The Somerset Herald.
(DW1BD SCULL. Editor ana Proprietor.
WKDJfEBCAY..
.October S 189&
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
COVEESUK,
WILUAM 4. KTuNE.
LICl'TEXAST GOVaRSOK.
J. K H. 'iOtlS.
EECBETABT OK IICTKBXAl. AFFAIRS,
JAMEd W. LATTA.
jriMis or BcrtiuoR coi-rt,
WILLIAM W. POBTER.
WILLIAM D. rOKTEE.
CO XC. R F5HK E ! - A T-L A RO B.
GALCSUA A. GRO W, SAML DAVENPORT
COUMTY.
CONGRESS,
JOSEPH E.THBOPP. of Bedford County.
STATE SE3ATK,
JOHN H. WELLE R, of Bedford County.
AKMRLT,
WM. H. KOON TZ, Somerset.
H. A. KEXUAl I, MeyeradaJe.
ASSOCIATE JC1K5E,
A. F. DICKEY, Somerset Township.
DISTRICT ATTORSET,
KCFCS E. MEYERS, Soinemet
POOR DIREC-OR,
ADAM S. MILLER, Soi.-i rset TowBship.
This is the year ia which Joseph
proved to be the stronger mao.
Friday, October 7th, is the last
day on which a voter can pay his tax
ia order to qualify him to vote at the
November eletion.
The way la which leui.-ratic con
ventions are avoiding the very name of
eilver is not calculated to soothe the
souls of the 10 to 1 folks.
The first month's revenue at Manila
after the surrender to our farces was
V40,000. In a short time the Demo
cratic party will be finding fault with
the Manila surplus
Colonel Bryan threatens to resign
in order that be may have a voice in
arranging the return r4 peace. This is
no more than fair, since he had noth
whatever to say about the war.
Col. John Hay took the oath' of
ofilee a Secretary of State, Friday, suc
ceeding Mr. Day, who resigned to be
come the head of the commission that
will arrange terms of peace with 8 pain.
One of the Democratic sorrows at the
coming session of Congress will be an
Increased surplus in the treasury. The
people must be willing to stand it, or
they would not have elected a Repub
lican administration.
Is 1837 the common schools in this
State received $75,000, and it was consid
ered an enormous sum. In lSJtS the
coniDons schools of this (State will re
ceive (5,500,000, the State beiug uuder
Republican control.
It mv&t be a gratifying spectacle to
the Somerset county Republicans who
supported John Wanamaker in his can
didacy for the gubernatorial nomina
tion to see him stamping the State in
the interests of the I Vniocratie candi
date, Mr. Jenks.
Governor Hastings has announced
his purpose of taking the stump in be
half ot the Republican ticket The
ticket seems to be good enough for the
man whom even the Wanamaker ma
chine praises for defeating some of the
work of the Legislature.
The Philadelphia Tress is really the
high priest of the fusion movement in
this State, and yet it says there is no
danger of a IVmocratic Legislature be
ing elected. At the same time that pa
per is doing everything in its power to
bring about such a result.
Admiral Dewey's brother in Ver
mont says the whole family are Repub
licans, and have never been anything
else. This is sad news for the yellow
journals who never missed an opportu
airy to defame an admiral or a general
who is suspected of Republicanism.
The Republican State campaign be
gins in earnest this week. Colonel
Stone and other candidates on the State
ticket have started out to make a speak
ing tour of the State, and will address
meetings in every county between this
and the day of election. Tbey will
carry sound Republican doctrine with
them, and will refute the venomous at
tacks made upon the party by its ene
mies. .
The corporations of the Stale pay
the entire ex pence of carrying on the
State government, id pay into the
State treasury $4,9328750 besides.
When the campaign liar weeps bitter
tears over the s parches he nukes charg
ing the Republican party w ith disburs
ing with lavish baud the money of the
taxpayers for the beu fit of the State
ask him how much money the individ
ual pays to the State. He can't answer
you.
In describing the work of the Rough
Riders Colonel Roo-evelt says: "The
regiment typified what we hold to be
American. In it was the rrotestant
and the Catholic, the Jew and the Gen
tile, all alike on the same footing. It
was a Jew that I promoted for gallant
ry on the field of battle. The men rose
on their merits as men, and nothing
else." It ia a vivid story the Colonel
tells when he gets on the platibrm wfth
Santiago for a theme.
County Chairman Berkley is ar
ranging for the prosecution of an active
campaign during the closing weeks of
the present month aud the first week
in November. A list of meetings, at
which the Issues of the campaign will
be fully discussed, is beine prepared,
aud will be announced next week. The
Republican candidate for Congress, Mr.
Thropp, will speak at a number of these
meetings. Somerset county ought to
1? good for at least S.OuO majority for
the Republican ticket this year.
The campaign liar who spread broad
east the story that the Republican or
ganization is seeking to defeat Congress
man Cbarlea V. Stone for re-election
has been caught in his lie. Upon the
same platform on Wednesday of last
week appeared Congressman Stone,
Senator Penrose and CoL V. A. Stone,
t te candidate for Governor. It was at
Warren, the borne of the Congressman,
and strong speeches were made in his
bibatt The story was spread to cover
the tail of the Wanamaker- Demo
cratic -Populistic alliance, which seeks
to defeat W. A. Stone and send an anti-Administration
member to the Uni
U)l States Senate.
