The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-23

frank Talk by . Representative Georgian
Etast ChuukishrAd Cleveland, Abolish ths
Tariff, Destroy Northern Industries, and
t,""Wailop tho Niger" I'M n
Correspondence cf ta Ess York Tribune.
ATLANTA, GA, Oct. Twenty year,
ngo, when Sherman's army occupiedit
Atlanta WIS little piney.woodstown, i'm
portant as military point. To-day It Is a
thriving, bustling city city Of between &c..
600 and 10000, rapidly growing in import
ance as a railroad, trade and inanuiac.ur.
Ing centre. This improvement has been
largely led by Northern capital and "car.
pet baggcrs," and the energy shown by
Northern men has brought 10 tho place
much OF the surplus wealth Of Georgia.
Here, II anywhere In tho South, 1t would
seem, the protection sentiment should be
strong, and the general impression is that
1t Is strong. The late Senator Hill, Sena.
tor "Joes Brown and his colleague, Col.
quit, are supposed 10 DO protectionists,
and surface indications OF protection are
strong. But in number OF instances
have found that tho same people talk on
both sides OF the Qucstion-they talk pro.
lection to Northern men who talk Of
bringing cupital into the country, and
among their own people they talk unre-
scrvedly Of free trade.
About q year ago, in company with
some Northern men, met n prominent
and wealthy man from tho Cotton-belt.
He was enthusiastic about tho growth OF
manufactures and the spread of tariff sen.
timent, assuring us that in few years
tho protective tariff idea would control
Georgia. The other day, ut n town in
Central Gcorgia, In company with gen.
tlcman from Mississippi, ! met the same
man, was again introduced md rode with
him 10 Atlanta. l saw that, lio Ind 10
recollection Of inc, and did not recall our
former meeting Talking Of political mat
tiers he expressed his desire for Cleye-
lands election with n fervency quite un.
usual even here. l asked him II he did
not think Thurman or Dayard would have
been better candidate, when lie replied
quite excitedly, "Why, how can YOU, n
Mississippian, ask such question:"
Without denying the Mississippi idea l
replied that it had occurred
to nc that thcy might get more
votes "Well," said lie, "possibly they
might,but what earthly good would they be
TO us even il We should elect them? bay.
ard, it is true, was in sympathy with the
Confederacy, but not with the Confederate
idea OF free trade. Thurman was not even
in sympathy with tho Southern people in
their hatred of the Yankee. lie is an
Ohio man--there is no old Virginian lett
in him. He vas an out and out Union
man, and has grown up identified with nil
the interests OF the North and West, and
believes in the Northern idea OF tariff to
develop wealth, and keep up tho price OF
labor. Bat this fellow Cleveland is mere
We can do what We please
with him, and he will do whatever we may
ask Of him. There is nothing to bind him
in any way to Northern interests, ideas or
people. lie has no family, social, business
Or political ties which bind him to any
sort Of platform or principles. He is, oi
all men who could have been found in the
Nortlt-and OF course Southern nian to
break in with is out Of the questionable
nearest to soft clay that could have been
found. We eau shape and fashion him us
we please" 5ggs.- ErEf