The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-06-22
To the Voters Of Mason County.

| eudeavorcd to warn you against partisan
bias 10 coming to Conclusion as to wba
your vote will b ,sppcting the call Of Z
Convention. I'M is one will approach
q little nearer to til. subject and call your
attention to the grea st objection If not
really the only objection to it that have
rs yet heard that is worthy Of moments
consideration the cost Off Last winter
a bitter radical partizan Governor unasked
| by any one, volunteered bis advice on the
subject and undertook to show the cnorm-
Gus expense Of such body and alleged
that it would amount to 1925, @2.27,
while he well knew at the time he was Ia.
boring in his labor Of DISQUALIFICATION
and therefore proved that-his estimates
were outragcously wrong.
wish to call your attention fallow.c iti-
zens to my own estimate Of the costs Of
such q body in my own way and in such a
way that ! know you will understand it,
In the first place the costs Of the election
on the Gath Of August is not to be added
to the costs Of a convention, for whether
you vote to call convention or not that
cost will be incurred. The law says that
that election shall be held and held It will
be whether convention is held or not
The law says the Convention shall consist
Of but 10 members--had the basis of rep.
rcscntation have been fixed as it ought to
have been under the Constitution, Mason
county would have been entitled to tpo
members instead of one which she now has
in the Legislature and will have in the
convention, The law limits the pay Of
each member to $3per day. Multiply the
number Of the members by the sum Of SO
per day and that will give you the daily
expense ofthat body with some exceptions,
which | will show you hereafter; and allow
the session Of the convention to BE- twice
as long as the session Of the Legislature,
that will give you ninety days Of a session:
Members Is; pay per day for each men,
Der So; whole pay of whole body per day
1884; multiply that by 80 the number Of
days for the whole session aud you have
$2l ,O6O as the entire expense for the daily
pay Of the members for ninety days scss.
ion. But then the President Of tho body
gets one dollar more a day than the mem.
bcrs-that makes 800 morc;-then there
must be two or three clerks, then two or
three pages Chat is crrand boys,) then
there must be the mileage Of the members,
and the printing done for the Convention,
and if you please allowa clerk to each
committee (Which is wicked waste of
money! Now add the 500 to the $751;.
06O aud you will have $2l $50. Now,
how much do you suppose fellow.citizens
IT willtaks to pay two, or three clerks to
the convention, aud say even six clerks Of
committees. and two or three pages; call
them in all twelve and allow them the
same pay as the MEMBERS 80 days servi.
ccs for twelve clerks, pages, door-kecpcrs,
and sargent-at-arms, 81, OSO, add this sum
to $2l, $50 and it will give you the sun,
Of So, 23O7 Now you have the mileage
Of the members to Pay for, and even sup
pose tho very small business Of postage
stamps to be INDUCED in (?) do you not
suppose 100000 liberal allowance? Add
that to the $22,2S0 and it will make
$32,230 all told; for remember. tho Aug.
ust election must be held aud that expense
incurred whether a convention is held or
not; aud if one is to be held there will be
no expense in elccting the members to the
convention for that election will be held at
the regular election in October, the or
pcnse Of which will have to be borne
whether members to the convention are
elected or not, and the elccling Of tho
members to the convention will not add
one dollar to the cost of that election.
Thus the whole expense Of the convention
will not exceed $32 $50; but suppose it
$4,000 or $4,000 more, $4,000 will be
the outside expense Of that body, which
sum will be saved in ono single year by
the lessenins Of the number Of officers
Aud to crown the whole, this famous cal.
culating Governor with the whole gang Of
bitter radical leaders aud Office holders IN.
der the operation Of the registration laws,
aud test oaths, at the end Of the session
last spring, got together in conclave and
characterized the express desire Of the PEG.
pie for a convention as revolutionary. (3)
Revolutionary (??) Heaven save the
mark! Everything is revolutionary that
is not Radical! Pshaw! Pshaw! Rcvo.
lutiouary, indeed.
Yours &C., very Respectfully,
MASON.
Congressman Bowen has been sen.
fenced to two years in the peniteutiary
and a-fuc Of $3.50, for bigmay.