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The Job department or the PRESS is complete, and affords facilities for doing the best class ol work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION TAID TO Law Ni> paper willbe discontinued until arrearages »re paid, except at the option oftlie publisher. [ Papers ser.t o: it oftlie county must be paid for in advance. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. For Governor, VI'JI, A, STONE, of Allegany. For Lieutenant-Governor, J. P. S. GOBIN, of Lebanon. For Secretary of Internal Affairs. JOSEPH W. LATTA, of Philadelphia. For Judge of Superior Court. WILLIAM M. PORTER, of Phiadelphia. WILLIAM D. PORTER, of Allegany. For Congress-at-Large, GALUBHA A. GROW, of Susquehanna, SAMUEL A. DAVENPORT, of Erie. For Representative in Congress, UON. CHARLES W. STONE, of Warren. For President Judge, B. W. GREEN, of Cameron* (Subject to the decision of the Republican District Convention.] EDITORIAL COHMENT. At it meeting of the Republican State committee held in Philadel phia on Tuesday, Judge \V. 1). Porter, of Allegheny county, was unanimously nominated for Supe rior Court Judge, to succeed the late.l udge Wickliam. The meeting was unusually large and represent atives from all sections made the uiost gratifying reports. The following, written by (Jen. Grant shortly before bis death, will interest many just now: " I feel that we are 011 the eve of a new era, when there is to be great harmony between the Federal and Confeder ate. I cannot stay to be a living witness to the correctness of this prophecy, but 1 feel within me that it is to be so. The universally kind Seeling expressed for me at a time when it was supposed that each day would prove my last, seemed to me the beginning of the answer to. ' Let us have peace." " . The Democratic Williamsport rimes becomes quite hysterical over the fact*that Attorney-General McCormick has announced his purpose to support the Republican candidate for Governor, and ad vised 'lis friends to do likewise. What did our contemporary expect \Tr McCormick to do? It cer tainly could not have thought lie would support the Democratic can didate, who was nominated to get only Democratic votes, not Repub lican.— [ Philadelphia Press. Progress of the State Campaign. The campaign in Pennsylvania moves bravely 011. The Republicans are rapidly closing up their lines and are now entirely confident of the election of their ticket by a great majority. There will be 110 independent ticket for the very ob vious reason that such a ticket, in addition to being foredoomed to overwhelming defeat, would not accomplish its sinister ulterior pur pose of electing the Democratic nominees. The most searching in quiry into the character of the Ke publican nominees has failed to discover any flaw there. By the open confession of the enemy the men who stand for the Republican party are honest, capable, experi enced in public affairs and person ally deserving. By their secret admissions their own candidates are doomed to defeat. This is the situation in general, but it is based upon the situation in detail. In the counties which have already named their local tickets the disappointments arising naturally from tiie defeat of credit able ambitions have already been forgotten in love for the party or arc fading so rapidly that they will very soon be a thing of the past. Magee and his newspapers are in line for the ticket nominated at IT:1 Tisburer. 1>; vc Mart ill has said he will support it. In Lycoming! Attorney-General McCormick, for- ! merly the leader of the anti-Stone ] forces, has given in his allegiance | and will doubtless see that his county gives a good majority for ! the soldier-statesmen candidates. The Honorable Charles W. Stone, ! with that loyalty that characterizes j the true Republican, also advocates j the election of that ticket, ami is expected to take the stump with Colonel Stone when the fight is j formally opened next month. The ; newspapers that supported him '■ heart and soul, in the sincere con- j viction that he was the strongest j candidate that could be named, have accepted the result philosoph ically and are urging the voters to do their duty to the party. The Bradford Star, the Warren Mirror and Warren Mail and the Kane Re publican. all edited by the Warren statesman's personal friends, are there, their grievances at least tem porarily forgotten and their desire for party success undiminished. 