THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866. VOL. 35. Molasses, Oh! Molasses. Probably in no political campaign during a century has there been a more profound and logical argument put forth than the democratic howl of " Molassess, oh ! molasfes." " Whad'je goto Franklin for?" "Mola?se.?, mo lasses, oh! molasses." Theman-that don't-want-liis-name-in-the-papcr says he bought part of a newspaper to aid Mr. Emery's canvass. Where did he get his dough ? Of course a newspaper is negotiable property and there is no law against any man buying a news paper plant—presses, fixtures, towel, good will, and entire outfit—if he has the necessary sugar; but one would think, to /»ear the democrats and box ers yell, that Sibley's mola§Se§ was the only sweet stuff in evidence in this campaign. This man Emery is entitled to no Republican votes. The action of him self and his so-called Republican (?) friends is subversive of the very first principles of Republican government. Submission to the will of the majority is the very foundation rock on which our proud republic is reared. When a few soreheads and political boxers can disrupt the Republican party then shall our very republican form of govern ment be indeed in serious danger. The act of a brave man, one of the noblest, most patriotic acts of any pub lic man of recent times, was the action by the Hon. Joseph C. Sibley in the Fifty-sixth Congress, when he boldly announced his position in support ofthe flag, the constitution and the President of the United States. Money will hire men to work, but it cannot buy personal honor, respect, esteem or friendship, and the Hon. J. C. Sibley has twenty personal friends who esteem and love him (regardless of the size of his bank account) where this man Emery has one. VINDEX. The underwear department of the populars clothing store of N. Seger is complete. Any grade in quality and price desired may be fouiU AX IMMENSE ()U r IT()UR7NG OF THE PEOPLE. The voters of Cameron county turned out en masse at Driftwood last Thursday evening to hear Hon. Joseph C. Sibley and Hon. C. W. Mackey discuss the issues of the campaign. A special train con sist, ug of seven coaches packed ful of enthusiastic Republicans arrived at Driftwood at 7:30. The people came from every section of the county-Emporium, Portage, Ship,® n, Lumber Gibson ami Grove Over twelve hundred people, headed by Emporium Baud and the Driftwood McKinley and Roosevelt Club, marched to Mitchell's opera house, but not one-half were able to get into the buildtag Never before 111 the history of Cameron county has such an enthusiastic meeting been held in the caster,, part of this county. Addresses were made by Congressman Sibley and ex-Co,u TO sn,a,, Mackev both able and convincing arguments. The meeting was admirably handled by hustling Republicans of Driftwood and Gibson and resulted in much good. Mr. Sibley's speech was input as Mowv You charge me with being a flopper. Yes, I guess that is so. If a flopper may properly be defined as one who did not know it all yesterday, is wiser to-day and aims for progress to-morrow, then lam a flopper. If a flopper is one who finds a position of yesterday untenable to-day, positively wrong to-morrow, then if seeking to leave the entenable position, the occupation of which would stultity my intelligence, dwarf my conscience, and work an injury to my fellows, then you may define me as a flopper. If looking at the present and trusting for a grander future rather than facing backward to fan the smouldering embers of the past, con stitutes one as flopper, please enumerate me as such. Whenever I see men who have been working for $i a day, able to earn $2; when the man who earned $2 can have the opportunity to earn $3; I will flop as often as it may be necessary to help that condition, for that man to continue. When from 1893 to 1896 47 per cent, of the wage-earners of this country were unemployed or working 011 short hours, and to day only three-eighths of one per cent, of the wage-earners unem ployed, I will flop to help keep these men employed whenever and wherever it is demanded. When under a free trade tariff bill we saw our nation largely importing its manufactured necessities, and when under this ad ministration we arc manufacturing not only for ourselves, but arc supplying the other nations of the world with the products fabri cated by American hands in American workshops, you can make a fair guess that I will flop to help that cause along. Last year we sent from our American workshops to foreign nations $339,000,000 of manufactured products; this 432,000,000 of dollars, and with the assured certainty that, with the President's policy maintained, those exports will within six years reach more than one thousand millions of dollars annually, thereby requiring double the workshops of the present, and affording double the present opportunity for honest labor and honest capital to meet with substantial recompense, I will flop, and flop until I can be right side up in line with that policy. When a pound of wool brings the farmer 30 cents to-day in stead of 17 cents, and when his sheep that were only salable at a dollai a head in 1896, are worth to-day three or iour dollars head, I will flop whenever it is required for me to do so to help maintain that condition for the wool-grower. When cotton, that sold for four cents per pound under the last administration, brings from nine to ten cents under the McKinley administration, I will flop to help the cotton-grower. When we see an advance in the price of all farm products rang ing 1 10111 25 to 125 per cent, and my flopping from one attitude to another will help that farmer I will try to be the first man to flop. When we see furnaces blazing, forges glowing, looms weaving; when we hear shu ff les clicking and spindles humming; when prawn and brain er 1 fair recompense, whether in factory or in field, I will, as vho aims to be loyal to his fellow, his " - " Is? y ,i v _ w- EMERY'S PIPE DREAM. "Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable."