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REPUBLICAN NAT1QNALTICKET
President,
William McKinley, of Ohio.
Vie President.
Oaiuiet A. IIobart. of New Jersey.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
CoBgret imen-at- Large.
;aliha A tinow. of Susquehanna.
tAru A. IHVExroRT, of Erie.
Eecton-at-Large.
Jwh Wharton, PliilmMphU
Al. stand, r E. l-tton,0.irfield.
William Witlierow, All.f UMiy.
lVtcr I- Kiiiiix-rly. Mercer.
DUtrict Elector,
l lrK.I'iNn I,. Hnrv O. Provost.
L V.I. .. H. K-rk.-. ?. J- B. wn.
r Frank 11. Ii.-n.llrv. I. r n-d. 11. ''"
4 V.,,V.1.I. M.-v.-r.. 1. lin.wn MIH.
.l.i.l. H. ilu.ldell.Ui. j,,.nroT.wwank.
7'. William K.sol.-y. !-!
i. l..i.n lii ix. Sm.. Iti.nJo!ph.
H.-:irv L.. jmiiiwu. -
1 1. J.lllll H. IJ.IK1IS-
11. Kv.-n-tl Warren,
li B. W. Wild.;.
1 i. Harrison lla!l.
14. 1). W. Miller.
Krtw'd K-Abrama.
;. ldorHolieI.
! T. William Srlinur.
jlis. Jos. C ChiiiU-1L
NGRKSS.
F. J- Khkr, of Somerset Bor.
8alij t lo division of tlie Iiistriot Couference.
ASHKMM.Y.
W. II. Miller, of yuemahonmg Twp.
V. H. SiMEB, of Somerset Bor.
ASSOCIATK JVIKJE.
Cko. J. Black, of Meyersdale Cor.
SHERIFF.
M. II. IlartzelL, of Rockwood Bor.
PROTMOXOTART.
II. F. Barrox, of Somerset Bor.
KKOiVTER & RECORnER.
J. MJ Cover, of Jenner Twp.
TREASl'RER.
Wsi. Winters of Somerset Twp.
C.irXTY COMMISSIONER.
;w. r. KmMEi,of Milford Twp.
t; ahkikl ;Kn, of Somerset Twp.
POOR MRETOR.
Jxcon V. I'B'K, of Summit Twp.
ATl'ITORS.
Jeivkia.k Khoaiw. of Somerset Bor.
B. J. Bowman, of Brothers-alley Twp.
Opes the workshops and factories.
The mints will cure for themselves.
"Tuk Ilepubliwm party stands for
hornet money and the chance to earn
it by honest toil." William McKinley.
The sound money lolt has alarmed
the Democrats of Kentucky, and the
4-hanws are strongly in favor of Mc-
Kiuhy's carrying the State.
Meantime, when M Tom Watson to
to l.e notified? The Pops and the Top.
ocrats are rather rubbing it in on the
aforesaid Thomas. He is still hanging
in the air, waiting for someliody to cut
the stringy
A Wai.i. f'.reet man has invested &3,
iKkI iu silver bullion, and in case of Bry
an's election will have the metal turned
into W),tr) American legal tender sil
ver dollar. Yet there are people who
av that the talk of a fifty-three-cent-
dollar is mere nonsense.
The Cleveland Haindealer says :
"The movement for Hryan and free sil
ver is sweeping the Keystone State."
This is the kind of lying that the Bryan
party are living on just now. Such a
statement simply exjioses the emptiness
of that party's claims.
Ci.evei.ami, it is said, will writ
letter after the meeting of the Indian
apolis sound money convention, urging
Democrats to supjKirt the ticket nomin
ated there. He tad better urge them
lo vote for McKinley, and then their
votes w ill count.
Ix a si EEt n delivered in the House,
July 13, !", Garfield said of the free
silver doctrine: "I have never known
any proposition that contained so many
elements of vast rascality, of colossal
swindling;" and it is far worse now
than it was then.
The failure of candidate Hryan to
visU Maine will lie a great disappoint
ment to Speaker lieed, who has been
counting uju an opiMirtunity to pro
mote the gayety of the people of his
State by "showing up" the orator from
Nebraska at short ranee.
All the currency of the country,
now as gofnl as gold, would drop to i
silver valuation under a Hryan admin
istratiou. It is not eay to turn 53 into
100, but Krvan's inverted alchemy
would turn 100 into 53, and be brags in
advance of the achievement.
'I I'.eijeve it is a good deal better,
says McKinley, "to open the mills of
the United States to the labor of Amer
ica, than to oen up the mints of the
United States to thesil verof the world."
One sentence of this kind eouuts for
nore than the whole 14,000 words of
1 Hryan's New York sieech.
; Hi.Axr says that silver will "sweep
. Oaio." It will sweep Ohio just as it
: did in lnt. when voung Thunnan and
a few others forced a free coinage plat
I form on the Democrats and started out
' lo "redeem" the State. The net result
f their work was that the Republican
oaitdiiiate for Secretary of State got a
- jilurality of l:?7,iH.fl.
"Notices to come to work would lie
. better," says one free trade organ. It
said in that the "poor would be
made richer, and the rich poorer," un
der the "better times" of Cleveland
i-mu I'.ut the por have not lieoome
rich, and the mints have no work to
otter to the man who w ant work. And
(he ma!i who is out of work and is in
vant, has nothing t onVr the mints.
This is not bad as an article of faith
"We endorse the Republican party in
, its jHilicy of unwavering financial lion
or, and we favor the lu&iutetiance of the
xistinc monetary stattiard, without
Atking the 'xmsent of any se:ui- jvilized
eiation on earth." The Republican of
Mafcitou, Col., who met to the number
- of 15m ast week to organize a McKinley
-lut, have the credit fr this neat ex
: tresion of liotiesty and fidelity.
