The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-24
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
SENATOR THURMAN AT MARION.
His FIRST speech OF the Campaign
His Views Upon Several Matters
of General Interest-The
Electoral Fraud-Hayes'
Policy, 6c.

MARION. O., September 22.-Hon
Allen q. Thurman made his opening
speech in the Ohio campaign at Marion
o., this afternoon. Great interest was
manifested, and large audience of rep
resentative Democrats and many Repub-
licans were in attendance. Senator
Thurman spoke two hours, and his re-
marks covered the questions:
|. Relative TO the disputed Presiden-
tial election, MIR. Thurman claimed the
fair and undoubted election of Samuel y.
Tiden to the Presidency; that the count
by the Returning Board OF Louisiana and
Florida was fraudulent, and the methods
by which the final results were arrived
at in these States clearly illegal under
the lsws which created the Returning
Boards, to say nothing of the constltu-
tlonallty of the act itself. He claimed
the Electoral Commission, IN refusing TO
hear the evidence OF want OF jurisdiction
i'm the returns ot Louisiana and Florida
were clearly in error. He warned the
people OF the dangers of closely contest
ed elections, il such proceedings did not,
receive their severe and Immediate con-
demnation.
2. Senator Thurman claimed that the
policy of President Hayes Was precisely
that which he (the Senstor) had con-
tended Tor during the past ten years. DE
contrasted this policy with the speeches
OF Republican paTtlsaus last year, and
drew the conclusion that the Democracy
we're right, rs the result in the South had
proven.
3. He showed the necessity OF reform
in the administration OF the Government,
and called up the speech of John Sher-
man III evidence, showing by his speech
that an array OF useless relatives had fed
upon the government for years, drawing
pay for no services whatever, to the
amount OF near two million OF dollars IN
II portion of the customs service and
Treasury Department, and claimed that
this indicated extravaganza III all the de-
partments and subordinate positions, by
placing men who had no interest IN con-
cealing and covering up the wrong-dolng
Of the past
In reference TO the depression of busl
ness and tho want OF employment OF
labor, the Senator said, that without re-
terring to the destruction OF property III
the civil war, and the peculiar clrcum.
stances to which the war gave rise, there
were three great causes that deserve
notice: First, the effect OF improved
Iabor.ssving machinery second, Of ex-
orbitant taxation; third, OF the apPre-
ciation In value of the currency, that is,
in the purchasing power o. the dollar.
Tie spoke at some length OF the effect OF
each OF these causes aud In reference to
the last said that however dealra-
be return u sound
basis Tor our currency might
be- II could not be denied That 1t was a
severe operations upon people or gov
ernment IN debt, and that experience
showed that We were reaching the specie
basis rs fast as a just regard Ior the III
teresL of the country would permit, and
that to force resumption YVES neither JUS.
nor poltIC. He feared resumption could
not be maintained, but thought that
without arbitrary measures resumption
would take place in d comparateiy short
time, and would be maintained. de e&-
planned the acts OF Congress demOGetIZlng
silver, and advocated the remonILIzstlOn
oi the dollar ot the fathers as An acL ut
simple Justice rs well aS OF good policy.