The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-13

ralks 10 an "1nteriigensoss Nan ASOu.
tho Ohio Status Foster will be the Next
Governor of 0hIO-DemOeracy WOrgnu.
ICED Ikuofnnee.n 81" N-

at the Mcclure House last night, and hay.
Ing been invited up to his room, went, and
whether the following conversation on
the Ohio political situation took place
The Colonelhas been spending the summer
at his Mac.a.cheek farm and recently has
been Canvasstng certain sections In the in.
terest OF his brother, the National" can.
dldate for Governor. He spoke at Bell.
aire Saturday night and spent yesterday
in this city. During the day many Of our
citizens called on him and were entertain.
ed by his unique manner Of talking and
original way Of disposing Of things;
t"What Is the situation in ohloP"
"There, my Christian friend, you gel
me where ] am weak. Anxious to and
out myself, asked my friend Robinson,
Chairman OF the Republican COMMITTEES
OF Columbus, and he told me, In q very
loud voice, that they would carry Ohio for
Charley Foster by about 10000 majority;
but privately he asked, in Q confidential
manner, what thought OF t. and I dis
covered that Robinson, although one Of
the bravest men ever knew, and with
whom l served in the late struggle, was In
a funk ] then went to Frank McKin.
neyt who is also q personal friend, and
asked the same question, and he responded
in fine voice that Ewing would carry
the State by not less than 5000 and may.
be 10000 majority; but he asked me TO
take drink, and | called for champagne
cocktail, as thst Is all we Nationals, will get
out OF Tilden's 'barl, and while sup
ping the champagne / discovered that he
also wanted my opinion, and that he was
In about as much Of funk as Robinson:
and so you see, my Christian friend, that
l am totally in the dark as to the results, !"
"How did you come to be in Ohio, or
how do you explain your presence there
at this timer" ..l. I,3'-9.I
$50 far as that is concerned, l 20 to
Ohio every summer, for society and q
milk diet. When Congress adjourns oil
the agreeable people leave Washington,
and since the Board Of Health has pro.
hibted hogs wandering around the streets
there is really no summer society in Wash
ington. There are too few people left to
divide the mlasrna in the Kidyell
bottoms. I have little farm In the Mac
a.Cheek vGlley-the place where God 10.
Gated the Garden Of Eden and there |
live, l only stay in Washington"
How did you get into this campaign p,
II have been ofthe National persuasion
forsome years past, but have taken no active
part init, and would not now on account OF
my delicate condition Of health, but The
Greenbackers nominated my brother for
Governor, and1 felt toward him as Frank
Pierce did to his brother Senator, when
the Senator fell of the Goose Greek
bridge one night, and wanted to know II
Frank wasn't going to help him out?.
Frank said, That he couldn't help him
out, but he would come in and stay with
him, which tradition says he did. Joking
aside, however, I believe the only ques:
ton that will distress the political world
for some time TO come, is that which make,
up the financial issue. Indeed the cues.
ton OF capital and labor Is now yexinp
the civilized world, and on this issue the
Nationals" are right. l was born in the
Democratic party; rocked in hickory
sugar trough and hurrahed for Jackson
as soon as was set'on end, and, OF course.
my education and training were In the
Bentonian School Of hard money, free
trade and something worse II we
could imagine it. Mirabeau or
some other distinguished Bohemian
has said, shat to be always right in
We life must be content to be taught many
things by people who know less about
them than We do" Living on my Ohio
farm learned some things about finances
that quite astonished me. discovered
that q farmer, the man whose pursuit is
the great underlying stratum OF our solid
prosperity took his crops to market once
a year. During the year he was purchas.
ing OF merchants and mechanics, ali that
his farm and family needed. These things
were charged against him, and when he
sold his crops they were paid of. his
profit was almost entirely in the increased
,valuei6f his land. The effect Of a panic ia
to destroy this system OF trust or credit,
as it is termed, aud when the crash came
there was 9 frantic effort to do a cash
business. The merchant told the farmer
that he must have money for his goods,
for money was demanded in New York
Of him, and the poor farmer who never
had any money except his Sunday
"nickel, .wasmost terribly distressed. The
result OF all this was money famine
and just at that moment our blessed gov.
eminent that had let the currency take
care OF itself, and only provided gold for
the bondholder, concluded to resume
through contraction, which took out Of
circulation the little money we had, the
land was covered with ruins; thew bled
the sick man and they purged and yomi.
ted him and said they were getting him
downt to hard pan. l made the discovery
that while coin is the measure OF yalue, 4
is so through the very quality that pre-.
vents Its use IS circulating medium, and
that Is It's scarcity. Every commercial
people on the face OF the earth has been
forced to the use OF .paper for that purpose,
and so abandoned my Bentonian theories
and Joined the Greenbackers." 3
f" What is your opinion OF Foster and
Ewing relatiyely2" r-f' Fl
"These two gentlemen occupy sineu.
lar position In reference to each other,
but more especially In reference to their
parties. Foster, who had abandoned the
bloody shirt openly at Washington, was
nominated to head off the Grant move.
ment, lie was to represent the great sue.
cess Of John the Financier, and to win
victory on the success OF resumption.
Ewing, on the other hand, was nominated
partly by accident and partly with the de.
sign to kill John G. Thompson, OF in other
words, to bury Thurman. 1t was a Til.
den movement II there was design in It
at all, but Governor Bishop, who had
been elected to the astonishmenI Of every
body on platform made up Of
peanuts predestinaton, threw the
weight OF his person for Ewing against
Rice. Foster, however, gets along better
with his party than Ewing does with the
Democracy. Republicanism-the organ.
lied dishonesty Of the land contracted It's
forces better than Democracy, which Is
the organized Ignorance Of the land. n
Ewing the sheep don't recognize the voice
OF the shepherd. Hence there has been
some confusion, and 1t was not until Til
den tapped his barrel that we had
change OF heart and q revival.
They are all a.whooping now, and /
aunnnsa, vuilI mill all tho vote n,annt