Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-11

squelch HQurbonism, The result b that,
BoWboniAm h practically dead
in the Democratic party of
West virginia, It Is an old game,
this ''reasipg outD process, and has
been lost'every time { has been played.
So the best plan for Mr.. Tilden and his
henchmen Is to let Senator Voorhees,
severely alone ON this tariff question, or
the unexpected one might get left.
AS matter Of fact, none Of the DO
htical parties have been able to verify
or consolidate their forces on the tariff
question. 1t Is true that in certain
quarters the Republican party claims
70 be the special champion Of the pro-
teetive policy. AS matter of fact the
largest Republican majorities are OBJ
tanned in Iowa, Illinois and other West
ern States where the greatest hostility
10 protection exists. Many of the strong
est advocates of protection are the
Democratic members Of Congress from
eral thing, has had more to do with
framing convictions upon the tariff than
party affiliations. IL Is true that in the
old days-the ante beN,ns days-when
contests waxed warm between Wings
and Democrats, the lines were drawn
more closely. Henry Clay and Daniel
Webster made the protective policy q
cardinal plank in the Wing platform.
The Democratic element of the cotton
States and the Western prairies gave
the free trade theories an ascendency IN
their party. But the war and its results
changed all these views, as they have
brought about the necessity for new
order of things. Therefore, it may
seem strange thing to those who have
not kept abreast with the changing Or
der of affairs to hear a representative
man of the Western Democracy, right
i'm the heart Of the c0ttUn-growing dis
tricts, proclaim himself in favor of a
policy which at one time would have
been regarded rs treason to every inter-
est Of that section; and yet their utter
ance was applauded TO the echo by the
thousands of Southern planters who
were gathered there. 1t is another
evidence that ''the old things have
passed away, and all things
have become new" as it is likewise adj
ditional evidence that the leadership of
the Democratic party is progressive and
| abreast with the times.
There is no State in the Union which
has more direct interest in the out
come of the tariff agitation than West
| Virginia. Our future depends upon the
| development of - mineral wealth and
| of our manufac, .ig capacity. These
can only be properly developed under
! the benign Influences of a protective
| policy. There is no middle ground for
| West Virginia to occupy. Our entire
| interest is at stake. West Virginia Is
! Democratic and her democracy is OF the
| Gibralter kind-unshaken and unshak-
| able. Therefore it behOoveS the West
| Virginia Democracy to stand by those
! who stand by them-tO tender its con-
| sratulatiOns to the peerless and eloquent
| VOORHEES, for the bold, statesmanlike
! position he occupies, and to signify to
iourneymen, like Mr.. WATTERSON, that
/ they must have served long enough to
become master wOrkmen in the Semple
| of Democracy before laying down rules
to exclude the founders of the craft.
| WATTERSoN'S plank of tariff for reve-
nue. only" in the Cincinnati platform
was the rock upon which our ship foun-
! dered in the hast campaign. We want
| no more of his tOrpedOes laid in Demo-
( cratic waters in the future.
The trouble with the Democratic
rarity the last few years has been to have
| had its policy dictated by men who
were not in sympathy with true Democ-
racy. 1t has generally, or rather toe
much so, been at the dictatiOn of men
who driited into our party from the OPP
/ position, and who occupy their position
| of censorship by threatening to go back
| to their old affiliations if not permitted
| to run the machine. Let them go. We
would better remain in an honest mi
nority than to gain q dishonest ascend
| ancy. With BAYARD, VOORHEES,, and
! Democratic statesmen of that stamp,
IN the lead, the old party can take care
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