The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-08-01
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

lhe w HScIluS i"''tve"' W """N
10Th, 1869 SAYS:
The chief mission of the Republican
party has now been accomplished.
Having done its work let it go to lis
own place. Funeral services on the
fourth Thursday in October. The
friends of the deceased, if it has any,
are respectfully requested to attend, and
see the corpse decently planted.
THE Wheeling h'cN;ycDcrr, Rcpuh!i-
can, in its issue of June Sth, 1869, said
in reference to West Virginia's loss of
population under Radical rule:
More people are each year leaving
the State for the West than arc coming
into it from abroad.
Now that paper wants Radical rule
continued, ~ a means Of driving from
the State whatever Of valuable popnla-
ton she NAV have remaining
The Wheeling L,tsit,J'ncCr. at sep
TENDER 10Th, 1869, said.
We maintain feature OF registra-
ton which puts the control OF suffrage
in the hands Of irresponsible and some
times unScrupnlous agents, who DO not
AWAY, sop with those who are eXclnd-
Ell hv law, but who 10 gro';fp person"
ESEie or msrcpcoy ends d,price Of NE
bpilot men Of their orn political faith rk"
Eacs a right@ cote under the Lar.
Yct that paper advocates the election
of the Radical ticket, the continuance
Of this odious feature of registration,
the retention in power of these same
irresponsible and INSCRIPTIONS agents
and lhc exclusion from the polls, on ac-
count of personal dislikcs or mcrce-
nary ends. men "who have Il right to
vote under the law 1t conlcsScs the
! inilnity of Radicalism vet wants that
iniluity perpctnalcd
! ENrMEIA1ING the "facts which We
cannot ignore, the Wheeling htriE-
gcr ecr, Republican, in lis issue Of Sep
TENDER 20th 1869, referring to thc'in-
famous enforcement of the registration
! law, declares that
! Tie practical operations Of his rcs'r;r,
ton on suffrage N many counties IS 10
/ mt he entire control Of tordtion dSJwSe-
meu and representation u, he hands Of
onc-bot, ooc-to"r'h, onc-oghh, and "rs"
less, Of he tar pnd"g citizens Of he
} C1r,iy.
In other words the policy of the RAD
zeal party is to tax seven-eighths of the
people for the beuit of one-eighth, AT
the same time the htcV;gmesr and all
other Radical papers want TO prolong
the system OF governing the whole
people hv q mere fraction who may
claim to be "loyal.' And this the peo-
pie are asked to accept as Republican
government.
, IL its issue of June Sth, 1860, the
Wheeling htelhq.p"'r, Republican, said
that had the
! Undisputei and unlimited power OF
the Radical party been used wisely we
might to-day have had population
enough from the North to enable Us to
make the government Of the State re-
publican without endangering the su'
premacy of the Republican party.
But as it is, the Radical party dare
no, make the government Republican
for fear Of working the party over
throw. Although the constitution pro
vides for guaranteeing to every state 9
Republican form Of government tn
, Radical party has, on its own comics
sion, enacted a despotism in West Viz
giuia, and maintains it for seif-preseF
walton. This is the doctrine TO be as
D serted by every vote cast next Oct"he
A for the Radical ticket