S. ALL SOMES PA. WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL! DODO DIVOIDOS This large and pushing establishment sells at wholesale to SBU RY, ELK LICK MORE (01D TS. J DASTARDLY DEELS UNEARTHED. | “Granger” and ‘‘Captain,” or How the House and Senate Branch of the Scull Family-Tree Have been Serving Their Constituents. 90 town and country merchants in this and adjoining counties. Its wholesale trade extends into Maryland and West Virginia. | We are at all times prepared to compete in prices with the city | markets. At this season we are specially pushing Fishing Goods. le Our | ree, full and complete, and the prices | stock of these goods is lowest wholesale. Special attention is also being given to Base Ball Goods. We are also doing a nice trade in Hammocks and Baby and Doll Carriages. Constantly in stock a full line of Staple and Fancy Station- ery and Harmonicas. Merchants and others can buy of us to ad- vantage, Tablets, Inks, Pens, Pencils, Eavelopes, Bill Books and Judgment Notes, and Supplies, Miscellaneous Books Legal Cap Papers, Fountain Pens, Blank Books, Receipt Books, School Books and such oter goods as are usually for sale in an up-to-date Book, News and Stationery Store. Cha=. 11. hsher. {more to follow; and in keeping with | our promise we shall lay before the | | spects, | and habits. | time both were preachers and probably are things | Superintendent ; | Tegislature ; ‘I in the State Senate. At the conclusion of our article on Joss rule, last week, we said there was readers of Tue Stan additional facts. | This week we treat of two gentlemen who are very much alike in several re- viz: Blood, occupation, taste The gentlemen to whom wo refer are first cousins, and at one yet; they have a taste.for office | equal to the Scull family itself; both | are of sedentary habits. It is an axiom in mathematics that which are equal to the same things are equal to each other. We ap- ply the axiom. Both have been County both have been Pro- one has been twice in the the other has been twice thonotary ; This is the Chaplain braneh of ‘the { Seull family-tree. Money Earned! and Enterprise Coffee, per pound only 10 ccents. + T18:1bs. Granulated, Sugar... 00500 31.00 +. Lancaster Ginghams........5 cents per yard. Av ery best Cotton: Bats... i... si. 0 10¢ (ood Cashmeres {rom .... 121-2 cents up. 3c. Ji cn alico icents 2 pey yard. eg Reo «OTN EC i ~S—y:. Good T-cent reduced to A fine line of Ladies’ Shirt Waists, prices from 50 cents to £1.00. Also nn fine line of Men's Dress Shirts, direct from the manufacturers, from 59 cenit up. All the latest nov- elties in Neckwear and Gents’ Furnishing Goods. Men's Suit: from $4 up. Children’s Suits from 75 cents up. Boys’ Knee Pants from 25 cents up. Mo Working Pa Overalls, ete. at prices away down. <@m. GREAT BARGAINS IN SHOES! ws celebrated manufnce- fully 25 per eent, gents for the famous | CASH PRICES. / Money Nay Arbuckle’s 4108. Best Rice... ue 25¢ 101bs- Navy Beans... ............. io 0000s 2 chs Lima Benns o.oo... 2 15 Ibs. White Hominy 7 Cakes Coke Soap 6 Cakes Waterlily i Ibs. Good Raising. | Muslin 5 Sete | | We carry an iminense line of SHOIS and buy direet from the turers—Rice & Hutchins, Walker and Douglas—therebhy saving bers’ prices. We warrnat these shoes in every part. We are ul carlisle and Evitt Ladies? REMEMBER, THE ABOVE Barchus & lL avengood, Penna. of job- 30 oa shoes, ARE Salisbury, EN (Fet It At.Jellery’s ‘run into Meyersdale, When in need of anything in the line of Pure Fresh Groceries, Fancy Confectionery, Marvin's Bread, Books, CALL AT Se THE LEADING GROCERY. Space is too limited to enumerate all my bargains here, all and be convinced that I sell the best of goods at the lowest living prices. My business has grown wonderfully in the past few years, for which I heartily thank the good—people of Salisbury and vicinity and shall try harder than ever to merit your future patronage. Respectfully, J. EL. JEFFERY, Opposite Postotlice. - Grain Flour and Heed! With greatly increas- Fresh Stationery, Notions, ete. Grant Street. 