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

THE MAN WE WANT.
So mixed are public questions and so
divided are parties among themselves on
the currency. tariff and internal improve
ments, we think that there is good reason
to believe tina. the next Presidential cleo
ton will be largely made to turn upon
personal considerations. Platforms do
not amount to much, for the people have
come to regard the resolutions and
pledges Of party conventions as worth
very little more than the paper they are
written on. The people will judge the
sincerity of the party more by the char
acter Of its nominee than they
will by its written promises, and
they will hail the nomination of one
honest, unpledged and unembarrassed
man by either party as token of honest
effort to redeem politics from the hand of
traders, and restoration of the republic. If
one party should put up party hack
and the other party sound, good man,
untainted by political associations, 1t is
our opinion that the people, irrespective
of party ties and in the spirit of the Cen
tennisl year, will rise in their majesty
and take the honest man to be- their Pres
ident.
The INSTRUMENTATION of the Repub-
lican party, and the corruption IN its
ranks, now exposed to the public gaze'
very naturally creates distrust on the
part Of the honest masses who do not
look for the needed reform in that
direction. The politicians of that party
see necessity for dropping their NOR
TONS, CoNKLINGs, BLAINEs and leaders
of that class. Their papers are talking
in way about GRANTIsM as if he was
none of theirs, and as if they had not
taken him up and blown into his nostrils
their own impure breath, which through
him and his administration has humiliat.
cd US as nation.
Now is the opportunity ofthe Demo-
cratic party, If it only has the wisdom to
embrace it. At no timo'since the sceptre
passed from its hands, sixteen years ago,
has ITS prospects been brighter, and at no
time have those of its opponents been
darker. The war sentiment has given
way to an earnest desire for reform. We
have young voting population coming
upon us, to whom the war is simply
tradition. The negro rs an essential
factor IN the political element has been
eliminated. He has revolted against
the rnle of the carpet Dagger
and the North can never be enthusiastic
again over the elevation of the freedman
and that prop is knocked out from the
Republican temple.
The era Of cant and mock philanthro-
ply has passed away. The white man
in the North is to-day in worse con-
dition than the black man in the South
ever was, and he sees that the CONNER
cial ruin, the result of fifteen yeas of
Republican ascendency, has brought him
to it. The whole country feels that it
has been cheated and swindled by tho
party in power. and hence the op-
portunity of the Democratic par
ty. We cannot draw by pledges
and resolutions promising reform
and at the same time putting for
ward men whose history and character
would contrsdic: our assertions.
Our nominee must have ability, pa
triotism so broad as to know no sections.
and q record that cannot be touched
We have such men, and men too whose
labors in behalf of their party deserve
recognition. We could name dozens Of
them, but among them all we know of
no one who would more fully come up |
to the true STANDARD than ALLEN q. |
THURMAN. He is essentislially q grea,
and pure man. He may have views |
upon questions Oh public policy that do |
not entirely accord with those of |
some wings Of his own party. |
But all, friend and foe alike, must con. |
oede his honesty, his ability and his |
patriotism. He man above all others |
NJ our public men who represents the
idea Of an honest patriotic and pure
statesman. His election would put an !
end to this miserable commerce Of offices !
which is the bane of public virtue. For
these reasons we believe that TRUMAN
uldsweepthe country against any nom.
ination that the opposition might make
We believe success sttaiaa able with BAY
ARD, HxSDRIcKs or ESaLIsH, or any |
81 those prominently mentioned in con.
nection with the Democratic nomIna.
ton, unless il might be TILpEx. This
latter gsntleman's reform Efforts are
but like BRIsrow's they
,ome little too late to have exactly the