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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-07-05
Mr.. MfIson,s SneeeI,.

The National Convention did well
in choosing Congressman William
L. Wilson, of West Virginia, as its
permanent Chairman.
Mr.. Wilson's speech was all that
could have been expected from him.
1t was strong, clear, scholarly and
eloquent. 1t was an exposition of
Democratic truths and Republican
fallacies. 1t dealt with Mckinley
and McKinleyism courteously but
firmly and convincingly.
1t is Il speech that will crafty all
Democrats, and marks in few
words the difference between the
party whose candidate was con-
graduated by telegram that came
over the sea from the castle of an
absentee tariff lord, and the party
for the success of whose candidate
will rise prayers "from the fireside
of the toiler, from the hearts of all
who love justice and equity, and
who wish and intend that our
matchless heritage offreedom should
be the commonwealth of all our
people and Uncommon opportunity
of our youth"
The speech marked one moro re.
freshing contrast between Mime
apolis and Chicago.-N y. World.
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Why ClereInnd is STRONG.

Grover Cleveland is strong in
New York says the New York
World. No other Democrat would
this year get as many votes as he.
The Democratic leaders who. op
posed his nomination will support
him loyalty. The World has pledg-
ed them to do it. They will do it
for their own future salvation if for
no other reason. The rank and file
are Democrats. Cleveland has
many and devoted admirers among
them. The alternative will be
Harrison with all that this implies.
1t is five months to election. There
will be no boiling nor sulking.
Cleveland is stronger with the
nonpartisan business men than any
other Democrat would be. He is
the candidate best fitted to divide
their vote with Harrison. He has
been tried and not found wanting.
ouoAhOSS LINUS CSEldluIleS. III KNOWS
where it would find Cleveland.
Cleveland will get thousands OF
Independent and mugwnmps votes
that no other Democrat could COM
mand. He lost many of them in
1888, but "Harrison's wild debauch
of spoils" has brought them back.
Cleveland will get more Republi-
can votes on tariff issue than any
other Democrat. He embodies the
issue on which the campaign must
mainly be fought.
Cleveland will get many votes on
his character. He represents the
integrity, independence and best
reform spirit of the Democracy.
His sturdy honesty, courage and
fidelity to duty would be more than
an offset to the unqnestioned high
personal qualities of President Har-
rison.
The World believes that he will
have the largest vote ever cast for
a Democratic candidate in New
York State.
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A Nut for nIcIxinIey 60 craoI..

Mr.. Mckinley made his notorious old
tariff speech over again at the Minnie
apolis convention. He is still pretending
that the foreigner pays the tariff taxes
and that protection simply taxes ssthe
products of other nations instead of the
products of our own. Mr.. MCKINLEY.
however, has never answered the cues
ton put to him by The World over and
over again: Why is it if the foreigners
pay the tariff taxes that the Fifty-first
congress was content with spending a
billion dollars7 Why did it not lavish
moro of the foreigners money on the
people of this country? Why did it not
wiring a moro splendid sum out of the
manufacturers and merchants of Europe
for the payment of the governments ex-
penses and the Republican party's ex-
travagance? How can Mr.. Mckinley ex-
cuse this self restraint, which still leaves
some of the public burdens to be borne
by Americans? Will he not answer the
question now that he has repeated the
proposition? Moreover, he might tell the
country why he even refrained from
raising enough to make up the deficiency
caused by the extravaganza of the con-
gress in which he was the leader ON the
hoor of the house of representatives.
New York World.
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Demoeratic COUNTY Conven,ion


At a meeting of the County Executive
COMMITTEES, held in Point Pleasant, Satur-
day, May II, 1892, the Democrats are request
ed TO meet at the following places in the
various districts, on Saturday, July 80. 1899.
for the purpose of selecting delegates TO the
County Convention to be held at Point Pleas
ant, August 9, 1892, at 1880 a. m; each dis
trict being allowed as many delegates as
they may deem proper:
Arbuckle-Town Hall.
clendenIn-FadIey's School House.
Cologne-Yauger,s School House.
cooper-Flat Rock
Graham-New Haven.
Hannan-Town Hall.
Lewis-court House.
Robinson-yan Matre's School House.
Union-wolfs Valley.
waggener-Afason City.
1t is suggested that the primaries OF the
various districts be held at p. m.
BY Order Executive Committee.
JAS b. TIPPETr, Cn,sr.
-CHAs- N. WHALEY, Sec'y.
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TIN PLATE WORKERS. WAGES.