— WKßSTKß. EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS. 1900. country, and his Creator, try my level best to maintain that condi tion, call me what you will. Last fall, asking after a man who was once my warm political friend, whom I also trusted was my personal friend, I was informed that he made more money 111 1899 than he ever made iu any previous year ol his life. Was it hard for me to flop to help him and others to many such years ol golden harvest? A Democratic friend of mine, a large manufacturer of lumber, told me, much less than one year ago, that he was bothered to get enough good lumbermen togo into the woods at $2.50 per day, where a few years ago they could be had for $1.25 to $1.50 per day. And he further told me that for many years there had not been much of a margin of profit for lumbermen, but if present prices could continue for two years he would never need to strug gle for another dollar iu his life. Is it strange that I should flop for the benefit of those men ? When wages have increased from 10 to 30 per cent. In nearly all industries; when in 1899 we paid $765,000,000 more to wage earners of this land than we did iu 1896, with the assured certainty that they will still further increase, if we only let our partisanship shrivel and our patriotism expand; are you justified in doubting if my attitude of yesterday hinders that increase I will flop until my position of to-day shall be upon that higher ground, standing upou which humanity, from the heights of the delectable moun tains, can see grand visions of a more glorious future? When for two years the New York Central railroad had 35 miles of freight cars standing continuously idle upon its side tracks, and when the same effect was proportionately true 011 every great railway of America, when train crews were laid off and runs had to be divided so as to give to each man an occasional chance to earn a pittance, and to-day with hundreds of thousands of new cars and thousands of additional locomotives, we find every wheel turning, every crew employed, can you doubt whether or not I will flop, if in so doing I can help to keep those wheels turning and those men employed ? When you see this nation's products carried to market under a foreign flag, in foreign ships, manned by foreign seamen, and to whom we pay $200,000,000 each year, when the proposition is made by this administration to build up an American merchant marine, which shall carry our products to market in American ships, sailed by American sailors, and when the committee of which my honored friend from Ohio, Gen. Grosvenor, is chair man, presents such a bill in the House of Representatives, and I have to either oppose that bill or flop, which do you think it will l>e ? When we see the flag fired upon, when we see the brave boys in blue, your brothers, your sons and your sweetheats, shot down by men iu ambush, my sympathies go out to you and to them rather than to a Tagal savage, and I got to flop. As I love my country, my iellow man, and my God, no man will flop ahead of me. When to act to the dictates of an honest conscience, guided by the best oi my intelligence, my duty to my fellow man, my coun try, and my Creator, prompts me that when 1 am wrong my duty is to get right, I shall follow the promptings and the dictation of that conscience, let them lead where they may. You may hurl your contumelious epithets; they have been, hurled in the past. Washington was called a traitor; the rabble and the mob through all the ages have cried "crucify! crucify!" at every man who has dared to stand by his free conscience in an effort to make this a grander and better world, wherein true man hood and true womanhood may cherish higher ideals aud attain to higher degrees of political, social and moral well-being. When we see each month a surplus in our budget instead of a deficit; when we see, instead of borrowing money in England, as we did under the last administration, we have loaned within the last two years to Sweden, Russia, Germany and England more than $200,000,000; when we see our exports doubling and our im ports dividing; when we see happy faces of a well-fed and well clad citizenship, and contrast it with the days of the Coxey army of unemployed, when the pinched faces of hungry men and women and little children, clad in tatters, in the biting blast of the win ter's storm sought for cold sympathy and cold soup in the soup houses. God in His grace grant that you and I shall never wit ness these scenes again ! But if we do, my earnest prayer is that fie may so guide us all in His infinite love and wisdom that no vote or act of ours, whether in public or private life, shall be re sponsible for the return of such conditions. God make us men, not partisans, Tall men, sun-crowned, and truly great, Use us as willing artisans To mould and form the nobler state. I appeal to 110 man's partisanship, but rather to his reason and his conscience. Whether, as our candidate, I shall win or fail, recks little; but the success of those principles which, embodied in our national life, which opens wide the doors of opportunity through which your loved ones must go out to win an honorable place in the world, means everything to you and them. Let us tear down those altars which in our pride we have bttilded in our high places, and whereon we have made sacrifices to selfishness, to partisan practice and prejudice, and on those ruins erect fair temples upon whose unprofaned altars we shall lay our thank of ferings of patriotism and duty. 1 shall have 110 new pledges to make to vou if again your rep resentative in public life. Simply, humbly, and, I trust rever ently, seeking to know my duty, I shall discharge itas in thesight of Him who searcheth and knoweth all men's hearts. Seeking not to know what may foster the ambition of some politician, but what policies, embraced and embodied in our national life, will dignify labor, afford truer and juster recompense, and make for a nobler, truer citizenship. TERMS: $2.00—51.50 IN ADVANCE. WEATHER REPORT. (Forecast by T. B. Lloyd.) FRIDAY. Fair; warmer; sonthwest winds. SATURDAY. Fair and continued warm. SUNDAY, Part'y cloudy and probably showers | GRAND— | I IlKl Bill}! i £ AT EMPORIUM, J»A. j > MCKINLEY, SIBLEY. } \ I i j { AND THE SOLID REPUBLICAN \ C TICKET. SPECIAL TRAIN from Sinnamahon- t ing and intermediate points, for the ac- < > commodation of all who maydesire to at- > » tend: returning after the meeting. A c J cordial invitation is extended to all. > NO. 34.