The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-08-20
MON. JAS. CAPEmART.

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of discomfort, anxiety and alarm
prevailing in all the farming reg
ions of the United States, at this
time, and this is especially the
case among the great wealth pro-
ducing agriculturists of the West
and Southwest.
The low price of agricultural
products, the increased price in
all things the farmer has to buy,
the scarcity of money in circula-
ton, and more especially the al
arming increase in the mortgage
Indebtedness of the farmer, has
caused spirit of unrest, irrela-
ton and reproach to spread
abroad amongst the tillers of the
soil to an extent never before
known in the history of the Am
eriean people.
The system of class legislation,
unjust discrimination and oppres-
sive policy advocated and pursu-
ed by the Republican party in fa-
vor of the plutocracy of the man
ufacturer against the rights and
just demands of the toiling mill
ions of our fellow-citizens, for
more than aquarter of a century,
has at length succeeded in arous-
ing not only loud but a deep
feeling of Indignation against the
Ubiquitous policy pursued, pledges
violated and promises broken by
the Republican party, amongst
the agricultural classes against
the unjust and damning impurities
committed against them by the
party in power, and to demand
representation in the Councils of
the Nation more commensurate
with their importance as a part,
and the sustaining part of this
great Nation.
1t has caused them to eradicate
from their minds political preju-
dices, to brush from their eyes
the cob-webs of political sophist-
ries SO ingeniously woven by the
representatives of the plutocratic
party to blind them to their true
interests and to determine them
to consult their own interests and
to demand the representation that
they are so justly entitled to.
In view of these facts, it were
well that the Democratic party,
which has ever been for the rights
of the many against the demands
of the few, to look we'll to the
Congressional nominations to be
made in our State this fall, and
more especially in our own Fourth
Congressional District, embracing
as it does the finest agricultural
portion sof the State, the great
majority of whose people are en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits.
What the people of this Dis
trict want, is-a man that will rep
resent the farmer, for he alone,
has never had a representative in
Congress from the District.
While we have nothing other
than words of commentator for
each and everyone of the eminent
gentlemen who are aspirants for
Congressional honors in this Dis
trict, yet the time has come when
the just demands of the great ma
jority of the voters and tax-pay-
ers of the District should be
complied with, and that7to far
mer should be accorded the NOM
ination.
We want farmer-a man of
broad and liberal views-a man
who draws his sustenance direct
from the bosom of mother earth,
a taxpayer, man who is not
only a practical farmer and true
representative of the agricultural
interests of his District, but a
man who can hold his own among
the Nations's representatives with
credit to himself and honor to his
constituents.
Such a man is HoN. JAS. CAPE
HART, of Mason county. Born
and bred farmer, and followed
it continuously and actively from
his early youth to the present
time, he has known no other oc-
cupation. a man of classical ed
ucation, large experience and
business qualifications second to