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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21
Hon. william e. Lively for Speaker.

WESTON, December 10.
TO TIE Ed:tOr QfHs Register:
SIR:-Tbe Legislature OF West Virginia
will sCoa convene, and ~ the time for the
assembling Of this boiy approaches the
interts, in tbs contest for the Speakership
OF the House grows gna'e:.
l have recently talsed To prominent cit
izsns from the counties OF Gilmsr, Cal
houn, Braxton, Nicholas and Webster
with q view 1T trying to ascertain for tue
resders CT the Reels ER who the Repre-
sentSiives from these couUtieJ Wohid likely
favor for Speaker of the next House
Of Repress natives, and tie reply has been
almo,t invarisbly: Lively, of your cOuu-
ty, sir"
One gentleman from Webster ssid ne
thought likely DJrr, Wshster's representa-
tiyes wOald be = candidate for the Speak
srship, but in the event he was not his
support would 60 10 Lively. These gentle
men claim that these counties give large
Democratic msiOrities aud thst this section
OF the Safe is entitled to recognition.
This $. ctiOn o; the State has never had the
Speskership, and now that these counties
have an sspirant for toe position in the
person Of the Hon. WIN. Z. Lively, 8 gea'
tleual qualified to fill the position with
credit t. himself and honor 10 that body,
it is Eotbiog o than justice that this
secti N Of The State should be recognized.
LEWIS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21
rRouaLE FOR HARRISON.

President HARRISON will have . road
harder than Jordan to travel in the seize
ton Of his cabinet. There's that psIpstual
nightmare, JAMES G. BLAINE, whose sp-
pointment will raise CAIN, and WHO will
raise more CAIN ifhe isn't appointed. And
there is the bitter fight between PLArT
and MILLER over the New York place in
the cabinet, has become 50 fierce that the
new President may be compelled to leave
that State entirely out Such q course
will be sure to draw upon his head the
wrath Of the boss of the Republican party
in the Empire State, and p~rscipitate q
quarrel Is bitter as that which disrupted
the party in New York in 1881. PLATr
has his heart SCI upon tho Treasury, and
is working with all his might and main to
get it. 1t is intimated that his friend
MORTON made this the principal business
of his visit to indianapolis, and that he
failed to draw forth anything in the shape
Of q pledge from HARRISON, who, it is
said, il ieclined to look with favor upon
WARNER MILLER's ~preteusiUns, bat IS de-
TERED by the fear Of the consequences OF
giving him o place in his cabinet. He
knows that MILLER has no political
strength, and that his appointment would
bs the sigusl for a wal that would hamper
his administration to m iUCIlculahle ex-
tent.
MI. HARRISON must know, from the un-
fortunate experience of GARFIELD, what IT
is to have the Republican party of New
York arraye1 sglinst a Republican admin
istration. The despotic power so long
welded by PLATT has reduced the party IN
that State to a condition Of abject serVi-
tude, and there would be very little oppo-
sition to whatever course of hostility the
boss" might adopt against HARRISON.
The Indianapolis correspondent of the BOs'
ton Herald expresses the opinion that Ne"
York will be left out of the cabinet, IS
HARRISON will ros venture to take MIL
LEI in the face of the opposition Of the
PLArr machine, and Re does not want to
offend MILLER by choosing his rival. The
dilemma is decidedly a very unpleasant
one.
Il is said that PLATT hes been so sure Of
the treasury portfolio all along that he has
been layirg out fat petitions for bis fiiendt
ia advance. The disappointment will
cause him to make it particularly warn
for the Tippecsnce President.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21

The Washington squeduCt tunnel adds
one more TO the long list of disgraceful
frauds planned and carried out by incOm-
petent Republican officials. Over q million
and O half dollars have bten spent, aud
now the entire work is thrown aside as
useless. The Investigation has developed
this much and there the investigation will
stop. There are too many big Republicans
Closetted in the engineering department,
whose heads are in danger, to push the
matter further.
The Senate Gets its foot upon it. PrSsi-
dent HARRIsON'S administration will keep
hands of, and the psople-Oh, well, the
people can dig up that ~aqueduct and sail II
for plst holes.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21

thing fiom dancing 10 the discussion ofthe
tariff, books at prices that enable any fam
lily to have a complete library for . few
dollarp, in short, anything and everything
that Santa Claus cen furnish from his
iIlimitable stock. Allis to be obtaintd In
whesIiug Oar citizens should not forget
that in point of enterprise and taste
Wheeling merchants are second to none.
Read our advertising columns and you
will be convinced of the fact. They pre-
sent an array of attractions that SHOULD
satisfy everybody.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21
For s.rrsant.st.arm. OF ,hs HOuss.

