Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-06


back party be TO themselves or the
country?
The party is fest decreasing as the
following will show:
In PENNSYLVANIA Sl' 55S
lS19........................... 2',=V'
pacre,,c 81 Isl
In New York, 20 ,S' 5SS
lSI9...................,... -"'<oo
decrease ...,.............. 5i,SI7
In wiscnnsin ar ........... q, 2l6
l-'<'o
Decrease, II, 22o
In ONO, '''' '1'u1I
'i"'-
-
Decrease q, 97S
Total decrease. ............ ..........llS,o' go
In Connecticut they polied in 1873,
S,3l4 votes, and in 1879, nome, and in
MANY other States the same way.
The National Greenback platform
adopted at Chicago, and also the plat
form OF the same party Of this State
adopted at Parkersburg, demand that
the bonds of the United States shall be
paid according TO original contract.
Every man who has examined the laws
know that to pay the bonds as demand
ed by the GreenbaCk platform will be
reputation and bad faith. Why, the
face OF the bonds now read payable IN
COIN and the Republican party made
them so. The Greenbackers may con-
denim the Republican party for chang
iug the obligation OF the bond, but they
must be paid according to the present
and not original contract.
The Greenbackers have nominated
Gen. Weaver for President and recon-
mend that his and Judge WTight's bill,
as introduced into, Congress shall pass.
Let me tell YOU what these bills are and
then you can Judge what in part the
Grcenbackers favor. | have the bills IN
full AS printed for me OF Congress. Gen.
Weavers is House Bill No. 2,4S0, intro
duced into the House December ), 1879.
Section l provides that every soldier,
officer, sailor, teamster, &c, who served
in the Union army during the late war
and was paid in greenbacks, shall now
receive the difierencebetween greenbacks
at the time paid and gold coin with 6per
cent. interest from the time the green
backs were received. The second sec.
ton provides that five hundred million
dollars (S5OO,OO0, 000) of greenbacks shall
he issued To commence the payment. 30
YOU see Gen. Weaver and the greenback
party run the Government SoOO,OOO,OOO
more in debt and increase the paper
money $500, 000, 900 more than now, and
not to pay a debt. but to give it away to
persons, many OF whom are now receiv-
ing money pension.
Judge Wright's bill is House ELL No.
26g dated April 81, 1879, and provides
that every person who will settle on
public lands of the Government shall
have the land and five hundred dollars
CS50Ol ont OF the Treasury OF the United
States. No man can tell what sum OF
money it would require to carry tins Dill
fully into effect. Just imagine the Gov
eminent giving the land, then $500 to
each man who will settle upon 1t, and
the taxpayers foot the bill.
hope no Democrat will vote the
Greenback ticket. They cannot succeed,
and ii they did it would be sad day fer
the country. Recollect that kearney
succeeded in California at one election,
but before the next election he had no
party aud was i'll prison, and now no
party will admit him into it.
General Weaver is the Greenback
Presidential candidate; he is CO.
ING around the country max
ing speeches and begging,
by circular signed by himself, that
each Greenbacker give him one dollar
or more TO pay expenses. In Alabama
AZ the recent election the Republicans
and Greenbackers combined, and Gen.
Weaver s,umped the State against the
Democrats. The result WAS that the
State, formerly Democratic by about
81 900, at the recent election was about
20 600. So where the Greenbackers anu
Republicans combined, the Democrats
doubled their majority.
GENERAL HOWARD AND THE FREEDNANs
BUREAU.
will call your attention TO what the
Secretary of War and Judge Advocate
General Holt said about General How
ard, who is one OF those Republican
Christian statesman (oi the Corporal
schooO, and who at one time had charge
OF the Freedmans' Bureau.
The Secretary OF War, in letter TO
Congress, dated December 4, 1873,
CHARGED General o. o. Howard, who
had charge OF the Bureau OF Refugees,
Freedmen and Abandoned Land, with
being charged with the sum OF ST.
573 sc, for which he had filed no vouch-
ers or made no return. The Secretary.
saws: In one item, stated at upwards OF
Sl2l GOO, not accounted Tor, II VIII De
seen that accounts cannot be produced,
and no attempts to prove what has be-
come OF the money. Ot the whoie
amount one item OF SSS,SSS.39 was
claimed by colored claimants, VINO al
lege that they have not been paid their
bounty pay. although the records OF the
Treasury Department show settlement
OF the claims, and vouchers have oeeh
filed by the Bureau as evidence OF the
payment.
General Holt, who published an artl,
Gle criticising the rulings oil the court
martial selected to try Gen. Howard
case, saws that the evidence shows that
SS.OOO,OO have failed to reach the
rightful claimants.
Yet, despite all this, President Grant
assigned Gen. Howard TO the command
OF the Department OF the Columbia, head
quarters at Portland, Oregon.
also call your attention 70 the suh'