The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-03-03
OUR HANCOCK LITTER.
Difference BE ween the DemOcra ic
IA Il Republican lso-calIed) Party
Honesty w.. DishOnesty-The Cir
nit COurt-Bad Weather.
FAlRyIEw, HANCOCK Co, !
March !. 1875. I

NarCn i. 1910.
Editors ofthe Register:
The impeachment of Burdett and
Bennett is another instance in proof of
the marked distinction between the dis
ciplinary systems of the Democratic and
the Republican (so-called) parties. The
distinction, indeed, is so broad and well
defined that it really amounts to funda-
mental difference Of principle. Your
Boss Shepherds and Landaulct Will
liamScs and iSecor Robcsons, in the Ma
tional administration, and your kelloggS
and Moses and addition, division and
silence" Kcmblcs i'll State administra-
tion., of the Republican lso-called) party,
so far from being interfcred with, in any
way or manner, in their. careers of plum
der and spoliatIon of the public
treasury, are, by the Republican $50 call
ed party, vigorously and successfully
defended and protected. Our B'IrdettS
and Bennctts, in the comparatively
vrnal cases where not cent Of the pub
lie money i stolen, nor cent retained
that the State can lawfully lay claim to,
but where the naked charge Is, OF only
not cXtra-othcilly securing the gain to the
State OF few hundred dollars which
they extra officially might have secured,
are promptly brought to the bar OF the
highest court in the State, to answer an
impeachment. Believe YOU for mo-
mrnt that there ever existed, or that
there was ever capabl" OF existence IN
West Virginia Republican lso-called)
LEGISLATURE that might. could, would or
should have impcached Foreman, upon
the ccarc,t proof, Of his using the gubcr-
maternal office for purchasing seat III
the United States Senate? or Stevenson
for taking from the public treas
urv, under the shift and device of
free rent of his mansion house,
more than his lawful salary? No! For
between the two parties, in West Nir-
ginia rs elsewhere, there is just the diff
ference in prjacipte mentioned. Why,
even Walker. with all the acknowledged
force, ut hi, command, because of a mere
" overwhelmingly legally improved,
unprovable and therefore falsely sus-
overwhelmingly, became incapable OF
an honor at the hands Of the Democracy,
that otherwise would have been his al
most without question.
To discriminate between a system for
the repression Of public dishonesty and
robbery. and a system for their encour-
ugrmcnt and protection, is much more
easily done than to decide whether pro-
posed tariff may prove salutary or health
ful. In the one case the line of dlstlnc-
ton is indistinct, obscure and dubious; in
the other it is well marked, bold and OBJ
vlons, and will not fail to
catch the eye and arrest the attention of
the people. In the people We trust; and
50 long rs the policy of the Democratic
party is to cast out its uniaithtul, whilst
the opposite policy Is to protect dishon-
c-ty, We may trust the people.
The Circuit Court Judge Melvin met
this morning Among the bar in atten-
dance are MeSSrS. Forbes and Russell, of
Wheeling. But II single Indictment, and
that Il misdcmcanor, was found, and the
Grand Jury were discharged. a some
what aggravated case of assault and bat
trrv. Of now three years standing against
John Cameron, Jr., upon the prosecution
of Levi II. Eaton, Is now on trial. The
bill referred to rs found, was against a.
l.. Thomas. who WAS committed on the
charge of felonious assault and battery
with intcnt'to kill.
\ more lconin habit than that in
which March made her entry to-day,
could hardly be imagined. May we not
Justly harbor the pleasant confidence
that her exit will be correspondingly
lamb-like? The Judge, jurymen and
ether court people here, are about pre-
rarcd to Join in Il petition to the Legs
iaturc to pas. law at its next meeting,
providing that hereafter whatsoever the
grounding sees his shadow, in that year
the March term o: the Hancock Circuit
Court shall commence on the Sd Monday,
instead of the Isl, Of the month.
CAMILLUS.