Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-03
A STIRRING CAMPAIGN LETTER.
Gen. J. l.. Brent, of Louisiana, Upon
Hanoock's Nomiuation-The Issues
Clearly Set Forth-What Republican
Success Really Means.

Cdtb Of Baltimore:
Ny DEARS SIR: have the honor to ac-
knowledge the receipt OF your c0mmu'
nication informing me of my election as
an honorary member Of your club. |
highly appreciate the honor shown me
and beg, through you, to tender my
thanks to its members ior the compli-
ment. The time has arrived for all in
telljgent citizens to organize them
selves for the protection and per-
petuation OF the Republican institutions
OF our fathers. We have seen, at ChiCa-
20, two tiiths OF the Republican party
earnest advocates OF an Imperial policy
tending to concentrate, for life, power in
the hands of one man. Let the people
remember that if the Radical party be
continued in power, it will owe its sue.
cess TO the cooperation and support OF
those vino are the avowed partisans OF
the third-terln policy, and who stand
ready to commit themselves and their
party to measures
At War with the Simplicity OF Our Gov
ernment.
its Democratic habits and the perpetual
All the friends and advocates of the
third term, all OF those who would con-
time the Republican party in power,
even at the sacrifice OF the liberties OF
the people, have rallied to the support
ol Mr. Garfield. AS their candidate he
becomes the exponent OF their princi
pies.
The interests OF labor and its fruits,
accumulated capital, demand the care
iul attention OF reflective voters. Taxa
ton is Il burden imposed on the citizens
for the strictly necessary ends Of gov.
ernment, and every unnecessary in.
crease of that burden is a wrong perpe'
trated upon the citizens. Hence the
statesmen oil the Democratic party have
ever sought to administer the govern
ment economically, while the Radical
party, which has absorbed and destroyed
the Free.soil and Union parties and
which was organized only after the war
for the purpose of utilizing passions ior
the
Aggrand disement OF Itself and It's Unscru-
pu!ous Rings,
has ever sought TO augment the intlu-
ence OF its Oiiiceholders and thus per-
petuate its power by the lavish eXpendi.
ture of money collected from the people
i'm the form OF taxes. Whenever the
attention OF the people has been
asked to consider questions OF eco
nomical administration, civil reform and
reduction OF taxation, the Radical party
has declaimed about the rebellion and
the wrongs of the black men. We are
now nation OF near fifty millions OF
people. There are with us nearly as
many Germans or Irish us negroes, and
united the citizens OF German and Irish
extraction exceed the negro population
by many millions, while as a whole the
white citizens of the country number
about forty.four millionsand the Negroes
do not exceed five millions. Yet when-
ever experience proves that the Radicals
have misgoverned the country, or squan-
dered the public income, or neglected
the great interests OF labor and agri'
culture in favor OF corporations or spec.
ialy favored interests, the
Only Answer Has Been to Point to the
Black Man
and to claim that he has been, is now
and in the future will be badly treated.
1t certainly seems just that the greatest
attention should be given to the rcla-
tions OF labor and capital. When, in 1877,
the public was agitated by the great rail
road and labor strikes, the revelations OF
the sufferings, hardships and poverty
that prevailed throughout the land
aroused the most indifferent cit-
zen and excited the anxiety OF the
patriotic and reflective minds OF the
country. No one had ever supposed that
the wealth and progress OF the republic
had for its foundation so much OF suffer.
ing and hardship among its poorer clti-
zens. Great fortunes have been accumu-
lated in the last twenty years, rivaling
in amounts the historical wealth OF the
English nobility, which only attained
its present proportions as the result oil
the labor and enterprise OF centuries.
But keeping pace with the accumulatlons
Of those great fortunes, poverty and SUI
iering have been felt throughout the
land.
1t is true that the
Bountiful Crops
given 10 us by kind Providence and
the economies practiced by the Demo.
cratic House OF Representatives in the
five wears they have held the purse.
strings of the nation, resulting in to-
tai saving to the people OF 500, 100000
of their money, have restored great
degree of prosperity to the country.
Yet the greatest question Tor the con-
sideratiOn OF the voter is an intelligent
study OF proper policy by which, IN
times OF commercial depression, the bur
dens Oi the poor laborer may not be
augmented beyond endurance, bnt may
be SO adjusted and diminished that the
periods of commercial depression may
be brief and the periods OF public pros
ueritv NAV be long. The Democratic
party invites the people OF this country
to the calm and impartial study OF the
protection and development OF the IN
dustrial interests OF the vast population
ci the republic. Every man, woman or
child within our borders IL interested IN
this study, as it affects not only them
but the unborn generations thar are to
succeed us in the future OF this great
and expanding nation.
What has the Radical Party or its Presi-
Done
to adjust the burdens OF government,so
that while the ricn and poor alike feel
them, neither shall be crushed under
their weight? What is the strain sung
in universal concord by the Radical
party from Maine to the Pacific? 1t is
the alleged wrongs OF the black man
that engages the attention and
attracts the study and devotion OF
the Radical party. 1t has not the
time, for a moment, to consider the
economical and difficult questions affect.
inc the subsistence and Improvement OF
forty.iour millions OF whites, but it Is
wholly absorbed in contemplating the