REEDYvILLE, W. VA December Ia.
To the Editor Of ne REGISTER:
SIR:-As the time is approaching for
the organization of the Legislature, l feel
constrained to mention through the col
umrs OF your pspsr that We have in our
county q candidate for Ssrgeant-st-Arms ct
the House, in the person of W. Blown
Gibbs Esq. Mr.. Gibbs is a man em'nently
qualified for the position AID would be an
addition 10 the HOuseO of which every mem
Der should feel proud, especially the Dam
orcats, fer he is answering in the faith l
truly hope the House may give his claims
favorable consideration, rs lie is worthy
and we'll qualified and will reflect credit
upon his party. CIVIs'
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21

ONE of the most negotiable features Of
the Democratic defeat IS the fact that it
includes the retirement of Secretary WHIT
NEY from the head of the rayy department.
In a few years more WHITNEY would give
Uncle Sam q magnificent steel rayy. In
four short years be has dOae more than sill
Of his Republican predecessors together.
In fact Mr.. WHITNEY found wore than
no navy at all AID he lsavesthe foundation
for one of the finest nsyieJ in the world.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21
The Unexplained Mystery In the VOte fol
Gen. Con.

N.IO DCmtRtoH.
There are some things about the election
in West Virginia which are conceded by
both parties. ,
There are other things which ere not
conceded by either party.
Some OF the thiGgs conceded, although q
surprise, admit Of explsnAtion.
Some Of the things not conceded might
be explained.
Bnt there is enc thing of which no Re.
publican has yet attempted an explsna-
tiou.
For example, among the things conceded
by 10th parties are thsse:
/. That West Virginia is Democratic.
.. That the Cleveland Electors received
about 1000 more votes than the Harrison
Electors
3 That sill the State officers on the
Democratic ticket below the Governor are
e,sc'e1 by p majority Of the votes.
4 That if Jutg9 A. B Fleming is not
also elected, it il not because he ran be
hind the balance Of his ticket; or because
he Was personally unpopular; or because
he did net stand as high in the estimation
# the people 40 General Getf; but be-
Cause, snd only because, Gen. Golf got
more yot g than any other Republican,
ard more than thsre were Republican
votes cast.
5. Ii il further conceded that no Demo
crat would voluntarily ard without some
udCue iGhusnce VOC fer Gen. Golf IN
preference to Judge Fiemiug, bat that If
Ger. Golf is elected it must be By tie aid
Of Democratic votes.
These are some of the tbirgS conceded
by beth parties.
Now, the one thing which TO Rspubli-
caa has yet attempted to explain is how,
uude; the foregoing conditions, Gen. Golf
can claim TO have been honestly elected
Governor Of Wtst Virginia, if he is elected
mt all.
1t would make very interestin' readin'
TO have some Republican attempt an ex-
plaustiou Of the situation ~ now occupied
by Gen. Golf
Suppose that the siiustiOn wss reversed,
nnd tnst Judge Fleming we're claiming to
be elected, although his Presidential ticket
wers detected, and all the balance OF his
State ticket were defeated, and that he
had got more votes than there were Dsm'
Oc:siic voters in the SSsta. Would not
the R.puhlican throat in West Virginia
split itself wide open with the cry OF
fraud?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21
The Right Man for the Risht Place.
Pnrksr6urg SeRkthk.

Governor Wilson is the object of very
great solieitude just now. aud the Repub'
licsns are saying exceedingly kind things
about him. He deserves all they say, but
they don't mean il. Nor con they tsffy
him into doing anything Tot right. he
will do just tbs right thing at the light
time. He is the right mau in the right
place for the present emergency.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21

The LRteHigeReer has made a gors eOus
AIS of ,tself with it, sensation about Cover
nor WILSON drdeIing the troops 10 Re in
readiness. No reliable newspaper or sem
sibls journalist would have given the
wildly absurd story publicity even as 5
rumOr.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21
A Game without Limit

