Established in 1828. 3D. AV3T LVT2 Editor anil Proprietor DANVILLE, PA., AUG. 31, 1900. Published every Friday at Danville, the county seat of Montour county, l'a., at 81.00 a year In advance or 81.2.5 if not paid In ad vance; and no paper will be discontinued until all arrearage Is paid, except at the option of the publisher. Kates of advertising made known on ap plication. Address all communications to THE INTELLIGENCER, DANVILLE, PA. Democratic Ticket. FOR GOVERNOR LEWIS EMERY, Jr. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR / JEREMIAH .«>. BI.ACK FOR AUDITOI GENERAL WILLIAM T. CKEASY FOR SEC' V OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS JOHN J GREEN STATE SENATOR J. HENRY COCHRAN. CONGRESS JOHN G. McHENRY. PRESIDENT JUDGE JOHN G. IIARMAN LEGISLATURE R. 8. AMMERMAN. ASSOCIATE JUDGE LLOYD W. WELLIVER. REGISTRAR AND RECORDER Wm. L. SIDLER. SHERIFF CALVIN SHULTZ. WOULD HE DIGNIFY THE BENCH? We look with disgust on the heath en who put rings in their noses and lips, who flatten their heads, orswathe their feet, but, if we live in glass houses—and most of us do—we know that the habit of throwing stones is not to our we'l-being, neither does misrepresentation benefit us to any ex tent. Sooner or later our misguided conduct suffers. Representing, as we do, the best thinking and fairest and squarest minded people of this section of our judicial district, we voice their senti ment by saying that time is up and passed that an amicable understand ing be reached by Mr. Herring in the judicial muddle that he would attempt to create by refusing to withdraw his name, after a fair primary contest on the part of Mr. Harman. The primary election throughout the entire district was a spirited one— much electioneering, time and money being invested in the contest. The result is well known, but like all Americans, Mr. Herring detests de feat and unlike the Christian nation Ave represent, he braggadociously per sists to carry the warfare unto re venge, satisfied that he cannot be elected and glories in the character of Benedict Arnold by hoping to deliver liis friends and cause into the hands of the enemv. The traitorous spirit is plainly seen and his friends are rapidly deserting him. His power counts for naught, and all he might say or do would strengthen the opposition. A num ber of his late friends and supporters have been interviewed and they, al most unanimously, declare he cannot expect their support in November. We, therefore, believe that we are perfectly justified in declaring Hon. John G. Harman the choice of the Democrats of this Judicial District, notwithstanding the probability of Mr. Herring persisting until the last, and would, therefore withdraw his name from the ticket we have been carrying in our columns since the primary contest. Our readers are acquainted with us and kuow that our editoriai are not written for any sellish motive or gain or to mislead anyone. We do not sell our self for three pieces of silver nor can we be approached to misrep resent, so we would advise all to kindly consider the present very grave question and settle in their own minds it such a man as Mr. Herring, with reveugc in his heart and a dagger in his hand, endeavoring to endanger the best interests of the party bis grand father was so proud of, his father lov ed, and of which he was born, raised and educated to, would be a fit sub ject to occupy the main seat in our honorable court. —ALTHOUGH Itussia is hard press ed for money, and her revenues, per haps, provide no more than half the sum actually required by her to carry on the Government, and considering, in addition, that the country is iu u state of revolution and anarchy from lier centre to her circumference, and her despotic ruler is compelled to re main in one of his residences under the protection of troops that remain faithful to him—in spite of all these untoward conditions and circumstan ces, she does not forget her traditional policy of territorin expansion and robbery, and calmly announces her intention to at once begin the con struction of strategic railroads on the Chinese and Indian frontiers. The various parties of engineers have been dispatched to make the necessary sur veys. The scheme looks to the cou tiuuance of her policy towards China and British India, on both of which she has for generations had her evil eye. Even in her darkest hour the dream of future conquest animates lier. —THE "bargain counter" became almost a riot in a St. Joseph, Mo., store through a wild scramble for bargains. Scores of women were in jured, two fatally, but the survivors are ready for another clash. Tie proprietors are thinking of announc ing that at the next opening there •will be ambulances in waiting, and all injured in the crush will IKJ entitled to a rebate on their purchases. — EIGHT national Governments have unitedly ordered 2,700 cannon from the great Krupp wooks in Prus sia. Even this immense