Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-27
AS TO THE MAILED HAND"

There is little doubt that MATT QUAY
would resort to force to make the next
Congress Republican had he the power.
And there appears to be little doubt that
he thinks he can mold HARRISON to his
will. Wltaess his threat to ''hOld what he
has gained with a mailed hand
Ths Boston Herald, independent, in
speaking Of Mr.. QUAY's mailed hand"
threat, slys:
'Tne attempts of INSCRIPTIONS partisan
ship TO interfere with the composition of
the next Nstionol House OF Representa-
tives have been more Objectionable in the
last fortnight than in any p.riod of the ma
tons bi.tory. They are bad alike in what
they are doing AMI in what they threaten
to do. TIE House of representatives is a
body that is the judgs of the e'ect,on
CT its own msmbers. No other parties
have any right to interfere with its
action here. 1t has laid down its W
rules for action in this case. They
have BEEN agreed to by both par
ties, and especially have they heeu jGst
what the Republican party desired
them to be. Yet we are told now that
these rules ore TO be oyerriddea by q self
constituted partisan tribunal of the most
objection Char,c Ger. The statement is
made that Mr.. NJ. S. QUAY, who is st the
bead Of ths tcibuusl, is to take the cass in
charge, ami in the most offe lsiVe way it is
said thai the mailed hand" of this Mr..
QUAY will be felt. Now, Mr.. QUAY is a
S9nator, not a representative. 1t is most
iudelicate and improper Of all for him to
interfere in such q case. Tee rules of Goa
gress provide that the doir gs cf one branch
Of that body shall not bs evyn referred to
in the other. Nothing c)utd be more oh.
tru.igeIy improper than for a Senator to
attempt to pass upon the composition of
the Houge OF representatives., to say moth
ing OF applying his ''msilei hand" to that
body. Yet this, we are told, Mr. QUAY
is to do.
"Of course, it will not be submitted TO
Bat in 6ec3ncy these man should take
their hands oil, whether their hands be
ca9ed in msil or otherwise. Such talk is,
doubtless, bombast, but it IS mischieyous
bombast. Tae Represent Itiyes-elect come
to Congress certified By designated author
tiles in their respective States; they are
plsc.d urol ths rolls Of Congress under
the laws of that body. If the Republicans
object to the latter, they object to q law OF
thsir owa making. 1t is exactly IS Mr..
MACPHERSON, their clerk, best informed
as to the rules, interpreted it to be, meant
it should be. Congress must be organized
under il, if there is not to be q revolution
Congress will bs organizsd under it. We
make that az q prophecy, because we be
lieys that Congress not only ought to be
organized under it, bat that every good
citizen, rot utterly mad WITH p~sRi:aaship,
will see that there is no safer way of or
ganiziug that body.
I'VE reg-ef to sea another symptom of
a revolutionary tendency on the part of the
New York Tribune, BOston Journal and
other pSpas o! that STAMP. 1t is in the
tHrea. to tarn 3 number Of members out Of
their seats. This number is sometimes
stated 10 be 80 high as to make q change of
twenty or thirty votes. Sach action is q
reproaCh 10 Republican goyerrmcat. Ifit
have any ibflusncs, it is threatening to the
success Of Republican government. 1t is
simply impostible that these papers and
the men they represent eau know that as
man men as these were defrauded
of their seats. They assume the
fact without eviderc, or invsstigs-
ton. They anticipate contests;
they iuciie men to them, whether there be
grounds for snch contests or not, and, if
they a;e made, they promise these men in
advance that such contests shall have the
party support. This, too, is without pre-
csdent. We bslieve that in the earlier days
of tie republic il would have been bsyond
the range of possibility that such action
CO1ld be taken. Most certainly, it would
hsve bsen utterly impossible that q mem.
Der of tie United States Senate could leave
his legitimate functions to invite contested
seats in the House of Representatives, and,
without waiting to inquire into the evi
denes attending them, should propose to
seat the men Of his side with p 'msiled
hap5.'"
The Herald is right in every part cular.
Furthermore thu people of this country
will not submit to any such revolutionary
methods as QUAY with his mailed hand"
proposes.
QUAY has bis sg,nts in this Slate at
this moment whose only object is to create
p~rstexts for contests be'ore tbs H,uss of
Representatives, which QUAY proposes to
seiza with his mailed hand"
The people Of the country are not back Of
QUAY rs he will learn if he attempts any
revolutionary business.
Hon. Joseph sprigg.
RGnGrhI G. =afe.
Hon. Joseph Spri2g, Of Moorefieid, snd
formerly Attorney General, will be a can
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