The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07

large per cent OF item resulting IRON
drunkenness and tho liquor traffic. The
capital OF the nation should be iree.
from this reproaeh by the enactment oil
stringent restrictions and Limitations
upon the traffic.
TO PROTECT RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.
In renewing tho recommendation
which have made in three preceding
annual messages that Congress should
legislate for the protection OF railroad
employees against the dangers incident
to the old and inadequate methods Of
braking and coupling, which are stu
in use upon freight trains, do so with
the hope that this Congress may take
action upon the subject Statistics fur
nished by the inter state commerce
commission show that during the year
ending juno 80, 1891, there were AZ diff
ferent styles OF car couplers reported to
be in use, and that during the same
period there Were 2, 660employees killed
and 20, l40 injured. Nearly l6 per cent
of the deaths occurred in the coupling
and uncoupling Of cars. and over SO per
cent OF the injuries had the same origin
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
The civil service commission ask for
an increased appropriation for needed
clerical assistance, which think should
be given. extended the classified SER
vice March /, 1892, to include physl'
clans, superintendents, assistant super
intendents, school teachers and matrons
in tho Indian service, and have had I'M
der consideration the subject OF some
further extensions, but have not as yet
fully determined the lines upon which
extensions can DO most properly and
usefully made.
HONEST ELECTIONS.
have, in each Of the three annual
messages which it has been my duty to
submit to Congress, called attention to
the evils and dangers connected with
our election methods and practices as
they are related 10 the choice Of officers
Of the national government. In my
last annual message ! endeavored to in.
woke serious attention to the evils OF
unfair appointments for Congress. l
cannot close this message without again
calling attention TO these grave and
threatening evils. Ihad hoped that it
was possible to secure a non-partisan
inquiry, by means Of commission into
the evils, the existence OF which is
known to all, and that out OF this might
grow legislation from which all thought
Of partisan advantage should be elimi-
mated, and only the higher thought APP
pear OF maintaining tho freedom and
purity Of the ballot and the equality OF
the electors, without tho guaranty OF
which the government could never
have been formed, and without
the continuance OF which it cannot
continue to exist in peace and
prosperity. II is time that mutual
charges OF unfairness and fraud be-
tween the great parties should cease
and that the sincerity OF those who pro-
TESS desire for fair and honest cleo
tons should be brought to the test OF
their willingness to free our legislation
and our election methods from any
thing that tends TO the public con-
fidence in the announced result. The
necessity for legislation by Congress on
the subject is emphasized by the fact
that the tendency Of the legislation in
some states in recent years has in some
important particulars been away from
and not toward free and fair elections
and equal apportionments. Is 1t not
time that we should come together on
the high plane OF patriotism while We
devise methods that shall secure the
right OF every man qualified by law to
cast free ballot, and give to every such
ballot an equal value in choosing our
public officers, and in directing tho pol
icy OF the government?