Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-14

OBJ sbepbtrbsto6n Srglster.
n. L. SNYDER, Editor and Proprietor,
SHEPHERDsTowN, w. VA.
FRIDAY, JULY IA, 1898.
A oNE-HoRsE politician often has a
forty-horse mouth.
PATRIOTISM should be the spirit of
the next Congress not partisanship.
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IT's one thing to build mp a politi-
cal machine, but quite another to
work it on the people.
IT is likely that Speaker Crisp will
have no opposition for reelection as
speaker of the next House.
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JUST as with ordinary folks, Sena =
tor Sherman's hindSight is u great
deal better than his foresight on the
silver.
JUDGE FAULKNER of Berkeley eoun
" is an excellent Judge. An excellent
Judge would make an excellent gov
ernor.
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IT is well to remember that while
pretty nearly every veteran is pen
sioner not every pensioner is veter-
an, by long shot.
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Now if the free silver people want
TO make themselves really popular
let them present every woman in the
land with set of solid spoons.
THAT rule against eXoilice-holders
comes in very handy sometimes and,
like the folding bedStead, can be
very easily disposed of when it is not
needed
THE statesmen who get their
names in the newspapers oftenest are
not always the biggest men. Aodesty
and ability may still be found hand
in hand occasionally.
SOME Of the foreign visitors to this
country are finding much fault with
the stringent quarantine regulations
at our ports. If they don't like our
laws they can stay home.
IT isn't too early TO begin to think
about good men for the next Legisla-
ture. With a few exceptions it will
be mighty safe TO leave at home those
who were in the last Legisl ature.
The Free Press suggests Judge
Faulkner for the vacancy in the Su-
prrme Court of the United States. 1t
would never do to put such II live,
energetic man on that branch. He'd
keep ali those old buffers awake.
SAMUEL BLATCHFORD, associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, died at Newport last
Friday after an illness of a couple of
weeks, aged 10 years. President
Cleveland will appoint his successor.
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WITH Mr.. Crisp as Speaker, Mr..
Wilson as chairman of the ways and
means committee, and an organiza
ton with similar good men as leaders,
the next House of Representatives
will be likely to accomplish great
good.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been
laid up at Gray Gables during the
past week with an attack of rheuma-
tism from which he has suffered
greatly. His physicians say that
with rest and care he will soon be
we'll again.
THE Duke of York prince George
of Wales and the Princess Victoria
Mary of Teck were married in Eng
land last week amidst great pomp
and Splendor. We greatly regret that
business engagements prevented us
from accepting Georges invitation to
be best man.
THE Duke OF Veragua, the lineal
descendant of Christopher Columbus,
has just left this country after very
delightful visit. Now news comes
that his financial affairs have about
reached a crisis and his estates in
Spain, long burdened by debt, will
probably be sold. Some of his ad-
mirers here have started a subscrip-