4 Seirrjepor) 06ur)f_y J^ress. ESTABLISHED BV C. B. GOULD. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Per year t'-i "0 If paid in advance fl SO ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements are published at tlie rate of one dollar per square for one insertion and fifty cents per square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year or for six or three months are low and uniform, and will befurnished on appli cation. Legal and Official Advertising per square, three times' or less, $2 00; each subsequent insertion SO cents per square. Local notfcestencents per line for OlK insertion, Ave cents pcrlineforeachsubsequentconsecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines, ten cents per line. Minipli -announcements of birth s,marriages and deaths will be inserted free. Business ('ards, five lines •<T less -: -.Oper year over five lines, at the regular rate> of advertising No local inserted for less than 75 cts. per issue. REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. For Governor, Wm. 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 Pliiadelphia. WILLIAM D. PORTER, of Allegany. For Congress-at-Large, GALUSIIA A. GROW, of Susquehanna, SAMUEL A. DAVENPORT, of Erie. For Representative in Congress, HON. CHARLES W. STONE, of Warren. For President Judge, CHARLES A. MAYER, Clinton. For State Senator, JEREMIAH V.. BROWN, Clarion. For Representative, HENRY 11. MULLIN. Emporium. For Associate Judge, JOHN McDONALD, Driftwcod. For County Treasurer, CHARLES M.THOMAS, Emporium. (n COL. STONE'S rJ £ a 'f PLATFORM, ru if] jj! "It will be my purpose when |0 Uj elected to so conduct myself j[] ru as to win the respect and good tr }{] will of those who have op- [n J] posed me as well as those who [jj in iiave given me their support, ru $ 1 shall be the (Jovernor of the |{] Aj whole people of the State. jj] ru Abuses have undoubtedly h n] grown up in the Legislature [jj jj] which are neither the fault [jj In of one party nor the other, nJ Shut rather the growth of cus- n] torn. Unnecessary investiga- Sj ru tions have been authorized by In p] committees, resulting in un- [jj Jj necessary expense to the State. {}} Lri It will be my care and purpose pJ Oj to correct these and other H] [j; evils in so far as 1 have the s] rJ power, it will be my purpose lij while < iovernor of I'ennsyi- tr, Jj vania. as it lias been my pur- [jj ■ji pose in the public positions RJ {n iliat 1 have held, with (bid's n] [jj help, to discharge my whole [{] PJ duty. The people arc greater tf] T] than the parties to which Ln i{] they belong. I am only [jj uj jeaious of their favor. I shall [jj In only attempt to win their ap- rJ [jj proval and my experience has j[] flj taught me that that can best jjj (J lie done by an honest, modest, In jjj daily discharge of public [Jj (LH asHs-ascS asasHSHSEsassni Stand by Mr. Stone. "To-day," says the Warren Mir ror, "the report is circulated that hundreds of Republicans are desert ing the Honorable Charles W. Stone and going to support the Democratic candidate," meaning the Honorable Joseph C. Sibley, says the Philadelpliia Inquirer. This is an old trick, not alone of Mr. Sibley, who used it ineffectu ally in his last campaign, but of nearly every candidate who, being engaged in a desperate battle, re sorts to desperate methods. Except in the case of a few dis appointed oflice-seekers, who have a personal rather than a political purpose to serve, there is not a sin gle reason why any Republican voter in the Twenty-seventh dis trict should not work and vote for the Honorable Charles W. Stone. Mr. Stone is honest, able and conscientious in all his public acts. He represents as conspicuously as any Congressional candidate in the field the policy for which the Presi dent stands, ile is one of the sound est of sound monev men and one of the most ardent protectionists. He does not believe in throwing away the results of the war. He is Re publican to the core. Now, what qualifications has Mr. r'ililuy " ,v Ct these* If" '? a Dem ocrat. He i> running on the plat form of his party and his party is opposed to the policy of the Repub licans. In the great issues dividing the two organizations ho would ho found against the President. If there is in these facts any reason why any Republican should turn against a statesman of Mr. Stone's admitted ability and experience, it is not apparent to the average man. Say what they will about the State campaign, the Congressional tight in every district is a national campaign. Congress deals only in national affairs, and it is the duty of every Republican voter to stand by his party candidates. RETURN STONE TO CONGRESS. He Represents and Supports Republi can Principles. It is of the utmost importance that the next House of Representa tives shall be controlled by the Republican party, in order that the