The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-08-02
OUR TICKET.

6~Nr>A-HS CfSI acotIlDltu
in this State, the crowd being esti-
mated from $4,000 to $4,000.
It was a determined, enthusiastic
and aggressive body of representa-
tive Democrats.
1t showed to the Republicans that
their claim that West Virginia is
Republican. is all bosh.
The great gathering gave the
Democrats a right to claim the
State by at least 10000 majority.
An excellent and popular ticket
was nominated, as follows:
Governor, Hon. w. A. MacCorkle.
of Kanawha county; Auditor, Hon.
l. v. Johnson, of Barbour county;
Treasurer, Hon. J. NJ. Rowan, Of
Monroe county; Superintendent of
Schools Virgil A. Lewis, of Mason
county; Attorney General, Hon t.
S. Riley. of Ohio county; Supreme
Judges, II. NJ. Dent, (long term) of
Taylor county; Homer A. Holt.
(short term of Greenbrier county.
The ticket is headed by one of our
most brilliant and popular young
Democrats, who will make an ener-
getie and aggressive campaign, and
who will draw hundreds of young
Republicans to his support.
The balance of the ticket is com:
posed of as good men as could be
found in the ranks of the Democracy
of this State.
The result of the Convention, in
one particular, is not as we would
have had it, nor as we had hoped it
would be, but combination of cir
cumstances decreed IT should be
otherwise, and while we come out
of the race considerably disfgured
and badly used up, we are still a
Democrat, and will do now, as we
have always done, give the ticket
our honest, jealous, loyal and hear
ty support.
We have spent the best part of
our life in upholding and battling
for the Democratic party and its
grand principles, without reward.
We had hoped that our years of
service to the Democratic party
would be recognized, and were led
by men high up in the party, to be-
lieve that we would have their 10y
al support aud influence in our con-
test for Auditor, but like many an
other candidate, we were baseIy de-
ccived by our friends, and turned
down.
In Wood county and Calhoun
county where each county has
candidate for Congress to succeed
Mr.. Capehart, in 1894, not a vote
was cast for any of the four candi-
date for Auditor in the Fourth Dis
trict. The delegates from Wood
and Calhoun seem to have taken
special pleasure in throwing their
votes to the candidates in the First
and Second districts, as a piece of
political strategy to capture dele
gates in the next Congressional con-
test for the nomination of their re-
spective candidates.
We were promised ten votes out
of the Wood county delegation, and
got nary one. Holly Armstrong
and Geo. Hundley were promised
the same.
The three candidates from Mason,
Jackson and Roane had a right to
expect the votes of Wood and CAL
houn, but as they did not get them,
have these counties a right to ex-
pect that either Tippett, Armstrong
or Hundley will tear their shirts in
order to carry the counties of Ma
son, Jackson and Roane to the Cal
houn or Wood county candidates
who will be before the next Con-
gressional Convention for nomina-
tions. Not much. They will be
very apt to be for some other man,
and Wood and Calhoun counties
will have no right to complain; and
notice is hereby served that Hon.
w. w. Thomas, of Putnam county,
will be the Democrat who will sue
coed Mr.. Capehart in 1894.
We have no quarrel with the Ma
SON county delegation. They did
their duty, and stood by us Loyalty,
everyone of them, until we authori-
zed the withdrawal of our name, and
requested the vote 70 be thrown to
Mr.. johnson, which was done, thus
paving the way for the nomination
of Mr.. Lewis, of our own county.
We make this explanation because
to do less would make us appear as
a cur and coward in the eyes of