The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-16
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.
A Iat,,n Recen. History.

Tho Republican Journals are weeping, aud
rnashing thciT teeth oVor what they call the
failure OF tarIh reform and denonnclng tho Penn
ocEetS party a. taise 70 Us pledges 1 Ley
bill would ruin tho country. Now that II has
failed to pass. they arc abusing the Democrats
iorn0t paSsinglt. II they were honest and haI
not reloIce at calamity avcrted?-Reotstr.
The Register is nothing If not dema-
gogic. What 1t suggests would be tho
patriotic course for the Republicans to
pursue is the very course they are pur-
suing. They are rejoicing that the
Democratic party's attempt to wreck
tho industries OF the country was not
ne successful rs it WINS intended to be.
They are rejoicing that the outcome OF
Democratic incompetency, though bad
enough. Is no worse than 1t is, but they
regret, for the sake Of the country's
welfare, that the sectional senate meas
ure was not also defeated and buried
out otsieht.
Republicans ara not inconsistent
Thoy have not yielded one inch from
their position in favor Of tho up.build-
ing and fostering OF American indus
tries, and tho protection of American
labor by the "broad shield Of American
law" They know where thcy stand
and the country knows whore to find
them on this vital question. No minor.
ity faction holds tho majority by the
throat aud forces it to sacrifice a single
principle or violate single pledge made
to the people. 1t lcrislates in BUSH
ness way, aud 10 not forced to go to tho
country with tho whine that it found it.
sclf powcrless to do what it's constitucn-
cy elected it to do.
1t has the consciousness Of having
performed Its duty, and even when, in
response to communicate appeals from
partisan demagogues and FREQ trade
theorists, it sustains defeat. there is no
surrender OF principle. 1t has faith
that the people OF tho United States.
having gotten tasto OF Democratic
tampering with their interests. will re-
verse their verdict anu vindicate tho
policy under which tho country grew
great ana prosperous.
There arc times in tho history Of the
country, when the people, no matter
how prosperous and happy they may
be, are not satisfied to lot well enough
alone. Ono Of those times was in 1902.
whom tho country WINS enjoying the
season OF unprecedented prosperity
which Immediately followed tho enact
ment Of tho Mckinley tariff law In
tho face OF the inct that the volume OF
business was greater than ever before
in tho history Of tho country, and when
tho WACO workers Of tho country wore
moro generally employed. and when
business was booming throughout tho
land, the voters stopped to listen to the
voice OF tho free trade thooriat and tho
partisan dcmagoguc, and were lost.
Only when it was too late did they
reniizo their mistake. They awoko 10
find tho business world trembling under
the uncertainty consequent upon tho
election to power OF q party pledged 10
revolutionizc tho economic policy I'm.
der which this prosperity had como.
Then followed the eighteen months OF
uncertainty and anxiety, of pauicS, of
closed banks, mills aud factories. of
wage reductions, OF labor strikes and
disturbances
Every man and woman knows tho
history OF this period, and every man
and woman has made mp his or her
mind M to its cause. No amount Of
demasogic twaddIo about it being tho
result Of Republican legislation will
nlIoct them. They know that uncer.
tninty was tho primo Gauge and that tho
result of tho election Of 1872 produced
that uncertainty, Tor there had been no