Tta Arreit ef Senator Qusy.
Pittsburg Time.
The people have become o nsed to
sensational movemeuls in the heat of
political campaigns, and their ears have
become so inured to charges of thegTa
Tt character being made against public
men and candidates during times of i o
litical excitement, to be dropped after
election aud never heard of again, that
the arrast of Senator Quay, former State
Treasurer Hty wood and other in Phila
delphia yesterday on charges of conspir
ing to defraud the Slate will hardly be
taken very seriously. It will by no
means follow that the people will Jump
to the fonolusion..that the senior United
Slates Senator from Pennsylvutiia has
been guilty of the practices chanted, but
by reason of the time chosen, and by rea
son of all the circumstances surrounding
the matter, they will more likely con
clude that the prosecution has been un
dertaken for political effect, just as so
many similar ones have been undertaken
in the pant.
It is known of course by those respon
sible for the prosecution that Senator
Quay is largely identified with the Re
publican party of this Stats and with the
success of the Republican State ticket
this .11, and that anything that will in
jure him and his friends who have been
engaged in the administration of the
Slate government will injure the pros
pects and chances of the party. The
Times does not undertake to directly im
pugn the motives of those who have
brought this prosecution, but it feels
bound to say that it has all of the ear
marks of a political trick, and of a polit
ical trick that has been played again and
agsio ; in fad, so often that it seems
hardly possible that anyoo except an
amateur politician would -.ny longer
resort to it with any hope of influencing
intelligent voters.
Murdered aa Emperor.
London, Oct 3 It is again asserted
that the Emperor of China died on Sep
tember 21, after signing the decrees that
placed the dowager empress at the head
of affairs. There are strong suspicions
that he was assassinated. There are
stories that he was poisoned ; that be died
by strangulation, and that a red-hot iron
was thrust through his bowels. If he is
dead his successor on the throne will be
Yin, a grandson of Prince Kung. He is
said to be young, forceful and disposed to
the encouragement of European ideas.
According to a dispatch to the Times
from Shanghai. Iluai Ta-Pou has been
appointed president of the court of cen
sors and a member of the grand council,
lie is Yung-Lu's chief supporter, aod
was recently dismissed from office by the
Emperor. The projected imperial review
of the forces at Tien-Tain has been a ban
doned.
The Standard says editorially this
morning, it ia con vj need that England
could confidently reckon on the support
of the United Su.te and Japan in the ex
ecution of necessary measures in China.
Pekin. OcC 2 During the celebration
yesterday of the festival of the moon the
drunken crowds upon the streets threw
mud upon all Europeans who made their
appearance. As a precautionary meas
ure the Russian legation ordered an es
cort of Cossacks from Port Arthur. The
British minister also ordered here a guard
of 25 marines from Wei-Hai-Wei.
Pits to SUbaad tha Cubaa Army.
Saxtiaoo ib Cuba, Oct. 2. El Por
venir publishes a three column article
reviewing the improved conditions aud
the better feeling exist! g be-ween the
Cubans and Americans in consequence of
General Ga'cia'a reception here by Geu-
eral Wood on September 22d and the ap
pointment of General Demetrio Castilli'
as special chief of Of neral Wood's Cubau
staff, to represent him in dealing with
the inmirgents iu ths country districts.
Editorially El Porrenir coudemns the
letter from Col. Enrique Collaxo, pub
liobed recently by the paper, in which be
contrasted the state of affairs in the island
after the revolution of DCS and the pre
ent situation. "Give the Americans
lime," says the editorial, "aud they will
carry out the resolution passed by Con
gress." General Wood believes that the best
plan to be adopted in the present circum
stances will be to disband the Cuban
army, giving to each soldier f'A half in
cash and half in agricultural implements.
The carrying out of the plan will, it is
estimated, necessitate an expenditure of
f 1.500.000, but it is believed to be a cheap
solution of the dirhcult problem, and
the best. For police services it ia be
lieved the wisest course will be to form a
regiment of Cubans, the senior officers
of which shall be Americans.
General Wood aod Ceneral Castillo, his
special aide, will leave here on Wednes
day next on a tour of the province for
the purpose of appointing mayors, con
stables and other local officials in the
various towns. Orders have been iw-ued
that English-speaking Cubans shall have
the preference in appointments to office,
provided they are otherwise equally
capable.
Political Sola.
The Republican platform of New York
favors the retention of the Philippine is
1 inds.
-
Rvisevelt got the Republican nomina
tion for Governor of New York, on Toes
day by a vote of 753, against 218 for Gov
ernor Frank S. Black. The attempt to
prove him ineligible, having forfeited his
residence when be moved to Washington
to be assistant secretary of the navy,
proved abortive
Augustus Van Wyek, of Brooklyn, a
supreme court justice, brother of the
mayor of Greater New York, was on
Thursday nominated for governor or New
York by the Iemorrat. There is a be
lief in some quarters that he will not ac
cept the nomination, desiring rather a re
election to his present place, the salary of
which ia greater. Moreover the chances
of beating Roosevelt, are slim.
Teddy Roosevelt will try to get a
larger majority for Governor in New
York than CoL William A. Stone will get
in Pennsylvania, but this is one of the
times when the rough rider will be sligh -ly
behind. Harrisburg Telegiaph.
