VOL. LXIX. GOLD BUG IS SKINNED. tion with Hon, Mortimer Whitehead and Every Argument the Goldite Puts Forth Is Refuted.The Large Audience Goes Wid, Park, with Judge A. O. Furst, THEIR RECORDS ESENTATIVES WHO VOT- ED THE PUBLIC MONEY AWAY. ers than any other state in the Union. Kansas gave 82,000 Republican majori- | {ty for President Harrison eight years | for several years by old soldiers and | others who believe in more money and | less misery, and at the November elec- tion she will roll up a larger majority than ever for the new Lincoln, (Bry- an,) who is once more leading ‘the plain people on to victory.” Sadorsed and the Fermi Mr. Furst assailed De Witt C. De | Pays the Bulk Witt for being a 80-day convert since } the Chicago convention, and that he | was nominated at the Allentown con-| It is in place now to look up the re- vention which endorsed gold. De|cord of Harry R. Curtin and Phil. E. Witt never in his life was a gold bug. | Womelsdorf, our late assemblymen at Curtin and Womelsdorf Voted for Every Extravagant Measure or Dodged the of Issues — Monopolies, Increase | Salaries, New Offices, ete, All the question, and Hon. Whitehead, of New Jersey, upholding the platform as adopted at Chicago. and every statement made by Judge Furst was refuted by Mr. Whitehead, and substantiated with official records and reports. day, and their speakers, Hon. C. and tried to convince their audiences that no change should be desired in this time of low prices and general de- pression. Hon, Morti- for for the Democratic speakers. De Witt C. De Witt and Hon. mer Whitehead were billed ad- the day before, refuting the statements made, and many people that the demonetization of silver was responsible for the present conditions. Fearful of the arguments put forth by the Democratic speakers and with convinced auditorium in Mr. Furst's presence, | DOr their organs or defenders on the and had publicly advocated free silver | Stump will refer to their record, be- [for over twenty years. Further, every | Cause their votes put them in the | body knows that De Witt was not at [black list. The Reporter, however, | Allentown, and was not nominated by | will give the taxpayers of Centre coun- ty an instalment below, which shows that convention. He was nominated at Harrisburg which convention pro-|'¢m up, and if their votes are to your thie wi beauties | again, if not, then vote for Schofield Judge Furst made the statement |8nd Foster in November, that Mexico, on a free silver basis, the On that most infamous measure, ply to which Mr. " . re “Mexico is prosperous. voted most doubled, Harry Curtin I saw a letter | izen of Pennsylvania from his brother | Womelsdorf was present for we find who is engaged in business in Mexico, | Pim voting on another proposition on in which he said that he hoped that ly a brief time before the pipe line bill the United States would stay on a gold | passed. This bill, in raising the prCe basis two or three years more, as in | of oil takes out of the pockets of Centre that time he could make his pile, and | ®OUnty families upwards of could then come home and live at ease, | $40,000 Annually ! Contrast with Queen Victoria in her last message to you like that of Harry and Ph Parliament, used words: ‘The | $40,000 is additional i depression among our agricultural and It remains among | We been told for years that we must have England Mexico, Farmers, mechanics, laborers. how do il? This these profit that goes 0 the Standard monopoly. | Record, find | Harry and Phil voting to increase the | Adj. | new and useless clerkships, and to in- aboring classes still 2343. Leg we On page precedent.’ have (reneral’s creating two salary, i i i the hope that his last cause could at | crease salary of Banking Commission- least be bolstered up a little Republi- can county chairman Gray had bills announcing that Judge Furst would reply in the evening to the facts put forth in the afternoon, This out of accord with the arrangements of the grange, but it was insisted upon prominent Republicans. Not to outdone, chairman Spangler arranged that Mr. Whitehead should respond to the remarks of Judge Furst, Judge Furst is the crack speaker of Centre county on the gold question. delivered gold standard but it was be several addresses upon was always be- i i All | er, and page these countries have been on a gold ba- ling Department sis for years, and it is this gold basis | that has made them paupers. . : Rs is oat), reorganizing Bank- with new official w \ {an additional expense of Ale we | ready to make paupers of our farmers | and laborers by voting the Republican | a ticket, the platform of which advo-| creating ded cates this year “the maintenance of | Department of Agriculture, with su 1 { pernumeraries, and the places filled by $17,000 Annually. we find Phil voli new On page 2651, the and unne the present gold standard 2" Judge Furst charged all the hard | politicians and costs the taxpayers up- times from 1892 to the