It ia stated by a Toledo paper that
f when the silver leaders were drawing
t up the plaitwm for the Chicago con-
vcntiou Senator Vest stiggerfed a ratio
t n're nearly fcpresenting tlie market
I, value of tlie -metals, but SenaUir Till-
man Insisted that the cheaper the legal
tend. u! J le made the more popular
fi it would be w ith debtors. The lead of
'- Jsisilh Carolina was followed and again,
sis in is;o, the rult is two D-.-mocratic
eoitreittiritw.
Up tx Wi there was a free coinage
;.uver law iu operation in Iudia, a part
- of the world which is a great user and
; -'consumer of silver. How is it. if Mr.
Hryau's theory is correct, that free coto
; ;3tge did not prevent a decline in the
ji value of silver? Mr. Hryan holds that
I f free coinage in this country will not
prevent a decline, but will actually
double tl4 present value of silver. The
prop-kition is absurd, aud the failure of
the luixn mints to hold up the price
"of silver U oue of the proof ut it.
In Aiutina a skilled workman now
$(!u a month, where he got $40 be-
fore the depreciation of the currency;
but the money in whicn ne is pam
fallen 6(5 per wnt rhich mean9 "et
loss to him of 16 per cent The same
object lesson is presented in Colombia,
where wages have increased 50 per
cent, and the prices of food and cloth
ing have advanced ISO per cent- These
recent examples of the effect of cheap
monev on the interests of w age-earners
should be carefully studied by the labor
ers of the United 8Utes, whose votes
are being solicited for free silver.
To THE exclusion of other valuable
and important matter, we to-day lay
liefore our readers the letter or vt imam
McKinley, accepting the nomination
tendered him for President of the Uni
ted States, by the Republican party.
The letter is of considerable length and
covers all important matters hud down
n the tilatforn of the luirty. 1 1 should
beearefullv read by every citizen w ho
cares to understand the great and vital
;sues that now confront the American
- . -J
people. Mr. McKinley lias eiaooraieu
these carefully and made them so plain
that no one who reads his letter can
fail to understand thenu We recom
mend it aa a carefully prepared and
most instructive paper.
A Democratic convention of nine
hundred delegates, comprising many
of the foremost leaders of the party,
will meet in the city of Indianapolis to
day for the purpose of adopting a plat
form in harmony with their views on
the money question, and of nominating
candidates for President and Vice Pres
ident. Every State excepting Idaho,
Wvoming. Utah and Nevada will be
represented. Ex-Governor Flower, the
chairman of the New York delegation
in the Chicago convention, aud who
announced that the Empire State de
clined lo vote on every ballot for Presi
dent and Vice President, will be the
temporary presiding officer. It is very
evident that the best sentiment among
the Democrat is unwilling to follow
the banner of Populism and Repudia
tion. Who Li Hong Chang It.
This Li Hung Chang. His name means
rium Blooming Literary Ability."
He is 74, and was born the same year
as General CranU
He is senior guardian of the heir appar
ent, Amlassador Extraordinary to Bus
sia. Chief Minister of State and Earl of
the First Class, of the rler of Suh Gnu
He is more than six feet tall.
He is worth more than $.V),ft W,ona.
Born of poor and obscure parents, he
passed examinations that threw some of
the stiffest scholars in the Empire. He
sided with the Tartar dynasty aud crush
ed the insurgents, and won undying hon
ors as a general and a statesman. In
1ST1 he became Viceroy of a province.
For a time he was in disfavor during the
war with Japan, but he has regained his
former position and punished those who
would have dragged him down. The or
fieeofrrime Minister was created for
him.
He worships the names and reputations
of General Grant and Chinese Gordon.
He is that greatest of paradoxes, a pro
gressive Chinaman.
Among Some of the Falreit loenet
On this continent and in the tropics, ma
laria poisons the atmosphere with itu p
tilential breath, sowiDg the seeds of dis
ease and death in every direction. It is
in such localities that the preventive and
remedial qualities of Hostetter's Stomaeh
Bitters are most conspicuously shown.
For every form of malaria it is a signal
ly efficacious remedy, and conquers
disorder of the stomach, liver and bowels,
remedies inactivity of the kidneys, and
counteracts the weakness and lack of
stamina which invite disease by level
ling the barrier which a vigorous opera
tion of the digestive and secretive organs
opposes to it, No defensive medicine in
use has stronger commendations in pro
fessional quarters both for purity and
remedial qualities.
Cameron Hot a Candidate.
New York, Aug. 27. United States
Senator J. Honald Cam i n, of Pennsyl
vania, is in the city on private business.
He was asked if there was any truth in
the published statement that he has re
considered his announcement, made a
year ago, that he would not again be a
candidate for United States Senator.
"There is absolutely no truth in this
report," said Senator Cameron. '"I am
still firm in my intention not to be a can
didate for re-election. I have not nor
will I reconsider my determination. You
may say most postively that I am not a
candidate. All the stories that I am still
in the field are simply nonsense. There
is not an honest man in the State who
does not know that I am not a candidate.
A man must be taken at his word. I an
nounced to my friends several years ago
that I would not stand for re-election in
1W7, and that should settle it I have
had enough. Any report that I am still in
the field is false. You can not make this
statement too emphatic on this point"
Day of Judgment Predicted.
New York, Aug. 30. The 100 members
in this city of the Apostolic Christian con
gregation held a meeting to-day. They
believe that the world will ccme to an
end on Wednesday, in accordance with
the prcphcry of Julius Stanpnowski, a
German Baptist preaehcr, made on Sept-
ml-er ti, IS;-?. These people Ivelieve that
on Wednedny next the north pole will
turn toward the sun and that torrents of
water from the mel.irg mountains of ice
w ill tiring a second deluge, the like of
which Noah never saw. The Apostolic
congregation think that the Lord will ap
pear at sunrise in New York, and w ill
pi-k up the congregation and take them
into tho clouds. The rest of the people
will perish miserably. The 100 or more
faithful of this city will proliably gather
in some secluded nook Wednesday and
watch the sun rise. They have made no
calculations for a cloudy day.
