THE CITIZEN
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WILUAR C. ■MLEI rmHlrtw
THTPTMPAY, OCTOBER 1 1896
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
RATIONAL.
PRESIDENT,
'""rtet * 1 K'BMT3ENI ,"*'
GARRETT A. HOBART.
» STATE.
CONGRESS-AT-LARGE.
GALUSHA A. GROW,
s. L. DAVENPORT.
COUNTY.
FOR CONGRESS,
JAMES J. DAVIDSON.
FOR STATE SENATE,
w. H. RITTER.
FOR ASSEMBLY,
JAMES N. MOORE,
JOHN DINDINGER.
FOR SHERIFF,
W.»B. DODDS.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
W. J. ADAMS.
FOR PROTHONOTARY,
R. J. THOMPSON.
FOR CI,ERK OF COURTS,
ISAAC MEALS.
FOR TREASURER,
CYRUS;HARPER,
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
HARMON SEATON,
JOHN MITCHELL*
FOR COUNTY?AUDITORS,
W. S. MOORE,
0. R. THORNE.
FOR CORONER,
JOHN L. JONES.
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.
Oct. 16, Mars, 7.30 p. m., speakers Col.
Thompson and Newton Black.
Oot. 16, Harrisville, 7.30 p, m., speakers
J. M. Galbreath and Gen. W. A. Clark.
Oct. 16, Brownsdale, 7.30 p. m., speakers
8. F. Bowser and Hon. J. B. Showalter.
Oct. 17, Hooker, 7.30 p. m., speakers Col.
Thornpton, S. F. Bowser and Newton
Black.
Oot. 19, Middle Lancaster, 7.30 p. m.,
speakers, Hon. J. B. Showalter and Levi
M. Wise.
Oot. 19, WestSunbury, 7.30 p. m., speak
ers, Col. Thompson, J. M. Galbreath and
Dr. Hockenberry,
Oot 20, Harmony, 7.30 p. m , speakers,
Hon. A. L. Haxen, Levi 11- Wise and New
ton Black.
Oot. 21, North Washington, 730 p. m.,
speakers, Col. Tfcompson, Hon. J. D. Mc-
Jonkin and Hon. J. B. Showalter.
Oot 21, Ekastown, 7.30 p. m., speakers,
J. M. Galbreath and P. W. Lowry.
Oot 22, Pipe Stem school bouse, 7 30 p.
m., speakers, J. M. Galbreath and J. B.
Greer.
Oot 22nd, Butteroup 7:30, 8. F. Bowser
aad M. B. Mo Bride.
The Republican meeting and pole-raising
at Silverville, Buffalo twp. oa the Bth inst.
«u a great success. The looal marching
olub waa ont, also marohiog clubs from
Free port and Natrona, Freeport Glee Club
•ad two bands. The houses ol the village
were decorated with Chinese lanterns, and
•very body was provided for. Tbe speak ing
that evening was in the open air anJ was
done by J. M. Painter and Br. Showalter,
who ably discussed the issues of the cam
paign.
The Republican mooting at Whitest own
Saturday night waa attended by the whole
neighborhood, abont a thousand people
being proaent. Uapt. Jno. A. Reed, W.
H. Reed and Hon. Jao. Everhart, all of
Pittsburg, diJ the speaking from a covered
platform. Tbey are all good speakers, and
the Orient Olee Club, of Pittsburg, which
•ooompanied them delighted the people.
The marching clubs, of Prospect, Whites
town, Harmony and Zeliencple were pres
ent, one with a brass band and the other
with a dram corns.
THE Republican meeting in the Opera
Houae last Thursday evening was well
attended by an enthusiastic audience.
Col. Colburn and Judge Fnrst, who were
billed for speeches here, tljat evening,
missed their train, somewhere and could
not come, but their places were well fill
ed by T. W. Phillips, J. M. Galbreath
and Col. Thompson. Mr. Phillips led off
in a few well worded and appropriate re
marks upon the money question and fi
nancial condition of the country; and
was followed by Mr. Galbreath, who
made the best speech that has yet been
made in Butler on that question. He
covered the ground completely. Col.
Thompson followed in a few vigorous re
marks, and the meeting adjourned.
Our Blanket Ballot.
Owing to the contests over nomination
papers and certificates of nomination, the
Secretary of the Commonwealth will not
be able to certify the official ballot to
eounty commissioners before the last day
aader the lew—next Tuesday.
The State Department has mailed the
County Commissioners a sample ballot,
whiob contains ten lists of electors as fol
lows: Republican, Democratic, Prohibi
tion, People's, Socialist Labor, National,
Free Silver, MoKmley Citizen*, Grow Ami-
Combine and Jeffersonian.
These ten columns of electors with the
local tickets following, and a column in
blank, make a ticket or ballot about a yard
square, and besides these eleven columns
oar senatorial content may add ant'ther
oolnmn to the bailot. In referring to the
ticket reoeived by the connty commission
era of that oonnty, the Pittsburg Times' re
porter said:
One hears mrch discussion about the
commissioners' office and the political
headquarters on the subject of the ballots.
There ia a growing sentiment in tavor of a
radioal change in the fo<m of the ballot.
Many of the most ardent advocates of the
Baker ballot law are now convinced that
the best form of ballot in the world is the
old-fashioned ballot, where the voter casts
bat one ticket, scratching ofT the name be
does not want to vote for, and writing
those he want* to vote for instead. They
ere of the opinion that the old style of
tloket could be used and all the good feat
ures of the Australian system retained.
They would have the ballots all printed by
the county, making it a severe penalty fur
counterfeiting. They would have them
dlstribnted from the room in which the
yoting is done at the time the voter ap
peered to cast his ballot, and make it a
heavy penalty lor carrying ballots out »f
the polling place. They feould have the
Tote absolutely secret, u ith no numbers or
other mark of identification on the ballots,
es et present.
SEVENTY-FIVK thousand Republicans
were in line in Chicago last l ; riday—as
great a political demonstration as that
city has ever seen. Telephone wires
conveyed the shouts and music to Mr-
Kinlcy's home and the Republican head
quarters.
QCAT'r estimate is McKinley 270, liryan
110 end the other 67 for the "best fighter*."
Canton the Mecca.
