The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-23

against the people OF this country
And, gentlemen, have we not discharg,
ed our duty as the grand inquest OF
this nation? Have We not exposed the
rottenness and corruption Of the party
in power? Have we not brought GRIM
inals to justice? Have we not laid the
foundation OF grand reform move
ment in the Government OF this coun-
try, and which under the auspices OF
the Democratic party, will restore us
again to the frugality, simplicity and
honesty of the ancient Democratic days
of this Republic. ;.
Gentlemen, in selecting our candi-
date for the Presidency, we have shown
/ the honesty and sincerity OF our pur-
pose of reform. Samuel j. Tilden is
undoubtedly both an able and an
honest man. But We have thousands
of men in the Democratic party as able
and honest as he is. We selected HIM
! because he has shown by his past his
tory that he is not only Jealous and
sincere friend of reform, but that he
possesses, in perhaps more eminent
degree than any other man III the
country, combination OF those quail
ties which fit man to be REFoRMER
OF NATIONAL ABUSES. He is man OF in
tense energy, OF sleepless industry, OF
great thoroughness OF character, OF in
domitable will and OF intleXible courage.
He has already exhibited all these
qualities in his gigantic struggles with
those hydra-headed monsters of cor
| ruption which hehas so successfully en-
countered both in the city and state OF
New York. These are all qualities es-
sential to a refOrmer. They are
qualities that have been nowhere
manifested in the personal and political
acts of Gov. Hayes, but which have
been most signally illustrated in the
life and history OF SamuelJ. Tilden. In
his reforms, he has had to drag down
men of his own party, and this he has
done without quailing or remorse, re-
garding the welfare Of the country us
paramount to to the claims OF personal
or political association.
1t is admitted that during the first
wear of Gov. Tilden's administration,
the expenses OF that State government
have been reduced from Sl6,OO0,OOO
down to SS,0O0,000. 1t is claimed by
the Republican party that the merit OF
this reduction is due to a Republican
Legislature, not to the Executive.
! This is doubtless to great extent true;
but it may be well questioned whether
any such good fruit could ever have
been gathered from Republican Leg
islature if Samuel j. Tilden had not
occupied the executive chair, and kept
vigilant control over its proceedings.
One fact admits of no question: the
reduction of State expenditures to one
half never before occurred i'll that
State, and only occurred while Samuel
J. Tilden was the chief executive officer
of that State.
Gentlemen, ii Samuel J. Tilden is
elected President of the United States,
and the Democratic party thus gains
possession OF the executive depart
ments OF the Government, there
will be field OF nvesti-
eating labor presented, such us has
never before occurred in this country.
During the last winter, we were COM
PEELED literally to grOpe in the dark.
All the books and records of the eXecu-
tive department were sealed volumes
to us, unless some specific facts were
brought to our attention, upon which
the records OF the Government might
throw some light. Occasionally Il con-
sciencc-strickcn sinner, writhing under
the burdens of the frauds and COrrup-
tons in which ne had participated, or
Of which he had had some knowledge,
would give particular clue to our in
quiries; upon this We would max
call for information, and We would pur-
sue it to a successful result; but the
great volume OF crime is yet sealed to
the popular eye, and will never be
known until the Democratic party has
full possession of the books and records
OF the Government.
Gentlemen, the prospects now before
the friends OF reform and honest GOV
eminent, are bright and encouraging.
We know our own State 10 he safe,
Notwithstanding the oracular boasts OF
President Grant ut Long Branch, and
the laughable calculations OF the Ma
tional Republican Executive Com
mittec at Washington. Yes, West
Virginia is safe; federal money
cannot buy us; federal bayoncts
cannot ovcrawe us. The boys
of the mountain will always be freq
This,is the motto Of our young, proud
and growing State, and with that mot
to boldly and broadly inscribed upon
her banner, we are determined to live,
and, if need be, determined to die. The
Southern States are all safe; nothwith-
standing the tread Of armed battaIlOnS,
and the array OF bristling bayonets
upon that outraged soil. These mill
tary preparations designed to overawc
and intimidate the white population OF
the South, will fail Of their intended
purpose. Whatever may be their
wishes, no President or Secretary Of
War will dare at this day to attempt
to suppress freedom of speech or freedom
of suffrage by military violence. The
people of this country have not yet
grown to be such towards and psltroOns
as to tolerate despoLism So rank as that.
Vermont and Maine have leaped up t"
the full height of their warlike loyalty,
and Blaine has been emnently success
full in Haunting the bloody shirt in the
only two New England States where, it
is SAID this uaholy and unpatriotic pop
ular superstition still sways the public
mind Ohio we believe to be safe, not
wthstanding the recent certificate ex-
torted from Carl Schurz TO the contrary.
How are the mighty fallen and the great.
But few years ag" Schurz wss power
in this land, when he stood forth the in
trepld champion of reform and honest
government; and then his liberty-loving
countrymen respected and h"nored him.
But he has sunk into driveller ard
sophist since he has become the avowed
spologist of corruptionists, and his voice,
once powerful, now strikes the ears of
his countrymen as the idle wind which
they regard not We are indebted to
Gen. Fitzpatrick, in the letter addressed
t. Gov. Hayes, for the agreeable infor-
nation that Indiana cannot be relied
upon for the Republican party at the sP
preaching election. The General is
| RIGHT in his frank disclosures and we