The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-05-23

Democrats vfcrory-Ets Assur.
ance - ia the air About us.
il is in the air.
The Democrats breathe the assur-
ance oft, and swell with patriotic
pride. The Republicans feel it in
'stheir bones, and their leaders are
flying about like a suddenly behead-
led hen trying TO raise false issues
land throw dust in the peoples eyes.
Any close observer of politics can
see that the shrewdest Republican
leaders see defeat in the existing
condition, and are exhausting the
resources of mendacity TO prove that
the south is lawless and rebellious,
and that the President is an ..enemy
of American industry
Itisa plain case that if the cur
rent can be, kept moving as now
Grover Cleveland will be reelected
by an overwhelming majority, and
with him good working majority
in Congress-. Ifany man says this
is mere assertion, let him consider
the following reasons for Democratic
success-and even the most venom
GUS Republican does not deny that
they are facts.
First. Every prediction of evil
made by the Republicans in 1884
has been completely faisifed; and
though thetondition of the country
is not yet what carrying out Of
Democratic principles will make it,
it is much better than it was in 1881,
aour enemies themselves being
Judges" This simple and undeni-
able fact spoils two-thirds of the
Republicans ammunition Every
prophet of evil is discredited in
advance. Every Republican orator
in this campaign will have to use
the first half hour of his speech in
explaining how his predictions of's4
did not prove true, and how, though
he is proved to have been a false
prophet then, he is a true prophet
now; and then the people won't see
it. What a godsend a great nation
al calamity just now would be to
them. 1t is plain why they do not
want taxation reduced and the sur
plus stopped; panic, with loss Of
employment, along in August or
September, would tickle them half
to death.
The Democrats are in power and
the country is somewhat more pros
porous than in 1884; that means
100000 votes in the close States.
And by queer coincidence, wher=
ever there is the reverse of prosper
ity it is plainly due to something.
Democrats are striving to correct.
Look where you may for a strike, a
lockout or a labor riot, you will find
its cause in some "trust,' spool" or
combination opposed to Democratic
policies. The people see it, and will
vote accordingly.
Secondly, and of far more effect,
the Democratic party from ocean to
ocean, from Canada to the gulf, is
united as it never has been since
1852, and only twice since 1900 has
a united Democracy been beaten.
Every other defeat has been due to
division in it's ranks. Look at New
York. Tilden carried it in 1876
against a detection of the most pow
erful party in the city, and Cleve-
land, in. 1884, in spite of another
division; but now the party in that
great State is unit, and to unit
ed Democracy New York is GER
tainty. The April elections show.
Indiana to be ours, and five States,
only lately Republican by over
whelming majorities, are now SO
close and doubtful that the party
leaders in each are calling for the
nomination of a 'sfavorite son" to
"save the State" Michigan, Min
nesota and Iowa, with a fair issue
made on reducing taxation, will not
be able to invade Indiana with men
and money this year.
a third factor, and very import
ant one, is that the Republicans no
longer have the Offices to bank on as
they did four years ago. If with.
every postofice Republican docu-
ment room, every custom house
treasury for supplies" every collec-
tor party agent, every gauger and
supervisor recruiting officer and
all the immense departments at
Washington back of them, they were
still beaten in "a, where. will they
come out in 'ss, with all these sup
ports cut off? 1t is true the offices