THE CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH, 1866. VOL. 35. THE GRANDEST REPUBLICAN DEMONSTRATION The Most Enthusiastic Meeting in Years. A VOTE-MAKING MEETING George W. Huntley, Jr., a Prominent Attor ney and Lumberman, Speaks for McKinley and Sibley. 44 Great Scott ! see the people coming and the opera house is now packed," were the exclamations of those in charge of the monster Republican meeting last evening, when Hon. O. C. Allen and Hon. Jos. C. Sibley discussed the issues of the campaign. "Very early in the day our people commenced to gather in town from every section of the county, many coming from Mc- Kean, Elk and Potter counties. When the hour arrived for the evening meet ing every seat was occupied, yet the delegations coming from the eastern section of the county on special train filled the immense capacity of the op era house and the building was packed to the street. Over thirteen hundred people were in the room, jammed as solidly as sardines in a box. More than six hundred enthusiastic Repub licans arrived on the 7:30 special train, half of whom were unable to get into the hall and lined the streets. The meeting was called to order by B. W. Green, Esq., chairman of the Republican county committee in a few words of thanks to the people of Cameron county for the great outpouring to hear the representatives of;Reoublican principles. Mr. Green introduced as President of the meeting, Hon. J. C. Johnson, who was accorded hearty applause when he took the stage. Mr. Johnson j briefly thanked the people for the honor of pre- J siding at so large a meeting and delivered a ring- i ing five minute speech for the election of the en- \ tire ticket and especially the election <>f Mr.T. P. Moore, our candidate for member of Assembly. I He paid a glowing tribute to the character and ! personal worth of our candidate and appealed to ! every Republican to stand by him. At the close; of his remarks he was cordially applauded. The following repre*en' 'tive professional, buai- \ ness men, mechanics and farmers, were elected Vice Presidents and Secretaries of the meeting, I almost every one of them promptly taking their j places upon the stage: PRESIDENT, HON. J.C. JOHNSON. VICE PRESIDENTS. Hon. John McDonald, Hon. B. V. Wvkoff, Messrs. T. F. Moore, Geo. W. Huntley, Jr., C. Jay Goodnough, J. D. Bwope, Harry Hemphill, E. W. Gaskiil, F. S. Coppersmith, Drs. R. P. Heilman, B. O. Bard well, A. W. Baker, V. K. Corbett. Messrs. Geo. Metzger, Sr., C. C. Fay, Aden Housler, W. L. Thomas, Mark Wright, J. . W. Lewis, L. K. Huntington, 11. C. Olmsted. W. 8. Walker, Frank Mundy, Josiah Howard, U. A. Palmer, A. C. Blum, Henry Auchu, Geo. J. La- Bar, Joseph Kaye, E. C. Davison, H. S. Lloyd, J. P. McNarney, Daniel Webster, N, Seger. Robt. Dodson, Fred A. Hill, Jos. A. Fisher, G. Mali lon Pott, Martin Foster, Joshua Hair, Augustus Nel son, John Wygant, W. R. Si/er, Ottis Lucore, Gilbert Morse, F. G. Hoag, Warren McConnell, Chas. Norton, John M. English, Chas. W. Wil liams, T. 8. Patchell, D. S. Logue, 8. W. Nyce, S. <;. M< El wain, Israel Bailey, C. W. Beldln, Ed. D. White, Herman Anderson, W. Swanson, Henry W. Graham, M. M. Larrabee, V. A. Brooks, A. O. Swart wood, Frank P. Strayer, P. J. Robinson, \\ . C. Callahan, ex-Sheriff Pailoy. SECRETARIES. Messrs. Henry Wheaton, Wm. Auchu, Chas. Barton, Thos. F. Moore, Frank Parker, E. H. Laniger, Ed. McNerney, D. N. Chandler, Chas. j Spanglei, J. W. Kaye, B. L. Spence, C. J. Miller, j John B. Wvkoff, H. H. Alderfer, Walter Morri- I son, H. B. Mutthersbaugh. Among the Vice Presidents were many names used by the Emeryites at their Lincoln (?) Repub lican—Pattison meeting and their appearance upon the stage branded the use of their names by the Emeryites as unauthorized and that they were Republicans. Every officer of the conven tion had personally authorized the use of their name. When Geo. W. Huntley, Jr., took a seat upon the platform it was a great surprise to all but a very few, and fell like a thunder bolt in the camp of the enemy and elicited great applause. When one after another of the reported Emery Republicans walked to the stage and faced the large audience, there was great applause, thereby hurling back the insinuation that they were against the Republican ticket or Mr. Sibley. Even the Bradford Record reporter feltthecliilly effect and turned up his coat collar. About one hundred representative men of the eniire county occupied the stage. Hon. O. C. Allen was intro duced as the first speaker of the evening and, as he always has been well received by our people, was warmly applauded. Senator Allen, in part, said: Now, gentlemen, you all know that I was a candidate a little while this year for Congress. I was defeated for the nomination by Mr. Sibley. What ballots I had in the convention were cast in my own interest. I was defeated in the con ference honorably. I would gladly have been a candidate before you to-night for Congress, not because I think I am able to build a platform of my own upon which I might stand, independent of either of the great parties of this Nation, but because I would have been proud of the chance to represent the 27th District in the Congress of this Nation. But. another was nominated, be cause he had more votes, and the other