The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-03
The ISSUES of the Coming Election.

Ihe ISSUES OIL the coming EtectiOu'
If the Radical party succeeds at the
coming election, we shall have the fol-
lowing results:
l. The bonded debt will be paid in
gold, instead of greenbacks, and $780,
000,0O0 will thus be added to our in
dobtedness.
2. The debt will become a permanent
institution, and every fifteen years we
shall pay the immense principal in in
terest alone. in gold, leaving the prin-
cipal untouched.
3. S2,500,000, 900, which ought to be
employed in building houses, boats,
railroads, and put in foundries and
factories, where it would give millions
of people employment, will continue to
be locked up in bonds, where it will af-
ford no remuneration to any but the
holder.
4. This immense sum, one-fifth OF all
the property in the country, will contin-
ue to be exempted from all State and
local taxation for generations to come,
and the burdens it ought to bear will
be transferred to the restof the people.
3. We shall continue to take up the
debt (legal-tenders) which bears no in
terest, and add to the debt which does
bear high interest, and is also free from
taxation.
6, We shall every year pay to the ma
tional banks $4,000, 900, in gold, for
furnishing the people a currency which
the Government could give them in
legal-tenders without costing a cent.
Z. Money will be made scarcer, as the
bondholders desire that the greenbacks
should be called in, so that they can get
their pay in gold. Money being scarce,
prices will be lower, and employment
more unremunerative; taxes will be
higher, and the times harder upon all
but the bondhOlder and the banker.
8. The bondholder will receive one
hundred cents on dollar for what cost
him forty cents on dollar, besides OBJ
tanning about fifteen per cent. interest
on his investment for five years, togeth
er with an entire exemption from all
State and local taxation.
9. Negro suffrage will be continued
upon the South, at the point of the
bayonet; seven or eight States will be
controlled by negroes, who are in the
majority, and negroes will be elected to
Congress and fill the various State
offices, legislative and judicial.
10. The Southern whites will emf
CRATE in large numbers rather than be
ruled by negroes, and we shall have
south of the Tennessee new Africa or
Hayti as a political partner in the
Union.
II. Trade with free negro States
amounts to nothing, and from it we of
the North and West will derive little
satisfaction.
II. The Frcedmen's Bureau will be
maintained at frightful cost in the
South, and the negro who is unwilling
to work will be maintained, as now, at
the Government expense.
49, A large standing army will be
to keep the people in sub
lection, and to pay it, in addition to the
interest Of the public debt, will require
that stamp taxes, income taxes, taxes
upon business in every shape and form,
shall be collected from an impoverished
people.
If the Democratic ticket is elected the
debt will be discharged as it falls due,
in greenbacks; money will be plentier;
the bonds will be taxed, as other prop
erty, until they are paid off; white men
will alone rule, vote and hold Office in
all the States the Freedmen's Bureau
will be abolished, and the negro will be
obliged, like the white man, to work
for living; times will be easier, and
prices will be higher; labor far more
productive, and prosperity will pervade
all branches of industry throughout the
country. Voter, which of these pro-
grammes do you prefer G-ERquirr.