The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-04-15
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rivalry among the Office seeking
Republicans of this State. 1t is
needless to say their name is legion.
Nearly one fourth of the party vot-
ing strength seem to be out for
office. They are not taking any
Democratic opposition into con-
siderution. They are always ready
to assume that there is none. Re
publican nominations are regard
ing as equivalent to election. The
Democrats are still playing the
tarbaby. But to them the situation
is amusing. 1t is more amusing
on account of the fact that the
malcontents, who a few years ago
made the party life miserable, are
now at the very front in the Re-
publican ranks, are brandishing
their meat axes in each others
faces. They are in for spoils and
they left the Democrats because
there were no spoils in sight for
them there. They are as utterly
destitute of any political principle
as they are of moral honesty. They
are Greeks, not bearing gifts but
asking them. They command no
votes but their own, and these are
never certain until they are inside
the ballot Wetzel Democrat.
Recent circulars from n Wall
street house expresses regret that
the "rural communities" have more
votes than the money owning
classes, and the reason it gives for
the the regret is that those com
munities can not be relied upon to
maintain the chest dollar" that is,
the dollar of the highest purchas-
ing power. Why should any per-
son or community except those
purely in the money lending bust
ness wish to decrease the value of
their property and labor and every
thing they raised when measued
in this gold dollar of yearly in
creasing power? If the purchas-
ing power goes on increasing, as it
must under the gold standard, n
farm which represents $4,000 or
city block representing 100000 or
a house representing $4,000 or a
bushel of wheat representing 80
cents, or days labor bringing
$1,5O will soon represent only
three-fourths or one-half of those
amounts, but debts will not call
for any less number of dollars.
The State Committee has made
the call for the district conventions
to select delegates to Chicago. The
Democrats of the Fourth Congress
ional District will meet at Point
Pleasant, June 18th, to select two
delegates and two olternates, also
one delegate at large and one al
ternate. 1t is about time Mason
county Democrats were taking
some action.
The silver Republicans are being
held up when they come to town,
at every turn and corner by the
bosses, and the cry is you vote for
Sound currency" on the penalty
of being publicly accommodated
from the party.
The officers of all the labor or
carnations in the United States
have united in proclamation to
the country favoring the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
The whole Republican party in
this county, seem to be candidates
for office; and their cry is "Give
me an Office, or give me deathH
Rev. G. II. Hurd has closed his
meeting at Hickory Chapel, and
will returnoto his home in Cincin-
natl, today.
Ex-President Harrison's name is
again mentioned by some Republi-
can papers as n possible clark
horse"
The editorials in the Gazette, on
the silver question, reminds one of
the story of Don Quixote, who
went out to fight wind-mills.
All this story about the "Prodi-
gal Sons Return Home" would
have been spoiled had the young
rascoPs money held out, and the
old man would never have had a
chance to kill the fatted calf and
fall on the boys neck if he hadn't
cut too wide swnth and stayed out
too late with the boys and girls,
and blowed in the dollars of his