,
which will now be presented to him.
Cheers greeted the orators tribute to
Dewey and Doddridge.
SWORD EG9HeuGA1Vua
Chairman Brockunler next introduced
Rabbi Harry Levi, whose speech pre-
senting the Intelllgencer sword to Lieu
tenant Doddrldge was one OF the fea-
lures Of the meeting. The speaker vas
most eloquent and dramatic, and his
cllmaxes were always effective-fnany
times the audience eheered the senh-
ments expressed. The rabbi said:
History tells US that when, during its
Egyptian campaign, the French army
within eight Of the pyramids, was
checked in its victorious march by the
famous Mameluke cavalry. Napoleon,
gathering close his men and pointing
dramatically to the massive portraits
TO the early greatness Of the Pharoahs,
Dried: '.Soldiers, forty centuries are
looking down upon you" It's g Tar
cry from the French Revolution etp our
own day, yet unconsciously, perhaps,
but none the less significantly, these
words recur now, as with hearts beat
ing and bosom swelling with patriotic
pride, we have gathered in wei nigh
countless numbers on this memorable
day, To be sure, unlike the soldiers
to whom Napoleon addressed himself,
we have not come armed for offensive
warfare No pyramids look down upon
us, yet we, too, have to-day ceased TOT
the moment our onward march, wnere-
on success has been tempered put nttle
with failure, and have, for the prlet
time that we would halt. determined 20
find. not in the centuries. perhaps, but
IN the century, in the few years that
look down upon US, since deeds which
to-day we recall were done, an inspira-
ton to greater and Grander and more
glorious work than ever has been
ours. We have come here to recall
him whose soul one hundred years ago,
winged its way henvenward; him to
whose life and work we owe 1t that We
stand here at this hour, citizens Of
blessed America. We have come here
to commemorate in fitting form, the
part our own city, then village, play
ed in the drama OF revolutionary
times. We have come to do honor unto
the man, under whose guiding genius
the greatest victory in our late war
was won, man whose success across
the water was responsible for the brew
lty of the only struggle that America
has known for three decades and more,
and last. yet assuredly not least, we
have mnssed here In,such dense num-
bers to pay tribute to what one OF our
own has done to reflect credit on him
self and state, and to mark in lifting
form our appreciation. =
From time TO time when, on May l,
1898, there sounded "the shot heard
round the world" the shot that shat
tered Spain's colonial power, and un-
furled victory's banner above an Amer
lean feet in foreign waters. fEqm that
time Wheeling has never ceased to be
- Ahnt a. fnn NJ
resented at the first work done in be-
half Of a down-trodden and oppressed
people, and that In that work. one bred
in its midst, and by 1t sent forth to
serve in his country's defense. should
have conscientiously, nobly bravely
contributed to the result there
achieved. Wheeling is not bombastlc
enough to boast of the ships Lieuten-
ant (then ensign Doddridge' sank, or
the fleets he captured, or the batteries
he silenced. Not he, but body OF men
OF which he formed but a part body
Of men directed by the master expert
in naval lines, who sits before us, must
be held responsible for oil this. But
because Lieutenant DoddrIdge did not
OF himself win the battle OF Manila
makes us honor him none the less. We
glory In him to-day, not because we
can poInt to the visible results Of his
Industrious work, but because. during
those trying moments. when shot and
shell were flying furiously, he stood by
MS post and did his duty rs only
brave sailor could have done 1t. Had
there been ships for him to sink, he
would have sunk them. Had II been
his to silence the guns which Delched
forth their dendly contents, ne would
have sllenced them; but It being given
him 10 perform certain DEFINITE duties
he performed them earnestly, honestly,
conscientIously, and IN doing 30 neceS-
sarily rIskIng his life to have his work
we'll done, he contributed, no less than
the men behind the guns, to the victory
won well nigh two years ago.
Not UnappreciGted.
lieutenant poddrldse. the citizens of
wheeling arc not unnppreclatlve Of the
work you did and the manner in which
you did II, when the Spanish American
war began. They know that tits for
every man to do his duty under all cir
cumstances. whatever the results,
whether commentator and apprecia-
ton come to him or not. They know
that tho trIest reward for duty we'll
done is the consciousness OF having well
done It. They know that that con-
seriousness Is yours and TINT nothing
that they can do. can intensity It. But
at the game time, those same citizens
are not unmindful Of the fact that
what you have done has resounded to
their benefit. In bringing honor upon
yourself, you have shOwered It upon
them. In having shared dangers nnd
Victory with Dewey. you have show
cred your native city with some OF the
glory he has received In battling for
ciples, you have contributed TO the