The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-08-19
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ofintended action, before We can put the
government In their hands. But the farmer
and the laboring man do know that a Dem.

OF lntenued action, before we can put h
government In their hands. But the farmt
and the laboring man do know that a Den
ocaec House Of Representatives has iul
appropriated mora money raised by tsxii
tion than any other House Of Represents
tives has ever appropriated In time {
pelce. We also know tha! the Democrat
msjozity would have made ires trad
tarlh, containing all the odious features c
the present war tariff, 30 far as regards II
mons!rous inequalities, by a horizonta
reduction Ct tho tarlfl to break down yer,
many rlsing and struggling industries, an,
destruction Of the homes Of our working
men and tho home markets OF the Ameri
can producers. l5 7T @U'-'~'
Who does not know that the very fear o
the action Of the Democracy In Congress
haa 50 paralyzed American enterprise ap(
business, that mills are everywhere clos
Ing, mines shut up, furnaces blown out
and every kind OF employment 80 curtail
ed that the mechanic and yorkinpmen arf
not earning enough to support life In COM
iorl; 30 That the farmer even, deprived OF q
home market, and crushed down by dis
eliminating rates Of transportation, fndt
bis corn, wheat, and wool lower than it has
been within the present generation. Gan
tho people therefore trust the machine Do
mocracy with power, upon a shifting, eva.
aive, and deceptive platform? f't- '5i,'71Ii
The country has had experience In Re.
publican party rule twenty-five years, and
know its results. We therefore have nc
need TO look at its platform, for "by thoil
frultsye shall know them"
Here he arraigns the Republican party
ior falling away from the people and ceas
Ing to leRlslate for them. 4 y '5'5,,:yr
THE PEOPLE GET NOTHING FROM THE OIL
u PARTIES. ,CI .lftt@
Experience, the bes. teacher, therefore
establishes The fact that commerce, the in
dustries, the laboripg man, the anti.mono.
polist, the Rreenbacker, the farmer or other
email producers, all OF whose interests are
Identical, can get or hope nothing from
either Or both thepresert organized parties.
The Republican party is bound hand and
loot to capitalized monopoly. g
The Democratic party Is governed in ita
conventions by combination Of q solid
South, from whence no laboring man, white
or black, Is q delegate, and where the aris.
tocracy Of capital alone Is heard, and the
political machine conuptiops of sub.
atantlal!y single State Of the North, which
coniederacy dominates its platform and
nominated its candidates and hold them
firmly in its grip ii elected. ;fSt
THE BALLOT IN DANGER FROM THE BRITISH
t+o PARTY.
How long will the precious ballot be left
TO every freeman? ag
The people must act now and assert their
power, or they may lose It forever.
Already the British party in this country,
those who ape the British sris.ocracy, wear
clothes which are imported, largely with.
out paying duties, because they feel that
an American mechanic cannot make cloth
good enough for them can only be waited
upon by British servants, and cut their
whiskers even British fashion, go as to ap.
pear as un-American as porsible; are cav.
Ing TO each other: why should the lower
classes have the ballot, and thus the masses
rule the country agains. US? Or aa one
Of their magazines published in Boston ex.
presses it, "a few old families have the
traditional right to govern the politics OF
MaEsachusetts." y
G& Sad FAREWELL.
Hee1horte his followers to fuse in every
State with the minority, to organizs every
where and make themselves felt. Part Of
the paper is addressed especially ITO the
Greenbsck Labor Party and the anti.Mo-
nopoliet organization, and to the Laboring
Men," and to these be saye: "Tho Democ.
racy has left you to fight the battle against
The opprefsoss Of the people alone" This
is followed by special mec3age "To the
Democratic Party OF Mas.achusetts." in
which be says ss5 80 ~
The convention for reasons, and under
circumstauces that l have hereinbefore
stated, rejected your principles, spurned
your platform, and instead Of taking any
statesman Of the Democracy, nominated as
your candidate a gentleman whom two
years ago there were not forty voters in
your ranks knew lived on earth. cannot
DO found by the action OF such conven-
tion, 30 regardless Of the interests Of the
people and Of Democratic usages, and 30
told that body" y,aai = y ,=zfs5 !,
Party allegiance carried to such extent
is neither democratic nor useful. I shall,
therefore unite myself with the laboring
men and the true Democracy OF the coun.
try, to do my endeavor with them to bring
back the government into control OF the
people, and | invite every good citizen, Of
whatever political faith, to Join the "Peo.
ple's Party" to purify and reform the ad-
miniHtrahon and redress the wrongs done
by oppressive legislation.
There are some who call themeelyes
Democrats that I would o little rather
would not come. with us; they are not Of
us. To the honest and lair minded Demo-
Gratis who have acted with me but now
believe their duty lies in an opposite di1ec-
tion ! bid q kindly political farewell until
their conscientious patriotism shall bring
them back in the near future to labor with
me again in the peoples's cause, admitting
that II | cav not too wisely; ] saw better
than they did the necessity for change
from party to country.
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The following. iootnote is appended: I
have Issued this address at an earlier day
than I had intended, at the desire Of many
trusted and valued irienda, but somewhat
against my own judgment, because think
that the Peoples campaign should be 3
short, sharp, and decisive one, and should
not be begun in fact, except perhaps a
ekirmish or two, until some thirty dsya
later and ] had hoped to have had the
advantage Of a distinct statement Of princi.
Piles by the Democratic candidate Tor the
Presidency, and ascertained from bis own
declarations whether recanting some Of his
public opinions he might not chow him.
ssllibetter than the official action OF his
party has shown itself by 1t. platform.
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"A Railroard Change. Z;
KANSAS, CRY. Mo-, August lS.-It is re.
ported here In private railway circles tha.
~. Oakes, at present Vice President and
General Manager Of the Northern Pacific
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