FREELAND TRIBUNE. Published Every Thursduy Afternoon —BY— TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - SI.OO PER YEAR. Office, Bfrkbeck Brick, 3d floor, Centre Street. Entered at the Frceland Postoffice as Second Class Matter. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. STATE. Auditor General K. Wright Treasurer A. L. Tllden CONVENTION IU-I KOATES. Chus. It. Huckalew, IF. M. Ynndling, ChaunceV*F. Black, John Luttu. George A. .Tenks I lodger Sherman, George M. Dallas, William Weiho, S.G.Thompson, Thomas Lnzear, David \\'. Sellers, Samuel Griffiths, Henry W.Scott, Grant Weidmaii, linht.'K. Moiiaghan, George H. Zcigler, Win. S. McLean, 11. Morgan ltoot. COUNTY. Judge John Lynch Prothonotary I. C. Wiegaiul District Attorney John M. Gannan Clerk of Courts A. L. Stanton Jury Commissioner Patrick Finn CONSTITUTION AI. CON V KNTK >N. (John D. Hayes Delegates ( ,j. ii. Woodward FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 8, 1891. As the days roll by the signs multi ply that the Democratic county ticket will go through next month with an old-time majority. There is an air of confidence in the make-up of the ticket which foreshadows a decisive victory. The trip of the candidates through this section next week will strengthen each of them, and the Fourth District will respond on election day with a solid front. John Lynch and his col leagues have the people behind them. AND still our high-tariff contempo raries maintain a dense silence about those promised high wages which were to come to every American worker after the passage of the Mc- Kinley bill. We do not think it is i asking too much to inquire the cause of delay, and we invite any of our protectionist friends to advance rea sons which will show why there has not been an increase in wages in pro portion to the increase of tariff duties. IT has been ascertained that one hundred SI bills can be squeezed into a space one inch high, and a statisti cian has made some interesting calcu lations from this discovery. Taking the amount of money squandered by the last Republican congress, $1,008,- 000,000, he finds that if it were count ed in $1 bills, laid one upon the other, they would rise 1(10 miles above the surface of the earth. Yet this is nothing to what the people pay to protected manufacturers every year. No one can deny but thai? the Democrats are right in it this year. City Treasurer Wright, of Philadel phia, is ferreting out the misdoings of Lis Republican predecessors in that office and stands an excellent chance of being elected. Robert Emmet Wright is alter the ring of thieves with the seventh commandment, and has good prospects of becomming the next Auditor General. In Luzerne the county chairman, J. Ridgway Wright, predicts victory, and he is right. WITH one accord the Republican organs have again taken up the cry of the tariff, just as they did during the State campaign last year. They told their readers the country would go to destruction and the United States would be swamped with cheap foreign goods if Pattison became Governor. They are no more anxious to-day to discuss State issues than they were in 181)0, but Chairman Ken lias the G. O. P. and its big bluster ing machine on the defensive, as lie had a year ago. The days are over when voters could lie Hocked together like sheep by sounding the tariff bugle. The light now is against Quay isin, Bardsleyism and public robbery. Which side are you on! THE boasted independence of some i journals in regard to publishing news has received a severe setback in this campaign. When new revelations are made concerning the thieving of Re publican officials we find little or noth ing on the matter in the daily papers of that party. When any reference is made it comes in the form of con temptible insinuations as to the mo tives of the investigators. The Press is a perfect specimen of this class. If a new milliondollar-steal is discovered it appears with a page of editorials about Bulgaria, Egypt, the House of Lords, etc., interspersed with occa sional sneers at the investigating com mittee. But that is llepublicanism every time. IT Las been discovered that the ( omission of a clause providing for the printing of election tickets by the j State is likely to result in the calling j 1 of a Constitutional Convention by a j j vote oi the people. It is argued that , the political parties have not sufficient 1 interest in the matter to prepare tickets "for" and "against;" that j the candidates for the office of dele- j gate to the convention will