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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-07-13
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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
Slafe ORGANIZATION.

The State Convention of Demo
cratic Clubs, met in the city of
Wheeling, August 29th. 1t was a
huge affair, and about every county
in the State was represented. The
formation of this organization will
be of great value to the Democracy
and cannot fail of good results. The
organization will be known as the
State Association of Democratic
Clubs of West Virginia. Tho folt
lowing officers were elected: Hon.
w C. Handlan, of Ohio county,
President Hon. B. II. ozley, OF
Lincoln county, yice=President; A.
g. Hadlich, of Ohio county, Secre-
rary; and Hon. w. N. Chancellor
of Wood county, Treasurer. One
Vice President from each county,
was also chosen, and one member
of the Executive Committee from
zach Senatorial District. Col. ]. P.
X. B. Smith, Is the Vice-President
for Mason county, and Geo. w, Tip
petit, WAS made member of the Elk
ecutive Committee, for this Senate
rial District.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
How Protection is Protecting
Labor.

The Baltimore Herald. an indie
pendent Republican paper, says that
ssGrand Master Workman Powderly
Mas stated under oath, before the
Ford Congressional Committee, that
Itaere are upward of 600, 900 people
out of work within the confines of
the United States, and it is doubt
less safe to accept his figures as be-
ing correct. It Is well known that
the organization of the Knights of
Labor has devoted much attention
to the problem of unemployed labor.
and reports are monthly transmitted
to general offices in Philadelphia
which embody carefully collected
local statistics from every part of
The country. Therefore, Mr.. Pow
derlys statement may be regarded
as being conservative and accurate -
This shows the results of pro-
lection that does not protect. By
the organization of trusts and by
taxing raw materials the maniac
turing of the country is limited in
amount, and men, women and chill
dren are left large portion of their
time without employment. These
idle Persons, Enight turn their atten-
non TO agricultural pursuits were it
not for the fact that that industry
is handicapped with the same ex-
cessiye tariff tax.
Tie same paper further says cit
is positively startling to learn that
nearIy one tenth of the male popula-
tion noH IN. the country is out of
work. and naturally forced to prey
upon others, either for subsistence
or work for lower wages Just at
present 4 great agitation is going on
Ia regard to the financial admins
tration of the country, and Enaay eff
forts are being made to fasten upon
a-great Political puzzel the respon-
sibility for tire state of affairs with
which unemployed labor has NEST
10 do.
1t is logical to infer that at least
one million of people will find it
difficult to conceive how they are
benefited by a high tariff that
leaves them without labor. even at
low tariff wages. And in this con-
,leetion will some workingmen tell
US how much higher the wages of
Iaboring men in this country now
are than they were under the afree
trade" tariff from 1917 to 1860?
Arc they not as low or lower2
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
More Questions.


The free whiskey organs, says the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, have been
invited several times to explain
these things, but they don't re-
spond:
Why Republicans in 1872 favored
putting salt and lumber on the free
Iist2
Why they have changed their
minds?
Why in 1884 the Republicans ia
'yored reducing tariff taxes2
Why they have changed their
minds?
Why the Republicans placed hides
on the free list in 1922
Why the tanning industry was
not ruined thereby?
Why no pauper made leather or
shoes of Europe ever came over2
Why the leather industry prosper
ed, more than ever before?
Why more workmen were en-
plOyed2
Why they got better wages2
Why, in short, the Republican
tariff theory didn't work?
Why the price of wool has stead
lily declined under a protective
tariff
Why the reduction of the duty
on wool in, 1888 was followed by an
advance in price instead ola decline?
Why the lowest point in the price
of wool was reached under the high
est tariff
Why wages have declined under
a protective tariff?
Why strikes and large bitter con
flicts between employees and en-
pIoyers have been comomn under
a protective TARIFF
Why the workingmen of this
country have lost more by tenfold
in strikes and .lockouts caused by at
rempts to reduce their wages under
a protective tariff than they could
have got out of the tariff tax il
they had received every cent of it?
Why the cost of living has in
creased under protective tariff
Why anarchy and socialism have
developed under protective tariff?
Why trusts have grown up under
a protective tariff?
These are onlya few of the many
points that the people would like to
have the advocates of high tariff
blessedness explain. 1t may not be
as easy as to howl about rebois- and
rave over the bloody shirt and cry
out that Great Britain is upon us,
but it would be vastly more sesible.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