They Must he Reduced Astonishing
Greed OF tho Manufacturers.
The great American manufacturers of
tin plate are showing their hands sooner
than was expected. even by the greatest
skeptics of ''protectiop." 1t was an
nounced from Pittsburg, June II, that
Eat the conference between the tin
plate manufacturers and the scale com.
mittee of the Amalgamated association
this afternoon. the latter We're astounded
at call for reduction of wages of the
most highly skilled classes of workmen
in the tin plate and sheet iron industries.
"This call for o reduction is in tho
face of the assertion of the manufac-
turers that the tariff put ON tin plate by
the Fiftieth congress was necessary in
order that good wages might be paid
American workmen."
Think of It'll Wages to be reduced so
soon in this great infant industry.
The foreigners. imported by Niedring-
haus and others to work in an sAmer-
lean" industry at American" wages.
are asked to accept lower wages. This
ought to be the straw that will break
projections" back, but perhaps the
matter can be patched up by the man
nfacturers who are never backward in
coming forward with excuses for lower
wages. This same dispatch says that
"Dayid B. Oliver. O. Zug, j. II. Laugh
lin and other leading manufacturers
urged the acceptance of the manufac-
turers scale ON account. they said, of
the depressed condition Of the iron
trade, just as if iron was not also heay.
lily protected" and therefore entitled
to be in booming" condition.
1T was only on June 2 that the stAsso-
citation OF Iron and Steel Manufacture
ers." the 'sTinned Plate Manufacturers,
association" and the National Associa-
ton of Galvanized Sheet Iron Manufao.
tprers" held meetings on the same day,
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VIII ne also INFORM us now II Is rnar rne
highly paid labor in eastern cities com
petes with the poorly paid labor in
neighboring cities and in the south, and
turns out his product cheaper than the
poorly paid labor can turn out their
product He might also give his reasons
for thinking that New York laborers
need protection from the pauper labor
of Canada and none from the pauper la
Dor of Maryland. and why tariff wall
should not be constructed on the ALE
ghany mountains to protect the three
dollar-a-day laborer of Pittsburg from
the two-dollar-a-day laborer of Reading
and Harrisburg. Such apparent incon-
sistencies as these are daily occurring to
many untutored minds. and it behooves
the protectio-est to be ON the alert with
simple, straightforward arguments to
dispel them.
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Nuts for proteotIoni.t. 70 cra.,,..

II. as protectionists tell ms, wages de-
pend upon tariffs, then, as we have the
same tariff in all parts of the United
States, it would be natural to conclude
that wages should be uniform from
Maine to California. The Foundry
mems association, of Philadelphia. after
a considerable amount of correspond
ence, has compiled a tabulated state
ment of wages paid in foundries of the
United States printed in The iron Age
of May &c, 1892. Some of the fi..ures
are from country foundries, others from
car wheel, stove and lnalleable iron and
pipe shops, etc. According to tins table
the average wages of molders vary from
$3.50 per day in San Francisco and Oa.s-
land, Cal. to $I.60 in Hagerstown. MJ.
A few of the other averages are: In
Pittsburg, So; Conshohocken. Pa.
Se.s3I5; Philadelphia, $3.50; Chester.
Pa. $40: York. Pa. S2.I0: Reading,
=; Allentown, Pa, S1.90; Bloomsbury.
Pa, Si.I5; Denver, s3.25: New York and
Brooklyn, 50; Chicago. 81 10; Charleston.
$3.50; Portsmouth, N. H., 81 25; Elmira.
N. Y, -; Wilmington, Del, $I.s5. The
average wages of coremakers vary from
$3.50 in Leadyille, Colo, and 81. 25 in
San Francisco. to Si.25 in Elmira and
Brockport, N. Y, and Selma. Ala: of
cupola tenders, from $3.50 in Oakland.
Cal. to 81 in several southern cities: of
clippers, from Sc so in Leadvifle. Colo.
to 75 cents in Athens, Ga.
VIII some kind and logical protection
lst please explain these discrepancies?
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DIFFERENCE in wAeEsn FARCE.
Our Farmers Now Compete with the
Lowest Paid Labor ON Earth.

