Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-06
ANENENTFIL WEEK.

week IN matters O pOliIlcS Slice lne
Presidential election Of 1880. 1t is a
contest in which all the States. except
five will participate; and while there
are local offices and local issues involved
in most of the States holding elections,
| the one paramount concern in which
the whole country takes an interest is
that between the two parties for the
! control Of the next House.
TEstimates of the outcome at this time
are labor wasted. 1t needs but very
little patience TO wait until tomorrow
when the people will file substantial
information on which it will be posi-
! bic to base a trustworthy calculation.
1t is not possible to say anything with
certainty just now except that it is
reasonably sure the next House will be
Democratic by good round majority.
| 1t is not only the election of 293 Con-
gressmen that makes the contest to-
morrow one of the, most important in
the history of the country, hut it is
equally important as determining
whether the methods now being EN-
ployed-and especially employed to in
| fluence to-mOrrow's result-shall be able
to dominate in this country as against
the voluntary, unbOught and uncOcrced
vote Of the people in their respective
| States.
To-morrOw's contest is virtually the
people against the power and patronage
! of partisan administration.
This administration and its methods
ought not to prevail in this election.
The best men OF the Republican party
do not want it to succeed. There is no
stronger reasons why it should not sue
coed than that it has prOstituted its
high place and power TO accomplish a
success. Tie entire army OF office hold
ers have been piped to duty, and have
left their posts to aid in partisan tri.
unph. Says the Boston Post:
Eeifcr hurried off to help his lord and
master, Robcson, as soon as his own cleo
tior was secured. Ar thur left his post in
Washington and proceeded to New York,
where lac is now engaged, with his old gang
OF strikers hcciers, ballot box suffers,
forgers and traders in trying to carry the
city for his Secretary OF the Treasury, u
man nominated by the forgery OF one Of
his hcnchmcn. Hubbell is making a final
tour through the Departments and threat
ening with dismissal every man who re-
fuses h. contribute. The Secretary of the
SSss,xy 49, GaIRGalSp.2 o. .SpISA2:
The Attorney General has just left Penn
>ylvuuia after a stuMplng tour for the
machine. The Assistant Postmaster Gen
crll has LETT for the West, where he will at
tend TO tine canvass in Iowa and Indiana.
The Secretary OF the Interior is devoting his
time ami energy to the coming Colorado
election. The whole force of the Govern
ment, aided by the thieves who have grown
fat on the corruption and extravaganza of
GrantiSm, HaycsiSm and Arthurism, is en-
gagged Just now in a desperate effort to hold
on another year. Money, the time of the
Government, threats of dismissal and ap-
pealS to prejudice are freely used to keep
the grand old party from going to diSsolu-
ton. The stump orators and the news
papers lenounce political assessments and |
the proS,ration OF the public service to
partisan ends and advantages, while Hub |
bell Malone and other sharks prey upon
the pockets of the clerks, scrub-wOmen and |
porters of the public service, and the men
who howl the loudest against them eagerly |
grab the dollars anu use them them to pro-
mote their own political chances.
The people have grown tired of such
scenes of CORRUPTION and hypocrisy. And |
the people are in rebellion. From the
Western Reserve in Ohio to New Hamp-
Shire's northern boundary the revolt is
spreading. New York and Pennsylvania
Connecticut and Massachusetts, are up in
arms. The men who have made reform
necessary, the men who have followed in
the footsteps of Belknap, Babcock, Shep- |
herd, Colfax, Brady, Dorsey and their ilk,
are asking for a new lease of political life.
They promise reform; they promised this
in lS-6, after the tidal wave which stranded
GrantiSm; they promised it in 1873 after
they had stolen the Presidency; they
promised it in 1850, after they had
led the people to believe that the
election of the Democratic party
would PROSTATE industry; they promise it
in lSS2 after refusing TO reduce the sur
plus, after the great strikes IN PennsylvA-
MIA anu Ohio, after the passage Of the river |
and harbor steal, the pension and public |
buildings grabs, and the RObeson-Roach- |
Chandler naval swindle. Every promise !
made mas been broken, and yet these men |
step up with their customary eifrontery |
and ask that their new pledges OF good be- |
havior be accepted, without any guarantee
or security that they will be redeemed. Mr.. |
Robson and Mr.. Keifer if the next House |
have Republican majority, will resume
their leadership OF the party. Does any
body expect any reform, any retrenchment, |
or any legislation for the good of the people |
with these men to control.
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