The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-14
DEMOCRATIC HYPOCRISY
shown up br Hon. u. W. Price, an Old
l Dcmocrnt-Tiie Party IN West vlr.
Einin Not n Friend of tho Farmer nnd

shown up bY lion. II. ". Price, IN Old
Time Dcmocrnt-Tie Party In West Viz.
ginin Not n rslcnd of tho Farmer nnd
WorklnEmnu.
To The Editor ofhs I,dligeaccr.
Sln:-l sec that the politicians who
manage and u tho Democratic party
OF West Virginia have thus carly com.
menced to make up a slate OF candi.
dates for the next November election.
They have ut the head OF that slate
j. n. Camden for United States senator,
Faulkner or Watts for governor, Kidd
Tor attorney general, and Glow for some
good ollice. \ correspondent OF the
RfJie'cl, writing from Charleston, men.
tons the names Of several other gentle.
men III connection with the state offices
and lHls 4 favorable word to say OF
them all with the exception OF II
possible candidate FROM the eastern
panhandle, who is Il farmer, and hero
Is what 10 sail OF him: "'rhc farmers
party has cut such q sorry figure in the
recent elections In other states that its
demands in this state will probably
havo less weight than was expected
before the elections"
think | SEQ IN this language Il clean
cut inference that n farmers claim is
not TO be considered when tho next
Demqcratic state ticket is 10 be made
up: That is tho way we farmers look
ut It. and would suggest to the slate
mtkcrs that there are huge breakers
Just ahead OF tho Democratic party in
West Virginia, and that our good old
Democratic ship may 80, upon those
breakers and DO wrecked ii tho Just
claims oil the farmers aud workingmCn
10 Il lair share OF the public Offices and
lHvors DO denied them, rs it has been
Tor the last fifteen or twenty years.
The Rrgister's Charleston correspond.
ent makes General Watts Say that "tlc
Democratic party is on record in this
state rs the friend OF tho workingman
as against the capitalist" Who would
Cypress him? 1t strikes mo that the
general has not informed himself cor
rcctlr in regard to that record, and | am
happytiat this opportunity is afforded
mo to speak OF it. Some eight or ten
years ngo q state convention was held
ut MartinsburG TO nominate II candidate
for governor, and chad tho honor on
that occasion TO put in nomination for
that office the late U. \. Arnctt, OF MAJ
rion county, Il practical farmer and
workingman (than whom a better man
never lived and in my feeble way | set
forth his claims TO tho Office upon the
ground that he was not only working
man, but a statesman OF the first order,
and this is the record the party made
on that occasion: Two votes for the
~worEingman, and about three hundred
votes Tor the man who never loaded or
unloaded Il coal cart, or had Il pillow or Il
pick in his hands or Il nod upon his
shoulder. No mistake about that rec
ord.
Later OH II Democratic convention
convened ut New Martinsvillc TO nomi-
nate Il congressman. The farmers and
workingmen met with the same fate
there. The general must have u vivid
recollection OF the record that the party
made ut Charleston u few years ago
when 4 workingmm OF legislative cxpc-
ricnce and ability equal, at least, to
the capitalist who opposed him was n
candidate Tor the United States Senate.
Here is the record that the party made
on that occasion: Solitary and alone !
stood by this workingman when every
other Democrat in that Legislature wa
willing that he should 20 down, and so
voted. And ! would remind the gen.
cral that the number OF workingmcn
and their wives and daughters who
have been appointed on the Worlds
Fair commission from West Virginia
are like angels visits, few and far be-
tween, notwithstanding they pay most
OF the $4,000 that was appropriated by
the legislature TO enable that other class
to havo 4 glorious good time and Jolly
spree at Chicago when that fair comes
oil.
In short, VIC have never had Il gov
crnor Q Il congressman or Il United
States senator from this state that was
Il farmer or 4 laboring man. and vet we
hear often that hypocritical whine
about the Democratic party being the
party OF the people and the working
mans best friend. Such blarney is but
II subteriusc and 1 sham to get his vote,
us the course that the party has pur-
sued in this state for twenty years
clearly proves.
In conclusion. l suggest that it would
be well Tor the party to get together in
convention or in some other way and
formulate 4 broad, liberal platform
such as lawyers, farmers, doctors. print
ers, laboIing men and all others that
love good government couldstand upon,
and make the principal plank in that
platform read something like this:
Equal iavors md justice TO all men and
exclusive favors and privileges 10 none"
This done, make good the promise by
putting it in practice. Then it could
be said OF . truth hat the Democratic
party is the friend OF the laboring man
MS against the capitalist that would OPP
press him. B. W. PRlcE.
Maize Home, -NarShaR County, W. Va,
Dee II, 1891.