The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-11
Another rnIk Win the PRECEDENT.

President Hayes is fruitful in CONVERSE
tiOus these lust days, and it must be ad.
mtted that he talks well. In fact, his
conversations prove that he is not only a
man Of ideas hut possessed Of very hap
py faculty OF expressing them. He has
Just had long conversation with George
Alfred Townsend, the great American in
teyiewer par excellence. George writes
well and the President talks well, and the
twotogether furnish very interestingread-
ing Tor the newspaper public.
In the conversation with Townsend,
which comesto us shot from the wires"
through the medium Of q dispatch to tic
incinnati Enquitr OF yesterday, George
suggested to the President that he was
now reaping some Of the good fruits of his
sound money policy. To this delicate
compliment tho President assented in his
modest way, and proceeded to explain his
assent as follows:
There are times and seasons" said Mr..
Hayes; "whilG the business times are bad,
Nnd in both parties some new issue like
imitation creates divisions, the Executive
receives large qttOtum Of the scowls;!but
occasionally there is a victory, or some
thing final and decisive, and the Admins
tntiOn gets little truce and rest"
Having thus disposed OF the financial
issue, Towsend made free to ask the Presi-
dent whether hG meditated .another5ipto
the South during his administration. To
this interrogatory, the President replied
oRthis wise: '"'g
~ have not thought Of such a trip; why
should !? You know that did make a
rather extensive journey soon after my
Inauguration. went from Gincinnatfand
Louisville to Georgia, and made another
yisltto Richmond" 1883 1'N'--
From some things that have recently
heard, Mr. President, it occurred 70 me
tha' il You were togo TO Georgia and 9TH
er%'uthcrn States it might be the means
otaw.&ening a feeling that, ] lam told, lis
SSymptEmatiC OF insubOrdination in the
DenOCn'tc ranks. fDl.llJgliiJ, /
ii rather entertain the view" said the
President, that the best thing to do with
The South Is 10 let it alone. | don't think
The course Of ~ improved feeling Is to be
assisted by two much outside interference,
They have had enough foreign prodling.
am entirely aware that discord prevails
IN Tho ranks otthe Democratic party there,
aslt very naturally might do. While Il
Wll!not venture to predict how long II
VIII take for respectable division to oc-
cur III the South, | am very sure it must
come about. They may not divide during
my administration, but the South has
thinking independent people, like any
"IlleF section. ] hear, as YOU do, that
'ney are not wholly satisfied with their
condition, nor Contented with their apart
nAl segregated relation with the rest OF
Heir iellOw.citzCnan ,,,,,-r
The above reads like the talk ofNa very
sensible man, and It is in perfect accord
with the sound policy that the President
nas pursued towards the South ever since
hecame Into Office. W. ''''
Passing from politics to matters some.
Shat philosophical in their nature, Town.
SeIli asked the President how ho account.
%a Tor the remarkable development Of in.
%'N'anal character in tho State Of Ohio
"arinS the last twenty years:
I9u refer to public lie, L,suppose,'' \
Flu the President, "Ithink that arose III
iG I%,! ron our position. We stood across
I W perpetual current Of emigrationto the
M MMSSI from the States OF New England
Nv NV FORK, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
IIeS'rS constantly refreshed with new
I"SI' II'Td' and the elnigranta were e-men o.
oo'a spirit, ardent to improv0 their IN
was SS' =, AN"tl!er great education for Ohio
tSn s HS ~, Practice Of public speaking from
'r, '"r stump in all election contests. i
,;a; S% introduced into Ohio by the Vir
sa s".H element, which settled In th,
%n'I!ern coniin part Of the State, All oul
or0, .""u','ale iOr Governors, Congressman ant
vISm NIX. local positions had to DO ready to OK
,ial tia,n themselves, advance their views, anC
"'SeuS "Hou with an opponent. The consc
,"s.t I"v.ye was that every mahSin publt
r"SI'ioh had to get over his backwardnes
S','I "ni S'Ayness and present himself boldly
no Jnow warn 10 reason otr.hand, ! do no
tb", S" q as good q system Of education 4
Sas,.i S', rF9M Ohio this system has cxtendei
Wa W'Tarl ,l iltO New York aud Pennsylvania
snoh mS nave, however. the fullest benefit q
a Ph1llr discussion. The GOnseauenc
sISsh deOaters as James A. GaTlield,n
L.. ~ yon regard Garfield as one of IN
sv.s.b, ' MSsaHcts Ss Of the popular speaking
.f'E