The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-06-03
Thirty-Five Years.

w lIn InlS ISSUE VIC commence
the thirty-fifth year of the Weekly
Register under our management.
Volumes could be written of the
years that have passed by since we
founded the Register in 1862, in
the midst of the civil war, but we
content ourselves with the simple
announcement of the beginning of
our Both year. We hope to he
spared to continue in the publica-
ton of the Register for many years
to come, and after we have passed
beyond" to leave its publication
in the hands of those who will keep
the Registers flag flying for
Democracy and the rights of the
people.
The Republican band wagon is
in danger of being overloaded with
rotten stuff
The Office that is seeking the
man these days is so small that
even middle-of- the-road Populists
would not know it if he would
meet it face to face.
The Democratic County nomina-
ting Convention, has been called
for August LIST 1896. The official
call will be published in this paper
Monday.
The adulteration of food is in
furious to health and ruinous to
commerce, and it ought to be
stamped out as one of the worst
frauds of time.
The Republicans are trying to
take the tariff and silver out of
politics. There would be nothing
left for them but Mckinley and
Atkinson.
The silver mon seem to be hav-
ing things pretty much their own
way. 1t looks as if the other side
will have to do the boiling if there
is boiling to be done.
Mississippi's new law against
carrying concealed weapons with a
maximum penalty of three months
in the penitentiary and a fine of
500 is being enforced, with good
results.
The gold bugs assert that if we
have free silver the gold will all go
out of the country. Suppose it
does, what harm will it do? If we
owe anybody any dollars our silver
dollars will pay the debt. Then
we won't need any gold.
The new cruiser Brooklyn runs
twenty-four statute miles an hour,
and she can steam 1000 miles in
three days. With later Paul
Jones on board she would make
things interesting in the ports of
foreign enemy.
While it is true that the free
silver men will have absolute con-
troll of the national Democratic
Convention at Chicago, yet the
friends of the white metal should
continue to work with all their
might in order to make ii as nearly
unanimous as possible.
So far as Col. Smith for County
Clerk, and Mr.. j. A. Dunn, for
Commissioners, who were nominal
ed by the Populists, as Silver
Democrats, are concerned, the
Democrats will nominate and en-
dorse them, but the party will go
no further. Democrats will never
consent to an endorsement of the
entire Populist ticket, and those
who are trying to accomplish it,
might as well take another tact.
The delinquent tax list now pub
lished, is an interesting study. 1t
is shame that SO many people al
low themselves to be returned de-
linquent for their personal and
school tax. From reading over the
lett seems to us there are many
hundreds of dollars that might
have been collected ifthe deputy
sberiffs had been moro diligent.
Many of these fellows who are re-
turned delinquent are the most
blatant high tariff protectionists
and single gold standard men in
the county.