he Somerset Herald.
y.RD 8CVLU Editor and Proprietor.
EiXEsiAV
ivtolier 14, IS
REPUBLICAN NATIONALTICKET
President,
William MiKim-ev, of Ohio.
ARRirr A. Hobart, of New Jersey.
EPUBLICAN bTATE TICKET.
CocgTeBmen-t Large.
Uali-kha A Gkow, of usquehnna.
tSAi ti. A. Davenport, of Krie.
Electort-at-Large.
J.wph Wharton. rtitUidelplila.
AU xandor E. IVUon.Clenrfleld.
William Vlthifow, Allegheny.
Peter U KiniTiy. Merwr.
District Elector.
Kr.J.H.Pra . HfnryC. Prcvort.
. Allfi I!. Korke.
. .Frank It. Hntiey.
16 I It itmrn
IT' KfmI. H. Kjtton.
I ..Mild:! I. SI
!!. V. Itrown Miller.
Wm. M. T.-iirsran.
H. liu.M.ll.
W illiam F. iSoley.
John KriU.
H-Tirr I. Johnson.
Jtitm II. lrifiiH.
i. It. H. nlminiML
Jl. infTV T. swul
A I ' U'liit.
!i Win". N. IUiidolph
Si. K. WcrtheirmT.
1 liMtiuh SlM-lT.
Kvon-tt WmTvu.
it V U il.l.-.
!Lv K.i 'd K. A I) rams.
!W. ImdorSoliel.
Harrison Ball.
William N'hnor.
U. W
Miiler. il. Jos. C Campbell.
rON'ORESS.
ASEMKLV.
Wm. H. Miller, of CJueiuauoning Twp.
W. II. Sannkr, of Somerset Bor.
AhWK IATE JfHOE.
t.KO. J. BLAt K, of Meyersdale Bor.
SHERIFF.
M. II. HartKelL, of Itockwood Bor.
rilOTnoNOTART.
II. F. Bap.rox, of Somerset Bor.
RECilTERiY RKOORPER.
J. M. Cover, of Jenner Twp.
TREASt'RER.
Wm. Winters of Somerset Twp.
OOVNTV COMMISSIONER.
;eo. F. Kimmei, of Milford Twp.
tiAiiitiEt. :kip, of Somerset Twp.
POOR tiir.ElToR.
J Aixm W. r K, of Summit Twp.
AlIHTOKS.
Jeremiah Khoahn of Somerset Bor
B. J. Bow max, of r.rothersvalley Twp.
I:kuv cainiidat on the county
ti'-k-t entitled to the loyal support
of all IlepuMn-ans.
I'p ami at Vm, Ilopul'licans ! We
have th-m on the run, and only a few
weeks remain in which to complete the
r mL
Tin: county ticket is a good one and
should recvive the cordial, earnest soip-
jwirt of every Iiepuhlicau voter in the
.loutitv.
The advance in the price of wheat is
Hie kind of an argument that answers
sill the sophistries that the free-silver
orators are pitchforking to the farmers.
IaI evt-rv Keinihlican in the county
put forth his bfst etT'irt to give the ci.-
t ire ticket. National. State and I ountv.
tlie largest majority ever given in the
history of the county.
"Tin: I'epuhlican policy is uplifting
the other is degrading. The one means
work and wages, mills and factories,
go-id money, good prices and good mar
kets; the other means degradation, dis
t ress and dishonor." Major McKinley,
Ai.THoruH Pennsylvania has given
;me phenomenal Republican majori-
lies in the past, the largest of them will
not be in it alongside of the one she
will give this year. Somerset county
should he'p swell the figures by giving
:,VM majority.
Ch.uumax 15aleock, of the National
"ongrcssioiial Committee, says that the
work of the committee is practically
completed. The reports show, beyond
doubt, he says, a safe and sure Ilepubli-
euu majority for sound money and pro
tective tariff revenue measures.
The IU'publican majority in Somer
set conn., at tlie last Culiernatorial
election, IsiU, was over 3,J0;), the larg
est ever given since the organization of
the party. The indications all point to
an increase! majority this year. It
should not fall under 3,500.
The gold production of Colorado last
year was $17,-VM,(iM, and silver produc
tion fl4,2-i(,ittW. Why that State should
want to strengthen the Populist idea of
lisjieiising with Uitli metals as money
is not intelligible. The avowed Popu
list doctrine is liat money, and plenty
of it
Ci.kvei.a Nn's plurality in New York
City iu was Tfi.OoO, Hill's in 1S:U
was aliout 3,000, and McKinley's this
year is estimated liy a sound-money
Tammany man at Lit,! I. President
Cleveland has no occasion to feel un
comfortable when he surveys the results
of his displacement as the chief adviser
of the Democratic party.
The Treasury statement for Septem
b t shows that the Jovernment ran be
hind about 2,i kyuiduring the mouth,
thus making a total shortage of
tM,rm for the first three months of the
present li-i-al year, as azainst J',0 M,0.)j
tor the corres;;; V. period of last
year. That is to mr, iiie need of more
revenue Inclines a lig j r fact with each
passing month.
So i ak the can -pav" in this county
has be-n almost d-.-void of the usual
features if Presidt ir.i-l '-ampaigns, but
much quiet, effective cr';, which will
Vie apparent on eleciioii day, has U-eu
Oone fin the part of the Republican.
Tiie retsiaining weeks of the campaign
will be devoted to mass-meetings, k1c-rai-iug
and an earnest ctfort to get out
tiie full vote.
D.in't neglect to attend the Ilepuhii
cin mass meeting to b? held in Somer
set on tli evning o ;iUr 27th.
