Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-27
DEMOCRATS, AROUSE!
A Radical Scheme to Buy West
yirginia.

chase next Tuesday.
The same fraudulent and corrupt
methods by which Indiana's vote was
secured, are to be applied TO West Nir-
ginia.
Fiity Thousand Dollars $50. COO has
already been sent to West Virginia Tor
this purpose.
The money is now in the hands oil
Radical agents in this State. who are
LAYING the wires for operations on Tues
day morning.
The Democratic voters OF West Nir-
GINA are spotted as purchasable mate
rial, and the money is here.
This is not political clap-trap; it is not
for the purpose OF political sensation !;
il is information coming direct from
Democratic Headquarters, where the
fact and the proof are known.
ltwould not be judicious for us to
state in detail the programme OF opera
tons devised by the Republican Ma
tional Committee for carrying out this
scheme, and which will be abundantly
manifest throughout the State on next
Monday and Tuesday, unless thwarted
bv Democratic diligence.
Suffice it to say that the Republican
Committee have concluded that West
Vryinia's five electoral votes are neces-
sarv to their plan for electing GARFIELD.
They have been lead to the conclusion
that West Virginia may be captured:
First, by misrepresentation sent out
from the Wheeling Ia,ci'ig1'cer to the
effect that the Republicans made gains
IN the last election, and the Democratic
majority is Insignificant.
Secondly, they speculate that "as
winter is coming on, and many Of our
population are poor, men who have
families will value five dollar bill more
than the sentiment OF voting for what
they believe"
Thirdly, they have been advised that
hundreds OF employees Of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad company can thus be
bought, and that hundreds OF citizens
of jefferson and Berkeley counties, are
apathetic and ready to sell their votes
for song.
Fourthly, they count upon greater
or less degree OF Indifference existing IN
the Democratic party in the November
election because they carried the State
in October, and many willconclude that
it will be carried next Tuesday whether
they vote or not, and can thus easily be
bought or persuaded to stay at home.
These are some of the reasons that
have actuated the Radical committee 20
open operations in this State.
We do not guess-we have positive
information that Fifty Thousand Dol
lars has been sent into the State, with
the expectation that that sum would
buy it for GARFIELD.
We have positive information that
Radical emisSaries, with this money in
their pockets, are now on "still hunt
in this State.
The plan not only includes the cap
ture of the electoral votes, but carrying
the Congressional districts for the Re
publicans.
A special effort will be made in this
district to defeat Col. WILSON. That is
the secret OF the LateVigWcr's harrangues
to the Greenback vote in the last few
days. 1t is simply backing up the Rad
ical committees programme.
They hope TO buy off Nc. BASEL, the
Greenback candidate. OHfailing in this,
to buy enough Greenbackers to turn
the scale for HUTcHINsoS.
We give these facts to put Democrats
on their guard.
We DO not believe the Democrats oil
West Virginia can be bought.
We do not believe that the Democrat
ic party is made up OF cravens and I'M
principled traitors.
Let no Democrat stay at home next
Tuesday. Let him not thus bring the
suspicion upon himself that he has
been bought by this Republican corrup-
ten fund.
let every man who values his princi-
Piles and the success OF the Democratic
ticket, be at the polls, with his ticket in
his hand, battling not only for the sue
cess OF his party, but to preserve the
good name and fame OF his State.
Let not the word 90 abroad that West
Virginia can be bought.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP.
As a sppcimen of the deception Still