Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-17
TIE LOUISVILLE POWWOW.

In urging the Republicans to capture
the youth OF the land General Clarkson
fails to suggest the right means OF do
Ing it.-St Louis Post Dispatch
The platform declares faith" and
"points with PRIDE" as usual. but 1t
does not furnish much new food for
thong ht.-Lo ltisUille Post.
Mr.. Manley says he went there to
''answer his country's call" Where
was Mr.. Manley when his country spoke
IN the autumn?-St Louis Post Dis
patch.
The only novelty in the paragraph in
regard to woman suffrage. This is
gathered in adroitly, and 1t is evident
that the purpose Is to see how 1t Will
ke.-IpdidndpOlis NelCS.
IL is evident that the republican
leaguers take no stock in Tom Reeds
explanation OF republican defeat, that
"the woman did it," as they have de-
cared in favor of woman suffrage
Philadelphia Record.
The meeting of the National Republi-
can League at Louisville was. marked
by the number of distinguished Repub-
icans who were not preseAt and the
bold and decisive utterances which were
not uttered.-KGnsdS City Star.
Their object was to try to find out
"where they are at" There was no
need OF q convention for the purpose.
Whether they Acknowledge it or not,
they are down and out-Very low down
and very far out.-NelO York World.
The vote in favor of woman suffrage
by the national league Of republican
clubs, after both the subcommittee and
whole committee had declared against
it, is a confession of weakness or fear
for the future. Vndtod-
tor.
No part of Mr.. Clarkson's speech at
Louisville will be more widely and
heartily approved by Republicans than
that in which he rebuked thu Union
Leage, OF New York, for its rejection
OF Mr.. Seligman's application for mem
berShip. -PhiICnleiphtd Press.
To undertake to forestall the action
of the convention, however, by the
adoption of new policies and proclaim
ing them as semi-official declarations OF
the party, is going too far. The party
is In no such strait as to have need for
receiver or a observation-disclosures City
Journal.
The Republican National League used
the soft pedal when 1t touched the tariff
issue at Louisville. The Mckinley
schedule was put off with brief in
dorsement of the Minneapolis platform
Of 1892. Is the 'g. O. D." beginning TO
find out what struck it last November?
-KdnSdS city Star.
The complaint comes up from Louis
vile that the old-time leaders OF the
Republican Party were chiefly notice
able by their absence from the conven-
ton. That's true. Most Of them-that
is, those who formerly led the party to
victory-are now in the Democratic
ranks. For the absence OF those who
have made the party the pitiful wreck
it now is the league ought to be CRATE
ul.-IndiGnGpOitS Sentinel.
Now comes an effort in the National
Committee to limit representation In
the conventions to one delegate for
every seven thousand votes cast at the
preceding presidential election That
certainly means an abandonment OF the
south to tho Democracy. for the rule
would so limit representation of south
ern Republicans as to leave those of the
north in overwhelming majority.-In-
diDndp0ltS Record.
In Kentucky Colonel Clarkson was
quite safe in making the preposterons
assertion that "colored men are being
forced into the factories Of the north in
competition with the cheap labor Of tho
Democratic party" The Colonel, p"
by some strange chance, neglectS TO ex-
plain whence came the "cheap labor"
The Mckinley law was said to have
been designed to protect our working
men from all "cheap labor" and the
Mckinley law is still in force. Surely
H. could not be that Republican law
dlscriminates between a white and
black man. Frankly, Colonel" Clark
son, that was about the sloppiest cam
paign drivel you ever uttered, not ex-
cepting even some OF you early Iowa
prohibition work.-BurlingtOn Gazette.
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