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

no matter what else-they may do the
people of this State will never te-tstab-
iish it. The wrongs done its name, and
under its authorities, have left q stain
upon it that there t'is not rain enough in
the sweet heavens to wash it out" I'm
der that Constitution, there was no pollt-
ical evil that did not find nutriment, no
villainy that did not secure protection.
Broad patents of robbery were secured
under the suffers oath; monopolies OF
business were secured TO ignorance and
knavery under the professional test
oath; public corruption hourished and
ranked among your township and
county boards; political assassination was
legalized by its oaths for officers and
voters; and in midnight solitudes, where
honest feet never trod and honest
eyes never looked, its inquisition or reg
istrstion, separated by the odium of their
calling and by their fitness to pursue it,
from the sympathy of all minkind, piled
their unhallowed vocation. While men,
Dry holds her seat in the breasts of those
who witnessed the crimes committed I'M
der its authority, so long as the oppressed
shall live to hate the instrument of OPP
preston, the very name of the conStitu-
ton now commended by the Republican
party to the people of West Virginia,
will be Kissing and reproach. And
when this generation shall have gone to
its rest, old men who will have heard
from their fathers the cruel story of our
States early career, will embalmits MEM
DRY in curses, and teach posterity to alb
nor the deeds that were done in its name.
In the changes Of political parties the
Democracy may one day be excluded
from political power in this State; YOU
may Obliterate the last vestige Of their
presence, but YOU can never restore
that constitution, never, never, never.
CHOICE BETWEEN PARTIES.
After pointing out the hypocrisy of the
Radical demand for reform" in the
Democratic party and showing that it
was merely pretense in order that Re-
publicans might be reinstated in office,
Walker said:
1t is, therefore, simply choice whether
you will have the Republican party or
the Democracy to rule over you. More
properly speaking, the question for you
to decide in the coming election Is,
whether, in view of it, record the Rcpub-
lican party dcservcto he restored to power
in the State. The main features of that
record YOU cannot forget. 1t made
constitution by the assent of seventeen
thousand votes, and forced it upon seven
ty-tivc thousand, calling in the gentle
>uasion Of the bayonct to redress and
cqualizc the adverse balance of power. 1t
permitted no political opposition during
the war; it ,ilcmccd the press by casting
editors in prison; it tried to prevent
Democratic organization after the war by
threats and violence; it drove your
speakers from the stump, dispersed your
meetings and laborcd to bring into per
sonal disrcputc those who participated
therein
1t melted trcspaSs suits to rob the all
sent and drfenselcs-; created ten thous-
and office, for its followers; assured them
permanent places by allowing nobody
else to vote, and fastened their fanSS upon
the helpless taxpayers until they were
glutted and gorgcd. 1t invented test
oath contrivanccs for driving everybody,
but the political parties whom it pettcd,
from the jury-box, the school room and
the court house.
1t lcgalizcd public robbers, released to
delinquent collectors one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars of State claims
which they had forced the people to pay,
left a much more uncollccted from other
delinqucnts, and closed its term by COM
promising solvent claim of eleven
thousand dollars against leading Re-
publican, for less than ten per cent. of the
debt.
II collected in the shape of school
take. four million two hundred thousand
dollars. sum sufficient to have cstab-
lished and endowed colleges and high
schools in every county in the State, and
during large portion of it, reign left
onc-haf of the people without school
houses or schools.
1t plmdcrcd the local school funds to
enrich it, township officers. leaving hun
dredS and thousands of dollars of dcfalca-
ton, to be unearthcd by Democratic
LEGISLATURES: ii Impoverished the State
school fund to find means To- diStranchlNc
the men who had paid the taxes int" tn"
treasury. and bequeathed to IT. Demo
cratic successor the work not only of re-
storing to the people their rights but OF
making good to the school fund tn" losses
it had sustained in supplying the money
for public disfranchiSemcnt.
It used the power Of impeachment to
control the courts in it. interest lcgis-
lated to protect it, officers in their viola
tions of private right, and compelled the
tax-pavers to bear the expenses incurred
in defending men who had prosecuted
and outraged them.
1t established political inqusitionS in
every county and township; mad" INTEL
ligencc. culture and productive industry
the basis Of prescription; CAV" power
and privilege To ignorance vagrancy and
scoundrclism; divided the pcopl" by per
pctuating scnseless prcjudic",; CHARTERED
troops in pcaccablc communities; fright
encd capital and immigration from
the State by the reign of ruttianIsm, and
finally. cntruSting To- one man the s"Irc-
tion If the voters of the State II submit
ted to the sutfragcs of It's agents own
choice. the iS,ueo of personal knaVrry.
moral rottrnnr,-, and political WORTHLESS
moss raised against H. leaders and IL
roIicirs; by their vote It was declared
,,,G, c,r nublic service: unworthy Of