The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-09

audience in roar Of laughter and ap-
plsuse for full two hours he called
attention to the statement of Gof that
the Democratic speakers were afraid TO
discuss state issues and said that he
proposed to do that very thing and to
show from the record that there was
nothing in the past policy OF the Radical
party of the state or in Its present can
didates to justify it in claiming TO be re-
stored to public confidence. That the
Democratic party was party of better
purposes, better measures and better
men. He made full, crit
ical and exhaustive comparison
of tho Democratic and Republican
administrations in West Virginia on the
points on which the Republicans claim
superiority and showed from official
statistics and legislative records that
while West Virginia Democrats have
been reducing the taxation, faithfully
accounting for public moneys and pro-
tecting the people in their rights and in
tsrests, West Virginia Republicans
maintained excessive taxation, allowed a
defaulting sheriff to pocket the public
revenues and exhausted their energies
in depressing the people and disgracing
the state. The gentleman whom they
presented for Governor General Gof),
and whom they claimed to be their best
candidate, was one of the very worst
phases of West Virginia Radicallsm. His
legislative record, from which Mr..
Walker quoted at length, showed that no
measure Of prescriptions
OrOutrage or of Usurpation
was too obnoxious to receive his sup
port. And now," said he, "men Of
jackson county, in the middle Of the
worst scenes of West Virginia proscrip-
ton, in sight of the places where Radi-
calism showed its 'vilest characteristics,
you are being invited by man who
voted you unfit for suffrage to elevate
him to the Executive Office with the
ballots he deLied you--to restore TO power
in this state that party which not only
proclaimed you to be criminals and
treated you as serfs, but through It's
minions sent an armed aud brutal sol.
diery at midnight to murder for their
Democracy your peaceful, law-sbidIng
and unoffending citizens" I
In answer to General COTS PROPOSE
ton that the Republicans alwsys
punish their guilty officials, while,
the Democrats always permitte
them to escape, Mr.. Walker passed in re-.
view the history of the Republican party
in connection with the atrocities OF
Grantism, and the exposures of the past
Twelve months, keeping his audience in
roar Of laughter by his manner of re-
citing the record of Radical rascality.
He closed at the end of two hours amid
the loudest cheers for Tilden, Mathews
and the West Virginia Democracy.
The Gof meeting was an utter fail
ure in numbers, in attention and IN
enthusiasm while that of the Democrats
was large, attentive, and full OF fire and
the spirit of victory. 1t is but just TO
General Goff to say that he spoke under
great discomfort, caused in part by cold
recently contracted, and, no doubt, in
part by the depression of spirits incident
to one doomed to defeat. He tries TO
bear up bravely, but the terrible unsn-
unity OF the Third district Democrats is
q stubborn fact which 1t is useless longer
to ignore.
Jackson County Sure for 100 Ma
iority for Mathews.
Jackson county will give Mathews
$50 majority, and probably more, for the
Democrats are greatly encouraged by
this days work. The Third District will
give Mathews at least 5000, and most
likely 1905 majority. Bob Brown, of
} Jackson, has flooded the country with
bogus Democratic tickets, bearing his
name instead Of Green, for Supreme
Judge This is pretty work for judicial
candidate, but fair specimen of reform
within the radical party. j. W. h.