establish ment never had such large orders at one time. The world's supply of artillery appears to be increasing more rapidly tliau the advocates of mild eyed peace. What a record that will lie to present to the next Pence Con gress ! The sword promises to hold sway for a few years longer. —Bf. charitable to all. Express every kind thought you entertain and be silent when you are excited or irritable. Do not be so ready to enter into faultfinding but be gracious and forgiving, for you know not when yourself may be held under discussion or the irretreviable wrong you have done may come back to you many fold. Let not malace enter into your short life for your habitation is so brief that you need everyoi e for your friend. Let us then present our most pleasant countenance on all occasions so that we may be known as a kind and considerate friend worthy of re cognition at all times and under ail circumstances. He self-confiding; do not relate your troubles but let the pleasing things that come to your ob servation be your topic of conversa tion and then you will be considered congenial and sought by inany. Aljove all things be good,—endeavor to practice the golden rule and you will experience a taste of heaven and God's omnipotent love, resting satis fied in the belief of a beautiful future life. Corporations Musi Cough Up. From Belle foil te Watchman. The indications are that the dollar subscriptions to the Republican con gressional committee, to which the President so ostentatiously contribut ed, are a fake to cover up the usual payment of vast sums to debauch the electorate of the country by the cor porations. Even for this purpose it has proven a failure, however. The collections have been so meagre and the disappointment so great, that the machine managers have been compell ed to appeal to the corporations open ly. The intention was to get the trust contributions secretly and ac count for the abundance of the cor ruption fund by the statement that it came from the dollar contributions. Rut the importunate beggars made that impossible. It has been announced, therefore, that §(i,(i00,000 must be raised by the corporations to guarantee a Re publican majority in the next Con gress. There are 112 debatable dis tricts, the statement alleges, and $50,- 000 will be needed for each. It is expected that with such a sum in each doubtful district the party will be able to carry them all. There has been a vast change in public senti ment, however, on the subject of purchasing votes. It is neither as certain nor as safe as it used to be. 15ut there are venal voters yet in con siderable number, the Republican managers assume, and it is worth while trying to line them up. The corporations can well afford the ex- ; pense, morever, they reason. But we dou't believe that the result could be achieved even if the money could be collected and we don't be lieve the corporations will take the risk of contributing the money. President Roosevelt and Speaker (Jan nan succeeded in preventing the pass age of a law to prohibit such contribu tions during the last session of Con gress. But public opinion is fairly well crystalized against the crime any way and the result of the election is so uncertain that the corporations will be cautious. For these reasons we are not worried much about the re sult if 60,000,000 are necessary to compass it. It will be impossible to raise that amount and it couldn't be used in any event. When I Can Spel as Good as You. Dear Father: No more need you he ashamed of or displeezed with me, and 110 more need you on me frown as oft you do when I fall down; Not 'cos I can't subtract or add, but just becos my spelling's bad. You know, pa, when I took exams, it's kawsed me mauny sileut Kwarns to think that hie marks that I got in other studies weut for not. My reeding's good, my ritiug's fare, can't beet my grammar anywhere. Arithmetic, jeografy, and my deportment, you'll agree, arc not so bad, but mite be wursc; but it's my spelling's been my curse. I get my verbs and pronouns strate; I know how, too, to punctuate, tho' I'm not making an excuse; if one can't spell, why what's the use ? Hut, <) dear dad, I heard to-nite that soon all wurds will lie spelled rite, no more, when you see how 1 spel, will you say things it hurts to tell, and you'll not be inclined to say words that you ort n't any way. Our spelling, dad, you'll be surprised, is soon to be Ivarnegyized; then you'll be prowd and I will, too, for I wil spell as good as you. So, now, pu, that my letter's dun I'll sign myself Your loving sun —Century. What the French Drink. The East of France is somew hat influenced by the neighborhood of Germany. The beverage is chiefly beer, and the cooking has a decided Teutonic bias. The people show the propensities to heaviness and slow wit which characterize the nation beyond the lihinc. Western France produces little wine, and still less beer. The inhabitants generally quench their thirst with cider. They are as ruddy in complexion as their native apples.