Xawt Item.
Fire in a mine near Wilkesbarre on
Saturday caused the death of five men.
The controversy over the selection of a
dtw Daughter of the Confederacy, to take
the place wade vacant by the ''eath of
Winnie Davis, is growing oxciting among
the ladies of the South.
The reported intention of the United
States government to retain the whole of
the Philippine islands baa created almost
suipetactiou at Madrid, and it ia semi
officially announced that the Spaiib-h
government has resolved to vigorously
combat any such action, which. It is '
claimed, the terms of the peace protocol
preclude.
Mrs. Mary Beilstein, of Allegheny, was
umrdered by her 20 year-old daughter, j
who attempted to take her own life, Sun
day morning. The father of the murder
ess tell dead at ths breakfast table on
September 20th, and the shock is believed
to have rendered his daughter inoane. '
She evidently determined upon commit- '
ting suicide, and in order to relieve her
mother from grieving for her shot her
while she slept. I
Chaplain Mclntyre, of the baUleLi? ;
Oregon, who is being tried by court- i
martial for criticising Admiral Sampson
and Captain Evans in a lecture delivered
some tims ago at Denver, declared that
be was near mental collapse when bs (
made bis very sensational charge. "I
cannot find words," he says, to tell the '
horror with which I read the report of
my lecture as it appeared in the news
pat .
ELKD1 FIRES 1
MOTHER
He Opens the State Campaign
In Chester Conntj.
REPLIES TO MR. WANAMAEER.
Fhe Chairman Thoroughly Refutes
the Charges Made.
BATS THE PAETY IS ALL EIGHT.
Declares That tht Millionaire Ex-Postmaster
General Is Betraying the Party Which
Hade Him Rich, and Is Introducing or
Attempting to Introduce Systematic Cor.
ruption In Politic to an Extent Never
Before Beard of in Pennsylvania.
(Special Correspondence.)
West Chester. OcL S. Before one of
the most representative and attentive
audiences ever gathered anywhere
State Chairman John P. E'.kln opened
the Republican campaign In Chester
county in a manner which will not soon
be forgotten and which met with the
most ardent reception.. He had pre
viously accepted an invitation to meet
Mr. Wanamaker In Joint public debate,
which the millionaire orator dodged,
and naturally devoted much of his at
tention to the tatter's latest public ut
terance. In the course of his speech Chairman
Elkin said:
Last week I received an Invitation
from the Republican executive com
mittee of your neighboring county of
Delaware to meet Mr. Wanamaker in
Joint discussion and refute before his
face and in the presence of aa intelli
gent assemblage the slanders he has
been casting on our party and people.
I promptly accepted this Invitation. It
was my earnest hope that Mr. Wana
maker would have the courage of his
so-called convictions and meet me on
the same platform to discuss these
questions. For purposes of his own.
however, and In my opinion, because
he dared not have the fallacies and
falseness of his statements exposed in
public, he refused to accept that. Invi
tation. For this reason. If for no other. I de
sire here and now to reply to Mr.
Wanamaker in tone and language
about which it will not be possible to
have any misunderstanding. The po
litical disappointments suffered by Mr.
Wanamaker have preyed r.pon his sen
sitive mind to such an extent that he
has gone politically mad. John Wana
maker is the Aguinaldo of Pennsyl
vania politics. The Republicans of
our state stand in the position of Dew
ey at Mii.ila. They have sailed over
mines of falsehood and torpedoes of
misrepresentation. They have con
fronted and rut to silence the most
formidable batteries of their declared
enemies who openly display a hostile
.flag, and they will not hesitate now to
make a submarine fleet of the little flllr
bustering squadron, led by Mr. Wana
maker in the rear, and seeking to dis
guise its purposes under Republican
colors.
COMPARED WITH AGUINALDO.
As in the case of the insurgent leader
of the Filipinos, the Republican party
has made Mr. Wanamaker all that he
is politically and most of what be is
commercially. It has furnished his
arsenal. Its policy has been the means
of equipping him with the vast wealth
which he is now lavishly using to dis
rupt the party because the sovereign
will of the people decided adversely to
his ambitions for holding office. . Up
until that event, onlv a few months
ago. if he was not satisfied with the
conduct of the party he made no sign
of dissent. During all his last term
of office, holding one of the most in
fluential in the gift of the president,
he willingly, eagerly, followed the ad
vice and guidance of the very same Re
publican leadership which he now de
nounces as unspeakably bad and so
dangerous to the welfare of the com
monwealth that the party must be
broken down and the state handed
over to the Democrats rather than it
should be continued.
He goes further even than Aguinaldo.
The latter onlv threatens o betray
, those who have made him powerful in
order that he shall have absolute In
dependence for himself and his follow
ers. Mr. Wanamaker demands not only
independence, but domination. After
being fairly and decisively defeated in
open convention, with every contested
question generously decided in his fa
vor, after free and open primaries, he
challenges the verdict of the majority
and offers his alliance and the final
weapons with which the Republican
party has equipped him to the Demo
crats, the Swallowites, to any and ev
ery political organization which prom
ises him a chance to prove his Ingrati
tude and take revenge for his disap
pointed ambition to rule the party
councils and have his choice of Its of
fices. Listen to what Mr. Wanamaker says:
"Almost two generations of our people
have grown up in the atmosphere of
corrupt public life and they have be
come accustomed to believe that It is
rot worth while to try to change It.
