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Bellefonte, Pa., July 3I, 1896.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - Ep1ToR.
Democratic National Ticket.
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FOR PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
ARTHUR SEWELL,
of Maine.
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR CONGRESSMEN AT-LARGE,
JOHN M. BRADIXN, Washington Co.
BENJ. C. POTTS, Delaware Co.
FOR ELECTORS AT-LARGE,
WILLIAM M. SINGERLY, Philadelphia.
JAS. DENTON HANCO@K, Venago.
A. H. COFFROTH, Somerset.
GEO. W. GUTHRIE, Pittsburg.
FOR DISTRICT ELECTORS,
John M. Carroll,
Samuel Dickson, !
Chas. J. Reilly,
Albert M. Hicks,
John M. Campbell, J. P. Hoffar,
James J. Ryan, Lucien Banks,
John Hagen, A. J. Brady,
George W. Rhine,
John C. Patton,
William Weihe,
Judson J. Brooks,
John J. McFarland,
C. H. Aikens,
Seymour S. Hackett,
Harry Alvin Hall.
John H. Hickson,
John B. Storm,
Thos. A. Haak,
Chas. F. Reninger,
Chas. H. Schadt,
Thomas R. Philips,
Charles F. King,
John K. Royal,
William Stahler.
Democratic County Ticket.
FOR CONGRESS.
J. L. SPANGLER.
Subject to the decision of the district conference.
{ JAS. SCHOFIELD,
For Assembly— | ROBERT M. FOSTER.
For Sheriff —W. M. CRANISTER.
For Treasurer—C. A. WEAVER.
For Recorder—J. C. HARPER.
For Register—GEO. W. RUMBERGER.
ForCommissioners— ! CARL TR
. ( FRANK HESS,
For Auditors— |B. F. KISTER.
For County Surveyor—J. H. WETZEL.
For Coroner—W. U. IRVIN.
Dishonest Dollars.
The charge that the free coinage of silver
would be production of dishonest money is
a favorite argument of the supporters of the |
gold standard, it being based upon the as-
sumption that at the ratio of 16 to 1 the
silver in a dollar is worth no more than 53
cents, and that all between that amount
and the one hundred cents for which the
dollar passes, is fictitious value and would
represent that much fraud on a strict sil-
ver basis.
If there is but 53 cents worth of silver in
a dollar piece whose fault is it? Does not
the blame attach to those who deliberately
set abput depreciating the value of silver
by limiting the coinage to one metal so
that the demand for the other would be re-
duced, and they would be better able to
manage, for their own profit, a restricted
currency ? There seems to have been a de-
liberate arrangement among the money
dealers in all the commercial nations of the
world to establish a single standard, limit-
ed to the scarcest metal, in order that the
volume of the world’s metallic currency,
so constricted, could be more easily con-
trolled and managed by the MORGANS,
the ROTHSCHILDS, the ICKELBERGERS, and
other money sharps of that class.
Our government was induced through
the money influence to fall in with the
“scheme of these financial brokers and gold
speculators in 1873, when the silver dollar
was dropped from the national coinage.
It was done very quietly, but it was soon
followed by its natural effect. With all
the commercial nations, ours among the
rest, entering into a conspiracy against the
old and useful metal which had served the
purpose of coinage ever since the days of
Solomon, and suppressing its legitimate
use except in the comparatively trifling
capacity of subsidiary coin, its market val-
ue, as a matter of course, declined until
we find that the silver in a dollar, which
at the ratio of 16 to 1 was worth 103 cents,
when the demonetizing act of 1873 was
passed, is now worth but 53 cents as bul-
lion in the market. But what other met-
al or article if subjected to the same treat-
ment by being withheld from its legitimate
and natural use, would not decline in
market value ?
What the supporters of free silver coin-
age maintain is that by giving silver fair
and liberal usage as a monetary metal its
value will be appreciated until such a rela-
tive condition will be established that at
the ratio of 16 to 1 every cent in the silver
dollar will be honestly represented by the
market value of the metal in the coin.
