Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-01
That's the Condition of the DsmOc-
racy of Good Old Har-
rison County.
They Sound the Loud Timbrel of
Liberty and Victory to Every
Democratic Voter in
the State.
Read it Everybody, 1t Has the True
Ring of Thrice Refined Gold,
and Will Do You Good.
Democrats and Voters of Harrison County;

Democrats and Voters of Harrison County;
We make one more appeal to you as
patriots, liberty-loying citizens, who have
deep interest in preserving and handing
down to your children that form Of govern
ment established by your fathers, under
which this great Republic grew and -four
ished for seventy odd years of its existence,
to rally on the 4rH DAY or NeTEasER NEXT
and rescue it from the hands of its enemies
anL destrovers. Your fathers deemed no
sacrifice of time, money or life too
great to found government that
should secure freedom and the bless
ings Of civil liberty to them and to
their posterity. They committed it to us as
trust to be kept for future generations who
should succeed US. This fair land was in
tended by them to be the home Of freemen
the asylum of the down trodden and op-
pressed, the sanctuary of liberty and bea-
con of hope to all Of every land in the strug-
Gle against tyranny and despotism. Have
we less love for hberty-leSs patriotism than
they? Are we so degenerate as 10 beud be-
fore the insolence OF power, and permit cor
rupt confederacy of party profligates and
selfish monopolists longer to control and
peryert the government to their own agran-
dizement? Shall they be permitted to con
veit it into government for the rich and
the well born" and to tread under their ar
rogart heels the great mass Of the peo-
pie? Shall we stand silently and
idly by and see the chasm between
the two classes-the rich and the poor
made wider and wider, the rich becoming
richer by the patronage Of the government,
and the poor poorer under the burdens and
exactiors laid upon them for the benefit of
capital? Shall giant monopoly rule u.s. and
Capitalization stride on to the entire absOrp-
ton Of all governmental powers by the
Federal government and the destruction of
the States, and we not resist it by our pro.
test at the ballot box? Shall we longer
submit to be taxed and robbed Of our prop
erty 10 enrich tariff kings, and to furnish 6.
surplus revenue of Sl00,000,000 annually
to be used as corruption fund, first to de-
bauch and then TO ensave the people? Shall
We permit the public domain which was ac-
quired by Democratic craftsmanship and the
vator Of our common soldiery, as a heritage
and home for our children and our chill
dren children, to be bestowed as q free
gift on soulless corporations, and obberS,
ard spectators? Shall the highest offices
in the gift of the people be filled by corrup-
tionists, who have prostituted official power
to enrich grsat corporations and for private
gain? Shall our commerce perish, our
flag disappear from the high seas, and our
navy continue to be an object of contempt
and derision? Shall American citizens be
ruthlessly seized, dragged from their homes
and thrust into foreign dungeons, there to
langUish, without the power Of their gov
ernment being interposed to secure
their release? Has its authority
become so impotent to protect, that Amerl-
can citizenship is despised by petty de-
spots? To be Roman, once was greater
than q King In the heroic days of the
Republic, under Democratic rule, to be an
American was greater than Roman and
the respect OF Kings and
Princess. Shall it not be so again? Shall
fraud, corruption, bribery, peculation and
all the train of evils resulting from central
i2ation and bad government continue, or
will you change your administration and be |
saved?
Your answers to our questions must be |
given at the ballot box on the lth of No |
vember. If you still value the priceless |
heritage of free government and the boon
Of civil liberty, if you desire the restor- |
aton of constitutional government, let your |
ballots express it, and let your votes he cast |
for the Cleveland and Hendricks electoral |
ticket and for John Brannon for Congress- |
let us not sacrifice principle tOr policy,
and sense of right for trucking eXpedi.
encv. Let US rot be so base, so poor and |
degenerate from the precepts ani examples
of our great fathers who founded the Re
public Let it be our duty to do what in us !
lies to hold up the memory and the teach |
ings of these great names that the people, |
plague stricken as they are, may look up |
ard live We must come back to |
The principles upon . which they |
founded this government, or perish as
nation. We must overthrow the party in |
power, who have shown By their acts the |
of their designs, aud who are
fast breaking down the deiences that guard |
DUR liberties. 1t is through centralized |
power, permanently established, that they |
expect to rear plutocracy upon the ruins
Of what was once a free republic. Rally, |
hen. to its rescue and re establish it again |
Oh the firm foundation laid by your fathers |
JNo j. DAVIS,
Chr n Dem. Co. EN. Com.