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Pa We carry in stock at all times a complete line of everything usually found in a large general store. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT! For Fine Dry Goods, Groceries, No- tions, Country Produce, Miners’ Sup- plies, ete., our place is HEADQUARTERS. all and be convinced. C. E. STATLER & BRO. HAY'S HOTEL, Salisbury, Penn’a. This elegant NEW . THREE- STORY HOTEL is one of the best equipped hostelries in Som- erset county. Modern Iquipments of all kinds, such as Steam Heat, Warm and Cold Baths, Tele- phone, IFine Bar, ete. Centrally located with fine sur- roundings. Tables supplieed with the best the markets afford. Rates reasonable. C.D. HAY, Proprietor. Fintublishod. P.S. HAY, —DEALER IK— a ~q Lo Dry Goods Notions, Tats and Caps, 13o0ots GROCERIES, QUEENSWARE, TOBACCO, CIGARS, ETC. SALISBURY, 153, and Shoes, PA. CM. MAY, —THE— I.eading Barber. Hair-dressing, Shaving, Shampooing and Hay Dyeingdone in the finest style of the art. Razor Repairing A Specialty. Soaps, Tonics and other Barbers’ Sup- plies for sale at all times. Snoop OrPosITE HAYS HOTEL, Salisbury, Pa. FRANK PETRY & SONS CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS, ELK LICK, PA. Contracts taken, Estimates promptly furnished and neat and substantial work guaranteed. B. KRAUSSE wf iii, lepuiring a specialty. Satisfaction guaratiteed: i ‘state treasury. - “funds.” THE PEOPLES BATTLE “ager. 5 Over $500,000 More of State Money in a Fallen Political Bank fiw. « in Philadelphia. THE CASHIER DIES A SUICIDE. Wanamaker’s Words Proving True. Fresh Stories of How State Funds Are Used to Further Priyate Ends. Mr. Wanamaker to Begin a Tour of the State—One Hundred Speakers to Help—Busliness Men’s League Taking Action—Wanamaker Endorsed. (From Our Own Correspondent.) March 29.—The sensa- of Harrisburg, tional failure of the People’s bank, Philadelphia, containing over $500,000 of | state money and the suicide of its cashier has added fresh emphasis to the fearless statements of Hon. John Wan- amaker that Pennsvlvania is in the grip of a relentless and shameless oli- garchy. Here was a bank, owned and of only $150,000, but which contained $505,000 of the people’s money of which today no one can say how much will be saved or lost. The crash of the People's bank was preceded by the suicide of its cashier, James S. Hopkins, and the collapse of ! the Guarantors’ Trust company, also a | Philadelphia concern run by politicians. The People’s bank, a politiical concern, whose principal business has been to hold large deposits of the peonle’s money and loan it out at interest for the benefit of a handful of politicians, worked hand in hand with the Guaran- tors’ company, also a political concern that Insurance Commissioner Lambert has shown rotten to the core. A NOTORIOUS POLITICAL BANK. It has been a notorious fact in Penn- sylvania for vears that the People’s bank, of Philadelphia, with James Mc-~ »Ianes as president, has been the dis- bursing concern for every state poli- ticlan of note. It held large sums of state funds, and in return for this it discounted notes of state politicans, holding the state money as security for these political loans. In an inter- view in Washington the other day Senator Quay stated that he had a note in the bank. No statements have been made by any other state politicians as to their indebtedness to the concern. By this strange chain of suicide and disaster is fully proven all that has been charged against the corrupt man- ipulation of the state treasury. It is now explained why the Republican ma- chine, through its henchmen and mouthpieces in the house and senate in the last corrupt legislature fought so hard to prevent the state from collect- ing interest on its money held bv banks and bankers over the state. It wanted to have the benefit of this money to trade upon. The spectacle is now presented in the calamity which has overtaken this bank of state money, taxpayers’ funds, being heaped up in vast sums in a bank that had only $150,000 capital stock. NO MONEY FOR SCHOOLS. All over the state complaints have been made about failure to obtain school founds long overdue from the The statement was given out by the state treasurer that there were not funds on hand to meet these calls, but on last Fridav, while school districts .were clamoring for their cash and were told that there was none on hand, the state treasurer had $505,000 in cash to his credit in a rotten bank !! This is a problem for the people of Pennsylvania to study, and also to solve at the next election. Hon. John Wanamaker stands for decent politics and honesty in the state treasury. He has pledged his honor as a man and a Christian gentleman to see that the money of the peonle is cared for and is not expended uselessly