The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-01-11

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~ think It would be very hard in any
part 0fthis country" said tho President
TO match Garfield as versatile, thought.
ful, ready public speaker. Notthat his the,
ory isallogether matter Of temperament
II grew by habit and frequent opportunity
until that gentleman can stand up on hi
feetmd reason with precision, and enter,
tain large body Of men and women any
"Mr. President, which Of the public
syeakers Of Ohio influenced you and men
OF your age more than any others2"
Thomas Ewing aud Thomas Corwin.
They were the greatest speakers that
heard In my youth. Corwin was q model
for humor and playfulness, TO bring peo.
pie up 10 feeling Of good.natured recep-
tiyeness, Mr. Ewing was rather more
ponderous and grave man, and probably
the better reasoner ofthe two. He used a
set Of stately phrases at the opening and
conclusion Of his.discourses remember
that one Of them was: Ladies and gentle
mon, see before mo tonight a sea OF
handsome faces and an ocean OF intelli.
genCe."
"Do.you apprehend that Ohio will con.
tinue to hold her place as the most promi-
nentpolitlcal State in the West"
II CAnItsay that,D said the President.
There Is another Ohio beyond US, settled
byour young men, who constitute a large
element In Illinois and other States. Il
may bo that we shall lose that scepter that
we have In measure kept for some years,
II may go west. do not observe, how
ever, any falling of in public spirit and
thelnanhood aud stature Of the people of
Ohio"
Coming again to matters of q political
and financial character in the course Of
the conversation, Townsend yentured to
ask the following question. We call the
particular attention Of our Greenback
friendsto ii: T eaJA aa3 fAdhJa
"What Is the next issue in national pol
tiles, Mr.. President?"
THAT depends altogether on our Demo.
cratic friends" said Mr.. Hayes. 7"You
know that they are in the opposition, and
must raise new issues to employ them.
selves. 1t seems 10 me that Judge Thur
man laid down their next issue when he
said: The National Banks must be attack.
ed, and instead OF their currency tie
will come in vogue everywhere
DO yon see anything else2n asked the
l told tho President that l thought the
South still presented the field for some
Thing exciting. - ''aTL ~
"1shonld rather think" said the Presi-
dent, "that the Northern Democratic
leaders would press that suggestion OF Mr..
Thurman. They think that the National
Banks might be assailed with popularity"
What Is the objection, Mr.. President, to |
putting out the greenbacks and taking up
The National Bank notes?"
1T would not stop there" said the
President. Gas soon as you destroy the |
existing system OF banks there will be an
agitation for the States 10 again exert their
Iull powers and print q State currency.
Shrewd, sharp, over-anxious men, such rs
exist in every State, and particularly in
new States and in poor States, will get the
banking privileges. We shall see again
hat condition Of things which prevailed
about 1896, when all kinds OF local cur
tency were aaoat, printed generally on
the commonest kind OF paper and poorly
executed, so that o counterfeit would pass
almost as well Us q good note, and both
we're at discount few miles from the
place OF issue. We shall have, under such
l system, another tax in the shape OF an
exchange between such State currency
md good money at the seaboard. That Is
The only question, 1t seems to me, imme-
iiately pending, and our people may ex-
pect to have to- meet lit! s1fcan distinctly |
rccollect the time when the great bulk Of
the currency in the Western States was
in the hands OF a mere handful OF mon,
who managed the whole OF it" ~
"Doyou feel satisfied with the success Of |
resumption?" =
at seems to me-" said the President, |
chat our whole people must, without re.
gard to party, have given q general assent
md assistanceto that measure since it has
gone into operation, 1t looks to me like
perfect success"