Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-10-09
cLEvELANo's CIVIL SERVICE.
An Old Time Majority Great Britain
Steps Down.

rom Mar idnd IS IN every Way Sh-
couraging as to the Republican cam
paign. The canvass is being quietly
made and the reports from all quarters
are satisfactory. In one or two coun-
ties there are splits and two tickets
are in the field but these differences
will be adjusted before the election
day
One thousand and FIVE votes We're
polled in Printers Union, No IoI, of
Washington on the question OF retain
ing civil service reform rules for the
government of the Printing Office.
Of these votes, 6o4 in favor and 4oI
against the proposition TAI were from
employees in the Office. OF the 6o4
votes in favor of retention $40 came
from the government employees and OF
the 4oI against only 1873 came from
the office holders. OF the outside
printers IS voted for and 2o3 voted
against the proposition All these
printers secure exactly the same
wages, all are raid with the same reg
ularity. There is only one distinction
to be drawn from the vote in the Gov
eminent Printing Office, which is that
there are SAG Democrats who are
afraid OF being turned out, as against
1913, Republicans in the Office.
Great interest IS being taken in the
efforts Of Booth Tucker Of the Saliva
ton Army and the cooperative com
monwealth 10 establish colonies
where competition is to give place to
cooperation i'll the production OF all
things. General Thicker had long
interview with Secretary Of Agricul-
tural Wilson, before going West, and
to the suggestion made by the Secre-
tary that a site should be selected
where markets were convenient. The
answer was we are hunting homes
not markets, any surplus we may
produce will be applied to building
other homes" This is the theory Of
both these efforts at colonization and
as the money ard men are ready both
tor Booth Tucker colony in Colorado
and the co operative colony in Wash
iugton, this home building effort will
soon be tested.
Secretary Sherman's shirt sleeve"
diplomacy is of the successful kind,
showing that straight forward talk
and action are as successful in diplo
macy as in all other things. Great
Britain has been backing and filing
through its foreign officer on the fur
seal question. After the United
States, Russia and Japan both interest
ed in the fur seal question to confer
ence, Great Britain announced it
would not enter the conference and
would examine the work Of the ex-
perts to deteImine OH It's course. NoH
Lord Salisbury informs us that Great
Britain will be represented at the
meeting to be held in Washington.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Heath has just returned from a visit
to his old home in Indiana. stopping
a day or two, of course, in Ohio. OF
the canvass in that State he says;
1.-The Republican party is moving
on to one of its old time victories,
would not be surprised to see the ma
iority in November excel anything the
State has yet done in these so-called
of years. The majority will be any |
where between so, coo and 65, 900.
s'There can be absolutely no doubt
about the election of the State ticket
and the legislative ticket, which viii
insure the return of Mr.. Hanna to the
Senate. The people have forgotten
all about free silver and the Democrats
even are eudeavoriug to ignore the
subject in the campaign.
"You cannot talk free silver to the
people there when agricultural pro
ducts are bringing big price, when
the shops are running full time for
the first time in several years, and
when all the idlemen can secure work.
"There is the evidences Of returned
prosperity on every side in the West,
These are Republican days, and the
Republican voters will be abroad in
the land in November
Similar reports come from every
quarter as to the certainty Of a Repub
lican victory the only danger being
that OF over confidence. Tie thick
and thin Cleveland Democrats of New