The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-03-26
Democracy Advances.

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Democracy are in full control of both
branches Of Congress. After eigh-
teen long years Of submission to the
rule Of an INSCRIPTIONS partizan Re
publican majorityin theSenate, they
have at last succeeded in obtaining
a majority in that body. What weary
years Of strife, bloodshed, impover-
ishment, exhaustion, and national
suffering these eighteen years have
beenl Well may the people rejoice
over this deliverance from the mis-,
rule of the most corruptand destruct-
i've party tbat-ever cursed the coun.
try. II is indeed gratifying to know
that the Legislative department Of
the government is finally restored to
the hands Of the party that prior to
1860 had administered the affairs of
the government nearly all the time
from its foundation, so wisely and
we'll that our people prospered as no
other people on earth ever did-to
know that the national life.currents
are no longer to be poisoned at the
fountain-head by dishonest legisla-
tion in the interest of monopolists,
jobbers, shylocks, thieves and plum
derers-that the restoration ofcarpet.
bug government in the States with
all its denominations in the shape Of
systematic robbery, test oaths, return
ing boards backed by bayonets, and
oppression in every form, is now an
impossibility-that perjury, forgery,
and wholesale villainy can never
again triumph over the expressed
will of the people and successfully
install chief magistrate through
the instrumentality Of returning
boaeds, "yisitating statesmen" SKI
commissions and an armed soldiery.
II is true that fraud still sits en-
throned in the White House and
seems determined to preserve the
partizan enginery of oppression that
remains, such as the system of test
oaths for jurors by which the admin
istration Of justice in the Federal
courts is controlled, and the system
Of supervisors Of elections, deputy
marshals and soldiers by which cleo.
tions can be run in the interest Of
the Republican party, but when it
is remembered that Congress controls
the purse strings and can cut off the
supplies upon which all the instr,l.
ments of of these odious systems feed,
we may well have faith that the is
sue of the remaining part OF the
struggle cannot be doubtful and that
they, too, must go the way of carpet
baggery to the grave that will know
mo resurrection.
Hail to the advancing standard Of
Democracy! Triumphantly it waves
above the hitherto strongest fortress
of the enemy. Let the people take
courage and move onward to the
glorious victory awaiting them in
1880.
1t is proposed to organize a force
of seventy five thousand admirers Of
the inebriated Ulys. to cross the Con-
tinent and welcome their thief-we
beg pardon, theirchief- at San Fran
cisco. 1t is well-supposing the at.
fair possible-that the line of march
lies principally through wilder,
ness, as the loss of property, other.
wise, would neutralize resumption.
Cupid.
The Democrats have forced an ex.
ira session of Congress upon the
country, that will cost the people one,
half million of dollars.-N Monitor.
Bro. Gibbons you ought to have
said the Republicans had forced the
extra session, and not the Demo
Gratis. Tell another one, and then
quit.
Figures for the Working Man.
The following table, being the
price.list of wholesale grocers and
dry goods dealers in 1864, and the
prices for the same goods at the pres
ent time, show the difference: