Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-03-24

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III. SNYDER, Editor and Proprietor,
SHEPHERDsTowN,W w. VA.
THURSDAY, MARCH "a, 1898,
War is hell - General Sherman.
WHAT a fuss there d be if newspa-
pers said half as much about indivld-
uals as individuals say about newspa-
pers.
WE think the United States gov
eminent could with propriety inter-
fere with the Cuban affairs of our SEN
sational newspapers.
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GREAT guns are good things to have
on hand, but they should never be
used except as last resort. Arbitra-
ton should be the policy in this en-
lghtened age.
IT is announced from Charleston
that Hon. VIM. f. Chiffon, ex-Secre-
tary of State, has paid $4,000 Of his
shortage into the treasury, and is ar
ranging for the balance.
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There are a great many cowardly edi-
tors-Lnc0iN Citizen.
THIS is an unfortunate truth. But
we take pride in testifying that Ed
tor Haddox is not one Of that kind.
WALL STREET and the banking in
terests do not seem to be so anxious
about saving the country now as they
were in the campaign Of 1896. And
yet the danger at this time is far great
er than then.
HANDS off of Cuba is the safe and.
sensible, but not sentimental, policy
for the United States to observe. Cuba
has always been thorn in the flesh
for Spain. 1t would not be desira-
bic possession for us.
Hon. c. WooD DALEY is reported
to have said that he would not have
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the congressional nomination IN this
district if it were rendered him by
both political parties. There are 9TH
ers who are not so dead set against 1t.
CONGRESSMAN DAYTON is endeavor-
ing to induce the Secretary Of the
Navy to name one Of the new battle
ships now being built for our govern
ment the "West Virginia. West Viz
ginia would be proud to lend her name
to frst-class vessel.
SOME persons think that the United
States ought to end the suffering in
Cuba by helping the insurgents to
make war against Spain. We fail to
see how the distress in Cuba can be
alleviated by adding to it misery and
loss in our own country.
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WEST VIRGINIA will elect this year
Congressman, State Senators, members
of the House of Delegates, member
of the county court, county superln-
tendent of schools, and members Of the
board of education. The Legislature
will elect a United States Senator.
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ANOTHER candidate for the Repub-
ican nomination for Congress from
this district is announced, Mr.. F. NJ.
Reynolds, of Keyser. But Mr.. I. S.
G. Pitzer is just a-fying-on his silver
wings-over the district, and the fell
low who beats him will have to hustle.
SENATOR PROCTOR, who was recent
" in Cuba, tells a narrowing tale of
the awful suffering there among the
persons who, under Weyler's infamous
policy, have been concentrated IN the
cities and towns with no means to earn
as much as a crust Of bread. It's
dreadful-but it's Spanish.
WAR is a dreadful thing and it
cannot be conducted without horrors.
1t may be well toremember that some
of the people in the United States who
regard the Spanish generals as the
incarnation of cruelty are the persons
who made hero of a certain Union
general who ordered our fair Valley
of Virginia to be made 50 desolate
that "a crow flying across it would
have to carry its rations with it. -
PROSPERITY has certainly struck
Lincoln county, if we are to Judge
from the following items taken from
the last issue of the Lincoln Citizen:
A girl was born to Chas. Grass and
wife on the 10th.
A girl baby was born to Mr.. and Mrs
Ben Thornton.
A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs, Albert
Mayners one day last week.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. ThoS. Spurlock
of Billees Creek, a boy.
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