Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-23
Republicans stay in p power We then their men
will keep their places.
Slavery of Politics.


man merely because your party .nomiuates
him To show how much better one party
is than the other and put side by side the
Louisiana Returning Board and the political
scheme in Maine in 1879; the Belknap |
frauds of the one party. the Tweed larcenies
of the other party There is difference
between men, but between the two parties |
as parties there is Just the difference IS be-
tween fifty and half hundred. Both par
Ties need radical reformation and by the |
time they are fully reformed perhaps one or |
both of them will reformed out of existence. |
But you say: "Is there no test? Are we |
to have no prefcrencesY' All, so far from
saying that, / declare that the man who re-
fuses to vote or neglects to vote is not
worthy of American citizenship. But do
not be submissive to party wire-pullers; do
not go kneeling before demagog behost
The question with vast multitude of peo
pie is who ought to be the next President Of
the United States.
/ remark in the first place he ought to, be
man OF established moral character. Some
ofus can look back TO the time when Tor
guberEatorial- or presidential position men
we're named who were libertines and drunk
ers and gamblers. The American Con-
gress again aad again has heen disgraeed
BY men who could not walk straight
The Hue and Cry.
But do not be ovSFAorne by the hue and
CRY of political canvass. The best aan
that God every made nominated on either
side for President Of the United States must
wadO through obloquy chin deep. The one
target for shots was set up weeks ago, the
other target for shots will be set up weeks
ahead, and the one which gets the most
holes put through it will be President De
famation elected General Garfield. Defa
nation elected Abraham Lincoln. Defa
nation, my old father told me, elected An
drew jackson, and this was the testing cry
of a man who disliked jackson When at
Chicago the other candidate for President
is fairly launched upon public attention,
YOU can easily and positively tell who will
be President Of the United States. Take u
scales and put in one side all the scurrility
abou! the Republican candidate, and on the
other side of the scales all the Scurrility
al out the other candidate, weighing scurril
ity against ScuTiity, and having found out
which is the heavier vou can know rs well
in August as in November. The philoSo
phy of it is plain. There is in human ma
ture something that puts in sympathy with
the traduced. Have nothing to do, pen,
tongue, or type with slander or maledictian
Of pvlc men. When YOU come to weigh
the moral character of he candidates, re-
member you are Christian patriot and not
a scavenger,
Must Respect Religion.
Moreover our coming President must be
a reSpecter of the Christian religion. ap.
ply no religious test; but country diScOv-
cred by Christian man and settled by the
Pilgrim fathers and the Hugenols, and men
of other nationalities, who prosecuted for
their sentiments came here and took pos
session of this continent in the name of the
God of Hcaven-this nation must have over
it respecter of the Christian religion. The
foundation of our institutions is not, as has
been sometimes stated, the Constitution of
the United States but the Bible. Without
that Republican institution are an everlast
ing impossibility. Our first President was
a Christian, and the coming President must
at least be a reSpecter Of religious institu-
tons.
The Ship of State.
The old ship of state has got out into
calm waters and it does moi require any
very skillful navigation. The flowers Of
this summer time have covered up the
Northern and Southern graves and let no
hoof of contention trample the flowers. In
pulpit, on platform and in convention and
at ballot box let us plan amity Why do
we want to fight any longer2 Is life SO
long we are in hurry to get rid Of a sur
plus Of it? Is the sword better than the
wheat cradle, can we not raise rich pastur-
age except by the mouldering human bones
and the red rain of human carnageb |
pray God there may be no more use for the
musket in this country, except for holiday
turnout Ipray God that the time may
hasten on when when your navy yards will
be museums containing ships that were
used in barbonic ages when nations settled
their quarrels by slaughter.
pray the time may come when the
eagle shall be taken off our con and there
shall be substituted the doye, the bird OF
blood giving way for the olive branch.
Peace once established let it be established
forever give you my friends as pm
acea for all political ills and preventive
ofall national calamity the christianiza. ion
of thepeople Get their. hearts right and
they will vote right
Do Our Best.
Our father graves, our own cradle, our
chiIdren's birthright. When | say yoIr
fathers graves, your pulses run quicker.
Whether they sleep in city cemetery or vii
lage graveyard their ashes are precious TO
you. They lived well and they died right.
You will not submit to have their tombS
dishonored by the reign of any government
other than that under which they lived and
died. Then this land has been our cradle.
1t NAV have rocked us roughly but it was a
good cradle 10 be rocked in. Oh, how much |
we owe i'll Dear land Of our boyhood and |
girlhood days. And il is to be our chill |
drens birthright. We will soon be through |
with it. We will see only few more ofthe |
blossoms of the spring, We will gather only |
few more of the harvests of the summer; |
we will pluck only little more Of the fruits |
Of the autumns, but our children they must |
get it through us as we got it from our faith |
ers-a free land happy land, Christian
land. We cannot have them trodden Of !
despotisms or lashed of cruelties or alright
ed OF anarchy Wemust hand this country |
to them over the baliotbox, over the school
desk, over the church altar, and charge
them to put their life between it and any |
keen stroke that would destroy il. And |
thou, Lord God Almighty, we lay hold of |
Thee to-day in thousand-armed prayer.
Remember our fathers blistered feeS at
Valley Forge. Remember Warren and Kos
ciusko Remember the hunger and the cold,
and the thirst, the long march and the fever
hospital Remember the fearful charge up |
Banker Hill Remember Lexington, and
Yorktown, and Kings Mountain, and Get
tysburg. Remember the lake where Perry
fought and the Hampton Roads where the
Cumberland went d,wn. Remember Wash
ington's PRAYER by the camp FIRE. Remem-
n NJ II n 4 l. 4.