The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-20

brea.- his strike by the importation OF
toret9I col0red labor fourteen month";
1etorS the next general elections Why
oio tHey not wait a couple of months
Longer Evidently they had profited by
the lesson of the gubernatorsal contest.
which f;sught them that twelve months
residence was essential to a right to vote
III West Virginia, whatever the color or
polite Of the intending voter might be.
Now my fellow citizens, is the hight
OF the xposure of this general scheme
OF colonization, in its relation to the re-
suits g Raymond City. what credit for
sinceriIy or consistency are we to give
to the Republican platform and its
declarHiion against armed alien forces {?
Pnrtcularly when these same gentlemen
VIII tell you during this campaign that
they are in favor of force bill so that
they may have a free vote and a fair
count who congratulate the people upon
the fact that there will be no United
States marshals at the polls this year
and at the same time declare in favor of
federal election law that ..puts q
Dayonet behind every ballot
Sample of Radical Economy.
The Huntington platform next de-
nounces the Democratic administrations
in this state as wasteful, incompetent
and eLfraVagant- 1t charges specifcal-
" that we have increased the number
Of s,lir-.aolders and their salaries; in
creased the average assessment for state
taxes, and the object and basis OF taxa
ton by the reassessment of property.
Let them specify wherein we have been
either wasteful, incompetent or extrava-
giant. Let rs compare records. The
Republican party was in power in this
state from 1868 to 1871. During that
period. with tax rate greater than we
have since had, they only partially built
4.
pleted the penitentiary at Moundsyille
and received as a donation grounds and
buildings for university and normal
school, The impartial inquirer will ask
in vain what they did with the taxes
collected from the people. assert on
the other hand, that every fair-minded
man must concede merit in all the ex-
penditures under Democratic administra-
tion. IN the offices created and the sal
aries paid: that they must also condemn
the Republican methods of handling the
finances, disapprove of many of the
offices created under Republican adj
ministration, and criticise the salaries
paid.
did upon coming into power was to
abolish fifty-four boards of registration.
thus doing away with 162 Republican
officers, whose sole business it was to
disfranchise Democrats. These boards
cost the state treasury So. 146.SS in 1886;
SIC. .431 "a in 1867; IS, ,952. .S5 in 1868: So
51s.44 in 1869; $S,4S2.42 in 1870; ST.
490.S9 in 1871. More annually than the
present salaries of the governor, auditor,
treasurer. attorney general and super
intendent of free schools, and the aboli-
ton of these boards also retired to
private life an army of several hundred
registrars, all of whom had to be paid
The Party Pleads Guilty.
The Democratic party pleads guilty to
the charge in the Republican platform
that it has created few offices. 1t Gre
ated the offices of state inspectors of
mines, made necessary by the mining
law enacted by Democratic legislature
to provide safety for that very deserving
class of our citizens employed in mining
coal, and who are doing sc much for the
development and substantial YFosperity
of the state. The very nature OF this in
dustry makes it hazardous one, and it
is the plain duty of the state to provide by
law such regulations as will tend to re-
duce the dangers AMI increase the safety.
of this class of our citizens Do you Re
publicans propose to abolish the two
offices of mine inspectors Another
Office created by Democratic legislation
is that of commissioner of labor. This
bureau was created to gather such
statistical and other information respect
tilt IOuOlltOtlS vi Ill CAdSoco VI ldDOT
as would enable our Legislators to intelii-
gently consider and enact laws in the in
terest of the laboring classes. Do you
propose. my Republican friends. who
delight in posing as the special friends
of labor. to abolish the labor bureau
The board of agriculture in another Gre
alton of the Democratic party. None
except practicable farmers are eligible
TO places ON this board. You Republi-
cans love the farmer and have established
and insist upon maintaining, as you say,
high protective tariff in his interest;
do you object to few hundred dollars
expended through the operations of this
board exclusively for the benefit of the
farmers of West Virginia? Are you in
clined to
Oppose the National Guard
of our state, of whom all should be
proud? If not you can not object to the
law which relieved the adjutant general
of the duties of state librarian by GREAT
ing the Office of librarian. The new
military law under which our national
guard is organized, and which was pre-
pared by those eminent Republicans,
Colonel Freer and Major Gluck. gentle
men for whose fairness and ability as
politicians, citizens and military men I
have high regard, made it necessary to
have in the adjutant general an officer
who could give all his attention to mill
IaTy lnd'IerS. Inc Ol1ce OF librarian Is
one of importance, its duties are confin-
ing and require constant attention from
one person at least. Since the creation
Of this Office, our valuable state library
has been well cared for and the service
has been most efficient. Do our Re-
publican friends want to cripple the
military organization of the state, or
leave the state library without proper
care and service? Another new Office Is
that of state bank examiner, but in fair
ness to the Republican candidate for
governor, / must not claim for the
Democratic party the exclusive credit
for creating this Office. Mr. Davis was
author of the bank examiners law now
on our statute book and the most earnest
advocate of its passage. Does the party
which has headed its state ticket with
the name of Mr.. Davis object to this
law, which aims at providing secure and
folyent banks for the use of the people I?
What other offices have been created,
unless it be an additional member of the
court of appeals and few additional
circuit judges, made necessary by the in
crease of the states population and con-
sequent increase in litigation? Do the
Republicans propose to deny to the peo-
pie efficient courts?
About Salaries.
The Huntington platform next ac-
cuSeS the Democrats of laviup frcraacnd