The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-04
TO INDEPENDENT VOTERS
Advice from the Right
Source.
The New York Journal OF
Commerce on the Situa-
ton.


i, an Independent paper, and is devoted
10 the great interest indicated by Its
name. 1t is pre-eminently the organ Of
the merchants OF New York. During
the present canvass it has not engaged in
any of the pending political discussions
further than to advise its readers to pur-
sue an independent political course. In
it's issue OF Tuesday, Oct. 81, it contains
leading editorial addressed ITO indie
pendent Voters" We commend the con-
GLIDING portion of the article to the stten-
ton of all merchants and business men:
The ground upon which the needed
change is most earnestly opposed by those
who are anxious to retain tGeir present
authority is that the Democratic party as
q body is unpatriotic, and if placed IN
power will be untrue to the great princi-
pies of liberty upon which the nation was
founded. The changes are rung upon
this charge with unceasing clangor by
the party organs on every side OF US. 1t
is vehemently asserted that the opposi-
ton, if successful, will re-establish slave
~, or at least Cypress the negro into
worse than servile bondage; they will re-
pudiate the public debt for which the
faith of the nation is solemnly pledged,
and they will revive and assume the de-
funct obligations of the old rebellion;
they will pander to low popular passions
and prejudices, will promote vice and
ignorance, and will aid religious hicr-
srchy in dominating over the bodies aid
souls OF men.
The men who are charged a" IN such
fell designs are our fr:e,Gs and neigh
bors, and compose at least half 9! the
community in which we live. 1t is not
"united South" against which such ac-
cusstions are made, but moiety of the
whole Northern people. For it must be
remembered that the State in which we
live has arrayed ut least half OF her entire
population on that side; and if such great
States rs Ohio and Pennsylvania are call
ed Republican, it is only by all inslgnif.
cant majority, the great body of their cit
izens being almost equally divided be-
tween the opposing parties.
Even the oft-vaunted virtue of New
England is not to be counted against the
opposition. Connecticut and New
Hampshire are evenly divided, if not
Democratic. Maine has been Republican
of late, but only by trifling majority,
and the other States have very large
minority in the opposing ranks.
Is it true, then, that more than half of
our forty millions of people, dividing into
almost equal sections every State in the
Union, are untrue to their country and
reckless of its honor and its liberties? The
orators, writers and politicians who, I'M
der the pressure of a great political ex-
ctement, reiterate this charge from day
TO day with such tiresome pertinacity, do
not real v believe it themselves. After
the election, il they are defeated, they
will feel US secure IN their persons, their
homes, their property and their religion,
rs if their own party had won the vic
tory.
Mr.. EvsrtS, al the invitation of certain
Republican bankers, and under the insp.
ration of very liberal fee, may set out
in his most eloquent periods, to those who
hear hun on Wednesday evening, the
great danger 10 which bondholders and
other creditors of the government will be
exposed # the present party is displsced
and vet, when the announcement of TIL
denis election is made week after this
public defamation. not one OF those sfore-
said bondholders or creditors will sell his
hold on the public faith for one-eighth of
one per cent less than he a.ked the day
beiorel
In regard to the financial issues about
which so much has been said, satlsssc-
tory answer may be gathered from the
pages of history. The champions of pa
per money, from the days of the old Uni
led Ststes bank dewn to the latest propo.
sition TO pay of the public debt in de.
preciated currency, are all to be reckoned
In the ranks OF the dominant party. The
Democrats established the sub-lressury in
the face of the tiercest struggle upon
financial questions the country has ever
known; and not q dollar of anything but
gli,tering coin was recognized in any off,
cisl transaction, or paid TO any public
creditor, for q quarter OF a century, dur
ing most of which they held the reins of
authority.
We see no hope of any reformation in
the perpetustion of the existing rule.
The Republican party itself is not cor
rupt, the great mass of its voters being
honest and patriotic and, what is more, at
heart greatly ashamed of the late admin.
istration of public affairs. They would,
long ere this, have effected a reform OF
existing abuses if il lay at all within their
power. But they have been completely
In the hands of their party managers. |
Unscrupulous politicians have disgraced |
the party which gave them control, as
we'll as the nation they were called to |
serve, growing more and more selfish and
corrupt with each fresh lease of power.
In casting them out of Office and bring
ing in the opposition, the Independent
voters will not only relieve the country
from the misrule that has become intoler-
able, but will emancipste. the dominant
party itself from the intriguing politi-