Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-11
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dren have been on the streets, surg
ing to and fro, shouting yelling. screeching,
catching cold and helping on the doctors
who live and thrive on the Multiplying ills
of humanity.
Election Time.
You might as well try to steady ship in
q hurricane as to quiet the average Amer
can citizen at election time. IL we had
elections much oftener this planet would
soon take care Of itself. AS l said in my
last letter, an election every four years for
President hardly gives time for the smoke
to clear. We couldn't see each other IL they
came oftener.
Wise and Unwise.
p ! drilied down Pennsylvania avenue
Thursday night TO send telegram to New
York, and heard, on the way, that the local
Democratic Committee had put mp roosters
and speakers to celebrate the victory. Re-
membering the time when thought po-
litical harangue from dry-goods box was
nothing short Of glory, | stopped to listen
to young man who wIs introduced as
Henry Wise Gawnett son o that ole gran
hero Gov Henry A. Wise-ofole. Fighinny.
The master Of ceremonies, | thought, had q
mouth much too small for the size Of his
tongue jus, Mt that time 1t is needless to
say that the speech was puerile, foolish
one, but fortunately it was after election and
where there is no suffrage.
Some Advice.
found years ago particularly in Western
Maryland, where followed line marked
out for me by the National Democratic
Committee, that no earthly good came o!
dragging personalities into the campaign.
Some mud was flung at mo, and | was fool
enough to catch it instead Of getting out OF
the way like sensible man. iou might
Just as well try to stop bad smell. Its
cheaper and far more agreeable to step
aside. suggest, therefore, to all the am
bilious young men who read me to avoid
personal attention to personal assaults IN
political battles. And have had some ex-
penence on the hustings.
About election time il seems to me the
fool killer emigrates. The incoming ad'
ministration is committed to the most in
sane things, by little jayhawkng politicians
who are not only unauthorized and unfit TO
speak for political party, but wholly in
capable, most of them, of impressing peo'
ple that they are ft to speak for themsel-
YES. 1t is something awful 10 ponder on the
mmensity Of the mighty I'VE" with which
they stagger you and show you that they
are component parts Of the administration
moving onward Every one Of these little
fellows think that he will but have to open
his mouth and the next President will fling
an Office down his throat. To listen 10
them, YOU would think that on the evening
Of March 4, not a solitary man would re-
main in Office.
Gov. Cleveland and Civil Service.
Said an intimate friend Of Gov. Cleve.
land to me: "Mr. Cleveland, as President,
would have most conservative administra-
,ion He would not be consistent with
himself If he had any other know he is
most earnest and unwavering supporter
of civil service reform. He believes in IT,
firmly-iust as much so as ! do, rs Geo
William Curtis or Dorman B. Eaton does
or ms you 80, Selby. Indeed Gov. Cleye;
land is an ideal civil service man. The
very riuciples which underlie all that he
has ever said or done, as a public man
have been, essentially, reformatory in their
oa,ure Public place, With him. is a
public ,rBs,. What does that mean
Ii means that wherever public office is
used for private ends. reforms must be ap'
piled lie believes that honest men are
needed IA the public service That means
reform. surely. Il means, too. that he will
retain, II elected honest men in The service
Of the people.
And then again, Mr.. Cleveland, be as
sured has good memory. He recognizes
very fully what services the Independen,
Republicans rendered during the cam.
paipn. There wilfbe no such thing as pro
scription. He would not even tolerate the
suggestion OF anything ike IL.
This gentleman, an eminent man in New
YORK, knows Mr.. Cleveland perhaps as well
as Col. Lamont knows him, and ] take il
be gives me the Governors belief. Be
sides mans record is worth
something, and Gov ClcYeiand's record is
an evidence OF the faith that is in him.
False Measurements.
We have been. to our shame be II said
fas, drifting away from the standards OF oaI
fathers. We have laid aside the tests which
they used. and estimated men by false
measurements. Character and capacity
have been ignored. talents have been disre
sarded, poverty has been made dnqdalit
cation, aud official place and representative
station have been and are, now, reached
through that most corrupt and corrupting o
all ir,fIuences-the influence Of their pock
e.a This is nothi, = short Of putting q pre-
mium on every species Of yillainy;
debauches and prostitutes place
that should be regarded and hex
ns sacred truth, and il opens she door q
every scoundrel who. wi.hoat hsying tn
qualification TO enter on his merits. has tn
audscity TO buy and barter his way by tn
influence OF bis breeches pocket
So sit With tte nefarious system OF CIV
ing place solely as the reward Of work don
in lie interest Of political party. cal Il ,.
whatever name it may Be known
Isit any wonder, then, that We have see'
so much wrong-doing and corruption an'
srch shameful Inaladninistration Of pobli
affairs? The results cannot but be dissi
troos. They follow. inesitably.
The Front Door,
A government Of the people shoaid b
served by the most fsithfal from the pcopi.
Every oficial place. high and lov, demand
honest, faithful conscientious duty. an
should he regarded as trust fron the pe'
ple to be Lonorably administered, "a
should rever be extended - . tssos TO :
enioycd as srstuity through the grace
| the adomipan. party.
| Eyery man who loves bis cczntry. -
seeks its welfare, should enter 10 ~ q
frout door. "few who enters IN b. the ~
dow. ia Q thief and ro5Ser-
X No disease Win trouble Teu II yca ke
,osr blood purr, your kidnsys siroSg: 70
bosels regular snd yusr mind clear "
: occasional rse Of thsf great resixlf .
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