The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-13
Progress of the Canvass,

The history of New York is the history
of every State in which the Democracy
have obtained the power 10 show forth
their faith by their works. The history
of the Federal Government is the history
o! every State in which the Republican
party has had the power to plumber the
! people.
These are the bare facts. They are
well understood by the People, who have
made up their verdict They are merely
waiting for November TO render it.
| Realizing that they are repudiated, the
Republicans have sought to attract stten
tion away from the main issue by serle:
of shameless hes. The People are not to
be deluded They know that these Sian
ders are only uttered to deceive them
into continuing in power the men who
have squandered their substance In riot
Gus living. True Hayes is playing the
part of the prodigsl son for the Republi-
can party. lie pretends to have aban-
donea the husks and the harlots, and TO
have made up his mind to make the Re-
publican party behave itself in the future.
Unfortunately. however, the very men
who have been the companions of this
dlssembler all the while he has been liv.
ing the life of prodigal, are the very
ones who are the loudest in bis praises.
Thsy have not changed. No one pretends
that Grant has And yet Grant is using
the bayonet TO pry open the path for
Hayes to the White House No one pre-
tends that Cameron has. And yet Cam
eron is relied upon to carry Pennsylva-
MIA, while his son leads the army in its
work of tyranny and subjugation. No
one pretends that Conkling has. And
vet Conkling is to take the stump for
Hayes. No one pretends that Cornell
has. And yet Cornell is the leading
spirit of the National and State Commit
tees.
Hayes himself writes to President
Grant the most cordial approval OF his
Administration. The Republican party
does the same thing. There is scarcely
even the fiction of fig leaf to cover the
nakedness of the Republican party. 1t
is the same profligate and corrupt party,
and has stolen Hundreds of Millions,
while allowing the business Of the coun-
try to be Frustrated through its inetfi-
cient management.
There is no answer TO this arrange.
ment. Nothing bat the most Puerile OF
personalities. Nothing but the silliest
repetition of partisan slang, which full.
filled its mission years ago.
There is no installing the determine
ton of the People to enforce steady and
searching reform There is no escaping
the conclusion that the Republican party
makes only the fmsiest preteHt with re,
gard thereto-a preteXt which is belied
by its own profigate conduct In the Con-
gress which has but just adjourned.
In such condition personalities only
intensity feeling on both sides; they do
not make a single convert. The attacks
upon Tildcn and the Democratic party
drive together the supporters OF both,
without winning Il man away from them.
If there is Democrat who has felt ag-
grieved by the decisions Of caucuses and
conventions, the historic pride he feels in
his record has been quckened by the at
tackS upon the party Of which he has al
WAYS been member. And so the blum
derins heedlcssness of the Republican
plan of attack consoldates and arouses
the friends of Democratic Reform every
where.