German efoed Citizemhip.
Wasiiixotox. D. C, Aug. 20 Judge
Cole, of the Pistrict Court, who a few
weeks ago refused to naturalize an Ital
ian because the man admitted that he did
not understand the Constitution and was
unable to comprehend the form of gov
ernment existing here, made another
( ruling to-day in the matter of an applica
tion by a German for admission to cili
zehip. The applicant demonstrated
thxt he was unable to read English,
whereupon Judge Cols receded bis appli
cation, aaying that no on was u.iti4 to
the right of suffrage who oould not read
the language of the country.
Standi at the Head.
Aug. J. Bogel, the leading drugglHt of
Shreveport, La, says: "Dr. King's New
PiKcovery is the only thing that cures
mr cough, and it i the best seller I
have." J. F. Campbell, merchant of
Sartbrd, Ariz writes: "Dr. King's New
Discovery is alt tuat is claimed for it; it
never (ails, and U aure cure for Con
sumption, Cough and Colds. I can n4
say enough for its merits." Dr. King's
New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds is not an experiment It has
been tried for a quarter of a century, and
to-day stands at the head. It never dis
appoints. Free trial bottles at J. X. Sny
der's drug store, Somerset, or at Bi si
ller's drug store, Berlin.
Does your head feel as though some
one was hammering it; as though a mil
lion sparks were flying out of the eyesT
have you horrible sickness of the atom.
a-h Burdock Blood Bitters wUl cure
you. .
M'KIKLEY'S SUPERS LETTER,
Continued from 1st page.
made the double standard;
that
it
will require the concurrent law of na
tions to reinstate and sustain it"
FAVORS the use of silver moxet.
The Republican party has not been,
and is not now oppised to the use of sil
ver money, as its record abundantly
Lk.m It tin, chine all that could tie
done for iu increased use, with safety
and honor, by the United States acting
apart from other governments. There
are those who think that it has already
gone beyond the limit of financial pru
dence. Surely we can go no mrtber, ana
w e must not permit false lights to lure
us across the danger line.
We have much more silver in use than
any country in the world except India or
China f"i(t,0",Kl more than Great
Britain; f l'Ono.Oiiil more than France;
l, WO more than Germany; S-CV"0.-(Nl
less than India, and li'., , less
than China. The Republican party has
declared in favor of an international
agreement, and if elected President it
w ill be my duty to employ all proper
means to promote it; the free coinage of
silver in this country would defer, if not
defeat international bimetallism, and
until an international agroenient can lie
had every interest requires us to main
tain our present standard.
Independent free coinage of silver at a
ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to one
ounce of gold would insure the speedy
contraction of the volume of our curren
cy. It would drive at least 500,000,000 of
gold dollars, which we now have, per
manently from the trade of the country
and greatly decrease our per capita cir
culation. It is not proposed by the Republican
party to take from the circulating med
ium of the country any of the silver we
now bave. cm me contrary, iv p"
posed to keep all of the silver money
now in circulation on a parity with gold
by maintaining the pledge of the govern
ment that all of it shall be equal to gold.
This has been the unbroken policy of the
Republican party since 17S. It has in
augnrated no new policy. It will keep
in circulation and as good as gold all of
the silver and pajer money which are
now included in the currency of the
country. It will maintain their parity
It w ill preserve their equality in the
future, as it has always done in the past.
It w ill not consent to put this country on
a silver basis, which would inevitably
follow tndpoendent free ooinaee at a ra
tio of lo to 1. It w ill oppose the expul
slon of gold from our circulation.
FARMERS AXP LABORERS SUFFER MOST.
If there is any one thing which should
lie tree from speculation and fluctuation
it is the money of a country. It ought
never to lie the subject of mere partisan
contention. When w e part w ith ourlalior.
our products, or our property we should
receive in return money which is as sta
ble and unchanging in value as the in
genuity of honest men can make it De
basement of the currency means destruc
tion of values. No one suffers so much
from cheap money as the farmers and
laborers. They are the first to feel its
bad effects and the last to recover from
them. This has been the uniform exper
ience of all countries and here, as else
where, the poor, and not the rich, are al
ways the greatest sufferers from every at
tempt to debase our money. It would
fall with alarming severity upon invest
ments already made; upon insurance
companies and their policy holders; up
on the savings banks and associations
and their memliers; upon the savings of
thrift; upon pensioners and their fami
lies; and upon wage earners and the pur
chasing power of their wages.
I'SLIMITEP IRREDEEMABLE PAPER
MONEY.
The silver question is not the only issue
affecting our money in the pending con
test Not content with urging the free
coinage of silver, its strongest champions
demand that our paper money shall lie
issued directly by the government of the
United States. This is the Chicago Deui
ocratic declaration. The Kt Iiuis Peo
ples' declaration is that 'Our national
money shall be Issued by the general
government only, without the interven
tlon ot banks of issue, be full legal ten
der for the payment of all debts, public
and private,' and lie distributed 'direct to
the people and through law ful disburse
ments of the government.'
Thus, in addition to the free coinage ci
the world's silver, w e are asked to enter
upon an era of unlimited irredeemable
paper currency. The question which
was fought out from "W to 1S79 if thus to
be reopened, with all its uncertainties
and cheap money experiments of every
conceivable form foisted upon us. This
indicates a most startling reactionary
policy, strangely at variance with every
requirement of sound finance; but the
declaration shows the spirit and purpose
of these who by combined action are eon
tending for the control of the govern
ment Not satisfied with the debase
ment of our coinage which would inevi
tably follow the free coinage of silver at
IS to 1, they would still further degrade
our currency and threaten the public
honor by the unlimited Issue of an irre
deemable paper currency. A graver
menace to our financial standing and
credit could hardly be conceived and
every patriotic citizen should lie aroused
to promptly meet and effectually de
feat it
ix the ii mil est peorkk reprehexsi-
iii.k.