The streets of Canton were crowded
last Friday and Saturday, and McKinley
was called upon to address one crowd
after another. On Saturday he made
twenty speeches. We make the following
extract from one of his speeches of Fri
day.
The point I make is this, my fellow cit
izens, that we must get over the idea in
this coutrv that the government makes
money, the government gets its money
just as a citizen gets his money, bvgmng
something for it The government raises
<•-. ° |, ' '■ LUIII
lug into thf United States, and the latter
is the policy of the Republican party,
We do not l>elieve that the government
should make money by'setting its print
ing presses and its mints to work, but
that the best thing it can do for its reve
enus is to put a tariff on foreign products
of every kind that compete with Ameri
can products and make that tariff high
enough, too, to protect the American pro
ducer. We simply want to observe the
law of self preservation, to look after our
selves, look after our individual occupa
tions end employments and after the
American home, which your spokesman
has so eloquently described. It lies at the
foundation of society, of every communi
ty, of every state, and of the nation; and
there comes up from the plain American
home, the homes of the plain people of
the country, a sentiment of good govern
ment and good patriotism such as can be
found scarcely anywhere else in the
world.
Not only, my fellow citiens, do we
want a good tariff, but we want good
money. We want that money to be worth
100 cents to the dollar and we do not want
it to be worth a penny less than 100 cents
We want it to be as honest as the govern
ment itself. We want it to be current
everywhere in the world; we want it re
sp?cted everywhere, jus* as our flag is re
spected everywhere. Then we propose
in this country to maintain a government
by law and a government under law. We
propose to sustain public order and public
tranquillity and stand by the federal
judiciary —that tribunal which is our
anchor of Safety in every tttne of trouble.
There never was an aim that the Repub
lican party ever had that did not embrace
the good of all the people. There never
was a Republican purpose that did not
seek the honor and integrity of the gov
ernment of the United States. There is
one thing our old party never did—it
never struck a blow eycept for human
freedom. It never made a law that did
not embrace every American interest. It
never had a purpose which was not patri
otic and it stands this year, as it has stood
in all the years of the past, for public
safety, for public honor, good morals,
good government, good laws, and for a
country whose currency and credit will
not be questioned anywhere in the world.
I thank you for this call.
On Saturday he closed his remarks to
the Confederate veterans from Virginia
as follows:
It is peculiarly a matter of gratification
to me also that from my home city and
from the nc-igbboring city of Cleveland,
my old comrades of the war, with whom
I fought, on the other side from you in
that great conflict, hai e given you a warm
welcome and will tender you hospitality
while here and give you their love and
benediction to carry away with you when
you go.
I am honored to have witnessed this
scene and day, and I bid you, soldiers of
Grant and soldiers of Lee,
"At the shrine of this reunion,
Dedicate your loves anew."
Rejoice all of you, and thank God that
the
"Cause of truth and human weal,
Is transferred from the sword's appeal,
To peace and love."
"No longer from its brazen portals,
The blast ot war's great organs shake
the skies.
But beautiful as songs of the immortals,
The holy melodies of love arise.
Let uo discordant notes grate upon this
melody of peace. Let it go forth, let it
be everywhere proclaimed that the men
of the North and the men of the South
stand for the enthronement of justice and
the supremacy of law. The voice that
would reopen the conflicts of the past and
the bittnerness of thirty years ago, that
would array class against class or section
against section, is not a friend, but an
enemy of our glorious union, and stands
in the pathway of its glorious progress.
Men of the South, the only force now
needed in this free government is that
ot conscience, justice, reason and intelli
gence. This is an irrestible power upon
which rests our strength, security, perma
nency and glory. We have enteeu upon
a new and blessed era; we have crossed
the dominion of force into the kingdom
of peace and law and mutual good will.
Faith in each other, faith in a common
country: faith in the future aud a com
mon destiny has made us one—forever
one. We have learned that:
"Peace and greatness best become,
Calm power doth guide,
With a far more imperious statelinera
Than all the swords of violence can do,
And easier gains those ends she tends
unto."
This is my message to grim survivors
of tiiat mighty war, of l>oth sides. This
is the spirit that I would have carried
into practical every-day administration
and fill the hearts ot the American peo-
P le * f
I thank you for this cordial greeting. I
thank your orators for their generous
words of assurance in your behalf. Let
us remember now and in a'l the future
that we arc Americans and that what is
good for Ohio is good for Virginia.
In TiiK Butb r- Armstrong Senatorial dis
trict the conferr«e4 c>uld uol agr.ie and an
a result wu have two candidate* fur Sta'e
Senate. We had the nam* trouble in our.
Senatorial district until w« adopted the
popnlar vote system. Our last nomination
was made in junt seven minutes, or just as
soon as the cnurerrees could compute the
votes eist by the Republic IUS of the two
oounties at the primaries. \V« are likely
to loso a .Senator in the flntior-Armstrong
district.
There are also two Republican candi
dates tor Congress in the UUir district,and
the Democrats will likely elect their man.
There are objections to the popular vote
plan, but it is a bemty compared with the
conferreo systo u.--In liau.i, PA. Messen
ger.
Another Lie Nailed.
On September 28, 1890, there appeared
in the 81 Louis Post Dispatch a p >rtioa of
a sermon delivered on a previous Sabbath
day, by the Rev. Herbert Casson, of I.ynn,
Mass., in which he denounces McKinley a>.
a gauged, imprisoned individual, trembling
in bis mortgaged house lent Mark Hanna
might foreclose on him and who has already
met bis Wellington and surrendered his'
convictions How this is only a portion ot
his harangne, anil coming as it has from a
man pretending to lie a minister ot the gos
pel i who should stoop so low in his sermon
to bis congregation, when all should have
been thinking of lleaven and divino things)
to call up politics and try to villify a citi
zen aud public man, whose character and
record is above reproach and make state
ments that lie knew were false.
Had these remarks come from soine po
litical blow-out, it might have passed un
noticed, but when such men, laying claim
to religion will stand up and make such
stateu ents, we feel it our duty to denounce
them as malicious liars. We do MI over
our own signatures so that the Reverend
gentleman, or any ol his friends, seeking
redress can be accomodated froir the poin
of a pin to the month of a cannon. 1
The writer of this article has taken the
pains to go to the oity where this villified
man lives anil has examined the records and
does hereto append the certificate of the
County Recorder; showing the statements
of the Reverend gentleman made, to bo
,'SIHO and without any foundation whatever
DB. W. Knows.
