The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-23
The Prospective President-His Opiu.
ion OF Negroes and Foreign born
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The Prospective President-His Opiu-
ion Of Negroes and Foreign-boru
Citizens.
The Ohio Republican State Conven-
tion adopted a resolution indorsing
Wade. The Convention also resolved
in favor of deposing President johnson,
and putting Wade in his place. Wade,
according to the Convention, was,
next to Grant, the great man of the
party-the representative of its mea-
snres, principles and spirit. As far as
it dared, the Convention worked up TO
Wade. In regard to the taxation of
bonds now exempt, it did not meet
Wade face to face, but lodged behind
his back. Wade had said:
"They (the Democrats) talk of tax
ing these bonds. When q man talks that
way, look him in the face JUST AS
YOU LOOK IN THE FACE OF A PENI-
TERTIARY BIRD. / WOULD NOT
TRUST SUCH A MAN AS THAT IN
MY SHEEP PASTURE AFTER DARK "
The Convention resolved that all
bonds hereafter issued should be subject
to taxation. That prevented Wade
looking "penitentiary birds in the face"
should he hereafter meet any of the
But the Convention neglected entire
ly what is Wade's specialty-negro
equality. 1t gave that the go by. The
party had had enough of that at the
late election. But, though the Conven-
tion did not indOrse directly Wade's
speciality, it Endorsed him, and indi-
rectly indOrsed his political sentiments.
What his political sentiments are he
let the people of Ohio know last fall and,
therefore, the Republican Convention
that indorsed him were not ignorant of
his political views.
In his speeches, Mr.. Wade instituted
comparisons between the fOreign-born
citizens and the negroes-always in
favor of the latter. He said:
81 know that of the great numbers
that come up to the polls many are
very ignorant. They come here from
foreign country and we give them the
privilege to vote when they knOm no
more than the horse you drire."
And that, after five years residence
and FIVE years study and experience
of our institutions. But the above is
incomplete without his opinions of our
negroes. He says:
"As a mass, in my Judgment, they
(negrOes) are better qualified to discharge
their duties under this Government than
the great mass, equal to them in num-
bers, that we have always permitted to
vote"
And further and particularly as to his
opinion of the intelligence of foreign
born citizens and negroes as voters, he
says:
IL am glad to say that these people,
whom your Legislature has referred 1t
for you to say whether they shall be
voters or not, are infinitely ADORE the class
I.have alluded to (toreign-born citizens)
in all that intelligence that qualities men to
rOte right"
That is what the Ohio Republican
State Convention indirectly indorsed
when it directly iRdorSed Wade himself
Wade is likely to be President by par
tisan il. peachment Of Mr.. Johnson. lie
will 90 into the White House with the
convictions he expressed on the stump
last fall in Ohio, that the negro is better
qualified TO vote intelligently than is
the foreign born citizen after five
years residence; and that the great mass
O1 our lOTelSh-o oorh ClilLehs are as lSho
rant as the hoisrs we drive! And there
are thousands of foreign-born citizens
-voters-in this country who, when
Wade shall become President, will
throw up their hats and shout, "Hurra
for Wadcw thereby proving most con-
clusiyely that. so far a. thoy are con-
cerned, Wade was not so far ont of the
way.-Enquirer.