Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-01
REPUBLICAN PROTEST.

Ex-GGv. Pounds Pointed Reasons for Re-
jecting Blaine for President.
A letter from ex.Congressman Pound, o.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, in which the writer
says he will oppose Mr. Blaine and support
Gov. Cleveland for the Presidency, is made
public. In the letter Mr.. Pound says:
After much earnest and solicitous DELHI
Grafton deem it to be nv duty, while abst
ing naught of loyalty to the Republican
party, but rather to promote its true pur
pose and strengthen it for future gOOo
work, 10 support the Democratic nominee
Gov. Cleveland, for President at the ap
preaching election. Ny judgment disa
grees with, and my conscience rebel
against, the action of the Republican Con
yention in the nomination of Mr.. Blaine
and without arrogating for myself wisdom
superior to a majority of representative Re
pubhcans convened to voice the determine
lion of my party, am compelled 10 ODE,
nv own best Judgment and sense of duty IT.
this siagle and extraordinary instance. BE
ing a lifelong Republican and the recipI
enl Of many distinguished honors, State and
National, it is due my political associates
so often my cordial supporters and mysel'
that the reasons for departure from conven
Gonsl cooperation be frankly stated.
Mr.. Blaine, in nv opinion, embodie
most in American politics that is menacing
to public morals aud integrity in govern
ment With long public career mainl!
distinguished for a sort of declamatOry auc
pugilistic statecrad, he is not the inspira
ton of single valuable policy or the au
thor of an important statute, but on the con
trary, has often suggested and supported
unwise and bad and opposed good legisla
ton. With record clOuded by suspicion
and accusation Of robbery and corruption
undefended, he brings to us personal anita
gonisms which have torn and weakened ou'
party in the past, invading the adminiStra
lion of the lsmented Garfield with demand
Of personal vengeance so virulent as to in
flame the spirit OF assassination and cul
mina,ing in the defeat OF Judge Folger and
consequent election Of Grover Cleveland
Governor Of the Empire State.
But returning to the candidate. HimseI
!
TO have been acquired bY honest industry
legitimate business enterprise or his cOun
nv S service at 5000 year, he sympa
hizes with and profits BY speculative stock
loObing and gambling methods Of acquiring
Sealth-methOds which have wrought ruin
.isgrace and business disaster beyond con-
putatiou. schoOled youth and pursusdec
middle age to avoid honest and useful in
.iUstry, made suicide and insanity common
ph ce, unsettled values. placed the fruits o.
bCnest toll in the power of the Goulds and
Armours to bear down or bull up in tht
markets as within or interest may dictate
methods which recently gave us but an ex
ggprated illustration Of their iniquitou,
consequences in the Grant & Ward SIS.
| 100. 600 failure and robbery.
Reference to Blaines Congressional rec
odd relating to subsidies, class legislation
corporate exactions, etc., will readily satisfy
he honest inquirer OF his uniform support
Of monopoEes and indifference to the com
mon veal Little wonder that he omits il
his letter to refer to or explain the cause o
he great disparity in the distribution of this
marvellous increase of wealth accumulated
curing the period he chooses for comparison
hat he fails to note the fact that the ont
ree-bundredth part Of the $4,000, 000, 900
held by one man, while others rank little
below and his own palatial residence, com
handing a rental of 81 900 a year, suggest
ing more than an average per capita o
wealth. Little wonder that he is silent OF
The subject of interstate commerce. thu
regulation OF which is demanded BY all pro
ducers and legitimate traders, Great cor
porste interests command non-interferenoe
The diSlngeniousneSs Of his letter of &C
ceptance is further betrayed BY its signi6
cant silence touching the events of the pas
three years. Bringing down bis historic fig
urcs to the present would have revealed tn,
action involved In his statements, woul,
have shown a marvellous sbrinksge in nom
inal values, would have noted the downfall
Of business prosperity and business moral
and would have pictured as few can do 81
graphically as he the furnace fires dyins
/ out the wheels Of factories standing still
wages reduced, beggary usurping the plac
OF lsler. bank and business failures. credit
ors and depOsitors wantonly defrsuded
bones lost and erookedness in public affairs
Mr.. Blaine is Objectionable furthermore TO
the company he keeps, for the friends he hs
made. Viii the chief promoters Of his nom
inatiou be his chief advisers if elected
There's the rub.
With no pronounced issues between the
two great parties, We can safely afford tc
yield temporary executive control at Thu
time to an honest man, though he be q
Democrat. And If grave questions Of pub
lie policy were at issue they cannot be dc,
termined by the Executive. This is the
prerogstiye Of Congress, the lsw-msking
branch, heretofore for a time and now un.
der Democratic control 1t is vastly more
important to good government that the Re-
publican party be restored to supremacy ia
Congress than that the administration OF
law be entrusted TO an unworthy partisan
surrounded BY bad counsel. While Mr.. Blaine
is known to be unworthy, Governor Cleveland
has demonstrated his fitness and worthiness
for the position by his fidelity. ability and
integrity in the discharge of his executive
duties as MAYOR of Buffalo and Governor of
the great State of New York, aud in nv
opinion very large majority Of intelligent
and unprejudiced voters believe he should
be elected. If one-half Of the Republican
voters who agree in this opinion have the
oourao "a of khasr copr,ntionS and vote naa