Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-21
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NAV we not pause for q moment and looh
at the other side of the picture. May We
not. nv friends. resolve ourselves into an
investigating committee, into a sort OIL
court2 And NAV we not in a friendly spirit
tonight take the administration OF tnS c
government asst stood OIL the surrender OF
the Republican party in 1885 4th OF March
to Grover Cleveland and ask something l
the stewardship which had preceded inc
change of that administration.
venture to assert that there is not a
merchant in this city, that there is not a
business man to be found anywhere IN
this country, who, if he deemed it proper
to change the management OF his affairs'
who. fhe were determined to turn out
his superintendent and
INSTALL ANOTHER,
would fail to give to that other an inven-
tory of stock and a balancing of his books.
Nav we not therefore ask Of ourselves the
performance of the simple duty oil
going for a few brief moments into the
occupation of making that inventory OF
the stock in hand? that examination OF
the affairs of the country when
existed at the time President
Cleveland assumed the executive office!
Shall we not ask Of the Republican
party. my friends, Waterman tell us oil
the night?"
What about our Navy, which we sur
rendered into your keeping? What about
the Department of Justice, whose admin
istration you have controlled? What
about
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
which has bas been in your hands? What
about the Department Of the Inter
ior, Land Office, Pension Office, OF all OF
which you have had supreme control? The
department ofjustice is q great department,
it is the great law department ofthe great
est government beneath the skies. 1t IS
the department which is devoted to the
enforcement of the law in so far as prose
cutions are required in the courts, and
in so far as the Federal Government
may have any connection with public and
private transactions, in the execution OF
Justice. Where did it 90? Into the hands
of the Republican party after the war. l
say, without the TemOtest fear OF success
ful contradiction here or elsewhere, that
that great department through its manlpu'
latiou and perverSiOn of laws. enacted Tor
no other purpose IN earth than
the control of penal interference with the
affairs of the L. s. States was prostltuted
time after time, election after election to
the destruction of the elective franchises
of the people. Applause. Federal Mar
shals who were appointed under the stat
utes, were distributed throughout the
country for the purpose of
INTIMIDATING THE FREE VOTER,
and controlling what ought to have heen
and was designed to be o free and I'M
trammeled franchise Of the people, and all
this in the interest Of the party which
controlled the commissions of that de-
partment. Aye, more than that, within
the limits of proud little West Virginia.
| need not say by whom, to an extent
which invoked the dismissal of as
many as 2,400 indictments, because
they were not well founded, that depart
ment was debaSed to individual and party
ENDS.
If YOU look right carefully at the cleo
ton returns aier this November election
between Judge RrannOn and Gen. Gott,
YOU will find the name Ofthe gentleman 10
whom these observations owill find appli-
cation
Of the department of war under that same
management | need only in passing say
that troops were diverted from the pur,
poses of their enlistment and the army
which had fought successfully the great
war of the revolution, successfully the
war of lsl2, the Mexican war and
the wag far the Union was TO he seer
| V here il was seen 1t ali, not in tie ranks
and walks of military life, hut standing
uniformal around the ballot box OF a free
people.
What about the Department of State:
We hear something nowadays about
THE CUTTING CASE;
and something about the intimidation of (
poor weak power like Mexico. shall
not occupy time concerning lie maHage
ment Of this great Department further
than To say that under its preceding con
troll it WAS distinguished for two things
The one was an absolute and utte1
disregard Of the rights o.
honest American citizens in foreigr
lands; and the other was its determine
ton to enforce the claims Of ecoHGdrel
everywhere. Taintcd-tle very atmOS
is tainted by the Gdors Of guan0 in every
direction about the capital, and the cOun
try shocked by its capacity to see a poor
helpless, defenSelesS American citizen, lN
ing suffering, wasting unto death, in Il for
cign dungeon. May | not fora moment
without going very extensively into de
tails, read 10 yGu Il part a least oil . lctEe
written by poor old Daniel insolvency,
FROM AN ENGLISH DUNGEON,
To his daughter, as illustrative OF the lat
Republican treatment of a naturalized cit
izen. Writing in a foreign land, he says
NY DEAR MAMIE: You must eXcus'
me for not answering your last Two letter
sooner Since winter has set in | was un'
able, owing to severe cold in this dungeon
to sit still long enough to write even a few
lines. have to keep mOvin!
about continually in my narrow space
to keep from freezing. You mus
know how dreadful it is TO be locked VI
eighteen hours a day in this cold, DAM
climate, without any fire, and, worse still
we are compelled 10 stand or walk aboq
daily for five hours in the open air, IN
damp. muddy yard, ankle deep in water
and then retire to our cold cells, trenholm!
with cold. 1t requires a strong constitu
ton to stand it long / fear many OF on
brave fellows will succumb before tn
winter is over. as J was only se4tenceC
for sixteen months, ! thought at first
might live it out; but you know ! was il
delicate health when arrested, being barely
able to m~OveabOut after a severe attack o
sickness.
"All effortson the part of your mothe
and all our friends failed to discover tn
cause of my arrest. appealed 20 Mr.
Lowell, United States Minister at London
for protection, but he answered that it i
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