— "Success Magazine." Airship Encircles lowa Capitol. J)es Moines, lowa, Aug. 27. Charles K. Hamilton today made a successful flight of siz miles in an air ship from the fair grounds to the State Capitol, whose dome he circled twice, and return. The ship was un der perfect control. Keraembfer that if your sou, or your Democratic neighbor's sou, voted on age last fall he cannot, under any conditions, vote this fall unless his name is upon the Registry. Corrupt Politicians Tiaced for Yeats Candidate Emery Cites Figures to Prove That Trusts and Old Lead ers Throttled Trade. Pittsburg, Aug. 28.—1n speeches that mercilessly laiil hare the past history of the Republican State Organization and at the same time held out the hope of reform and escape from old conditions, Lewis Emery, Jr., and his colleagues on the Lincoln party and Democratic State tickets, were form ally notified of their nominations here today. In accepting the nominations, Mr. Emery and the others minced no words in their condemnation of the acts of the Republican Organization, and the crowd cheered to the echo as each telling thrust was delivered. Mr. Emery, in his speech accepting the gubernatorial nomination, Ur. Chairman, Fellow Citizens, Ladlet and Gentlemen: I shall not today discuss the planki In the platform upon which the Lin' coin party stands; will leave that foi later occasions; will today confine my. self to explaining the causes whlct have led to the adoption of that plat form, causes which have Induced Re publicans and Democrats to wipe out divisional party lines and unite upon the high plane of civic duty. I speak today not aa a Republican, nor as a Democrat, but as one citizen '/•■peaks to others who have Joined with him In behalf of a cause that la fai above partlsanlsm. Our cause hai nothing to do with federal policies Right Is In arms against wrong. Thi fundamental principles of morality ara at stake. The people ha*« arises against the combined forces of politi cal corruption and lawless power. Hi who hesitates In such a crisis Is lesi than a man and more than a partisan; he Is either a moral coward or a tc* to good government When a system of political misrule, continued for half a century, debauehe* an entire state, robs and oppresses th 4 public, wrecks banks and drives bank ers to suicide, and causes public oA rials to seek lu self-Inflicted death r« 'lief from the pangs of remorse conse quent upon having yielded to Oang per suasion, the honest ultlaen body Is con fronted by a duty which it cannot shirk without being morally guilty of com plicity In the crime. This Is not a time for partlsanlsm, but for patriotism. The state machtnt has for 40 years made your nomina tions. controlled your affairs, usurped your rights, Inflicted Injuries upon you, abused your confidence, robbed thi )»eople, sneered at their protests and deliberately conspired against public welfare. The political history of Pennsylva nia has been for 60 years a record ol Infamy, because It has been the history of crime. 1 Simon Cameron founded the criminal organization known as the state Ma chine. The system he originated hat made the state a field of organized cor jruptlon and vicious legislation. Th« Machine was conceived In sin and brought forth In Iniquity, and lti career down to the present day haa been consistent with the character ol Its parentage. ' Cameron got his start In public life, it Is said, by swindling the Indian wards of the nation. He broke into politics by means of 111-golton wealth. Although a protectionist, he professed to be a Democrat because the Demo cratlc party was In the ascendant; and false pretense for selfish ends has char acterized the Gang through all Its changes and under Its various loaders. Cameron Is charged with Introducing the practice of the corrupt use of money in politics as a main reliance foi success. When cajolery, sharp prac tice and dissimulation failed him, h« did not hesitate to resort to bribery, and for lu years the Gang has been true to what Mr. Wesley R. Andrews call! "Its glorious traditions." When the Republican party aroea Cameron found It convenient to chang* his politics—but not his methods. He was elected to the United States sen ate, It was charged and never denied, by buying the votes of Lebo, Maneai and Wagonseller; and I call your at tention to the fact that he who brought forward Cameron's name In the Repub lican caucus was a state senator by th« name of Penrose. It would be a fitting close to a half century of misrule If the same name signed to the birth certificate of the Gang should, in tht> year of grace be inscribed upon th« tomb wherein shall be burled the lasl of the dynasty of the usurpers. By an unscrupulous use of powe*. Cameron succeeded In becoming seo rotary of war in Lincoln's first cabinet! but he prostituted his office