Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-11-08
Notes of the Election.

ID. Shepherd issued card IN which
he stated that he had not voted for
fourteen years, but after careful con-
sideration of the subject he believedit
to be to the interest of all classes to
vote for VIM. L. Wilson for Congress
and the straight Democratic ticket.
Three thousand of the circulars were
quickly printed at the REGISTER Office
and scattered over this and adjoining
counties, where they had tremen-
dous influence. Mr.. Shepherd does
not do things by halves, so he went
into the fight with sleeves rolled up,
SO to speak, and on Tuesday did tell
ing work for the ticket he had en-
dorsed. No one man had more infu-
ence in rolling up that increased ma
jority for Wilson than Mr.. Shepherd.
And, oh but he made the Republi-
cans sick.
The campaign was closed in Shep-
herdstown Monday night with public
speaking for both political parties.
Hon. Geo. c. Sturgiss addressed the
Republicans in the town hall, and Col.
G. w. z. Black, in the College hall
adjoining, told the Democrats why he
had left the Republican party. Both
meetings were lively. The cheering
from one room could be plainly heard
in the other, and it soon became a con-
test of lungs on the part of the audi
ence, each side trying to butcher the
other. At the close of Col. Blacks
address, short but enthusiastic speeches
were made by Hon. A. S. cambridge
and R. D, Shepherd, Esq.
The election passed off very quietly
in shepherdstown on Tuesday. Some
of the boys got on heavier loads than
they could comfortably carry, but
everybody was good-natured and there
was no disturbance whatever. There
were two voting-places here-one in
the market-house and the other in the
Hout building-which divided the
forces somewhat. The strong array
of Democratic workers served to dis
courage the Republican leaders early
in the day, and the former had things
pretty much their own way.
Amidst the general Republican re-
joicing the Shepherdstown Republicans
are silent. After all the lovely pros
poets and big talking, after all the
public speaking by Elkins, Dayton,
Sturgiss and the other great guns,
with the bountiful supply of campaign
funds-after all this, their party actu-
ally fell four votes behind the figure
of 1892 while the Democrats increased
the vote for Wilson by 50. 1t is sad,
it is painful-but it ought to teach the
lesson that Shepherdstown Democracy
is of the rock-ribbed sort.
Some of our Republican friends got
angry at our blank report of Mr.,
Dayton's speech last week. We said
all that could be said. Even the
Martinsburg Herald, whose editor is
of the strictest sect Of Republicans
didn t do much better. He had a half
column account Of the Elkins-Dayton
meeting, and gave poor Dayton only
three lines at the tail end Of the article
All he said was simply this: "Mr.
Dayton followed with fervent appeal
for patriotism, and protection, closing
the work Of the day.
In the language Of Uncle Jerry
Rusk, the Democrats of this district
"done noble" on Tuesday. They made
clean gain of q over their big vote
of 1892, while the Republicans lost 4
making the Democratic net gain 30.
If the Democrats all over the district
had done likewise Mr.. Wilson would
have had tremendous majority.
Only few votes were unaccounted
for at this place. Pretty nearly every
man who was well enough to get out
cast his ballot. A couple of votes
were lost by being just minute or
two too late at the polls.
At the lower precinct in Shepherds
town Wilson got 236 votes and Dayton
1903; at the upper precinct Wilson
got 1877 and Dayton S7-a total ma
iority in the town for Wilson Of 1873.
The Australian system is success
in every respect. Every man can vote
just as he pleases.