The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-02


THE RegiStT's lightning calculator yester
day got of the following editorial arith
metical and statement:
An analysis OF the vote for President in
1880 shows that Garfield received 4439,'
7ls votes, to 4,039. 1906 for Hayes in 1875;
Hancock 4, ,436, ,060, to 1924 ,205 for Tilden
in 1876; Weaver, 305, 100, to Sl,737 fol-
Cooper in 1875; and Dow 9,644, to 9,622
for Smith in 1876. Tildsn had on the pop
Iilar vote q majority Of 250, $50 over Hayes,
while Hancock has majority Of 2l3,785
over Garfield.
The point in the above paragraph is, Of
course, unmistakably obvious to the read
er. It is that inasmrCh as Garfield re.
csived ,4S9, ,7l9 votes, and Hancock only
4,4S6, ,O6O, that therefore Hancock has q
majority Of 2lS,765 over Garfield. Thus
we have logic and arithmetic delightfully."-
mingled. --.-.-
Another editorial abatement in yester.
days Regiter Is almost equally calculated
to arrest attention, Speaking Of the busi.
ness before Congress the editor says:
But there are q few leading measures
which, for party considerations, II for no
other, this Congress should act upon. The
Democrats pledged the people from every
atump In the country during the cam
paign that the Eaton tariff bill should be
passed this winter. This is q measure OF
great importance and Rcceptability to the
whole country. Let the Democratic party
pass It, and II Hayes wishes the RESPONSE
bility OF vetoing It, or the Republicans
want TO defeat IL by fillibustering, there
can be no objection to their making
party record OF this kind. The Dem
ocracy will have done Its duty.
The reference above to the " Eaton tar
iff bill" suggests the question as to what
the editor means. II he means the pre-
posed commission to examine into and
report upon the whole taritf question,
then his comments appear to have NO ap-
plicahon whatever to the Republicans.
Page 157 Of McPherson's Manual will
show that the bill to provide Tor the ap-
pointment OF q commission TO inyesti-
gate tho question Of the tariff; ;passe d the
Senate by 81 to 10, and that majority Of
chose voting for it were Republicans. Ey-
cry vote in the negative was Democratic
vote, counting David Davis as Democrat.
What then does the editor mean by full
minating against the Republicans on the
subject? It looks good deal as II his
ideas and Information on the tariff ques.
ton had been derived from Hancock's
celebrated letter on the subject To say
that "the Democrats pledged the people
from every stump in the country during
the campaign that the Eaton tariff bill
shorld be passed this winter" Is a state
ment that certainly calls for an explana,
tion, in view otthe fact that such leading
Democratic Senators as Beck, Mcdonald
and Thurman are found recorded against
the bill for which Eaton voted. which
"a the only Eaton tariff bill" that
we are aware OF. II the Detnoc-
racy we're so much in favor OF the
Eaton bill why did they not'say something
about 1t in their Cincinnati ,platiornP q
Who we're the Democrats that pledged the
marty on the stump in the absence OF any
endorsement in the platform, and In spite
OF the vote We have referred TO In the Sem
ate?
Let the Register illuminate the horizon
littla on this question, or else people will
he asking 1.-THE question that Hancock is
sRid 10 have asked in the campaign, viz:
sWho Is this man Tariff, and why Is he
gor ravenne onlyW .