Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-08
The DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE.

An Earnest Appeal From Its President
Asking That Its Full Duty BE Per-
formed.
CoLUmUs, Ono, Of October Ito the
Ohio Democratic Lesgue: The Committee
of Fifty has not thought it advisable to call
9 special meeii' g of the League at Colum-
bus for consultation. There is no business
requiring such meeting, but have been
requested to remind the League that
we ought efficiently to aid the State
Committee in the coming cleo
ton. 1t is the duty of every club
belonging to Cur organization, and
of every members Of each club, to work ear
nestly and actively to secure the fullest pos
able vote Of our party. We have strong
State ticket, nominated almost unanimously,
and vigorous concerted action will elect it.
The next Legislature must choose United
States Senator, and every interest of the
party and the nation demands that some
able and reliable Democrat shall take John
Sherman's place in the United States Sen
ate. We have the Administration and the
Lower House, let Us get the Senate, sndthe
full fruition of Democratic victory
is ours. With complete coutrol
of the Government, we will
blot sectional and race lines from politics
and give the country repose. Democratic
victory viii purify the civil -orVies, reform
the tariff, the currency, tax. ..or lessen pub
lie expenditure, establish honest admins
trsiicn, hasten the payment Of the public
debt and revive our tagging industries,
These blessings can never come until Re-
publican sectioualism and misrule are de-
stroyed.
Victory in Ohio By the election of the
whole State ticket and majority in the
Legislature would be blow to the Rrepbi.
can party from which it could not recover.
This their leaders well know, and hence
they are haranguing the whole State, and,
ss their lsst hope, seeking to arouse the
old snimosities Of the war.
They are exssperated that the colored
voter, whom they enfranchised that they
might vote him and perpetuste their own
power, ia learning to think and vote for
himself and not at their dictation. They
are trying to convince him and the people
Of the State that in the South, ss Sherman
says, the negro is deprived substantially of
ell his political rights BY open violence or
by frauds as mean as any that have been
committed oy penitentary convicts, aud as
openly and boldly done as any highway
robbery" And they threaten to deny
equal voice in Congress to the people Of the
South.
This wicked appeal to sectional spirit,this
dangerous threat, IS made in the face of the
fact that the vote of the whole South, though
the country is thinly populated, lacks but
per cent Of being as great in proportion to
the population as in the deAsely populated
S stes of the Northern sesboard, and in face
OF the fact too, that in the seeded States,
the pretended bulLdozed Solid South, with
Is per cent of the voters eolored, the vote
for President last year was fuller by 8! per
cent than in New England
Men Of the League, the great object of
our association is the success of the Demo.
cratic principles and policy. Let every
member of all the clubs do his duty. Vote,
and see that your neighbors vote. Work
inside of the clubs and outside of them.
Cary Ohio, and you not only secure wise
legislation on temperance and all other
questions Of State policy but you strengthen
our friends in Virginia and New York, and
hold up the hands of the Administration all
over the Union. DURBIS WARD,
President of the Ohio Democratic League.