Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-16

Mr.. Wilson announced he wanted 10 say
few words on the tariff and in the begin
ming he would touch upon the Intelligencer
and show up Harris bald-faeed attempt to
deceive the people. He then read an edl-
torial in yesterday paper, which charged
him with having. in his Benwood speech,
instructed the National Republican plat
form and for which it severely criticised
him. He read this and then produced
newspaper from his pocket, which he held
up and disclosed the Intelligence of June6,
which contained the platform Just as it
was sent by Associated Press from Chicago.
For fear of any mistake, said he, Il
cut the platform ont of this paper and read
from it at Benwood and now | want TO
show that read it Alright. Here is what
Hart says l read and / will show that 1t is
correct" He wanted to know if Mr.. Hart
were in the audience and voice said Yes
and the individual referred to arose.
MAKE room for him, bring him on the
platform" said Mr.. Wilson, and the hub
bub grew very great. 'Tll show this gen
tleman up. III let people see what talsi-
fer he is" and the cheering and shouting
became deafening.
A FATAL BLCNDER.
Mr.. Hart went upon the stand and in so
doing made a monstrous blunder as the
SEQUEL showed Mr.. Wilson wanted him to
hold the Intelligencer and say whether he
quoted it correctly, but he refused. The
crowd-that immense crowd-had eagerly
watched and when the refusal came, there
was deafenipg cheer apd a series OF calls,
shrieks and Kisses that Fesounded over the
square. Men rose up and waved their
arms threw up their hats and fairly went
wild. Wilson's vindication was complete.
He pulled Republican pamphlet from his
pocket and showed different tariff plank,
which would indicate the astute Republicans
have one plank for the tariff districts and
one for the free traders out west. When
Mr.. Wilson announced this there was o
salvo of cheers, under cover OF
which Mr.. Hart left the platform, saying he
wanted chance to vindicate himself Mr..
Wilson denounced him as taLSiter with
he other Republican managers, and said ne
lad called attention to this case so that In
future people would understand this system
Of Misrepresentation.
OTHER TOPICS.
The immense surplus in the National
Treasury, in connection with tariff and tax
alton, was ably handled by Mr.. Wilson, and
the tariff that protects labor and Il e tariff
that fosters monopoly was clearly and salts
factorily shown. The Republican platform
was taken up seriatim and diSsected piece
meal very shrewdly and with caustic sar-
C, SIN that kept the crowd cheering The
{, magoguery of the eighthour law, among
other matters, was made clear. Blaine s
real antipathy to the Irish, as shown IN his
action in the McSweeney case, was gone
ever and choice extracts from Voorhees,
speech on the subject were read. The sub
iect of railroads aid the laughable clash be-
tween the Republican and Greenback plat
fioms were handled cleverly and brought
down" the crowd An interesting subject
YES then touched up as follows;
THE FLICK AMENDMENT.
In nothing DO the Republican managers
CT this State, demonstrate their plan Of
Misrepresentation more clearly than in their
rawlings about the Flick amendment.
The union mems constitution of 1868,
disfranchised no man for participation in,or
sympathy with the Confederate cause. 1t
was when war had ceased and the soldier
had returned to the peaceful avocations of
life, that party, calling itself Republican
proceeded to mutilate the union mems con-
stitution, TO prescribe, decitizenize and to
render aliens in the homes of their birth,
then early and their later man.
hood tens of thousands OF
our fellow-citizens. And in carrying into
execution this netarious scheme, Mr.. Edwin
Maxwell, Republican candidate for Govern
or. on the Sth day of February, 1863 as
chairman Of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee, reported to that body with a recon-
mendation that it pass the following amend
ment to the Constitution:
No person who, since the first day of
June, 1861, has given, or shall give, volun-
tary aid or assistance to the rebellion
against the United States shat be q citizen
OF this State or be allowed to vote at any
election held therein unless he has vol
unteered into the military or naval
service of the United States, and has been,
or shall be honorably discharged therefrom"
With the support of Mr.. Maxwell, and his
confederates, IN
THIS STCPENDOUS INIQUITY,
this proposed amendment passed the Legis-
latures of 1865 and 1866, was submitted to
the people and adopted, after the disfran-
chisement of from 10000 to $4,000 voters,
by act of the Legislature, and who were not
permitted to vote on the amendment.
In 1866, we organized the Democratic
party, in this State, having in view the one
great central purpose of re-entranchising our
disiranchised brethren. AS we recruited
our forces from the ranks of the enemy
the registration machine kept up its merci.
less and relentless havoc But right and
justice nerved us on to the glorious work
until i'll 1870 victory smiled upon the labors
Of the Democracy of West Virginia and our
gallant little State stood forth redeemed,
regenerated and disenthralled" under a
motto Of living light, no longer to be
NoRt0Ii Semper, .Sberj.
We had elected our Governor and l,egis.
lature with a two-thirds majority in the
lower House.
In January, 1870, Mr. Flick had offered
an amendment to the Constitution. 1t was
the same provision of the Constitution ofl863,
except that it left out the word white"
and was in the following words:
THE male citizens of the State shall be
entitled to vote at all elections held within
the election districts in which they respec-
lively reside; but no person who is minor,
or of unsound mind, or pauper, or who is
under conviction Of treason, felony or brib
erv in an election, or who has not been
resident Of the State for one year, and Of
the county in which he offers to vote for
thirty days, next preceding such offer shall
he permitted to vote while such disability
continues"
Under the Constitution of 1868 an
amendment to the Constitution could not
be submitted to the people until it had been
passed by two succeeding Legislatures.
After its passage the first time by the Legis,
lature it was required to be published in
some newspaper in every comfy in which
a newspaper was printed, three months be-
tore the next general election.
THE GENEROUS ANXIETY
of our Republican friends who had taxed