Our Farmers Now Compete with the
Lowest Paid Labor ON Earth.
Here is food for reflection for the
farmer who still thinks he is voting
money in his pocket when he votes for
"protection.n If he will ponder this fact
sufficiently he will solve the whole tariff
problem, It is quoted froA Recent
Economic Changes by David A. Wells:
Indian corn can be successfully and
has been extensively raised in Italy.
But Indian corn grown in the valley of
the Mississippi, thousand miles from
the seaboard, has been transported In re-
cent years to Italy and sold in her mar.
kets at a lower cost than the corn of
Lombardy and venetia, where the wages
of the agriculturist are not one-third of
the wages paid in the United States for
corresponding labor. And one not sur.
prising sequel of this is that a 600 Ital-
ian labprers emigrated to the United
States in 1885,
In other grains and food products and
in cotton it is the same. The 81 and Sc
and 50 a day labor of the United States
completes with the cheap labor of Eu-
rope and Asia and often undersells it in
its own markets. Thus wheat can be
produced in Dakota, where wages are
So q day, at 40 cents per bushel, though
1t cannot be produced in Rhenish Prus-
STA for less than so cents; but wages
there are only SO per month. AS to
England, her wheat growers have been
driven out of existence by our dear
labor and India aud Russia's cheap
labor.
Such facts as these must settle the
question forever with rational minds as
to whether or not wages determine cost
of production. They did not do so fifty
years ago, when high wage Europe was
supplying low wage Asia with many
manufactured articles. Still less do
they do so now, when, With modern
machinery and methods. one man or a
boy will produce as much as ten men
fifty years ago. What folly, then, to
say that ION all imports coming in COM
petition with the products of American
labor there should he levied duties equal
to the difference between wages at home
and abroad" And yet this is the serious
declaration of the Republican party in
its Minneapolis platform, and it poses
as the party of Nineteenth century civil
lization.
These Republicans persist in shutting
their eyes to facts. If Mckinley had
consulted tables of labor cost in differ
emit articles in different countries and
had made tariff rates only high enough
TO put American and foreign goods on a
par in our markets as to labor cost, his
rates would not have been one-tenth as
high as now. But instead of consulting
figures he asked the manufacturers how
much, duty they wished. and, as Con-
gresham Wilson has shown, practically
left blanks for manufacturers to I'LL out;
and they often made duties higher than
the total cost of production in any coun-
try-all for the benefit of the poor wage
Garner, of course
Some day the voting consumers win
have intelligence and spunk enough to
suggest to the manufacturer that it is
time for him to remove his hand from
their pockets.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-07-05

In answer to the question so often
asked, as to "what will win" in the
presidential contest, the follow
ing reply is given. The electoral
college this year will have 444 votes,
making 223 the majority the win
ner in the presidential race must
have. The solid South will give, il
is believed, 159 of these votes. New
Jersey will add 10 and Michigan at
least 4, bringing the sure votes to
173. Connecticut will probably add
6 votes, Indiana Is and New York
36, making the welcome total OF
230. If, therefore, the Democrats
do as well this year as they did in
1876 and 1884 they will win. They
think they have new chances in va
rious Western States that they have
never had before. 1t is not un-
likely that they will have enough
new Western electoral votes to be
able to do without New York's Sc.
New York's 36,wilI, however, make
the result certain.
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Notice to Take Denosiiiona-