day.from the platform in my own county the gentleman who is the candidate on his own independent platform had the audacity, and I speak advisedly, to stand up and undertake to intimate to citizens of my county that I had traded or bartered off the suffrage of my county to another, that he might be a candidate in this campaign. I desire from this platform, and from every other platform upon which the Lord will permit me to speak during this campaign, to hurl such insults to the man who uttered them, and say that they are false in the extreme. (Great ap plause). And while I would gladly have been a candidate before you, and been thankful for the suffrage which you might have given me, and have been proud to huve represented you, if elected, in the halls of Congress. I havetoomuch manhood and honor, i trust, to ever barter away the suffrage given me by my friends and neigh bors in the 27th Congressional District of Penn sylvania. (Applause). The other side said they would give to me, when they were in search of a candidate, the Democratic votes and the Repub lican kickers. (Applause). I said, "Oh, no, ex cuse me." I didn't want to be kicked into Con gress. if I ever go, I want to be nominated and elected regularly. Therefore, ladies and gentle men, I stand before you to-night without feeling and without malice, and I stand before you, though defeated in that Congressional Confer ence, with " *? much manhood as I had before, and I assure you, with all the patriotism that ever swelled up in my breast, and with all the patriot is™l. ever possessed, and ask you to support McKinley and Roosevelt, Joseph C. Sibley r !i 8t ?£P laUße )- * am earnest for the election of Mr. Sibley, not becauseofany friendship which exists between him and me, and not because of anything beyond that duty which I owe to my God, my country and the Republican party. (Applause). I stand for him because he is in ac cord with the President of the United States. (Applause). I stand for him because, so far as my information goes, the President of the United States is in accord with Joseph C.Sibley. Ap plause). Therefbre, i say, it is the duty of th« Republicans to stand manfully by the nominees of tin- party on the 6th day of November. The great surprise of the evening was when Mr. Geo. W. Huntley, Jr., stepped to the front of the platform. Mr. Huntley, who is one of our most talented and able attorneys, as well as a prominent lumberman yunior member of ihe firm of G. W. Huntley & Son) and a life-long ( Democrat, cannot, like many thousands of con scientious Democrats, risk the change of policy at this time. Mr. Huntley said: "Fellow Citizens:—l want you all to keep quiet now; I am terribly embarrassed, because I did not know I was going to make a speech until I was asked to do so a few minutes ago. I never made a political speech before in my life, and am embarrassed, partly because 1 see ladies in the audience. I never thought much of the ladies taking an interest in politics until a few days ago, when I attended a political meeting in eastern part of the State where there were many ladies in audience A stiff Republican explain ed the matter correctly, however, when lie said, "The ladies are interested in the election this year, because they have been packing "full dinner buckets." (Applause). I re plied to him that I thought they could stay at home and still be interested in the election, and do as Senator Allen said, prav for their, husbands. He replied, "The reason why women have never come out before is because, before the McKinley prosperity they had not as nice bonnets or as good clothes." (Laughter and aj>- plause). I thought a little over that, and replied, "Weil you have got the political situation down better than I have, and I will think over this matter. After being away for some time. I came home last night. Lately I have been undertaking to build a little addition to my house. It has been quite a difficult task to get lumber, sash, doors 1 and windows, to get a tinner to put on the roof, a plasterer to put on the'plaster, a carpenter, a , stone mason. I have had trouble getting the material and gelling the labor, rhej were all too busy to come. I came to Emporium and went 1 to Dußois. Last night when I went home the 1 rain was coming down through the planter, the paper was coming off the wall, and my wife was tearing up the carpet and mopping the floor, and was not feeling in the best of moods. She said, "I do not see why the carpenter has not been here, and why the tinner has not been here; I never saw the beat of it. It is almost enough to make a man vote the Republican ticket. (Ap plause). And I consider that when the tinners, and the carpenters are so busy, the lumbermen and those who furnish the material are so busy, they cannot perform a two hundred dollar job in ten days, it is time for the laboring men and the business men of this country to pause and think on the eve of election. (Applause). Under the present condition of the country we are prosperous. We have had a successful war with Spain. One of the results of that war is the acquirement of new territory. We have great re sponsible duties in reference to the government and disposition of that territory and the civiliza tion of its people. What are we g<»ing to