The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-04

GraftOn-Deems the Democrat that
Bolts His Ticket this Fall, Crazy
Pc, sOnalIy Acquainted with Nam.
uel j. Tiiden, and Considers Him
the Greatest Reformer OF the Age.
GRAFTON, August 2, 1876.
Editors Of the Register:
Hon. Charles j. Faulkner arrived here
last night, en- route for PhlliIppi. AS
soon as his presence became known, the
Tildon and Hendricks club made imme-
Iiate arrangements to have an address
from him at their club room, and in
very short time had the room denscly
packed with the intelligent voting
population of our town, among whom
were many of the more sociable Re-
puhlicans.
Mr.. Faulkner pressed into servic I,
Made one of the most elective ant
brilliant speeches that it has ever been
our pleasure TO hear, and completely
captlvated his many auditors with his
HISTORIAN eloquence, his thorough knowl-
edge and the fine chastity Of his words,
which tell from his lips like snow flakes
from the clouds.
He compared the undertaking of the
present House Of Congress to the labors
of Hercules, especially TO the one where
in he was compelled to clean out the stalls
of 10000 oxen that had MT been cleansed
for thirty years and which he could only
do by enjoying two great rivers through
them. lie said just rs there was filth in
those stalls SO there is corruptions in
the present administration OF our gov
eminent.
lie stated that in one department Of
the government alone the House had
found employed upwards of 100 UNI
necessary clerks with almost nothing To
do but t. draw their salaries, and that
the Senate after hard fight mad con-
cludcd to allow 767 of these to be dis
pensed with but retained the remainder.
lie said that the House in all their Lf.
forts to reform had met the determined
opposition of the Senate aided and sbet-
ted by the Executive and that the Re-
publican newspapers generally had taken
1t upon themselves to call the House all
manner of hard names and denounCe
them as the "Confederate' Congress, be-
cause they were determined to uproot the
mass of official corruption and fraud
that was destroying the country and
which the Ohio river or nothing that
had been done on It's banks was able to
purify. He compared the present upris-
ing of our indignant and outraged peo-
ple to that which occurred in 1910 when
Van Buren, was ousted from power and
declared That there was no man in the
country SO peculiarly fitted TO head this
movement Ms Samuel j. Tilden, who
had successfully and single,handed
grapplcd with Irweedism and the canal
rings in New York, in the very height Of
their power, and they now, like humble
supplicants, were ready to lick the feet
of their great master.
But it is useless Tor me to attempt to
give definite description of his speech,
II WAS SO replcte with wisdom and learn
ing. Every voter in the state ought TO,
and no doubt will, hear him before the
campaign is over. To be appreciated, he
must be heard. AS a piece of parting
advice, he told the Democrats that they
had powerful enemy to cope with, and
II they would he successful in the contest,
they must, in the words of the great
English fanatic, Oliver Cromwell, not
only ~, their trust in God, but keep
their powder dry and ready for action.
At the conclusion of his address, three
rousing cheers were given for Chas. d.
Faulkner. ELEMEN.