The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-05-05
THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE IT q.

THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE IL so.
Just before the meeting of the Utica
Convention areporter of the New York
Herald interviewed that venerable Demo-
cratic statesman, HORATIo SEYMOUR for
the purpose of obtaining his views on
the political situation. During the con-
versation, Governor SEYMOUR re-
marked that the danger this country had
to apprehend was not SO much from the
corruption Of the administration, as from
the tact that corruption prevailed so ex-
tensively among the people. This re-
mark was lamentably too true. There
Can be no power to root out corrup-
ton from. the different branches
OF tho government, except by the force
of public sentiment. The mere indiffer-
ence of the people is a premium on ras-
cality. He must be mentally and NOR
ally blind who does not see that the polit-
ical condition Of the United States is rot
ten to the core, and through it. So wide
deep and universal is this corruption that
we have come to accept it as matter OF
course; We cease to be Mortified by the
daily developments Of rascality that are
made; We regard the revelations of fraud.
embezzlement. bribery, sales Of
influence and office, as part
Of the spoils, and TO be ex-
pected of men who have the chance to
make money by getting into power
Such is the actual condition If this, as
we boastfully call it. "the best govern
ment the world ever saw" and yet the
terrible part of the indictment against
US is, 1.-The people love to have it So"
The leaders of the people, men high in
station and in power, have been drenched
in corruption to their very souls, and the
fact has been made known; but the people
are not Enthusiastically indignant
and apparently love to have it so
There is no uprising of an in iignant
populsce, there is no rushing to arms as
IL a foreign enemy were invading us, but
If any concern is manifested at all, 1t is
more particularly excited as to what
effect it will have upon this or that par
ticulsr party, than upon the national
life. But TO simply cry aloud and bewail
this condition OF things is not going to
mend the matter. We have sick
patient, and the question is how to heal
it. The trouble is patent. The head
is sick and the heart is retten, and
TO borrow the language OF friend JOHN
X. HUBBARD, "When the vitals are
corrupt there is no life LETT But
where are we to apply for the remedy, is
the next question: We do not think
that it IS to be found in third political
party, Tor IL it was even desired, there is
no time for that organization and comb,-
nation that would be necessary to ensure |
success. 1t can not be expected to come
from the dominant party, whose admins
trstions have only resulted in inoculsting |
society with corruption that Is crank and |
smells To Heaven
Now Is the opportunity of the Demo-
cratic party, and to that party alone is
remedy looked for. There must DO a
change in the government or the gov.
eminent is destroyed. The time for
revolution has come. 1t Is the centen-
NAL year Of independence, and also the
pear for political renovation. 1.-THE PEG.
pie want Il to be 20 there viii be q revi.
val Of honesty by restoring the govern.
ment to the control of the Democratic
party, which With its ideas Of primitive
and economy will give y new
rational birth to life Of patriotic, un-
slfish and Washingtonian purity.