VOLUME 1V. Hishers Bool Store, | SOMERSET, PA. | t WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL! DOUBLE DEALERS. The Ring Dishes Out Pie For Mr. Scull Ana Snow Water For Mp. In 1892 Josiah D. llicks, of Blair | county, wanted to be a candidate for VOTO VED OD This large and pushing establishment sells at wholesale to | 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 ¢ stock of these goods is large, full and complete, and the prices | ] wre specially pushing Fishing Goods, Our | 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- | Merchants and others can buy of us to ad- | 1 Books and | ery and Harmonicas. vantage, Tablets, Inks, Pens, Pencils, Envelopes, Bil Legal Cap Papers, Fountain Pens, Blank Books, Judgment Notes, | Receipt Books, School Books and Supplies, Miscellaneous Books | and such oter goods as are usually for sale in an up-to-date Book, | News and Stationery Store. . Chas. HI. Iasher. ney Saved. Money Earned! Arbnckle’s and Enterprise Coffee, per pound only 10 cecents. 18 1bs. Granulated Sugar $1.00 Lancaster Ginghams........ 5 cents per yard. Good Cashmeres from ........ 12 1-2 cents up. | Very best Cotton Bats... ........... 0.5... 10¢. | Good Calico { cents per yard. [ Best Calico Good 7-cent Muslin 4 bs. Best Rice 250. 101bs, Navy Boans...... von, van, 256. ibs. Limun Beans .....0 na 25¢. 15 Ibs. White Hominy . 25¢. 7 Cakes CORe BOHP..... coi viivyivs isin 25¢. 6 Cakes Waterlily Soap 2h¢. 51%. Good Raisis .....o Le ia ens 25¢. reduced to 5 cents. | = Tust RBeceived.™ A fine line of Ladies! Shirt Waists, prices from 50 cents to $L00. Also a fine line of Moen’s Dress Shirts, direct from the manufacturers, from 39 cents up. All the latest nov- clties in Neckwene and Gents? Furnishing Goods. Men’s Suits from $4 up. Children’s Suits from 75 cen ip. Boys’ Knee Pants from 25 cents up. Men's Working Pants, Coats, ! Overalls, ete, at prices away down. <n. CREAT BARGAINS IN SHOES > We carry an immense line of SHOES and bu¥dircet from the celebrated manufac- turers—Rice & Hutchins, Walker and Douglas—therehy saving fully 25 per cent. of job- bers! prices, Woe warrant these shoes in every part. We are also agents for the famous | Carlisle and Evil { Ladies’ Shoes. REMEMBER, THE ABOVE ARE CASH PRICES. Barchus & I avengood, Salisbury, Penna. Get It At Jetlery’s! eR i not allowed to run in this county. | changeable Hicks, of Blair county, will | now swallows the ink expectorations {and brings over this same flicks torun, jor to ran short, in the same county i where he | of a generation, the extortions i 2nd, by intimidation of weak-minded.| | men { warded. | victims stand as witnesses against it. | The promise ot oflice is a broken reed. | { cumference | Principle is no more to the ring than | make approval and indorsement of all | the thefts and stealings of Quayism a | test of Republicanism. { every day that we can be Republicans, | pressed Kooser. Congress against Col. Kdward Scull, { and he asked the privilege to announce | : : . | { in Somerset county and be a candidate | at our county primary. The Scull] | to blur the truth, and Mr. Hicks was Time went on, and now, in 1898, the run against Kooser in an attempt to save the ring. The Scull chairman was barred cut before. the Seunll ring owned and controlled him. Rotten, rotten, rotten! Stand up, “Tim- mie,” and tell the people that you lied. That was a two-faced Weyler game, a Spanish trick. = We knew your sins would find you out. )n the 28th of May the people will Deweyize the ring. The condemned old hulk will be sent to feed the snails and fishes at the bottom of the sen. The tyranies of a Feneration, the lies of a generation shall go down before the battle ery of freedom. In this war rum, boodle and bulldoze will not go. The people are awake, as they were in 1890, and they will blow the plundering Scull squadron out of the water. The $133, | 000.00 received by the Scull family in public office salaries, together with the trimmings, pick-ups and printing, would not be enough to patch the leaky tubs. How can the ring expect to make a fight? First, by the promise of offices; such words as | “kickers,” “bolters,” ‘fakers,” *“half- breeds,” ete.; 38rd, by the purchase of | votes and paying heelers to lead float- | and the use of | ing voters to the polls. The Scull ring has broken: promises | with ten men to every one