Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-10-04
AN ADDKECJ
TO THE VOTERS OF THE SECOND
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF
WEST VIRGINIA.


past will commend it to the favorable
consideration of all patriotic and liberal
minded citizens. 1t points with pride to
the fact that its history during the past
thirty years is substantially the history
of the country. Under its wise and en-
lightened policy of protection to Ameri-
can industries, wealth and population
have advanced with rapid an uninter-
rupted strides !: the artisan has found
steady employment at remunerative
wages while his burdens have been light
ened by constantly diminishing hours of
daily toll !; the necessaries and luxuries
of life have been cheapened and the
homes of the masses filled with comforts
unknown to the people of any other ma
ton under the sun mines have been
opened, factories reared and populous
cities built in regions which but few
wears ago were vast solitudes unpenetra-
ted by the foot of man and where the
wild beast of the forest held undisputed
SWAY school-houses and churches have
multiplied to an extent unprecedented
in any other period of the country's his
tory and places which had lain barren
and waste for generations have been
brought under cultivation by the
husbandman and made to blossom and
bloom for his comfort and delight.
These and many other benificent re-
suits of Protection have been achieved
despite the assaults of enemies both at
home and abroad, and they stand an I'M
answerable argument to the sophistries
and heresies disseminated by foreign
emissaries and now boldly accepted as
the creed of the Democratic party.
To the preservation Of that policy and
the protection of American markets and
American homes against the pauper la
Dor and accumulated capital of Europe,
the Republican party appeals with conf
dence to an intelligent and discriminate
ing public.
1t proclaims anew as its cardinal prin-
ciple of faith, the sublime doctrine enun-
ciated by Thomas Jefferson in the declar-
alton of independence and given broad
er and grander Interpretation by
Abraham Lincoln, that this is govern
ment for the American people whose
priceless blessings shall descend unim-
paired to their posterity ; that foreign
capital shall not dominate and control
our markets that the pauper labor OF
Europe shall not drag American homes
down to the level of its own that the
pathway to honor and position shall be
unimpeded and open alike to the lowest
as well as the highest in the land that
hereditary privileges and class distinc-
tions shall obtain no foot-hold upon our
shores that this mighty empire of the
West, the product of American genius,
American valor and American toll shall
advance steadily in the progressive
science of government until its example
and its influence shall render tyranny
and oppression impossible in any quarter
of the world.
The Democratic party has long since
lost all national characteristics and is
confessedly unable or unwilling to legis'
late for the public welfare. During its
four years lease of power under the last
administration it brought forth but q
single measure of public Importance and
that was one calculated to destroy instead
of promote the prosperity of the country.
1t has ceased to be positive and defined
force in the body polite, but is simply a
party of negation, seeking to destroy in
stead of create, and by successive steps
occupying the abandoned camps of its
victorious and progressive enemy and pre-
serving its consistency by always being
on the wrong side of every leading pub
lie question and by remaining forever be-
fears instead of its hopes, it predicts
calamities which never happen, misfor-
tunes which never befall us and disasters
which never come. Filled with its own
gloomy forebodings it fails to see or ap-
preciate the blessings conferred upon
the country by policy which zealously
and faithfully guards American interests
against the encroachment of foreign in
fuence in whatever form disguised.
BY wise and salutary legislation the
Republican party has largely increased
the currency of the country through the
restoration of silver to its legitimate and
time-honored place among the precious
metals. thereby enhancing the value Of
all farm products and infusing new life
and animation into every artery of trade
and commerce it has provided with I'M
bounded liberality for those who perilled
their lives in the nation s defence and
for the widows and orphans of those who
fell upon the field of battle it has enact
ed stringent laws for the suppression of
trusts and combinations formed for the
purpose of enhancing the value of COM
modities entering into daily consump-
ton by the people; it has paid more than
a thousand millions of the public debt
and raised the standard of national
credit to height unattained by any of
the civilized nations of the world, and it
has purified and elevated the public SER
vice by instituting and enforcing rigid
accountability and faithful perform.
ance of duty upon the part of all officers
i'll the public employ. 1t has ever shown
deep solicitude for the welfare of the
farmer, and as one of the many proofs Of
that fact it presents one of their number
for the suffrages of the people of this dis
trict.
Proud ofits imperishable achievements
both in war and in peace, it gives assur-
ance for the future of no retrograde
movement, of no backward step, but of
a vigorous and fearless warfare in be-
half of American industries, American
homes and American labor. Irrevocably
committed to the just and righteous
cause of free and fair elections every
where throughout the land. it will con-
tinue the struggle for ballot reform un.
til fraud and intimidation at the polls
are unknown and the popular will can be
safely and honestly expressed and re-
corded in every state in the Union and
unlike its ancient and effete enemy the
Democratic party,-it will meet and
grapple with the great economic ques-
biOho pressing IOI bUlutlOu anu not remit
to posterity the baneful legacy of public
duties unperformed. Imbued with a
proper degree of reverence for time
honored customs and traditions, it never
the less realizes that the present age is
one of unexampled progress in every
field of human endeavor, that the only
sphere of usefulness is that of action and
that the post of duty is to be found in the
front rank of an irreverent but ever.ad-
Yancing civilization.
Animated with the desire to see the
manifold industries of this Congressional
district developed to an extent common
surable with their Importance, whereby
increased prosperity may be brought to
all the people within her borders, and
believing that the triumph of Republican
principle will alone accomplish that re-
suit. we invoke for them the support of
all voters in the district, regardless of
their former party affiliations.
BY order of the Congressional Com
mittee.
G. w. q. BLACK, Chairman,
JAMES ID. BUTT, Secretary.
AT the residence of her husband, at
North Mnnnfois, w