Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-06-22
SATURDAY, JUNE 22d, 1889.
TO THE REPUBLICAN, LEADERS OF
WEST VA.

Republican success in a section that has
struggled for nearly quarter of a GEN.
fury to break the political letters that
bound it to the past.
1t is not the rank and file of the Demo
cratic party from whom our fears arise.
They may differ with the Republicans on
political questions and vote their senti-
ments, but they will go no further; their
interests are our interests; they will seek
the welfare of the state as we'll as we do.
and would never aid or abet the viola
ton of a common constitution nor con-
spire to Illustrate the will of the people
by political revolution; no, there are
thousands of Democrats as well as
thousands of Republicans who vote with
their party when their party is right and
reasonable. but whom political conspira-
tors can never lead against their will and
best interests. They are the men who
dash party majorities to the wind when
their intelligence is insulted and their
manhood is assailed.
Republican statesmen of West Virgin
ia, point out to our honorable President
the half dozen bourbon leaders who have
West Virginia by tho the throat like the
lion his prey, and for the same purpose
Ito feed upon the party spoils. Point
out the fact in unmistakable language
that these are the men who have assaulted
the Republican party on every side,
blocked the wheels of justice, perverted
the letter of the law and the constitution,
influenced courts and juries and Execu-
tives in the interest of the party schemes
in hand; and now, at this critical per-
iod, seek to ingratiate themselves into
government favor at Washington as the
liberal of liberals, the friends and we'll
wishers of change of government.
Leaders of the Republican party, re-
move the mask, expose the treachery,
and uncover the political dagger which
but awaits the opportunity to stab the
Republican party of West Virginia to the
heart. The favors asked of "a Republican
administration through Democratic SEN
atorial courtesy, are only to clinch the
nails they have driven into the collins of
the leaders, Mr.. President. When too
late the spots of the political leopard will
appear. Coming directly to our own end
of the State, leaders of Republican
triumph, you know what has been done,
and what remains to be done to break
the last link in the long chain of party
supremacy. Look at Grant and Mineral,
Morgan and Berkeley, and jefferson |!
Majority upon majority has been reduc-
ed, ticket after ticket beaten, until we
have gained in strength from paltry
combination success,-ten years ago the
only thing possible,-to a sure and
straight-out victory when ever the party
needs it now. Every county has its or
ganization and its workers. In Martins
burg and Berkeley County we have ma
terial any party might be proud of, work
ers who have withstood all the receptions
and inducements the opposition leaders
could advance; workers whose names
are too numerous to mention, and men
who worked for principle, though de-
serving of the highest reward.
Not only workers to be proud of, but
leaders and party managers in every dis
trict, who can outgeneral the enemy any
day, if they see their labors appreciated
and their rights respected.
Not only Republicans have you to
count upon, gentlemen of the Republican
party of this State, but liberal Democrats,
Greenback and Labor elements, not to
be despised; German following that is as
modest in its demand as it is faithful in
support; and growing Irish-American
citizenship no longer bound by party ties
but led by the new spirit of American
intelligence and political freedom.
These men, if encouraged and recogni-
zed by ever so small a representation,
will make the Eastern Panhandle irwin
chilly Republican; and the time is not far
distant when the Thirteenth Senatorial
District will be even, and nearer yet at
hand the redemption of the Second Con-
gressional District.
Here is the point Against what pow
erful force has this end had to contend
Against the identical power that now
conspires at Charleston to keep out Golf
at Parkersburg to keep out Smith : at
Wheeling to keep out Atkinson; at
Washington to taffy the President, and
throw the firebrands of encouragement
and dissatisfaction into the Republican
ranks in West Virginia; a power, gentle
men, that has stood as a shield against
every attack; that has rallied its forces
time and again when broken; that has
been ever ready by boast and threat to
beat back the popular stampede;-a pow
er that descends to contests ignoble, and
would weave its influence around every
object-ever so sacred-ever SO profare,
by which men can be moved and votes
Capitalization the mighty railway
corporation to tho holy ties of family in
every association of life,-weave its in
huence around all like serpent's coil or
SPIDERS web, according to the strength
of its victim.
This power has been an issue in old
Virginia and new for a generation, and
it is dead issue to-day,-dragged its
party down to defeat like milestone
sunk in the deep.
But it did not go down without strug-
gle, and remained on top only by an &C
cident. In this fight of political giants,
the Republican party has been with the
people and the people with the party. To
keep them so is the duty of our leaders
and the party's representatives. The
successful Republican party is party of
workers, force of builders, getting its
material from every liberal element, pro-
scribing no one, welcoming all on COM
mon footing, with good will for each and
opposition to none. That's the party,
Mr.. President, that downed bourbonism
in the Virginias, and will keep it down
with one hand while it breaks the Solid