Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-08-03
Our Washington Letter.


and that a bill which will provide substan-
tial relief for the consumers OF the coun-
try will be passed by both houses OF Con-
gress and presented to the President for
his signature.
President Taft has been placed in
most embarrassing position by the pass
age of the wool bill and will be placed in
a worse position if any other Democratic
bills for the reduction Of the tariff are
passed by the Senate. 1t was he who
said the present wool schedule is "inde-
fensible." 1t was he who promised the
people that if he were elected to the
Presidency his party would revise the
tariff downward. He has stood all along
for a reduction in the tariff and yet he has
not been backedup by his party and now
that an opportunity has come to reduce
the cost OF living, through reduction OF
the tariff duties on the necessities OF HE,
he threatens to veto every bill whose
purpose is to lessen the cost of living to
the consumer and reduce the profit OF the
producer to reasonable figure.
Ellicott Northcott, United States minis
ter to Nicaragua, who was slated at a
White House conference between Presi-
dent Taft and Governor GlasScock forthe
Republican nomination for Governor the
same time that it was agreed West Viz
ginia was to give its vote in the national
convention to Taft, was TO support N. b.
Scott and Davis Elkins for the Senator
ships and Governor GlaSScock for a Fec
eral appointment, at the same time selling
out the Progressive" Republicans in the
State and voting them for Taft'S renomi-
nation, has so far endorsed the slate as to
declare in favor OF President Taft'S re-
election, to endorse Governor GlaSScock
for ally position he wants and to declare
that any man who ANNOUNCES his candl-
dacy for the Governorship year in ad-
vance OF the convention is not Republi-
can. This is evidently directed toward
Charlie Swisher, whose candidacy has
been announced for some time, and Mr..
Northcott'S effort to read SwiSher out OF
the party is evidently so that there might
be no opposition TO himself when con-
vention time comes around. There is
ample evidence OF the fact that by this
agreement N. B. Scott and Davis Elkins
are to remain in charge OF the party and
its patronage and that no one can aspire
to any position the gift of the party with
out first consulting them.
There seems to be determined effort
in the PoStoffice Department TO prevent
Senators Watson and Chiffon from getting
anything they ask for. OF course they
are never conferred with as TO appoint
mentS, as they are all dictated by former
Senators Elkins and Scott, but even in
the matter ofthe establishment Of the post
offices and rural routes for the conven-
fence of patrons Of the poStoffice they are
being Systematically turned down, show
ing the venom of the department toward
Democrats.
Senators Watson and Chiffon appeared
together before the PoStoffice Department
to ask for the reinstatement OF Earl H.
Rouse, of New MartinSville, to the rail-
way mail service on the West Virginia
Short Line road between New Martins
vile and Clarksburg. Letters recon-
mending his reinstatement were present
ed from such Republican sources as Judge
Willis and Judge Jacobs, Frank Wells
Clark, Dayton & Francis, Rev. DR.. D. L.
Ash and numerous others, but the request
was turned down.
Senator Watson made application for
the establishment of poStoffice at Poto-
mac Manor, near Blaine, in Mineral coun-
ty, but this request was refused.
Even a request for rural mail route
out OF Given, Jackson county, made by
Senator Watson, for the convenience OF a
large number Of citizens OF that county,
was refused by the department, and
request for an investigation of the pro-
posed route by poStoffice inspector was
refused on the ground that one had been
made at some time in the past.
Senator Watson is tryingto hold in their
places in the census Bureau Howard
Doss. of Summers county, and Jesse
Cockrell, of Harper's Ferry.
Richard Howard Jones, of Wheeling,
who has been employed in the office OF
Senator Chiffon, has been appointed by
Senator Watson to be midShipman at
the U. S. Naval Academy i'll next years
class. He has resigned his place with
Senator Chiffon to prepare for the exami-
nations.
The office force of Congressman Brown,
under his private secretary, Foster Zigler,
has been busy getting out documents and
literature to constituents in part of his
district. Quite number of the Year
Books issued by the Department OF Agri-
culture have been mailed, though the en-
tire district has not been covered by any
means. Persons desiring these books
should write to Mr.. Brown, to be sure
they will not be missed in their diStribu-
ton.
John J. Cornwell, ofRomney, was here
on visit to relatives and State Senator
Sam Woods was also here during the past
week.