The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-17
C.RLscnURz AND HIS CoNFEREs.

CARL SCHURZ is the author of the "Ad-
dress to tho American People" made by
tho REFsRM Republican Convention,
which met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
n. Y, May lG, in this year of our Lord
1576-snd yet he supports HAYES.
Then GRANT was President, and his
horde of ce.holders were IN posses
SION of all the powers OF government,
violating the Constitution in everything
that pertained to the rights of the
s puthern states, and TO all of the states
in their domestic and municipal rights,
pl indering the people Of their money
piling up their own individual fortunes
corrupting public morality, and eating
out the heart of the national honor so that
this Convention in this address said: "A
national election is approaching under
circumstances of peculiar significance.
Neuer before IN o,w history has tic p"b-
lie n..nd been so pro- ouadly agitated By a"
apprehension of the dangers arising from
the preralcnce of corrupt tendencies and
practices in oar political Gte," and the
Cincinnati Convention which nominated
HAYES endorsed this "prevslence OF cor
rupt tendencies and practices" and vet
CARL SCnURz supports HAYES
lie further said in that address, awe
will not display here in detail the distress
ing catalogue of the disclosures which for
several years have followed one another
in rapid succession, and seem to hare left
scarcely sphere of our political life
untouched. The words of Courts, of
state legislatures, and OF the National
Congress peak ,cih terrible plaimess, and
still they are adding to the seandalous e.
h,Jrtion," aud this was said only three
months ago, and still the same men who
have filed the measure of this distress
Ing catalogue" and fare still adding TO
the scandalous exhibition" by "the prev.
alsnce of corrupt tendencies and prac-
ces' are the men who have defeated
Reform in their own party, and have
nominated HAYEs-and CARL SCHURz
supports HAYEs!!
This address further said: ITO
the honor Of the American people,
be it said, every patriotic citizen feels the
burning shame OF the spectacle presented
ir the Centennial year; there the me-
mentoes and monuments OF the virtues
of the past, and HERE The shocking eri.
dence Of the Decentralization and corrup.
ton of the present; there, the glowing
eulogies pronounced on the wisdom and
purity the Fathers and here, in hooking
contrast, the verdict of courts and the
records of legislative bodies ia the
bribery by which Senators obtained their
seatsl illustrating the political morals of
the day, and this before all mankind
solemnly summoned as witness to the
exhibition and guest to the iess,;' and
in the face of the fact that these same
instruments Of decentralization and cor
ruplion" are continued IN office; in the
face of the fact that two Cabine. officers
were open members of the Cincinnati
Convention; in face OF the fact tina. the
candidate of that Convention was nomi-
mated by these men in power for the very
purpose of continuing that power which
produced this "burning shame OF the
spectacle" and in face of the fact that
this candidate is supported by all
these men, and is endorsed by
ULYssn 8. GRANT, the President of
the United States, under whom the "dis-
tressing catalogue Of corrupt tendencies