The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1870-08-15
they only contended that it secured fair,
honest and impartial registration Of votes.
sF .4 JUSTICE.
Choice Reading for Republicans.

Choice Reading for Republicans.
1.-THE chief mission Of the (republican)
party has now been accomplished, and we
are told SO by such papers as the Pitts.
burg Gasette. The motive for party dis.
clpl;ne having ceased in great degree,
it is inevitable that tue organization here
as well as elsewhere, will grow weaker
rather than stronger. Every one must
see the probability that the disintegratiou
will 60 on much more rapidly than here.
tofore; and that while we have lost four
thousand majority in the last four years,
VIC may lose that much more in the next
Two, il We fight it out on the present line.
|pheeling LntcHigeneer, June ~, 1869.
a'Let us see the figures. In 1854 the
Republican State ticket had no opposition
Iu May, 1866, the DISTINGUISHING Amend.
ment to the Constitution was ratified by q
majority of 1856. In October following
the minority for Governor was 6,472. In
1868, it was 4,7l7. The loss from May
to October, 1866. 1874. From 1866 to
1865, it vas 1855 more. Lincoln's ma
jority for President in 1864, was 1908.
Grants IN 1858 was s.043. Loss in four
years, 4,o76, or 1,O19 per year. The
loss on Sta issues in less than two years
and q half Was 2,5l9.- abou. tho samo
rate Wdeeling Znteaigencer, May 81,
1860. ~ 10 .,s'9' efi''q...
g'.Weihave had si1 years Of undisputed
and almost unlimited power. Had been
used wisely-had the Legislature been
filed with men who appreciated the needs
Of tho State and possessed the capacity to
provide for them--had the gubernatorial
chair held a man who spent more thought
about how our unpeopled wilds could be
filled with intelligent settlers from abroad
and less about how the patronage under
luis control could bc dispensed SO as to put
him in thse United States Senate, e,-we
might to-day have had population enough
from tho North to enable US to make the
government of tho State republican with
out cudangcriug the supremacy Of the re-
publican party. But for all such public
purposes those six years! wero wasted and
more people are each year leaving the
State for the West than are coming into
it from abroad" Wheeling Inteligencer,
June 8, 1869.
?! 1--WE deny tho class Of citizens de-
ssribcd, who are often among tho largest
property holders in their counties, all
voice in tho selection of:heir officers, from
tho highest to the lowest, who levy the
taxes and control their disbursements.
And to enforce this exclusion we main.
tain a feature Of registration which puts
the control Of suffrage in tho hands of ir.
responsible and sometimes unscrupulous
agents, who do not always stop with those
who arc excluded by law, but who to
grutlfy personal dislikes or merccnary ends
deprive Of the ballot men Of their own po.
liticul faith who lave alight to vote un-
der the law. And the practical operation
Of this restriction on suffrage in many
counties is to put the entira contol Of tax.
alton, disbursement aud representation in
the, hands Of one-half, one-fourtli, one
eighth !; and even less, of the tax. paying
citizens of tho county. Now these arc
facts which We cannot ignore Wheeling
Lntelligenecr, September 20, 1859. i1
"The men who have had everything
their own way at Wheeling for tho last
six years, have done nothing to perpetuatc
their memories. except keeping themselves
in and The opposition out Of office ). and
whether this was for veal or woo, look at
The condition Of the State at this hour
No money in the Treasury, no credit
abroad no confidence, no immigration, nc
roads, no bridges, the balance Of trade
against US, everything dull, drowsy, dead
the people and State fast sinking into oh.
liyiOn, unhonored and unsung. for not B
paper in the Union devotes paragraph tt
West Virginia affairs once in q month
Where is the proud position, tho brilliant
future once predicted ior our gallant
glorious" young commonwealth in tht
buncombo speeches and messages Of 1868
&C.. : After going up like q rocket we ar,
coming down like stick. tho scoff nnt
laughing stock Of surrounding states.-
Correspondence cfhe l'arhcrsbury Times
(radieal.) E.. t.-..'. .......
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