do? How are we going to face these responsibilities? Suppose we will admit, for the sake of argument, what Mr. Bryan says, that it is a bad job, this ac acquiring of new territory. But we have got in to the difficulty, and what are we going to do about it? President McKinley has outlined a policy, he has pursued it, and almost ended it, in reference to this territority, and now, when al most on the eve of success, are we going to knock it in the head, upset it all, and cause consterna tion, discontent, panic in business, and distress at home? I think not. (Applause). Is there a man in this audience who will pretend to tell me that by keeping those islands, and developing and using our products for trade, by opening the doors of China, building the Nicarauga Canal, and passing the ship subsidy bill, this country will not enjoy many years of prosperity? It , looks to me that that is where the coming Republican administration is going to do the country good. (Applause). The issues are such that, it carried out, it seems to me that prosperity must follow after them. (Applause). It seeins to me it is a great opportunity for the United States as a nation. It seems to me that, as we have secured a foothold, now is the time to push it, now is the time to acquire the trade that we have been trying to get for years, and which the Democrats have been howling for for years. (Applause). There are a few splinters, at least, in the Republican platform that have been Democratic for years. Our country has expand ed more under Democratic administrations in the past than under all others combined. (An plause). The policy of territorial expansion is Democratic policy, and there never was a plat form in those days of the Democratic party, but what was opposed by the Whigs or Republicans. What has been the record on commercial ex pansion. It was only four years ago that you were abused, you Republicans, for building a Chinese wall around the commerce of the United States, and to-day, when we have a chance, an open door, through which to spread our com merce, the Democrats are howling imperialism, or some other kind of ism. (Applause). So I say there are two splinters at least of Democracy in the Republican platform, one for each of my feet, and 1 will stand upon them. (Applause). In the present campaign, present conditions confront us. I care not for ancient history or the past. I believe Bryan is an honest and sincere mau, I believe him to be an intellectual man; I believe he has many honest followers. He has said that he admired those who came to him, for their courage, and he. also admires those who have deserted him. I believe all that. The pres ent conditions that confront us at the present time are such that I believe it would be a detri ment to the country to change them, but, if car ried out. they will be for the general welfare; and for that reason, too, I believe in selecting a Con gressman who will give encouragement and help to the promulgation of those issues as outlined by President McKinley. (Applause). 1 do not care whether it is President McKinley, President Green or President Smith, or what his name is, if he follows those principles. If he carries out the present policy of the Administration he is all right. And we must look to it that we have a Congress that is ready to back him and not ready to block him. In this district we have a Con gressman who has stood by President McKinley in the past, he has stood by the people of this district honestly and fearlessly. He is now run ning again for that same office, and I believe it would be to the interest and general welfare of the country, as well as this district, to give him a good large majority." (Great applause). Our people, who have known aud respected the gentleman all his life, applauded his patri otic stand for Republican principles. Mr. Sibley followed Mr. Huntley in an able and forcible manner for three-quarters of an hour. His remarks, although interrupted sev eral times, were listened to with rapt attention. At the close of his remarks he received an ova tion. Cameron county is all right and will do its full duty on the6th of Novoniber. The demonstra tion last evening was the largest held in Empo rium since the Grant campaign of 1868, when Congressman G. W. Scofiela and H. B. Swope spoae. "Liberty and Union, Onejand Inseparable."— WKßSTKß. EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2f>. 1900. '' // ! A. // >V ■ )■", <■ \ ■lf Jof' I %• \ .. . / I A // \?