The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1882-01-18
What We Believe.

We believe in the genuine princi-
pies of Democracy held by the fathers
and founders of the Republic, those
cherished principles which underlie
the whole structure Of our govern
ment; and we believe that the Dem
ocratic party only can bring it back
to the safe anchorage of the Consti-
tuition, to the paths Of economy, in
tegrity, and fidelity to the people.
The experience of twenty years of
Republican rule, with its long car.
nival Of crime, corruption and de.
bauchcry, should induce the Ameri-
can people to pause, and calmly con.
slider the question whether the best
interests Of the country do not i'm.
peratively demand change, as we'll
in the policies as in the practices
and character Of our rulers. A long
lease Of undisturbed power is almost
certain to engender ard bring to the
surface the meanest and basest pas.
sions of those who WELD it, and his.
tory may be searched in vain for a
single instance where party grown
corrupt by a long possession of Office
and power, was ever willing to in
stitute, or able to carry out, any
measure for the genuine reform Of
abuses which had grown up in the
hot-bed Of vice and corruption, sus.
tanned bv the vile, the venal and
the cowardly. The only remedy for
such abuses as have blackened the
record Of the Republican party, is to
be found in the free and fearless use
Of the surgeons knife, and this can
never be looked for at the hands Of
the afflicted patient. Reform must
come, if it comes at all, from the out
side. The prison house of SO many
hideous secrets Of crime must be laid
bare to the public gaze. The veil
must be torn from the faces of the
false prophets who have beguiled the
people with honeyed words, while
with the iron hand of the robber,
they have remorselessly plundered
the Treasury, dishonored the Gov.
eminent, and covered the American
name with humiliation and shame.
The only party, then, to which the
people can look with reasonable con.
fdence for this much needed reform,
is the grand old Democratic party,
which has "braved the battle and
the breeze" for more than three.
quarters of a century, and which is
now preparing for another struggle
with its old adversaries, the cohorts
of Capitalization, extravaganza and
fraud, for the preservation and per-
petuation of constitutional govern.
ment and the principles of civil lib.
erty.
To enable the Democratic party to
successfully resist and overthrow
these public enemies, wee need
thorough organization, discipline
and the elimination of all minor and
non-essential issues from our politi-
cal creed Our bond of union must
be the protection of the Constitution,
and the preservation of the Govern.
ment from the assaults, open and
concealed, of the bitterest foes of
each. For twenty years these sap.
pers and miners have been busily at
work, laboring to destroy the founda-
lions ofthe republic, with the pur.
pose Of building upon its ruins an
empire TO be ruled by a successful
soldier, who will ride rough.shod
over the liberties and personal rights
of a people who were born free.
Even now the Capitol, and every de-
partmont is honeycombed with cor
ruption, and each succeeding day
brings to light startling discoveries
of some newly developed official vii.
lainy, and these disclosures follow
each other with such rapidly, that
the public has ceased 10 regard them
with more consideration than is &c.
corded to some idle wonder of the
hour.-Amcrican Register.
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