Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-22

measure QOWuWdtu' OJLLOH SihP'J
admits that the Mckinley act was indie
fensioe.
And so it goes. Nowhere are Repub-
licans honestly and sincerely defending
any act Of the Mckinley Reed Harrison
regime. The chief acts Of that period
were the Mckinley tariff, the Sherman
act, the Force bill aud the treasury de-
felt. And these the Republican leaders
want the people 10 forget. They even
keep in the shadow once boasted reci-
Urocity, which lessened exports and
gave legislative powers to the Prest-
deaf.
The Republican attack on the Demo-
cratic record, IT will be observed, is
not on the Democratic party or its
principles, but on certain Democratic
Senators who were recreaut TO their
party and who voted with the ReDubiI-
cans. without whose support they
would have amounted to nothing. Re-
publican criticism OF GoRMAN and
BRICE is nothing out condemnation of
the Mckinley tendencies of these Sen
ators and is simply hypocriticsl abuse.
Even HARmsoN's soft solder during
the Debs and Coxey movements, to the ef-
feet that the Government at Washing
ton is under obligation to give work to
tie unemployed, is nowhere quoted nor
defended by Republican speakers.
In fact the Republican spokesman are
all at sea, with no notion of where they
will land. They are ashamed Of their
party work without having the nerve to
confess il, and they are distrustful Of
their leaders without having the bravery
to discard them. They are confronted
with the necessity of making a straddle
that will cover the bounty-fed and
bouuty-seeking sugar planters Of Louis
lana aud the workingmen who buy
sugar They say as little as they can,
answer no questions and feed themselves
on the single hope that enough Demo-
Gratis Will STAY at home to permit them
to get back TO Washington and continue
the corrupt practices they dare not
defend. The Democrat who stays at
home will be actually aiding the party
which tacitly comedies its own worth
lessness, and very few Democrats will
be found 10 do this when they reflect
on Republican hypocrisy and under
stand that Republican gains will be
heralded as q condemnation of the
Democrats who fought the Mckinley
tariff to death and as an endorsement
OF that iniQuty, itself.
No Democrat, unless he has stronger
belief in the Republican party than Re-
publicans dare to show, will neglect to
put his ballot in the box this fall.
DELUsION AND \ SNARE.
1.-THE esteemed Atlanta Constitution,
which lives in a land Of chronic Office
seekers, and knows whereof it speaks,
takes the recent discharge Of q large
plumber Of clerks in the departments al
Washington and the consequent disap-
pointmeut and possible ruin Of many
bright men and women WAC INDUCED
the hope that they might remain for
years to come in the governments ser
vice, as the text for some most ex-
celleut advice to the young people who
seek these Offices. II says;
It's to be regretted that so many young
stecs of ability seek these Washington
clerkshipS SUCH positions are delus.0n
and a snare. As rule, they do not pay
very well, and their routine work in a
short time makes the clerks unit Tor
other positions. A government clerk who
is outside of the civil service grades has
no certainty of keeping his Job. He has
10 spend every cent Of his salary for living
expenses, and the chances are that he will
go IN debt. In Washington the clerk who
gets $500 q year tries 10 run with the
81 200 clerk, who in turn seeks the COM
partnership Of the s., 500 clerk, who is cul-
tivatiug the society Of a 5000 Office
holder. THIS way of living forces the
tLCI As W SNCAu AUAG knOu TIC ANN-tNNs
They get into the clutches of the shylockS,
and very few ever get on their feet again
and square accounts with the world.
The departments at Washington, as
our contemporary SAYS, sead out more
hopeless wrecks than any other place
in the country. 4 strong minded young
man may GET through all right, but
nine out Of ten who hold a government
clerkship five years and then lose it
sink into the nire Of poverty or disSip-
patton. 1t is a rare thing for them TO
pick themselves up and make q new
start in life.
The bright young fellow who has
government clerkship rendered HIM
will do good days work for himself
by letting it al bne.
Eyes examinNd for glasses free of
charge by Prof. Shelf, the Optician, ITO
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