The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-08-05
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81 ......... y no carr led more
posains and more true Democracy in
! his two heels than you could inject
into the skulls Of the wholetcrowdin
athousand centuries, tho,i sh you
had the Keely motor to, work your
force-pump., Laughter. Irefer to
that renowned orator, hero and states
man, Clement L. YaliandighaM.s=s'
| Prolonged applause. Some years,
ago that crowd dobtained possession of
| the Democratic National Executive
Committee, and when the Democrat
/ ic party ofWcst Virginia, at the Me-
tional Convention in 1868, applied,
as they had a Alright to apply, TO the
National organization for aid in the
pending canvass to enfranchisc the
people Of that State, and remove the.
accursed test oath, system then hangs
ing over them, the Chairman of that
Committee, with the cold-blooded, Ill;
stinctive commercial propensity Of
his Nation, declared that they could
have all the aid they wanted if they
would give toNew York her candi-2
date for the Presidency, and support
him in the National Convention
The proposition was declined. West
Virginia adhered to her FIRST love,
George H. Pendleton, of Chic [Loud
applause. The Democratic party of
West Virginia worked out theirown
salvation in fear and trembling
| i[Applausc.l M H.. ~,
i have now to say that the men
who then stood ready to make mer-'
chandize Of theresources Of the party,
to make the enfranchisemcnt Of the
State the subject Of trick and dicker,
are unworthy the control Of the coun-.
ellis of an intelligent Democracy like
this of thespeople of Ohio. The De-
mocracy of Ohio, having entered into
this struggle of the oppressedagainst
the oppressor, have no compromise to
make with Mammon or the upstart.
agents Of European usufy apd:e9tors
Ition. No, sir; / say the. peepis 8
Ilthis,country hase ugympaS ~ II
The fears Of capital fseteaS''
scaFsotie5 ll.l " az. .-os1Ttss:sics
and commerce viii bring about an.
other financial reiatse.
They eyhay6compared. .tS65 and 1875
and they see that it was needless. and
needless contraction that. brought ru-
in upon the country and Scattered 50.
much distress among the people
They see that after two years Of steas
dy effort contraction hasfailed to re-,
store confidence, to repair its own
mischief, to renew and revive the
spirit and the life Of business.
They sec your furnaces and Your
factories standing idle and neglected,
or perhaps mortgaged and going for
a song under the hammer Of the auc-.
tioneer. They see properties out of
debt not paving one cent above the
taxes, and the merchant doing over
a dead business in an empty count
ing-house. All over the land is
heard the ceaseless tramp of home-
less pauperism, begging It's way
from door to door. There are one
hundred thousand idlepersons in the
city of New York, and about half of
that number in the city Of Philadel-
phia, despite the usual activity Of
her Centennitl preparation.
And are We to be told that we must
preserve supposed consistency and
march on straight to resumption?-
VIII we net be taught what our eyes
have seen? VIII we not listen to
what our ears hear? Willwe not feel
what our experiences realize? Must
we waituntil suffering gconqucrspride,
and misery goes forth in its naked
ness to beg the bread eaten?
In thcearly days of the Republican
party, when the National debt ques-
ton was not aquestion Of public i'm
portance, or of pressing importance,
and when a currency Of gold and sill
yer was consistent with public just
ice as well as with the limited busi-
ness of thecountry-Isay, Icsn hard
ly understand why, at that time, or
under like conditions in the future,
if ever. they should arise, our Democ-
racy should not demand a gold and
silver currency as basis the safest
and most satisfactory. But the man
who believes that Andrew jackson,
with all his hard-money notions,
would ever have beggared a Nation,
doubling the claims of its creditors,
doubling the debtsof the debtor class
es, and decreasing by one-half their
ability to pay, has studied to but lit
tie advantage the humanity of his
nature, or the stern, infexiblc just
ice Of his character.
If the property of this country and
the labor of its peoples are notof suffi-
cient value to give us a safe and am
pie currency, in this crisis, in this
the hour of need, then your boasted
National wealth is q dclusion and q
snare. Your specie producing terri
tory viii never prove adequate to-
give you a gold andsilver currency;
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