Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-16

The IntsIligencer in double leads calls
on West Virginia Republicans TO "hold
the organization.
This is foolish advice, and will simply
cause a few Republicans to waste their
energies and money. West Virginia is
as surely in the Democratic column as
Texas, and the Republican party is as
certainly dead in the nation as it is in
this State,
II those Republicans, who may still
retain hope, viii coolly examine into
the situation they will see that there
is not the slightest chance of the Re-
publican party, under that name, and
with its present leaders and policy, ever
winning again.
The Democratic party has $50 cleo
toral votes in the South which are sure
to be cast against the Republican party
should it ever show front again, while
New York and Illinois are just as surely
Democratic against the Republican
party and it's policy, to say nothing OF
Connecticut, New Jersey, Indiana and
Wisconsin. The Peoples party cannot
be shaken from its hold in the States it
has wrested from the Republicans, for
never has so young a party received
such great encouragement. The Re-
publicans can count on none Of the
States carried by WEAVER, though with
all OF them and all they have retained
they could not get majority in the
electoral college. The mainstay Of the
Republican party-the money OF the
bsnedciaries Of the high protective tariff
will not be forthcoming the next cam
Daign, and without that vast cOrrupting
infsence it will be impossible for them
even to hold all the States they now
have.
Let Republicans study the situation
and they will agree with US that the
Republican party will never enter an
other campaign. 1t is dead, as GER
talnly as the sun shines, and the IptelIi-
gencer's advice to "hold the Organiza-
ton" will, as we have said, simply
cause those Republicans, who still be-
lieve their party has a chance Of win
ming, to spend their time and money for
nothing.
Probably never again will there be so
complete a political organization Of any
party in West Virginia as the Republi-
cans had in the campaign just closed
aud yet in a dozen years there has not
been so large Democratic majority.
The whole influence OF the administra-
ton and almost the whole force of the
Republican National Committee were
conferred in West Virginia and yet the
Democratic victory was overwhelming.
In the next campaign the Re-
publicans will have none of
these powerful aids and the
tariff beueficiaries will button up their
rockets tight. The InteIltgelcer itself
acknowledges that If it had not been
for the unprecedented Republican or
eanization the result would have given
the Democrats West Virginia by two or
three times the present plurality"
Without their usual big compaign
fund, without national aid, what chance
can the Republicans have of winning in
this State?
What possible chance can that party
have Of ever winning again in the ma
ton?
Its complete and overwhelming de-
feat, the disruption Of its organization,
its supply Of doodle" cut of, the Re-
publican party, without hope or pros
pect, and with its only policy over
whelmingly repudiated, must inevitably
disintegrate. It's members will drift
into the other parties, or will form a
new party on different lines.
It certain that the Republican par
ty is dead.