The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-17
THE CALL TO ARMS.
Congratulatory to the De-
mocracy Of West Vir-
ginia, Ohio and
Indiana.
To the People of the United States:

you as patriots, rs partakers with US in
the common destiny of American free.
men, upon the results of the October
State elections. We rejoice in the vic
tory which the peoples ballots have be-
slowed upon the friends of reform in the
valley of the Ohio, where the Republi-
can hosts had an overwhelming ascen
dency in every Presidential election
since 1856. We rejoice in the assurance
these elections convey that your ballots
will bestow decisive msjorities to the
allied forces of Democracy and Reform
in the November elections throughout
the Union. But we rejoice not as parti
sans; we rejoice with you as fellow citi
Gems.
And when the decision of this week of
one million voters along the valley of the
Ohio shall be ratified next month, by the
fiat of eight million voters throughout
the whole Republic, we shall still rejoice,
chiefly for the reason that not one of its
citizens can miss of an equal share with
US who are Democrats, in the political
peace and good will which will then and
there be established among all sections,
races, classes and conditionsiof men, and
in the prosperity of which political peace,
based on equal rights and frsternal good
will, is the first condition.
Upon the three States of West Vir-
ginis, Ohio and Indiana, were con.
centrated all the influence of the Ad-
ministration, all their efforts, and all the
vast sums of money forced from the
| one hundred thousand otficeholders of
the party in power.
These were fearful odds, not again to
be contended against so concentrated;
| for 10 the November elections the con-
test will be in every one of thirty
eight states upon the same day.
Nevertheless, against these odds the
Democrats and Reformers of West Vir-
gina and Indiana have been victorious,
and in Ohio they have all but rescued
state hitherto deemed hopeless, and have
created an assurance OF victory in No
vember.
II it falls TO our lot rs National Dem
| ccratic Committee to congratulate the
people of the Union upon this victory in
the first battle OF the reform campaign,
it is only because Democrats have been
honored to be the leaders of the people
in the work of national regeneration.
The victory Won, the victory still to
be won, will be deliverance as much 10
Republicans as to Democrats.
The patriotic masses of the Republican
party may be thankful that the misdeeds
of their unworthy leaders have been re-
| o., hn hn ~
ing whites of the South may lift up their
heads to greet the dawn of better day
| for them as we'll as the nation at large.
The colored citizen may share the gen.
| eral 10y that he will soon cease to be the
stock in trade of corrupt politicians, but
shall enjoy his rightful liberties and his
| equality before the law amid universal
good will.
As for the Reform Democracy, 10
whose standard victory has been tied,
with all her gsrlands or, it onl y remains
for them to welcome every ally, every
friend. close up the ranks and press on,
shoulder to shoulder, under the banner
and with one watchword.
REFORM.
Fellow-citizens: Peace between all sec
tions; Prosperity in all our homes OF
these you have been for years deprived
by the mistaken solicitudes of patriotic
Republicans, played upon by selfish and
| corrupt leaders, who have kept tanning
the dyi1g embers of civil strife in order
TO escape inspection Of the trusts which
they have betrayed.
For eleven years you have had the
name of peace. AT no time have you
had the substance of peace. In lieu
thereof YOU have had the grinding taxa
tion and wasteful expenditure of war.
Just before every election every year you
| have had the preaching of new crusade
against a section utterly defeated in war,
and anxious only to be completely recon-
| ciled in peace.
For eleven years the power of the men
| who have seized away the control OF
their party from the hands OF its states
men and founders has been supreme in
almost every department Of the Federal
government.
Discsrding the hope of prolonging
their domination by benefcent public
measures, they have created and trtficked
upon public calamities. The policy they
sdopted has been worked out. Its fail
ure has been absolute.
In place Of past performances these
same corrupt and selfish leaders now
proffsr promises already broken as their
titles to further trust.
Having prostrated our manifold in
dustries by the vast aggregates and the
worst methods Of Federal taxation, they
now again solicit your confidence as the
Instruments of retrenchment and reform.
Having debauched the public service,
and having just now, in the face of open
dsy, assessed their army ola hundred
thousand otfice-holders-the peoples SER
vsnts-paid by the peoples taxes-in
order to create immense corruption funds
to Illustrate the peoples will, they now
profess to be the champions of civil ser.
vice reform. Having imposed upon the
Southern States the rspacity, fraud and
plunder of the csrpet-bag governments,
having almost ruined the prosperity
of the North by destroying
the prosperity of the South,
having created terror and uncertainty
in all the productive industries of the
| SCuth. which furnish most OF the exports
oi oar wLo.e country, keep in motion
the commerce and manufactures Of the
| North and East. ard furnish q market
for the agricultural products of the
West, they now propose, BY renewal Of
the same fatal policy, to prolong their
own power in the hope OF concesling
their misdeeds, and for Ibis purpose they
do DOT hesitate to renew the cry OF in
tolerence; to revive The dying memories
of fraternsl strife, and to appeal to the
fears and preiudices OF the tImid and the
ignorant.
Fellow Citizens: These men and
their measures have been complete
" tried and have completely
filled. An oppressive taxation, an e1-
hsusted South, and impoverished North,
q fuctuating currency, the enterprise sol
an industrious people locked fast in the
paralysis of hard times such is the out
a. II.