II appears that Indiana ''foaters" were
marched up to the polls in some districts
in r'bloeks of twenty-five" to vote the Re-
pubIicsn ticket Evidently Colonel Dud-
Ieg's instructions did not limit the NUMBER
to five.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21

One difficulty with that Senate tariff bill
is that It profess,s to reduce, but is careful
not to do it.
We hsys always believed that the best
way to make gen turtle soup is 10 put
some green turtle in il.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21

The Wheeling City Council and the
KauSwhs CCuuty Court should join forces
and enter a dine museum rs the grestsst'
OF Lightning political csIculstors.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21

FLORIDA, ny not ke.pi5g herself clean
and thus avoiding Yellow Jack has
spoiled her chances IS q Hiu.er resort
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21
No hing bat DIsapproval.
RouadspRs sun.

The Iateuigeneer wants to change the
name Of the State to Kanawha. So far we
have teari nothing but disSpproval Of the
propo,ei charge.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21
A Boost for Msnsger.
Poiai Peasant Rfg'Ser.

It it should turn out that Golf is elected
Governor (which we don't believe will be
the case then, Mr.. Golf should appoint
Hon. James B. Mensger, Of this county,
his Secretary of State. No man con
tributed more to COTS nomination than
did Mr.. MeDsger, and he was a hard and
and successful worker in the late cam
paign, IS we'll.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21

No Christmas Table should be without q
bottle OF AnSOsIura BItters, the world re-
nowned appetizer Of exquisite, favor. Beware
OF counterfeits
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-21

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and address Of the writer must accompany every
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guaranty Of good faith.
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The Osceola times., 1888-12-15
A MISTAKEN IOGA.
A Common Error Concerning the Tres
Significance of Woman's Rights.

A Common Error Concerning the Tres
Significance of Woman's Rights.
"Why, IL this woman's rights?" said
a friend at the close Of the large woman
suffrage festival recently held in Bos-
ton; 81 thought woman's rights was
Just voting; but these women talk about
education and home life dnd relief work,
and If this is it, believe in IT," II is
TO be hoped that the little lady's
thoughts were more lucid than her
words. else the meeting could have
done her small good. But the idea she
seemed trying TO express is, unfortu-
hately, common. 1t is popular to
laugh at woman's rights and "woman's S
rights women, as the champions OF
the movement are called, and to pass
over the subject with snecr There
is, however, hardly greater mistake
than to consider wotnans rights as
dug. voting" To be sure, the leaders
of the cause believe in universal SUI
frage, and are doing all they can to Sc
cure the franchise for women; but this
| Is by no means the whole OF their work
| The women who are identified with the
movement are women who have given
their time and strength to the purifca-
ton OF the home, ennoblement OF the
women and the preservation Of abe Ma
ton.
II seems almost Incredible that any
young woman can join in the popular
derision OF "strong- minded women" !"
However strongly Il girl may disap-
prove OF the proposed suffrage. and
however much she may dislike the
present form Of the woman's rights
cause, her sense Of gratitude should
move her to pay all respect and honor
to the women who are at the head OF
| the work. Whatever educational priv
ileges, whatever social freedom, yes,
whatever religious liberty, we younger
women enjoy, beyond that possessed by
Our mothers and grandmothers. is al
most entirely due to the labors OF wo-
men who were ridiculed and despised
for the work they did. They
| have made possible Smith and Vassar
Colleges, Boston and Cornell Universi-
ties; they have prepared the way for
such women as Frances Willard and
Alice Freeman Palmer; they have given
to the young women that part of our
American civilization which we prize
most dearly, our high position as wo-
men. Golden Rule.
The Osceola times., 1888-12-15
An Important Discovery

At the annual meeting OF the Nation.
al Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, lately held in New York City,
the president Miss Frances +. Willard,
said
There have been many marvellous
discoveries in this much laudtd nine
teenth century, but chief among ten
is woman's discovery of herself IT,
come to consciousness IL everinore TO
come to power Christ said: "l am
come that ye might have life, and that
ye might have it more abundantly."
Consciousness, deepened, varied and
extended. is doubtless all there is Of
life in any world When women come
TO consciousness, they must inevitably
ask questions like these: Why should
we have no voice in making the laws
under which we may be imprisoned or
executed? Why should women have
no hand in pleading woman's cause or
determining her penalties9 Why should
men, and men alone, have the power OF
life and death over women, and in all
cases OF indecorous, cruel or outrageous
conduct toward us? Why should men.
and men only, fix the penalties of their
own crimes against the other half Of
the human race, and appoint themselves
legislature, judge, jury and executive
in every case like this' Who has so
great stake in the government as the
nations motherhood? Yet every law
and penalty on every statute-boo% OF
this and every land was placed there by
men, and by men only.
There is no reason and no justice in
all this, and there can never be. Good
men know it right well, and they are
trying to briug us into the Govern
ment, that we may be tried by our
PEERS
The Osceola times., 1888-12-15
CONDENSED TECEGRAMS,