provide j plenty of tickets for the convention, and that nobody is sufficiently inter ested to pay for tickets "against" the j call. Both parties committed them j selves to the project of submitting' the question of calling the convention 1 to a vote of the people, and in the ab sence of provision for the printing of tickets by the State they are under obligations to provide the tickets; necessary to the carrying out of that purpose. Grover Cleveland and his wife, since Saturday, were the recipients of more congratulations than were ever before given to nny couple. The whole country echoed with expressions of long life to the new comer and its parents. It is a girl. •'Let No Guilty Man Escape." The Philadelphia Ledger shows no inclination to let up on the leaders and organs of its party who are trying to mis represent Governor Pattison's proclama tion in calling an extra session of the Senate. It scores the critics of the | Executive in a style which stamps it as a true independent Republican journal. In a recent article its editor says: Again and again it was stated, both by direction and indirection, that the in vestigation was a mere political trick and device for the making of Democratic votes. Taking all things into considera tion—especially taking into consideration the adverse criticisms made by the parti san journals and leaders upon the Governor's recent proclamation, their efforts to discredit his public spirited motives in issuing the call for an extra j ordinary session, and the remarkable conduct of the majority of the Legisla tive Committee—it may well be question ed if organs or leaders could be guilty of greater or more disastrous folly than they have been in connection with the official fraud and maladministration which have inflicted such enormous losses upon the State and city, and which have so greatly dishonored both. If the dissatisfied organs and leaders were but a hundredth part as wise as they should he, if they were not hope lessly blind to a truth demonstrated so often as to need 110 further demonstra tion, they would know and see that they have, both by what they have said and done, inflicted more injury upon the Re publican party than the Democrats could have inflicted upon it in a century. Their efforts to discredit Governor Pattison's most commendable action, their attempts to suppress inquiry with regard to offi cial corruption or negligence, their ar raignment of all those who are probing to find the truth regarding the wrongs done, their obstructive devices, their special, sophistical pleadings in behalf of those persons implicated in wrong- I doing, have thus far had no other effect than that of making the Republican party responsible for the real or suspect -1 ed misconduct of a few men, who, having j been elected by it, assume to represent it. By their persistent attempts made j to hinder investigation, by denunciation of those who are seeking to ascertain ! facts of the utmost importance to the great community of taxpayers, they have simply intensified the general feeling of indignation against the officials implica ted, causing thousands of intelligent citizens to turn in resentment and sorrow from a party that, through its organs and leaders, is apparently determined t< prevent the discovery of offences against the State and to shield the suspected offenders from the penalty of their offences. All such efforts to mislead, hoodwink the intelligent public are worse than foolish; they are suicidal. The Hepubli can party, in the middle of a State and county campaign, can neither except nor hope for victory, under existing circum stances, unless its representative organs and leaders, acting for the party, shall aid in every effort for the discovery of the truth, to the end that the innocency of the innocent shall be established to the party's honor, or that, if guilty, their guilt shall be proved; and again, for the party's honor, that they shall be driven out of it in disgrace. Every sagacious mind will recognize that good politics is good public policy, and that the Demo crats can make no votes out of the present official scandals unless the Re publicans, by interfering witli the revela tion of the truth and the punishment of the guilty, aid them to do it. AVhen, as now, the public thought and conscience are so active and alert in condemnation of official wrong doing, all efforts to shield offenders will be as vain as at tempts to scale walls of fire with ladders of tow. The Eleventh Census. I Census Superintendent Porter