The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-12-03
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BENTON.


How Warmly lIO EndOrSGd Cleveland With
out EeglectlnG Duties.
In relation 10 the Reinstatement ol
District Attorney Btnton, Of Missouri,
and the refusal Of the President 10 do tho
same in regard to District Attorney
Stone, Of Pennsylvania, tho New York
Times has the following letter from Will
liam y. Sullivau, editor OF NoyM Missouri
an, GAll0lin, Mo-, to Mr.. Stone.
~ heard Colonel NJ. L. Bsnton'e speech
October II, 1856, delivered at the City
Hall, GallSlin, Davies county, Mo-, to m
audience OF from G05 to 700 people, and
at the time took Copious notes OF his
speeCh. ! DO not know how thoroughly
loyal" you were to the Administration in
your campaign speeches, but in order that
You may know how thoroughly loyal"
Colonel Benton Wss to the Administration
in power, ! send you few extracts taken
from my notes OF his speech on that oCCa.
sion in order that you inay know what II
means to be 60 thoroughly loyal 10 the
Administration In power" as not TO on.
deavor to destroy the confidence Of the
people in the party responsible for ouch
administration. Conducting q R9publi-
can paper, / was 30 well nRtisGed with
Colonel Benton's loyalty 10 Cleveland,
that published at that time some por.
tions Of hig speech, Among other things
Colonel Benton said:
WHAT BENTON sAID.
at the truth that the Democracy Is the
poor and ignorant party OF this coun'
try-tle great balstooted, unwashed, dir.
ty.socked party. don't pgree
with President Cleveland iu everything
| don't believe In his civil service hum
buggely. do believe in genuine civil
aervice reform, but doB't want men un'
der me to work every conceivable dodge
to defeat me and my party at tho nexI
election. But he believes 1t, and he is q
man with iron nerves. . " don't
agree with Mr.. Cleveland on the silver
question. He waa raised cast Of the ALE
gheny Mountains, and he gets his ideas
from that region. He never has been
west OF Buffalo, and has not any more
idea OF the great West aud lis vast mater.
ial resource1 than the mere school boy,
who learns It from studying geography.
HO gets his ideas on finances from the
gold bugs OF Wall street, who once do.
monetiEed silver and had 1.-THE dollar
stricken from the coinage act clan.
deslinely and without the consent OF the
people. He learns his financial the.
cries from Wall street, the leeches that
suck the blood oil the honest yeomanry oi
the West like vampires. That's where
Mr.. Cleveland gets his ideas OF finance.
When he wrote his gratuitous letter on
the subject Of silver Colnage even before
ho was inaugurated as President, he illus.
trated where he got his ideas and struck q
blow at the West IN the interest Of The
bondholders and money sharks, and fell
like sinking down In my bootsj but
when Reagan, OF Texas, and otherB stood
up In their digni1ed manhood and wrote
to him that he was the Executive and not
the Law. v.maEiDg power, and | saw those
Democrats battling for their rights and
tho rights OF the people, Bgainst hit
assumptions, reioiCed again that was 9
Democrat. Tremendous applause.]
do In great measure indorse his Admin
istration. For the most part indorBs hit
yetoes Of pension billie, but not every one
He vetoed " psnaiOn bills, 50 Of which
had been rejected by Commiesloner W
W. Dudley, whose name 10 odorlferops al
over the country. ] ON not here 10 de-
isnd every cne Of bis vetoes, but In the
main l do"