Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-30
GOVERNOR SEYMOUR.
An Interview with Him ut His
Home His Views on Political
A fairs

New York Herald
When questioned by the Herald cor
respOndentOn on the subject of the present
campaign he spoke readily and frankly.
You know that | am out of the pO-
land | should seek your opinion as to
the outlook of the campaign rather than
attempt to pronounce ajudgment OF my
own. | seldom see any one who con-
verses about politics, and all | know OF
the progress OF the canvass is what
read in the local papers. l am sincerely
desirOus for the success OF the Demo
cratic party, not alone because of my
sympathy with its principles, but be-
cause | see a great peril TO the
country, and especially TO the State
of New York, i'm the doctrine
now becoming general among our OPP
pOnents. Both Mr.. Conkling and Mr..
HAYES in their speeches use the word
''nationalism" "a word unknown to our
constitution and deliberately rejected
from it. The Republicans are anxious
TO centralize power more and more in
the national government, and to place
greater restrictions on the States, and
the wealth of New York sits by and APP
plauds the idea. There is dissatisfaC
ton with the management OF railroads,
and when Mr. Vanderbilt proposes to
leave railroad legislation with Congress
the rich merchants of the metropolis in
dorse the proposition. But they do not
remember that they have two Senators
in Congress, while the combined rival
states of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,
and Maryland have six. Eight Central
States have majority OF pOpula-
ton and bear the greater share
OF the taxes, and what is the spirit
of the speeches of Dir. Hayes and
Mr., Conkling? They virtually say to
the fifteen Southern States, Come in
with us; vote with Us for heavy subsi-
dies; we will give you your river i'm
provements, your canals and all the in
ternal works YOU want; help us To i'm
pose taxes which YOU do not have to
paw; your thirty Senators will edable Us
to DO this; and, as We deSpOiled YOU i'm
the war, We will let YOU deSpoil us in
the time Of peace Although the South
ern pride may hold the Southern States
for a time true 70 the doctrine of State
rights, such an appeal must prevail in
the end, AMI We shall then see the
south, which fought for secession, acting
with New England, which orig
mated and fostered secession. You
and / know that the United
States Senate has all the time been in
creaEing the appropriation bills, and
the eight States that pay most of the
taxes have 10 bear the burden. Our
system OF government contemplated in
the Senate a conservative body that
should act as a check and restraint on
the popular branch OF Congress. But it
WAS not fOreseen that the Senate would
be the virtual dispenser Of enormous
patronage bestowing on favored fol-
lowers thousands Of offices that excite
political greed and ambition all over the
country. With the new idea of nation
alism' developed, with the thirty South
ern Senators voting taxes they are not
called upon to pay, and aiding the Re-
publiCans TO grant subsidies without
limit, where will be New York, with her
two Senators? where the eight great tax
paving States, with their sixteen? 10
but glance at this subject now; but the
danger Is transparent, and it is surpris-
ing that the people OF New York 10 not
recognize H.