Strange as it may seem, colleges,
clergymen, teachers, doctors and rail
road presidents, all Interested In places,
privileges or appropriations, have be
come mixed up in It."
That is to say. according to his ideas,
the colleges, churches, clergymen,
teachers, doctors and railroad presi
dents have become mixed up in a cor
rupted public life. A more outrageous,
unjust, untruthful assertion has never
been printed aa coming from the lips
of any Penmrylvanian. What a dark
end dismal hope there is for our pcpio
if, as Mr. Wanamaker says, two gener
ations of the citizens of this great com
monwealth have grown up in a corrupt
public life.
CORRUPT PUBLIC LIFE.
It is an Insult to the intelligence and
moral standing of more than six mil
lions of as high minded and honorable
citizens as ever lived on the face of the
sarin to say that they have been mixed
tip in a corrupt public life. He charges
n express terms that the colleges,
churches, clergymen, teachers, doctors
and railroad presidents have become
mixed up In what he alleges to be a.
corrupt public life. This a fair sample
of the charges he Is making against the
Republican party. I challenge him to
r.ame a college In Pennsylvania that Is
mixed up In corruption of any kind.
What must the University of PsnnsyU
ranla, old Lafayette, Lehigh university,
Bucknell, Stat College. Waahlngtoq
and Jefferson, Grove City, Gettysburg.
Franklin and Marshall and hosts of
other Institutions of learning, which are
the proud boast of our people, think
when they read that the colleges of
Pennsylvania are charged with being
mixed up in public corruption? That
statement Is too malicious to need re
futation. What will the youth and young men
of this state think when they read that
the colleges In which they are receiv
ing their education are charged with
being mixed up with public corruption.
It is a reflection on every college presi
dent and college professor and college
student in the state. He also charges
that the churches have become mixed
up in public corruption. I defy him to
name a church from the New Jersey
boundary to the Ohio line that has be
come mixed up In a corrupted public
life. He cannot and dare not name a
single instance that will be a Justifica
tion of this charge. He also makes the
same charge against the clergymen of
the state. Will he name a single clergy
man who has become so mixed up? Of
course he cannot name a single In
stance of this character. He makes the
same charge against the teachers, ths
doctors and the railroad presidents .of
Pennsylvania. I ask him to name' a
teacher, a doctor or a railroad president
that has become Implicated In any pub.
He corruption. Unless he names one his
assertion should arous the Indigna
tion of every citizen of the common
wealth. MR. WANAMAKER-B VOTE.
What was "Mr. Wanamaker doing
during the past two generations when
he alleges this corruption was growing
up In our public life? A generation of
n an is said to be about 22 years, and
two generstiortii would almost trieafiire
the life of Mr. Wanamaker. Where was
his vote during all this time? If this
public corruption has been growing for
o great a length of time. Is It not re
markable that Mr. Wanamaker only
discovered it after he was defeated In
his aspirations to be elected United
States senator? Is It not a peculiar fact
that the light only began to dawn In
his mind after he had suffered two de
feats at the hands of the Republican
party? The man who would quietly sit
Ir his office surrounded by the goods,
wares and merchandise of a great store,
building up a princely fortune, knowing
that such practices were obtaining and
failing to raise his voice against the
Iniquity. Is as guilty of outraging pub
lic confidence as the man who Is en
gaged In such practices.
Mr. Elkin took up trie act of assem
bly providing for the payment of Inter
est by banks having state money on
deposit, and proved by the dates and
pages of the official records that, while
he himself had drawn the bill, and the
Wanamaker faction deserved "no credit
for its passage other than that a ma
jority of every party and faction of a
party voted for It. not a single vote.
lemocratlc -or Republican, was cast
against It.
- He also paid attention to the dis
puted question of who was responsible
for the defeat of Colonel Stahle for con
gress In the York, Adams and Cumber
land district, end scored probably the
most dramatic point of the evening by
producing the affidavit of one of the
candidates for the legislature In Cum
berland county that Stahle wa taken
out of the fight in pursuance of a di
rect and explicit dicker, whereby the
two candidates from Cumberland coun
ty were "required to pledge themselves
In writing to vote for Wanamaker for
United States senator.He brought down
the house by producing the maker of
the affidavit on the stage to substan
tiate his statement personally. Contin
uing he said:
A NEWSPAPER CONTROVERSY.
Mr. Wanamaker has been preaching
the doctrine of purity in politics
throughout the state during the past
year. He desires to impress -on the
minds of our people that he Is mak
ing an attempt U lift politics onto a
higher plane. I have no doubt that he
has' been able to fool some very con
scientious and deserving people with
his suggestions, but those of us who
are familiar with the methods of his
campaign managers are fully convinced
that his entrance Into the political
arena baa done more to commercialise
the politics of Pennsylvania than all
the other Influences combined. As an
Instance of the higher plane to which
Mr. Wanamaker is going to elevate
the politics of our state, it will be in
teresting to note the controversy be
tween the Galeton Dispatch . and the
Potter Enterprise, two papers which
bowed to the peculiar influence with
which Its managers conduct a cam
paign, and Is a pretty good evidence of
the high plane to which Mr. Wana
maker is roing to elevate the politics
of this great commonweath. Here ts
the story as told by the papers above
referred to:
The-Galeton Dlcpatch calls sp a "po
litical acrobat." Let's see, Hayden, It Is
not so very long ago that you took. In
our office and in our presence, a nice roll
of anti-Quay money and promised upon
your word and honor to be faithful to the
cause agaixt boss rule and corruption.
