The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-08-02

wherever one section is trampled upon
and kept down by taxation and poverty,
the effect is felt in all others, and that
this condition has been brought about by
the policy of the Republican party in
the Sout
Next he alludes to "the corruption
which has existed during the last four
teen years, and which is without paral'
lei IN the history of the Republic. DE
cites the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany and the Credit Mobilier frauds,
and asks:
Is there one OF you who does not
know, by sworn testimony taken before
Congressional Committees, that BY the
frauds of these companies, principally
ruled and governed by certain members
of Congress, the people OF the United
States are absolutely certain to lose not
less than fifty millions of dollars?
Has any one of you forgotten that
over four hundred and thirty-five thou
sand dollars were used by these compsn-
les to prosecute the passage of an amend
ment to the railroad charter, by the cor
ruptlon of members of Congress-an
amendment that surrendered the most
important rights of the Government,
and, in the end entailed upon the people
the loss to which | have referred?
He tells of the whisky ring, which has
defrauded the Government of untold
amounts of taxes through the connivance
of bribed Government officials, and says:
"Must | do more than remind you that
the official reports of responsible officers
of your army, and the statements of dis
interested private citizens have clearly
shown that through the fraudulent prac-
tices OF Indian agents and contractors,
large numbers of Indians whom the Gov
ernment is bound by treaty stipulations
to support, have lately been on the very
verge of starvation, aud the country
thereby menaced with an Indian war?
Is it not an indiSputabe fact that the APP
preparations for the Indians and the In.
dian Bureau are annually about three
millions more than they were in 1860,
and that through the frauds and pecua-
tions of "lndian rings in collusion with
government officials, millions of this
money are every year embezlled?
Have you not heard how fraud, bribery
and corruption existed in the Post Office
Department, under the very nose, so to
speak, ofthe Postmaster-Gencral himself?
frauds and otienScs So gross rs to ncces-
state not only the dismissal of the de-
tected officials, but also their criminal
prosecution in Il court of justice.
Have you not read of the frequent
thefts in the Treasury, from the abstrac-
tion of II triiling sum of fractional cur
rency to n larceny Of over forty thou
sand dolla:s in lump? Need do more
than refer to the long list of defaulters in
almost every branch of the public service,
and whose defalcations in the last four
teen years amount, at the lowest compu-
tation, to millions of dollars?
Must | again remind you that not even
the Department of Justice has been free
from taint, and that, under the late At
torney General, officers whose duty it was
to prosecute the guilty were greater
criminals than the men they prosecuted?
These are the most notorious ard pa
tent examples of this corruption which
has been undermining public and official
virtue in the United States, but which
corruption will never be fully known un-
til there is change Of rulers, who will
investigate them thoroughly.
He then briefly aliudes to the Know
Nothing policy adopted by the Republi-
cans of Ohio, and says: The Radical
leaders have sought to drag religion into
the mre of politics and inaugurate cru
sadie Christian Church, and" said he,
Twenty years ago, my Democratic
friends, you crushed an attempt of this
kind into the dust, and if you are true to
your principles, true to the Constitution
true defenders of the rights of conscience
and the peace aud well being of society,
you will do so again"
Then recapitulating all these points,
he urges the Democracy to 90 forward
with will; achieve success, and right
these wrongs.
This is but hasty abstract
of this truly excellent speech, in
which the Senator maintains his high
reputation as an orator. statesman and
Democrat. He will work heart and soul
for his party; q stern rebuke in his
person to those hard money Journals,
calling themselves Democratic, who, to
advance private ends, deliberately advo-
cate the defeat and decentralization of the
cause they pretend to serve.
We trust Senator THURMAN : example
will make its impress upon them, that
they may in fature help him in keeping
before the people the great objects de-
sired to be accomplished, and not allow
The Radicals to catch them in the cur
rency trap they have set, by means of
which they hope to blind the people to
their short comingS, and by creating con-
fusion, prevent the more important issues
between the Democracy and themselves
from being needed.
He was tall young man with straw
colored mustache, and it was his first trip
on street.car. One could tell by the
way he got aboard, and by the careless
manner in which he sat down. After
waiting in vain for him to pay up, the
conductor iingled the bell and jngled