Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-09-19

not believe that l made any mistakes in
my appointments. On the contrary
recommendation was worthy of party ser
vice, and | am exceedingly anxious that
there shall be no loss on this score.
Lhe 1Sis desire 70 H write 10 you m ana 40
us but what have some friends in the OPP
position party. You have yours. Can
you not early and before the campaign
Democratic friends-those upon whom you
can rely-and tell them that there is some
| opposition to Dayton because OF your
appointment and that you want to make
1t up and get them to promise TO vote
for me on your account? You viii find
it an easy matter to DO and the result
will show that instead of us losing any
thing we will gain. l do not propose to
allow a single thing to remain undone
that can honorably be done to defeat the
this sacred duty upon me and upon
every true Republican because our Pres
ident has shown himself worthy of a
Congress that will be friendly to him and
not unfriendly.
This Republican administration has
achieved the admiration of tine world in
all stand in establishment at the rapid
improvement in times that it has brought
about. TO go back to the ruin and dis
aster. of Democracy would be simply out
fear of the result, but my determined
purpose is to make our majority good
zeal larger imam III mas ever Deen pelore
SO that nobody can doubt about the I'd
lican forever. We have beaten them
twice. Let us do it the third time and
in such "a way and with such a majority
that hereafter the election will be simply
a. matter of nomination or a candidate:
Keep me informed of everything. l will
be out in the field before great while
and doubtless will see you before the
campaign is over, but give me every IN
formation:possibe If l do not get it my
'1.ir 10, rv-tll
aid greatly in the campaign In a little
! while | will send to you literature with my
frank on it, and you can RENAL it without
cost, | will also in little while send you
some, copies of my speech which cannot
be mailed free, but wnich you can dis
tribute and hand out to the patrons of
your office. If anybody is out of line let
me knew Remember one thing. We must
carry chs campaign on agressVely from
the very start.
CORDIALLY yours
(Signed "ALSTON G. DAYTON"
Mr. McGraw
ARRAIGNED THE INCONSISTENT
ClES.
OF the platform by which protection
and reciprocal free trade were endorsed
in the same clause congratulated the
country upon the enactment OF a pro-
tective tariff law in one clause and de-
| manded an ektention of commerce with
| foreign counties in the other and form
ally demanding the repeal of civil
| service law coz trary to the platform of
| the National Republican Convention,
| and in opposition to the vote which
! the candidate cast in Congress in sup
! port of an appropriation for the very
| law which the platform demands shall
| be repeated. He, then took up Day
toms record in Congress, verifying it
from the Congressional reports, and
showed that he had been absent more
than one-half of the time upon the
roll call of the House and had even
rebuked Congress for not making the
public business confifm to his private
enga gements. He aFraigined Dayton
for failing to vote for the bankruptcy
law, for voting for the Pacific railroad
funding bill by which ;he tried to give
to a syndicate, composed of c. P. Hunt
in gton and others
SIXTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS,
as provided in the Mathews resolution,
! ana for voting three times against the
resolution for Cuban independence. Mr..
I McGraw protested against the partner
| ship which Dayton sought to create be-
tween himself and the President, be-
| cause the junior member of the firm
| brought nothing to the partnership,
| but on the contrary deserted the Pres
ident at a time when he needed most
! his support. In support of this Mr..
| McGraw, produced copies Of the Wash
ington Post and the Wheeling Intelli-
gencer, of March last, by which he
showed that Dayton was *le of the
| seventy Republicans who rebelled
against the delay in declaring war,
| when the President was trying to settle
| the matter by diplomacy and asking
| the patience of his party friends, and
was being supported to that end by Sen
ator Elkins Re showed from the rec
| ord that Dayton had been unfaithful to
the veterans of the late war in voting
! for a rule which cut eff amendments
| to the pension appropriation bill and
| thus prevented a hearing Of meritori-
| Gus appropriation cases smothered
| by the pension committee. His
| reference to the Monongahela ap
preparation was most caustic, and from
| the record he showed that the bill
which Dayton passed through the
| House was a fruitless and appropria
| tive measure and was only made
practical by Senators Faulkner and Ell
kins in amending the bill and increas-
! Ing the appropriation III tHe otHdle. MI.
| McGraw insisted that the contest be-
| tween himself and Mr.. Dayton was
simply one involving that much he
| hoped to be able to do for the district
! and what Mr.. Dayton had failed to do
{ In conclusion, Mr.. McGraw alluded IN
| touching language to the sinister re-
| ligious side which the opposition were
! endeavoring to inject under cover of
| the darkness into the canvass. This
/ part Of his speech could only be appre
| ciated by those who heard it.
| The big meeting, the ticket nominal
| ed. ard McGraw's speech, with its dras-
| tic arraignment Of Dayton's record has
so thoroughly disorganized the local
| Republican managers here that they
wired for Dayton ard his committee to
| come at once to counteract it. Chair
man Teeters and Secretary Showalter
! of Dayton's committee. came to the
| county this evening. and are now in
consultation with Daytons managers
| headed by his postmasters, trying to
mend the breaches.
ON FIRE AND ABANDONED.
Alden, September 1S.-The British