The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-09
No GMcfie TSts7or sale.
WHEELING, August 8, 1917.
Editors 81 th6RSekter: 49,.

No OAthosie totslor Sale.
WHEELING, August 6, 1872.
Editors 81 thSRSghter: - 49,
As the political combatants in this
county draw nearer and nearer 70 the
| day on which the decisive battle will
be tonight, lit seems that either party
make no seruple in using all means foul
and fair 10 1secure d victory. Il.
For the last few days one Of our city
papers has been circulating very un-
pleasant news to, the party Concerned,
Insulting l will say if7not substan-
tiated by good evidence, that's politician
from this county wrote to Governor
Jacob pledgiug to him the whole Cath
olic vote of Ohio county for some con.
sideratiou, snppose, left blank until
the contract was fulfilled. .,rc-,,. -.
II there is any politician amongst US
who had brass enough in his cheek to
make such q statement without any
authority, we don't want any denial
from him, but we tell Gov. Jacob that
he would be safer without such q sup
porter, for he would desert him in the
last hour if the Camden ring offered
him a bigger price for his stock. AS g.
Catholic OF the rank. and file of those
voters that outside parties would affect
to believe whose vote could be con-
trolled in such manner, / tell an
intelligent public that no unprincipled
politician can drive the Catholic voters
of this county into the political stalls to
be sold to Jacob or to a Camden ting.
If the majority of Catholics in this
county vote for Jacob it is because they
put a great value on honesty, which is
a scarce and q rare quality 10 politi-
clans in our days. If We withhold our
support and break loose from the Cam
den ring, it is because the electric cur
rent of popular feeling ia stronger IN the
opposite direction, and naturally enough
carries our feelings with it. The latter
cause might be a weak one tor one to-
give, but any close observer OF past
events will acknowledge that such a
current sometimes becomes irresistible,
and very often shipwrecks dominant
parties and leaves them on q desolate
shore to mourn for the loss Of their lost
power.
We Catholics are as independent and
free to cast our votes as any other class
of citizens. We are now like an i'm
partial jury listening to the testimony
given on both sides, and when we sum
It all up and make due allowance for
those who have turned States evidence
on the ring, we will bring in our verdict
accordingly, but let no man dare impute
to us that our vote can be peddled
around in bulk for the use of either
candidate of whom we ask no favor, for
we don't belong TO the class that can
not work, nor wont, and we are not
looking for office. Now before the
campaign sets in any hotter it would
be we'll to notify shrewd editors, cum
ming politicians and. stump speech
makers in general whenever they
want our suffrage to address
us as citizens of Ohio county or of
the United States. To make no appeal
to religion or waste their time in rak-
ing up Know Nothing actions. This is
remarkable year for the shaking OF
hands of old political enemies across
the bloody chasm that was opened by
religious and political fanatics. Us
Catholics, individually..and collectively,
contribute to the material progress OF
this our adopted country. We glory in
her prosperity because we intend to par
ticipate in the blessings that will be de-
rived from it, and We want to be fore
most in the ranks that will close up those
chasms and bring up our social progress
and keep it marching step by step with
the former. 1t is the earliest instruc-
ton inculcated in our young minds that
forgetting and forgiving Of old animos-
tiles is the essence OF social progress
therefore, we would respectfully ask
those who are now engaged in writing
and committing to memory their cleo
pioneering speeches, to reconstruct their
old policy and refrain from any allusion
to the dead carcasses OF the evil spirits
that gloated over and fed themselves to
death on the bad passions Of the people
in the past. Then if some Of us vote
for Grant, Greeley, Camden or Jacob, as
undoubtedly we will. we will cheat
nobody, for no man or no party has a
hereditary right to our vote.
Gentlemen engaged on both sides in
this campaign, you have material
enough to work on without trying to
soil the name of any religion by drag
cling it into your politics. Conduct the
business fairly, so that when the victory
is won by either party we will be able
to throw off our coats and 60 to work
together for our own good and for the
good of the country, as the citizens OF
a great republic should do, without
asking about each others religion.
If you would have it otherwisesyou
won't succeed. The interests Of the
masses are too closely interviewer to-
gether to be severed to suit any party,
am Democrat and Catholic, and
my Catholic feeling has been wounded
and will continue 30 till the assertion
made in the press is proved or refuted.
am, respectfully, yours,
ANTHONY LALLY.