The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-22

over one hundred thousand dollars
,f stock subscribed for in our build
ng association, and we presume that
The greater part of this will be ex-
pended in the next year or two in
and improving.
Let the good work go on until it
out in manufactures and
other industries that will bring us
money and then we will go faster.
president Cleveland" according
to the Springfield Republican, ''has
set an example of pluck and back
bone which is in itself a service to
the country, overrun as it is with
self-seeking politicians who tumble
over each other in their eagerness to
keep up with each popular caprice
that may fill the sails of their ambi-
tion.'
They Come High bat we Mast
Have Them.
We hope to see a universal and ir-
resistable sentiment arise in this
county in favor of improving the
public roads.
We get together in conventions
and in public meetings nearly every
year, to advance the interest of some
favorite candidate or party, and we
see the feelings Of the whole popula-
ton more or less interested in this
behalf. But upon the immensely
more important matter of having
good roads, and like questions, our
people never come together or think
it worth their while to discuss them
in public meetings. Good roads are
of far more value to our people than
the success of any candidate or po-
litical party. We can't have any
very high degree of prosperity until
we have good roads.
In order to have good roads at a
cost that the county can afford we
must have a better system. The
contract system is the only one that
ever does succeed, and our statutes
give every county the privilege Of
adopting it. Under the contract
system, the roads are sold in Sec
tions of a mile or more, at public
auction. to the lowest bidder; and
the condition of repair is accurately
and specifically set out in the con.
tract, SO that if the road is not SC
kept the contract is forfeited and the
county pays nothing.
With this system we would not
only have better roads, but have
them at less cost than now. With
the present system we pay the cost
of good roads and have the worst
ever seen. Now let us have s'grand
rally" on the subject Of good roads,
Let the farmers organize, hold pub
lie meetings, discuss the subject
thoroughly and more together all
along the line.
The Clarksburg Ne,Os says that
Harrison county will raise the lar
gest crops this year ever known in
her history. We hope to be able tc
make the same announcement in re
gard to Monongalia. Whenever
Monongalia, Harrison, or any othel
county raises enough for herself and
little to sell she has started on thu
high road to prosperity.
Examine the Record.
The avowed enemies of the Demo
cratic party are anxiously striving
to make it appear that it's admins
tration of affairs has been inimica
to the best interests of the State
while those within its own ranks
who are eternally grumbling at what
ever is done, and adversely criticiz
ing the acts and impugning tn
motives of his representatives, ar
but adding fuel to the fame. Their
is no justice either in the direct at
tacks of the open enemies, or the in
sidious stabs of the secret foes o
the party, and well may all tru
Democrats, who have the good o
their party at heart, exclaim, "Sav
us from our enemiesr' The State ha
prospered steadily under Democrat
rule; there has been rigid econom,
exercised in the expenditure of tn
public money, her institutions hav
been erected from the ordinar
sources of revenue without extr
taxation or the contraction of an,
considerable debt, her school syster
has been expanded and improved il
a marked degree, and in wealth an,
population she has increased mucl
beyond the average of her siste
States. The past Democratic ad
ministrations have been honest, con
scientious and efficient, and tn
present is no less SO: there are n
invidious comparisons to be made
no matter what differences of opinio
may have existed on certain doubt
full points. Nor is the record of tn
Democratic party in domestic mat
tiers all that it can point with prid
to. West Virginia has taken pos
tion in national affairs of which sh
may well be proud. The represer
tatives of this State in the nations
legislature, sent there by the demo
cratic party, are men in whom a
her citizens may feel pardonabl
pride. In the Senate our represer
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