THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866. VOL. 35. SIBLEY IN CAMERON. The Johnston Letter a Boom Among His Opponents. From Walter J. Christy, Staff Corres pondent Pittsburg Commercial. EMPORIUM, Pa., Sept. 20. Republi cans are harmonious in Cameron. The one real difference here was the assem bly contest. That has been settled to the satisfaction of all factions of the party. The result will be the disap pearance of the Emery sentiment and a consequent handsome majority for Joseph C. Sibley, the Republican can didate for Congress in the Twenty seventh district. Even the chairman of the Democratic county committee is doubtful about the ability of Lewis Emery Jr., to win in Cameron. He might have a majority of 200 and then Mr. Sibley may have thie lead, is the wav Chairman Hockley puts it. He is lacking in confidence at this early day. This uncertainty, too, is expressed by the gentleman in face of the fact that for the past month work has been done for the Bradford man while the Republicans rested. It is easy to figure that Mr. Hockley has grounds for his fears. He knows what a powerful campaigner Mr. Sibley has proved himself to be in the past. The blow dealt the " Boxers " at Bradford is felt with great force in this county. MU. SIBLEY'S BOMB. Mr. Sibley dropped a shell into the enemy's camp in Cameron county when he declared at the Bradford meeting the reasons for the Driltwood Gazette's support of Emery. Cameron is the smallest in the Slate in point of popu lation. There are about 1,600 voters. The Driftwood paper circulated among a good portion of them. The news of Sibley's declaration spread like a forest Are. In every portion of the county it is now xelt that all the nice things the Driftwood Gazette has been saying about Mr. Emery went in at so much a line, though to the reader they had the appearance of coming straight from the heart of Editor Johnston. The Johnston letter is the talk of the county and the writer happened onto another end of the story. L. Taggart, once honored by the Republicans of the county with a seat in the legisla ture, is the man who arranged for the two columns of Emery matter iu the Driftwood Gazette. He was not the happiest man in the county when he read the Johnston letter in the Com mercial Gazette. The Sibleyites have been having fun with him ever since. Mr.Taggart tells an interesting story, although it may be that he omits some details which might add to the interest. When Johnston was looking around for a chance to use his paper to a financial advantage in this congressional con test, he wrote a letter to Mr. Sibley and said he would send a similar one to Mr. Emery. Rates were quoted at which certain space might be "rented." Now for Mr. Taggart's story. ADMITS THE DEAL " I made the deal with Johnston," said Mr. Taggart, an Emporium mer chant, and one of the few men claim ing allegiance to the Republican party who is supporting Emery. " I received a letter from Mr. Emery some time ago in which he stated that he was willing to pay all necessary expenses of the campaign," continued Mr. Taggart. "Afterward I contracted for two col umns each week until the November election in the Driftwood Gazette. The matter to fill the space was to be fur nished by me and was to be run unless the editor considered it oblectionable. There was no understanding about the control of the editorial expressions. Of course I calculated that there would be nothing unfriendly to Emery, inas much as 1 was paying a good rate for space." Chairman Hockley of the Democratic committee is satisfied that the publicity given the Johnston letter ruins the in fluence of the Driftwood Gazette in this campaign. He said it had a fair circu tion, and might have done Emery some good. The Republicans held their county convention here Tuesday. A resolu tion indorsing Sibley and condemning Emery was adopted unanimously. Thad. F. Moora, of Emporium, was named for assemblyman. Ho was placed in nomination by Harry 11. Mullin, who had been a prominent can didate, and stepped aside for the sake of harmony. The resolution commit tee was presided over by Josiah How ard, who was the leader of the faction opposed to Mullin. Thus was the en tire Republican family in Cameron -A ALL THAT REMAINS Is the Supreme selfishness' plank. The others, his own weight has broken and the voters will demolish this one 011 election day. brought together and united for victory in November. THE CHAIRMAN'S ETTIMATE B. W. Green is the Republican county chairman. He has been indorsed by his party for the appointment of su preme court justice to succeed the late , Judge Henry Green. Cameron county wants to see him honored, but realizes that the Republicans must do their duty this fall if they hope to secure this recognition. Chairman Green says that the county will be carried by Sibley and the entire Republican ticket. The majority will be good. He says tiiat with the per fect harmony that now exists in the county success is assured. It is simply now a question of the amount of lead the Republicans will have. The chair man finds considerable dissatisfaction among the Democrats. They do not trust Emery. There is plenty of reason for their fears. Mr. Taggart says he has it from Emery tiiat he will