The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-16
GOOD MEN OF ALL PARrlEs
MUST BAND TOGETHER"

within the ranks of their party, have
often felt, and have often said that it was
time tor .'good men of all partiesto band
together" in order to save the Republic
from utter disgrace and ruin. And in
sympathy with this lsudable SEN
timent General G. d. WEBSTER,
United States Collector at Chicago,
wrote to Major BLUFoRD WILSON on the
10th of December, 1876, as follows: at
looks as il the time is coming when all
good men of all parties must band
together against the rascals, as the only
wsy in which the country can be saved,
but we shall soon see. Write me few
words of truth and soberness."
Gen. WEBsTER, who has since died.
knew something of the Vaccinations OF
the official thieves of his district. He
was one of the few honest ofiiceholders
under GRANT, and he felt, in view of
his surroundings, as an honest man
should feel. He was writing to Solicitor
WILSON, another man who has proved
his honesty and fidelity to the people,
and because he was honest and faithful
was compelled to vacate his responsible
office.
If Gen. WEBsTERs words we're true
then, they are doubly so now. Tho
amount of unimpeached and undenied
evidence of frauds has been piled up
mountain high. A Cabinet officer has
been lmpesched, and has confessed his
crimes, and IN the face of that confession,
backed up by abundant proof the Re
publican Senate has pronounced him
"not guilty" The frauds and
stealings in the War De-
partment in connection with
the post tradersbips and other matters. to
the shame of the nation, be it said, have
been traced 10 the door Of the White
Heuse. The department of justice"
so-cslled, has been prostituted to the
bases: of purposes, and to the enforce
men. of most unjust edicts. Nay, more,
by the direction of the President him
self, thirty.four thousand dollars was un-
lawfully paid to JOHN l. DAVENPORT, of
New York, and by him used to promote
the election of GRANT, and to secure
the success of the Republican party. Ex-
Solicitor Wilson'S sworn testimony and
documents which be has produced,
demonstrate the guilt of BABCocK in
the whisky frauds. BABCoCK is in
dicted for completely in the HARRING.
TON safe robbery, and yet he holds two
offices under the government, and is
said to be as powerful at the White
House as ever. In the Navy Depart
ment hundred millions Of dollars has
been thrown away within eight years.
That sum of money, after searching in
vestigation by authorized committees,
cannot be accounted for. robson still
holos the place of a Cabinet Minister, and
Is high in the conncils of the Republican
party.
BRIsTow took up the work of reform
in behalf of the people, but instead of be-
ing upheld and honored by his party for
his championship in that direction, he
was discarded by the Republican Ma
tionsl Convention, and then driven from
the Cabinet. But that is not all. Every
known friend and sympathizer in
every department of the govern
ment was likewise presented with his
papers of discharge. The country
was openly and boldly informed that not
a single vestige of Bristowism was to re-
main ia public office. And why! Sim
ply because he bad taken steps to expose
thieves in high offices, and had brought
some of them to justice and to punish
ment. CAMERON kicked out OF LINCOLN's
cabinet for dishonesty, still occupies in
the United States Senate the place
from which SUMNER was driven IN
order that he might be promoted
and honored. The son of this man is
the Minister of War. CHANDLER runs
the Interior Department under this
odious administration, and at the same
time runs the National campaign for
HAYES and WHEELER! And this is the
party which asks for a continuance OF
power-a new lease to continue the frauds
and stealing, pile up the taxes, In
crease the Federal offices, add to the bur-
dens of the people and disgrace our
name abroad. Well might Gen. WEB
srER ssy-"lt looks as if the time was
coming when all good men Of all parties
must band together against the rascals'
as the only way in which the country
can be saved" That time has come now,
and the opportunity is given to unite on
the St. Louis platform, in support of
SAMUEL j. TILDEN and THOMAS A.
HENDRICKS.
GEN. John II. NEIL, of Indiana, Is
getting up one of the biggest things ever
known in political campaign in that
state or any other. 1t is q Democratic
Iar.a scala Tho