The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-23
WHEE11NG W vA WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 2a 1869.

ioiced at. He represents that class of
men ia his State who prescribed tbepeo-
pie without stint. There was neither
measure nor mercy in their sweeping
disfranchisements. The Registration
law was their axe, and with it they po-
litically decapitsted their political OPP
ponents in the relentless and wholesale
style Of the "sharp female called La
GUIILoTrNE." That was when BROWN
LOW was Governor, and there was such
harmony among the "loyap managers
Of the State as belongs to well-regulated
gangs of usurping demagogues. The
management laid out the werk
and the Parson performed it. But
with another campaign come new
issues, and strange divisions in the
councils of '1oyalty." Worst of all,
there is new man in charge OF the
Registration machine, and although he
is Republican, that mans purposes
don't harmonize with the former policy
of universal Democratic disfranchise-
ment. If SENTER disfranchises at all,
his victims will be of those who were
formerly victimizers. Whatever use he
may make of his DISTINGUISHING power
will probably be in the direction of
personal success, and his path lies over
the dead political carcasses of the for
mer proscriptionists. STOKES sees this.
He can't shut his eyes to the danger.
Like certain uncomfortable folks of the
SINE general class with himself, he
"belieVes and trembles." So at
late meeting in Knoxville be
made piteous appeal to his opponent
for fair play and free ballot. How the
most foul-working and desperate ras-
Gals in the world will plead for upright
dealing when the power Is on the
wrong side! Make them masters ofthe
situation, and there is no advantage
too mean, no trick too dirty, no enor
nifty too bare faced to suit their tastes
Appeals to their sense of right, or to
their liberality, fall like Psalm-singing
upon the tynpanum of dead horse, or
the music of jig-whistling upon the
dull cold ear of milestone. Says the
Tennessee correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Commercial
STOKES Is AFRAID
| That Senter will use the registration
machine to advance his own interests.
In his Knoxville speech, he appealed to
Senter, sin the name of God, in the
name ofjustice, in the name of the mol
dering dead, in the name of the widows
and orphans" not to interrupt the har-
monious working of the machine, but to
let it "remain Just as it is" He did not
want any Commissioners of Registra-
tion removed, nor any appointed, but
he appealed TO the Governor, Gin the
presence of this vast assembly," to act |
fairly in regard to the registration sys |
TEN, and encouraged him to do so, by
assuring him he would beat him fully |
JulIUS luOuSduu NOJeSt II ue MOulu lOI
tamper with the delicate instrument he
holds in his hands.
It's impossible to suppress laugh at
this ridiculous cringing and petitioning.
1t was all right when "the delicate in
strument" was in BRowNLow's hands
and regularly cutting off thousands of
names from the voting lists. All right |
when BRowNLOw rejected one county
registration after another, in order to
put STOKES into Congress by minority |
vote. All right when the wealth, intel.
ligence and influence of the State
were prescribed by this same agcn
cy. All right when the masses Of
white men went down, the
negro went up and those proscrib-
ing fellows ascended, pGri pdssu, to places
they never could reach by honest means.
A fairer, finer and more felicitous state
of affairs could not be imagined. But
Just reverse the situation and mark the
change in opinion and conduct!
I'm all your intercourse with man,
One maxim you may safely trust,
Who plays the tyrant when he can,
win play the coward when he must
Whatever may be the result of the
pending Tennessee canvass, which SEN
TER can control if he chooses, it cannot
fail to produce some good results as it
progresses. It's not only very enjoy
able thing, but it may not be a very bad
thing to have one faction of the Ten
nessee prosCriptionists at the mercy
of the other, on the outside of the regis
tration ring" for brief season-not
to disfranchise them, but to give them,
through their fears, slight taste of
the bitterness with which they have
filled the souls of their adversaries.
Mems views get very narrow, when
obtained from a single standpoint.
But when they are made to take their
observations of public policy from all
sides-as when those who have set
themselves above the best of laws, are
made subject to the wOrst-there is apt
to result very different frame of mind
from that which existed when personal
experience of its evils had nothing to
do with making mp the Judgment upon
that policy. And so the experiences Of
the more savagely "loyap folks in Ten