Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-01
POLITICAL POINTS.
A ROUSlNG SPEECH TO A R0USlNG
CLUB.
Acknowledgement White in the Fourth Ward
General Politica! 0oings and the
Club Room Talk.

The Fourth Ward Democratic Club
met AZ the Atlantic engine house, last
evening, for the purpose OF hansactlng
some business and hearing speech oil
Attorney General White, who by invita-
ton had consented 10 address "Old
Hickory"
Business being first in order the club
ordered all bills against the same to be
paid, and also resolved TO meet next
Friday night when one hundred
torches, capes and caps will be
distributed among the members
President John Boring then introduced
Col. Robert White, who said that he had
not come to make any "oratorical effort
or deliver a political harangue, but
simply To talk to the Club IN as an
instructive way as he was able, and
teach the members how 10 20 20 work
IN the interest OF their party and achieve
one OF the largest Democratic majorltles
the ward had ever heard OF. Our party
has organized and is working in all parts
of the state. We have begun work here
and let it be carried on with vlgor ana
earnestness. The fight is between the two
great political parties. There are several
others in the field but amount to little
The Greenbackers, after the result III
Alabama and the speech oil their ieaneI'
Ben Butler, recently delivered III Dos
ton in support of Hancock, VIII desert
their ship and cling to one or the otI'e'
of the two great parties OF the county
The speaker said he was on the river
tank on last Saturday night ana heard
the eloouent Grafton, not OF Sturgiss, Tor
no one heard or cared to hear from HIM,
INT of the New Yorker, who was truly
greater orator.
one of the main reasons
advanced on that evening
why the Radical party should be con-
tinued in power was on account OF its
financial record and the great good and
prosperity that had resulted from II.
The Colonel briefly but polnteGiY
showed up this record in its true llght'
How they had dcmonetized silver, thus
making the government bonds payable
IN cold alone. How other iniquit2us
legislation was passed by the Radical
Compress in the interest OF the bond
holder and banker, and how the great
Jenression i'm business and the long ana
terrible hard times were caused
we oucht to crush such party Tor TINS
record instead OF supporting II. on
sbou;d vote for the Radical party, thew
say. because il has been i'll power so
long, ii there is any reason whya party
shoull discontinue to hold the rcigns oi
the Government it is this one. All par
ties after long lease OF power becom"
corrupt and degraded. Who brought
on your Belknaps, Whiskey Rings and
frauds in all departments OF your Gov
erument?
After referring to the enormous eN
pense it has cost the people to run TINS
Government under Radical rnlc, their
hvpOcritical cry OF love Tor all people,
especially the poor workingman, their
defamation Of the South, and all people
living In that part oil the country, ne
took up Garfeld's record for dissection.
By reference TO the Congressional ozone
he showed in what manner Garfield was
a friend oil everyDody-tor instance, the
foreigner. He was one OF only thirteen
who voted against resolution offered
bv Hon. Fernando Wood, on March ),
1867, that this country extend It's sym
pathv and good feeling toward the strug-
cling Irish in England. And
now" said an lrishman present, "he
wants us TO vote for him" Upon this
same question the Colonel proceeded to
show up his record further, and il was
in accord with his first act. Gartields
record upon the tariff question was so
thoroughly dissected and shown up
from the Congressional Globe that ii there
was any one present who believed that
Garfield was in favor OF high protec-
tive tariff and was not converted to
different belief, it would be a wonder.
Mr.. Garfield SAYS he has voted every
time in favor of high tariff when the
question was raised IN Con
gress. But his record in this
case. as in many others, proves MIN to
be a wiliul ialsiiier. In 1870 Garheld
voted TO reduce the tariff on IRON per
ton from 50 toS7. In 1872 he voted to
reduce the tariff very largely on glass
and also again on iron.
1"Have that put in the paper, said
man in the crowd, as he eyed the re.
porter. ~ am runningt this paper now,
said Gall, OF an alleged newspaper OF this
city.
When in 1872 Congress was asked to
reduce the tariff on tea and coffee lorthe
benefit of the poor workingman, he said
"no," and voted AGAINST it.
His connection with the Golden Free
Trade club OF London vas referred TO,
and an account Of meeting recently
held bv that club was read from a Lon
don paper by the speaker, in which it
is stated that member of the club in a
speech said that Jeems a. Garfield,
Radical candidate for the Presidency IN
this country, was pledged to It's prlnci-
pies. and would stand by them IN case
OF his election.
He continued in very iorcible way
TO show up the Inconsistency and
untruthfulness of that pure and
noble statesman OF the party OF grand
moral ideas.
In conclusion he advised his fellow
Democrats To work and to crush that in
iquitous Radical party to earth never
to rise again. $3.50,
At the suggestion oil J. A. Miller,
ESQ. three rOusing cheers and tiger
were given for Hancock AMI English,
and the same for Acknowledgement
White.
Notes aud Gossip.
About time that stand was removed
from the wharf, Radical brethren.
From the sound OF the campaign
drums foreigner might suppose we
were recruiting for war on q large scale.
Republicans talk about next Gov.
Sturgiss," and yet are afraid to bet
against 10000 majority for Bluff Jake
Jackson.
Bellaire is organizing Democratic
club that will show up III force in Wheel
ing, some OF these days. 1t viii number
400 uniformed men.
Ohio county will give Hancock 4 full
500 majority, is the prevailing belief.
And at least half that much OF a major
ity ior Wilson and the State and county
ticket.
Kramers band instead OF Naas' will
head the procession OF clubs from this
citv to the mass-meeting, to be held in