It is cause for painful regret and solid
tude that an effort is lieing made by those
high in the councils of the allied parties
to divide the people of this country into
classes and create distinctions among us.
winch in fact, do not exist, and are re
pugnant to our form of government
These appeals to passion and prejudice
are lieneath the spirit and intelligence
a free people, and should lie met with
stem rebuke by those they are sought
to influence, and I lielieve they w ill lie
Every attempt to array class against class
"the classes against the masses," section
against section, lalior agaiust capital "the
poor agaiust the rich," interest against
interest, in the United States, is in the
highest degree reprehensible. It is op
posed to the national instinct and inter
est and should lie resisted by every citi
ren. We are not a Nation of classes, but
of sturdy, free, independent and honor
able' people, dexpisiug the demagogue
and never capitulating to dishonor. This
ever-recurring effort endangers popular
government and is menace to our liber
ties. It is iim a new campaign device or
party appeal. It is as old as government
among men, but it was never more un
timely and unfortunate than now. Wash
ington warned us agaiust it and Welsder
said in the Senate, in words which I feel
are singularly appropriate at this time:
"i admonish the people against the ob
ject of outcries like these. I admonish
every industrious laborer of this country
ioiae on his guard against such delusion.
I tcii him the attempt is to play off his
ssin8 against his interest, and to pre
vail on him, in the name of liberty, to
destroy all the fruits of liberty."
protection of supreme importaxce.
Another issue of supreme importance
is that of protection. The peril of free
silver is a menace to be feared ; we are
already experiencing the f fleet of partial
free trade. The one must be averted ; the
other corrected. The Republican party
is wedded to the doctrine of protection,
and was never more earnest in its sup
port and advocacy than now. If argu
ment were needed to strengthen its de
votion to the American system, or in
crease the hold of that system on the
party and people, it is found in the les
son and experience of the past three
years. Men realize in their own daily
lives what liefore was to many of them
only report, history, or tradition. . They
have had a trial of both systems and
know what each has done for them.
Washington in his farewell address,
September 17, years ago, said:
"As a very Important source of strength
aud security, cherish public credit One
method of preserving it is to use it as
paringly as possible; avoiding me ac
cumulation of debt uot only by shun
ning occasions of expense, but by vigor
ous exertions in time of peace to dis
charge the debta which unavoidable wars
may have occasioned, not ungenerously
throwing upon posterity the burden
which we ourselves ought to bear.
To facilitate the enforcement of the
... , i i
maxims whu-n ne announce.., ue ub-
clared: "It is essential that you should
particularly bear in mind that tow ard
he payment of debts there must be rev-
enue; that to have revenue there must be )
taxes; that no taxes can be devised which I
are not more or less inoonveuient or un-
deasant: that the intrinsic embarrass-
ment inseparable from the selection of
the proper objects which is always a
choice of difficulties, ought to be a deci
sive motive for a candid construction of
the conduct of the government iu mak-
ng it; and for a spirit of acquiescence in
the measures for obtaining revenue
hieh the public exigencies may at any
time dictate."
Animated by like sent" lents the peo
ple of the country must face the con
ditions which beset them. The public
exigences demand prompt protective leg
islation which will avoid the accumula
tion of further debt by providing ade
quate revenues for the expenses of the
government This is manifestly the re
quirement of duty. If elected President
of the Uuited States it will be my aim to
vigorously promote this object and give
that ample eucouragoment to the occu
pations of the American people, which,
above all else, is so imperatively de
manded at this juncture of our national
affairs.
OUR CONDITION IX PECEMRER, 18TC.
In December, 12, President Harrison
sent his last message to Congress. It was
an able and exhaustive review ot the
condition and resources of the country.
It stated our situation so accurately that
I am sure it will not be amiss to recite
his official and valuable testimony.
"There never has been a time in our
history," said he, "when work was so
abundant or when wages were so high,
whether measured by the currency in
which they are paid, or by their power
to supply the necessities and comforts
of life. The general average of prices has
been such as to give agriculture a fair
participation in the general prosperity.
The new industrial plants established
since CVtober 6, 1S00, and up to October
22, 1S!2, number 'M and the extensions
of existing plants, 104 The new capital
invested amounts to W, 446,000, and the
number of additional employes 37,2S5.
During the first six months of the pres
ent calendar year 135 new factories were
built, of which 40 were cotton mills, 4H
knitting mills, 25 woolen mills, 15 silk
mills, 4 plush mills and two linen mills.
Of the 40 cotton mills. 21 have lieeu built
in the southern states."
This fully describes the happy condi
tion of the country in Deeeiulier, lSti
What has it been since and what is it
-
now?
OUR COXDITIOX KIOHT MOXTns LATER.
The messages of President Cleveland
from the beginning of his second admin
istration to the present time alxmnd with
descriptions of the deplorable industrial
and financial situation of the cum try.
While no resort to history or
official statement is required to advise us
of the present condition and that which
has prevailed during the past three years,
I veuture to quote from President Cleve
land's first message, August 8, ISO, ad
dressed to the Fifty-third Congress,
which he had called together in extraor
dinary session:
"The existence of an alarming and ex
traordinary business situation," said he,
"involving the welfare and (prosperity
of all our people, has constrained me to
call together in extra session the people's
representatives in Congress, to the end
that through the wise and patriotic ex
ercise of the legislative duties with which
they are solely charged, the present evils
may tie mitigated and dangers threaten
ing the future may be averted, our un
fortunate financial plight is not the result
of untoward events, nor of conditions re
lated to our natural resources. Nor is it
traceable to any of the afflictions which
frequently check National growth and
prosperity. With plenteous crops, with
abundant promise of remunerative pro
duction and manufacture, with unusual
invitation to safe investment and with
satisfactory assurances to business enter
prises, suddenly financial distrust and
fear have sprung up on every side. Nu
merous moneyed institutions have sus
pended betrause abundant assets were not
immediately available to meet the de
mands of frightened depositors. Sur
viving corporations and individuals are
content to keep in band the money they
are usually anxious to loan, and those en
gaged in legitimate business are sur
prised to fint. that the securities they of
fered for loans, though heretofore satis
factory, are no longer accepted. Values
supisised to be fixed, are fast becoming
conjectural, and failures have invaded
every branch of business."
