The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-11-14
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w bile 1t Is true that Democracy
is beaten in tho Nation, it is also
true that there is Democratic health
in the best country that the sun ev-
or shone upon. These elections ev-
cry four years distract the eountry;
it is undeniable that, SO far as bust
ness is concerned they have a dis
organizing and facilitating effect.
As rule no merchant carries as
large a stock of goods during the
election period IS ut other times
Many manufactures run upon re
tsueed scale of production; and ma
ny shut down altogether. for the eff
FEET it may have upon the election
q President; enterprising bust
s-sss men-turn for the time being,
into the alluring channel of politics
Even the agricuIturist suffers a
lapse of interest in his farm affairs,
and a large proportion of the pro-
feSsional branches plunge headIong
into the exciting incidents of the
campaign
1t will be seen that a great ma
tional contest is more or less ener-
waiting in its effects, and that if it
does not paralyze trade and com
nnerce it at least throws them into
a state of temporary coma. 1t,
therefore behooves the people OF
both parties to give politics a long
aad much needed rest. In spite of
the gloomiest partisan auguries, the
nation is in safe hands, even though
the election has gone against US
The wheels Of government will re-
vOIve upon their axIes with their
az, ustomed ease and speed, and the
benignant influence of Uuncle Sam
'yIiI continue to ilIumine the whole
land from sea to sea. We have no
torebodings of ill to this country
under Mr. Harrison administration
The Democracy of the land bow in
sAIe.iienee to the will Of the people.
The country has often been "sav-
cd by Democrats, and by Wings,
and by Republicans, and it has
been saved this time by the party
that now bears aloft the flag of vic
tory And so it will De Saved
again in 1892, by the gallant Dem
eerats, under the leadership of that
popular and loyal Democrat, Gov.
David B. Hill, of New Yorh.
The people have just as often set
tied themselves down again, after
tae country was 'saved," to their
respective vocations and pushed
.heir various enterprises for all they
were worth. Let them do the same
thing once more. We have had en-
ough, and little too much. of poll
ties during the past six months
1t would be better for business,
and for the country, if the Presi-
dent was elected for eight years,
and after one term, rendered forev-
CT thereafter ineligible for the office.
It is better to be defeated in de-
r.nsc of the peoples rights, than to
s.in on the side of their oppressor-
such has ever been the text OF Dem
ocratic faith and such is. our IN
shaken conviction today Fight
must and vii triumph and the pc
siiion of Grover Cleveland on the
tariff question, was and is right
and before decade rolls round. it
wal be accepted by the people of
r.,is great country. For it knows
no North, no South, no East, no
VI est To the good of a united
csgHntry of freemen it looks, and in
their behalf It will triumph, so sure
a. the sun of heaven shines and the
rains falls upon the riel' and poor,
tie good and the bad alike. Amer
ia. will have no mOnied aristeeracy,
and the Democratic party will pre-
vent it. as it has prevented many
of the abuses that would have crept
into our federal and social life.
YeIlow Democrats, the air looks
Hue round about US and it seems
that bssdIe and corruption tri-
pnphed. Civil service reform will
go the way OF ALI the earth, and
the snakes that Cievel=nd has har.
bored with honest and noble in
tsnsions have stung the Democratic