The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-08-28

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doing all in his power to cover him
with the protecting wing of Civil
Service rules, so that he may be
one of the great Office holding class
over and above common people.
During Cleveland's first admins
tration the Q. S. Marshal for West
Virginia, was warned by the de-
partment under which he served
that he and his deputies must not
participate in Democratic conven-
tions, implying that the admins
tration was too pure to permit such
things. But today we see Mr..
Cleveland sending his Secretary of
the Treasury to Kentucky to aid in
defeating Joe Black burn, and pack
ing the State Convention with Fed
eral office holders, in order to Sc
cure resolutions commendatory of
himself and the policy he repre-
sents. No Democrat in office is
safe from removal unless he
will give tongue in praise
Grover and Gold. To me the
most humiliating spectacle ever seen
in American politics was the creep
ing, fawniDg, sycophant subservi-
ency of a large number of Demo
cratic Representatives in the last
session of Congress. Repudiated by
their people because of their failure
to represent their constituents, they
were ready to go to an legth, to
vote for anything at the command
of Wall streets President, hoping to
secure as a reward some 0. the plums
within the gift of the President,
and many of them were rewarded
and are to-day in the enjoyment of
large salaries which aIe but the
price paid them for the betrayal of
their people. 1t was a memorable
scene in the last House Of Represen-
tatives when the Gold Bond Bill
was under consideration and Tom
Reed had the floor. How he swung
the lash of his keen wit over the
backs of those false friends of silver,
who, to use his own words had
"clamored year after year for free
silver" who had "times innumer-
able" declared in his hearing "that
nothing but free silver would salts
fy them" and "that without free sill
yer all will be ruin and desolation."
But now when their constituents
had spewed them out and the man
who had offices to give away de-
manded that they should forget
their old love and vote for gold, how
eager they were to do his bidding.
l wish that every citizen in the
United States could witness that
scene. No need to be in doubt as
to who he meant. Every man of
them as he listened to the ex- Cars
singing sarcasm had written on
his face, Bought with tho promise
of an Office" a stranger viewing
them could have marked them all.
Let us make the fight for silver in
1896, and make it hot from start to
finish, from the earliest primary in
the school district to the State and
National conventions. We can win
on this issue and no other, because
John Sherman rules the financial
policy of the Republican party and
that party is and always will be for
gold. Let the Democratic conven-
tions declare for silver in no uncer-
tain way. The Republicans dare
not do it. We can beat them easily
even if we do lose few of our So
called Democrats. Such Democrats
as those who assassinated the Will
son Billet them go; their loss will
not be felt and will be more than
compensated by recruits from the
Republican party who favor free
silver. Very truly yolrs,
J. CAPEHART.
Cincinnati, Aug, 22.-At New
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