Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-10-09
SPEECH OF
Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson,
OF CHARLESTOWN.

q SYNOPSIS OF aspeech uei'''e" :" ''''
citv, before the Democratic CLUB, on
Wednesday night of last week, by Hon.
VIM. L. Wilson of this county, and one
Of the Electors for the State at large.
During the delivery cheer after cheer
went up, and the speech was considered
one of the most eloquent delivered in
that city the present campaign. The
Register says -
Six wears ago, he began, the American
oeople declared at the ballot-box their de-
iiberate condemnation of the RcpuDlic"il
marty bv the selection of Il majority VI
democrats, in the House OF Representa-
tives, the potential body OF congress
And in this act they declared theIr C T
tence In the Democratic party. III E;,S
land a certain and authentic eSPi' o'.o,'
OF cpinion by majority Woui! "l oi'vG
place i'm power government III N,"iI'
with their views. In our cVuI" o".'
w" ras,,it ronld be less quickly attained,
and now the Republican party has held
'I'o rnins of government two years With
y ~ beiur under the law, and four years
IN DEFIANCE Of lhF. LAW
rApplause.l Mr.. Blaine, after carrying
his own State [applauSel, came here To
-sn Won how to carry West Virginia
icheerS} and he made 4 quotation of the
language of Robert Walpole To George
III. lie should have reflected that in the
sense WalpOle used that remark, the fe-
publican party was diScreditcd and de-
ihroned six wears ago. After that period
of gloom, when corruption in the Repub-
Iican party lad brought the shadow OF
hard times to millions of fircSideS, the
pcople arose and reversed the majority IN
congress. throwing it to the Democratic
party and the good times we ENJOY to-day,
and of which Blaine and other Republic
can sneakers are so fond of Boosting, are
due 10 the thrift, economy and honesty uf
the party which has mad control, and
though for six years the Radicals have
held on, they have not had control of the
House for six years and the Senate for
two. tApplauSc.J
If | were called upon TO tell yon
THE PROMINENT ISSUE OF TO-DAY.
would say it is the struggle of the peO-
plc TO recover the right OF sclt-goEcrn-
ment. when the fathers of the American
Republic gave Us our great charter OF
government they declared that govern
mems derive their power by the consent
uf the governed: but the Republican par
~ declared i'm 1876 that the governmental
power WAS derived from corrupt return
ing boards and joint commissions tai-
Ilauscl | need no: now 70 back To The
imcfi al Louisiana and FI"liia Every
impartial person Will now admit that
they belonged 10 Samuc. j. Iildcn; but
| might go further and say the a'ml!i--
traitor oI Hayes rests on kellogg an" HlS
returning boards and on such men -
Judge Ducl. who issued his order and
then resigned Ia escape applause and
cheers, drowning the words.
But men sometimes Use iheu u.-Gottch
gains - uotly thJt wc ctn Often Over
look The theft; lyr.tnt- ruiz =" well. some
tunes, thai We gry I" forgive '"e means
by which they rose {" power; "Ht how
las the Republican party used ii> power:
IL ha> used it solely To advance tn" inter-
c>tS Of the party; and Hayes las u,r'.
his high Office solely to reward th0-" VIII"
elevated him. From his high counsel
COVE TO the petty thrift who stole one
hundred votes in Florida. hr has reward
Cd them all. lie has disclosed one thing
10 his crcdit--his gratitude i immense.
IArplause.' He mas had cabinet portfolios
10 dispru>. AMI missions To give. and
uobly has he done il. Hui there WAS one
man the cunnnity at whose Ott"H>c MAS
So great and his deserts 20 large, conSc-
uurntlv. that they hal nothing 2ood
enough for him then, and they
NOMINATED Nm FOX PRESIDENT
nj Chicago. Trrcmcndou> applause and
cries of"329.'I Ii We Democrats were
di>uosrd 10 avoid the issue OF Che fraud Of
,.ft, u.tiplI
ErnubIicanS brings it again 80 boldly
forward. that we are compelled 90 meet ii.
No man connected with Shat iuf'tnr,
nlavcd 80 promiurnta part rs Garfield,
whether il WIS a. visiting statesman. up
s.t;i,,u the returns of West Fclician par
iSb: or sitting in the Custom House al
New Orleans. with Amy Mitchell; or
fastening To Washington To take ms place
on the Commission: or whether mount
inc the seat Of the judge and declaring ne
could not go behind the returns. Ah
When the fraud was completed and they
drew around its lOathsomc form the mali
tie of State sovereignty, they could noi
Withdraw it, not even tho they saw the
ass ears protruiin% beneath the lions
skin. And the most disgusting feature
of this fraud WAS its shelter behind STATE
,oyprnirnty. Where was Louisiana :
soyercirntv when Garfield, CloScttd III
the Custom House. miicup her returns
And vet, whcH they had tramplcd her
into the dust, they gathered that lran";
enclosed il in the mantle OF her rights an"
then turned away their faces, hid them
selves, like Moses in tho rock. .AP-
plausc.l
Il i 10
SIT ASIDE sELF-GoE EMINENT
10 enter the holy of holes aud torroitnc
the rights of man; and when we fan 20
condemn we tamp2r with our own I'M
doing Never in the past history OF our
country has such an attempt been madc
without having been met by swift con-
demnation. In 1900, when tie IN the
electoral college threw the choice OF
president into the House, Aaron Burr
made such an effort. As q result he was
banished and the Federal party ceased To
have influence. In 1914. when Jackson,
with majority of both popular ana cleo
tOral votes, was defeated by fraud swift
condemnation was mctcd out and he was
afterwards elected by the largest electo-
raj vote then received. lApplausc.) On
when men fail to act and quickly, Wlth
such attempts, they tamper with their
own undOing.
The Republican party then stands be-
fore the country guilty of the fraud OF
1876, and that is the first issue. But IL
stand. guilty of something else. and
will name two things for which 1t VIII
meet public condemnation in the fail.
IApplause.l 1t is guilty of sectional dis
cord, sectional Schism and
UNDYING, IMrLACALBE AND BITTER HATRED
or THE SOUTH.
Applause II deals with the North with
one feeling and with the South with an