Capt Chas B. smith.a very clevs
er and agreeable gentleman, well
known throughout the District, is
the Republican nominee for Con-
gress in the Fonrth District. Being
popular with his own party, no
doubt he will command and poll his
fully party vote, and his nomination
lis the strongest and best his party
could have made; and besidcs,S he
had claims upon his party. Capt.
Smith has qualifications that emi-
ncntly fit him to represent his party
in Congress, for he is as extreme in
his notions, as any Republican can
be. lie is a bitter partisan, and
would never antagonize his party
leaders on any question. He stands
on a platform that advocates in ev-
every plank principles and meas
nres that are directly opposed to the
interests and welfare of our people.
A high protective system, the con
tinuance of which, will sooner or
later, bring ruin upon the country.
A system no longer necessary, no
longer reasonable or just.
While admitting that he is lpopu-
lar, gentleman of integrity and
high character. And while we do
not intend to say a word against
him personally, yet we shall oppose
bis election by all honorable means
at our command. We have no fears
of his election, for we do not believe
our people are yet ready to send a
Republican to Congress from the
Fourth District.
In Judge jackson the Democrats
have a candidate, who is worthy
thy their most loyal support Ho
stands upon a platform framed from
the cxigeneies of the times, from
the wants and requirements of that
great body of people that form the
bone and sinew of the land.
He is in full accord with the Adj
ministration on all the great quest
ions of the day.
A Democratic President will con-
troll the dcstinies of this country for
the next four years. 1t is import
ant, therefore, that our Congress
man shall be in full sympathy and
accord with the Administration, as
our Representatives have been here
tofore, This can only be done by
the election of the Democratic nom.
inee, Judge J. n. Jackson, of Park
ersburg, whose competency and fit
ness for this high position is not
questioned even by those who op.
pose him politically.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
The RepublIeans, Banquo,s

e
The Republicans Banqu0's
Ghost.
Wheeling Register.
The Republican party in West
Virginia has an alI-consuming de-
sire to bury it's sectional record. to
smother the abloody shirt with
taffy and shrieks about the horrors
of "free trade" In 1884 they were
bowling "tratior" and arebel'' at
everything south of Mason and
Dixon's line; their only argument
was the @bIoody shirt, and they
waved it until, as y gentleman char
acterized it, there was nothing left
of it but a bntton-hole.
Do they think the people of West
Virginia have forgotten this2 Do
they think that West Virginians
are TO be fooled into forgetting the
records ftheir most prominent can
didates, records that arc connected
with the most infamous era of Re-
publican domination in this State?
IF they do they very seriously de-
ceive themselves. 1t is spectre
that will not down, Banquo's
ghost, that they have made of their
own accord, that will haunt them,
and confound them at. every turn.
They cannot avoid the .tRegistra-
tom ghost, or the sTest-oath out
RACES spectre. They were willing
and anxious enough to keep these
old dead issues before the people so
long as they imagined there was a
war prejudice to influence, but now
that they have suddenly ceased to
be scare-crow to the North and,
on the contrary have become an
Old Man of the Sea on tho back of
the Republican Sinbad, the Repub-
lican party wishes 10 bury them and
stamp them into the ground out of
sight. But this old infamy will not
down. 1t is child of Republican
parentage that that party cannot
disown. 1t is folly to ask the peo-
pie of West Virginia to forget that
Nathan Golf, Jr., on the 18th day of
February, 1867, voted for the regis
tration act characterized, in this
State, as the sssum of all villanies. -
They cannot forget that Gen. Golf
voted for other outrages upon the
rights of the people whom he is now
asking for votes, and whose right to
vote at all would be denied if Golf
and his party had had the power to
continue the prescription for which
he voted in 1867.
These stains have been Haunted
in our faces too recently for us to
forget them. And tho Republican
party is not old enough for West
Virginians to forget its record in
this State, or its infamous treatment
.ef our citizens in their darkest hour.
The memories have been painted in
too vivid colors, too recently, by
Republican orators for our people
to forget them, or to trust the Re-
publican party with the reigns of
government, yet.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
A Campaign of Wholesale
bribery.

