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REPtmi.ICAX STATE TICKET.
GOV Kit NOR Edv.ln S. Stuart, Philadelphia.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR-Robert S. Mur
phy, Cambria county.
AUDITOR GENERAL—Robert K. Young
Tioga county.
SECRETARY 'JO F .INTERNAL AFFAIRS-
Henry Houck, Lebanon county.
COUNTY TICKET.
For Congress,
CHARLES I'. BARCLAY, Cameron.
for littte Senator,
JOHN K. WILSON,.Clarion County.
Por President Judge,
BENJAMIN \V. iREEN, Cameron.
For Member of Assembly,
JOSIAH HOWARD, Emporium.
For Associate Judge,
GEORGE J. LABAR, Emporium.
For Prothonotary, Register. Recorder and Clerk
of Courts,
WILLIAM J. LEAVITT, Shippen.
For District Attorney,
JAS. P. McNARNEY, Emporium.
For Coroner,
DR. W. 8. RUSSELL, Gibson.
For Jury Commissioner,
JOHN A. WYKOFF, Grove.
Mr. Berry's Charges.
Mr. Berry has seen flt to make var
ious charges concerning the equipment
of.the State Capitol. He has been re
ferred by Oovernor Pennypacker to
Attorney General Carson for an opin
ion on the legal phases. The Attorney
General, in answering Mr. Berry's let
ter, winds up his reply asking for in
formation in this manner:
(f you are in the possession of any evidence
whatever of fraud, dishonesty, graft, exces
sive charges,imperfect material, surreptitious
substitution of Inferior goods for that called
for by the specifications, you will oblige me
by communicating it to me at once.andl will
take appropriate action.
It seemß to us that this demand of the
Attorney General is the whole crux of
tfce situation.
Mr. Berry has made charges. The
Attorney General asks him to make
these charges good, to produce sub
stantial evidence, *o that an official in
vestigation can be instituted. Until he
does so, the Attorney General has noth
ing whatever to go upon except sensa
tional political speeches, says the Phil
adelphia Inquirer.
A year ago Mr. Berry was stumping
the state with exaggerated ideas about
the failure of a bank in Pittsburg. That
bank was a political bank, so he de
clared. That bank was a receiver of
State money, placed there by a politi
cal ''system," and the State was going
to lose many hundreds of thousands of
dollars. The Berry muck-rake was
hauled over ever county in the Com
monwealth. The passions of people
were aroused to their highest pitch.
Passion was appealed to until after
the election, but long ago the people
discovered that there was nothing in
his charge; that the bank was not the
product of a "system;" that politicians
were not involved, and, furthermore,
ttiat every dollar was easily collected
by the State, because every dollar on
deposit WUH .imply protected by bonds.
A ye:»R HID Mr. Berry was appealing
to the h.isr instinct of every man. Fol
lowing t.tui most; highly approved plan
of campaign of che Muck Raker, he was
telling the citizens of Pennsylvania
that they t.;.d '>een robbed; that mil
lions had been stolen from the Treas
ury; that if lie were only permitted to
"life the lid," he would expose the ras
cals to public scorn and punishment.
What happened? He was elected.
He "lifted the lid" and found—what?
Millions missing ? Far from it. He
found every penny intact. Not one
cent had been stolen or misused. It was
all there—ALL there—and a splendid
surplus besides. The State was out of
debt. It had money which can be ap
propriated |k> the public schools and to
tlje building of good roads.
Vow we have the same Berry in an
other campaign, continuing the same
methods of exaggeration. This time
the people feave been robbed through
the building of the Capitol. Under law,
a Hoard of Public Grounds and Build
»gs was constituted, headed by the
overnor, to furnish the Capitol. Gov
ernor Pennypacker has given his best
thought to the work. So for as it ap
pears on the surface, the law lias been
complied with. The plans were open
for inspection. Proposals were widely
advertised. Contracts were awarded
on Che bids received.
But Mr Berry declares that the board
went beyond its lawful limits in what
he terms "completing" the building.
That is his first important charge, and
he figures up something like three mil
lion Hollars of illegality.
Mr. Berry is not competent to pass
upon such a matter. It is not to be
presumed that Governor Pennypacker,
himself a lawyer of many years' prac
tice and subsequently an honored judge
upon the bench of the Court of' Co
mmon Pleas, could be led in doing any
thing illegal. But the Muck Raker
must have his day. Perfectly reckless
in his campaign charges of last year,
since proved to be wholly false from
beginning to end, Mr. Berry's cam
paign opinion of the course of so emi
nent a jurist as Governor Pennypacker
unquestionably is cannot be accepted
off hand. This question of illegality
will be passed upon by the Attorney
General, and until it has been the reit
eration of tliis charge by Mr. Berry
must be considered as unfair in the ex
treme and as the mere resort of the
tricky partisan politician.
