The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1880-04-28

ed line this road would passthrough,
for two hundred miles one of the
finest timber belts in the world, and
for almost its entire length the hills
are filed with ore and underlaid with
the richest veins of every quality Of
coal known s
They are Expected to do II.
The State Convention of the Ma,
tional Greenback Labor party ofWest
Virginia will meet at Charleston on
May 18th. They are expected to
nominate three Republicans for office,
viz: Governor, AttorneysG General and
Judge Of the Supreme Court of APP.
peals. This much they are to do for
the votes the Republican party can
give them in this State, and in ad.
dition they are TO give the elector.
al vote of the State to the Republi.
can candidate for President. They
in turn get the Auditor, Treasurer,
and Superintendent of Schools.
Amt that selling out the party at q
very low price2 The Democrats will
have something to say in the cleo.
ton, and they will see that the Dem.
ocrats get the electoral vote of West
Virginia, and will also elect their
Governor and the rest Of the State
officers. t9I ~ uHti&
Why is itthat agfew Republicans
and Greenbackers attempt to make
the adoption or rejection of the Con-
stitutional Amendment, a party is.
sue? Do they intend to defeat the
measure? Their parties are in a
minority, only three or four of their
papers give the measure any support
and if it could be made a party ques.
ton it would be defeated. Let these
Amendments stand or fall ON their
merits. Exchange.
Words fitly spoken. We do not
believe the. Amendments to the Con
stitution Of this State should bemade
u party question. 1t is a matter the
whole people are interested in, and
if party Conventions undertake to
make ita party question, it stands
q very good chance of being defeat,
ed.
The Democrats, at their State Con.
vention in New York last week,
acted the fool just as they have done
for the last year or two up there
They are continually fighting each
other. Tilden, of course, was victo,
rious, but his side can never carry
New York while they have to carry
Kelly and his boilers. Nothing can
be gained by keeping up this split
in the party in that great State, and
both the factions know full well that
neither one can carry New York
without the other, and while the
split continues the results will be as
it was last fall-the Republicans
will elect their ticket, and unless
they unite the electoral vote will
most likely be lost to the Democracy.
The Republican party in West
Virginia is bowling reform" This
same party had control of the vari-
Gus Departments of the Government,
and reformed" to the extent Of in.
creasing the expenses of the Govern
ment from sS0,000,000, under Demo-
cratic administration, 1856, 000,0 600.
They had control of affairs in this
State while, and spent the revenue
Of the taxpayers TO disfranchise the
voters of the State. They have had
control of the great State of Penn
sylyania for twenty years, and the
groansof the impoverished and burd.
ened Taxpayers of that State are
heard all over the country.-Fair.
mont lnder.
Now take that, Mr.. Gibbons, and
put it in your pipe and smoke it.
Col. Swami of Charleston says the
instructions ought to be for man
with ga6$ on; and IL Chicago editor
says: We must have u man nominat-
ed for the presidency, on the Repub-
lican ticket, who whether elected or
not will march to the White House
with 100000 soldiers at his back.
We'll this is sample Of Republican
loyalty.
Our representatives in Congress
did not make very good record,
Judged from newspaper mans
standpoint, on the question, freeing
paper from duty, yet forsooth they ex,