The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-22

which he will select. There is the cur.
rency question, and that specie resump
ton act of q Radical Congress, passed
under gag and at midnight-an act
which unsettled values and paralyzed
all business to be considered
There are presented the frauds and
corruptions exposed in the late session oil
Congress, revealing chapter of a most
vicious and corrupt administration with
out a parallel. There were also the ex-
travagance in managing our public
affairs in which fat offices were created
and given 10 favorites, and one hundred
million of acres of the public domain, the
inheritance of the poor man and the
settler, had been given away. There
was the infamous Southern recon-
struction policy of the administration
and the recent oppressive order from
the War Department, made to estab-
lish terrorism in that section
and designed to array blacks and whites
against each other, and instigate the per
secution of negroes desirous 10 get away
from carpet bag rule and vote the DEM
cratic ticket. There was the US. bond
question IN which the debt Of the coun-
try had been increased by demo e.izing
silver and forcing ''the bonds of the
country to be paid in gold, thereby con-
verting the debt from foreign
to domestic one, and draining
the country of $lOO,OOO,OOo OF
gold annually, this being in
itself decided obstacle to
the same specie resumption Of which so
much is said. All these topics would
occupy the whole time OF any speaker,
and on such topics he usually addressed
his hearers at his speeches. He proposed,
however to touch none of these. He on
ly proposed to examine and solve the
question (which of the two great parties
now struggling Tor supremacy can best
be relied upon if elected to power, to
cary out Reform and an Honest Govern
ment?" He believed that one
point in which a reliable people agree
is that there ShaA be Reform. The
enormous expenditures of money, the in
tolerable burdens of taxation, the revolt
ing exposures of official crimes made, not
only in this, but in past Congresses: the
Credit Mobler Ring, the Sanborn con-
tracts; the Infamous salary grab; the
Custom House, Postofiice and Indian
frauds formerly developed, are so
thoroughly understood, that the people
demand there shall be a change of
Administration, and there shall be Re-
form to preserve our free institutions.
Now, the Radicals also prate about Re-
form. But can such men ss Butler,
Blaine, Sanborn, Cameron or Conkling
ever give reform? The idea was an sb-
surd mockery, the mere mention of which
was sufficient To excite scOrn and laughter.
Yet the Radicals had the impudence
to boldly assert that they will
give Reform in their party that
they will purge it, and au-
daciously ask for renewed con-
fidence in them. Can such promises be
believed? Can any confidence be placed
in such promises? Reform and honest
government means purification of the
Government, a restoration of prosperity
and a revival of trade, peace and the
DTpstTNdllOU VI pul liSbiIubiOis. Nhh
the Radical party deceive the public in
regard to this when its record lies open
TO she world? The thing is impossible
and so palpable is it that any man who
can be neutral, or any
Democrat who can be induced
to vote against his party on such an Is
sue, must be out of his mind. 1t re-
minded him of
A STORY
he heard of Old Zachariah Robins
Zach was witness in the case OF jim
Smith, OF Iazoo county, Mississippi,
charged with murder. His counsel
plead insanity. Zach gave decided evl-
dence in favor of the insanity of the
prisoner. He was asked why he believed
him insane? The answer was that
"Jim had been born Democrat;
he had always voted the DEM
ocratic ticket; but at the last election
he had Topped over and voted with the
opposition, and any Democrat who could,
under the circumstances then existing
vote agin his party, must be out OF his
mind" lacks logic was convincing
and Jim was acquitted. SO 1t was al
present. Any Democrat who could be
induced at this time to vote agin his
ticket was "out of his mind" Laughter
and applause. The Radical cry OF
reform at this time was like the desperate
cry of the robber who saw his robberles
about to be taken from him, or like the
thief, who, to divert attention from him.
self, was the loudest to cry "stop thief.
For sixteen years the Republicans have
been in power. What act OF retrench
ment or reform of theirs can be pointed
to? There is their record for the last ten
years.
WHAT DOES 1T sHowH
Five thousand millions collected
by the people in taxation
extravasant expenditures, high Off
cial salaries, the National debt
virtually increased. That was all. Not
one single act of economy, retrenchment
or reform could be pointed out. let,
though the party has been in power six.
teen years, and this was its record, 1t hsd
the astounding audaclty 10 SPEAK aoou
Reform. The country cannot he deceived
by such electioneeriDg CANNON.
The speaker thus continued at length
striking sIedge hammer licks IL
dignifed and impressive man
ner. lie said that the RadIca
party could not reform If it would, anc
would not if it could" This was proveC
by the Iact that when Congress assem-
bled, last December, estimates were
made tor the expenditure OF the coming
year, and An addition Of twenty-five
million dollars more than that of th'
previous year was asked for. DID THAI
Look LIKE REFORM? Yet, though the
Radicals had asked tor this enor'
nous amount of money, the Demo
cratic House, in nine months
had, without injury 10 the pub
lie service, reduced expenditures $40,
OOO. 900 below the estimate, aud S65,
OOO, 1000 less than what was asked for q
the beginning of the session. This Il
what a Democratic House had done des
pite the bitter opposition Of Radica
President and Radical Senate. Their,
can be no reform without a change OF tn,