Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-09-21
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ORIGINAL AND BORROWED

Even Henry Watterson is dlsSat'
isaed with the Mills bill. Next we
NAV expect The Texan himself to re-
pudiate it.
Will Cleveland veto his own
Chinese bill? 1t would be a strange
act TO do do so, and yet he can
hardly avoid it.
While the Democrats are in Ia
vor of free trade did it ever occur
to them that the English are be-
coming great land barons in this
country.
4 young lady Of Dakota is said
to have eaten twenty ears OF corn
for supper, and thenattended camp
meeting. Most likely it was cramp
meeting.
Unless some means are devised
TO stop the killing of the McCoys
bv the Hatfelds, there will be a
marked diminution in the Demo-
cratic vote of West Virginia.
Judge Thurman is said to be
writing his letter of acceptance
He better be careful about clam
chowder, OF it may be cut short,
as was his speech IN New York.
The richest candidate for presi-
dent is that of the Labor party,
Abner j. Streeter, yet he has not
given $4,000 to help his cause
Perhaps he thinks, LABOR om"'a
URcit.
Goodnight is the name of a DEM
ocratic candidate for Congress IN
Kentucky, and heis now stumplng
his district. 1t would not surprise
rs TO hear that the announcement
of his name had broken up a meet
ing.
Chairman Brice has abandoned
all hope OF carrying Illinois. In
dead he does not seem to have de-
rived much satisfaction from his
Northwestern trip. For a love
feast he should visit Alabama or
Texas.
The sentiment evidenced by the
great victory at Had donfeld shows
that New Jersey has resolved to
divorce herself from the list OF
doubtful states, and take a com
Portable place in the "soIid' Repub,
lican column.
The Democrats of Arkansas are
becoming thoroughly aroused
over the frauds and violence prac
Used at the late election. When
the truth begins to be fsarlessly
told. the dawn Of brighter day il
approaching.
"This campaign says President
Cleveland, SIS one of information
Tins far Maine, Vermont and Ore
Gan have spoken, and the informa
ton they have impaired is respect
fally submitted to the cOnsldera
ton Of the people.
Senator Sherman struck the
proper chord in the heart of the
country yesterday, when he plant
ed himself squarely against the
Iemagogic attitude OF the Presi
dent on the Canadian fisheries dis
mite. He took the sensible ground
that Congress had already glyeT
che President all the power neces
sary, and he had never yet had to'
nerve TO use it. The Senator evl
IDENTIFY does not believe IN fishing
for gudgeons with a whale on thu
hook.
The DemOcr ats claim there arr
more babes born under a Demo
cratic Administration than under
any other. We might refer il
answer to this boast to that cele
brated passage in Hsop's Fables
where a SOW and a liOness we're en-
gagged in conversation, and the SOW
tainted the liOness with her III
Gerlority TO hogs in the matter o
provocative fecundity. "Why" sal'
the SOW, 81 have fourteen or tlfteeI
pigs at birth, you have but one
"True," said the llOness, "but tha
one Is a liOn.7 Without going bacI
to ancient history, however, W
might observe in this connectlo
that people multiply faster under
government that Expresses and IL
lures them more than they do III
der g 5enefcient one. 1t nay ais
be added that more drunkards ar
created under a Democratic A(
mnistration than under a Republ
eau one.