Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-09-17

HE Uranu anu EAdlIeu Olu0A VI
G. BIS held meeting in Louisville.
XIV, last Saturday night and formally
notified the two Most Eminent An
clients, General Palmer and General
Buckner, of their nominations as Pres
ident and Vice-President. They as
cribed to themselves all the virtues
and complacently proclaimed them
selves as the only true and unadultsr-
ated Democrats. President Cleveland
sent the following telegram from Buzz
yards Bay, whereupon they all lifted
up their voices in loud acclamations of
devout praise:
II regret that cannot accept your in
vitation to attend the notification meet
ing on Saturday evening. AS Demo
crat devoted to the principles and integ-
rity of my party, should be delighted
to be present on an occasion so signih
cant. and to mingle with those who are
determined that the voice of true De-
mocracy shall not be smothered and in
sist that its glorious standard shall be
borne aloft, as of old, in faithful bands.
GROVER CLEVELAND"
Secretary Carlisle also wrote letter
expressing his approval of the move
ment.
ALL is not as glittering in New York
as the gold-bug press would have the
people believe. Last week 7. Y. Pow
DERBY, ex-chief of the knights Of La
Dor, made an address in Cooper Hall
in which he advocated the gold stan
dard. A vast crowd of workingmen
were present, and they hooted and
Missed him at the time. Saturday
night there was great gathering OF
Knights of Labor and worklngmen IN
the same hall, and resolutions were
passed denouncing Powderly, and at
lacking Hanna. The Chicago platform
was endorsed and resolutions favoring
Bryan and Sewall were passed with a
great hurrah.
OUR esteemed contemporary, the
Charlestown Free Press, entered upon
its eighty-sixth anniversary yesterday
We note with sorrow that it celebrates
the occasion by putting the Palmer
and Buckner ticket at the head of its
editorial column. No one should
criticise the Fret Press for It's action,
however, for its editor is sincerely
honest in his convictions, and denies
to no one the privilege he takes to
himself. Nevertheless, the Free Press
has large circle of friends that would
like to see it stick to the nominees,
as it has always done heretofore.
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The Baltimore Sun speaks Of the
greatness of Mr.. Cleveland's services
to the Democratic party" We be-
lieve Mr.. Cleveland to be thoroughly
honest and a man of the highest cour-
age, but he never did much for his
party. On the contrary, mugwump-
cry has been the curse of both Of his
administrations, and as party wreck
er he stands pre-eminent.
MAJOR MCKINLEY is sitting calmly
at his home in Canton receiving dele
cations Of workingmen from various
parts of the country who are hauled
to him free by the railroads or whose
fares are paid by Hanna. There s
nothing alarming to Democrats in these
picnic pilgrimages-who won't take a
free ride when he can get it?
IT is said that ex-senator j. n.
Camden will not support Bryan and
Sewall, but will vote for the McKin-
lev allies, Palmer and Buckner. What
ever may have been Mr.. Camden
faults in the past, he has always been
consistent Democrat, and we are sor'
~ to see him sully his record.
ALAS we have lost Edgar Stuart
of Martinsburg-and his influence.
He has written a letter in which he
tells the sad news that he will support
Mckinley, and he will use his "foo'
ence' the same way. We almost fee
like giving up.
You tell us that the great are cities
in favor of the gold standard. 1 tel
you that the great cities rest upOr
these broad and fertile praries. Burr
your cities and save our farms an(