The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-06
RADICAL EXPENDITURE
Extravaganza, Rascality and
Fraud. Y"
The Taxes paid and how they
are Disbilrsedi. ".

gan, Democratic Sanuiuaio EiOi
Congress- In the 18th District o.
Ohio.
/ Ny FRIENDS AND coUNTRYyEN-Be
llieying that the corruption which -ha:
crept into our public affairs can only bt
corrected 10y the people, | come before
YOU tonight as one of your fellow-citi
zens to hold counsel with you as tc
what is the best to be done. LII. nj.
1t is fact too seldom considered
that OF the one thousand million IN
habitants. who occupy the globe, only
forty millions enjoy the blessings Of
civil liberty under written constitutions
and exercise the right OF self govern
ment
We are of European origin, but while
the theory OF our government is repub
lican, those of the people from whom
we sprung are monarchical and hered
! itary. And when our own system OF
government was established, il was tiH n
ard is now regarded as an experiment
"A trial 10 ascertain whether we have
sense and honesty enough to govern
ourselves, or whether we require trus-
tees in the forms Of kings and mobiles
/ 10 take care Of us for their own benefit.
/ With our fathers, as with ourselves,
everything favored the experiment OF
self government, but what will he the
ultimate solution Of the problem is still
regarded 10y many as matter of doubt.
For my own part have never enter
tanned any doubt upon the subject, and
had Idoubted confidence would have
succeeded 10 doubt on witnessing a nil
lion veterans in service, though youth
FIJI in wears, all flushed with the tri,
umpho Of a gigantic war, transformed
in single day from soldiers to citizens;
A. they had in single day been con,
verted from peaceful citizens into sol
diers armed and equipped for war.
But what do We mean when we say
that we have capacity for self gove.n-
ment? Simply that we have inteli
gence enough to examine political ques-
tons and honesty enough to vote for or
against them, because we believe them
10 bc right or wrong, wise or unwise.
To he capable of self government, each
citizen must make up his own mind;
must think and act for himself, and
while with manly independence in car
ryiug out his own convictions, he must
he tolerant as TO the convictions OF
others For if we have a rightto form
and exercise our own opinions upon
political subjects, so have our neigh
bors. If we have a right TO vote for
such measures as we choose, so have
they. Then, if free institutions are to
be maintained, it can only be. done by
each citizen voting tor what he believes
to he right and against what he regards
a. wrong.
POLITICAL PARrIEs
We are all fellow-citizens, and our
first duty is TO our country, and he is
not good citizen who does not prefer
the good of the whole country, to the
success of any party. In all free gov
ernments, parties ought TO exist. for the
party out will be always vigilant in
watching the party in power, and expose
corruption where it exists. And so long
As we continue to raise vast revenues,
there will he danger OF our institutions
rotting ont by quick decay. But, par
ties to be useful, must be patriotic
/ their object must be the good OF the
whole people, and not the aggrandize-
ment of favored few And not only
should one party he watched by the
other, but the leaders of each party
should be watched by their immediate
constituents, and the moment they dis,
cover that their leaders have become
corrupt, that moment they shonld aban-
don them, and unite with the other party
until reform is secured. .r
THE PEOPLE DEMAND REFORM.
At this moment, citizens, a settled
conviction exists in the public mind
that corruption reigns supreme in the
Federal and at most Of the State CAPT
tails. And everywhere the people are
giving action to that conviction by de
claring against those who have he
trayed and are now robbing them. The
late triumph- of the people in Connec
ticut by decisive vote, in New York
by majority Of more. than eighty
thousand-many counties for the first
time having gone Democratc-and the
unexpected upheaval in Oregon and
the new States OF the Rocky Noun
tains, show they are fully aroused &c
the necessity of prompt and patriotic
action.
But need not 90 far from home fol
examples of the great change going or
in the public mind. Here before you
is James Il. Hubbell, born and educated
a Wing. a member of the Republican
party from the date Of its earliest or
ganization. and its chosen Representa-
! tive in Congress, who now appears he
fore the people as candidate for then
I suffrage as the nominee of the Demo
cratic partv--a nomination alike honor
able to Mr.. Hubbell and to the Democ
racy. 80.
THE REPrRIlCtN PARTY LIVES ONLY II
NAME.
Nv countrymen, no party can con
tinue to live in a Government like our
after il has achieved the purposes TO
viii CHI it was organized-po party car
long exist which does not rest upon
living principle The abolition OF sla
very and the adjustment Of the ques
tions arising from that act, have LEI
the Republicans without single bon'
of union, and their dissolution is newt
able r.i.- VI .'
Republican high tariff and Republic
can low tariff men confront each othe
in confusion; and those who deman,
, reform are jostled out of the way b
the army Of office-holders, and by thos
who seek to make fortunes by plumber
ing the Treasury.
THE PEOPLE ARE HONEST AND SHOULD b
SUPREME.
In fact the contest now waged is nc