present time up- | wards of on the Democratic party, and stated 15,000 Annually ! find § creating that during Harrison's administration irtin Harry | new On page 630 we had favor long period of unexampled prosperity. which Mr. Whitehead and for many years before we & | voting in and unvecessary Senate and House officers, In answer to soft snaps for political loafers and heel- fore an audience of his own party, and | said: “If we were so prosperous up to every argument put forth would be set | down as undisputed evidence that free | Republicans voted for “a change,” and The other side of | put Grover Cleveland in the White or | House? The Democratic platform of | that year promised “relief” and coinage of silver, but after the election the people found that they had been buncoed, for Grover Cleveland went | 1892, why was it that several million silver was a farce, the question was never discussed heard. The auditorium was packed to its ut- most, many being compelled to remain outside. The debate was opened by | Judge Furst. He discussed that time- worn issue, tariff, and finally made 3 crack at free silver, and his Republi. can hearers went wild, When Judge Furst finished Mr. Whitehead stepped forward. Hardly had he begun his address before the gold bugs in the au- dience began hissing and making demonstration. They couldn't stand facts and wouldn't hear to them. The audience was well behaved throughout Judge Furst's address and he was list- ened to throughout. The Judge and other sensible Republicans promptly stepped forth and asked the gold bugs to accord Mr. Whitehead the same treatment that he had received from the free silver part of the audience and the disorder subsided, Judge Furst made his first point, when he said, “I am a Republican, a Republican from prineiple,” to which Mr. Whitehead replied: “I am a Re- publican, a Lincoln Republican. 1 bad a gun on my shoulder fighting for the Republican party, which policy of 1892 still harder. But the rank and file of the Democratic party got on top at the Chicago convention and a | on the money or any other question.” The Judge brought out the old chest nut of the Mexican dollar and exhib ited one of them to the audience, for which he said he had paid 58 cents In reply to which Mr. Whitehead said: “That was not necessary to go to Mexico for that kind of an object lesson, for we had one much nearer home, 1873 to 18583 there were coined in U, 8, mints 35965924 “Trade’ dollars. Each one of these trade dollars con- tains 420 grains of silver, while our standard dollar contains but grains or 7} grains less than the “Trade’’ dollar. The Trade dollar, as people will remember, goes for only 80 cents. The reason is, the one is our my country when I became of age. My first ballot was cast for Lincoln when he was elected the second time. Iam a Lincoln Republican because Lincoln believed in the silver money in our constitution. Speaking of the great war debt, Lincoln said, ‘God has placed in our Western mountains the pure white metal which industrious Americans will dig out to pay this great debt! Republicans now repudi- ate President Lincoln and say ‘Gold ! Gold ! Gold 1” Judge Furst spoke of the patriotism of the soldier in defending his country and his flag. Turning to Judge Furst, Mr. Whitehead said to him: “I was a soldier, and proud of it. Were you a soldier? Where were you at that time? Mr. Furst turned whiter in the face than a silver dollar at this sally of Mr. Whitehead, and the audience went wild at the Judge's discomfiture. Continuing Mr. Whitehead said; Yes it is time the soldier fought for his country and his flag, and they are still fighting for the flag and the mon- ey of the constitution, and against the British flag and the Brit- ish gold financial system which has destroyed her agriculture and made paupers of her laboring people. The state of Kansas has more old soldiers and more pensioners within her bord- country’s legal tender dollar, made so by the law, which regulates the value of all our money, while the other, like the Mexican dollar is not legal tender money and therefore has no law be- hind it to sustain its value.” Judge Furst made this further well- worn Republican campaign statement, that there were only 5,000,000 silver dollars coined in the U. 8. from 1792 to 1873, to show that but little silver was in use and that therefore demone- tization of silver in 1873 could have lit tle to do in bringing about hard times and low prices. To which Mr. White head replied, by reading from an offi- cial publicgtion of the U. 8. Treasury Department of July 1st, 1806, and signed by John G. Carlisle, Seer'y of the Treasury, which government re. port contains exact facts and figures of all the coinage of the U. 8. since we es- tablished our mints in 1792. “The to- tal amount of silver dollars (coins of that name,) was from 1792 to 1873, $8. 