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SCRANTON, SEPTEMBER 17, 1S96.
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL.
?reildeiit WILLIAM M'KINLKT.
Ice Presldent-UAKRUT A. HOBART.
STATE.
Congressmen - nt - Large OALUSHA A.
GROW, SAMUEL. A. DAVENPORT.
COUNTY.
ConBress-WILI,IAMCONNELL.
Commissioners S. r. ROBEKT9. GILES
ROBERTS.
Auditors-A. E. KIEFER. FRED L.
WARD.
LEGISLATIVE.
Senate, 21st PistrletOU' W. J. SCOTT.
Representative, 1st District JOHN R.
FARK: 2d D!strlet-A. T. OOSXELL;
3d District Dlt. N. C. MACKEY,
The dispatches report Bryan as be
ing exceedingly weary. lie and the
public can now swap sympathy.
Don't lie Too Sanguine.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton
says it is all nonsense to conclude
that the battle (or sound money has
already been won, and we are In
clined to think ho is right. Vermont
and Maine have never been claimed
by the Popocrats. They do not lie
within the natural sphere of William
J. Pryan's Influence. And while it la
undeniable that the verdict of those
states, unexpectedly emphatic ns It is,
Is a soured of great gratification and
encouragement to those who are bat
tling for the restoration of business
confidence and prosperity, It would bu
a .work of Inexcusable fatuity to con
clude from these two skirmish -line
brushes that there Is no special need
for petting into fighting trim in an
ticipation of the decisive battle.
We are confident that Hryan will
he defeated. We trust that ho will
be defeated overwhelmingly, as he can
be If the sound money forces will
guard against premature conclusions.
Hut It is not politics to take that for
granted. The real fight has yot to bo
made. In the middle west, where the
pivotal states are, Aryan started with
the odds In his favor. The silvcrltes
had been for years preparing tho pub
lic mind for a free coinage harvest.
They had deluged every township In
that vast area with silver literature.
They had played with consummate
adroitness upon the springs of popu
lar discontent. They had propogated
the Impression that all disappoint
ments In life were due to the gold
standard. They had imbedded sophis
tries In minds that afterward proved
reluctant to comprehend the truth.
We repeat that Bryan had tho odds
in his favor when he started. We don't
think he has them in his favor to
day, for the. simple reason that In the
Interval a flood of light has been
turned upon his shallow assumptions
und unjustifiable deductions. But the
subject at Issue is too grave, too mo
mentous, too far-reaching for good or
111 in the consequences of its determ
ination to justify the Hllghtest relaxa
tion on the part of those who have
undertaken to combat sophistry and
error. While we may think that the
odds of battle are turning, and .while
the evidence is pretty clear that they
are turning, the only safe way is to
act as if the final issue were yet In
volved In doubt. Such a course of
action will either make victory doubly
welcome or rob defeat of any Just
cause for self-reproach.
To put into activity once more the
good money that we already have
should be the aim of every sensible
voter. Not cheaper money but more
business is the need of the time.
The Clreat Evader.
The Bcranton Times has just donated,
another half column of editorial space
to Tho Trlbune'a Mexican dollar object
lesson, and once more it dodges the
point. It started out to claim that the
American silver dollar wasn't worth
any more than the Mexican silver dol
lar in foreign lands. But when It was
shown that a Yankee silver dollar
would buy two Mexican dollars, al
though one Mexican dollar contains
more silver bullion 1han one American
silver dollar, it shifted the argument
and declared that the American dollar
was held up to the gold standard be
cause it is a full legal tender. But so is
a Mexican dollar a full legal tender in
Mexico. Hence that explanation
doesn't explain.
The reason why an American sliver
dollar is worth two Mexican dollars,
notwithstanding the fact that the two
Mexican dollars have nearly 2 1-6 times
as much silver In them as the American
dollar has, is simply and solely because
It is backed by gold. In the manner
clearly explained in yesterday's Issue
by Secretary Carlisle. Remove that
gold backing, and the American sliver,
dollar would fall with a thud to. the
level, or below the level, of the Mexican
dollar. That la all there la to 1L The
Times can't get away from the fact
without Ignoring a demonstrated .truth.
Br the war, why doesn't th .Tlmea
man adopt our test? Let him take 100
Mexican dollars and 100 American sil
ver dollars and see with which lot he
can purchase the larger bill of ex
change on London, Berlin or Parish
That will answer the question whether
or not the gold-backed American silver
dollar is worth more in foreign lands
than the free coinage Mexican dollar
which contains the larger number of
grain j of silver bulllun.
