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The Job department of the PRESS is comptete, and affords facilities for doing the best class of \*ork. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO Law EPrinting. No paper will be discontinued until arrearages are paid, except at the option ofthe publisher. Papers sent outofthecounty must be paid for in advance. «#-No advertisements will be accepted at less than the price for fifteen words, ffjr Religious notices free. REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. TO THE REPUBLICAN ELECTORS OF PENN: SYLVAN I A: 1 all directed by the Republican State Com mittee to announce that the Republicans of Pennsylvania, by their duly chosen representa tives, will meet in convention At the Opera Honse in the city of Harrisburg, oil Wednesday, April 6, 190-1, at ten thirty o'clock a. m., for the purpose of nominating candidates for the follow ing offices, to-.vit: One person for the office of Judge of the Su preme Court. Thirty-four persons, two at large, for presiden ial electors, and. To elect tour delegates and four alternates at large to the Republican National Convention Co be held in Chicago, on June 21, 1904, also for the transaction of such othter business as nut) 1 be presented. lu accordance with the rules governing the organization, the representation in the State Convention will be based on the vote polled at the last presidential election: Under the rules each legislative district is entitled to one dele fjite from every two thousand votes cast for presidential electors in 19D .', and additional dele- Site for every fraction of two thousand votes polled in excess of one thousand. By order of the Republican State Committee. BOIES PENROSE, Chairiuan. W. R. ANDREWS, Secretary. EDITORIAL JIENTION*. England will remain strictly neutral and do all slit: can to help Japan. A Jersey man found $475 in an old blacksmith's bellows that had lain in his garret for twenty-five years. The original owner evi dently intended to blow it in. Ohio has broken off her bad habit of holding spring elections when everybody else is thinking about other things and will hence forth join in the vociferous jubilee of November. New York is up in arms because the mayor has given Mormon mis sionaries permission to preach in the streets. S reets should be re served wholly for travel and trans portation. Hearst's capture of the Rhode I land delegates has caused con sternation in the ranks of all the '•regular'' candidates. Meanwhile Hearst is complacently marching on. The path of the Republican party from this day till after elec tion is straight and smooth. The effervescence in Ohio, New York, and some other states is only a sign of popular interest, rather than discontent. Differences of opinion concerning non-essentials fetch out the vote 011 election day. Some of the freshmen who were branded by the sophmores at Cornell will wear their scars for life, and blood-poisoning is feared in some cases. The college bulletin Bays "a number of the second year men will undoubtedly be compell ed to leave the University as a punishment for their offense." Indeed! This is a terrible retri bution. We assume that it is re sorted to because the idiot asylums and penitentiaries of that vicinity are full. The decision of the Supreme Court in the great Northwestern Securities Merger case was render ed on the 14tli instant, Mr. Justice Harlan reading it before a crowded court-room filled with members of the bar, Senators and Congress men. The opinion of the court is wholly against the defendants, de claring the merger to be illegal, in restraint of competition, and in contravention of the Interstate Commerce act. The company which holds the stock was declared to bo a trust, against the acts of which the people are entitled to be protected. It will be restrained from exercising any control what ever over the competing railways, and competition will be restored. Republican County Convention. The Republican Voters of Cameron County will meet in Convention at the Court House, in Emporium, on Tuesday, March '.29 th, 1904, at 1:3" o'clock, p. in., for the purpose of electing one person for Delegate to the Republican Stat# Con vention, the nomination of candidates tube voted for at the fall election as follows: Congressman. Member of the General Assembly, County Treasurer, Coroner, And for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before saiil Convention. A. C. BLUM, Chairman. ACTKST:— J. P. MCNARNKV, Sec'y. Republican Primary Election. ] The Republican Primary Elections tor Camer on county will be held on SATURDAY, MARCH 26th, 1904. Emporium Borough -West Ward, at City Hall, 3 delegates; Middle Ward,at Council Room, 8 delegates East Ward, at Red Store, 3 dele gates. Shippen Township, at Court House, —4 dele gates. Portage Township, at Sizerville Hath House, —2 delegates. Lumber township, at MeConnell's Store, Cam eron,— 2 delegates. Gibson Township, at Curtin House, Drift wood.—2 delegates. Driftwood Borough, at Hose House, Drift wood,—3 delegates. Grove Township, at Shaffer's Hotel, —2 dele gates. To elect one County Committeeman from each distriet. Polls must be open and remain open from 3:00 to 7:00 p. m. Attention is called to the following paragraphs of the new rules adopted last fall, governing the naming of delegates to the County Convention: SECTION 10— Candidates for delegates to the County Convention shall furnish their names to the Chairman of the County Committee at least five days before the Primary Election. No person, who is not a qualified Republican voter in hu* district under these rules shall be a dele gate. The attention of candidates is called to the fol lowing rules: SBCTION 7. All persons desiring to be voted lor at at the Primary Elections for any office, whether State, District or County, shall register their names with the Chairman, and shall pay him a registration fee at the same time; this reg istration to be made not less than FIFTEEN days preceding the Primary Election. The Chairman shall publish and furnish to the Chair man of the Vigilance Committees with the elec tion blanks and tickets a certified list of candi dates, who have complied with the rules, and no caudidute shall be voted far at the primary elec tions unless he has complied with the rules regu lating registration. The tickets shall be as near ly as may be in the same form as the tickets for general elections and to be voted for in the same way. SECTION 8. - Registration fees shall be as fol lows: Congress 020 CO President Judge, Associate Judge, State Senator, Member of Assembly, Prothono tary, Sheriff, County Treasurer, Couuty Commissioner, Delegate to State Conven tion and all State officers ...10 00 District Attorney 5 00 Coroner, Couniy Surveyor, Auditor and Jury Commissioner 2 00 Monday, March 21st is the last day for filing names for Delegates with the County Chairman, And Friday, M.irch lllli the last day fir the registration of candidates. By order ot County Committee, A. C. BLUM, Chairman. ATTEST: J. P. MCNARNEV, Sec'y. Political Announcements. All Announcements under this head must be signed by the candidate and paid in advance to insure publication. CONGRESS. Editor Press:— Please announce that I am a candidate for Representative in the 59th Congress from the 21st Congressional District, subject to the rules of the Republican parly. Very truly yours, S. R. DRESSER. Bradford, Pa., Feb. 2, 1904. COUNTY TREASURER. Editor Press: Please announce my name as a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the rules of the Re publican party. E. O. BARDWELL, M. D., Emporium, Pa., Feb. 16, 1904. « • Editor Press:— Please announce my name as a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the rules ofthe Republican party. ELIHU CHADWICK. Shijfpen, Pa., Feb. 22, 1904. NAMES OF CANDIDATES REGISTERED. Emporium, Pa., March 12th, 1901. To the Republican Voters of Cameron County: In compliance with paragraph of"the Rules, the following have registered with the undersigned: For Member of the General Assembly: Josiah Howard, of Emporium, Pa. County Treasurer: Eugene O. Bardwell, of Emporium. Elihu Cliadwick, of Shippen Township. A. C. ULUM, Chairman. tlowardville Items. Edi'or Press:— The new mill will change from hard wood to hetnlijpk this week. This will !