You took the money, you young Sunday
school hypocrite, and how much you
value your "word of honor" the columnr.
of your paper show. Tou sweet scented
bird, to tlk about "acrobats." I'ntil
Sullivan lifted you out you wined like a
Blck cat for money money from any
source, for which you were willing to
promise anything. Potter Enterprise.
The editor of The Enterprise, who seems
familiar with the above case, forgot to
state all the facts of the contract, which
he claims Is broken, making the editor of
The Dispatch an ignoble liar. First and
foremost, we supported Wanamaker and
a few of his followers who were candi
dates for nominations, several issuen be
fore we were approached by Wana
inaker'a lieutenants In this county, who
proffered us financial assistance, with the
understanding that we were to support
Wanamaker and bis candidates until the
nominations, which we did to the best
of our ability. This was consistent with
our own views of the political situation
at that time. At the primaries the who'e
Wanamaker force was honorably defeat
ed. The candidates nominated are men
Of unimpeachable characters, capable and
loyal workers in the party three potent
factors in their receiving tne nomination.
How well the cotene of Wanamaker fol
lowers performed their part of ths con
tract In the case they well know. Wa
fully performed our contract, which Is
more than the defeated faction can say.
The "roH" of anti-Quay money that The
Enterprise claims that we received In his
office was a widow's mite as compared
with the fabulous sum The Enterprise
editor said that he was to receive. We
are ready at any time to accept the bal
ance due on the contract. Office hours
from 7 a. m. to 10 p. ro. Galeton Dis-pat-
h.
Tue above furnishes a glimpse of the
"purer politics" Introduced Into Potter
county by the man who boasted he would
"rather have 1100 In money to carry Pot
ter county than all the newspapers In It."
Of course. Wanamaker never was guilty
tit "subsidizing the press." Potter County
lournaL
FLAGS AND PATRIOTISM.
Mr. Wanamaker, for some reason not
entirely apparent, says "the Quay ma
chine is cunningly campaigning with
books wrapped up In flags and pictures
of our honored president. A man might
carry a thousand, flags and not be a pa
triot." It is very true that the carry
ing of a flag does not make a patriot,
but the American flag is the symbol of
patriotism, and no party has a greater
light to use that emblem of a united
country than the Republican party.
The Republican party saved the Union
Intact. The Republican party made it
possible to unfurl the flag today "with
out a star missing or a stripe erased
or polluted." and all this was accom
plished by our party without the aid of
Mr. Wanamaker. So far as history
Gives us any account he took no part
In defending the flag when the life of a
nation was threatened. The only pa
triotic service performed by him, so far
as we have any knowledge. Is that re
lated by himself, when he stood on ths
corner of Sixth and Market "streets In
161 and watched the boys In blue as
tbey marched by on their way to the
front In defense of their country and
its flag.
I do not know whether Mr. Wana
maker Is In the habit of carrying a
flag or not. but I am prepared to agree
with him that he "might carry a thou
sand flags and not be a patriot."
THE PAYROLL.
I note the malice of his remarks in
reference to what be calls a padded
payroll. While he has said much about
a padded payroll so far as I know he
has not made any satisfactory explana
tion of what he meant. The fact Is.
there was no padded payroll in the
sense he seeks to establish. There were
some extra employes in the last session
of the legislature. Just as there have
been during the past 25 years. That the
legislature had the right to appchit ex
tra -n:ployes was recognized by the
members, senators, the governor, the
state treasurer, the auditor general and
other state officials. The members and
senators friendly to Mr. Wanamaker
recognizzed this practice as well as all
others. In the senate, as I hare before
stated, there wer nine extra employes
agreed up in. Five of these extra ap
pointments were given to senators who
supported Mr. Wanamaker in his can
didacy for the United States senate.
His most enthusiastic admirer and al
most constant companion In his tour
of speechmaklng. Senator Kauffman.
had one of these extra places. The
name of the extra employe on the list
credited to Senator Kau.Tman was C
W. Weaver, as I am Informed.
I am also Informed by the chief clerk
of the senate that Senator Kauffman
did not object to this arrangement,
and that he had received and receipted
for part of the money due his extra em
ploye. It would seem as though, if
Senator Kauffman was willing to have '
his one appointee on the extra list and .
receipted for part of the money due .
him on his salary, that there could not '
have been anything particularly wrong
In that transaction, else such an ardent
reformer would not have received and
receipted for part of the money advanc
ed by the state treasurer.
NOT A DEMOCRATIC TEAR.
Again listen to the ruggestion of this
political reformer when he asks: "How
long, suppose you. will It be before this
statr iroos Democratic?" Let me an
swer. Not until the people are willing ,
to exchange comfortable homes for
.public soup houses and until the labor- :
lug men prefer id'eness and misery to
plenty of work and good wages. This
is a Republican state, and it win b
found in the Republican column when
the votes are polled and the ballots
counted on the evening of the ttb day
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Every Wy who reads the newspapers knows what priva
tion and suffering: were caused in Cuba fey the failure
of the supply of tobacco provided by the Government to
reach the camps of the U. S Soldiers.
