Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-02
PENDLET0N P0URS
HOT SHOT INTO G0ffS DeCLAMA-
TON,
And Draws the Comparison Between Rad
icaI and Democratic RuIe-Some
Rich and Racy Language.

.
John 0. Pendleton, Esq, and the crowd
was doubtless gathered by the announce
ment that he would answer some of the
taIlaciOus statements made by Goh, q
week ago tonight. Mr.. i. was intro.
duced and spoke as follows:
, NJ, Friends and FtiiOw- Citizens Of N,
Fast Ward Hancock and English CiaJ.
/ When your committee invited me to
address YOU they told me that the Dem.
nrrats OF the First ward were very anx.
| ions 10 hear q reply 10 tie remarks OF
Gene raj Golf upon State and National
affairs Responding in some degree 10
that wish, | propose tonight to give my
attention particularly TO the Golf decla.
nation and Republican denuncation
against Democratic management i'm
Nest Virginia. and then. should the
evening not be too far advanced, TO say
word or two for Winfield Scott Han
cock.
In the year 1861 the Republican party
took charge of that part OF the old State
OF Virginia now known as West Virgin.
ia, and in the year 1863, when this Sec
ton was admitted to the Union as a new
State, this party was in full control and
possessed Oi dominion as absolute as
that which the Russian autOcrat eXer-
cises over the submissive sons OF Poland.
Then when Billy Stevenson, OF regstra-
ton fame, basked in the swGc's Of pow
er; when Nat. Harrison, al Infamous
memory, brOwbeat ana tyr
ranized over our lawyers, uries
and itigants in a manner that recalled
T. Ia the sad and sOrrowiul DAYS Of a
Jetrries. and sold rulings and DEGREES
With facility surprising the judicial
markt IS Of Nerrcs and a ScroEgs; when
old Joe Caldwell Of holy repute and
Radical morality had things so arranged
that in the county OF Greenbrier which
had more than 1000 men over p years
ol age, enough voters could not be
found to ill the local offices, and he him.
sell performed the duties and engaged
the perquiSites OF nine or ten OF them |;
then, say, it was that the Wheeling
Hisiii0."c,., the piOuS Methodist preach
ers IN the legislature and Christian
statesmen ana Puritanic prophets OF the
type of Dan Farnsworth and Ilerre-
point proclaimed to an aStonlshed and
wondering world that West Virginia
was Mosiem Mecca, an Elysian field, a
Hebrew land of Canaan and the sacred
soil on which Radical PecksniiS, long
haired New England Puritans and relig-
iouS Pharisecs and canting hypocrltes,
fashioned and formed in tie mould OF
Garfield, Schuyler ColiaX and a sub
sidv Pomeroy could live and thrive,
flourish and riot, and gather all the
fruits that song and story tell grew in
the tabled Gardens OF Hesperdes.
But ROW that THESE lovely
times are buried in the
shadows OF the long ago; that the Re-
publican song is no longer heard in the
land, and the sacred band has died on
the fatal field OF Il modern Cheronaca;
the Radical harp is attunei awry, and
speaks with a discOrdant sound; StuI-
gisS Frances from the mountains to the
river to tell us that the green hill sides
and smiling plains OF our little State
have fallen to the legions OF the lost and
angels OF the damned. Goif fresh from
his principaity oi Harrison, and flanked
by the milk ami honey of the District
Attorneysnip, sounds the death knell OF
the schools ana announces the approach
Ing demolition oil the nail and iron mills
that carry the fame OF Wheeling and her
manufactures to the ne'hermost parts Of
the earth. while the hicEgcRccr fails not
in her cry that the sons OF Belial devOur
the land and suffer not the godly to
partake OF the good things as they did in
the old times.
When you permit the Republicans TO
prosecute their political opponents and
rule the State without challenge or
contradiction, they will tell you
that they see the coming OF the
millennium through the lines
between the clouds, and that the
DAYS OF glory are drawing nigh, but the
moment the people suggest that they
prefer Democratic rule and get it, then
Dante, with all the wealth OF his imag.
ination could not draw darker or sad
Ger description OF the internal regions
than will be found in the columns OF the
MtsihgcHcer, or heard from the smooth,
facile polished tongues OF the COTS,
StursiSses and llutchinsons. Now,
march to the record and stand or fall by
it, as YOU read. Ii You find our noun
tain State perishing from Democratic
acknowledgement and blossoming as the
rose under Republican wisdom, why,
then As lovers OF the right and advocates
oil law and Justice, it Is your duty to cast
your fortunes with the Republicans and
hold their hands aioit, 20 long as their
conduct appeals to your ideas of the
eternal fitness of things.
But should you find that under Dem,
OCracy our State has tiriven and pros
pered as she has never done in the past,
that the taxes have been honestly col
lactpd and rightcously expended, AMI
nat no man has been deprived OF his
political rights or injured i'll his social
relations, your cordial adhesion
will once again be given
to the party Of Jefferson,
Jackson and Hancock, and you will
hesitate not to announce the TACT with
decisive emphasis at the ballot box.
During the years between January, 1861,
and January, 1871, our people lelt
and yielded sub nisSively to the rule OF
that party which, to day, regards Gen.
James Abraham Garfield Us the pures.
and loitiest exponent OF its virtue and
character.
lnlS7l, the Democrats snatCaed the
reins and drove the Stevensons and
birds of that feather beyond the portals,
and whipped them from the fields in
which they had So long and happily
pastured. From that time to the pres
emit, the West Nirginian must call the
Democrats TO an account; but for the
history OF our State from 1861 to 1871
they should force the Radical to render
up his books and answer for his mis-.
deeds 1860 witnessed the close of the
war with RadicaiiSm in the ascendant.
Upon looking around their leaders saw
that the passions and the hatreds of that
unhappy period were passing away like
"thin clouds before Biscay gale, and
that unless some unusual and
extraordinary measures were adopt
cd. their party in this State would
soon be beating funeral marches
to the grave and begging its political
bread upon the streets.
Mr.. Pendleton then proceeded to des-
cant upon the fine Democratic manage
ment of the school fund and showed the
state oi collection by Democratic Sheritls
as compared with their Radical prede-
cessorS. The figures Were taken from