The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-07-04
The DemocratIe Record.

T
lating a pamphlet entitled aWhat
Congress has done" 1t consists
entirely of blank pages.
The poor little joke is intended to
suggest Democratic imbecility, and
to intimate that nothing has been
accomplished by Democratic Com
gress and Administration during
the fifteen months since the party
came into full control of the Gov
ernment for the first time in more
than thirty years.
The suggestion is utterly false.
The intimation could only have
come from gross ignorance or reck-
less mendacity.
AS matter of fact, Democratic
Legislation and administration dur
ing this briefperiod have been unu-s
sually fruitful of lasting results and
phenomialIy free from those mis-
takes in Legislation to which re-
form party IS always liable when i
succeeds to power after prolonged
period of laundering, piundering
and miscellaneous misrule.
If nothing else had been done, the
repeal of the force bill would be a
record sufficient for a year and
quarter of work. A Democratic
Congress has stricken from the
statute book the law which. obtrud-
ed the Federal power into State
elections; the law which gave TO
John l. Davenport and his kind
authority to imprison citizens, in
timidate voters and manufacture
majorities at SO much head. 1t
has put an end forever to the idea
of "a bayonet behind every ballot.
1t has taken off the hand of irres-
ponsible Federal power from State
elections free and restored to the
people the right to say for themsel-
yes how and by whom they shall be
represented.
This Democratic Congress has al
so removed the fruitful source of
financial, industrial and business
disturbance. 1t has repealed the
Sherman Silver purchase law, out
of which grew distrust, instability
and one of the worst panics the
country has ever known for along
period.
| A Democratic Administrator has
put an end to jingoism. The
scheme to annex Hawn with which
the Harrison Administration sought
to glority its last hours, has been
subjected to the scrutiny of COM
mon sense and rejected as unwise
and un-American. The filibusters
with whom the outgoing Admins
tration had been SO eager for an al
lance were promptly repudiated by
the Democratic Administration and
the friendly foreign land has been
as every country should be, to work
out its destiny. Some mistakes
were made in this business, but
they were not irreparable and they
have been repaired. At the worst
they did not saddle the country
with the embarrassment of foreign
protectorate on the one hand or
with the burden of a mongrel,
Kanaka, japanese and Polynesian
State on the other.
And the Democratic Administra-
ton has sturdily upheld the dignity
and the rights of the Republic when
ever these have been menaeed.
The record at Rio is one of honor.
That made at Bluefield is not less
creditable. To Americans gencr-
ally the present efforts of the Ad-
ministration to disentangle the Gov
ernment from the unnatural alliance
with England and Germany for the
"protection" of Samoa is not less
gratifying.
The tariff bill will pass Congress
in very short time and will relieve
people of their most oppressive bur-
dens. 1t is the most just tariff bill
that has been passed or even con-
sidered by any Congress for thirty
years past.
L. is not upon blank pages that
the record of Democratic achieve
ments during the last fifteen months
is written, but upon pages crowded
with the story of lasting good ac
complished.
KIND Words.
Bro. George Washington Tip
Dett,s Point Pleasant REGISTER is