The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-12-12
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publican National Committee, Col.
Eliot F. Shepherd, of the New
York Mall and Express, thus ed
itorialized the Republican policy te
be pursued toward the South if the
South dosen't instantly get down ON
its knees. Read it:
"The Democrats arc trying to
steal the Federal House of Repre-
sentatives. No one denies it To-
day the news comes that they have
robbed West Virginia of a duly
elected Republican Congressman.
They will try to rob Louisiana.
They have cheated a North Caro-
LIMA Republican out of his seat in a
district which il notoriously Repub-
lican by s, 900 majority They have
given certificates to more than halt
a score ofDemocrats whom the peo-
pie have defeated.
aThe country is in danger, and
we are speaking soberly, with self
restraint, but in terrible earnest,
when we sound the note of warning.
The Democrats shall not be permit
ted to consummate this crime. This
country is not the home of thieves
and thugs and plunderers. 1t is
not to be controlled by traitors. 1t
is not to have its suffrage and its
freedom destroyed by violence.
The Democratic party will not be
permitted to steal the government
any more than they were permitted
to break it up by force of arms.
Crimes against the ballot box will
be put down by the same military
power that crushed the life out OF
the rebellion.
The next war will not be begun
by the South. 1t will come from
the North. Thee clash of resounding
arms that will next be heard will
come from the weapons of hundreds
of thousands of loyal Northern men
who will not permit the stealing OF
their birthright. The laws of the
United States shall not be made by
political thieves. The men who
hold the seats of the peoples repre-
sentatives shall be duly chosen.
Let the Democratic party look to it
that they save the country from a
war that will surely follow their
theft of the House of Representa-
tives.
"The South had best take warn
ing. Its outrages upon the white
and negro voter have been tolerated
too long; but they cannot, and will
not, be permitted to change the
political complexiod of the popular
branch of Congress. Let the Dem
ocrats keep their foul hands off the
most sacred institutions of the ma
ton. We have had enough of them.
We have driven them out of power
They shall not gain by crime what
they have lost by the ballot-box.
If they go on in their thievish eff
forts they will soon hear the APP
preaching march of the northern
army that will make war upon the
men who undertake to set aside the
peoples verdict by crime.
"To the Democrats; Do the Dem
ocrats realize what kind of war this
will mean? Do they understand
that it will be waged in every city
and hamlet in the land2 That its
Understanding and property de-
Istroying powers will have no equal
in the worlds history of war?
"Does the South want any
more lead and STEEL Has it not
had enough of armies tramping it's
crops into the dust and suspending
its industries with fearful effect? Ii
it docs not want war with all its
attendant horrors, let it cease its
efforts to steal the House of Represen-
tatives, for if the Democrats do not
stop now, at once, in their criminal
conspiracy, there will be war begun
and carried on with all the ardor
and energy of the North"
How do you like that Democrats
and Southern people? This Shep-
herd is the mouthpiece of the Re-
publican managers who bought the
late election, despite the 10000 of a
popular majority you gave for
Grover Cleveland. He is son-in-
law of Millionaire Public-be-damn-
ed Vanderbilt, He varies his father
in-law's phrase little, and speaks
of the majority of the people, as
"thieves and thugs and plunderers, y
and says he has chad enough of
tho and that if they don't get
off the face of the earth, or at least
stop voting against his party, he
will wage ain every city and ham
let of the land" a 'life-destroying,
property destroying war;" which
will be "begun and carried on with
all the ardor and energy of the
North" By the way, what would
become of this millionaire, in the
event of his "life-destroying, prop
erty-destroying" war.
There is little doubt that Quay
and Shepherd and the rest of them
would send an army South and dis
francise every Democratic State if
it were in their power so to do, and
make this millionaires' govern
ment entirely and at-once.
The hope of the South is, first, in
remaining solid, and, second, in