If there is any dishonesty in a 53 cent
dollar it is because a set of gold brokers
and money-sharks, all over the world, have
forced the conditions that have reduced the
demand which would attend the full and
legitimate use of silver as a monetary ma-
terial, and have thereby reduced its value.
In the interest of the people those condi-
tions must be changed.
Disgracing our People and Discrediting
the Government.
Its a queer way to maintain and have
others respect the credit of a government
to assail those who make it and those who
administer its laws, as ‘anarchists,’
‘‘repudiationists,’’ ‘“‘socialists,”’ etc.
This is a government of the people. As
president LINCOLN put it, ‘‘a government
of the people for the people and by the peo-
ple.”
The most rabid gold-standard advocate,
who knows anything about the situation,
Free Silver in America Would Kill England.
See Where the Following is From. Read What It Says, and as an
American Citizen Make up Your Mind What Is Best for
Americans to do.
From the London Financial News, March 10th, 1896.
The financial situation in the United States is very serious.
all relief measures proposed by President Cleveland, and Congress is at a dead stand-
still on the money question. The free coinage Senators are masters of the situation.
ATTENTION OF BRITISH FINANCIERS AND STATES-MEN.
GOES To A BIMETALLIC BASIS with free and unlimited coinage of silver.
on a new face; labor and industry would gain new life. The grip of the gold stand-
ard on the products of the world would be loosened and prices would rise. Great
Britain would loose her markets in South America, Asia and England, and American
bottoms would not be long in capturing the carrying trade of the world.
British creditors must now apply themselves quickly to the American money prob-
land and Carlisle, with a plentiful supply of means, have been beaten. The American
people are now thoroughly aroused and educated on the power and use of money, and
made desperate by debt and business depression they are forcing free silver on the main
issue.
Great Britain need fear no injury to her trade or investments if the Republican party
can force ‘‘protective tariff’ as the main issue in the coming presidential campaign, but
if free silver dominates the American mind and carries at the pollsit will bring abouta
change in England that will be ruinous from its suddenness and severity. The damage
standard.
It is evident that the Democratic party will not re-nominate a man who holds to
President Cleveland’s ideas on money, and the only hope for a continuation of Mr.
tion. :
The success of free coinage will bring down the rate of interest on money, and cause
an immediate rise in the price of all commodities. When silver becomes primary money
! that produced by the issue of greenbacks during the civil war will begin. Gold will
| leave the banks and enter into competition with silver in the avenues of trade, and the
manufactories of the United States, which have been shut down or crippled since 1392,
will again resume their fight for the English markets.
cratic party is also breaking up under the weight of the free silver agitation. It mat-
ters not to Great Britain which party succeeds if the gold standard is maintained, but |
will be inimical and prejudicial to English manufactories and trade.
The American people cling with wonderful tenacity to party organizations, but finan-
cial embarrassment and business stagnation has become too severe for their patience,
and they are ready for any change that promises relief. They are becoming convinced
England will regret her apathy and adherence in the single gold standard.
be elected that the vote cast for him will | abominations, we see him turning back on
be less than that cast against him. In oth- | his teaching and counseling measures that
er words he will be a minority President. | are calculated to elevate to the Presidency
As conservative a paper as the Philadelphia | the man in whom is centered the sum o
Ledger, not over ten days ago, announced its | all tariff villainies.
