Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-02-01
RANDALL AND THE NEW SOUTH.
His Trip to Alabama Magnificent
Advertisement for That
State.
STUDYING GEOLOGICAL MAPS.
The Coal Product of the Southern
Pennsylvania.
Sp.c,nI carre.penaeso. ofMs Regi.ler.

WASHINGTON, January 8l.-l find thai
here in Washington many Of those who
have abused place and outraged the decen'
cy due public office look for civil service ID
cover them at the bar ofjustice as the noun
tains are expected to cover the wicked on
the last day, They hope to be regarded al
sincere for being double-faced, thinking
that pretences and professions for the future
will make up for the deriictions Of the past
for shirking duty, neglecting trusts, out
raging Justice and trsmpling upon virtue,
for having cheated the Government aad
pIundered .he public treasury. Such as
these are now paying their homage to the
principles of reform by outwardly sympa-
thizing with them; but they cannot fail be-
ing Justly dealt with any more than virtue
can fail of its reward.
Alas, Poor Yorfek.
They were the iibe7s and testers Of the
late contest, the authors Of campaign poetry
and prose, the accessories who sweled the
voice of scandal, whose unlicensed language
was that of abuse, the prosecutors and pros
ecutors of faithful public Servants whose
quiet fideIity to duty made them suspects"
and doubtful supporters Of the party"
With them public place was no longer the
post of honor, and wrong doirg had ac-
ouired q legal establishment, as it We're.
No wonder they sOVght to defeat one whom
they had cause TO know would be q stern
and incorruNible censor and would de-
away with all mischief and sottisAness In
public Office and recognize the eternal dis
tinctioas of mossl good and evil.
Anti-RefoTmers.
Having no, deserts of their own to- de-
pend upon, they hoped TO perpetuate the
spoils system, which has done so much to
debase the minds of the people. They de-
manded patronage, and chained party SYM
pathy by their worthlessaesS, and its help
by their destitution. They opposed all
civil service reform, and sought to indem-
Nifty themselves by questioning the pro
priety' of such thing.
And these were the prospective monopo-
lists OF the offices. These were the fellows
who took freedom with the name, the char
acter and the reputation OF candidate,
nominated for the highest civic honors Of
she world, upon an uunblotted record of work
done solely from lofty sense Of the sacred
HeSs of public trusts.
Randall and the New Soath.
Mr.. Randalrs Southern t-ip, particularly
his visit to Alabama has resulted in much
good to that section.
Said gentleman from. Birmingham to
me to-day: "Mr. Randall ha9 got all our
ysung men studying the geography of the
State / have come up to- get geological
survey maps find here very great in
terest in our undeveloped oos! and iron
lands. The fact is we Of Alabama didn't
know what we had in the hollow OF cur
hands, what marvellous resources what in.
exhaustible supplies of coal and iron, until
within very recent period.
you say that Mr.. Randalls,visit to your
State has done you good. How
1T has in many ways. In tbe first place,
owing to the prominence Of our visitor, the
public eve followed him in his journey
through the South. Wherever he went the
public followed, and when he came to see
our coal and iron resources why, of
course the result was that the country
gave us its attention, and when Nh Randall
said, in a public speech, that Birmingham
was, at no distant day, sure to be q center
of vast interest in coal and'iron, and that
the Alabama OF the South will vie with
Pennsylvania of the North, we gcs the big
gest kind of an advertisement" "Do you
people like RandallY' 1--WE have always
admired him, and Alabama has she warm
est feeling in the world for him His pub
lie life we hold up as a model to our young
men, for its integrity unshaken fidelity
to public trust He 10 we think, an ideal
statesman, combining 30 much
of the present with 30 much that marked
the great men oE the past. In his pro-
gressiveness, he is O. to-day, ia bis policy of
government he keeps alive the conserva-
tism, the maxims and the wisdom of Jeffer-
son. Mr.. Randall with the exception Of
Samuel J. Tilden, is the naster-mind, the
most national man, the wiseSt statesman Of
the Democratic party.
NIcAdON-
Going southwark, Mr.. Randall was &C
companied by Congressman McAdoo of
New Jersey, perhaps the brightest young
man in the House of Representatives with
much Of the force and intellect Of ex-
Congressman Walsh, OF Maryland, the
ablest man at the bar Of that
State, by all. odds. Born in Ireland thirty
one years ago, this young man by the gal
lantry of his intellect, and the power within
him, has fully risen to national distinction,
and before the close OF his first term in
Congress, is recognized as a strong man
every way.
Alabama. within the last ten years, has
increased in population per cent. more
than Kentucky, per cent. more than Mary
land, and 5 per cent. more than Illinois. 1t
has now a population Of nearly million
and 8 hall. Its taxable property
as assessed is. real; S9l, ,969,834;
personal, $65, ,2S0,496. In 1882,
it produced Of bituminous coal alone, $780,
900 tons. In 1888, it went to nearly 2,O0O,-
900, West Virginias production for that
year. Pennsylvania went up to $4,000, 900.
But the Alabama people didn't then known
what the State had hidden in its bosom.