Administration and both houses of Congress may be in full accord. From all indications the Senate will surely be under Republican con trol, but the complexion of (he House is in doubt. A change in but little more than a score of dis tricts would give the upper hand to the Democrats anil l'opulists, and enable them to defeat the policy and plans of the Administration, not only with reference to the ad justment of the tariff and currency problems. There is danger that two or three districts in Pennsylva nia now represented by Republicans may be captured by the opposition. One of these is the Twenty-seventh district, the present member for which is Charles \V. Stone. It embraces the counties of Cameron, MeKean, Venango and Warren and was carried in 1890 by Mr. Stone by a vote of 15,777 against 10,05S for W. J. Breene, Demo crat and Populist, and 1,131 for John 15. Gill, Prohibitionist. .Joseph C. Sibley, of Venango coun ty is t he candidate for the combined opposition against Mr. Stone. Mr. Sibley is a resourceful politician, who was some years ago sent to Congress by a district ordinarily Republican. Charles \V. Stone was apparently the popular choice for (Jovernor in the Convention which nominated his namesake, 'William A. Stone. * Mr. Stone has served in Loth branches of the State Legislature, has been Lieutenant Governor of the State and Secretary of the Com monwealth, and lias served several terms in Congress. He is chairman of the House committee on Coin age, Weights and Measures, hasan excellent record as a citizen and as a public man, and is a. linn sup porter and exponent of sound money. His antagonist, Mr. Sib ley, is a rampant, radical free silv erite, so extreme in his views that he declares silver to be the only standard of values, and is prepared to maintain the parity between gold and silver by reducing the grains in the gold dollar to give it an in trinsic value of fifty cents. The Republicans and other sup porters of sound money in the Twenty-seventh district are in a majority, but they need to be on their guard against over-confidence. They should rally as one man for Charles W. Stone in order that the sentiment of the district shall be voiced by a candidate in free accord with the political views that pre vail in the district. However esti mable Mr. Sibley may be person ally, his presence in the House of Representatives as a member from Pennsylvania would be a menace to the highest interests of the Com monwealth. He stands for all the crazes of the Chicago platform, whereas Mr. Stone represents and supports the principles upon which William McKinley was chosen President, principles which in a marked degree commend them selves to the people of Pennsylva nia.—Pliil'a. Ledger, (Ind.) (iaines Oil Extra Fine. The Atwell well continues yielding from five to six barrels a day. The oil is very fine in quality and nearly like the amber liquid. The Band from which it springs is as black as tar. The well is 790 feet deep and the drill has gone into the sand about five feet. Another well is being drilled and when it is at the same depth as the first one, both will be shot.—Potter Enterprise. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THUSDAY, NOVEMER 3, 1898. Mr. Sibley is surely an artful j dodger if nothing more. In his speech at Oil City on Wednesday night he says that for "two hours and thirty minutes, on the floor of The House of Representatives at Washington, I stood and denounc ed the Wilson hill, a Democratic measure against the wishes of a Democratic President ami Demo cratic fellow members. Why? Be cause it did not do justice to the industries of the District which I represented and to the farmers who had honored me with their confi dence and support." Justice for sooth: Mr. Sibley should reread liis speech and freshen his memory as to just what he did say. His de nunciation of Wilson bill was not because it did "not do justice to the industries of his District but because as he put.it. it was "un democratic. '' "I'n-demoerat ic be cause it afforded incidential pro tection to some home industries which Mr. Sibley and his ultra-free trade friends have been seeking to destroy. Sibley the friend of labor. What a spectacle. Sibley the bene factor of Ihe farmer. What, sarcas tic irony. Would a friend seek to destroy what should be nurtured and built up? And what were, the effects of the Wilson bill which Sibley called "un-deniocratic" be cause it tried to approximate in some instance a Republican pro tection? It closed the factories and opened the free-soup houses. And let the farmer tell you for him self how great was his prosperity under the benign; ?) influence of a Democratic tariff. Hut Sibley cried because he could not get free trade. Hut. did Sibley ever tell why he dodged a vote on the Wilson bill? For he did "dodge." The thoughtful business man who