The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-04
('heeling Reeister.
saturday Morning. ...............M May 4
rhn, Independent Jenrnai.

onr Radical contemporary had placed
himself in attempting display Of in
dependence on financial questions. We
suggested that his solicitude upon the
subject Of economy in our public affairs
was entirely too recent and sudden to
he genuine. We are glad to find that
he comedies with our opinion. From
his elaborate effort to extricate himself,
We have no doubt that he realizes the
absurdity into which he has been be-
trayed The proof upon which he re-
lies to show his past fidelity to the
financial interests Of the people is en-
,irely too feeble for the purpose. If it
proves anything, it establishes the cor
ssetuess of our general charge, that his
criticisms upon the corruptions of his
party rere not made at the proper time.
By his own admission, he did uOt Op-
pose the bounty bill until "the morning
after il was announced that the bill had
passed" While the measure was pend
ing, and while it was going through all
that disgraceful manipulation by which
the ra>cally provision of extra pay for
members of Congress was attached to
il our mcighbor does not claim to have
uttered one word i'll opposition. By
his own admission, he gave no alarm
while the robbery was being committed,
and even after the passage Of
the measure he cites no sylla-
ble If consure for the most villainous
part OF the transaction, the increase of
their own pay 10y the members of Con-
gress. Furthermore, his candidate for
the gentleman whom he sup
ported i'll the nominating Convention
and for whom he labored through the
canvass, was AN active and original
friend of the Very measure which he
pretesses to have opposed. How can he
reconcile his preference for and support
of Mr.. HUBBARD with an honest Oppo-
sition tn the bounty billl His ad
herence to the man cOntradists his
utterances with regard to the
measure, and justi6es the sus-
pieion that his boasted denunciation of
Il knavish scheme was prompted by no
principle, but was merely a prudent
provision for the future, in case public
sentiment should become disgusted
with his party's corruptiOns.
Our ncighbor is we'll aware that his
status upon financial questions can have
no possible connection with auythiu &
We may hav.: done or omitted to do in
to the Baltimore road eXemp-
ton scheme. His object i'll luggins in
this latter question is not to viudicate
his fidelity to the public interests, but
merely to divert attention from the
shameful manner in which he has
walked at his party's outrages.
Although il has no connection what
ever with the topic under discussion,
we are perfectly willing to meet his in
quiries upon the exemption subject,
and We wish him JOY with all he may
make from az examination of our record
in that regard. He knows, if he knows
anything, that nothing can be falser
than his charge against the REGISTER
Of Indifference TO the villainous barter
which his partys representatives came
~ near making last winter.
He knows that we not only opposed
the scheme of exemption itself, but that
We denounced with fully as much bold
ness and earnestness as he displayed
the corruption and perfidity of
his own brethren. He cannot have for
gotten that We not only condemned the
sale, but that we pronounced those rep
resentatives dishonorable who would
hetray their trust for pay, and barter
away for paltry price the dearest in.
t":es;s Of their constituents. Referrin., :,
To the manner in which the exemption
project was being pushed through, we
said
Money makes the mare co." and It is
equally effective with one-horse repre-
sentatives; at least the facts would 70
indicate. 1t was said by an ancient
conqueror, Phillip of Macedon, we be-
lievc, that "he never despaired of tax
ing city when he could send q mule
laden with gold through the gates"
Modern corporations pursue, with hap
py results, a very similar course, with
the exception that the mules are always
found rithiR The citadel quite ready to 60
out and bring back the price Of surren-
der and shame.
IL this is what our neighbor calls zig
noring the question from fret to last"
we should like to be advised in what
language or hy what modes of express
sion Journal can manifest its aversion
TO rascally schemes OF scheming ras-
calls. We may say. further, that this
was published while the measure was
pending, and not like our neighbor's
structures on the bounty question, "the
morning after it was announced that
the bill had passed"
A day or two later We again ignored
the question:" in lengthy article, from
which We make the following extracts
"A rich and influential corporation in
our midst, appears before our Legisla-
ture, soliciting aid and relief in the
matter of taxes, offering to buy with .
mere mess of pottage the most extraor-
dlnary rights and privileges, and seek
ing, as the consequence Of its exemp-
iion, to reduce the people Of this State
TO perpetual vsssalage Of taxation.
We know that the wrong about to be
done is as grevious as it is immi-
nent. Like all who understand it, we
believe that this proposed measure of
discriminating legislation on behalf Of
the railroad company will be lasting
and irremediable injury to our State
and people, but it is nothing more than
was to be expected from the men who
are about to enact Ii. 'l.7t