The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-11-17

this is a permanently Democratic
country and that the Republican
party can only hold possession Of
one branch Of its legislature BY
sending Republicans to tie United
States Senate from Democratic
States whose Legislatures they con,
troll by dishonest gefrymanders.-7
That kind of defiance Of a peoples
will never lasts long.
Are the Young Men Repnbli.
't'la. cans. 'a '''
The Republican press dndl' Ire,
publican orators are in the babi!
Of claiming from time to time that
the young men Of the country are
all Republicans. This claim has
been made for the past fifteen
years and it is about time there
were some proof of IT, While we
assert that quite the contrary is
the fact, the wonder is that it is
not true to some extent.
Not that young men ought to be
RepubliCans-far otherwise. But
the current literature of the coun.
try since the war, until within the
past five years, has been partisan
Republican. Until the election Of
Cleveland all the leading maya.
zines and literary newspapers were
Republican. The magazines of
Boston, New York and Philadel
phia were all edited by Republi.
cans, and the material was furnish.
ed by Republican correspondents.
G. W. Cable was not acceptable
until he took a stand against his
own country, the South; and south.
ern accounts of the war and poll
tics we're all modified in tone to
suit Northern Republican TASTE
The children at school were taught
10 believe that the doctrines Of
Jefferson were heresy and led to
disunion, and that all Democrats
were opposed to the war aud enc,
mics Of their country, that "Ihe
Republican party saved the Union,
that the Republican party abolish.
ed slavery" These are lies from
the first base, but they have all
been taught in the school books as
matters Of history beyond ques.
ton. Happily this is all changed.
For the first time in q quarter of a
century, Harvard University has a
Democratic President. The cities
Of Boston and New York, who lead
in art, science and literature, are
Democratic cities. The children
are beginning to find out that there
were as many Democrats as Repub.
lioans in the Union army, that
even Kentucky furnished nearly
$4,000 Union soldiers, that the
abolition Of slavery was a war
measure proposed by Lincoln and
endorsed by the whole people, and
not by q Republican Congress
alone, that II had as much oppoSi'
ton from Republicans as from
Democrats, and that the doctrines
Of Thomas Jefferson are the only
true doctrines Of our form Of Gov.
ernment, and that their mainLe.
nance is necessary to the safety Of
the Union, And there are many
things else in this day Of enlight.
eminent and progress that are com.
ing to the surface that the Republi.
can party has been striving TO hide
from The eyes Of our coming gener-
atoms. The young men Of the
country have just passed through
an election in which from North
to South, aud from East to West,
for the first time in 20 years, there
was not a United States Marshal OIL
a soldier a! the polls. They have
found that the Republicans have
gained in the South and the Demo
Gratis at the North, They have
discovered That thisuproar Of Blaine
and others who follow him, about
intimidation of vOlersin the South
is a bumbug, and that the election
in Virginia, while an apparent
disaster to the Democrats, is thC
most complete rofutation possible
of the lies that have been tolt
about Southern elections. Tit
young men of the country are no
to be humbugged.-h.
The recent clectionin this State
has no Significance for the Rcpub
licans.