This is no tirdinary campaign. Issues
ff v;t:il intcrot to the business world,
and issues vital to the vt ry isteiicc ff
the Commonwealth are involved. You
will have an f ppottunity jf hearing
tliese issues freely and honestly dis
cussed by some of the ablest sieakers
in the State at the nuetingen the even
ing of theCTth.
lorn years ago, says t..e iitthurg
Iiispatch, Mr. P.ryan was telling the
j-op'ieof the wickedness of a protect
ive tariff. The fanner was to become
prosperous when the free traders got in
power, and everyl.ody was to get for
eign goods at ridiculously low r-ivs.
Some American nianufactories Utll.t
:o to snsasli meanw liile, and some Am
f rican workiiigmeu vould prolmbly
I.ave to take retluci'd wages, or to walk
in idleness, jurhaps, leauso of the
change; but these sufferers did not
count iu Mr. Bryan's economics. Pro
tection to American industries was a
wicked business. It would have to go.
To some extent Mr. P.ryan and his
party sui-ceeded. They rode into power
on their prospectus against protection.
Now, according to Mr. Bryan, the farm
ers worse off than liefore, the work
ingiuHn more discontented and nobody
as happy or prosperous as in ! Ia
t, M r. Bryan aud hU friends iutiu ;
. . . A ,
up a policy of change which immeUi-
tdy threatened rnd ultimately para
lyzed business. This cut on me reve
nue of the producers of the country,
nd in consequence the farmer lost a
go.nl portion of hid tt market the
home market.
Relying on the notion that neither
the farmer nor worKingman khows
what hurt him, Ilryan is now to the
front trying to make a fresh trade for
power by offering a quack nostrum to
cure the wounds he and his associate
empirics inflicted after 'Pi Having cut
down the annual wages of working-
men by their free-trade experiments,
they propose now to help the M orking
niau to affluence by paying him what
is left in depreciated money. Having
fought in '92 to lower the prices or com
modities, tlu-y now pretend to fight to
raise prices. No contradiction is too
glaring for them. Everything goes.
Hut there is compensation in the con
fidence that Mr. r.ryaii win also go,
three weeks from next Tuesday.
Tiieke has lieeu no change iu the
deplorable Congressional situation in
this district since our last issue, l p w
the t ime of our going to press the Dau
phin County Court lias not handed
down its decision as to whether tiie
name of J. I). I licks or F. J. Kooser
shall lie regularly placed upon the
ticket, or whether neither was legally
nominated. Should the Court decide
that neither was law fully nominated,
then it is questionable whether a Re
publican Congressional candidate can
be voted for except by sticker or by
writing the name in the blank column
of the ticket. Both Mr. Thropp aud
Mr. Hicks filed nomination papers,
which raises the question whether
nomination papers filed by two candid
ates in the same district under the same
partv appellation is legal, and if so,
w hich is entitled to priority. The rule
in the State Department is, that where
two candidates in a district file nomiii
ati.:i papers under the same party
iiiiine. neither will be certified. This
question will have to lie legally deter
mined, should the Court decide neither
Mr. Kooser nor Mr. Hicks to lie the
regular nominee. Should the rulin
of the State Department lie sustained,
neither Mr. Thropp nor Mr. Hick:
could go on the ticket by nomination
naners. aud stickers or writing ttie
name would have to be resorted to,
Should the Court decide in favor of
priority of filing, Mr. Hicks would
tome in first, as his pajiers were filed
some hours liefore Mr. Thropp' s. Owing
to this senseless and unnecessary mud
dle, brought aliont by the bullishness
and selfishness of two or three men, the
campaign iu theentiredistrict has been
greatly delayed, aud much harm to the
National, as well as to the local ticket
in the several counties of the district,
has licen done. In the meanwhile Mr.
McNamara, the candidate of the party
of free trade, free silver, repudiation
aud anarchy, is quietly at work, and,
as each day passes, sees his chances of
representing this district, with, its 12,000
Republican majority, in the next Con
gress, grow brighter and brighter.
The national campaign, says the
Philadelphia Press, has been unusually
eventful duriug the last week. Two
State elections have been held in the
South, where it was hoped by the sup
porters of Bryan that large majorities
would inspire their followersand assure
a solid South for their candidate. The
elections in Florida and Ucorgia, how
ever, have been sadly disappointing, as
they prove that Florida is fairly doubt
ful in the national contest, and that
ticorgia will give Bryan only a small
majority.
1 wo significant events occurred on
Friday. In Chicago the friends of
s.und money turned out 1 1)0,000 strong
in a daylight march through the streets
of that city, embracing all classes and
conditions, and iu that immense pro
cession the working men of Chicago
were eminently conspicuous. In the
evening, the followers of Ilryan made
a demonstration, and even the rejuirt
of the New York Journal, the only
Bryan organ in New York city, admits
that the sound money demonstration
was three times larger than that made
for Bryan. It has settled the attitude
of Chicago in this contest, and seems
to have settled beyond peradveuture
that Illinois will vote for McKinley by
a very large majority.
The usual registrations liegan in New-
York city anil Brooklyn on Friday, and
they have been unexampled in magni
tude. Never before in the history of
modern politics have the iecple of New
York exhibited such intense desire to
qualify themselves to vote. The in
creased registrations of New York and
Brooklyn exceeded the ordinary regis
tration by over 30 per cent, and it is
now no longer doubted that New York
and Brooklyn will poll the largest vote
ever cast for President, ami that Mc
Kinley will carry both cities by decided
majorities.
Bryan has continued his oratorical
journey throughout the country, but
the enthusiasm of his reception in the
West seems steadily on the wane. It is
there that he must make his battle,
and it is plainly evident that his reccji-ti-u
in the West on his return from his
tour in the Fast falls far short of the
receptions given him when he started
from his home. In other words, the
evidence is conch-si ve that the cheap
money craze is steadily dying out, and
that the people of the West, who are
naturally as honest as the people of the
K-ist, have lieeti studying the money
question from tiie stand Mint of public
and private integrity, and that the
cause of sound money is gaining with
each day. The result of the week show s
unmistakable advance on the McXin
ley side, and corresjioiiding retrogres
sion on the Bryan side.
