Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-08

TIE REPUBLICAN ORGANIzATION.
Democrats must remember that never
in West Virginia's history has there
been anything approaching in extent
and completeness the Republican or
ganization this year. II is the most
wide-reaching and nearly perfect or
gauizaJion that any political party in
any State can boast. IL has taken over
two years to bring it to its present state
Of perfection and an immense outlay OF
tariff money. The Republican National
Committee is devotiug so much atten-
tion 20 West Virginia because they
hoped TO break the solid South this year
by q personal canvass, colonization
and the lavish use OF money in
this State. Thousands of ennis
saries, most of them receiving salaries,
are today at work in every sub-district
of every magisterial district Of every
county in the State We have before us
Form IS of the state Committees in
structi0ns to district workers. IL is ad-
dressed TO Committeeman for Sub-dis-
trict 40 n Of Banks Magisterial Dis
trict of your county" 1t fatters said
''committeeman" by impressing upon
him the highly responsible nature Of
his appointment aud by informing him
that 1--WE have sent your name TO the
National Committee"-by the way,
If every good and innocent Republican
who has received one of tnese strictly
private and personal circulars imagines
that his name has been sent to the Re-
publican National Committee, or that
anybody, with the possible exception of
his county chairman, whom he is to
furnish with lists Of voters, report pro-
gress, ETC.. is aware of his political ex-
istence, he is not familiar with the Re-
publican machine Of which he is bat
one small cog in one small wheel out Of
a thousand similar wheels.
He is requested to 60 about among
the voters OF his neighborhOod and re-
tail the following choice bits Of dema-
gogy, which the circular Of instruction
mentions:
The Mckinley Law has been vindicated
Dv the facts, the Democrats have adopted
"a most radical Free-urade platform, and IN
West Virginia they have repeatedly reas-
sessed the farmers land, adding thereby TO
his taxes, have increased the number or
ofice-hO,ders, increased salaries, and In
creased the expenses in every department
Of the State government
The Mckinley tariff may have been
indicated in the eyes Of Republican
campaign fat-fryers, since it has in
creased the profits Of the trusts and
mouopolles which supply the Republican
campaign fund, but it has been stamped
indelibly with the condemnation of the
people, who turned the Congress which
passed the infamous measure, out of
power, root and branch. Has it been
indicated ln the eyes Of protected"
labor, whose wages have been reduced
since It's passage? Has it been vindi-
Gated in the eyes Of the farm
er, whose land the McKin-
ley policy Of exorbitant taxa
tion for the benefit of protected manu-
facturers only, it has caused to decrease
in value, and the Indebtedness of farm
ers TO increase TO such an extent, that
in five farming States alone the
increase of Indebtedness on farm lands,
shown in the last Republican census Of
1890, was over Sl6s,O0QOOO, while the
cost Of living TO the farmer has in
creased?
The last revaluotion Of lands in
West Virginia shows a large de-
crease In the valuation of farm lands
for purposes Of taxation. There was an
increase in the whole State, but 10 was
upon "wi'd lands" held by wealthy syn
dictates, not for improvement nor deyel-
opment, but solely for purposes Of
speculation. The last re.valuation was
demanded by the farmers themselves
and by the people generally.
That the number Of Office holders
and expenses under the State govern
ment have increased i'm the past twenty
years is certainly true, since it could
not be otherwise in view of the inn
mensely increased business of the gov
eminent attendant upon increase Of
population and development.
Salaries OF State officials cannot be
raised except by constitutional amend
ment, hence the last accusation is pure
lalsehood and demagogy as is every
section of the Republican State plat
form, which emboJies the same grossly
false charges.
MCKINLEY ~ TIE NORTHWEST.