remembers the baneful effect of re cent Democratic silver agitation will hardly be persuaded under any circumstances to support an advo cate of dishonest money for Con gress. It is the claim of Sibley that there are 110 "notion issues in tins campaign." lie says that he "could do no harm because the President would not let him." Hut the busi ness man remembers the effect that the agitation of silver had upon business. How it stagnated and became paralized. How every arm of industry suffered. And will the Democray be persuaded to let the agitation cease? Did they attempt to embarrass the President and re tard the progress of the war with Spain by offering free silver amend ments to measures that were neces sary to provide a revenue for the successful prosecution of the war? And if a minority will seek to ob struct and embarrass the President what would a majority do? The risk is too great. And this is the vital issue of the present campaign. 1 he answer that the people return on November Nth, will mean either honest money or a debased cur rency if not now. then in 1900. It will mean a bond to prosperity or a return to the disasters that prevail ed from 1N92 to IX9O. I he laboring man who remembers the long season of short hours or enforced idleness will hardly by his vote court a return to the old conditions. He knows by experi ence that Democracy and disaster are synonomous terms, lie knows that in casting a vote for a man whose influence and voice will be raised in behalf of a debased cur rency and against the protection of home industries, he will be casting a vote that may return to his own undoing. Experience it is a great teacher. Democracy has been tried, weighed in the balance and found wanting. It worships at the shrine of false theories, its history is one of continued and ruinous mistakes. It has never been the workingman's friend and never will be. And the workingman knows it. The Oil City Derrick advises "every good citizen who believes in honest and efficient government" to vote for Sibley. Honest govern ment and dishonest money are hardly synonomous. And a dis honest and debased currency is what Sibley stands for to-day as he did in 1896. No amount of politi cal acrobatics can make the peo ple believe otherwise. Neither do the people want a man who would close the mills and the factories. Free trade and a debased currency will not promote an "honest and efficient government." The peo ple cannot be deceived by the false pretenses of Sibley and his satel lites. They will vote for Stone. To Use Chime Whistles. An order has been issued from the motive power department of the Penn sylvania Co., to have all freight mogul locomotives equipped with chime whis tles and signal whistles, as fast as pos sible. It has been found that these engines can very well take tho place of broken-down passenger engines, and make schedule time,and tho object is to have them equipped with all the nec essary signals so that when needed to haul a passenger train they can be put into use at once. Renovo News. JEREHIAH Z. BROWN. Maj. Jeremiah Z. Brown, candidate for State Senator from the 28th Sena torial District, was born in Clarion county, is a son of Jacob and Nany Brown, deceased. His father was en gaged in buying and shipping stock and was known in the counties of Armstrong, Venango and Clarion. He is married to Jennie, daughter of James Laughlin, deceased, of Clarion county, who was a prominent merchant and a well known business man, has <t family of six children, three girls and three boys, all of whom reside with their parents on the farm, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and has always taken an active part in church work. Politically Maj. Brown is a Republi can and has voted with the party for years and has never failed to take an active part in politics. He is an ex tensive reader and magazines and books are his companions, and while he lives at a distance of several miles from the post office, each day a daily paper can be found in his home; is a man of strong character and easy manner and his word is respected by friend and neighbor. He received his education at Rimersburg, from which institution he graduated, and after wards in Allegheny College. Volun teers being called for the Civil War, he dropped out of college and enlisted as a private Sept. Bth, 1862, in Company K., 148tli Reg., P. V.; was detailed to assist in raising his company to its full quota, on his return to the service he was made first Seargent, and promoted to First Lieutenant, Sept. Btli, 1863, then July 7th, 1864, was promoted to Captain and 011 Oct. 27th. 1864, was breveted Major. We quote the following which will show that Maj. Brown never shirked a duty and was ready and willing to serve his country and people: [ Harpers' Weekly, Nov. 19,1864. 