and thrown away in jobs for corrupt politicians. He proposes to carry the fight against political rottenness and the Quav machine into every school district in the state, and if the pecnle want release from this machine that is grinding them to the earth and rob- bing them through purchased elections, as was the case in Lancaster county, where $227,000 was spent to defeat Sen- ator Kauffman for renomination, they can obtain a release by placing Mr. Wanamaker This is the sentiment of the decent Republican newspapers of the state. The Philadelphia Press, the organ of the Republican party in point of brains, integrity and position among the peo- ple, speaking of the People’s bank crash, says: ROTTEN DBANKS—ROTTEN POLI- TICS. “Rotten politics and rotten business have gone hand in hand in the failure of the People’s bank. been in politics, and rotten politics. It was organized by politicians for poli- ticians. It stood for corrupt combina- tions between corporations, politicians and public officers. All its profit did not come from this, but a very large share did. It has always had ‘in- fluence.” It has always profited by it. Organized by an ex-state treasurer, it has always had state funds. It has held city funds. Jt has held other It was a clearing house for personal profit, some doubtless legal and some not, but none would bear the light of day. “Politicians brought their personal ef- forts to this scheme for profit. Public officers brought the public money in- trusted to them. The bank received fit, dealt in it, profited by it and divided the spoils. By law this is legal. It is sanctioned by long custom. None the less it is wrong. Public money is/a public trust. If there is interest on it the state should have it. If there is a profit in its deposit the taxpayer should get the bencfit of it. Any other course is morally, if not legally, a diversion of public money to private profit. 2 GROWTH OF CRIME. “For 28 years this has gone on in the People’s bank. Such things rot. Men in the governor's chair. | cannot wateh year afrer year Immoral and flltcit xain, however legal it may be, without losing first their moral in- stincts and next all distinction between right and wrong. | | The unfortunate | cashier of the People's, who has paid | with his life for his fault, who for a score of years had seen a political pull turning public moneys to private gain, laid hands at length on the property | of the bank and used it for his own gain and that of others. “Doubtless he expected to repay it. So have all the public officers in this | state who have used their legal power over state and city moneys for private profit. These examples are contagious and it goes odd but that weak men will improve on an ill example, and the result is the ruin of a bank, the loss of life and a reputation more precious than life and another deadly blow to business confidence in this city. “These blows are inevitable as long as rotten politics exist in this state. If the state treasurv is made the center of a great network of operations under which the interest on state monev is divided between banks and politicians some banks are sure to be rotten. They sanctioned though it be by law, with- out suffering for it. The munity suffers. The gigantic political of all three between public politicians, political workers and cor- rupt voters is not merely a political scandal, it is a rotten moral wrong which destroys all concerned. CLEAN POLITICS NEEDED. “Bribery develops in councils. Banks break. Corporations like the Guaran- tors’ prove mere swindles. . cannot share in this legalized iniquity, | whole com- | | dip. which divides and distributes the spoils |, 4 polished. officers, | soot; | moval I side oil filler; a beauty; a marvel; a won- der, | 1898 and no wheelman or driver can Men once | honest sink into personal corruptionand | end in suicide. There is only one cure for the long, dismal, disastrous exam- ples of this which Philadelphia has en- | dured for a genecration—clean politics. | Unless the political machine and com-.| bination which makes these things pos- sible can be smashed they will go on in- | definitely, debauching the community | and injuring honest trade by the shock | to public confidence.” CORRUPTION IN COUNCILS. During the past week the whole country has rung with the story of cor- ruption in Philadelphia councils. How councilmen were offered bribes from $500 to $5,000 to vote for the Schuylkill Valley water bill, a scheme whereby the water system of the city was to be run in such a way that it would ulti- mately cost the city from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000. that they had been offered bribes of $5,000 each, while another confessed under oath that he had received $500 cash to help bring the nefarious bill out of committee. Newspapers