The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-10-06
GOVERNOR IS SILENT
AND THE ULTRA SESSION MISERY'S
BATTLING TO THE POPULAE.
By Charles Brooks SMITH


politicians, Verify, the gum shoe
brigade is abroad in the land, and
the ReminStons are clicking day and
night the breezy gossip to prodig-
iOus proportion of an intelligent read
ing public that likes to be regaled by
It. Scott has been of along the
Great White Way makingmerry with
the Hudson-Fulton celebrators; Ell
kins has been taking the aqua pura
punishments at the Virginia Hot
Springs; and Glasseock has been
handing the Monongalia people the
pleasant palazza over their Home
coming. In the meantime rumors
possessing qualities of more or less
credence, with those touching the
extra legislative session attaining the
highest altitude.
Governor Glasseocls's reticence has
served to add fuel to the eOntrovers-
ial flames At Morgantown, in pub-
lie and private talks, he allowed no
slip of the tongue to disclose his
hand. With one of his most intimate
friends there hedScassed the subject,
but let no void drop that would hint
at his intention. Prior to his depar-
ture from Charleston, he discussed
years the world has produced as
much gold as in the entire period
since the discovery of America, and
in so years as much as in the four
preceding centuries. Expert author
ity is given for the statement that
record await searchers for the meal,
and that the production will increase
constantly and indefinitely. OBJ
viously then, the limit has not been
reached in the cost of living.
Academic discussion of the subject
may be instructive to the victims of
the same subject with another close
to him, man high up in Official life,
but the letter from the latter that
lies on the desk before me is heavy
with doubt.
Amusing, indeed, would be medi-
tation over the present hurlyburly
about the mooted extra session sub
ject, if it were not for the silly, yet
serious shafts, that impugn the mo-
tives of the many excellent men of
the press. That tends to weaken
public confidence in the probity of
the papers. 1t taints an otherwise
instructive and interesting discussion
with sinister suspicion. Those who
are for the session say the lobbyists
of the 'interes sts'' are fighting stren-
uously against it for selfish reasons,
as if the lobbyists would have the
heart to throttle the goose that laws
the golden egg! Lobbyists live on
legislatures; what profteth peace to
the fighting man! They and their
kind would, if they could, have sess-
ions perpetual instead of biennial.
And those who have been drumming
their harps against the extra session
have been so unkind as to allege that
those who want it, expect to profit
pecuniarily therefrom. Those who
know their Charleston in Legislative
times know fulwell that any blind hog
is able to pick up few acorns SO
plentiful is the crop. Editrs who OPP
pose the calling of an extra session,
therefore, lay themselves wide open
to the suspicion of being honestly and
genuinely sincere; of holding the
public'S welfare above their individ-
ual interests. Theparadox is a pleas
ing as it is unique.
In Wheeling, Parkersburg and
Huntington there is not Repubh-
can newspaper advising the extra
session. The Charleston Mail is.
The Wheeling Intelligencer says it
has counselled against it, and still
belhSes that there is nothing at this
time that would justify call for one. =
Which is potential and interesting,
becauseit was thought that the states
leading Republican paper was on the