The national election is now only
three weeks distant, and w ith the tide
iu favor of sound money growing in
every section of the country, and with
the great I-jistera and Middle States no
longer doubtful, all indications must
lie at fault if McKinley shall uot lie
t K-cd Presinent by the largest msijnr
ity evvr given to any candidate for the
highest civil trust of the world.
1363 and 1898.
In one thing the country will lie inclin-
! to agree w ith Senator Teller. In a
late speech in Cleveland he declared that
t he issues to lie settled thus year are more
important thau were the issues in ljo.
He is right.
The question of the right of a State to
secede from the In ion was of no greater
danger to the nation than is the assump
tion that the Federal Government is
without legal authority to deal with a
mob that otistruct the movement of inter
state commerce and the carriage of the
mails or that the executive should not
protect the public credit as authorized by
law, or that the right of contract ought
to be abridged, or that the standard of
value w hereby all transactions have been
measured for a hundred years should be
sliolished.
The proismition in Isej w to divide
the Union into Free and Slave Slates ;
the proKwition now is to to divide It luto
Silver States and Slave States. i
ed the farmer and workingnicn toiaae
TH K0KET TOWXa.
Bom PUia Truthf Waica Agitaton Of-
tea Ignors.
William C. Cornwell, Buffalo, X. W
addressed the School of Finance at Buffa
lo on the money question aud spoke iu
part as lollows:
"I do not hotiute to say that the mon
ey Kwer is for McKinley and the gold
standard. But I follow this up with the
inquiry. What is the money power in this
country? and with this reply: The money
power is the power that furnishes and
controls the cash aud cash credits of the
I'nited States. This power is concentrat
ed in the hands of the banks, the loau as
sociations, the mortgage companies and
the insurance companies. There are a
few individual luniks, but they are in a
small minority. A bank is one of the
niacbiuea of business The capital is
generally furnished by hundreds of peo
ple, most of them in moderate circum
stances, who, take shires of stin k and
put in the money to start with. The
greater part of the bank's money is, bow-
ever, tue property ol small deiosiiora
and business men, hundreds and thou
sands of t hem for each bank, and the av
erage amount placed on deposit is small.
Taken altogether, however, the whole
makes up a very large sum, which the
bank ollicer is expected to loan out and
invest safely, but must always tie ready
to pay back to the depositor in cash.
"The liankcr, then, against whom we
bear so much abuse from ignorant quar
ters, is the paid servant who looks after
the interests of the entire institution, the
Interests of thousands of people in each
institution, and, although he must have
more experience than the man who digs
or the man who takes care of horses, he
is nevertheless a "hired man.' When Mr.
Bryan was iu Buffalo be took special
pains to stigmatize bankers, but iu his
speech in Xew York, and in alt his
speeches, he has shown such great ignor
ance on the sul jeet of banking that I am
inclined to think that it is his age more
than anything else that is at fault. Youth
is a magnificent quality, hut it is better
on a ranch than ii an executive chair, es
pecially if such things are said, as have
to le concerning Mr. Bryan, namely,
for instance, that what he knows aliout
finance is not so, rnd that in all his ninety-seven
speeches in the 'enemy's coun
try,' not one of his arguments will stand
the test of calm, xl investigation, based
on facts and experience. The banks of
the United States are mainly trustees of
the people's money, employed on salary,
and expected so to conduct the affairs of
the bank that the greatest lienefit will
come to their stockholders, to their de
positors, to the whole business of the lo
cality by means of careful loaning. Kach
hank, savings bank, and trust company
is made up in about the same way. Let
us take them all together, and add the
building and loan associations, . which
come under the same class, and you have
in round figures 9."i,3Vi,(io(i,i(iil, owned by
lo,0oo,ioo of thrifty people owning, many
of them, only a few dollars apiece, and
at l he average of only aliout ?-V0 apiece.
This meney is power. Listen. It is ear
ly morning in the great city. Bo you
hear that sound of footsteps on the cool
stones shuff, shun" hundreds, thou
sands, stepping, stepping, regularly, in
creasing through the marts and highways
where commerce flows? These are they
who carry the dinner pail, the laborers,
the shop girls, the clerks, the vast army
of the employed, millions and millions of
tbem. This is the money power. They
do not drive on die boulevards, they do
not live lives of case and luxury. They
do service w herever commerce needs a
willing hand, a clear head, a thrifty soul.
This is the money power. All there is of
thrift, industry, virtue, the good, old
fashioned qualities that make a nation
great these are the qualities of this great
army, 'the potentates of the dinner pail.'
They own the hundreds of millions iu
our savings banks. They hold the fore
most lien upon the assets of our great life
insurance companies. They are the
shareholders in the loan associations, and
in the aggregate, each owning a little, are
heavy stockholders in our great railway
and industrial corporations. The coun
try's wealth is distributed among them
they are relatively rich, and there never
was a time in any age or any land when
these wage earners received so much for
their toil and could buy ao much w ith
w hat they received as they could from
IS,!to Is), when the gold basis in the
United States was a sure-thing, and
everylKsly thought so. An attack has
lieen made upon the property of these
wage earners. A ii attempt is lieing made
to get them to consent to cut in two the
savings of years to take these dollars.
lor each or w hich they have given ldu
cents in the sweat of the brow, and legis
late half of it away. Io you think thev
will consent .o this? The honesty and
thrift of the (Jreen mountains hxs already
answered the question. Their answer
3!',(J"0 thundering noes."
Free Tradere for McKinley.
From a Recent Sjic ch delivered In Ualtimore
"I am a free trader. I ran for Congress
in this district and I made the first out
and out free trade campaign that has lieen
made by a Congressional candidate since
I came to Maryland. I made the
canvass for free trade openly and square
ly when I was told by managers that it
w as dangerous in a protection district.