The chance to work steadily at good
wages paid in good money is tho pros
pect held out by McKinley. It beats
the Popocratio cheap-dollar fake
scheme all hollow.
The Silver Craze in Canada.
In a mild way the silver question
has also broken out In Canada. Some
one in Tilsonburg has dropped into tha
Bryan notion that the fall in certain
commodities is due rather to an ap
preciation In the value of geld thnn to
cheapened processes of production and
the overrunning of available markets.
This gentleman writes to the Toronto
Globe concornlnir a certain Canadian
bank which holds a large mortgage on
a lumber plant. When the lumber
company borrowed from the bank it
was getting ti a. thousand for stand
ing timber. Today lumber in that lo
cality brings only 3 per thousand cut.
dressed, delivered and sawed. The Til
sonburg man wants to know if the bank
ought not to be forced to take cheaper
dollars In payment of its mortgage, in
view of the decline In values which has
been forced on the lumber firm.
The fallacy of this question isn't very
difficult to detect, but the Toronto paper
entertainingly exposes It when it re
marks that "a debt must bo an obliga
tion to deliver something of value at a
future time, and as the value of every
thing fluctuates every debt contains an
element of uncertainty. Whether the
obligation Is to deliver carats of pie
clous stones, yards of cloth, dollars of
gold, tons of coal, tolces of stone, cords
of wood, quintals of fish or bushels of
potatoes, there will be fluctuations in
value between the contracting and tho
payment of the debt. If the thing to be de
livered becomes more valuable tho deb
tor loses what the creditor gains. If it
becomes less valuable the debtor gains
what the creditor loses."
In the cited case the lumber firm con
tracted to rpay to the loaning bank
within a certain time a sum of money
of a certain standard value, say $500,000
In gold or Its equivalent. It took its
chances on the speculation in lumber.
If lumber had gone up in price Instead
of down, tho bank wouldn't have tried
to force the firm to pay It more tban
$.i00,000; nor can the firm, now that the
speculation went against it, honestly
try to force the bank to take less in
cancellation of the debt. The price of
lumber fell because srlenco Invented
great steam saws which do ten times
the work at one-tenth tho cost of tho
old system. The gold standard had
nothing to do with It, and nny attempt
to cheapen the dollar so as to avoid
tho full payment of debts is nothing
less than an attempt to misuse the
law for purposes of spoliation.
.
Only 12 per cent of Maine's population
is foreign-born, and that fraction ap
pears to be pretty thoroughly Ameri
canized. Masses and Classes.
"Mr. Bryan asserts that under free
coinage the price of silver will rise to
an equality with gold. If that be so tho
gold standard will still prevail and all
those evils incident to that standard,
which Mr. Bryan pictures with such a
glowing Imagination, will continue to
aflllct the country! But It is not possi
ble tinder free coinage for silver to bo
maintained at par with gold. When
the government made its large pur
chases under the nets of 1S78 and 1810
the price of silver steadily declined,
though those purchases amounted to
very nearly tho whole of the annual pro
duction of silver In the United States.
"The admission of silver to free coin
age is in no sense a purchase of silver.
He who tal-es his silver bullion to the
mint will, under free coinage, have it
stamped, and It, or its equivalent, de
livered to him with full legal tenil.T
quality, but with no guarantee by the
government that it shall be maintained
at a par with gold, and, therefore, with
no value for purchasing purposes other
than that which can be based upon its
bullion value. If there Is to be an un
limited issue of legal tender silver dol
lars, gold will inevitably be driven out
of circulation. Tho gold standard will
Inevitably be abandoned and all debts
and all wages wilt be payable in depre
ciated currency. Mr. Bryan explained
that his course, while beneficial to those
whom he calls the masses, is opposed to
the Interest of those whom he some
times calls the 'holders of fixed Invest
ments' and those whom he at other
times calls the 'Idle holders of Idle cap
ital.' "Does he know that the Idle holders
of Idle capital are the 6,000,000 of saving
fund depositors, whose deposits amount
to $1,800,000,000 Invested in mortgages
to the amount of more than $1,000,000,000
and In corporate bonds to a nearly equal
amount? Does he realize that among
Idle holders of Idle capital are the 2,
000,000 members of building and loan
associations, whose mortgages amount
to more than $450,000,000? Does he re
alize that among the idle holders of idle
capital are the owners of policies of
life insurance to the amount of nearly
$5,000,000,000, and the holders of fire In
surance policies to the amount of $1G,
000,000,000? What Is the wealth of the
so-called rich men of the country ns
compared with the aggregate wealth of
those representatives of the prudent
and thrifty American citizens? Mr.
