The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-17
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
FAIRvIEw, HANCOCK Co.,
February Is, 1875.
Editors Of the Register:
Having surprised their constituents by
convictlng Treasurer Burdett, it was
meet that the Senate should repeat the
surprise by acquitting Auditor Bennett;
and thus, upon the coHnter-irritant prin-
ciples of the Esculapians, or the eompen-
satory divinity system of Nemesis, restore
the racked constituent body to state of
healthy pulsation and moral equilibrium.
Though so unexpected, yet will any one
dare question the justice of Burdett's
taking off Pray tell me who demanded
it? Was it not the great, grand moral
idea that asked the sacrifice? And
when its SO small behest is preferred, is it
for 'trooly lolp' Senate to demur
Why, away up here in Hancock, when
the same power, the great G. NJ. l., de-
manded that Bambrick and Cunning
ham and Connell and others of our best
should fall, did we not Loyalty stand by
and see them borne of to filthy prison
cells Verify there is just one thing
that "trooly loil" and obedient Demo-
cratic Senate cannot and must not do; no
matter what the sacrifice may be-no
matter what the depth of "loilty"
or obedience 1t leads to, it must
not and cannot afford TO be less
grandly moral than the Grand Moral
party itself But then, II Burdetts trial
and conviction "were done when tbs
DONE" we shall be doubly happy. The
Legislature has, however, little item OF
duty, not wholly irrelevent thereto yet
to perform. 1t might have been done
last session indeed land would have been
done, doubtless, if it had not been forgot
TEN or it might have been done the ses-
sion before that, or the session before Bur-
detts Objectionable transactions, for that
matter land would have been, doubtless,
if 1t had not been forgotten); that Is, to
pass a law, in due written and printed
form, making such transactions as Bur
dett was found to have been engaged in
illegal. Better late than never, you
know.
The candidary for State Senator, to
succeed Mr.. Cunningham, will doubtless
be conceded by the Democracy to Brooke
county. We have heard the names of
several gentlemen of that county men,
toned in connection Herewith.
Senator Caldwell was in this place
over two nights last week. He was lool-
ing up the records in an Important land
case in this county. The Senator las
many warm friends among the people.
II Grant is to be the Republican candi-
date for the Presidency once more, the
fitness of things would require that some
such purist as Subsidy Pom, or Boss
Shepherd should go on the ticket for
Vice. Either one would make good
rice. But then would not any ticket
with Gran. at the head lin view of what
is being continually revealed concerning
his precious and unparalleled set of par
asites and retaners) quite squeeze all the
ivory out Of the ticket proposed by the e..
Memphis Mardi Gras organ. "For Pres
ident, Boss freed, late of Blackwelps
Island; for Vice-PresIdent, Johnny Nc
Donald, OF Missouri
The wcather-but nothing on that sub
iect would be news; but is it not remark
able? 1T has been so ccqUettishly of and
on that already a great big interroga-
ton point has grown up in the rural
mind, touching the fruit.
Ike johnson lectured to not over
crowded house in the Town Hall of New
Cumberland, on Thursday evening.
CAMILLUS.