The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-30


State during the ten or twelve years Il
= have had entire control OF Its affi
3 What have they done for you as elite
: and taxpayers? Nothing. Not q plet
. or promise Of the past has been redeemt
and no guarantees for the future are
r iered. The leaders rely with sublime 1
} daclty upon the fact that they have I
votes, and believe you will quietly 81
init TO their will. r
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The Republican party gave you a sc
arate State government, with a simp
economical and wisely framed ConstiI
ton. and simple but efficient systems
courts, free schools and road laws, aud e
Offices. The Bourbon leaders, Of the Der
ocratic party involved you in the expen
Of q new Constitution, worse than any
thirty-three States, as affirmed by judi
Ferguson, recognized Democratic Al
thority, with increased officers, pay an
other expenses, and with ian antiauate
legal monstrosity," as 1t Is termed by Il
Regia r, in the present system Of Count
COurts. To provide for the additional Q,
penses OF their costly State administrator
they caused the lands to be re,valued an
upon the higher appraisement thus 81
cured they wrung from the people the az
ditional sums necessary for State expenses
They crippled the school system in
variety Of ways, and refused to make an
appropriations for the Normal Schools Il
which teachers for the free schools shOul
be taught and trained for that importan
work. r ErE
They have brought convict labor from
other States to compete with the homes
industry of our own artiasns, In order tina
they may make o showing OF cheap ant
economical administration OF the Stat
penitentiary. sdf
They have made no earnest effort to pro
mote immigration and to encourage capita
TO invest amongst US for the development
OF the wealth and resources OF the State
They have not restrained and limited
railway and other corporations TO the le
gitllnate sphere OF their corporate powers
and have not held them to y rigid accoun
liability for the exercise OF their rights fol
the good OF the citizen and the State.
IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS
This pretended Democracy has been all
things to all men in order to win votes.
1t has been hard money party in New
York and Greenback party in Ohio; it
is for a protective tariff in Pennsylvania
and in the first district OF West Virginia,
aud for free trade In the West; It has been
a pro-slavery party in the South and a
free soil party in some Of the Northern
States.
It's leaders talk Of its immnable princi.
Piles! Achameleon is not more varied In
ts hues than 1t has been In its official de-
Of opinion.
In 1856 1t declared "the Constitution
ioes not confer upon the general govern.
nent the power to commence and carry
IN a general system OF internal improve.
nents, and in 1880 a Democratic Congress
passes the largest appropriation for i'm.
,rovement Of rivers and harhors ever
,ranted.
That Congress has no power to charter
National Bank, and that such institution
8 one Of deadly hostility TO the best inter.
.sts Of the country, dangerous TO Republi-
AN institutions and liberty, and then with
,reat consistency in 1880 puts q wealthy
National Banker In nomination for Vice
President.
In 1856 it declared for progressive FREQ
rade, and for the Kentucky and Virgins
States rights resolutions OF 'eS aud 80,
nd resolved to carry them out in their
obvious meaning and intpntiOn. Listen
y an extract!
"'That to this compact (the Federal Con,
each State scceiel as a State,
md Is an integral party, its co.states form.
ng as TO itself the othOr party; That the
government created by this compact was
lot made the exclusive or final judge Of
he powers delegatedto itself; siIce that
would have made It's discretion, aud not
he Constitution, the measure Of Its pow.
,rs; but thar, as In all other cases Of com.
,acts among parties having no common
Judge, each party (Statel has al equal
light to Judge for itself, as we'll oiinirac.
ions, as OF the mode and measure Of ret
iress."
Thus making each State sovereign to re.
bel or ,seeede at any fancied injury, and
lenyiDg power to the federal government
o coerce a State, or maintain It's existence;
making the Federal Union rope OF sand,
10 1872 it pledged itself to maintain the
Union, emancipation and enfranchise.
nept tmeaniBg colored su6rsge
In 1872 that partw remittsd all questions
II iree'trade or tariff to the people in their
districts, and In 1880 1t
pledged ilsell and its candidates, both Ma.
.ionsl and In the First District, 10 o tariff
or revenue only.
In 1868 1t declared 10 favor OF taxing
government bonds and other public secu.
rites, but although In power In both
Of Congress 1t has never enacted
any law for that purpose. In that year 1t
ieclaied for equal rights and protection
Tor naturalized and native born citizens"
and in 1850 nominated for Its gubernato.
rial candidate In this State, an unreppnt-
ant Nnow Nothing who never goes back
on his word,
In 1864 it declared the war for the resto.
ration Of the Union a failure, and in 1880
Il nominates for President superb sol.
der" who with million other gallant
IN arms, with hayonets wrote
across that declaration the words This Ia
a falsehood."
For years It has taught through press
and from platform aud stump, that the
chiefest danger Of the Republic was from
rulers, military methods, and
military ideas, and now dominates pure.
~ military man. II declares itself the
friend Of labor and the laboring man, and
pledges itself TO protect him against the
cormorants (the bAnkersl, and the OolR'
mune (Greenbackersl and then nominaies
fer Vice. President banker who has sold
out under mortgage within few years
nearly eight hundred men who could not
pay the loans borrowed from
him or his bank, at high rates Of interest
This is such protection as yullures give to
lambs, covering and deyoring them.
i has Just nominated Greenbacker for
Governor OF Indiana, to run with ils hard
money candidate for Vice President, and
in illinois II names for Governor the man
who said q few years ago, "lhe Democra!
party has never done an act that would
commend 1t 10 tho favorable consideration
OF the people OF the United States, but or
the contrary It's traditions (reatiirned a
Cinciunatil and lis acts are nov, aud ovel