it has re- | Its deceived and defrauded The Scull ring is from centre to cir- | selfish, sordid and base. Sunday is to ahog. Therefore it would We thank God with all that is grand and good -ex- in that word, and still not | worship Quay, nor Andrews nor “Tim- | When in need of anything in the line of Pure Fresh Groceries, Fancy Confectionery, Marvin's Fresh Bread, Books, Stationery, Notions, etc. JALL AT o— THE LEADING GROCERY. Space is too limited to enumerate all my bargains here, | Call and be convinced that I sell the best of gonds 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 fature patronage. Respectfully, J. T. JER FRERY, Opposite Postoflice, - - - - Grant Street. Grain Hlour and Heed! 8. A. Lichliter is doing busineces at the old stand. With greatly increas- ed stock and facilities for handling goods, we are prepared to meet the wants of our customers in ALL KINDS OF STAPLE GROCERIES, Feed, Flour, Corn, Oats, Ktc. In short anything to feed man or beast. Furthermore, we are JOBBERS OF CARBON OIL and can save merchants mouey 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 : 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 priees. Call and | ring uses the whip of pretended party { to be confined to the | the little Scull clique; it is too strong | to be controlied by intrigue and chi- | ! lightnings of their disapproval. | pose of ring leaders to drive the best, LJoF me ALBERT J. HILLEGASS, Berlin, Pa. mie” Scull and their lies, knavery and corruption. } To protect its own raseality, to shield | {its own crimes and debauchery, the | i Neull ring cries woll! wolf! when there | no wolf. To fortify itself in the! is | citadel, to defend itself against the on- slaughts of righteous indignation, the loyalty. But.party loyalty is too great | machinations of canery. No man nor set of men can | forever twist it to carry out their per- | sonal . and greedy designs. Oh, no! Party loyalty is a different thing. Party | loyalty will sweep out ring rubbish as | would a deluge. Its broad stream will | not be limited by narrow designs and | selfish schemes. The “kicker” ery was tried in 1898, and 4,000 Republican vo- | ters railed down upon the ring the | The ring’s insanity, which is now ten- fold more insane than ever, will raise the cry for the fourth term for Hicks, of Blair county. And such a Hicks! The ring will ery out against Kooser and Koontz, who are Republicans from crown to sole, from skin to core ; whose records, ambitions and proudest mo- ments are bound to Republicanism. It will also ery out against John Wana- maker, whose first and whose every vote has been cast with the party of Lincoln and Garfield ; whose services in the Cabinet of President Harrison are ren.embered as a high tribute to American executive ability. And the ring has already cried out against Charles Emory Smith, the late editor | of the Philadelphia #ress, whose ap- | pointment to the Cabinet as the personal and respected friend, the most trusted advisor of President McKinley, only proves again the rank slanders of the Sculls and their foul sheet. The people of Somerset county un- derstand this kicker ery. - They under: stand the black and unsuccessful pur- the conscientious, self-respecting men of ability from the party ranks, so that glottony and revelry in spoils may be more complete. Could the ring but dupe the people, but becloud the truth, it would drive from the party councils Wm. all but the willing tools of its wickad- ness, rule or ruin, run or wreck. The “kicker” ery is a broken reed. Rum and boodle, they too were tried in 1896. to rise up in the power of their might and strike this infamous debauchery of | elections a mighty blow and level it to the dust. What progress can the ring make, except by the wholesale purchase of votes? Quay and Hicks money ; that the history of Indiana and Lancaster counties is to be repeated | here; that our untutored manners are | to be taught a new kind of campaign- | ing. Men of respectability, be on your guard. You who have love for the honor and safety of your country, go to the polls in full armor to fight to the death this prostitution of citizenship. A sacred duty c®lls you. The solid men of Somerset county will be heard from on the subject. We will take no bluffs. We are ready to meet the ene- my, and we will fight its money like St. George fought the