The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-09-02
State and Federal.

5Utte anu FeUeFuL
ut is, therefore, sorely pulling
To the people Of West Virginia that
the voice Of the out going State
Administration and Of the incom.
ing State Administration and Of
the Presidential electors, and Of the
other leaders Of the party, seems
not to have weighed one feather
IL the balance against the concln.
siuus Of the Congressional jnntn."
This paragraph occurs in the
midst Of a long and carefully writ.
ten editorial 10 the Greenbnier In
DEPENDENT
Thisleads US to remark that there
seems to boquile IN effort upon the
part Of the above named paper,
lojoin hands with tho Iyc,t Virginia
Democrat TO array the State AID.
ministratiOn against the Federal
Representatives in this State.
Now, Gov. Wilson and the pres.
ent State Administration had no
warmer supporter both for romina.
ton and election, than the editor
of the REGISTER, therefore, we
claim the privilege Of joining in
with the Independent to examine
into this matter. In one instance,
we are informed, the applicant for
Federal appointment who was en-.
dorsed blythe outgoing and the in
coming State Administrations, did
not get the position. In one in
stance, we are informed, the appli.
cant for The chief appointment un.
der the State Administration, hay.
Ing the endorsement OF the ont 60,
ing and incoming Administrations
as fully as in the other instance,
did not receive the appointment.
We mean the former Secretary Of
Safe, Mr.. Randolph stalnaker, of
Lewisburg, u near neighbor of the
Independents.
We refer to this instance, not be
cause we object to the appointments
in any way, but purely as a matter
Of argument, and TO remind our
contemporary that when he places
himself upon a high and exalted
pinnacle Of political morality, and
others upon low and degrading
plane, be should be quite sure that
his exaltion is not merely the rise.
lag Of pique or prejudice.
One more instance. The man
who was the very head and front
Of the out going State Administra
tim, and the man who made the
present incoming Administration
possible, aud, who, il he did not
have the endorsementin bl0ck and
white of the old and new State AID
miuistrations, had tin person and
in fellowship; this man through
the efnrts of our Congressman, has
been given one Of the Leading posi-
Lions of the land, We mean the
Hon. Joseph S. Miller.
Now, not objecting at all, but on.
ly for illustration, where is there u
man put in Office by the State AID.
ministration, who was not a sup
porter Of its claims prior to the
convention2 We fear that our
blind Justice Of the Independent
while he holds the scales is peeping
with one eye only,
1t has not been many years since
Greenbrier and Monroe counties
we're highly and bountirully honor.
ed both in State and Federal places.
Tntee United States Senators, Con.
gresham, Governor Attorney.Gen.
eral andtwoJndges of the Supreme
Court Of Appeals, n Secretary Of
State, Presidential EIeC'or and a
Delegate to the National Conven.
ton, were but recently, or are now,
their honored citizens,
Let us hope that there is no rest.
i've feeling in this distinguished
region, that joined to u worse Gle
men, in other quarters, sailing un.
der 0h ostenSible banner of purity
in Office, would publicly dcnounce
and hound good Democrats aud of.
fcials, while they whisper in eOch
others ears, zone Of our crowd
could fill his place"
We want to say to the Hunting
ton Adur!iicr that we loaded up
md Grad al Envnrror W,Iuor ,or-