Hannibal, Mo.
OFFTCK OF COUNT Y RBCOBDRB.
Canton. Ohio, Oct. 12, 1K96.
State of Ohio, i
/ sa:
Sf.'»rk Cr.an'y, 5
I, Joseph A Reed,
Recorder of (.foresaid County, do hereby
Certify that I have carefully examined the
records in this office and find 00 mor tage
tiel Iby .Mark H tnna against. Win VcKin i
ley or w>fe.
Witness my hand und official se »l ttiis J
12th day of October, A. D. IHSMi.
JDSCPH A. liKKII,
U« coidcr, Stark Connty Ohio. I
LSBALJ I
" A Test Case.
Tuesday last was the last day for filing j
objections to certificates of nomination
and nomination papers in the Dauphin
County Court, and a large batch o» them
were filed. That afternoon the Court
filed an opinion on the counter objections
of J. D. Hicks of Altoona and I". J.
Kooscr oi Somerset, to certificates of
nomination for congress in the Twentieth
district- . ,
After reciting the history of the 'lead
lock. of the action of conference at Johns
town in passing a resolution requesting
State Treasurer Haywood to participate
in the conference with four votes, the
court declares both certificates invalid.
Wt-f/ar.liiv' i-'yser jhe court savs: _
"rule"or custom of the Republican party,
which would justify us in holding that a
nomination in any view which could be
taken of the facts in this case, could be
made by a minority of the legal confer
rees.
The court holds that the introduction
of Mr. Haywood into the conference as a
member with power to cast four votes was
illegal and in violation of the rules and
customs of the Republican party in the
congressional district.
Judge McPherson says:
"We think this objection must prevail.
By the rules and usuages of the party
when there is a candidate nominated at
a county primary for any district office,
he has the right to select the conferrees
from that county and the number is fixed
it three for each county. There is no
rule or accepted custom which provides
for the appointment of conferrees in any
other way for increasing the number of
conferrees either by a vote of the confer
ence or otherwise."
In conclusion the court says: "Waiv
ing all question of the validity of the pro
ceedings which resulted in an adjourn
ment to Harrisburg, we must hold that
the conference which met there was il
legal, because an additional conferree
with power to cast four votes was present
and took part in the nomination of Mr.
Ilicks. 'I he power to prescribe rules to
govern the making of these nominations
is in the people, and whatever they have
not delegated remains there.
"They have given the right to the sev
eral candidates to appoint three confer
rees for each county and have conferred
upon the conferrees in conference assem
bled the power and right by a majority of
their votes to nominate a candidate with
the implied power, of course, to do every
thing which ordinary parliamentary usage
prescribes in order to accomplish this pur
pose But they have no power or au
thority to add to their number or to au
thorize any outside person to vote. The
conference therefore in which Mr. Hay
wood participated was illegally constitu
ted and its action invalid."
This decision prevents both candidates
from being certified on the official ballot
except by nomination papers, which each
have filed in the state department. The
ccijespondent of the Commercial Gazette
says the court will probably knock out
both Republican candidates in the Forty
first senatorial district on the same ground,
because Jere B. Rex went into the confer
ence by direction of State Chairman El
kin, and voted for Meredith of Armstrong,
against Ritter of Butler.
PBOSPECT.
Be je informed that:
C. F Newman ban gone to the rr.'iilori
nm at Warren, Ohio, where be in undergo
ing treatment, for chronic lumbago. Lit
est repoit nays ho is improving.
Joe Warren arid Julian Clark are ve:y
exbuberarit these da,j H and the secret of it
all in the arrival of new hoys at their
homes.
Miss Jennie Tiastmtn of Fellow creek,
is now assisting Mrs. Hoehm to do tne fall
work at the Prospect Uou.se.
John Kotb has a joke concocted on Os
Shatter. Some one of these night* when
Os is sleeping John intends to tie a silver
'jand on On's gold hat. hut we won't tell on
John jui-t yet.
L B Shannon ami wife were at Mercer
not long since, attending the «edding of
theii daughter, Ming Anna.
■/udson English, Thomas McCandless,
Oscar Shaffer, Phannie Grossman, and
Charlie Blair were members of tho recent
Butler county excursion to the home of the
next President, Canton, Ohio, aud repoit
a fine time.
W. G. Weigln aitended the fair an I
races at CarrolJtown, Cambria Co , a coup
le of weeks ago. and was surprised to see
it snow quite liv»ly one evening.
John Weigle should he careful of tho la
dies' topnotß when he passes the contribu
tion box around.
Burry <fc Albert have purchased a corn
butker which will busk a hundred bushels
per hour, and put the fodder in rchreds,en
silage or bunches. A great invention.
Samuel Weigle. after a two weeks' ill
ness, died .Frid®,y, Sept. 25, aged 03 years.
Mr. Weigle was a native of Lawreuoe (Jo.
but resided in and about Prospect lor 40
years, being an industrious man and skill
ed mechanic.
Mrs. J. 0. Kelly has returned from a
visit to U«:v. Young aad family of Uiilman,
Mich , and is much pleased with her visit
to the Wolverin State.
Mrs Jesse Darter taluks that .-h i de
serves the priz: lor rai-ing peppers, and
we think M> too as her crop is hard to
beat.
John 1). Albert and wife spent * c>u.iie
if days vi-i'ing :n NVw Casib-, r<-c inly,
and ./onn is surprised it the i nprovemeut
of late years.
The Luther League jjave a sooi tl to the
public, Thursday evening, Oct, Ist, when
esch one was expected to giv:j a silver of
fering with which to buy a no v church or
gan.
We inust not forget to tell you the cause
of tha happy smile on Al Ral-toi/s coun
tenance this • days. I*. in produced by tiie
urriv.il of an ex<ia tine new hov. Tomes.
Al.
Miss Mary Dutter and her aunt Vfaiy
floon, were the giests ol Inrnes Ftudliy
i and family, one day last week.
Mat Blair, Joe Warren. Os Shaffer, Curt
Grossman, Thotnp McCandiess, Jud Kng
lish, John Neeley, Ralph Maokny anil
others got Howard West and his dog one
evening last week, and scoured the hills
and valleys ol VI uddvereek for raccoons.
