The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-10-06
What VIII They Do?-.A Little
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with the idea that the people ofW est
Virginia viii next year vote to turn
the Democrats out Of office, and put
the State government into the hands
of the Republican party.
These very sanguine Republicans
either do not know the people of West
Virginia, or they forget that the mass
ofvoters are eminently conservative
and practical in their views of public
men and measures; and that Demo
cratic voters are so imbued with the
principles Of their party, as not to be
easily influenced to give them up
This being so, the Republican party
will be asked to give some substantial
and well founded reasons for demand
ing change, and will be required to
furnish some statement in regard to
changes they propose to make, and
show wherein the public service will
be bettered thereby.
So far no man in the Republican
ranks has been great enough-good
enough, or wise enough--to say what
his party would do if placed in power
in this State. None of their great
men have been so bold as to formu-
late policy and declare it. 1t is true
much fault has been found by their
wise men with the management of al
fairs by the dominant party, and the
party papers have teemed with tales
Of misgoyernment and mismanage-
ment, but no remedy has been sug-
gested; none of their public men or
newspapers have told the people what
they propose to do when they get in.
If the men who give force and di-
rection to Republican politics in West
Virginia are fair index Of the class
of men who will be nominated to fill
the various public offices in the State,
the people will have little ground for
hope of an improved condition of af-
fairs in the public service. These
men do not have the confidence and
support ofthe better class of voters
in their own party. Their methods
and practices are utterly at variance
with all ideas Of honesty and good
morals. Yet they absolutely domi-
nate and contlol the party affairs in
the State, and will not brook any op-
position inside of their ranks.
No Republican in the State dare
aspire to any office, State or Federal,
without first going down on his knees,
and swearing allegiance to Gen. Golf
and the U. s. Marshal Of West Va,
and no convention will be held that
does not represent the Will and wishes
of these two men. They are in ac-
cord with, and enjoy the confidence of
the Federal administration at Wash
ington city. If placed in power here
the State government would be run
upon the same plan and principles as
that now in operation at Washington.
All know the corruption that exists
at the Federal seat of government,
and how every pledge Of reform has
been broken and disregarded by the
Republican party in the United
States.
They promised reform in the civil
service, yet every one knows that a
Senatorial ring, with Billy Malone
at its head, controls the public patron
age, and the Offices are stocked with
machine politicians to the exclusion
and deserving Republicans
who refuse to become corrupt bench
men of this notorious ring of jobbers.
Pray tell US, brethren of the Re
publican press what your party pro-
poses to do when they come into pow
er. You are apt at fault-fnding, and
quick to pull down and destroy, but
what are your plans for building up
and improving the general condition
of affairs? We have NO way of iudg.
ing your party except by the record
made while in control Of the State,
and its direction of the Federal gov
eminent, and taking these as the
standard, the people have nothing to
expect from you but misrule, high
taxes, and the indiscriminate plumber
of the public treasury.
If the action Of your ablcst and
most distinguished leader in the last
Legislature (Senator Dawson) is to
be taken as an indication of what
your party proposes to do, the State
tax would be raised to forty cents.
This would be in accordance with
the general policy of the party which
favors high taxes and liberal appro-
priations; but is this all yen propose?
Pray tell us.-Mountdin Herald.