PLUG
When marching fighting-tramping;-wheelin-instantly
relieves that dry taste in the mouth.
Remember the name
when you buy again.
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of November next. This is not a Dem
ocratic year. Pennsylvania is not a
Democratic state. Our people will not
be fooled by the vaporlngs of a defeat
ed candidate for public office. I have
faith In the Intelligent decision of the
great mass of the American voters.
They know what Is their best interests.
Theywill not desert the party that has
restored properous business conditions
and Increased the opportunities and
wages of labor all over the land, in
order to help gratify the selfish ambi
tions of a defeated candidate.
So long as Mr. Wanamaker was In ac
cord with his party the people who be
lieve In that party were willing to listen
to his sn-eestlons In reference to Its
welfare, but Just as soon as he arrayed
himrelf against the party he lost the
confidence and resnect of the people
who lIieve In its principles and poli
cies. He will learn when It Is too late
that it is not within the power of any
man. no matter if he has the reputed
wealth of an oriental monarch, to pur
chase the convictions of Intelligent
American citizens. Conviction Is not
a purchasable commodity, and he who
enters the political arena having noth
ing but Immense wealth to commend
him to the suffrages of the voters, will
fall by the wayside a disappointed
seeker for public office.
THE ATTACKS ON THE PARTY.
Fellow Republicans, fellow ci'.izens
for this Is a matter which overleaps
party lines and concerns the whole peo
ple of Pennsylvania when we read the
reckless haraneues of those who, in
one disguise or another, are attacking
the ticket representing the Republican
party In Pennsylvania, and when we
coolly consider them, who Is there that
Is not struck with amasement? If one
tenth yes. If one-hundreth of what
they charge Is true, and If they have
evidence to support their assertions It
only n?eds the offer of that evidence to
ary court of quarter sedans to convict
the guilty and deliver them over to
punishment. It needs no elaborate ma
chinery of law. It requires no defaming
of the name of Pennsylvania in the eyes
of the country. It calls for no such ex
pensive campaign aa they are waging.
It demands no such sacrifice as dr
iveling the state over to the Democ
racy. They need only to take their evi
dence to the nearest justice of the
peace and make an Information against
whomsoever has committed any "of
these offenses.
If they have no evidence to offer
which will survive cross-examination
cn the witness stand how dare they
parade this great commonwealth of
ours before the country with the scarlet
Wter of shame upon her breast? How
do they dare to proclaim a yellow flag
Quarantine against Pennsylvania as a
state into which no self respecting man
shall dar to come and hope to preserve
his manhood, or even his property?
Pennsylvania, the borne for more than
two hundred years of education, free
speech and fair play one of the few
rommonwealtha that from its begin
ning under the great Quaker, William
Penn. has steadfastly adhered to tho
t-rinciples of liberty and morality which
he taught and which he and his succes
sors in government have engrafted into
our laws. Is it characteristic of such a
corrupted and debased people as ths
enemies In our household describe that
Pennsylvania should lead all other
states In the number of its churches,
congregations and places of worship?
THE REPUBLICAN RECORD.
Is It a sign ot our degradition that we
have In preparation for the future c
grand army of over a million children
In our public schools, with a flag over
every school house as an object lesson
p the love of their country, and that j
we appropriate every year almost wica
as large a proportion of our state reve
nues for the education of the people
any other state in the Union? Is It A
characteristic of those who enslave a
people that they would first educate
them, not only in Intelligence, but in
patriotism?1 Is It a sign of corruption
that In the years ot Republican rule In ,
Pennsylvania the public debt of the
state has been reduced from over $40.-
000,000 to a little more than $1,000,000?
Shall we lose sight of the fact, more
eloquent in its naked self than all the 1
adjectives of all the orators, that In all
the years of Republican rule not one
dollar nor a single cent has been lost
to the state by the default or dishon
esty of any public officer?
As Republicans shall we not be proud
of that record of the men whom our '
party has called to positions of public
trust, and confidently measure our ex
pectations of the future by the record"!
of the past? As Pennsylvanians. re.
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gardless of our party alliances, shall we
not exult in such a showing rather than !
join oanas and votes with those whose
sole mission seems to be to hold our
great state up to shame before the
country and preach that our people an
slaves and that their representatives
In public life are thieves? It seems at
ftn-t glance incredible that men should
take the position of some who arc as
sailing the Republican party In this
campaign, but treachery Is as old as
Iscariot and the practice of denouncing
successful leadership dates back to the ,
Book of Exodus. Then, as now, there
were those In Israel who forgot who
had led them up from Egypt and out ot
the state of bondage, and while Moses
was engaged with more vital affairs
they took advantage of the weakness of
Aaron and said: "Up, make us gods,
w hich shall go before us. for as for thH
Moses, the man that brought us up out
of the land of Egypt, we wot not what
has become of him." And Aaron, hav
ing levied an assessment upon their
earrings and other trinkets, made and
set up before them a golden calf, say
Jng. "These be thy gods, O Israel."
