Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-05-10

THERE'S something almost touching
in the efforts of the Martinsburg Her.
aid to bolster up everything of a Re-
publican flavor.
If there's any Democratic Senators
who ought to be saved by his party
for devotion to its principles, now is
the time to spot him.
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CONGRESSMAN WILSON will be glad
" welcomed home from his southern
trip, we hope his presence will hasten
the passage of the tariff bill.
THE Governor of Michigan has APP
pointed John Patton, Jr., to be United
States Senator in place of Senator
Stockbridge, who died last week
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If the Democratic Senators want to
retain the confidence Of their party
they will shove that tariff bill little
faster The people are tired, oh, so
tired, of this foohng.
Ex-PREsIDENT HARRISON, who has
been in New York the past week,
says he will not be a candidate for the
presidency in 1896 Better not put
the nomination within his reach.
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THERE are many farmers who dis
like to take fifteen cents per pound
for their wool, but they are wise
enough to know that this is the condi-
ton, in spite of the high protection of
the Mckinley bill.
IT is the Republicans in the Senate
who are fooling away time on the tariff
bill. Senator Quay delivered a dreary
speech that took up about week, and
Senator Dolph took seven or eight
spells on the same subject.
CoxEY and his tramps may be
laughed at by the Republican press,
but his raid on the United States
Treasury is not one whit worse than
the thousand and one schemes worked
by the protectionists to get public aid
for selfish and private purposes.
IT is nothing short of treachery to
the Democratic party to allow Repub-
hcans to hold high Office under this
administration-to keep them in posi-
tions where they can and do take ad-
vantage of their opportunities to fur
nish the opposition with campaign
material.
The coal miners of almost every Sec
ton of West Virginia except the Fair
mont region have joined the big strike.
At Fairmont they very sensibly re-
manned at work, and are now running
at full blast, besides having secured
contracts that will keep them busy for
a year to come
THE county court of Kanawha
county has turned out every Demo
cratic ofice-holder in the county, from
road boss up, and put officials of their
own faith, Republicans, in the places.
We are not finding fault with this pro-
cess-it is just what ought to be done
at Washington on a great scale.
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THOSE United States Senators who
are playing the Benedict Arnold act
by preventing the passage of the Will
son bill may be having some fun now,
but these matters, are finally referred
to the people who will in time pay
them back in full for their treachery.
All of the people cannot be fooled all
the time.
IT sounds better, of course, to say
that the conservatives have fallen
into line in support of the tariff bill;
but there may be some people who
are inclined to ask whether the state
ment that the tariff bill has been got
ten into line with the conservative"
would not be little nearer truth.
Nevertheless, even a conservative"
tariff would be better than Mckinley
ism; and any certainty would make
possible the revival of business which
is prevented by uncertainty as to what
the action of the Senate may be. Let
the bill be passed at once.
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THE amendments made to the tariff
bill by the Senate committee were
made public on Monday. 1t may
readily be seen that the tariff barons
have taken full advantage of the long
delay in discussing the bill. They
have gotten in their work we'll The
Senators who are supposed to have
had the interests of the people at heart
have yielded to the protectionists, and
have in too many instances raised the
duties on the necessaries of life. The
tariff is increased on sugar, wooden
and cotton goods, iron, glass, drugs
and hundreds of other articles. The