The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-30

In the hepuDllCAu lOTcnIlSht procession
I on Tuesday night last were ak voters out
o, one family who had hitherto voted the
Democratic ticket, each and all OF
whoa will vote for Garfield and Arthur at
the cimipg election. This is a pretty strong
conrersion out OF one family, and 1t Is Of
cou lse IN uuusual circumstance in that re-
spe,t. Bat there are many individual
changes Is our midst, and they are con.
s.aatly occurring. On the other hand,
we have thus iSr heard of only two or
three persons in this city, who have been
voting the Republican ticket, who expect
to vote for Hancock this fall. We are In.
clined to think that chsnges in that
direction are so scarce as
to bs scarcely fisda6le, II
we may use such word, whereas the in
dIcstious are that a considerable list OF
changes to the Republican nominees can
be exhibited. ~
The Republican party is the growing
party iu Ohio county. That fac! has inn
pres sed itself upon our attention OF late.
And why ehould it not be? 1t has the
elemsnts OF life and growth in it In man.
ulacturing city like ours. What induce
ments can the Democratic party hold out
to au American workingman2 What has
it ever done in the past for the American
workiugnan that he should give 1t his
voter 1t has been the party OF slavery
extansion, and the party that exempted
slave property in our own State from tax.
alton while it levied q tax on the wages oI
our men in the mills and elsewhere who
could earn anything however small. 1t Is
the party that taxed the working men OF
Wheeling and the whole State TO pay for
slaves that were hung or transported for
crime. 1t is the party that never gave the
children Of West Virginia free school
system in all the long years that It vas in
power. 1t was the party OF aristocracy
and caste, that allied itself with the slave
interest against the interest OF white work.
ingmen.
The record Of the Democratic party to.
wards working men in this State has
been one OF ofoppression aud discrimination.
That record can bs found written in the
statutes OF the old State. We refer all
doub:ers in regard to tito the Code issued
lust before the war-in 1850. On page 242
OF that Code the workingmen Of Wheeling
can find the way that slave property
was exempted at their expense. On
page 243 they can find the rate OF tax
that was levied on their earnings to make
good the deficit thus created by the ex.
emption OF slave property from taxation.
Read it., workingmen, for yourselves,
and cay what debt you owe to the Demo-
cratic party for such discrimination
against you. Turn also to page s4S OF the
Code, and read still further how they
made you pay for every slave who was con-
demnel to death or transportation, and
then remember that oil this was done in
the name OF Democracy. =.
II there Is one class Of men above
another who should bo the last in all the
land to vote the Democratic ticket, 1t Is
the workingmen Of West Virginia. De-
mocracy has heaped upon them burdens
Srievous to be borne, while 1t has lifted
the burden from the shoulders OF the
shareholders. And while thus placing
these grievons burdens upon the daily
earnings of the laboring men OF Wheeling
and ol-Hll the State, it never so much as
opened a iree school to enlighten the
minds of their children, That great mis-.
sion was reserved for the Republican
party, and nobly did 1t perform 1t as soon
as 1t came into power in West Virginia.
Now this same party that thus dIscrim.
mated against worklngmen in the past,
asks their votes to put itin power, aud thus
help 1t to strike out the protective features
ofthe tariff that protects American work.
ingmen against the pauper labor OF for.
eign lands.
Why should the workingmen OF Wheel.
ing help to put such q party iu powerH
Why should not only "sir men" out Of q
family vote against it, but every last voter
in every warkingmsn's family in the city
and the State vote against It.