111 view of these facts it is not strange that there should be no independent ticket. Why should even a disgruntled office seeker walk deliberately to defeat? And on the Democratic side of the fence conditions are such as to give the lie to all open claims to a successful campaign. The nomination of Mr. Jcuks, an advocate of Bryan and free silver, has aroused no enthus iasm. On a platform ignoring the very issue for which he stands it is absurd. The party is torn into factions that resent the work of the Altoona convention. One of these savagely demands the depos ition of Chairman < Jarman and his chief, Guffey, as the tirst step of party rehabilitation. The Gordon ites are arraigning the Guffeyites and the (iuffeyites are assailing the supporters of the Philadelphia jurist. The men who are sincerely for free silver denounce the plat form as cowardly and evasive, while the hard-money democrats would have had it repudiate the principles upon which it went down in the campaign of two years ago. Neither is satisfied and there is no reason why either should be. And so we say that there is no cause for fear on the Republican side. The voters are alive to the necessity of supporting the admin istration that has directed our army and navy to a glorious vic tory over ;; foreign enemy and of keeping the Keystone State in the Republican (.'Ollllllll by a great majority. There is work to do. but it is already under way, and its result will be another triumph almost a- brilliant as those won at Manila and in and oil Santiago.— Philadelphia Inquirer. Ths Army's Victory. We can' better appreciate the victory at Santiago by considering its cost . The nominal strength of Shatter's expedition, which was landed on the 2.'5 d of June, was 16,000 men. If we make allow ance for the sick and for the large number engaged in transportation and in guarding the supplies upon the coast, it is doubtful if his actual fighting force exceeded 12,000. Reinforcements reached him after the battle of July 1 and 2, but in the desperate assault that resulted in the occupation of El Caney and the heights of San .Juan, 12,000 is a liberal estimate of the number lie had engaged. The losses foot up 1,914 killed, wounded and missing, the killed in battle numbering 240 and the wounded 1,584. Thus nearly one sixth of the army was disabled in action, while at the same time fever and exposure were reducing the ranks perhaps as rapidly. And still the army held its ground un complainingly, ready to press for ward to another attack that every one knew must be even more destructive than the first. We do not know the losses of the enemy, but they could not have been nearly as severe as ours, since the Spanish had so greatly the advant age of position in an infantry battle. They were nevertheless sufficient, when followed by the loss of the tleet and the subsequent strengthening of the American lines, to convince the Spanish com mander of the fruitlessness of con tinued insistence to an army that woidd fight as ours did. A man who fights aboard ship fights, as it were, under the eyes of the world; but these soldiers out in the trenches under the tropic sun, with no one to describe (heir valor. ;;o one even to identify CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY ax, 1898. them in the long line stretched ; across the hills, still pressing for ward in the face of death, what j splendid heroism is theirs! We j cannot honor them too much, every ; man of them, from the general to | the private, and above all the j glorious little army of the United | States of which they formed so | large a part. We are rightly proud j of our navy, but the victory at | Santiago is the army's victory, j bought with blood and suffering i and a chivalrie courage that no j army in the world ever has ex celled.—Philadelphia Times. WASHINGTON LETTER. [Front our Regular Correnpondcnt.) Washington, July 18, 1898. Onto Porto Rico and onto Spain! are now the twin watch words of President McKinley and 11is administration.. Commodore Watson's lleet will probably be on the way to Spain before this is printed, and the expedition against Porto Rico will be started at the earliest possible moment. Havana is to be left alone for the. time being, as the delay is daily weakening the effectiveness of Blanco's troops. lien. Shafter's great victory in the capture of Santiago and 25,000 | Spanish troops with their arms and ; ammunition, would have caused much more rejoicing had it not been accompanied by the news that thi- yellow fever had broken out in | our army at Santiago. Everything j that money and science and medi- I cal skill can do to stamp out the disease is being done, and there ; ports indicate that the fever is so far of a. mild type, but there will i be much uneasiness until the full j extent of the infection becomes known. The War Department is perfect l ing arrangements to send the ! Spaniards, who surrendered at I Santiago, back to Spain, under I parole, in accordance with the ; terms of surrender, and they will | be hurried off as soon as possible. I Sending them to Spain is the best j possible thing to do with them. It I will be cheaper than feeding them j and keeping them as prisoners, | either in Cuba or in the United ! States, and even if it wasn't, it | would still be the best way to get | rid of them. Secretary Alger is very proud of j a letter he has received from a gentlemen who held high command in the Union army during