The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-10-27
Democracy and Busin;eas.

ioJ over all.
Democracy and Business.
Financial ruin stalked abroad in
the land during a full decade of Re
publican rule, and prosperity began
after a Democratic Congress came
into power.
The cry comes with very bad grace
therefore, from the Republican party
that any Of cur industries will suffer
by the success Of the Democrats
The charge Is not borne out by the
record Of the two parties.
OF the two parties, the Democratic
has always been the more conserva,
tive on economic as we'll as on con.
stitutional questions. The Democ.
racy is naturally a conservative par.
ty, and its whole history bears out
this assertion.
Besides the Democratic party is
lead by the most prominent business
men Of the country, and its nomi-
nees are men whose character and
Iexperience ure guarantee Of the
welfare Of the business interests ol
the country
MIR. Barnuni, the Chairman OF the
National Democratic Committee, is
an extensive iron manufactured
4 man of large. business experience
and business interests, and it is not
likely that in hisiendeavors to tul tn.
er the interests Of the Democratic
party, he is plotting against the bus.
mess interests OF the country.
! Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, the mem.
Der of the Democratic Committee
from New York, is one ef the most
distinguished and Intelligent iron
merchants In the world, with i'm.
mense interests of this kind under
his control.
Mr.. Scott is the member from Sthe
great manufacturing State Of Penn.
sylvania, and one Of the shrewdest,
most successful and enterprising men
Of the State.
So if we look for a moment at the
candidates who are put forward to
represent these business interests
about which 80 much solicitude is ex-
| pressed, we will find them quite as
safe, able and intelligent in those
matters on which the commercial
stability rests, as the candidates Of
the Republican party.
General Hancock was educated at
West Point and, his whole life has
been devoted to large business and
governmental affairs connected with
the army and the civil government.
His duties have involved the bur.
dens of large and valuable interest
and made him familiar with tho de-
tails of business in many forms
While it is admitted by Gar6eld's
friends that he is especially lacking
bin knowledge and practical adap-
tion TO business affairs.
The candidates for the viee-presi-
ldency present an equally favorable
comparison from a Democratic stand
point. Arthur, the Republican can
didate, is a lawyer and a politician,
and in the only public business Of
which he has been entrusted, that Of
collector of the port of New York, he
was discharged by Secretary sher-
man on the plea that his office was
not conducted in a business like man.
ner.
The Democratic nominee, Mr.. En-.
glish, is man whose life has been
devoted to practical business affairs,
and whose success is the best evil
dence Of his business capacity.
These are men who are most prom.
inent in the ranks of the Democrat
ic party and yet the Republicans
would have the country believe that
the party is lead and made up of ir.
Irresponsible men who have no inter-
est in the business of the country
Register.