Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-03


Yet one OF the very first
acts of his administration-nay,
the very consideration for which he was
counted in was that he would abandon,
as he did abandon, all care and protec-
ton OF the colored man as both he and
his party had heretofore understood
their duty; and Mr.. HAYES has lately
told US, in his speech at Yale college,
thai his policy in that regard was deter
mined not by the platform and principles
oil his party, under which he was elected,
but by the instructions he received from
Mr.. Woolsey, highly reputable school
teacher of that institution. Would it
not have been better to have elected
Mr. Woolsey president instead oil Mr..
Hayes, and so had the policy OF the
country at first hands, fresh from the
mint, and not distilled through the al
embic OF
Mr.. HAYES BARGAINS AND FEARS?
Let us carefully distinguish between
what is done by great political parties
and the action OF individuals OF these
parties: and failto see in any law con-
stituuonal or legislative any action of
any portion of the Democratic party in
any State. north or south, which dis
eliminates against the rights OF all men
to vote. except. perhaps, in a single
State, where taxation is made prere-
quisiie qualification OF the voters.
Gen. Butler did not think that a Re-
publican of Massachusetts, where, with
in twelve months, it has been proven
before a congressional committee OF in
vestiga ion that convention OF some oil
our manufacturers and business men
was had by federal officer TO devise
WAYS and means for
"ClvILlZED DULLDoZING,'
bv which voters in Massachusetts could
be kept from the poll or made to deposit
a ballo, not OF their free choice, or a
citizen OF Rhode Island, where a proper
ty qualification exists, should raise that
objection to the Democratic State OF
Georgia. He condemned as unjust, evil
and wicked the bulldozing and intimida-
ton which have been practiced in some
OF the Southern States, and pointed with
satisfaction TO his inceSsant labOrs, night
and day, in Congress, in 1870, to pass
through Republican Congress Ola two
thirds Republican majority an efficient
law to remedy the evil. The record
would show that in March, 1870, three
several resolutions passed TO adjourn the
session 10 prevent such enactment; a
part of the earnest efforts of leading Re-
publicans, one oi whom is their nominee;
all OF whom are making the leading
issues oil this campaign these very out
RACES OF
BAD MEN N THE SOUTH,
II 4 NJ 4 moi
| engeudered by the war rendered strong
measures imperative to restrain the VI
cious and unprinciped men who use IN
| timidation and force 10 prevent Tree
I and full ballot. That matter should
/ have beeen settled then and forever, Tor
/ all men, north and south, and the votes
| not left TO intimidation by either the
| shotgun OF the marauder or the threats
| of starvation by their employer. Inc
| instigators of these practices against the
| freedom of the ballot in Massachusetts
we reward with judgeships, and sena-
! torial dignities, but, | am led 10 believe,
| with less important offices in the south.
The general then took up and combated
/ the argument thar
| DEVICES To CONTROL THE FREE BALLOT
were necessary because univeral suffrage
/ was unwise and dangerous, eXclalmin2:
Show me an instance where the ballot
! has been taken advantage Of by the poor
| men TO impose taxes upon the men Oi
propertv. Show me the instance where
| q municipality has been run in debt 10y
| the votes OF her workingmen Tor extra.
VACANT public buildings and extravagant
| municipal expenditures, against the
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broaden the range OF observation, and
show me where, in the World, many
have oppressed the few. No such case
can be found. Every page OF the MS
tory of nations is Illuminated with nor
rble examples oil wrong and outrage
where
THE FEW HAVE OPPRESSED THE MANY.
In New York the trouble was not, in
the Generals opinion, that the ignorant
masses voted wrong, but that the learn
ed, the we'll educated, the shrewd party
managers, don't count the votes night.
They count the votes SO as To elect
themselves to plumber the rich. In
Philadelphia it was the same, and IN
Louisiana in 1876. Likewise when the
electoral commission was created to de-
termine the count OF the vote for Presl-
dent. and the ermine OF the Supreme
Court was dragged in the mud OF poll
ties 10 give people hope OF a fair count,
il was still q partisan count-seVeh one
way and eight the other. Was the re-
suit any different than 1t would nave
been had the question been committed
To an equal number OF voters from the
Five Points, oil the same party nlas
What would have been the effect OF the
blue uniform OF blunt and gallant sol
der among these politicians, to make
them do the right? The people are
about to try. What do the Republican
party complain OF in
THE PRESENT CAMPAIGN IN ALABAMA
That anybody voted as he ought not 70
bova donep o no. The fault again Is
claimed 10 be in the counting. SO that
unon the question OF universal manhood
snfrraos I am clear that all ought to
vote. and laws should be so enacted
that these votes shall be as justly count
ed as they are rightly cast. The people
know how to vote rightly. On. We re-
formers, send somebody who knows
how to count honestly. When any at
his Republican friends asked him how
he could act with the Democratic party,
which undertook TO break up the Union
which he fought to sustain, Gen. Butler
said he replied that they had forgotten
the history OF their country. A portion
OF the Democratic party undertook to
secede from the Union, and thereby
BROKE uPruE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Ii the Democratic party had under
taken to break up the Union, the Union
would surely have been broken mp.
Does any sane man, not blinded by par
tisan prejudice, doubt that, without
prompt, vigorous. loyal, courageous and
patriotic action of the masses OF the
democratic party, it would have been
possible for the Republican party to
have preserved the Union? The rank
and fl lie of our armies we're as largely re-
cruited from the Democratic as from
the Republican Party. For the correct
ness of this assertion let me speak Of my
own knowledge. marched to the gull
with a New England division contain.
there