The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-10-18
GEORGE w. RHOADEs.
West Virginia Elections.
THE DUTY OF THE HOUR.
The Evil and the Remedy.
The People to the Rescue

Ilo EVIL dllu IIlt noluouy g.
The People to the Rescue.
Next Thursday, the oath inst, the
Vest Virginia elections will be held.
The people will be called on that day
10 vote for Senators, Members of the
Honse of Delegates and County Super
intendents of Public Schools, To the
people Of West Virginia these elections
are of considerable Importance. Es-
ppciallyis il desired that the next Leg
islature be an Improvement on the last.
This can best be done by selecting men
outside of the Radical ranks.
From the first formation of this State
the Radical party have controlled it.
The whole machinery of Government,
the Executive, the Judicial and Legis-
lative branches thereof, have been run
under their direction. Except in very
few counties, the management of local
affairs has been committed entirely to
their care. The Supervisors, Sherifs,
Magistrates, Constables, Registrars, In-
spectors of Election, School trustees,
and countless other newly devised
places have been filled and run in the
Radical interest.
The result has been disastrous in the
extreme. We have had fraud, incOm-
potency, extravaganza, corruption, asd
all the evils that result from making
many offices aud filling them with bad
men. Taxation has become the bane of
our State. State taxes by the hundred
Thousand have been raised and either
squandercd foolishly upon public works
badly managed, or appropriated by onr
Legislature in increasing the salaries
of officers whose wages are already
fixed by law. Outside this city, the
people have had an enormous school
fund TO raise in order to put up the
buildings and pay men to start our
school system, and in many cases the
money has never afterward been heard
Of Then we have had salaries for petty
officers by the thousand all over this
State to pay, until the load has become
so great as to be uncomfortable. Men
within our own knowledge, of former
competence, have, within the present
year, been compelled to mortgage their
lands in order to pay their taxes, and
others have the alternative before them
OF leaving the State, or remaining and
being reduced to beggary by q system
CT taxation rendered necessary by use
less and costly measures of political
prescription.
The progress of the State is impeded
by the partisan folly of an unprincipled
Executive. At the instance of the Gov
ernOr, bands of soldiers have entered
our State as if its inhabitants were in
condition Of tumult and disorder. We
all know that, save for political ends,
these troops are useless, and that their
presence is a gross outrage upon peace
able people. Parties outside the State
do not know this. Men of capital, or
thrifty and industrious Immigrants,
reading BOREMAN's messages, and in
ierring from the march of soldiers to
West Virginia that peace does not pre-
vail within our borders, refuse to bring
their money and their muscle into our
midst. Others again, posted as to the
Prescriptions that are here enforced,
Keep away from this State because they
cannot stand the taxes necessary to
carry those same prescriptions into ef-
iect. They know that it costs immense
suns to disfranchise honest voters by
Wholesale, and they are unwilling to
furnish revenue for any such purpose.
Under such Influences as we have
named, the State of West Virginia is
reduced to an almost hopeless condition
oi embarrassment and distress. Where
is the remedy for the evils of the situa-
nonf 1t lies within the people them
selves. We call upon them to apply
The cure, by banishing from power the
men who have so long robbed and dis
graced them. Under the pitiable plea
oI loyalty and the cry of "Union" or
treason" a horde of unprincipled ad-
ventareIs have deceived the people
almost to their ruin. Such terms have
been the catchwords of mischievous
densgogues, and right we'll have they
handled them for popular delusion. 1t
IS time for the people to see through
thls trickery. 1t is time for them to
understand that LOYALTY" and its kim
dred terms are merely the cover Of cor
ruptioR and the mask of crime. We
call upon them to be misled no longer
by such dangerous artifces. We appeal
to them to derive their motives for ac-
ton from some other source than a
Union" which none but Radicals
threaten, or rebellion" which even
Radicals know to be dead.
Democrats! the hour has come for earn
est and yiooroua xvnrLr Wosf Viro;nio