The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-05
Tho Republicans OF MonongaIIa
County, tho President, and The
Silver Bill.

ANU va hASANHsOaAN
County, tho President, and the
Silver Bill.
A subscriber at MOrgantown in letter
OF remittance to the INTELLl0ENCER
takes occasion to make the following OBJ
servations: "our lending Republicans
here sympaLhlzs with COnkling, Blaine
and ". E. Chandler, and az Il sequence
distrust Hayes, Evarts, schurz, Key & Co.
l think u large majority are for a silver
bill covering the complete legal tender
features"
We have great respeotfor the Republi'
cans OF Monongslia county. They have
always been among the StAunchest 10y.
alists in West Va, aud no men have
stood more unfalterlnsly by the Repub.
lican party since the war. We should
therefore very much regret for their own
sakes as well as for the good Of the Re-
publican party and the whole country, to
zee them taking u position which we re.
gard az mistaken one.
First, wo desire to Rsk our friends in
that county what good iS likely to grow
out Of split with the Presilent2 Look
lug at it from the lowest standpoint, that
OF expedlency, is there any hope OF vic
tory in such II course Ia there not every
probability that the country will over
whclnipSly sustain tho Prcsideht2 II
30, Is it wise 10 divide and become Eli
easy prey to the common fosP
Second, ia the President doing anything
moro than he promised to do in his let.
ter Of acceptance, when he wrote the fol-
lowing words on the 9Th Of July TG:
"Lst me assure my countrymen Of the
Southern States that ii | shall be charged
with the duty OF organizing m admins
tration, It will be one which will regard
and cherish their truest interest-the in
tsrcsts OF the white and colored people
both, and equally: and which will put
forth ia best efforts in behalf Of civil
policy which will wipe out forever dis
1inction between North and South in our
common country"
Third, can any one say that the Pres
ilenfS policy has not had the tendency
to produce better feeling throughout the
south than previously existed there? :? II
was only the other day that the Repub.
licaus Of one OF the sonth Carolina dis
tricts, at y special election for a State
Senator, elected their candidate by 1900
majority; and this too, the dispatch stated,
Notwithstanding a vigorous Democratic
canvass" We heard OF no Ku Klux and
no killing. That sort OF thing seems to
have pretty nearly died out. Governor
Hampton has pledged himSelt before the
world that the colored mans rights under
his administration shall be as carefully
guarded as the white mans, The recent
election referred to serves to strengthen
his declaration in the general estimation
OF the country.
Fourth, admitting that tue Republi-
can party has lost supremacy IN the
South, is 1t desirable, II 1t was possible,
to attain or retain supremacy there by
exercising a "pAternal government" over
the colored people, and thus keep up an
unhealthy notion in their minds that they
must all vote in crowd for the Repub-
licsu candidate, no odds il he is carpet
bsC adventurer like Patterson and
Spencer
Fifth, how came it that the Republican
party was not only losing the South prior
to Hayes inauguration, but the North
ulsoY New York, Connecticut, New Jer-
sew and Indiana had gone, and WiScon-
sin, Oregon, aud even Ohio, were going.
This is a suggestive recollection that
bears With great force on the present
situation. The attempt to revive the old
policy will not only make the South
solid, against the Republican party, but
lose to il pretty much the whole North
sixth, as to Silver bill with unlimited
legal tender features; (and We presume
unlimited coinage also,) that is matter
ia which Blaine and cOnklipg, and the
other cods whom our friends propose to
follow, will probably antagOnize them
quite as much as Hayes, EVarts, schurz
.SCo. We think II likely that when the
farmers Of good old MOnOngalia come to
think twice over such Silver bill, 1t will
not sound so nilvery Ss on the frat jingle.
Farmers are the last people in the coun'
ryto favor any change in the currency