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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10
Conclusion.
HAMILTON NOMINATED
By Acclamation for Judge of the
Fifth Judicial District.

By Acclamation for Judge of the
Fifth Judicial District.
The judicial convention for the
Fifth judicial district composed oil
the counties of Calhoun, Roane
jackson and Mason was held Fri.
day afternoon at Ripley.
1t was the largest gathering Of
democrats that has ever occurred
in jackson county and there was g
great degree of enthusiasm.
Hon. John M Hamilton, of Gal
houn county. and Hon. Rankin
Wiley of Mason county were
placed in nomination
Mr.. Wiley withdrew his name
ard made motion that the nomin
alton be made by aoclamatlon ano
this was carried with great enthu
siasm
Mr.. Hamilton made dignified
and graceful speech thanking the
convention for the honor.
Mr.. Wiley told the convention
that Mason county would give Mr.
Hamilton united support.
Mr. Hamilton is one of the old.
est lawyers of the Little Kanawht
Valley. He has fine judicial mind
and all the other requirements fol
an able circuit judge. In addition
he has high standing as a Citizen
and polished gentleman. 1t may
be added that he will be elected.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10
Notice..

Sealed bids will be received at the office of
the Clerk of the County Court OF Mason
County, w. Va, for building two steel
bridges In said county, the first over mile
creek near the residence OF John r. Couch,
IN Atbuckle District, and the second over
Poplar Creek in Union District, near the res
ldence OF the late Chas. Baker. Each of the
said bridges to be a so foot span, with Il foot
roadway: Plans and specifications on file In
said Clerks Office.
Bids will also be received at same time for
~ seats, either wood or metal, for Court
h ouse yard. kind of seats and price to be
submitted with bids. Said bids will be re-
ceiVed by said Clerk until noon, Aug. I5 1904
j. L. THORN, President,
County Court, Mason County, W Va.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10
SIX THOUSAND.
Miles Walked by Man for Mythical
Prize.

Foot sore. travel stained and
weary. Renaldo Welcc, British
subject from Sand Jose, Costa Rica,
has reached the Worlds Fair sfler
a walk of 5000 miles, only to find
that he had been deluded by a
mythical prize of 81. 500. which he
had heard had been offered by the
exposition mpany. to the person
who walked the longest distance to
attend the Worlds Fair
Almost at the same moment that
Walco arrived, another long-dis-
tance pedestrian arrived at the
Worlds Fair ground in the person
of Mauritius Hetchter, of Bucha-
rest, Roumania, who had also at
tempted long distance walk, and
who had met with defeat
He started to walk to ST. Louis
from Bucharest He tried to reach
here by July Z. He arrived many
days late and then only after
giving mp his journey afoot in
Washington and taking train.
The prize he was after was one OF
10000, francs. offered by the Rou.
manian Touring Club, of which
Grown Prince Ferdinand is presi
dent.
Walco had much the longer jour,
ney. There were no oceans in his
path and every foot of the way he
walked. He left the little town oil
Esparta, in Costa RIGA. Dec. 81. In
January he was in Nicaragus, in
February he passed through San
Salvador. and April % he reached
the city of Mexico.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

1t is stated that Vice. President
nominee Henry g Davis and
Senator Stephen B. Elkins are the
principal capitalists back of the
plan for building the tidewater
railroad from the fiat top CIV. Va, }
GOAL regions to the sea. board at
Norfolk. There is charter for the
road and the survey has been made
for several hundred miles
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10
NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that on the Isl
Telephone Company, a corporation under
the laws Of the state Of West Virginia, filed
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, its appIica-
ton for franchise, to use and occupy the
streets, alleys, public roads, highways side
grounds and places of the said town, for the
purpose OF erecting, maintaining and oper-
atlng poles, wires, lines aud ali appurten-
ances, fixtures, appliances and devices for
transacttng general telephone business;
franchise desired
Point Pleasant Telephone Company.
aug $50 days
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

Coal is king in West Virginia.
You hear it in every nook and
corner in thu State. No matter
what other discussion may be up,
it stands aside for GOAL. The chief
topic at every gathering indicates
it's sovereignty. The GOAL business
is dull but it is mighty to what it
usec to be and all forms of mercan.
tile and commercial trade revolve
around GOAL. And then the coal
business lie still in its swaddling
clothes in West Virginia Think
of it. There are 100000 acres
of GOAL in West Virginia. To this
time only $4,000 acres have been
developed.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10
The Turning Of The Tide.

