The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-04-13

personal letters to Harrison and 9th
ers asking that he be given the APP
pointment, in consideration of which
! am to have the Collectorship.-S.
p. Mccormick.
AcTn.
! never asked Mccormick for a
letter Of recommendation! Never
got one from him; did not want ono
as he could do me no good, and he
is not to have the Collectorsh;p.-
John ". Mason.-Kingwood Argue.
The Democratic OuaIooI<.
The Democratic party is right in
asserting that unnecessary taxa
ton is unjust taxation" 1t is right
in demanding that the surplus reve-
nue. be stopped, not spent. 1t is
right in holding that the taxes to be
first reduced are those which bear
hardest upon the greatest number of
peoplc-namely, the war taxes upon
the necessaries Of life. Every word
Of the Republican President and
every act of Republican Congress
which antagonizes these everlasting
ly right and truly Democratic prin-
ciples will hasten the day of the sec
ond overthrow of their party. The
plutocratic tendencies and monopo-
listic affiliations of the Republican
party will inevitably weaken it with
the people. The Democrats have
only to be true to their principles,
united in action and wise in the Sc
lection of leaders to pluck u final vic
tory ont the present reverse-En.
The Republican press Of the State
and leaders of the party generally
repudiate with one accord Picrpoint's
advice to Wilson TO usurp the Gu
bernatorial oflice-since the sugges-
tion miscarried. But we observe
they are quite as much distressed
as is the "Old War Governor" over
the expense of an extra session of
the Legislature to try the contest.
The sudden spasm of economy is re-
markable. Our Republican friends
have not always been SO particular
ly mindful of the condition of the
public purse. They did not in
the days Of their power in this State
lose very much sleep on account of
the tax burdens heaped upon the
people to maintain registration
boards; nor did any of the many fla
grant Interpretations of public
funds in those days seriously dis
turb their dreams. SO, also, two
years ago, when they united with a
Democratic faction to defeat Senator
Camden's reelection, the cost of an
extra session Of the Legislature to
elect n Senator had no particular ter
rors for them as we remember; nor
were the Republican members of the
present Legislature restrained in any
degree by considerations of economy
from frittering away the greater part
of the late session in efforts to OBJ
tain control of the organization and
declare Golf Governor upon the
"face of the returns 1t is not the
cost of the extra session, but the
extra session itself that is really
botherlng the Republicans. 1t is
the certain defeat of their scheme to
steal the State, rather than the sum
it will cost the people to vindicate
the purity of the ballot and seat in
the gubernatorial chair the man who
is the honest choice of the legal vot-
ers of West Virginia, that is just now
harrassing these newly fedged guar
dams of the public treasury. The
exact cost can be definitely ascer-
tanned at later stage in the pro-
ceedings, and if the Republicans
shall then consider it too great for
the end accomplished, they can at
least console themselves with the
thought that their boodlers and col
onizcrs are primarily responsible for
it all.-Inder.
The Halsteadites have turned
their batteries of investigation and
exposure on the record of the Re-
publican Senators who voted against
the confirmation of Halstead, and
the result is thus summarized in the
Philadelphia Times:
One plumb a "robber" in ear
lier life, by the formal report of a
board of army officers, Endorsed by
the unanimous report of Republi-
can committee of the House of Rep
resentatiyes, now Senator of the
United States from Kansas.
Another, Ingalls, also from the
same State of Kansas, and president
pro tempore Of the Senate OF the
United States, whose election was
attended by fraud and bribery ac-
cording to the report of six of nine
members of Senate Committee,
who, however, said further that the
evidence did not show that this Sen.
ator personally participated in it, or
had personal knowledge of it.
Another, (Evarts) against whom
it has been repeatedly alleged that
his seat in the Senate was secured
exactly as Mr.. Payne's was, namely,
by the purchase of the caucus which
nominated him.
Another (Evarts) against whom
it had been only two days in the
Senate after his term of service in
the Interior department closed be-
fore resolution of inquiry was in
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