The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-04
STOP AND THINK.


An Appeal To All Who Have Left the Re-
publican Party, and Who Have Made up
Their Minds to Vote Against 1t This Fall.
viii you listen to me short time
while appeal to your better judgment?
A word first to those who have wan
dered into the camp OF the Third Party,
and to all others who intend to do so.
Do YOU not know that in casting vote
for Fiske you might just as well vote for
Cleveland? You exert Just that much
influence to keep the Democratic party
in power. That is all. You accomplish
nothing in behalf Of temperance. Then
why throw your vote away? "Yes,"
you are ready to say, but | can't go
against my conscience in this matter. l
must vote rs | pray" Yes, but while
Won have a zeal, might it not be fact
that that zeal is not according to knowl-
edge. 4 thing may be lawful but not
expedient. Your party beat Mr.. Blaine
in 1884 and that was all the consolation
Won had, for the cause OF Temperance
was not advanced by it; on the contrary
il received setback that 1t will not re-
cover from for years. ii ever. And why
commit the same blunder now? And
now a question. Who has done the
most for the temperance cause in this
Countrywide Republican or the Demo-
cratic party? As an honest man, and
with the facts OF history before you, you
must say the Republican party. Then
why manifest at this time the spirit OF
base iugratitude towards the principal
instrumentality that has affected so
much in behalf OF temperance and hui
mainly? My advice to you is to come
back to your first love and vote for har'
risOn and Morton, both OF whom are
temperance men, and by your vote help
to defeat the great fraud who now sits in
the presidential chair at Washington,
and Free Trade. firmly believe
that il the Republican party is restored
10 pow er that it will in due time regu'
late the liquor troilic in this country SC
that Justice will be done to all.
And now word to those who have
left the Republican party and gone into
the Labor party. What do you expec'
10 accomplish By your vote? You can
not elect your nominee to the Presidency
or benefit your cause in the least in v0t'
ing against the true friend the Republi'
can party has been to the labOring man
but by your efforts and vote you will
render very acceptable service to the
Free Trade Democracy and the friends
OF England. What has the Democratic
marty done for the abOring man since II
came into power? Where is the great
boom they were to give this Nation
We haven't seen it. Then, why will
the abOring men OF this country suffer
themselves to be deceived any longer by
Cleveland and his leaders, and by thelI
Free Trade press? Will you vote to take
bread out OF the mouths OF your families
and bring yourself to n level with the
pauper labor OF Europe, or will you vote
Tor Harrison and Morton, the true ex'
ponents Of American labor and OF
tariff that will protect the markets Of
this country against all free importation
And now, my labor friend, you need
not be deceived or remain in darkness
any longer as to how you should cast
your vote this fall. "The way is SO plait
that 4 way-iaring man, though fool
need not err therein
The issue is this: II you are in favor
OF Free Trade and think more OF Eng
land and her markets than You do ftht
United States and her markets, then
vote for Cleveland and Free Trade
That is plain proposition. But I you
are for a Protective tariff, and think
more OF America and her markets than
YOU do OF John Bull and his markets
then vote for Harrison and Morton
Drop your vote where it will count
something.
The decision of this election, in my
honest opinion, will decide the destiny
Of this country for the next fifty years
When | think what it cost to save us
a nation, and that the Government is
now in the hands OF the very party who
for nearly five long years tried to bleed
it to death, il is the strangest thing tc
me how any man with proper self re,
spect and the love Of his country, and
especially laboring man, can vote the
Democratic ticket.
And now, Mr.. Editor, l hope what ]
have written may be rs bread cast upon
the waters, to be seen and to be gathered
on the 9th day ofncxt November, in the
triumphant election Of our honored
standard bearers, Harrison and Morton
May God bless the right and overthrow
the wrong. W. II. WILEY.
Fairm0at, ". Va, August2.
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