Re CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed. and Pr 0p. PRESIDENTIAL ISSUES DEFINED FOR 1900. S the William J. Bryan Outline ward Step will At this parties preparing to be the same nent Gold expressed a desire the money issue, WM. J. BRYAN DEF epublicans who oppose the publicans who oppose it Pi t the d » standard 1 RKY Secretary I ' Hay » a letter to Lord Aldenham, direct the etter he f the Back of England g afterward published in the testimony 1ken before an English Commission un that letter stated that the t and & majority of his Cabinet ed in the great desirability rnational agreement this metallism the Republican party ne to make the gold In spite of record in fav Vw reek standard perman The advocates of | standard have no plan for se ng the necessary increase in the vo » of standard money Their nitimate to withdraw from silver its and make gold the mly tender money Then every d rity millions « gold alone, compelled to find matter to secure, Every disturbance in gold stand ard system and the debtors will gold, no how scarce it may be, or how difficult countries will shake our financial the first ones upon whom every disaster will fall he An Uniooked for Increase of Gold In 1806 the Republicans did not prom ise an increasing supply of standard money, except by international bime. tallism, but since 1506 we have secured large amounts of unpromised and expected gold from the discoveries in the | Klondike, and also because of the famive | in Furope, which created a demand for | our breadstuffs at increased prices The Secretary of the Treasury an. nounced that the supply of gold coin in the United States is some two bundred | un. | | vocates of the gold standard could 1g Campaign--No Back- be taken by Democracy. INES THE ISSUES: the party in Oot ning ¢ ublican AMpaign It says that for the Reg party enter the campaign as the champion . Ip jational bank money would give to the opposition a strength which it other for It the wise comld not hope urges the Republican party to "let banks go nationa Democratic party can. not drop thout wl lurnis f fo ine | er hank fr condil 0% money mer Keason lor 16 10 | Katie jometimes our opponents concede the necessity for bimetallism, but ask why the party adheres to the ratio of to 1. The answer has been given so often that it ought to be well understood, but | will repeat i During the period extending from 1575 to 1806 all parties were promising the restoration of bimetalllsm, but the | platforms were so ambiguous that ad. elected and then defeat any silver legis lation, Some claimed to be in favor of bime. tallism, but not in favor of free coinage. Some claimed to be fu favor Continued on page | be | of bime. | BELLEFONTE, LETTER FROM MANILA tive ianguage we M .—-— IN AN ENGAGEMENT Duting th Manila ind of which He the wis, have been in 8 ments To Dames wer reports and 1 he follow frie: CAsY paper's MANILA, Fe ing from Legas; gent General Pan fore about the on Major F Hatta ty \ which « ui ia Ing con ion and a cements i" shipton seventh Infantry ent as a fort i bat tery have ile The casual are Bown and men, while the rai near Mabacalat disappeared and are supposed captured A searching them ambushed { poral four patrolling freceniny 10 have party and a corpora road heen looking for was killed . -— - Battle in Progress Feb The in progress Born HEAD LAAGER, battle at Ladysmith is now The British are making a heroic attempt to cross the Tugela river BULLER RECROSSED THE TUGELA The war office has received a dispatch stating General Bal | ler recrossed the Tugela river February s and is Lady: | smith, Lonbox, Feb, 6 pow advrocing upon .- . | Some men mind their own business, | while others employ a private secretary PA., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1500 FOR MEMORIAL EXERCISES TO BE HELD FEB, 22, EX-GOVERNOR A. G. a H fate of the 0 80 ever of the b th et the reading go courteous ins be through in a few nutes It was th ICMATRADIC Spo ¢ of Lhe premie standing on the holding the mora dur an admin tration bonus fet an 03 posit nm oa Lo agaiogt his = : passing a t his head Ov Some years before Cartin | wCame retary { the Commonwealth he ected one of the overseers of eliefonte borough and to this day { the poos $ ived better is 5a that year than they ever did befo nee He % a member school board the borough for with the ex n of three ye set © Was seCntive, he resign member of the school board in 18% In February 15860 he was nominated by the republican state convention, which met al Harrsbarg, for governor, and after a great campaign in which be can vassed the state from Lake litle to the Delaware he was elected by a majority of over 12.000 over Henry D same man whom he held in subjection by his marvelous conversational while the normal school bill passed On the 15th day of January A. D, 186: Curtin was inaugurated governor of the state. This took place just three months before the breaking out of the war, The inaugural address was remarkable in its boldness and the expression of a deter. mination to preserve the union of the states as they came to us from our fathers, As making a fit declamation for any Foster the | ower | ; ! dent CURTIN: Al were Hence their nan tie and 1 the ito Then it lefeat at good dg him 1 the have prep y lo pres nt reg ments iL was that every regiment from Pennsylvania bore of arure of by A flag field baving in the centre the coat Arms of our great state, surrounded a galaxy of bright stars On the tenth of September, 15 the Tenallytown, in the presence of , While at resi Peonsylvania Reserves were Lincoln, the secretary of war, the i commander of the Army of the Potomac and many others of the dignitaries of the nation, Governor Curtin presented colors for each regiment of this corps, to General McCall (the commander of the corps) in the most fervent and impas- | sloned language, so characteristic of the | | coal, | man was dead | gnmarried. man and the times that his eloguent Continued on page 4 ul names sult is that a dog loose in the end and every precaution is beiag taken to prevent the The brain of one of the cows killed and sent to the authorities at Harrisburg and after passing it through the usual tests for hydrophobia showed without a doubt that the animal was infected with that disease. No new cases have developed last week and there is general farmers and cattle spread of the disease that was since relief felt among owners. - Killed by a Fall of Coal, Samuel Walker, jr, of Philipsburg, was killed in the Troy mine, near that place, last week by a premature fall of When the coal was removed the He was 31 years old and
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