SELio Bros. Il Co., clothing menufac.
tursrs ~ Atlanta, Ca, made an assign
ment ON the 18th. Liabilities 10000, as
sets $4,000.
THE supreme court Of Alabama has de-
cided that the Governor may annul con-
vict leases on proof that the lessees are
practicing cruelies
Tut contract FOR the erection and com.
pletion OF the new public building at Chat.
tanooga, Tenn, has been awarded 10 Kelly
Bros, Of Now Orleans, at Sl99. 777J.
cE-PRysIDEST-ELEcr MORTON, accom-
panied by his wife, left New York on the
II h for indianapolis, where Mr.. Morton Is
to confer with President elect Harrison.
THE proprietv Of imposins al sluca.
tional test for voters, more particularly TO
he applied to the South, has formed the
subject Of good deal of discussion among
members Of the United States Senate.
Hill, FoSrAlSE & Co., Of Memphis,
place the cotton crop OF the present year
at 6,7l6,0 600 bales. This is 100000 less than
the popular estimate.
THERE are ffty-thres persons In the
Kansas State penitenti iary under sentence
OF death for murder.
TIE bill granting pension OF $500 per
year 10 Irene Rucker sheridan, widow of
the late Gen. Sheridan, has been iavorably
reported 20 The House.
+. H. A. DAyroRrB, e prominent farmer
residing near Lafayette, Ala, was found
dead and buried in a swamp on tie 10Th
negro named Yves Cheroln, who was
living with him, is accused of the murder
The bagging trust, about which so much
has been written, will go out OF business
with the close Of the current month.
ONE firm in Fayetteville, Tenn. has
handlad $4,000 worth Of turkeys, chickens,
eggs and butter in the last twelve months.
TuE committee having charge of the ar
rangements for the inaugural ball have de-
cided to fix the price Of tickets Tor adnis-
sion at 50 each.
THOMAS AxwonrnY, defaultiug CITY
Treasurer Of Cleveland, Ohio, who is now
IN London, has made a proposition to re-
turn 100000 to the city and 10 two years
to repay his bondsmen II prosecution is
dropped and he is permitted TO return 10
America.
The Board OF Aldermen Of Canton, Miss.
on The 9th appropriated $1,000 more for the
completion OF the artesian well. A deptb
oil nearly 200 feet has been reached. and
'he contractors say they expect a bold
stream OF water with 100 feet more.
IhE young physician, DE-. n. X. Gcetter.
who accompanied Robert Garrett ON a.
uip lie made around the world before hi.
mental troubles assumed so serious a farm.
has catered suit ioE ;So,ooo for profess luaai
services rendered, W.
The Osceola times., 1888-12-15

would fain transfer my sympathy "a
the meek Mongolian; but his status i,
less forlorn than that OF women, for.
across the Pacific, he has a countrv
that he can call his own, but we women
have none. l have no prejudice against
men for the mere accident OF birth in .
foreign land; but the influence of .hs
environment TO which they were there
subject units them for the immediate
Just discharge OF the high duties of cit.
izenship here, and they should remain
as many years here before assuming
those duties ~ are required of our ua-
tive-born men. In several Of these
States, by the unremitted but weary
work OF nearly half century, we have
succeeded in educating our sons and
brothers into the principles Of the Dec
laration of Independence, and they
have been ready to give us practical
illustration OF government OF and by
the people. when each year horde of
men, with the tyranny from which
they have just fled, ingrained in their
nature, use their newly-conferred bal.
lots TO bar the way of native women 10
freedom.
Must we wait till we can educate tho
semi-barbarous tribes OF all the earth
up to the principle o. equal rights be-
fore we are allowed the precious boon
Of citizenship in our native iand' The
outlook is disheartening.-4Emiig r
Collins, in Womans Journal.
The Osceola times., 1888-12-15
Women as Iron-Workers.

