The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-01-05
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election; but on. the contrary are
more determined than ever before to
continue the battle for free and pure
government, and the rights of the
people in their contest against mon
opoly, fraud and corruption. The
battle cry of tariff reform and reduc-
ton of taxes is still on and will con-
tinue with redoubled energy until a
glorious triumph is reached in 1892
The late election was not lost to the
Democracy, because the people will
ed it so at the ballot box, for they
approved the Democratic creed by
at least one hundred thousand ma
jority of the popular vote, notwith-
standing the greatest and most au-
dacfous efforts on the part of the Re.
publican party ever seen in this or
perhaps any other country to thwart
the will of the people by prostituting
and debauching the ballot by mis-
representations, chicanery and mon
ey, more accused than the thirty
pieces of silver used to betray our
Lord and Master.
But like a dire pestilence that
sweeps over country or locality to-
day, in the end it serves the good
purpose of making the people more
watchful in the future. Quay and
Dudley, and thousands of others of
their ilk and kin have now played
their hands; and the fact that they
have done so, and with effect, only
serves to make it the more difficult
for them to do it again Democrats,
as well as the better part of the Re-
publican party, are not only disgust
ed with their dirty and disreputable
schemes and work, and loathe and
despise them in their hearts, but are
now and henceforth up and at them
until their wicked and corrupt ways
and acts are wiped from the escutch-
con of free Democratic and pure gov
eminent, and the actors safely con
fined in felons' cells.
Is it not encouraging to know that
Notwithstanding all the vicious and
corrupt methods and means made
use of by willy and INSCRIPTIONS Re
publicans to corrupt the ballot box
and thwart the will of the people,
that still over one hundred thousand
majority of the honest and incor-
ruptible voters of the country ap-
proved Democratic principles and
tariff reform? And are we not war
ranted in saying now, that the smoke
of battle has cleared away, that but
for the nefarious and corrupt prac-
tices of the more INSCRIPTIONS Re-
publicans, the popular Democratic
majority wou% have been twice as
much and Grover Cleveland would
have been triumphantly elected
President. Nay, we feel safe in say
ing. further that had the canvass
been few months longer than it
was, so that the more rural or coun-
try voters and farmers could have
been reached and aroused on the
great questions at issue, the Democ-
racy would surely have triumphed
at the polls, Notwithstanding all the
corrupt means used by the Republi-
can leaders and their cohorts. What.
then, does all this teach us but in
the language of our text, cup and at
them"
The working men have stood nobly
by the banner of Democracy, as is
clearly shown by the election returns
from the manufacturing districts.
Our defeat, so far as it was the fault
of the Democracy, was owing to the
want of organization in the agricul
tural districts of the country. We
are glad to see that it is determined
to remedy this defect for the future
by organizing working Democratic
clubs in every county in the United
States, at the earliest practicable
moment, so as to have them all in
COED working order for the elections
to take place two years hence. The
people are right, and Democratic to
the core. All they want to insure
success is thorough organization
Tariff reform and reduction of taxa
ton is our battle cry. With it we
can and will win as surely as God
reigns.
The Democracy must rely on the
goodness of its cause, which must
and can win by fair elections and
honest counts. We must not only
labor for and demand fair elections
and honest counts, but to secure this
aid we must see to it that all corrup
tors of fair ballot are made to wear
striped jackets in felon's cell. Let
us wearby 1.-THE Eternal" the purity
and integrity of the ballot box shall
be maintained at all hazards. The
stream may for the time being be
diverted from it's proper channel and
thereby its waters made to deluge
its rich and fertile valleys, but this
can be remedied as long as its foun-
tain is kept pure; but if its fountain