They captuied two larjje lat follows which
will lead t.he McKiule/ processions to the
White House.
Miss Ida Myor ol Allegheny was the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. Langherst. recent
ly.
John Kelly's silo bursted shortly after he
had it filled with choice ensilage and bo
will lose some ol his cow feed. Miss Lida
says it ought to be in the paper, but to say
nothing about gathering chestnuts on Sun
dav.
Kno* McDonald, Secretary of the Frank
lin township Heboid Board, made 'he
rounds last week delivering supplies to the
different sohools fcinos is al»o truant of
ficer under ttie compulsory school law ami
no doubt will have some cases to look
after.
Hen Heftnbaw has bought a patent kraut
cutter, which is fed like « tutuuir box. It
is a Useful machine, und making kraut on
it is a picnic.
W. T. Mechling and W. 3. McGuary of
Butler installed the officers of Rustic
Lodge, No. 88'-!, I. O 0 P., on Saturday
evening, Out. A They are good in- tailing
officers and the brotherhood was much
gratified to have them present.
JOK OostTV.
Carrie Ensminger.
WUKBBAN, In His gracious Providence.
God hath chosen to call to her leward our
dear classmate, Miss Carrie V. Knsniinger:
Altt' WIIKHKAS, Thus are broken the ties
which bound her to us in loving union;
therefore bo it
RRSOLVKU, That we bear witness to her
painstaking diligence in student days and
to the perserving energy which enabled her
to bee one the fir t v iledictorian of the But
ler High School and to bUz -out a pathway
for fntar" classes to tr*ad.
RBSOLVKO. That we bring our tribute of
praise for her eun.est zeal in after years in
doing the work that la> nearest her hand
and tor her faithfulness in the «. rvico of
Christ the Master whoso love wi. revealed
111 her life
RKSOLVHD, i hat, while wedeeply mourn
our loss, we vet are comforted iu the Divine
assurance that the "Faithful shall receive
a crown of life eternal."
RKSOLVEII, That we extend our heartfelt
sympathy to her parents, sistors and broth
ers, in this their seasor, of sorrow, and com
mend t hem to the tender care and guidance '
of llmi wnose loviuit kindne-s is ever ol I
old a:id whose mercy endureth forever. i
UxsoLVhit, That thesi resoiutiotis be i
puh!|.tied i;i our weekly papers and that'
the bereivel family be lurn led a copy i
thereof Mi MH lics.-io Morris ei, Alice ;
Collins, Mury Graham, Ma'id Sutton, Fan
nie Wing, Mrs Lillian Ch »se, Eruc-t 0. i
Graham and John Sheiring.
TI mjvmi'
It Removes One of tlie Chiei
Arguments of the Silverites.
I ;
! The rise of thirteen cents a bushel In
wheat during the last thirty days, while
i silver has remuined steady or declined a
fraction, will be worth tens of thousands
j of votes to the Republican candidates.
Free coinage orators and writers have
1 . - thr* f " n '"
| products was directly due to the fall in
' 6llver. "'As silver went down," they said,
j "your wheat went down, and silver went
j down because the mints were closed
u gainst it. Consequently, unless the mints
are reopened to free coinage and silver
goes up again, your wheat must continue
j to fall."
Intelligent farmers saw the fallacy ol
this, but many others were misled by it
and were inclined to vote for the man who
promised to make money plentiful and
double the price of their wheat. The rise
of the past month in the cereal, while the
white metal has sagged, is a demonstra.
tion to these men that there is no neces
sary connection between the two, and that
I the price of farm products, like that of all
i other products, is regulated by the laws ol
supply and demand.
"False In one thing, false in all," and
seeing they have been deceived by the fre«
silver men in this vital matter the farmers
will cease to believe in the other will-o'.
the-wisp theories so alluringly presented
to them. It is immaterial in this connec
tion whether wheat is to advance still fur
ther as a result of a world wide shortage
in the yield or whether the rise has al
ready been pushod too far by skillful spec,
ulators. The fuct remains that with the
price of silver unchanged or falling the
value of wheat has risen 20 percent, in tha
world's markets, and every farmer can
see that the price of his produets does not
depend upon the price which the mine
owners get for theirs.
Wheat has fallen of late years for pre
cisely the same reason that silver hat
fallen—there was an enormous increase in
th« production of both. Mr.
Mills has recently demonstrated that the
decline in silver kept pace with the rapid
extension of railways, opening up thereto
lore inaccessible mining regions and
thereby increasing the world's output.
The great bonanzas would have added lit
tle to the supply ot silver without the rail
ways which carried in machinery and sup
plies and curried out the ore. The fall in
wheat was produced in precisely the same
way. Railway extensions in this country,
India, Kussiu and Argentina opened up
new and fertile lands. Wheat grown by
cheap and inferior labor in remote regions
came into competition in the world's mar
kets with that produced by western farm
ers. Supply increased faster than demand,
'iho result was inevitable. There was no
"silver question" in this.
And now wheat has suddenly advanced.
Why? Anything connected with this sil
ver question? Not at all. It has gone up
because the supply has decreased. Before
the new crop was made the reserves had
run very low and the yield in many coun
tries seems to lie smaller than usual. Es
timates of our own harvest vary from 890,-
000,1100 to 430,UU0,000 bushels, whereas last
year we had 4yO,OUO,UUU. Exports from
Argentina to date are less than half as
large as they were a year ago; Russia, it
is said, will have 20 per cent, less than
last year to sell, and the crop in India is so
short that wheat is now being bough t in
San Francisco for export to that country.
This is such an unprecedented incident
that the news of it was received with in.
credulity in the trade, but dispatches from
the Pacilic coast corroborated It. At any
rate the demand for our wheat abroad has
been such that since July 1 we have ox
ported no less than 45,0U0,U00 bushels.
Whether on the existing facts wheat has
already Ijoeu advanced too far or whether
it nhould go higher still is a matter we are
not discussing. What wo assert in that
farmers must be impressed with the dem
onstration that as wheat fell because of
increased supply so it rises because of a
decreased supply, and its price no more
depends upon what Mr. Jones gets for the
product of his mines than it does on the
price of sulphur in Sicily.
