Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-23
SIGNS OF The TIMES.
Republicans See That They Have Been De-
cieved by False Promises Held Out by
Hanna and Mckinley = Dingiey Bill a

Hanna and Mckinley - Dingiey Bill a
Failure.
| To the Editor of the Register
! The confidence, the prosperity, which
we were promised upon the election
| of Mckinley by our Republican friends,
! has not been realized, Notwithstanding
| the drouths and short crops in Europe
! and South America.
The fact is, the Dingley tariff has
proved a most lamentable failure, and
, our Republican friends have at last re-
| allied the fact, and the deficit has
proved a most wonderful revelation to
| the leaders of the Republican party.
They promised last fall that the sue
cess of the Republican party, the cleo
ton of Mckinley and Hobart, would
prove panacea for all the ills of the
! body polite; that confidence would be
| restored; money pulled out of the Old
stockings and the banks, and every
| man, woman and child in the nation
would live in happiness and luxury.
| The late election demonstrated the
utter failure of the predictions eof the
Republican leaders.
| The people were led to believe that
! the very moment that Hanna and Nc
Kinley obtained control of the affairs Of
the nation that confidence would be re-
stored, the national banks would pour
out their money like water and there
would be a universal halleluiah!
The late election demonstrated that
the promises have not been realized
and that with all the patronage of the
| Government the Dingley tariff and the
national banks and trusts and COM
/ binations, there is still want suffering
| and misery throughout the land.
| The fact is, the late election demon
| strates that the people are no longer
worshiping at the shrine of Hanna and
McKinleyism, but are beginning to
thing and act as intelligent voters
| should do.
Never in the history of this country
| has there been such a glorious oppor-
| tunity of pure and unauthorized JEFF
fersonian democracy exhibited
The grandest illustration of the truth
of our statement is shown by the fact
that Henry Watterson, Of the Louis
vile CourierJournal, the Charleston
News, and every prominent Democratic
paper that strayed away after the flesh
pots of Egypt and worshipped at the
shrine of Grover Cleveland and the
gold bugs, have repented of their folly
and returned penitent to the old Jeffer-
sonian Democratic fold.
The fact is that if the Democratic
party adheres faithfully and honestly
to the principles of the Chicago plat
form that she will sweep the country
in 1900.
| The people of West Virginia are
naturally Democrats, and if they have
an opportunity will elect none but
Democrats to Office.
! What they want is an honest.
| straightforward Democrat to represent
them. In all parties there are men
who carry their principles in their
pocket, and it is a humiliating fact
that we have some such persons in the
| Democratic party of West Virginia.
| The indications are that there is a
movement on foot in this district 10
push forward certain persons belonging
| to the ring as representative Demo-
| Gratis. What we want is not a mer-
cenary Democrat, man who has made
politics trade and means of support,
but man who springs from the peo-
/ pie, and whose interests and associa-
tions are those of the laboring classes,
and in view of the surrounding circum-
stances and the fact that certain prom
| inent corporations and politicians are
| endeavoring to SOW the seed Of the
election of their peculiar favorite. /. as
| an old fashioned Democrat, respect
| fully submit to the consideration of the
voters Of this Congressional district q
! gentleman who has all his life been
| identified with the Democratic party.
A man who has made his living by
| honest toll Who was the only person
in the whole State of West Virginia
west of the Allegheny mountains who
was able to resist the torrent of Re-
publican simeon of 1896 and secure an
election to the Senate of the State Of
| West Virginia, the Honorable Commo-
dore Dotson, of the city of Parkers-
burg, who was elected by most fiat
! tering majority at the late election, and
whose ability as statesman will com
pare most favorably with that of any
other Democrat in the district that can
/, be named. Give us Dotson, a man Of
the people to measure lines with our
common enemy, the Republicans, ard
we will redeem the Fourth district.