has : made anything but a successful attempt : to meet the report of the National Civil j Service Reform League upon the Elev cntli Census. This elaborate report, which is presented by a committee con sisting of Republicans, and Democrats, gives a most extraordinary description of the manner in which the statistics of 1890 have been collated and prepared. For the first time the public is afforded a revelation of the partisan methods applied by the Census Bureau and the Administration to the important work of making u census of the population, industries and social progress of the country. In the outstart the Superintendent of the Census was selected because of a certain unscrupulous facility in manipu lating statistics of commerce and labor in the interest of tariff robbery. It was thought that such a person might prove a valuable instrument for "doctoring" statistics of industry and population in case of need, or for performing any other partisan service that might be re quired of the head of the Census Bureau. No sooner did Superintendent Porter enter upon his office than lie proceeded to ignore utterly the principles of Civil Service Reform in making his appoint ments. Although the law of Congress expressly authorized the Secretary of the Interior to establish rules for the selection of employes of the Census Bureau in accordance with the principles and practice of Civil Service Reform, Secretary Noble made no effort to en force the law. In vain the Civil Service Commission appealed to President Har rison to rescue this Bureau from the spoilsmen and put it under the protec tion of the Civil Service rules. The whole responsibility of appointment was conferred upon Superintendent Porter, who, in his turn, surrendered it without reserve to Republican members of Con gress as a legitimate share of their spoils. As a result of this reckless and irre sponsible partisan policy the work of census enumeration in many partH of the country was committed to ignorant and unscrupulous paity heelers and bummers whose sole object was to obtain their pay as speedily as possible, without re gard to the accuracy of their returns. A few examples are taken at random from the report of the Civil Service Reform League. In New York city Supervisor Murray addressed a circular to the ward leaders to send in tlie names of such persons as the Republican organizations of the several districts wished for census enumerators. In response to this appeal the work of census enumeration in New ork was devolved upon a swarm of worthless creatures, of whom some were j ex-convicts or under the surveillance of I the police. The result of their labors is I known to the country. I n West Virginia the selection of census enumerators was | made exclusively through the Republ ican County Committees, hp Indian apolis the enumerators were required in llagrant violation of the law, to make a complete list of qualified voters as part < of their census work. Supervisor Douglas in Buffalo made it the first duty of every i census enumerator in liis district to work j for the election of IS. U. Williams, the Republican candidate for Congress. [ Slovenly as lias been the collection of , census statistics, the tabulation of tlio re turns by the system of lightning calcula tion in the Bureau at Washington is still I worse. The upshot is that the census of IS'.M will he Utterly worthless as an olfi rial exhibit of the population, industries ! ami growth of the country. An investi gation of this wdiole scandalous business i ;by the next Congress has become ahso .l lutely necessary. It is related that Super | intendent Porter has been quite liberal in the appointment of Democrats to places in Ins Bureau since the last elec tion for Congress—a policy in strong con trast with his former partisan ruthless ness. But no such device will stave off or defeat an investigation of this census work. If the Eleventh Census be of 110 utility as a statistical compendium, the country should be informed of the pro cesses by which it has been rendered valueless. — Record. Had for tlie National Game. The season for the National League of base ball players ended Saturday, with the Boston Club winning the pennant. A week ago, and for a long time pre viously, it was regarded as very certain that Chicago would finish first, but the steady winning of games by Boston for several weeks, having pretty regularly beaten Brooklyn, Philadelphia and New York, and Chicago's losses the past week, have put Boston up and left Chi cago in second