Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-21
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II there be any subject upon which
MI men agree 1t is that in all free govern.
msnss thsre must BE- two parties, and to
psrpDtssAe liberty they must alternate
In tbs administration Of public Affairs.
The purest water from the purest foun-
tain by being too long confined will lose
its freshness and purity and become
offensive. Just 80 with a political party
that ID long kept in power. The leaders
become corrupt and claim for themselves
as q matter of right that prercgative
which was bestowed upon them as
matter OF favor.
The Republican party has been in
power for the last twenty years and the
question is now fairly before the Ameri-
can people. has it not served out Its
day OF usefulness? We all know that
il is no small job to overthrow a party
that has been certifying itself for twenty
wears, and which now has more than
one hundred thousand officeholders in
its service who are using their hands,
tongues, heads and money to "hold the
FORT" and keep the party IN power.
1t may not he known to
many honest and patriotic voters
OF the country that the corrupting in
fiuencss OF money are now used by the
Republicans to all in keeping them in
power, but i, is so. A few days ago a
committee OF the leading men OF the
party assembled at New York to provide
WAYS and means to conduct the coming
Presidential campaign and secure, ii
possible, the election OF their ticket, at
which the Hon. JoHy SHERMAN, Secre-
tary of the Treasury, was called on for a
speech, in which he said, "When the
Republicans send money to aid Indiana,
they also do good to the South
ern States" He would give to the
Southern districts they expect to carry
mans and money. He would not waste
money where it would do no good.
Secretary SHERMAN knows the power
of money a. well as any other man, and
particularly among the poor colored
voters Of the South. in accordance
with this advice, the committee passed
resolution that the Southern States
should be assisted wherever they needed
il. Now, between the money and the
soldiers that the party sends to the
Southern States, they may carry lew
votes, but whether an election con-
Quoted in this way should meet the ap-
proval OF the American people l. an
other question.
When the Republican party came in
to power the yearly salary OF the Presi'
dent was S25, 1000; it is now $4,000,
Congressman then got 5000; now they
get 5000, besides the salary grabs,
Credit Mobiliers and DE Golyer fees
that are found all along their pathway.
Not only have the salaries oil most oil the
Federal officers been enlarged but new
Offices have been created and the incum-
bents well provided for. Now under
these circumstances 1t would seem but
fair that the Republican office holders
should from their supersbundence con-
tribute money to aid and animate their
followers at least enough to pay Tor the
whisky.
Hard As il is to take fortress that the
inmates have been fortiiying ior twenty
years, yet the honest and patriotic
voters who want to see our country once
more q Union OF States with HANCOCK
to lead them have undertaken the work
and from the signs OF the times will
accomplish it. II 50, glorious future
awaits the Republic.