Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-20

THE SALE OF THE SUGAR PLANTERS
The jubiation Of the organs over the
Louisiana sugar planters bolt to the
Republican party is an ebullition that
was expected from that quarter, over the
sealing of the rotten bargain, and
itisin strict accordance with the code
Of moral ethics under which the Re-
publican leaders have been doing bust
ness Of late years.
Republican politicians and organs
openly applaud this disgraceful political
barter, though anyone giving it half
thought may see that it is one Of the
best points in favor Of the Democracy
that can be made, for, summed up, it
is simply this: Mckinley 81 Co.
TO buy the votes and infu-
enee OF the sugar planters of Louisiana,
gave every mothers son Of them, and
they number 557, an average bounty
last year Of l0,195.66, or altogether
sl1,114,2S9. out Of the national treasury.
This Legitimate bounty, or polit-
ical bride, which it really was, the Dem
ocrats have repealed. Hence the holt
of the mercenary sugar planters from
the Democratic party, which in the in
terest Of the people and honest
government refused to continue
the bride, TO the Republican
party, which promises to restore it in
the event of Republican success.
1t is as plain piece Of whole
sale vote-buying with the peoples
money as ever the Republican leaders
engaged in, for the wealthy sugar rails
ers 10 Louisiana are no more entitled to
a bounty on their product than are the
raisers Of potatoes and cabbages.
1t is Of such classes that the
Republican party is made up. They
are in it for what it promises them in
bounties out of tho peoples pockets,
either by direct payment out of the
treasury, or by indirect tariff taxation,
the latter being the worse, because the
more insidious and less honest,
method of the two. These are
the wealthy protected" classes,
whose millions have been at
the beck and call Of the Republican
leaders for the past quarter of a century,
or in the famous language of distin-
guished United States Senator of that
party, they have gracefully submitted
to having the STAT fried out of them"
every campaign In return for the privi-
lege of keeping their hands in the
peoples pockets.
To this class, whose money has
kept the Republican party from
disintegrating. for its useful
ness to the people ended a
generation ago. the Democracy offers
nothing, nay more, has taken away
many Of the unconstitutional privileges
granted by Republican Congresses and
threatens to take away every one not
sanctioned by the laws of right, justice
and equity.
The Democracy, as its name proclaims,
is for she Democracy, the people, all the
people and not for any one class Of the
people, while the Republican party on
the other hand is for the enrichment of
the classes at the expense Of the people
at large, expecting aud heretofore re-
ceiving in return the power and in
fiueuce which wealth can command. In
short, the difference between Democracy
and latter day Republcanism is the
| difference between Democracy aud
Plutoeracy and HE political methods of
the latter could NardIy be better illus
trated than by q political dicker by
which the Loui lana sugar planters
have sold out to Il Republican leaders
and enrolled them5k lives with the g. o. p.
The organs OF the alter call it revolt
against the Democracy. But it is only
aplain, unvarnisY ed sell-ont.
LEXINGTON, MOI September l6.-Hon:
u John G. Tarsnev itas to-day renominated
~ GoQgress bN the Fifth district Demo