Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-01
AN EMINENT JURIsr SPEAKS.

An Interesting Talk With Judge Black
on the Political situstion-Hancock's
CLAIMS TO Statesmsnship - Garield's
Position on the Tariff-The Republican
Candidate the Tool of His Party.
PuILADELrHtA, August 3l.--rhe Press
| has the following interview Wit Judge
Black:
/ well, Judge, what DO YOU say OF
/ Hancock as a Presidential candidate?
/ "When | read his Order No. iO-Oi
] which am done diSclaimlng the author
/ ship said There is the foremost
I American Of his time, and the note |
wrote him upon that occasion came from
nv heart. / said, There is Il man who
deserves the highest honor his country
has 10 beStOw, and believed that he
would receive his reward, II not in lie,
then By pOSthumOus fame, which would
descend upon mis- children, and | could
not tear out of my heart the lively hope
that he would some day be
Rewarded with the Presidency OF the
United States
"IOu DO not rate Hancock high mere
ly aS a soldier
when General Jackson defended
New Orleans he filed the measure OF his
cOuutry's glory: but when he grappled
with the Uni ell States Bank and stran-
yled the monster he rose to the full
height oi craftsmanship and made him
self his proudeSt place in history. ten.
Hancock was 4 splendid soldier, but his
civil rpcori-Orler No. 10 alone is
worth more 10 him and his country.
lie showed a knowledge of the Consu-
tuition and a respect Tor It's legislation
not exhibited by any other high officer
oi our army. lie took his stand
/ In Defense OF the Constitution
al time when Thad Stevens was hOut-
. ING his contempt for that sacred instru-
ment, holding that Congress was legls-
latiug outside oil the Constitution,
though he observed that some people
still hai splinters of that shattered in
strumeut frslering in their liyers. That
was the ground taken by the strongest
intellect oi his party-a man vino led
the Republican party 10 lengths 10 which
! il would have followed no other.
Don't you think Stevens believed he
/ vas right
THAI Stevens was utterly without
moral sense.
He Had no Moral Standard,
How could he determine what was
right, believing in nothing, rejecting
God and the devil Naturally a great
power, this lack made him great pow
er Tor evil. Ii was under his leadership
that the Republican party tried to DO
what CLAW and Webster predicted the
4. 4 afN IN II
destroy the Union by force.
In your opinion, Judge, how will the
tariff .for.revenue plank in the Demo
cratic platform affect Hancock in Penn
svlvania?'
ais ANYBODY opposing that PROPOSE
tion?' -.
"The Republican party tiatters itself
that it il opposing IT To some purpose.
sWeH, General Garfield isn't opPos-
ing il is he1 Ii there is Il man III tins
country who is anti-pTotectlonlSt,
That Man Is Garfield.
| know n, and know ne stood up Tor
his principles in his own district when
he was urged to declare himself. he
said ne was not pr0tectionist, ami
though they might vote against him he
would stand on his convictions.
But General Garfield confesses that
he was not TOO stubborn % learn, that
Tree trade theories captivated him, while
the prar jrr was obnoxious 10 him, for
which reason, | believe. ne never gave
an anti-prOtectioniS vote IN the House.
Judge Kelley put it pretty well when
he said recently that Garfield had grown
up To the full measure oi protection.
well, | was afraid of that-airaid he
would allow his devotion To party 10
overcome his personal convictions;
Why, don't you remember that Garheld
was
Put on the WAYS and Means Committee
to Balance Kelley
an anti prOtectiOniSt against protec-
zionist? Ii must have been wonder
fully sudden and rapid growth, begin
ming about the time he got the fresi-
dental maggOt in his head. NO, SIR;
Garfield is no more OF Il protecuonlSt
than | am
"Do YOU look upon General Garheid
AS being as strong man as ms party
could have nominated, Judge
intellectually he is its strongest man.
and morally he is the equal OF any man
i'm the party. But you understand that
the head OF the party is like the head
OF a snake-it is wagged 10y the body
and tail. He will always be as good as
the party will let him be-no better. IL
General Garfield would carry his prl-
vate convictions into his political action
He Would Be AS Good Democrat as
Am"
what is your Judgment OF the party
chances in this campaign?
1T is hard enough to talk history.
Now Won want me to talk prophecy.
| can't do il. never was good at
that ANYHOW" and then after silence,
~ though he WAS lost in thought,
the Judge resumed: | will say
that am disappointed. | did
not believe that any considerable num-
her of the American people would ever
forget the monstrous infamy OF the Pres
;5entIal fraud. But to great many very
respectable, ,peOple it really seems to
make no difference. The long misrule
OF the Republican party seems to nave
Biunted the Conscience OF Many Men,
But we have made great progress as a
people in fifteen years, and there IL