Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-31

TO DEMOCRATS.
valuable Reflections That All Voters
Should Carefully Read.


RoMNEY, W. VA, October 2s, 1890.
To NE Editor Of NE Register.
SIR:-Every one cannot be an intelli-
gent party man, but every one can and
every one ought to be a sincere, con-
sclentlous partisan. No man ought to
attach himself to any political party
| whose tenetS he cannot conScientiOuSly
endorse. Men may vote for persons and
measures from time to time without
much thought or consideration, and
without making any permanent anchor
age in any party, but If man Identifies
himself with party and calls himself
by its name, he is not excusable, for
this failure TO vote with his party,
whenever the distinctive principles of
| that party are involved, or It's perpetu-
| ity is endangered. Personal friend
ships, and personal piqueS, must be ig-
nored in a struggle like that Local
pride, such as 1.-The man is from my
county or city" or "from my State"
furnishes no sufficient reason for voting
for a candidate who represents and will
work for policy that believe to be
wrong, and whose adoption will be I'M
wise and hurtful That patriotism
which every man ought to possess,
forbids such a course. My affection or
friendship for candidate, even though
he were brother, does not justify me
i'm voting for him when | know him TO
advocate a policy that is wrong and
Dernicious, and which is Numerically
opposite to my own convictions of
right. | am not called upon TO endorse
f..f. no -
port, let him place himself on plat
form that | can honestly approve, and
then, and only then, has he right to
expect my support, and only then have
| a right as an honest man to accord it
to him.
How can any Democrat in West Vir-
ginia, with the past history of the Re
publican party in this State before his
mind, shrink from his duty in this hour
of his party'S peril? What Democrat
no matter what private grievances he
may feel, or what reyengcS he would
desire to gratify-can, by his vote, or
by his refusal TO vote, aid the Repub-
lican party in its effort TO get control of
this State in any of its departments, or
i'm its federal representation? Can you,
my Democratic fellow citizens, afford in
this great crisis of the affairs
not only of your own State, but of the
nation, to let anything of personal or
pnTtu character influence your action
when you come to cast your ballot on
the 4th of November? 1t will not do TO
say Il will vote against some one OF the
candidates" "lIe that is not for MS is
against us" holds with equal force in
politics as we'll as religion. What an
opportunity for the display Of genuine
magnanimity in this campaignl What
an opportunity, by the exercise OF that
magnanimty, which can be recognized
in the election returns, to unity, pacify,
SOlMifn for years to come, the Demo
cratic party in this State. Fellow Dem
OcratS, what do you want TO stimulate
you to action, to draw you closer togeth-
er. to make you forget all your heart
burningS and trifing personal differ
cnceS? What do you as patriots want
more than now confrontS you? Your
national government fast tending to-
ward Capitalization and plutocracy.
\ party in power, and seeking by all
means TO retain its power, whose con-
duct in the last Congress leaves no
doubt Of its purpose to lcgiSldtC itself
into power for years To come, by the
admission of rotten Republican boroughS
as states, and refusing to admit Demo
cratic territories with much larger pop
ulations; by arbitrarily unseating Demo
cratic members of Congress, without
even decent Scmblance OF excuse
therefor: denying the constitutional
rights OF the minority; refusing even
to have their nefariouS laws debated or
discussed by the peoples representa-
tives. before their enactment; in
creaSing expenditures and making need
less and unjuStiiiable, permanent
appropriations, To swallow up the enor-
nous revenues produced by their ini-
ouitous tariff, itself rendered necessary
| in order to meet their extravagant eX-
penditures; and every thing they hare
lone seems to have been done with no
higher aim. no nobler purpose, than to
perpetuate their own control. Lastly
it is now proposed to suppress your
voice i'm your own State by the importa-
ton of ignorant and vicious negroes.
Do YOU want anything more to deter
mine your cause? | hope and pray not.
am a Democrat who has voted and
worked for many years. | never ielt
more concern. Let me implore you to
not wayer. Beginning with Lucas,
/ fJ,,o,r mn l.otc gyr1lI VI.