The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-02

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were sober truths, the General having
taken extraordinary pains 70 investigate
the truth OF the charges. Ballot box stuff.
ing also, be found TO be largely practiced
in Alabama, and bull.dozing was COM
monty carried on. An instance Of the lat
ter was given rs an illustration.
The week before Gen. Weaver spoke at
Montgomery there had been Republican
meeting broken up by mob there. After
the speakers had been driven from the
stand the drunken City Solicitor Of Mont
gomery mounted II and yelled: "G-d-
them, they can out vote Us, but we'll
count 'em out every time" This story,
incredible as Il may seem, Gen. Weaver
saws he had from incontestible authority.
The next night General Burke, United
States Collector OF Customs at Mobile,
brayed the mob spirit and attempted to
make q Republican speech from the same
gtand. but was driven from II aud from the
town with rotten eggs.
In Dallas county there were ct one time
$500 Republican votes cast to ], 800 Demo-
cratic; and II Is q standing joke down
there that with all the stutiing OF the box.
substituting tickets and other devices
practiced at the polls, the Democratic
Sheriff once said he had To fix up the re-
turns himself sometimes.
81 used to think Tilden was fairly elect.
ed" said General Weaver; "but tell you
he was moi"
General West, Of Mississippi. former
Democrat OF prominence, and Tilden
elector in 1879, testifes TO these practices
and was so Disguised by them that he left
the party. He said 70 General Weaver
that Il Hancock should be elected, such
an impetus would be given to the spirit o.
disorder in his State, thathe could not live
there q day.
Concerning the chances for the success
Of the Greenbackers in this State, Gen
Weaver seemed very sanguine. He said
Ohio county was the least favorable coun
" in the State. He thought the State
would give large majority for the Green
back ticket. He was also hopeful OF car
rying Arkansas, Texas and Mississippi II
the South, and Maine and California IL
. the North. Missouri, also. he was disposed
} 10 claim, and he thought that in anothe
, wear or 50 Michigan and Wisconsin woult
he enrolled as Greenback States. Ht
!. thought the number OF Congressman Q
, | the party would be largely increased thi
wear, and that eventually the mission 9
: the Greenback Labor Organization will b
accomplished and its principles triumph
3 He compared the movement to the upris
ing against slavery which gave birth to tn
8 Republican party.
Concerning the report that he had writ
!. ten letter endorsing the Communist
i theories OF the Socialists. he said 1t wa
incorrect, and arose from his affirmativ
!. answer TO an inquiry as to whether b
a was in sympathy with the "land resolr
g ton" OF the Chicago Convention, whic
Il declares, in effect, that Gland, like air an.
1 water, was the gift Of God to mankind
. and that 1t is crime for it to be monoT
g olized by the few to the injury Of tn
: many" This, the General explains.
i meant simply to condemn the extensiv
8 grants Of land made by the Governme!n
/ to railroad corporations. II do not" sal
q the General, "endorse, nor do ] countt
) nance anybody who does endorse the ide
q Of interfering with anybody's veste
i. rights OF property"
Gen. Weaver left last evening for Ora
q ton, whence he goes to Petersburg e
n day. He addresses meeting there thi
b evening, after which he goes home t
i Iowa for few days rest. He will the
+ resume his campaign work in Arkansas.