X
many good people-but mistaken
people-had some sort of notion
that Roosevelt's success was Just as
good as assured But they have
suffered severe jar Mr.. Roose-
velt has been lucky and that is all.
Those who are called lucky are
generally erratio individuals that
take chances and jump at conolu
eions The luck of such people
never lasts. for when their luck
turns they get ratified and throw
wisdom. if they possess any. to the
winds. President Roosevelt has
been lucky. but it has been the
luck of the gambler who takes
desperate chances and il sure to
meet reverses when everything
looks brightest for winning. Be-
fore the Democratic National Con-
vention met the Roosevelt luck
was at high water mark. In spite
of all the efforts of the Republican
machine politicians he had been
nominated by aoclamation, dictated
the platform and felt so sure of his
election that he selected an mex
perienced manager of his campaign
against thu protest of the wisest
leaders of the Republican party.
Since the nomination of Judge
Parker the Roose welt luck has
turned and fortune has sought
another to lavish her favors upon
The eclipse of Roosevelt began
when the star of Judge Parker ap.
peared on the national horiz sn.
He at once became the central ma
tional figure-a man who could be
looked upon to do the right thing
at the right time. The fustian
knight Roosevelt, who had infam-
ed the hearts of his followers with
questionable heroism at San Juan
Hill, who had slain bears and cata.
mounts, the cowboy and the rough
rider. sank into insigni6cance
when the civic hero appeared
When President Roosevelt refused
to receive the deputation of miners
his good fortune had deserted him,
a cranky spell possesses him. And
now we have the New Y,rk Post
saying:
Zone reason why Republicans
begin to fear that Roosevelt LUCK
is waning is undoubtedly their
perception of the awkwardness of
his having suddenly to appear an
collapsed hero Their detection
was really comic They never
dreamed of this Why, it almost
looks as if they had unoonsoiously
drawn their own platform to fit
Judge Parker. They held up a
candidate with 'olear head and
brave heart, ready for every emer.
genoy.'"
How by any possibility could
those words be used of the expect
ed Democratic nominee mere
Judge. who had never smelIed
powderP Yet the provoking man
quietly displayed before the ooun.
try ready courage in a great orr
sis, which instantly made Roose.
velt's lights burn dim, and caused
the nation to acclaim Judge Parker
as it's foremost political figure.
But let us make another quota.
ton. There is most important
aspect to all this. 1t means much
for our national ideals. We are all
hero worshipers whether we want
to be or not. We nave set before
us again the great civic virtues,
home bred and nurtured in peace.
1t sis only by oherishing and
cleaving to them and honoring
ing them that a nation can pass on
the LAMP of progress Indiana
polls Sentinel.
> L 81
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

During the slaughter of the
South African republic British
men-of-war seized American car
goes of -four, wheat, and canned
goods without the slightest hest
tation. Now England exhibits
great wrath because her vessels in
the Red Sea are subjected to the
same treatment.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

The people of Colorado have
paid one million dollars to set of
thugs called the state MALTA for
no other purpose than to prevent
them from enjoying the rights and
liberties which the constitution
guarantees to all citizens. And
about the only thing they have to
show foriit is the title of tyrant
which has been added to Governor
Peabody's name.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

Henry o. Middleton. a promi
nent Charleston attorney, attempt
ed suicide by outtidg his throat
last week, but was prevented from
accomplishing his purpose.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

James d Lewis, a well.known
Citizen of St. Adams. died at his
home In that town Thursday night.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

Mrs. Nelson A. Miles, wife of the
Lieutenant General, died at West
Point, last week. of heart disease,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

A great many from town attend.
ed the convention at Parkersburc
and Ripley last week.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

If the strike of the packing
house employees continues every
day will be Friday by and by.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

One half of the town of Albion.
Iowa, was reduced to ashes Au-
gust 4th. The losses reaches many
thousands.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

The mud our Republican con-
Temperatures throw at Henry G..
Davis will go to bury their cause
the deeper.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10
Republican Misrule

