The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-29


crested in industrial progress and the
protective tariff. Your whole future de-
ponds upon the maintenance OF the pre-
tent policy OF protection-and yet you
stake your all on the side Of the slave
States. II West Virginia could enamel.
pate herself, II she could bury her preju.
tllces and say, "What Is Hecnba to Us or
we to HeCuba, that We should weep for
her?" 1t would be well for her. The cleo.
ton OF Hancock to the Presidency Of the
United States would put West Virginia
back in her progress and development a
full generation.
RESULTS OF HANcocK's ELECTION.
Democrats say to us, What evil can re
suit II Hancock Is elscted2 Isn't he
brave soldierH Isn't he a splendid.loOkinE
man? lam free to admit that he is al
Of this. But his election would result IL
disaster to this country. First, IL yor
elect Gen. Hancock you inevitably, within
the space OF a twelve month-it may bt
ninety days hand over to the Democratic
party, led by Southern men, the control o
the Supreme Court oil the United Stalei
absolutely. Five OF those gentlemen are
to-day over 20, or in that neighbOrhood
They may accept retirement at full pay
II they are slow or reluctant about 1t,
Democratic President, backed by Demo
cratic Senate and House, will swamp tina
court by superior numbers, and, by way
OF advice to the North on that subject, y
would put bill on the calendar oil the
Senate to make it consist OF twenty-on'
members. My friend says: "What differ
ence does 1t make II the judges are
Democrats, provided they are hon
est?" [ want TO answer tina
question, In the event OF Hancock
election, conceive 1t to be entlrel!
probably that Senator Thurman, OF Ohio
would 70 on the bench Of the Supreme
Court. He Is an eminent man, and ! be
lieve OF absolute personal integrity. HI
Is learned In the law, and on money ques
tions between man and man l would trus
him as far as would any Republican II
the land; but when you come 10
THAT GREAT CLASS OF POLITICAL CASES,
the unfolding Of the reconstruction of thu
Southern States, the upholding OF the con
stitutional' amendments-on those ques
lions Senator Thurman is as radically ant
inevitably and incurahly wrong, as th'
men who fought in the ranks Of the reoe
army. Applause. And | will illustrate
this By reierring-Rs men OF all parties arr
proud OF doing-to the past. w
are proud OF Webster and Gal
houn. Mr.. Calhoun was exception
ally pure in character, but put hin
and MIR. Webster on the bench oil the Sn
irene Court, and In every decision regard
ing the superior right Of the Nation eve
the State they would have been on oppo
site sides. This has no reference 10 thu
personal qualities Of the Judges. Now, !
the American people, after spending 50,
OO0, 100000 and 100000 lives to maintain
Union OF the States. with superior powe
in the hands OF the Nation, are willing, BY
a vote OF the States that made that terri
BILE expenditure, TO throw their supreme
judicial tribunal under the control oil the
men who believe that the war was uncon
stitutionsl, then your quickest way TO ge
such tribunal Is TO put Hancock In TIT
Presidential chair.
Because he helped in 1868 to keep the
Rebels out OF the North Is no reason We
should help in 1880 to get them in. Zap
plause He has changed sides; de
is now on the side OF the Rebs
hosts he aided in driving out o.
Pennsylvania. don't propose to follow
him. laughter and applause Ii ma
iority Of the voters Of this country do
they will transfer the control OF our Gov
eminent To the party that organized the
Rebellion and host OF untold and un
fathoniable evils threaten this nation
This Government cannot stand permanent
" unless It stands honestly. Cheers [
This Is the great fault l hld with th'
Democratic party, this ia
THE CRIME FOR WHICH ARRAIaN THEM,
that in this election they are not acting az
honest part. They are attempting, partl!
by fraud and partly by violence TO cleo
Hancock and English by depriying 900,
600 fellow citizens Of the right OF suffrage
II it was right TO give the negroes IN
right OF Suffrage was never debatabi'
question; but az it stands in the South TO
day they are Knocked with the right and
refused its exercise. II this were all w
might work ourselves up to submit to 1t
But they want to cast the votes OF the ne
groes themselves. The colored people o
Alabama have no more voice in the GOV
ernmept OF Alabama than they have II
the Government Of Africa from whict
their remote ancestors came. Yet il
making up the basis OF representation II
Congress and in the Electora
College every one ofthem is counted. TIT
vote OF a white man there counts for Jus
double the vote Of a white man in th'
North, and in Mississippi four whit
mems votes count for az much TOWARD
electing q President IS the votes OF MINI
men In Ohio, Pennsylvania or West Viz
ginla. This would not be so bad wer,
this all. Butthere Is suspicion amount
ing almost to q certainty, that the South
ern States have added million and
half 10 their population by traudulen
euumerations. Take Virginia
FROM WHICH EsoHAPPILY DIvoRcEr
which has not only been oppressed, bu
has bad debt Of great magnitude on he
shoulders, which abe has been on th
point Of repudiating, its people notorious
" emigrating to the West and Northwest
not single town with the exception 0
one within Its limits increasing In popula
ton. Virginia turns up smiling with 81
increase Of population up to the ratio o
Massachusetts or Ohio. LApplause anc
laughter Kentucky rivals Indiana
and Tennessee keeps even with I'LL
nols. Georgia, ! think, is in excess o
Pennsylvania; Alabama Is equal I
Wisconsin, and so on through, and dom
hesitate To say, although there has been {
most persistent effort to keep 1t out oil Thu
canvass, that the Southern census will dis
close, aud will Intentionally disclose, thu
fact that from l,000,0O0to 100000 more
OF people are 10 the South that are moi
there. [Applause.l They are the namel
Of people Ia the graveyard orof habie
that are yet to be born. Laughterl
LINCOLN
was rouudly abused twenty years ago 70
saying this Nation could not be perpetu