place. This result, which became apparent several days ago, after the double games between New York and Boston, has caused a decided sensation in base ball circles. It has been rather freely charged that games have been thrown to Boston in order to deprive Chicago of the victor}*. These charges, however, do not formally come from any authority in the organization, and Captain Anson, of Chicago, has taken occasion to say that he did not believe that the Eastern clubs were throwing games to Boston. But he did think, and said, that if Chi cago had been facing New York it would have been met with different players than those employed against Boston. All that was officially done was em braced in the protest of the president of the Chicago Club against the playing <f the postponed games between New York and Boston, on the supposition that proper consent had not been given. It seems to have been established that this consent was obtained, although it was a very suspicious circumstance, and one not adequately explained, that the Chi cago Club was not consulted, and its con sent not asked. It is upon this ground, together with the fact that New York's best pitchers were not used in the recent Boston games, that the suspicion of 1111- j fairness has arisen. Whether just or unjust, that suspicion has been given life in the minds of the thutiHunds all over the country who patronize base ball. With many it amounts to conviction. Coming as it does at the end of a season of differences with the American Association, and fol lowing the season of trouble with their players in general, it is a most un fortunate tiling for the League. If left in its present condition it will have a very serious effect upon the game, and may destroy much of its popularity. The people have a love of fairness, and if tliey are left to conclude that a con spiracy was formed to defraud any club it will end their interest. The circumstances in general justify the suspicion, and, what is too evident, the popular conclusion. They are cir cumstances which it may be posssible to explain, but the attempts at explanation so far made do not meet the emergency. It is easy to see that the people of the Chicago Club really believe that they have been tricked, while hesitating to make a declaration of their belief, but it is very certain that without formal action on their part nothing more will be done in the matter, and the public w ill he left with the feeling that the season has ended in a fraud, and with a question against the integrity cf tiie game which has not been raised before for ninny years. None know better than the managers and players what this means. They have subjected the game to a good many hard knocks in the past two years, but tlio present difficulty—for it amounts to a real difficulty—is certain to prove the most demoralizing of them all. A thor ough and rigid treatment of the matter is demanded.— Press. A Typical New Yorker. The insolence of some parties with whom newspaper people come in con tact is remarkable for its magnitude. A circular is being sent out to country papers by Munro's Publishing House, New York, inclosing a reading notice of one of their periodicals, and n request that the same he published. A similar notice would costa local advertiser just $3,110 in the TRIBUNE, but Mr. Munro in forms us that upon receipt of a marked copy of our paper containing his "ad" he will forward the October number of the Ladies' Fashion Bazar , worth, he says, twenty-live cents. Jt is not likely that Mr. Munro will be overwhelmed with marked copies of papers, for coun try publishers are not so deeply interest ed in the fashions that tliey should ex change three or four dollars' worth of space for his Bazar. DrunkenneHH, or the Liquor Habit, Posi tively Cured by adiuiiiiHterini; I)r. llaiueH' Golden Specific. It is manufactured as powder, which can be given in a glass of beer, a cup of coffee or tea, or in food, without the knowledge of the pa tient. It is absolutely harmless, and will effect a permanent and speedy euro, whether the pa tient is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. It has been given in thousandsot eases and in every instance a perfect euro has fol lowed. It never Tails. The system once im pregnated with the specific, it bccoinesan utter impossibility for the liquor up petite to exist. Cures guaranteed. is page book of particulars free. Address GOLDKN SPJXIFIC CO., 185 Race St., Cincinnati, o. I M'ILDING LoT. A lino building lot, situ -1 > uted on Centre Street, above