The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-09-16
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clouds which cap their lofty SUBMITS.
The brilliant victory achieved by the
Democracy in California on the LIST
instant, after a desperate fight, in
which party lines were strictly drawn
is proof enough to our mind that
there has been, and will be no react,
ion favorable to Radicalism until the
revolution which was begun in the
elections of last fall has reached its
legitimate conclusion. There has
been no sign of any relaxation on the
part of the people in their fixed and
firm purpose to change the govern,
ment By driving the present corrupt
and unworthy party from power
They have borne misrulc and opprcs'
sion and wrong long and patiently
rather than run the risk of making a
violent change, still hoping for bet,
ter things from those they had trust,
ed with power; but instead of grow,
ing better they saw that matters on,
ly went on getting worse from day to
day, until their patience, at last cx,
hausted, could endure no more, and
they determined to have a change
So long as they did not themselves
feel the effects of the bad government
under which the country was being
carried to the verge of ruin, they
slept in security, thinking all was
right, but the moment the panic OF
1878 struck US the shock was like
that of a ship driven upon the break
ers, and startled passengers rushing
in terror from their berths, the people
were reused to the immincnce Of their
danger and the desperate chances OF
their situation. Then it was they
discovered how ignorant and unskil-
full was their pilot, and how demon
allied and worthless the crew. They
saw the country was fast drifting up
on the rocks when their eyes We're
opened, and in the hands of its pres
ent crew must inevitably go to des-
truction; and they quickly detcrmin-
ed that change of pilots was the
only remedy. How often in our pri-
vate business affairs when we find
that our manager, headman, ovcrsecr,
chief clerk or engineer is not all we
expected him to be, or has shown
himself unworthy of trust, do our
thoughts turn to his PREDECESSOR.
whom, in 4 fit of i'll humor, we had
dismissed, and how We long to see him
back again at his post, even though
he may have had hisfaults. Sowith
the people in this crisis. They have
lost all confidence in their new SER
wants, and looking to the days when
the Democracy took care of their
books, they remembered how well the
duty was performed, and how splcnd-
idly the business was conducted, and
is it to be wondered that they feel
as if they should wish to see their old
and tried servants reinstated in the
places they so well filed? And they
will restore them, and that too at the
very earliest opportunity, So soon
as the contract with their present IN
competent, corrupt, and dishonest
employees in November Of next year
expires, they will say to them, as
Othello did to Cassie. "No more be
officer of NINE" and promptly fill
their places by their old and faithful
Democratic servants, whose faults,
thong many, were virtues in compar-
ison to the great crimes Of those who
now revel in power and hold high
carnival while the nation is passing
through the painful throes ola great
industrial and financial crisis.
General Enochs, Of Lawrence coun
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