TION. ident and Vice-President at the head of the group of electors. line enclosing the column indicates a vote for lent to a mark opposite every name in the column. FOR A STRAIGHT TICKET] o MARK WITHIN THECIRCLE SOCIALIST. ror PresidentAVicePresidentM DEBS I AND ■ HADPIMAM^ PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. (Mark 32) Harry J. Staub, John H. Lewis, Emil Guwang, Henry Peter, Ernest G. Muehlman, William H. Adams, Charles H. Levan, Andrew P. Bower, Frank W. Hirt, Peter C. Heydrick, Charles A. Anderson, Jacob Etter, L. D. Johnson, Herman Henrichs, Thomas Ashmore, John Kirn, John Simon, Albert Malac, William J. White, Joseph G. Both, Anthony Becker, John G. Lyons, Alfred P. Bye, J. Conrad Wanner, Andrew J. McVey, Frederick W. Long, Thomas Whitworth, Gabriel Joseph, William Feinhals, Frederick Mossdorf, William Kelley, Harvey W. Shay, AUDITOR GENERAL. Nym Seward. | Representative-at-Large in Congress. John W. Clayton, Edward Kuppinger. j I .1 I L_ L_ The voter may insert in the column below, the name of any person whose name is not printed on the ballot for whom he desires to vote. This column Is for the use of voter* desiring to vote for candidates other than those whose name* uppear printed on this ballot. For President and Vice-President. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. (Insert 32) AUDITOR GENERAL. Representative-at-Large in Congress. Representative in Congress. Keprsentative in the General Assembly. ASSOCIATE JUDGE. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. JURY COMMISSIONER. CORONER. Whereas, by the laws of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania it shall l>e the July of the Sheriff of every county at least ten days before any election to be held therein (except for township and borough officers) to give notice of the same oy proclamations posted up in the most public places in every election dis trict and by advertisements in at least two newspapers if there be so many pub lished in the county representing so far as practicable the political parties which at the preceeding election cast the largest and next largest number of votes and to enumerate the officers to be elected and give a list of all the nominations except for election officers and assessors to be voted for in said county so far as may be in the torm in which they shall appear upon the ballot and to designate the places at which the election is to be held. Therefore I, IT. W. Osier, High Sheriff of Sullivan county, do hereby make known and proclaim to the «jualified elec tors of Sullivan county that an election will be held in the said county on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1000, at the several election districts in th« county, to wit: Bernice Precinct, at the Knights of Labor Hall in Bernice. Cherry township, at the new township house near l)u»hore. Colley township, at the Colley House. Davidson township, at the public house of Ellis Swank, in Sonestown. Dushore liorough, at the Town Hall in said borough. Kagles Mere Borough, at Hotel Kagles Mere. Klkland township, at the new election house at Eldreilsville. Forks township, at the election house. Forksville Borough, from Forksville house to rooms known as Council Rooms in said borough. Fox township, at the township house at Shunk. IHllsgrove township, at rooms in house of Mrs. Anna Saddler, beneath the hall of I. <•. O. F. in said village. •lamison City precinct, at Kiles Hotel. I.aporte Borough, at the ladies' waiting room in the Court House. Laporte township, at the house of Hen ry Kohensparger. I.opez precinct, at public hall known as Lopez. Hall. Mt. Vernan precinct, at the township house. ltiugdale precinct, at the house of John Walsh. Ricketts precinct, at the school house near Ricketts. Shrewsbury township, at house of Nel son Bennett. At which time and place the qualified electors will elect by ballot the following State and County officers to wit:Thirtytwo persons tor Presidential Electors for Penn sylvania, two persons for Congressman-at large from Pennsylvania, one person for Auditor General, one person for Member of Congress, one person for Member of Assembly for Sullivan county, one person lb'Associate Judge of the Court of Com mon Pleas of Sullivan county, one person lor District Attorney, one person for Jury Commissioner, one person lor Coroner for _ said county. It is further directed that the election l>olls of the several districts shall be open ed at seven o'clock in the forenoon and continue o|ien without interuptiou or adjournment until seven o'clock in the evening, when the |K>lls shall be closed. 