031,238. In addition to this there was in reality coined of full legal tender sil- ver dollars, $76,734,464 as proven by the report of Mr. Carlisle, SBec’y of the Treasury before referred to from which I now read as follows: “The silver coins of smaller denomination than $1 Continued on Fourth Page, ers, an extra expense of $10,000 Each Session | Womelsdorf again dodged. On ii | Phil in new and useless office of Deputy Audi- page 5758 we find Harry and voling favor of the creating {tor General, a | away $3000 Annually ! { On page 3425 we find Harry and | Phil voting in favor of increasing the nice plum, throwing i salary of the Superintendent of Public i | Buildings from £1400 to i $3000 per Year ! | On page 1509 on the bill creating De- puty and other new officers for the | Department of Internal Affairs, Harry { dodged, and the bill throws away to | political stickers | $6000 Annually! On page 160 we find the vote on the | famous Bird Book job, which was put out in costly style to grace the li-| braries of the rich and city folk while not one out of fifty farmers could get one. Harry and Phil voted for it : it's where a member contemptuously re marked, “What's a $100,000.” This was a clean $100,000 Trown Away. : i The above is only a sample of how that infamous legislature voted away | the people's money. The jobs and] steals of that blackest of all sessions amounted to about one million dol-! lars ! And where do we find Harry Curtin | whilst all this work was being done? | Above you find the answer: He voted | to create a horde of new offices when, i as all admit, we already have too ma- | ny office holders who are eating out the substance of the people. He re- peatedly voted to raise salaries when they were already too high and should bave been lowered. And where is Phil Womelsdorf found when these outrages were being committed against the people? You also find him voting for creating new offices and raising salaries. Honest men of Centre county, let the 9th of November be your day of reckoning with Harry and Phil. Is ——— lf — One Way to be Mappy. Is to attend to the comfort of your family. Should one catch a slight cold or cough, call on R. E. Bartholo- mew, Centre Hall, and G. H. Long, Spring Mills, and get a tried bottle of Otto's Cure, the great German Reme- dy free. We give it away to prove that we have a sure cure for Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Constipation, and all diseases of the throat and Lungs. Large sizes 50c, and 25¢. THESITUATION IN KANSAS, BRYAN'S TOUR for Bryan | The following letter was received by Ex-County Commissioner Henry | Campbell, of Ferguson township, who has been a life-long Republican, this year comes out in support of Bry- an and free silver and the relief of the Iasses, er, 1. P. Campbell, Fsq., of the firm of Sankey & Campbell, attorneys-at law, the pub i I political situation in Kansas lish it in full, / He i have onsiderable BOINMCWHA interests and agains thei I read in this mors democratic party of ye tainly acted wisely the Bryan Demo 2 and by ao doing may be shile to J vania. and ih that I would love dear; 1k Campaign tis talking to make a efonne, Ty choice and my for the farmers wild like to few speeches in such Centre Hall, ote wisirate one, think I first, t Iwo proposi- | are have been right on the Snancis! hat the tions and Biways | question. Sec & name be Bryan Democrats | In view of what your state De MOCRCyY has just done, it would make such a fins of argu ondly ¢ Is nodbing but Yeu the Democracy at Chicegs sinls th list platform, but while they stole it they did not carry itaway. Cons-quently the Popu jets in pationa: oonvention did aot deviate one jota i from former declaretions, byt in declaring thelr well established conv 'ctions, found themeolvos in perfect accard with the Democracy. We are not for Bewall out here, but are for Watson Bat © Popn Democrats tn name the selectors borind to east their vole for the man for Vies President who has the most votes in the oollege 1 was opposed to this, ss were many others. but the majority seemed to think it was about the only thing to do, as the Democrats in state con. vention endorsed oar entire state tHoket, Of course we people out here think, or have thought that there was no hope of carrying Venn. syleania, and it is not worth while spending money or time in that direction. Bot it may look otherwise Lo you peopie on the ground, any rate it might pay to carry some of the con. gresional districts. even if we could not CRITY the state. We will carry Kansas beyond any question, for Bryan from twenty-five to forty thousand. Now brother, I am deeply in earnest about this matter. Indeed I have come to the conoly- sion, that if the gold standard outfit can carry this election, whea the ise is clearly drawn that the party of the masses is at an end, That i} rapidly the great laboring mas of le of this country will give up all hope of The anything else than tenants. Or in other words, If we hewers of wood and drawers of water cannot break the combination now, you and will never live to soe it broken, in my judg The farmers of Kansas last year tween three and four bundred mi of corn. It bas virtually beets worth them NOW WOR but , Corn is 10 Ses have a g be Po dcialy re. retain their farms and Bat they are i EVERY POINT, ed. Missouri Will Surely Vote for | Free Silver, WasHINGTON, Bept. 21.