The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-15
know by reputation as wealthy business
men Of Chicago, who say tits an
INSULT 70 THEIR coNMoN SENSE

to say the change proposed would be IN
furious to the business Of the country aud
tend 10 check the advancing tide OF pros
perity which now is coming upon us with
food. There has not been presiden.
tial contest since the Republican party
gained possession OF the Government
where the election OF Democratic nomi-
nee would not have Greatly affected and
endangered the business interests OF the
country, and in some cases It's safety and
even existence. But what reason do these
gentlemen give for change? What good
do they propose to accomplish? What
single interest 10 advance? They do not
pretend that this administration has been
faulty or wrongly or dishonesty, or that
II is not successfully administered, and
ADVANCED ALL THE GREAT BUSINESS INTER-
Esrs INVOLVED;
But they say that change OF administra.
ton Is desirable after alapse OF twenty
years. Even were the party welding the
power less guilty Of faults than the party
now in possession, 1t appears to be its time
10 take an account OF stock by agents who
have not been handling that trust for
many years. This phrase OF the shop,
taking an account OF stock, is scarcely ap-
plicable to the affairs OF this great Govern
ment, for all accounts are public. They
are, and have been accessible to both
houses Of Congress, and
EVERY DErAIcArox IS OPENLY PROCLAIMED
and every act is necessarily made public.
he Democratic committees have explored
the recesses OF the Treasury and find no
fault or wrongs or deialcation. Every
business interest has been subserved.
They dare not propose q single change,
and vet these men OF Chicago, having no
fault 10 find with the present administra.
ton, can give no reason why they should
vote the Democratic ticket, except that
they want a set OF hungry office hold
ers TO take an account OF the stock, a
doctrine 80 illogical that must conless.my
surprise to see It come from the business
men. Itsmacks more OF the
Low PoLlrlcs OF NEW YORK CITY
than the thrifty merchants who compose
this hungry horde of Office seekers to
whom they wish to trust the affairs of the
Government. He would like to have the
two artits compared as to the cand!-
dacy OF Generals Garfield and Hancock.
He concluded as follows: "Now as TO the
Republican candidate for President; he is
on all hands to be an accom-.
plished scholar, q man OF varied acquire:
ments, familiar with all political Issues OF
the day, and more than all, in his training,
education and principles,
THOROUGH REPUBLICAN,.
To compare him to Gen. Hancock by any
tes. whatever, he is his superior in
ability and fitness for the Office
Of President OF the United States. Gen.
Hancock has had no civil experience. His
civil life is an entire blank, with the ex-
cep,ion Of the orders Issued by him in
Louisiana, which transferred the whole
power OF that State into the hands OF the
rebels who lad recently disregarded the
amendments and murdered
by wholesale the freedmen placed under
their power. As soldier in the regular
army he would obey those who surrounded
him as faithfully as he obeys the orders OF
his commander in chiefs.
THE REBEL SOLDIER
would rule him as thoroughly as it ruled