The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-04
The Advance Movemen,.

abilities. The managers of the Repnb
lican party in some counties
have not been slow to recog
nize the fact. Their legislative nomi
nations are nearly all made, and the
Conventions have very generally con
sidered the "let up" question in making
up their tickets. Some have set them
selves up ohstinately against any chang.
in the policy of the party; others have
consented to the repeal of all the Test
Oaths save that for voters, hoping tc
propitiate public sentiment by the sac
rifice of the smaller measures of pro.
scription, while keeping the greater
still in force. In but one county, we
believe, have the Republicans come
squarely up to the demands of the day
and, while admitting the injustice OF
all proscriptive measures, demanded the
immediate repeal of the registration
law along with the other disabling en-
actments.
The following is the Wayne county
Republican platform:
WHEREAS, 1t is the policy of the Re-
publican party of our country to
exercise the greatest liberality in be-
slowing the rights on all her citizens,
therefore BE- it
ReSolred, By this convention, that in
our opinion our constitution should be
so amended as to give to every citizen
of our new State the right to partici.
pate in all elections by the people, an
less they are prohibited in consequence.
of having been convicted of some infa-
nous offence. -.
Indefinite and unsatisfactory as this
is, it becomes utterly worthless in view
of the fact that Reverend CARROLL is
the candidate upon it for the House of
Delegates. He is one of the most in
tense proscriptionists in the State; the
registrars of this county, guided by him,
are at their old work of slashing and
scratching the lists by wholesale. If
CARROLL is elected, We think Wayne
county may be counted against any
"let up"
The following is the platform of the
Republicans in the Seventh Senatorial
District, and particularly in Kanawha
county: -
Whereas, we, the Union Republican
party, while we were in favor of restrict
i've measures in the matter of the suf-
frage of those persons who were con-
cerned in the Rebellion, while the neces-
sity for such measures existed, and,
Whereas, we are now of the opinion
that the time has come for the removal
of such restrictive measures,
Resolred, That we are in favor of the
removal, by our next Legislature, of the
various test oaths now imposed upon
the late rebels and also such moditica-
tious of our present laws as will provide
for the election of the Registrars by the
people, and in such a manner also as will
secure the minority one representative
in every county Board.
ReSOlred, That in consistency with the
principles of our party at large through
out the country we do not wish to keep
large body of our fellow citizens per
petually disfranchised, and thereby per-
petually disatfected. And we therefore
urge upon our next Legislature the i'm
portance of taking prompt steps to-
wards repeating the disfranchising
clauses of our constitution.
Upon this, d. H. X. DIX has been
nominated for Senator from that dis,
trict, and C. w. SMITH and J, SLACK,
JR., for the Heuse Of Delegate:
from Kanawha county. The rev,
olutions, it may be seen, favor by
implication, the continuance of the
registration law in force until the dis
franchising clause 10 stricken from the
Constitution. JOHN BOWER, of Put
nam, who helped draw up this platform
and who put Mr.. Dix in nomination
writes to BoREMAN's paper, the Joarnd
at Parkersburg, as follows:
In regard to enfraDchising the rebe Is
l am very decidedly opposed to restor
ing them to their former political rights
which they forfeited by their own acts
and so are the Union people generally
The rebels have brought the evils upor
themselves by their own acts of treason
and wickedness, by committing perjury
robbery, murder and other high crimes
and cannot reasonably expect to be re
stored by any true and loyal teglsla
ture. o.
1t is rather reasonable to infer tha
there is not much sincerity then IL
any liberal profession that may come
from the Republican leaders in th'
Kanawha Valley, .. ... .is'S
Indeed, in the resolutions adopted by
the SO. called liberal Republicans il
very many parts of the State, there is
want of manliness and distinQtness o
utterancs. There is too much "palter
! ing in double sense" too much dodg
ing and hesitating, too much parade OF
liberality in non-essentials and no
enough upon vital and essential points
The impression produced is that TIT
Republicans want to "let up" JUS
enough to satisfy the public, but no
enough to give any political privilege
or power to the prescribed classes. bu'
there are some exceptions to this rule
and it is but fair that they be named
Judge PoLsLEY, of Mason, favors
complete net partial or gradual" re
moval of disabilities, and if we art
right in our Interpretation of hi
words, he is far in advance of his Re
publican friends in Ohio county. MF
HUTCHINSON, of Wood, wants t(
take the control of registration from
the Governor, which is all right enough
if the law is to be continued, but h
fails to pledge himself to the immedi
ate repeal of the law, or OF the les
Oath which it contains. Nevertheless
his letter is in advance of the. Ohi'
lcounty address, and much nearer tn