Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-08-12

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n. L. SNYDER, Editor and Proprietor,
SHEpHRRDsTowN, w. VA.
THURSDAY, AUGUST Il, 1897.
You can't get Republican leader
to believe that prosperity and the
civil service law travel together.
KLoNDIKE and the tariff bill both
promise prosperity by the wagon-load.
But Just wait until all the returns are
in.
WE think Col. McGraw has hit the
right idea. He has gotten an injunc-
ton against Judge in West Virginia
Colonel, there are others.
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BETWEEN standing in with the
workingmen and keeping on the good
side of the capitalists, Governor At
kinson is having hard time of it.
IT is said that Senator German Will
retire from politics and will not again
be candidate for the United States
Senate. Senator German is playing
possum.
THE gold Democrats are still IN
fatuated with the idea that they are
the people. They are holding con-
vcntions just as though they expected
to elect somebody.
THE clothing manufacturers are ar
ranging to put up prices. That right
put 'en sky high. Mr.. Mckinley
says the more we have to pay for a
thing the better off we are.
IT is feared that after all the new
tariff bill may not provide sufficient
revenue to run the government.
There's no fear, however, that it Will
fail to DO all that it is expected to do
for the trusts.
a CIVIL service law that prevents
the humble party worker from getting
a smell at the good things on the party
table upon which the big bosses feast
and fatten is humbug. We don't
blame the boys for kicking.
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WE understand that the civil-ser-
vice law in Berkeley county has
double back-action arrangement which
not only protects the Democrats in Of
fee but also provides for new appoint
ments for those who can prove they
are of the genuine Democratic brand.
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THE colored barber, Henry Rucker,
who was appointed by President Nc
Kinley to be internal revenue collector
for Georgia, is likely to have difficulty
in running his Office Nearly all the
white men who were in the service
have resigned, as they will not serve
under negro chief. When it comes
to sending colored men out to arrest
moonshiners and similar offenders in
Georgia the fun Will be lively.
For good many years one John
w. Foster has been an ornamental and
very expensive but entirely useless
hanger-on Of our government, being
able by some influence to us unknown
to get one fat job after another. His
latest position was as special agent of
the United States to look after the seal
fisheries. He made an ignominious
failure. England got every advantage
in the controversy, and our own coun-
try was placed in a helpless and ride
ulous position. Strange to say, how
ever, Foster is still retained by our
government, even though he is con-
stantly making matters worse. Prof.
Elliott, Of the Smithsonian Institute,
is after Foster now, and in a recent
letter that attracted much attention
he characterized him as a dull and
ignorant man utterly unfit for a
diplomatic position.
THE Wayne Ne1cS says that there's
big fuss in the State over the dis
tnbution of the $4,000 appropriated
by the late Legislature to pay the
"home guards for the valiant (?) SER
vice they rendered during the civil
war. Most people know what the
"home guards" did, and this gift of
$4,000 by the Republicans was an
inexcusable wasting of public money.
The Ne,cs says that Judge McWhOrter
was the attorney for the home guards