The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-07-18
The Political Outlook I'm Taylor
County.

GRAFTON, July 13, 1876.
Editors of the Register.
The postal clerks, other government
officials and Republican Office seekers,
among them an undertaken hereabouts,
has formed a neutrality-suspicious.
and Wheeler club for the purpose OF
keeping all the offices they have got and
getting all the offices they can.
1t is really tauntalizing this warm
weather to see these long .necked lager
beer bellied postal clerks, under the
pressure OF Governor Tilden's nomina-
ton crying reform and rushing around
town in their good clothes like humble
bees trying t. get industrious, laboring
young men to contribute of their time,
their influence and their hard earnings
To retain for them half-work office at
81 200 per annum.
OF course, as "Occasionar says in the
Iateiiigencer, they "feel conscious OF the
rectitude OF their intentions" in their
spasmodic endeavors to keep themselves
from revertiRg to street loafng corner
ariStocracy.
The generosity of the present admins.
tration is truly wonderful in paying
men who could not get No. 3 $50 per
month common school certificate, or q
$40 counter-jumper position, 500 per
month for half time, and then levying q
tax on them for the purpose of electlng
the administration candidate. The
story is here told from reliable source,
that each postal clerk was required to
pay $500 for the purpose Of carrying on
the campaign in Ohio last fall. One OF
them ut this point had the manhood to
refuse the demand, and in short time
thereafter received his walking papers.
Obi the purity of this Republican
party! 1t saved the country from the
fsngs of secession, and it might torture
and destroy it at the stake of centralism
with the firebrsnds of corruption.
"Occasional's" account OF the Demo-
Gratis who had joined the brag club of
centrslism, reminds us of the reckoning
Of his great predecessor, Sir Jack Falstaff,
as to the number of men in Buckram
that attacked him and his party on a GER
tam occasion, when they were engaged
IN highway robbery. But when the truth
came out, there were only TIVE, and they
were renegades from their own ranks.
The Democrats of this county are not
made of such flexible material. They
glory in the names of Tilden and Hen.
! bricks, and will stand by them to man.
They have gope to work quietly and
! peaceably, and will make their presence
! felt this fall. They make no brsgs, but
lave that for Charlie, George and other
store-bcx Radicals TO do. Many voters
who have hitherto been classed with the
Radicals are proud OF the opportunity
afforded them of casting their votes for
! the Crestest statesman and hnancler OF
the age Samuel j. Tilden. They recog-
nize the fact that the war has been over
eleven wears, that its issues are dead, and
that a corrupt herd Of officials are At
tempting to resurrect them again tor the
purpose Of abstracting the public aiten.
| ton from the immense frauds perpetrated
BY them under the cover Of law.
Gov. Hayes vague and unmeasing
letter has had a warmer reception here
among the Democrats than among
the Republicans. 1t is bitter pill
for the latter to swallow, But they shut
their eyes and go it bind. They were
looking for something TO revive their
dropping spirits as they have been inclin'
ed TO melsnc holy ever since the untime-
! IN death of the Hayes baby, which &C.
CURED the nigh; they attempted toraiify
when Mason MeInure and farson
Did sill the little urehins uneouth
yelps,"
And yet they are not satisfied.
The impression prevails here that Gov
Hayes made great mistake in announc'
ing his one term compromise and that the
reason be gave therefore was quite wish
washy. A second term is generally con
sidered a reward for good behavior dur
/ ing the first, and if the prospect for thi:
reward is taken away Hayes will act as
General Grant is now acting, with no re
gard for the wishes of the people or hi:
constituency. but merely TO sueserve hi:
own personal ends Had Mr.. Haye.
waited until the successful close of biz
first term before announcing this deter
mina,ion, he might have made himself
famous thereby, but as it is now it vii
probably contribute to his defeat. 1t
q siur upon the good name OF the govern
meut. for q man Of ability 70 supPos'
that q president can secure . second tern