The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-08-05

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! ocular financiaL policy Of the
4 Repaid blican party, which for the last
:steu years has been steadily yimpeye5:
4 / is1iHg TIE many for the enrichmept
LOT the fen inereasing. the interest,"
/ bel sbt; driving I money OF
1 The people cut iof realatiaA sd
eompe sthe agricB ltuyal, the jnv
aust j The coproNT' $
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Tknow that 1t IS claimed tAst $50
| much of the contest in 0tios;as,iQ,
/ wolves the financial issue. Is. peeshar
to this State; that it elicits no, sym:
| pathy and excites no interest. else:
where. l claim that no more euo-
neous statement could be made. The
making of this issue here and Its
elicitins interest elsewhere is a ne
cessary result of the times that are
upon US. 1t does excite interest
wherever the question has been fair
ly examined and its bearings upon
the material interests of the landfully
considered and understood.
say it is inevitable. in the very
nature Of things, that the Democratic
party should become at this time the
champion Of the interests OF the peo-
pie in this matter. l know thatit is
claimed that there are many Demo
Gratis at issue with some construction,
if not to the literal construction, OF
the platform Of the Democratic party
Of Ohio. But wherever there are
Democrats who are not bllndly we'd
ded to the lnapplicable precedents OF
times and conditions, there do their
hopes and their desires go out for the
successful triumph Of the Democracy
of Ohio, as means of bringing re-
lief to the people and restoring pros
pefity to the country. Applause
| do not except from this declaration
the Democrats of the State Of New
York, or the Democracy Of New Eng
land. ! can not forget that, in the
year 1865, John 7. Hoffman, upon a
greenback platform in the State of
New York, advocating the payment
Of the bonds in that medium, swept
the Empire State by 10000, while
Horatio Seymour, the Democratic
candidate for President f.the United
States, whose nomination was the re-
suit, if not tho intentional purpose,
of Tanlmaas HaHand the NIanhat-'
Ian Gid to .sespSe q defeat tl - ~
1Dein6cfses Win an Eastern man,
rather than win with q Western
statesman-Horatio seymour-under
this state Of facts, | say, carried New
York by but about ten thousand ma
jority. Applause.l
In New England, and notably in
the State of Connecticut, the Democ-
ratio party has never lost ground by
taking sides with the people, and as
against special legislation in behalf
of the privileged and moneycd class
es. But for an emphatic answer to
the sneer that nobody but the howl
ing idiots, the red-headed and red
mouthed lunatics of the Stateof Ohio,
care for financial relief, go to the
Tirginias, where the people without
a word from campaign committees
have been giving this subject calm
and careful reflection. Ask the lum-
bermen of Elk River. or the Guyan-
dotte, ask the salt boiler or the coop
er of Kanawha, why they have LETT
their vocation, travelling sixty miles
to look upon this demonstration; ask
Jackson and Mason and Putnam,,why
they have left their hay in the mead
ow, their wheat in the shock, their
waving corn, and their cattle grazing
upon 4 thousand hills, to take part
in this work, and they will tell you
that it is because the Ohio Democra-
cy have renewed the struggle of the
people against monopoly and privil-
eyed classes, Tcheers, vindicating the
dignity of labor against the arrogance
of money. The Ohio Democracy are
fighting Virsinia's fight, the fight OF
toll and poverty wherever it may