The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-11-15
AParty OfFaiIurea.

That the Reconstruction poilcy
adopted by the Republicans at the
close of the war was q blunder and
has proved a failure is shown by the
action of the present administration
in repudiating it and adopting the
Democratic policy instead. Many Of
the most intelligent and fair.minded
leaders of the party do not hesitate
to admit it and the same may be said
of a large portion of Republican pa
pers.
The resolutions everywhere adopt
ed of late in Republican conventions
against donating lands or granting
subsidies to railroad or other corpo-
rations are confession that the &C.
ton of the party heretofore in that
respect has been wrong and cannot
be successfully defended. The clam.
or Of Republican organs and leaders
now for a return to a specie standard
of values is an acknowledgment
that their financial policy has been
an unsound and unstable one.
That their policy Of so-called "pro
lection" has proved failureis shown
by tho fact that though applied to a
greater extent than ever known be-
fore, the manufacturing and produc'
tive interests Of the country broke
down under it in 1873 and have con.
tinued in a PROSTATE condition ever
since. So completely has the system
failed that the idea of increasing
"protective" duties as a means Of
fostering productive energies through
an increase of prices is scarcely men,
toned or thought Of.
That their management of the
civil service has been anything but
successful is admitted by the almost
universal demand for q reform in
that respect, and the efforts of the
present administration toaccomplish
it.
Their Indian policy has resulted
in an almost constant warfare be-
tween the government and the cop
per.colored tribes of the forests, which
still continues. ,.......s
That they have been extrayagant
and proaigate in spending the peo-
pies money, is proved by the enor-
NOUS and continual increase of ex-
penditures while they continued in
full power, and by the great reduc-
tion already effected by Democrat
ic House, and is admitted by the
promises they now make in their
platforms to reduce expenses and
practice economy if longer entrusted
with control.
They have failed TO SO administer
the affairs Of the country as to give
thrift to business enterprise, employ
mcnt to the laboring classes or gen
eral prosperity to the people. Hun
dreds of thousands seek in vain fol
labor that shall save them from hun
ger and cold, while tramps swarm in
every locality, eking out miserable
existence by begging from door te
door and robbing as they go.
They have failed to promote ant
increase good morals and honesty tt
the extent required by their oppor
tunity and duties. Crime prevails
to an extent unknown before. Cor
ruption in high places and among
the protessedly pious and godly has
become SO common that it has almost
ceased to surprise or startle.
The rule Of the Republican party
has been a series of failures from the
beginning. 1t has failed at nearly
every point and it is not strange
that it has now failed itself. The
only wonder is that the people did
not insist upon putting it into bank
ruptcy and scquestrating its effect.
years ogo.-ltaine Standard.
Hon, D. w. Voorhees,, the "Tall