Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-21
WITHOUT BLOODsHED, AND RIV-
Frs OF 1T. THERE WILL BE NO
POLITICAL CHANGE OF ADMIN
ISrRApION,"

ERs OF 1T, THERE WILL BE NO
POLITICAL CHANGE OF ADMIN
IsTRATION."
The whole purpose and policy OF the
Republican party is embodied in the
above declaration.
1t is the declaration OF a leading Re-
publican occupying high official position
in the federal government.
1t is the declaration OF United States
Senator SHARON, a representative capl-
talist and one OF the present Senators
from Nevada, occupying a seat i'll the
National Legislature. 1t is a declara-
ton made, not secretly, but openly. In
advocacy OF a "strong government and
the continuance OF Grant at its head,
Senator SHARON said:
1--WE need a stronger government.
The wealth OF the country demands 1t.
Without capital and capitalists our gov
eminent would not be worth a fig. The
capital OF the country demands protec'
ton; its rights are as sacred as the
rights oil the paupers who are cOntinu-
ally praiing about the encroachment OF
capital and against Capitalization. We
have tried GRANT, and We know him to
be a nan for the place above all others.
He has nerve. AS President he would
be commander in chief of the army and
navy, and when the communlstlc
tramps of the country raised mobs to
tear up railroad tracks and to sack
cities on the sham cry OF Bread or
blood he would not hesitate TO turn
loose upon them canister and grape.
Without bloodshed, and rtrers Of At, there
wH be no political change OF
administration. The moneyed inter-
ests of the country, for self preser-
walton must sustain the Republican
party. The railroads, the banks, the
manufactures, the heavy importers, and
all classes of business in which millions
are invested will sustain the supremacy
OF the Republican party. Democratic
success would be bankruptcy to them.
To Grcrt jeart'tl Lloodshed Il strong CENTRAL
qoreramcnt should be established 0s soon as
possible"
The three points in the Republican
policy are thus distinctly announced to
be:
|. \ strong central government.
=. A man at It's head who will turn
canister and grape upon any who dipute
the supremacy OF the capitalists.
,. That there shall be bloodshed, and
rivers OF it, before any change from a
Republican administration is submitted
TO.
The man who declared this policy and
those who support it day by day through
the press and IRON the stump, represent
the majority OF the Republican party.
They were in the majority in the Chi
cago Convention. They are in the ma
jority in every party Republl-
can convention. They are not
Weakening at any point in their
determination TO establish a centralized
government where the will Of one man
shall be the law of the land.
They propose to make the govern
mcnt everything, the people nothing,
They propose that the great American
experiment in the elevation OF the
people. and the limitation OF the govern
ment to absolutely necessary functions,
shall be declared a failure; that a gov
eminent administered in the spirit OF
the American Constitution, which is to-
day the strongest on earth, shall be set
aside for a monarchy like Russia, which
is to-day the weakest on earth.
The people are called upon to choose
between these two forms OF government.
This is q campaign in which iundamen-
tai principles have come again to be put
in issue.
The Democratic party believes
in strong government, but maintains
that in a republic the strongest govern
ment is that which rests upon the
broadcast basis OF the public will.
The Democratic party believes that
both national supremacy" and estate
rights" are established 10y the COnstitu.
ton, and that the two existing together,
without encrOaching upon each other,
are the pillars Of our temple OF liberty.
In all national matters the national
government is supreme, and the nation
al constitution il tho supreme law by
which all State constitutions are meas
ured; but III domestic matters the State
government, in harmony with the SUI
preme law, occupies the whole field.
In other words, the Democratic policy
maintains the right of local ~self-govern-
mcnt, or government by the people, UNI
der the Constitution as it is; while the
Republican policy would annul the
powers of States and municipalities and
transfer the powers now exercised by
the people in their respective localities
to one head, one central government
presided wei by one man, who would
enforce his will with canister and grape.
Pursuing this policy they do not intend
to submit to a change of administration.
What do the people say to it?
JAKE JACKSON IN THE WEST VIR-
GINA CONSTITUTIONAL CON-
VENTION.
OF course every intelligent man knows
that Hon. JACOB b. JACKSON vas not in
that convention; that he had nc more
connection with it than the man in the
moon.
The Lt'Pigsncer man knew it when he
said he was there. That a man and an
editor, with the Journal OF that conven-
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