The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-08

the present Constitution, though it says
"the courts shall be open" and Jus
tice shall not be sold"
II these corrupt and wilful men dc
not want "all officers elected or ap-
pointed removed from office for Off
cial misconduct, incompetence, neglect
OF duty or gross immortality" but shall
want to continue the infamies Of their
act of the 18th of February, 1866. and
perpetuate Courts which will justify
their infamous laws, and such corrupt
partnership in Office, then let them vote
against Art. Nv. $6 OF the Constitution,
for this requires purity Of morals and oi
official conduct in all offices Of the
State. ....
If they want the old infamy of the
registration act returned upon the peo-
pie, and that q citizen may be denied
or refused the right or privilege Of vot,
ing, because the Boreman or the Jacob
registrar has not put his name on the
list, then let them vote radically against
Art. Nv, sl2, and Art. V, S43 OF the
Constitution, because they say the voter
shall not be 30 deprived of his vote,
and there shall be no Board of Regis,
tration.
Ifthese men, guilty of all past enor-
mites, desire that persons holding lucra,
tive offices under the State, the United
States, or a foreign government, or who
is member OF Congress, or is a salarled
officer of any railroad company, to be
eligible to seat in the Legislature, and
thus corrupt the very fountain Of the
law, then let them vote against Art.
vi, Sl3 OF this Constitution, which so
guards the purity of the law making
power.
Again, if these and such men do not
want the purity of the Legislature
guarded so that mo member Of any
Legislature shall be interested, directly
or indirectly, in any contract with the
State or any county thereof authorized
by any law passed during the term for
which he shall have been elected, and
desire that "honest legislation" should
be put up at auction to the highest
bidder, then let these honest patriots
vote against section ID, for it declares
that such things shall not be.
If such men, who have heretofore
dealt in all iniquities Of misgovernment
in the State, still further wish the Leg
islature to be corrupt, and that it's men,
bers shall not take the following oath,
to-wit: 81 will not accept or receive,
directly or indirectly, any money or
other valuable thing from any corpora
ton, company or person for any vote or
influence l may give or withhold as
Senator or Delegate" then let him vote
against section IL and open the door to
bribery and corruption which that
would close.
If they want a Legislature Of that
kind just spoken of to meet every year,
with power to pass local and special
laws without limit, and 80 to increase
the chances Of bribery and corruption,
and 80 to increase their own per diem by
making it annual and by longer sessions,
and 30 increase the volume Of special
laws and the frauds Of public printing,
then let them vote against sections Is,
%, 80 and AZ, for these protect the
people 10 all these respects and make a
saving to the treasury and the taxes,
equivalent to any increase of expenses
occasioned by other judicial provisions.
If the people want a public settle
ment OF the Sheriffs and all collecting,
receiving and disbursing officers, and a
public expose Of their accounts, they
will vote for section %.
Ifthey want the acts Of the Legisla-
ture 80 written out and 80 publicly read,
acted upon and passed that there can
be no fraud or imposition in their
passage, they will demand that sections
90, 80, 81 and 80 be passed.
II these Radical gentlemen do not
want "again" to denounce Judge Max
well for currying Democratic favor by
another Jefferson county decision on
"the Bakers dozen" question-that is,
if they do not want the decision Of Judge
Maxwell to sustain the ruling Of Lewis
Baker, as President OF the Senate, as
to what is the meaning of the words
"a majority Of the members elected"
then they will vote for the thirty-sec-
ond section, which explains their old
Constitution, which was thus the cause
of their denouncing their own "pet >
Judge.
II they do not want Maxwell and
Berkshire removed from their seats on
the bench of the Court Of Appeals for
their partizsn and unlawful and un-
wise decisions on the lawyers test
oath, on the belligerent rights, on the
registration law, and other like decis-
IONS by the vote of majority Of either
branch of the Legislature, as they re-
moved Kennedy and Hindman, then
they had better take a Constitution that
is wise, just, and defensive Of the three
coordinate departments of the State
government, the Legislative, Judicial,
and Executive.
II the people want that great fountain
Of corruption, tavoritism, long sessions,
annual sessions, large printing jobs, and
corrupt lobbying around the Capitol to
secure local and special legislation,
they will see to it that the Constitution
is passed, and the thirty ninth section
of Article Sixth is secured.
As the people will determine-John n
j. Davis, Granville Parker and the
whole Radical party to the contrary
notwithstanding-thst "slien residents"
shall be entitled at once to buy land
and build houses and improve our
State, so will they determine that hon.
est labor shall have some fair and proper
chance to secure something for a
worthy and reputable old age, for this is
implied in the very guards thrown
around the homestead by the Consti-
tuition itself-there is q lien .or the pur,
chase money, and for debts contracted
in building on it, and these imply credit