dragon. We will ask no quarter and give none. and boodle are broken reeds. Ilopes built on them are like houses built on | the sand. Primary elections are the real elec- tions in most counties of the State, and they should be attended by all good citizens. Turn out and vote against Quay-Scall corruption. It is a duty you owe to your county, your state, your nation, your fellowmen and your- self. Scull Ring vs. The 01d Soldier. Josiah D. Hicks, now of post-oflice fame, Congressman from the 20th Con- gressional district, N. B. Critchfield, Senator from the 36th Senatorial dis- | trict, and W. H. Sanner and W. I. Mil- | ler, Assemblymen from Somerset coun- ty, all servants of the Scull ring, and | “old soldiers,” owe their last election to the earnest and energetic work of | Grand Army men; and while candi- | dates for public oflice assured their | comrades that they should be repaid | for the interest manifested in behalf of | these men with any and all patronage they would have to give out. ‘What did they do? ald office ewploye. record of SCULL’S CONGRESS? GEORGE IR. CANDIDATE FOR Dr. J. M. Louther, of Somerset, an i old soldier, a staunch Republican and a very eminent physician was an appli- cant for a position on the Pension Kx- amining Board. By the direction of George RR. Scull, Hicks refused to ap- point Dr. Louther, and at the request of the Sculls, appointed Dr. J. WW. (Carothers, the Scull family physician. This is the same Dr. J. W. who was appointed examiner on the | | Pension. Board by the Cleveland ad- | ministration. [How did the Soldiers fare in the post- office appointments? The following will show you: BERLIN ». 0, Tobias Fisher and Jow- Soldier applicants Penn; Apunointee, Ben. J. man and wife, CONFLUENCE P. O. Soldier applicants, Adam ITumbert and J. R. Brown; Appointee, llarvey B. Tissue. JIOOVERSVILLE P. O. foldier applicant, John lamer; Ap- | pointee, P. J. Blough. JENNERS P. 0. Soldier applicant, Geo. pointce, Daniel Sipe. KINGWOOD P.O. Soldier applicant, Jacob Kregar, (one legged soldier); Appointee, J. B. Ger- hart. MEYERSDALE P. 0. Soldier applicant. Emory Appointee, J. I. Naugle. George; ROCKWOOD I, O, Soldier applicant, Zach Snyder; Ap- pointee, J. C. I. Miller. STOYSTOWN P, O. Soldier applicant, B. I'. Bowman ; Ap- pointee, Christ. Shockey. Not a soldier was “in Scull ring; and as Hicks sold out to the ring in 96, and as the ring owns all the patronage in Somerset county, at the dictation of the Scull boss all the soldiers were turned down. The man who marched with Sherman to the sea, who fought at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, who stood by Grant at Appomattox, and who sacrificed the comforts of home in ‘83, is asked again to vote for the same Sanner and the identical Hicks, on the score that they are old soldiers and are entitled to a “preference.” But when the Scull ring has heen served, ali appointments go We call'upon all good citizens | We are told that this county | | iL y . is to be flooded witl chairman spit out several gallons of ink | > th Rum | Sanner, Miller | and Critchfield, at the direction of Geo. | R. Scull, turned down every soldier and | appointed Henry I. Walker, a Scull henchman, and Frank Stutzman, a Her- | And what is the Carothers | A. Pile; Ap-| it” with the | SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA.,, THURSDAY, MAY 12, | to the family attaches. The soldier is | then only an “ordinary cuss” and “may | live on his pension,” as a prominent | Scullion said recently. Koontz vs. Sculls. It is amusing to note how the name | ot Hon. W. H. Koontz, who is now a | candidate for Assembly, subject to the of the Republican election, throws the Scull family into ! hysteries every time they hear it. years the sneaking-countenanced “Tim- mie” Scull has been using the columns of "his old fossilized and subsidized newspaper to throw mud at Mr. Kocntz. And why? Simply because Mr. Koontz has decision For | confidence of the people. The people, because brainy people can’t be {led about by the nose. Size up the | Somerset Herald gahg from the least to | the greatest and see what they amount to? ure-head in Congress, as the Congress- i ional Record will show. | as much old pair of pants stuffed with straw. i respects. For instance, he was the high- { muck-e-muck of the I’hil Sheridan Company, that made some of our Som- erset