The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1895-11-06
Political Leaders.
Editor Register.

Editor Register.
Yonder, where "distance lends
enehantment to the view" are
lofty heights which trend south
westwardly through Buzzard's Bay,
aGotham," AN abbreviation for
Sodom and Gomorrah) Washing
ton, and thence to the south and
west. On those heights and in the
surrounding plains are the encamp-
ments of a mighty host.
AS we draw nearer, the unerriDg
characteristics of the children of
Jefferson manifest themselves. They
take great pride that they are the
inheritors and opponents of the
principles of that distinguished
statesman and patriot; one of the
founders of the great republic, and
one of the fathers of the "dollar of
the daddies;" and who, with Wash
ington, Hamilton and Madison, and
"a goody company" laid the
foundations of our government
broadly, deeply and wisely; inaug-
uratiug the old and reliable finan-
cial policy of bimetaIism, with sill
yer and gold as primary redemption
money. That financial policy has
carried our nation through four
wars, the last Of which was the
greatest, the bIoodiest, and the
most destructive of wars, without q
parallel in the worlds history. On
its historic fields it was not "Greek
that met Greek" but American
that met American-each with his
life in his hands. contending for the
doctrines Gas he understood them)
of the Constitution of the Fathers.
They have buried the Ratchet
and now smoke the pipe of peace
on the field of Atlanta. They have
beaten their swords into pillow shares,
and their batteries are reared into
memorials to the valor and heroism
of American patriots. The eagle
still tenaciously clings to the
culver of arrows as well as to the
olive, for the benefit of our alleged
"kin beyond the sea" Let Leo
'Iook a Ieedle oudt" that he does
not feel those sure and swiftly
flying shafts in his quivering flesh.
That wise bimetalic financial
policy has not only won our battles,
but supplemented by American
energy and courage, it has carried
this people from obscurity, insight
fcence and poverty to the front
rank among the nations, the peer
of the best of them in power, in
telligence and wealth, and the hap
piest of all.
But see, high over that valiant
host a banner has been unfurled to
the balmy breeze, and on its siIken
folds are engraven these legends:
"The Yindieation of My Policy"
"Free Raw Material" and "Sound
Money" 1t is evidently the head
quarter flag of the Administration
Democracy which came into
power, after years of denunciation
and indignation against the Re-
publicans for the treachery of that
party to the interests and wishes of
the American people perpetuated
in 1873 by the debasement and de-
monetization of silver, and on a
platform with the full and explicit
demand for the complete restora-
ton, and the "free and unlimited
coinage of silver"
The bosses and leaders of that
wing of the democracy have de-
parted from the faith once delivered
by their prophet, priest and king;
they have forgotten the wise coun-
sells of their founder; they have
wandered from their ancient affairs
and bow to a golden calf. They
have recalled their denunciations
of the characterization of silver in
actions that are louder than words.
Their righteous indignation ag-
ainst the nefarious class legislation
that impoverishes the people while
it enriches the sharks of Wall street
and the Shylocks of London, has
been by some magic agency most
wonderfully aPPeased.
"Sound money" in their vocabul,
airy, means gold for the banker, the
capitalist, the lender; and, as a con.
vention of bankers recently express
ed themselves, 1--WE favor the circula
ton of silver as money among the
people, to a reasonable extent, thai
is to say-an arbitrarily appreciated
coin for the rich, and an arbitrarily