Bryan haa much to say in condemn a
tlon of the creditor class. Does he real
ise that, with the exception of a very
few people whom the accldenta of for-,
tune have relieved from any necessity
for exertion, the great mass of the
American peoplo are laborers, either
with their brains, or with their brains
and hands, or with their hands, and
that tha great capital fund of this coun
try's wealth Is the labor of Its citizens?
And does he realize that the financial
IHjlicy which he would Inaugurate, will
cut in half the purchasing power of the
wages of all these people?
"No one can rsad the later speeches tf
Mr. liryan and Mr. Tillman without see
ing that they have begun to realize that
their free silver facts are fictions, their
arguments are fallacies and thak the
burden of their song now is In the de
nunciation of wealth and in the attempt
to excite those whom they call the
masses against those whom they call
the classes. There are, of course, ex
ceptions to every rule, but, in general,
the possibilities of Individual enjoyment
are limited and the so-called rich men
are nothing more than trustees, and. In
general, they recognize the fact that
wealth Is a trust and not a gift. Who
maintain the great colleges of this coun
try, whoso doors never open so quickly
as when a needy and Industrious stu
dent presents himself? Who build the
churches of this country? Who endow
the great hospitals in which the poor
can now receive a degree of medical
and surgical care and an amount of
comfort which no mere wealth can ever
buy?" From a Recent Speech by C.
Stuart Tntterson.
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Bryan's egg argument conveys the
inference that under free coinage the
government would buy at $1.29 an
ounce all the silver that .would be of
fered, l.ut the government would do
nothing of the kind. All It would do
would be to stamp 412,a grains of sil
ver and alloy ns a dollar and hand it
back to the bullion owner to take Its
chances. And like the Mexican dol
lar, such a dollar would loon fall to
Its bullion value.
E. J. Edwards, better known as "Hol
land," the New York correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press and one of tho
most trustworthy and capable journal
ists of the country, has written a cam
paign pamphlet entitled "The Silver
Conspiracy" which more effectually
combines history and argument In sup
port of the gold standard than any
other publication, big or little, that we
have seen. It Is published by the Hub
bard Co., Philadelphia,
Tho American Volunteers took tho
field against Satan on March 9 of this
year. Today It has 115 officered posts,
has made 900 conversions and has com
municated its tenchings to a total of
270,550 attendants at Indoor meetings.
The American Volunteers has been
called "an army of deeds, not creeds."
It deserves the epigram.
An effective refutation, of the fallac
ies contained In Bryan's Madison
Square Garden speech has been written
by James S. Barcus in a. dialogue form
and published under tha title: "The
Boomerang; Or Bryan's Speech with
the Wind Knocked Out." Tho book
justifies its title, for it simply annihil
ates Bryan's argument.
"I will tell you how I an frying to
run this campaign," said Chairman
Hanna to Walter Wellman, . in New
York a couplo of weeks ago. "I am
proceeding on the theory that wo are
going to win by a majority of one vote,
and that that one is in danger of get
ting away from us." That Is the way
to win.
The Tammany type of Democracy,
as exhibited at the Buffalo conven
tion, doesn't propose to let a little
thing like principle stand between It
and the control of tho regular party
organization. What does it care for
principle, anyhow?
Tuesday's primaries in Philadelphia
demonstrate for the third or fourth
consecutive time that the Penrose
Durham faction, despite its profuse
claims, Is very much in a minority
when It stacks up against one David
Martin.
It la eminently fitting that a gentle
man of personal respectability anil
honest Intentions should hesitate long
and solemnly before deciding to ac
cept a congressional nomination on
the Chicago platform.
The Maine result will probably
nerve the silver trust to make In
creased expenditures In Bryan's be
half, which is a good reason why
sound money men should keep right
on fighting.
The Times says straw votes on rail
road trains don't amount to anything
because people are "too poor to
travel." They were not too poor to trav
el prior to the passage of the Wilson
bill.
Senator Jones does well to get In
advance all the satisfaction he can out
of the theory that Ohio Is for free
Bllver. He won't have much chance
to cherish this delusion after Nov. 3.
Governor Hastings predicts 400,000
plurality for McKinley in Pennsyl
vania. It ought to be easily that
large, and It is likely to be still larger.
It will be noticed that McKlnley'a
speeches are growing better day by
day. In th's respect they are differ
ent from Bryan's.
