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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1926
Page
4
The Raleigh Register published Tuesday Friday and Sunday editions with mail service in Beckley West Virginia. Readers are urged to sign letters for publication and anonymous submissions will not be printed.
The recount and ballot inspection by rival candidates exposes failures by election officers, questioning true voter will in the Sixth district. Calls arise for holding officials responsible with penalties for miscounts and irregularities to prevent future disenfranchisement.
The discussion notes cautious enthusiasm for a third term for Mr. Coolidge, noting warmth outside tariff lines in New England is muted and not echoed by the Springfield Republican, a leading region journal.
The Republican case argues voters should judge President Coolidge on merit and national interest, not state pride. It notes past presidents’ tenures and compares Coolidge to living rivals, predicting Democrats face a chance to unite against a third term and back their best candidate to avoid factional split.
The passage weighs whether Democratic prudence in 1928 could preserve a time honored precedent or allow its break to usher a new era in American political history, with consequences that would grieve the founders of the republic.
War Department figures show that the eleven States of the Southern Confederacy with 22 percent of the white population furnish 27 percent of army officers. Virginia leads with one officer per 3,360 people, South Carolina close behind, while the national average is one officer per 7,000 people.
A traveler notes the Indians of Venezuela live largely on bananas, a bread-like substance, goat milk cheese and fish, pondering how such a diet might explain their physique.
In The Battle Ground Miss Glasgow extols southern resilience after 1865. She contrasts heroic reconstruction with today’s lament, praising self-reliance, initiative, and moral backbone that rebuilt farms, mills, coal mines, schools, and churches without government aid.
Welch Daily News argues for a National Credit Association to fund prosecutions of commercial crime including frauds, bankruptcies, robberies, and arson for insurance. It warns losses from frauds run into billions yearly yet credits remain vital to business, urging education of sellers and strong enforcement to curb temptations.
A public forum debates Al Smith as Democratic presidential nominee in 1928, arguing religion and church influence clash with the U S Constitution. It recalls Smiths NY governorship stance on Prohibition and critiques Roman Catholic clergy views on Protestant marriages. The piece links past Democratic leaders and 1896 convention tactics to current assertions about Smith and party loyalties.
A collection of quips and observations on weather petitions, taxes, moral manners, and social life. Jokes about hat boxes, sheriffs, church doors, a London doctor, Aimee on the sport page, and the undertaker relate to daily foibles, fashion, and public sentiment.
In a December 1926 column, the writer rails against Democratic infighting since 1892, accusing plutocracy of controlling the party and praising Ohio's political stance. He cites Cleveland, Bryan, and Roosevelt era splits, condemns Mellon tax policy, and argues for Smith as a cure to party division.
A humorous grouch voice quips that the bachelor is a cautious man who looks before leaping. The claim that the tax period is over suggests the sheriff’s force may return to rest, yet warns against disturbing others. A satirical notion proposes selling senate seats before the courthouse.
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