Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-07

Dhe 90 averted. This nation is about
to 60 to the oSllot-box to exercise the
right OF suffrage, and / propose to set
before you the evils that threaten to
destroy the American Government, and
10 annihilate American institutions,
and II God will help me / will show you
before / get through the mode in
which each and every one may do
something to arrest that appalling ca
lamity. Aud l shall plough up the
whole field.
The first evil that threatens the ami
hilatiOn OF our American institutions is
the fact that political bribery which
once was considered a crime, has by
many come to be considered tOlerable
virtue. There is a legitimate use of
money in elections, in the printing OF
political contract, and in hiring OF pub
lie halls, and in the obtaining of cam
paign oratory; but is there any homun-
culuS who SupDoses that this vast
amount OF money now being raised by
the political parties is going in q leglti-
mate direction? The vast majority OF
il will go TO buy votes
HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS
OF men will have set before them so
much money for a Republican vote and
so much money Tor Democratic vote,
and the superior financial inducement
will decide the action. You want to
know which party will carry the
doubtful states day after tomorrow?
will tell you. The party that spends
the most money. This moment, while
I speak, the peddlers carrying gold
from Wall street, gold from Third
street, gold from State street, and gold
from the Brewers Association, are in
all the political headquarters OF the
doubtful states, dealing out the in1a-
nous inducement.
There used TO be bribery, but it held
its head in shame. 1t was under the
utmost secrecy that many years ago a
railroad company bought up the Wis
cousin Legislature and many other pub
lie officials in that State. The Gov
ernor OF the State at that time received
$50, GOO for his signature. His private
secretary received $1,000. Thirteen
members of the Senate received $780,
600 among them in bonds. Sixty men,
bers of the other House received from
S, 900 to $4,000 each. The Lieu
tenant Governor received Sl0,-
600. The clerks Of the
House received from So, 1000 TO SO, 900
each. The Bank Comptroller received
$40, coo. Two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars were divided among the
lobbyists. You see, the railroad COM
pany was very generous. But all that
was hidden, and only through the sever
est scrutiny on the part of q legislative
committee was this iniquity displayed.
Now, political bribery defes you, dares
you, is arrogant, and will probably de-
eide the election next Tuesday.
Unless this diabeliSm ceases in this
country, Bartholdps statue on Bedloe's
Island, with uplifted loren TO light 9TH
er nations into the harbor, had better
be changed, and the torch dro pped as
symbol OF universal inCendiariSm.
THERE Is ENOUGH
out-and out RIGHTEOUSNESS in American
cities to-day 20 bring down upon them
the wrath OF that God who, on the Gath
OF August, 10 buried Herculaneum and
Pomueii so deep in ashes that the 1913
subsequent years have not been able TO
complete the elimination. There are
i'm some of the American cities to-day
whole blocks Of houses which the auth
critics know TO be infamous, and yet by
purchase they are silenced, by hush !
money, so that such places are as
much under the defence of government |
as Dub.ic libraries and aSylumS of |
merCy. uUsU uICUrs vi the UUuy POlivi| |
bleed and gangrene away the life OF the |
nation, and public authority in many OF
the cities looks the other way. You |
cannot cure such wounds as these with |
q >ilken bandage. You will have to |
cure them by putting deep IN the lancet |
of moral surgery, and burning them out |
with the caustic of holy wrath and with |
most decisive amputation cutting of |
the scabrous and putrefying abomina-
tlons. As the Romans were after the
Cets, and as the NOrmans were after
the BritOns, so there are evils AFTER THIS
nation which will attend It's oosequles
unless we first attend theirs.
SuDerstition tells Of marine reptile,
the ceuhaloptera, which EMBODIED and
crushed ship of war; but it is no SUI
perstition when l tell you that the his
tory of many of the dead nations pro-
claims TO US the fact that our ship OF
state is i'm danger Of being crushed by
the cephaloptera of national depravily.
Where is the Hercules to Stay the n.y.
dra? Is il not time 10 speak by pen, by
tongue, by ballot box, by the rolling OF
the prison door, by hangman's natter,
by earnest prayer, by Sinaluc detona-
tlon?
A son of King Cresus is said to have
been dumb and to have never uttered
word Until he saw his father being put
70 death. Then he broke the shackles
of silence, and cried out: "hill not
nv father, Cresus!" When l see the
cheatery and the wantonness and the
manifold crime of this country attempt
ing to commit patricide-yea, matri-
eide upon our institutions, 1t seems TO
me that lips that heretofore have been
dumb ought TO break the silence with
Generous tones OF fiery protest.
want to put all of the matter before
Won. so that every honest man and
woman will know just how matters
stand, and what they ought to do II
they vote, aud what they ought to DO
If they pray. This nation is not going
TO perish. Alexander, when he heard
OF the wealth OF the Indies, divided
Macedonia among his soldiers. Some
one asked him what be had kept for
himself, and he replied:
ST AN KEEPING TIE HoPE!
And that Jewel 1 keep bright and shin
ing in my soul, whatever else shall
surrender. Hope thou in God. He will