The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-13

cept and example OF the fathers, which
forbade entangling alliances With Euro
pean powers"
Following is the letter in part;
NEWBURY, N. H., Sept. 10.
Hon. Charles Dick, Chairman Executive
Committee, Columbus, Ohio.
DEAR MIR. DICK:-I am sorry that
my engagements are such as to render
It impossible for me to accept your KIND
invitation to be present at the opening
of the Ohio Republican state campaign
at Akron, on September %. regret
this the more, as the occasion promises
to be one Of unusual interest. A stir
ring campaign. and ! doubt not, great
victory awaits you.
Have No Stock In Trade.
Our opponents this year are in an
unfortunate position. They hdye lost
for oil practical purposes, their polit-
icai stock in trade OF recent years.
Their hobby has collapsed under them.
Their orators stlll shout l6 to from
time to time from the force OF habit,
but they nre like wisdom crying In the
streets, In one respect at least, because
mo man regurdeth them" with our
vaults full OF gold; with a suticiency OF
money to meet the demands Of a vol
ume Of business unprecedentedly vast
and profitable: with labor geuerally en-
pIoyed at fair wages; with our com
merce overspreading the world; with
every dollar the government issues as
good as any other dollar; with our
finances as firm MS rock and our
credit the best ever known, It Is no
-. Fkd IN HrV
their nostrums in the market place,
with any chance Of being heard.
II Is equally hopeless to try to resus-
cItate the corpse OF free trade. The
DinSley tariff, the legitimate successor
Of the Mckinley bill-that name Of good
nugury-has justified itself by It's
works.
Triumph Of Protection.
It is not only true that our domestic
trade has reached a proportion never
before attained, but the American pol
icy Of protection-the policy Of all our
most lllustrious statesmen, OF Wash
ington and Hamilton, Lincoln, Grant,
and McKInley-has been triumphantly
yindicated by the proof that It ls as ef-
aeacIous In extending our foreign com
merce as in fostering and stimulating
our home industries Our exports Of
domestic manufactures reached In this
year the unexRmpled total Of $S60,0O0,
900, an amount more than two hundred
millions In excess of our exports ten
years ago These figures ring the lnell
OF those spec!oGs arguments which
have been the reliance Of our opponents
for so many years. and which are only
fruitful in times of leannesS and dis
aster.
What Is left them, in the way of a
plntform7 The reign trusts. which the
Republicans can themselves manage,
having all the requisite experience both
OF legislation and business; and finally,
the war which, It seems was too efii-
clently carried on. and has been too
beneficial to the nation, to suit the
Democratic leaders.
A Novel idea.
We have been able TO give in our
time some novel ideas to the rest of
the world, and none more novel than
this, that a great party should COM
plain that the results Of the war were
too advantageous. 1t would be hard.
however, to convince the bulk OF our
people that we are the worse on, be-
cause our flag has gained great honor,
our possessions have been extended,
our position In the world Increased, and
our opportunity for work and useful
ness enormously wldened through the
fortunes OF war and the valor OF our
soldiers and sailors.
Being In this desperate need OF argu-
ments, Il is not strange that they
should have recourse to fiction. An at
tempt is being made in the Ohio Dem
ocratIc platform TO excite the prejudice
Of certain classes Of voters against the
present administration by accusing 1t
Of au alliance with England.
Know Il Is Not True.
The people who make this charge
know 1t to be untrue; their making It
Is an Insult to the intelligence OF those
whose votes they seek by this gross
Misrepresentation. But as one Of their
favorite methods OF campaign is to
invent a fiction too fantastic to contra
dict. and then to assume II to be true
because It has not been contrndicted,
you may permit me to take one moment
to dispose OF this ghost story, as Il re-
fers to the department with which I
am connected. There is no alliance
WIN ttUklHUNt HUT WIN NlAg uNHNA hNW-
er under heaven, except those known
and published 10 the world, the treaties
OF ordinary international friendship for
purposes OF business and commerce.
II is hard to eXterminRte n rooted
tendency: the proverbs say something
about brnying In mortar, The party
which, by vicious leadership in 1851,
was mnde TO place itself across the
path OF freedom and progress should
take care not to follow the lend this
yenr OF men MS lacking in EaERcity us
they are in patriotism. But we may
take comfort in the reflection TINT no
leaders can carry all their party into
courses their Judgment must condemn
and their hearts reject. There are,
thank God, many Democrats in Ohio,
who do not desire the humiliation Of
their country or the dlshonOr OF their
flhg. Yours faithfully,
(Slgncd.) JOHN HAY.