Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-10-28

tor Governor ana present OOVeIhOII lSHly
ID. Hatfield for United States Senator.
There will be elements OF strength in such
a combination-but oh how il will be
/ ught by the other wing OF the party
THE official murder OF Miss Cavell by
the ruthless Germans recalls a tragedy
that makes many persons in our own
country blush with shame-the execution
ci Mrs. Surratt as one OF the closing
chapters Of the Civil War Miss Cavell
was shot for trifling oiiense, OF which
she was guilty. Mrs. SurTatt was hanged
for dreadful crime, OF which she was
innocent.
WE somehow doubt the wisdom OF
Judge Robinson in giving up sure thing
on the supreme bench for the uncertain
ties OF political preferment. He has to
run the risk OF two doubtful campaigns
one for the nomination in the primaries
and the other at the general election.
On the other hand. Mr.. Robinson is
rather Young TO be buried alive in the
musty atmosphere OF the Supreme Court.
ELECTIONS will be held in eight States
next Tuesday, November I'd. In four OF
these States Governors are to be elected
Maryland, Kentucky, Mississippi and
Massachusetts. These four States, as
we'll as New York and New Jersey, will
also elect Legislatures. The woman
suffrage cause will come up for decision
in New York, Pennsylvania and MaSsa-
chusetts. In Ohio the prohibition queS-
ton will be voted upon in various forms.
Just as we have commended all along,
the charges against Col. John I. McGraw
for alleged violation of the law in his re-
lationS with the Grafton Bank have been
shown 10 be without foundation, and in
the Circuit Court for Taylor county on
Friday last he was completely exonerated.
Colonel McGraw insisted on trial otthe
case, and if took only few hours for his
counsel to show that there was nothing
in the charges against him.
In the meantime good deal OF harm
has been done Colonel McGraw by the
more or less prejudiced or ill-informed
correspondent OF the Baltimore Sun and
other newspapers, for it takes a long
time for the truth TO overtake lie.
THE temperance forces OF Washington
county, Md, have announced TO the pub
lie that the following candidates for the
Legislature are satisfactory TO them: For
the State Senate, Harvey Bomberger;
for the House of Delegates, Edward M.
Tenney, s. Walter Stouffer, John c. Strife,
w. Scott Corbett, Charles c. Keedy, Re-
publicans, and d. Webster Groh, Demo-
crat.
Ii is safe TO assume that all the other
legislative candidates are entirely salts
factory to the liquor interests and the sa-
loon-keepers.
The liquor people will vote solidly for
the "wet" candidates, regardless Of party
politics. How foolish it would be for
the dry voters to split on partisan matters /!
ANOTHER deed OF incredible cruelty by
the ferocious Germans has filled with
horror civilized people all over the world.
Edith Cavell, an English woman who was
nurse in the military hospitals in Bel
GUM, was arrested by the Germans for
the crime OF assisting English, French and
Belgian soldiers 10 escape from devastated
and unhappy Belgium. She was found
guilty-indeed, she admitted that she had
given such Observation-Disclosures she
was taken by squad of German soldiers
in the dead ofnight to place OF execution
and cruelty shot to death. The American
minister and other representatives OF
Christian countries made strenuous efforts
TO save the woman's life, but nothing
availed TO move the savage men who
were bent upon her official murder.
What calamity if will be TO civilization
and the world in general if these cold
blooded, brutal Germans shall triumph in
the present war and their atrocious meth
DDS shall dominate Europe What black
and ineffaceable stains are being placed
upon the Germans by their sinking OF
peaceable ships and wholesale murder OF
helpless passengers by their raids on
deienceless cities with dirigibles and the
killing of innocent women and children;
and now this browning atrocity! History
shows no greater barbarity on the part OF
any nation. Civilization shudders at such
horrible crimes against humanity.