vote for McKinley and Roosevelt, regardless of the fact that his candidacy was made possible by the Democracy. Mr. Tag gart says, however, that any Republi can who may vote for Emery wiil not cut the candidate for assemblyman. Josiah Howard has large timber in terests in the county. He thinks that Cameron would make a great mistake if she failed to assist in returning Mr. Sibley to Congress. He has no fears that she will err. The majority for the Republican candidate is figured at 250 by him. He thinks the balance of the ticket will keep pace with the con gressional nominee. Notes and News. I Of course yon will attend the fair next week. The agriculture exhibit at the fair will be unusually fine. See the Perry pictures at the fair. The display will include some choice bits of art. The ladies of the Chamber of Com merce will meet in City Hall, Friday the 28th. MRS. I. K. HOCKLEY, Sec'y. Mr. Emery is the Democratic candi date for Congress in this county, but the Boxers would not trust the old democratic organ, the Independent, whose editor has given thousands of dollars worth of labor and material for the cause, but squandered §3OO or S4OO for a private organ. Reformers! God save the Queen, close up the churches, and burn the school houses. The Boxers, compoKedof a few polit ical soreheads, one or two honest but misguided Republicans and a half score of Democrats who imgaine they hold a mortgage on the county of Cameron, and carry the voters in their vest pock els, will realize, when they get the rats out of their belfries, that the voters of this county are folly competent to do their own thinking and voting and propose being on deck when the whis tle blows on Nov. 6th. Thanks. We take this method of thanking our neighbors and friends for their kind ness and sympathy shown us during the sickness and death of our dear baby. MR. AND MIIS. JOHN PIPER. "Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable." —WEßSTEß. EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27.1900. Emporium Independ ent Editor's High Regard for Mr. Sibley. "No man of standing will sustain a small fry politician very long. Mr. Sibley's record in congress stands out above almost any other member of that body as the champion of the people's rights. He supported by speech and vote every measure that he knew was the demand of the common people. He is the especial representative of our old soldiers in ! fighting for every measure that per -1 mitted more liberality at the hands of the government. He may be said to be constantly paying pensions out of his own pockets, not as an annuity, but as temporary relief, and when our late soldierboys went to the front, Mr. Sibley, out of his great generosity and sympathy, went down into his pocket and con tributed to the comfort of the boys even while in camp. When in con gress he donated every cent of his congressional salary to the ad vancement of Agriculture in his district and to the labor organiza tions " "Stand by the Boy." "Father, if you knew the effect the I action of your party lias on the situa | tion here, I am sure you would never vote to haul down the flag." That appeal was contained in a let- I ter which an old man, a life-long Dem | ocrat, living in an Illinois town, I received from his son who is a soldier Jin the Philippines. On his way home j from the postoflice he met a neighbor, | a Republican. The letter, which nat- J urally he had opened at once, was still jin his hand. He read to the neighbor, j what his son had written. Then he said: "For forty years 1 have voted a Democratic ticket, but I'll stand by the j boy thisvear. You can place rpy name j on your McKinley club roll." I There is a motto for loyal Americans! j "Stand by the boy"—the boy who is ; lighting under the country's flag in j our distant new posessions, whether I he be your boy or your neighbor's boy, j or simply one of the multitude of pa ] triotic American boys who are person ! ally unknown to you, but whom you | know is ever ready to uphold the na j tion's honor and her flag. Let Bryan j and Altgeld, and Atkinson, and Till- I man, and Croker, and others of the | heterogeneous horde of demagogues, j cranks and hungry seekers after per j sonal advantage stand by Aguinaldo and his band of outlaws, but do you | "stand by the boy."—Albany Journal. Great Attraction. Remember that Dr. Lincoln Hully, will be present at Teachers' Institute Monday evening, Oct. 15th. Be sure J you hear this popular gentleman. Where the Money Cioes. Money is used in elections. Voters ; are bought, but the cases are compar atively few in which a voter is paid money to support the nominee of his own party. This is only done in cases I in which money is used to coax voters | from their party. Then it may be that \ money is used to hold voters who have ; no honor to hold them Nine-tenths of the corrupt use of money in elections is for the purpose I of getting men away from their party I allegiance by the opposition, or by an independent rascal who poses in the ■ character of a reformer or purifier, j A better illustration could not be had ! than that of Sibley and Emery. No reason is needed to induce a Republi i can to vote for Sibley. That is the ' natural and honest thing to do, for the I reason that