The Republican scheme of getting
votes is simply one of wholesale
bribery. 1t says to tho voter:
Have you carried a musket, blown
a fife or had even the slightest con
noction with the military service?
Vote for us and we will give you a
pension.
Would you IKE to go into the
shipping business? Vote for us and
well give you subsidy.
Arc you a manufactures? Sus-
tain us in taxing everybody for
your benefit.
Are you a laborer? We exist for
the purpose of taxing you into a
prosperous condition. Without us
you starvo.
Is your town ambitious? We
never veto acts for public buildings.
Would you run a railroad? Well
give you land grant.
Do you belong to any of the rob
Der Trusts? We propose to defend
them ase private business concerns
with which nobody has any right
to NEEDLE.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
What il Means and Does Not
Mean.
New Dominion.

New Dominion.
The nomination of Gen. Golf by
the Republican Convention, was
not prompted by any considerations
looking to the interests of the State.
1t does not mean that Gen. Golf
is in any large measure identified,
either personally or politically, with
the material interests of the State.
1t does not mean that he has
been in any prominent degree as
sociated either in the present or the
past with the progress and develop
ment of West Virginia.
It does not mean that he has dis
tinguished himself by an enterpris-
ing and progressive spirit such as
the Executive of a State should pos
sess.
On the contrary, Gen. Golf, al
though possessed of large wealth.
has never manifested that Iiberality
toward public enterprise which
other distinguished citizens have
done. Nobody can point to any
measure he has proposed, or any
contribution either of money or in
tiuence, he has made for the advanc-
ment of the State; and nobody sup
poses that he has accepted the nom,
ination for Governor for any other
than party and personal considera-
tiOns.
What then, does the nomination
of Gen. Gotf, mean?
1t means Doodle!
1t means that he is not only ex-
Pected to contribute largely from hi:
own plethoric purse, but that he is
to enlist the aid and command the
Doodle of she whole Republican or
ganization outside the State to 6ut
West Firginia for his party.
That is exactly what it means.
Gen. Golf nomination mean,
Doodle.
That is the b8ttom fact.
But it won't win.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
Republican Congressional
Convention.

The Republican Congressional
Convention for the Fourth District,
met in this e5ty, August 2sth.
A. R. Campbell, was chosen as
Chairman; and a. B. White, Secre-
tary.
There was but few present and
but little enthusiasm manifested.
The usual stereotypcd resolutions
were adopted.
Capt. Chas, B, Smith, of Parkers-
burg, was nominated for Congress,
by reclamation. He is very clev-
er gentleman, and we are sorry to
see him offering himself as a sacri-
fee to his party, for there is not ev-
Ell fighting chance for his election.
Jas. L. Caldwell, of Huntington,
was chosen as Presidential Elector
over John A. Gibbons, of this county.
There was a time when Boss Glib
bons could dictate nominations, but
oflate his power and influence seems
to have departed from him. His
defeat in the late Republican coun-
ty convention for Prosecuting At
torney, by a man like Pilchard, eff
fectually shelved him, politically.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05


President Cleveland in three wears
approved 1864 pension bills, only
200 less than the number signed by
Grant, Hays and Arthur during
twelve years.-N. Y. Star
And yet our Republican friends
are trying to cram it down the
threats of thesoldier that Mr.. Cleve-
land is not the friend of the soldier.
Is it at all remarkable that in SO
great number of bills few she,rld
be vetoed as undeserving or illegal.
1t must be borne in mind that these
1864 biiis.are for-the relief of persons
who do not become entitled to pen
sions in theyregular way by appfica-
ton to the department.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

