The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-27
7gheelln0 aseNl5ter.
40 the Workfngmen Of the First
Conversational Dis ricf.
MsssrS. Dqrydh, Roach, Vets, Ramp,


Of qualification read the address pub
lished by you few days ago TO the voters
of Ohio county. The principles you sd-
vocate, are worthy the support of all
workingmen, irrespective of past or pres
ent party affiliations.
The old parties, from the ancient
Wing 10 the modern Democrat, have
done their work. The last of these are
now running race for the ruin OF the
land To the one is attributed the de-
pressed condition of the country; through
ITS legislation business is psraly zed, and
"A uMiLed effort of the workingmen can
| only revive 1t.
The other is committed to continued
agitation upon all questions of import
suCe, and is only worthy the reprobatlon
of every citizen who processes TO have
the interests Of the country At heart.
Tie Republican party, toquote the words
| of prominent writer, Is composed OF
! leaders "who are arrogant, selfish, and
uprincipled, whose only object Is to keep
in power, that they may grow rich at the
expense OF the people" "Fhe Demo-
cratic party" says the same writer us
the 90 snized ignorance Of the land,
and either charge being half true Is
enough for condemnation.
Your address deSignates very fully the
| real Communists of this country, and l
| cannot DO otherwise than endorse all you
| have said relative TO John Sherman, q
Republican,, and Augustus Belmont, y
| Democrat.
The financial policy of the Republican
party. endorsed and vItalized by Demo
Gratis, has brought the most terrible
wrongs upon the workIngmen ever SUIT
fered under Republican form of govern
meat, and unit. the repeal OF the resump-
| tiOn act labor can never to have Its sor-
| rowtul condition smeliorsted.
How 10 gain smellOration and relieve
the country from Its present prostitution,
cannot but De apparent TO every Observ-
lEg, thinking man. 1t must be done by
united action or the part OF the crafts
men, tradesmen and others who depend
on labor for support.
The men whose labor Is their only
| capital, and the merchant who relies upon
the laborer tor his support, can never
| secure the legislation necessary tor the
sdV n cement and protection OF tina, capt.
! til except by uniOn-union OF strength,
| union OF thought, union OF action.
! Past sutierings have proven conclusive
| ly that the policy OF moLeyeG capital to
| Divide and conquer has hitherto been but
! zoo successful. Few of the politicians and
! legislators who have lived In luxury by
grace of our ballots, believe that working
| men can unite for effective action, hence
| their careless indifference to our appeals,
/ AMI unit. convinced that We can be
united. and that we will be united, we
need expect 10 legislation favorable to
our interests.
Workingnen may never have SUCH u
complete opportunity MS q. the coming
! elections to show the strength that has
slumberet too long, ard by aunited front
we can send such thrill through the
country rs to cause the sristocraL, the
bondho,der, and the advocates OF John
Sherman's policy to respect the classes
they have hitherto despised and tramP!ed
! on.
All the great questions dividing the
Democratic and Republican parties have
been finally settled, there being nothing
! between them but struggle Tor the su
premacy of power and the spoiIs fI
/ office, and between the issues Of the OLD
parties, which have become so obnoxious,
! there steps in the National Greenbac
! Labor Party, with platform upon which
| honor and honesty may stand-a plat
form with no plank stained by blood or
moistenei with tears.
The time mas arrived when working
men, irrespective of party, must think
and &C. a becomes men, upon the prln-
ciplc that to secure relief they must
unite. The interests Of the worklngman
and merchant are identical, whatever
Is beneficial TO the one must necessarily
be beneficial to the other. l trust the
workingmen and merchants will give
this matter thorough consideration, and
not allow themselves to be divided by
the whlms OF political trickstess, who in
the past have been seltlshly and sggran
DINGHY successful in separating them
upon political questions whereon they
should have been a unit.
deem it advisable here to quote part
of An address made TO the workingmen
of this city early in the spring, 10 show
that the prediction | then made, relative
to the action of the workIngmen III West
Virgins. are being successfully carried
out:
81 am clad that the workingmen IN
West Virginia have finally arrived at
the conclusion that the emancipation OF
the working classes must be achieved by
uus working classes themselves They
have stood by and witnessed Tor years
tho steady advance Ct their State IN the
footsteps Of its mother State, toward dis
rr.ce and ruin. Less than fifteen years
State. there was now due to its TreGsu-
nv from defaUltng sherliis alone, over
half a million dollars-stolen money
from sherIffs whose bonds were in some
Instances worthless, or nearly worthless,
md who in more than one instance had
boldly importuned the Legislature to re-
ljevc them and their bondsmen from liza
bIHLy hv compromise, under the plea OF
bankruptcy and hardship. And yet,
seeing this, they had consented year after
yrYr 10 allow tho reins OF the State and
county govern ments 10 continue In the
. hands or men VINO uiAht pplNN'Se q hAoNNb
and rs rule lived by dishonest practl-
ccs, bv violations of law and morality,
which IN some instances have resulted IN
| the disgrscelul record just mentioned.
within the last three years two prom
| inent State officials, the tsvorltes OF the
dominant party, and the chosen OF this
class, had been imPesChed by the Inquest
of the people, and arrsignsd at the bar
OF the higher body OF the Legislature Tor
grave charges of misdemeanor in office.
/ In one of these cases conviction follow
cd. and in the othcr, one vote short OF
I the Constitutional majority required.
saved the cuIprit from removal. These
things are having Their Legitimate effect.
/ They are serving as y lever, whose RS
ing a. the appointed time wse already
/ .oreshadowed by such manifestations OF
interest among workiugmen OF the most
/ important manufacturing region OF the
I Northern Pan. Handle as bad never be-
tore been seen. Whist the result Will be
/ only time can tell; but that the laboring
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