The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-05-21


party Of these United States; it is the
only party worthy Of popular sup
port. 1t behooyes US, therefore, to
purify it, and to lop off these excre-
SCIENCES, and in doing so, we will con
fer great blessing upon the'present
as well as upon future generations"
No other party in this country
ever made such pretentions to hon
esty, goodness, piety and purity as
the Republican party has, and no
other party has ever been guilty
of a tenth part of the wickedness
and rascality that it has. Practicing
the opposite Of its professions has
generally characterized its course Of
conductfrom the beginning. To-day
its leaders are struggling to perpet-
uate power in the hands Of their
fraudulent President to override the
will Of the people by interfering
with, and controlling elections
Ithroughswartns of deputy Marshals
and soldiers, but their profesed object
isto secure honest and fair elections.
What a mockeryl With a President
and Vice President held in office
through the fundamentally of the
most fragrant, wholesale frauds ever
perpetrated upon the elective fran
chise in the history of the world,
with one hundred and fifty, more or
less, Of the perpetrators those frauds
appointed to important Offices as a
reward for their crimes, and with
ninety thousandoffice. holders admin
istering the affairs of government by
virtue Of titles tainted with those
corruptions, what sublime display
of cheek it is for party thus situa-
ted, to pretend to be actuated by a
desire for purity in elections? t
When they shall have forced
Hayes and Wheeler to leave the po-
sitions they hold by fraud, and sur
render to Tilden and Hendricks, the
rightfully chosen of the people, and
when they have driven out of Office
and sent to penitentiary the scores
of scoundrels whom Hayes has re.
warded for the forgeries and perjuries
by which they reversed the verdict
of the nation, and when they shall
have turned over to the Democratic
party the full control of the govern
ment in accordance with the express
ed will of the people, then they can
consistently claim a regard for the
purity ofthe elections, butnot before.
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1t will be sometime before a major
-ity Of the people Of this country will
be made to believe that the only way
to secure honest elections is to put
them under the control of the dep
uty marshals and soldiers of fraud
ulent administration.
-.~
Old Zachariah Chandler uttered
whoops in the Senate chamber, on
the occasion of the passage Of the
Free Election bill, that would shame
a Comanche Indian. "Rebel yells"
are no where in comparison.
Republican political strikers are
Dragging that they shall recover the
State in 1880, but considerate mem
bers of the party shake their heads
and don't express any anxiety to bet
on such a result.
If Mr., Sherman can fix up a fence
that contains his contraction policy,
and the bayonet vetoes, it will make
an uncomfortable seat for him during
the next two years.
Subscriptions are now in order to
pay the expenses of the misguided
negroes back to the land Of the sugar
cane and corn.
Convict Deputy Marshals and bay
onets are wanted by whiskey thieves,
bummers and plunderers, to secure
the election of Grant.
The superiority Of practicable IL
cense law over an impracticable pro-
hibitory law as check to intemper-
ance seems to have been illustrated
by the experience of Boston. In
1874, the last year of the existence of
the prohibitory law, the number of
places in The city where liquor was
sold was in the neighborhood Of three
thousand, and the number of cases of
ri 81, =, 80. r \