Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-25
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they will never again disturb the peace,
but cover US all over with glory. Sc
lab! And then in words as sweet as the
lover from the tropics they say I'VE Will
insugurate a wise, liberal and progress
sive policy in our State, like Plerpoint's,
Boreman's, &C., &c. But we wander
from our mutton. They frs, say that
we never kept a pledge We made. |
propose in replying to all these counts
OF their indictment to show how faith
fully VT have observed every one We
made from the day We assumed the
power OF the Stat to this hour.
HOW THE DEMOCRACY HAS KEPT ITS
PLEDGES.
We pledged you free suffrage, our
first act declared il and IS 900 voters
again carried 'their sovereignty under
their hats We pledged you Il pure
administration Of justice and ere wchai
obtained a majority in the Legislature
We began proceedings against Il judicial
pest and nuisance, whose bribery anal
corruption had long been passed by, by
the Radical party, and with a whip OF
scorpions was he driven from the hlgh
office he disgraced by his shameless sales
OF justice in open market and the place
that once knew him knew him no o
forever, when Democratic Investigations
Set in.
We pledge YOU that though we were
one OF the Solid South, you should have
an honest ballot, 4 fair election, the hon
est expression OF your sentiments a. the
polls and at all times 4 fair count. LOU
got them and have them yet, am no
Radical dare say this pledge Vas EI''at-
ed. There is no bulidJzing on frauds
here. MOI has any cOlurcd man been
controlled in his political preferences
except by Radical machinery. The
scafiolds Of political execution and l"-
fanny reared, by the Radicals, aud E"'
m use long after the necessities AID
-x,remitics of war had ceased, i... 10y
the axe welded in H. hands Q, Demo
cratic yeomanry and the registration
gu~illotine, tumbled down like banks Ol
sand before the pillows of the tides
The army OF registrars, cried out IA &C.
spair that their occupation, like O'hr.,
los, was gone, and the devils that filled
the huge stomach OF Its ranks were
bl'ltltu W NDllt 'dAf hAi'A ~ h'' ~
driven into the dark seas OF death.
We with the constitution OF our iA'h.
ers in our hand, proclaimed IRON the
forum, and the hastings and the house
o D that no man should stand unequal
w before the Law, and the SuitOrs iy,t
oath, and the lawyers, and teachers test
oaths fled from our statue books, chased
away by the bright sunlight oil reason.
We said that the var made no statute
of limitations to bar the honest claims
Of one and not another.
We declared that Tor hate VT had no
shield and with US love needed 10
sword.
We declared that 20 longer should
there exist a wicked discrimination in
the enjoyment Of trades or profession,
aud that every avenue TO distIl elton
therein should be opened and thrirgd,eS
kept no longer locked To the l.w AMI
against the many, and our laws with the
strong hands OF the smith, burst their
locks and swung these gates wide open
for all.
We asserted because OF the humanity
our mothers taught us that no man who
desired to earn his daily bread for him
self and family should be denied such
right and that the prescriptions that
held down our teachers and lawyers
should Cypress them No longer Ike the
''old man OF the sea.
RADICAL TATE.
Think OF il; a law being enacted or
perpetuated in times Of peace Tor base
partisan objects to keep our lair daU"h'
tiers who had perhaps un Ter the Stars
held the hand, or kissed the cheek, or
bathed the brow of lover or brother,
from making her livelihood, aud the man
OF learning and brain and culture, who
perhaps had only held To his breast and
led and caressed his darling bow, brought
home and laid across the Old hearth
stone to die, from earning enough IN his
profession to give decent burial TO the
body OF his child, and bya party that
calls itself wise, liberal, a~ntl-BOurbpn
and that will nsu us a place 10y then
management in the front paths Of pro.
grrss. The Democratic party rose
against these outragcs and prsiilcrpus
and cruel laws, and they AT once gave
up the ghost and they no longer crowd
or crush our people. All these harb.r
Gus laws and relics Of the Radical party
sleep in the graves party dug, and
the black tomb otons OF hate, tina, MARKS
their resting place, shall ever point IL
away from the party that one gave and
sustained their vicious Existence. With
the defeat OF the Republican party these
plaques passed away, they must not
come back.
We pledged you we would give YOU
better men To administer our govern
mcnt than the PierpOint's, and Bore
mans. who governed with hate, aud
whose narrow ideas and bitter p~oliclc,
kept us at war and drove all ui our best
people away.
The pledge has been sacrcliy kept
And the records tell the tale that there
ia no State in the Union which enjoys
greater freedom, a better or purCr al
ministratiOn OF the laws, or q safer pro.
lection OF the ballot, or Il more cc0unmi
cal government Of our financial affairs
than ours. They gravely charge ~ with
not having reduced our taxes and that
We have Tecklessly managed our money
interest. This is more than an idle
boast; it is a deliberate peryersion o..
the facts. Take your " case, your
own county, and all oil the counties OF
the State. There is not a State less bur
dened by taxation, lOca. rs well as state.
| have carefully examined the Oflicia.
records on the subject and can yUuch
iOr the accuracy Of what say.
DEMOCRATIC TAXATION.
For the years 1853 and 1864 we paid
forty cents on the hundred dollars
These are hardly fair test wears. Ia 1868
and 1866 thirty cents and 1867 forty cents
on the hundred dollars. In 1865 and
1869 We paid thirty cents and in 1870
when the ra iical legislature added 81
tive cents on the hundred dollars for the
public building tax it was then thirty.
five cents on the hundred dollars, and
80 remained till 1874 when the
five cent tax was removed by Us. From
1874 10 this time the State tax has been
twenty cents and the school tax ten
cents, making in the aggregate from
then to 1850 inclusive, but thirty cents
on the hundred dollars valuation on all
our real and personal property for all
purposes. This rate of taxes has been
deemed sufficient and has proved to be,
for all the machinery of u State gov
eminent and with the county and dis.
trict levies. in nan cases but nominal,
10 keep our schools in the finest COnii-
ton, rs they are nov Saown t. b.. Il
some counties | learn the school tax in
stead OF being 81 90 as il used TO he. it il
about twelve cents On the hundred dol
lars valuation OF taxable property in
the district. Ii is almost impossible 70
even approximate our county and dis.
trict taxes as they depend each year on
the local needs, but | am advised by as
good authority as can be had that they
are far less than under the Republican
party.
There are other matters OF consider
all" importance to our tax payers in
this connection. Out of the State taxes
We receive which as | have shown are
less than before we come into power
we distributed vastly more to the gen
eral school iuud for our free schools,
bull. more and better houses, kept
schools for longer terms, and simply
from better management, more honest
collection and more efficient school laws
and systems. Another fac jus, because
| think OF n. We did not increase your
taxaa in ST. tbOuub We had Ia nav the