Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-09-02

NEWS AND COMMENT.

The Democrats of West Point have in
dorsed Gen. Fitzhugh Lee for the United
States Senate.
The peoples party convention in the
Richmond district nominated Walter E.
Grant for Congress.
Gen John Bidwell, of California, has
issued a letter accepting his nomination
by the prohibition party for the presi-
dency.
DIR. Mott Robertson was nominated for
Congress by the TeLth District Third
party convention, held at Amherst Court
House Friday.
The Baltimore Neirs has decided to
start q fund to help the democratic cause
in Virginia and West Virginia in the
present campaign.
Hon. John S. Wise writes to friend in
Richmond that be will shortly take the
stump for the republican ticket. He will
sreak in New York as well as in the West
and South.
Secretary Charles Foster predicts that
the republicans will carry every nor 81 ern
State and five or six southern State"
He says ";he solid South is now thing
of the past"
The approaching exposition at Rich
mond, which will begin on the 9th of
October and last twenty days, is exciting
deep interest in all sections of the State.
Applications for space in the buildings
are pouring in.
The Goshen Blade, publ ished at
Goshen, Rockbridge county, suspended
publication with last weeks issue, after
a gallant struggle against adverse
circumstances. 1t had recently finished
Its second volume.
II. Clinton Wood has been nominated
for Cogress in the Ninth district by the
Republicans. He was formerly President
pro tenn. of the Senate and ran for
Lieutenant Governor in 1885 with John
s. Wise. Clintwood, the county seat of
Dickinson county, was named after him.
Some one has said that what mosquito
uses when he bites is made up of his at
tenor, his clypens, his bypopherynx, his
lablum epipharynx, his labium, his man
dibles and his maxillor. We always
thought it was something like that, be-
cause nothing else coull have made it
hurt so.
If any Democrat begins that foolish cry
that the Republican party is the "nigger
party" don't forget TO tell him that
Cleveland, while President of the United
States, sent written invitation to the
noted colored orator, Frederick Douglass
to come to one of his receptions at the
White House, and invited him to bring
his white wife with him.
Notwithstanding the protests against
such step member of the Legislature
is authority for the statement that
Governor Mckinney says that he will
call an extra session of the Legislature
in January next Should this session
be called the Legislature would have to
ballot for, if not elect, the successor
of the late senator John s. Barbour, a
position now flied by General Hunton
by appointment Of the Governor.
The Petersburg Iader-Appeal says; BS
many of the free trade shouters the
numf rous strikes in this country are
pointed to as a direct result of the policy
Of protection. or, if you will. as the
effect of the Mckinley bill. Strikes are
bad, mostly foolish. But, after all, there
were in tree trade Great Britain, in 1890,
ops strikes as against 79S during that
year in the protective United States.
These figures are authentic, too. Nov
will some eminent free trader, Mr.. Mills 1
or Mr.. Watterson, for instance, please
explain the why's and the wherefores of
fhts difference