The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-04-12

out the real and true Democracy that TN
GLORIOUS OLD coMMoNWIALTH
and the Democrats were called upon ii
the name Of the Constitution to 81
supinely here and see this outrage perpe
trated. II the Democrats should sit her
supipely and submit to anything like thil
they would deserve to be branded 40 dis
honoEed men. He would tell the gentle
men on the other side, In no spirit @
bravado, that rather than submit 70 thu
interference OF the National Republican
party in that contest, and rather than see
the Democratic party Of Virginia stricken
down after that fashion, the Democratic
Senators would stand here, God willing
until the snows Of December covered
the hills in winding sheets. A COAL
tion existed here. The coalition ol
parties based upoR the mutually o.
opinion was legitimate, But coalition
without thatmutuRitly was contrary TO the
public morality and should be denounced
Where coalition was made simply for the
power and for the offices, without
community Of opinion, 1t yerged on cor
ruption, II was not actually, There wRE
no mutually OF principle between the
Republican party and the Senator from
Virginia. He called attention to the iact
that In October lVst the then Secretary oil
the Treasury would have removed the TO-
bacCo inspector in Virginia II he had be-
louged to the repudiation party, but to-day
change had come over the Senator from
Ohio [shermAn'l
A VOICE FROM HEAVEN OR SOME OTHER DIRRC
TIoN
had reached the Senator, and now instead
OF removing an official because he was q
Resdjuster he wanted to put Rlddlebergsr,
author OF tho Reputation scheme, in a
Senate office The Senator In his speech
stated that no Republican State had ever
repudiated its debt. He wished to call
attention to the great northwest and par
tiCularly Minnesota.
Alter short controversy as to the debt
OF Minnesota, between Vest and MCMil'
Ian, Mr.. Vest continued bis speech.
II there had been an issue plainly made
at the last campaign It had been the Solid
South. There had not been.
GAhfAloN bfkhSH
made which had not in II the sentence,
"Vote for Hancock and you perpetuate a
Solid South, the riffs clubs and Ku.Klux
Klan. Vote for Garfield and you vote for
free ballot and honest count" That issue
had been placed before the Senator from
Virginia [ Mahonel and he had deliberately
cast his lot with the tissue ballot party, as
the Republicans called It. He had taken
the Democratic party then. What had
come over 1t since November last that he
could not take 1t now2 Democratic Sena.
tors have been told that they had grovelled
at the feet OF the Senator from Virginia.
It was not true. He denied II empbati.
Cally and plainly. The Senator from Vir.
ginia had said, in bis opening address, that
he had been invited 10 their little tea party.
II he had been sn invited II had been un.
officially. /! had not been by the Demo
cratic caucus.
At the conclusion OF Mr.. Vests speech
a motion to 20 into executive session was
loEt-yeas, 10; nays, 20.
The Senate then adjourned till to.mor'
row.
The debate In the Senate seems 10 have
gathered new force. Senators Davis, o.
West Virginia, and Butler, Democrats, and
Senators Ingalls, and Cameron, ,ol Pennsyl
vania, Republicans, will speak as soon al
they can yet the floor.