8. A. Lichliter is doing businees at the old stand. ed stock and facilities for handling goods, we are prepared to meet the wants of our customers in ALL KINDS OF STAPLE GROCERIE Feed, Flour, Corn, Oats, Etc. In short anything to feed ‘man or beast. OF CARBON OIL and can save merchants money on this line, as we buy car- load lots. We are also Headquarters For Maple Sweets. We pay cash for good Butter and nice, clean Fresh Eggs. Come and see what advantages we offer. S. A. LICHLITER, Salisbury, Pa. IN THE KOONTZ BUILDING! Having some time ago purchased the Koontz property, all those interested in Monumental work will find me in what was once known as : > y + ’ ci THE KOONTZ MARBLE WORKS. I am prepared as never before to offer to all those in need of Monumental work, ‘from small Headstones to Granite Monuments. PRICES HERETOFORE UNHEARD OF. None but the best of Marble and Granite, and workmanship the finest. 1 make Granite work a specialty. You will be surprised at my prices. Call and | thus allowing this corporation to ex- | tract tribute from manufacturers along nts, Coats, flaw. I this for a man who has posed with the | I Senatorial district as a genuine reform- | er? ia law, the people of Meyersdale would i power, the owner of every saw-mill and | | grist | paying tribute to a foreign corporation. i of | committee to investigate the manage- Furthermore, we are JOBBERS | IYor the sake of convenience we shall | designate the one “Granger,” the other | “Captain.” “Granger” represented the XXVT Senatorial district of Pennsylva- nia during the last eight years. “GRANGER” AND. THE DAM BILL. The Delaware Dam bill, introduced at the last session of the Legislature, was known to all legislators and news- | paper men as the “Boodle bill.” The | object of the bill was to give a foreign | coporation, capitalized at $2,000,000, control of all the Pennsylvania streams, their course and to compel towns and cities to purchase water for municipal purposes. “Granger” voted to make this bill a Ilis vote is recorded in the Leg- 205 Tow is islative Record, on page 2055. farmers and business men of the 36th Who lectures over the state and | declares himself be the farmers’ | friend? Who works farmers’ institutes for votes? Who votes for corporations and against the farmers? to If the Delaware Dam bill had become | be paying a foreign corporation for the water that, flows from the IFlaugherty Every manufac- | turer in the county who uses water for | as the owners of | would be well every ice pond in the county, mill, as “GRANGER” ‘AS A MILEAGE GRABBER. There were many mileage grabbers in the last Legislature and the “‘Grang- er” was not the least among this class legislators. As a member of the ment of the Dairy and Food Commis- sioner, he attempted to obtain from the State Treasury $597.60 on an expense bill for alleged car fare, telegrams, &c., (while riding on free railroad passes and using telegram franks) and when requested to file a sworn statement of his actual expenses, the readers of Tux Star will find that he reduced it to $103.64, for in the Pamphlet laws of 1897, on page 439, in the bill approved by the Governor on the 29th of July last, we find the following: ‘For sleep- ing births, parlor and dining car charges, telegrams, telephone messages, preparing reports, personal expenses, et cetera, $103.64.” When “Granger” and other mileage grabbers were cut off by the Governor demanding a sworn statement, Senator Saylor, another conspicuous mileage grabber, introduced into the Benate a bill to require the State Treasurer to pay the Chairinan of investigating comanittees their expenses without permittiny the Leg- islature or the Governor to act upon them, and “Granger” voted for Saylor’s bill. See Legislative Record, page 1647. This would have given to “Granger” his share of the $7,712.84, the amount of the Dairy and Food investigating Commit- tee’s bill. “Granger's” first cousin, the “Cap- tain,” is an affable gentleman, quite smooth in the hair, and has been an important branch of the Scull family- tree. In this respect he has been more important than “Granger.” “Granger” is self-willed and selfish; he is a ‘wig that is alweys inclined to be for *Grang- er” only, while the “Captain” has al- ways been a faithful member of the objections to making the old pair of pants that edits the Meyersdale Comn- see we. ALBERT J. HILLEGASS, Berlin, Pa. mercial 8. member of the “Bureau. of POSTOF FIC EI PA, ination Ring Cabinet and raised very serious |} e Cyt) Bw. THURSDAY, Howlers,” when “Lucifer” staggered to