belief that under the mast hopeful results| There should be no doubt in the minds
the popular vote would show from one to | of its readers that what the Record has
The Senate has blocked |
This condition of affairs in the United States Congress DEMANDS THE IMMEDIATE
The trade of the world is |
now in our hands, BUT IT WILL NOT LONG REMAIN THERE IF THE UNITED STATES |
With the addition of silver to the value of money everything in America would take
lem. The sound money men. and banking interests, led by Senator Sherman, Cleve- |
that can he done British manufacturers by a protective tariff is slight compared with the |
disasters that would be entailed by a change from a single gold to a complete bimetallic |
Cleveland’s financial policy will be in the success of the Republicans in the next elec-
the American mines will pour their products into the mints, and a new era similar to |
It is doubtful whether the Republican party can be held much longer in check by |
sound money statesmen, as its adherents are divided by powerful factions. The Demo- |
either of the old parties or a new party which goes into power pledged to free coinage |
that it can not be found in the protection theory, as that has been tried, and they are |
massing now on free silver. When that issue comes fairly before the American people, |
i i ; JINLEY si + MCKINLEY] z
will admit that even should McKINLEY | toward the suppression of the MCKINLEY | visitors to the Bryan home Is on the in. |
A Poser.
| The Philadelphia Zimes has opened a
' column through which seekers after infor-
| mation are invited to a ask such questions
as they desire answered. Some of these are
| answered intelligently and honestly by the
Times, others are not. Here is one that it
didn’t answer.
: To the Editor of the Ties :
In your editorial in to-day’s Times, under
the heading, ‘‘Mr. Merrill Bolts the Times,”
‘among other rather “queer” and rash state-
ments you say :
“There are many hundreds of thousands of
honest Democrats who will suport the Chicago
| candidates and platform who are not either anar-
chists, communists or repudiationists at heart,
. but it is none the less the truth that all repudia-
| tionists, communists and anarchists support the
Chicago ticket and platform, and there is not a
vital declaration in that platform, from heginning
to end, that is not rank with repudiation, com-
munizm and anarchy.”
This ds a rank falsehood and on a par with
the deliberate misrepresentation of the silver
question being made by the capitalistic press
of the eastern cities. You know, or ought
to know, that Herr Most, the leader of the
anarchistic party and the arch-conspirator of
anarchy in this country, came out flat-footed
in a column editorial in the official organ of
that party, only last Tuesday, in favor of the
gold standard and McKinley, and in his
usual vigorous manner denounced Bryan and
silver in language more forcible than elegant.
On Wednesday night the anarchist party, at
its meeting in New York, endorsed Mec-
Kinley and gold. On Thursday night the
anarchists of Philadelphia met, on Fifth
street, above Willow, and unanimously voted
| to support McKinley and the gold platform
he stands on.
All these things have been published in the
| daily papers, and it is strange if you did not
i read it : hence, the false statement in your
| editorial. I do not know of a single anar-
| chists who will vote for Bryan. You will say,
| Altgelt, in reply to this, but that’s all bosh, for
| Altgelt is no more of an anarchist than is
| Colonel McClure. But I know and you
know that the anarchist leader, Most, has
. declared for McKinley and gold that the par-
ty will follow its leader, is evidenced by the
action already taken by the New York and
| Philadelphia branches of the ‘‘society’” and
support the Republican and not the Demacrat- |
(ic ticket in the pending campaign ; hence,
why not be honest with yourself and tell the
truth ? Respectfully,
JAMES A. CALVER.
PHILADELPHIA, July 18.
An Increase of Visitors.
. Many Callers at the Bryan Home in Lincoln, Neb.—
| They Came from all Sections. Mr. Bryan is Hope-
| ful and Beiieves that all the Silverites Will be Able
| to Unite on the One Tichet—He Will Act With De-
| liberation in Regard to the Action of the Populist
| Convention—Six Rabbit's Feet for Bryan.
LixcoLN, Neb., July 28.—The stream of
| crease. They come from all sections of the
i country. Two of the delegates from Neva-
;da to the St. Louis silver convention,
| Messrs. Dixon and Davis, en route home,
! stopped off here to consult with Mr.
| Bryan, doubtless upon his probable course in
| relation to the Populist nomination. Mr.
Bryan has received a number of telegrams
containing suggestions in regard to the ac-
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| Western Pennsylvania Visited by a Cy-
Clone.
