The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-07-29

kilograms have been sent ahead to
hold up the shanty boat
Peanut Politicians.
In Mr. Bryon's Omaha speech =
last Tuesday night lie said: a
"If you tell me that you believe
TINT | honestly indorse the princi-
pies in the platform upon which L
stand, | tell you TINT / believe my
opponent indorscs the principles in
the platform he stands upon, but
principles and not candidates will
win tho November battle. 1 tell
you that any man who charges tho
with being Anarchists and disloyal 4
American citizens slanders the
brnvost people who have ever lived.
pnign fighting for what we believed
TO be right, and tho matter shall be
determined by the sober sense of I
the American people"
How differcnt in patriotism, hon
esty and the proprioties of life are
the above sentiments, from those
nlducod by the peanut politicians
and tho man who claims to be the
Boss of the Republican party in
Mason county. No personal cpl
thets and aspersions are too vile to
be applied to the advocates of sill
yer, the peoples money, and what
we, with millions of others, bclieve
to be the financial salvation of the
toiling masses and those business
men of limited means dependent
upon them and who must save I,
these same business men the ruin !
and bankruptcy that stares them
in the face if the gold policy of
the barons of Lombard street, in
London and Wall street, in New
York, prevails. Read the above,
peanut politicians and would Nd be-,
l9esses1 e1 4lft'gs 4Alfatafs-55 ) 9trr- 1e6ds in shame,
repent and resolve to meet argu-
ment with argument fairly, and
avoid vile personalities and asser-
tions.
Blaine Against Recommendations.
/ believe the struggle now going
on in this country and in other
countries for single gold stand.
ard would, if successful, produce
widespread disasterin and through
out the commercial world The
destruction of silverand establish
ing gold as a sole unit of value (,
must have n ruinous effect upon
all froms of property except those
improvements which yield fixed
return in money. III is impossible
to strike silver out of existence .gs
money without results which will
prove distressing to millions and
disastrous to tens of thousands.
believe gold and silver coin TO be
tile money of the constitution; in
deed, the money of the American
anterior to the constitution, which
the great organic law recognized as
quite independent of it's own ex-
istcncc. No power WAS conferred
ON Congress 10 declare either metal
should not be money. Congress
has, in my judgment, no power to
ldemonetize silver any more than to
demonetize gold jas. g. Blaine,
February, 1878.
The Gazette denies that Blaine
ever made speech containing this
Fextract If the editor will turn to
the Congressional Record, he will
find it in full. He has the Record,
now let him be honest and truthful
in the discussion of the financial
issue. Don't try to mislead the
people Tell the truth, even il 1t z
does hurt.
c. p Dorr, renegade Demo-
crat, who left the party when he
could get no more Offices, has been
nominated by the Republicans for
Congress in the Third district, and
loyal Republicans are kicking like
steers. Ex-Goycrnor Wilson will
send Dorr to retirement.
The ratio of is to L means that
a silver dollar shall weigh sixteen
times more than gold dollar the
same as it is at present and She
same it has always been, WITT
slight variation, since the este
lishment of the American mint