nc uU11Cdu mIbTu 16
II. We arrsign the Republican
party in this state for it's wasteful
Extravaganza in appropriations and
for its corrupt and fraudulent use
Of the machinery of elections, to
the end that it might be perpetu-
ated in power at the taxp ayers ex-
pense. 1t has increased the bur-
dens of government and, through
the acts of it's venal placemen, has
corrupted the ballot and lessened
respect for our institutions. We
demand the correction of these
practices and the restoration of our
politics to decent plane, to the
end that neither ourselves nor our
posterity shall be deprived of the
blessings of an honest, popular
government
Registration
LII. We believe that honest
efficient government can only be
secured and maintained by confin-
ing the right of suffrage strictly to
the legal aud bona tide citizens of
our State, and we believe that the
Islrictest legislation should be en-
acted to confine the right of
suffrage to this GLASS Aud we es
pecially denounce the action of the
states Republican executive and
it's Legislative majority in disre-
garding the mandatory and clearly
expressed will of the people, an
nounoed by the adoption almost
two years ago of constitutional
amendment requiring the legisla
ture to enact a registration law
which would prevent illegal voting
That such disregard was for the
purpose of continuing their party
in power by means of venaI, cor
rupt and illegal voters is rendered
the more conspicuous by the fact
that the Legislature has, since the
adoption of such amendment, CON-
vened in regular session without
the enactment of suoh a registra
ton law and has also been since
convened by the Governor in Elk
traordinary Session under a call
which permitted and required the
enactment Of laws creating indie
penden school districts and other
laws of relatively far less impor-
tanoe than the securing of honest
elections by the legal citizens and
voters of our sts::e, but failing to
provide for the enactment of a
law.
We declare that the crying evil
in our state and the greatest men,
ACE to the civic veal is the de-
bauohery of the ballot by means of
repeating and illegal voting. which
is, and has been, systematically
carried on in many counties of the
state by ring of corrupt Republi
can officials. state and federal, and
which is rendered possible by the
systematic importation of illegal
voteas into the State and by the
Republican party's refusal to en-
act a registration law. as required
by the constitutional amend
ments.
Poll Tax.
~. We further condemn the
Republican majority in the pres
emit Legislature for having defeated
the submission of constitutional
amendment, making the payment
of poll tax prerequisite to the
right to vote.
Special Session.
V We condemn the present
special extraordinary session of the
legislature. called by Republican
governor upon a hollow pretense
OF tax reform and designed for the
purpose of enacting into laws
hybrid bills concocted beyond the
limits of the state. with the intent
not to relieve but to deceive the
people. We condemn the same as
hypocritical. futile and extrava-
CANT.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10
Resolutions

The Democracy of West "
ia in convention assembled.
clare:
1. That we endorse the
form adopted by our national
vention at st. Louis and pat
pur devoted support to the car
dates of that conventions JUDY
Alton B. Parker, safe guard
pr our property and political righS
and Henry G. Davis, our Ronore
fellow citizen and trusted co1nse
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10
AUGUST 10. 1904.
Democratic Ticket

Democratic Ticket
National.
For President,
ALTON BROOKS PARKER,
of New York.
For Vice President,
HENRY 6ASSAWAY DAVIS,
of West Virginia
For Presidential Electors at Large,
LEWIS BENNETT,
of Lewis.
RIP. CHEW,
of jefferson.
State.
For Governor.
JOHN ]. CORNWELL.
OF Hampshire.
For Secretary of State,
W. g. PETERKIN,
of Wood.
For Auditor.
w. L. MANSFIELD,
OF Wayne.
For superintendent OF Free Schools.
NJ. D. HELMICK,
OF Peasants.
For Attorney General,
LAWRENCE REYMAN,
OF Ohio.
For Treasurer,
ROBERT s. CARR,
of Kanawha.
For Judge Supreme Court of Appeals,
MARMADUKE H. DENT,
ofTPylor.
HENRY GILMER,
of Greenbrier.
For Judge 5th Judicial Circuit,
JOHN N HAMILTON,
OF Calhoun.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10
STATE CONVENTION
Biggest in The History Of
State Democracy.
The Convention Abounded With Enthusiasm
and Harmony Reigned Supreme.
Tax Reform.

VI. We declare that the Demo
cratic party now, as it always has
been, is in favor of uniform sys.
tenn of taxation. so arranged as that
it will bear equally upon all per.
sons and property alike, SO that
equal and exact justice may be
done to all. with special privileges
and exemptions from such burdens
to none, and that equality of right
without the equality of burden
may prevail. But, believing that
these objects maybe attained unde,
the fullest and fairest sense undei
the present constitution we ap
prove the enactment of law pro.
viding for call for convention tc
frame new constitution for the
state, to the end that the people
thereof may vote upon and decide
the questions here involved, in &C
cordance with their wishes and
best Judgment.
Y - Capitol and Labor.
wiz We recognize that capital
Dor are dependent upon each
and that each has sacred
which are entitled to, and
ave, equal protection before
Conclusion.
To the accomplishment
hese ends. the cooperation oil
patriotic citizens is regardless
st or present party affiliations
Scordially invited; and Their
!, tion, in the event o.
ATTIC success. is in gooc
~. DALEY. Chairman.
III. FL. SAWYERS, Secretary.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

a company have leased about
1900 acres of land near PIiny. and
will commence to develop same for
oil at once.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

We believe we never knew any.
one who didn't talk too much
about the weather.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

The remains of F. Kent Loomis,
of Petersburg. who lost his life
from the steamship Kaiser Will
helm III arrived at ParkeIsburg
last week, and were laid to their
last resting place in Riverview
cemetery, Rev. j W. Frances of
the Presbyterian church officiating.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

The New York Herald, which
has been the acknowledged leader
of the great independent newspa
pers of the country, and which has
just recently declared for Judge
Parker has boiled down its reasons
} for doing SO into these few telling
words: 1.-THE issue now lies be.
tween Roosevelt, i. g., imperialism,
and Parker i. g Constitutionalism.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

