The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-08-20
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Keep IL Before the People,

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That the Republican party has irrevo,
cably committed itself to the policy OF
paying the public debt, represented by
United States bonds, both principal and
interest, including the 5-20's, in gold OF
its equivalent, whether so specified in
the contract or not; while all Other
debts are payable in the legal tender
notes of the Government, which are
worth to-day less than 81 cents on the
dollar.
Keep it Before the People;
That the Republican party, while dis
charging its most solemn obligations to
pensioners, to the widows and orphans
of those who died while defending their
country, pays them off in deprecated
currency, thus falsifying the pledges
given to the brave men who encounter
ed the perils of the war for the preser-
vation of our nationality; while to the
bopdholders, aud bankers, who, out OF
their abundant means. loaned their
money to the Government to carry on
the war, they pay a liberal interest in
gold, and allow them to issue ninety per
cent. of the capital thus invested in
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circulating medium.
Keep it Before the People,
That, while the laboring classes are
taxed to the EXTREMIST limit of patient
endurance, to support a government dis.
tinguished by its extravaganza as well
as by It's unconstitutional assumptions
of power, the Republican party insists
that the vast amount of property in-
vested in our national securities by the
bankers and bondholders, shall be en-
tirely exempt from taxation, leaving
the whole crushing burden of the ma
tlon's Indebtedness, present and pros
pective, to be borne by the toil-worn
producing class.
Keep it Before the People,
That while the Republican party has
professed to be in favor of restoring the
peace of the country, and the Southern
States to their normal relation to the
Union, with their rights unimpaired,
their policy of reconstruction has been
glaringly in violation of the genius o.
cur institutions, as we'll as of the pledg-
es of Congress, ard of the late Presi-
dent LiEcolp himself; while the insin-
cerity of the party, as evinced by its
imposition of unreasonable and absurd
conditions upon conquered and sub
missive people, entities its professions
to the suspicious, if not to the con-
tempt of mankind.
Keep il Before the People;
That the Republican party, as proof
of it's fixed determination to persist III
u course manifestly subversive of the
form of government adopted by the
sages and patriots of the revolutionary
period, have selected as their chief
standard bearer, man without one
civil qualification to command the con-
fidence or respect of an enlightened
people; who, conscious of hts own de-
fects and moral unfitness for any prom
inent civil position, could be induced
only by a large pecuniary consideration
to allow his name to be used in connec
tion with the office of President, and
who, even then, had not the manliness
to avow single principle of his own,
or to Indicate that he had any policy
other than that of tame subserviency
to the will and wishes of the faction
with which he affiliates.
Keep it Before the People;
That the man nominated for Vice Pres
ident is one who is as distinguished by
his narrow mindedDess, as he is by his
bitterness of feeling and vindctivcDess
of his hostility toward tn ose who differ
from him in opinion-whOse prOscrip-
tive disposition took form iii hno~-
nothingism dozen years ago, and dis
played itself in the futile attempt to
expel member of Congress for express
ing in decorous Language his honest
views.
Keep il Before the People;
That the only thing that can save our
country from anarchy or despotism, Is
thorough change in the administration
of its affairs-that wisdom, not folly,
can alone save us from impending ruin,
and that every lover of liberty and JUS
tice is, in this great national emergency,
expected to do his duty.