THE CAUSE OF THE CHANGE.
What a startling aud sudden change
within the short period of eight months
from December, 1M02. to August ISO.
What had occurred ? A change of admin
istration all branches of the government
had been entrusted to the Democratic
party, which was committed against the
protective policy that had prevailed un
interruptedly for more than 32 years, and
brou e lit unexampled prosperity to the
country, aud firmly pledged to iu com
plete overthrow, aud the sulwtitution of
a tariff for revenue only. The change
having been decreed by the elections in
November, its effooU were at on.re antici
patod and folt We cannot close our eyes
to these altered conditions, nor would it
lie wise to exclude from contemplation
and investigation the causes which pro
duced them. They are facts that we can
not. as a people, disregard, and we ran
inly hope to improve our present condi
tion by a study of their causes.
In December, 1SRI, we had the same cur
rency and practically the same volume of
currency that we have now. It aggregat
ed in lSti r2,372..".i,Vl ; in !, $2,323,
OUl.OiiO; in 1KM r2.323,44i.'K2 ; and in De
cember 1S5, ?2,11H,900,2:M. The per capita
of money, too, has been practically the
same during this whole period. The
quality of money has been identical all
kept equal to gold. There is nothing
connected wiih our money, therefore, to
account for this sudden and aggravated
industrial change. Whatever is to be de
precated in our financial system, it must
everywhere be admitted that our money
has been alisolutely good, and has brought
neither loss nor inconvenience to its bold
ers. A depreciated) currency has not ex
isted to further vex the troubled business
situation.
OOOD MONEY NEVER MADE TIMES HARD.
It is a mere pretense to attribute the
hard times to the fact that all "our cur
rency is on a goiu nasis. Good money
never made times hard. Those who assert
that our present industrial and financial
depression is the result of the gold stand
aril have not read American history
aright or lieen careful students of the
events of recent years. We never had
greater prosperity in this country, in
every field of employment and Industry
than in the busy years from 1SH0 to 1892,
during all of which time this country was
on a gold liasis and employed more gold
money in its fiscal and business opera
tions than ever before. We had, too.
protctive tariff under which ample reve
nues were collected for th government
and an accumulating surplus which was
constantly applied to the payment of the
public debt. Let us bojd fast to that
which we know is good. It is not more
money we want; what we want is to put
the money we already have at work.
When money is employed men are em
ployed. Both have always been steadily
and remuneratively engaged during all
the years of protective tariff legislation.
When those who have oioney lack con
fidence in the stability of values and in
vestments, they will not part with their
money. Business is stagnated the life
blood of trade is checked and congested.
We can not restore the public confidence
by an act which would revolutionize all
values, or an ad which entails a deficien
cy in the public revenues. We can not
inspire confidence by advocating repudia
tion or practicing dishonesty. We can
not restore confidence either to the treas
aiy or to the people without a change in
our present tariff legislation.
THE TARIFF OF 14.
The only measure of a general nature
that affected the treasury and the em
ployments of our people passed by the
Fitty-third Congress was the general tar
iff act which did not receive the approval
of the President Whatever virtues may
bo claimed for that ad, there is confess
edly one which it does not possess. It
lacks the essentia virtue of its creation
the raising of revenue sufficient to supply
the needs of the government It has at
no time provided enough revenue for
such needs, but it has caused a constant
deficiency in the treasury aud a sad de
pletion in the earnings of lalior aud land.
It has contributed to swell our national
debt more than (202,000,000, a sum nearly
as great as the debt of the government
from Washington to Lincoln, including all
our foreign wars from the revolution to
the rebellion. Since its passage work at
homo has lieeu diminished ; prices of
agricultural products have fallen ; con
fidence has been arrested and general
business demoralization is seen on every
hand.
TARIFFS OF 1S90 AXD 1S04 CONTRASTED.
The total receipts under the tariff act of
1K4 for the first 22 months of its enforce
ment from September lst4, to June, 10,
were $.x7,(il5,328 and the expenditures
$040,41S,3(B or a deficiency of $S2,Mrj,035.
The decrease in our exports of American
products and manufactures during the
first 15 months of the present tariff, as
constrasted with the exports of the first
15 months of the tariff oflrt), was f220,-
653,320. The excess of exports over im
ports during the first 15 months of the
tariff of 18:10 was $213,972,908, but only
$56,758,023 under the first 15 months of the
tariff of 14, a loss under the latter of
$157,214,345. The net loss in the trade
balance of the Uuited States has been
$l!,!Ki3,C07 during the first 15 months' op
eration of the tariff of lsy, as compared
with the first 15 months of the tariff of
1SW). The loss has been large, constant
and steady, at the rate of $13,130,000 per
month or $500,000 for every business day
of this year.
LOSIXO IN IlOTH DIRECTIONS.
We have been either sending too much
money out of the country or getting too
little in, or both. We have lost steadily
in loth diredions. Our foreign trade has
diminished and our domestic trade has
suffered incalculable loss. Does not this
suggest the cause of our present depres
sion, and indicate its remedy T
Confidence in home enterprises has al
most wholly disappeared. Our shops are
closed, or runniug on half time at re
duced wages and small profit it not ad
ual loss. Our men at home are idle, and
while they are idle men abroad are oc
cupied in supplying us with goods. Our
unrivaled home market for the farmer
has also greatly suffered because those
who constitute it-the great army of
American wage earners are without the
work and wages they formerly had. If
they can not earn wages, they can not
buy products. They can not earn if they
have not employment and when they do
not earn, the farmer's home market is
lessened and impaired, and the loss is
felt by both producer and consumer.