The fact is not generally known that
women are already occupying places
and doing work in iron mills and in
manufactures OF wire. Three years
ago the men in Pittsburgh bolt manu-
factory gave so much trouble that they
we're displaced by women. The ven
ture proved to be marked success. so
that the employers could not be induc-
ed 70 go back to men and boys. The
wire mill, which was established about
that time, took up with the idea, and
agaiu every thing worked satisfactor-
lily. Then hinge factory was opened
TO them, and once more the women
proved better workers, more reliable
and less troublesome than their male
rivals. How far the innovation will go
can not be estimated.
The Osceola times., 1888-12-15
WOMAN'S INFERiORiTY.
Elect'on-Day Reflections on the Foriorn
Condition OF American Women.


fabricated with campaign soap
the naturalization mills in all our large
cities have this fall been running with
unwonted activity, which augurs naught
OF good the cause OF woman suffrage.
The Hartford mill has turned out
about 1900 full-hedged new citizens, to
be the sovereigns of our native women.
The Scandinavian peasants, the late
serfs of Russia and Poland, and the sto-
lid Hungarians, with the lazzaroni OF
Italy, men with no knowledge OF our
institutions save the police court, the
saloon, the Jail, and the almshouse-
men too ignorant to know the differ
ence between a republic and mon
arch, but all imbued with the idea OF
woman's inferiority and their own mas
tership-these men are invested with
all the rights OF citizenship, including
the ballot, priced by them for its mar
ketable value only. These men are
made the rulers of women like Julia
Ward Howe and Mary A. Livermore.
These men help determine the proper.
ty rights of women, fix our legal domes-
tic relations, decide how much money
we must pay TO maintain them in the
almshouscs and say how much right We
are to have to our own children. and
how, when and by whom they shall be
educated; while we, the mothers Of
Connecticut. at least, have no voice II
any OF these matters. Thus al
these ignorant hordes OF men,
from every cline, have the right:
OF citizenship, and consequen,
domination over the women o
this country, almost as soon as they
touch our shores; all save poor HoI
Yee Ching. the most harmless of then
all; he is not allowed to become Q
"Melican man. he alone. of all male
human kind, is placed on the same de
graded political plane with the daugh
tors OF John Adams and James Otis.
Once. felt a sympathy, born o.
like disabilities imposed upon US, fol
the colored man; but since he has beer
elevated to sovereignty over me and my
sex, and ] am 20 longer bis peer,
The Osceola times., 1888-12-15
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
MY BROTHER.

Yon ensign streameth calamity;
why are its folds 40 dear TO thee,
Ny brotherf
Because that flag proclaims thee free,
What mean the stars and stripes TO Ms
My brothcri
Strive not to satisfy my soul
With less of justice than the whole,
My brother
God makeih woman's eyes TO see;
And 10, her tears fall bitterly,
Ny brother!
she ioveth thee with mighty love;
Shall she not set the night above,
Ny brother
Dost thou, then, cherish Antony
As one like whom thou fain would'sto be,
My Drothery
Nay. womaD's heart must SVEN ncath wrong
And woman's hands grow firm and strong.
My brother:
God driveth love OF freedom high
Like white-capped waves to meet the sky,
My brothcrl
He calleth woman TO be free
Fen as His voice hath once called thee,
My brother
The heavens call the raging main,
the lashing wind is in It's train,
My brother,
Oh, loose the hand that clenched. doth hold
My own from mel In what strange mold,
NY brother
Is molten heart OF women poured.
Her wrong may pierce thee like sword,
My brother!
This is Gods wrath foretold; and yet
The prophecy doth seem a threat,
My brother;
See ! woman pleadeth as OF yore;
VIII strong faith cometh TO implore,
My brother!
Yon ensign streameth Ger the plains;
The leal blood leapeth Ia thy veins,
My brother!
Joy bursteth from thy heart! Thou'rt freei
Oh, lift me up to thee, to thee,
Ny brother!
So shall thy God be gIad-reioice
t,,Aou wilt make the right m choice,
Sy brother,
And over all the land and sea
Our flag shall float, how gioriousiy,
My brother!
Mrs ..irsis StcjJias Sdrags, in WomdHS Jour
nal