PROUD OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
It gives me unusal pleasure to reca'l
to your memcries the xequel. lloeea
Came back. He came down from the
mountain and he mash d the golden
calf that had been the instrument of
leading a portion rf Israel astray into
a million fragments and made the
shame of those w ho had worshiped It ;
to envelop them aa a canr.cat, I do net
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Ax has come"
believe the Republican party can be de
luded Into bending the neck or crook
ing the hinges of the knee to any such
false gods as are now set before It In
this campaign, gild them how they
may. We are facing forward toward
the land of promise, not backward to
ward the desert of Democratic domina
tion. We are proud of our Imperial com
monwealth and have no part or sympa
thy with those who would make Its
r.ame a byword of reproach. We glory
in the shining history of the Republi
can party In the state as In the nation,
and we will not vote to deprive our
selves of any part of our glorious heri
tage therein.
There are men. as there always have
been, whose eyes are so focused that
they see only the spots on the sun.
They look at the splendors of the uni
verse through smokedglass and regard
nineteen centuries of vhiistlan civiliza
tion, aa a failure except when they are
holding office. The beginning and the
end of their creed is that of the Scotch
man in Glasgow, who declared that he
had come to believe that "there are Just
two honest men In all this town, meself
and Sandy McDougail. and at times I'm
sore doubtful about Sandy." We have
had them from the time of the men w ho
stood upon the street corner making
broad his phylacteries, and gave thanks
that he was not like other men, and I
dare say we will have them with us to
the end of creation: but, under a mer
ciful Providence, we are not required
either to accept their carplngs as our
confession of faith or follow their blind
leadership to our undoing.
PEACE EHV0YS MEET AT PASIS.
Both CemmiiiioBt Received Bytht7rtin
Kiniitar.
The Uni tad States peace c '.mm union
went into session at Paris Wednesday
morning. The Oaulois says: "While
the Americans have instructions which
are much more precise than those of fi
Spaniards, there is a diversity of opinion
in regard to the Philippines. Senator
Gray is a very ardent Democrat and con
sequently belongs tothe party which re
pudiates expansion, lie opposed all an
nexation and his opinion, therefore,
totally differs from that of the other four
commissioners, tome of whom would ba
content with a coaling station at the Phil
ipplne, possibly Cavite. while others,
like Senator Davis, advocate the annexa
iton of the w hole of the archipelago."
The Uaulois, however, believes that tl.e
A-nericans by mutual coDcessioDS will
come to an agreement and that tbey will
all be largely influenced by Major Gen
eral Merritl's reports on the situation.
The instructions to the Spanish commis
sion, still according to the Gaulois, are
b icily, to hold out and make the bet
terms p-wsibla, Madrid is well aware.
it appears, that the conferences at the
best only have to please the Spanish
pejple and the only hopes eDtertaiued
are that the Americans will not abuse the
situation too much. Popular sentiment
in Spain, it is added, thinks it better to
abaudon the Philippines island than to
keep tbein under couditlons reudeiing
thetn ungovernable.
During the afternoon the American
commissioners agisted at their first for
mal function in France the reception by
the minister of foreign affairs, M. Iel
casse. At 3 o'clock the United States am
bassador. General Horace Porter, called
at the Continental hotel for the Ameri
cans, lie took three of them in his own
carriage and tb remainder, with Secre
tary Moore, followed in another cirriaze,
through the Dua deRivoli, over the Place
de la Concorde across the river Seine to
the ministry of foreign affairs.
Through M. Vignaud, who acted as in
terpreter, M. Delcaase only speaking
French, the party chstted briefly upt n
generalities aud the in in inter finally as
sured the commissioners of the great
pleasure experienced by Fiance in the
part the baa taken in effecting a suspen
sion of bofelililUs between Spain and the
United States aud expressed the hope of
having the pleasure of meeting the Amer
ican commissi. inert and Spanish om
tnissiouers at breakfast the next day.
M. Delcasse added that after having thm
brought the two co intuitu ion together
and offering the hospitalities of the salon
de conference the French government
would efface itself.
Judge Day, as president of the United
States commission, nspouded. lie said
the United Slate appreciates the good
offices of France and after M. Delcaase
had expressed his pleasure at such recog
nition of the disinterested action of
France, the Interview ended and the
Americans retired.
Kiy Ktimbarit Goverasrs.
Washixgtom, Septan L. P. Mitchell,
acting comptroller of the treasury, has
rendered- a decision on the question of
reimbursements of goernors of states
and territories for ousts and ex pauses
which tbey may have Incurred in aiding
the United Slates to raise a volunteer
army.
lie held that "if upon tht call of the
president for volunteers, the governor of
any slate or territory In aiding the United
States to raise a volunteer army called
out any part of tht militia of his stale or
territory in order that it might be enlit
td as such Into the volunteer army, aud
any of its organised mililla were after
wards accepted into the volunteer army
of the United State, took governor may
be reimbursed under the act of July a.
for reasonable cva'jt, charges and
xpertet which ht may havt incurred.'
The annual reunion of tht 1.13d Pa
Vols, will he held at Newport, Peny
county, on October 13ih. The Penr.Ml
vnnia Radioed will sell excursion tickets
to veterans desiring to attend.
Farmers
Get the Most
MONEY
For Your
products, and to do this it will pay
you to inquire what wo are payiog
for produce before selling.
Bring Us Your
Potatoes,
Wieat,
Oats,
Buckwheat,
Baled Hay
and Straw.
