The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-09

actiVityP Has it opened new avenues
of industry Has It increased the de-
mand for laborP Have the rewards OF
labor been increased under the now adj
ministration? How many Democrats
are disappointed and wonld gladly re-
call II they could their votes after the
short experience they have had2 If
the promised reforms OF the administra-
tion have alarmed the country what
will their fulillment dop II expecta-
tion has destroyed confidence, what
will full realization doP In full posses.
sion and enjoyment Of the best Of
the victory (Which is the President--tor
it is common thing to sRy he is better
than his party, ii the best OF the vic
tory is followed as his Inauguration hRs
been with disturbances and distress,
what may We expect with Congress
when 1t shall assembleP lfthe promise
Of the delivery OF Democratic measures
has unsettled business, what will actual
delivery do? All that is left for the
country is to vote down its former in
structions in every state where oppor-
tunity is presented preceding the
assembling OF Congress, Both Pres-
dent and Congress will heed its latest
voice; they will obey its latest vote.
The stay-at-homs Republicans who,
confident oil security in the aboundi6g
good times OF 1892, believing it was i'm.
possible to reverse the Republican
policy, will now realize the necessity
Of giving one day TO the important in.
terests of the country.
AN INHARMoNIoUs PARTY,
The Democratic party presents an
anomalous situation to-day. Divided on
spoils and torn up over the distrlbu-
tion Of office, disturbed with the tariff
and widely separated on the money
question, inharmonious upon every
vital issue, divided into administration
and anti-administration fActions-in
this condition they arc confronted with
the grave and serious questions affect.
ing the welfare OF the country, its credit
and honor and the prosperity OF the
people.
With gold President and silver
congress what can be done? They have
made u condition OF antagonism which
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in that regard, ut least, tho party will
preserve its record for thirty years 1t
will be consistent with its past But it
is to be regretted that party charged
with such q grave and delicate trust
should be SO divided. The President
can be assured that in every patriotic
undertaking to sustain the American
| honor abroad, pence and good order at
home, he will have the hearty
cooperation Of the Republicans
of Ohio and the country. In
every effort to maintain the
high financial credit OF tho country, Sc.
cure sound and stable currency, and
maintain the nations faith inviolate,
he will have the warm support OF Re-
publicans everywhere. 1t cannot, how
ever, pass unobserved that, however
sound Mr.. Cleyoland's financial views
may be, the. party to which he would
naturally turn for support, his own po'
litical associates, for the most part arc
financially unsound and are bent upon
q still further arrangement OF tho cur
rency; and to have any relief from the
present unfortunate situation he must
look to tho Republican party. That
party has never failed in any emerg-
ency, and it will be ready to cooperate
in every good work for tho restoration
OF confidence and the return OF good
times,
PENSION REVISION.
Notice has gone forth that not only is
tho tariff to be revised, but that the
pension list is to be revised. No honest
man will object to purging OF this
roll of all who are unworthily there.
Every case must rest upon its own
facts do not object to unworthy men
being stricken from the roll--if there
are such-but ! do object to tho i'm
preston which in some quarters is be-
ing made that this whole pension bust
ness is fraud. 1t is published in the
papers that an army OF pension exam
iners are to be lot loose to travel from
county to county and from town to
town to hunt down the PEN
sioners and discover, ii possi'
BILE, if there be men here and
there who draw one or two dollars Il
month in excess Of what theyareentitled
to under the law Tho published rul-
ing OF the secretary Of the interior an
nounced in the press will strike from
the pension roll OF the country hun.
dreds and Thousands OF worthy and de.
pendent soldiers, who, ii not altogether
incapacitated, are practically incapaci-
tated from earning living for them
selves and families, 1t is to the univor-
sal indictment against pensioners that
| enter q solemn and emphatic protest.
No outlay OF the govern ment is more
worthily bestowed or widely dis.
tributed than tho money which goes to
the soldiers OF the country in form oI
pensions. 1t should be remembered,
too that pensions are better than
standing armies are less expensive and
moro American.
Tho Republican party believes what
it teaches and practices whatit breaches.
| 1t was organized and has succeeded be-
cause in all its years IL has had ConviC-
tions. II does not profess ono thing
aud do another. II has courage, and
stands by Its principles just as faith
fully, Just as,loyally after defeat, US utter
victory. In deioat all divisions arc
hushod, all internal diasensions dis.
appear. Principle and conviction arc
supreme and mastorful and they con,
stituto the bugle call TO duty. Those
who may have imagined that wo would
lower our flag should no longer bo do
cOlyod. II floats from tho old ilag staff
and Is borno by as true and fearless Re
publiCnns as over carried II In tho greQI
conflicts Of tho past. II is not our habi
or our history TO tAkO down our colors
We put them where they are; wo,moar
to keep thom thoro. Wo love thom, fol
We bollevo In what they stand for, ant