Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-11-16
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

Unless the signs are all at fault
there will be a grand Democratic
march forth about March Fourth.
A public Office is a public trast.
With this understanding of it the
people have chosen a new board of
trustees.
That slang phrase sin the soup,
which is so popular in New York
city, is one of the worst of the
season.
Everybody should go to work
to increase the business BOOM
The election is over, and talking
politics only kills valuable time.
The tariff will be modified, but
it will not be slaughtered, and the
industries of the country Will be
carefully and zealously protected.
Texas has not finished voting
yet, and its full returns will not be
IN before next week. 1t is under
stood, however, that the state has
gone Democratic.
Now Dakota, Montana and
Washington Territories will get
their deserts and will be taken in
out of the cold. They should have
been admitted years ago.
California says that General
Harrison's Chinese record is all
right. Well, it never was wrong,
and it was foolish for the Demo
Gratis to attempt to misrepresent 1t.
"What's the matter with Harri-
SOM"
Giles all right
"What's the matter with Cleve.
landp
"He's all left.'
The United States Supreme court
has declared unconstitutional all
state laws imposing a tax upon
commercial travellers. The drum.
mers will rejoice, and the buyers,
too.
lfMr. Cleveland will read the
"organs7 which have played moth
ing but Cleveland's March for the
past three years, he will be able to
answer the important question
What's the matter with Cleveland
The story GLOW to Be Happy
Though Married" should be prompt
ly followed by a sequel entitled
GLOW to Be Cheerful though
Beaten The new volume would
have big run among the Demo
Gratis.
With West Virginia for the Re
pubhcans, aid New Jersey and
Connecticut for the Democrats,
there IS no solid South and no sol
id North. We are glad Of this.
1t sounds the death.knell of sec
tiOnalism.
The silly, vulgar and dirty Gus
tom which of late years has grown
rapidly IN this country, the decry-
ing a man because his family is
respectable and his ancestors have
been distinguished, has, let us
hope, been effectually killed by the
election of Harrison.
The Lehigh Valley railroad IS
settling with the relatives OF VIC
tins in the Mud Run disaster on a
basis OF $4,000 for the head OF a
family, and 81 800 for those under
II years of age and unmarried.
SO we know the value Of human
life according to a railway stand
ard.
In 1876 General U. S. Grant
said "Whenever the Democratic
party comes near to complete con
troll of the country it will break its
back across the Allegheny Mount
aims on the tariff question" The
prophecy has been fulfilled perhaps
even sooner than the prophet
dreamed it would be.
The Democrats have carried In
diana in a Pres idential year only
twice in thirty years-that is, in
1876 and 10 1884. They have not
carried the state 10y majority in
any Presidential year since 1896,
whereas the Republicans in that
period have carried the state in five
Presidential years, four times by
majorities aud once By plurality.
An important decision is that
Just rendered by the United States
Supreme court, affirming the night
of state to regulate railway rates
within its borders. With this
principle acted upon by the state
legislatures, and proper amend
nents to the interstate commerce
law by Congress, the railways can
be relegated to their proper place
as the servants of the people in
stead OF their masters.
The campaign cry, "loOk out for
Voorbacks," has doubtless made
many people wonder why a politi-
cal falsehOod is called a "roorback.
The phrase had its origin in the
Presidential campaign of 1854. A
false story was Paraded in the pa
pers for political effect, which pur.
ported to be an extract from new.
Unpublished book entitled "The
Travels of Baron Roorback." The