In the Amount of Property Destroyed the Storm
is Probably the Greatest in the History of the
Section that was Scourged.—Loss of Life at
Various Points Makes Quite a Large Number.—
A House Occupied by Sixteen Miners Near the
Reading Mines, Six Miles from McDonald, Swept
Away and all the Inmates Drowned.—One Man
Rescued Alive from ‘the Branches of a Tree in
Which he Had Lodged.
PITTSBURG, July 28. — While there
have been storms and floods in this vicinity
in the past years that have caused greater
fatalities, it is doubtful if the cyclone
which struck western Pennsylvania last
evening was not the greatest in its wide-
spread destruction of property. Two lives
were lost, one man fatally hurt, and a num-
ber of people seriously injured.
The dead are: John Fiegus, of No. 11
Pine street, Allegheny ; John Aufholder,
Forward aventie, Pittsburg; George Mil-
ler, 226 Main street, back broken, will die.
John Fiegus and George Miller with sev-
eral companions werein a camp on the
banks of the Allegheny river, near Aspin-
wall. Their tents were sheltered near a
large sycamore tree: Either the lightning
or the wind tore a large Timb from the tree
and it dropped directly upon the tent in
which the members of theclub had shelter.
Eiegus’ skull was crushed. Miller was
pinned to the earth and his back broken.
Five other members of the party were held
to the ground under the heavy limb, all
severely injured. Their more fortunate
companions came to-their relief and sum-
moned medical assistance.
KILLED BY A FALLING SIGN.
Jonn Aufholder met his death while
striving to reach a place of shelter from the
hurricane on Second avenue, near Green-
field avenue. Just as he reached it with
his team a heavy sign was torn from its
fastenings and crashed down into his
{ wagon. Death was instantaneous, his
I'skull having been crushed and his neck
broken.
SWEPT CLEAN OF BOARDWALKS.
The streets of McDonald were swept
clean of hoardwalks, which lodged against
a bridge spanning an ordinarily small creek
| just below town. This backed up the
water until the lower portion of McDonald
| was for a lime inundated, No lives were
I lost, but the damage to property will be
{ heavy. Several coal mines in the vicinity
| of McDonald were flooded. Near Cecil,
| three miles southeast, six bodies have been
recovered from the debris in Cecil valley.
Oil wells and shanties occupied by oil
producers and workmen are thickly located
along the banks of Cecil creek. The tor-
| rents swept through them like mad, giving
no time for escape. Samuel McKenny’s
| house was swept away, carrying with it his
| wife, aged 50 years ; his son, James, aged
| 8, and daughter, Margaret, aged 30 ; Miss
{ Jane Holmes, aged 18, daughter of a
miner," Clyde Beatty. J. C. Hagah and
Charles Wilkinson, oil producers, were al-
‘so drowned. All of the bodies have been
| recovered except Miss McKenny’s.
| A house occupied by sixteen miners near
the Beadling mines, six miles from Me-
Donald, was swept away and all of the in-
| mates drowned. Five of the bodies have
| been recovered. One man was rescued yet
“alive from the branches of a tree in which
| he had lodged. He has not yet regained
| consciousness. All of the men were for-
| eigners, mostly Italians, employed in the
| mines.
{ All the railroads entering the city suf-
| fered considerable damage and delay. The
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two millions majority against the McKIN-
LEY ticket. :
And yet in the face of this fact the gold-
standard people, Republicans and Demo-
crats alike, through their papers, speakers
and resolutions are charging that all who
are not for McKINLEY are for ‘‘anarchy
and repudiation.” ’s
Suppose they were taken at their word
and were believed by the money-lenders
of Europe whose good will, and confidence,
and respect, these people show such a de-
taught about the harmful nature of Mc-
KINLEYISM is true, and it will be difficult | 5¢ them he responded, in effect, that he
tion of the Populi -ention. all Baltimore and Ohio railway is apparently
| tion of the Popu ist convention, and to all | Iie worstsulerer. Trin: feoit above Bie
for its editor to make them believe now | will act with deliberation, and that noth- | reka, on the main line, were unable to get
that there are such greater evils in free sil-:
ver as to render it better that MCKINLEY, |
with all the abuses which his candidacy
implies, should be elected President than
the Democratic candidate regularly nomi-
nated on a free silver platform.