—Mr. Bry- [an's visit to Washington has UNG Ues- wl ef- evere it tionably been productive of a in | feet upon “ A speech, | his prospects, rain storm curtailed his nothing could curtail the of more than 25,000 people who heard the little he had an opportunity Lo say d # nu That enthusiasm will be felt iring ft} the rest of the ¢ unpaign in of states, for, in addition to the number from the surrounding st: there were men in the audience re fo} far as Alabama, : LO Washington SLT i i. BWAY Bryan had 1 Faulkner 11838 Lex How UC A « for McKinley an ths Foun n there for is lain wn by reports received at Bryan i i i headquarters in Washington, from the mocratic Sate ( ommitiee, of Mis souri, based upon a careful poll of a and estimates mainder, These reports give and show that the Democrats w ill ear- ry every Congressional distriet except two. If other McKinley claims are not better based, the apostle of I believe,” said Mr. G. W. ‘that Indiana will surprise the Repub- rd. My belief is that It is the sil statement is made by people whose wish is father to the thought. silver men are going over to the gold camp. The third ticket cannot be op- erated as a decoy duck in Indiana” Dr. Y. R. Parks, of California, has this to say of the Republican claims of carrying that state for McKinley: “I have not the slightest doubt that Cali fornia will give Bryan at least 20,000 majority. The letter of Jesse Grant, son of the late Gen, UU. 8, Grant, de- claring for the Chicago platform, that I see has been widely copied in the Eastern press, isa fair reflex of the dominant feeling in California.” Mr. George P. Chinn, a son of Col. Jack Chinn, the noted Kentucky poli- tician, and himself prominent among the younger Democrats of the state, is so certain that Kentucky will go for Bryan that he is now in Washington on his bridal tour. He sald: “There ean be no doubt of the result, and any man who is at all cognizant of the sit uation and is not warped by prejudice, will agree that Democratic victory is certain. The silver forces are confi- dent and have a nearly perfect organi. zation.” The Democrats smiled wien the news came that Chauncey Depew, President of the New York Central Railroad and tative of i the Vanderbilt millions, was to take NO. 38 ! { the stump in Hlinols next month for McKinley and the gold standard, The | more of the Depew brand that Sous Hanna puts on the stump for his can- didate, the more votes Bryan will get, {| There are more Democratic clubs in | existence today, by several th i i ousand, Na L.ou- al- Mr. or ining | than ever before, and the « | tional Convention of Clubs at St | is, which will, it | tended by both Mr. | Bewali, will eclipse | the kind ever . — Talk of the Town in expected, Bryat any gatl held before, - Damp weal! forenoon, Bunday { having a frost I) aler SRINUe] Hi nearly he blew the sulphur the throat i ling. diptheria. take d sprinkle irunk to allow He never ir. = if i the { gargle, a live a spoonful | shovel, an i upon if, { of the brimstone at i the su Tere Tr head over it, an a Line a EDITORIAL NOTES, | None of the big dailies of side made mention of the join sion on the silver question, at I week's picnic, between Fun and Hon. Mortimer Whitehead : the | Pittsburg Post was the only daily that Ti vie- ait that the Judge | gave a report of the debate. | tory for silver was so decisive gold organs kept mum. ti ¢ vo 08 Lae Ira C. Mitchell, esq., is one | ablest and best posted champions of | the free coinage of silver, in this state, {and he is doing the cause valuable ser- | vice by constantly speaking before big From all parts of the county contin- ue to come the most flattering reports for the success of Bryan and the entire ing. The Democracy of this county never had a cleaner ticket in the field, not a man on it who is not eminently quali- fied for the office he is ranning for, Albert Lynche’s American Girl, Albert Lynch, the famous French artist, is said to have given us a new and distinctive type of “American girl” in a picture completed after his return from a recent extended visit to this country. His characterization of young American womanhood is ex- ceedingly interesting and attractive the conception of a eritical student, and the creation of a skilled painter. Mr. Lynch was commissioned by “The Ladies’ Home Journal” to portray the “American girl” as he saw her, and his picture will be reproduced in the October number of that magazine, Ss A A ot —— ~The Philadelphia Branch leads in common sense clothing at common sense prices—hard time prices, They look for only a fair profit there. In many of the goods they sell they don't get any. eo oe
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