- 10 Georgia Sayre: You are hereby mott
ned that on the 18th day Of August fsfe5 H.
t,.ost, the hours OF O'Clock, a. A. aud a
plclock, T: H.. at the Office OF Gibson Eufch
lnson ana Gibson, Huntington West VIZ
me tne gned viii proceed 20 take
me ue Positlonof John Smith and slfllars -
pe read as evidence on behalf OF plainfifs -, =.
ne irlai OF certain chaDcery cause 5te.r
St " IN the circuit court OF Mason county
" - lrgtn1a, wherein yott IRE ficfenfiar,f
anu me undersigned 5 plaintiff, and if from
ny eaiuse the taking 81 said depoeffions lse
on the said day the further
shsL,oi VIII De adjourned and Continued from
anu DetNeen the hours Aforesaid TIL the $500
aLS eonpleted- Given under my l,s1r,,I go
en- s.,s u III Icy, ISL r. F. SAYRE
i,,I ,iess soss, Hutchinson & Gibson, soIz
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A Nut for MCKINLEY TO crack.

Mr.. Mckinley made his notorious old
tariff speech over again at the Mime
apolis convention. He is still pretending
that the foreigner pays the tariff taxes
and that protection simply taxes ssthe
products of other nations instead of the
products OF our own. Mr.. Mckinley
however, has never answered the oues.
tion put to him by The World over and
over again: Why is it If the foreigners
pay the tariff taxes that the Fifty-frst
congress was content with spending q
billion dollarss Why did it not lavish
more of the foreigners, money ON the
people of this country? Why did it not
wiring a more splendid sum out of the
manufacturers and merchants of Euroue
for the payment of the governments ex-
penses and the Republican party's ex-
travagance2 How can Mr.. MCKINLEY ex-
cuse this self restraint. which still leaves
some OF the public burdens to be borne
by Americans? VIII he not answer the
question now that he has repeated the
propositions Moreover, he might tell the
country why he even refrained from
raising enough to make up the deficiency
caused by the extravagance of the con-
gress In which he was the leader on the
door Of the house of representatives
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Hatmakers Done with Protection.

AT mass meeting of the Cloth Hat
and Capmakers' union in New York on
June 10, over 700 men, representing
twenty-six out of the thirty shops in the
city, discussed the grievance of wage re-
auctions. 1t was said that during the
last year several reductions in their
wages at different times have made a
total reduction of 20 per cent, and that
during the past four months of the year
the best men have been unable to earn
more than six dollars week. They will
make an effort to get wages back above
starvation point.
Pitiable as is the lot of these men, it il
no worse than that of hatnakers else
where in this country since the McKin-
ley bill came their way. A few years
ago the hat factories of Bloomfield. Wat
sessing and East Orange, N. j., were
prosperous and gave steady employment
to hundreds of hands, nearly all of whom
voted for protection" The almost pro-
hibitive duty ON matters raw materials
has caused the business to dwindle, un-
til now no mill in Bloomfield is running
ON full time, and many of the employees
have sought work in other businesses.
The matters, being intelligent men, have
become enthusiastic tariff refor1mers and
are preparing to form a Cleveland club.
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Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania,
in Philadelphia has proffered to bet
$4,000 that Harrison would be re-
elected President. Since that time
A. B. Billings, of Chicago, has tele-
graphed Senator Quay that he will
go him $4,000 and bet him $40, 900
that Cleveland will defeat Harrison
for the Presidency.
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LET Us HAVE A DECENT CAMPAIGN.

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1T WON'T no.


