The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-21
" Right is Our Policy, and Standing
by the Right we will Sink or
swin.o

by the Right we will Sink or
swim.o
The Beaver (Pa.) Local, a. consistent
advocate of the payment of the bonds
in greenbscks, and one of the liveliest
Democratic papers in the State, in its
issue of Friday last, joins the rally cry;
hoists the name of Pendleton for Presi-
dent, and advocates his nomination
with marked ability. 1t says:
Gully impressed, after long reflec-
ton, with the prepaiety ofthe step, we
to day hoist to our masthead, the name
of that eminent statesman and patriot,
George III. Pendleton, as the candidate
of our choice for President of the Uni
ted States.
1t is needless for us to 60 into detail
of the issues now pending, and to be de-
cided in November next by the election
of Chief Magistrate. The position of
the Democratic party upsn the ques-
tons of reconstruction of the Southern
States, civil and personal liberties, and
the Constitutional rights and powers of
the General and State Governments, is
already understood by the intelligent
masses of the American people. Not so,
however, with another and as vital a
question to the happiness and prosperi-
ty of the people, as any they have ever
been called upon to decide.
Finances!
Disguise it as any may, that one
word, if needed, furnishes, in the ap-
preaching contest, the key to Democrat
ic triumph. National preservation and
prosperity, individual freedom and hap
piness; or, if UNDECIDED, National disso-
luton, moneyed aristocracy, military
despotism and serfdom of the labOring
white man.
The reason this question is not so we'll
understood as those we above precede
it with, is because of its youth. 1t is
ysuthful because of the absence in this
country, under Democratic rule, of the
tax burthens which the people now,
under Radical rule, are groaning and
toiling beneath.
Might it not have been a youthful
question years hence, had we not pos
sessed in the midst of the present try
ing crisis the master mind of George
II. Pendletonf
The debt of the United States, crea-
ted under Radical rule, ameunts to over
twenty-five hundred million dollars
This debt is owned by the aristocrats of
this country and Great Britain, and
upon it they annually receive in gold,
as interest, the earnings of our mer-
chants, farmers and mechanics. Year
after year passes, and, with all the toll
and sweat of the labOrer, the scaDty
earnings of the widow, and the walls of
the infant orphan who has been robbed
of its mouthful of bread by the tax
gatherer, the debt is not decreased-the
interest only has been paid!
We would break no faith, violate no
contract, repudiate no debit it can
be avoided. But what intelligent peo-
pie would long stand to-day's exactions
of the bondholder Who pays no taxes
1t is not in response alone to eur own
individual feelings that we to-day run
up" the name of Pendleton for Presi-
dent, subject to the decision of the
Democratic National Convention! Our
action is responsive to the voice of the
voters of the country! We have not
stopped to counsel with the politicians,
Of whom the people are wearied, be.
cause of their weakened "policy"
winnings. Right is our policy, and
standing by the right, we will sink OF
swim.
The laboring men of the sountry-the
tax psyers-with whom we Joined hands
are in favor of Mr.. Pendleton for the
nomination, because he is the living
live representative of the doctrine to
which they are inseparably wsdded-the
doctrine which is right"
There isno use in denying the fact
George Il. Pendleton Is the choice ol
nine tenths OF the Democracy of this
State as well rs the entire West and