ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1878 - 1883
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - United States (Cont'd)
1878 - H&G July 18; ed:2/4 - The Van Buren party dreads nothing so
much as a general resumption of specie payments by the Banks.
"Their mouths would be entirely stopped, and they would have nothing
to bawl about. It (1)
1879 - H&G July 20; ed: 2/3 - So long as the suspension of specie payments
can be made a party hobby, none are more clamourous for a resumption
by the banks than the "Loco-Focos."
"The whole course of the administration party since the suspension
is proof positive of a settled determination on the part of its leaders
to fix an irredeemable currency on the country, until by Anti-bank
clamor, a false issue can be made up with the people, and an irreconcilable
hate of all banks be so far perfected, as to lead the popular feeling
to embrace the exclusive hard currency doctrines of Benton, Jackson,
and Van Buren. II (6)
1880 - H&G July 20; ed:2/3 - "Dr. Duncan, in his great undelivered
speech, excuses and defends the present 'retrenchment' thirty nine million
administration, by assailing the 'profligate' thirteen million
administration of Mr. Adams.
"The wine must have been in, as most assuredly the wit was out, when
the Dr. attempted so stupid an apology for Jackson and Van Buren extravagance,
to the people." (1)
1881 - H&G July 20; ed:2/3 - The GLOBE publishes at length Dr. Duncan's
speech, which the House would not hear him deliver. It fills over
twelve columns.
"The official organ is delighted with it, as it proves to be the
GLOBE'S slang for eight years, boiled down into a single dose. No wonder
even a Van Buren House was nauseated with the first taste, and discharged
the Doctor, with permission to administer the whole to the Loco
Focos through the GLOBE." (1)
1882 - H&G July 23; ed:2/2 - Nothing has excited so much rage among the
"Loco-Focos" for years as Mr. Bond's speech exposing the almost countless
and quite shameless abuses of the Government.
"The whole pack have opened upon Mr. Bond 'in full cry, in one common
note, from the sturdy mastiff that howls at the door of the Treasury,
to the most starveling turnspit that barks on the farthest verge of the
frontier. '
"The ferocity with which he is assailed, is no slight proof that Mr.
Bond's speech is true." (4)
1883 - H&G July 27; ed:2/3 - Elisha Whittlesey has resigned his seat in
Congress and declines being a candidate for re-election.
"His name and fame have become the property of the people, of whom he
has so long and faithfully been the Representative. They will treasure
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