During several past campaigns
the Democracy have met and over
come the enemy with disorganized
forces and many stragglers from the
ranks. This campaign will be
fought with the entire strength of
the party. The reserves will be
placed in the line of battle, and one
volley from that invincible line will
completely annihilate the enemy,
The Republican chance of carrying
West Virginia this fall is indeed
slight and grows beautifully less as
the leaves begin to turn.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

A RaiIrOOd Clerk Wakes UD
and Finds He Has Drawn
$4,000 ia the Louisiana
State Lottery.
Mr.. Frank Lawrence Dant held
one-twentieth of ticket No. 1894
which drew the first capital prize of
100000 IN The Louisiana State
lottery on the 18th inst. The s15,-
600 was collected through the Citi-
zen's National Bank of Louisville.
Mr.. Dant is rather prePossessing in
personal appearance, nearly SIX feet
high and weighs $50 pounds. He
is an Intelligent and atfable gentle
man, only twenty-five years old and
unmarried. He was educated at
st. Mary's College, and learned
book -keeping at the Southern Bu-
siness College, Louisville. For three
years he kept books for his father
Mr.. j. w. Dant, proprietor of large
distilIery of an old brand of pure
Kentucky whisky at Dant's station,
fourteen miles from Lebanon, Ma
rion county Ky.
One year ago he accepted the po-
sition of time-kceper for the Knox
vile division of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, and clerk of as
sistant master of trains at salary
of $50 per month, and is stationed
at the railroad, one mile from Stan
ford, Ky. His good fortune has
not turned his head, for he intends
to hold his place, hoping by close
application to business he will be
promoted.
For two years he persisted in
purchasing tickets in The Louisiana
State Lottery. Four months since
he organized club, of which he
was chef. and continued to buy
tickets. Last month he drew SIS,
and on the 7th come the big prize.
He has paid out whss was due the
club, and will invest his portion in
some safe speculation, and contiauei
to work and court tickle fortune as
heretoforc!-H drrodsburg (Ky. Say
ings and DoingS, August %.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

1t is very evident that the Repub-
lican presidential candidate and his
campaign managers do not agree,
and that the difference is of that
serious nature that would render
success extremely improbable, even
in case where nominee has a
fair chance of being elected. When
a candidate of an unpopular cause
persists in making defensive and
compromising explanations every
day, causing consternatfon among
his supporters and wonderment to
the public, it is extremely safe to
conclude that his cause is-a very
desperate one.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

The recently published "secret
circular" disclosed the Republican
plan of extorting money from man
ttfacturers by threats of turning
against them. In addition. to this
plan of putting them under the
fire and frying the fat out of. them, y
the Republican leaders have eneour-
aged the monopolist to form a con-
spiraey. of their own to- control the
Congressional elections. The trusts
and syndicates of this conspiracy
call themselves "The American Pro
tsetive Tariff League" The an
nual dues are 500, and. with 1000
subscribers. the conspiracy has a
fixedincome of 500, 600 a year and
a fixed organization of millionaires
from whom ten times that amout
can be drawn when needed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

Senator Hdmunds once said that
whenever he and Thurman made
an assault upon monopolies Blaine
started up, gun in hand, behind
Jay Gould's breast works, eager to
defend. What does the Vermont
Senator think of Mr.. Blaine now.
since his valiant defense of trusts2
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

High protection newspapers ar
que that the prices of the articles
protected by the tariff arc no higher
than they would be should the tariff
be reduced or removed. OF what
good then. is. the tariff IF it does
not enable manufacturers to get
better prices for their goods why
not reduce,it to revenue basis2
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

The Boston Post says: aWhen a
Pittsburg (Pa.) paper announces as
an item of news the fact that large
coal mining firm has agreed to per-
nit its laborers to purchase goods
from any store they please, it fur
nishes strange commentary upon
the system of protected" slavery
that exists in what has been rightly.
called the. "mosb- highly protected
state in the Union"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

