The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-08
WHO AND WHAT ARE
KEEPING WESTVIR-
GINA IN THE
BACKGROUND.

3
From the Wheeling Registered Tuesday, April al
The labored efforts Of the leading
Republican journals of West vir-
ginia and of the ''prominent politi-
clans Of West Virginia. to defame
and discourage, at home and abroad,
the growth and prosperity of the
State, are being carried forward With
"A malicious zeal as inconsiderate as
it is unrelenting. naa Aas 4 ml
When the editor of the leading
Republican paper of the State is not
hlling the columns of that journal
with CRITICISMS derogatory to the
standing Of the State, TO be circu-
lated abroad and re-echoed by the
lesser lights at home, he employs
himself in visiting the counties OF
the State to make invidious compar-
isons of our Industrial condition with
that Of the older, more populous, and
wealthy States Of the East. n. na54s
In the meantime the active agents
of the Republican party are at Wash
ington dispensing information to the
metropolitan Journals to be read by
the people Of this and foreign lands
calculated to produce the impression
that West Virginia possessed greater
disadvantages to the square inch
than any Other part OF American ter
ritory. fHh ff3eisaI aal a4g II +
The man most prominently spoken
of as the Republican candidate for
the office of Governor, of the State,
has been making periodical visits to
the National Capitals there now
for the purpose Of convincing the
leading menof the.country that this
State is politically and financially
bankrupt, and he is raising a purse
on this plea, to pay his expenses over
the Stace in this campaign, in the
effort to convince the people that he
is the veritable Moses commissioned
to rescue us from the slough of de
spond.
We ask the people of West Virginia
to consider whether this is the char
acter and kind aof service the State
has right to expect Of its friends?
Admit that West Virginia is not
as prosperous, not as progressive, as
it should be. Admit that the policy
Of the party in power is in meas
ure responsible for this. Does it
build up the State to belttlc, bcdevil
and bedamn her every advantage, as
piration and enterprise, in the eyes
of the world? n9m g
Does man act thus toward his
own business affairs? When a merr
chant finds his. business failing and
falling away, does he send out circu-
lars and agents to convince the world
that his condition is desperate and
hopeless2 Does a friend act thus to-
wards his neighbours business, whom
he wishes to see prosper?
Is it, indeed, test Of friendship
and devotion to the interests of West
Virginia, that man or party should
do all in its power to depreciate and
defame her?
The end and aim ofthis dcfamatory
campaign against the State, is not hard
to divine. iHgi - ne
g Evidently, if the Republican party
can put itself in power, and obtain
the spoils Of Office at the expense Of
the good name and fame Of the State
they are willing, and will count it
smart game. aA 4fs
BY trying to make it appear to the
people that the State is not as pro
gressive as it should be, they expect
the voters to conclude that her de
famers and the advertisers of her
backward condition will improve it, :
If SO, bow2 eY
3 In pursuing the policy of defama-
ton, do Republicans propose any
practical advanceg @a sea
Does the Republican party Of
West Virginia bring forward any
thing?
Does it stand before the people of
West Virginia to-day as the repre-
sentative Of any specific, defined pol
icy toward any specific interest of
the State. ta
Does it assert any principles, pro-
pose any policy?
To the peoples inquiry "what will
you do with the government if we
intrust it to yon2' there is the only
response, ''give US The Offices"
There is absolutely not word of
answer, not a promise of improve
ment, that is unconnected with the
spoils of Office. 4E1f dof h9e 81
Never before in the history of the
State has any party, aspiring to con-
troll, made so fiat confession of
bankruptcy in political ideas.
As Democrat, looking to the in
terests of the party and State, we be-
lieye it to, be more polite and better,
for the interests Of both the one and
the other that the faults and failings
Of the party be frankly confessed,
and its policy improved, rather than
to conceal and varnish over those
things which demand change and
1t is the right and duty of all citi-
zens to demand that the dominant
party shall administer the affairs Of