Tho loss of earning power alone in this
country in the past three years issufli
cient to have produced our unfortunate
business situation. If our lalor was well
employed, and employed at as remuner
ative wages as in li2, in a fe mouths
every farmer in the land would feel the
glad change in the increased pmand for
his produds and in the better prices
which he would receive.
NOT OPEX MINTS RUT OPEN MILLS.
It is not an increase in the volume of
money which is the need of the time, but
an increase in the volume of business.
Not an increase of coin, but an increase of
confidence. Not more coinage, but a more
adive use of the money coined. Not open
mints for the unlimited coinage of the sil
ver of the world, but open mills for the
full and unrestrained lalior of American
workingmen
The employment of our mints for the
coinage of the silver of the world wouli
not bring the necessaries and comforts of
life back to our people. These will only
come with the employment of the masses.
and such employment is certain to follow
the re-establishment of a wie protective
policy which shall encourage manufactu
ring at iioine. t roteotion lias lost none
of its virtue and importance.
The first duty of the Republican party, if
restored to power in the country, will lie
the enactment of a tariff law which will
raise all the money necessary to conduct
the government, economically and hon
estly administered, and so adjusted as to
give preference to home manufacturers
and adequate protection to home lalsir
and the home market. We are not com
mitted to any S)iecial schedules or rates
of duty. They are and should be always
subjed to change to meet new conditions.
But the principle upon which rates of
duty are imposed remains the same. Our
duties should always be high enough to
measure the difference between the wages
paid at home and in competing countries,
and to adequately protect American in
vestments aud American enterprises.
OUR FARMERS AND THE TARIFF.
Our farmers have been hurt by the
changes in our tariff legislation as severe
ly as our laborers and manufacturers.
badly as thoy have suffered. The Repub
lican platform wisely declares in favor of
such encouragement to our sugar inter
ests as will lead to tho production on
American soil of all the sugar which the
American people use. It promises to our
wool and woolen interests the most ample
protection. A guaranty that ought to
commend itself to every p itriolic citizen.
Never was a more grievous wrong done
the farmers of our country than that so
unjustly inflicted during the post throe
years upon the wool growers ol America.
Although among our mist industrious
and useful citizens, their interests have
lieen practically destroyed and our wool
en manufacturers Involved in similiar
disaster. At no time within the past 30
years, and perhaps never during any pre
vious period, have so many of our woolen
factories been suspended as now. The
Republican party can be relied upon to
correct these great wrongs if again in
trusted n ith the control oi Congress.
RECIPROCITY.
Another declaration of tho Republican
platform that has mv most cordial an
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port, Is that which favors reciprocity. The
spienam results or the reciprocity ar
rargdiients that w ere made under au
thority of the tariff law of 1KX), are stri
k-
ing and suggestive. The brief period
they were in force, iu most rases.
three years, was not long enough to thor
oughly test their great value, but sufli
cicut w as shown by the trial to con
clusively demonstrate the importance
and the wisdom of their adoption.
In 18!i2, the export trade of the United
States attained the highest point in otir
history. The aggregate of our exports
that year reached the immense sum of
91,030.278,148, a sum greater by $100,000,
030 than the exports of any previous vear
In 1893, owing to the threat of unfriendly
tariff legislation, the total dropped to
$k!47tfi(;'.i94. Our exjorts of domestic
merchandise decreased 119.000.000. but
reciprocity still secuied us a large trade
in central anu soutn America, and a
larger trade w ith the West Indies than
we have ever before enjoyed. The In
crease of trade with the countries with
which we had reciprocity agreements w as
$3.5A0.5I5 over our trade in 1802, and $10,
440,721 over our trade in 1891. The enly
countries with w hich the United States
traded that fchowrd incrersrd exrcita in
lKtl were practically these with wl i.h
w bad reciprocity aiiai.gcu.cnts.
The reciprocity treaty between this
oou ntry and Spain, touching the markets
of Cuba and Puerto Rico, was announced
September 1, lOL The growth of our
trade with Cuba was phenomenal. In
1S91 we sold that country hut 114.441 bar
rels of flour; in 1C 3C0.I75; in 1&3, 010,
400; and in 1MM, 12,248. Here was a
growth of nearly 500 per cent, while our
exportations of flour to Cuba for the year
endiug June 30, 1H-5 the year following
the repeal of the reciprocity treaty fell
to 37!,h56 barrels, a loss of nearly half our
trade with that country. The value of
our total exports of merchandise from the
United States to Cuba in 1801 the year
prior to the negotiations of the reciprocity
treaty was $12,224,8SH; in 1W2, $17,!53,579;
In ISO, $24,157,008; iu 1894, $20,125,321; but
in l"i, after the annulment of the recip
rocity agreement, it foil to ouly $12,837,
601. Many similar examples might be given
of our increased trade nnder reciprocity
with other countries, hut enough has
been shown of the etlicacy of tho legisla
tion of 1890 to justify the speedy re-itira-
ion of its reciprocity provisions. In my
judgment, Congress should immediately
restore the reciprocity sections of the old
law, with such amendments, if any, as
time and experience sanction as wise and
proper. The underlying principle of this
legislation must, however, be strictly ob
served. It is to afford new markets for
our surplus agricultural and manufactur
ed produds, without loss to the American
laborer of a si ugle day's work that he
might otherwise procure.
FOREIUX IMMIGRATION.
The declaration of the platform touch
ing foreign immigration is one of pecu
liar importance at this time, when our
own laboring people are in such great
distress. I am in hearty sympathy with
the present legislation restriding foreign
immigration, aud favor such extension
of the laws as will secure the United
States from iuvasion by the debased and
criminal classes of the old world. While
we adhere to the public policy under
which our country has received great
bodies of honest industrious citizens,
who have added to the wealth, progress
and power of the country, and while we
welcome to our shores the well-disposed
and industrious immigrant who contrib
utes with his energy and intelligence to
the cause of free government w-e want uo
immigrants w ho do not seek our shores
to become citizens. We should permit
none to participate in the advantages of
our civilization who do not sympathize
with our aims and form of government
e should receive none who make war
upon our institutions and profit by pub
lic disquiet and turmoil. Against all
such our gates must be tightly closed.
