The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-09-20
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No less maaled Is our progress under
Democratic rule in other lines of indus
trial activity We can not give an esti-
mate. even. of the coal business in this
state when the Republicans were run
ming things. 50 small and insignificant
were the operations There was no
mining law. no mine inspectors, no re-
ports to the legislature touching this in
dustry. Twenty years ago had not
seen a coke oven in the state. and
doubt II any were built. How is it now
In 1891 our mines yielded 7.2S1 .430 long
tons of coal. as against 253, ,579 tons in
1880, an annual average increase of over
is per cent. since 1880. In 1880, 1853
miners and LIS outside laborers were
elnployeds last year our mines gave en-
ployment 10 10, 424 miners and 2,5S9 out
side laborers.
In 1880 we produced 121,7i5 tons Of
cokes last year ], ,23S, as tons, and West
Virginia took rank as the second coke
producing state of the Union. Where 10
the evidence that the Democratic marty
IS retarding the growth of the sfatef
Our manufacturing interests are be-
corning immense, and there is a marked
improvement in every line of trade and
business. Every section of the state
proclaims the charge of the Huntington
platform to be false and hypocritical.
Gubernaforini Contest
This platform concludes, by denounc-
ing the Democratic Legislature for not
conceding to General Goff an Office to
which they claim he was elected. This
Is a repetition of charges contained in
the Republican platform of 1890. The
issue was then squarely made, Republi-
can speakers, including General Coz
himself, stumped the state from one end
to the other, and spent more time upon
this question than all others put to-
gether. The people promptly met and
answered the issue at the polls. by de
feating every Republican candidate who
had taken an active part IN the contest.
by sending a solid Democratic deleQa-
tion to congress; by replacing a legisla-
ture which was Republican in one
branch and Democratic by only one ma
jority on Joint ballot, with a legislature
two-thirds Democratic in both houses.
should BE RepudIated.
Let the honest Republicans, the honest
part of the Republican party, repudiate
the misrepresentation and falsehoods
contained in their state platform, let
them repudiate the individuals who led
them into error. Let them ask what
party by its platform traduces the state.
Its administration and officers, and pub
fishes to the world that we are yiolafors
of our constitution and the laws: that
we have bad government, a large debt;
that we are extrayagant, and that our
people are not progressive and that our
state is not prospering; and let them
repudiate that party. Let them turn to
those who glory in our great prosperity.
who hold up those who honestly and
fairly administer our wise laws. NV
fellow citizen, which party will you
trust for the next four years?
VIII you go back to the days of '63 to
II, or viii you go with and vote for the
candidates of the party that has given
you honest administrations collected
and honestly disbursed the states rev.
enues, established and built up our vari-
free school system, the party under
whose administration prosperity has
come to the state and her people despite
discriminating and oppressive federal
legislation. here you say of the
Democratic party, '.Well done, we will
trust you again.