county farmers as rich as church ed more than £25000 or $30.000 by it. | Poor man! What a self-sacrificing pa- I 'triot he was! And how kind it was of | old Isaac Kauffman, when he was ask- i ed to take stock in this great oil com- | pany, that he refused, saying it was too | good a thing, and that he preferred to see the Sculls share the profits alone. | i Just because Mr. Kauffman was a hard 0il Company, and perhaps he did. A | a great many farmers throughout the county if they could have seen as far ahead as honest, rugged old Isaac Kauffman, who wiser than his time. in his day, but Isaze Kauffman was a better one, and Mr. Kauffman didn’t { get rich by questionable means, either. Ile got rich without either buying or selling Phil Sheridan Oil Company stock, but how about Mr. Scull? Judge | for yoursel. was Congressman, he was | very thrifty politician. | to keep at the public erib so long, that | now, since he is retired, “Timmie,” | the difference between the Republican | party and the Scull family. | primary election they fix up a little list | of slated candidates, such as they can | | use as tools; and when any voter re- | fuses to support the Scull family slate, | | then these political vampires set up the howl—*you are trying to wreck the paty.” ‘ { But the Sculls are not the Republi- {can party, as they are rapidly finding out. They are only the hangers-on; { the leeches which prey upon the party. | They are not even loyal Republicans, | as was amply demonstrated when they, | together with Hon. J: D. Hicks, turned | down a life-long Republican and a vet- | | eran of the Civil war, who was an ap- | plicant for a position on the Pension | | Examining = Board. They not | turned the war Republican (Dr. Louth- | er) down, but they had a Democrat ap- | pointed instead. The Reulls, slimy political leeches ! I that | done for the Republican party? | besides handling party funds, “greas- ling” their own pockets, abusing those | | whom they can not use to further their foul . schemes ? Nothing; absolutely i nothing. : ’ When W. II. Koontz was in Congress he was heard from. as one of the leading members. His able speeches are recorded in history. He hus an honorable official record. al reputation. During presidential cam- paigns he is usually sent into several states to make Republican speeches, His services are always in demand by the National Republican committees. But how about the Sculls’ services? Where did “Timmie” and “Bob” ever make a Republican speech? Such non- | entities as they are cut no figure when mon enemy. They are brushed aside as insignificant parasites, during such times. They are lost in the shuftle, when the hour demands men of brains. Yet they want to pose as leaders of the Republican party in Somerset county ; and they want to malign and belittle men who are their superiors in every- thing that is admired in true manhood. Away with them! away with them! They have been weighed inthe balnnee and found wanting. Bury the Scull ring deep in the political grave they so richly deserve. Their political lies and dirt will cover them deep. Primary | brains, ability and the respect and | Sculls | | % . } | have alwaysgbeen jealous of brainy The old “Colonel” was only » fig- | He was about | use to his constituents as an | Of course he was a great man in some | Oil | mice, while poor Mr. Scull hardly profit- | man to trap, some people may think he | smelled a mice about the Phil Sheridan | any rate it would have been better for Col. Scull was a good financier | Col. Scull while being a very poor nevertheless a | He managed | | “Bob” and “Freddy” can’t distinguish | At every! only | they are, what have they ever | What | He was regarded | As a campaign speaker he has a nation- | and everywhere he goes he isa favorite. | there is a big battle on with the com- | NUMBER 16. 