Jacob e. EngIe, one of the edi.
tors of the Farmers Advocate, OF
Charles Town, Jefferson county,
died last week.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

Wisconsin Democrats will try
their LUCK again with the author of
"Peck's Bad Boy" as candidate for
Governor He was elected Gov.
ernor in 1892 when Republicans
were split into acrimonious fac
tions, and now they are in the
same fix again.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-08-10

Never in West Virginia's history
has the Democratic party of the
state held more harmonious and
satisfying convention than the one
at Petersburg, last Wednesday
and Thursday. ALI participants
are satisfied with the proceedings
of the convention, and all have
signified their intention to support
the entire ticket.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-10-28

ner will ship to the nearest and best
market. The miner will buy the pro
duets OF garden and fruit ranch and in
return give his gold from the mine.
Within less than a quarter Of a cen
fury this vast area, extending from Mex
leo to Canada and from the Dakotas to
the Pacific ocean, will be one moving,
surging hive of variegated industries. Not
only so, but the surplus to be disposed of
can be utilized in the East, and many
eastern manufactured products. which
will not be produced in the West, will
be taken in exchange. Again, millions
Of acres Of so-called bench land. and the
foothills, will be utilized in the produc-
ton of large quantities Of wheat. This,
together with lumbec. can be transported
to the Orient and exchanged there for
products which are not grown in this
country.
Party of Construction Responsible.
The Republican party "ouilded better
than it knew when it perceived that the
work Of retaining arid America should
be undertaken by the federal govern
ment. President Roosevelt has done
more to contribute to the future well
being of millions Of American citizens
by his advocacy OF the National Irriga-
ton Act and by having made it a law
by his signature. than any other Presi-
dent we have ever had-with the posi-
BILE exception of Abraham Lincoln.
Will the people of the arid region vote
for President Roosevelt? There is but
one voice from that district to-day, and
that is for ROOSEVELT AND FAIR
BANKS.
Judge Parker has never been west, has
never spoken a kindly sentiment Of the
West, and to all practical purposes does
not know nor care whether the West
exists.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-10-28
BLESSINGS OF IRRIGATION
Makes for Highest Social and Iudus-
trial Status-No Land MonoDoly.

Hon. William T.. Smyth, author of
ARID America has truly said that III
consideration OF the subject can be ap
preciated when it starts with the narrow
view that irrigation is merely an ad-
junct to agriculture. 1t is a social and
industrial factor in a much broader sense.
1t not only makes it possible for a civil
iZatlon to rise and flourish in the midst OF
deso!ate wastes; it shapes and colors that
civilization after It's own peculiar design.
1t is not merely the life blood Of the
field but the source OF institutions. These
wider and more Smile Influences are diff
cult to define in abstract terms, but we
may trace them clearly to the history
of various communities which have
| crown IN in conformity with these con
ditions.
The first great la Awhich irrigation
lays down is this: There shall be no mo-
nopoly Of land" The edict it enforces by
the remorseless operation OF its own
economy. Canals must be built before
water can be conducted upon the land.
This entails expense either OF money or
of labor. Whit is expensive cannot be
had for naught. Where water is the
foundation OF prosperity it becomes a pre-
cious thing to be neither cheaply acquir-
ed nor wantonly wasted. Like a city's
provisions in a siege, it is retained to be
carefully husbanded, to be fairly distrib-
uted according to mems needs, to be
wisely expended by those who receive it.
For these reasons men cannot acquire
as much irrigated land, even from the
public domain, as they could acquire
where irrigation is unnecessary. 1t is
not only more difficult to acquire in large
bodies but yet more difficult to retain.
A large farm under irrigation is a mis-
fortune; a great farm. a calamity. Only
the small farm pays, but this small farm
blesses its proprietor with industrial in
dependence and crowns him with social
equality. Industrial independence is, in
it's simplest term, the guarantee OF sub
sistence from ones own labors. 1t is the
ability to earn 3 living under conditions
which admit of the smallest possible ele-
ment Of doubt with the least possible de-
pendence upon others. Irrigation fully
satisfies this definition.
The irrigating canal is an insurance
policy against loss Of crops by drought,
while aridity is a substantial guarantee
against injury by flood. or all the ad-
vantages Of irrigation this is the most
obvious. Scarcely less so, however, is its
compelling power in the matter Of pro-
duction. Probably there is no spot Of
land in the United States where the aver
age crop raised by dependence upon rain
fall might not be doubled by intelligent
irrigation. The rich soils Of the arid re-
gion produce from four to ten times as
largely with irrigation, as the soil of the
humid region without it. As the meas
Of value is not area, but productive
capacity, twenty acres in the far is
equal to 100 acres elsewhere. Such is
the actu4 facts.