While he counsels Democrats to forego
their party allegiance and support the rec-
ognized champion of tariff spoliation, for |
the sake of what he calls ‘honest money,”
ing will be done which can be justly criti- | through from last evening up to noon to-
cised hy any™ef the elements which are |
day. The through trains from the east are
sincerely interested in the success of bimet- | expected this evening. The delay was
allism. In his replies to these expressions | cused by a landslide near Eureka. A
he earnestly advises all friends of the cause | large culvert at Port Royal was also
in all parties to refrain from harsh criticism | ¥ashed out and had to be bridged over be-
of those who, however widely they may'| fore trains could proceed.
differ otherwise occupy common ground in | year the Morganza reform school, James
desiring the immediate restoration of free | W1ight, a young colored driver for Brad
coinage of silver. well’s livery stables, in Carnegie, lost his
> | life in Chartier’s creek about 9 o’clock last
Mr. Bryan expresses the utmost confi- | : . A
dence that a wise and gratifying solution of | night. He had driven to Canonsburg in a
two horse carriage and was on his way
gire to preserve and perpetuate. What
would the credit or good name of this gov-
ernment, a majority of whose people were
anarchists and repudiators, amount to with
them ? What should it amount to?
that champion does not yield an inch in
his championship of tariff robbery, but in-
sists npon making it the leading issue up-
on which he proposes to be elected Presi-
the perplexing conditions will be presented !
and adopted in due time and that the solu-
tign will be both honorable aun: satisfac-
tory to all parties. Further than this Mr.
Bryan declined to talk in relation to the
situation. Every entreating inquiry calcu-
{ back. In the darkness he did not discover
| that the bridge had been carried away and
| drove into the swollen creek.
| —
| Bryan Fixes August 12th.
With a majority of our people branded
and believed to be ‘‘anarchists and repudia-
tionists,’’ how in the name of sense would
American credit be maintained, even if Mr.
MCKINLEY should be successful? Every
foreign money-lender, whose demands the
gold standard advocates are so anxious to
accede to, would have reason to conclude
that the effort to please them, by the pre-
tense of continuing the present single
standard, was but an effort to bunco them
further with bonds and securities, the pay-
ment of which would finally be repudia-
ted.
And they would have reason for this be-
lief if the assertions of eastern papers and
eastern bankers are true.
Verily, all the HERR MosTs and other an-
archists in the country, combined, are
not doing half as much to discredit this
government, its people and purposes, in the
eyes of the civilized world, as are the un-
founded, untruthful and indecent charges,
of those who pretend to have the govern-
dent, treating as if it were of insignificant
consequence the money question upon
which the editor of the Record wants Demo- |
crats to desert the regular nominee of their
party and vote for the restoration of the |
abuses and abominations of MCKINLEYISM. |
This is asked without any assurance,
whatever, on the part of editor SINGERLY,
that MCKINLEY, who has shown a decided
inclination to wobble on the currency ques-
tion, would not be willing in his presiden- |
tial capacity to enter into a dicker by
which the monetary interests of the coun- |
of tariff robbery.
Self-Interested Patriotism.
Great praise i3 being bestowed on the
banks that control the money market, for
the patriotism they displayed by their -re-
cent action in advancing $15,000,000 in |
gold to maintain the reserve and protect |
the credit of the government. They are |
regarded as particularly patriotic in not |
asking interest on this advance, but con- |
| convention or its results.’’
| course.
| many four leaf clovers and a horseshoe.
lated to fathom his plans or purposes met | On that Date He Will Receive the Democratic Notifi-
{ t purp! x ifi
with the simple response ; “I must decline cation in New York City, at Madison Square Gar-
to be interviewed concerning the St. Louis | den. May make Known His Decision as to the
aeons — 5 Visots i | Populists then. Now preparing his Speech.
