Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-29
ALL THE | n
Rally, Democrats, Rally, and
Let all Personal Animosities
be Forgotten and the Triumph
and Success of Our Principles
he Our Battle CRY.

and Success of Our Principles
be Our Battle Cry.
Correspondence Oh the Register.
WHEELING, Sept. 27.
The contest in III State is, apparent
", more Of personal nature than a party
or political one.
The Republicans conceived it, insti-
tuted it, prosecuted it. and are still cling
ing TO and prosecuting it with, a peril
nacity and avidity never witnessed in
our State befoS.
Will this line OF argument personal
denunciation) avail them anything in
the result, which will be determined
and known now in a few days?
The Democrats are not fighting for
Jackson individually, nor any other
candidate so far as lie is personally re-
lated 10 the issues and questions involv-
ed in this canvass, but only for the
great principles and questions OF gov
ernmental policy OF which such men, as
candidates, are our standard bearers.
Ii is principles, aud not men, we are
lighting Tor. We are free to admit that
personal considerations will, and 10,
nave their weight and influence with
the non. partisan voter, and sometimes
candidates, who have been made such
through triCEerv and ~chicanery, have
-. 49, ~ Al, ...-N.- ~.
candidates they We're, had 20 succumb
10 the success and triumph OF their ad-
yersaries. But We have no such candi-
dates; neither on our National or State
tickets, ami no such reasons, or their re-
suits, can be applied to any OF III can
didateS. The State ticket was fairly
aud squarrly made; our Congressional
Adidate, Col. Ben. Wilson, after 4 hot
and persistent struggle with honorable
and distinguished gentlemen, in the
district, received the unanimous nOml-
nation before the Convention for his
fourth term. Gen. Hancock received
the unanimous nomination before the
National Democratic Convention as
orr candidate for the Presidency. All
Of these nominations have been made
in accordance with the usages and rules
Of the Democratic party, and, therefore,
commend themselves To Our most earn
est and uncOmpromising sympathy and
support.
The Republicans are more than anx-
ious to engendcr and perpetuate a per,
soual strife, not through any personal
regard 10 the individuals themselves,
hut because they hope to weaken and
distract our party in this Congressional
district. as well rs throughout the State,
bv such a process and by such means.
In our personal diSsentiOns lies their
only hope oi success, II any hope they
have. VIII we permit them TO realize
that hope 1T the expense OF our folly
and stupidity? We say never, never!
Our National ticket first; our State
ticket second; our Congressional ticket
third, aud our COunty ticket next and
last, but in all things complete and a
unit. is our motto. These, fellow Demo-
Gratis. are the four tickets 1t is u duty
to support, not because OF our Ike or
dislike We may entertain for the person
al constituents OF the tickets, but be-
cause they are the representatives OF
the ideas and principles OF the Demo-
cratic party in the Nation, in the state,
i'm the Congressional district, and in the
county. We would not ask any man,
he lac a Democrat or anything else, TO
vote for a dishOnOrable man for any pO-
sition. We OTTER no such men on none
.-- t'yl,' They are all honorable
Gentlemen, well qualified to fill the 81
tirys .Ir which they have been nolnl-
mated. Personally, we have not "HS,t
fr-,y against one OF the Republican
,.q.ii..n.: lGnv are al honorable gen
,!.muu roo-bU, il is their politics we
Oppose, anil not the gentlemen them
selves We 10 not believe in Crlmlna-
lion and r,rrimjna,ipn in personal de-
uuuriltiau: Hut We up believe in a fair,
s~Dayra,.r aud i,apar;ial discussion Of
rub!.c questions, hu'h by the press and
rr,.. tuu ,l,-rGm, 80 that the people
rsrv see. read and hear the truth and
tur itt.- ms they really exist.
In conclusion we appeal to all Demo-
Gratis TO rally 70 standard bearers,
because they are worthy OF Il cordial
support ~ the representatives OF Demo-
/ cratic principles. Let no n say, | am
a Jingle man, Il Wilson man, a Camp
tttl man. VI ~ J'llA0'A AA"Hr '"' ~
him say | am q Democrat, and my allie
glance is due to my party first, last and
an the time. Let there be a grand rslly
nh along the line, for it would bea burn
Iug shame and disgrace TO the great
National Democratic party, that IT,
thryuga our personal preferences and
suimusltivs, the Republican party
should succeed-a party conceived III
,e~ctionaliSm; born in se~ctiOnalism; bap-
tiSed in SCCtionaiisn; grown up to the
viyor ui it's manhood in se]ctionalism;
has p.rpctul,ed and kept Itself in pow
er in the Nation through It's sectional
ism: and now, in the aLoEIes Of It's own
self wrought dissolution, Is still led n
nourishcd ON ~acctionalism, and Is de
termiued 10 wear its own shroud made
ont Of bitter hate and sectionalIsm,
when the great National Democratic
party performs its obsequies in October
and November next. Registration,
test oaths, negro supremacy, National
bankruptcy aud clrpet-bag %outraEeS, are
an prominent and uudeniable historical
FACTS against the Republican party, IN
this stat" aud Nation.
Shall they elect Garfield? No, Shall
they elect >tursjsS? No, Shall they
elect hutchinson? No, Shall they
carry Ohio county? N!
No CONpEOMlsE.