Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-08-02
COMMUNICATES.
GOOD TICKET.

A communication in the Register OF
q week or two back, by "F," has the
ring Of the true metal. The article pre-
sents the names of two of the trmest
and most unwavering Democrats in the
United States for President and Vice
President in 1880. w. w. Eaton, IN
the Senate of the United States, with
his eagle eye pierced the black cloud OF
fraud and corruption, and predicted
when the electoral commission iniqul-
ty was about being enacted into a law
that it was clearly in conflict with jas
tice and the constitution, and, like Glib
ra!ter, he stood out with warning voice
alone; whilst other Senators thought
they could trust to the results OF popu-
lar election. But Dir. Eaton, and the
twelve compatriots of the House Zone
of whom was Jos. & S. Blackburn, OF
Kentucky, also named in the article as
a suitable democrat TO accompany MI.
Eaton through the next great race, as
Vice President saw that no justice
could be reached by yielding to chance
what was achieved by the general eiec-
ton. To refer to manipulation that
which a majority OF the commission TO
be selected were as bitter partlzans
bound to DO, was too plain a resulting
disaster for far seeing statesmen like
Eaton and Blackburn TO trust. But this
IS not only, or one OF thousand, reas-
ons why those sound and firm men
should be selected as acknowledgements
| of the constitutional party at the next
great rIial for republican liberty, now
so clearly threatened by the adminlstra-
ton party, as shown by the series OF re
cent White House vetoes, in which the
ordinary appropriations were defeated
again and again by the man Hayes, who
is the recipient of $4,000 annually, for
sitting in the chair Of Presidential
place to which he has been assigned by
one Bradley, whose vote was made TO
count more than the legal majorities Of
| both Florida and Louisiana. And 10
avoid a recurrence of another national
! disgrace, it is proposed to run men for
those great offices who have vim enough
to resist fraudin high places. As was said
by 81" we must have backbone IN the
next race; men who will not be squelch-
Cd under the heavy pressure OF I. ).
bonds. II Mr. Eaton should be elected
President he would take his seat in
Washington if there were as many op-
posing threats as there are tile upon the
houses in that city A thousand sol
diers with Grant to command would
not keep Eaton out lie is a second
! Andrew Jackson. Whilst the ignorant
might enquire as they did thrice before,
when Polk and when Pierce were nom
inated-who is Polk? Who is Frank
Pierce? Who is Eaton? the answer
would be as it was then, when those
best of American Presidents closed their
eventful terms, "Well done, good and
faithful servants, around your heads the
chapcts bear inscribed the most glo-
rious fame" Yes, give us Eaton and
Blackburn, who have not blurred their
escutchcon in the money middle, but
whose opinions on the money question
are answered as every other question
involving political principle is answered,
by the creed and acts Of the democratic
fathers. We want no latitudinal de
mocracy in the next contest-no doubt
tul questions to solve by Investigations.
But where the name OF the candidate is
but a synonym of all that is embraced
in our JeGtrsoHian democracy per
feet harmony between the States and
the general government.
Old JFFF