The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-10-27
Why MOI?

COCK VIII DE elected 10 the Presidency
if the Democrats Of the United States,
who are largely in the majority, will
recover their spirits after the loss of
Indiana by fraud, and pay a little at
'tention to the other 81 States,
and also TO that Slate, in November.
The East and the West do not vote
alike. Ifthey did, after Maine, Re-
publican frauds andimpOrted negroes
would have been unable to carry
either Indiana or Ohio. In like
manner, New York and New Jersey
will pay little attention to Indiana
whom the daylof election comes. If
the Republicans were to make the
same gains in New York and New
Jersey that they made in Indiana
they still would be utterly unable to
carry either Of those States. Han
cock, then lacks three Electoral votes
ofan election, byuniversal admission.
Let US leave for the present the
discussion Of Maine, and New Hamp-
shire, and Connecticut, ard even
Indiana, and look at the Pacific
Caost. There are fifteen Electoral
votes. The people Of the Pacific
Coast don't care a picayune about
"rebel claims" lies, or "tariff' lies, or
Government bond' lies, or "busi-
ness" lies; and there is one thing
about which they care more than
they care for either the Democratic
party or the Republican party-that
commanding curse, John Chinanan,
the arch enemy Of American labor,
the pig,tailed pest that has driven
American men and women out of
employment by the thousand, the
Acknowledged stranger that brings
pestilence and vice and death to our
shores, and to our own workingmen.
The people of the Pacific Slope would
vote forany party, or against any par
ty, inorder toget ridofthis obnoxious,
loathsome importation of Chinese.
The letter of General Garfield,
which will be found at the head of
these editorial columns, has called
the attention of the country, and will
specially call the attention of the
voters beyond the Rocky Mountains,
to the attitude of the Republican
candidate for the Presidency, and of
the Republican party, upon the all
absorbing question in the Pacific
States. The letter is in entire har-
mony with the record of Garfield in
congress upon the Chinese question.
1t is in absolute harmony with the
record of his party in Congress, and
of President Hayes in the White
House, upon the Chinese question.
On the 1stday Of March, 1879, Presi-
dent Hayes vetoed a bill which Dem
ocrats in Congress had passed; a mod
crate bill, not prohibiting the impor-
tation Of Chinese, but limiting the
number Of the heathens to be brought
on each vessel to fifteen, and General
Garfield voted to sustain the veto.
But the letter we quote was written
nearly year afterward-in January
Of this year-showing that his opin-
ions, upon this question at least, re-
manned unchanged. This newly dis
covered letter compels notice to an
old fact. 1t is un-American to the
last degree, and is an expression of
hostility to the interests of every
laboring man in the United States
who is not Chinaman. Read it, We
workingmen whose Republican en-
ployers forced you to vote the Repub-
lican ticket on the 18th of October!
Vote then, if you will, for the com.
ing of the Chinese! Vote yourselves
out Of employment and invite the
filthy, pestilential Chinaman to be-
come your next-door neighborl This
position of Garfield and Of his party
upon this important question ought
to lose and, we believe, will lose for
him the votes Of three, if not of all,
of the Pacific States. What is the
political condition of the Pacific
States?
California was Republican four
years ago by 2,S11, the Republicans
casting 1929 votes for The Hayes
Electors. Last year the Republican
vote was but 1886, the divided cp-
position vote being go, 129.
In Colorado one vear aoo tha Ra.