The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-17

spaere OK our pOiitichl uio uutoucheu,
and who, with all this publicity of crime
and corruption, did not have the sagscity |
to sec il, or the honesty to expose and |
punish, but dismissed from his cabinet
the only men who dared to discharge
their duty, protect the people, and vindi-
cate the honor of the country; and this
President, and his Cabinet, and their re-
tanners endorse and support HAYES, and
are pouring forth money, in millions, to
secure his electlon-and yet CARL
SEIZURE supports HAYEs!!!
And the address further says: "How
can we avert such dangers and wipe cut
such shame? By proving that although
the government machinery has become
corrupt, the grea: body of the people are
sound and strong at the core, and that they
are honestly determined to reform the
abuses of our political life and to over
throw, at any cost, the agencies OF evil
that stand in the way. Only such an
effort, well directed and sternly perse-
vered in until success is assured
ac,N sape the good name Of The nation and
,recent the disease from becoming fatal
and restore to its old strength the faith
Of our own people in their institutions"
and yet with the knowledge that the
great body of the people who belong to
the Republican party could not noml-
nate BLAINE who was their most popu-
lar choice, but who had by his popu-
larity been the main cause of the defeat
of the Third Term which embodied these
evils which had produced "the shocking
evidence of the Generalization and cor
ruption of the present" nor were they
able to nominate BRIsTow, the only
candidate of that party who
was pledged by any word OF honor
or any fact of public conduct on which
"the people who are honestly determined
TO reform the abuses of our political
life and overthrow, at any cost, the
agencies of evil that stand in the way"
could rely to consumate such necessary
and glorious result, nor were there
among these members of the Convention
men enough illustrating the political
morals of the day" to savethe conven.
ton from the influence ofthe CAMERoNs,
CARPENTERS, MoRToNs, and those men
fighting for the perpetuity of this ill
used power in the presence of fall man
kind solemnly summoned as witness
to the exhibition and q guest at the
fesst," at which CABL SCHURz sits down
at the head of the table and proposes
the heaitbof HAYES while these men
pour the poisoned wine of "demoraliza.
ton and corruption tor the people
to drink, and in the drunken fury
of party spirit are to save "the good name
of the nation, prevent the disease
becoming fatal, and restore to its old
strength the faith of our o'on people IN
their institution" old strength OF
faith and of conduct under the ancient
and historical Presidents of the Demo-
cratic party. And yet CARL ScHuRz
supports HAYES.
The address further says, ave have
already reaped SO great harvest OF dis
aster and shame, that, we repeat, it has
now become the first duty of the Amerl-
can people to establish the moral charac-
ter of the government by p thorough
REFORM. What can we do toward this,
and the pending National election?
Never were the cause of good govern
ment, and the honor of the American
name more Immediately dependent on
the character, ability, and reputation OF
the men to be selected for the highest Of
fees. In view of the grave circum.
stances at present surrounding US,
we declare the country cannot
now afford to have any man
elected to the presidency '0tose
rery name is not conclusive eridence
of the most uncompromising determine
ton of the American people to make
this pure government at once" and yet
CARL SCHURz and the men who act with
him accept a candidate who has no re-
cord in public civil life either of ability,
firmness, or moral purpose, and he and
they propose to bring him to the head of
our affairs in terms of amlty and con.
fidence with the very men which the
address, throughout every line, word and
sentence, denounces as the authors OF
those evils "by which the government
machinery Las become corrupt" so that
"neyer was there cause for keener morti.
tcation, and keenly does it strike every
pstlotic heart" The sddressers affirm
rottenness and corruption in the "gov-
eminent machinery" that very machinery
which defeated BLAINE and BRIsTow
and nominated HAYES, and is IN posses
sion of all the offices and power of the
government which they have made
.reproach' and Humiliation, shame
and spectacle by the distressing cata-
logue of infamies which for several years
have followed one another in rapid sue
ccssion, and yet Mr.. SCHURz and these
gentlemen reformers propose to lead the
Fly into the parlor of the Spider"
The address then, with the most clear