The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-09-22
The Trnclk-and-Dicker Cam.
pnign in West Virginia.

The Trnclk-and-Dicl1er Cam
pnign in West Virginia.
We are sometimes confronted with
the inquiry, "How Is it that there
can be any utilization between Green
hackers and Republicans The in
'quirer will generally add, BY way Of
expressing his surprise, sit seems to
me if there are any two parties who
occupy the opposite poles in politics,
they. are the Greenbackers and Re.
publicans."
Our answer to this inquiry is, that
while there are some Instances in
this State Of an apparent utilization
between Greenbackers and Republi-
cans, in reality there is none whatey-
er. There is, in fact, less compati-
bility betweenan honest Greenbacker
and a Republican, than there is
between a Democratand Republican.
The honest Greenbackers of this
State have persistently refused and
still do refuse, to make any alliance
with the Republicans. When the
trading, truck and.dicker Republic.
ans proposed a fusion with them in
the opening of the campaign, the
Greenbackers, tits well known, in.
.dignantly turned their backs upon
Them They sent the Republican
truck:and-dickerl committee back
from Charleston with their tails be.
tween their legs. And they have
consistently and persistently rejected
and denounced all oycrtures Of this
kind.
Now, it is very easy to explain
what appears TO some to be an ALI
ance between the Greenbackers and
Republicans. The true inwardness
Of the whole business is this:
The Republican party has DIES
paired, from the beginning, of carry.
West Virginia BY a majority vote.
They have not the slightest hope or
expectation of this. What they are
aiming at and what they are fight.
ing for is the disintegration of the
Democratic party. In other words,
they hope by drawing off enough
Democrats and inveigling them into
the Greenback party, to carry the
State-not for the Greenbackers-
but thus obtain q plurality for the
Republicans. 1t is not that they
hate the Greenbackers less than the
Democrats but that they love theil
own success more.
In order to carry out this sinister
purpose they are feigning to be
Greenbackers; they are joining
Greenback clubs; they are even orga.
nizing what appear to be Greenback
clubs in order to give encouragement
and an appearance Of strength to the
Greenbackers, but which are, in fact
composed almost exclusively of the
meanest kind of truck-and.dicker
Republicans, who would sell their
principles for a cent, and who are
but the dirty, despicable tools Of
their party, who will walk up to the
polls on election day and vote the
straight Republican ticket.
When they are once in these
Greenback clubs they prosecute their
Lruck-and.dickcr policy among both
Democrats and Greenbackers. They
aim to decoy Democrats into themby
overtures which seem 10 come from
Greenbackers and they use their in
auencc as apparent Grecnbackers
with The genuine Grccnbackcrs Ia
throw their votes in some instances
for Republicans. Thus they aim to
deplete both the Democratic and
Greenback ranks to obtain u plural
ity for their own party in the cleo.
ton.
This game is being played right
here in this city, as well us in other
counties of the State. 1t is a part Of
the tactics of the party ofhigh moral
ideas. 1t is in keeping with the
heightened policy with which the
Republican candidate for Governor
started out TO carry the State. He
is q fit and well chosen leader for just
such campaign. Politics with him
is trade. He will trade himself
into the Governorship ifhe can, and
then with a finger and thumb at his
nose, would wag his ridiculc at those
who have been duped to .h.lp hin
in his game of duplicity.-Regjstc
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