Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-23
STIRRING STUMPERS.
GContinusd from Firs; Page.
Coir C-,rroncv and Bank Circulation.

cy and greenbacks that | propose to give
a reference to those votes on these great
questions, together with the pages OF the
Congressional Record. Under Republic
can legislation the Secretary OF the
Treasury WAS required to re-
tire, that is destroy, greenbacks
when they were paid into the
treasury. This would Don have con-
tractea the circulating medium and
brought On another panic. Upon a bill
10 prevent this retiring or obstruction
OF the currency | voted yea and General
G,rdtlI nay. (Forty-ifth Congress,
second session, vol. !, part Sd; pages
2,92S and 2,929.)
AS the trade dollar had run away
down below par, Notwithstanding they
We're worth more By !! grains II "a the
LEGAL tender silver dollar, a bill was
offered in Congress 10 require the officers
OF the mint to exchange legal tender
silver dollars for trade dol
lars when offered for exchange.
| voted yea, General Garfield nay.
Same Congress, third session, vol. s,
part !, page 81 And upon a bill to
prevent bankers and banking associa-
tons from discriminating against the
legal tender silver dollar, upon the PEN
atty of having their bank circulation
Withdrawn, Wilson voted yea, General
Garfield nay. Same book, page 933.)
Upon the bill to retire National Bank
circulation and to substitute greenbacks.
/ voted yea, General Garfield voted nay.
tForty-iifth Congress, second session,
vol. Z. part ). page iTS2.)
Upon a motion to suspend the rules
and pass the following bill which was
offered by Mr.. Southland, OF Ohio:
"Bc it enacted that on and after the
first day OF October. 1873, legal tender
notes Of the United States shall be re-
ceived at par in payment OF custom
duties" Wilson voted yea, Gen. Gar
field voted nay. Same Congress, same
book, page 1879
Upon the passage OF the bill to remoni.
tie silver over the veto OF President
Hayes, the record was, 1856 yeas, -
nays. General Garfield voted nay.
- it VII b' sen TIA: / have 20 ed in
the interest Of Tie people upon al these
questions, and opposed contraction Oi
the currency and favored expansion.
Both CO.. Wilson and other Demo.
Gratis lave steadily voted against increas
ing the bonded debt. Several times
prOpositIorS were offered 10 authorize
the sale Of government bonds for green
backs, and the pill sugar coated to make
these grcenbacEs receivable iOr custom
dues. These propositions the bulk OF
the Democrats voted against for The
reason that Hey tended 10 increase the
bonded debt and fix further mortgages
upon the country
Time was called on Mr.. Wilson at
this point and Ae was compelled to
break rather abruptly OF.
Many other questions he had desired
20 discuss AMI he wished to say gone
thing about our gallant standard bearer,
General Hancock but he would obey the
rules and give way to his opponent.
Hon. j. A. Hutchinson
was then introduced by John 4. Camp.
bell, Esq, in a few remarks. He said:
In all my pilgrimage through the First
district | have never seen so grand a
display and so line an audience as has
cOHgreEatcd here tonight.
! desire to discuss prlnCiplCs-not 10
rake over the ashes Of the party. The
question is, what must we do in 1850,
and, in substance, he advised ali to 90
with that great party OF God and moral
ity in the coming contest.
He soon commenced "raking" over
the dead past" 10y beginning on Col.
Ben. from the tim" he was 4 member OF
theVlrgiuia Secession Convention down
TO the present.
"My friend talks about fraud" says
Iob, NH 4han Ia t,,k IN Inala Sam.
uel TlIden rs Z subject and amused the
crowd with him Tor awhile.
He eulo.izcd Hancock and spoke
highly OF his military record, but went
for that 'copperhead,' Bill English.
My friend says they have decreased the
expenses of the Government, but he
can't show the figures on that. On the
contrary, the Democrats have increased
the expenditures, and he proceeded to
give figures from 4 Radical standpoint
That great t1pic-the financial question
worn threadDare, apparently, by every
stump orator Oh the continent, was next
taken up, and the usua! remarks OF the
average Republican speaker we're made
upon II.
In referring to General Gartield's
record, which Col. Wilson had reviewed
in a very cutting manner, he said that,
Judging from the conduct and acts
OF both Garfield and Wilson lie would
rather follow Garfield blIndio,ded than
Col. Wilson with his eyes open.
The speaker read from manuscript a
long roll OF questions he had prepared
ior Col. Ben and ]pr0pOuncd a number
to him such as the following: Will you
be controlled by a Democratic caucus il
YOU are reelected to Congress? Will
YOU vote for Blackburn for speaker?
and several others Of Il very trivial a
ture. He advised the Colonel "to
put them in his pipe and smoke
them" He returned again TO the dead
past and grappled with Wilson's record
once more. Wilson, said the speaker,
had within the last five wears allied TO
vote upon twenty-nine bills, or that
many different measures, either by be-
ing absent or lodging, and lie went on
to read the bills and the dates they
were offered. The question OF tariff was
next discussed. lie claimed that his
party WAS in favor OF high protective
tariff, and always had been, and that the
Democratic party was II OF free trade.
He made an attempt to defend the rec
crd of Garfield, but was careful not to
refer toany OF the jobs or corrupt rings
that the Rev. statesman had been con
nected with. He said sit takes these
dirty birds By night to walk about ami
Islander that pure and noble man, Gar.
field"
1t closing he eulogized General Gar
field at some length, and paying his re-
spects 90 Hancock, closed after an hours
talk, which highly delighted the Repub.
lican brethren.
Col. Wilson had been allotted fifteen
minutes in which to close the debate
and he now took the stand for the pur-
pose OF demolishing his competitor,
which lie did quite ctiectually.
&. He first defended his votes upon sew
eral measures, referred to by Hutchin.
son, in such an able and characteristic
manner that he won great applause, the
first given during the evening. He had
aiways voted in Congress, according to
his idea, to protect our home industries
and in the interest Of the laboring nan.
Tho COIonel forgot himself several