Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-17

the persons nominated for these Offices
by the Democrats.
In addition to this, the third
party" organization as to county officers
once we'll put under way will spread
from county to county, and may In
clude the Senatorial, Con gressional,
and even State ticket, and will do so
if Republican money can buy persons
to go upon such a ticket.
Even If it does not 90 to this extent
it DISCREPANCIES the Democratic party to
such an extent that, If it is successful,
hundreds and hundreds Of votes will
be lost in the State.
The REGISTER would suggest to the
county Democratic press Of the State
the imperative necessity Of warning
Democrats against the third party
trap, and to arouse the Democracy
to the Importance of this cam
Daign, which involves not only economic
questions, but the very existence Of
popular government, and TO urge Demo
Gratis to hold the lines firm and IN
shaken.
tits as important to the honest and
really earnest third party voter as it is
to Democrats to avoid this third party
movement. The sole object is the de-
feat OF the Democratic ticket. That is
all it is designed for and that is ali it
can accomplish, II successful. The
principles of the Democratic party may
not be "a ilcal enough TO suit third party
men and may not embrace all that the
third party wants; but they certainly
come nearer to it than those of the Re
publican party.
If the third party movement is as
successful as the Republican managers
would like it to be, honest third party
men will be farther away than ever from
the reforms they aim to accomplish.
The present campaign is a struggle
between the people and the favored
classes-the former represented by the
emocratic party and the latter by the
publican party, which once in abso-
Ito control Of the government will stop
nothing to perpetuate that control.
viii be seen from the Republican
atform's practical setting aside of the
riff issue, its loud-mouthed denuncia-
on of political Outrages in the
outh" aud virtual endorsement of the
'orce bill, that the Republican mana
ers intend to fight their campaign on
ectional issues-a quarter Of a century
.fter the close Of the war. Since the
beginning OF Mr.. CLEvELAND's admin
stratlon there have been no political
Jutrages in the South. The lynching
Of negroes for outraglng white women
s not a political outrage, nor is it con-
fined to any one section Of the Union.
Should the Republican party be sue
cessful this year, the Force bill, be-
yond doubt or question, will be again
taken up and will be passed. The Re-
publican party has virtually ana fully
indorsed it, and is now openly pledged
to it.
II once that infamous measure,
which will give Republican partisans
absolute control Of elections, with the
power Of the Army Ueaind them, be-
comes a law popular sovereignty and
popular elections will become farce.
1t will mean negro rule, disaster and
bankruptcy to the South, and the per-
petuation of McKinleyism, billion dol
Iarism, extravaganza and corruption in
Washington.
These are disasters that can be avert
ed only by the defeat of the Republican
ticket. And to win success in West
Virginia this year against Republican
money every Democrat must do his duty
and the party's lines must be held firm.