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