The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-07

greenbacks enough to flood the land.
When an honest old Democrat looks
through the platform to find some OF
the old time structure, where can he
fnd a place put his foot. They. have
abdicated the old platform and, abjured
their old distinctive principles.
The speaker then proceeded to review
the New York platform in the light OF
Its surroundings, referring to the char
acter of the men who composed the
Convention and how the nomination of
Seymour was comprised. 1t was be-
side a conglomer alton of absurdities..
A greenback platform and an anti
greenback candidate for President
standing on it. An anti-negro resolu-
ton and an original abolitionist for
Vice President, who boosted that he
was the first to raise the standard of
abolition in the South, who voted for
the Liberty Party in 1913, boasting then
as his brother Montgomery did the
other day, that tour family were orig
inal abolitionists. A mplimentary
.(ff it may be so.called) clause to the
soldiers and sailors, and a man as the
standard bearer who denounced the war
In which those soldiers fought as "un-
constitutional.n These soldiers were
therefore murderers; and in the ex-
tremity of these soldiers he denied the
constitutionalitY of the laws to rein
force tho army and told the mob In
New York he would send his AoJutant
General to Washington to stop the
draft. Full of pIatitudes and extrava-
giant eulogies of the Constitution is that
New York platform: and yet the cdI1dI-
date for President on that platform de-
clGred to Judge RulgLes OF Ne40 Hors,
that the Confederate Constitution !0Gs we
better of the tiDo and recommended me
adoption of that as q settlement OF the
whole question of the a0dr. That is what
they are going to give us now II these
men down South get control OF the
Government. EH
That kind of Inconsistency seems to
have been contagious. 1t has got down
dates. They bitterly denounce the
bondholders, yet they nominated for
Governor, we understand, the larg-
est bondholder in the State; and their
cry as they follow their standard bear
er around the State is, "Down with the
bloated bondholders J" And yet the
placard on the back OF that respectable
gentleman in full view, is II am the
biggest bondholder in the STATED" So it
is over in our congressional district
the largest bondholder there except one,
is candidate for Congress!
The speaker then referred in detail TO
the make up of the New York ConVen-
tion: referred 10 the crocodile conven-
ton at Philad'a, from which Vallandig
ham was excluded, though Val. was
good enough to be at New York and to
lead the movement that slaughtered
Chase and made Seymourthe nominee,
in obedience to the Southern rebels.
him of description in Barke's cele-
brated speech on finances in which he
describes the administration of Lord
Chatham. Mr.. Burke said:
"He made an administration SO check
cred and speckled; he put together
ind nW
and whimsically dovetailed; cabinet
so vAriOusly inlaid spch piece of di,
veTsilipd mosaic; such II tesselated
pavement without cement; here bit
of black stone and there bit OF white;
patriots and courtiers kings friends
and republicans, wings and tories;
treacherous friends and open enemies 5
that it was indeed Il very curious show,
but utterly unsafe to touch and insure
to stand on. The colleagues whom he
had assorted at the same boards, stared
Mt each other and were obliged TO ask
Sir, your name ?-Slr, you have the
advantage of me- Mr.. Such-a-one. Il
beg u thousand pardons.' venture to
say 1t did so happen, that persons had
a single office divided between them,
who had never spoken together in their
lives, until they found themselves, they
knew not how, plugging together, heads
and points, in the same truckle bed"
profess to understand the details, but
there were n few general principles that
all might comprehend. The old DEM
ocratic principle of gold and silver as
the basis of currency was the true one.
The Republican party in Congress. de-
parted from that basis during the war,
because the emergency compelled 1t to,
with perfect understanding that as
soon as possible after the war ceased
the country would return to a currency
convertible into gold and silver when
ever the holder desired it, which is the
only departure from an actual specie
basis that any country can safely ven
ture upon. The credit of the country
was beginning 10 authorize progress in
that direction when the Democratic
party began the agitation of the re-
demption of the public securities
in inredeemable treasury notes-wlItch
was virtual reputation. That ahated
confidence and produced the feverish
anxious feeling that has ever since e1-
listed. The public faith is the basis OF
every nations prosperity. Undue in
fation of the currency always destroys
industry, disturbs the true political
economy of n country and brings ruin
ing to business men who have 1 .hope
turned your attention to this matter;
and If you have not, it is time you
were doing 1t. Look into any we'll d.
gested treatise on political economy
and you will find what am stating
as recognized fundamental mnxims
of every country's political economy.
Look into history and you will find
every scheme ever attempted 70 enable
the Industries of country 10 be pro-
secuted or any other basis than gold
and silver as the representative of
values has been q fRilure and disaster
has followed in its footsteps.
In regard to the payment of the pub
lie debt, il any of the securities were
by contract or Implication to be paid in
gold let them SO be paid. III any were
fairly contracted to be paid in green
backs let them be SO paid, and no Diff
Guilty about 1t. Let us go to work to
build up the industries of the country
extend the debt over reasonable time,
instead of attempting to pay it .'as
rapidly as possible" as the Democratic
an opportunity to recuperate; and in a
few years population and wealth will
have so increased that relatively the
burden ofthe debt will begreatly light
ened. In the meantime stand on the
naked Obligation and maintain the
public faith. As it is "nominated in
the bond" so let uspay it.
The speaker alluded briefly to the
operation of the present system of tax
alton compared with the Equal taxa
ton on every species OF property ac-
cording ito its real value" proposed in
the Democratic platform, showing how
the change would transfer the burden
from the wealthy to the moderately
poor, and to the necessities instead of
the luxuries ofllfe.
But the overshadowing question after
all was whether we shall have Peace
or War. The Democratic platform and
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