Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-01-15
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-" Equal Laws and Equal Rights -
cLARKsBrRC. FRIDAY, JAN. is, 1888.
Our County Politics.

Our County Politics.
The election next spring of officers for
our county is already beginning to occu
Ply the attention of The community. Many
OF the different aspirants ale marshalling
their forces, and feeling..the public pulse
to ascertain their prospects. DC. The OPP
position to the Democracy, feeling that
they have the most work to do, com
menced first and are laboring with the
greatest industry. Fully aware that their
many efforts 10 seize upon the b onof and
'emoluments OF Office by tricks. chicanery
and demsgogueism. has Justly placed them
at great disadvantage in fair conflict
with the Democracy. their great effort is
to destroy the unity of that party. I" Di,
ride and conquer" is their motto; and
they hope. BY creating division 10 the
Democratic party. TO obtain . victory
over it next spring. If they succeed, it
will be claimed as, an opposition triumph.
and be heralded through the country as
an evidence of tho early decay of the
great national Democratic party. They
know full we'll that they have not the
shadow Of a chance of success. SO long as
tho Democracy preserves its organiza-
ton and they are left in the hideous de-
formity Of their own disreputable associ.
alton, and hence they are assiduously en-,
gagged in opposing Democratic notnina
tons. as their only chance of success.
They raise their hands and roll their eyes
in holy horror of "caucuses"-they,
| who. until their secret denominations were
brought to light and exposed to the gaze
of open day. we're stepped to their very
eyes in the vilest caucus system
known to the history of politics. have sud
denly become wondrous proper men, and
scorn the idea that the people should be de-
priusd of their liberty! Heaven save the
mark! The very men that composed the
old Know Nothing party, and at who the
dead hour Of midnight. when homes! men
should be in bed. sat in secret conclaye,
aud. under oath Of inyiolable secrecy,
bartered away the votes OF the people.
now are raising hue and cry against the
honest, open. honorable organization
usually practised by the Democratic par
ty. Were not the hear.less duplicity and
demsgogueism OF the prominent material
of that defunct party patent to every man
woman, child. niger and dog in the
whole country. we might here say word
or two on the beauties Of consistency,
but, under the circumstances, it would be
q work of supererogation. and we shall
not attempt it. Nobody now looks upon
Know Nothiugism in any other light than
that Of gigantic swindle. which having
failed, was abandoned, not because the
conscience Of its leaders did not permit
them to pursue it further. but simply be-
cause it did fail. Its leaders are now as
keen to discover and practice another
fraud upon the people. which promises
success. as they were to adopt and par
ticipate in the mystical rites OF "Ssm."
This new plan was fixed upon before
the disbanding of the Know. Nothing
Councils. They did not drop that scheme
without agreeing upon the new one they
were to follow in the future. At the last
meeting Of the Know-Nothing Council for
this county, it was resolved that no public
nominations should hereafter be made by
the Council, and that each member
should use his utmost exertions to pre-
vent the Democratic party from making
any. Nor was this mere local and &C.
oidental action. The same thing was
done in other counties, thus showing it to
be the studied policy Of the order. (Our
information upon these points is positiUs
and relia6ls.) In accordance with this
resolution, We find those men who had
saOorn to do vhatsvsr tie Council ordered
now violently opposing all organization
by the Democratic party. We are not
surprised at this, for like inyeterate and
incorporating enemies of that party.
as they are. they thirs. for its blood. pant
for it's destruction. and are ready to re-
sort to any and all means to accomplish
ita dissolution. But We lhould be .ur-
prissa K any psnsesai shsula b. 20 de-