The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-05

may make ofdepriying me OF State busi-
ness. That is not settlement OF the
question. 1t is q contemplate dodge
Governor Jacob has kept himself be.
fore the public for three years as psf
tern Of all that was true and virtuous
and good in our politics. The people
are beginning to find at last that his
professions are fraud, and his whole
life selfish lie. Having helped invent
him in 1870 and having contributed ss
much as any other man, not only TO
his nomination and election, but to the
support OF his administration until HE
treschery to the. Democratic party be-
came too manifest for federation, have
right to know and 10 speak of his SUI
preme selfshuess, his infdelity to
friends, his disregard OF his plighted
word, his hsbitusl sub,erfuges and his
iucapacity for gratitude or generosi'
ty. He marked the first year Of his
administration by deserting and insult
ing many OF the prominent men who
had made him. and not only paudered
TO the Radical demand for their ostrac.
ism, but actually melted the Radical
press 10 denounce "a rogues and scoun-
drels q class OF Democrats whose
meanest acts would far outshine his best
and brightest. He schemed and intrigued
with the Republicans for an independent
candidacy, for months prior to the
Parkersburg Convention. When that
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even q judicial position on the ticket,
snd was forced of US his own friends,
who preferred another for the place;
and vet he went from that Convention,
in which he had sought two nomins-
tions, straight to the Radical camp and
there plotted to overthrow and disgrace
the very men to whom by his honor be
was bound to stand. He assailed the
personal integrity Of every man in
that Convention, finding no words too
strong to convey his hatred, and yet
his election was scarcely over before he
was bidding to he restored 10 their con-
fdence and friendship. lie shuilitd
with and swui!ed his Republican al
! lies, and when be had gained their
support by promising tp defeat the
Constitution, deliberately broke bis
pledge, aud labored tor its ratification,
in order to secure his office il elected.
To make or change votes foG himself,
there is no promise he would not make,
no deceit he would not practice. lie
promised John j. Davis friends cer-
tifcate OF election 10 Congress from the
First District, in case he could beat
Wilson at the August election; he
promised Bland, OF hewis, the Hospital
SUPPLEMENTARY, in order to create
Democratic disafIecton in that couhtv
he held out q similar inducement TO
the friends OF Robert Daley. TO
strengthen his popularity in HamP-
shire. lie agreed TO give McFadden
the Penitentisry Superintendency TO
propitiate the Radicals OF Marshall
county; he promised the same office to
Major Sweeney, Of Ohio county, to re-
ward the boiling Democrats OF Wheel
ing. He agreed TO take care OF old
man Phelps and his son, in the way OF
clerkships, while the positions OF Jani-
tor and Librarian were pledged to over
half a dozen OF bis blatant retaner9
He violated his pledges about a. reck-
lessly as he made them. Heput Davis
off with q hypothetical certificate
which won't even serve az the basis OF |
contest. He snubbed and insulted Nc
Fadden and handed Sweeney over to be
mauled and mangled by the Board oI
Public Works. lie deserted Daley |
for Bland, turned poor old Phelps ou'
ostarve, and left his multitUlinous Jan.
itors and Librarians to shit for them
selves, without penny or a Crumb to
speak his gratitude.
Pretending to stand "a the rcpres-
tative OF political fair dealing, there is
no bargain too dirty for him to make,
and no compact too solemn for him
to violate. lie denounced STEVENSON
for stealing annually seven humid
red and fifty dollars in the
way OF "House- Rent" and alter
wards tried to have a proposition pre-
sented to the Legislature to pay for his |
own rooms at the Hale House; he
finally got a bill introduced in the Sen-
ate 10 pay him "House-Rent" as Ste-
venson had been paid, and when Lew
is Baker denounced and defeated it, |
he became Bakers enemy forever. lie
professed TO desire purity in State fnan-
ces, but hadn't been Governor three
months before he made Andy Wilson
OF Wheeling keeper OF the revenues OF
the Cumberland road, free Of interest
and without bond, while every other
State depository was required to give
ample security, and to pay interest on
quarterly balance. lie proclaimed
himself the champion Of the taxpayer,
and yet when the Attorney General de-
cided in 1872, that the property Of
the Chetapeake and Ohio road Wa
taxable under its charter, lie
prevented the collection Of taxa.
ton thereon, and secured the
money and influence Of the road TO aid
his reelection in order TO give its pro-
perty perpetual exemption. He asserts
his fsIthiulness as the Watchdog Of
the Treasury. and yet be depleted the
Contingent Fund 10 forward the de-
signs OF a pack Of adventnrers, aud
used the money Of the people 10 pro-
secute a suf instituted against the Au-
ditor for ten thousand dollars Of hos
pital money, by gang OF his persoDal
retaIners with no more right 70 the
money than q parcel OF highwsymen.
He bossts OF his zeal 10 enforce the
laws yet he melted an armed force 10
resist the operation oil law at the peni-
tentisry, drove the proper authorities
from that institution, threw it and the
Hospital into confusion for months,
and brought reproach upon the good
name Of the State, all to apyesse his
for power, and was finally