The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-02
CHATS BY THE WAY.


gans of Ex-Governor Frank s. Black,
who aspires TO Dust Depew from his
comfortable seat in the Senate"
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Among the numerous reforms that
may be looked for in the event of the
election of Judge Parker is one for
the preservation of the lives OF trav-
elers by water. The steamboat inspec-
ton service, by practice of graft and
Indulgence in favoritism, has been ad-
mittedly rotten, like the bulk of the
life preservers aboard the Inflated
General Slocum. 1t was rottenest
when Chairman Cortelyou was Secre-
tary of the Department of Commerce
and Labor, which has under its juris-
diction the steamboat inspection SER
vice.
The Panama chicken is coming home
to roost before the coop is ready. 1t
was not intended to be ready until af-
ter the election.
The Steel Trust takes from the pock-
cts of our people and does not even
give its workmen a fair share of its
swag. In fact, it robs them right
along with the rest of the people and
besides giving to foreigners a better
bargain than to our own people.
All signs point to the election of a
Democratic House of Representatives.
Then will the time come when u rot
ten Administration will not be per-
mitted to investigate itself and exclude
Congress from participation.
Announcement is made that during
the New York campaign the Republic
cans will keep Odell in the back
ground. The Democrats, on the 9TH
er hand, will keep Odell and Odellism
well to the front. They are worth thou
sands of votes.
Roosevelt boasts of his undying de-
votion to civil service reform, yet not
In dozen years has the law been so
extensively and flagrantly violated as
now. All over the country Government
employees are being forced to contrib
ute TO the Roosevelt campaign fund.
The New York Press predicts that
Roosevelt will come down to the Har-
lem River with 10000 plurality. If
he reaches that point with 5000 plu-
rality he will be doing very well, but
even the former figure will not save
him, because Judge Parker's lead be-
low the Harlem will be at least 125, 900.
This is Democratic year in New
York.
We have often wondered Just what
was the matter with Tom Watson and
now we know. The Nashville Ameri-
can let's the cat out of the bag. "Tom
has had a kind of viperish, gangrenish
hatred for the Democracy ever since
Judge Fuller, of Georgia, mopped up
the earth with him in two separate
races for Congress"
The Boston Journal, the newspaper
that the Vermont Republicans regard
as only less sacred than the Bible, re-
ports that eleven men have subscribed
each $1,000,000 to the Democratic
campaign fund, and yet the Journal is
sure that Roosevelt will win out. This
nice little wad of the "long green is
to be dumped into the doubtful
States. Next!
Governor-Chairman odell says these
stories about "perversion of State
funds" are lies from start to finish.
ION the contrary" he says, 81 have
saved the State over $6,OOO,OOO by my
NetOes." What an awful lot of graft
ers Odell's henchmen must be, If, in
addition to what they got away with,
the boss held them up and made them
disgorge to the tune of $6,0OO,OOO!
you can see twenty acres of Philip
pine life at the worlds fair, but you
cannot see square rod of the Consti-
tution."-Justice Brewer, of the Unit
ed States Supreme Court.
Respectfully referred to President
Roosevelt, with the suggestion that
Justice Brewer be promptly tried for
high treason.
The campaign for the perpetuation of
odellism in the State of New York is
progressing beautifully. mo act of
the Republican State Administration
could bring n blush of shame 10 the
face of any Republican," exclaimed
State Senator Elsberg, one of Odelrs
henchmen, in closing an impassioned
plea for fair treatment of the Govern
or-Chairman. Marvellous comments
the Republican New York Sun, that
so immaculate n thing should dIffuse
such an appalling stench!
Colonel George Brumder, of MiIwau-
kee, who started out to help elect
Roosevelt, has decided that he made a
mistake, and is now advocating the
election of Judge Parker instead.
Colonel Brumder owns the leading Ger
man-American newspaper in MiIwau-
kee. He is also the proprietor of the
Freie Presse. published in Lincoln,
Neb., and a German-American weekly
OF large circulation in Chicago. Colonel
Brumder is recruit worth having. II
is fact of considerable significance