The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-09-20
HON. ]. B. lAHNHGER.
PROMINENTLY MENTIONED AS
A CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR.
He is willing to Accept tile Hon
or If rendered Him.
An Entertaining Talk on the
Political SituatlOn.-H His
Visit to Chicago.

Political HIS
Visit to Chicago.
Charleston Daily Courier, 14th.
Hon. James b. Menager, of Point
Pleasant, was in the CITY to-day
and talked to a reporter of the
Courier on politics Mr.. Menager
having just returned from Chicago,
where he met and talked with sew
political leaders, he was asked how
the people in that part of the coun-
try were feeling in regard to the
present political situation. He
said:
Yes, / was in Chicago last week
on professional business. OF
course, politics was talked, We
can't escape it if we try, and / don't
believe we should if we could do so.
1t is a part of us. The trust ques-
ton, the tendency towards imper-
ialism and expansion as it is called,
will produce something like cy-
olonic revolution in this country
in 1900 and the overwhelming de-
feat of Harrison in 1892 will be
nothing compared to the defeat
that is awaiting Mckinley. There
was universal protest against the
policy of the administration to-
wards the Philippines. 1 met sew
eral prominent Republicans and all
of them denounced the scheme,
not only because they believed the
Philippine inhabitants were en-
titled to this liberty for which they
had been struggling SO many years,
but because they are opposed to
the annexation of such a people,
They know that to hold those i. l.
ands means a large standing army,
entering wedge to a change of our
government, and that will never be
permitted. 1t was all right to whip
Spain, but it is all wrong to rule
any people with bayonets, What
would the South have been to-day
but for the strong, yet tender and
true sentiment of the North that
demanded and enforced the with
drawal of the bayonetsP No peo-
Pile containing within themselves
ideas of liberty for which they were
ready to sacrifice their lives ever
were reconstructed with bayonets
pointed at their breasts.
Asked what he thought of the
Republican policy of imperialism
Mr.. Menager said:
"The soldiers should be taken
out of Cuba. The idea that the
Cubans can't govern themselves is
a mere pretext to hold the soldiers
over them. The same was said of
the South after the war. The GU
bans would become a people of
freedom if they were given the OPP
portunity.
What about Mr., Bryan?
Mr.. Bryan will be renominated
without opposition in the conven-
ton. His campaign in 1896 was
matohless considering his youth.
The circumstances that surrounded
it and the opposition he encounter.
ed; his consistency since, has
doubled his strength. The none
tary question is bound to enter into
the contest with the free coinage
of silver to the front. / heard
nothing to the contrary.
"Mr. Menager, your name has
been mentioned in connection with
the Democratic nomination for
Governor" said the reporter. care
you a candidate?"
II am for the Democratic nomi-
nee for Governor first; if that honor
comes to me 1 will take care of it.
~ ain not seeking a nomination.
My friend Tippett of our charming
Daily mentioned my name in that
connection not long since and 1 as
sure you 1 felt fattered at the way
the Democratic newspapers re-
sponded. Yes, Chicago is great
oity. Some have said that the pro-
ducts of nature, are the materials
of art and you may depend upon it
that the White City is enjoying
many of our products of nature by
reducing or changing them into
useful materials and is destined to
draw more largely upon u.s."
The collections of internal reve-
nue. taxes in the district of West
Virginia for last month show a de-
crease of $12,O446O, as compared
with the receipts for August, 1898.