We pay the highest prices the
market will bear on the day of
delivery.
Our Terms are Cash
On delivery, or G00D3 in
TRADE at lowest cash prices.
We are always in the market
for country produce and can always
give yoa anything you want in our
line and at lowest prices, as we
carry the largest stock of
Groceries,
Flour, Grain and
Feed
in tho county, together with a full
line of
" New Crop,
Fancy Recleaned
Timothy Seed
which we offer you at lowett prices.
Respectfully yoors,
Cook &
Beerits.
CAR LOADS
Vehicles
of every description arriving at the
REPOSITORIES,
PATRIOT STREET.
Every one
IS LOOKING
For the best possible value for
their money. I claim to be able
to show you where to go for the
best value at the smallest cost in
Carriages, Thaetons, Buggiespring
Wagons, Road Wagons, Farm Wag
ons, Harness, Uorse Goods and
Sundries of every description,
don't deal in hardware, dry goods
or groceries, but I do claim to car
ry the largest and finest stock of
Vehicles and Carriage Sundries in
this part of the county up-to-date
goods, Long DLtance Axle
and the Bradley shaft coupling.
I Know What I Buy.
I Guarantee What I Sell.
Come and judge for yourself and
get Prices and Terms.
PRICES :
Carriages, $47.50 to $175.00
Phaetons, 42.50 to 150.00
Buggies, 29.00 to 85.00
Spring Wagons, 34.00 to 110.00
Road Wagons, 23.50 to 40.00
Bicycles, 24.00 to 45 CO
Two-Horse Farm Wagons, 52.50
Two-Horse Farm Wagons, 60.C0
(4-Inch tire.)
One-Horse Wagons, 29.03
Open day and iiiht at the great
Sale asd Exchange Place.
E. L.Simpson,
SOMERSET, PA.
Keep ; .
Your Kitchen Cool.
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Somerset, Pa.
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J The largest and best bottle of Cough Cure ever rut ou the market for
25 centK. Every bottle guaranteed.
Benford's STSTSi. io cents
Tesiiiuoulala (Jiven on A Drlicatktn.
JIne Cioors of foreign $ Domestic Jlahes, j
J Chewing uum and Lime I ablet, fine Coolectiona of elegant qua!-
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We want
Every Woman
who reads this to send for
samples all wool neat dark broken
check and novelty mixed Iress
Goods tO inches wide 25c yard
a dozen styles see if you can
match this, style, width, quality, un
der forty cents a yard best medi
um priced, good, useful Dress Goods
we've ever offered.
Choice 5ilks
and Dress Goods
' a feature at prices that
will interest your pocketbook.
lArge assortments prob
ably -the largest shown. 15,000
square feet of floor space taken up
with retail tilk and Press Goods
departments alone. Determined to
do greater business than ever be
fore by making it pay you to bay
here. In your own interest, let
goods and prices prove it. See
what line dressy Dress Goods
65 and 85c yard
will buy 200 styles.
Large lines choice Dress Goods,
35c, 50c, $1.00 to ficest imported
fancies.
Handsome Broche Silks nobby
wai.it styles 50 and 65c yard.
Royal assortments rich novelty
silks 75c and $1.00 that will show
saving, for a waist or gown, of im
portance. Samples cost you nothing.
Hundred styles ladies' new Jack
ets, $5.00 to $125.00.
Ten difTerent styles at $12.50
black, colore and tan bilk and sat
in lined. Style, cot and 6uish the
equal of any fifteen dollar coats.
BOGGS & BUHL,
DEPARTM&MT ' X '
Allegheny, Pa.
ORPHANS' COURT SALE.
By virtue of an outer 0 Ihe rphani Court
win expeae 10 public sale ou
T1IURSDA J', OCT. J?7, MS,
t I o clock p. m , on tb preiutae. the fol
lowing Real Estate,
late th property of James O. Atebon, deed:
A certain tract of laud Rl-nate In Black
townnhlp. Howrwl county, 1 , adjoining
la nil ..I frrtdVriik Alliniiler. John D Baker
H. A. Mhoemttker, Auui Calrna and Abe
Whoemaker. cooiaiulns luO acre, more or
le, alxmt (l u-rva cl.nr Am.nd . .
3 uvu-r uu nrw nam on the premlws'
almj au on-hard of choice fruit and acod
water. A deairable ftruu
TerrrC Cu."h- "lt " different trrm are
I CI II lo dinired and am airM.u. m
rmiiwn, io-y can ue cnangt-a on dj nfmlc
U) prr.t&nL of the puruhane inouey tu be paid
HIRAM M. WABLE.
Adm'r if Jaruea O. AU ht Jon, dee'd.
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Rtctvd ih. Medal am Hiohtstimard
at M Worlf $ Columbian finosrf.om
A. D. FARQUHAR CO., LtST
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Gibbs Imperial Plow,
Made at Canton, Ohio, the tent pi
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Corn and Garden Cultivators,
five, seven and nine shovels, witb H-- i
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Corn Planters, I
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Champion Hay Rakes.
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McCormicVs Mowers and Binders.
Engines, Saw Mills and
Threshers.
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5 Buggies and Carriage.
Call and examine tny stock beto l
buy,
J. B.Holderbaum
SOMERSET, PA
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