the civil | war and who has a world wide reputation as an authority on | military matters. The tenor of l the letter may be judged from this ! extract: ' - You have shown the J world what American staff de i partments under a head of great executive ability can create in an I emergency. It is difficult to create |an army, equip it and move it, j and it requires a peculiar kind of | ability." The total amount of subscrip | tions to the war bonds was 81,:>»>5,- <)<)(>, Olio. ;ind would doubtless have ; been twice as large had not the certainty that they would not get 1 any prevented many large financial | concerns from offering to take big blocks of the bonds. The meaning of this offer of our o\\ n citizens to ! loan the government one billion, three hundred and sixty-five mil lion dollars, at three per cent, in terest, will be more fully appre ciated in Europe than among j ourselves—we required no such j proof of the patriotism of our ! people. President McKinley is much pleased to know that the entire issueof bonds will go toindi viduals, not one of whom will get more than 85,000, and that almost half of the 8200,000,000 will go ! out in lots of 8500 or less. It is a ] popular loan sure enough. ! As an additional proof that Am > ericans always keep near the head j of the procession, whether they are j engaged in fighting with deadly | weapons or in the struggle for the almighty dollar, it may be men- I tioned that applications for autlior | ity to establish National banks at the following places have been filed at the Treasury Department: Honolulu, llavanna, San Juan, Porto Rico, and Manila. A Washington delegation of the Red Cross Society made a thorough personal investigation of the ar rangement for the comfort of the sick and wounded in the hospital at Fortress Monroe and report all patients comfortably provided for in the way of accommodations. To meet a need, the Red Cross has issued an appeal for contributions of delicacies for the patients. Gen. Miles added much to his popularity by giving Gen. Shafter entire credit for the victorious campaign against Santiago, in his j official dispatches to Secretary I Alger, and proved that he meant j exactly what lie said when he went ! to Cuba, that lie was going to make ! observations, and not to supercede i (Jen. Shafter. It might be supposed from the tenor of the European cable news, j that negotiations for peace between the U. S. and Spain were under w ay. Such is not the case. There has been no negotiations, in fact, no word from Spain on the subject. This government has had an ample sufficiency of negotiating with ' Spain, and is not likely to counte- | nance any in connection with peace. There will be no need for any. When Spain thinks she has been thrashed sufficiently, she can obtain our terms of peace by asking for them. As they will not be deviated from, there will be no occasion for any negotiations; the terms must be either accepted or rejected once. The statement that President McKinley had told the terms of peace to an European diplomat, in order that he might make them known to Spain, was a bare faced lie, with not even a probable foundation. It is not customary for the victorious coun try to offer terms of peace before they are asked for, and any state ment that President McKinley has done so. or that he intends doing so, may be put down as manufac tured. How Spain Carries on War. London "Times." It is not easy to understand either the annoyance of the Span iards because the Egyptian gov ernment tries to enforce the plain : est rules of neutrality or their astonished indignation at the news that the Americans are sending j cruisers to harass them on their own coasts. People who play at bowls must expect to meet with | rubbers. If they send cruisers to Cadiz Bay the Americans will only ; do to Spain what all the world ex | pected Admiral Cervera to do to j the American ports on the Atlantic seaboard. The Spaniards have carried on the war much as they i carried on the suppression of the Cuban revolt —that is to say. as it ; it were so pleasant a game that if | would be a pity to bring it to an j end. But that is neither the Am erican view nor the usual view;, and Spanish indignation because neutrals behave as neutrals and beligerants as beligerants is just a I little ridiculous. For the moment | this indignation appears to rein j force the bellicose party in Spain | who demand fighting without : making any fight. But that effect | will probably prove evanescent, notwithstanding the exhortations of patriotic bishops. Our corres pondent judges rightly when he says that the new taxes—collected as takes must be collected, without any element of romance—will probably influence public opinion more strongly than redomontade j about the projects of the Am erican j Government. Sunflower Philosophy. j Every man has probably spent a 1 dollar trying to collect fifty cents. Every one thinks he could startle i people if lie