The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-15

vested with any power to conclude an al,
lance, offensive or defensive, between the
Republicans and Greenbackers Of the
State, but simply to reconnoitre the
Greenback situation and bring back word
to the next State Convention as TO the pos.
sibility and expediency of cooperation
with them in this canvass on q basis Of
State issues purely, with view of clean.
ing out the Democracy and instituting q
new departure OF some kind in the inter-
est Of general State advancement These
issues have not been very accurately de-
fined as yet, but in a general way they
are set forth in the Greenback resolutions
adopted at Parkersburg on the 9th Of jan
uary, viz: Opposition to all monopolies
the abolition Of the County Court system
a non.partisan judiciary, reduction Of
taxation, fees and salaries, the overthrow
Of Bourbonism, and the adoption OF a
wise, liberal and progressive policy in the
Government OF the State"
As regards the adoption Of "wise
liberal and progressive policy" for the
State, the very best policy that could be
adopted in the interest Of all the people of
the State would be the adoption Of the
general principles and policy OF the Re-
publican party OF the United States. II
West Virginia was Republican State TO-
day she would attract great deal more
attention from the great throng Of immi-
grants who are filling up the great West
with a hardy and enterprising population.
As it is, she is hardly able to hold the ma
tural increase Of her own people. The
same reason that induces the tide OF i'm
migration to pass through Missouri to
Kansas and Nebraska induces It to pass
through West Virginia without stopping.
The trouble with both States Is the
debris Of the old pro-slavery regime
that fingers within them in the shape
Of inertia and prejudice. There is no
spirit OF progress in the ranks Of the Dem.
ocratic party. 1t is not the party that is
congenial to American progress. Itis not
the party in which American invention
and development take root and grow.
Henry Clay called the Wing party the
American party, in contradistinction to
the Democratic party, and the same char
acterization applies to the Republican
party as contradistinguished from the
Democracy of to-day. The Republican
party has all the progressive ideas Of the
Wing party and more. The men who
want to invest capital in enterprises that
populate and enrich large areas Of terri.
tory in State naturally affiliate with the
Republican party, and the skilled labor
that affiliates with this capital in its ven-
lures and enterprises Just as naturally as
sociates itself with the same party.
There is such a thing as taking nos
trums in place OF genuine medicine for
ailments. Our prescription for the all
ments that afiict West Virginia is to
throw of the Democratic yoke that ham
pers her and assimilate as rapidly as possi-
BILE with the ideas and institutions Of the
people OF the North, with whom she is geo.
in harmony d espite oiheself.
II the Greenbackers who meet on the Goth
at Charleston have worked their ideas up
to this point, they ought to be ready to
make common cause with the Republican
party, and fuse not only in name but in
reality. The mere changing of one
set Of men out of, and an other into the
Offices Of the Stale, including th legisla-
ture, without radical change in their
ideas, amounts TO very little.