The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-18

AcroIs the eRiyer-Cougressman Tay Tors
Views,

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C1ScISSATI, August IA correspond
ent OF the Cincinnati Commercial Gasettt
writes as follows: Cambridgu's most
prominent citizen, politically, Is the Hon.
j. D. Taylor, member OF Congress from the
Seventeenth District Ct Ohio. Tuesday
night he formally opened the campaign in
the eastern portion OF the State by q
speech made in the City Hall at Bellaire to
the CART !ld Club, an organic ltion OF young
Republicans A large audience was pres
ent, and the utmost enthusiasm was mani.
tested. The speaker carefully defined the
position OF the two parties upon all the
leading questions OF the past twenty years,
and showed the ialiacy and instability OF
the Democratic doctrines. In regard to
the wool question he said that the Demo-
cratic howl that the Republican Congress
had lowered the tariff on the wool, at the
same time raising the duty. on woolen
goods, thus apparently iavoring monopoly,
was utterly falae. True the tariff on wool
had been reduced, but in no case bad the
duty on manufactured goods been raised.
He read, the custom house schedule to
prove his words. The Democratic party,
he said, had ever been on the side OF free
trade, and to show the party position on
the question when Senator Sherman
moved to restore the law OF '67, which
taxed wool twelve and fourteen cen,s-it is
now taxed ten and twelve-twenty.six out
Of the tTenty,nine Democrats in the Senate
voted against the measure.
That sh0ws the position OF the Demo.
cracy on the subject, and to make the les.
limony more complete, the members from
Texas, which is wool-growlng State, firm
in their party allegiance, refused to vote
for the retention Of the law OF 'G7. Con-
gresham Taylor's speech was an exhaus.
i've eG,rt, and while it was bristling with
iac,s and figures, yet all through it ran a
vein Of Wit and fancy that kept his hearers
in continual good hrmoF.
He was asked what be thought about the
Senatorial struggle in case the Legislature
was Republican.
HFoster has the inside track" he re-.
marked, "not that he. is really SO strong
and popular, but there is no one else"
"1here's Noyes," suggested the cores
pendent,
'FYes, but Aoyes is too far rem wed from
Ohio politics. He has been abroad several
years, and little by little his old cpnneC,
lions lave been severed and his acquaint-
ances forgotten. Now he is a comparative
stranger"
"Well, they are talking about Hayes"
"Hayes does not wish to retrogradG. He
has reached the top Of tho ladder, borne
himself with grace and dignity, and now
bic business interests are too great 10 allow
him TO re.enier the political arena. Foster
d the only man. Then he has done so
much, and stood by the party through
thick and thin, that now he ought to be
recognized"
"And il the Legislature is Democratic J"
!'Tsuppose iu that oaco that Pendletor
will be returned. Durbin Ward has an
nounced himself as candidate, but the
same influence that operated against him
in the Convention will defeat MIN in the
Legislature. To my mind Hoadly wants
to step from the GoyeFnorship to the
National Seugte, and that in the tlrst place
be and Ward will come before the Legisla.
turs. While they are igbtinR between
themselves Pendlston will gwoop down
with his money bags and carry of the
prizs."
"Do you think this question OF the re-
dnction OF the tariff on wool is goihg to
ipjure the Republicans"
'.Nota bitoi Il. The situation oithet two
parties on the question is too clearly un-
derstood. myself think that the reduc:
ton was blunder, but do not imagine
that 1t will cost dozen Yotes.Y