Hie l.cpuliIicanH massrl their forces
against me. I felt their power, I felt their
organization. I felt their influence every
where. Co wen, the free trader, was to be
tieaten, but, sir, free trader as I am,
propise to vote for William McKinlev
for President.
"It is the Republican party that pro
tects your fortu ue to-night. It is the Re
publican party and. their platform that
protects the saving of the J.ftMMJ bank
depositors iu the savings banks of the
country to-night. It is the Republican
party that prote-ts the wage-earner to
night. We would have lieen on a silver
basis to-day, p ices would hive been dou
bled in the midst of general paralysis and
panic, if the Republican party had not
the courage, the manhood and the pa
tiiotism to declare for the golJ stand
- - - nen, therefore, a party not
yielding to temptation has had the cour
age to come forward to protect American
honor, American integrity, American
honesty, Amciican wages, American
property and American saving against
destruction, why should I fuar to east
my liule ballot once with them bacause I
had never done it before?"
Whacked off Her Big Toe.
Mr. Airy. X. J., Oct. 8. Miss Jose
phine Thomas a domestic on a farm just
lal iw here, arise with the sun to prepare
tho breakfast for the family this morning.
She had just put on her shoes when she
felt something moving in her right shoe.
She started to remove it when she felt a
stinging sensation in her great toe. Has
tily kicking o!T the shoe she was dismay
ed to se a huge black spider crawl out
of her shie and scurry across the floor.
Hy this time her whole foot commenced
to pain intensely and her too was twilling
rapidly and turning black. Knowing
that people sometimes die from spider
bites the plucky girl hastily tied a cord
around her ankle to prevent the poison
from spreading. Then with a butcher
knife she severed her toe from her foot.
Grow ing alarmed lest she might bleed to
death. Miss Thomas awoke the house
hold and told them what had happened.
A farm hand was dispatched for a phy
sician who when he examined the
wound, said nothing further was neces
sary except to dress the foot, which he
did. This afternoon the girl is reported
to lie out of danger, the inflammation hav
ing subsided in a great degree, although
she still suffers much pain.
for Pin Worms Eczema, Hives in 1
fact, any of the various torturing, itchy ,
diseases of the skin. Doan's Ointment is .'
an instant and positivo remedy. Get It I
from your dealer. I
Why Labor, If the GoTernment Caa Craate
Money i
From a peech delivered by S-jcretary
of Agriculture, Newton, at Chicago on
Friday, Oct. 9.
'A dollar with too much purchasing
power is as Impossible as a square meal
with too much nutritive power, an acre
of land with too much productive capaci
ty, or an advocate of poptibatic schemes
of finance with too much logical ability.
When humanity becomes too g-iod for j
heaven, money may liecome too good for !
the industrious and capable farmers and
wage-earners of America, but not liefore.
"It is an agricultural fact that, as a
measure of value and mediator of ax
change, money was evolved from pasto
ral life. Pecania, meaning 'money,'
came from Pecus, meaning 'a flock -And
in ancient timessbeep were counted
out and used as money with which to val
ue and exchange other things hence our
word 'pecuniary.' And in those honest
days no one attempted to pass off part of
an animal for a whole one, or to impose a
lean or diseased one upon the currency as
fat and heavy. There were no fiat sheep.
"Capital is money saved to put into
business to reproduce itself. And this
word 'capital' is also of farm origin, de
rived from the word caput 'a head' aud
he who had the most head of animals was
the greatest capitalist. Then, as now,
business men who reasoned thought it a
good thing to have weights. Gold bull
ion, if wo can believe history, was, no
doulit, the first thing man ever placed iu
a balance and weighed. From weights
measures were evolved, until now govern
ments fix the weight and measure by
which cereals, fruit, vegetables aud many
other products may be bought and sold iu
all parte of the civilized world. But no
where do governments attempt to fix the
prices of these things. Everybody known
how many pounds of corn and how many
pounds of wheat make a bushel, because
the law defies the quantity in weight. J
Aud so the law tells how many grains of
gold make a United Suites dollar or an
Knglish pound.
"And tho statute can no more fix the
purchasing power of either coin than it
can fix the price of corn and wheat. If
an alleged statesman should propose to
establish, by statute, a permanent valu e
for all farm products or to institute an
indexible ratio between cornmeal and
wheat flour, without regard to any other
appetite, stomach or brain on earth but
his own, even Populists would doubt his
san ity.
"The Grocian talent mentioned in the
Odyssey was among the earliest coined
gold money, and bore upon it the image
of a cow or ox. Those animals were used
as money in larger exchanges as sheep
were in the smaller, and as the latter
were pictured on the earliest silver, so the
former were depicted on the most primi
tive gold coins Silver and gold were
desired in the arts aud for ornaments.
And liecause they were desired there was
demand for them. The word 'value' is
derived from the Latin word valere, 'to
pass for or instead of.' Thus it is obvious
that the ancient idea of money was that it
could uot tie made valuable except out of
something that itself had value before it
became money. It had to tie made out of
a commodity that needed no legislation to
create a demand for it out of a commod
ity most universally desired and there
fore most generally demanded as a good
measure or standnrd with which to com
pare other valuables.
"Strip gold of the legal tender quality.
Who would not then take for his dues de
monetized gold, when the chance offered,
instead of legal tender silver? But if the
power exists in legislation to make two
metals equal as money, then the same
power can make silver and gild e;ju il in
the arts and for jewelry. Th'is a silver
watch would become as desired aud gen
erally demanded as a gold one, and silver
rings set w ith bits of brickbats and an
thracite coal might by law liecome as val
uable as gold rings set with rubies and
diamonds. If the United States can dou
ble the price of the world's silver by en
actment, why can it not also double the
price of garnets or wheat or pork or any
other exchangeable thing by the same
necromancy ?
