Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-11-16

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n. L. SNYDER, Editor and Proprietor,
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1898.
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sion.
THE Ohio Democrats seemed to be
in state of innocuouS desuetude last
week.
TARIFF reform got no backSet last
week. bat political skulldugSery was
knocked sky-high.
It's a poor Democrat who thinks
that tariff reform ought to be delayed
on account Of last weeks elections.
THE Republicans are still greatly
tickled over the discovery they made
last week that they were not all dead.
SENATOR HILL seems to have been
Knocked over the horizon by the New
York election. At least he has dis
appeared.
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THE Carnegie Company has reduced
the price of steel rails five dollars a
TON. Lookout for another cut in the
wages of the protected labor.
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If more revenue is needed, double
the tax on whiskey and beer. The
beauty of such tax is that nobody
need pay it who doesn't want to.
Ir is said that the Republicans will
not filibuster against the passage in
the Senate of the bill repeating the
federal election laws Better not
bank on that report, though.
THE Republicans of the western end
of this State, who so seldom have
victory of their own TO celebrate, are
wildly hilarious at the result in OHIO
and are helping TO paint the Buckeye
towns red.
IL response to that very decided
black eve that the Democrats received
last week, let the President knock out
n thousand or so of the Republicans
holding fat Offices. 1t would make
the Democrats feel better.
DECENT Democrats and Republi-
cans are joining hands in Brooklyn
to prosecute the notorious John \.
McKane, the boss Of Gravesend, and
the probability is that this political
plug-ugly will 90 out of politics and
into the penitentiary.
AFTER all the hurrah is over, it
transpires that Governor McKinley's
vote in Ohio last week was about
5000 less than Harrison got in that
State last fall. 1t looks as though
the Democrats, knowing it was an off
year. simply did not take the trouble
TO vote.
THE latest newspaper rumor from
Charleston is to the effect that Miss
Livia Simpson, who is editor of pa
per at Point Pleasant, is 70 start a
new daily at the State capital 1t is
to be Republican in politics, and is to
be edited by j. b. Floyd, who has
been a Democrat, Greenbacker, Re
publican and several other things.
COLONEL STREATOR, the Pennsyl-
vania officer who became so widely
known during the Homestead riots by
having Private Iams strung up by the
thumbs, was arrested in Wheeling n
few days ago for stealing silver spoons
He was OH big spree, and pocketed
the spoons at the free lunch counters
he visited. He's regular Ben But
Ter.
AT the Methodist convention at
Minneapolis last week the ministers
could not restrain their partisan bias
A bishop made speech on the cleo
tions, at which the other brethren APP
plauded heartily. Wonder if they
will ask any Democrat for contribu
tions to that sum OF 81, 10000 that
they want to raise next year for mis-
sions?
WE want to say that the Charles
ton Gazette is displaying a great deal of
patience with those newspapers of
the State that seem to think it their
bounden duty to condemn every ut
terance it makes and viciouSly attack
all it says. The Gazette is being most
decently, fairly conducted, and be-
cause 1t differs from some Of its con
.temporaries isno reason whyit should
be continually abused.
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THE ways and means committee
has finished the first draft of the tariff
bill, and is now engaged in settling
certain questions concerning the rails
ing of additional revenue-whether or
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