The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-10-01
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The New York lRcrli which has
been dealing valiant blows for she
gocdold cause, talksin the follow.
Ing hopeful way:
The signs Of the campaign are
cheering and full Of hope for the
Democracy III
l1When General Hancock Vas
nominated four years ago, the har.
nopy ofthe party seemed a sure
bat6inger Of success. The most
promising period Of the campaign
was,atii sroponiDe The chances
Of success decreased as The end
dFewnear.
This year clouds more or less
threatening gathered Immediately
after the Democratic Convention,
and seemed to increase in density
during The first weeks Of the cam.
paign. But the light Of honesty,
reason, andtruth struggled through
them at last, and .npathey are rap.
idly disappearing.
Day by day the excellent ticke!
selected at Chicago is growing
stronger and stronger with the
people, and he must be wilfully
blind.and blindly wilfal who docs
not see and admitthe fact.
During eleven weeks Of ''aggrcs.
sion" the enemies of Governor
Cleveland have been unable tofnd
asingle public act he has done, a
single word he has written or spok.
en-, upon which to found a truthful
charge against his public virtue,
his integrity. honesty, or capacity.
The gross and lying personal.
SANDER they invented against him
has proved so ineffective that they
are even now trying to supplement
| 1T by equally vile and malignant
falsehoods.
In their desperation The Repnb.
licans seek to drag the tariff into
the fight. They strive TO persuade
the people that a party which has
in Congress and in its Conventions
defeated and .rebakcd extreme tariff
agitatots is in favor of tariff revo
LUTON; that q party which has
pledged itself in its platform to
secure real revenue reform, to dc,
crease the burden of taxation, and
to protect American labor from
foreign competition, as it has
already in this State, mainly
through Governor Cleveland's Of.
forts, protected it against prison
contract competition, istho cham.
pion Of free trade.
Thus personal ISLANDERS and
fragrant falsehoods are the only
weapons left to the aggressive
Blaine Republican party,
II is just to say that treachorous
newspapers protesting Democratic
principles have aided the islanders,
and free.trade freebooters claiming
TO be Democrats have helped the
falsehoods.
Fortunately neither treason nor
stupidity in tho Democratic ranks
has prevented the marked and
steadily growing improvement in
the Democratic prospects which no
candid and sensible person can
gaiusay.
Time alone was needed to satisfy
the people that there is but one is;
sue in tho present struggle Of i'm
por.ance to the nations welfare
and happiness-the issue of clean
government against corrupt gov.
ernment-the preservation of the
republicl All minor questions are
subordinate To this, and the rapid
aud marked improvement of the
Democratic prospects is simply the
effect Of the good sense and sound
judgmentof the people.
Turn therascaB ouH
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So far as the Democratic party
has been in power in this county.
(Which has been good many years.
a good account Of their manage.
.mont Of affairs have been rendered.
We believe it will be conceded by
every man who will speak his hon.
est convictions, that Mason county
now has as good a Sheriff as it ever
had, in the person of anyone. we
allude to Mr.. A. A. Hanly, the
present incumbent. He has dis.
charged his duties satisfactory to
every one, except a few tricksters
and broken down politicians like
John a. Gibbons, who, ever since
he has been in the county has been
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