by giving fat contracts to his followers, a system of political contract manipulation which Is still making Pennsylvania s hissing and a by-word under the exist ing regime. Censured by a vote of the house of congress, dismissed from office by Lincoln, but aaved from fur ther public disgrace only by the In fluence of Thomas A. Scott, of th< Pennsylvania railroad, who was as «lstant secretary of war, and permit ted to resign, Cameron again turnej his attention to building up the staU Machine. Thad Stevens, the "Great Common er;" Andrew O. Curtln, the grand old "War Governor;" David Wilmot, the author of the "Wilmot Proviso;" Ga luuha A. Grow, the father of the "Homestead Act," were virtually driv en from public life by the power of the Cameron Gang, Just as every othoi honest man of high ability and char acter has been forced out of, or, if possible, kept from entering, public service up to the present time, because character and ability are hated and feared by the Gang as fervently as holy water is hated and feared by the devil. Cameron defrauded Curtin of the senatorship by means of the perfidy of Stanley Quay, whose treach ery to the war governor (whose secre tary he was and to whom he owed hie start in life), and whose easy virtue Commended him to the founder and brought him sudden acquisition of funds and paved the way for his suc cession to the boss-ship. Quay's advent upon the scene mark ed the introduction of satanic cunning into Machine methods and the elabora tion of a system of political debauch ery Without parallel in history. Th« history of the past 40 years In Penn sylvania politics, flown to the presenl day is as Ul»ck as the pit of hell and as foul as the infernal sink of corrup tion. It has been an unbroken series of graft, bribery and corruption, pan dering to vice, alliances with crime, sales of special privileges, trafficking in public utilities and pubHc offices, corrupt misuse of public funds, and .polluting the ballot. Legislation ha* "been for"sale to the highest bidder, and legislators, Judges and governors have been the servile creatures of the Gang You remember the Quay speculation fn treasury funds, which sent "Old Square Timber" Noyes to an untimely grave a broken-hearted man, caused Cashier Blake Walters to commit sui cide and brought Quay to the verge of self-destruction. You recall the manip ulation of the funds of the Peopled Dank by Quay and Cashier Hopkins how the latter committed suicide, ho« President James McMaues paid $600,- 000 out of his own pocket to keep of! a scandal, and bow Quay escaped prison stripes by pleading the statute of limitations. I need not multiply Instances of pec ulation, graft and Juggling with state funds and banks, nor refer you to Rip per bills, contract manipulations and covenants with vice; nor need I refei you to the packing of Juries with crim inals In order to save Gang followeri from the penitentiary. The greal crimes against the state lie alons broader lines. Cameron early allied himself with the corrupt Philadelphia Gas trust This gang, like its successors, dictated local nominations, It controlled every department of the city government, 11 named the members of the leglslaturi and made commercial politics a regulai business. Kvery nominating conven tion was composed almost exclusively of Gas Trust men, and tickets thua named by the bosses became the regu lar nominees of the party whom every good party man was expected to sup port at the polls. The successor of the Gas Trust wnf the Quay-Martin Rang, the Quay-Dur ham (iang, the Penrose-Durham-Lano- McNlchol Gang, which under Its suc cessive leaders has proceeded from on< stage of criminal audacity to another, and In oil stages has been the main stay of the state Machine. But undei what guise or name soever It has beon known. Its purpose has been graft and Its methods criminal. The conspiracy with the Pennsylva nia railroad wns the beginning of th< trust ovll and the Inauguration of cor poration rule In public affairs. Railroads are not now and nevei were private property. They are public highways, by right of eminent domain which empowers them to take private property for public use and they ari therefore in essence and by expresi grant common carriers. In considera tion of their services as common car riers they are by charter granted thi right to tax the public in the form o! freight rates. This tax bears upon ev ery individual who uses any artlcU that has been transported either ai raw material or as finished product, and according to every sound principle of law and Justice this taxation should be imposed without discrimination. But when political corruptionlsti Join hands with greedy corporations 11 is for the purpose of preying upon thi public. Since the beginning of bosi rule In this state the state Machine and the Pennsylvania railroad have been accomplices, and when the Stand ard Oil company forced its way intc the