Chestnut, is , offered for sale. Apply to Mrs. < ormac lirogan, Drifton. — I WM. WEHRMANN, PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER Front Street, Freolund, near Opera House. Cleaning 8-Day Clocks 40 cts. " Alarm " 20 " '• Watches - 50 " Main Springs, 35 cents to 81.00 Jewelry repaired at short notice. All watch repairing guaranteed for one year. Tne cheap est shop in town, (live me a call. Free Trade I F'ree Land.! Free Men I •Tustice, A four-page weekly Journal devoted to the advocacy of the Single Tax ANI> Absolute Free Trade. JVO more effective aid to the des truction of the Tariff I\tish, can be given than to he/}) the goad work in Pennsylvania which "justice" is so thoroughly doing. In the citidal of Protection we are breaking down the barriers of worn-out political super stition ami letting in the light of the new political economy. r.o cents |>er year. 185 eents for six month*. Sample copies free. Address | JUHTICK, 1341 Arcli .Street, IMilla. CITIZENS' BANK OF FEEELAJNTD. 15 Front Street. Capital, - $50,000. OFFICEUS. Jos I I'll NIRKBECK, PresiJcUt. 11. < . KOONS, Vio- President. 11. K. DAVIS, Cashier. JOHN SMITH, Secretary. DIRECTORS. Joseph Ilirkbeck, 11. <\ Koons, Charles Diisheclc, John Wajrner, John M. 1 owell, 2d, Williaiu K uip, Anthony Rinlewick, Muthius Scliwube, Al. Slave, John Smith. PST" Three per cent, interest paid on saving deposits. _ Open daily from a. m. to ip. m. Saturday evenings from t> to 8. WANTE D ! A HO I T 250 GIRLS ANI) 100 BOYS TO Work in the Weatherly Silk Mill. Steady work and good wages. No one under 12 years of age will be employed. Railroad tickets will be furnished by the company. Apply at once at office of mill. The Head 4' LovaM Co. ICE CREAM AND Temperance Drinks FOR SALE MY GILBERT Washington and South Streets. HENRY STUNZ, Boot and Shoemaker Cor. ltidye and Chestnut Sts., Freelund. Having purchased a large' stock of BOOTS & SHOES I am prepared to sell them at prices that defy competition. Repairing* a Specialty Call and examine my stock. Cor. Ridge and Chestnut Sts. "( ' , WINTER IS GONE —BUT— Wise's Harness Store Is still here and doing busi ness on the same old principle of good goods and low prices. The season changes, but LEO. WINK Does not change with the seasons. He is no winter friend, but a good all the year round friend to everybody who needs HORSE : GOODS. Blankets, Buffalo Robes, Har ness, Whips, Dusters, Fly Nets and in fact every thing needed by Horsemen. Good workmanship and low prices is my motto. GEO. WISE, Jeddo, and No. 35 Centre St., Freeland, Pa. BOOTS AND SHOES. A Large Stock of Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers, Etc. Also HATS. CAPS and GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS of All Kinds. A Special Line Suitable for This Season. GOOD MATERIAL! LOW PRIGES! HU&E M.AiLO"Z",. Corner Centre and Walnut Sts.. Freelttnd. "Seeing is Believing." J|L And a good lamp must be simple; when it is not simple it is p//Mlli!lJ'mjmM not good. Simple, Beautiful, Good —these words mean much, but to sue " The Rochester " will impress the truth more forcibly. All metal, tTBSfil// j? tough and seamless, and made in tliree pieces ■ it is absolutely safe and unbreakable. Like Aladdin's xAfga' I of old, it is indeed a "wonderful lamp," for its mar- A velous light is purer and brighter than gas light, jf softer than electric light and more cheerful than either. At j,ook for this stamp—Ti.r? Rochester. If the lamp dealer hasn't the gonnino wliffV. Rochester, and the style you want, send to us for our new illustrated catalogue, /THwTNYand we will send you a lump safely by express—your choice ot over 2,000 PArygQi.l varieties from the Largest Lamp Store in ihe Ivorld. "iSWa: BOCHKSTIiU CO., 42 l'ark Place, New York City. 4HL "The Rochester." iflclal Ready Pay. A COOD THING. That's What the People Say. I have a special drive in chil dren's hose. 4 pair black hose 25cts. Children's seamless hose 3 pair 25cts. Ladies' sillc brad ed wraps reduced from 84.50 to $2.50. Ladies summer vests 3 pair for 25 cts. I would like to tell you more about notions but can't in here. Did you see Our Ladies' Kid Button Shoe for ®I.OO and others cheaper than any where. I am positive I have the best and cheapest stock of shoes in town. Wall paper is the worst of all; can't keep up with the de mand. 8 cts double roll, etc. We are selling anything and everything in tinware. Wash boilers 75 cts, etc. In carpets we are bothered a good deal in matching hut get them daily just the same; 17 cts a yard