The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-03
IseDnDIican IsesoInfions.

lof platform dQOpI6u Dy lAs
ten Republican Rings ratifi-
ion meeting, of last week, is
boses loquacious, mendacious.
So well marked that every one
ows It's author. 1t is proof pos
re of the extreme Bossism now
ninating the Republican party
his county.
he next National or State Re
blican Convention need not
nd time worrying over a plat
ID all it has to do is to come
lason county, West Virginia,
End one already manufactured
ornamented with all the gew-
g of perfdy.
BIS platform should be engross-
Cd pom the purest of yellum and
er ed in the finest cf gold and
lla way in the archives of Repub-
J IL: VI eacor1s as the latest fullest
truest exposition of Republican
Bossism, ringism and deception.
In It's first resolve it "congratu-
lates the Republicans upon the
lmagni6cent Republican victories
won in this county during the past
fourteen years" but it fails to con-
gratulate the people of Mason
county upon the fact that these
magnificent victories have costthe
Taxpayers enormous thousands of
d 5llars, and have resulted in de
fcit and debt of 100000, or more.
This platform gravely tells the
people that "wheat, cattle. sheep
and wool did rise in price
under the gold standard, but it
does not tell the voter that these
articles did not stay risen; it does
not say that wheat is now about
65c a bushel. It does not inform
an already enlightened public that
when wheat and some few other
articles took an advance in price
that gaunt famine was stalking
abroad in all wheat-growing coun-
tries, excepting the United States.
This congratulation omits the
statement of the fact that when a
few months since wheat reached
the dollar mark, that the thieves
in the Chicago wheat pit and the
Well street gamblers were having
little fun at the expense of the
American farmer. These remarka-
able resolutinns are silent about
the rise in all other productions;
they are as dead as the deepest
fathoms of the sea about the rise
in the price of labor under the
gold standard. These resolutions
are as silent as the grave about
the lowering in price of all the
necessities that the teeming mil
lions of this country have to use.
They are as dark as night about the
pIentifulness of cash among the
people to relieve their pressing
wants.
These congratulations are SO
loquacious that it would take a
week to analyze in e,etensO. Their
mendacity is SO bold that it is sim
full to ask long suffering public
to consider them.
Toward the fnis, the people are
informed in this style. I'VE favor
the payment of every honest out
standing unpaid order" Well,
who is SO dishonest as not to want
every A0nest order paid? We are
centainly glad that the Ring in its
ebulitions was honest enough to
declare itself in favor of paying
honest debts. This in a good sign.
The County Court is praised for a
55 cent levy, which raises in round
numbers $4,000 when one-half of
this sum is moro than sufficient to
pay the legitimate running expen-
ses of the county and all "honest
and outstanding unpaid orders .
What is this enormous sum for ex-
eept to be parcelled out to the
Rings henchmen in swindIing jobs
in order that another magnificent
victory" for the Ring may be had.
These resolutions denounce as
untrue the county debt of 500, 600,
yet they fail to state committee,
the majority of which was COM
posed of Republicans. reported a
debt of S76, sos 80, which is inter
est bearing from 1885 to the present
time. These resolutions finally
wind up, at the end of four col
umns, with a curious appeal for
THE United States Senatorship.
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