The other charge is extravagance.
Mind you, even Mr, Berry does not
dare assail the Governor and the mem- i
bers of the board with benefitting to
the extent of one penny. But he says '
there has been extravagance and some- j
one has got graft If Mr. Berry fur- j
nishes a bathroom in his own house, !
places in it a new tub,tiles his floor and !
makes extensive alterations he can go .
out in the street and bring in twenty j
men who did not get the contract who ,
will say that he was robbed. That is ]
common experience. It is easy togo j
around the State and deliver impas- j
sioned speeches from the platforms and ;
claim all sorts of things, but'what Mr. ;
Berry must show is precisely this: Mas |
there been collusion, actual fraud? !
Last year we had charges of tremen
dous thievery from the lips of Mr.
Berry. He failed in every respect to
prove himself to be anything but an
irresponsible harauguer of the multi
tudes. Now we submit to the people
that the proper thing for him to do is
togo directly to the Attorney General,
who asks for his proofs, and give them;
or, if he has evidence, to proceed in
court.
The political hustings is not the
proper place to try charges.
He has referred the matter to the
Attorney General for an opinion and
the Attorney General asks him to pro
duce his facts. This he must do
It is plain why Mr. Berry lias taken j
to the stump instead of to the ;
courts. He lound that sensation was a
paying political investment last year, i
lie is but acting on his experience of i
last year. He saw that the cause of j
Emery was done for unless something
could be brought to the front to divert
the attention of the people from the
real issues of the campaign. Emery's
reform pretensions had been shown to
be nothing but shams. The eight Dem
ocratic Congressmen promised Bryan
were not showing up The Democratic
cause was languishing. So he takes the ,
sensational way of appealing to pas
sion, hoping that before there can be
an investigation he will be able,through
his charges, to turn Pennsylvania over
to Emery and Bryan.
If there has been any uuderhand work
in any direction the facts will all be
produced in perfect order and officially.
Edwin S. Stuart, whose word has never
been doubted-except by muck rakers
is pledged in this language:
"If elected Governor I promise you,
fully realizing the responsibilities rest
ing upon me, that I will see that a
thorough investigation shall be made
of the entire question, and if such in
vestigation discloses that any man or
set of men have been guilty of wrong
doing in the abuse of their trnst, or
guilty of fraud or illegal profit in the
furnishing of supplies, they shall meet
with the punishment they surely, under
such circumstances, would justly de
serve."
This whole Capitol matter, under
Governor Stuart, will be handled abso
lutely in the interests of the people.
The people are entirely safe in the
hands of Stuart. There is no reason,
then, why Pennsylvania should be
handed over to the Democracy, eager
to elect Bryan President, in order that
all the facts shall be made known. The
Capitol is not the issue. The principles
of Roosevelt, the policy of the National
administration—that is the issue as op
posed to the policies of Bryan.
"I cannot and will not stand up
on a platform that before my elec
tion promises reforms and then
have the party to which I belong
fail afterward to enaot the neces
sary legislation, for if such failure
could possibly occur, I would in
stantly and without reservation
take the people into my confidence
and tell them frankly and emphat
ically exactly who is responsible
for the failure to carry out such
promises, and place the responsi
bility where it belongs, so that the
people could deal with them as
they saw fit."—Edwin S. Stuart.
Deafness Cannot be Cured.
By local applications, as they can
not reach the diseased portion of the
ear. There is only one way to cure
deafness, and that is by constitutional'
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube is inflamed you have a rumbl
ing sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, Deafness is
the result, and unless the inflammation
can be taken out and this tube restor
ed to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever; nine cases
out of ten are caused bv Catarrh, which
is nothing but an inflamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness caused by
catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's
Family Pills for constipation.
Letter to L. K. Huntington.
Emporium, Pa.
Dear Sir: Here's the difference be
tween two pure paints; one strong; the
other weak.
C. P. Hanger, Staunton, Va., painted
two new houses, the houses exactly
alike; one another pure paint; the other
Devoe. Devoe cost a quarter less for
paint and labor.
People generally are paying twice-over
for paint.
Yours truly,
F. W. DEVOF. & Co.,
New York.