1 THOMAS JiJFKEKSON, 1781. *
•'The proportion between tbe val
lut-H of gold and silver In a mercantile
problem altogether."
I "Just principles will lead uu to dis
| regard legal proportion altogether; to
(inquire Into I lie market price of gold
in the several eooatrle* with which we
I shall principally he connected In com
merce, and to take an average from
tlieui."
* *
i'opocratic Itowdylsin.
According to a correspondent of tho
Meadville Tribune, an effort of some
country rowdies to break up a Republican
meeting at Uspyvllle, at which ilov. It K.
Hill was the principal speaker, will be tho
cause of substantial gains for the party in
thut district. Tho Tribune says: "Several
Democrats at the close of the meeting de
clared their intention of voting for sound
money and protection, and were led to
this conclusion as much by tho disrepu
table efforts of silverites to disturb tho
meeting us by the arguments of the
speaker."
PUTTING IT VERY SIMPLY.
Hie A, B, C of the .Honey Question for
tho Wage Earners.
Let us not got mixed up with complox
matters In connection with tho free silvor
Idea.
Lot us not befog our brain with argu
ments about tho crime of '7B, or bother
with tho many theories which the advo
cates of free silver aro giving us.
But lot us take a common sense view of
the situation.
Now, to start with.
Suppose Bryan was elocted and tho freo
coinage act had been passed, and that free
coinage was an actual fact.
Suppose that silver could be taken to
the mint and coined into silver dollars, at
a ratio of 16 to 1.
How would that effect usf
We haven't got any silver coin.
A whole lot of people who own silver
mines have it, and so they could havo it
coined into IB to I dollars; bat, not hav
ing any ourselves, we could not havo a
solitary, single dollar coined under tho
silver act.
Now, suppose, however, that all tho sil
ver mine owners and others who had sil
ver took It all to Washington or Philadel
phia, or to some other United States mint,
and had It coined into 10 to I dollars, and
Suppose so much had lioen {coined that
all the silver in tho world was made Into
10 to I dollars, and
Suppose that every one of those dollurs
wore piled in one heap right on tho next
block, uml
Suppose every singlo one of them was
worth 100 cents hero and ovorywhoro.
What good would they do us, unless wo
had something wo could trade by which
we could get one?
Woll, wo havo something to trade; every
body has.
Some have labor, so much for a dollar.
Some have lumber, so much for a dollar.
Some havo sugar or potatoes or l>oaus or
coul or something else, ull so much for a
dollar.
Wo havo advertising and subscriptions,
so much for a dollar.
When wo want one of those sliver dol
lars wo cannot go and take It; they don't
belong to us; they lielong to tho men
who took tho silver to tho mint to bo
coined.
If we took one, It would be stealing.
If we asked for one for nothing, it would
be bogging.
If the owners gave us one for nothing.
It would Is: a gift.
If we borrowi I one. It, would cost us
Interest, and so
Most of us, to get. one, must trade,
labor, lumber, sugar, coal, advertising or
something to got It
I his Is üb.sollit ,-ly and honestly so, isn't
it?
Well, being so, vrhy do wo take any
chances on the dollar?
We can get gold now.
It is worth 100 cents on a dollar every
where.
So we have supposed the silver to be,
but suppose it isn't.
What then?
What is the use of taking a chance un
less we can do better? A silver dollar
won't be worth more than 100 cents, will
itf
We are getting that no\».
Let well enough alone.
«„me say duty compels a Democrat to
back up ana rot« for » Democrat. You
have Bryan's word that he is no Demo
crat. Let him dare deny'hat he said It
Some say it is pretty bad now. Wo
might as well take a chante. It can't be
worse.
What kind of tomfoolery s this?
When our baby lay at death's door, did
we do any experimenting? We tried ev
erything which could cure, but we did not
experiment.
Are things bad in a business way?
Let us tell you something to try.
Vote down this crowd of repudiators.
Tell the world in trsmpet tones in No
vember that we want the best money,
that we will take no other, and business
will revive.
Let the capital out that Bryan and his
followers have scared under cover and
prosperity will come—N. Y. Lumber
Trade Journal.
* THOMAS JEFFEKSOX, 1784. "
"The proportion hetueon th« val
ues or gold an«l ttilver is a mercantile
problem altogether.**
"JiiMt principles will lead us to dis
regard legal proportion altogether; to
inquire into the market priee of gold
in the several countries with which
we shall principally he connected In
commerce, and to take an average
from them."
"WHAT'S THE USE?"
Sllverlten Who Try to Conceal the Tariff
Will Soon be Answered.
"What's the use of discussing the tar
iff ?" was the reply of Candidate Sibley to
the request made by one of his hearcr3
that he "say something about the tariff."
Thousands of people want Mr. Sibley "to
say something about the tariff," and yet
Mr. Sibley remains silent. But silence
will not avail him. Fortunately he has
said "something about the tariff" in the
past. In fact he has said a good deal about
the tariff. His record is clear, his un
flinching devotion to absolute free trudo
openly declared He has not changed his
belief, ho cannot blot out his record, noth
ing he can say can explain away tho dis
tress and disaster which have come from
the "first step toward free trade" that he
voted for.
Hard experience has been a bitter
teacher, but a sure one. There is "no use"
in Mr. Sibloy's discussing tho tariff. His
only hupu EXISTS in being MIII.I to turn tho
attention of the country away from it, to
make a new issue, to have the people for
get his record. But thoy will not forgot.
Ho fooled tho voters once, he tried it two
years ago, and his attempt this fail will
meet with tho same result—defeat.
Evil* of Depredated Currency.
Wo have suffered more from this de
preciated currency than from any other
cause of calamity; it has killed more men
pervaded and corrupted tho choicest inter
ests of our country more, and done more
injustice than even the arms and artlfloes
of our enemies.—Pelatiah Webster, 1781,
in "Protest Against Depreciated Money."
Evidence of a Conspiracy Lead
ing Up to the Election.
MINE OWNERS ABE IN IT,
Called on for an Assessment to
Elect the Tioket.
A VERY REMARKABLE STORY.
Thoina* S. Merrill, Secretary of the Bi
metallic League of the Silver State*,
Hai Let the Cat Out of the Bug a* to
the Conspiracy of the Sliver Mlue
Owners to Unload Their liullion on the
United States Government.