3 Notice is hereby given that every* person except Justice of the Peace who shall hold an office or an appointment of profit or trust under the United States of this State or city or corporated district,wheth er a commissioned officer or otherwise, a subordinate officer or agent, who is or ~ shall be employed under the Legislative Executive or Judiciary Department of this State, or of the I'nited States or of ! any city or of any incor|>orated district and also that every Member of Congress and of the State Legislature and of the select or common council of any city or commissioners of any incorporated dis trict. is by iaw incapable of holding or ■ exercising at the same time the office of appointment of Judge, Inspector or Clerk ot an election ot this Commonwealth and that no inspector, Judge or other ~ officer of any such election shall be eligi ble to be then voted lor. The Inspectors and Judge of the election shall meet at - the respective places appointed tor hold ing the election in the districts to which they respectively belong, lie lore seven o'clock in the morning and each Inspector ■diull appoint one Clerk who shall be a 11) a 1 itied voter ol such district. H. W.OSLHIIijdi Sheriff. Sheriff's •'ffice, Laporte.Pa.. t >ct li'J. 1900. ; \ craven enough to be his tools. And that the people of the nortk wllk again submit to conscription, when there 1b no hope of exemption, we • do not for a moment believe* On * every hand we hear resoluteT and ( determined men declare that they 3 j will enter the army under no cir- V j cumstances whatever; from every \ | quarter we hear complaints and i threats of open resistance to the , enforcement of the coming draft, and if we are to judge by these signs there is danger and dark ness ahead. '• So long as there was a chance for escape—so long as money would buy life, Just so long were our peo ple willing to wait and hope, to suffer and submit. But now when that privilege is taken from them —when the only road leading from this "door of death" is closed— when this administration, that has butchered as many on the battle- 1 \ fields of the south, as it received ! votes at the polls, leaves them no alternative but to stand by each other at home or die in the "slaughter pens" along the borders 4 it is easy to imagine which they I will choose, and what the effect 112 of that choice will be. Anarchy | and confusion is but little In the t advance, destruction and death but J await their time, and nothing but j witholding the merciless hand of 1 conscription can turn them aside, 112 Let Abraham Lincoln and his ad visers take warning. It is no false alarm that is sounded, for the de termination of the people is fixed and this bloody butchery must cease. If they are determined to force them to the point when for bearance ceases to be a virtue, Upci their heads will be the re sponsiuility. Let them awake, for the danger is near —as close as the sth day of September—and they alone can avert it. Another editorial In the same issue read: ALL FOR WHAT. This nation In the day of its great est prosperity clamored for "a change." None knew why. It was peaceful, it was happy, it was great, but the demon spirit which now rules the land sowed the seeds of discontent and wanted change. They made a change, and hundreds of thousands were rush ed to war. Rivers of blood have been flowing from that day to this. Hun dreds of thousands have been slaugh tered or clippled, billions of debt have been created, immense sums have been extorted, and all for what? The ad ministration is today stamping, tax ing, conscripting, dragging husbands from their wives and families to be slaughtered, and all for what? To gratify an Ignorant administration and to liberate the nigger. This Union never would have been destroyed but for their unconstitutional action. It might have been compromised but for their madness. Peace might today be acquired but for their fanaticism. How long must the nation suffer to gratify the vanity of a buffoon? MEEK AND HIS ALLIES. Not content with his own treason able editorials in the Bellefonte Dem ocratic Watchman during the days of the rebellion, P. Gray Meek quoted freely from the most rabid copperhead Democratic newspapers throughout the country. The organs of the Democ racy were in sympathy with the south ern rebels, and they undoubtedly pro longed the war many months. In the issue of Meek's paper of July 22, 1864, was quoted this editorial from the Carbon County (Pa.) Democrat: THE TREASURY HAREM. Father Abraham deserves to be pit ied. It seems the jokea are not all re served for him. Every now and then his pets and favorites will play the joke upon him. Thus his contractors will steal, his custom house officials will engage in the blockade trade, in the south his civil officers will engage in the cotton business, his electioneer ing schemes in Florida and South Carolina have come to grief, and, last but not least, the sanctified spot where greenbacks are generated has been turned into a harem. From evidence now before the coun try we learn that the treasury building —the greenback room especially—has of late been the scene of such nightly orgies and moral defilement as will shock and shame humanity. The evi dence Is that two of the pets of Secre tary Chase, superintendents of the greenback department, have been in the habit of getting young women em ployed under them in their private apartments late at night and there furnishing them with intoxicating drinks, through which they have man aged to commit deeds of the most out rageous and defiling character. A mere recital of the evidence as ad duced is too indecent for public print. It is a burning shame that our public edifices should be turned into dens of vice and that the authors of the Infamy should be retained In their positions. Where now are our pious war clergy, who see glory In confiscation and emancipation, in negro equality and the loss of white men's rights? Will they not ask that the country may be delivered of the