Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-27
CAMPAIGNS.
.ECOLLECTlONS OE EXCITING CONTESTS
FOUGHT IN THB PAST.
Gstakes Of the Caniidaiss-GOyernor hldens
knowledge Of Politics and dis Elec-
toneering Methods

-nllGQol pllds WDeEe L Wltucoao0 tAo an
esant labor of Colonel FOrney and his
orps of assistants. Pennsylvania was
be battle groud and from Forney's
snowledge OF the State, the campaign
vas intrustrd TO him, His success In
lecting Mr. Buchanan was ackhoWl-
dyed by the newly elected President
nd by the Democratic party. 10 the
illness OF his gratitude, the President
slect rendered FOrney q place IN the
cabinet
The Postmaster Generalship, it was
claimed by Colonel FOrney, had been
rendered him, but when the President
reached Washington aud conferred with
the magnates of the party be was
Obliged to change his mind in view Of
the opposition OF almost the entire
South. The President sought 70 pla-
cate Forney, but Forney insisted upon
the President keeping his promise, and
nothing short of Postmaster General
would satisfy him. He refused the
most liberal proposition rendered
through Mr.. CorReliut Wendell Of the
Consulate of Liverpool, then worth
. $4,000 per annum, and the Liverpool
correspondence OF the Union at $4,000
per annum. the check for the year In
advance being laid before him.
THE SPLIT AT CHARLESTON
In 1860 the Democratic Convention
net &C Charleston, and the story OF that
ill-starred gathering has been repeat
eddy told. I had the honor of knowing
both candidates of that and the Balti-
more Convention, which grew out Of
the split az Charleston. The two can
didates were worthy OF each other.
General Breckinridge was one OF the
most brilliant men Of the period, and Of
Judge Douglass, the estimate OF him
by Mr.. Gales, that be was phenome-
nal statesman, would stamp him as
man Of great power
The Convention OF 1864, which nOmi-
mated General Mcclellan, was forlorn
hope, comparatively. The soldiers vote
taken I'm the field was Influenced, 10 was
charged, aud manipulated In the Re
publican interest, but Mr.. Lincoln had
but little opposition, Many Democrats
questioned the policy of making nom
inatiOn at that time. / saw but little OF
General McClsllan during that canvass.
The National Committee conducted the
campaign from New York.
The nominee OF the Convention Of
1868, Governor Seymour, / met several
times during the campaign aud In Sep
TENDER visited him at his home at the
request Of the President, and he had
then almost abandoned the hope OF sue
cess and expressed his regret at not
having declined, as IL was expected he
would do. The convention which nom
mated Mr. Greeley was called 70 order
y ts1SMr August Belmont, declined re.
! Nlection as chairman OF the National
? Committee and was succeeded by Mr..
Augustus Scbell, whose labor and means
wera(best0wed upon the canvass even
when DC was apparent the election Of
Mr.. Greeley was hopeless.
HOW MONEY WAS WASTED.
A day or two before the election, GER
tainly within a week, a deceased states
man from Indiana came TO Mr.. Schell
and obtained $4,000 with the assurance
that with that aid Mr.. Greeley would
carry that State. In vain Mr.. Banks
('AnnO DOmiui" Banksl, who was sec
rotary Of the committee, demonstrated
the impOssibilty Of doing 10. Mr..
Schen gave the money. Aud "a usual
the leaders OF the party in PennSylva-
MIA came TO the committee with the
assurance that with $50, 600 they could
carry the State for Greeley.
On my return from this financial pill
grimage, ] went TO Mauch Chunk TO see
Gen. Asa Packer, and ne was far from
. sanguine, but gave his check for the
amount he was assessed. While there
Governor Packer received a telegram
that Mr. Greeley would reach Mauch
Chunk that evening en route to large
meeting at Allentown.
GREELEl's SPEECHES.
A number Of gentlemen with Cover
nor Packer entered his car and asked
him to address the largo crowd gather
ed to greet him. He asked casually
what were the principal productions
there, and was informed il was slate.
He went on the rear platform Of the
car and for ten minutes talked on slate
I'm all its varieties, uses and values.
One OF the gentlemen who escorted
Mr.. Greeley TO Allentown said they had
learned more about slate than they had
ever known before. When an OppOrtU-
nifty occurred Mr.. Greeley took Ine into
said OF his speeches, and was very much
pleased 20 hear how they were appre-
ciated
The negroes for whom be had labOred
all his life, 20 whom they were in great
measure indebted for their freedom,
voted against him to q man. Mr. Gree
lev was a very sensitive man, and their
ipgratitude caused him much suffering.
An incident worthy OF record, for we
never expect 10 see it repeated, occur
red after the North Carolina election
which dimmed all our hopes Of success.
The senior Senator of North Carolina
was chairman OF the State committee
and Mr.. SChell had sent him such
sum as would DO requisite TO pay the
expenses Of the campaign, and at its
conclusion General Ransom wrote 70
Mr.. Schell that be had an unexpended
balance on baud subject 10 his order.
and after the gloom Of defeat had set
tied on US / went 70 General Ransom
and obtained the balaRce-SOme thouS-
Ands-an instance OF political integrity,
Or, as some would say, OF political
ereeuness, for money given for political
uses Is supposed to be expended.
NORTH CAROLINA ~ 1876.
When I left Raleigh for New York
few days before the Presidential cleo
ton, assured Of the State for Governor
Tilden By some six or eight thousand,
and IN reply to a telegram from head
quarters that all my demands had been
complied with. and I would be held re-
sponsible for the State, General Ransom
and General Cox, the chairman OF the
State committee, who were present, IN