the other side of the road. “Well, as we have said, the “Captain” | has been in the Legislature twice and is serving his last term now. His record | does not smell as loud as “Granger’s” | for “Granger” was on the Oleomarga- rine Committee, which was very stink- ing stuff, but “Granger” could not help | that, for they all smelled alike. AGAINST THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, An attempt was made in the Legisla- ture to reduce the State appropriation for the common schools $1,000,000. | This attempt was led by John P. Elkin, of Indiana County, and Chairman Mar- shall, of the Appropriation Committee. This attempt to ruin the schools was strenuously resisted. Representatives Young and Smith, of Tioga county, championed the cause of the people and the school-house, and secured written pledges from one hundred and thirty- | | three (133) members of the House, (twenty more than a majority) to re- sist any such reduction, and this saved | MAY 5, 1898. know. the man of sneaking countenance, who can look no man square in the face: he | had Congressional aspirations, but lack- ed ability and popularity. put him up,” was the verdict of the gang. Well, what next? There was Critehfield, who was perfectly willing to go to Washington and save the coun- | up too ! try, but back of him loomed prominently his unsavory legislative record, and he wouldn’t do. Then there arose the ery: “A candidate! A candi- date! Our kingdom for a candidate!” But no available ring candidate in Somerset county could be found. All the men of brains, ability and honor ! had forsaken the Scull family, and its | | old political carcass was left as lone { mention is made in * | They threw dust upon the School appropriation. The proposed | decrease would have taken away $6,- 601.15 from Somerset county every two years. The “Captain” refused to sign | the agreement, or to oppose the threat- ened reduction. NOT ALY, YET. The “Captain” must be opposed to | the public schools. Ile not only neg- | lected to protect the State appropria- tion. but by an examination of the Leg- islative Record, page 2239, found that he voted for the “Bowery | I.icense bill,” to grant a license to any! person, without regard to personal character or fitness, for the manufac- ture of beer, upon the payment of $1,- | 000 to the State Treasurer, and allow- ing breweries to be located next to churches and school-houses. This is about all Tir Star has space for, this week, upon this topic, but there’s more to follow, and we can | back up ovary word womy. word we say. HICKS AGAINST KOOSER. THE RING GRASPING AT STRAWS. {our name is Dennis; | | 1 it will be | ! and to show how the {ignore the party rules, as the occasion The Royal Family Allows Hicks to | Run Year, in Somerset County, this But Flatly Refused Him the same Privilege in 1892, When | 0ld Pap Scull was a Candidate. In this week’s Somerset Ilerald there | announcement of J. D. In other words, appears the licks for Congress. | Mr. Hicks is to be a candidate in Som- | | erset county, although he is a resident | of Blair county. It will be remembered by the read- ! ers of Tne Star that in 1892, when Col. | Edward Scull was a candidate for nom- | for the last time, that J. Ilicks was also a candidate. at that time sought to be a candi- D. | Mr. Hicks | date in Somerset county, the same as! now, and sent his announcement fee to | t t a foll rv: a... erset county reads as follows: Fred. W. Eiesecker, then County Chair- | y : 5 man, and requested that his name be | announced for the primary. Somerset county But was Mr. Hicks announced by the Scull chairman? No! On the other hand the request of Mr. Hicks brought forth a storm of indignation from the Scull machine, and his request was characterized as the acme of impu- dence and unreasonableness. The idea of this man over in Blair county want- ing to run against old Pap Scull, here in his own county, was not to be enter- tained for a moment. Hicks and all his friends were scandalized and the Scull ring, through its stuffed chair- man, quoted party rules by the yard to sustain their position and bar out Hicks from the primary in Somerset county. And bar him out they did, de- claring that to announce Hicks as a candidate in Somerset county would be a clear violation of party rules and party