to any price you want. Furni ture seems good property when they get 0 chairs for $3.00. Cane Seated Chairs S4-.50 for 6 I have cherry bedroom suits 8 pieces, for $lB. Oil cloths and rugs, ham mocks and easy chairs. Did I mention dry goods. It's hardly necessary. You know, and so does everybody, that I can save you money. Challies, fast colors, 5c a yard; good prints 5c a yard; muslin 4 to 8c a yard. Straw hats for boys, girls and the old man 4c up to just your choice. GROCERIES. Well there are fresh, as I have 4 horses hauling them out daily. No wonder; just see: 4 pounds of currants 25c; 4 pounds of raisins 25 cts; 4 pounds of lima beans 25 cts; 4 pounds of starch 25c; <i pieces of soap 25c; 5 pounds of rice 25c; 5 pounds of barley 25c; bologna Gic per pound; shoul ders 7c per pound; California hams 8c per pound; flour 82.75. All goods guaranteed and delivered free within a radius of 5 miles. Try our system, spot cash, and you will join i the rest and say the only way to keep house is to buy from the Beady PAY J. C. BERNER. Proprietor. PENSIONS THE DIS Alll LIT Y BILL IS A LAW. Soldiers Disabled Since the War are Entitled Dependent widows and parents now dependent whose sons died from effects of army service are included. If you wish your claim speedily and successfully prosecuted, JAMES TANNER. Late Com. of Pensions, Washington, I). C. LIBOR WINTER, RESTAURANT AND OYSTER SALOON, No. l.'l Front Street, Frceland. %3J"'The finest Liquors and Cigars served at the counter. Cool Beer always on tap. WE IliF Mill OS I0P! But this time with a new department comprising A Large Stock of Boots and Shoes Which we received through buying out a large shoe store, and therefore are enabled to sell them .at less than their cost of manufacture. Anybody needing anything in the footwear line Can Hay Tlieni, Croat AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Childrens' shoes that were 75c, now 50c. " " " " 51.25, now 75c. Ladies' fine toe slippers that were 5i.25, now 50c. " good shoes that were 61.50, now 61. " fine " " " 62.10, " $1.50. Boys' good " " " 61.50, " 61. Mens' " " " " $2.10, " 61.50. Lester's best mining hoots that were $2.75, now 62. Best gum hoots for men " " 62.75, " 62. II IMRY II STICK Til FIMEST SHOES II Til MARKET But on account of limited space we cannot quote any more prices. If you want anything in this line call and examine our stock as we can save you money on these goods. IN THE DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT WE ARK SELLING Good tea toweling 4 cts. per yard. The best cambric skirting, 4 cts. per yard. Good yard wide unbleached muslin 5 cts. per yard. Good yard wide bleached muslin 7 cts. per yard. Hill's yard wide bleached muslin 8 cts. per yard. The best indigo blue calico 6 cts. per yard. Two cases argent a outing clotb 10 cts. per yard, was 12£. 3 yard wide double fold cashmere 124 cts. per yard, was 18. 38 inch wide fine Henrietta cloth 25 cts. per yard, was 35. 40 inch wide line black Henrietta cloth 50 cts. per yard, was 05 We have a number of other bargains too numerous to mention here as we carry double the amount of stock of any of our competitors. WE BUY AND SELL FOR CASH ONLY And thus we arc enabled to sell goods at lowest prices. IN THE CLOTHING DEPARTMENT We carry the largest stock in town giving you a far better 1 opportunity to make a selection and at prices on which we defy competition. Children's suits from 61 upwards. Boys' long pants 5 piece suits from 62.50 upwards. Men's shits in light and dark colors 65 per suit. Men's line custom made suits 610. AH our clothing we- are SELLING AT GREATLY RE DUCED PRICES, as we are selling goods at the same reduc tions in our other lines, namely: Xjsiclies' ZMliaelin "CJ"nderwear, Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Goods, Hats. Caps, Oil Cloths, Carpets, Ladies' and Misses' Blazers, Reffers, Capes, Fancy Goods, Etc., at JOS. NEUBURGER'S BRICK STORE, Centre Street, - - Ereeland, Pa. 'G And Hardware of Every Description. REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. We are prepared to do roofing' and spouting in the most improved manner and at reasonable rates. We have the choicest line of miners' goods in Freeland. Our mining oil, selling at 20, 25 and 30 cents per gallon, cannot be surpasssed. Samples sent to anyone on application. Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods. Q\RKQECK'S, CENTRE STREET, FREELAND, PA. Advertise in Subscribe for the "Tribune." the "Tribune."
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