Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-28

by the protected tarin OafOnS chOoSe W
press the button.
on the outside of the fence, are
the protected" laborers of these
protected tariff millionaires, fight
ing against a cut Of 20 per cent in
their wages.
This is a tariff picture which Repub-
lican cartoonists will leave severely
alone
BUTT is drawn in lines of freon the
black background formed by the high
est tariff ever known in our history, and
it will burn itself into the minds OF
American workingmen.
THE HARRISON RETRoGRADE MOVE
MENT.
President GRANT withdrew the Fed
eral bayonets from the polling places
and capitols Of the South. HARRISON
would replace them. GRANT knew that
the war had ended in 1865, and his voice
was for peace.
President HARRISON is different sort
Of President different sort of man.
/ GRANTS mastery generalship and sol
dierly spirit conquered the South.
When that was accomplished he said
LET US have peace" and President
| GRANT withdrew the Federal army and
relieved the stricken and impoverished
Southern States of infamous carpet-bag
rule and negro domination. Like the
brave soldier he was he unhesitatingly
held out the hand Of fellowship to a
defeated and honorable foe-he recog-
nized the Southern people as fellow citi-
zens.
Since then the South has prospered
and the breach between the sections
has almost healed and been forgotten.
HARRISON would reopen it. For
partisan reasons he would undo
what GRANT did, aud a quarter Of cen
tury after the conqueror Of the Rebel
lion had held out the hand of fellowship
and good will to the South ne would
send thither the army, once more to be
at the beck and call OF irresponsible
Republican supervisors of elections,
whose. despotic power would insure a
return of negro domination and all the
horrors and misery of the Reconstruct
tion days
The difference between GRANT and
HARRISON is that one was patriot and
the other is a small-minded partisan.
Hon. A. Z. STEVENSON, the Demo
GRATIS nominee for the Vice Presidency,
recognizes what the Force bill policy of
the Harrison faction means. He says
that to carry it out would mean the
turning over Of the Southern States to
the power OF negroes and Republican
Federal oCiceholders and the absolute
destruction of the peace and prosperity
OF the country south of Mason and Dix
On's line
In commenting on Mr.. STEvENsoN's
remarks the st. Louis Republic says:
This is not an overstatement, but there
is no ground for Mr. StevensOn's fear that
the South would be Ohus driven to rebel
lion. The Southern States will never sur
render 20 the republican party, but they are
in the Union TO stay and they viii oppose
the Republican party in the Union for
century 10 come III necessary as they have
done during the last quarter Of a century,
in which they have learned that the silent,
unseen power of their united moral forces
is uncOuQuerable, whether the assault is
made by violence, fraud, or, as is now pro
posed, bv both violence and fraud.
The South cannot be forced to surrender
70 Radicalism. IL will never do IL. If the
Harrison faction succeeds In passing its
bill for the use of Federal Returning
Boards, supported by the Federal army
with its uegOes and Indians, the votes OF
the Southern States viii be counted as the
Radicals need them 70 control the Union as
long as the Radicals are in power. But on
this the peOpletof the South will await the
action of the people of the Union In ma
tioual affairs to South can stand Pluto
cratic desp0tism upheld by fraud and
force as long as the Union can.
The worst evil OF this vindictive ana un-
relenting Radicalism as il effects the South
is the forcing Of race issue where none
ought 20 exist The white people Of the
South cannot back an inch. They have
been at the wall these many years, and It
is "a cruel thing for the Radicals 70 try 10
drive the negro on them en- mGSSe. 1t IS
cruel 10 the white people and not less cruel
to the negroes. In the Civil war poor,
ignorant negroes who were in no way re-
spOUsible for our QuarrelS were put In the
front ranks With the bayOnets of white
men behind them, of white men for whom
their bodies made breaStwOrks, they were
driven on the bayonets of white men in
front Of them-Of white men who mad no
quarrel with them, who had never had any
thing but the kindest feeling for them.
And this is the Afro-American policy
the Harrison radicals are again attempting
tOscarry out. The have made II National
issue. But why should il be an issue at
ALI Why should the Southern negroes be
embrOiled in desperate strife with those
who are now their neighbors; who have
helped them in their helplessness; who are
taxing themselves for their education; who
are anxious that the negro shall have time
and opportunity TO avail himself OF what
ever advantages the slow processes Of evO-
luton can give him. Only through these
processes can ne be elevated an made
free. A master can manumlt, govern
ment can emancipate, legislation can en-
franchise a slave but only Heaven can
make a Self-governing freeman. 1t can
only be done in the case of any man by sub