The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-11-29
Young Hen and tle Democratic
Party.

from the Fuirmont Inder. We hope
the young men Of this county will
read it carefully, and then lay it
away in their scrap books for future
reference:
For months past some Republican
journals have been studiously and
persistently appealing to the young
men of the country to join their for
tunes to that Of the Republican par
ty-to enlist beneath that banner to
which men like Lincoln and Seward
were once so fpndly and periodically
attached. The line Of argument
adopted BY these newspapers is of a
strain something like this: Repub.
licanism as practised by the "grand
old party" means progression, ad.
vancement intellectually as we'll as
materially, and above all opposition
to what is known as Democratic
Bourbonism, Their leaders and
brightlights after thus defining their
principles, with a contemptuous air
turn away from everything that
smacks of Democracy as if to say,
like the Pha.isee Of old, ~ am holier
than thoulo
That there has been n strong sent
iment perSading the ranks of the
Republican party to the effect that
Democratic principles and methods
in their pures, form are to be viewed
ratheras a scourge than a blessing,
is fact Of which a denial is unnec.
essary. The credit of producing
this erroneous and unjust belief in
the minds of the rank and file be.
longs almost wholly to the dema.
gogues and bosses of which that or.
CARNATIONS seems just now to be
largely composed, These self.consti.
tnted leaders have succeeded in hood.
winking and deluding the people for
something like score Of years, but
their days of delight are about to be
classed With the things that were.
The Democratic party has always
been as 4 great bulwark standing be.
tween the Republican party and the
Constitutional, inalienable rights of
the people. 1t has always raised its
hand and exerted its power against
the oppressive, unwarranted meas
ures advocated by those te whom pos.
ition and gain were of more impor.
lance than a just and equitable gov
eminent. 1t offers no feast at which
a table is spread with tempting vi
ands, rich in taste and redolent in
fumes of the Credit Mobilier, San
Domingo and Venezuela steals. It
presents no gorgeous plates beneath
which are hidden checks for shares
in Nary, River and Harbor budgets,
and sleamshipand railroad subsidies.
IL has no pyramidal cakes in the
slices Of which are literally placed
those yellow, glistening coins which
bankers and monopolists love so well.
1t has no guests whose garments are
spotted by the blackenel finger Of
corruption, bribery, dishonesty and
Bossi'm. But it does offer to the
yonng men and the old men of the
preseRt, as it has done in the past,
not feast of husks or drink of
,wormwood and gall, but such ban
quet TO which all lovers of virtue aud
enemies of vice, will come freely and
gladly. O!the edibles Of health and
liquids Of good cheer there will be
abundance. That there may be
flow Of reason and a feast of the soul,
we do not doubt, bnt it will be be.
cause Of the triumph of right over
wrong.
To the ymng men the Democratic
party intakes no frantic appeals. 1t
merely points to its record, its histo.
ry in the past to show that from it
patriotic people have nothing to fear.
Its future policy will be such as to
best snbServe the interests of the
masses. 1t will be for revision of
the present iniquitous and unequal
tariff, though in doing this it will
not become the patron Of free trade.
1t will advocate abolition of the war,
taxes OF the present internal revenue
system, but II will not declare in "a
vor of free whiskey. 1t will demand
a reduction Of taxation to such ba-
sis as will furnish sufficient revenue
to pay the legitimate governmental
expenses. 1t will demand the en-
forcement Of civil service reform, and
a certain and fixed tenure of office
for honest and efficient employees. 1t
will insist that this is not a govern.
ment Of unlimited centralized pow
ers, but that "the powers not del
egated'to the United States by the
Constitution nor prohibited by it to
the States are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the pcople"-the
Of the 10th Amendment
1t will oppose in the future as in the
past, the principle of one man power,
or Bossism. In short, its governing
principle will be an economical, hon.
est government of the people, by the
people.
Young men. ponder over these