Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-02-25

IT.. tltiI just do MUCH Ii-ul 10 pay taxes
AS the railroads. OF this right to tax
Pullman cars there can be no doubt.
the Supreme Court of the United
States having passed upon il in 141 L.
s., the matter having been appealed by
Pennsylvania.
A third case was the refusal to tax
telephone, telegraph and express COM
panies. AT the request of the Finance
Committee. the Attorney General pre-
pared a bin levying such a tax, but
when the Committee got hold of the
bin they filed it away for keeps.
This tax has also been declared right
and proper by the Supreme Court Of
the United States, on appeal from Mas
sachuSetts. Other examples of an un-
willingness to tread upon the toes of
corporations might be given, but what
rs here set forth Will suffice to show the
drift of Republican policy in this re
gard
The suspicious dalliauce with the
Virginia debt job, and the
DISGRACEFUL SCHOOL BOOK
SCANDAL
may be passed over for the time being
with the observation that neither the
one nor the other left those mixed up
with them free from suspicious of de
Element Nor is it necessary, at this
time, TO do more than call attention to
the remarkable stupidity of the refusal
TO pass q law for the better discipline
of the National Guard of the State, for
the maintenance of which a sufficient
appropriation was made
I'm the failure TO meet some Repb6-
can expectations. the Legislature was
notably and lamentably weak, while
Tie merited yet unexpected and un-
looked for
CERTIFICATE OF GOOD CHARAC-
TER
it gave the Democratic party of the
State was but another evidence of er-
ratio ccCentriCity. For years II has
been q favOrite recreation of Repubh-
can politicians and Republican news
papers 10 charge all sorts of gross mis-
management. cruelty and wrong in the
conduct of the institutions of the State
under Democratic control. The Intel
ligeucer and other State papers have
published many columns Of matter OF
this description. have called loudly and
frequently for investigations and
have iterated and reiterated that COM
mittees of Democratic Legislatures
were experts at whitewashing over no
tOriOus and fagrant wrongs, while
promising gre5t and astounding reVe
latiODs when the people should elect d
Republican Legislature. I'm a moment
of temporary political alteration the
people chose such body, which duly
mpOinted committees to visit the State
institutions. and while they were alb
sent from Charleston on their several
missions the people waited with an
anxiety not 10 be described IN words
tor
THE INEVITABLE EXPOSURE"
In due time the committees returned
and presented their several reports,
when. wonder of wonders, it was as
certaned upon the authority of Re
publican committees of Republican
LEGISLATURE. that each and every one
/ of those institutions had been unifOm-
/ ly weIl managed by the Democracy OF
I the State and that all the Republican
uDr0ar. extending over so many years,
/ was false and misleading, and at va
riaUco with the facts, For this COM
me1dati0n humble thanks are due.
Perhaps the worst case Of Republi-
can false pretenses is afforded in the
artistic juggling with the fee question.
Democratic robbery of the people
through "eXorbitant fees has long
been a favorite Republican method OF
raising hue and cry in this State;
yet. with every opportunity to at least
make am attempt to uproOt this evil
and go back to the people, if unsuc-
cessful. with the assurance that the
party had done what it could to afford
relief the Legislature, seeing atT on
the possibility Of
COMPLETE REPUBLICAN ASCEND
ANCY
i'm the state. with a full command Of
the nesh-pots and the supposed affiu-
ence which goes with Office, dropped
this reform" like a hot cake, and
grew so busy doing nothing that this
and q few more important Republican
PROMISES We're allowed to fall into
permanent and total eclipse.
But why dwell longer upon the farce
Much might be written upon the un-
precedented scenes and incidents OF an
unparalIeled session; upon the gross IN
competency. the dallying with affairs
of great pith and moment, and the te-
dious controversies over UnimpOrtant
on-essentials the broken prom
ises. the pigeon-hOing OF party pledges
and the general graud-stand play IN the
none of bambOozling the people, but
these will be duly recorded later on
and i'm the fuIlness of time the people
will understand and appreciate at It's
true worth the maiden effort Of Repu0-
Iicanism to- provide for their wants and
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