The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-12

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Never was an usurpation SO en-
trenched as that OF our Bourbon demo-
cracy; never o party SO perfect IN
organization, so methodical and merci-
less in the use OF power.
THE BOYCOTT AND SOCIAL BAN.
Tho most effective OF all its agencies
to-day are the boycott and the social
ban. These twin monsters guard the
avenues OF escape. So little does this
seem to be understood in the north, |
am constrained TO explain the situa.
ton in Virginia, where it is less severe
than in states farther south. There is
here an organized and understood con-
spiracy that reaches every place where
men seek credit or a market, or en-
ployment, Every southern born white
man who takes tho New York Tribune,
or the Philadelphia Pres, or the Gin
cinnati COarmsrcidi. is marked as an enc
my OF tho south. He cannot buy on
! credit or borrow at che banks or obtain
employment on as favorable terms as
other men. In the proud city OF Rich
mond, by a resolution Of its council, no
man who votes a Republican ticket can
work for the contractor on the streets.
Eight years ago there was q short
crop and much distress among farmers.
"Fertilizer notes. for hundred OF thou
sands OF dollars were maturing. A cir
cular was sent by at least two great
houses IN Baltimore through our banks
not to renew any notes oil men who
voted for Blaine.
Four years later, our state papers, by
order OF the Democratic committee,
called upon every country merchant to
stand al he polls from Tie opening to ne
cIOss; and every man know without tell
ing that he could not buy another pound
Of coffee without cash ii he voted Tor
Harrison. There is not Il white church,
in which, ii IL was stated that tho
preacher had voted against the Demo-
cratic party, pews would not be vacated.
Much OF tie stock in our banks is
held in the north, aud yet there is not
Il Republican bank president, cashier
or teller in the state. The majority Of
the northern directors in all our rail-
roads with l5,0OO employees, are Repub-
licans, and yet not a single local officer,
from vice president down, can boldly
assert his Republicanism without preju-
dice to his company and peril to his
place. ,.,
In the name OF necessity most politi-
cal crimes arc committed and in no
other field has necessity become such q
mother Of inventions. In the south
there is no uniform system OF disiran-
chisoment. A new plan is adopted for
every changed condition. In Delaware
and other states u poll tax is required
and tho proper officers refuse TO receipt
and certify. In Virginia we have the
tissue ballots, the petit larceny disqual-
ifcations under which thousands were
convicted OF stealing watermelons and
roasting.ears. We have the midnight
purging OF the registration and the OBJ
%atruction at the polls. In North Caro-.
lima they have a local option, giving. u
Separate law to each county, and the
required confusion. In Arkansas they
have a ballot so ~ingeniously constructed
that very few can understand 1t. In
Mississippi they have a requirement to
read and explain a clause in the Consti-
tuition. In Alabama, all DISCUSSES are
thrown aside and thousands of ballots
that are cast are not counted. Until,
to our enduring shame, the fact passes
into permanent record that throughout
our borders q thousand men cast only
one-third as many votes as a thousand
men in the north.
While we have waited, a power great
er than all the states that went into the
rebellion has risen beyond the Missis-
sippi. While We have clung to tradi-
tions, the barren state OF Massachusetts,,
without ore or coal or cotton, has so
multiplied its productions that its sales
last year exceeded the price Of all the
ore and coal and corn and cotton OF the
south, east OF the Mississippi, and the
money OF its workmen in lis savings
banks to-day exceeds the entire banking
capital Of the states OF the confederacy.
Virginia once outranked New York.
To-day the workmen OF New York have
more money on deposit than would buy
all the farms and mines and cities and
railroads and personal property at as
sessed values in the Old Dominion.
A DENOMINATION.
The s~tnpendous advantage Of a coun-
try where affairs are so adjusted that
work is furnished for different members
Of q family, and where skill multiplies
strength, and where money is brought
to work for man as well as man for
money, is illustrated by the following
tables:
Amounts oidcposits in savings banks:
NNna.au6.raaNNa alhV h0n ulT
Connecticut see. ....,..,..... Sc. .........rr,... 100000
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