If the truth must be told, Senator
Teller's prediction of Bryan's success
has a very audible boy-ln-the-grave-yard
sound.
The free silver farmer always lives
over the line, in the next county. ( He
is harder to locate than the base of
the rainbow.
General Palmer doesn't appear to bs
In danger of getting many votes, but
if he works It rightly ho can have a
lot of fun. . i
The Lesson Taiigbt
by Maine's Restolf.
From tho Philadelphia Press.
The magnlilcrnt mnjorlty in Maine ends
nil doubt In the East. In the West it
leaves no doubt, if this crowning mercy U
followed by such light for the light as
great If lies and a great peril demand and
deserve. Maine Is the one Eastern statu in
which the suppoitcrs of free sliver coinage
claimed a chance, uml nominated Bewail.
The state Is the only ono cast of the AIlc
ghenics ever curried by a Gi eenbacker. It
Is a new state. It was admitted after Illi
nois. Mast of Its area has been settled since
cither Indiana or Illinois. It is a mining
state. Its Indtu'trles have suffered cru
elly. The Maine farmer has endured more
than the Western. Silent factories have
yielded a host of the unemployed. Th
lumber of the Interior and the llshln-r
of the coast hne both had a bad yea".
Not a Muine port but has Its vessels
tied up. The loss from cheap frelRhU in
.Maine has been bitter and hard lo hear.
The Democratic party in Maine kept Its
urbanization. It Is elllilent. It was Well
provided with speakers und documents.
All the East was uefclecti I to coiiccntral
on Mulno. For twenty years Maine le
turns have recorded a vole which respond
ed lo effort and pre-llrnrcd tho future,
now on one side and now on that.
These facts deepen the lesson of the
Verdict. It was made on one lstuie and
one only silver. It was made after the
fullest knowledge. On both sides the
last vote was polled. The state lias
spoken. The result Is decisive. All
classes unite. The logging camps and
the tilling villages, the farm township
nnd the factory villages, tho cities and
the great counties which stretch for
leagues with hero and thero a house, nit
are of one mind, one act, one vote. No
room is left for doubt. No space Is loft
for question. To no slm.ii element In
the varied population of .Maine can free
silver point as responding to Its plea,
Its argument or its appeal to the envy
mi l discontent of men. The Democratic
vote is cut down to the sheer bare bulk
of voters whom nothing can detach from
party, a must less, leaderloss bulk, rolling
submerged and waterlogged In this great
tidal wave, whose triumphant surge has
rolled in upon tho coasts of Maine ns tha
waves conic when navies aro stranded.
For this great deliverance all thanks
giving and praise. The great experiment
of self-government Is again sealed In suc
cess nnd crowned In triumph. Onco mora
liberty Is Jtistillcd of her children and fr?e.
ilotn proved the wisest rule known to men.
Tho steady march of law, of honesty and
of honor which a groat Nation has kept so
long with flying banners forward bent
along tho open highway of the world's
praise Is not to end In, t'r qungmlro of
repudiation and the quicksands of mob
law. The Influences felt in Maine will bo
felt everywhere. Maine leads. The peoplo
have spoken". Once moro nnd yet again
tlivlno iTovldenco guides their utter
ance. Maine haa done much. More remains,
Tho East is secure. The West must ba
secured. This perilous campaign holds
no hours so full of peril as those which
pass before November. No state will
speak. No majorities will bo heard. In
silence the millions will gather to decide
an issue -still to be decided. For years
great classes have been plied with all the
arts of tho demagogue and all tho lies cf
self-interest. World-wide causes have re.
duced the apparent return to the farmer.
Labor agitators find their sure reward In
setting class upon class, nnd for the first
time in a century of presidential elections
a presidential candidate aids, abets and
lends them. Envy has been sown tnick by
men whose ill trade of detraction and dem
agogery prospers when tho Ignoble pas
sions of men. cast up the mire and dirt
of tho nethermost depths of society. Ureat
newspapers nre aiding. Lying documents
are socking every farm and reaching ev
ery laborer. The prosperity which all
thrift shares Is used to barb the weapons
nnd point tho shafts of venomous assault
on the very structure nnd framework of
law and order, because It Is easier to place
boforo the envious eyes of men the wealth
of the few than the vast advance In com.
fort, health, happiness and prosperity of
the many.
This assault has to bo met. This surge
of repudiation and revolution must be
rolled back. Tho swelling tide of sanity,
of reason, of patriotism nnd of all right
eousness must move on without a check.
