The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-08
the State upon broad, progressive
statesmanlike basis So sts.

the State upon broad, progressive
.statesmanlike basis. - e0sss.. 80,
In what respect, therefore, can the
Republican, the Greenback or any
other party improve the present POI
icy of the State under Democratic
admins tration? lH 8eSsH 81, 81
Can the Republican party give us
any better school system than that
now existing? Are the people will
ing to spend any more money in this
direction than the Democratic party
has appropriately Is our school sys-
tenn less efficient and progressive
than that of our sister States?
f Can the Republican party increase
immigration to the Statep Our
State is not attracting as large a
share of immigration as we think it
should and the Democratic party de,
sires, Is the party responsible for
this? Can West Virginia hope To
compete with the broad territory Of
the West, where immense railroad
/ corporations are offering free trans
portation and rich prairie lands at y
mere nominal price? Are the peo
pile of West Virginia willing that the
State should undertake to build tina
necessary railroads and send agents
into the market with money and uu-
thority to compete for immigrants?
II SO, the Democratic party will car
ry out such measures rs heartily as
any other party. au@ Nf.
+, Can the Republican party admin
lister the State government any more
economically than now? Are the
taxes in West Virginia not lower
than in either ofthe adjoining States
of Ohio or Pennsylvania Is there
any charge or even suspicion of
waste or misappropriation of the
State revenues2 Have they not been
collected and disbufsed with timex
alnpled success and satisfaction by
the present administration a9af IS
Can the Republican party make
any improvement in our organic laws
that will better the prospects Of the
State? Unless it be in the matter Of
modifying or aholishing the county
Court system,is there any fundamen
tai change demanded by the people2i
Is the Democratic party denying any
demand, even on the. part of the Re
publicans, in regard to notifications
or additions to our fundamental law?
The Objectionable features of our
Court system were Incorporated in
our State Constitution at the almost
universal demand of the people of
the State, yet against the better
judgment of the leaders Of the Dem
ocratic party.
They have been tried and found
wanting. The people have demand
ed q change, and with as much or
more unanimity in the Democratic
than in the Republican party, mod
ilcation has been accorded and sub
mitted to the people. a5H24 -
! Moreover, there is in the present
Constitution, side by side with the
existing plan of County Courts, an
alternative plan, that was devised for
the very purpose of superseding the
| former in case it was not Unsatisfactory
The present system was designed as
an experiment, and there is more lat
itude in, the Constitution given to tha
people Of every locality Of the State,
to establish such a system of Courts
as desirable, thanain any Other State
Constitution in the Union.
But we cannot review the attitude
of the two leading parties Of the
State upon all its concerns as we
should desire We have simply sug
gested, what every intelligent obscry-
err Of the times will. conceive, that
there. is neither propriety nor con-
sistency in the campaign that the Re
publican party is making in this
State for the purpose of possessing it.
self Of the public patronage and
perquisites Of office.
1t is more of campaign against
the State thaa against the Democrat
ic party. 1t does not entitle them to
the consideration of the people nor
show any claim or qualification for
the trusts they seek to administer.
If they are the friends Of the State.
and seek its prosperity, let them join
hands with those who are trying to
build it up. Let them cease to de-
fame it, and assist to advance its
fame and fortune.
DIR. Talmagc gave some good all
vice the other dayAto those who were
always complaining about the South.
If they really want to secit improved
and developed said he, "Stop curs-
ing the South stop lying about her,
and go down there and develop her
immense resources ofgmining and
forest Is 8d 81 f.ssos,s.,.. 81.
SO we say to the Republican party,
stop cursing West Virginia; stoply
lug about her, and show your inter-
est by helping to develop her ne
sources and improve her Standing,
Smythe, who mas been dining With
few sschoice spirits" returns home
rather later than he feels his wife
would approve, SO he draws off his
boots and steals noiselessly into Ills
room; but alas his better half awak-
ened. Quick as thought he creeps to
his first born's cradle and beginss to