wrote for a newspaper. When a man gets into a hack, j and is not used to it he shows it in his | actions. Soon after a man passes forty, he I begins to lose interest in the Fourth of ! July noise. People who talk a great deal about having the blues usually have a great deal of idle time. On every new umbrella you buy j there is a cover. Did you ever know j any one who used a cover? Be careful what you say in the first i place; the greatest waste of time is that siient in retracting and denying. When a man wants a doctor in the middle of the night he wants him bad. What has become of the old fashed man who, when he journeyed on foot, j said he traveled on Shank's mare? —E. I W. Howe. EXCURSION NOTICES. DELIGHTFUL SCHHER TOURS. Two Tours to the North via Pennsyl vania Railroad. For the convenience of those who ! seek the most attractive way of spend j ing a Summer vacation, the Pennsyl i van id Railroad Company has ?'.rranged ; two delightful tours to the North, under ; the personally-conducted tourist sys j tem, July 26 and August 16. The points included in the itinerary and the coun try traversed abound in nature's beau \ ties; Watkins Glen, Niagara Falls, Tho u: sand Islands, Quebec, Montreal, Au i Sable Chasm, Lakes Champlain and j George, Saratoga, and the Highlands of ! the Hudson are all rich in interest and i replete with natural attractions. Each tcur will be in charge of one of I the company's tourist agents, assisted j by an experienced lady as chaperon, whose especial charge will be unes | corted ladies, The rate of SIOO from Now York, | Brooklyn, Newark, Trenton, Philadel | phia, Harrisburg, Baltimore, and Wash -1 ington covers railway and boat fare for I the entire round trip, parlor-car seats, I meals en route, hotel entertainment, ! transfer charges, carriage hire—in fact, j every item of necessary expense. For detailed itinerary, tickets, or any i additional information, address Tourist Agent, Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, 1196 Broadway, New York; 860 I Fulton Street, Brooklyn; 789 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.; or Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. Where Will You Spend Your Summer Vacation ? The VV. N. Y. & P. Ry. announce two delightful excursions to the Thou sand Islands, to be run July 23d and August 20th. The train will leave Emporium at 8:30 a. rn. Fare for round trip §6.50. Tickets will be good ten days returning. Among the Thousand Islands on the St. Lawrence River is a most charming resort for a week's vacation; boating, fishing, and steam-boat excursions are ; among the pleasures derived at the 1 Islands. For full information call on j W. N. Y. & P. Ry. Agents, or write S. | 15. Newton, Excursion Manager, Buf- I falo, N. Y. 18-3t Sunday Excursion to Portage Falls. The VV. N. Y. & P. Ry. will run j Special Excursion Trains to Portage ' Falls, Sunday, July 3d, 17th, 31st, Aug. i 14th and 28th. Trains will leave Emporium, at 8:00 ! a. m.. Fare for the round trip §I.OO. The Portage excursions proved very enjoyable for the public,and successful for the company, last season, and no doubt will this season. Passengers are allowed six hours at Portage in which to view the beauties of Glen Iris. Visit the Historic Indian Council House and other points of interest and return home at a seasonable hour. There are excellent hotels at Portage or you can take your lunch. Remem ber the dates. 17-10t. NIAGARA FALLS. Low-Rate Excursion, via Pennsylva nia Railroad. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has selected the following dates for its popular ten-day excursions to Niagara Falls from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington: July 21, August 4 and 18, and September 1,1.5, and 29. An expe rienced tourist agent and chaperon will accompany each excursion. Excursion tickets, good for return passage on any regular train, exclusive of limited express trains, within ten days, will be sold at $lO from Philadel phia, Baltimore, Washington, and all points on the Delaware Division; §9.60 from Lancaster; $8.50 from Altoonaand Harrisburg; $6.90 from Sunbury and Wilkesbarre; $5.75 from Williamsport; and at proportionate rates from other points A stop-over will be allowed at Buffalo, Rochester, and Watkins re turning. A special train of Pullman parlor cars and day coaches will be run with each excursion. Tickets for a side trip to the Thousand Islands (Alexandria Bay) will be sold from Rochester, good to return to Roch ester or to Canandaigua via Syracuse within five days, at rate of $5 50. For time of connecting trains and further information apply to nearest ticket agent, or address Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. [ 10H-20-6W ] G. SCHMIDT'S/-^ Hc.nniuuTMDt FOR V FRESH B re AD jj§ popular P ™- AM , li O < NUTS \ # ---Ei^pspas^ CONFECTIONERY. Daily Delivery. All orders given prompt and skillful attention. 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