Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1879-08-16
SPEAKER WOFFETF INTER-.
VIEWED.
Correspondence of Wheeling Register.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Aug. l.


WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Aug. l.
Rambling through the mountains on
a short summers vacation your reporter
rested his feet upon the blue grass pas
ture fields of Pocohontas--a land liter
ally flowing with milk and honey.
Learning that was in the neighbor-
hood of Speaker Moffett visit was
made to that gentleman at his home at
Cloverlick. A few years ago the elder
Cowardin, of the Richmond Dispatch,
spent summer vacation in this locality
and wrote series of articles descriptive
of the beauty of these "MOnntaln por-
tails rivaling in the beauty OF their dc,
scription Moore's ''Nale OF Cashmere.
Well might he, for it is all here.
Seated upon the front piazza OF the
Cloverlick farm house, in the cool ithe
evening, mine host having Just turned
in from 2 not days work in the meadow
where the hay harvest is now progress.
inc. and the crop prospects and the beef
markets having been discussed, the Reg
;srer ventured upon political topics,
"Well, Mr.. Speaker, what are the
prospects for 1889 in the State anu ma
tiona contest
Il have my opinions" was the re-
Spouse, "but | hesitate to give them.
You know that | am not much OF apar-
tzan. | once thought that the more
partizan zeal a man in public lite dis
plaved, the more commendable it was
have oullived that notion. The re-
quirements of party will sometimes con
tlict with the public interests. | would
rather be patriot than partizan, how
ever much attachment | may have for
the principles of any political organlza-
ton. have often admired that nob!e
sentiment of Garrison's: "The world Is
my country; mankind my country men.
SO if you are in search of reliable data
from which to prognosticate the poIlil-
cal future, it might be well for you to
pump some one more familiar with ma
chine operations.
but, Mr. Speaker, "modestly suggest
ed the Register, "even your political
enemies give You credit for possessing
cool head aud for rendering impartial
irlgm euts. We all know that you
have a habit of tearlessly speaking your
mud, whether your opinions be popu-
lar or not"
"Nell, Their, if 1t Is merely an opinion
YOU want, here II Is: think IN the Ma
tona contes. it will be Grant and I'll
den. Grant with the Republicans, be-
cause with them it is duck or 40 din
ner; it is Grant or no success. They
have been shrewd to revive the war is
sues, and the Democrats in Congress
foolish enough 10 aid them IN dong so,
although it may have been necessity
with both parties 10 60 so.
'Why do YOU say a"ccessity tor bolh
parties 10 hoist the bloody shirI?
.'Iu the first place the Hepnbiicans
know that if they can SoId!ty the North
against the solid South with Grant lead
luz the Northern columns another APP
pomat;oX is inevitable. That's why
they want to fight under the bloody,
shiIl standard. The Democrats depend
upon a solid South 1t has reached that
rnint in the South that nothing but "a
revival of the war issues can mold the
whites together. There is a large indie
pendent dissatisfied element III the
South. There are the old line Wings
who don't relish Tildcn a bit, nor do
they banker after any Democrat o. the
Martin Van Buren, school. And then
there Is large debtor class III the South
who are dlSgu>ted with resumption, ana
they do not take to any man OF the hard
money school. And there are the friends
of the Texas Pacific aud the Southern
Pacific roads who don't want an anti
subsidy president. SO it is easy to see
,hqt It would take very little to break
up the solid Democratic orgazrtlon IN
Che South. SO the leaders III Congress
thought it wise TO adoP; the iiepobilean
policy for holding the dissatisfied iIe'
publcans IN the North IN ranks. :" E&O
IS sauce Tor the goose Is sauce loi 'hG
gsnder. So both parties have deemed
it necessity to make sectional issues.
"Nhy are you 50 certain OF 1lldcn ;
nomination.!
because he has the money and
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money.
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