The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-03-01

THO SrcaU IJcluOcTuGiC A@SaaAoA'
Day before yesterday the Regis
ter published synopsis of the pat
riotic address of Mr.. w. j. Bryan,
the gallant leader of Democracy,
and able champion of the cause of
the people, before the Virginia
Democratic Association at Wash
ington, on Wednesday night, Feb
ruary 22nd, and which will be re-
produced in our Weekly issue of
March LIST.
The Washington Post referring
TO Mr.. Bryan, and drawing a COM
parison between him and Grover
Cleveland, says:
"Perhaps it would be better to
describe them as one leader and
one back number-we refer to Will
liam j. Bryan and Grover Cleve-
land-for the former is alert, in
stinot with life and vigor, strenu-
GUS, enthusiastic, virile' and the
other reeks with the dullness and
the gangrene of Mugwumpery.
Cleveland left his party weaker,
more incoherent and moro discord-
ar. than he found it. Bryan took
up the dying embers of it's spirit
and famed them into raging flame.
He gave his party inspiration, fer
vor, hope. He animated and re-
vivitied it. Despite the assertions
and the treacheries wrought by
vanity and avarice in 1896, he de-
veloped some 100000 more votes
than had ever been Coast for any
Democratic candidate before, in
Guiding Mr.. Cleveland, and he gave
to the country the spectacle of an
ardent, united, and home generous
party organization. While Mr..
Cleveland, thrice the nominee of q
Democratic national convention
and indebted to the party for all
his ominence and prosperity
while Mr.. Cleveland sat apart, a
sullen conspirator against his quon-
dam benefactors, encouraging inf
deity and lauding party wicked
ness, Bryan famed in the forefront
of the battle, striking and invig-
Grating figure, the incarnation of
youth, and strength and ardor. He
relit the fires of Democratic zeal.
He gave the party life, put blood
into it's veins, and set it's pulses
throbbing. He held thousands in
the grasp of his imperious elo-
quence, and sent them from him
tuned to loyalty and heroism. He
took the dead carcass of the Democ-
racy from the ground upon which
his predecessor had contemptuous-
ly flung it, and filled it with the
fire and the JOY of youth.
"Say what one may as to the
soundness of the doctrine Mr..
Bryan preached, there can be no
two opinions as to his qualities of
leadership. Mr.. Cleveland hid
himself in the temple of his party,
solemn, owlish, heavy as pagan
idol, but Mr.. Bryan took the van
guard of his army and led it, pal
pitating and inspired force, into
the red vortex of the fight. The
one was an oracle, hid away in
caves, yelled in mystery, manifest
ing himself in rumblings and
strange noises. The other, an i'm
petuous apostle, with bright sword
and flashing armor, cleft the way
for those that followed him. No
doubt there are. doting and infatu-
ated idolaters who still await
another advent of the Mvgwump
dispensation. another revelation of
the Mugwump fetch. But the
Democracy on the fighting line
have done with ecstasy and super
stition. He who leads them next
year must be a thing of flesh and
blood-a warrior himself"
The order to muster out the Sec
ond West Virginia Regiment has
gone forth from Washington, and
the boys encamped at Greenville,
South Carolina will be ready to re-
turn homo in the near future, if the
complications around Manila does
not cause a revocation of the order.
The beef investigation is now on
and there is quite bad admins
tration smell in the breeze. We
are soon to know what kind of stink
ing meat our soldiers boys were re-
quired to eat.
Mr.. Francis Thornton, of Letart,
late of Co. b, 18th w. Va. Unfit,