"Why labor, why toil, if wealth, value
and the substance of things can be legis
lated into being? Why not plow fields
by preamble, harvest crops by joint reso
lution, garner tbem by enactment and
subsist mankind at large by that creative
power which Populism vests in lawmak
ers ?"
Why the 5. T. Joaraal ii for Free SilTer.
The "Evening Journal"' of Xew York
is the evening edition of the "Morning
Journal." Both are owned by Mr. Wm
K. Hearst, of San Francisco, who also
owns other newspapers Mr. Hearst is
a very wealthy silver owner. He is vice-
president of the Ontario Silver Mine in
Utah. The capital stock of that mine.
even at its inflated value, is jlj,01.J3,
and the dividends so far paid aggregUo
?!:!,:! I O.onO. But the mine is not produ
cing silver ore to its full capacity. Are
port from its officials states: "While the
output of the Ontario Mine might be in
creased, the wisdom of such a policy in
view i f the possibility of a better price
for silver is very .questionable." In other
woids product has been curtailed in the
hope that the free silver coinage campaign
may tie successful, when the profits would
be enormously increased. The dividends
already paid nearly equal the entire cap
ital stock. Under free silver coinage the
profits of that one mine, if the product
were no greater than last year, would tie
increased to the amount of $710,030. For
thesilver ore already sold by that mite
10.21 1,8.17 has been ' received, according
to its official reports, but only 113.310.000
has boeu paid out in dividends. There is
a large surplus in its treasury.
Mr. Hearst, the proprietor of the "Jour
nal," is also vice-president of the Daly
Silver Mine Company, which owns the
Daly Mine. This mine is capitalized at
gi.O'iO.O'f) aud it has paid in dividends
liSsT-m The last dividend was a 25
per cent. one. That is the enormous prof
it made without free coinage. Mr.
Hearst ts also Interested in other mines
It has been stated that his personal prof
its on ore would lie increase ) at least $100,
000 a yoar should the Bryan campaign be
successful. It can bo easily understod
how these mineowners can afford to ex
pend large sums on newspapers and
otherwise to prom He tha free silver
campaign.
A ?EE3IDEHnit E37IMATZ.-
Ho Laager Any Doibt
to Sryan'i
Defeat
Thecurrentnumlicr of Harper's Week
ly contains the following:
There is no longer any d mbt ss to the
result of the election. Mr. Bryan will lie
defeated. Tho only question U as to the
extent of the defeat. The following ta
ble shows the result of a c ireful and trust
worthy canvass of the several States :
M- Bry-, Miv IJry-
Ktate.f. K nicy, tn.; States. Ktnley.au-
Ma! i .
0 Minnesota
0 N. Dakota 0
0 St. UakcMa 0
0 Kentucky
U Oregon 4
0 Washington. 4
0; California 9
0! KansM 0
0, Nebraska.. S
0j Wyoming 8
(I I louisiana 0
12 TrtlDBBW 0
0; Missouri 0
II Tfxsii 0
Pi Alnlmnri 0
I'll Arkansas 0
4 ! Coloradu a
0' Idaho 0
0 Missiieilpjil 0
0; M ml uia: 0
0 Nevada... 0
0 Ltah 0
o!
0
3
4
0
0
0
0
10
0
s
N
12
17
15
11
8
4
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163
11 itnibliir? 4
r:tnul
Mix. 1
Itriot' l.laad.
MIIV-,-! 1,-Ut - . S
N-w Vr Hi
Nr Jrmry 10
. -Imn- a
vim ' ;ti
M tryland.. M
N tnrtma ,, ,. 0
W. Vicuna
r.ir.i.nw 0
H. .irjlina 0
ieoivU 0
Florid 0
llilo 21
fn.liina.... I
IllinoU 24
NOi-h!riu..n
WiMXKIHlU..
Iowa
Tolalii
.14
.IJ
.13
ToImI electoral Vrt..447
riecessary lor a choice 224
This table gives Mr. McKinley a
ma
He jority of 117 in the Electoral College.
w ill probably have a greater majority,
In the above table there are 63 doubtful
votes that hive been counted for Mr.
Bryan.
Mr. Bryan to tho Pensioners.
From thcl'tiitadelphia Ucconl.
In his speech in Iudianaoolis Mr. Bry
an undertook to console the pensioners
for the prospective 5J-cent dollar with
this happy suggestion: "If tho solder
looks at the money question merely from
the standpoint of his own interest he
must remember that his pension is only
property, aud that if he legislates the vat
ueuf the dollar up while he
rai-ies the I
purchasing power of his pension he w ill
decrease the value of w hatever other
property he has." . This is the most naive
aud eaniiid confession ttist the Popocralic
champion has yet made of tho effect ol
free silver coiuago to decrease tho pur
chasing power of the soldier's pension.
To have la-en entirely candid, however,
he should have added that the value of
the silver dollar, or itspurchasiug power
would be decreased to the value of the
metal in iL That value is about fifty
cents to-day ; but neither he nor any one
else cau predict that it might not fall still
lower after free coiuage.
But lo tho veteran who may lie fortu
nate enough toowu a small farm, or a
horse and eov, or "other property," Mr.
Bryan gives tue pleasing a-tsoraiieo that
this "other property" would lie enhanced
in value by free coiuage, and that he would
thus be more than compensated for the
decline iu the purchasing pow-er of his
pension. . The value of the Government
pension of 12 or 15 a month would be a
small matter in comparison with the in
flated prices which the l'opocrat ie candi
date promises to the fanner pensioners of
Iudiana aud Illinois for their wheat aud
corn. The inlluted prices which these
pensioners would be obliged to pay for
farm implements, household furniture
and clothing for their families are, of
course, excluded from the account.