conspiracy, the triumvirate wai complete. By collusion of the stat4 Machine, the railroad ceased to be I common carrier and became a carrlei for a special class. Under agreement with the Standard Oil company, th* Pennsylvania railroad Introduced $ system of rebate and discriminates which crushed competition, ruined In dependent coal, iron and oil operator! and others, and laid the foundation foi the first, the biggest and most rapa clous of American trusts. When the Standard Oil companj went to Fist and Gould with the prop oeltion for special secret rates, th» proposition wu turned down by th« Erie magnates, although neither ol these railroad wreckers was over-scru pulous In business. When Vanderblll was approached, he declared that th< scheme was a flagrant violation of th« law and ought to land its promoters li prison. But the Pennsylvania had nelthei scruples nor fear of consequences. I had Its own ends to serve, and It wai at the same time placed In a posltlor. In which It found It more prolltable tc acquiesce In the Standard's plan thai to fight that powerful corporation. Se cure In their hold on the state Machine and therefore masters of the law making and law-executing powers this pair of precious corporation scoun drels entered upon a career of publlt plunder which up to that time had had no parallel In magnitude of design, insatiate greed and cold-blooded atroc ity I need not dwell upon the details You are familiar with the story. Th< fruits of this conspiracy against trade against the poople, against the nation are seen in the many gigantic trustf which hold this country by the throat The Standard was the first. Othei combinations of unscrupulous mer copied the methods of the Standard and adapted them to their own use. The predatory spirit first appeared In publle affairs under the Cameroc dynasty. The system of spoliation wai brought to perfection under Quay and It Is still In force under his blundering successors. Secret rebate and discrim inations hav6 enabled the trusts U: throttle the country. The Steel Trusl controls Independent Iron mines bj means of Iniquitous discrimination The farmer Is at the mercy of th« Harvester Trust and the Elevatoi Combine. The coal roads either owt the mines or control the output and Its price by means of dtacrlmlnstioc either In freight rates or In the distri bution of oars. Common carriers refuse to carry anything but their own or their asso ciates' commodities, except at rate! prohibitive of competition. It has been truthfully said that trusts, railroad mergers and pools are the devices of capitalists to stifle competition, to form a monopoly to drive out the In dependent slaughter house, to ruin the ■mail coal miners, and thereby to raise prices and produce the fruits of mo nopoly, as the Standard Oil company, the Deef Trust, the Coal Trust and the railroad are doing today. In form ing these monopolies, capitalists havo not only aot hesitated to. break the or dinary laws of the land, but they havs committed crimes of violence, not to epeak of the ruin of widow and or phans; but their lawlessness has con sisted chiefly In the wholesale corrup tion of the commonwealth. Most of the political rottenness is traceable di rectly to the doors of the managers of street car companies, gas companies, railroad corporations who desire to break the law with impunity. In the recent investigation at" Phila delphia it was shown that the corrupt relations between the Pennsylvania Railroad company and certain favored coal companies were intimate and gen eral, extending throughout the system all the way up to the immediate vicin ity of President Cassatt's office. Mr. Justice Oaynor says that the rob bories disclosed have had and still have the countenance, the protection, nay, the aid, of legislatures, courts and pros ecuting officers. The black story un folds a tale of perjury, larceny, embez zlement and bribe-giving in high places, public and private; and so the popular blood has been fired to fever heat These evils are fostered by the state Machine in Pennsylvania, which is also t beneficiary of the crime. Honest men ■re in rebellion. By thousands they have turned their backs on Machine vule and, laying aside partisanship, (hey are demanding a square deal un der square public officials. These things are vital issues of this campaign because now, as for 40 years past, the Pennsylvania railroad and the Standard Oil company, operating through the instrumentality of the state bosses, absolutely rule Pennsyl vania, name its officers and dictate its corporation laws. Some of my good friends, the enemy, declare that for 30 years I have been fighting the Standard and Its allies bo cause they have Interfered with my private Interests. The charge is in part true. But my Interest** are identically the same as those of every man who wants to do business independently of a trust, an unfair railroad or a political machine. 