Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-21
A WORD TO DEMOCRATS.
Some Solid Reasons Why the
Ranks should Be Solid On a
Straight Ticket.

Some sofia Reasons why INC
Ranks should Be Solid On a
Straight Ticket.
Correspondence OF the Register.
In a few weeks a choice is to be made,
by the voters OF the several counties OF
this State, OF persons, to fill the various
State, county and township offices. For
the several county and township offices
in Ohio county, the Democratic and
Republican parties have presented the
names of members OF their respective
parties, and as the only hope OF success,
on the part OF the latter, lies in its abil-
ity TO induce Democrats TO scratch their
tickets and place the names OF n or
more Radicals on them, every effort is
being made to bring about this result.
Can this he done by Democrats and their
party be able to maintain its orgauiza.
ton and its ascendency in this county?
Can success be looked for in any contest
if one or more OF the candidates OH the
Democratic ticket is permitted to be de.
fested or even run far behind the rest OF
thesticket? 1t is not denied that posi-
blv there ina be some persons ON the
ticket, who may be Objectionable to
members of the Democratic party for
some special reasons; but they have
all been selected in the manner always
adopted by the party, and not one
Ii as gained his nomination by trickery
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find a good reason for giving aid and
comfort 10 a party which never gives aid
and comfort to his; which expects to
keep control OF the general government
by SANDER and abuse of himself and his
party and which, when fairly beaten at
the polls openly and defiantly steels al
election and thus defeats the will OF the
people?
Look at j. q. Blaine last exploit in
Maine. Can any one, EXCEPT a bigoted
Radical, doubt for II moment that the
Radicals were defeated last Monday in
Maine? Or is there even a Radical so
stupid as not to know that Blaine knows
his State too well not to be able in ten
days after an election to tell how it has
gone, and that the first dispatch sent by
nun dlltI last .lOllNldN > tliNllOu W a
only true one lie has sent? When as
old a political rogue as Jim Blaine takes
six days to learn the result OF an cleo
ton in Maine and spends part oil that
time in sending dispatches to proml-
nent members OF his party, whining
about Democratic frauds and bribery oil
Republican voters, there can be no
doubt OF his being engaged in some
deviltrv Tor his WI party and which
he is trying to conceal. Can any Dem
ocrat be persuaded that at last Mondays
election the Republican party, after
losing ground in its strongholdst through
out the State, was able to make such
gains in the remote counties, among the
Democratic French Canadian farmers,
who are always slow to change their
political opinions, and who, Blaine testi-
ties, are unwilling to be led by any set
or party OF men, as to more than offset
its losses III its own counties and give 1t
the State? Vote ior a party which a
majority OF them had opposed Tor years,
and thus not only keep il in power in
the State but supply it with capital Tor
the Presidential canvass immediately
following? The whole thing is too thin
for even Il liar OF jim Blaine's capacity
to hope to push down peoples Threats.
The truth is. that Blaine is the last man
in Maine those French Canadians
would follow. They are almost all
Catholics. Blaine's parents were
Catholics, and he was confirmed
at fourteen years OF age and
afterwards apostacised and is now a Bit
ter enemy of that church. This fact is
well known to them and no set OF men
in the world are more devoted to their
church than they are. They would fol-
low any other leader than Blaine on this
account, and can any II believe Tor
one minute that they have forgotten his
apOstacy and laid aside their feeling for
him for the special occasion?
There are many Radicals in Our midst
who believe in this glaring fraud OF
Blaine, and none OF them 90 to any
greater length IN Boosting of it than the
several candidates nominated by the
Radicals for our county and township
offices. Can any Democrat, at this time,
endorse any OF the repr~a sentatives OF a
party which, in 1876, endorsed and glori-
fled in the theft Of Presidency, and is
now glorying in the THEFT OF the Govern
Orship Of 4 State, by voting for them?
Many Democrats may have promised
friends In the opposite party to vote Tor
them, but does not the course OF that
party in the last fraud release them from
their promise? Can any compact with
fraud be considered binding in an honest
man after he has discovered the iraud2
Would not every vote given by Demo-
Gratis for Radicals, no matter how small
the Office for which they are candidates,
b. an endorsement Olthe Radical party's
frauds? Do Radicals ever vote for
Democrats? Is there a single Radical
in the community, who will for friend
ship or any other consideration vote,
next month, for a Democrat? The
anxiety OF the Radicals to have good
men in our next Legislature and the
several county offices is all stuff.
There is not on the Democratic ticket a
man for whom it is not better for Demo-
crats TO vote than to vote for his oppo-
nent, as every vote given for a Radical
is support given to chicanery and fraud.
AS an evidence OF the bad policy OF
Democrats assisting to put Radicals into
office, look at the persons now holding
the positions OF Health Officer, City
Engineer, City Solicitor, and several
other city and county offices. Can
there be more blatant, loud-mouthed
endmen OF Blaine's steal than they are?
Or were there in 1876 more ardent re-
~joicers in the rape OF the Presidency
as perpetrated by Garfield and Com
pauy, than these same men, who new
hold their offices by favor OF a part OF
the Democracy Of this city and county?
Has any one Of these persons ever
been known to assist Il Democrat in get
ting an office? But Democrats are now
being solicited to vote for persons on TIE
Radical ticket because some parts of