The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-10-30
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From the Cleveland Piaindeaier.l
Reasons, Why ,Moskissmea Should
Vote f0r HerSss Greeley.
Horace Gsseley started in life q poor,
unaided priutsr's boy, without friends
or means. To-day. hes the best known
man in sAmsrica, and the peoples candi'
date for the highest office in the gift OF
his countrymen.
He has been an Industrious. sober
and successful man, whose whole life
has been devoted to intelligent and. con.
scieutious labor. vi o..
He has ever been . consistent advo.
cate of the rights Of tho struggling
maryland not Of the more favored few.
He has ALWAYS stood up mantully
and jeslously for the right and dignity
OF labor and against the encroachments
OF capital.
He has from the first opposed the
crying evil Of allowing the public do
mains to be pareeled out to railroad
monopolies and insisted that they
should be kept free to be occupied by
the thousands OF poor men and their
families, who are daily seeking cheap
homes in the Far West, as witness the
following extract from his letter of ac-
ceptance:
The public lands must be sacredly
preserved for occupation and acquisi-
ton by cultivators, and not recklessly
squsndered on the projectors of rail-
roads, for which our people have no
present need, and the premature con-
struction of which is annually plunging
US into deeper and deeper sbysses OF
foreign indebtedness.
The tendency OF legislation for the
past three years, especially under Gen.
eral Grants administration. has been
to promote the interest Of combined CAPT
tai and to d,olrf and belittle labor and
laborers, and to-day we find great mo-
nopolies whose broad and expanding
wings are rapidly overshadowing all
smaller enterprises. supporting General
Grants re election will this money and
influence Since March !, 1861, with a
two thirds majority in Congress, the
party in power has voted to railroads
one hundred and ffty-ons millions, seventy
thousand three hundred and eighty seuen
acres of land, an area equal TO the
States of Ohio, Indiana, illinois, Mich
gan and Wisconsin-laud sufficient to
give a farm of two hundred acres to
each OF the 10000 voters in Ohio and
Kentucky.
Fifty three million acres were voted in
addition to the Northern Pacific rail
road, and an amendment offered, in the
interest of the people, by Senator Thur
man, OF Ohio, guaranteeing to the set
tier the right to purchase homestead
of the company at $3.50 per acre. was
rejected peremptorily by the majority
in Congress. :.
Is not this an alarming indication
that the settled policy Of the Admins
tration party is to strike down the la
boring and middle classes by donating
the public lands to railroad monopolies
40 that it will be more and more diff
cult every year to find cheap homesteads
for their families?
Should not these facts prompt the
great laboring class to unite IN opposing
a party managed and controlled by
huge monopolies in the growth and
power of which their danger lies?
Mr.. Greeley sprang from the common
people, and their friend and fearless ad-
yocate he has always been and will be.
To the foreigner, OF whatsoever patton
ality, seeking home in the new world,
he has always extended the right hand
OF fellowship, and through the columns
OF his Tribune he has welcomed him
with words of cheer and encourage
ment.
When Ireland was suffering by fam
inc be was ever active in collecting and
forwarding supplies and means to those
mos, in red of help, and his friendship
| for Ireland and Irishmen has been 30
notorious that the British press and
people unite in their denunciation OIL
him and his course.
Mr. Greeley is personally honest, and
possesses a character above suspicion or
reproach. His election would mean an
immediate return ofshonesty and ablli-
tv to the administration Of the affairs
~ tho Government. 1t would secure a
genuine reconciliation between the peo'
ple of the North and South-loug di,
yided by differences now happily settled
forever-snd would greatly tend to de-
yelop and encourage, enterprise and Ia
bor in the Southern States.
No government with Horace Greeley
at its head will ever be run and con,
,rolled by gigantic monopohes, so well
c.lcn,ated to interfere with the rights Of
labor and laborers. -
,Lsboring men Of America, can you
afford 10 stand idly by and see your
rights and your interests sacrificed to
the greed of capital and monopol,es
Can You afford to give your influence
and support to q party which has fo'
tour long years been legislatlng ior cap
itaI and monopolies, and against the IN
terests of you and your class1 -,
Then 20 to the polls on the fifth o.
November and vote for Horace Greeley