precedents. But you see things are different now. Old Daddy 8cull is now retired from politics, and so far as the Scull ring is concerned, any old thing, no matter from what county, ean now be a eandi- date in Somerset county, provided, of course, that the would-be candidate is a man that can be owned and controlled by the Sculls. And yet the rules and regulations governing Republican pri- mary elections in Somerset county are the same now as they were in 1892, when the Scull chairman declared that ‘the said rules barred the candidacy of Mr. Hicks in this county. What has brought about all this in- consistency on the part of the Scull machine? The answer iz easy. ring is in its death struggles and is be- coming desperate. The oeople rele- gated the old man Scull to the rear. Next, Biesecker, his son-in-law, was put up. He was dead easy and was knock- ed out, cold and stiff, in the first round. Just what te de next the Sculls did. not and forlorn as was the chief of the noted band of forty thieves, of which Arabian Nights.” Then were the Scullions sore distressed | Sculls alone the Republian party, or is every Republican voter a part and parcel of it? Are we slaves or free- men? We are freemen, if we exercise our God-given rights; slaves if we obey the edicts of the rotten, corrupt, aristo- cratic and despotic Scull dynasty, that depends solely on Quay boodie and double-dealing for its success. Vote for F. J. Kooser, a man of the people and for the people—a man of our own county, a man whom we can trust and be proud of. and given to lamentation and wailing. | their heads | and said one unto another: “The pres- | | ent state of affairs gives us a pain un- | der the vest, and it looks as though | but we will die hard, and as a last resort we will an- | nounce ‘Josiar’ D., of Blair county,even | thg same ‘Josiar’ D. whom we refused to announce in 1892. Of course we i sustained our position then by the par- [ty rul:s; but the party rules be damn- | ed, this year, when Pap isn’t a candi- date.” Hicks was then duly announced in the family paper, and the gang adjourn- | ed by singing: “Here, Lord, we give ourselves away, Tis all that we can do.” And a great give-away it surely is. To show the extent of the give-away, Sculls observe or may require to suit the Scull family | and a few of their faithful tools, we re- | produce the following, which appeared in the Somerset of Heald, M Mareh 30, 1892. HOME RULE 5. [LT] DICTATION. Futile Effort Male fo eae Maryland Tactics Info Somerset County Politics. A Few SELF-sTYLED REPUBLICANS Worrp Like to ViorarTe tne Runes AXD RUN A BLAIR couNTyY CANDIDATE A SOMERSET COUNTY, PRIMARY —A J. HARRISON AND CHAarrMAN BIESECKER. AT QUESTION OF VERACITY BETWEEN C. —THr CHAIRMAN STANDS BY TIE RULES, REFUSES To ANNOUNCE THE Bram couNTY CANDIDATE AND ISSUES A Carp to THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS oF TiE County, To the Republican county: Rule 20, of the rules governing the | Republican Primary Elections of Som- | voters of Somerset | “Fach candidate for nomination shall | furnish to the Chairman of the County {Committee not less than twenty days be- { fore the day of primary election, his name, | The | the office for which he is a candidate, the | township or borough in which he resides, with his post-office address and pay a fee | ofr x x = As will be seen by the above, the | Committee who framed the rules evi- dently never contemplated the irregu- larity of a citizen of another county of- fering himself as a candidate at our primary cleetion. Between half-past ten and eleven o'clock of the night of Saturday, Mar. 19, (the last day on which an announee- ment could be handed in,) Mr. C. J Harrison came to my office and asked that Hicks, of Blair County, be an- nounced for Congress, at the same time proffering me his (Mr. Harrison’s) per- sonal check for fifty dollars (the amount of the announcement fee.) I told Mr. Harrison that I did not think the an- nouneement could be made, as it would be irregular and in violation of our party rules. I afterwards consulted the members of the Executive Committee, and found them to be unanimously of the opinion that Mr. Hicks could not be announced. It is very certain that Mr. Hicks would not be permitted to vote at any poll in the County of Som- erset, on the