all over the Union have been pointing the finger of scorn at Philadelphia and Pennsylvania because of their political rottenness. And what is the showing? LEADERS’ LEAGUE AGAIN. Every one of the men implicated in the corrupt and malodorous bribery proceedings are men who were identi- fied with the late notorious Leaders’ League, of Philadelphia, the machine combination that represented Senator Quay and his faction in Philadelphia politics. The men‘ found guilty charged with complicity are the friends and henchmen of the Leaders’ This league, it will be remembered, was declared in these letters to be a sham and pretense. It pretended to be for purity in politics, and it spent days and weeks denouncing Secretary of State David Martin and the regular Republican organization in Philadel- phia as boodlers, political crooks and everything vile that it could think of. The Leaders’ League was for ‘‘purity in politics’ it said. What is the re- sult, in the light of the investigations of the courts? That the friends of the Leaders’ League, the lieutenants of that organization are the men who are charged under oath with having of- fered bribes or paid money to secure votes for this corrupt measure. This is a sample of their purity in politics. These are men who wanted to control the state in the interests of good gov- ernment and pure politics. BUSY AT THE BOURSE. The past week has been a very busy one among the businc:s men at the Bourse. The work of p sing the cam- paign of Mr. Wanamaker is going ahead with determination and speed. On Thursday last a campaign commit- tee was formed, with Elias Deemer, of Williamsport, D. Gheen, of Chester county, retary. This committee will charge of Mr. Wanamaker’s campaign, and offices have) been opened in the Bourse, in Philadelphia, where the sec- retary and the committee will be constant attendance. Two councilmen confessed | League, | | anything that you think you ought to | as chairman and John | as sec- | have | in | On Friday last, at the first meeting | since its- reorganization, the executive committee ‘of the Philadelphia branch | of the Business Men's League was at- tended by all the members. ufacturer, presided. The following res- | olutions were unanimously adopted: “Whereas, At a meeting of represent- | ative Republicans from all parts of the state a unanimous call was extended ! to Hon. John Wanamaker to become a | candidate for the Republican nomina- | tion for governor, and “From the beginning this bank has | “Whereas, Mr. Wanamaker has ac- cepted this call on a platform so man- | patriotic and high spirited as to | { command the approval of all lovers of ly, pure and honest government; there- fore be it “Resolved, That the brunch of the Business Men's Republi- can League of the state of Pennsyl- | vania cordially and unreservedly en- dorses Mr. Wanamaker's candidacy, and pledges him its earnest and un- qualified support and the use of all honorable means to secure his nomi- nation and election, thus delivering the commonwealth from its present polit- ical thraldom and restoring to the peo- ple their own.” Mr. Wanamaker will this week begin a tour of the state with an auxiliary of nearly 100 speakers, which will take him into every county in the state. He expects to make over 100 speeches be- fore the date of the state convention. He proposes to carry the story of of- ficial corruption and party misman- agement by word of mouth to every fireside. He is armed for the war, and the peor le of Pennsylvania, from all that I can gather, will see a campaign in progress soon the like of which has hever been seen in this state since the fommonwealth came into existence. William | T. Tilden, a leading Philadelphia man- | Philadelphia | GREATEST LIGHT+— —~0N WHEELS! Twentieth Century Bicycle Headlight : ea AN, Driving IL.amp. 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I was with em at Manassas— The bully Boys in Gray; I heard the thunderers roarin’ Round Stonewall Jackson’s way, And many a time this sword of mine Has blazed the route for Iee,; But if this old Nation goes to war, Make one more gun for me! I’m not so fall o’ fightin’, Nor halfso full o’ fun, As I was back in the sixties When I shouldered my old gun; It may be that my hair is white— Sich things, you know, must be, But if this old Union’s in for war, Make one more gun for me! I hain’t forgot my raisin’— Nor how, in sixty-two, Or thereabouts, with battle shouts I charged the Boys in Blue; And I say: I fought with Stonewall, And blazed the way for Lee; But if this old Union’s in for war, Make one more gun for me! — Atlanta Constitution. — -— His Northern Brother. Just make it two, old fellow, I want to stand once more Beneath the old flag with you As in the days of yore. 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