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The Job department of tlie PRI>S is complete. ; »nd affords facilities 112 r doiiurtln best class of j ▼ork. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO Law Printing. No paper willbe discontinued until arrearages are paid, except at the option of the publisher. Papers sent out of the county must be paid for c advance. EDITORIAL riENTION. Even most of the Democrats have stopped seeing things since the elec tion. + 4- Poor Pettigrew. He certainly won't tie invited to attend the Democratic reorganization party. i t Aguinaldo had better offer to trade his great expectations lor a full dinner pail before it is too late. The rise in the price of beef is doubt less intended merely as an endorse ment of the vegetarian system. By the way, what has been going on in China while our attention was una voidably diverted to other things? If the Leonid shower had only been set for a few days earlier they would have formed a touching tribute to Mc- Ivinley's election. The Democrats seem to be a little previous in discussing the next cam paign already. They ought at least to take a little time to bury the dead,first. + + The irrigation Congress which is to be held in Chicago next week, will find no lack of all-night saloons, at which experiments in the art can be put to a practical test. Are tho foreign powers really glad that McKinley won or are they merely giving us a jolly with a view to borrow ing money in the future? i i Bank robber Alvord deserved to be caught for trying to hide in a little gossipy place like Boston. Why didn't he goto Chicago or stay in New York? The Empress Dowager appears still to be the head-woman in China. At least, she directs the operations of the headsman. t t The Porto Rico cases come'up in the Supreme Court on Monday and unless the court manages to decide them on some side issue, we will soon know whether or no the Constitution follows the flag. + -f The British have defeated the Boers in a decisive battle. This is the forty 'leventh time by actual count that they have done so since the war came to an end. Somebody should notify the Boers. t t 4- + The allies agreed to ask the chief members ui the Chinese court to kindly behead themselves and are apparently surprised that those on the list seem somewhat reluctant to accommodate the powers in such a little matter as that. + + + + We are neither prophets nor sons of prophets, but we'll gamble on the fact that the Democratic party tries to make trusts the sole issue of its platform four years from now. It has had enough of free silver and imperialism and Bryan. + + + + If Bryan had been elected and that Leonid shower had failed to come off, there is little doubt that he would have charged that Mark Hanna had diverted it out of a desire to prevent manifesta tions of joy over the result. + + + + It now seems that some of the French cities are looking askance at Oom Paul and are hoping that he will go else where and not give Britain any cause for showing commercial resentment toward them. Truly, the fate of the defeated is hard. t i The lowest estimates as to the amount paid by Americans to foreign ship own ers for carrying American exports is §75,000,000 a year. Tho shipping bill, now pending in Congress, grants SO,- 000,000 a year for twenty years to en courage domestic ship-builders to com pete with foreigners and keep this immense annual drain at home. MAY LOSE FOUR. Scats of Democratic Alembers i<> be Contested in M'KEAN, CAMERON, VRNANOO. Lincoln Party Case Decision Objectionable. Pittsburg Com id ereiaJ-< Ja/.ett a. Contests are to bo instituted for the seats in the house of P. R. Cotter and E. A. Boyne, fusion membeis from Mc- Kean. It is also probable that George Maloney of Venango and Frank X. Blunilo of Cameron will be forced to defend I heir right to represent their counties. Word was received from Harrisburg last night that J. P. Burkoand Senator S. J. McCarrell had appealed to the Su premo Court from tho decision of Judge Simonton of the Dauphin county courts in sustaining the nomination papers of Lewis Emery, Jr., candidate of tho "Lincoln" party for Congress in the Twenty-seventh district. Dispatches from McKean county announces the intention of Thomas F. Richmond and M.H.Houghton, Republican candidates for assemblymen, to contest the seats of Boyne and Cotter. The same thing may be done in Venango and Cameron counties, as the grounds are the same as those in McKean. The action is not taken to secure votes for Col. Quay for United States senator, as he will have been re-elected long before the contest could be finally decided. The proceed ings have been instituted simply with the hope that the Republican candidates in McKean can secure their rights. WHY EMEIIY CARRIED M'KEAN. Had not Lewis Emery, Jr., been al lowed to use a circle on tho ballot under the head of "Lincoln" party he would not have carried McKean county. He had been nominated by the Democrats of the district and the name appeared in the regular Democratic column of the ballot. A combination of inde pendents, styling themselves tho "Lin coln" party, also made Emery a candi date for Congress and placed the Democratic and fusion legislative tick ets in the four counties of the district 011 the ballot with him. Joseph C. Sibley, the Republican nominee for Congress, objected to Emery's use of the "Lincoln" party column. There had been similar cases decided by the Dauphin county courts and the papers of the combinations assuming to bo parties were declared invalid. Senator McCarrel, who represented the Repub lican state committee in election con tests, and James F. Burke, private council for Mr. Sibley, carried the caso into the Dauphin county courts. Judge Simonton listened to the arguments and promptly decided in favor of Mr. Em ery. Notice was then given that an appeal would be taken to tho supreme court. The "Lincoln" column was used in each of the four counties of the district. These Republicanswho want ed to vote for Emery could mark the Republican electors and then go over to the "Lincoln" column and by plac ing an Xat the top a vote was cast for Emery and the Democratic or fusion candidates for assemblymen. Had it not been for this assistance the two members in McKean and one each in Venango and Cameron counties would not have been elected. FORMER DECISIONS FAVOR SIBLEY. Judge John Stewart of Franklin, while presiding over the Dauphin county courts in 1898, handed down several decisions which fit this case. In passing upon the papers of the Citi zens party of Philadelphia, he said: One clear distinction the law makes is between combinations which are parties and those which are less than parties. Every party is necessarily a combination, but the converse that every com* bination in a party, is very far from being true. The distinction is easily discoverable in the dif ferent provisions which are made for each kind of