The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1875-10-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Minnesota and New iork-all have
Governors to elect next Tuesday, ex-
cepting New York, where the chief
office to be filed is Secretary of the
State. In Pennsylvania, last year,
Lieutenant Governor Latta Demo
crat, was elected by 1919 majority,
the Temperance party, then as now,
having candidate in the field, Ben
iamin Rush Bradford, who, got 1922
votes. Governor Hartranft is the
Republican candidate for reelection
asGovcrnor; Judge cyrusL. Pershing,
the Democratic candidate, and Robert
Audley Browne, the Temperance can
didatc.
The Massachusetts election is also
for Governor, that official being chos-
en- annually. William Castor, the
present Governor who is the candi-
date Of the Democrats for reelection,
was chosen, last year by 1892 Demo
cratic majority, over Thomas Talbot:
Republican.
In Maryland the Democrats have
uniformity carried the elections for
many years past, their majority at
the last general State election, that
of 1873, when State Controller was
chosen, having been 1888. This
year the Democratic candidate for
Governor is John Lee Carroll.
In Wisconsin, in 1873, the Demo
Gratis and Liberal Republicans were
successful over the Regular Republi-
cans, and elected Governor Taylor by
15,412 majority, and a Governor is
also to be chosen this year.
In Minnesota, the Republicans
elected Chief Justice Mcmillan last
year by 1855 majority, and Governor
Davis, in 1873, by 5.5lG majority
There is a Governor to be chosen this
Year.
In New York the Democrats elect
ed Governor Tilden last year by So
81 majority. This year the candi-
dates for Secretary Of State, the chief
Office to be voted for, arc John Bisc-
low, Democrat, and Frederick W.
Seward, Republican.
General JEFF. Thompson is credited
with the prediction that by the list
of January the Mississippi river will
have cut new channel near Vicks-
burg, leaving that place two miles
inland.
Auditor Bennett has written to At
torney General Mathews for informa-
ton rs to the Auditor 'sright, and duty,
in the matter of charging insurance
companies from Ohio andothcr States,
the same fees as are charged upon
our home companies, who do bust
ness in other states, and whether the
fees so charged belong to the Auditor,
or whether, when they exceed the
fees allowed the Auditor by the Code,
the excess should be turned over to
the State Treasury.
Gen. Mathews in his reply says:
II have examined the Acts Of 1872
3p. GAS and 164, the abstract Of the
insurance laws Of other States which
YOU furnish ME and the circular Of
the Insurance Commissioner Of Ohio.
lam of opinion that it is your duty
under the Act Of 1928 to charge the
insurance Companies Of Ohio and of
other States having similar statutes
and doing business in this State the
same fees which those States charge
the insurance companies Of West
Virginia doing business therein, and
! think that the fees, to be thus
charged, pertain to your Office and
belong to you
"This conclusion is warranted by
the construction which has been Civ
en- the insurance law OF New Jersey,
which is so nearly identical with our
own
The st. Louis Dispatch of sd inst,
saws: This morning at S o'clock the
editorial fraternity ofWcSt Virginia,
some fifty in number arrived at the
Planters house on their way to Col
orado. The party organized for the
western excursion at Martinsburg,
West Va, on Monday last, and with
dcad-head pasteboard, left the wild Of
their native State for Philadelphia, as
an.ohjective point for the grand tour
west. After doing the unfinished
Centennial grounds, they rallied west,
taking in Harrisburg, Pittsburs and