741.J THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN. On this and the preceding page (748) we engrave illustrations of recent events in the Virginia campaign. An incident of unusual interest, though not important in its military bearing, was the capture of one of the rebel forts in front of Petersburg on the night of October 27th, of which we give an illustration on this page, to gether with a portrait of Captain Brown, who took the prominent part in the assault, etc." HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, ( SECOND ARMY CORPS. ( OCTOBER 31st, 1864. MAJOR SEPS CAINCROSS, Asst. Adit. General, Second Army Corps; MAJOR: —In compliance with in structions contained in circular of this date I have the honor to submit the following recommendations: That Captain Jeremiah Z. Brown, 148 Pa. Vol., receive the brevet rank of Major. Capt. Brown, on the 27th of Oct., led a party of 100 men through a chevaux-de frise and abbatis of the enemy's line opposite Fort Morton, capturing one of iiis works with several prisoners among whom were officers of rank. Very respectfully, N ELSON A. Mn.ES, Brig. Gen. Commd'g. WAR DEPARTMENT, ) Washington, December 2tui, 1864. J SIR: -You are hereby informed that the President lias appointed you for gallant and distinguished service in leading a storming party against the enemy's works at Petersburg, Va., and capturing a fort on the night after the Battle of Boydtown Plank Road, Va., Major of Volunteers by brevet in the service of the United States, to rank as such from the twenty-seventh day ofOcctober, one thousarttl eight hun dred and sixty-four, etc. E. M. STANTON. Secretary of War. BREVET MAJOR JERKY BROWN, U. S. Volunteers; Through Com'd'g General Army of the Potomac. BELLEFONTE, Pa., May 23d, 1896. MAJOR J. Z. Brown, Leatherwood, Clarion county, Pa., MY DH:AR MAJOR:—I wrote* Gen. Mulholland for his recollections as to whether or not you had volunteered for the capture of the rebel fort on the 27th of October, 1864. His reply is so satisfactory that I think you should have a copy of it as a part of your record. I have forwarded the original to the War Department at Washington and take pleasure in enclosing you here with a copy of it for your perusal, thinking that you would like to retain it also. Very cordially yours, JAMES A. BEAVER. RECORD AND PENSION OFFICE, J WAR DEPARTMENT, S WASHINGTON CITY, June 22, 1896. MAJOR JEREMIAH Z. BROWN, Leatherwood, Clarion county, Pa.; SIR: —I have the honor to inform you that by the direction of the Presi dent and in accordance with the act of Congress, approved March 3, 1863, providing for the presentation of medals of honor to such officers, non commissioned officers and privates as have most distinguished themselves in action, the acting Secretary of War has awarded you a medal of honor for most distinguished gallantry in action in front of Petersburg, Va., on the night of October 27th, 1864. The ! medal of honor has been forwarded to j you to-day by registered mail. Upon I receipt of it please advise this office j thereof. Very respectfully, ' F. C. AINSWORTH. Colonel U. S. Army, ! Chief Record and Pension Office. UNITED STATES PENSION AGENCY, ) i Philadelphia, May 11th, 18%. { MY DEAR GENERAL:—I beg to ac knowledge the receipt of your letter of April 25. I would have answered promptly but 1 have been confined to my bed and too ill to write. You asked me if Capt. Jeremiah Z. Brown of your regiment volunteered to lead ' the 1 charge on the confederate fort in front of Petersburg, October 27th, 1864. In | reply, Capt. Brown certainly did vol unteer and he behaved on the occasion in the most heroic and gallant manner. I remember him well and I will never forget how perfectly cool and self-pos sessed he was an he stood with me in front of enemy's works and I gave him the final instructions as to the disposal of his little force of one hundred men The capture of the fort was a very brilliant exploit for which the Captain was brevetted Major and I was brevetted Major General. Not only did Brown volftnteec but when I went over to the Regiment (148 Pa. Vol.) I had too many volunteers. Brown was the senior officer of the many that volun teered and so I selected him to lead the command and 112 made no mistake in the man. lie was a success and ] deserves all the honors that can be ! given him. I hope you are very well. Sincerely your friend, ST. CLAIR A. MULUOLLAND. J GEN. JAMES A. BEAVEK, Bellefonte, Pa. How Are You Going to Vote? One week from to-morrow the citi zens of Pennsylvania will bo called up on to vote. Let every Republican look the situation squarely in the face, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. It does not require very much politi cal knowledged to understand that the canvass has dwindled down to a square fight between the Republican party and that of the Democrats. The Democratic leaders have made superhuman