Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-09-15
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politics of this State, and for what?
For the election of fit men to the
offices and public positions On the
contrary, for their own benefit and
success and the rings aud cliques OF
politicians that back them up. United
States Senators run the Conventions
and make all the big speeches, and
what do they talk aboutg State i'm
proyements and reforms? Not a
word! They run down Blaine and
preach up prescription like Faulkner
and Kenna at Huntington and Mar
tinsburg. Is Blaine the issue with the
people 7 Is the welfare of any vot.
er concerned in the dead lssness ola
quarter of a century ago? They
praise Cleveland to the third heav
en- and would bury Harrison in the
lowest depths of the Inferno. Is
Cleveland the issue with the Demo
Gratis or Harrison with the Republi-
cans, or is it the tariff and kindred
questionsg With the people it is,
but with the q. s. politicians it is
the man who has the sp0lls OF yicto.
ry to give away.
1.-THE people are satisfied" in
West Virginia cry these national
politicians who get paid by the
taxpayers to attend to matters of the
country at Washington, but who
waste their time at stump speaking
and wire working wherever their
party services are needed.
"The people are satisfied" with
whats High taxes? Unjust dis,
examinations Partisan manage
meat of our State institutions Sat
isfied with a set OF fortune favored
politicians building up their lineage
upon the public offices of the coun.
try, and crowding down many a
worthy aud hard working citizen
who would have right and chance
in county and state affairs but Tor
the grip held upon every paying ca
pacity from generation to genera.
tion Satisfied ad aeaaseam
The false cry of "free whiskey "
does not satisfy them, when every
revenue Office is held by the polite
ians as party pay.
"For sixteen years the Democrat
ic party has controlled the destinies
of West Virginia exclaim they in
exultation. And pray where is
West Virginia today with all her
natural resources and advantages
of land and climate? Where will
she be with her lum Der, her coal, her
salt, her agricultural products, on
the FREE LIST9
1t matters little to these great law.
yers and politicians how the masses
of the people get along or in what a
deranged state the country finds it.
self. The more bankruptcies and
failures, assignee's sales and lawsuits
and political and legislative agita-
ton, the bigger the fees and the
more the demand for legal services.
and the greater the chances for poit-
ical scheming and ring success!
Don't the people feel and see it 7
Are they not asking themselves
through the Grange and the Assem-
bly, how they can remedy the evils
and protect themselves and save the
interests of their children?
Is the truth of it not apparent in
Berkeley Wasn't there a time
when any "party man who got
the nomination was elected? Is it
so nows Doesn't it take the best
men to win? Did the PEOPLE in
their intelligence and independence
work the change, or did the polite.
al bragadocio of living off of office
do the work 7 Jo
If the people ara satisfied, why is
West Virginia a debatable State to
day, when ten years ago it was Dem.
ocratic by 10000? Answer!