The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-21

Whom the Democracy Love to
HonOr-A Specimen Of what
May be Expected il the Party
Succeeds TO Power in The Gov
crnment.
From the n. Y. Thbuuc.l
The Democratic party chooses for the
Government places in it's gift men whose
venom is proof against kindness, who can
not forget to hate, and who in cold blood
and with forethought and delibcration
glory in the work Of murder and give
posthumous honor to an ASSASSIN. Here
was one, man in all the south-let us
hope, in the name OF humanity there was
but one such-who three years ago, in
1872 or 3, the war having been seven
years closed, the men who forsook the Gov
ernment and took up arms against it
having been pardoned and restored to
the privileges they had forfeited, and an
era Of reconciliation been opencd-who at
such time and under such circumstances
gave TO his own helpless child a name for
that child to bear through all its future
life, and bearing it to show to all the
world its fathers undying hatred for q
Government that had pardoned him, his
Kissing malignity TO the memory Of q
great and tender-hearted man, who had
nsyer harmed him, and his reverence for
an assassin whose name only survives by
its infamy. Think OF it for moment? ?
What kind Of a man must he bc who
dowers his Just born child with the
name OF John Wilkes Booth? Does it
in the coolest OF cold blood, with deliber-
alton and not upon impulse. Seven years
after the commission OF the murder which
sent thrill OF horror through all the
South as well as through the North; q
murder so horrible that in the very white
heat of the war, when the passions oi
men were at their angrieSt pitch, no de-
cent man anywhere did other than de-
nounce it as most infamous crime-this
man calmly fastens on his own poor help
less infant the murdercr's name. This
was not idiocy; though it seems incredi.
BILE that it should be done by person Of
ordinary intellect and intelligence. II
was Just dull brutality; beastly cruelty.
The man who could approve Of the as
sassination OF Mr.. Lincoln would be just
such monster as to curse his own flesh
and blood with such christening aud
make his child the instrument for carry.
ing over to the next generation the badge
Of his fathers shame. Poor child, to be
thus fathered and thus handicapped for
life.
And now, there being such man, such
q patriot, such citizen, and such a
father, where do we find him? Ask Mr..
Morrison, Chairman Of Ways and Means,
leader Of the Democratic party in Com
gress. He found him and appointed him
clerk OF his Committee, where he draws
pay from the Government he so Loyalty
supports. Ask Mr.. Michael c. Kerr, the
Democratic Speaker of ..thc House, who
made Mr.. Morrison leader Of the House
and gave him the opportunity to appoint
this man. Ask the Democratic party,
which elected Mr.. Kerr and Mr.. Nor
rison, and which is responsible for their
acts and for the appointment OF this rep.
resentative Democrat, Who Is this man,
who within three years has recorded at
the baptismal font over the head OF his
infant son his reverent regard for Prcsi-
dent Lincoln's assassin? Is he Of the sort
that the Democratic party chooses out
tor its honors and emoluments? Is
this what we are voting TO bring in
when we aid in securing Democratic
victory? II so let US know it and have a
fair understanding. Wehave held the Re-
publican party responsible for its ap-
pointments; We do the same with the
Democrats. This man is not Mr.. Morri-
sons or Mr.. Kerr's exclusively. He is
the party's. It.must carry him. He is
not conspicuous, to be sure. He is only
clerk OF committee. But there is not
any place obscure enough Il shelter
such a man where he can draw govern
ment pay. He affronts justice; he shocks
common decency. The man who applauds
assassination would be an assassin himself
If he dared. There is no fitness, no pro-
priety, no sense in his being anywhere
where the eye OF self-respecting citizen
may light on him, much less in any pub
lie place where the nations gorge rises Mt
sight or sound Of him.
Mr.. Morrison, neither you nor your
Speaker nor your party can afford to ap-
point to office n man who seven years
after Mr.. Lincoln's murder chiStened his
own son with the mprderer,s name.