| '! im:"' •' »£ •■• ' | ". ff ' V HON. JOSEPH C. SIBLEY. McAbee—Fry. We acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to attend the wedding of our young friend and former townsman Harry M. Fry to Miss Anna McAbee, at Raton, New Mexico, Nov. Ist Tlie ceremony will take place in the M. E. church Harry is a very deserving young man, and his many Emporium friends wish him and the lady of his ; choice much happiness. Society Events. Mrs. G. S. Allen elegantly entertain ed a large party of lady friends last Friday afternoon. The Assembly ball at the opera house j last Friday evening was the best and most pleasant ever given by that so ciety of young men. The music was furnished by the Chappell orchestra, of Williamsport and undoubtedly was the best ever heard here. Mrs. Chas. W. Shaffer gave an after noon whist, Tuesday, to a large circle of lady friends. A Delightful Entertainment. The Ladies Ariel Sextette, (the Smith Sisters) ; who opened the Star Course at the opera nouse last evening, gave an entertainment that was simply delightful from beginning to end. Many j of the audience agreed that it was the most charming entertainmegt of its kind ever given in the house, and to-day everybody is singing their praises. Their voices blend most exquisitely, and they sing with wonderful ease, flexibility, and clearness. That the audience were delighted with them was very evident from the fact that I each number on the admirable program was en cored, and responded to cheerfully and gracefully. The child impersonations of Miss Marguerite ' Smith were the best ever heard here, and her rendition of James Whitcomb Riley's poems was natural, and so true to life that one could almost imagine the little people that she impersonated j standing before them. Collectively and individ ually they fully sustained the reputation that j they have made of being the peers of any other | similar organization of entertainers on the plat- j form. They certainly won a warm place in the hearts of their audience last evening, and should they return here in the future Ashland will be glad to see and hear them.—Ashland (Pa.) Even ing Telegram, Oct. 24, 1900. Assembly Quests. The popularity of the Assembly socials given by a number of Emporium's young men is fully attested by the large number of guests tn attend ance from neighboring towns. Among those present at the hop last Friday evening we noticed: Dr. and Mrs. Bradford, Austin; Misses Huntley and Miss Metzger, Driftwood; Miss Conrad, Erie Miss Barclay, Sinnamahoning; Ben. S. Guusberg, TIIOB. Welsh, John McDonald, Mr. Norrie, Win. Gillan and Mr. Wensel, Ftenovo; Mr. Ilanhauser- St. Marys; Qeo. H. Crawford, Sizerville; Chas. C. Counsel, Sinnamahoning; Frank A. Leet, Coud ersport. It is rumored that the management of the ope ra house has secured for an early date the cele brated Frank Davidson and his company of metropolitan favorites who will appear here for three nights only, producing their latest comedy successes. We trust this rumor is true. Will give more definite information later. WANTED —Girl for general house work, plain cooking and laundry. Bo gin Nov. 20th. 35-2t REV. J. M. ROBERTSON. All the goods in my store are guar anteed to be as represented, and rny line comprises every article of men's wears. N. SEOER. Senator Allen Speaks. Our few-sionist friend feels worried over Senater Allen, who was a candi date in Warren county against Mr. Sibley, and seeks to turn Republicans away from their duty upon a mere fake story. Senator Allen is a Republican, and at Sheffield last Wednesday even ing took the platform and made a ring ing speech : "He pointed out to the audience the fact that it would be the worst kind of policy < for the Twenty-seventh district to bo represented in Congress by a man who poses as a Republican, yet has no sympathy with the Republican plat form—a man who must have a platform to suit his own peculiar ideas. Tl.is platform of the Bradford reformer re ceived considerable attention from Mr. Allen, and was as thoroughly riddled as though it had been struck by a shell front a thirteen-inch gun. Mr. Allen called the attention of the audience to the fact that Mr. Emery had made, in his speech at Warren on Monday even ing insinuations reflecting upon his (Alk-n's) probity in some political mat ters of recent date. Mr. Alien de nounced the insinuation in the most emphatic manner. He characterized the utterance of Mr. Emery as wholly false and without any foundation in fact. He also paid some attention to the position of a man who must needs attempt to strengthen his cause by giv ing circulation a story so palpably un true, and asked the audience whether they believed it would be good policy to elect to Congress a man so careless with his words and speech as Mr. Em ery has shown himself to be." Beautiful (?) Lincoln Sentiments. Our Emporium .Few-sionists delight in extoling Emery as a Lincoln Repub lican. Last Saturday Mr. Emery ad dressed a Democratic meeting at Frank lin, saying in part: " I don't care whether you vote for me or not. The manager of my paper, the Bradford Record, did support Mr. Sibley in 1898 for money. When I or dered them to stop last spring, both he and my son sent their resignations to me and were indignant. This country prospered under Democratic adminis tration for 60 years and did not goto pieces. It has been under Republican rule for 40 years and is in bad shape now. Mr. Bryan is not such a terrible man and his election would not mean dire results as pictured by the Republi cans. Only one-half of the Italians and foreigners who are naturalized can read and write. The true Republicans are those who fuse. lam charged with voting for Bryan and Sewall in 1896. Well, it wasn't a crime, was it? The idea of the Pennsylvania railroad pen sioning its aged employes is ridiculous and a menace to our Republic. My opponents are just as little as the small things they say and do." At this juncture the chairman pulled Emery's coat tail and he was compelled to quit talking. The special features of his speech were his defense of Bryan against the Republican arguments; his attempt to array the masses against the classes. These are indeed beautiful (?) sentiments togo to the people. In all honesty we would ask those deluded followers of Emery : " Can and do you endorse these sentiments?" Letters from tlie People. | All communications under this head must be accompanied by the writer's name. We will not lie held responsible for any expression in this departments— EDlTOß. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Editor Press: Some time ago I saw the question asked in some paper: "Why are you a Republican?" I will endeavor to tell why I am not a Democrat. Because the Democrat party is a record of in famy and shame and treason. It tried to tear the stars Irom the American Hag, would even now haul the flag from its high eminence in our foreign pos sessions. It is the party that enacted the fugitive slave lav/ of 1830. It se cretly planned and plotted to overthrow the Government. It robbed the Gov ernment of its arms and munitions of war, and stored them in the armories and arsenals of the South. It under took to dissever the American Union. It almost destroyed the National credit. It disgraced the Nation's honor. It made the most determined effort to carry slavery into the free states. It threw our country into a bloody war;it drove Southern loyalists from their homes with blood hounds for being true to the Union. It opposed the war and demanded a cessation of hostilities. It resisted the draft with all its power. It burned down colored orphan asylums and is now disfranchising colored vot ers. It shot down defenseless negroes in New York city and the Democrat Governor addressed the murderers as "his fr.ends." It perpetrated the shocking cruelties of Libbey and And ersonville, Belle Isle and other prisons. It denounced Union soldiers as Lincoln Hirelings and lawless cut-throats. It opposed the soldier the right to vote. It rejoiced over rebel victories and mourned over rebel defeat. It buried 300,000 brave boys in early graves. It saddled an enormous debt of many millions upon this country. It was op posed to theemancipation proclamation freeing 4,000,000 poor human beings from bitter slavery. In the South it has arrayed itself against every propo sition to secure to every citizen beneath our flag the equal protection of the law, and the enjoyment of life, liberty and power. It has stolen more money from the coffers of ring-ridden New York's treasury alone than all the loans of the Federal Government under Republican rule. It defended the Tammany ring and hid its inequitous doings until ex posed by the Republican press. It voted to pension Jeff Davis, who to the day of his death boasted of his treason to his country. It opposed the policy of protection to American industries by a judicious imposition of tariff duties up on imports. It has repeatedly disturbed the prosperity of our country by fooling with the tariff laws. It is an enemy to labor notwithstanding its vociferous boast* to the contrary, and would rob the sons of toil of their God-given rights to fill their dinner pails. It is trying to rob the workingman of the means by which he feeds, clothes and shelters his family. It has declared war against the present prosperity and if successful our industries would suffer and our present good times be succeed, ed by want and misory. It is and al ways has been the champion of free trade which would surely lower the workingman's wages and put them on a par with England's pauper labor. It manufactured the tissue ballot in the South. It oppresses free speech by trying to break up Republican meetings and stoning and clubbing the speakers not only in the South hut in the North during this present campaign. It was willing to gibbet President McKinle3' because he did not declare war sooner against Spain and then would have guillotined him because he did. It can not point a single act it has performed in interest of good government in the last 40 years. I could keep on indefi nitely telling of the rottenness of the party but will wait another time. I cannot for a moment think that intelli gent voters will entrust the welfare of the millions to a party with such a re cord. A DISFRANCHISED VOTER. Driftwood, Pa., Oct. 18th, 1900. The Philadelphia Times announces that, beginning with their Sunday issue of October 28, they will publish weekly a series of articles descriptive of a Tour of the World by Dr. Edward Brooks, Superintendent of Public Institution in Philadelphia, which will be illustrated by colored photographs in the form of supplements to their Sunday edition. These will be ten by fifteen inches in size, printed on heavy plate paper and will illustrate the most famous and I beautiful scenes in a journey around ! the world. Each one will be a gem in itself. Such an offer has never before been made by any newspaper to its readers. Can you aftord to miss it? An early order to your newsdealer for the Sun day Times will bo your paasport for the trip. TERMS: $2.00 —$1.50 IN ADVANCK. WEATIIEB REi OUT. (Forecast by T. 13. Lloyd.) FRIDAY, Fair and cool. SATURDAY, Fair and warmer; easterly winds SUNDAY, Probable rain. ■ Institute Notes. The weather was ideal. The Institute was the best in the his -1 tory of Cameron county. Tlie