Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-07-26


For County Com'r Harper's Ferry Dist,
T. BOTELER MOORE.
For County Surveyor,
JAMES X. HENDRICKS.
THE Beers are still giving the Brit
ish trouble, but the Boxers hold the
public attention at present.
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Ii HUNG CHANG is trying desper-
atelv hard to save his peacock feath-
err, and it looks as if he will succeed.
IF the foreigners in Pekin have not
been murdered it isn't because the
powers haven't given the Boxers plen-
ty of time to kill them.
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IT will be mighty hard for the Re-
publican editors to persuade the peo-
pie that the farmers are prosperous
while wheat continues to drop.
SOME of the enthusiastic friends of
the Hon. A. B. White call him the
flames G. Blaine of West Virginia.
What Did Blaine have a red head =?
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Hon. JOHN H. Holt, the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor, has
made several speeches in the State re-
Gently that show him to be man Of
ability and force.
ANOTHER trust is being formed.
This time it is combine of the man
ufacturers of metal roofs, ceilings and
similar goods. 1t will rob the people
of anything overlooked by the other
trusts.
SOME persons are beginning to be-
lieve that the Hon. Teddy Roosevelt
isn't, after all, very much better than
the plain, ordinary New York politi
clan with which the country is al
ready tolerably familiar.
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SENATOR ELKINs predicts Re-
publican victory in West Virginia this
fall. We do not regard Senator Elkins
as accurate in forecasting the result
OF a general election as he is in pre-
dieting what a Republican State con-
vention will do.
THERE'S one thing to be said about
the Hon. Teddy Roosevelt; If any
thing should happen to the President
and his cabinet, if the Navy should be
swallowed up by the sea or the Army
annihilated in some unforeseen man
ner, Teddy could easily take the place
Of everybody and everything.
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WHEN Mr.. Mckinley became Pres
ident the standing army Of the United
States was $4,000 men. Now there
are 10000 in the Philippines, $4,000
are needed in China, and there are
perhaps $4,000 more in Cuba, Porto
Rico and in this country. Where is
the gain for this enormous increase
and where will the increase end?
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ONE of the Republican candidates
for Judge of the Supreme Court of
West Virginia is George Pofinbarger,
late sheriff Of Mason county. Some
persons may be bit squeamish about
putting him on the supreme bench, but
our Republican friends assure us that
if he is elected he will at once read up
Blackstone so as to fit himself for this
important position.
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PROF. T. G. MILLER, who was NOM
mated by the Republicans for State
Superintendent of Schools, is one of
the best-known educators in West
Virginia, well fitted by his high char
acter and ability for the place. In
fact, there is probably but one other
man in the State better qualified for
that ofice-and he is Robert A. Arm
strong, the Democratic nominee.
The Democratic Congressional con-
vention for the second district will
meet in Martinsburg August 8th.
There are no active candidates for the
nomination, but the names of two
good men will probably be presented
Col. Thos. B. Davis, of Mineral
county, and Hon. Owen S. Mckinney,
of Fairmont. With either of these
two gentlemen in the field there will
be no walkover for Dayton.
ACCORDING to the Republican news
papers, Kansas is just rolling in pros
perity. The farmers there are flock
ing to the Paris exposition with pock-
cts full of money, all the mortgages
are being paid of, the banks are over
flowing with deposits, great crops are
in all parts of the State, and men,