efforts to get their votes together, and they have succeeded very well in calling in many of the gold Democrats who got away from Bryan. The facts that this is so leaves the Democratic leaders full of enthusiasm, and with the knowledge that Dr. Swallow is no longer a Guber natorial possibility they have concen trated every force to batter against the walls of Republicanism. Dr. Swallow has made a long and arduous campaign, but he is out of the race. William A. Stone or George A. Jenks will be elect ed Governor of Pennsylvania on Tues day of next week. Do the Republicans of Pennsylvania realize what enormous power and pres tige they would be giving to the foes of McKinley should they permit Penn sylvania togo Democratic? They have only to look at other States to know that this campaign isof National impor tance. In New York the Democrats are doing their utmost to win the State on what they call State issues. They want to put Van Wyck in the Executive Mansion, and they are counting upon Republican divisions to give them con trol of several Congressional districts and the Legislature, which in turn elects a United States Senator. In New Jersey there is a desperate fight for con trol. Here in Pennsylvania the party is unfortunate in having internecine strife. Men who have been Republi cans are exerting themselves to over throw the Republican ticket, hoping that in the midst of the confusion that would ensue their personal ambitions for revenge may be satisfied. It is im possible for a contest like this togo on without endangering various Congress ional districts and the Legislature. Suppose New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania go Democratic. Is there a Republican in Pennsylvania who can not understand the dire results of such a victory? These States cannot be lost without giving the House of Represen tatives and possibly the Senate of the United States to the Democrats. Place a hostile majority in Congress, turn Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey over to the Democrats, and we cannot possibly escape fighting all over again in 1900 the battles which Repub licans won in 1896. Such Democratic victories would give courage to every Democrat in the country. It would bring Bryan to the front again. We should have free silver and free trade debates. We should open up all the distrust, unrest and anxiety under which the oountry has labored so long and from under the cloud of which it has passed with the advent of McKin ley. State issues can take care of them selves, or at least the Republican party can take care of them much better than can the Democrats. There is not a dis honest man on the Republican State ticket, and Col. Stone himself time and time again in his speeches has declared his hostility to the very legislation of which the Republican party wreckers have been complaining. Reforms in the management of the State funds have been brought about by law. There in no State issue that needs reforming that cannot be and will not be attended to under Stone. The whole future policy of the President is concerned in these State elections. It is simply im possible to escape these National issues, and if Pennsylvania Republicans turn their magnificent State over to Jenks and Bryan they will reap the whirl wind. There is but one way to stamp out Bryanism, and that is not to permit it to regain its foot-hold. The oue way not to permit it to regain its foothold is to keep Pennsylvania in the Republi can column. Bucklen's Arnicft Salve. The best Salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satis faction or money refunded. Price 25 cents a box. For sale by L. Taggart. v3i-n4O-ly j The Campaign. Colonel Stone is meeting with a most enthusiastic reception as he passes through Pennsylvania. The people know him to be an honest man, who will carry out all of the pledges he makes, and they will make him Gov ernor. Harrisburg Telegraph. The thoughtful Republican will pon der long before making up his mind to vote against his ;party this fall He will study the records of the past and endeavor to discover whether any real gain has followed various successful revolts against the party ticket —Al toona Gazette. Let no Republican be misled. The question of the hour is not the downing of Quay but the upholding of McKin iey. Where is the Republican who will knife McKinley or betray his party ? Where is ihe sound money independent who will violate his con victions and court national disaster ? Erie Dispatch. Let's see, in 1860, when the Republi cans took the State from the Democrats they had to shoulder a debt of §40,000,- 000. To-day that debt has been reduced to $1,274,666.78. There must have been herculean "dishonesty" and "theft" practiced to have accomplished this wonderfully favorable showing.