OUR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
The soldiers and sailors of the Union
should neither be neglected nor forgotten
The government which they served so
well must not make their lives or condi
tion harder by treating them as suppli
cants for relief iu old age or distress, nor
regard with disdain or contempt the
earnest interest one oomrado naturally
maifesls in the welfare of another. Doubt
less, there have been pension abuses and
frauds in the numerous claims allowed
by the government, but the policy
governing the administration of the pen
slon bureau must always be fair and
liberal. No deserving applicant should
ever suffer because of wrong perpetrated
by or for another. Our soldiers and sail
ore gave the government the best they
had. They freely offered health, strength,
limb and life to save the country in the
time of its greatest jicril, and the govern
ment must honor them in their need, as
in their service, with the reaped and
gratitude due to brave, noble and self-
sacrificing men who are justly entitled to
generous aid in their increasing necessi
ties.
OUR MERCHANT MARINE AXD NAVY.
The declaration of the Republican plat
form in the upholding of our merchant
marine has my hearty approval. The
policy of discriminating duties in favor of
our shipping, which prevailed in the
early years of our history, should be
again promptly adopted by Congress, and
vigorously supported until our prestige
aud supremacy on the seas Is fully at
tained. We should no longer contribute
dirertly or indirertly to the maintenance
of the colossal marine of foreign countriea
but provide au efficient and complete
marine of our own, now that the Ameri
can navy is assuming a position com-
mensurnte with our importance as a na
tion, a policy I am glad to observe the
Republican platform strongly indorses.
We must supplement it with a merchant
marine that will give us (be advantages
in both our coastwise and foreign trade
that we ought naturally and properly to
enjoy. It should lie at once a matter of
policy and national pride to re-posses this
immense and prosperous trade.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
The pledge of the Republican National
convention that our civil service laws
shall be sustained aud thoroughly and
houestly enforced and extended wher
ever practicable, is in keeping with the
position of I he party for the past 24 years,
and will lie faithfully observed. Our op
ponents .leery these reforms. Thoy ap
pear willing to abandon all the advan
tages gained after so many years of agi
tation and effort They encourage a re
turn to methods of party favoritism which
both parties have often denounced, that
experience baa condemned, and that the
people have repeatedly disupproved. The
Republican party earnestly opposes this
reactionary and entirely unjustifiable pol
icy. It will take no backward step upon
this question. It will seek to improve,
but never degrade the public service.
There are other important aud timely
declarations in the platform which I can
not here discuss. I must content myself
with saying that they have uiy approval.
If. as Republicans, we have lately ad
dressed our attention, with what may
sccui great stress and earnestness, to the
new and unexpected assault upon the fin
ancial integrity of the Government we
have done it liecause the menace Is ao
grave as to demand espe.ua! considera
tion, and because we are convinced that
if the people are aroused to the true nn
derstanding and meaning of this silver
and inflation movement they will avert
the danger. In doing this we feel that we
render the best service possible to the
country, and we appeal to the intelli
gence, conscience and patriotism of the
euple, irrespective of party or section,
for their earnest support
THE OLDEST
AND THE BEST
Cough-cure, the most prompt and
effective remedy for diseases of the
threat and lungs, is Aers Cherry
1'tvtoraL As an emergency medi
cine, for the cure of
Croup, Sore Throat,
Liinjr Fever and
Whooping Cough,
AYER'S
Cherry Pectoral
cannot be equaled.
E. M. HitAwtEy,
D. D, Dis, Sec: of
the American Bap
tist Publishing Society. Petersburg,
Va., endorses it, as a cure for violent
colds, bronchitis, etc. Dr. llrawlcy
also adds: To all ministers suffering
from throat troubles, I recommend
AVER'S
Cherry Pectoral
- Awarded Vadal at World's Fair.
AVER'S PIUS Curs Liter and Stomach Trouble!.
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IT WILL MAIXTAIX LAW AND ORDER.
We avoid no issues. We inert the and-
den, dangerous and revolutionary assault
upon law and order and upon those to
whom is confided by the Constitution and
laws the authority to uphold and main
tain them, which our opponents have
made, with the same courage with which
we have faced every emergency since our
organization as a party, more than forty j
years ago. Government by law must first
be assured; everything else can wait
The spirit of lawlessness must le extin
guished by the fires of an unselfish and
lofty patriotism. Kvtry attack upon the
public faith, and eveu suggestion of the
repudiation of debts, public oi private,
must be rebuked by all men who believe
that honesty is the best policy, tir who
love their country and would preserve
unsullied its national honor.
SECTIONALISM ALMOST ORLITERATED.
The country is to be congratulated upon
the almost total obliteration of the sec
tional Hues which for so many years
marked the division of the United States
into slave and free territory, aud finally
threatened its partition into two separate
governments by the dread ordeal of civil
war. The era of reconciliation, so long
and earnestly desired by General Grant
and many other great leaders. North and
South, has happily come, and tbe feeling
of distrust and hostility between tbe sec
tions is everywhere vanishing, let us
hope, never to return. Nothing is lietter
calculated to give strength to tbe nation
at borne, increase our power and influ
ence abroad, and add to tbe permanency
and security of our free institutions, than
the restoration of cordial relations be
tween the people of all sections and parts
of our beloved country. If called by the
suffrages of the people to assume tbe du
ties of the high of lice of President of the
United States, I shall count it a privilege
to aid, even in the slightest degree, in the
promotion of the spirit of fraternal regard
which should auiinato and govern tbe cit
izens of every section. State, or part of the
republic.
