The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-18

made note in their minds as TO his con-
fidence otgeat partial or total success in
Alabama, he had but one ioreboding in
the matter, and that was as to whether
there would be q fair vote and q fair
count. Itthere could be fair vote and a
fair count, he felt confident Of great sue
cess.
Well, the election has come and gone,
and the Democratic majority is over
whelmins-simply immense. The Green
hackers were swept out Of existence. II
they polled their strength ii must have
been 80 very small as TO be scarcely ap-
probable. II they polled a large vote
where is III 1t certainly does not appear
in the returns. The National Nie'c, the
Greenback organ Of the party at Washing
ton, says that fraud and intimidation
ruled the election, and that the Green
hackers were simply bulldozed and de
frauded.
Well, grant that this was the case
What Is the remedy? Isit to divide the
opposition to the Solid South and the
Democratic party, and thus assist that ::or'
ganization to crush out all manner OF OPP
position to their complete supremacy
throughout The South?
We put this question to the men who cal
themselves Greenbackers in this Congress
ional: district. They have no more chance
to elect candidate to Congress here thar
they have to elect one in Ohio. They car
help elect Colonel Wilson, and that is al
they can do. Every vote for Bassell is, a
It was in 1878, an indirect vote for Colone
Wilson. The returns show that Bassell'
vote united to Hubbard's would have elect
ed the latter, and that Colonel Wilson
really went to Congress by minorit!
vote.
Once elected to Congress, Colonel vii
son is supporter Of the Solid South. Fl,
and his party are responsible for the stat
OF affairs in the South to-day. And Ger
tainly neither he nor his party hayC
any claims on West Virginia Greenback
ers after crushing them out so eGectuall!
| in the Alabama election.
Is it not then a matter Of the first i'm
portance 10 Greenbackers, as well as Re
publicans, that the power OF the Solit
South be broken? Unless this can bt
done, Grecnbackism has no more chanc,
there than Republicanism. The Demo
cratic party is the foe OF both. 1t ha
crushed out both in Alabama.
Col. Wilson stands on hard money plat
form in this canvass. The convention that
nominated him Endorsed that hard none!
platform. It did not dare to renew singl,
one Of its old declarations on the subject o
greenbacks. 1t went clear back on its
platform Of two years ago. 1t also en-
dorsed the free trade plank of the Cincin
natl platform. Not a word do you find il
the resolutions passed by the convention
that renominated Col. Wilson in favor 0
a tariff. They accept the free trade plat
form adopted at Cincinnati as the creed
the party in this district.
Why then should any Greenbacker ii
this district cast, as in 1878, an indirec
vote for Col. Wilson, ty fooling away hi
vote on Col. Bassell2 This is Just what
vote for thelatter amountsto. Bassell viii
not poll as many votes as in 1873, but al
that he gets will simply accrue to the ben
eft OF the representative of a party that ha
crushed out Greenbackism in Alabama
that has gone back on its financial princi
pies, and has declared for free trade.