The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-30
A Scrcw Loose. !.

very truly yours,
II. G. DAVIS.
a Scrcw Loose.
We sometimes wonder whether
there is not screw loose in tho
adjustments of the code of honor
of those gentlemen who never get
tired of prating that the main ques-
ton in tho present campaign is one
of morality and honor. The Re-
publican nominee for President vo-
ted as member of congress to put
less than dollars worth of silver
in dollar when he voted for the
Bland-Allison bill and he did the
same thing when he voted for the
Sherman bill. 1t is true that the
market price of silver bullion was
higher then than it is now, but this
fact can not affect the question of
honesty, unless those who argue
along this line are prepared to hold
that petty larceny does not tarnish
honor, but that grand larceny does.
1t is n little singular, too, that
these gentlemen, who SO argue, do
not suffer from an enlargement of
the conscience about anything
else. The raids upon the public
treasury by a lot of free booters ex-
cite no indignation, the scandalous
decision in tho income tax case by
the corporation lawyers on the su-
promo bench, which has produced
all the trouble by causing a detici-
ency in the revenue excited no adj
verse remark by the gentlemen
who are now so sensitive about the
nations honor. The fact that this
court reversed its decisions on the
subject for hundred years, that
Shiras voted one way in the case
one month and exactly the opposite
the next, that the attempts at reas-
oning made by tho court could OK.
cite nothing but derision and con-
tempt in the mind of any man who
is capable of consecutive thought
upon any subject, all this did not
cause wave of trouble to roll
across these gentlemen's breasts,
but the proposition to return to
tho money of the fathers makes
their whole moral nature to revolt.
Can such things be and not over
come us like special wonderr-
Kanawha Gazette.
The Wayne News has this to
say in regard to email lettings"
and it contains good advice to
those contemplating bidding for
carrying the mails:
"'Hho mail routes in this State
are to be re-let to contract this fall.
Those who want contracts to carry
the mail should put in their bids
to the government just as low as
they will do the work. Then if
any nonresident speculator gets
the contract let him carry it him
self. If our people would stop
taking their cheap contracts off
their hands they would stop bid
ding in the service. The mail ser
vice is all bid in too low, and yet
the contractors have no trouble to
get some one to take it off their
hands little lower"
Riley Tanner found a good sized
tarantula in bunch of bananas
yesterday. 1t raised little con-
sternation. Somebody said it was
a free silver spider. Anyhow Riley
got Wayne Sanns to chloroform it,
and Wayne went to bottle it in
whisky, when it came to and he
killed it with stick Gallipolis
Tribune.
The.majority for John E. Beller
for Prosecuting Attorney, will be
overwhelming. A very large mum.
Der of Republicans will vote for
him. His election will save humid
reds of dollars to the county, be-
cause he will watch closely the ex-
penditures of the county.
MARRIED-At the County Clerks
office, at 3 p. m. Thursday, Sept.
oath, 1896, by Rev. s. A. Donahoe,
Pastor of the NJ. Il. Church, South,
Mr.. G. A. Cremeens to Miss An
geline Meadows; both of Mason
county.
What are the sports going to do
for hunting grounds?" Nearly
all of our farmers have posted their
lands witRsign-boa reading like
this: mo Hunting"
Worry heavv frosta have occurred