Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-20
THE ORGANIZATION.
OF the Randolph Democracy Perfect
ed Saturday Night.

| Special to the Register.
ELKINS. w. Va. Aug. 19.-The
Randolph County Democratic Club,
with membership of go. held its sec
ond meeting in Pesin's Opera House
| last night and perfected its organiza-
ton by electing the following perma-
| nent officers: President, Hon. E. D.
Talbot; First Vice-President, NJ. H.
King; Secretary, w. Bland Allen;
Treasurer, Blair Wilson.
After electing its officers and hear
| ing reports of the various committees
+, and providing permanent headquar-
| tiers, to be open at all times during the
campaign, Hon. c. H. Scott, chairman
/ of the Democratic Executive Commit
I tee, OF this county, was called for and
made an able address of the hour, de-
voting all of his time to the paramount
issue and being loudly cheered by the
I audience
The speaker began his address by
saying that while State issues could be
| discussed with profit to the Democrat
ic party of this State, yet he would
eschew any discussion of same on this
occasion, and discuss only at this time
| the paramount issues" He handled
the MeKinley-Hanna administration
VIII ungloved hands, and when he de-
clared 'the question of how long the
Republic shall live and what its des-
tiny shall be, depends upon our own
people; our flag will not be torn down
nor our constitution torn up, nor the
| Republic destroyed by outside causes
| or forces" he had his audience with
him. His peroration was as follows:
! Rome once boosted OF her republic,
| but the rich and the well born had
a distinct and permanent share in it.
and the jealousies and rivalries of the
favorite classes brought on a reign of
anarchy with the poison cup and the
hidden dagger, and thus made way for
| julius Caesar, A distinguished histori-
an said: Caesar crossed the rubicon
and Rome was free no more Caesar
| commanded the armies of Rome and
the Republic, having fallen into bad
hands, without authority of law, he
moved his armies of conquest against
an innocent and friendly tribe, he
| crossed the Rubicon. The crossing of
the river was a small thing, but it's
| consequences great indeed. Faction
and strife were rampant. The same
! writer says: Caesar had his friends;
Pompey had his friends; Mark Antony
had his friends, but the Republic had
none.
''Will history repeat itself, as it has
so often done? VIII America furnish
the deadly parallel to that passage? 1t
is for the freemen of this Republic to
answer. Have we crossed the Rubi-
| con? Have our armies gone forth to
subdue foreign and friendly people to
| De governed Wlthout authority or the
| constitution? If that be true, then,
| sirs, the rest may soon follow
Mckinley will have his friends;
Mark Hanna will have his friends;
General Miles will have his friends. but
the Republic, alasi will have none;
and impartial history in the next gem
GRAFTON will declare that Mckinley
crossed the ocean and America was
| free no more
At the conclusion of Mr.. SCOTS adj
| dress personal letter from w r.
| Hearst, President National Association
| of Democratic Clubs, to Hon. c. II.
| Scott, congratulating the Randolph
County Democracy, was read by, the
| secretary, after which the meeting adj
| journed, to meet next Friday at $3.50
p. M, at which time it will be adj
| dressed by Hon. James A. Bent. The
| Democrats of this county were never
| so determined to increase their ranks
as now, and that she will increase her
vote in this county at least 500 at the
| coming election is as certain as any
| thing can be in politics Randolph will
| give the largest Democratic majority
| she has given since 1892.