The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-12
LEWIS COUNTY.
No Rings, No Cliques, No Discussions
Right Versus WrOnS-DemOcr"ey
vs.. Republicanism--K Note or
the Fall Campaign Touched by Col.
BenJ. Wilson.

WESTON, Sept. 3, 1874.
Editors of the Register
Yesterday. the 2nd inst, Col. Benz
! Wilson, the Democratic candidate tol
! Congress, addressed large concourSc OF
people assembled at the court house. The
enthusiasm and eclat.'was exhibited in the
enumeration ofthe Numbers present. we
will let "Wolf' in the next issue OF the
Den,ocrat do it up. Your correspondent
! with pencil in hand wended his way
through the throng, and found coy
resting place. He was ~ child among
them taking notes. and here they are
and be jabers, We must print them. \ OF
have a brief outline Of the Colonel
address carefully noted, and so being
may it be Of service to the gentleman
who is the Republican candidate for tho
same position.
Col. Wilson, a gentleman Of tne phy'
siquc, a graceful AMI accomplished ora
tor, fluent, and at times grandly eloquent
opened his address BY COmplimrntlng
the people OF Lewis and stating that ne
was the chosen Democratic candidate
for Congress in this district-not the
candidate of::any ring, clique or faction
but of the whole Democratic party
He denied that there existed any such
organization as the Jacob Wing or
"Camdcn Ring" or that the party was
in any way bound TO the fortunes or
responsible for the actions Of either Mr..
jacobs or Mr. Camden. He has no
harsh word for any Democrat on account
of the vote he may have cast two years
ago. That is thing of the past. 1t is
the present and the future we should
look to. Great national questions were
now before the people for their consider
alton, and upon which they must in
dividually pass ut the polls this fall, by
voting for or against the candidate pos
sesing different views upon these great
and grave questions, being the prosperity
OF the people, and the perpetuation Of the
government. AS n republic it must
either be retained and pcrpctuatcd rs
Federal republic, ~ founded by your
fathers upon the theory of the constitu-
ton. as sustained by the Democracy, or
changed into single republic, and
thrown into dcspotism. To check the
centralizing tendencies of the present
administration, which are tending 50
rapidly to this worst of evils that could
befall a nation, is the mission of the
great Democratic party.
The speaker reviewed the National
barking system ut some length; the I'M
equal distribution of currency among the
States; the great eastern cities and New
England States absorbing the greater
volume Of money; the West and South
suffering from its scarcity. Yet no relief
could be expected from the Republican
party, that party being bound by its par
tv platforms to SULTAN the present bond
and banking system. The speaker adj
vocated the Pendlctonian system of pay
ing the public debt. The Internal Rev
cnue Department of the Government re-
ccivcd the attention of Mr.. Wilson; its
workings, its frauds, and lis corrupti"ns
were laid bare in maSterly manner.
The system of collecting the Internal
Revenues of the government was unequal
and unjust. The Middle, Southern and
Western States, paying largely more
than their proportion. The Eastern and
New England States were paying largely
less than should be demanded Of them.
President Grant, Boss Ben. Butler,
Boss Shepherd and the Washington ring,
were referred to in the happicst style OF
the speaker. The negro and the carpet
bag government of the south were shown
up in all their deformitics. LOUISIANA
election frauds, South Carolina oppres-
Sions. Arkansas Brooks Baxter war, with
blood. murders, rape arson, growing out
of mi>rulc in the South, and placing the
responsibilities of the existing evils NOR"
heavily upon the Republican party.
The civil rights bill Colonel Ben gave
most terrible overhauling. lie looked
at it in all its native dcformity; predicted
that should Republican body hr elected
to Congress this fall, the bill with MI It's
evils will he fastened upon the people.
He deeply dcpIore> even the
Thought Of so great an evil coming upon
Us. The consequences following Will be
total destruction of public schools, social
equality or war of races. The SOO,ooO
negro voters of the South demand the
passage of this bill from Radical Con-
gresS; that Congress is bound tn acqu-
cSrc and yield t. the demand or they
sink as party into oblivion.
Time and space will not permit me to
follow the speaker farther, but suffice TO
say. he was listened to with profound
attention by people constituting gentle
men of both and all political parties.
Yours, Ion.