1 have fought for my rights, but in so doing I have also fought for your rights, for the rights of the public which have boon wronged, robbed and oppressed. Affairs have come to such a pass that men work or lie idle, eat or starve, at the will of the allied trusts, which control the production and the price of nearly everything that enters into consumption. He who con trols men's moans of subsistence has over him the power of life and death, and Is his master as surely as he who has chattel rights In a slave. Follow cltlaens. If I am actuated by solftsh motives in this fight, I am a fool. There has not been a time in 80 years when I might not have partaken of the feast of flesh pots prepared for the Machine and Its henchmen had 1 but bowed my neck to the poilticaj yoke. There has not been a time when I could not have realised the wildest dream of averlce by selling my soul to the Standard. Let us see how this unholy alliance of Machine, Railroad and Oil Trust has affected you in Pittsburg, and seeing I aek you to say If my long fight has not also been In your Interests and I the interests of the general publio. In our stress In the oil region In 1868 we tried to get a free pipe line fot the public good. The combine after a bitter fight finally granted us the right under eminent domain to construct a pipe line, but only to the Pennsylvania railroad, which was at that time the only railroad in the oil region. Tom Scott, of the Pennsylvania railroad, said to the committee representing the producers at Harrisburg: "You may have a law to construct pipe lines in eight counties only, viz.: Crawford, Erie, Forest, Warren, Venango, Butler, Clarion and Armstrong, but you must not construct a line into Allegheny county or within one mile of the state line. Thus did the legislature controlled by the Pennsylvania railroad shut Pittsburg out from receiving oil by pipe line from the producing counties. Yet Pittsburg, by its location, its ac cessibility to ooal, and its shipping fa cilities, was the naturally appointed oentre. Oil could be refined cheaper In Pittsburg than at the ooast, and Pittsburg was a much better distribut ing point than either New York or Philadelphia, while both refined and crude could be piped to the seaboard for foreign shipment at lees cost than the transportation of coal to the sea board for fuel purposes and the trans portation of the refined back to ydur city for distribution. Look at the magnitude of the de struction and the injury to Pittsburg! In 1867 there were 58 refineries in this city. The Standard crushed, dis mantled or moved away all of them and it drove from business in this sate upwards of 2£o refineries. Out of 28,250,021 gallons of oil export ed from this country In 18&7, Pitts burg shipped east 97.47 per cent, or a yearly average from 1868 to 1867 of $11,0000,000 in value. After 1867 the Standard and the Pennsylvania rail road rapidly crushed the Pittsburg re fining and export trade so that event ually Pittsburg had neither, and now the city ships no export oil at all. I In 1874 the railroads established a rate of $1.90 per barrlal for oil to New York for all refineries, whether Pitts burg, Cleveland or the oil regions. But, as usual, the Standard received a re bate of 64% cents from Cleveland, a secret rebate which Pittsburg refiners did not receive. At all events, Pittsburg was deprived its natural advantage of 250 mllatf Bearer haul, virtually prohibiting the Pittsburg export trade. Rates were so levied that all crude brought to Pitts burg over the Allegheny Valley must when refined, go east over the Penn sylvania. A single rate was charged as a whole from the oil region to the sea board, and the Pittsburg refiner was required to pay the entire rate, even If he shipped his refined oil by another route. The object was to prevent the B. & O. from competing for the oil traffic. The Columbia Conduit company con structed a pipe line to the north bank of the Allegheny river, when ths Pennsylvania, acting with the Stand ard, stopped It. An appeal to the leg islature was lost because of the same \nfluence. Referring to the discrimination against Pittsburg, J. F. Hudson, ol your city, said In 1886: "The freights mainly carried for a manufacturing city like Pittsburg are the cheapeet that a railway can trans port. Pig Iron, ore and coal are loaded and unloaded by the shippers and re ceivers, are transported in flat cars, and require no precaution from the weather while In transit or at the end of the route. Yet the rate per ton mile upon those commodities whleb furnish the foundation of the business of Pittsburg has ranged from two to five times as much aa on grain and breadstuff*from Ohlcajo to New York." I BARGAIN SALE! | 888S888888S8888Ss8888888 i . Of men's light weight two piece suits, j| $ in Worsteds and Homespuns. The entire gj * y surplus stock of a Baltimore concern was jS. p consigned to us at reduced prices. These q jp