The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-27

session. of the Legislature of 1923, that
the passage of q road law at that time
was prevented. The law which was
finally passed is substantially that
contained in the Code, with such
slight amendments as were found neces-
essary to remedy its hardships in partic-
ular localities. Nevertheless to satisfy
all parties, O proposition offered as an
alternative Road Law by the republican
members of the Legislature was adopted
and it was enacted that any county de-
string it might have the privilege Of
using this alternative method, represent
ing Us it did the concentrated wisdom of
the Republican party. 1t is singular
fact that scarcely county in the State,
Republican or Democratic, has accepted
the Republican plan, but that all have
manifested their satisfaction by gong
to work under ch. 1874 Of the Acts OF
1928. This rs have stated is substan-
tally the same as that contained in the
Code, the work of Republican Legisla-
ture, and vet it is condemned, repudia-
ted and mathematical by the Republican
party. The facility with which the re-
publican leaders can manufacture COM
plaints. the readiness with which they
| find the same measures TO be wholesome
when enforced under their own direc-
ton and onerous when operated by the
Democracy. speaks we'll for their audac-
ity as politicians but makes poor exhib-
it for..their fairness or consistency.
THE VOTE on THE SCHOOL LEVIES.
Severe complaint has been made be-
/ cause the Legislature has provided for
taking vote Of the people IN each DIS
| trict on the question Of school levleai II
WAS urged that this was endangerlng the
system. The practical result has not Veri-
! fed this fear. LevieS were voted at the
| only election held under the law, IN every
| {, trict in the State, with but single eX-
ception. and that was the Republicans
district of Cook, in the county OF Boone.
| The submission of the question was rem
derrd necessary by the decision OF a ke-
publican Supreme Court, which declared
| that leyieS could not be enforced unless
they were sanctioned by a direct vote
of the people.
The Democratic party cannot be
charged with hostility to the schools, by
the members of party whose members
| in Congress, with but II few exceptions,
have inst voted in favor Of IN infamous
bill. to destroy the free schools forever
| bv mingling the races therein. After
pussine the civil rights bill in the Senate
tx Republican votes, the Republican
! lenders were only defeated in their out
rapeo,ls scheme To force that inlquity upon
the people, by their failure to get a.
/ two-thirdS vote in the House OF
Representatives, for Il suspension OF the
rules to put it upon its passage; although
one hundred and Sixty-tour Republicans
out of one hundred and sevcnty-sevcn
| present cast their votes III favor OF such
suspension. The passage OF that DlIi
sounds the death knell Of the free school
system of the South. The Republican
| party is committed to 1t, committed by
| the almost unanimous votes OF It's men,
| beers in both houses. The diSavowaIS OF
the leaders in this State are but of piece
with their pledges made to the people to
oppose the Fifteenth amendmcnt which
we're broken by their action in ratliyinS
| it as soon as it was presented to-the Leg
islaturc, which they then controlled.
IMrovERISHING THE TREASURY.
1t has been charged upon the Demo-
cratic party that it has depleted your re-
| sources bv its extravaganza, and that
frauds upon the treasury have been com
United. But the parties making these
charges forget that they have chosen Il
gentleman Ia the office of Governor for
the very purpose of protecting tn"
treasury, and that for every such
fraud which they allcgc or prove,
they fastcn completely upon the man
they selected to guard their Interests.
The whole machinery of the State Ad-
ministration is under this control Th"
public finances are all within his grasp
The Auditor may be suspended any time
bv the simple mandate Of the Governor
The Treasurer may be displaced by the
Executive order. Not dollar OF public
money can remain on deposit in any
bank Of the State IN hour longer than
may he consistent with the Executive
Measure. With the whole financial sy>-
tenn of the State under his control, with
power under the laws to vlndlcat" the
Offices of receipt and disbursement, and
fill them with men of his own choice;
with power t. prevent any improper
combinations bv himself designating the
dcpo>itorirS Of public money, the Cover
nor of choice is the party against
whom these gentlemen should bring
their complaints; and they will find that
! if there is anywhere any mlsmanagr-
mrnt or improperly. pcculatiun or cor
| ruptiom. it must exist through the nrGlI-
gencc or cunnivancr of the officer whom
the law clothes with power Ia prevent al
suchabuscs; and they must locnt" tn"
responsibility where it properly belongs.
fHE STATE FINANCE.
! But the condition of YOUR State Treas
urv is the best rciutation of all charges OF
! improvidencc. When the Democratic
party came into power, your General
Treasury was bankrupt, and your School
Fund plundercd. Year after year the
fund set apart to the sacred purposes OF
education had been applied to improper
uses. by the Republican State authorit-
les. The last report of the last Repub-
Hcan State Auditor, Mr.. BoggcsS, shows
that over sixty thousand dollars had
been diverted without authority from tn"
School Fund into improper channels.
and during the time these cncr"achmcntN
h al been goinglon, the cXpcnccS connect
ed with the registration law had reached
about similar fund. In other words
the School Fund was robbed n the reg
istratinn law was enforced, and the chill
drcn were wromgcd rs their fathers were
distranchisrd. What have the Demo-
cratic Treasury offices done with this
deficit? In the first year of their official
life they restored about ten thousand dol
lars: and in the year after they cam"
into otlic, the Auditor and Treasurer
both report this deficit in the school
moneys ~ entirely made good Other
debts hcqucathcd by Republican od-
mnistratiun, Ia the amount of many
thousands of dollars. for the Penitrntiury