Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-08-31

ceiveS him with open arms.
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Mr.. BLAINE is losing his temper
and his head as he contemplates the
owingpopularity of President Cleve-
land and the waning hopes of the
Republicans. And yet he will be the
power behind the thrown, after all.
THE coal pool or trust has just met
and put up the price of coal. BY Mr..
Blaine's advice, though, the private
citizen must pay the bill and ask no
questions of the greedy combination
that is squeezing him so mercilessly.
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THE Republicans of this district
have again nominated Gen. William
Henry Harrison Flick for Congress
against Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson. We
think Mr.. Flick will be beaten great
deal worse this time than he was be-
fore.
THE wild ass from Ohio, Governor
Foraker, is stumping for Harrison and
Morton Here's the way he closed a
speech the other day: Let us hope
and pray that God Almighty may
avert such calamity to this land as
the reelection of Grover Cleveland"
THE editor of the CharlestOwn Dem
ocrat offers TO donate that paper to
any one who will edit it in the future
as il has been i'll the past. We don't
think there is another such character
to be found, but if there should how
could Mason give away that which
he does not own?
The Charlestown Democrat finds it
self in a dilemma, and don't know
which political party it will support,
saving it must take time to consider
what it shall do. In other words, we
suppose, it is waiting for the highest
bidder. 1t will soon discover that the
Democrats don't want it and the Re
publicans won't have it at any price.
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THE Republican State Convention
at Charleston last week, according to
report. rather sat down on the Hon.
James D. Butt of Harper's Ferry.
Mr.. Butt and two others were put up
for electors, when one of the brethren
moved that the two others be elected
by acclamation. The motion was
adopted with a shout, and Mr.. Butt
hardly knows yet what hit him.
SPEAKING of trusts, Mr.. Blaine says:
"They are private affairs with which
neither President Cleveland nor any
private citizen has any right to inter
feren And here is what Master Work
man Powderly, the head of the labor
organizations of the United States,
thinks of them: They are menace to
the welfare of the people of this
country; they hinder free competition
and smother it. The arm of the gov
eminent should reach out and protect
the people"
THE Wheeling Register made seri-
Gus mistake on Tuesday in crediting
the Shepherdstown REGISTER with
expressions of regret that Judges
Wood and Johnson were not renomi-
mated by the Democratic convention.
We never said it. While the two gen
tlemen referred to were good judges,
no doubt, we hadn't any particular
desire TO see them re-nominated, and
don't think they had better claim to
the office than anybody else. Judges
Brannon and English suit us firstrate,
and we will support them heartily.
WE are sorry that absence from
home last week prevented us from
seeing and answering pleasant and
refined little article in the Charlestown
Democrat referring to this paper. We
don't know whether to ascribe it to
the young fellow who is connected
with the paper or to the senior gen
tleman, Cd as it combines the green
ness of one who wants to be smart and
can't with the blunderbuss, windy
style of the latter. Anyhow, the
writer agrees to give answers to the
questions recently propounded to Mr.
Mason provided the REGISTER will
publish them. Why, of course we will
Nothing would please us better. Hur'
ry up and send your replies and we
will publish them conspicuo dsly, pro
rided the ansTers are truthful. Don't try
any Munchausen business on us, but
give plain, unequivocal, truthful re
plies, and We'll guarantee to publish
them.