Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-28

sible rainy DAYS High protection had re-
suited in q decrease Of $4,000 sheep in
West Virginia.
THE FORCE BILL.
The Senator said there was another
question he wanted to talk about, but he
had scarcely the voice, having had to speak
out Of doors great deal, recently. He
never left platform without discussing
that question, however, and he would do 1t
on this occasion. That question was the
inost vital Of any ever presented TO the
American voters. II was the question OF
whether we shall have a force bill in this
country.
"But Mr.. Elkins says the force bill is
dead. That it was killed by Republican
Senate. Does Stephen 3. Elkins imagine
that the American people, living and resid-
ing within the State of West Virginia, are
! ignoramussesl Does he believe be can de-
ceiYe the American people when he says 1T
was killed by the Republican Senatei L
am glad TO say that it was killed by eight
votes Of Republican Senators and by thirty
four votes of the Democratic party APP
plausel. We met the issue from the hrst
day of the Fifty-frst Congress and fought
it for two months, and obtained the assist
ance OF the pure, noble and patriotic Re
publican Senators Senator'S who held
their country higher than they held
their party-wbo yielded TO the die
tates of patriotism rather than to
the crack of the party whip, and their
names should be emblazoned in every
school house in all the land. They deserve
more credit for their opposition than the
Democrats, because we have been taught
from our infancy to believe in local control
OF local affairs, and to oppose the centrall-
zation Of Federal power, but those Republic
can Senators had been taught the reverse.
Their whole system Of legislation is a dis
trust of the ability of the American people
to govern themselves, and they have been
taught that all the prosperity Of the people
has resulted from the consolidation
of power in Federal agencies.
and, therefore. when they voted
against that bill they were entitled to the
most credit. But don't let Stephen B. FL
kins deceive you into believing that the
| Republican Senate defeated it. and that,
therefore, the Republican party defeated
it, Why, they even punished those Sena-
tors who voted agai INST that bill by taking
away most of the appropriations to their
States. It's dead, is it! What was the
first voice we heard at Minneapolis 1t
was FOraker's. Who endorsed the bill!
| Foraker Who was chairman OF the Com
mittee on PlatfOrml Foraker. And didn't
heput in as the first plank in the plat form
the endorsement of the force billl'
The Senator said he felt as keenly as any
American the domestic affection Of Presl-
dent Harrison, and sympathized with him
in his bereavement, as did every American
citizen, but he could not help saying that
President Harrison was the especial cham
pion of the Force bill, having sent two
messages to Congress, insisting upon its
passage, and the New York Tribune had
stated that it must be passed. The Sena-
tor then went into an exhaustive analysis
Of the bill, and pictured its objects and Of
fects in mastery manner. lie then SAID
THAT COLONIZATION SCHEME.
Understand there has appeared in one OF
the public prints of this city an article
which somewhat refers to myself. This Is
an attempt by some gentlemen in the Re
publican party to cloud the perceptions OF
West Virginia voters as TO the attempt OF
Republicans in 1890 TO colonize West Var
GINA with North Carolina negroes. IL Is
an attempt to deceive the citizens of West
Virginia regarding their endeavor TO do TO-
dav what they attempted to do IN 1889 ana
1890. Do you know it is fact that to-day,
In sections of your State negroes are being
brought in by the hundred, and that in one
county $50 illegal voters have boen so
brought in, and that Republican Assessors
have tried their best TO have them listed
But when these colored men found
out-beiug told by men in whom
they had confidence that their
history was known from the day they first
entered the State of West Virginia, TO the
present time, and that if they gave their
names to the assessors they would be ar
rested aud tried and sent TO the peniten-
tiary under the new election law, they
quickly told the Republican Assessors to
90 about their business. But in other
counties they have been listed to the ex-
tent of three hundred or four hundred, and
in Kauawha county, even after the day the
law saws no white man or black man shall
be put on the list Of voters. The Assessor
in that county says be viii put them on up
to the daV when the list must be certified
to the Commissioners Of the precincts
More than that, they are using money TO
debauch the ballot and corrupt voters, aud
they have found it necessary TO DO some
thing 10 divert attention from them. How
did they do it, Did they say the
charge Of corruption in 1890, and which
they are repeating to-day, was not true!
Did they say NJ. s. Quay did not write to
Lindsey, saying he approved of the scheme
or that he wrote another letter giving
Lindsey an order on the National Republi-
can Committee for $1,000 TO help ii along,
and that when Lindsey found the National
Committee was bankrupt, and be couldn't
get the money, nc told Quay, and Quay
told him TO correspond with w. ID. Mullen,
of Mercer county, and he said he could To-
cate two hundred COlOred families for him.
Quay did not say this was TO change the
political complexion OF West Virginia, but
WHY else should Matthew 5. Quay want TO
send colored families into West Virginia.
He surely would not be interested, like
Mr. Atkinson, in developing the resources
of West Virginia. Hardly. Laughter .
Then, my friend Miller, Of Pennsylvania,
is written to By Lindsey on the Goth Of
March, 1890, and also j. :. McLain, Win
field. Putnam county, and McLain says he
is in full sympathy with the movement, and
we find also that G.. w. Atkinson and 9. b.
sGLmith, of the Fourth District, are also
VSs mitted TO the scheme, and yet the Intel
liS tccr wants me to say that l arranged
with NJ s. Quay and Huston, OF Indiana,
United States Treasurer, TO bring negroes
into Indiana and West Virginia. Why,
don't you know that Huston has said, in a
letter admitted to be genuine, that he Is
sorry Miller-the Attorney General-did
not 20 into the scheme! And says be will
even see the President and get him 10 en-
dorse the scheme Huston, to be sure,
saws he meant the President OF Repuoll-
can club in Indiana, but he was in Wash
ington when he wrote it, and II, when you
read the letters-and you can get them
here-you don't say he meant Benjamin
Harrison, l much mistake your intelli-
pence. Then Mr.. Atkinson and Mr.. Smith
endorse it, aud they say that any favors
shown Lindsey will be appreciated oy G.
b. Smith and c. w. Atkinson. Laugh
teri Now, let me see if / can prove to you
and 10 the IntclligcRcer whether or not the
Republican leaders were intent on coloniz-
ing West Virginia. Here is an original
letter from Lindsey TO his agent, about his
-.1o~;,o+iop echeme in March 1891.