Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-12-03

terests need be feared.
That the statement is true none can
deny. But why true? Rather, tax
ing the converse of the proposition,
WHY are the business interests of the
country fearful, afraid, of the Demo-
cratic party? It is fact that such is
the case. Then, why do business
men vote the Democratic ticket
Why are any business men Demo
Gratis? An honest answer to the above
queries would solve problem that so
far has been unsolvable.
The Fairmont West Virginian is as
puzzled as the Herald In the last
issue of the West Virginian, We find
the following:
while business has been good the
country over, this coal region has en-
loved boom it never before experi.
euced. There has been constant work
during the past two years, and it is
growing better daily. If our coal OPP
orators are not becoming rich it is not
for want of orders. They are getting
rich and getting so rapidly. The
word we hear from them nowadays is
that they have to turn away would be
customers can't fill their orders.
Coal is wanted from every direction.
70 lrr9 h u "a
will tell him. Simply because the
mills and factories, big and little, all
over the country, which were stilled
by the Democratic free trade policy
inaugurated by the Cleveland admin
istration, are starting their hres anew,
knowing that it is safe to do so under
the wise and wholesome laws enacted
by the party of William Mckinley.
Isn't it a little strange that some
people-business people-are Demo-
Gratis? OF course, they can't help it.
1t is still more strange that some PEG.
pie who prosper only when the Repub-
licans are in power or their laws are
in effect are to be found in all polit;-
cal campaigns active and foremost in
the ranks of the business destroying
party"
The West Virginian brings the
matter home to its own people. The
Herald would do the same. There
are business men in Martinsburg,
honest, earnest, energetic business
men, men who have large financial
interests at stake, men who are truly
anxious that the country should pros
per and who desire to see every body
prosperous, who year after year vote
the Democratic ticket and give of
their substance to the support of the
Democratic organization, who must
know, who do know, that the success
of the Democratic party at the polls
is certain to bring disaster to the
country, financial ruin to many and
certain financial loss to practically
everybody.
The Boston Herald, ultra conserva-
tive, almost mugwumpish, explains
why business is moving forward at
such rapid pace, though it does not
express an opinion upon the subject:
The inroads made by the Republi-
cans upon the Democratic strength in
the United States furnish really much
the most important political feature
4 OF the present year. There has been
nothing like it in this generation.
We have to 60 back to the period lm-
mediately succeeding the war OF the
rebellion, when the Republicans had
control of the lately readmitted South
ern states, and chose senators after
their mind there, to fud its parallel
in those days, or soon after, the Dem-
ocrats did considerably better at the
North than they have done now.
They were sure Of senator's Of New
Jersey and Delaware; they had rather
more than an even chance of them in
( Indiana; they could occasionally elect
one in New York and sometimes an
other in Connecticut; they had even
/ got into way of having a senator
nearly all the time from Ohio Every
one of these opportunities has now
left them, and, worse, the Republi-
cans have cut into them in choosing
senators below Mason and Dixon S
line. power which they had lost un-
til recently for many years. Both
the senators from each OF the states
of Maryland and West Virginia will
be taken away from the Demo
Gratis in the next Congress, and
in addition they have lost Senator
from Kentucky and two senators from
North Carolina. though one of the
latter may be reclaimed to the party.
The most remarkable fact about
this situation of affairs is that never
before since the Democratic party was
crested--aud all agree that this date