The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-09-11
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN.
Republican Meeting at Martins
Ferry-In favor of Forced Resnmp-
lion and Hard Times for the Poor.
MAKrIN,S FERRY Sent
ot the Register.

correspondence OF the Register.
The speech of the Hon. Lorenzo Dan
ford here, this evening, was the weakest
thing ever heard of. He himself even
seemed TO be dimly conscious OF It's weak
ness, and desired that ii might rather be
considered as ''talk" than as a speech.
But with all its weakness 1t did one thing
etfectually, and that is, it satisfied every
working man that he need look 10 longer
to the Republican party for sympathy,
for the Hon. Lorenzo declared unequivo-
cally Tor specie resumption. Said he:
ave are now within four marks of the
top of the ladder, and l am in favor of
going to the top. Hard-pan must be
reached"
Speaking of the Democratic party he
said it was one of protests and not OF
principles. Mirabile dictm Only pro-
tests and not of principles!
In 1929 Luther and his coadiutors pro
tested against the decree OF Charles V.
and the diet of spires. Had they no
principles2 Have their followers to day
no principles? Principles, what are
principles2 A beginning says etymology.
Now the beginning, continuing and end
ing of the Republican party is theft and
robbery, dlscord and inharmony, and
oppression and violence, and in short, all
the evils hat flesh is heir to. While
thus engaged in enumerating minutely
the various protest tations of the Democrats
he forgot to mention that they protested
against the attempted impeachment
OF Andy johnson, the wholesale
squanderlng of the public domain,
carpet-bsggery and scalswagism in the
South, controlling elections by bayonets,
stealing the Presidency from ). 5. Til
den.
He went on and said that Mr.. Converse
lied when he said that the circulating
medium had been contracted from near
s., 900 .OOO, 600 in 1865 to 100000, 600 in
1873, and claimed that that was what
brought on the panic at that time. he
said that the Republican party never
contracted the currency more than S44,-
100000 NJ any one time, and that only
for y short period, and that atterward
they restored $22,000,000 TO circulation,
so that the circulating medium is now
My $20,0O0000 less than at the close OF
the warl Jehu! Is any man fit for re-
preventative of civilized constituency
who mas no more regard for truth than
to make such statement as thlsE bis
pothesis to account tor the hard times
IS UNIQUE, and is the best illustration OF
what logicians call ''1lOn cOtIsd pro
collsa" that know Of He ssddled the
whole blame upon Jay Cooke and his
Northern Pacific railroad and other
speculations. The Republican party had
nothing to do with creating the hard
times by cher contracting policy, their
thievine, and their creation OF over one
hundred thousand offices to devour the
substance of the people. After rTdd'ng
himself of this enormous load he was so
overcome that he unconsclously gave the
JLoody shirt little automatic wave, but
happening to think of Key and Hayes
Southern policy, he reluctantly and al
most with q tear LAID 1t down, and showing
out a Macmillan dollar, continued thus
Maxrmillan was shot to death by the
greasers on the grand plaza of the City
of Mexico; he is dead; his government Is
no more, but still this dollar Is worth
one hundred cents. Whyf Because IT
has intrinsic value. Is this so? Can he
take these Macmillan dollars and COM
pel creditor TO take them tor claim
amounting. to over five dollars de
knows he can't Why? Simply because
silver has been demOnetized IN sums
over that amount. And how is this de-
monetizing done? BY an act of Con,
gress. Can intrinsic value be stricken
out by an act of Congress? Certainly
not ANY focl knows that neither Con-
gress, nor any other earthly power,
can destroy intrinsic value by
any act of legislation. Congress
can take away the exchsngesble value
and no more, and this is sll the value
that money should have. Money made
of diamonds is worth no more, as money,
than paper. Away with such sophistry
as that money to be money must have
Intrinsic value. A piece of paper on
which is written a legal tender for all
debts, set afost by the government OF
the United States, needs no specie basis
on which TO rest to make 1t money; II Is
already as good as the best gold or silver
in the world, and needs no redemption.
Mr.. d. wound up his rigamorole by re-
iterating verbatim ct hteratim the first
part of his speech; that is, the part IN
which he said the Democrats were such
terrible protestsnts. Another wave OF
the bloody shirt, and he subSlded.
B.