The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-05
FAIR PLAY
Is What the American People
Want and viii Have.
THE CAMPAIGN OF DECEPTION
BY the Democratic Party Cannot
wIn-.-Thc Dead Force Bill aud the
Democratic Attempt to Revive 1t to
obscure Real Issues.


and to incidents, but to organized
bodies aud their united efforts. The
greater tho undertaking the greater the
necessity that this virtue should dom
mate human action. The Civilizations
Of victory rise 10 greater heights Of pop
ular approval, and the disappointment
Of defeat soften their own bitterness
when tho contest is fought upon the
common level OF fair play. The re-
wards OF the one derive an added value,
an increased Importance in public cs-
TEEN, while the reverses OF the other
are mitigated by the dignified reflection
that TO honorable defeat no odium at
taches. A manly fight with an issue
clearly defined and consistently adj
hered to vindicates the confidence oil
the people in the wisdom Of its out
come. One OF the most effective agen-
cies in the healthy development OF all
municipal interests is an honest ex-
preston OF the voice OF the people upon
a gauge OF battle honestly c6ntended,
whose results are accepted, without DIS
auietin2 doubts and without anxious
fears. A political campaign conducted
upon lines which fail to recognize this
common principle OF rights trities with
and insults the understanding OF the
people. 1t degrades to the uses OF the
trickster and the mountebanS the vital
concerns OF the nation. a campaign
whose chief weapons OF attack are de-
ception, misrepresentation and Illusion
ia a burlesque upon honesty, aud is u
confession OF its own weakness. 1t de-
clares its lack OF faith in its own doc
trines. and is a woeful depreciation OF
the strength OF lite own cause.
And vet this Is the history OF the
Democratic party. Fair play has long
ago ceased to be an altar in the Demo-
ocratic temple. Theincense OF worship
ia sprinklef over other shrines. Polltl-
cal nurity is discarded virtue. Politi-
eel hypocrisy wears the mask OF reform.
Democratic professions sooner or later
reveal their own thinly-clad intentions.
It feeds upon misconceptions. II incul-
Gates false philosophy and nocks the
people in the ignorance thus cSeated.
Itteachcs political economy unpatrl-
otto in its conceptions ana destructive
in its consequences. 1t reveis IN the
spoils OF misguided public sentiment,
engendered and intensified by its own
Misrepresentation. 1t is untrue to tho
traditions in which il claims 10 find its
highest inspiration. 1t is unfaithful to
its obligations to the people in assuming
to be the repository Of national benefits
and preaching creed whose accept
ance would impGril the nations best
interests. II is boastful in its assump-
ton OF all the virtues that promote the
common good, while secretly it panders
TO all the vicious elements in American
politics. 1t shuns the light OF truth
and covers tho hollowness OF its own
pretentions by mystiiying the issues,
and by the use OF systematic trickery.
II poses as the great political reformer
Of the age, aud is the conspicuous bene-
ficiaryof corrupt methods and dishonest
ends. It appeals to passion, bigotry and
prejudice, and derives its chief strength
from the solid South, made solid by the
suppression OF the popular will.
There are some things in the recent
course Of this party that the people
will not forget, facts OF ponderous
meaning that will not down.
Its present attitude toward the peo-
ple OF this country is singular blend
ing OF inconsistency and deception. 1t
assumes to be national benetactor-
the great universal panacea for all the
ills OF the body politic-and in its
Chicago convention declares protection
to be unconstitutional and fraud, and
this moment is moving heaven and
earth to defeat the prevailing tariff
system that gives TO our wage workers
a heritage OF peculiar benefcence.
History is but repeating itself when
this party 10 inconsistent. 1t assa!ls
with unrelenting fury the established
system that shapes our entire industrial
policy, while on all sides, Astounding i'll
glorious profusion, are seen the mona
ments TO wisdom and benefconcc. 1t
strikes at the very heart OF prosperity
OF our country by striking at the direct
source of that prosperity. 1t declares
ita love for the laboring masses, and
sets to work deliberately, subordinatng
all other aims to this one purpose, to
overthrow tho system that makes their
condition brighter, better and happier
than that OF labor anywhere through
out the wide world. 1t assumes to be
the divinely.appointed guardian OF the
nations best interests, and constitutes
itself the organized champion OF the
free trade doctrine, whose practical en-
forcemsnt would unsettle allconditions
Of trade, would endanger the liberties
and blessings now go plentifully enjoyed
by tho working classes, and revolution.
ize the influence that effect most
strongly, our national life.
A reign OF plenty and golden prom
Use for every day that is TO come, are
the hallowed and hallowing objects to
which this principle OF foreign extrac.
ton and Democratic adoption stands
unalterably opposed.
In the South and in our own state
the Democrats are holding up the
death-shIoud Of the late federal cleo
tions bill rs the sum OF ali evils aud
seek to mako it the chief subject Of cam
paisn discussion. This bill, falsely
called tho force bill, as the people
know, is dcad, absolutely dead, put to
death by Republican votes, and is not
now in any sense an issue in this elec-
ton. Democracy thus EgGin GeceiYes
the people in Yepresenting the alleged
force bill as the Leading issve whom that
mcasure is not only dcSd, but when
there is no recommendation OF it IN the
Republican national platform, nor in
President HnrriSon's letter o. acccpt-
ance. The force bill IN rho me;sst clap
trap, apoei.s o; political lcgcrdornnin
adopted 'oy this party TO becloud the
understanding Of tho people concerning
tho great, overwhelming question as TO
whether protoctor to American homes
and American labor shall DO sustained,