Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-25

Dexter; age l2 years. As one tribute o
gratitude in these times this monumen
to the talents and services OF the de
ceased is raised by the Seatinei."
During Andrew Jackson's candidac!
the country was flooded with coffir
handbills representing six dead men, IN
reference 10 the fact that General Jack
son in time Of war had ordered six mi
litiamen to be shot for desertion and hi
was also pictoralized as
Receiving Sceptre from the Devil.
Martin Van Buren was caricatured 81
a rat, Thomas Benton and Amos Can
die as robbers hurling batterin2 ran
against the door OF the United State.
bank. saw last summer in a museum
at Put.in-Bay, newspaper dated 1874
calling Henry Clay libertine, mur
derer, a hypocrite and black-leg. How
much rough treatment on the part o.
the world was suggested by Mr.. Clay
allusion to Kentucky when he said
"She seems to be assailed by all the resi-
OF the world. She interposes her broad
and inpenetrable shield, repelling the
poisoned shafts that were aimed for my
destruction, and vindicated my good
name from every malignant and un'
founded aspersion. Theodore Freling
huysen, the illustrious New Jerseyman
on the same ticket with Henry Clay
was called "vinegar-faced Presbyte'
rian." Although no more genial man
ever lived. Daniel Webster under po.
litical assault and neglect, died of a
broken heart at Marshfield. At his
nomination for the Presidency, the de-
risive cry was
"Who is James K. Polkp"
Although he had boen long while in
the councils OF the nation and Speaker
OF the House OF Representatives. l
tell you now who he was-the
man who added Texas, in some
respects the richest OF all tie st,tes
in the Union, and did more than any
other many in this century to open our
way to the possession of everything
clear 20 the Pacific coast. Yet there were
millions OF people who, during his ad-
ministration, never mentioned his name
without sneer OF contempt. There is
not man in mid.lie who does not re-
member the fact that all the terms OF
obloquy were heaped upon Abraham
Lincoln. The filthy joker, the whole.
sale butcher. the butioon, the gorilla OF
the White House were the gentler and
more refined OF the epithets.
All The Sc Men Have Taken Places in
History,
honorable and radiant. But we are
still at the old business OF base travesty.
We have our dictionaries out hunting
up more terms OF political damnatiOn.
Two men are set up for the candidacy,
both eminent-one in the field, the
other in the councils OF the nation
and both, | believe, good men. Yet
what do hear in regard TO them? Oi
one, am told, he unjustly and gladly
hung Mrs. Surratt, that he is ignorant
OF public affairs; that crossing the
field of battle once with an oath he neg
lected the wounded soldiers; that he
was engaged in an oil swinile; that he
is weak and ambitious for the Presl-
dency and will do anything unprlnci.
pied to gain it; "has bee in his bon
net and so on. and so on, and so on.
1 am Told Of the Other
that he took a counsel fee which he ought
not TO have received; that he took STOCK
in Credit Mobilier, knowing it to be Il
National swindle; and on door.stoops
and on the sides of houses | see written
i'm chalk the amount he is said to have
acquired by the knavery 10 be $500.
Now | would like to gather all the iirst-
class of anathema into one grave, and on
the monument above it would put the
epitaph: "Here rest the family OF Re.
pubncan lies. Rsquiescdt an pace"
And into another grave | would like to
gather the other class OF anathema, and
upon the monument above it | would
put the epitaph: "Here rest the family
of Democratic lies. ReYuiescat IN pace"
Have you any idea that the
SANDER Of Opposing Candidates
will in any way forward your party. l
tell YOU nav. There is something in hui
man nature that puts it in sympathy
with the traduced. Falsehoods rebound
and hurt those who utter them more
than those against whom they are utter
ed. IL had scale delicate enough to
weigh defamation | would tell YOU in
one minute who will be the next Presi-
dent of the United States. | would put
all the scurrility against Hancock on one
side OF the scale and all the scurrllity
against Garfield Or the other side OF the
scale and the man most abused would
be the next President. Ii seems that as
soon as man is put up for office, city,
State or National, he is TO be made the
target. The fact that he is up seems to
be proof positive that he ought to be
brought down. His private life as well
as his public is put under scrutiny, and
all the electric lights turned on, and II
there can be anything that can he twist.
ell into seeming wrong multitudeS oi
people rejoice over it as though they
had discovered a new star or found
new invention.
Libelty Mistaken for License.
And here let me say that some oi the
newspaper presses of the country are
mistaking wild license for liberty. There
are newspapers whose entire business IS
calumny. Their columns are stuffed
with il. Their editorials reek with 1t.
Their reportorial corps are charged To
bring home nothing but putretactlon.
They will pay more for one quill iuIl OF
filth than Tor a hogshead OF healthy pro-
duct. They tip the end OF the city sewers
into their editorial inkstand. They break
fast, and dire, and sup on indecency.
They roll in it, swine in the mire. un'
clean literary wretches. The quill they
write with was plucked neither from a
goose nor from an eagle, but from the
turkey buzzard. Ghouls, Ghouls. The
alleviating fact in regard to all this Is
that they
Make a Recoil in Behalf of Righteous
ness.
There are papers in New York so vile
that their denunciation amounts 10
6rst-class eulogy. l want no better
commendation of public men than that
certain journals assail them. Such
papers, bad enough at other times,
quadruple their wickedness during the
Presidential election. The time will
come when decent people will refuse to
patronizs such newspapers or be seen
with them in hand, and when literary
and political sin does not pay, such pub
lica,ions will cease. Have nothing tC
do, pen, type or tongue, with the detrac
ton of public men. Can it be that you
have so little vision that you cannot
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