reductions we will turn over to the bene <3 fit of the people of Danville and vicinity. j| This means £ H that $6.50 suit we will sell for $4.75 ® m "7 50 " " " " " 5.50 3 | " 9.00 " 6.75 I I DON'T ~MISS THIS BARGAIN SALE ! I il WE ALSO HAVE REDUCED SEVERAL STYLES OF OUR REGULAR STOCK 1 | SUITS—THIS IS A POSITIVE SAVING FROM | I 20T035c0n the dollar a I 00NT FORGET OUR SHOE AND FURNISHING DEPARTMENTS. WE i | HAVE ONLY ONE PRICE BUT IT IS THE LOWEST PRICE g |j ar&jsutr r I NE W MAN I 222 Mill Street., Half Block from Post Office b PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD PERSONALLY-CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS NIAGARA FALLS September, 7, 21, and October 12, 1906 ROUND-TRIP /> OA FROM SOUTH RATE Dlif U DANVILLE | Tickets good going on train leaving 12.10 P. M., connecting with SPECIAL TRAIN of Pullman Parlor Cars, Dining Car, and Day Coaches running via the PICTURESQUE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ROUTE Tickets good returning on regular trains within TEN DAYS. Stop-off ! within limit allowed at Buffalo returning. Illustrated Booklet and full information may be obtained from Ticket • Agents. 1 W. W. ATTERBURY. J. R. WOOD, GEO. W. BOYD, j General Manager. Passenger Traffic Manager. Ueneral Passenger Agent o— o PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD FIVE-DAY EXCURSIONS T O Atlantic City, Cape May, Anglesea, WILDWOOD, HOLLY BEACH, OCEAN CITY, SEA ISLE CITY, AVALOX, NEW JERSEY. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1906 C A HOUND TRIP (ft J ROUND TRIP Via Delaware Klver Bridge Via Market Street Wharf FROM SOUTH DANVILLE Tickets good going on regular trains to Philadelphia; thence on regular trains to all resorts named. Tickets good returning until the following Thursday, inclusive For full information consult nearest Ticket Agent. W. W. ATTERBURY, J- R. WOOD, GEO. W. BOYD, General Manager. Passenger Traffic Manager. General Passenger Agent In 1877 the average charge on pig iron shipped to Pittsburg was 2H centu per ton mile, and on ore cents. The rate on grain from Chicago to New York was 53-100 cents per ton mile. "The stress of the hard times In 1877 as in 1864," says Mr. Hudson, "was laid on the Iron industry of Pittsburg. II the Pittsburg classes had been placed on the same basis a* grain In 1877, leaving their greater cheapness to com pensate for the shorter haul, the sav ing to Pittsburg would that year hav« relieved her mills from much of the loss and shrinkage which they suffered from 1874 to 1878." "In order to shut out coal mining firms In general from certain locali ties," says Mr. Hudson, "The Pennsyl vania railroad established classification so that on coal from the Pittsburg vein the rate to Philadelphia should be $2.40 per ton, If It was to be used for steam heating; but If It was to be used for making gas, the rate was twice as much. Thus the railroad determined to preserve the monopoly of supplying gas coal In the hands of two favored corporations." Mr. Emery then read from a Bpeecb delivered by him In 1876: According to the sworn evidence ol A. J. Caseatt. then third vice president of the Pennsylvania, the Standard Oil company received 110.150,618 as draw backs on oil shipped In 17H months, and of this amount the Pennsylvania railroad paid $4,721.07!. Had this amount gone to the stockholders o< that road It would have paid them ! par oent. on their Investment. Had II (one to the oil producers, they would havo received $20,000 a day during the entire period. In Is 7», F. W. Jenkins & Bro., ol Pittsburg and New York, one of ths largest flour firms In tho country, wrote: "We are now paying 30 cents per barrel on flour shipped from Chi sago to New York. The present rats from Chicago to Pittsburg is 86 cents. The rats from Pittsburg to Philadel phia Is 38 cents. Pittsburg and Phila delphia are way stations. Flour Is be Ing carried through both cities to New York, beyond six cents per barrel cheaper than If left at either, and a Pennsylvania corporation is doing It" Pittsburg has suffered in fact and in Intent by means of a conspiracy be tween the Pennsylvania railroad, Stand ard Oil oompany and the state Machine, more than any other city In Pennsylva nia. They tried to kill your city as an j Iron U4 *t««J center by. means of 6J» j crimination In rates so that you had to ship your products to New York and back to southern and western points Instead of directly to their destination because you could not got favorabU rates over the direct route. The Stand ard also tried to divert the iron and steel industry to the shores of Lake Erie, and they all but succeeded. Discrimination hits the farmer a I paralysing blow, not only in his grain interests but in many ways. By tho grace of the boss-protected railroad, the "Big Four" packers of Chicago can transport live stock from Chicago to New York in half the time it takes for the farmer to get his car hauled