To tho pensioners who have no farms or
"other property" Mr. Bryan presents the
higher consideration that "by raising the
purchasing power of their pension they
mua rememoer inai mey are conuemii-
ing their children and their children's
children to the injustice of a gold stand
ard." Such an appeal to the benevolent
impulses ought not to be hist on the vet
eran pensioners Mr. Bryan exhorts
them to gently submit to the chipping of
the purchasing power of the money with
w hich those pensions are paid in order
that the like blessing of depreciated cur
rency and the like relief from the gold
standard may lie transmitted to future
generations! This it must be said, is
taking a long look aheaiL But in a mat
er of this kind coming generations may
be well left to take of themselves "Pos
terity !" exclaimed another great states
man of tho Bryan class on a similar oc
casion ; "what has jsisterity ever done
for us?" It is enough for the veterans to
learn from the heresiarch of Adulterated
Money and Repudiation himself that free
coinage would decrease the purchasing
power of their pensions The veterans
will lie apt to think of it before submitting
to this process of depletion for the more
than dubious tencfU of posterity.
While Mr. Bryan was thus haranguing
the pensioners and giving the case of free
coinage away a voice in the crowd ex
claimed that the greenbacks with which
the soldiers were paid in the civil war
were "worth forty cents on the dollar."
Upon this tho I'oji'icratic candidate said :
"The very men who arc now so much
afraid that the soldier will rex-eive his
pension in 50 cent dollars were not afraid
to pay him for his service iu 40-eent dol
lars measured 'y gold." The rases are
not parallel, although the results of free
silver coinage would lie the samo as were
the results of the greenbacks issue.
The issue of greenbacks was a mistake
growing out of the sincere belief that the
government credit would be strong
enough to maintain them at a parity with
gold ; but a like experiment of fre coin
ag in face of that lesson would be a
crime. While a few predicted the effect
of the greenbacks issue, they were uu
heeded. Just as the Siiverites persist in
rejecting the sano counsels now. But no
one desired that the greenbacks should
d ?pro,-i.ito, ia 1 ih n ri'j thi solliers the
wage-earners and all having investments
of savings Asthe credit of the Uovcrn
inent revived the greenbacks gradually
appreciated in value until they were
finally redeemed in gold.
Free coiuage of silver, on the other
hand, with the full knowledge of its con
sequences would be deliberate and wau
ton robliery. The greenbacks were is
sued with the honest intention of redeem
ing them in gold ; b-it there is no such in
teution in regard to the silver dollars. So
far from it, free coinage of silver would
relieve the Government of the obligation
and at tho same time deprive it of the
power of redeeming this adulterated mon
ey in gold. That is the difference between
the greenbacks aud free coinage ; and
Mr. Bryan would have perceived th it all
the advantage in the score of financial
morality is with the greenliacks had he
not become completely bliuded by
fanatical rage against the gold standard of
value, under which every man receives
tbat to which he is entitled iu the ex
change of commodities and services
Wheat and Corn Outlook.
Xew York. OjL 8. In its issue for the
current week the American Agricultur
ist says: Actual threshing returns from
all winter and spring wheat States show
the total wheat crop of the United
States for 'i to be 470,000,000 bus., against
400,000.000 bushels last year. The pr
ent returns of yield per acre, as reorted
by actual threshing results from the en
tire wheat belt, is 13-3 bushels winter
and 13.3 bushels spring. According to
final reports the paper says the oats
crop for ls-Kj is 717,J'iO,O0O bush., against
JO,OilO,0O0 bush, in 1S&
The average yield per acre is 23.6 bush
els. The general quality is, perhaps the
worst on record. Xot only is the grain
extraordinarily light, but heavy rains at
and after harvest greatly damaged it, and
the proportion of merchantable oats will
be unusually small. The paper further
states that the general condition of corn
October 1 was &).3 and hints that the crop
will finally measure but little if any un
der 2,50'',O.K),OJ.I bushels.
WJP3050NOCK, PA.
Low Sate Ezcnrsioa yU Penmylvenia Biil-
roai.
At this period of the year there is no
more de'.ightfiil plt'-e fir a short outing
than Wopsououoek, situate ! on the lop
of the Allegheny Mountains ' feet
above tidewater. Wopsononock affords
magnificent view of tho country for
miles around, now mado more beautiful
by the autumn-tinted foliage. The scene
from Point Lmkout is not equaled east of
tho ltocky Mountains The railroad
north of Allooua ascands 11 IJ feet in tlie
distance of eight miles.
On Saturday, O. -toiler 17, the Pennsyl
vania Hiitroad Cooip my will run an ex
cursion to this delightful resort, for w uii-h
round-trip tickets will be sold at a'l ex
ceedingly low rate. A ste.:ial train will
bs run on thfl sohedulo given lielow :
Tim-? Kite
Push irz s.-M A. M. f ! 01
Jotin-iUiwu I J 4J 1 2i
Iteturn'mj leaving Wopenouock at
5.0JI. arriving at Altoona at 5.1.1P.
M. stopping for supper; leavo Alloona
620 P. M making same stops. Tickets
will permit of stop off at A'.toonaon re
turn trip, acd will be good for return
passage until October 19, inclusive.
Newest Styles in Dress Goods.
Ladies, you will agree with those
who have already seen my DRESS
GOODS stock, that it is the largest
and handsomest ever seen in Som
erset. Here yon will find the New
Styles of this season. Every lady
withes to see the most fashionable
dress goods before making a selec
tion. Dozens of new novelty styles.
Trimmings to suit.
Mus. A.E. Uul.
Salt for Wediiag Ostflt.
