The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-02-19
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The Democrats should not lay the
fiattering JUNCTION to their,souls that
they have scared ont the Quays, the
.Dudleys and the at-frying Fosters
of the Republican party by expos.
ing their Infamous methods 70 the
light in this State and in the nation
! What they have done. they viii
do again with teii-fold vigor, for
the reason that they have even less
ground on which 10 conduct, an
bonest campaign,i now than they,
had in 1883.
Then, party in New England and
in the West is split wide open on
the tariff question, and no secret is
made oft; honest aud sensible Re
pnblicans everywhere a-el openly
denouncing the administration of
President Harrison; Republican
methodsiin West Virginia, 50 fully
exposed by,lthc late investigation
that their organs have not dared 70
print linelof the evidence regard
ing it, have thoroughly disgusted
the people of this State with mod
ern Repnblicanism, as cxpounded
by the Quay Dudley Foster gang,
which absolutely rule the party, and
incensed our people to such an ex
tent by the infamamous frauds
against a free ballot, that with an
honest ballot, there would be at the
next State election such a Demo
cratic majority in West Virginia
that the Quay Dndley Foster hench-
men would not show their heads
here for years to come, if ever
These facts are thoroughly ap-
preciated by the leaders of oppose
ton. No one knows better than
themselves that the only show they
now have Of whining success in this
State is through the agency Of a
campaign of corruption which shall
throw the infamous campaign of
1888 into the shade. nHiR Aif
Wholesale bribery and colonial
ton then failed to Ewin kthem3 the
State and the exposition of their
methods has made their task still
more difficult. Nothing is ieft for
them to do, however, but to meet
the situation with reinforcements of
the same sort U'npreeedented cor
ruption failed in 1883 to break West
Virginia from the solid South,
thougirIit yealnecyery near it. g The
only thing left the Republican lead
ers is to get together a still larger
corruption fund and redouble their
effort to debauch the ballot, or, else,
throw up their hands. te
We need not point out which al
ternative they will choose. The
statec contention Of lRepabEean a
clubs called to meet at Clarksburg
and the present great efforts max
ing to increase the efficiency of that
complete and systematic tool of the
Republican leaders, fully show that
they intend.to fightfthe next cam
-paign on the same line they fought
the last.
1t remains TO be seen if they can
airy out of the. tariff barons so
enormous an amount of "fat'' as
they did in the, last campaign, but
of the fact they will redouble their
efforts to that end there can be no
,doubtTfor an honest campaign on
the issues marked out in their plat
form would mean for them over
whelming defeat and they know it.
In the face ofthis situation the duty
ofthe.lcaders of the party upholding
the peoples interests against tyran-
NY, extravaganza, and corruption, is
plain. They win be recreant to
their duty to the people if they
fail to-throw every, safeguard in, the
way OF party Organization theyican
about the peoples ipterestsyozr
Organization means victory
Register. "a fr.3 alsIst
af Where is ingalls, and his mouth?
The government plate printers at
Washington refuse to work with
colored help.se Here is a grand OPP