Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-25
BUSINESS AND STRIFE.
SECTl0NAllSMAFO FOE TO PROSPERITY.
The Protests Ofthe AbIest Popular Journals
-COnking's Suic.dal Policy Of Hate
Republican Defeat Probable from
the Renewal Of Sec
tiOnal Strife.

hepuollcan defeat Probable from
the Renewal Of Sec
tiOnal Strife.
Conklng's Assault Upcn the Best Hope
of RepubgIcanIsm.
From the New York Ey,,.iug Post Rep. Sept
~
IL was throu ;hout an insidous assault
upon the best character, purposes and
hopes OF the Republican party, and un-
der a pretcnce of vindicating and de.
Tending il pat the argument in such a
shape that the effect OF it must be to re.
pei every man III generous feelings and
honest logic by whom it is carefully
read. Its only object was to revive and
reinforce that narrow, odious and maiig-
nant secuonallsm against which all
the better members OF the party
have been struggling ior the last
ten years. 1t SAYS in so many
words that the issue OF the present cam
paign is sectional and only sectional;
and in order to prove that it frames
what Burke thought to be impossible.
the indictment OF whole people" in
tie lowest spirit OF the carpet.b bagger
and the demdgOgue. The en-
tire animus OF Mr.. COnkling's reasoning
Is that the President should be elected
by the macsine, and when elected be
controlled by the machine. lie is not
TO address himself To m impartial adj
mlnistratlOn OF the duties vi his office,
according to certain fixed political prin-
CipirS, but he Is TO become the instru-
meut OF DredOminating interests or of
those parts OF the nation where pro
ductlon. consumption, building, titled
acreage, railway rattle, postal returns"
etc, happen 10 be in the ascendant. But
that is not the spirit OF our Constitution.
The Constitution fixes, with great
minutenesS oI detail, the modes Of our
elections, ard when an election is
closed It regards the result as the act OF
the whole people. In order 10 get an
expression of the manhood Ot the nation,
each vote counts as one, and is as good
as anv other vote, and, as Mr.. COnkling
hin SELF saws in the outset OF his al.
dress, "the supreme, the final, the only
peaceful arblter Is the ballot box In
that urn should be gathered aud from il
should be SacreAly recorded the con.
science, the judgment, the intelligence |
OF all" B II no, srsues Mr.. COukiing, |
atiyrward, II i not the votes that ought |
to be considered, but the places that the
votes cone from. Ii they are put in by |
the south, which Is unfortunately i'm |
pOverished 10y Il long civil war and many |
years OF carpet-bag eX'OrtIOn and not, |
they are bad and dIns crUUS votes; but |
II they are put in by the North, where |
commerce, industry and manufactures
thrive ana large revenues are paid. they |
are good and wholesome votes ami en- |
titled TO the rule.
The Southern Bugaboo.
In order to Justify his cold.blooded |
sectionaiSm and to carry the Repub!. |
can cause back to III" state in which il |
was AZ the close OF Grants adminlstra- |
ton, ignoring the noble and efficient |
services OF Mr.. Hayes and his Cabinet |
IN healing old sores and bringing about
kind and ronci!iatOry feelings, Mr.. |
Cunk,ing gets upa tremendous bugalpo. |
IL would be- iTightlul bugabou ii il |
were not OF the kind which bites or its |
own head. His mode OF constructing |
the scarecrow, put in logical shape |
would be this: First, the Democratic
party, ii it succeeds, would be controlled |
Oy the South; second, but the South j.
only one.seyenth OF the people OF the |
Union, and las but one.iourteenth of |
the producing, commercial, industrial,
I t'N-paying aud property interests OF the
country, and ergo, third, the whole vast
business OF the country will be at the
OF a very inCOnsidCrable minor
it OF those who are concerned ia a.. n |
t) middOle conclusion, indeed, ii 1t We e
valid; but assumptions Of iallaCy LUX
b 18th in the premises and in the cOnClu
5 on, and nobody need to be frightened
o 1t Of his serseS.
The Central States Must Decide the
Election.
The first assumption or implication is
that the south can succeed by itself,
which il cannot. Even if We suppose
il solid and IL is by no means certain
that il will be so in November) it can
not succeed without the aid of two or
three Of the great Middle States, which
are most important factors IN that sum
Of producing, commercial, industrial,
tax-paying aud property interest which
Nlr. COnkling Il urishes in its fac. Ii
cannot succeed without securing ma
! rity Of votes i'm New jersey, New York,
Indiana and some State i'm New England
and on the Pacific Slope. Now these
states represent a very
large part of those commercial, induSlri.
al and property interests which are
used 10 make IN. contrast between the
North and South. Ii our orator had
been an honest statesman n he is an
ardent politician he would have nstitu.
ted q comparison, not between the
North and South, but between the Re
publican aud Democratic States, but
then the entire basis OF his superstruc-
ture would have fallen away and lac
would have hal no scarccrow at all.
che South Would no, Alternate the
North
The second assumption is that the 1
South, which can only win by the assist
ancc OF these great Middle States, would /
originate policy, ii It had the power, |
certain TO ALLEVIATE their SympJthies and |
support. But what can be more prepos- |
terouS than to suppose that il would run |
counter To the convictions aud political |
prospects not only of these great Middle |
States, but Oi that very large minority |
in the Republican States which cOnsti- |
tutes an essential part OF the Democratic |
iOrce-neariy hal. the people, in fact? |
How soon would it sink into utter inn !
pO,ence ii il attempted To outrage the |
opinions, or even preludlccS, Cf the !
North and West? IL could not live q |
wear in the eaioyment Oi its power; and |
It's allies at the North would be irrepar- |
ably destroyed. Besides, the largest |
States OF the South, and those which |
are likely to have the most 10 say in its !
councils, are Maryland, Virginia, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkan-
sts, which belong, 10 the great middle |
group. and whose interests are nearly !
identical with those Of Indiana, New
York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Under |
the operation OF the living forces which !
bring localities together they would |
gravitate more and more toward these,
and no political party, call it 10y what
name YOU will, would dare To come in
conflict with the tendencies OF opinion
in these mighty centres OF civilization,
trade and activity. These States,
though nominally belonging to me
south, because Of their former tolerance
Of slavery are now, under free inilucn-
ces, rapidly matchmaking with the
States near and around them. They
were never strongly Southern, and have
become decidedly Northern. They
would never cling for any length OF time
TO "A policy deCisively southern; their al
liances are with the North and West,
and with them in the end they will he
found. MI. NohNlIhS mas
done much hitherto to drive the inde-
pendent thinkers from their Republican
aihesions and, d,his present ill-judged, H.
logical and malicious speech will, we
fear, quicken the departures.
GARFIELD DESERVING HIMSELF.
The Fatal Surrender of His Two Strong
est Elements ofSucoess
From the New York Herald Ind, Sept, 2i
General Garfield, apparently cowed by
the threatening attitude OF the extrem.
lists in his party, publicly abandoned the
two positions the maintenance Otwhich
alone had made him conspicuous enough
Al .,,,,tnatinn Ia ha1 N