The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-09-22
senator THURMAN at BsIiNirc on sAtur'

SenNtor Thurman nj IIeIiAirc on Satur'
day.
The Hon. A. g. Thurman made Nspeech
q. Bellaire on Saturday afternoon last.
There were present six to seven hundred
people tsomc one said 5s0.by actual count
Of whom I29 went down on the train from
Wheeling. The size as well as the enthu-
siasm we're quite in contrast with the great
Garfield meeting at .Etnaville the sAtur'
day evening previous. The speech, 50 TAT
as we heard it, was devoted to the finances
and the so.calletl' Election lAws-the laws
that the Democracy attempted to repeal al
the extra session. Senator Thurman did
no. follow the line OF argument pursued
according to reporl by General Ewing,
that times had not really changed for the
better. We understood him to admit that
they had changed for the better, but TO
hold that the Republican party were not
entitled to the credit Of II. Provi'
dence was alone 70 be thanked. lie had
blessed the country with good crops, and
these crops had created balance Of trade
in our favor. And yet, II we mistake not,
when Senator Thurman made u speech In
Wheeling in 1876, he held the Republic
can party responsible for the hard times
then existing, although, at that time, by
way Of comment on his speech, We quoted
from a speech he made in the US. Senate
the year previous, on the resumption bill,
TO show that panics came periodically and
inevitably upon the country, and lasted
about so long and then passed away to make
room for revival Of trade. In his speech
on Saturday he referred to the panics OIL
1919 and 1887 (for neither Of which the
Republican party was responsibility and the
latter Of which occurred under a Demo.
cratic administration and lasted about six
years. speaking oithis panic, the Sen
atOr referred to the fact that revival Of
prosperity preceded the resumption o.
specie payments by the banks, and We
understood him to mean by that re
ference that We could just as wei
have had the present revival without
specie resumption as with It. And ye'
the Senator's party, at their nationa
convention at Baltimore in 1872, passed
the following resolution: "a speedy re
turn to specie payments Is demanded
alike by the highest consideration Of com
mercial morality and honest government.
And in 1876, at the National Democrat
Convention at St. Louis, the party paSset
the following resolution: 1--WE denounc,
the failure for all these eleven years o
peace to make good the promise Of tn
legal tender notes, which are a changin
standard Of value in the hands Of the pee
pie, and the non-payment OF which is
disregard OF the plighted faith Of the ma
ton"
And just here we would remark that i
would probably puzzles Philadelphia law
yerto tellexactly what Mr.. Thurman's pc
stion has been financially since the panic
The Cincinnati Enquirer has dlstruste
him because Of his suspected hard none
tendencies, and the Eastern Democrat
have distrusted him because OF his dali
ances from year to year with the sol
money element in Ohio. The consequenc
is that the Senator is to-day very generally
suspected OF having played the dema
gogue on the money question, and u hay
ing So! out whatever principles he origi
nalIy had on the subject for the cake o
temporary personal success.
A large portion OF the speech at Bellair,
was devoted to the defence Of the cours,
Of the Democratic party at the Extra SEES
sion Of Congress, with reference to thei
attempted repeal Of the National election
laws. To understand this part Of Mr.
Thuruan's speech it is necessary to ex
plain some things that he carefully con
ccaIed from his audience. The Nationa
Election laws were passed by the Forty
first Congress, in 1870, in consequence O.
the immense and overwhelming frauds
practiced at the Presidential and Congress
sioual election Of 1868 in the city of New
York. The stufIing OF the ballot box by
the thieves who were at the head Of affairs
in that city was perfectly appalling II
called out Horace Greeley's memorable
and remarkable protest to Samuel j. Til.
den. Horatio Seymour, the Democratic
candidate for President that year, received
majority in that city which was 40, 900 in
excess OF any previous or honest major.
ity ever received before, and 90.
600 in excess of Tilden's tidal wave major.
ity six years afterwards, in 1874. To show
the great and shameless fraud in its true
light We append the figures for three cleo.
tions in that city, as follows:
seymour SIG