The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-06-27
Communication.

retrenohment and reform in nation
all, state and county government.
They arc in favor of an equal num-
Der of judges of both political par
ties to take the vote.
We favor a reduction of all coun-
ty officers salaries. especially till
after we can pay tho comfy and
district debt. We are in favor OF
reducing the Prosecutors salary to
$5OO;-we are in favor of county
Treasurer and save the commissions
now paid the sheriff; we are in fav
or of letting all public work to the
lowest bidder; we are in favor of
claims against the county and dis
trict to be proven to be just before
allowed; we are in favor of Assess
ors swearing all property holders to
give true list; we are opposed to
the court paying commission
($2OO) to settle with the sheriff;
we arc opposed to paying rent for
Surveyors office, when he has one
in the court house; we are OPP
posed to buying carpets for the
Jail; we are in favor of all coal
mined and oil produced in West
Virginia and taken out of the state,
to be taxed l mill per bushel for
coal, also mill per gallon for OIL
and the proceeds to so to free
school purposes-th Porto Rico
amendment to the constitution
makes it constitutional.
We are opposed to paying any
part of the original state debt oil
Virginia, only the amount of the
state funds that were expended in
the counties that constitute the
state of West Virginia. We are
in favor of paying the present
county and district debts as soon Rt
possible to stop the interest. We
are opposed TO the course the adj
ministration has taken with the
Cubans in putting them under
military carpet bug rule, after
promising them their independ-
ence.
We are opposed to keeping
standing army to keep in subjuga.
ton race of people $1,000 miles
from the American shore, under
the pretense that they are not ca
pable of self government. The adj
ministration should have ascertain
ed that fact before they paid S2O,-
100000 of the peoples money to
Spain for a quit claim
We want all voters that claim TO
be possessed of Christian spirit,
to give the matter due considera-
ton before casting a vote in favor
of the present administration, to
ask himself if there is any true
christianity in buyirg a quit claim
on 100000 people, 1900 miles
from the American shore and call.
ing out 100000 Of our young men
and send them to tropical climate
to be slaughtered and lay vast their
country and homes Of their wives
and children, that they had occupi,
ed for over 200 years. What have
they done to us that justifies such
treatment? Spain with all her
barbarous modes of warfare never
could conquer them and take full
possession of their territory, SO
she sold her quit claim to the pres
ent administration. This admins
tration has been near two years
trying to subject them to carpet
bag government, spent millions of
the peoples money and thousands
of our sons lives, that we look to
as our support in our declining
years, have been led to the
tropical slaughter never to
return to their native land again.
We have failed to see how the
rising generation is to be benefited
for all this sacrifice of life and
money, unless it is to mako room
for the appointment of lot of
military carpet baggers to rule over
them, as they are doing in Cuba
now.
After giving yourself time to
fully consider the state of things
that now exists in this land of the
brave and the home of the free, if
you as Christian voter think you
can say you have the good will of
your fellow man, and as Christian
fellow citizen can endorse all this
administration has done and that it
is all right in the sight of God and
man, cast your voteto perpetual,
the present state of our affairs; if