The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-20

of frauds; public building contracts; lam
grabbing and frauds in III
land office; the illegal sal
of war material by the hundre'
thousand; the effect of a revision of tn
laws in certain interests; the fradulen
conduct of the public printer and tn
impeachment of war secretary for cheat
ing by wholesale the soldier on our Dor
der; the appropriation of public none!
and property for private uses;-Grea
Heaven! is. this not enough
on which to predicate oul
action of nine months2 We only hal
reached the edges of these wrongs. Wha
was sacred from the touch OF the spoiler
Two things surely: Th'
grave stones of the departed
soldiers? No. Even the slabs and blocks
and bids were subjected to the same
scheming. One committee had to find
the contracts for these tombs, unfair, un
Just and in violation of law. Bat surely
the poor freedmen of the south, the color
ed wards OF the nation, they at least were
protected by their dear friends in power
Were they? Read the report of Doug lass
of Virginia. At least one and a quarter
millions were robbed OF these benefciarle'
of the Freedman's Savings Bank. The
bank had all the sanction of charter
and all the glamour of a holy religious
light about its sscred altar. Yet the
spoilers hand spared nothing.
This is civil service reform; this is the
splendid services in peace made more
renowned than war, by the administers
tion whose plaudits are sung by the
Cincinnati platform This is the
perilous system Carl Schurz and hi:
Fifth Avenue reformers started.out TO de-
nounce and reform!
Was there ever such diseased ad
ministration! Surely such gangrenec
party needs quarantine. Surely there /:
a species of rabies abroad Who could
approve solemnly such a service and
in the light of ten years OF such scandal
still speak soothingly of such party
for its own reform in itself.
No wonder the Republicans desire tc
hide their record under cloaks of hy-
pocrisy. No wonder they shake the
cory locks of war; cry out against the
Congress rs Confederate, and
rake up the dead past. The
Bible has it of a certain class, that
"And they took ashes from the burned.
oa fires of war;, and sprinkled it, =
and it became boil breaking forth with
Blaines upon man and beast " >
throughout all the land. d."-EroduS tr.
No wonder they would have us forget
these baines upon man and beast to dis
cuss money and currency and impossible
days OF resumption. As some one has said
the main question is not that of currency,
for any currency is too good for grand
AMI petit larceny. Cheers. No wonder
preparations are made Tor the iron hand
IN the South, that freedom of voting may
be suppressed and new outrages upon the
ballot be perpetrated under the rule OF
force. No wonder that outrages
IN Maunch Chunk and New Mexico,
however shocking, go unpunished, ex'
cept by local authority. while Louisiana,
Mississippi and South Carolina have
orders to Shermon from Don Cameron
and the President. No wonder the right
of local selt-government so dear to Anne.
ricsn people, established by every guar
anty of right and munimcnt of title, is
set aside. to return again to power the
spoilers of local government. Cheers.
No wonder committee, with
Senator Boutwell, at its head
desires to relegate certain States
to territorial homage and con.
dition OF servility. No wonder
that even the blacks have re-
volted, and reach forth to grasp
the friendly hard of the Democ-
racv, against the clenched fist oi
these despoilers and rally for the unity
of the Republic against the maledictions
and mobs of their own color. No Won
der their usurpation of power, violations
OF the constitution, creation Of foligarchies
of ovsrpad otfice-hOlders are discussed
loudly to hush the still small voice
of honest civil service reform. No
wonder that the bloody shirt Is SO viO-
lently shaken; but not so violently that
through its rents the black spots Of Rad
icsl corruption are not rath. Cheers.
What in this emergency WAS the duty
of the people, and of the Democracy?
To select a rcformer in very deed.
That man Is Samuel j. Til.
den. Cheers, He has shown that he
could stop the rising. taxation
and increasing frauds of the State OF
New York. Cheers. Finding
his examplar or his pupil In
the Democratic House, hehas done
for the Empire State what a
Democratic House has done for the coun-
try. No paItry falsehOods about
railroad WRECKS or revenue re.
turns can divert the popular
regard for his real services. Cheers
His ensign is that of the bettor days
OF frugal administration. 1t is not yet
taken from US. Under its sign we con-
quer. That ensign hangs high in the
breeze above deaths pale !sg and corrup-
tions rotten rag.
Mr. Cox closing with rally tOT the
whole ticket and a tribute 10 the honor
able and efficient service of our Congress
nan, Colonel Wilson, then concluded by
an siiusioa TO the doctrines of reconclla-
ton rs the sign Of material and moral
greatness betting our Centen nisl era!
The Minnesota Bank ROBBERS.