is loquacity in other directions, how- | ;
ever, was not so circumscribed, and he | LixcoLy, Neb., July 29th.—Upon re-
found monty plenary sia oh | ceipt of intelligence from New York to-day
“I receive e said, ‘‘another is
fos oe ot aL ., jon, : that the hall at Madison square garden
- 1 sent AR - | could be secured for that date, Mr. Bryan
graph operator in Montana. That makes announced that he would receive the noti-
the sixth rabbit's foot, besides a great | fication committee of the Democratic na-
) ik sh I tional convention there on August the 12th.
wrote the donor of the last rabbit's foot| He was unable to say just when he will
‘that while I was not at all superstitious, | leave this eity for the East, over what route
under the circumstances I can but feel that he will make the trip, or how long he ex-
y | every condifion and necessity to insure my pects to be en-route.
try would be sacrificed for the restorations ttfumphant election has been secured ex- |
cept the votes.
It is known that Mr. Bryan is now pre-
On his return from the Populist conven- | jpnation.
tion, Governor Holcolm brought to Lincoln | York speech the groundwork for the cam-
| a cage containing two very pretty birds of 'paign, and it is believed that up to the
the variety denominated love birds. They ' date of its delivery no man will learn from
were sent by the Kansas delegation. They | his lips just what he may be expected to
were christened Kansas and Nebraska. )
Possibly he may not even then declare
' himself, but is believed that he will then
| give some intimation of his plans in rela-
| tion to the Populist nomination. Further
| than the- above announcement there was
“WASHINGTON, July 28.—The weather | nothing given out from the Bryan home to-
bureau crop bulletin for the week ended | day for publication. :
There was an apparent lull in the tide of
‘Crop Bulletin.
Army Worms Are Very Destructive in Many Locaiities
in the State of Pennsylvania.
paring his speech of acceptance of the nom--
He expects to lay in his New |
do in relation to the Populist nomination.
ment eredit so much at hear. tenting themselves with taking greenbacks
Shame upon such villifiers of the people | . exchange, without a profit.
and of the government ! But what sort of patriotism did those
bankers display when the government was
driven by its necessity to apply for loans,
Going Back on His Teaching.
| yesterday contains the following general
| remarks 5
| In'the states the central valley and on
| the Atlantic and East Gulf coasts the week
{has been very favorable for all growing
crops, but excessive rains have to some ex-
| tent retarded farm work, threshing partic-
| visitors. Chairman Lane, of the Silver
| party’s national committee, was at the Bryan
| home during the day. There was one par-
| ty of visitors from Mississippi. There has
| also been - something of a decrease in the
| magnitude of Mr. Bryan's correspondence.
% a spoliatory tariff turn out to be nothing
It looks as if editor SINGERLY is trying
to make his long continued warfare against
more than that much wasted effort. No or-
gan of public expression has surpassed the
Record in showing up the atrocities of the
McKINLEY system of tariff extortion. Its
persistent explanations of how that system
robbed the people, without benefiting the
industries, were clear and convincing. Its
exposition and argument left no doubt in
the mind of the candid and intelligent
reader that most of the evils that have af-,
flicted the business situation and depressed
industrial codditions were directly trace-
of which it was compelled to make three | ylarly, and caused much injury to grain Ever since his return from Chicago the
or four for the maintenance of the gold re- | in shock. Heavy rains have also injured greater portion of each day has been spent
serve ? They took advantage of the gov- | €rops in the Ohio valley, especially in West | at his desk, dictating responses to letters
| Virginia, where local freshets have been |and telegrams. A corps of of five clerks
nment’s necessity like a set of sharks ; | ! ; :
ertiiient essity like a set of sharks and | (oy gestructive. | and stenographers has aided him and it was
drove the hardest bargain with it that they
could possibly make.
