Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-02
HIS CHANGE OF HEART.
A RINGING INTERVIEW WITH BI-Goy.
PARNSWORTH.
His Reasons for Leaving The Party Of Fraud and
COruptOn-A Review Of Rotten RspuO-
hcan POlicy-A Challenge
10 Gof.

Special Tsieoram 10 The Register.
BUCKHANNoN, August Ii met ex-
Governor d. D. T. Farnsworth to-day ana
asked him if he had seen the article in the
Intellgeueer of Saturday. He said he had.
Well, Governor, how about your voting,
or rather not voting for President Lincoln?
I did not vote for Lincoln the first time. l
voted, as did the majority of the older Re-
publicans in this county, for Stephen A.
Douglass. I voted for Lincoln the second
election and for every Republican down to
Hayes, and was Hayes elector.
"weIl, Governor, when did you leave
the G. o. P.?"
'swhen the leaders of the part left me,
standing as / ever have stood by tine grand
old principles of Lincoln, Ben Wade, Thad
Stevens, Chas. Sumner and Others Of like
faith, and went after false political gods,
worshiping at the shrine Of bondholders, ma
tional bankers, monopolists, syndicates and
trusts and now free whisky. How could
longer remain with the party who in 1859
changed the contract of the payment of the
500 bonds, making them payable in coin
instead of legal tender money, accordingto
the legal contract; then in 1870 funded
these bonds in long 30-year bonds, not
even reseryipg the right for the govern
ment to pay them at any time; and then
to
CAP THE CLIMAX,
after declaring they should pay them in
coin, in 1873 they demonetized silver,
making it impossible for the bonds ever to
he 7sid and in addition to all these things,
in behalf OF the bondholder and other cred
itors, the currency, the means to pay debts,
was contracted more than half, thereby
making the debt against the people more
than double what it was. Thus it was
that the money chapgersaud usurers could
control the circulation, 80 that all labor
and the products of the shop were CORES
pondingly deprecated, which are few
of the evidences of the crushing times
that are upon Us.
Governor, they charge you with stump
ing the First District for Judge John
Braunon. What did you do for him?"
"I did make three speeches during the
campaign, and now regret that j did not
make more for gentleman of whose
ability the State should be proud, but as to
the charges that Judge Brannon and my
self were free traders, it is a malicious
falsehood, such as are expected from the
author of the article, who is well known
in this place, and is too large in corporal
size to hide his deformities
"What about your speech in tie Demo-
ocratic convention"
81 was called upon and responded with
a short speech, in which did say, as the
Greenback Labor party had merged into
the Union Labor party, / claimed to be
member of the Union Labor party, but
upon the subject of the tariff the only
question that divided the Republican and
Democratic parties Except free whisky.
HEARTILY ENDORSE THE PRESIDENT
and can but admire his frankness in his
message to the Congress Of the United
States"
W naO doOut your CuaiiepSiuS ueueih
Goff to joint debate?"
81 am willing and anxious to meet Cen
eral Goff on the tariff question. The Re.
publicans believe him to be the Daniel
Webster of West Virginia, but on this
question will meet him and do not fear
the result
The Governor is in receipt of great
many invitations to stump this and ad-
joining States; and it is probable that
whether Gen. Golf accepts his challenge or
not he will be heard on the hustings ere