When a horse is overworked it lies
down and in other ways declares its in
ability togo further, you would consider
it criminal to use force. Many a man of
humane impulses who would not willingly
harm a kitten, is guilty of cruelty where
bis own stomach is concerned. Over
driven, overworked, when what it needs
is .- imethin- that will digest the food
eaten and hi !p the stomach to recuperate, i
Something like Kodol for Dyspepsia that |
is sold bv R. 0. Dodson.
CAMERON COUNTY PRKSS, THURSDAY, OCTOBEP iB, 1906.
mrasrciM
Demands That Emery and Rltclt
Shall Meet Charges-
SCATHING REVIEW OF RECORDS
Prohibition Leader's Hot Shot Directe-j
at Democratic Nominees For Gov
ernoi" and Lieutenant Governor.
Dr. S. C. Swallow does not propose
that Lewis Emery, Jr., the Democratic
candidate for Governor, shall be per
mitted to lonr> r ignore »he charges
that have b n made from time to time !
upon the stump by himself and Homer
L. Castle, the Prohibition nominee for
Governor.
He lias reiterated these charges in ]
another demand that Emery meet each j
and every one of them, and he says !
that he will persist in that direction j
until Emery shall be heard from .sp»-
cifii ally upon each of these allega- j
tions.
In a formal statement, to the public,
Dr. Swallow, among other things, says:
Facts Established.
In these two months' fight the foi
. -;ng facts have been pretty thor
oughly established:
That our party ran a narrow chance
of becoming forever disgraced and its
existence endangered by accepting
Lewis Emery as its candidate; but for
tunately discovered his true character
in time to reject him.
That this has been and is destined
to continue the dirtiest campaign in
the history of the state, owing to tho
character of the man who is seeking
promotion under the false pretense of
being a reformer.
That ho admits being interested in
breweries; that he contributes to them
as to churches, schools and hospitals;
that he furnishes intoxicants to his
family and his guests; that he drinks
and treats at public bars; that his son
is secretary and treasury of a brewery,
and that the Elk county halls, who are
largely interested in breweries, wers
the strongest factors in securing his
nomination. Nor has he yet denied
the allegation of several newspaper
men that he was incoherently drunk
in Philadelphia on the night of th«
Lincoln convention that nominated
him, and was put to bed by his friend!
to prevent futrehr disgrace and scan
dal. A fact admitted to at least two
witnesses at two different times by
the Hon. Charles Emory Smith, editor
of the Philadelphia Press, both edito?
and paper now fervently supporting
Mr. Emery for Governor.
Emery's Oil Company.
It has been further established
that Emery's oil company made, used
and forged oil-barrel stamps, thua
cheating the state out of many thon-'
sands of dollars and endangering th<
lives of oil consumers by palming ofl
on them oil at 110 and 130 firs test
that should have registered 150.
That at a time when it could have
been prevented, there was admitted tc
partnership in Mr. Emery's oil busi
ness representatives of the Standard
Oil Company, and that be thus becam«
"cheek by Jowl" with the Durhams,
Macks, Murphys and McNlchols, whom
he affects to politically despise and to
be fighting; just as he boasts of fight
ing Quay for 20 years, but also boasted
in his Harrlsburg speech that "wt
were good friends all that time." II
was a sham battle for revenue only,
as is his fight with the Standard Oil
Company. He admits selling his oil in
Germany at six cents or eight cents a
gallon at a profit, and compels Pennsyl
vanians to pay 10 cents a gallon, thui
following Standard Oil prices Instead
of competing with them. He said is
a speech a night or two ago that Rock
efeller would make a subscription to
a church and advance the price of oil
a penny a gallon with which to paj
the subscription.
Now, while no one pretends to de
fend John D. and his methods, yet does
not Mr. Emery make subscriptions td
breweries and advance the price of oil I
with which to pay his subscription!
He boasted at York of being rich. Did
he not secure it largely by building
oil refineries in pretense of competing
with the Standard, only to voluntarily
and repeatedly sell to them at enor
mous profits, leaving small individual
operators who had tied to him whollj
at the mercy of the merciless Standard
octopus?
Secret Understanding.
And now there is accumulating evl
dence that there is a secret under
standing with certain of the Standard
Oil company representatives in th«
Emery Oil company that Mr. Emerj
should U3e the Standard as a "bogy'
with which to frighten voters intc
electing him, while the Standard rep
resentatives in Emery'-s company arl
pledged that when once elected, theii
Governor shall co-operate with tha:
great public robber in further humil
iating the people.