Their recent display of liberality and so- |
called patriotism came entirely from a sel- |
fish motive. They knew that if the gov-
ernment were compelled to make a loan of |
gold in the midst of its presidential cam- |
paign it would have such an unfavorable |
Drought continues in north Michigan, | only to-day that they had begun to see
Louisiana, Arkansas and in a few of the | their way to the hottom of the great mass
southwestern counties of Missouri. In | of mail before them.
northern Louisiana pastures and all crops |
have suffered seriously from drought and
water for stock is scarce. ie FT VDATON Rev
Although corn has suffered to some ex-! THE PRORIES 1X Coxv ENTION.—Several
tent from heavy rains in the states of the | dozen men from different parts of the
Ohio and central Mississippi valleys and | county met in the court house here, on
drought in southwestern Missouri, Arkan- | Tuesday, to hold what they were pleased
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
effect upon public sentiment as would be | isi R t- | :
i lia : Ei Louisiana and Texas, the general out- |, 11 5 Prohibition county convention.
extremely damaging to the gold-bug inter- | look for -an exceptionally fine crop con- }
est at the polls. | tinues promising.
Indiana reports ‘a When the gentlemen had all been rounded
It was rather to save themselves than to
| great crop almost assured.’”’
| up, county chairman, Rev. J. Zeigler, go-
able to a system of tariff taxation that op-
pressed the people while it was building up
and fostering a formidable array of greedy
monopolies.
This is what editor SINGERLY, through
the medium of his paper, has for yearsbeen
truthfully teaching the people, and yet at
a time when some advance has been made
save the public credit that they ‘‘patriot-
ically’’ rushed to the relief of the govern- |
ment with their gold. If a presidential |
election hadn’t been pending they would |
have driven a SHYLOCK bargain with Uncle |
SLM. :
——Read the WATCHMAN.
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Spring whey has nes a ling on the principle, always found among
ther s in Minnes nd South | _. . ; ;
weather conditions in Minnesota and South | |; iov0r0 that when a congregation is
Dakota, and the early sown has improved | : :
somewhat in South Dakota, but in that | Small it should either have a small room or
| state late sown did not head and is being | be massed about the preacher, asked for the
Bowed a ; toll Pp | arbitration room. This could not be given
Speen te egraphic yeparts fol ow : Beni) 0 the large court room was used.
sylvania—Conditions continue excellent | a 5
for rapid growth ; army worms very des- | Rev. Zeigler called the convention to
tructive in many localities, but not general. order, then Rev. G. A. Singer, of Storms-
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town, prayed for Divine guidance in the se-
lection of good men and true to lead the
cold water cohorts. Rev. Singer inspired
the delegates so much that they made him
permanent chairman of the meeting. Up-
on taking his post he made a short address,
historical in its make up, and then called
for the regular procedure of business. N.
S. Bailey, of the Magnet, was elected secre-
tary and the convention went to making
a county ticket. The result of the work
was as follows :
Sheriff—Henry Fredericks, of Boalsburg.
Assembly—H. Wilbur Bickle, of Boggs, and
W. S. Blair, of Blanchard.
Treasurer—T. Wilson Way, of State Col-
lege.
burg.
Register—Cornelius Davis.
County Commissioners — John Wolfe and
Samuel Mattern.
Auditors—W. A. Hartsock and Geo. W.
Heaton.
For Congress—Brennan Forrest was endor-
sed.
ed.
It was a question in the minds of some
oft he delegates as to whether it was advis-
able to nominate a full ticket, but it was
done.
The convention got over the tedious
work of frarhing a platform by adopting the
following resolution presented by Rev.C. C.
Miller : ~
‘Resolved, That we, the Prohibitionists of
Centre county in convention assembled,
adopt both the state and national platforms
of the Prohibition party as adopted at Phila-
delphia and Pittsburg respectively; and
hereby pledge ourselves to support Levering
ers at the coming election, and all the nomi-
nees nominated on the Prohibition ticket in-
cluding State and county.”
