Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1892-11-02
To the Voters of Jefferson
County.

The County Democratic Executive
Committee, addressing you under the
fraternity of citizenship, views with
increasing qualification the wide
spread activity and earnestness eX-
hibited everywhere in behalf of the
inherent rights of the people to pro-
tect their property and their liberties.
We know there will not be any re-
creauts to duty, nor any shirkers IN
the patriotic work of the campaign in
this county. In your free spirit OF
American manhood you recognize the
necessity of unremitting endeavor
and organization against the robber-
les of the Mckinley, Carnegie tariff
taxation and the tyrannies of the
CARRIED iniquitous Force Bill.
Principles of the very control OF
the peoples government hang in an
unsteady balance. More vital inter-
ests never before demanded our at
tention; they are not questions OF
limited OF small Importance the YER
dict Of the people in this very serious
crisis will in part settle the doubt as
to how much of their property shall
be safe from taxation robbery, and
how many of their liberties shall be
free from government usurpation.
In 1888, the Triumvirate of Dud-
lev with his blocks of five" Quay
with his Flying fat" and Wanna
maker with his conversion Doodle"
debouched the ballot and manipulated
the Republican party into power
For many years now we have seen
under republican rule every form of
corruption and profigate extrava-
gance highly favored in legislation,
and the squandering of the peoples
money in raising excuse for levying
higher protective-tariff taxes, for the
monopolsts to collect thereby their
increased profits from the earnings
of the people.
This county last year, in the in
creased costs of articles OF use and
consumption, paid out in tariff taxes
over two hundred thousand dollars!
If you could save that immense sum,
you could wipe out the county's
debt and in three years turnpike
every one of the public roads of our
county.
Let no one deceive himself about
the true issues of the impending pO-
litical conflict. The Mckinley mon
strosity bill aims at your very peck
cts; it is mingled fraud and ROBBERY,
legalized and intensified; with its
chains of high protective-tariff taxa
ton, it binds fast to the chariot
wheels of plutocratic monopoly all the
laboring and producing masses.
The nefarOus "force bill" deceit
fully seeks to perpetuate that bond
age, by destroying the freedom and
purity Of the peoples elections
through the pretense of Federal reg
ulation" by United States supervisors
and marshals, hired and paid large
wages by Congress to do " their own
registration, their own counting, and
their own certifcation. God forbid
that our county should ever return to
those proscriptive days of suffering
here after the war, when the returning
boards DISTINGUISHED you, decitizen-
lied youl Only the favored few
could vote, hold Office, sue in the
courts, or teach school, BY their
fruits We know them The Republican
policies give the people reduction OF
wages, and strikes, lockouts and la
Dor riots; workmen out of employ
ment; hundreds of thousands Of
tramps; one half of all the property
produced by sixty-three millions of
people in the United States owned by
only twenty-five thousand of them;
farms and farm products decreasing
in value protected industries -four
ishing; Carnegie buys million dol
lar castle in Scotland; Jay Gould a
five million dollar fortress in Mexico;
the great mass of the people strug-
ling in work and want, and the labor
ing man striving for the necessaries
of life and can hardly buy n home.
The values of the products of your
farms and of your work so greatly
lessened that prosperity is nearly
destroyed, and liberty itself IS IN
danger. Surely the people will not
approve Of that kind of legislation
and desire more of it! Have not the
people now too long allowed their
earnings to be wrung from them by
the leagued and protected monopo-
lists, the tariff-fostered combines,
trusts and corporations
And we beseech you not to yield
any support to Weaver and the
Third Party candidates. You would
in that but throw your votes away.
The Third Party with such a leader
will not materialize this year. Under
the present conditions, Weaver has
not the ghost of show Of success
his is but the rainbow-chasings of
the promises of hope. PROSTATE not
yourselves in delusive dreams be-
meath his dire Upas tree. He is
merely an appendage to the Repub-
lican machine. A vote for Weaver,
the bitter, malignant vilifer Of the
Southern people, will do him nc
good, and greatly imperil the
chances Of Democratic victory. TIC
help the Third Party ticket, is to aid
in the election of Harrison and 6
Republican House, which would
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