It has been proven from the lc?is
lative record that Mr. Emery is no>
a friend of labor, as is shown by hit
vote both in the house and the s nati
against an eight-hour law and ablins,
the establishment of hospitals for -nil
ers and laborers.
It has become apparent from eir
culars sent out by the Anti-Sumf.hiar]
Leageti that not only the liquor lor e<
of Pennsylvania, but oi' the whol ■ r-.tin
try are focusing their funds in till!
campaign for the election oi'
and Black. The league argues < ' :it thi
Prohibition party and sentimen' mu.'V
be destroyed by destroying Castle an:
that this best, be done in iae elc.!
tion oi !•; That he is a sat' mai
for (heir !u - ••rests*: that his . ~::t
tal to local op-ion hi based or. it ■ I;
in his own language "cqttitab! " >ni
that in private conversation he hat '
declared that it would be lniultout
to permit the people to vote out 1
business whose owners have propert; I
rights, established and fostered by thi
license laws. The circular furthei
argues that if in an emergency th<
local option bill is passed and Rmer!
is forced by liis Lincoln constituent!
to sign it the league can easily defea
it at the polls. There is no doubt o
their ability to do so. since the blooi
money of the whole nation would flov
to the Keystone state in such a COB
test.
Capt Barclay has been a resident of
the Keystone state for sixty-one years
and ail important factor in the de
velopement of the district's resources.
He is thoroughly familiar with the
needs and requirements of the 21st dis
trict and he will know how to best rep
resent its people in Congress.
An Elk County Man's Success.
The many friends of E. J. Jones,
Esq., formerly a practicing attorney at
St. Marys, this county, but lor a few
years past a member of the law firm of
Tait & Jones at Bradford, is getting
along swimmingly in his new homo
and business location. The firm are so
licitors for the Pittsburg, Sliawmutand
Northern Railroad Company and some
other large corporations, that pay them
handsomely and have a good private
practice besides. When the editor of
this paper was in Bradford Thursday
evening, ho was convinced by talking
with a number of prominent citizens
that Mr. Jones has attained a fine
standing in Bradford not only as a law
yer, but also as a citizen and a Repub
lican. In fact, it is admitted on the
quiet, that Mr. Jones was offered the
Republican nomination for assembly
this year in McKean county, but he
could not afford to accept on account
of his large practice. The fact that Mr.
Jones was made chairman of the Re
publican meeting at Bradford on such
a marked occasion as the visit of the
state candidates is an evidence that the
people of that city hold him in high
esteem and have a fitting regard for
his ability. We print these facts simply
because we feel that the many Elk
county people who are friends of Mr.
Jones will be glad to learn that his
merit is being so well recognized in his
new home in the few years he has been
there.—Ridgway Advocate.
IMPORTANT COURT NOTICE.
AND now, to wit, October 13th, 1906, it
ing to the Court that all of tbe suits on the
list for trial for the October Term, 1906, with the
exception of two cases, have either been settled
or continued, with a probability that the cases
continued will be settled; therefore, for the pur
pose of saving to the county the expenses of •
Jury Term, it is ordered that the Sheriff of the
County of Cameron notify the jurors empanelled
for the October Term, 1906, by letter not to attend
at said time. By the Court:
B. W. GREEN,
President Judge.
JKk The Laßelle
For Women $2.50
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requirements of the ideal ladies shoe. It
is an uneaqualed combination of style and fit,
shapeliness and comfort. The high but rather
broad heal, arched instep and slightly manish
appearance makes it the swellest sort for the
feet.
If you are a victim of faulty shoes,we can soon
enable you to walk with ease and comfort, .
and eventually cure your tender feet. These
shoes will wear twice as long as the ordinary
"ready made" shoes and have a style and fin
ish that is essentially distinctive.
Walker's V.
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CHARLES DIEHL, Qk. V
[ I Autumn j
Exposition |
The highest type of clothing
for men, young men and boys.
Nothing less will do for this
age of high ideals. It is such
clothing that is here to-day to
be seen and tried on. We es
pecially invite the skeptical
man. Examine it, compare it,
test it in any way that you
Imay. Then you will appre
ciate its value.
In our departments fall lines of
underwear, hosery, hats, caps,
shoes, trunks, suit cases, are ||
well stocked. r
We are sole agents for the ;
Stetson Hats. Crawford Shoes J
and Desbecker Block Tailor
ing Co. All the above named
firms cannot be beat for styles
and wear.
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Opposite Post-Office, Emporium, Pa. H