A ease of unusual interest was tried in
Beading a few days ago. It was that of
Mrs. Floranda Honry against David
Welsner, aud it was to recover a wedding
outfit. It grows out of an old Pennsylva
iiiaGerman custom, once very popular,
but which has almost fallen into disuse
save in a few localities. It dates from the
days of indenture of female servants, who
at the time of their marriage, if they
w ere fail hull employees, were rewarded
w ith a wed ling o'ltflt, or " h i if stm ir,"
as it is popularly called in the country
districts. Mr. Weisner is a well-known
farmer of Alabama Township. Mis.
Henry testified that went on his farm
w hen she was seven years old; that when
she w as grow n up he paid her wages;
that it had always lieen understood that
she should have a w edding outfit; that
she worked in the field, spreading ma
nure aud helping to load hHy, beside do
ing housework, and that, at the age of
twenty-two, she was married to William
Henry, against tho opposition of Mr.
Weisner, and that, although she asked
f r the eastom iry "h tus-si'.-iar," ho re
fusal to give it to her.
'Squire James S.-'jrader, a well-known
Justice of the l'yace, liefore whom the
case was first tried, gave judgment in
Mrs. lle.ury's favor for $312 as the value
of what Mr. Weisner should have given
her. On the stand Squire Schrader s od
that a" haus-steiar" in th.-it mighbor
hood meant "a cow, pig, chickens, two
led rooms furnished, stove, carpet, smok
ed meat of a pig, sau sage, a parlor fur
nished kitchen stove, dishes, tubs, buck
ets and tinware." The jury returned a
verdict in favor of Mrs. Henry for ?.'10,
Without interest.
Murdered in a Saloon.
Perrv, O. T., Oct. 9. Temple Houston,
sou of the famous first Governor of Texas
Sam Houston, shot and killed Judge J.
B. Jennings of Woodward, 50 miles west
of here, last night. Judge Jennings was
a well-known Iowa jurist, and Houston,
his slayer, is one of the leading Demo
cratic silver orators and politicians iu the
West. He has served several terms in
the Texas aud Territorial legislatures
and was a delegate to the Chicago con
vention and Bryan's most pronounced
supporter there.
A year ago a son of Jennings was kill
ed by Houston after a quarrel over a law
case at the scono of last night's tragedy.
The Grand Jury indicted Houston, and
John E. Love, the sheriff of the county,
who Is a friend of Houston, for the mur
der, bui they were acquitted.
Last Monday Judgo Jennings met
Houston's little son on the sidewalk and
spit in tho little fellow's face. As soon as
Houston arrived home his boy told him
of this, and Houston immediately buck
led on his gun and went out to find Jen
nings They met in a saloon. Houston
shoved a pistol iu Jennings's breast and
tired. Jennings fell back in the arms of
a friend, and Houston gave himself up to
tho ollieers
SPECIFIC
for Scrofula.
"Since childhood, 1 have been
afflicted with scrofulous boils and
sores, which caused me terrible
Buffering, l'hysicians were unable
to help me, and I only grew worse
under their care.
At lengtli, I began
to take
AYER'S
Sarsaparilla, and
t very soon grew bet
ter. After using
half a dozen bottles
I was completely
cured, so that 1 have not had a boil
or pimple on any part of my body
for the last twelve years. I can
cordially recommend Ayer's Sarsa
parilla as the very best blood-purifier
in existence." (. T. Heixhart,
Myersville, Texas.
lt OKI? WOBLS'S TUB
'Sarsaparilla
Ajw's Cherrj Pectoral cares Ccoghs and Cj'-h
Remember that we are Headquarters
for Roots, Shoes, Rubbers, Slip
pers and everything iu the shoe
line from the smallest article up
to the largest all of the reliable,
never-rip, water-light sort at the
lowest prices.
OUR MOTTO:
PEEIErT
FITTING SHOES
AT
PERFECT
FITTING PRICE3.
REPAIRING A SPECIALTY
George P, Stein & Co.,
70G Main Cross St.,
SOMERSET. PA.
NO. 304 NORTH
Good Place to Fit For
Send For DeHcriptive Catalogue.
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URN
Our Stockls Large.
A thing ta bs considered
In buying Furniture.
PRICK is generally held to be of the first importance. It
should be the last. If yon buy for quality yoo pay accordingly
If yon buy for price you get what you pay for.
Chamber Suits. Solid Oak and Cherry, containing six pieces, $20, ftw, frw.
Antique Oak Suits, :::::: : flrt, is,
Parlor.su ita, t : : : : : : W).
Sideboards, Solid Oak, :::::: $10, flA f M.
Chairs, Beds, Springs, Mattresses and all other kinds of Furniture at
lowest price. '
FIGURE
Covers a multitude of sins, but it isn't necessary lo bav the
mdesirable features to secure figure. Establish In your mind
the detail of grades, then you are ready for price.
C. H. Coffroth,
606 M?in Cross Street, SOMERSET, PA
I Tim LULUimiumiiuimimmliuumiiuuiUiiuiu r
Bryta oo th Caa of Low Prices.
Chlcuso Tiiiies-lternlJ.
Mr. Dryan is quite partial to that form
of argument which in known a the ar
gu men turn ad hominem. He like to
confound his adversary with somo form
er utatement or declaration he raiy have
made.
He is now going around tha country
ascriHng the fall of prices to tho hateful
gold standard. He did not always think
no, ai the following quotation from a
apcech delivered in cotigre", March PI,
lf!M, shown. Ho is discussing the cause
of low prices and says:
You must attribute it to the inventive
genius that has multiplied a thousand
times, iu many instances, tho sirength of
a single arm, and enables us to do to-day
with ono man what 50 men could not do
50 years ago. That is what has brought
down prices In this country and every
where." So thought and spoke William J. Bry
an Pair years ago and he was right.
