Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-04

anything like the same proportion then Repno-
llcan plurality is already assured. There was q
Democratic plurality OF only s05 In the Con-
gresSional eleciionsoflss6.
The Republican managers also banked,
the correspondent said, on the supposed
lukewarmness of ex-senator CAMDEN. Ii
they are banking on lukewarmpess In Mr..
CAMDEN's direction, they viii be the most
wretchedly '1eft" set of managers on the
continent. Mr.. CAMDEN was delegate
to st. Louis and was never more enthusi-
astic for q ticket than he is for CLEVELAND
and THURMAN. He will help to keep the
flies of the g. o p. this year In q way that
will prove it. None of the ours, that have
followed the gray haired Senator even into
private life. has said he is not . man of his
word.
Among West Virginians the Republic
can hopes for the State as shown
by the figures given above will pro-
duee q smile, and it shows concluaively
how iuperatively necessary it is for cam
paign managers to have a thorough grasp
of details. Here We have the Republican
managers contrasting the vote in this State
in 1880 with that Of 1884, and gravely
chalking it all up to ''tbe growth in the
State of industries affected by the tariff
and to immigration very largely from the
Pennsylvania coal and iron regions"
A glance at the election returns for 1880
aud 1884 is all that is necessary to show
the absurdity of this claim, and also the
real cause of the increase in the Repub-
liesn vote. In 1880 the Greenback vote
for WEAVER amounted 10 9,079 in West
Virginia. In 1884 it footed up $40 for
BUTLER. In 1884 the Republicans and
Greenbackers in West Virginia fused-in
1880 they did not, and in 1888 they will
not. In 1880 when there was no fusion
between the Republicans and Greenbsckers
the Democratic plurality was II ,l4S; in
1884 when 8, 200 of the Greenback strength
went to the Republican ticket the plural
ity fell Just 6,927. Aud so it has always
been in the past. When the Greenbackers
and Republicans fused the Democratic
plurality fell, when they remained apart,
the Democratic plurality rose proportion
ately. But through all the increase
in the Democratic plurality over the
bona tide Republican vote has been
steady and substantial. Had there been
no Republican Greenback combine in
1894 President Cleveland's plurality would
have amounted TO over $4,000, or q sub
stantial Democratic gain over the vote OF
1880. This year there will he no fusion
between the Republicans and Greenbackers
Ga the contrary the latter are very bitter
over the manner in which the Republican
tricksters in this State have taken them
into camp and sold them out. They have
put a seperate ticket in the field and those
who will not vote for it will vote for the
honest man of the people who at present
occupies the White House. Consequently
we confidently expect tosee the Democratic
plurality for CLEVELAND and THURMAN
10 West Virginia this year climb pretty
close to 5000.
The ignorant surmise of the Republican
managers at Washington that the Republi-
can policy of a monopoly tariff had any
thing to do with the Republican increase
in 1884 in this State is the baldest absur-
dity. The voting population of this State
is made up of farmers and the most intelli-
gent class of workingmen that exists any
where. The farmers, very nearly to a
man, are arTayed solidly and determinedly
against the policy that makes them pay
not only all their surplus earn
Jugs and profits to the
big millionaire monopOlists OF the East and
the sharks of Wall street, but also forces a
large portion of them to mortgage their
farms at six per cent. to these same blood
suckers. And the workipgmen stand side by
side with them in opposing the policy that
has their worst enemies, the trusts and cor
porations, for its sole advocates. Working
men are not fools to believe that these
grand millionaires, who reduce their wages
every year and against whom they have to
combine in labor organizations and struggle
bitterly for living wages, want to
keep up the monopoly taxes on the
necessities of life solely for the benefit o.
their workingmen. 1t is quite too absurd.
Workingmen have been caught too often in
the past by this free trade" chsff to be
taken in by it agaiu-they gee the tariff
getting higher and their wages getting pro-
portionately lower-they have become old
birds in this tariff business and understand
il quite as well as the demagogues who talk
protection TO American labor" from the
stump, while the monopolists who foot the
Republican campaign bills are demanding
a 10 per cent. reduction in wages here and
ais per cent reduction there and longer
hours of work somewhere else, while the
whole country is full of locked-out work
men and pauper labor imported free from
Europe.
We advise the Republican managers at
Washington to try some other State and
not waste the money of the high tariff
barops in West Virginia this year. The
only effect of doodle" campaign would
be to largely increase the Democratic ma
jority, which will increase itself quite fast
enough, we conjecture.
mo SHEER Is INTENDED"
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