Augean stable of the treasury department? Where, too, are our virtuous nboll tion contemporaries with their hot blasts of fiery indignation? They see much of sin in slavery. Do they see any In the greenback room? Or will they excuse their doings us a military necessity or a Joke on Old Abe? If they be the honest patriots they repre sent themselves to be, let them ex pose these defilements, let them purge the temple of mammon, let them urge the reiuovul of these violators und de buuehers of female virtue. We repeat. The greut joker is to be pitied. He has found himself In bad company, lie may try to do the hon est thing, but the rats are numerous and ravenous. Carbon County Demo crat. LINCOLN CALLED A BLACKGUARD. In the same Issue of the Meek's Democratic Watchmau this quotation from the lewlsburg Argus appeared: "BLACKGUARDS ' —What Is far son Brownlow, one of the delegates to the Baltimore convention, but a vile blasphemer and a "blackguard?" What Is Jim l.une, an abolition sen ator, but a filthy mouthed blasphemer. blackguard" and habitue of deus Of prostitution and Intemperance? A Vote in the Republican Circle is a Vote to Con* tinue Prosperity. < WILL YOU VOTE AGAINST IT? What is Thad Stevens, an abolition congressman, but a thing without character and principle? What is Stanton, the abolition secre tary of war, but a bigoted blasphemer and "blackguard?" What is Lincoln, the abolition presi dent, a low jester, an apish, vainglori ous "blackguard?" Who but a "black guard" would have converted Wash ington city into a reeking, filthy, noxi ous, loathsome haunt of harlots, thieves, murderers and gamblers, as has Lincoln? Who but a "black guard" could join a festive party of partisans and indulge in uncouth jokes and merriment while the country is clotted with its own blood and the air is filled with the Bhrleks of suffering and the moans of bereavement, as does Lincoln? Who but a "blackguard" would request another to sing rev eller's ditty amid the dead and suf fering, as did Lincoln at Antietam? — Lewlsburg Argus. „ INDICTMENT AGAINST MEEK. ' This is a copy of the indictment found against Meek in the United States court: In the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania. Western district of Pennsylvania, ss.: The grand inquest of the United States of America now inquiring in and for the western district of Pennsylvania upon their oaths and solemn affirmations respectively do present: That heretofore, to wit: On the 22d day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, an enroll ment of the national forces under and in pursuance of an act of con gress of the United States, entitled ."An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes, approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and the supple ments thereto, had been made in and for the Eighteenth enrollment district of the state aforesaid, and the president of the United States had assigned to said Eighteenth enrollment district aforesaid the number of men to be furnished by said district, and thereupon the en rolling board in and for said dis trict duly appointed were on the day and year aforesaid under the direction of the president of the United States engaged in making a draft for the required number of men ,and one hundred percentum in addition as required by the act of congress aforesaid. And the In quest aforesaid, upon their oaths and affirmations, aforesaid do fur ther say that one Peter Gray Meek, late of the district aforesaid, edi tor, on the twenty-second day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty four, at the district aforesaid and within the Jurisdiction of their court in a certain public newspaper called "The Democratic Watch man," unlawfully did counsel the drafted men of the said Eighteenth enrollment district to resist said draft and unlawfully counseled the drafted men thereof not to appear at the appointed place of rendez vous, and did willfully dissuade the drafted men of said Eighteenth en rollment district from the perform ance of the military duty required of them by law contrary to the form of the act of congress in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the said United States. And the inquest aforesaid, upon their oaths and solemn affirma tions aforesaid, do further present that heretofore, to wit: On the eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, the presi dent of the United States, pursuant to the authority in him vested by the laws of the United States, had ordered a draft to be made of five hundred thousand men for the mil itary service of the United States, from those liable to do military duty, and enrolled under the pro visions of an act of the congress of the United States, approved the third day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and entitled "An act for enrolling nnd calling out the national forces, and for other purposes," and the supplements thereto. And the in quest aforesaid, upon their oaths and affirmations aforesaid do fur ther present that one Peter Gray Meek, late of said district, editor, on the twenty-second day of July. In the year of our lxird one thou sand eight hundred and sixty four, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of taking of this Inquisition at the district aforesaid and within the jurisdiction of