The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-28
The Electisn To-Day.

The morning of election has arrived
and but little remains to be said. MOI
is it at all likely that extended ar
gumest at this hour would have
much effect. The situation has al
ready been sufficiently canvassed te
give every intelligent voter a clesl
understanding of the case at issue
and if there are any such who are still
Indifferent, or determined to vote the
wrong ticket to-day, there is little
probability that u multiplication OF
words would cause them to change
their minds.
But relying upon the good sense OF
the people, We can honestly say that
we have not the slightest doubt
that the result will be exactly such as
we would havsit. Indeed there seems
to be little doubt Any where as to that
result. The most Jealous Of our oppo.
nents must by this time have seen the
weakness of the position their ticket
occupies. A far better chance Of sue.
cess would have been theirs had they
presented an unbroken front in favor OF
maintaining prescription as matter OF
right. Coming before the people upon a
platform which admits the whole sy stem
Of disabilities to be wrong in itself, un-
just in its operations and pernicious in its
results, they yet propose to continue,
for an indefinite time, the worst aud
severest of those disabilities. This con.
tinuance they have advocated merely
"as a matter of e1pediency among
themselves" Now ssme respect must
always be paid TO public decency. And
when . party admits that certain Of its
measures are wrong in principle, ruin
GUS in tendency, and yet insists upon
holding on to them as o matter Of selfish
sxdedienoy, public opinion will al
most invariably resent the insult offered
it.
While the platform of the Republi-
caas in Ohio county has been found to
be so execrsble, the candidates they
have offered are not the men to make
the people confident that they will lin
any reasonable time abandon their ex
pediency notions, and work for the
reforms demanded by the States inter
est. Inasmach as the social and per-
sonal standing of these gentlemen has
not been called in question, it is
not to be supposed that their course
as politicians has escaped attention.
And as in the Address signed by
them, the ground was taken that the
safety and perpetuity of the Republican
party must be considered in preference
to the liberty of the people and the
prosperity Of of the State, so the con-
clusion has very generally been reached
that candidates who hold their party
above principle aud above the public
good, should not be entrusted with i'm.
portant legislative powers in critical
times like the present.
For these and other manifest reasons
the Republican party Of Ohio county
is in condition to be very badly beat
en- to-day, if the Democrats exercise
even ordinary care to accomplish that
end. Believing that the good Of the
State and the private interest of the
citizen would be promoted by the COM
plete defeat of the Republican ticket
to day, We appeal to every Democrat,
and every good citizen, TO put
his hand to the work and aid
the election of the Democratic
nominees. A full and emphatic
Democratic victory in Ohio county to-
day will not only compel the Republi-
cans here to take ground in favor Of o far
more liberal State policy than they now
advocate, but it will urge on the move
ment for reform now going on through.
out the State and assure its triumphant