Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-01

wing son & oider Garr aaa '1 one 81
upon The occasP n Of 4 recent celebra tor
publican. ADMINISTRATION elected in 1855,
foremost the hbnsst money issue upon
Wnlch IT had climbed into power, spent
is nrst year in enacting the Dingisy tars
IN, productive Of great fortunes to ting
lew rev impodsnt to increase the revenues q
manner to threaten the dominant party.
The good times failed to maIerialfze; the
time came to touch the spring of war ana
Cuba furnished the excuse.
Admit that there has been squirt -
business here and there. even that must
tary conditions and IN q tSe presence presence 81 an
average harvest in Europe. Asia anu
South America. With the normal crop
much to expect that year hence. wheat
viii be down TO nifty cents bushei. or
even forty, and other farm products IN
watch the course of future events. The
State of West Virginia is not a very large
or very populous one, let rich IN unae-S
of our national affairs she is politically y
very impor tsnt State. In the last Pres
| idential contest she swung from her an
cient moorage and cast her vote Tor Mr..
Mckinley. We all know something OF the
conditions and influences which produceU
SO anomalous result: In the campalgns
-
within the possibilities that the vote ofls
West Virginia may be decisive, and It Is
for us to see that Nhe action q isss Is re-
yersed Not in a narrow. partisan spirit
not merely FOR the sakesof party nanno
not on account OF the memories and tra-
ditions of former years, but because whats
vided us five or ten or twenty years ages
there can be no doubt thas the Democracy
Of JEFFERSON and jackson ana nryan arg
the highest and best aspirations or the
people. Every great trust ana Commune,
every graspng corporation, seeking tor
giant monopoly enriching itself by tina
crushing of smaller business eaterprlsess
turns instinctiveiy to the Republican mas
chine as their friend. II is almost inpos-
sihle TO imagine a scheme 80 wrong IN
principle. and so contrary To the best IN
terests of the people generally, that ~
could not have been put through the last
House of Represt ntatiVes with race norso
speed by the simple nod of the speaker
fact, that the United States Senate. usu-
ally looked upon as n patrician body, ~
to-day the hulwsrk and guaree-the fdss
attitude of the Republican party
on the money question alone is
enough to condemn them them a True ,s me
party are at heart opposed 70 the goiu
standard to the destruction of our con-
sututionai money, NsveTtnssiess thsy are
utterly subservient TO the money power OK
New York and London. The average Re-
publican compiaisantly assumes That the
McKinleys the Reeds the Shermans, like
the kings Of England, according TO the
old common law tradition, can 40 no
wrong Many of them, | am glad 70
know. have passed beyond this stage OF
innocent credulity, and the number Is IN
creasing every day. But the same integ~
| iigence which has shown the dangerous
grip of the Republican party must also
make it clear TO them that their hope Ties
with that great organization OF leiterson-
| ian Democracy which dominated the Chi
| cago convention and of whose principles
William Jennings Bryan is the grandesl
exponent to-day First ana paramount
of those principles and towering ahoNe
them all in Importance stands the decia-
ration In favor of the complete restoration
| of silver to Its constitutional place by tno
| side of gold as one or the great money
| metals Of our country. There are other
necessary reforms, but this Is the one
/ upon which the lines have been most
closely drawn which has the right or way,
| which is now pressing for solution ana
| which will be solved by our people IN spite
| OF the cry of the silly annexatenists ana
perialists. SO long as the appreclaunR
! gold standard is maintained the prohts
| Of productive industry must grow less,
| the burden OF debt and taxes must con-
| stantly Increase and no other reform suE-
| gested has given or can give US materiat
| relief. / most earnestly hope that the
| citiZens of West Virginia Will carefully
! study This question. Having done so, they
| viii perceive it's vital Significance. and
| then they should cast their vote az tho
| co,rior election which Will provo 10 tho
| worlu that in this state the grip OF the
| money power Is hroken and We -kovSSR1u
ment OF the beup'e