The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-19
The WOuld.be AttOrney.Gen-
eral HutChinsOn Badly
Used Up.
Col. Wilson successfully Re-
flutes His UnscrupulOus
Charges.
R1TcHlE G H, September l6.

date for the State Senate, and Edwin
Maxwell, Republican candidate for the
State Senate, all spoke to the people here
to-day. There was good turn out of
the people to hear the political issues Of
the day discussed and the first two
named gentlemen named made each his
best effort. Mr.. Hutchinson led of in
speech one hour and half long; Col.
Wilson followed in reply of the same
length OF time; Mr. Hutchinson rejoined
in half An hour, and was followed by
Colonel Wilson in speech of fifteen
minutes.
Mr.. Hutchinson's speech was chiefly
on state politics, but he did not forget t.
haunt the bloody shirt, which composed
the chief part OF his speech on national
topics.
His speech on state matters consisted
of q
TRADE OF ABUSE
against the new constitution, against the
County Court, and against the mis- man
agemeDt of the free schools by the Dem
ocratic party since they have been in
power. observed that IN his criticism
of the constitution he did not point out
the remedies he proposed for the many
evils he saw in the constitution; he did
not tell the people whether he desired TO
restore the test oath 10 school teachers,
to suffers or to voters nor whether he
wanted to have it so amended rs to re-
store the boards OF registration, but 1t Is
fair TO presume, since he eulogized the
old constitution as so much superior TO |
the new one, that these provisions OF the |
old, which were so potent in the hands
OF his party IN times gone by would be
the subject of his first cons Iteration. |
Mr.. Hutchinson is
UTTERLY UNsCRUPUL0Us
in his statement of facts and figures TO |
sustain his argument, but resorts 10 the
most absurd statements, in total dlsre- |
gard OF the truth of history, and even OF
The correctness of his figures. AS an
instance he stated that our present con-
stitution cost three hundred milliOns-of !
dollars and that the interest that the |
people had to pay annually by their
sweat and toll on the public national
debt, was one hundred and seventy five |
millions, when it is well known by every
body else that the interest on the public |
debt is less than one hundred millions, |
and that the Constitutional Convention, |
including printing, only cost about forty |
thousand dollars. lie also stated that
the Democratic administration has spent |
annually ever since it came into power, |
two hundred Thousand dollars more than
the Republican party spent while they !
were in power.
To which Mr.. Turner very properly |
replied that when the Democratic party |
came into power they found
DEFICIT IN TIE TREASURY
of 100000, lef: by the Republicans for
the Democrats to pay. That they had |
paid that of, that the taxes had only |
not been increased, but had been di-
minished five cents on the hundred dol |
lars and that if our party had been able |
to do that and in addition to paying that |
debt, they had been able pay S2OO,OOO |
year more than the Republicans had |
paid. He wanted to know what the
Republicans had done with the balance |
of the money collected Oft the people |
during their administration. This is
question for every school boy |
IN the state. Ii the Kepubl-
can party out of a levy of thlrty-tive
cents on the one hundred dollars
valuation can only cole It and dis
burse four hundred thou nd dollars
year, and the Democratic party can, out
of levy of thirty cents on the hundred
dollars valuation, pay six hundred thou
sand dollars, the question is, what be-
came of the balance of the people, money
levied by the Republican party?
Mr.. Hutchinson stated that the State
Superintendent of Schools reported that
there was in the reports OF the County
Superintendent for 1874,
TwENTY-FoUR THOUSAND DOLLARS UNAc-
COUNTED FOR.
To which Mr. Turner replied, showing
bv the same report read from by MIR.
Hutchinson, that during the six years OF
Republican rule, the whole amount OF
money accounted for, collected by tRem
in the whole six years of
State tax, cspltation tax, and
the local lcvies for building fund and
for teachers fund was only two millions
ninetv-six thousand thirty-two dollars
and thirty eight cents, while the whole
amount collected and accounted Tor dur
ing the
FIVE YEARS OF DEMOCRATIC RULE
was three millions, two hundred and
thirty-one thousand eight hundred and
eleven dollars and torty-eight cents, or
one million one hundred and thirty-fve !
.boussn+. seven hundred and seventy
n.u. u liars and ten cents more in five
wears than was accounted for by the Re
pubicsns in SIX years, while the average
lew, state and district, for school pur-
poses was greater during the SIX years of
Republican administration than 1t was
during the five years of Democratic ad
ministration. Mr.. Hutchinson said the
levy for the support of the poor in Wood
county in 1860 was fifteen hundred dol
lars, and that the levy tor the same pur
pose IN 1876 was eleven thousand.
Col. Wilson followed Mr.. Hutchinson
in one OF his most able and eloquent
efforts, pointing out many individual IN.
stances of enormous frauds and corrup.
tions in the National Government in all
its departments. in the Army, the Navy,
and the Interior Departments, as well as
in the office of the Secretary of War,
which is so familiar to everybody. He
also showed that the civil service Is
ROTTEN To THE CORE;
that, large as the list of officers is at pres
ent, and has been for long time, it
is increasing every day; that large num-
bers of laborers are transferred to such
points as they will do the most good with
their votes in controlling elections IN
doubtful states; that they are thus
transferred at government expense