Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-05
THE OLD FASHIONED
MEETING AT MOZART
Was n Success-An Eloquent speech
ba Hon. John o. Pendletoa-Rcad-
Ing of the DecIaratton-The Music.

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Was n success-An Eloquent speech
bq Hon. John o. PcndIeton-Read-
ing of the DccIaration-The Music.
The old-fashioned celebration at Mo-
Fart Park was a complete suecess, not
outstanding the fact that the storm
just before the hour set for the meet
ing kept down the attendance. There
were Ave hundred present when the
meeting opened, and constant arrivals
during the progress swelled the crowd
to 1000.
The stand under the trees on the sum-
NIT of the hill was handsomely embel-
lished with American flags, and the
cool breezes which were blowing made
everybody comfortable. The crowd sat
upon benches and tables and punctuat-
ed the speeches with enthusiastic an
plause. The exercises were opened with
a patriotic selection by Melsters' Band.
Then a male chorus, under the direc-
ton of Mr.. III. r. Bell, sang America"
accompanied by the band. In the alb
sence of Mayor A. T. Sweeney, the act
ing-mayor,
Mr.. Jesse sbnfer, Presided.
lie made a very neat and appropriate
speech in opening the exercises, and
was heartily applauded. He made the
announcement that Hon. C. L. Weems,
of st. Clairsville, who was to have been
one of the speakers of the afternoon,
was unable to be present. He then In
PRODUCED Mr.. Frank W. Nesbitt, who
read the Declaration of Independence
in a clear and forcible manner, bring
Ing out the significance of some senti-
ments in that immortal document in a
way that many had not before under
stood them.
When he concluded, he read the fol-
lowing message from Vice PRECEDENT
TheoG.re Roosevelt:
OYSTER BAY, N. <. July 2, 1soi.
celebration Committee, Wheeling, w. Va.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES with your kind
request of the 22d ut, / send you the fol-
lowing quotation from an article L once
wrote:
There can be no meddling with the
laws of righteousness, of decency. of NOR
atty. We are in honor bound to put into
that We are not to be excused If we do
not; and that in the last resort no mater
ial prosperity. no business acumen, no
Intellectual development of any kind can
atone IN the life of a patton for the lack
of the Fundamental qualities of co(Hage,
honesty and common sense
with best wishes for a most successful
celebration, l am
Very sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
when the applause had subsidized,
Chairman Shafer introduced the orator
of the day, Hon. John o. Pendleton.
Mr.. PendIeton's Address
hearers spellbound by his fervid elo-
quence, and wrought them up to a high
pitch OF enthusiasm by the patriotic
sentiments which he uttered with char
acteristic force.
After exercising his disappointment
and regret over the failure of MIR.
weems to keep his appointment, Mr..
Pendleton launched into his subject.
and dwelt upon the importance Of the
day which was being celebrated. He
spoke of the comparative size OF Euro
pean nations when Columbus sailed for
America, and now. Columbus was re-
garded as a dreamer, his ideas were rid
iculed as visionary, and he was even
derided as a mailman. The old feudal
system prevailed, and men were afraid
to venture away from the coast. To-
day a vast change has been wrought,
and civilized nations know all abou. the
rest of the world. The wilds OF Africa
and Asia have been penetrated. and
have not yielded to modern enterprise
and travel and discovery. The old civil
~lization of Europe finds west Of the At |
lantic a nation more powerful than
Rome in her palmy days, greater than
England at present, and stronger and
more influential than any nation that
rose or fell in all history. 1t is our
country, and to-day we celebrate its
natal day. We are proclaiming to the
world the eternal principle Of the
Declaration of Independence.
MI. Pendieton said that some CT his
listeners were familiar with the condi-
ton of the old world at present, but
unless they were students of history
they knew nothing of the conditions
when Columbus discovered the new
world. On the one side were the few
lords OF creation who we're depressing
the great masses Of tina people. Cosum-
bus discovery inspire them with new