he is the nominee of the | Republican party. There is no need j to hire a Democrat to vote for Sib- I ley, for at least one half of them j ought to do so, even if Emery were as j good a man for the place, because the j Democrats have no one of their own ; party to vote for and would naturally j vote for Sibley, who is an avowed Re | publican, rather than for Emery, who i never is neither a Republican nor a Democrat. Sibley has always been at | least on one side, and the public knew what that side was. Emery has never been on any side, but has sat astride of | the top rider of the fence all his life, | politically, despised by both sides. I When men are bought it is always to Ido a mean thing. Not one of the I eleven disciples ever got a farthing for following Christ to the bitter end. The only money which greased the palm of one of them was that which paid Judas for his betrayal. Whether the thirty pieces which put the Saviour on the cross were given by Herod alone, or j subscribed by the scribes, Pharisees and hypocrites, or sent in response to begging circulars with blank receipts sent out to Gallilee, Jericho and Ge henna, is immaterial. That they were to corrupt a man from his duty to his God is just as evident as that the money now pouring into the Emery jack pot is to be used to buy men to do that ! which they would not do without being | bought. Now, as in the old times, j money used to influence public action j is nearly always the price of the be trayal of a trust. From the nature of j things it cannot be otherwise.—Warren Mirror. Wedded. Mr. Omer It. McCool, of Driftwood, ; and Miss Flora A. Swartz, of Sinnama | honing, came to Emporium last week, | Monday and were made one. The happy | couple returned to Sinnamahoning on | 3:20 train same day,where the groom is ) engaged in business. The PRESS wishes I the young couple much happiness. Fusion Hopeless. I Senator Emery's Bradford Record, April 9, 1900. The result of Saturday's Republican 1 primaries emphasizes the futility of the insurgent movement In McKean county. The returns give no hope of future power to the men who sought to disrupt the party organization. It is well. There is no j doubt in the mind of anyone now as to the position of the Republican party in Mc j Kean connty. OUR COUNTY TICKET. The political battle is now in Cam eron county; both of thegreat political parties have nominated their ticket and adopted a platform of principles upon which each candidate must stand. One sustains our noble good President who has met .and mastered the great est questions that have confronted any President since the days of the immor tal Lincoln; the other espouses the cause of the party that would tear down the flag; one favors a continuance of prosperity; the other would foist upon the people a depreciated curren cy and clog the wheels of the factory and work shop and again install in their place the smokeless factory and the soup houses. The candidates elect ed must represent one or the other. Which will ye choose? The Republicans present for mem ber of Assembly Mr. Thaddeus F. Moore, an industrious, hard working lumberman. Mr. Moore is a native of this county and the first gentleman ever nominated for this exalted posi tion by either party who belongs to Cameron county. Left at an early age to take the place of father over a large family of boys and girls he accepted the duty without a murmur and dili gently set to work, where his soldier father, diseased from the hardships endured during the rebellion had pass ed away and left undone. By his en ergy and perseverence he has seen the large family grow up to usefulness, while he has become one of the most reliable jobbers in this state. He is well fitted by coming in contact with the business world to represent the whole people and when elected will represent with dignity the laborer, manufacturer, farmer and business man. Mr. Moore has served in many important positions, always receiving a flattering support from the people. For several years he served with credit as collector of taxes and is now serving as one of the school directors of Em porium borough. We bespeak for liim the united support of every Republican —just as loyally as you will support William McKinley, whose principles he stands for. lie has a right to ex pect it and all conscientious Republi cans who believe in the principles of their party have no moral right to deny it. See that T. F. Moore is elected. Mr. C. Jay Coodnough who has been nominated lor the responsible position of Prothonotary, &c., for the third term, has BO acceptably met the wishes of the people that he will have no op position—the democratic convention having endorsed his nomination, which no doubt is pleasing to Mr. Goodnough. Dr. Albra W. Baker, for Coroner, who is one of our prominent physicians, will be elected without doubt. David S. Logue for Jury Commis sioner, who of course will be elected, has served one term very acceptably. Jas. P. McNarney for District Attor ney, will have no opposition. Mr. McNarney has served in that position several terms in the past with credit. He is a careful lawyer and will guard well the interests of the Common wealth. Vote the entire Republican ticket. TERMS: $2.00 —$1.50 IN ADVANCE. A