The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-11-23

IaNeS rSQuceo.
Let the roads out to the lowest
bidder.
When man gets a county or
der pay the cash without discount.
That no man or woman could
get a certificate without they were
sober and competent to teach.
That no teacher should have to
pay for a certificate while others
get them by political pull
Some people wonder how the
G ,rporations. trnsts and syndicates|
can afford to contribute so much
money for the Republican cam
paign fund one year after another.
1t is plain enough to those who un-
derstand.it. The Republican par
ty through its laws and policies
gives back to them ten fold what
they contribute to the campaign.
After all the whole amount of mon
ey contributed to the Republican
campaign fund is refunded and the
common people are made to repay
it. The money power is not
only relieved from nearly all taxa
ton but the laws and policies of
the Republican party are shaped
SO they steal from the people right
while the peopls are looking at
them. The trusts and corporations
lose nothing by contributing to
the Republican party when that
party is successful.
Owen S. Mckinney, of the Fair
mont Index, is said to have cinch
ON the speakership of the House of
Delegates. His superior intelli-
gence and splendid personality
ought to constitute him an ideal
presiding officer. The probability
is that the Democrats will need
man of grit and backbone in the
Speakers chair at the coming ses-
sion. Mckinney would fill the
Charleston Gazette.
One of the mistakes of Bryan's
public life was his enlistment in
the army. The moment he did
that he put himself just where the
Republicans and gold standard
men wanted. him. They at once
laid plans to deny him an oppor-
tunity to fight, and of course he
had no opportunity to talk. If
Bryan had been liberated during
the last campaign, the Democrats
would have swept the country like
a prairie fire. We advise him to
get out of the army and get out at
once.
Roane county invariably goes
back on the Democratic party in
"off years" This year is not the
first time this thing has happened
in Roane. a large lot of campaign
money was used in Roane and it
is said that some leading Demo
Gratis up there were in conspiracy
with the Republican Congression-
al committee to turn the vote of
that county over to Freer. 1t is
limited that certain Democrats re-
ceived goodly slice of the Doodle
and their treachery is certain to
kick back on them hereafter.
Prominent Democrats in Roane
met in secret meeting with por-
ton of the Republican Congress
sional committee right in the town
of Spencer and there the deal was
consumated.-W Wayne News.
The way for the reform people
of this State, and Mason county
in particular, to reduce taxation,
and the only way, is to curtail ex-
penses. There is no doubt hun
dreds and thousands of dollars an
nually squandered, in Mason coun-
ty, in order to keep an army of
unscrupulous workers and plug
gers in jobs that are no benefit to
those who pay the taxes. The
Legislature at its next session
should reform the laws for our To-
cal county government in the
State. No party should be allowed
to keep up an army of heelers at
the expense of the taxpayers.
So far as ascertained, the wo-
men who had votes in several of
the Western States this fall exer-
cised their right of franchise with
remarkable independence of party
control. IF the women of the West
keep up in this way the work of
good citizenship, they will be do
ing much to convince the country