Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-11-12

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III. SNYDER, Editor and Proprietor,
SHKPHKRpsTowN, w. VA.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1896.
Now for the offices.
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IT wasn't such bad beat for Bry-
an after all.
WHO has been elected, anyhow
Major McHanna or Mark Kinley -?
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WONDER if any gold Democrat will
find roosting-place in McKinleys
cabinet?
It's a much worse crime under this
administration to be an active Demo-
crat than to be red-hot Republican.
KENTUCKY has gone Republican.
Don't condemn her too strongly, how
ever, for she defeated Breckenridge
for Congress.
We appreciate the sympathizlng
messages sent us by our friends con-
corning the late election. We are
slowly getting better
THE Republican majority in West
Virginia last week was about $4,000.
They elected all four of their Congress
men and the whole State ticket.
We will soon have an opportunity
to see how President Cleveland's
beautiful civil-service regulations work
under the Republican administration.
BELoIT. KANSAS, Nov 6, 1896.
EDITOR REGIsTER-What's the matter
with Kansas? She's all right. But West
Virginia wants to wake up.
J.L.W.
We haven't thing to say.
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ALMOST every Republican in the
country-and the late election showed
that there were good many Of them
has picked out for himself a nice,
fat Office. Somebody is bound to be
disappointed.
Four years will probably be about
all of this high tariff gold standard,
wide-open Republican administration
now promised that the people can
stand. But it will be plenty for
those who will have chance at it.
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The poor old pair of decrepit hum
bugs, Palmer and Buckner, having
served their purpose as decOy ducks,
are now consigned to oblivion, well
covered with the contempt Of large
proportion of the American people.
1T is a trihe too soon for the Demo-
Gratis to talk about recognizing the
party. The best policy is to follow
Br'er Rabbits example and clay low"
for awhile. And meantime give the
Republicans all the rope they want.
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MARK HANNA knows what a snap
is. He proposes that the national Re-
publican committee be continued with
himselfat the head of it, and the trusts
and syndicates are so thankful for
what he has saved them they are will
ing to agree to anything he wants.
THE Republicans and those who
supported Mckinley and Hobart are
so eager for the advantage they hope
to gain from the next administration
in the way of Offices, special legisla
ton, ETC., that they cant wait for
the regular session of Congress, but
are already arranging for an extra
session of Congress just as soon as Nc
Kinley is inaugurated.
SOMETHING of a stir has been Great
ed among the negroes by the sug-
gestion that one of their race be ap-
pointed to a cabinet position This
will never be, however, for the Re-
publicans know that they will always
have the colored voters solid whether
they treat them right or not, and it
isn't necessary to give them substan-
tial rewards when words will do Just
as well.
HUNDREDS of manufacturing con-
Germs deliberately shut down before
the election as a means Of coeIcing
their employees to vote for Mckinley.
Now as they resume operations great
fuss is being made in the papers about
"the revival of business" We are anx-
ious to see genuine revival Of business,
but there is nothing in revival of
humbug.