National Republican., 1882-10-05
West Virginia.

LOU, as CdHuluHtc lOT EONeTHOI hEulnSI
Matthews, his Democratic opponent, he
made a brilliant and noble fight. Every
where throughout the State he infused
enthusiasm into the people. And, al
though he battled against great odds, he
brok dowE the Democratic majority, an
initiated their "orators" wherever he
met them, crushed Matthews in joint
discussion, and shook the State from the
Ohio to the Kanawha.
Mr.. Mason is man whose record is
written all over with one great word
mdnlinesS. And he is manly man. The
people of his State who know him best
esteem him most The Republicans al
ways found him true, faithful, unswerv-
ing member of the party when he served
in the legislature of the State. AS
servant Of the people he has always
restrained his actions to the just limits Of
persistent devotion to his convictions,
endeavoring to aim his heaviest blows at
opinions, and not against the characters
of his adversaries. Such q man is Mr..
Mason.
So much for the candidates Need we
commend these men to the people of their
State? As much as they have to COM
mend them to West Virginians, who
know full well that they are men Of the
people and for the people, will not the
great cause for which they are battling
be far safer, higher, nobler commenda-
ton?
A bright future is in store for the young
and buoyant State of West Virginia, but
it will never come under Bourbon rule
or be reached by the help of Bourbon
Congressman. 1t will never come to this
State, nor to any people who live in
commonwealth governed by men who
drag backward instead ofleading forward
II will never come so long as passion and
prejudice, hatreds, dead issues, and ex-
ploded theories are the doctrines"
clamoring for support and often mouthed
by men who know no language, living or
dead who believe that the public schools
should be closed half the year that the
development of States resources is
wrong that the building of railroads isa
piece of Republican villainv," and that
the "old days of the daddies are good
enough for u.s." 1t will never come
when legislatures, with bare-faced, open
audacity turn State upside down, and
by system of fraud and jugglery and
rascally gerrymandering, so "reappor-
ton" Congressional districts that coun-
ties in the eastern portion of the State
shall be in districts in the western por-
ton, three hundred miles away! This
did the last Bourbon legislature of West
Virginia
We have too much faith and hope and
confidence in the people of this State to
think that she will longer remain in the
political Egypt whittier she was carried
by the dissentions of some of her own
people few years ago.
See her, with coal enough in her bosom
to su pply the furnaces of Great Britain
for ten thousand years with her mex
haustible treasures in iron and salt--wll
she cling to the dead carcass of Bourbon
ism, with its free trade and sailors
rights?" Is West Virginia satisfied to
be ridden and hampered and held back
by the political hacks who tell her
farmers and her miners that days
work is from sunrise to sunset; that
all tariff is Radical robbery" that
the lowest wages is the fairest re-
ward? We have too much respect for
West Virginia to look for anything else,
except a sweeping reputation of all this
bosh and of those who shout it. Will she
follow men who tell her, as is now being
done on the hustings, that the "Repub-
lican party is bankrupting the govern
ment," when the public debt has, within
the last month, been reduced seventeen
millions of dollars?
Now, word to the Republicans of the
State. Let them remember the cause in
which they are engaged. However
worthy they may be, far worthier is thi!
cause. Let them remember the mission
Of the Republican party. There is no ma,
acho is not honored by being good RepubH
can. Away with strife in the party
with selfish individual interests. Worl
for the success of the party from whicl
the public good is sure to follow, and no
that this man or that man may be upper
most two years hence. AS the mission
of the Republican party was to save thu
Nation, it proved the grandeur of thi
mission by saving the Nation. Surely i
can save West Virginia.
As it is the province of THE NATIoNA
REPUBLICAN to do good wherever needed
and as our love for Republicanism is nc
circumscribed by State limits, or meas
ured by geographical lines, we have thu
addressed ourselves to the people c
West Virginia. With two Republica
Congressman representing them in tn
Legislature of the Nation, we shall hav
great hope for their future, and be abl
to say TO them in the words of Salmo
p. Chase, when he predicted the electio
f of Abraham Lincoln, "the fIinges of tn
vast curtain that hides the future are a
, luminous with the glories Of the comm
, day"
,, Could our morning contemporary n
call the names of any virtuous men j
the United States other than renegad
, Republicans who are doing The dirt
work for the Democracy? Have tn
q, Democratic leaders entirely faded frol
! its mem ory? Or.is it ashamed to pril
their names with the kitchen scullioI
y who have recently enlisted in its ranks
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