It must be turned as the rivers of water
aro turned on every doubtful state. The
country has too long paid the frightful
price of doubt over these issues, on which
rest the foundations of society. One hour
of real question as lo tho election of Mc
Kinley and Hobart would outweigh a
thousand-fold tho cost of reaching with
dliect spoken and printed arguments every
voter In every state. Diffused ns tho
doubtful voters aro through both parties
In every state. In both city and country,
the campaign of education and agitation
In costly beyond all the past. Tha final
result must quiver in uncertainty, unless
It is posslblo from now until November to
flood the doubtful states with argument
and to make the canvass man by man and
house by bouse with patient persever
ance. This is Indispensable. Maine set
tles nothing but the drift of tho tide. t7n.
less it Is seized it its Hood and carried on
to victory by tireless, unremitting work,
the ebb will be hoarse with the roar of
defeat nnd destruction to the Nation and
to nil Its great fabric of Industry and investment.
THE DIVORCE EVIL.
From the Detroit Tribune.
Tho fact Is that the institution of di
vorce as it is being administered Is de
feating its own purpose In a tcry great
degree. The legal dissolution of the mar
riage relations was ordained with but ono
end lu view, and that to decrease the sum
total of human unhapplin ss. It was in
tended that where marriage had brought
uctual misery, the mischief should bu un
done. The effect of our manner of going
nbotit It has been to vastly increase human
misery. The moro wo loose tho mar
riage bnn I which Is galling the oftencr
the galling marriage bond makes Its ap
pearance. I'nbappinoss Is a peculiar thing, any
way. It is the irksome condition from
which we think we may escape by strug
gling that mostly makes us unhappy. The
inevitable speedily becomes tolerable, as
Instances without number prove. Very
rarely Is It the fact that conditions con
tinue to oppress seriously after it becomes
thoroughly certain that they cannot bo
avoided. Every day we see rrutnnn beings
living in circumstances that seem to us
intolerable. For example we observe a
hopeless paralytic who cannot rniso
his band to feed himself, and we do not
Had him necessarily unhappy. We nro
more likely to find that person reconciled
to his state, nnd virtually as happy ns
anybody.
Thus it comes about that a lot of whit
we call marital infelicity would never be
infelicity at all but for tho freedom with
which we grant divorces. Thero Is not
one domestic quarrel In a thousand which
could not bo accommodated, but for the
assurance hrld before tho eyes of married
people that the law does not require them
to lie very Indulgent nnd forbearing after
all and that they don't have to get nlong
with each other unless It Is entirely con
venient. Of course there Is such a thing ns a pro
per divorce, a divorce that ought to be
granted for the good of society, for there
Is such n thing ns s honilesrly Immoral
marriage. I'.nt such divorce Is far less fre
quent thnn our professedly humane legis
lators seem to think. There Is no sorlo'is
doubt In anybody's mind that marriage Is
the most important social Institution, and
that the future of the race depends iipin
It. With the welfare of unborn genera
tlons In our keeping we ought to proceed,
It would seem, with less regard for tha
mere comfort and convenience of tha
present generation.
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CHEAP MONEY NO t I RE.
From the Times-Herald,
Tho hardships the farmers suffer today
are pleasures compared with the hard
ships of their fathers. Think of that long
GOLDSH
cotcfa
For Ladies' Tailor Hade Suits. The
very latest for Fall and Winter,
1896. We have just opened them
up and will be pleased to show them
to our customers.
Cloai
n
Special Offering of 12-inch Fur Collarettes,
made of the best Electric Seal and trimmed
with Chinchilla; a regular $10.00 article.
Price, While They Last, $5.98.
Bur
They say we are crazy, selling such Suits, Overcoats and Pants
at such low prices. Well, let us be crazy. Craziness has been our suc
cess. Therefore we continue to be crazy.
GREAT EASTERN
haul of a hundred miles to market, in
which days were consumed, ami look
around and sco tho farmer of today dis
posing of his surplus almost at his door
for money good tho world over and then
tell us, If you please, who suffered tho
hardship?
Tho farmer may Just now get only 40
cents for his wheat, but the latter will not
have cast him half as much ns it cost the
farmer fifty years ago, and tho money
will buy him far more of both the necos.
paries and tho luxuries of life. As it Is with
tho farmers so It Is with the worklngmen.
The wages of all classes of workingmen
have doubled and trebled since 1S40, whllo
money will buy three times as much as it
did then.