Thomas S. Morrill, secretary of the Bi
metallic League of the silver states, has let
tho cat out of tho bag as to the conspiracy
of the silver mine ownors to unload their
bullion on the United States government
In a letter he sent to tho Salt Lake Herald.
Mr. Merrill **ys in his letter:
"If Bryan is defeated we must ejtpeot to
Bee silver sold at a prlco that will bo given
It simply by Its demand for uso in the arts,
which will cortainly lie not more than
forty cents an ounoe. In vlow of then*
facts, tho owners of silver producing prop
erties can afford to contribute at least the
additional prollts they receive from their
own silver product for ono month to tho
Bryanite campaign." He closes with u
direct appeal to well known silver mine
owners, as follows:
"I appeal to Messrs. Mclntyre and Cun
ningham, of tho Mammoth; Keith and
Kearns, of tho Silver King; Chisholm
and others, of tho Centennial anil Eureka;
liyun and Knox, of tho Ajax; Packard,
of the Eureka Hill; Daly, of the Daly;
West, Deck and associates, of tliu Uulllon-
Beck; Karns worth <fc Sharp, of tho Horn
Silver, and the owners of the .Sioux, On
tario (W. li. Hearst, vice-president), and
other silver mines of this state, who can
wull alTord te assist in this cause, to llguro
up the average monthly silver product
from their mines and multiply the pro
duct of one month In ouoccs by sixty-four
oonts, which Is the additional price they
will receivo for their product—all of which
will be profit—and at once havo that
amount contributed and placed In tho
hunds of tho treasurer of the blmotulllo
parties to assist Mr. Bryan In the wonder
ful campaign hois making almost unaided.
If wo can secure the additional profits of
one month's product of tho western silver
producing mines It will insure success at
tho election on Nov. 8."
This circular of tho secretary of the Bi
metallic League of the silver states de
clares officially, and with the utmost sim
plicity, tho objects of tho sliver trust. Sec
retary Merrill declares thut free coinage
of sliver means uu addition of slxty-fOUr
cents an ounce—"all of which will be clear
prollt" to tho silver trust—on every ounce
of silver mined!
Tho production of sliver last year In the
United States was 55,727,000 flno ouncos.
Under freo coinage tho additional profit
to tho mine owners would have been |85,-
755,880. Tho government of the United
States, the people, not oven the miners
who dug the sliver out of tho rallies would
have received one penny of this additional
profit. It would huvo l>u«n puro velvet to
tho mine owners!
The Utah mine owners organized' tfst
Friday night and formed themselves lfinp
u strong alliance for mutual profit. A calf
had liecn Issued Sept. 28, and last Tuesday
night H liberal representation of tho land
ing business men of .Salt Lake City re
sponded, and several of tlje ?il vur ml up
owners to whom Mr. MrtrMll "fiftd
wore present.
Tho meetinguruated what will be knowjD
as the Aryan campaign financial commit*
tee, which will l>o a general committee to
have charge of collecting funds In Ut4b
to assist tho silver campaign. llio com
mlttee Is composed of thirty-three num
bers, including those mine owners whom
Mr. Mwrrlil directly addressed—Mossrs.
Duly, Packard, Heck, Knox, Mclntyre,
Reams, Kamsworth, Cunningham, Chls
holra and Merrill himself. This commit
tee organized at once, with It. C. C'hum-
Iters, president of the Salt Lake Herald
company, a prominent free silver organ,
as chairman Mr. Chambers, Mr. Hearst
uml Mr I I'vii. i\V > the principal owners of
tho Ont«rio and the Daly silver mlue|,
which together have already puld over
tIO,UU,iXM in mtt I
DEATHS.
HAMSKY —At her home in I'.utler, Oct.
8, 1596, Mr- J. C. Ramsey, aged o'J
years.
MAUARG—Ather Lome in Petia twp ,
Oct. 9, I*9o Mrs James Uah.irt:. in It
74ih \ ear
MeCAN"DLESS —At his home at Keiste r ,
Oct. 13. lt>l)C K L \lct. indies*. -i<« «l
about 40 years.
McGOWAN A his home inMuddycr-ek
twp . Oct. 13 I'OG I. -vi tleGo«an,i»ged
about 23 yesr-.
ALLEN* —At her home in Beaver Fulls
Oct, 8, 1890 Mr-. William Allen, ajf. il
80 years. M:c «a" th ■ widow oi \Vn>.
All»*n tt"e niiller, formerly . t Whites
town the was buried in Pro.»p<»ct
ceuie ery, Motility.
Dl'GiX —A' t'.t-r home in S Pittsburg,
ijuuilay moruii g. O 11. 1S!X! Miss
Jane Dugau ag«jt 105 years
Miss l>ug;.n v. us bom in Donegal twji,
this county; and was a sister of Matthew
and Andrew Dugan, N i (! .-.ncc deceased
Ber parents came troni Ireland, settled in
Donegal twp and helped to clear that sec
tion of the county Her brother At.(!r>-\\
died about iorty years ago, and willed her
bis f*rm, ani she gave it to S;. Paul's
monastery in l*»t suurg provided that she
be lor Ile She moved to Pittsburg
and built he.'scll u small houre about 30
years ago, but for ttn- past 14 years has
been living with » Mrs .Smith, ai.d it was
there that she died last Sunday Uer
sight, bearing and appetite were good up
to Tuesday ot last week, Kbta she missed
1 ber first uieal. She refused nourishment
alter tiiat, ami continued growing weaker
until Sunday a hen she <!i>d. Uer body
was slender, and tier lace was thin, but it
did not show ber great age. She had no
wrinkles excejiti: g abi ut the corners 01
her eyes. Three days before her deatu
she was talking to .VII a. .Miiith when a
team of while t.orses p.tss-.l down. She
raised to ber elliow and point- d out U.
Mrs. Smith the four white horses »iIU the
remark that she did not like white hor- s.
and whin rlie was dead wanted hi-r body
borne in a black hearse drawn l>y black
horses. Mrs Smith uas too inui'h a
louishoJ to reply lor aj. a minutes, ami
looked out to tee il ;he horses Jane sif
were ilet-h and blood or a vision. The
animals were ther.*, however, and proved
1 that the old lady's tyes were as good as
ever. Ste was buried in St. Michael's
cemetery, uear wheat: she lived, ou Tues
day.
