Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-24

licious and foolish assertions is that
such payments would be impossible.
The good sense and honesty of that man
is seriously impugned. Who does not
read In the plain mandate OF the Four
teenth amendment the
Absolute Seal of Illep pality and Nulhty
set upon all such claims. Having been
for number Of years in Washington
have learned who were the real beneti.
ciarles OF the claims paid by Congress
IN the past ten years OF the class styled
southern claims" and in almost every
instance q great part of the money flow
Ell into the pockets of the Northern and
very loyal" assignees who had bought
up these claims for song from their
impecunious Southern owners. At
great gathering OF Republican ladies
and gentlemen last week there
were lawyers, bankers and
statesmen, who had more money in
their pockets from Southern claims al.
lowed by Republican commissioners and
Republican courts than the poor South
ever received since the war, or ever will
receive from now until the day OF judg-
ment.
1'he Cry of the Solid South
received attention, and Mr.. Bayard said;
"The South is not solid for anything
the North need apprehend, and its So
lidity has no feature and no result uu-
friendly to the prosperity OF the entire
Union"
In relation to business and society in
the Southern States, Mr.. Bayard quoted
freely from paper by Edward Atkin-
son, of Massachusetts, and published in
the FortnightIy Reriew, in which appears
this passage:
"The total production of gold and sill
yer By the mines, mountains and rivers
of the whole world for twenty
seven years has been I,40O, ,9S7, $50,
and the American cotton crop for the
last ten wears has amounted to from
S200,000,000 to $500, 900, 900 in gold val
ues since 1861 An indus.risl revolution
has occurred in the States made free by
the war
Such as Never Before Occurred.
On the surface there has appeared to be
misgovernment, fraud, political disturb
ance, want OF stability, and sometimes
violence, but underlying this surface,
apparently so deeply agitated, great in
dustral forces have been quietly and
surely working to the end indicated by
the great crops OF cotton. the ten last
crops marketed exceeded the ten anti
war crops by nearly q 800, 900 bales, while
the crop now being marketed is the larg-
est grown. Violence and anarchy cannot
have been the rule in a section that has
produced greater crops for sale, and has
at the same time been more seli-sustain-
ing than ever before in its History.
Speaking Of
This Prosperity of tho Nation
and OF the production of tobacco, sugar
and rice, Bayard said: And yet our
domestic production OF the last two ar.
ticle is only in the Southern States, and
tobacco is chiefly produced there. OF
the tobacco crops, from two'fiiths that
remained and was manufactured in the
United States, over S3S,0O0,O00 Of reve.
nue. has been derived in the last fiscal
year. With the executive power
OF this government in the hands
Of an administration just and friendly
to every section, however small,
trifling will the great present be to
the greater future prosperity that awaits
us.
South Carolina.
lie referred 10 his visit to South Car
olina. and said: II any man who was not
unwilling to see the truth had been at
nv side during my visit to South Caro-
lima, he would haye come away assured
that industry was rule among the peo'
pie, ar .he relations OF race were quiet
" and happily regulating themselves,
and but for the devilish work OF selfish
and INSCRIPTIONS politicians OF the
Radical party there never would be any
serious difficulty among the people
there.
The claim that
the Resumption of Specie Payments
was the work OF the Republican party
received considerable attention, and
Bavard said that not until Bristow
was placed at the head OF
the treasury was the suggestion
or attempt made to resume specie pay
ments. ! am wrong. From the only
Democratic member OF the Committee
on Finance, he who now addresses you,
Ireduent appeals came, beginning IN
March, 1869, and continuing through
the long period OF BoutwelPs sales OF
gold and purchase OF long bonds, urging
that the refunding OF the public debt
was OF secondary importance to the re-
establishment Of sound money as the
basis OF our whole financial system, and
it was all in vain. introduced resoIu-
tions to this effect, which were with
drawn to Sherman's committee and
buried there.
BOSS" Garheld's Record,
OF Garfield, Mr.. Bayard said: "He
was chairman of the Committee on APP
propriations when corruption and ex-
travagance ran riot i'll Washing
ton CITY; when Boss Shepherd
and his crew were drawing tens OF mil
lions OF dollars to lay rotten pavenents
in those streets. With false measure
ments and double prices, and in all the
carnival OF roguerv from 1869 till 1879,
when the Democratic majority put an
end to the LOBBY and Congressional
pundcr, where was the voice and vote
Of Garfield? Ii he sought reform, he
did so quietly as never to be heard. L
have the reports OF the cOmml tees, con-
trolled by men OF his own pa 'iy, TO de-
scribe his personal connection with DIS
creditable transactions, and can only
say that ii accept their account oil Gar-
field, we may well say,
Never More Be Officers OF Mine
General Arthur was presented as Col
lector OF The port oil New York, when,
under the infamous molety system, the
merchant was secure against the seizure
OF his books and most private papers.
Custom house bribery was regular
practice and custom house appoint
mentS were the mere counters IN eX-
change for political influence. Collector
Arthur was dismissed from office be-
cause OF these abuses and because, to
use the words OF Secretary Sherman, IN
dorsed sv the President, his retention
would have been serious injury to the
public service.
Contrast.
General Hancock was presented in
contrast, and Bayard said: The bright
light OF public scrutiny, the
hostile dens Of party ami
MOSTLY has been turned upon the
spotless armor OF his private and public
character, and no flaw or stain has been
nf 1. oe.o,;a,a o,, tho ,icl- nt