Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-05-17

a year ago.
IT is Mckinley and the trusts
against Bryan and the plain people.
Which will win?
THE West Virginia editors will
hold their annual meeting in Parkers-
burg May 1924.
Iris beginning to look as if the
British Will finish the Beers before
we get through with the Filipinos
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THERE'S no unseemly scramble for
places on the State ticket in West Vlr-
ginia, but there is lots of good material
offered to select from.
AT the Democratic primaries in
Berkeley county last week William
Campbell carried the county for State
Senator over J. Garland Hurst.
THE Popuhst convention at Sioux
Falls last week nominated W. j.
BRYAN for President and Charles A.
Towne, of Minnesota, for Vice-Presi-
dent.
IT is stated that the expenses Of the
government next year will amount to
$7OO,O0O,OOO The policy of expan-
sion is being rushed by the Treasury
Department.
THE amount Of the stealings by
United States postal officials in Cuba
is growing and now reaches $l05, 900.
As the total grows the respect of the
Cubans for our government dimin-
ishes.
CONGRESSMAN FREER is now beg
ging for denomination for Congress
from the fourth district-which he
will not get He discovered too late
what it means to antagonize the bosses
in West Virginia. Senator Elkins
viii grind him to powder.
AFTER weary months Of begging,
Philadelphia has finally raised the
100000 promised to the Republican
national convention. If the national
committee has as much trouble raising
campaign funds as it has had in get
ting this money Mr.. Bryan will stand
a mighty good chance.
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IT is argued that to withdraw from
the Philippine Islands now would
leave the various tribes at war and
result in wholesale slaughter. We
don't know that it would be worse for
the natives to shoot each other with
their bows and arrows than for our
soldiers to murder them by scores with
Krag-Jorgensens.
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HERE is what John J. Ingalls, says
of trusts: They create the scarcity
which they make the excuse for their
extortions. They destroy competition
which, left free, would equalize de-
mand and supply. They deprive the
young and poor of equality, Of oppor-
tuuity, which is the undermining of
our political system. They degrade la
Dor by impairing its independence
they are public enemies, and their ex-
istence is a reproach to civilization"
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SENATOR ELKINs was unable to at
tend the Republican convention at
Fairmont last week because Of a pres
sure Of public duties at Washington.
The nature of those pressing duties
was revealed on Saturday, when it be-
came apparent that his vote was need
ed to save the armor trust. In the
Senate proposition was offered that,
rather than pay the outrageous price
Of $545 a ton for armor plate de-
manded by the trust, the government
should establish plant Of its own.
The trust had a narrow squeak of it,
for the proposition was lost by vote
of "a to %. Senator Elkins voted for
the monopoly. -
ONE of the most vexatious scandals
that have arisen to bother this adj
ministration are the frauds perpetra-
ted in Cuba by officials sent from the
United States to manage the postal
affairs of that island. Months ago
orders were sent from Washington to
destroy stamps worth several hundred
thousand dollars, which were to be re-
,1ooa1 bv rauy Opac Tpcfaa1 of burD-