The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-10

Treasury shah pay. in coin the green.
bacls'ss fast = presented, andthus SHALL
quickly abstract them from, the circula.
tion, leaving tie banks no redeeming
mediom but coin on their expanded CT
culation. The only safety for the banks
If that act ia to stand, Is to use the green
hacks now to get back their BONDS, any
retire their circulation. The operatlon
is now going on, and will go at rap'diy
accelerating pace if this act Is to stand. 1
And where the Treasury is to get coin TO
stand such run, and to retire $S76,0e8,-
600 odd of greenbacks and 4O,OOO,OOO OF
fractionals, is what no mortal man can
tell. -,------..---...-
1--WE know of no public journal which
believes the Resumption Act possible to
be carried out, or which gives the least
favor to the measures the Administration
has now declared prerequisite to carry
the act into effect. If there be one we
should like to hear from it. This ques-
ton is now partly in allegiance, waiting
to see what Congress win do, and pollti,
clans are schemiug about Presldential
candidates as if these were nothing put
matters of personal choice or manage
ment; but if this act remains. it is bound
to be the overriding question OF the cam
paign, before which all others VIII SINK
to insigniticahce."
Now we characterize these uttertnces
especially of the Ohio paper-as Won
derful. Certainly they are peculiar, and
are worthy of being looked into, for
from them moral may be drawn.
Last Fall, In the campaign between
HAYES and ALLEN, when the Ohio De-
mocracy took exactly the same position
as is herein set forth By the Gazette
that paper, together with the whole
Radical press of the State, and
pretty much in the United
States, raised the cry that
Democrats were seeking to so flood the
country with green backs as 20 bring
about reputation, and destroy the honor
Of the country. Voters were told that
if they reelected Gov. ALLEN they would
only receive for wages, &c, "rag money
which would become so deprecated as
to be worthless, but, on the other hand,
If they went for HAYES and elected him,
everything would be lovely; gold would
circulate as freely as water, the specie
resumption act would be carried out; the
credit of the country placed on secure
foundation, and its honor saved. Mr..
SCHURz was paid, it was alleged, hand
some sum to come to Ohio and talk in the
same way, and he did come and talked.
The papers kept up their cry; the people
believed them; the object sought was ac-
compllshed and HAYES was elected.
Now, though, when all this has been done
anxious to relieve themselves from the d.
lemma in which for partisan purposes they
had deliberately placed themselves, these
same papers, with unblushing etfrontery,
come out and, eating their own words,
array themselves on the side OF the
Democracy in waging warfare against
the aforesaid most foolish act, and not
only that, but are endeavoring to take
credit on themselves FOR their action The
points deduced from such a course,
and which should be carefully weighed
and considered, are as follows: In the
campaign of last Fall, the Republicans
deliberately and wilfully deceived the
people They knew they were fighting
for fraud and delusion; but they
thought they could catch the eyes and
ears of the unwary masses by SO doing,
and they did it. And at this time, hoping
that the unrefecting masses have for
gotten their former words they dare to
actually acknowledge that in that fight
the position of the Democracy was the
only true one, and they themselves were
i'll the wrong and waged and won the bat
tie under false pretences.
Can the masses be so easily manipulate
ed2 Is it possible that they can be so
easily gulled, and possess so little intelli-
gence rs not to see that they were de-
ceived and made use of only for Il purpose?
We do not believe it. They may be slow
to decide, and it may be difficult TO make
them understand, but when they do ascer-
tain the truth, as they must in this case,
they certainly must abandon and lose
faith in the party which thus misleads
them. And we have but little doubt that
this impression will be so strongly fixed
upon them, that by next Fall when they
come to vote for the high office of Presi-
dent their suifrages will be recorded with
the party which makes its issues open
and direct, and lives up to what it frankly
avows. This Radical system of winning
success by deliberate deception, cannot
possibly be carried on forever.