this court, contriv ing and intending to Incite those drafted into the military service, pursuant to the authority and laws aforesaid, to resist said draft, and to incite and procure such drafted men to assault and obstruct the of ficers of the United States, acting under the authority of the presi dent thereof, 111 the performance of their service in relation thereto. In a certain public news|>aper printed and published at llellefonte. In the county of Centre. In the district aforesaid, called "The Itemocratlc Watchman." with force and arms, unlawfully did counsel those draft ed Into the military service of the United States pursuant to the au thority aud laws aforesaid, to re sist said draft and to assault and obstruct the officers of the Untied I State* eUKaged In luaklug said draft, and did uubllelr. wlllfullv and: unlawfully t>y public and ad vised discourse in said public news paper dissuade those drafted into the military service of the United States from performing the mili tary duty required of them by law, contrary to the form of the act of congress of the United States. In ' such case made and provided, and t against the peace and dignity of | the said United States | R. B. CARNAHAN, 2 United States Attorney, 112 United States of America) 5 Western District of >ss 112 Penna. ) !I, S. C. McCandless. clerk of the district court of the United States for said district, do hereby certify ( that the foregoing pages contain a I true correct copy of the Indictment * in No. 18, May term, 1865, so full a iand entire as the same remains on Die in this 6fflce. Witness my hand and the seal of said court at Pittsburg, this 24th day of May, A. D. 1865. S. C. M'CANDLESS. Clerk. THREE INTERESTING LETTERS. There were three important letters found among the papers including the Meek indictment. They speak for themselves. The first letter reads: Curwensville, July 24, 1865. Messrs. Alexander & Orvis. Gents: When I left your town I promised to write you concerning Mr. Meek's case. 1 am authorized by one of the parties prosecuting to ask you if Mr. M. would as soon pay three hun dred dollars as stand a trial. Let me know by return mail. If accepted I will not notify witnesses. Truly. B. HARTSHORN. The second letter reads: Bellefonte, Pa., July 26, 1865. Benjamin Hartshorn, Esq., Dear Sir: We are instructed to an swer your question in the affirmative. When, where and to whom is the pay ment to be made? Would It not be better for the sake of appearances for you to subpoena your witnesses? An swer by return mail. Respectfully, ORVIS & ALEXANDER. The third letter is as follows: Curwensville, July 31, 1865. Cyrus Alexander, Esq., Dear Sir: Mr. Meek's case is with drawn. The United States district at torney requested me to notify the wit nesses to that effect, which 1 have done. Yours respectfully, B. HARTSHORN. MEEK PROMISED TO BE GOOD. The case against Mr. Meek was final ly disposed of by the district attorney moving a nolle prosse after there were absolute assurances that Meek would not repeat the offense. While he did not make as wild statements as before his arrest, Meek continued to show antipathy to the Union cause, and he to this day is looked upon as one of the most radical of Bourbon Democrats. The veterans of the civil war and the Sons of Veterans, who number many thousands in Pennsylvania, will, no doubt, take care of Mr. Meek's case at the coming election. There were many patriotic Democratic soldiers in the Union army who had no sympathy with the work of men like Meek, and in the recent war with Spain and in the present insurrection in the Philippines there are hundreds of Democrats serv ing in the regular army who resent the nomination of a man who holds the views entertained by Candidate Meek. They are decidedly opposed to the policy of the present Bryan leadership of the Democratic party and look upon the so-called anti-imperialistic cam paign as calculated to keep the Fili pinos fighting in the hope that a Dem ocratic victory would mean the recog nition of their claim to control the Philippines. MEEK HAS NOT CHANGED. Meek's attitude and sentiments re garding the McKinley administration and the American troops in the east are given In an editorial paragraph In last week's issue of his newspaper, in which he said: The truth has finally become known. American soldiers have been guilty of looting in China. They seized (400.000 In gold at Tien Tain, which was looting, since we had no war with China and the seizure could not come under the head of confiscations al lowed under the rules of war. The leopard cannot change Its spots. II l!_ 1 i; |j "Listen, my Democratic frienda and neighbors, for 1 |j have frienda and neighbors In this city, which is my home; listen to what I am about to say. When the [[ Democratic party autago nltea and attacks the ad |j ministration of President McKinley—upon Its policy in |j Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands —THK DEMOCRATIC PARTY 18 || CAMPINO IN THE GRAVE || YARD OF DEAD ISSUES ' |' || —From a speech delivered i 1 by the Hon Webster Davis 1 j| In October. IMS, to the Re- I publicans of Kansas City, Mo., when the first meetlug ww held In the drat Conven tion Hall that was only part ly completed w 11^ <- i- - «-. ■*
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