The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-30

would have been q separate sovereignty.
Battlements and cannon would have
been bristliug on every hill on both sides
of the river, and an enormous tariff
would have been imposed on every artl-
Gle imported or exported from one state
TO the other" Whether he meant this
enormous tariff would be a grand good
thing or not, was left for his listeners TO
decide from his previous assertions on
that question. With q hsttering tribute
to Charley Scott this man of Peril ter
minated his remarks.
The audience now yelled loudly for
handsome Charley, who blushing)y
occupied seat on the stage.
THE HON. c. +. SCOTT
responded by introducing himself. He
said 'the only reason way he appeared
was to correct false impression that
might result in harm to him self from q
sentence in an article that appeared this
morning in one of the leading papers of
the city viz, the REGISTER. In regard TO
the reflection contained in that ar
ticle he only had to say that he
acted conscientiously and in consort with,
and on the representations of many OF
the most respectable Democrats, and
that, further, he did not think there was
any fraud in the charge for the printing
of Stshrs Register" This was the sub
stance of Mr.. Scott's remarks. But it was
more than sufficient to knock q hole as
big as a barn door through this artful
piece of demagoguery. To under
stand the circumstances thoroughly,
it Is necessary to reproduce the words
that appeared in Saturdays REGIsTER,
and which this innocent gentleman des.
ired to explain away. Here they are:
"They ought to vo.e for Charles F.
Scott, who will undoubtedly repeat at
Washington, and on larger scale, his
vote on the" StahES register fraud, about
which our Republican friends had so
much to say in the late canvass until
they discovered SCOTS hands tarred with
that stick.
Now in order to know handsome
Charley's measurement exactly, it
is necessary to call the readers
attention to the fact that in his speech
on the Court House steps last Wednes-
day evening he Denounced in unmeas-
ured terms, the "SthaFs Register fraud"
as one of tho corrupt acts otthe Demo-
cratic party. There ls the demogoguery
upon which he expects to ride to Con-
gress. On last Wednesday night
he publicly denounced the act, for which
he voted in the affirmative, and on the
following Saturday night, he tries to
Justify the sin he committed by claiming
there was no fraud about it. He little
thought on Wednesday night in the
effort to make party capital out of an,
official act which he had committed, that
etribution was so near at hand. Oh, no,
Charley! YOU are not the representative
that the people of the district want.
"You are good looking, but you cant
come IN" on that record.
COL. Z. NJ. NORTON
was next called, and made very bitter
little speech for business man, and dis
played al illlberality of spirit that no one
would expect from gentleman like him
self, who had witnessed and was now dis
cribing the lack of liberal views on the
part OF the Democracy in this section
prior to the war. He exceedingly depre-
Gated the tact "that the state, hike dog,
had gone back to its vomit,' or TO ex-
plain his figure of speech more clearly;
the state under test oaths and registration
laws was Republican, but now when all
her citizens could vote as they wished
she was Democratic.
Thus Terminated meeting which
may be fairly put down as
the dying gasp of the Repubi-
cans hcreabouts. From every quarter
we hear cheering news, but from no.
where is there so sure sign of victory
as in our own district for TIlden and
Wilson.