Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-28
THREE WAYS OF WORKING FOX HAIR.
MOSY.

1aONhs
There have appeared in the REGISTER
and several other papers of the State dur
ing the past few months, letters calling out
loudly for harmony in the Democratic
party. Such condition is much to be
desired by the Democracy Of the State.
Indeed internal discussions might cause
the party to lose the Legislature and con
seuuently the United States Senator. The
decrease in the Democratic majority in the
last Legislature, as compared with the
preceding one, is doubtless due to this
cause. Hence harmony is desirable, that
not only a majority be held but that what
has been lost may be regsined.
The champions and alleged champions
Of Democratic harmony in West Virginia
may be divided into three classes; the hys-
terical class, the disaFscted class, and the
straightforward, hopeful Democratic class
The first class are nervous and Gdgety
and see in every petty quarrel some spec.
ter ominious Of defeat to the whole party.
Every little local dissension is thought to
extend over the entire State Molehills
are magnihed into mountains. West
Virginia is composed of one grand circle
in which there are 6fty,four others, in each
OF which there are to-day two little fac
tons as an excellent but uneasy Dem
ocrat of Marion writes to the REGIsTER.
This class with their wellintenGoned but
misdirected zeal, keeps the party in GER
tain sections in a constant state Of unessi.
ness. The forebodiDgs Of defeat
they are continually publishing
among their neighbors cause
staunch and consistent Democrats to
hesitate and waver at times and keep
voters out of the party who might other
wise have joined their political fortunes
With it. This makes it much easier for the
disaHected class and the opposite political
party to SOW the Sc. ds Of diseord.
Ii is true that local disssnsions exist in
various parts of the State, but to become
excited about them is not the way to unite
the party. 1t should be considered that
local dissensions arise in every party no
matter what the name, and that such will
be true as long as Utopia issa dream and
the Millennium is in theifuture. It isiu-
possible for the people to be represented
in the various official positions in such
way as to bring satisfaction to all
The second, or dissFeo.ed class, cry loud.
est Tor unity. Their voice is often heard
in the newspaper and other places and they
play upon the credulity of the first class
mentioned. Very often they are persons
who, having failed to secure some coveted
State or Federal Office for themselves or
certain friends, have become surly and
soured and think the whole political ma.
chinery is going to the dogs. Under the
guise Of champions for harmony they are
COuLluuAily "AAAAS SOHoiI tuEusS a. CCE-
tain men in the party and are pulfng open
old sores, which if not irrilaied would soon
heAlup. They seem 10 be playing over
again the trick Of Diogenes hunting for an |
honest man, and when they have found
him, who by the way is always q friend of
theirs, dissension and strife are goirg to |
ruiz the party unless harmony"
is restored with twists and
wrinkles in it to conform |
to the persons they have fOreOrdained to
receive political konors. Such mutilatsd |
harmony" as this is not what the DemOc-
racy of our State wants. But if the disaf-
fected class had their own course to run
unimpeded it would be .he only kind they
could insure.
The third class form the bone and sineH
of the Democracy. They keep constantly