combination in the act of 18D3, as amended by the act of 1897, and known as the ballot law. To discover what is meant by the term political party, we are thrown back upon the act, or series of acts, which relate to the general subject, and to these we are confined. Confessing our inabil ity to put it all within the limits of a definition, we can yet indicate certain essential character istics which are sufficient for present purposes. We have already referred to one the combina tion mußt have polled a certain proportion of the highest vote cast at the next, preceding election. Another is. that it must, in its aims and purposes, be as broad as the state itself. That is to say, its purpose must be to accomplish results affecting and concerning the entire citizenship, as distin guished from those of a particular section or dis trict. Not that it must have supporters in every political subdivision of the state; it may have tbeni but in a single county, and yet be a political party; but its object must be of general concern, so that it can invite to its support the people of the state, irrespective of locality. Where both of these features are found in any combination it is a party within the legislative meaning; where cither is lacking it is a combination less than a party. In order to give even a reasonable efficiency to our ballot system the distinctions we have indi cated must be observed and enforced. We are bound to assume that the legislative idea includes nothing in the term political party that would make the official ballot an absurd or impracti cable thing, and unless that we require that a party have the comprehensive purpose indicated, the ballot must come to that complexion. PREVENTS POPULAR WILL. There would then be nothing to prevent the membership of any of the established parties from dividing and sub-dividing themselves on purely local issues without any other limit than the two per centum requirement. The result might very well be a ballot appalling in sire anil confusing in the variety of its contents. It is easy to understand how such a ballot would not only be a most fruitful source of controversy, but would prevent anything like a fair, intelligent expression of the popular will. Another result would be that tlie individual elector could be a member of several parties at the same time. In the case of Steir vs. Martin, secre tary of the commonwealth, Judge Stewart rendered a decision, part of which follows: But with respect to combinations which are less than parties, the law is different. When either of the established and recognized parties lias placed a candidate in nomination for a par ticular office, and has secured for such candidate a place on the official ballot, what possible pub lic end is served by allowing the same name to again appear in connection with the Banie office by virtue of nomination papers'/ Once upon the ticket, every elector will be afforded the privilage of voting for this particular person, in a suffi ciently convenient way. It is no answer to say that it would be helpful to the political body that asked the privilege. The law was not de- CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1900 signed to advance interests of political comhina- I tions, but to secure a safe and convenient ballot, ; that in its turn would secure an honest and in telligent expression of the popular will, it re- j gards a mere political combination—one lessthau ! a party--as a nody of dissenters, and affords them facility for expressing their dissent on the official ballot, by placing thereon a candidate; but it must be :i candidate not already nominated by a party. The manifest purpose of section 3of the act we arc considering was to insure to the elec tors ot the state a liberty which no party discipline could hinder or restrain, and to enable them to attempt at least, bv the use of a common ballot, the accomplish me ut of something that no party has provided for. Beyond this it does not go. PLACE FOR KICKERS. There is room on the official ballot for the tick et of every party; there is likewise room for every candidate upon it not included in one or other of the party tickets, who may be placed in nomina tion by nomination papers, and thus every politi cal combination ts provided for, and we still have a ballot reasonable in size, and readily under stood by the average voter. But if once we allow that candidate nominated by a party, may be re nominated again, and again by nomination papers, the result would be ballot impracticable and unintelligible to the ordinary understanding. The .attorneys for Mr. Sibley think that i he decision of Judge Stewart will stand. The right to have the supreme court review the Dauphin county court was decided in the case of John Robb from this county. The present ques tion will be argued before the supreme court at the sitting in Philadelphia and a prompt decision is expected. Mr. Burke went to Franklin last night to consult with Mr. Sibley. The contests will be instituted in the McKean county court and it will not be necessary to wait for a decision of the supreme court before disposing of the matter. From the McKean court the contest will be carried into the leg islature. If any attemps are made to unseat Maloney and Blumle the start will be made in the Venango and Cam eron county courts President McKinley has invited the members of hi 3 present cabinet, one and all, to remain with him for four years, but there is little hope of this be ing done. Men such as the present cabinet officers have shown themselves to be, cannot afford to neglect their own business affairs forever. Let's see, it seems to us that we heard these same people talking about reor ganizing the Democratic party four years ago. But they found that the task was hopeless then, and the chances are that they will find it so now. The only way to reform the Democratic party is with a club. The six southern states where the ne gro vote is suppressed by law cast little more than 200,000 votes at the last elec tion. This is about the vote cast by Maryland, which has six representa tives in Congress. The six southern states referred to have nearly fifty rep resentatives. Is this fair to the rest of the country and should it be permitted to continue?. GREAT OFFER TO WOHEN. A /latter of Prime Importance to Every Busy Housewife. The greatest opportunity ever offered to women is presented with the great "Philadelphia Sunday Press." By a special arrangement with one of the leading and most up-to-date pattern establishments in this country, "The Sunday Press"offers to its readers, prac tically without cost, five patterns of the most attractive and popular fashions of this Fall season. Details will be print ed in next Sunday's "Philadelphia Press," November 25. It will be well to order a copy of our next "Sunday's Press" from your newsdealer in ad vance. 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