The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-28
An ADDRESS.
To 1be Democratie and COnser-
valve Voters OF Mason County.


At this time when the Republi-
can party is making desperate and
willy effort to break yourorganization,
capture your voters and secure to
their leaders the important Offices Of
the county, we deem it advisable to
issue q note Of warning,
The Republicans conscious of their
inability to carry the county or the
State, as Republicans, are encoura'
ging independent candidates, joining
the Workingmen, and applauding
Greenback candidates. They seek
to proselyte by holding up the idea
to honest Democrats that new party
can be formed, perfect in its organi'
cation, and containing no politicians
or office.seekers, one that will greatly
lesson taxation, a party where con-
ventions will not be held, yet will
have an Office ready for all who de-
sire to become candidates,
We point you to the following facts
that you may not BIO deceived;
Whatever new parties may here
after rise to power, there are to-day
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but two that have the slightest shad'
ow of a chance TO control this State
or the general Government, and
these two are the Democratic and
Republican parties. Conventions
have been held by both alike, nomi'
nations have been made by each,
and this is the well recognized and
established method Of selecting can
didates by each.
In counties and States where the
Republicans have certain majorities,
there they are sticking closely tc
their party, wasting no votes upon
Workingmen, adopting hard money
platforms, and denouncing bitterly
the greenback movement. While in
counties and States, as in ours, where
the majority is certainly against
them, they denounce conventions,
encourage independents and run
Greenback men on hard money plat,
forms.
Honest Workingmen and earnest
Greenback men, who have joined
these organizations under the allu-
ring promise that they should be
parties without rings or cliques, or
frauds or ofiice.seekers we call upon
you to look at the men who have
stepped forward as leaders, us candi'
dates, and as your most noisy advo-
catesl You cannot fail to recognize
them at once, with but the fewest
exceptions, as disappointed Office
seekers, either in the Republican or
Democratic parties, as men having
belonged to both parties, nay, as men,
who, ifStheFe were rings or cliques
in either party, they were the chief
links and advisers in each, Thus
the hopes of a pure party, as falsely
and fatteringly held up to the peo-
Pile, is blasted in its infancy by the
Oldest, the widest ollice,seekers Of
both parties.
AS a partial experiment of such
movements, we point to the "Pco,
pies Party" of few years since.
When the day of election came ar
ound it was proven to be an effort Of
the Republicans to be elected under
u name less odious than their own.
We warn you that the crafty and cx-
perienced organizers of that move
ment are again among you today,
clothed in the livery Of the "People,"
encouraging Workingmen's parties
and Greenback men, only to secure q
Republican victory.
Be not deceived The Democratic
party is the friend Of the working.
man, for it has ever declared, worked
and voted for one currency for the
capitalist and the laborer, for an
equal taxation of all property MS re.
quired by the constitution, and for
setting free the dead capital of the
country, now locked up in United
States Bonds. 1t is the consistent
champion Of the greenback men, be-
cause it has labored increasingly
since 1868 to pay off the government
bonds in greenback8, and to substi-
tute them in the place of national
bank currency. It's the friend Of
the industrial and agricultural in
tercs!s of the country because it has
stopped the contraction of the cur.