Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-08
STATE STANDARDS" FLOP.

1t Goes Over to Hutchinson-Says the Diff
ferences are "Heeled" Up-Stultifes tt
self.
Special telegram TO the Register.
PARKERsBURG, W. VA, October =
The State Standard, the alleged organ Of
the Greenback party, has flopped-gone
over to the crowd which it exhausted its
vocabulary in damning two years since,
when the Buckhannon Convention, by its
combination ofproxies in the hands, Of
Thompson and others agreed to back up
the Republican party in its attempts to
again get possession Of the State Govern
ment which it had manipulated by the
aid ofits registration laws, its test oaths
and ironclad obligations into a political
pot pourri for the benefit of ring
which passed proscriptive laws, ex-
empted the Chesapeake & Ohio rail-
road from taxes, carted the State
government around on wheels, and refused
to acknowledge almost the right to exist
to larger proportion of its citizens, then
Piersol and Neale objected, protested and
declared the arrangement most infamous
and iniquitous, and came home Ever
since then, up to few weeks ago any al
lusion TO the Buckhannon- convention set
Sammy by the ears, and he would go into
cold type and cuss in extended rounded,
longitudinal and in fact in every manner
geometrical and ungrammatical. A change
has suddenly come over the spirit of his
dream. Piersol who is q poor man, recent
ly invested in power press and its neces-
Sary attachments, new material, new Of
flee etc. All these things cost money and
it is feared the temptation must have been
to great. At any rate he says in his N
editorial in referring to the combinations
ut will heel up the diff
ferences &c" Is not that O
clear case of confession? But, great Scott,
the idea of his trying to make any intelli-
gent Greenbacker believe that John
Hutchinson Is, or ever was, in favor OF q
trinity OF money-the same man who stig-
matizei all who were in favor Of the least
increase in the currency as 'wet nurses for
the Grcenback partyr' 1t would require
u more vivid imagination than Piersol has
to lick that idea into nropcr shape.
Let's see; Piersol wants sensible Green
hackers to combine with party which
EXempts railroad mOnopolies from taxa
ton;
Demands protection for the capitalist
and imports pauper labor TO take the place
of the native workman;
Maintains a system which builds up the
few at the expense Of the many;
Gives away the peoples lands;
Has rs its financial exemplar, John
Sherman;
Ruined the navy;
Has paid attorney of the greatest mo-
nopoly in the State for its standard bearer.
This and much more can he said Of the
the party which the Standard wants intel
ligent Grccnbackers To support, and all be-
cause the differences have been ''heclcd"
up. The "heelIng' process may have been
agreeable to the Standard but how about
the Greenback subscriber who pays his
money for Il paper which ought TO enun-
Ciate principles? In the course of the past
week have interviewed a number of in
telligent Greenbackers, and have yet to
find one who believes in the integrity of
the flop. Several Of them stigmatize the
Standard us a political porous plaster Il
Liver pad for the Republican mule;" and
similar caustic remarks. Others declare
that PiersOl's panegyric on Hutchinson s
political virtues is gross insult TO the
men who n few years since were politically
oStracised and deprived of the right TO ex-
ercise their suffrage. II will be remember
ell that Hutchinson was nominated by a
convention where Vice President Walker,
in his address revived the bloody shirt is
sue and swore they would down the
Confederacy." Could the gentleman
have meant an allusion 10
an occurrence which happened at Charles
ton before the first removal Of the Capital,
when he was blatent member of the Leg
islaturc? We have faint recollection Of
that affair which resulted in nature res
ponding to name and very fast at that.
However, that may he Piersol has made
himselfthe laughing stock Of an intelligent
community, ruined the usefulness of his
paper, and done what the Democratic
papers could not do with all their effort
shown the Grecnbackers of West Virginia
that they have been all along considered
by him but puppets to be manipulated at
will for personal aggrandisement and adj
vantage.