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

tiuction of the tariff in a spirit of
fairness to all industries and inter-
ests. The Republicans were revis-
ing the tariff in an unfair and un.
just manner, giving to their special
friends great advantages In con-
clusion he predicted Overwhelming
Democratic victory this year.
The platform was read by Hon.
Geo. w. Tippett as follows.
The Democracy of. West Virginia,
in convention assembled, congratu-
late the people that under Demo
cratic rule they have made great
and substantial advancement in
morals, education and general pros
perity. We hereby declare:
First-That we favor and encour
age the development of West Yir-
ginia's vast mineral, agricultural
and other resources, and to that end
invite enterprise, labor and capital
to help us build railroads, open
mines and establish manufactures
and cultivate our lands.
Second We arraign the Republi
can party for its extravaganza and
useless expenditure of the public
money, which if not checked, may
lead to an empty treasury and in
creased taxation.
Third-We favor tariff for rev..
enue and we demand revision and
reduction of the same to the lowest
point col sistent with an economical
"A ministration of the Government
and in spirit of fairness to all in
forests, including farming, mining
and labor and manufacturing. We
favor general exchange and ex-
pansion of our trade and CONNER
cial relations with the world-and
especially Spanish America.
Fourth-We denounce the Re-
publican party for its hostility to
the mass of the people in its efforts
to pass the Mckinley tariff bill, con-
structed in the interest of monopo-
lies, trusts and political friends,
whereby the few are to be enriched
at the expense of the many, so that
in future. elections the sinews of
war may be supplied without stint,
as they have been recently in West
Virginia and elsewhere, to purchase
votes and corrupt the ballot box,
and thus perpetuate Republican
misrule.
Fifth-We denounce the unpre.
cedented and unparliamentary
conduct of Speaker Reed and his
confederates in Congress-, in arbi.
trarily changing the rules of the
House of Representatives, which
virtually places legislation in the
hands one man, the Speaker, thus
enabling them to perpetuate Repub-
lie IN rule by carrying their partisan
leg station by force, without respect
to the protests aud rights of the
minority. This and similar at
tempts to change the rules of the
Senate are utterly subversive of the
spirit of our institutions, and a
wanton attack upon the liberties of
the people. ga :
Sixth-Wecondemn in the strong,
est terms the Federal election force
bill, passed by the House and now
pending in the Senate, as a most in
iquitous contrivance,o OF partisan leg.
islation. 1t is unpatriotic in princi.
pie, unconstitutioni in detail and
malicious in purpose. Il has more
malignity in its conception than
any similar measure which marked
the political hatred of the war and
reconstruction period. 1t entails
an expense at each election of ten
TO twelve millions of dollars from
the Federal treasury in order to en-.
able the President and his appoint.
ees to use well paid and perhaps
corrupt men, and through them
troops to control elections and thus
to take from the people and confer
upon the Republican party, through
its own partisan Canvassing boards,
the power to make returns of fed
eral elections 1t is the most dan.
gerous assault upon the principles
of home rule which has eminated
from any party and will reate more
hostility and bad blood in the
South than has existed there since
the close of the civil war, and may.
u passed, make the South, where
1t is intended to be put in operation,
as helpless as Ireland-as devoid of
liberty as Poland. 1t will disturb
the peace, progress, happiness and
confidence which now exist and
have carried to the South for invest
ment the vast Northern capital
just beginning to reap the fruit of
its venture-and will be especially
hurtful to the development of vast
mineral wealth and other enterprises
of this State.
Seyenth-We favor continued eff
forts for ballot reform and purity of |
elections, and we commend the
Democrats of our last Legislature
for their united and earnest efforts
in favor of ballot reform in spite of
the successful opposition OF the Re-
publicans.
Eighth-Among the political out
RACES and fraud recently committed
by the Republican party to keep
itselfin power against the will of
the people, we denounce the frequ-
ent and reckless nnseating in the
House of Representatives of mem
bers honestly chosen by the people,