ground that he is not a citizen of the County, and in my judg- ment one who is not a qualified voter is debarred from» being a candidate at an election at which he could not vote. I therefore, finding that I had no power as Chairman of the Committee to of- ficially announce any non-resident of the County as a candidate, refused to announce the name of Mr. Hicks. To have done otherwise would have been to set aside the rules and establish-a precedent that would cause endless trouble to the party in the district in the future. Satisfied that this interpretation of the rules is right and that my action.in Of course there was “Timmie,” “No use to | i then, why is it not NUMBER 15. | this matter will meet with your ap- i proval, I am, Very Respectfully, Frep W. BIESECKER, Somerset, Ch. Rep. Co. Com. March 28th, 1892. Republicans of Somerset county. what do you think of Scullism by this time? If it was unlawful for Hicks to run in Somerset county in 1892, why is it. not unlawful for him to do so now” If it was brazen-faced impudence then, why is it not brazen-faced impudence «now? If it was against our party rules against our party The rules are the same now as they were then. If the attempt to announce Hicks in this county in 1892 was classed by the Sculls as “Mary- | land tacties,” why should not his an- nouncement by the Sculls, this year, be | classed as “Maryland tactics? Are the I rules now? WHAT OF WAR? At the time of going to press (Wed- nesday evening) THE Star can give lit- tle more war news than that which wil? be found on its inside pages, which con- | tain an account of the great naval bat- tle fought on Sunday, in Manila bay. | where the American fleet under com- | mand of Admiral Dewey won the great- est naval fight of modern times. Ac- cording to latest reports the American loss was small, while the Spanish fleet engaged is supposed to have been al- most totally destroyed. The cables at Manila have been cut and no full report of the great battle can be given now; but the Spanish ac- “knowledge a erushine defeat. Plans to invade Cuba are being par- fected, and it is believed to be but a short time until Spain must ask for peace. Muatterings of a revolution against the Spanish government are heard in her Capital city, and it is beginning to. look as though the complete downfall of Spain is near at hand. The old des- potic kingdom seems tohave about run its course. Tur Spanish can whip bulls, but the American eagle is too clever for them Tur Spaniards will” hereafter know | better than to play at the shell game with Admiral Dewey. War's the matter with Adn ral Dewey? Oh, he’ll do. His name ought to be changed to Admiral Do’em. MaxiLa was a real booming town a few days ago, thanks to one Mr. Dewey and his bold company of boomers. SOME of the Dons hve gone to joim McGinty, at the bottom of the sea. Let i ’em soak. The salt sea brine will be good for them. Tur first shot fired in the war of 1898 was fired by a United States cruis-. er named after a prominent Southern city, Nashville, and commanded by a Southerner who was born in Knoxville, and this southern-named boat and its. commander typify the united country they now represent. The divisions of’ the war of '61-656 are obliterated for- ever.— Parkersburg State Journal. Ax sxohange says: “The kind of pa- triotism some people are afflicted with is pretty well illustrated by the price list of American flags. A small size that our retail dealers could purchase three weeks ago at $4 50 per dozen are: now $11 50 per dozen and liable to go. higher, though it does not cost a penny more to make them new than then. Im the same way coffee is quoted two. cents per pound higher to-day than un week ago, and flour has jumped in the same proportion. Every necessity will be pushed to the highest price the la- boring man can be compelled to pay for it.” It can be truthfully added that some people can not tell the difference. between patriotism and “doswnright’™ meanness. What He Could Do.. Moderm Society. : “Mamma,” said little Jack, “did God | ever make any one with ene blue eye: and one black?” “I never heard of any one that was so,” said his mother “Well, then, you just look at Tommy Jones the next time you see him angi Just see what L can. do”
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