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Clay, a Sound Currency and Protection
20 Mome Labor.


Correspondence Of the Tribune.


DAYTON, Oct la, 1917


Gentlemen: want you to know something Oh
cur doings out West, and yet | hardly know no"
% inform YOU. In DAYTON we've had Conven-
sion.-Nol The word is too modest, too tame en-
tirely to express the idea. We've ad @ame"
food. pELUGE after the fashion OF Noah $, a
gathering together of humanity and mortal ele-
mon, rever eouaed in the valleys of the West,
,., nor !, the valleys, nor on the hill-tops, of
the Easr, the North or South. Here were con-
,,ecate1 MEN from almost every quarter of the
Union, from Boston, New York, Baltimore, Phila-
as,phia, New ORLEANS, St. Louis, Detroit, Cleve-
land Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and onward and inward
swept the circle bearing every thing before it,until
jtcentred in mighty focus on the banks of our
proud Miami And not from the crowded jam
of cities alone, not from the hot swarms of fierce
politicians, and the dusty crowds of the vicious
multitude that throng our large cities No, we
were not flooded with these. The perfect peace
and harmony of the elements marked the charac-
,et Of the multitude. There were congregatea the
bone and sinew of the MIGHTY WEST, the farmer
mechanic and laborer, who cana up to hear the
watchwords of truth; men who know their rights
and show by indications too strong to be misun
derstood, that they dare maintain them. They
laid down their implements of husbandry, and,
ike .the patriots of '76, assembled to vndicate
and establish the rights of freemen. They left
their farms,-the beautiful valleys and the hill
sides poured forth their thousands, the whole West
teemed with animated ife as if reused by the
spirit Of freedom and moved by its mighty breath
(. But my pen refuses to do its office. A specimen
of the enthusiasm Of the PEOPLE cannot give
you. And the only way ] shall approximate to
true description of the Doth, (no mean the 9th,
esth 29th and 30th of September y will be to give
you few extract, from my diary. | ana almost
too tired to do even that, but here you have it,
Tuesday, Sept. 81, begins to be decidedly en-
photic. 200 streamers and flags with their mot
toes wave beautifully over the city. $50 market
wagons surround our market house, and thousands
Of our citizens are laying in food for feeding 100
4 and 900 guests each, as Joseph of Egypt laid up
against the years Of famine. Carriage and stage
loads by the dozen are driving in. Already the
streets Of our little town present the hum Of a
crowded city.


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than The Western country has ever witnessed. De-
legations fill our streets. | can't begin to de-
scribe the various types and embems that passed
through our streets from every department OF in
dustry, and every branch of the mechanic arts.
Flags, steamers and stretchers, with their same
old cpossn their ingenious devices, and the vari-
GU. animate and inanimate emblems of Western
interests streamed aloft from thousand stand
: ards. According to the law OF elevation and de-
preston, contraction and expansion, the wings
being up the Locos are dcWn, IN the mouth ana
mack Wing Democrats have their upper stories
lighted up with ardor and animation; Loco Demo
cra,s have theirs lighted up with cigars to ban
tsk tbetr regret and cheer their arooping' dis
consulate spirits.


Al Nigkt--Four stands in different parts of the
CITY are now occupied by distinguished speakers
who are listened to by thousands and thousands
could not stop to hear them, but as | passed l
caught sufficient of the fragments, and heard the
long, loud bursts of applause, to learn clearly that
the Ere Of 1910 is not only kindted upon the
hearth stones of the country bat it is blazing to-
wards Heaven, and glares most fearfuly upon the
enemies Of the country. They read by its light the
hand wiring upon the wall. | have omitted to
mention that our opponents had GRAND RALLY
on the oath. The big calibrcd guns all present
Allen, Weller, &c. A large estimate gives them
abou. 1900 men in the rally, Daytonians, (Whigs
and all.) Mr., Weller wound up with the appeal
Z for Democrats to do as the French once did when
their ship was sinking; "rally around your leaders
the. ship goes down, cry, long live, long live,
The Republic. So let as cry our Democratic
ship begin. to sink, land guess it has Long
live! long live,! our Democracy" Butt digress
Speaker SourAGArE, of KY. says the people of
bis State " must gire back that banner





will be the memory of this day! 100000 freemen
assembled in the valley of the Miami to do honor
snd justice to their country, themselves, and their
great Statesmen. Well may we be proud OF The
day, the time, the occasion, the object. Old
home herself has ruus her proudest hurrahs Ger
scenes far less brllian, and patriotic than this.
The order OF arrangement was given 10 the peo-
pie days previous TO the assemblage, that every
one might have at leas, glimpse Of our g HAR.
& RY OF THE WEST" as they should pass BY him
in procession. Early on the day the tide began to
How rapidly onward. Hours rolled by, and still
they came, the solid mass moved on their winding
way like the lava stream from the exhaustless vol
cane. A solid mass surrounded the stand eager
% see the great Statesman whose name they had
50 long reyered One old man forced his way to the
Platform, and stretching out his bone and sinew,
grasPed the hand of Clay. Says he, :. I've come
long way TO see you, l havs heard OF you often,
ost never saw your face before. May you live, and.
hke Washington, be Father TO your country.
ne compliment and the grateful wish were K!ost
appropriately answered


ms move caused rush of people to shake the
Statesman by the hand, and with great difficulty
the narshals could succeed in restoring order.
At this moren, a.gentlemaas (Mr. Crt,enden, 1
eelieve) crowded up and informed Mr. Clays at
senaants on the platform ohio's two sons, 4. The
Wagon Boy and Salt Boy,"-that it would
take all day for the procession to pass, and Mr..