The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-05-11
Ietter From New Haven.
Nnw HAvnN. W.. w. May eIh

New HAVEN, w. VA. May 9th.
ED1ToR REe1srER: An editorial
in the Cincinnati Times-Star of
the 9th instant, gives the silver
forces of this country cue as to
what they may expect the Repub-
licans to attempt during the present
session of Congress, and should
serve as warning to the members
of Congress favorable to silver to
be constantly on guard and subject
every measure proposed by the
gold men, which, in any way, re-
Iates to our finances to the most
critical and thorough analysis.
The editorial referred to begins
with these words. "Henry Wat
terson was right when he said the
Spanish war would ''get us out of a
rut, and closes with this para
graph. Another rut that will dis
appear, is the silver rut." Follow
ing the war period of extraordi-
mar commercial activity may be
confidently predicted and nor
NAL conditions will insure period
of prosperity that will keep agita-
tors and Populists into well-earned
obscurity." May be confidently
predicted" indeedI OF course it
may, for we are well aware that a
Republican editor will con1fdently
predict any thing that he has, even
the remotest hope of getting his
dupes to believe, if in his opinion,
it will aid his party in its Infamous
and diabolical scheme of binding
and riveting upon us the chains of
the money power and the slavery
of Plutocracy.
The editorial means that the de-
mands made upon Congress by the
government for money with which
to carry on the war, will be taken
advantage of by the Republicans
in the lower House of Congress, in
which all revenue measures must
originate, to further the plans of
the gold standard men and by the
close of the war they will have so
far succeeded as to make flu Their
resistance by the silver forces fu-
tile. And they will not fail to hold
the charge of lack of patriotisms
over the heads of those members
and Senators who dare TO oppose
this plot.
They will also charge all who OPP
pose them with demagoguery, with
injecting politics into the debate
and letting the country's interests
suffer in order to sustain them
and uphold it's tenets.
We hope every silver man in
both branches of Congress will
stand firm in opposition to all such
plots and schemes and remind the
Republicans that they themselves
are responsible for bringing poll
tics into their discussions, by try
ing to make the necessities of the
government an excuse for putting
into effect their own political here
sizes in formulating revenue meas
ures based upon the principle
which was the chief question at is
sue in the last campaign and which
on account of the lodgings, the
sophistry end the false promises
and representations of the Repub-
Leans was not settled.
What good to the American citi-
zen could this be, which was not
confidently predicted by the Gin
einnati editor to follow the success
of the Republican party in the last
campaign; and how many of his
confident predictions came true?
w believe that there are enough
members in the two branches of
Congress who have the welfare of
the common people at heart, to see
to it that this latest confident pre-
diction'' will come true just like
the prosperity which was SO conf
IDENTIFY predicted would follow up
on the restoration of the confidence
which was to be inspired by the
success of the Republican party in
1896. REP.
DIR. McGinnts Dead.
Special to Register.
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