GOODJCARE. CLOSE CALL FOR C. fi. HOW ARD & CO.'S MILL. This (Friday) evening at 6:30 the gas fire alarm, as well as all the whistles in town, aroused our citizens as they were never aroused before. A spark from the smoke stack at C. B. Howard A Company's mill ignited the dry dust on the out. side of the water tower and in less than a minute the flames shotjjup the stand-pipe and wooden tower like a flash. The flames could be seen from all sections of the town. Realizing that i serious conflagration was imminent everybody rushed to the scene to assist the fire companies It seems that never did our fire companies get to a blaze with such speed ; in fact, they fairly flew The flames had spread to the planing mill, but were soon extinguished. Five streams of water, including the mill steam pump, soon got the fire under control and saved the valuable plant and mill yard from destruction. Had the fire started later at night there would now be no such im portant industry in Emporium, for there ap peared to bo no water pressure to speak of,and had it not been for the steam pump, provided by Mr Auchu, it is questionable whether the fire could have been controlled in time to save the mill When the danger was over our citizens, one and all, took a good, long breath. It was a fortunate escapejfor Emporium, for. had the mill been destroyed, it "is doubtful if it would have been rebuilt at this place, but at the mouth of Cook's Run.;near the timber lands. ANOTHER HLAZE. At 11:30 p. m., following the abov< fire, another alarm was soundediwhich soon drc out a large crowd and the entire tire department. Thistinn it was the ice house of M. A. Rockwell, having caught from the burning of waste paper nearb*-' and, is thought, smouldered for a day or so before breaking out. The loss is slight beyond the cost of erecting a new ice house. Had a wind beer, blowing, with the present scarcity of water, the entire.block of buildings would have been wiped out, and possibly the whole business portion of Emporium. This it a timely warning to refuse burners. APOLOGY. It is with regret that the PRESS ap pears two days late. Our paper sup ply, shipped last Friday, went estray and no amount of telegraphing by Mr Gallagher, the obliging freight agent at this place, could locate the invoice. It is very annoying and appears to be pure carelessness. The idea that it should require seven or eight days to come 200 miles. We have not been in prayer meeting condition for two days and hardly expect to be for several days, with work piled up and still com ing. We have fixed the difficulty and hope it will not occur in the future. Big (ias Well. A big gas well was struck near Du- Bois on Saturday last, at a depth of 3000 feet. It is estimated by experts as good for 3,000,000 feet every 24 hours. More Test Wells. Pardee & Company have decided to test their lands, located in Lumber township, for oil or gas. Machinery has been ordered and within a few days operations will commence on Sterling Run, near the old "sawdust pile." NOTICE! On and after this 27th day of Sept. 1900, I will conduct my shoe business on a strictly cash basis and will sell for cash only, at greatly reduced prices. Being myself a practical shoemaker of over_2s years experience I will give the public the benefit of the same, anß invite everyone in need of footwear to call and examine my goods and prices. Thanking all for past favors I will en deavor to merit a continuance of the same. 31-2t Jos. LECHNER. That's How the Boys Talk Now. The Pittsburg Commercial corre spondent interviewed County Treas urer Chas. M. Thomas and sends thif to that sterling Republican journal: "There has been a growing senti ment here within the last week in favor of Sibley," said Mr. Thomas. "I have not made up my mind exactly how I will vote, but I suppose I will be regu lar. I have always found that when a Republican gets into the booth he nine times out of ten puts a cross at the head of the column, although he might have been determined to do a little slashing when he stood at the rail There are perhaps dozens of Republi cans who will do just as I have indi cated. We have' nothing against Sibley, save that he fought us two years ago. When he stood up in congress and announced his conversion to Re publicanism we applauded. Now that he is our candidate it takes a little time for some of us to forget the past, but as the campaign livens change? may come." The Coming Fair. Beginning Wednesday, Oct. 3d, ana continuing fort hree days, a fair will be conducted under the auspices of the ladies oft he First M. E. Church, in the Opera House. The several depart ments of art, fancy work, house furn ishings and agriculture will be replete with articles of interest and value tc the purchasers. Contributions from home and abroad have been made and an array of articles useful and beauti ful will be seen that wilt excite admi ration and be a source of real pleasure to the visitor. lee cream will be for sale each day. A quick lunch can be had at any time for 10 cents. Thurs day evening a substantial supper will be served for 25 cents. Music in at tendance. Come all, come often, but come next week—Fair Week. Local news on Bth page. NO. 31.
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