Obituary Notes.
George L>u Maurier, the author ol "Tiil
by" and of the new s»rial "The Martini,''
now running in Harper's, died at his home
in London, last Thursday.
One of I)u Maurier's Iriends who w»s
present at his death, saw': "He died almost
as tragically as Svengali At the Zenith
of Trilby's tame s yeug;.li became a victim
ol au affectation of the heart, and Du
Maurer has gone the sumo way. At tho
zenith ol bis popularity the author has
succumbed to the heart trouble from which
he always snil'ered, his suffering being ac
centuated by the ccnstaui succession of
exciting incidents in which the closing lew
months of his life were spent 1 hecks
rained in upon him as his old heart, trouble
increased. This, complicated by an affec
tion of the lungs, took him off "
RIGJJU
■ ROVALI"'A
IIS
1110
*AKIH*
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
A cream ol tartar basing powder liigl.
est of all in leavening strength .—Latent
luited Status Government Food Report.
Pikiko powiikkC oh* wall si N. V
J. IJ, liRf.DIN,
Attorney At Law
Office on .Main St.. near Court Ho ust Mutler
Pa.
S. H. PIER SOL.
attorney at law.
Otlice nt No. 104 Kast Diumoun H'
A. r. SCOTT,
ATTOUNHY.AT-J.AW
ffli:i> ai N«. d. Houti Dl inio'.rt. better. F« .
NEWTON BLACK.
•try at. Law—omce on Sotn.h st'ie or iMa'nond
DnrjAr. )'n.
ALEX RUSSELL.
Attorney-al-Law.
Ollico with Newton Black, Siti
South Diamond, Hutlor °a.
C. F. L McQuistl»n.
6'lVlli KNOINKKtt A«il> gnUVKYOtt
Oilice wear Court House Butler Pa
DR. J. E KAULK
Daniisl
Painless extraction—No lias—Crown
and bridge .vork a specially
Office—ln Gilkey building oppt sitel'. 0.
DK. S. A. JOHNSTON
.DENTIST - - BUTLER, PA
«io]<l Killing rainless K.unction ol 'veeth
iid Arlltleisil leel.li wtili >'< Ha'ci a spei lalt>
tirous Oxide or Vital l*"'l Air or Loca.
uwstlietles used. . .
« Miller's grocery L'HMt o' rj
ouae.
olOfflcrt oHed s uml Tnnrfflfcv'
L. S. McJUNKIH
I nsu>*ance and Heal Estate
Agent
;7 EAST JKFFEKSON ST.
HUTFiKR a
Dr. N. M. HOOVER,
11|37 K. Wayne si. . otl'ce hours. )<• in U M. an
It J :I P. M
L. BLACK.
ft*ll VHTCT ATI AN!) RUROICON,
n'i!w nniKiintr. Butler. !*a.
DR. CHAS R B HUNT,
Physician ano Surgeon
Eye, far, noso and throat a specialty
132 nrui L'J4 F. M»ir. Htrcot.
Ralnton building.
VV H. BROWN,
Honicoopalhiu i-hyslclan a fid
Surgeon.
OlVce ?-'W M. Main St.. opp. I". <>.
Kcti'lngce .'il". N. McKeau St.
Kor bale
A farm of '2O acres, will, a seven rnovi.
bouse, good Iruit, orchards, well water,
good spring at the house,spring house and
convenioPt out-huildings. Will sell cheap
or exchange fcr town property, about a
miles irom iiutler.
For particulars inquire at ttls office.
COULTER & liAKER.
ATTOItNKVS AT I.AW.
H. 11. (iOUCHER.
'Motiiry-aC-ili". In Wit. 1 .-IM.ulMlo
It'll lor f'a.
ok. y 'i • - *
Den? Ist.
Kortnerlv known as the '' l '!..f,'.'.!'.!'" SS , '^lld
1 hXTKAfTOII Ol* I ' I'll LOUit« <l
iicruiiiiie..tly lit 111 KaM .1. • IT. r».!SI . « .pp. ~lt
lloi« a l l.mvrv. liutler. Will do l»« .ji.il oju-r.i
tioua of all kiwis by tl»« latest devices una up
to <la«c methods.
j. j. DONALDSON, Dentist.
Jiutlar, Ponn'a. I
Artificial Ttttli Ins'Tt'-i' 1,0 I
l..ved plan. < .<n.t rillln - i IT"' I 'l> V L>r I
.•'■r * "'»lt' ll: t' K
v. M. vi,-*LP{Nr
DontiSt,
Wain
>laeHtl»eticb Adoiiniatefed. j
[* THOMAS JEM KRSON, 1784. *
"Tlio proportion brtwrfn the ral
dch of jjotil Hint silver M a mercantile
problem altogether."
•••lust principle* will lend ua to dl*-
I regard legal proportion altogether: to
Inquire into the market price of goltl
in the several countries with which
we shall principally he connected in
.commerce, and to take an average
from them."
• *
Wage learners and Wage I'ayeas.
Under our present system every dollar
of wages must be paid with a good dollar,
one that will buy a full dollar's worfti of
anything its owner wants.
Why should any wage earner desire to
change the coudition of things? Why
should he wish to lie paid in dollars that
will buy less than a dollar's worth?
And as for the employer. He has some
thing to sell Every dollar he now gets
for it is a good dollar. Why should he
wish to change the .-arsroin and sell Wfta
goods for dollars that will buy less than a
dollar's worth?
It is asked whether, if the employer
could pay wages in 51 cent dollars, he
would not In- sure to favor free coinage.
A short sighted view. The employer has
other things to buy besides labor. He
must know far in advance what he has to
pay for material and what he is to get for
his product. A dollar of shifting value
may mean ruin. N Y. World.
Won
derfui, exclaimed a druggist, how the people
stick to Hood's Sarsaparilla. They all want
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
The One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. sl.
Hood's Pills cure all f.iver Ills. cents.
Why He Figures
\
•,TB W -
P- * iSr - 'Tr\?
/<£ - '<r •
~ U" 7k- ■' 1
,}
it takes figuring just at this time
to make both ends ltirt, and now
winter is almost here and you
must be prepared for bad weather.