18 Cents vs. 2 Cents—3 Ccnts Won. If every person who rides on the rail- way passenger trains would be requir- | ed to pay fare, the railroad companies {could afford to make a reduction to | evervbody. As it now is, the men who I are best able to pay ride free, and oth- ers who can invest in mileage books ride at 2 cents per mile. At the Jast session of the Legislature of Penna. a bill was before that body to make rail- road. fares to everybody 2 cents per mile.” This was a law in the interests of the masses, and only asked that the | farmer, mechanic and laboring men be ! given the same privileges now enjoyed { by people of suflicient means to pur- chase mileage books. If this bill would have become a law, { every person in Somerset county would { have profited by it. Yet Captain San- | ner voted against the bill. Of course lit did not matter to him, as he was rid- {ing on a pass. But as Sanner is again a candidate for the Legislature, the plain people of our county will now have an opportunity to vote against him, which they will not be too bashful | to do. Down with corporation tools. The War Situation. Since the great American victory won by Admiral Dewey, in Manila ‘bay, a full account of which is given in our inside pages, the war has been progress- ing in a rather tame sort of way. It | was expected that a battle would have | taken place before this time, between { Admiral Sampson and the Spanish | Cape Verde fleet, and rumors of such a battle have been current for the past { few days. But the rumors have turned | out to be false. Just where the Spanish | fleet is, is a matter of conjecture, but | it is supposed to have gone back to ‘adiz. Arrangements for invading Cuba are ! being rapidly made, and troops are be- ing hurried to the front. Porto Rico jor San Juan is liable to be attacked by Sampson at any hour, and in the Phil- ippine Islands it is reported that the half-civilized insurgents are murdering Spaniards by wholesale, and Admiral Montejo and his two sons are reported among the slain. Neither Dewey nor the Spaniards on the islands can hold |. the oppressed natives in check. This | is the situation as we go to press. The Wails of ‘‘Lucifer.” : The old pair of pants that presides i over the Meyersdale Commercial seems. | to have completely lost sight of its middle-of-the-road policy. It has for some time been very busy roasting every one of the county officials, except | the two controlled by the Sculls and the Democratic member of the Board | of Commissioners, who is also controll- i ed by the Sculls. It is remarkably strange, indeed that the Scull tools in office are such pure | und holy fellows, and the other oflicials such deep-dyed criminals. It is really | too bad that Geo. IF. Kimmel is such a | bad man in ‘Lucifer Ananias Ague’” | Smith’s estimation, and all because he drew $3.50 more salary than the holy {and bewhiskered Mr. Kretchman, of { Summit township. And even Associate Judges Horner land Black are now classed with the { eriminals by the great, holy, pure and | spotless old “Lucifer,” the old bewhisk- ered horse-chestnut of the great Ameri- | man middle-of-the-road zigzag Meyers- dale Scull organette. * Lucifer” too many days were put in holding court, ete, ete., and that the State has been paying the Associate Judges too { much money. This is really too bad; but then “Lu-~ cifer” ought to tell the people that Judge Longenecker is responsible for the amount of courting done. And as to the pay of the Associate Judges. which comes from the State, why didn’t | “Lucifer” stop this drain on the State treasury long ago? “Lucifer” through | his master, “Timmmie,” has become a | part and parcel of the Quay machine, { and the Quay machine is in full con- { trol of affairs at Harrisburg. Come to | think of it, our Associate Judges had | perhaps better not be paid at all. You i see it takes too much money out of the . | State treasury that could be used for i Quay campaign boodle, for which “Lu- cifer” would come in for a larger share. That’s where “Lucifer’s” how! comes in. Besides that, “Lucifer” can’t bear to see a county officer get a few dollars more for a year’s salary than the Commercial charged for a single bill of county printing. The old maid of the Commercial is really tco dull for anything. She has arrived at that period of life when she ought to use Mrs. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compeund, instead of Peruna. Furth- ermore, her crooked political record is. haunting her. She has sold her virtue for a price, spent the money and is now | between the devil and the deep sea. She is now after public sympathy and will resort to nll kinds of lies to get it. But the people know the old “gal” with her smiles and her wiles, her whines and her lying jJines, and her wailing and quailing will not he availing. says
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