It must be said that the Prohibs got
through with their work without making
nearly as much fuss as either of the old
parties did. In fact very few people knew
they were here and there were so few of
them that it made one heart sick to see
Come over and join us. We are the tem-
perance people’s friends, then too Rev.
Zeigler says our free silver notion is taking
all his people.
All Through Brush Valley.
Agent Krape is hustling up the music trade.
Mr. Mumma and wife are visiting his fath-
er, Rev. Muinma.
Charles Meyer, of Hastings, is visiting his
friends in the valley.
The oats and corn crops in the valley prom-
ise prolific yields.
Post-master Shafer, at Madisonburg, is one
of the progressive men of the valley.
Geo. Kreamer, at Kreamerville, keeps up a
good steady trade and is strong for Bryan.
Mrs. Thos. Wolfe is entertaining her two
daughters. Jennie is in from the West.
The Booneville band blew its level best at
the picnic near Wolf's Store on Saturday.
Samuel Frank, Samuel Gramley and Thos.
Royer were in Bellefonte this week on busi-
ness.
The excellent Aaronsburg band discoursed
sweet music through Brush Valley on Satur-
day night.
Mrs. John Mallory has bought the home of
R. D. Bierly, in ‘‘Smoketown,” and is partly
in possession.
Cook Loose is peeling the north Bush
mountain of its pine and oak very rapidly,
with his saw mill.
Rev. Wallace, of St. Mary’s, Elk county,
preached in the Methodist church at Krea-
merville, last Sunday,
A number of Rebersburg people sampled
Sugar valley’s sweetness at the Tylersville
picnic on Saturday.
The United Evangelical association will
have a camp meeting in Emanuel Harter’s
woods, beginning on Aug. 12th.
Last Saturday C. O. Malory and Harvey
Corman’s debate on the financial question
was listened to by many spectators.
The educational features of the grange at
Rebersburg are enlivened by the participa-
tion of the fair followers of Ceres and Flora.
Hon. Henry Meyer has prepared a revised
edition of his book onthe Meyer family and
expects to publish it with photo-engravings
at no distant day.
A young divine who addressed a Sunday
school picnic at Tylersville got off this good
aphorism. ‘‘The golden rule is all right in
politics but not the rule of gold.” 2
Our farmers are beginning to understand
| why it is not to their interest to fall in be-
hind the golden procession of the Wall street
money gamblers and the Chicago bucket shop
keepers this year. :
The Rebersburg grange will have a gran-
ger picnic in Emanuel Harters woods on Aug.
£th\_ The picnic is primarily intended for
grangers, but others are invited to bring
their baskets and come.
The lecture at Madisonburg last Friday
Shaffer was chosen president, and Mr. Ammon
Hazel secretary, and Hon. Bierly delivered a
most interesting lecture.
Since lawyer Bierly delivered his money
oration at Loganton, which was attended by
prominent Lock Haven attorneys and Demo-
crats, he has been invited to speak at Mill
Hall and other points in Clinton county.
The farmers have nearly gathered in their
“50 cent gold basis wheat,” and a few will
have more than ‘‘bread and seed.” Yet the
gold standard crop liars who write to the
agricultural bureau, make the per cent. of
yield nearly a full average. ;
After six months effort the telephone
has at last been completed. Madison-
burg, Rebersburg, Kreamerville, Millheim.
Aaronsburg, Coburn and Spring Mills are
now connected with each other, and we hope
| to he soon connected with Bellefonte.
One woman said to the other, when view-
| ing and standing very close to a telephone
{ pole near Kreamerville ; ‘“Harest sel ! Wos
les ower brunt! Es doot now ebba noch
| Millheim schwetza, do vetich. Was es socha
| gebt ! Ich hab ghart se vella pour kars dguf
| runna un nei zum George.”
Recorder—John D. Gill, Jr., of Philips-
County Chairman—1J. Zeigler was'te-elect- !
and Johnston as our national standard bear-
them hang so tenaciously toa forlorn hope. =
evening was. very largely attended, Ellis
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