Is never done, and it is especially wearing'
and wearisome to those whose blood ia
impure and unfit properly to tone, sus
tain, and renew the wasting of nerve,
muscle and tissue. It ia more because ol
this condition of the blood that women
are run down,
Tired, Weak, Nervous,
Than because of the work itself. Every
physician says so, and that the only rem
edy is in building up by Uking a good
nerve tonic, blood purifier and vitalizer
like Hood's Sarsaparilla. For the troubles
Peculiar to Women at change of season,
climate or life, or resulting from hard
work, nervousness, and impure blood,
thousands have found relief and care In
lndr
Sarsaparilla
The One True Blood rurifier. I ; six for $V
Prepared only by C. I. Hood Co., Uiwell.Mas.
j, p.... are the only pill to tike
nOOJ S FlllS with Uood sSarsainrlUa.
Jos. Home & Co.
Only
Two Weeks
Yet of Exposition.
'Twill iy you to make the trip to our
great
Exposition of Autumn and Winter Dres
Goods, Silks, Suitings, Jackets Coats,
Capes and Wraps of every new and de
sirable kind if you can't come, write
for our
CATALOGUE
and samples of some wonderfully well
hiught Dress Goods and Suitings th:.t
are away under value at
35C, 5c 75C and $1.00 yd.
AH orders promptly and satisfactori
ly filled.
PENN AVE & FIFTH ST.,
PITTSBURG, PA.
We're determined to make it pay yon
to buy ALL your liry (ioods here either
to come specially, or include the store in
your Kxposition visit, or by orderirtir
through our Mail (Inter Ilepartmeut. It
coming, so you ran see ami judge of the
auvauiageM ciaunea Kir yoo Here, 13 en
tirely out of the question write us foi
samples of any kind of Press 4 ioods vou
want and syud your name and address
so you ii get the new catalogue you 11
w nut tbat whether you eoine or not it
will tell alMitit the new Jackets, Capes,
Suits, Children's Wraps, Hoys' Clothing,
and all the needed household Dry tioods
You'll find that it will pay you, aa we've
made sure with gtssls that have merit,
on a small profit price basis, it shall. A
examples of the largest and liest collec
tion of
American Dress Goods,
XI to 40 inches wide 'JUc to 4.V a yard
we ever offered, note these :
XI inch navy blue Cheviot Serge SV a
yard navy only and the right shade
no uneven look about them, but nice.soft,
sightly goods.
Four different lines strictly atl-wooi
Chock Suitings .'Hi inches wide ."Cie a yd.
Fine Foreign Iiress Goods and Suitings
ax- to fii on a yard.
.Vl-iiich all-wool Ttlack Canvas Weave
Suitings is; a yard goods you'd expect
to tie at least half a dollar.
Hlack Serges from a oS-inch nice fin
ished serge at SV a yard up to include
the finest imported.
$1.25 Kid Gloves, 75c pair,
Cluze patent thumb, gussetted fingers,
imperial point stitching on back four
Cearl buttons to match tan, red tan.
rown, slate, mode, navy, blue, black
an unusual chance for you afforded by
the greatest Kid tJlove deal we ever made
new gloves made for this season Sllli
pairs send ns your order (don't forget
size) and we'll send you the best glove
value you ever saw.
Cloak Room is in complete readiness
to supply your wants in that line to the
advantage of your pocketbook.
BOGGS & BUHL
Allegheny, Pa.
V., ALLCO-IENV.
College or Business.
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1847.
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Old Reliable Pharmacy,
YOUR CHOICE OF PURE DRUGS, CHEMICALS AN:
TOILET ARTICLES.
Wncn you have a Cough When you are suffericg fro;
or Cold Uso
t 13 F-ia
M , W I -J
COUCH GURH
relief, quick cure, l'leasi-.r.t to take.
Children like it and r.dult like it.
Mothers buy it for their children.
Prwpmrod t7 K. r. Oe'.Vltt ft Co.. n Kkf-n rf
DeWltf Little Early Ier?, the Iuuilu
little piila.
Fine Cigars of Imported and Do
mestic Brand.
yff Public Station for Local and Long Pistanee Telephone (.-onnmini-points
in the United Statf".
EVERY DAY
Brings Something' New !
A Riding or Walking Spring Tooth Harrow.
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fir?
Vn r r .1
. J uiaiug Ul IIUUIC UU lllClUUUU. lUC UlilHUM Ml'll. ii.l .--
itself of trash as easily as a hay rake. Ilut.s as light wiia
a man on as others do without a load. f
CALL AND SEE IT. WE GUARANTEE IT THE EES'
IN THE WORLD.
Sold on Trial.
J. B. Holderbau
Somerset, Pa.
T. '
Quinn's Big Store
We Are Showing
NEW FALL
Cln Black and Colors.
OXTAIXIXU Covert Clolh. Two-toned Twills, honeycomb and canva '
plain and rough shactry surfaces in coinldnation of nilk and wool, in t
ors, giving the goods an irri.leweent effect. Two and three-toned Cn
inST- Mary of the new goods are woven in two and three color, ft'-"
chameleon effort, which ia very pretty. These goods are entirely different fro
in the city. Prices are away tx-low those of last season.
JAMES QUINN. Johnstown, F
It is a Great
Comfort
TO A TII'V IIOUSEKI KI-KR r
HAVE A C.(1 STOYK.
THE e
Ii one of the most prrfert heatln-,- ,
for household u-c. ever placed u-,
Diarket. All the late- an. I i,;. ,
incorporated into it ciitru ti,n. j.
feature to pnwnole dural.ility, t!-.-,-;...
nd economy has been v.c!l .!ar. .. .; :
dcvcloj-ed.
Produces the Greatest fact
From the Least Fuel
The colli airisdnwn from tlie -,. i
discharged through the si-!i s
thoroughly heated, 'this in. !..,; ,,
circulation Prevents Cold Floors
And establishes that much dr-in-,; :.
form tcmjrature ia all parts of t;;e r . ....
Will Burn Mny Kind of Coal!
Will Kttp Firm Twenty-four Houn!
Can b Ud a a Single or Double Hta'er'
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