The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-07-24


elsewhere. and to all these elements to
gether, General Hancock, II successful al
all, will owe his success; and all these ele'
ments, II the successful party Is to be main
tanned in It's strength and continued IN
pover, must be satisfied in order to hold
them together. That will be the situa-
ton and such the problem which the SOL
der, to whom political science and man.
agement SO far have been sealed book,
viii have to solve What will he do 10
satisfy the hard money men without
driving the Greenbackers away? What
will he do 10 keep the Greenbackers in
the party without betraying the principles
OF the hard money men2 How will he sat
isfy the Southern element, that claims to
have been robbed by an anti'slavery war
and IL entitled TO restitution in some shape,
and at the same time keep the manage
ment OF the government within the
bounds OF economy aud propitiate the
Northern taxpayer? How will he con-
tent the Southern men In the distti-
button OF offices, who will claim
that they have furnished tho majority OF
votes and are therefore entitled to the
lions share? And how will he keep the
Northern Democracy in good spirits and
in working order by distribution OF the
patronage which will appease the hunger
OF twenty years? These are some OF the
problems which the unsophisicated soldier
President, whose whole sphere OF mental
activity has so far been contiHed 10 the
handling OF troops on the field Of battle
and to the narrow horizon OF duty which
army life in times OF peace comprises,
will have to solve. And these problems
he will have to solve, not in the quiet OF
the closet, surrounded by a few able
counsellors in peaceful consultation, but
quickly, under the bewidering pressure
OF not a hundred, but thousands OF eager
politicians, who will fill the ear with a
babel OF sound and with pandemonium
OF conflicting ambitions. This is task
that would tax u man OF phenomenal
genius to the utmost OF his capacity; but
what will become OF one who is unaided
even by the least experience OF political
life, and las nothing but his inner con.
seriousness to measure the value oil the
arguments and pretenCes which are din
ned into his ears, and the character oil the
interests that besiege him with their
urgency for immediate actionH
A GAMBLING CHANCE FOR HARD MONEY
MEN.
Let rs see now what, in view OF all this,
we have a right to expect from Dem.
ocratic victory. Is it the maintenance OF
our public faith2 While there are promi-
nent opponents of reputation in the
Democratic party, it is a notorious fact
that all the elements hostile to the consti-
tutional discharge OF our national obliga-
tons have also gathered under the same
banner. Nearly all. il not all, the States
that have repudiated or speak OF repudia-
ting their own debts are Democratic
States, with heavy Democratic majorities,
furnishing Democratic electoral votes and
and Congressman. Who will tell me that
It is certain they will be more conscien-
tious with regard to the National debt than
they showed themselves with regard to
their own? Have we right 10 expect
sound financial policy? While there are
many good, sound money men in the
Democratic party, it is equally well known
that the Democratic party has irresistibly
attracted to its fold very large majority
OF the Greenbackers, intlationists and fiat
money men. 1t has, indeed, in its
National platforms OF late declared for
sound money, but in 1873, while it pro.
nounced for resumption, it demanded at
the same time the repeal Of the Resump.
ton law. Task, what would have become
of Resumption had the Resump-
ton law been repealed? But
while thus speaking OF sound money
in their national platforms is it not
equally true in laIge number OF the
States the most prominent inilationists are
put forward for the highest honors, follow
ed by the masses OF their party. So Gen.
Ewing, in Ohio, so in Indiana, while in
Maine Democrats and Greenbackers fuse
in cordial embrace, and while in many OF
the Western and most OF the Southern
States the Democrats almost en- masse rep.
resent unsOund financial ideas. Is 1t not
true that to the very last resumption was
opposed in Congress by the Democratic
Congressman? Why. when Gen. Hap
cock was nominated the attraction Tor the
Greenbackers seemed TO be so strong that
the venerable Peter Cooper and Gen. Sam
Cary, OF Ohio, were among the first to
pay to him their devotion and wish him |
success. Now, can anybody foretell what
will happen in these respects in case oil
Democratic victory? In fact, we do not
know whether the advocates OF the public
faith or the repudiationists, whether the
hard money men ar the inAationists, are
the strongest element in the Democratic
party throughout the country, and which
OF those elements will control lis policy.
appeal to You, business men, am l going
too far in saying that all this is dark, and
that in voting the Democratic ticket YOU
will take q gambling chance, and that
chance being rather against you7 Are
YOU prepared, taxpayers OF the county, to
lake that gambling chance under such
circumstances.