The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-04-09
praetice Is. PREACHING.

H"StASCfNSs EEStCtllbs
The underlying and all potent idea
Of the average republican is that ey-
erything which tends to strengthen
his party is right, for the. time being,
and that everything which tends to
weaken 1t is wrong. When that
party first got control of the House
under the administration of Mr..
Buchanan it was all right for them
to attach political legislation in re.
gard to Kansas affairs to appropria-
ton bills and force them through, but
now that the democrats propose to do
precisely the same thing, they raise
a howl from one end Of the land to
the other and denounce it as "revo-
lutionary," The only difference is
that their legislation tackled on to
the appropriations was intended to
help the republican party while that
proposed now by the democrats will
will tend to weaken it by abolishing
test oaths and the use Of Federal
troops, supervisors and deputy mar
Eshals to control the elections.
II was legitimate for the republi-
can minority in the last House to fl
libustcr and refuse to vote so us to
show less than quorum present, in
order topreyent the passage Of such
bills but when portion Of the dem.
ocrats undertook to resort to iillibus-
tering to defeat the final consumma-
ton of the monstrous fraud by which
Hayes was TO be installed in the Of.
flee to which Tilden had been elected,
the country resounded with their
demonstrations Of such revolution
airy" and "disofderly9 proceedings.
Not word Of dissatisfaction was
uttered when republican Presidents
have appointed such rebel generals
as Longstrcet to important positions.
A rebel general sat in Grants cabin.
ct, another holds similar position
under Hayes, and even the guerrilla
chieftaiu Mcsby is appointed to a
foreign mission, without rufIling the
surface Of republican sentiment in
the slightest degree, but The election
OF rebel officers to Congress by demo-
Gratis isproof positive of downright
disloyalty and u sure indication that
the country is in danger of being de-
livered into the hands of its enemies
and sent straight to perdition.
1t was all correct for republican
Senate to officer that body with re-
publicans, to organize its committees
with republicans, and to enforce dis
cipline, in sustaining republican
measures, even to the extent Of de-
grading Charles Sumner by remoy-
ling him from the Craftsmanship of
the committee on Foreign Relations
because he would not support Grants
rotten San Domingo scheme: but
when the democratic majority in the
present Senate saw fit, u few days
ago, to officer that body with men
from their own party the country
was treated with long diatribes from
the republican members in opposi
ton lothe course pursued, and the
organs have howled about it from
Maine to Texas.
They seem to regard themselves as
the Lords anointed and all others as
Gentiles with no rights which they
are hound to respect. At the incept-
ionof the party they claimed to base it
on great moral ideas aud arrogated
to themselves "all the honor, all the
the honesty and all the deccncy" in
the country, and from that time to
this the organization has been char.
acterizcd by inconsistency, stultifca.
ton, cant and hypocrisy, to degree
that is well nigh disgusting. Is it
at all wonderful that the long contin-
ued rule of a party of such false pre-
fences has permeatod the body poll.
tic, socially and politically, with
fraud and dnplicity TO such an alarm.
ing exient?-liaine Standard.
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