The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-09-15

candidate for House ID AlaFsliall!y The
meeting was presided over by, JOSEPH Il.
OGLEBAY, Esq. The feeling was enthust-
astic, and both speakers and audience
pleased wrth one s.sqEotthserSI ~ g ava
The Meeting Last Night at the Court
d FTq FaHOUse.h. ,t,Ih.1 oT
The "grand rally" Of the Democracy,
TO hear Mr.. DAVIS, the Democratic can.
didatc for Congress in this District, came
of at the Court House last evening. Very
great efforts had been made. K, gather o
largo crowd, rFhepeitss ll4l bean pISy
carded from endito END ,iaad i lttassiband
sent forth duIcct stFains from the Court
House stops, after a heightened appeal
from the Court House bell, Yet, when
the crowd Had ali asbembledl,hcfsi was
still 4 good deal Of room inthe old tehl.
pie Of justice, and much Of that occupied
was taken by Republicans attracted by
curiosity to see what fiianner Of man the
speaker might be.
J Ex;Mayor SWEENEY presided over the
meeting and introduced Mr.. DAVIS, who
spoke for about an hour and half
Three -fourths Of his whole discourse was
devoted to the negro. He went over the
usual appeals made by Democratic speak
ers to- the prejudice ofrace md color
There was nothing new in his discussion
Of the topic unless it was his declaration
that there was as muchdiference between
the white man and the negro as there was
between the negro and the monkey. He
wanted to know how his hearers would
like to see monkeys voting. BE conceded,
however, that there was this to besaid in
favor OF the negro, that he had soul
while the monkey had not. This
brilliant sally and an allusion TO
Mr. REvELs, the Mississippi Senator,
!4as the s'great big. .thick-lippcd, Ratnosed,
E!klnky-haired negro" (for the credit Of the
auditory VIC regret to say ELECTED more
applause than anything else the speaker
said. We are not attempting q synopsis
Of the gcntleman's remarks, butoit we
were, it would require much more space
than we have at present command to
show how he ring the variations on the
poor nego-h6w he manifested at every
turn his d6tcstation Of him-how he ar
gued that tue white man was the natural
ruler Of the world, and especially that,
part Of 1t that was not white-how' the
endowment Of thenegro with the ballot
gave him the right to hold Office, II the
people chose to elect him to, Office mot
otherwise, as he corcedcd)-how social
equality WAS inevitable sand fluallS amw
Mr.. suMNEn's bill protecting the negro
in public places was sureto be enactediat
the next Congress, and how society,
schools, everything and everybody, must
then go straight to the {" dcmnitioh bow
vows" ~ c!gs ,.hap1T 955s
Mr.D&vis did not discuss the Fifteenth
Amendment, but, contented himself with
denounCinG II Us a fraud and "the Ctilmi~
nation OF all the ubiquitous legislation en-.
acted by the Republican party" He
did not gall1de at ,all9 to the proposed
Amendment to :the State Constitution,
though he had something to say about the
disfranchBed white element in the State.
Z After cxhausting himself on thesnnola
fendinElneur6ahe concluded shis ,discbA9sel
by attehbtIhgsa feeble adtsCuSsioH Of the
national finances. He didn't enter into
the subject deeply rnOrf with the conf
dence OF q man who knows what
he Is talking about. He was In
favor Of gedeeming the 5.90s with green.
backs iasS fast as they came within the
opti6hbt thS Government u redeem them,
though he did not tell us where the Gov
eminent was to get the greenb4cks to do
It. He wdhtedi the Federal Government
to tax It's bonds, and said he favored tax,
ing every kind Of property equally forget,
ting evidently. how fatally this proposition
told against the Demo oCratiCp party ID, 1885,,
Hc touched tho land, gralts Question, very
briefly knowing perhaps that the, Demo-
cratic record was not CleaEn On that qGes:
tion and that Il wouldn't bear discussion.
Some oil his statements about the finan.
ces wereEsoi inexact as to create tho i'm
pressionth that his study df that subject has
been very superficial. We cannot exam.
inc them at anylength atpresept but lnay,
recur to them again; AT present we will
mention one instance as a sample, of. his,
method OF dealing, with NJ financial
questions. He declared that despite
the official statements that the public
debt had been largely reduced, it had not
In fact been reduced at all. He said that
instead OF being reduced In the last year
from July /, 1860, it had been increased
over seven millions 6nd[t TO provsw swhatihe
said read from Mr.. BouTwELI's report,
showing that the total debt and
interest July1 1860, was but g ,645, ,00Oig
900, while tho total debt and interest
july /, 1870, was $2,859,000, 00,00L
A statement that stopped here, rs Mr.,
Davis did, Is false and deceptive, and
trick so easily exposed was hardly credit,
able to tho gentleman's sagacitY Or wdr-
thy Of his reputation. "Total debt, prin-
clpal and interest,"" as stated in tho re-
ports, includes the bonds bought in by
the government, and therefore paid. Il
Is also less by tho amount OF money in
tic treasury. July 1, 1869, there were,
only, $ss07 900 redeemed, bonds in the
| treasury, and these, with $147, ,30O,O 600 In
the treasury, arc to be deducted 70 show
stated by Mr.. DAVE, leSs $166, ,167, 900, or
1 A9. $50 OlO 600 but InlY 1. 1870, " the