The monopolies have entered the
campaign, to do their worst, and
there is need, therefore, that every
Democrat should dohis best. There
can be no marches stolen this time.
If the tariff reformers of this Con-
gress can be defeated in an open
fight by the money and Influence of
the Trusts, the issue is decided and
the policy of war taxation will be
continued. But it cannot be done.
The Trust. conspirators will be
watched SO closely that they will not
be able to steal where they are not
strong enough to rob.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

We want to say, to the Democrat
&c Executive Committee, and al
sothe Democratic county nominees,
that.they must put more vim and
energy<into the county canvass, or
We may stand "a chance of getting
left in November. The chances are
good for Democratic success in this
county, and thorough. organization,
energetic work, viii give us the
county by decent majorities, for the
whole tiaket. Isnot the prize worth
the effort?'
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

Right in the face of the Mills bill
the window glass factories are about
TO resume. This is a mistake. All
factories so far as possible, should
be closed, in order to show the PEG
pie the dangers of tariff reduction.
The greatest error the protectionists
have been guilty of is that of allow
ing number of new quinine manu-
factories to start up and prosper af-
ter quinine has been on the free list.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

Whom you hear a. Republican.
deliberately attempt to deceive a
voter by telling him that there is
no reduction on sugar because it is
produced in the South, just mako
the lie choke him, even lit wopldn' +
digest. The cut in sugar is from
so to 68 per cent, the second largest
on the list. But that is their style
of campaigning
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

We arc authorized to announce the
name of Hon. John A. Warth, as a can
didate for the Office of Judge OF the 9TH
Judicial Circuit, composed OF the conn-
ties of Mason, Putnam and Kanawha,
subject tO the decision of the Democratic
Judicial Convention
Many VorERs.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

A circular issued by the inde-.
neutrality-suspicious. of West
Virginia is q scathing expose of the
regard the Republican party has
for the colored man.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

Mr.. Harrison will be overwhelm-
ingly defeated, not bocuuse he is
Mr.. Harrison, nor because he is not
personally an acceptable gentleman
and good citizen, but because it is
necessary for the welfare of the Re
public, for the prosperity of its peo-
pie and for the preservation of the
faith of the masses in the great
truths of Thomas Jefferson that
this most cruel and rapacious doc
trine of ver-taxation, unfair taxa
tieR and profigate expenditure
should be wiped from the face of
the earth. The man who stands on
the right side of that question is to
be congratulated for his own and
his country's account. The right
is mighty weapon. 1t makes a
giant of him who uses it, and cal
loused is the man against whom it
is used who does not shrink in ter
ror away.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

The foolish charge of"free trade"
brought against the Democratic par
ty by Mr.. Blaine has had the effect
of inducing the Catholic -Nees, an
influential paper published in New
York, and which had remained
neutral in the campaign, to an
nounce its support of'tho National
Democratic ticket. The News sets
forth with vigor the fact that free
trade has nothing to do with the
campaign, but that the question is,
"shall the people continue to pay
war taxes after quarter of a CEN
tury of peace, and have hundreds of
millions of the people s money glut-
ting the treasury and tempting to
public corruption and wastefulness?"
On this issue the Catholic Necs pro-
poses to make an earnest and de-
termined fight for Democracy.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

The Democrats propose to make
lumber free of tax. Now let the
average citizen of good common
sense SIT down minute and ask
himself why lumber should not be
free of tax. Who is helped by it?
Surely not the man who builds him
self house for a home, because the
tax makes his house cost more, and
that is not good thing for him at
all. Not the man who lives in a
rented. house, because since the
house cost the owner more to build
because of this tax, the renter is
obliged to pay more rent than ne
would otherwise have done. Not
the worRmgman who works in.
building houses, because houses be-
ing more expensive to build than
they would have been without the
tax, not so many are built, and the
workingmen lose that much work.