Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-09-27
Political Aotes. -

York will make several speeches for
Bryan in Virginia next week.
Up to the present time Richard
Croker, the Tammany boss, has wa
gered 100000 that Bryan will be
elected.
II is said that out of 500 voters in
one district of Hampshire county,
this State, only II are pronounced
Mckinley men.
General Thomas L. Rosser, the ia
nous ex-Confederate, who recently
changed his politics, is stumping Vir-
ginia for Mckinley and Roosevelt.
1t is announced that President Nc
Kinley will make no campaigning
tour Of any sort nor will he receive
public delegations as he did four years
ago.
1t is said that many wealthy lum-
Der and coal operators in West Vir-
GINA who are Republicans will vote
for Col. Thomas B. Davis for Congress
for personal reasons.
Congressman Dayton is stumping
this district. 1t is said that the Con-
gresham has become rich by lucky
coal land investments, and he is pre-
pared to open a good-sized bari.
Senator George L. Wellington Of
Maryland has just returned from a
campaigning tour for Bryan through
Michigan. He says that he believes
the Democrats will carry Michigan.
Fusion of the Democrats and Popu-
lists of Montana has been effected on a
satisfactory basis and all candidates
nominated. Jas. X. Toole, Democrat,
for governor, was placed at the head
of the ticket.
George Dewey, son of Admiral
Dewey, is to take the stump for Bry-
an. He is to make his first appear
ance as campaign speaker before the
Commercial Travellers Antitrust
League in New York.
Mr.. Bryan has taken the trouble to
nail campaign lie circulated by
Mark Hanna, namely, that he had
promised cabinet positions to Richard
Croker and other well-known politi-
clans. Mr.. Bryan said he had not
promised and would not promise dur
ing the campaign cabinet position to
any person.
The Democratic convention for
Morgan county made the following
nominations last Saturday; Sheriff,
Price T. holland; county commits
sioner, Peter B. Dick {; assessor, ]. W.
Swain; surveyor, P. w. Atkinson.
The convention indorsed the candida
cy of J. Mccarthy Duclzwall, indie
pendent Democrat, for States attor-
ney.
The Republicans are said to be con-
siderably exercised over the reported
disafection in Morgan county, here
tofore always relied upon to give a
Republican majority. A Republican
leader at Berkeley Springs said the
cut of Congressman Dayton would
probably reach 200 Gottleib Weber,
a Union veteran and ex-member Of
the West Virginia Legislature, is
among the prominent Republicans
who have declared for Colonel Davis.
Something Of a sensation has been
created in Tucker county by Fairfax
S. Landstreet, of Davis, the general
manager Of the Davis Coal and Coke
Company, who has declined the Re-
publican nomination for the Legisla-
ture, saying he cannot shape his bus
mess interests to avoid embarrassment
to all concerned were he to accept
and be elected. He is nephew by
marriage of Col. Thomas B. Davis,
Democratic congressional nominee.
The Republicans had banked pretty
heavily upon Mr.. Landstreet to over
come Col, Davis'g popularity.
No one, Democrat or Republican,
will doubt the political sagaoity Of
ex-senator A. P. German, Of Mary
land. In an interview on Tuesday
this careful old wiseacre said: 81 do
not believe either party has made a
canvass which would warrant a con-
clusion as to the probable result Of the
election. 1t is several weeks before
the election, and campaigns run more
or less in waves. There is a drift-a
very decided drift-in favor of the
Democrats, which iustifes the hope
that Bryan will be elected Political
conditions seem much as they were in
49,"
Senator Elkins is charged with hav-
ing defrauded the Government out of
the postal charges on 100000 copies Of
speech delivered by him at Charles
ton July 18th, by permitting it to be
sent through the mail in envelopes
bearing his frank as Senator. The
Senator says that if the speeches were
mailed under his frank it was without
his knowledge. The Postofice De-
partment admitted that the Senator
had transgressed the law, and stated
further that the plea of the use of bis
frank without his knowledge was no
paliation, as every Member Of Con-
gress was supposed to protect his frank.
There is no danger however, that Mr..
Elkins will be jailed, as no penalty is
attached to this breach of the law.
We are sure Senator Elkins would not