Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-19
BOSTON BAKED BEANS.
General Benjamin F. Buffers
History
OF HIMSELF, MYSELF AND ME
His Letter of Acceptance---A Long Denis
gOgic Document RedOIent of Ego I
tsm and Alleged Sentiment.

1t is dated at Lowell, August 18th. ltis
lengthy in the extreme and. is a defense o
his political conduct in the past and ful
some fattering Of the working classe:
whom he seeks by specious sophistry to IN,
veigle into the formation of the People
Party" After a minute account of his
work at the Democratic Convention at Chi
cago he says:
II felt it but right to warn the congen.
ton, however, unimportant such warning
might seem, of the course of my duty II
such vote was passed against the working,
men and women of the country, for whose
welfare it was well known l had stood from
nv earliest manhood. The notice was in
this emphatic language, IF you
refuse to stand by the working
men, God help you, cannot" In
this there was no mistake Mr.. Watterson,
of Kentucky who followed me, took warn
ing, saying the party would look to God for
help, but the scripture saith, "the prayer Of
the wicked availeth not" 1t was due to
myself not to adopt the course which GER
tain pure-minded, and upright, and highly
moral politicians deem it proper to pursue,
take part in the proceedings of CONVEX
ton to its end, and then, without giving
any notice to anybody, and without protest
ing, refuse to support its dOings.
have thus given a succint, as it must be,
but faithful account of my connection
with the Chicago Convention and its action
on the matters which was charged to pre-
sent to it by the National Greenback Labor
! arty, the Anti-Monopoly organization, and
the Democracy of Massachusetts.
In another chapter he says:
We Know the Republicans.
The country has had experience in Re-
publican party rale twenty-five years, and
know its results. We therefore have no
need to look at its platform, for "by their
fruits ye shall know them"
The Republican party in its inception
was emphatically the party of the people.
1t had in it substantially " neither monopOlist
nor capitalist. 1t was as poor as was the
convention of delegates who framed the
Declaration of Independence. Taking ont
five men. the rest could hardly pay their
board bills.
The Republican party was formed upon
grand and noble idea, to do for one
class of workingmen what the Democratic
party even under jefferson and Jackson,
had failed to do Their Democracy dealt
only with the white man. The Democracy
of the Republican party dealt with the
black man, and aimed to give him freedom
and equal rights. For that purpose, and
that alone, was that party formed. 1t was
the radical party, and so radical a party Of
the people, that the aristocratc part of the
Wing party, the old advcrsaries of the De,
mocracy of the days of Jackson, merged
themselves in the Democracy without q
drop of Democratic blood as they hoped
in their veins, or a thought for the peo
pie, except as the lower classes in their
party, and such Of them as a quarter of a
century has spared, are found with the De,
mocracy of to-day largely guiding its coun,
ellis in the manner we have seen.
How Republicans Became the Party OF
NonOpolists.
The necessity for money to carry on the
war drew all the bankers and capitalists in,
to the Republican party. The immense
fortunes, almost necessarily growing out OF
the vast expenditures ofthe war, fell into
the hands Of men who attached themselves
to the party that fed them, as the iron is at,
tracted by the magnet, and monopolized
industries and enterprises.
The necessity to bind together the eastern
and western shore of the republic by meth.
ods of quick transportation, giving reason
for immense subsidies, granted to make
three systems of railroads across the cont,
nent with all their branches and feeders
created wealth in corporations and individ
uals, TO degree before unteard of, in this
or any other country, and brought all
these interests substantially into the Repub
lican party And if any stayed in
the Democratic party they were in
confederation with the same class, to
so arrange politics that whichever party
came in power, capital, in all its varied and
powerful forms, would be sure of control,
and the people be ground up as between
the upper and neither mill stone Thus il
will be readily seen, and he who runs may
read, that the Republican party is the party
of monopoly, Of corporate interests in every
form of industry and every department OF
business and finance.
The Antl-Monopolists can expect nothing
from the Republican party for reasons be
fore stated and because it holds both houses
by the rich men who are the owners OF
monopolies, or their paid attorneys.
Fusion.
The following is the chapter on fusion /:
In framing your electoral ticket, make a
fusion in ali the States with the supposed
minority, and make it upon this theory; not
that you are going to vote for the electors
of any candidate opposed to your interests,
not that the friends Of the other candidate
are going to vote for yours, but agree that
you will run the same electoral ticket, pro-
viding the electors who compose it are as
they ought to be, reputable men who will
be bound BY their honorable undertakings,
which is all there is that binds the electoral
college TO vote in any direction; and then
have it agreed that the elec-
toral vote of the State shall be
divided in the electoral college
according to the number Of votes thrown
for your candidate, and the number ofvotes
thrown for the other candidate on the same
ticket. The number of votes which each
candidate gets will be known With substan'
tial accuracy long before the official count
is made. Therefore you will have every
incentive to vote for your candidate because
the larger number of votes you cast the
more electoral votes will your candidate
get, and the less will the other have. And
those who are voting for the same electors
with you will throw as many votes as they
can for their candidate in order that he
shall have as large a share Of the electoral
vote of the. State as possible, neither in
fact voting for the candidate Of the other
Thus you will show your strength and hold
the balance of power
The Closing Chapters,
The letter ends as follows:
To The Grcrn6aeE Labor Party AMI Af't-h t-hba'eo'Lt
organisation, and 10 ths iaSoriSg H'sH:
/ had accepted the selection OF your con