Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-01-27

annex Senator morgan.
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BECAUSE some men slip into soft
places is no reason why slippery men
should try to get the Offices.
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THE enemies of Senator Faulkner
will do well to fight fair. Underhanded
work is apt to do the boomerang act.
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THE rush to Klondike has been re-
newed, now that the Ohio and Mary
land legislature have elected their
Senators.
CONSIDERING all the fuss made over
the money question in the last cam
paign, isn't it rather remarkable that
Congress has done so little in financial
matters
THE New York Journal has aban-
doned the cause of free silver, and has
come out strong for the gold standard.
1t is a good radiance, for the Journal
was never really sincere.
THE policy of the administration
concerning Cuba is announced to be
one of non-intervention and sympa-
thy. That's right. A moderate
amount of sympathy won't get us into
any scrapes.
THE sixth district of Maryland
hasn't anything to complain of. 1t
has now gotten both Senators, the
Governor, the sub-treasurer at Balti-
more, and the lions share of minor
Offices thrown in for good measure.
The sixth is right in it.
THE President has ordered the bat
tle-ship Maine to be sent to Havana.
This is not to be regarded as an act of
hostility to Spain, but is simply in the
line of ordinary events. The excitable
Spanish are expected, however, to
make big fuss over the matter.
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SENATOR McCUNE is pushing bill
in the Virginia Legislature which for
bids flirting. This bill clearly comes
in conflict with the constitution, which
expressly provides that no man shall
be interfered with in the pursuit of
happiness. Down with such meas
ure
We blush at the compliment print
ed below, and assure Hon. Presley W.
Morris, the publisher of the Richie
Gazette, that he has our most hearty
thanks for his kind remarks:
The Shepherdstown REGISTER is a
model country newspaper. 1t is ably
edited, its makeup is neat and it is
always handsomely printed.
The proposal of Hon. John W. Ma
son to select Senator for West Vir-
ginia by holding a State convention
seems to have made good many Re-
publican politicians uneasy. The small
fry do not know yet just where they
are at.
The proposition is good one for
both parties.
CONGRESS has at last awakened to
the necessity of placing some restrlc-
tons upon the indiscriminate granting
of pensions, and rules have been udopt-
ed that will prevent further frauds of
a certain kind. Let US hope that this
sentiment will grow. It's pretty safe
to assume that everybody who deserves
a pension has gotten it by this time.
The Lincoln Citizen is red-hot-
sizzling-melting with fervent heat
and we predict that the Scalps of the
members of the county court will be
hanging at the belt of Editor Haddox
inside of thirty days. If we may be
permitted to make correction, by the
way, we would suggest that the best
authorities spell it this way Gyasti-
cutus.
SENATOR WHITE, Of California, has
been elected chairman of the Demo-
cratic congressional campaign COM
mittee, succeeding Senator Faulkner.
Senator White has chance to distin-
guish himself. We trust that he will
remember that caution is sometimes
more effective than zeal, particularly
in the advocacy of the cause OF free
silver.
ANOTHER link in the long chain of
reduction in wages is forged at Wheel
ing, this State, where the FIVE hundred
employees of the BenwOod steel works
have just been notified of another cut
of from II to 25 per cent. This is
the second reduction in wages during
the past year the men have suffered.
Wonder if they remember how they
uboonad thinos mn for "nrotection and