The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-10-03
From Kanawha Fails.
KANAwHA FAILS, Sept. 26.

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Dear Register:
As was passing rapidly along
the Kanawha Valley Hound myself
on Monday, the oath of September
in the usually quiet little town OF
Winfield, in Putnam county, and
after visiting several of the stores
i found that some political speaking
would be on the tapis at the Court
House directly after dinner, and as
/ could not get away until the even
ing train which would pass that
point about 8 o'clock p NJ 1 CON
Guided to hear the speeches, and ac-
cordingly wendell my way to the
Court House abont o'clock where
/ found five or six hundred of the
sovereigns gathered in expectancy.
After few moments tall gentle
man, introduced to me afterwards
as the Hon. Rufus Switzer, took the
stand and announced that by ar
rangement of the respective com
mites the audience would first be
addressed by the Hon. ]. Nj. Jack
son, of Wood county, Democratic
candidate for Congress, that he
would be followed by the Hon. Sam
Burdette, of Kanawha county, who
would be replied to by the Hon. G.
P. Simpson, of Mason county, and
that the Hon. James B. Menager, OF
Mason county, would conclude the
speaking for the day.
Sitting near the bar could but
remark the close and respectful ut
tention which was given by the
crowd to the able, learned and ex-
haustive argument which was made
by the Hon. ]. NJ jackson, whe
spoke for am boHr and q half, and
while his speech elected little or nc
applause it was easy to see that il
was we'll received and was profne-
ing pleasing and profound i'm
preston.
When he had concluded the Hon,
Sam Burdette tookthe stand and re-
peated the sa me old Republican
piece with few variations on the
tariff question. He tried hard to
convince the crowd that the only
salvation for the country was in the
election of Harrison and Morton;
while the election of Cleveland and
Thurman would prove dire calam-
ity; that high tariff was the poor
mans friend, &C., but was not as
clear as I've might have been on the
effects of free whisky and free so-
bacco, insisting earnestly that the
high tariff tax on clothing was well
calculated to- protect tbs poor man
from eold,, leaving the inference
that free whisky and free. tobacco
might keep the wife comfortable
and the children warm. When the
Hon. Sam. Burdette subsidized, here
and there a spasmodic Republican
boot heel was heard to strike the
floor by way of applause; and then
| the Hon G. p. Simpson, a man
had never seem before, advanced to
the speakers stand, a short, heavy
set man, seemingly careless about
his Dress but striking in appearance
he looked as if he had just aroused
from a Rip yanWinkle sleep and
had forgotten to comb his hair, but
when after looking carlessly about
him for a moment his commenced to
administer on the loose, scattering
remarks of the gentleman who had
just taken his seat, all seemed to re-
alize the fact that he was wide
awake, and the fun of the afternoon
had commenced, and nearly every
sentence he uttered was greeted
with rounds of applause as he poured
IN his broadsides and silenced the
enemies guns. He likened the
workings of high tariff to certain
game at cards in which they bet
on "pairs" and called on Mr.
Burdette and Mr.. Menager to give
him the name of the game; he seem
ed to remember that thsre was a box
under the table in which lucky
parties. dropped an occasional dollar
which was called feeding the pig
and told of four persons who sat
down on a certain evening with
800 each, and in the morning none
of them could say where the money
had gone. until the, polite young
man who brought in the drinks in
formed them they had been ssfeedL
ing the pig and their money was
in the box he applied It by saying
that the. laHoring man was feeding
the pig when he paid these high tariff
taxes and the money was in the boz
in the q. S. Treasury, and the poor
laborer did not know how it got
there. In short, to use a vulgar