The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-20
PARTY LINES DISTINCT.

There is raised by many ofOur Radical
contemporaries, the cry that the issues
between the two parties of the country
to-day are so slight as to be hard to say
which is which This is simply an
effort to entrap the lukewarm and I'M
wary. and lure them from their loyalty
into the camp of the enemy. The lines
between the Democratic and Radical
parties arc more distinct to-day than ever.
Distinct on the general principle that
oil and water will not mix; clearly dis
tinct because Democratic good abhors
Radical evil.
Let us look briefly at the facts.
In the first place, We will mention few
things that the Radicals approve of and
encourage. There is the National bank
system, where they advocate what now
exists: National banks established over
the land, forced upon every individual
State from the fact that State banks are
so taxed by the general government that
they cannot afford to maintain them
selvcs-a clear and direct interference in
State affairs, positively opposed to the
Federal Constitution.
The Radicals advocate this unconstitu-
tional interference in many ways. Wit
ness the National school bill introduced
by Mr., HoAR. of Massachusetts; witness
the forced submission Of the people of
Louisiana to the government dictated to
them bv GRANT and his party and wit
ness particularly what is stated in SEN
utor DAVIS recent speech, that before
the Southern States were allowed to re-
turn To the Union after the recent war,
il was required of them rs conditions
prcceclcnt, that they should introduce GER
tain clauses in their Constitutions, which
state Constitutions should never be chang
ed lcithoH the consent Of Congress-.
The Radical party advocates ncpotism
and what is called CaSariSm, or third
terms. This it must do, since it deliber-
atelv endorses them, in the person of its
prime favo.itc, Mr.. GRANT. The Radi.
cal party advocates the creating and
maintaining of heavy national monopo-
lies; comforting upon them special prlvi-
legcs, to the manifest injury Of the peO-
pie at large, and directly in opposition to
the institutions of our republic. Its also
responsible for and an advocate of, the
terrible reconstruction system, by which
some of the States which ought to be among
the most beneficial tothe general family of
States, are bound hand and foot, by des-
perate efforts tokecp down the white man,
and force him in subsection to horde of
ignorant negroes, scalawags and carpet
baggers, who have swarmed upon them
from the North for the sole purpose of
proving upon them, and in which design
they have ever received aid and comfort
from the dominant party; and we will
mention last, though its far from the
least evil of its advocates, the Civil
Rights Bill, framed by its leader and
apostle CHARLES SUMNER bearing IN It's
wake evils almost too horrible to contem-
plate, such as negro social equality and
even supremacy, and attended too with
the inevitable national interference
system, in that it provides that the
United States District and Circuit
Courts shall have entire cognizance of
all cases arising from lis being violated.
These are few of the principles sdvo
Gated by the Radicals. 1t isneedless to
say that the Democracy oppose them all
in toto. The latter party is in favor of