The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-07-08


badly scared over the Gree silver
craze" as they put it.
The Windy City WILDE packed,
iammed and crowded, SO to speak,
with free silver shouters byneNt
Tuesday.
Ex.Judge Sam Woods, of Bar
bour county, is spoken of asa
suitable person to head the Demo
cratic State ticket.
The Cabell County Republicans
have instructed their delegates to
vote for Warren Miller for Con
gress, and John X. Thompson for
Auditor.
/ Old Joe Blackburn is candi-
date for the Presidential nomina-
ton in dead earnest, Old Joe
would clean out little Nc. in good
shape
President Cleveland's Secretary
of Agriculture, Hon. Sterling Nor
ton, says that silver will carry the
day at Chicago. One by one they
acknowledge the "corn."
Two. thirds of the people of these
broad United States are in favor of
the free coinage of silver, and if
they vote in one solid body they
will co,,,v fha election with enSe.
New Haven has a good sized
cigar factory, employing several
cigar makers. G, S. p. Edwards,
Populist candidate for Circuit
Clerk, is manager
Let every Democrat and silver
man put on his belt and grid
himsblf and be ready for tho
battle in November. Let him
sing the praises of Jefferson, Jack
son, Allen, Thurman and the Con
stitution.
Bland seems to be in the lead for
the Democratic Presidential nom
ination at this writing. 1t is re-
ported that Illinois and Missouri
have effected a trade i'll which the
former is to cast her vote for "Sil-
yer Dick"
The contest seems to be between
Bland and Boies for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination.
Either one would rally the true
silver men together from Maine to
California, and from the great
lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee,
will probably be permanent Chair
man of the Democratic National
Convention. No better selection
could be made, and then he is a
sound silver man from the ground
up. =
1t is claimed that Illinois will be
carried by tho silver ticket this fall
by one hundred thousand majority
We will be satisfied with fifty
thousand We don't want the
earth yet awhile, but we expect to
take the cream of it this fall.
That's enough.
The spirit of old Tom jefferson
will rise up and capture the Demo
cratic National Convention by
storm, and free silver, prosperity, a
full dinner pail, and good home
for the man who will work will be
the battle cry of the democracy till
the going down of the sun on the
3D. day of November.
Receiver John K. Cowan, of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has
announced that the company would
default on the semiannual interest
of 8 per cent on the $3,OOO,OOO
preferred stock, due July End.
The holders claim that the interest
on stock is first lien on the gross
receipts of the company and will
ask the courts to compel the re-
ceivers to pay it,
Frank A. Nash, while sitting in
his store last evening reading, had
fainting spell and fell out of his
chair unconscious on the floor,
which greatly excited for awhile
those present. A physician was
immediatly summoned, who adj
ministered the necessary assistance,
after which he soon recovered
Huntington Times, Both.
In the absence of the editor, ye
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