You Must Have Good Footwear
you .vant to buy it cheap, not too
cheap for at this time of the year
it must be good. We can't praise
our fall stock too highly for never
before have we been in shape to
offer high grade footwear at such
low prices as we are now.
Bread Winners List
Men's Stag Hoots s'-5°
Boy's Stag lioots 1.25
Youths' Stag Boots 1.00
Ladies' Calf and Oil Grain
Shoes 1. 00
I.adies' Warm Shoes 65c, 75c and
j>l .00
Child's School shoes 50c, 75c and
#1 .CO.
We Defy Competition
Ladies, Miss, Youths :<nd Chil
dren's Rubber Boots at the uniform
prices of SI.OO.
Boys Rubber Baots, sizes 1 to 6
$1.50.
Men's Felt Boots and Ovets fi.so.
Ladies' Neat Felt Boots and Overs
s!,<*>.
Boy's Felt Boots and Overs It2s>
for,'goods and low prices try
Butler's Progressive Shoa House.
2i5 South Main St., BUTLER PA
C. ii MILLER,
A. M. CHRISTLEY,
ATIOIfNKY AT LAW.
onice on North Diamond Htree'. opposite tho
i ourt House Lower Floor.
J M PAINTER,
Al lot noy- at-Law.
'lire -l»"t.wenn >' utolll nnd i> iraonrt, luil< r
f i
A. T. BLACK.
AT'IORN. Y AT I.AW.
Room J— Aiimiy Building.
r. H. ~i.l MERMAN.
rUTSIOtAN AND HtJIIOBOI',
ora •at No. •»*. H. H'ulii stm t, CV' r «it
l.:irtimi j.Hiitler. Pn.
SAMUEL M. BIPPUS.
Physician and Surgeon.
*nn went Cunningham st.
AT J R. (JRIRB'S
2 and '<-i Do Not Make Five.
It's tjiiitc ;t problem to please
everyone's taste in any line you
may select and particularly ol
jewelry, silver novelties, cut jjlass,
etc., but I'm sure you will find
what you want in my larpje stock
ami at such prices that defy com
petition. 1 am making a spc.
cialty of nobby ;iu<! find Goods
and want your trade.
J. B. MIEL
118 IU'JIKAIH ST
lAsbury Park.
Aybttry Park lias the tr- '"-ichoii the,
roust of New Jersev, ftii'l
"IHn f-liNIJVWRE"
is tlic l«-st place to lop while there. For
ti i ills ad lire .s,
i lios. NOl'.Ll'.,
Asbury l'urk, N. J. '
jFour of the Best |
| BED-ROOM 1
1 SUITS . |
jln America, I
sgj At Prices Quoted.ge
Wi No. 1. BEDROOM SUIT £ f g\ ®
«, r?) hard-' wood, antique 1
*Bl finish at . (PlUg
trimmings, beveled mirrorfSs
inwf
y° Ll ex P ect to find at the price. g
No< 2 • BED, ROOM SUIT** 4ft H!
«r J-i \I j' \ harcWood. antique
finish at . (PlOl
Brass trimmings, large
mirror and a first class suit, You can payjS
more money and get a poorer suit. f§s
3. SUIT, solid oak,
polish finish at , M
Cast brass trimmings, large bevel, it M
cd mirrow, finished like a high priced suit andjSjS
JiHi made up better than some of the high pricedfEj
goods you have seen. |j|?C
4. SUIT, solid oak, /tt% |y ]^|
polish finish at .
y~>» Cast brass trimmings, oval mir, it KJr Kj {He
ror. The two small upper drawers have swellfgg
fronts, rope work on side posts that support thcfegC
mirror. Side posts of bed are also rope work, £2
The finest Suit for the money we have ever fag
jSjcOME IN AND LOOK AROUND, §
Irampbcll ft Templeton J
j|j BUTLER, PENN'A, j
I£!^E2EES^!^2Z2:
j Silver or Gold+++:
A Of any denomination, from ten-cent piece to dol
lars, will be cheerfully taken in our boys' and girls ,
A department for all solid School Shoes—and the
shoes will be the newest of the new, for our entire
liie of Fall Shoes have arrived. Especial atten-
M tion is directed to immense line of Service Shoes.
► 3 One dollar will be i
U Taken in Exchange* i
For a pair of these Service Shoes to fit a boy or A
A girl of eight. Large or small sizes in proportion.
This Service line has been thoroughly tested. ,
A This is the third winter for this line. We know
they are good. Every pair wart anted. Hoys'
W2 Satin Calf Lace Shoes at 75 cents, sizes 11 to 2.
These are the lowest prices
3 For New Shoes ++: :
>1 i
A For boys, that have been made this season.
Larger sizes 3to 5.3, at 85 cents. Boys' all solid K
A boots, and lower prices than you have ever bought
them.
lAL RDFF & SON,
A 114 South flain Street. H
[4r
L A A A A H dh rt i
FRANKLIN
HOUSE
KSTABMSIIKD 1837.
Cor. Bates and Larned Sts.,
DETROIT, MICH.
Only n Block from Woodward and Jcffersoi
Ave*. Very Central. Near All Car Lines.
£.so"' H. H. JAMES, Prop
WICK.
DKALKE IK
Rough and Hoiked Lumber
lit AL~ KIHC«
Dours, Snsh, Blinds, Mouldings,
Shingles and Lath
Always In Stock.
UMt . HAIR AND PLASTIiK
ClB<» oppoiiito P. A W. n«i ot,
PP ' LVK
Hotel Willard.
Ilvupcncd and now ready for the
accommodation of thf traveling'pub
lic.
Rvorythinp in flrst-c art- Myle
MRS. MATTIE REIHING, Owner
N H BKOOKS. Clerk.
f & ALL OTHERS FAIL
>! \ LOBB
■: "V» Nril sT.,!MIIU m VA.
,• t .. km i p itct!<«'|ii (lioruri' of ah
.! •. • it > t> rfr»m whr
• OOI«
IU.. I'J •• (-'.,1.1 JWuuJ liuu* luatM
kWU,
What is Your Need?
If you need any
thing in the furnish
ing line we can sup
ply you. It you
want a hat or cap
we can show you the
best Up -To - Date
stock in the county,
at very low prices.
Colbert & Dale.
242 S. Main St., Butler, Penn'a
I I
<p. purr tjoqt- _P[TTSpuwo, PJL ?