The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-10-02
walker. Canvass is the Third District

Canvass IN the AhiEu DINa''''
Acolored man writes note Of warning
through the Charleston Courier to the
eolored voters Of the 81 District against
being seduced into voting for Henry 5.
Walker, and to bear in mind that in times
mast he has been their relentleSs political
foe.
According % the Huntington Commercial
Walker is making things lively for Kenna,
the regular Democratic nominee. At that
place he made aspeech the other night in
the course of which, says the Commercial,
His arraignment OF Mr.. Kanns for his
equivocal position on the tariff question;
was scathing : terribly severe, because oi
its truthfulneSS, and as il TO DIVE the nail
home and clinch it, he produced and read
to the audience Mr.. kenna $ vote, proving
concIusively from the documents that he
voted with the a~ristocratic free-trsders oil
tie Fast on two different occasions, Is
acainst the struggling industries Of his
district. We can NOT see how Mr.. kenna
and his friends can explain thisaway, and,
AS il is, it must be exceedingly damaging
10 Mi. Ksnna's chances for an election in
in q district that has 80 many industries
that would be ruined by the free trade
yagaries of the New York importers.
The speech, we believe, will set reflect
ing men TO consider whether on the whole
the Democracy did not make n serious
mistake in forcing Mr.. kenna's candidacy
on the public with this Hnsavory record Of
free trade hanging over him. il has given
Mr.. Walker an advantage that he is not
slow to avail himself Of and must make
him hundreds Of votes wherever he ad-
dresses the tOiling masses in this district.
But, in the meantime, Kenna has re-
ceived and published two Letters, n
from Ben Wilson and the other from Ben
Martin, in which they give him a clean
bill Of health on the tariff question, setting
forth that he was ready TODD his duty at
any time against Woods bill when the
crisis should come. Here, for instance,
is Colonel Ben Wilson'S certificate OF
character, which certificate must be taken
as good, inasmuch as Colonel Ben has
himself received q clean bill from Kelley,
the Philadelphia member, sometimes
called "pig-iron" Kelley, who is the ioun.
tain head for clearance papers on the
tariff question.
wnsoxBrRG, W. Va, Sept. L., 1875.
DEAR KESxA:- l am gratifcd to hear of
your return home and the improved con-
dition OF your eye.
The parties who c]riticisc your vote upon
the Wood Tariff Bill, perhaps, do not
know the fact that you were outspoken IN
YOUR opposition to It as it came from the
committee. You voted against striking
ont the enacting clause with the arowed
and unconcealed purpose OF allowing the
bill to 20 through a Committee OF the
Whole, and to be subjected by clauses to
amendment when, as finally amended,
and perfected, yOu would vote for the bill
IL it were in the interest OF your Distric;
and State so TO do, and against 1t II not.
Your opposition to the bill as it stood was
well known.
Very truly and kindly, with best wishes,
as ever, b WILSON.
The Charleston Ga,al, a Democratic pa
per, prints the following condensed Politi-
cal biography Of Henry:
"In Kentucky when a horse has heen
tried and made either no reconl or a bad
one, they ship him. HCnryS. Walker has
been tried. Without going into interest
ing private details We give the public re-
cord for ten years As follows:
1865 Ran for Congress in the FiNt Dis
.trict and got beat.
1863. Studied the field and could see no
show.
1870. Emigrated to Charleston for better
luck.
1871. Ran for Public Printer and won
the race mo other honein the ield.l
lS12. Put in abusingand villiiying Jacob
Democrats, Republicans and colOred peO-
pie.
1919. Spent contemplating the tribula.
tons OF official life.
lS7+ Stumped the State for Henry s.
Walker for the SenatorShip.
1879. Ran for that prize and got beat.
1874 Ran for Congress and got beat.
Also endorsed the St louis platform and
defeated the Greehack platform in State
Convention here By lacking on TO it the
capital resolution, which he knew the del
ecates from other parts Of the State would
be sure TO oppose, Because they wanted
the capital.
1877. Out to graSs.
1875. The great labor retormer going
around the country denOuncing the court
house rings, played out politicians, politi-
cal bummers and dead heats.