The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-28
SOME QUESTIONS
That were Recently Addressed 10 Col.
Ben Wilson.

That were Recently Addressed 10 Col.
Ben Wilson.
cllrk,burs Telegram.
The following is copy Of the questions
handed to Ben. Wilson at q late meeting
held at Volcano, with the request that he
answer them, but which he refused to do:
First-Did you not, on May 10Th, fail to
vote on Payne's resolution providing Tor
the issue OF more silver coin2
Second Did you not fall to vote on
Sanders amendment TO the silver bull,
providing for the coinage oil silver dol
lars, June &C. 1882 =, @
Third-Did you not also fail to vote on
Reagan's bill, or amendment, limiting
the legal tender quality OF the silver dol
Fourth-Did you not fail to vote on KEEL
Tvs bill authorizing the increased coinage
Of silver dollars, July "a, 1892
Fihh-Did you not fail to vote on Mills
resolution directing the Committee on
WAYS and Means 10 bring in a bill for
tariff for revenue, July !, 1877
Sixth-Did you not vote to repeal the
RESUMPTION act at time when greenback
dollars were worth 90 cents in gold, No
yember /, 1877
Ssyenth-Did you not, June s, 1878,
vote TO make United States internal rev.
enue agents and officers subject TO trial
for their official acts before the courts OF
the Southern StatesP
Eighth-Did you not, March %, 1873,
fail TO vote for or against Groves resolu-
lion 10 suspend the operation OF paying
into the Sinking Fund for five yearsP
Ninth-Did you not vote against the
Couger resolution providing against the
payment OF claims OF persons disloy al to
The United States Government
Tenth-Did you not, on the I'd OF No.
yember, 1877, vote against the proposition
to make greenbacks receivable for customs
due, after you had made speeches through
this district advocating that measureY
| Eleyenth-Did you not vote for the
Electoral Commission bill, January, 1917,
lby which the contested subject oil the
Presidential election was peacefully set
tied? -.
Twelfth-Were you in favor Of that
mode Of settling it2 logo,
IThirteenth-Did not General Garfield
speak and vote against the bill?
Fourteenth-Did you not vote to make
Gen. Garfield one Of the Electoral Com
mission? 49,.
Fii,eenth-Do you stand on the platform
Of the Democratic party, as adopted ~
Cincinnati, in June, 1880?
Sixteenth-Did not the convention that
nominated you endorse that platform?
Seventeenth-Do you endorse the prin-
ciples of the Cincinnati platform?
Eirhteenth-Didy you not declare, In a
lspeech at Grantsvilie within forty days,
THAT you were as good Greenback man
as General Weaver, and that you had al
ways stood up for the same measures that
General Weaver advocated.
MISUNDERSTANDING 20, 1878, didyou
not vote against the Baker resolution
which provides that no subsidiesin money,
Ibonds, public lands, endorsements or
pledges OF public credit should be granted
10 corporations?
Twentieth-Does not Mr.. William a.
Hearne, of Wheeling, have claim Of over
500, 600 pending before the Mexican
Claims Committee, OF which you are q
member, in Congress2 4i
Twenty.first-Did you ever say in re-
cent speech that tariff Tor revenue only
was q protective tariff
Twenty.second-Are you in favor oil the
100 fire lest transportation bill, now pend.
ling before Congress, which provides ways
and means for killing of all opposition TO
the Standard Oil Company?
Twenty.third-Are you in favor OF the
Reagan transportation bill?
Twepty.fourth-If elected will you vote
and use your influence 10 defeat the 100
fire test transportation bill, which Is
solely in the interest OF the Standard Oil
Twenty fifth-lf elected will you vote
and use your influence in favor OF the
passage Of the Reagan transportation bill?