The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-20
GEN. APATHY
Is RUSHED
TO THE REAR.
Twenty-Five Hundred People Turn
Out to Hear the Issues Of the
Campaign Discussed.
GREAT SOUTH SIDE MEETING.
/ Addressed by Col. E. q. Fitch and Dr..
q. a. Payne, the Eminent
colored Orator.

Old general Apathy. whatever his
eminent services In the past. has been
Z sent to the rear on the gallop, SO far as
Is he relates to the Republican campaign
B In Ohio county. This was demonstrated
to the queens taste at the Fitch-Payre
mass meeting held last night under the
( auspices OF the South Side Republicans
ON he:racant lot on Thirty-nrst street.
2 No less than 2.5e0 people turned out to
hear the issues discussed. and more
enthusiastic crowd could not be de-
i sired by any public speaker. Both
Messrs. Fitch and Payne made excel
lent speeches, and each was met with
the generous applause Of the audience.
The absence Of Hon. j. Hampton Hoge
: OF Virginia, was generally regretted
butit cannot be said that he was miss
I. ed. Mr.. Hoge became III and was una
Bile to fill his Wheeling engagement
County Chairman Hornish received a
telegram to that effect oaly yesterday
afternoon.
The Eighth ward company OF Rough
Riders marched up town to the Mcclure.
fifty strong. headed by their drum
corps, and escorted the speakers 10 the
meeting place. All along the route there
were crowds lining the sidewalks, and
the enthusiasm was quite pronounced.
Colonel Fitch.
y. NJ. Bowler was introduced by
County Chairman Hornish as ch.-. ,r,,.. (.
of the meeting, who called the meeting
TO order, and introduced Hon. E. H.
Fitch. OF Huntington, the Bald Eagle
Of .cabellr
Mr.. Fitch said this meeting clearly
showed that old General Apathy has
been sent to the rear. The campaign Is
now before US and soon will come the
finale OF the ballot box. The Repub.
( lican party. he said, has more than re-
deemed the promises OF 1896. Formerly
ethe paramount issue was the protective
tariff: In 1883 we won great Victory
on that issue.
In 1892. under the benefcence OF the
: Mckinley tariff act. the condition was
= one Of great prosperity. but the people
became careless in that year, and Cleve-
land was elected. Then came the Will.
son tariff act-followed by ldlaness,
desolation. despair, soup houses and
I Coxey. In 1896 Mckinley was elected
by an overwhelming majority. But IN
z. that year the tariff was not the issue
they were silent on that matter-lu-
q stead they brought forth the great
4 panacea OF ZIG to L." and the new Moses.
William Jennings Bryan. made some
predictions, He said prices would fall
to pieces II 16 to was defeated. But
{ has that prediction been fulfilled? Au,l
SO with all the dire prophesies OF Bryan,
4, Instead. Republican success has brought
such an era Of prosperity as we have
never before witnessed. We don't sec
three or four persons hunting Job;
three or four Jobs are hunting the man.
The treasury reserve has been restored.
and our finances are in the best OF con-
dition. And our dollar Is worth loo
cents the world ovor. The spindles are
singing their glad song Of prosperity.
(Cheers.)
Mr.. Bryan is a theorist. an idle
dreamer. and he stands ADMITTEDLY a
false prophet. He cited an instance In
the case of the Ensign car works at
Huntington; during Cleveland's admin
istration 1t WAS idle twenty-five long
months, but since the Mckinley era or
prosperity 1t has not been Idle fer
lt1yPnty.two niniiteS doy mr. NIGHT
(Cheers)
In that awful period OF distress he had
seen dignifed American workingmen
q receive aims rather than starve. But,
now thank God. another party has re-
Versed such conditions. (Applause)
The War with Spain.
SInca 1896 tho circuIatIon bns becn In
creased from sci to SEQ DER capita All
this notwithstanding tint wa wrrc
plunged into an expensive war. Not a
war OF our own seeking blu, war thar
i eaue In responea 10 The cry os c,,b, ard
because the ,reacb,rous Standards hlcv
I'M thc Maine Then the Democrats IN
Congress crip, for ,var prcslden, Nc.
Kinlcv s,oos out for ncoca and onlv
q consented IN declarn war when II cou,d
not be aycr,ed II was n outck var
VIZ whinncd sn,in In inst 100 DAYS Tho
sneakers mention NJ pooseva,, nj
San Juan was pre,es with rreot on.
thnsI,sm NJ R-vor ,ho;,,ht wo,, =,
The war. RI, bIm,n,, commIss,onod !,
colonr, ona WAS nbotoyronhed IN GOV.