The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-09-03
TIle NlruggIe in Ohio.

Struggle lor ascenQency now gong on
in Ohio between the Democratic par
ty and the Republican party, is a
most unequal one, and it will be a
most gratifying surprise to us should
the democrats win; for the whole
power and patronage Of the Federal
government are openly enlisted upon
one side and thrown in the scale as a
partisan influence. So that, in adj.
ditiont to the organization and ma,
chinery Of party, this mighty force
is added to the strength Of the Re-
publicans.
The battle for the White House
may almost be said to have begun,
and will be fought and decided, as far
as the party in power can shape
events, upon a merely local contest.
With the ability to concentrate the
immense resources of the Govern.
ment on few comparatively small
points, the advantge of the ms is
enormous.
If Gen. Ewing is elected in the
face Of this great power welded
without scruple and by corrupt and
desperate managers, with a large
body of regular troops in the form of
ollice-holders, chosen entirely for
their efficiency in partisan manage.
ment, with the vast public patronage
operating on contractors, robbers, and
spectators, with the banks actively
or indirectly cooperating with the
Treasury, and with the President and
Cabinet and all the departments COM
bined to favor the Republican candi-
dates, it will indeed be q wonderful
triumph for the friends. of liberty
and constitutional government.
If these powerful influences were
withdrawn from the State, and the
people allowed fairly and squarely to
decide the question in dispute for
themselves, there is no manner of
doubt but what Ohio, instead of be-
ing sharply contested and kept in
doubt, would give Democratic ma
jority of many thousand Sooner or
later the people will come to see that
the excitement, cost, danger and de-
basing effects Of such system will in
volvc consequences that can only be
avoided by having uniform day Of
election throughout the United States.
Through the columns Of this paper
we urged the last Legislature to take
some steps to correct this evil in our
State. Pennsylvania has changed
her day of election SO that it now
falls upon the same day with the
Presidential election. Until all the
States are put upon the footing by
local laws which establish uniform
ity, there can be no fair expression
of the popular will.
The struggle which is going on in.
wolves on the Republican side moth,
ing more than a continuation Of
Grantism under a new name. All
the material issues affecting the in,
terests of the people, freedom of the
ballot, the currency, the public ex,
penditures, rctrenchment, and every.
thing else, will be purposely thrust
aside and substituted by a campaign
of falsebood and defamation, having
for its conspicuous advocates, men
stained with corruption, like Gar.
field, Blaine, Taft, Sherman, and that
gang of venal Legislators, whose votes
and whose principles have always
been in the market for the highest
bidder.
Having possession of the public
records and accounts, the Admins.
tration will use them unscrupulously
to aid this campaign, so that the
government, through the Chief Mag.
istrate, the high functionaries of the
State, and the entire official corps
will be the most energetic support OIL
the disgraceful methods by which
the candidates of one party are ad.
vocated.
The Baltimore Gazette states the
question in very few words. Here
they are: "Ihe Republican party,
through its platform and press every
where, is committed to the doctrine
that the war oblitcrated State lines
and made this a centralized nation,
with powers similar to those possessed
by an empire. The Democratic par.