Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-01-16
HISTORY PAST AND Present.

The confidence of the student of his
tory in every principle aud honor of
public life is rudely shaken as he COM
pares the curses, the abuse, the dishonor
heaped upon statesmen and patriots in
their lifeti with the praise and the
credit given them by succeeding genera
tons. From Washington TO Harrison,
Blaine and Elkins, is long sketch, but
in the interim scarcely man OF any
consequence has escaped the blackcning
hand of political infanny, and remarka-
bly, true stand the fngermarks of Dem
ocratic politicians on every page Of past
and current history. The Democratic
press and the religious press have been
linked together in this disreputable work
from the days of colored slavery all
through the long years of their own pc
litical slavery to causes lost to them by the
watchword of humanity. lost by reason
and justice, lost by the guiding power Of
the Most High. Lincoln and Grant were
worse than spectres from the depths Of
the Inferno to the Democratic party and
its American and foreign religious allies
Now the same sources recognize in them
saviours of their country and Of man
kind ; whose statues they once Knocked
at they now erect in the courts Of
the world whose genious and force Of
power for the right they once distained
as tyrannical and revolutionary they now
indeliblv stamp on every page OF histo.
~. Where are the teachings of Chris
tianity that men in all ages show theil
brute force and barbarous if not beastly
origin toward each other during life
and then cover the graves of the slair
and murdered and DETAINED with The
loses and violets Of christian charity
Religion is glorious and victorious
enough in death, but Christ preached
and practiced his doctrine IN life.
Divorce religion from politics and per-
sonal affairs and its influence may be
turned around and applied as healing
balm to the passions and prejudices of
the extremes of life.
The last public man on the role OF
Democratic abuse and disgrace and in
fanny is Stephen B. Elkins As a citi
zen and business man he was good
enough, but as public man he is ex.
haustive on the supply of Democratic
adjectives and adverbs of darkest hue
and stlckiest pitch.
The terrible things he will do in this
State have aroused the Democratic press.
aud the Clarksburg Ne,cs gives free
vent to its bitter feelings,
In the words of the Keyser Echo, we
beg to assure the Nelcs that we know
Mr.. Elkins well enough to be sure that
there are several things he will not do.
In the first place, if he does not get a
legal majority of the votes he will not al
tempt to secure the seat to which anoth-
er man has been elected. He will not
allow his friends to induce the Legisla-
ture to set aside the constitution of the
State for the sake of defeating the will
of the people as declared by legal ma
jority of the voters. He will not cause
Tue lStuA ~ w eC llIloSOhSll uCu Ill pldlu
violation of their true intent for the sake
of seating him. He will have no "twe''
business in the matter so far as he is con-
cerned, nor in any care he can prevent.
He will not allow his friends to drug
members of the legislature, and then to
drive away at the muzzle of the revol-
yer. physician called to prescribe for
the man made sick by the drugs, simply
because the physician is a Republican,
He will not be party to threaten "A SEN
ator that if he votes as his conscience die
tates he shall have the top OF his head
blown off, y nor will he bring to the CAPT
tai city crowd of the toughest citizens
of any Senatorial district for the purpose
of so bull-dozing a senator that he shall
vote as he solemnly declared he cannot
vote conscientiously and never will vote.
The Ne,es can be assured that these are
some OF the things that the gentleman
referred to will not do. II he goes to TIL
Senate of the United States from West
Virginia he will be honestly ell, cted and
so Far from disgracing the State he will
| honor it as much as any man who has
represented it in either branch of the
National Legislature, We beg to say tc
the Nescs also, that it evidently does not
know the meaning of the word ilk, )
unless applied to its own kind.