half the distance. The independent shipper must get his cattle shipped by local freight, so that his loss by shrinkage is from IB to 20 per cent., while the beef trust loses from the same cause only about 2% per cent, in a haul many times aa long. Yet you men of Pittsburg and of Pennsylvania have been in past years voting for people who make these things possible, simply because they tell you you must so vote, or be dis loyal to your party, and because you have been too Indifferent to protect your own interests and the public in terests by voting as you please. I have given you only a brief sketch of the iniquities practiced under the regime of the bosses and the corpora tions. The political crimes of the ma chine are too numerous to enumerate, too damnable to forget or to forgive. The Machine professes to be in c holy frame of 'mind now and ready io pledge Itself to anything in order to escape its merited doom. Even the Pennsylvania railroad's mileage rate revision is an evidence of the corpo rate devil's fear of the wrath to come. It is an old trick. Quay practiced it when In a tight place and fearful of popular wrath. He solemnly and pos itively pledged himself to give ballot reform. Did we get it! To bring about pure.and free elections. Did we get them? To purge the legislature of lobbyists. Did he do it? To give us civil service reform. Did we get it? No! Even the badly scared extraordi nary session of 1906 killed a civil ser vice bill championed by Mr. Creasy, kny colleague on the ticket, because the passing of that bill would mean the loss of one of the chief assets of the (orruptlonists. the meana_of bribing I (Continued on page 3.) PENNSYLVANIA 1 RAILROAD Schedule in Effect May 27, 1906 Trains leave South Dinvill* as follows: hor Catawlssa, Kant Bloomsburg, Nescopeck. .Nantieoke, Wilkes-Bar re, Pittston, Scran ton and intermediate KtatlonK, v. 11 a. m. t 2.21 and 5.50 p. in. week days, and 10.17 a. m. daily. For Sunbury and intermediate stations, 9.00 a. in.and 7.51 p- m. week-days, and 4.31 p. m. daily. *or Sunbury only, 1*2.10 p. in. week days. For Pottsvllle, Heading and Philadelphia, 7.11 atld 10.17 a. m.and 2.21 p. in. week-days. *or H'izleton, 7.11 and 10.17 a. in., 2.21 and 6.50 p. in. week-days. For Lewlsburg, Williamsport, and Lock Haven, 0.00 a. in., 12.10 and 4.81 p. in., week days; 4.31 p.m. Sunday for Williamsport nndiiitcriuediaut stations. 7.51 p. in., week days. ' For Tyrone. Phi Upshur#, t'lear rteld, and Pittsburgh, 0.00 a. in., and 12.10 p. in. week-days. For Harrisbtirg and intermediate stations 0.00 a. in., 12.10, 1.31, and 7.51 p. in., week-days; 4.31 p. m., .Sundays For Philadelphia (via Harrisburg) Baltimore, and Washington. 0.00 a. in., 12.10,4.31 an1 i>. in., weekdays; 4.31 p. in. Sundays; (via Lewistown Junction) 9.00 a. m., and 12.10 p. in., week-days; (via I*>eic Haven) 9.00 a. in., and 12.10 p. in., week-days. For further information apply to tieket agents. W. W. ATTEItBUHY, J. R. WOOD, Genera! Manager. Pass'r Traffic Mitr GKO. VV. BOYD, General l'ass'r Agt. JJXECUTRIX'S NOTICE. Estate of Henri/ Reynolds, Lute of Anthony Township, Montour County, Pennsyl vania Deceased. Notice is hereby given, that letters testa mentary on the above estate having been granted in the underelgncd, all pi raons In dthted to said estate are requested to make payment, and those having claims or de mands against the said estate to present the same, without delay to ANNA S. REYNOLDS, Administratrix. Exchange, Pa. JJXECUTHIX'S NOTICE. Estate of Zilta O. I'ouyht, Late of Ufayberry Townsh ip, Deceased. Letters testamentary on the ahovc estate having been granted to the undersigned, all persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment, and those having claims against it to present tlie same, without delay to IDA J. ADAMS, Administratrix. Quitman, Pa. 1N ISTRATOR'S NOTICE Estate 'or Etlle'J. Arnwine, late of West Hemlock township, deceased. Letters of administration upon tho estate of Km.' .1. Aniwiiie Int.' of West H.inloik towushtp, Montour County, State of IVnn syivania, having heen granted by the Reg ister of Montour County to the undersigned, nil persons Indebted to said estate are re quested to make payment, and those having claims to ores nt the same without delay lo (IKO. I>. AUNWINK, Huckhorn, l*a. CIIAS. S. A UN WINK, Itoute.'t, Danville. Pa. or to Administrators CHAHLKS V. AMKKMAN, Danville. I'a. Dr. I. G. PURSEL, NEUROLOGIST 273 Mill Street, - Danville, Pa. We HtruighSen Cross Eyes without operation. HOURS, 8 A. M.to 12 M. 1 P. M. tO 9 P. M. EYES A SPECIALTY. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Boar, the The Kind You Have Always Bought Mary and the Hogs. Last summer a well-known profess or went with his family to a small seaside resort 011 the east coast, says the Loudon Tribune, and boarded with a farmer September sth, is the last day you can attend lo this matter. — POLITICS'M lookiu' up a little.