After the lapse of a century since its
utterance, let us, at length, and forever
hereafter, heed the admonition of Wash
ington: There should lie no North, no
South, no East, no West but a common
country."
It shall be my constant aim to improve
every opportunity to advance the cause of
good government by promoting that
spirit of forbearance and justice so essen
tial to our prosperity and happiness, by
joining most heartily in all proper efforts
to restore the relations of brotherly re-
sped aud affection which in our early
history characterized all the people of the
States. I would lie glad to contribute to
ward binding in indivisiblo union tbe dif
ferent divisions of the country,, which,
indeed, now "have every inducement or
sympathy aud interest" to weld them to
gether more strongly than ever. I would
rejoice to see demonstrated to the world
that the North and the South, and the
East and the West are not separated, be
cause of sectional or party differences.
The war is long since over; "we are not
enemies, but friends," and as friends,
we will faithfully and cordially co-operate,
under the approving smile of Him
who has thus far signally sustained and
guided us, to preserve inviolate our
country's name and honor, its peace and
good order, and its continued ascendency
among the greatest governments on
earth.
William McKinlev.
Is what gives Uood'a,SarsaparUla its great
popularity, ita constantly increasing
sales, and enables it to accomplish its
wonderful and unequalled cures. Tbe
combination, proportion and process
used in preparing Hood's arsaparill
are unknown to other medicines, and
make Hood's Sarsaparilla
Peculiar to Itself
It cures a wide range of diseases because
of its power as a blood purifier. It acts
directly and positively upon the blood,
and the blood reaches every nook and
cornerof the human system. Thus all
tbe nerves, muscles, bones and tissues
come under the beneficent influence ot
InlOOdr
Sarsaparilla
Thi" One True l.too.1 Puriflcr. Jl ; six for 5.
. . ei:re Liver Ills; easy to
llOOvi S PUIS t.e,-a to operate, r.
New
Spring
Goods
ARE NOW
On
Sale
And we are now prepared to show
the largest aud most desirable
stock of New Spring
DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
CARPESS,
KUGS,
POItTIER.S,
LACE CURTAINS,
ETC.,
Ia the County at prices that can't
be compared.
Our New Spring Stock of
Ladies'
Silk & Percal Waists.
Capes & Coats,
are very desirable and at prices to
suit alL
OURCARPET DEPART ENT
is full of new Sprinjr Goods
in all the new and desirable pat
terns and best makes. Also a
handsome line of
HUGS,
POKTIEHS,
LACE CURTAINS,
WINDOW SHADES, etc.
Of every description are now qn
sale, and we are prepared to offer
great bargains in every department'
Parker &
Parker.
Sprin
Goods
EVERY DAY
Brings Something- New !
A Riding or Walking Spring Tooth Harrow.
(Try
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No drain" of frame on the ground
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itscll oi irasn as easny as a nay rwc iu.u
a man on as others do without a load.
CALL AND SEE IT. WE GUARANTEE IT THE BEST
ttip nrrrT T
in 1 ML W UtvLU.
Sold on Trial.
J. B. Holderbaum, f
Somerset, Pa.
QUEERS
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The New Capello Range.
WE sell the NEW CAPELLO RANGE, guaranteed the largest and be?
Range of its class on the market It has very large and high ov
ens, heavy grates, linings and tops. Baking and Roasting qualities
the highest as thousands of daily users can testify. If you want
the best buy a
1TE"WCA
ALSO A FULL LINE OF
GRANITE, COPPER TINWARE
Milk Cans, Screen Doors and Windows, Ice Cream Freezers, Oil and
Gasoline Stoves. Call and see us. Respectfully,
P. A.
Quinn's Big Store !
We Are Showing a Splendid Lint of
NEW FALL DRESS GOODS
In Black and Colors.
CONTAINING Covert Cloth. Two-toned Twills, honeycomb and canvas weave
plain and rough shaggy surfaces, in combination of silk and wool, in two col ,
ors, giving the gosls an irrideseent effee-t. Two and three-toned Check Suit
ings. Many of the new goods are woven in two and three colors, giving a
chameleon effect, which is very pretty. These goods are entirely different from any
in the city. Prices are away below those of laxt season.
JAMES QUINN. Johnstown, Pa.
1847.
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ICE COLD SODA.
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Pure Drugs and Chem-j Fine Imported & Do
icals. mestic Cigars.
G. W. BENFORD, Manager.
JrOfllceof Tr. S. M. Bell in rear of Store, where he will wait upon patients oa
Saturday of each week.
FURNITURE !
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Our Stockls Large.
A thing to be considered
In buying Furniture.
PKICE is generally held to be of the first imnortance.
should be the last. If you
it you Duy for price you get what you pay for.
Chamber Suits, Solid Oak and Cherry, containing six pieces, fS ft a), ftn. zS
Antique (ak Suits, : : : ; ': : : fi.i; i.s. i-ji.
F''V ; : : : : -. tzrK 3
Sideboards, Jjolid Qak, ; ; : : : : $1Q, li $14.
Chairs, Beds, Springs, Mattresses and all other kinds of Furniture at 31
lowest price. .. r ...... .
FIGURE
Covers a multitude of sins, hut it isn't necessary to bar the
undesirable features to secure figure. Etatlish in your mind 3
m eieiail or grades,. then you are ready for priee. !3
I C. H. Cofrroth, 1
606 Main Cross Street, SOMERSET, PA
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GOOD RESULTS,'
Come from lone experience.
Th Cindertiia Stovtt and Ra.-ges
Are the renult of over thirty-live
yearn" ex jx-riewe. They are l.oli-l
for their durability, convenience
and economy.
Sperlal attention has been paid
to making Moves the way the pro
pie want them, with a view i.f
meeting every requirement at a
moderate cohU
Their cleanliness lessens lalor.
Their economy saves money.
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SOMERSET.
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S0MEBSET. PA.
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