The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-09

navy OF the United States shall prescribe
or hx, or attempt TO prescribe or Tx, BY
proclamation, order, or otherwise, The
qualifications Of voters Ii any State, or in
any manner Interfere with the ireednm OIL
any election In any State, or with tho ex,
ercise Of the free right Of suffrage III any
State.
In regard TO the passage Of this arl Sen,
atof Blaine used the following language al
the recent extra session OF Congress:
"The law was passed by Republican
Congress in 1855. There were forty.six
Senators sitting IN this Chamber Ut the
time, Of whom only ten or at most eleven
were Democrats. The House OF Repre-.
sentatlyes was overwhelmingly Rrpubli'
caniI WeWere IN the midst OF war. The
Republican administration had million
or possibly twelve hundred Thousand
bayonets at It's command. Thus citcum.
stanced and thus surrounded, with the
amplest possible power TO interfere with
elections had they 80 designed, withsoldiers
In every hamlet and county Of the United
States, the Republican party Themselves
placed that provision on the statute book,
and Abraham Lincoln, their Presiaent,
signed It"
TIE FINANCES.
The remarks OF Voorhees, on the linan.
cial issues were simply demogogical in the
highest degree. We did not hear word
from him on this point worthy to have
fallen from the lips Of United States Sen.
ator. He said that Sherman and the Re-
publican patty had made vast graveyard
In this country and buried In it the active
business men Of the land, and that
the present change for the better had only
come because 1t was impossible for things
10 get any worse. This was what lie ac-
tually said, incredible as 1t may seem hat
. man Of his position should thus express
himself He said TO the farmers thai the
half oil the value Of their farms had heen
taken away from them by the
Republican party. He told them that
Sherman, Blaine and Schurz had fine fur.
niture in their homes, cut glass on their
tables, fine wines to drink at dinner tand
intimated that he had seen it all 70! him.
self and then sale, "You farmers iave
nothing Of that kind in your homes" II
this was notlow down demagoguery " e are
not judge Of the article. The demag que
who resorted to it knows that Dem, rTats
at Washington and New York, suh as
Fernando Wood, August Belmont and
Abram Hewitt, furnish their house, Just
as elaborately, and set their tables ven
more uxurously, than the men whom he
singled out for invidious remark. Nnuan
Of a nice sense OF what was he.
coming to his position as United States
Senator would have condescended to III Ike
such a'remark.'y si,, Et
OF q piece with his remarks on this lead
were his comments on the card that ap-
peared in our columns, taken from the
Cincinnati Commercial, in regard to certain |
to have been used BY him |
in his speeches in Indiana. Those ex pres.
sions were either true or false, and 'hey
were vouched for by large number sig |
natures. A deCorous man would sinply |
have given them the weight OF hi. i'm.
qualified denial, or OF such explanation
as he considered proper. But NuOr.
bees paved the earth like mad
bull at the sight OF red rag, and gave vent
10 lotot Wabash adieCtives expressi 20 OF
his sense Of injured innocence. Just ~ il
be was not notorious during the war
Tor all manner Of opposition to the
war, and just as II there was something
wholly out Of keeping with his record
during that eventful period in the Ian
guage ascribed to him by the signcrs OF
that card. He squirmed yesterday rs II
he had met something that "wonld not
down at his bidding" Whether the alIega-
tions set forth are true or false we know
not. We published them as we found
hem in the Commercial. But be they true
Or false they are not at all incompatible
With Voorhees, notorious record during
he war. And that, after all, is the impor.
ant fact TO bear in mind in either read.
ng the card referred to or in listening to
he speeches Of such man as Voorhees,.