Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-08

changed his political principles, or his
political opinions, as regards the past,
any more than he can be said to have
changed his residence by having Travelled
with the world in its diurnal revolution
from west to east. lie has simply rec
ognized and frankly accepted the situa-
ton in which he finds himself by the
/ course OF events. lie recognizes that
the world has been travelling Many OF
the issues upon which he and others
were disposed 10 stand have disappeared
from politics. They have been settled,
not, perhaps, by the Democratic party
or the Republican party, nor yet by the
Greenback party. They have been set
tied by Providence. They have been
eliminated from politics by Party who
was and is and always will be a major
ity party. Who will say that they have
not been settled right?
Our financial condition is good. Our
money is good. II isOt sufficient varie-
ty and is all passing at par. Our bust
ness is good. Our credit is good. Our
prospects for the future were never bet
ter. A bOuntiful Providence has smiled
on us, and at the same time settled and
sunk out of sight for time all material
differences in our politics that related to
finances, resumption, initiation, con-
traction, business and bankruptcy.
Those things are taking care Of them
selves Tor the present, aud 50 far as they
at at past time may have constituted
necessity for the Greenback or National
party, or even the Democratic or Repub-
lican party, those parties are as dead
and numbered among the things that
were. Why should men strap them
selves to corpse? Why should they
stand in the way OF Providential disPen-
sations till Knocked down and run over
by the wheels Of progress?
There are living, vital issues pending
between the two great leading parties Of
the country; issues in which every pa
triotic citizen should feel not only an
interest but an obligation resting upon
him to help decide one way or the other.
He can only do this by cooperating
with one or the other OF the parties with
which the fate OF these issues rests. The
Greenback party, "as separate politi-
cal organization, " said leading journal
in sympathy with it, "neyer had before
it any rational possibility OF success.
Its motives have been good and have
served a good purpose. 1t has assisted
i'm the betterment Of our financial sys-
tenn, and has acted As a check as well as
a stimulant in aneeded currency reform.
Il had a logical and important place in
the history OF financial epoch, but "as
a distinct political control" says this
same journal, seeking power as an in
dependent organization in our politics,
the Greenback or National party was
ioolishness." Ii this has been true from
the beginning, how much more signifi-
cant is il nOw2
Beside the issue Mr.. AIohett points
out, Of maintaining the Federal Repub-
lie founded by our fathers, as opposed
to Capitalization and despotism, the
great Democratic party has upon It the
responsibility OF establishing and main
tanning free ballot and the supremacy
of the civil over the military power.
These issues, we say, are upon us now.
They are not of the past, but the present
and future. At the meetingOf Congress
next month decision will be made as to
whether the next presidential election
shall be free and fair to all parties and
in all places alike, or be supervised and
controlled by a partisan administration
backed by the military and the paid
agents of desperate, designing and UNI
scrupulous partisan officials. Shall we
have an Executive alter the 18th OF
March, 1881, who has been elected by
the people, or one installed through I.
partisan chicanery and military terror
ism?
West Virginia will be expected to /.
place herself solidly on the side OF con-
government. The sympathies /
Of the masses of our people are unques-
t;onablv with the Democratic party |
i'm this struggle. Outside OF the I.
Radical party the political divisions in .
the State of every name and locality, are /.
in entire harmony with the Democratic |
party on the live leading issues OF the /
dav. When the dissatisfied and disor- f.
elements Of the State come to /.
consider that it is simply question OF /
choice between the Democratic and Re- |
publican parties, they will not allow
mere local chickering's and matters OF ,
secondary consideration to impe-il the /
result. As has been demonstrated this |
fall in Maine, in Ohio, in New York, |
and other States where |
these divisions have existed, so will 1t /
be- found in West Virginia, when the |
people are called to the polls again, that |
these divisions will dwindle away and /
the two great parties will come up with .
solid fronts and harmonious purposes to
take care Of the living rather than to
the dead.