— Greer.shurg Tribune. The Republicans can't afford to allow personal prejudice or the malign at tacks of disgruntled office seekers to influence them so far that they are likely to overlook the critical period in national affairs. One man's vote may count little, but one man's opinion to sway the minds of other men may be of serious import.—Allentown Chron icle. The leader of the Democratic party in Congress, Mr. Bailey, would hand every island back to Spain. Elect him Speaker of the Mouse, electa Democrat to the United States Senate from Penn sylvania and turn the now evenly balanced Senate over to the opposition and down would come the American I flag and back would go the islands.— ! Laporte News Item. The hope that Republican apathy ' may render a Democratic triumph pos i sible, is stimulating the opponents of J Republicanism to unusual effort. No I effort is being spared to induce every | democrat togo to the polls and cast ) his ballot for the party ticket. There | is but one way to meet such efforts and | that is by getting out the full Republi can vote. —Norristown Herald. This year, when all the rumor and j clamor and accusation which have been maliciously injected into the can vass, is sifted down, no fact appears which reflects in any degree upon the Republican State ticket. The worst that can been said against the nominee for Governor, Col. Stone, is that he has been friendly to Senator Quay, but so has Hastings been and so has McKin ley. It is not asserted that Stone is dishonest. —Scranton Tribune. So far in the county campaign Re publicans have sensibly put aside all factional strife and grievance in their support of the ticket, and the dissen sions existing in the State campaign have not been permitted to be raised in the personal fitness of the candidates for the offices for which they have been named. The Republicans of the entire county are united in one solid phlanx in support of their standard bearers.— Hazleton Sentinel. No swapping of votes should be oon | Hide red in order by Pennsylvania Re j publicans in thiscompaign. They know | there areßepublicans enough to give ! all the Republican candidates majori ties of the right size if they goto the pol!s and use their ballots for that pur pose. The thing to do is to get out the full Republican vote, and every Re j publican voter should consider himself ; a committee of one to see thai that | result is accomplished—Pittsburg Com mercial (J izette. Those who cannot see an intimate relation between the diplomatic game now in progress at Paris and the polit ical game being waged in several states in this country are short-sighted in deed. Not that we impute to any party a desire to deliberatly injure the interests of our common country. But it is undeniable, and we submit the State platforms of the Democracy as evidence, that one great political party asks the support of the American peo ple on the very same grounds as the Spanish commissioners at Paris are basing their demands. —Scranton Re publican. It does not appear from the evidence lhat any loans were made to Quay which were not fully secured, and paid at maturity. The bank failed last March, but the whole amount due the state has been paid. The holding of the senator to bail is of no significance, sim* it is the Philadelphia custom to hold to bail all who are guilty of be ing suspected, and the magistrate was a willing instrument of the district at torney.—Honesdale Citizen. The way to defeat that conspiracy is to vote for the legislative nominees known to be favorable to Quay. The courts will take cognizance of his case at the earliest possible period in No vember, and he will be triumphantly vindicated. But his trial cannot come off until later in November than elec tion day. It was this knowledge that led his persecutors to select the time they did for bringing on the arrest and preliminary proceedings. Pottsville Miners' Journal. Those who oppose the re-election of Senator Quay has an undoubted right to do so. If thev oppose him as Re publicans. they should oppose him with another Republican candidate for the senate They are not doing this. When they declare their opposition to Quay, to ask who their candidate is, is a per fectly fair question. If they have no opposing Republican candidate, they can have no way of defeating him ex cept with a Democrat. —Honesdale Citizen. A Pennsylvanian of national promi nence, who was a minister to a foreign country under President Cleveland, in speaking to a resident of Lower Merion regarding the charges against Quay, said that under the evidence produced at the hearing the magistrate had no more right to hold Quay for trial than he had to hold me." As the speaker is one of the foremost lawyers in the country, and presumably a Democrat, his opinion should bo considered un prejudiced and of weight.—Conslio hocken Recorder.
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