Why, then, should not all men of com
mon sense who work in various employ
ments desire the best money that Is go
ing? Instead of cheap money being a
blessing It Is a curse to nations, com
munities and Individuals, It is the sign
and Index of a low civilization. It Is de
generacy not Improvement, retrogression,
not progress In a word, It Is un-American,
MK. POWDEHbY'S GOOD POINT.
From tho Allentown Chronicle.
Mr. I'owderly put the tariff question In
In a nutshell when he snid in his New
York speech: "It sounds beautiful to say
that the world Is my country and all men
my brothers, but self-preservation Is tho
llrst law of nations as well as of nature."
It Is necessary that nations, In order to
exist, shall hnve money to pay their ex
penses, nnd tho law of self-preservation
Impels them to procure that money In tho
easiest way possible, which Is by means of
a tariff on Imports. It would be possible
to raise It by a direct tax on the peoplo
themselves, but thnt method has never
been popular, even with the most devoted
adherents of frcn trade. Even they will
not acknowledge the power of brotherly
love to such an extent ns that, nnd tho
same rule applies to mil Ions ns to Indivi
duals. As a matter of fact, there are no
free Irado nntlons. Tho one which preaches
the doctrine most strenuously docs not
practice It. If It did, the traveller landing
In lihigtnnd would not Und every port
guarded by a custom house. Free trade
Is on Irridesccnt dream, which can never
be realized until men becomo much more
brotherly and solf-saci'lllcing than they
are now.
AN IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN.
From the Carbondnle Leader.
Tills is nn Important campaign. Per
sonalities should not enter Into a consid
eration of the vote for congressman, and
Lackawanna does not want to be repre
sented at Washington by a free sllverlte
or free trader, no matter how lovely ho
may be personally. Every one who Is op
posed to these baneful heresies should ba
certain to cast his vote for William Con
ned who stands for honest money and
the manufacture of American goods by
American workmen nt American wages.
HIM. ;i Altl) Til Kilt OWN.
From the Times-Herald.
Having a gold dollar as a basis, the
people will express their disapproval of
the attempt lo cheapen it. Having a
wretchedly inadequate system of rev
enues, the people will vote for a remedy
that has been tried and found to be ef
ficacious. H IM. ASK HIM TO MOVE.
From the Baltimore American.
It is generally understood that, whllo
Major McKinley may prefer to stay home
during the. campaign, the peoplo will po
litely ask h!m to bo ready to move ufter
tho vote is taken.
MAKING I1ISTOUV.
From tho Tlmes-Hurnld.
The front porch campaign Is making his
tory. OI R COMIC NEIGHBOR.
From the Wllkes-Barre Record.
The Scranton Times li an Intensely
Bryanlte-Free-Silver-Colnage organ, much
more intense, Indeed, thnn any other ex
Democratic paper published In this sec
tion of the stnto, and consequently It 's
more ridiculous In Its deliverances. The
fact Is that 3,000 hard-handed iron workers
Frieze
! Department
SUIT AND PANTS
FINE TAILORING AT POPULAR
of Homestead made an excursion to Can
ton to give Major McKinley personal as
surance of their hearty support. This In
cident came In conflict with the Times'
frequent allegation for Uryan and free sil
ver coinage. But the Times was equal to
even such a contingency, and now it as
serts that the tyrant employers of the 3,000
Homestead iron workers compelled
them to inako the Journey to Canton
against their will. The Times must place
a very low estimate on the manhood and
independence of tho worklngmen. Tho
real explanation of the action of the men
of Homestead Is that they have sen"e
enough to know that the way to attain
their desire is to restore the protective
tarlfr policy, and In William McKinley
they see the proper man to do the restor
ing. QUAY AND HASTINGS.
From the Easton Free Press.
Senator Quay is opposed to no one moro
strongly than to Wanninnker, and his
friends and supporters everywhere should
know and realize this and act accordingly.
Quay's friends should sco to it that dele
gates friendly to Quay are elected from
every district, so that the nominees for
the legislature also may bo friendly to
Henntor Quay ami ready to support him In
nil good work. Dot us elect Governor
Hastings to he the successor to Senator
Cameron. For what Is wnnted now Is a
strong, cnpuble man to represent Penn
sylvania In the United States senate In
place of Cameron, it. is Indisputable that
tiuvernor Hastings would make an excel
lent senator. Whenever you see a state
ment that Senator Quay Is for this or that
man for senator and Is not for Hastings,
put It down that the statement Is false.
THE NOBLEST WORK.
From the liaitlmoie Amerlcnn.
An honest dollar Is the noblest work of
politics.
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Why? Because they open
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can of fruit.
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