The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-12
all nominations being unanimously con,
frmed. Music was furnished by local


taken an active part in politics in con.
nection partly with the father of General
Ewing, and had, in two subsequent can
vases, worked side by side with him,
and for the same objects. Hethen briefly
summarized numerous charges OF lncom.
potency and dishonesty against Republi.
can administrations, and asserted his be-
lief that change was necessary to the
prosperity of the country, concluding
with the remark that the act OF 1869 to
strengthen the public credit by declsr-
ing that certain public Indebtedness,
should be paid in coin, was remarkable,
abomnlble, outrageous and utterly lnde-
fensible"
General Ewing commenced his speech
by stating that his father was born In the
Salines OF the Great kanawha, and with
the results OF manual labor in that place
paid a mortgage upon the home OF his
father; and after a few brief and tellcltous
remarks concerning his appearance be-
fore an audience of citizens OF the former
home of his father, proceeded to deliver
u speech of two and halt hours upon
the financial issues of the day. 1t would
be utterly impossible in the brief time
allotted me by the departure of the last
available mail to give anything like full
synopsis OF the points spoken OF by him.
The chief purpose OF his speech
was 10 show the effects and
dangers of the resumptive policy adopt
ed and partly carried out by the Republl-
can party. Elaborate comparisons OF the
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States with those of Great Britain, France
and Germany, were submitted by the
speaker to illustrate what he declares the
utter lmpossibility OF resumption by TINS
country in 1879 with driving its people !
to financial ruin and to arms for bread.
His most forcible citation was the results |
of PeePs resumption act in the British |
Parliament in 1919. The condition |
of England at that time, he said, |
was quite similar to that of the United |
States to. day, save that England had |
much less paper to take in and consider
ably more golI in her public vaults with |
which to prosecute the resumption mea-
sure than has this country now. lie |
showed how the prediction OF Mr.. Cob |
bett, member OF the Parliament, while |
the Peel measure WAS pending IN that !
body, that before it could be carried into !
effect the country would lose million
inhabitants by starvation and be shaken |
by the armed violence of starving popu-
lace, was verified by the terrible bread |
riots and great loss of life that
occurred two or three years after the re-
sumption act was passed, but before "
went into execution in that country
how the approach of the resumption
crisis caused the suspension OF industries
and the locking up of money by the
wealthy. With this he drew a Comparl-
son by tracing similar course, so far as
it has gone in this country, by reason of
the passage of the public credit act OF
1869, the demonetizing act of 1873 and
the specie resumption act OF 1910. These
three acts were taken by the speaker as
composing scheme by monled arl'to'
Gratis OF the country to legislate-steathIIy
but no less certainly, legislate-:he poor
and laboring classes poorer and them
selves proportiOnateIy richer; a scheme
to reduce the paying abilities OF the
debtor class without reducing the stand |
ard of indebtedness, and thus enable |
creditors to contiscate the homes and ef-
iects of the poor. The entire indebted
ness Of the country was stated to be
more than seven hundred millions of |
dollars, and the total amount of taxation,
national, state, county, city and town. |
ship, was estimated at an equal amount. |
This makes total OF over |
fourteen hundred millions, the |
value of which must remain the
same while specie resumption will serve
to curtall in material degree the paying |
resources of the great classes by whom |
these mighty burdens are carried. He
declared himself amazed that q measure |
so deadly and so certain in its results to |
the laboring classes should have been |
permitted to mature without more de
cided opposition. The course to be pur-
sued, and pursued Immediately y, was first /
TO repeal the specie resumption act. |
This, he said, would not be done by a |
Republican Congress. The first and !
highest duty Of the American working |
classes and al other citizens Of the |
country who lad its welfare at |
heart. was to elect a Democratic |
Congress. The next step should be the
re-monetization of sIlver,-the Old silver !
dollar which served as standard of |
vatuo from the time of Washington till |
1873. The third and concluding step in !
the great scheme of relief ~ the people, |
was n repeal of the act of 1869. declaring |
the intcltion OF the government - pay |
its Indebtedness in coin. The speaker !
asserted belief that the pubic debt,
with the exception Of certain bonds con-
taiurng stipulations 10 the contrary, !
should be paid out of the money that poor
people were obliged to accePt-in green
backs.
To the independent and Cooper voter
the speaker said that the Democratic
party hal been throughout lis history the
opponent Of national banking and the sup
porter OF pape. money issued on the iaIth
OF the government, and that the only
possible way to save the country from
the ruin that would follow Il forced re-
sumption WAS 10 pisce the Democratic
party in power. lfthey cherished fnaI-
cisl views yet more radical than the
Democratic party contains, and sought
to form new party for the advancement
of those views, it was perfectly proper
that thev should do 80, but he reminded
them that powerful political
party was the growth Of many years, and
could not be organized and placed in
power on few weeks or months notice.
Their true course pending the develop
ment of their new psrty was, therefore, to
endorse the Democratic partys views
until they could do better ior themselves
Concerning the Republican Pres!deI-
tisl nominee, be declared a belief that he
was refined and honorable gentleman,
but said he was an utterly negative man,
and.was selected by the Cincrnnsti Con-
vention tor purpose-to serve as negs-
tive background that would harmonic
the different and dIscordant colors Of the