1t has come to our knowledge
that an attempt is being made in
this county to change the delega-
ton to the Democratic State Con-
vention at Parkersburg, July 9Th,
1892, by getting the regular dele
gates to stay at home, and give to
others written credentials as sub
stitutes, or proxies. For delegate
to do this, is dishonorable, and a
violation of the confidence of the
Convention that honored him by
appointing him as a delegate. 1t is
not right. and the State Convention
viii not recognize such delegates.
If a delegate does not have the time
or desire to go to the Convention,
he can let the regular delegates who
do attend cast the vote of the county.
It is bold attempt 10 set aside the
viii of the Convention that APP
pointed these delegates, and an
effort to carry the eounty's vote to
other candidates than those for
whom the regular delegates would
have voted. It means that the vote
is to -be turned against the can
didates from this county, if this
scheme is successful; and it means,
also, that it will be a contest for
seats in the Convention between the
regular delegates and the proxies.
Il is bold stroke of desperate men
to attain their ends. Our County
Convention, held in this city May
9TH, did not authorize delegates to
appoint proxies, nor did the Con-
vention elect alternates; so there is
no one authorized to appoint an
other in his place. We hope the
delegates to the State Convention
will refuse all applications to them
for proxies. Let each delegate
make arrangements to attend the
State Convention. Do the work
for which you were appointed. Be-
low are the delegates to the State
Convention, by districts and at
large. These delegates, and they
only, are authorized to act, and if
only one delegate goes to the Con-
vention, he alone will cast the vote
of this county. To do otherwise
would cause trouble in the State Con-
vention, and trouble in Mason
county among Democrats, for the
Democracy of this county do not
intend to be tricked:
fOniciaI List of Delegates to State Convention
by Districts-I
Arbuckle-George Sebrell, P. F
Ryan.
Clendonin-J. NJ. H. Beale, A.
cologno-H. T. Calhoun, Hod
Condee.
COoper-charley Pullin. John Nc
Dermitt.
Graham-IeviR oush, P. L. Roush
Hannan-S. l.. Carroll, w. }.
Keister.
Lewis. S. Spencer, Rankin
Wiley, Jr.
Robinson-E G. somerville, ]. H.
Windon.
Union-R. Armstrong, E. Jeffers.
Waggener-Dr. d. A. Thomas,
Sam Tully.
Delegates at Large-Hon. Chas.
e. Hogg, Warren c. Whaley, Chas.
Clifton and G. P. Simpson.
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Gen. B. H. oxley, is being push
ed by his friends, as a candidate for
Elector-at-Large. The General is
deserving this high honor, and we
hope the Democratic State conven-
tion will select him as one of the
Electors at Large.
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NOTICE.

HE REGULAR ANNUAL AfFFrf,Ses
SoIn pany VIII be held At the nv,
nc, fo,nt Peasant West Yirglnis on ,,,ls-
eleetlon OF Board of Directors. ana ~
transaction OF such other business ~ ~. : :
properly come before them. - may
lunezl j. 5. SPENCER, President.
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Georgia sayrc,

IN cuHucerv.
.HE object of the above suit Is to ah4arn n
J. divorce "a vinctiO rnafrfrnoDfs ;, a NJ +
aaPptstring by aihdaNit died that the said de-
tsndant, Georgia Snyre, Is q non-residefsf ~
tne state OF w est Virginia, the said dfsfesff-
ant = required to appear here within one
nsohIn after the date or the fsrst pubiieafiorl
prote s;ls her Interests. a copy. -
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Let's have clean and decent
campaign. Tariff reform and the
force bill will furnish matter
enough for discussion, without
bringing in any mud-slingfng.
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There is not much difference in
the characters of Cleveland and
Harrison-both are heightened, in
corruptible men. But it must not
be forgotten that Harrison carries
the force bill in his pocket and his
advocacy ofthat measure is enough
to damn him in the eyes of all lib
erty loving people.
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Order OF PnbIiea1iou7

The State OF West Virginia, Mason eof,ntvSs
AT rnles held in tile Clerks once on The
circuit Court for the county of Mason -,
Monday, the 18th day of July, A. D. isls5 y.
Il. +. Sayre,
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Hold up Your Hands.

All you protected workmen who
have had your wages increased since
the passage of the Mckinley bill
hold up your right hands.
What not a man raises his hand?
Well, then, all you protected
workmen who have had your wages
lowered since the passage of the
Mckinley bill hold up your hands.
Great Scotu Nearly all the
hands are elevated.
And yet, there are some people
who have the hardihood to say that
Republican protection is not a fraud.
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The Peoples party was born
July 4th, at Omaha. 1t will be a
troublesome youngster.