Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-09-07

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HI. SNYDER, Editor and Publisher,
SHEPHERDsTowN. w. VA.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1899.
A MIGHTY big prop was taken from
the Republican party when Reed re-
signed from Congress.
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THE Democratic campaign in Ken
lucky has reached that point just pre-
vious to the introduction of pistols.
THE army in Manila is probably
earning the million dollars day that
it costs, but the government isn't get
ting much for its money.
THE President says that the Philip
pines are as much ours as Louisiana
or Texas. Still, we don't have to
keep standing army in either Louisl-
ana or Texas.
IT is said that John R. Mclean has
an ambition to get on the presidential
ticket next year. Let him first re-
deem Ohio, and then the Democrats
will talk to him.
THE President continues TO declare
firmly that the war in the Philippines
is to be prosecuted to the bitter end.
This is only making matters worse for
the administration.
THERE was tremendously enthu-
siastc Bryan meeting in New York
Monday night. We should feel bet
ter about it, however, if these New
Workers would give some assurance
that the votes would correspond with
the enthusiasm.
TIE Morgantown Ne,c Dominion
says;
Senator Faulkner would make an
ideal Governor.
There are others of whom the same
can be likewise truthfully said-one
in the same family.
IT is said that President Mckinley
has bought the house he formerly &C.
cupied at Canton, Ohio, with the in
tention Of conducting another "front
porch campaign next year. It's pos
sible the same scheme will not work
so well the second time.
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SOME men can never learn to keep
their mouths shut. Breckenridge and
Buckner are making spectscles Of
themselves in Kentucky by talking
about Goebel. Goebel may not be an
ideal man, but it i'll becomes these two
old scamps to find fault with him.
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THE junior Senator from West Viz
GINA, Hon. n. B. Scott, has expressed
the opinion that DR.. Stathers ought to
resign as superintendent Of the Weston
Asylum. We differ with Mr.. Scott.
DR.. Stathers ought to stay as long as
he possesses the full confidence of the
board Of directors.
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THERE can be little doubt that he
administration is becoming worried
over the opposition of the people to
the Philippine war and the policy of
expansion. The President is talking
good deal Of his plans and purposes,
and his friends are making precon-
certed efforts to bolster him up.
THE bodies of the John Brown raid
ers, recently removed from near Har-
per's Ferry, were reburied last week
on the John Brown farm at North
Elba, n. Y. The funeral was some
forty years late, but it passed off all
right. Bishop Potter, Whitelaw Reid,
Capt. James Holmes and Col. Richard
Hinton were the chief mourners.
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THERE will be hot times in Ohio
from now until November. John R.
Mclean, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, has brains and political abil-
ity and big barrel of money, and he
will make a desperate fight to win.
Tho Republicans are already scared
and Mark Hanna is coming home from
Europe right away to help save the
State.
Col. NAT WARD FITZGERALD, Pop
ulist candidate for Governor of West
Virginia several years ago, has pur-
chased for $4,000 the residence of the
late DR.. James Logic in Charlestown,
and will make that place his home.
Col. Fitzgerald has been one of the
most picturesque figures in our West
Virginia politics, and We welcoms him
to Jefferson county. We have no
doubt that he will make things inter-