Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-11-02
STRAS BURG ITEMS.

The colorod school OF this place, opened
on Monday Of this week with fair at
tendance.
Mr. - Ockey, wife and daughter, OF
Indiana, are at present the guests Of DIR.
Brown and family on Church street.
Mrs. Gen. John +. Roller and her two
daughters spent Saturday night last and
part of Sunday, at the Central House, in
this town.
SIr. Il. Clinton Knee, Of Wardensyille,
W. Va was in town on Monday night
last. His many friends here gave him
hearty welcome.
The old and well-known pottery firm OF
Samuel Bell and Sons, Of this place, was
awarded the second premium at the State
Fair, at Richmond, for Workmanship and
general excellence OF their exhibit.
We were the recipient on Tuesday
last Of that generous and lavish hospi-
tahty, 80 widely known at the home Of
that prince Of good fellows and sterling
Republican, Gin whom there is no guile,
Mr.. Geo. H. Hammond, Of Cedar Creek
Valley, and found as is ever the case, "the
latch string on the outside Of the door"
And now let the whips crack and the
bands get ready to play. Tuesday next
will be fought the great battle Of the
ballots, between the two contending
armies of voters striving for the suprem-
acy of power IN these United States,
namely, free trade with all the evils OF,
blight, disaster and ruin, which invariably
follow in its wake, as against protection
with all the be nefts advantages and
happiness it entails upon its followers.
With the dawn Of Wednesday morning,
Nov. eth, when the smoke Of battle shall
have lifted from the field, the white
winged angel Of protection will be seen,
phGnix like, rising from the ashes Of the
conflict and spreading her broad and
sheltering pinions DER land and sea, and
| like the
~Star Spangled Banner, forever shall
wave,
Ger the land of the free and the home
of the brave"
Gen. John E. Roller did the speaking,
the Strasburg Cornet Band furnished the
music, and Strasburg and vicinity,
augmented by nnmoer Of gentlemen
from Toms Brook and Lebanon, furnish
ed the crowd, which assembled In the
Academy Hall, on Thursday night, Oct
2jth, to listen to General Rollers IN asterly
exposition Of the tariff and kindred topics
now agitating the public mind. To say
that Gen. Roller spoke well, would not be
doing him full justice. He just nat nrally
swept the deck, as the saying goes, and
brought conviction to the minds OF the
skeptical His speech throughout was
splendidly received, az the frequent and
hearty applause fully attested. and was
in striking contrast indeed to the lame
and futile effort made in the some hall,
! by his competitor, on the night of Oct.
the 3rd, to few old mOss-backs and
regiment of empty benches. The fact is
people here are surfetsd with that insipd
and stale re-hash Of the trace chain racket,
and the poor mans blanket. Consequent
ly Gen. Rollers speech was heartily en-
ioyed, as he fully calculated the tariff in
all its bearings, and his speech in general
was as a cool and refreshing spring in an
arid and desert place, compared to the
dogma of free trade, as gotten of by the
high priests OF Democracy and hard times.
Protection will win every time, and our
people are becoming more alive to that
fact every day, and will vote on Nov 9th
for Harrison, Morton and Roller.