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We carry in stock at all times a complete line of everything usually | found in a large general store. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT! .1 IFor 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, 1 >enin’a. This elegant NEW THREE- STORY HOTEL is one of the best equipped hostelries in Som- erset county. Modern Fqu ipments | | of all kinds, such as Steam Heat, Warm and Cold Baths, Tele- phone, Iine Bar, ete. Centrally located with fine sur- roundings. Tables supplieed with the best the markets afford. Rates reasonable. CC. TT. HAY, Proprietor. Ii=tablishoed P.S. HAY, —DEALER IN=— 1:503. | possessing Dr Vv Choos Notions, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, GROCERIES, QUEENSWARE, TOBACCO, CIGARS, ETC. SALISBURY, | | | | | | | { ra. C. M. MAY, —TH E—— cading Barber. Hair-dressing, Shaving, Shampooing and Hair Dyeing done in the finest style of theart. Razor Repairing A Specialty. Soaps, Tonics and other Barbers’ Sup- plies for sale at all times. Sirop OpPoSITE 1HHAY’S HOTEL, Salisbury, Pa. FRANK PETRY & SONS, CARPENTERS AND BUNDESS ELK LICK, PA Contracts taken. Jstimates promptly furnished and neat and substantial _ work gunranteed. B. KRAUSSE BOOT & MOEN SALISBURY, Repairing a specialty. guaranteed. ER. Satisfaction | words to the | Wanamaker has adhered to his original | | ing him i | last week. legislature. | Only | vival of such a long forg | meritorious THE STATES BIG BATTLE Wanamaker Shows Up Fresh Shams | of the Quay Corruption Machine. | INCREASED COST OF EXPENSES. Raised With the Farmers — The Land Lien Tax — A Time to Call a Ilalt—The Record of Some of tho Bad Light. Dishonest Issues Bosses Shown (From Our Own Correspondent.) May 10.—Ex-Postmaster Wanamaker’s tour last Harrisburg, General John | week was through southeastern Penn- sylvania. he in York and Hanover a crowds greeted him echo. In his speeches Mr. Everywhere spoke, policy of exposing the shortcomings and corruvtions of the boss power in Pennsylvania.: His policy has every- where been received with approbation, | and he is in daily receipt of hundreds of letters extolling his work and thank- for his unselfish devotion to | party and to duty. It would consume two pages of any | newspaper in Pennsylvania to publish | of | As a result only a few of! in full Mr. Wanamaker’s speeches last week. the best things uttered by him can b* given space here. During his speech before a vast audience in the Opera House at Hanover Mr. Wanamaker sald: GENCE The boldness with which the Quay ! of un- | lawful and tax increasing acts against | is only | surpassed by the impudent assumption | rank and file of the Repub- | | lican partyfire so stupid and besotted | machine commits all manner the people of Pennsylvania that the | that they can be made to believe any- | They insult the people’s intel- | | ligence by the use of the most apparent | thing. duplicity and deception as campaign weapons, and think the people too | dumb to discover fit. A brazen attempt of this kind was | brought to my notice in Chester county The machine there is at- tempting to defeat certain men for the legislature who stood with the Seventy- six during the last session in opposi- tion to all the vicious Quay legislation. | The legislative records made by these | men will be searched in vain for a good excuse why every voter in Chéster county who is free and unmachine owned, and who believes that the peo- ple and not the politicians alone should | have something to say about the man- | agement of state affairs, should notgive They are unable | them hearty support. to give one honest excuse for opposing those who stood unfalteringly for the state and party’s welfare. A DISHONEST ISSUE But thev seek to issue growing was drafted bv a Quay duced by a Quay member, RAISED. raise a dishonest man, intro- and pass- ed by a -Quay legislature under. a treacherous mask prepared by a Quay man. The bill was passed withcut dis- cussion under the assurance and belief that it was local in application and af- fected only the district represented by its authors. I refcr to the bill known as the land lien tax bill. Thirty-four years ago this law was enacted by the state legislature, which allowed liens to be entered against unpatented lands for purchase money, interest and fees due the commonwealth. The in- justice of the measure prevented its I enforcement for more. than one-third of a century, and it was a dead letter un- til restored to life by the last Quay Lands have been sold and and the question of this land lien tax was never raised. Supposedly good titles were resold, existed. was the belief among those knowledge of it that the id never become onc-rative c¢ne thought it sarv to trouble of having it repealed. the peculiar condition that sur- rounded the legislature of ’97 could aver have heen responsible for the re- otten and un- law. The last legislature had but two objects, viz., to create new places for machine politicians and to protect corporations and brewers from paying their just share of the revenue So firm law that go to the Wot no net | necessary to run the state. QUAY'S UKASE. ‘civable proposition to pro- | tect the rich and strong and place the Every conc burden upon the poor and weak was considered. First the ukase of Czar Quay made it certain that corporations and brewerg must not be touched. It was a peculiar condition that con- fronted men who wished to do only .what was right. They realized that .beer. the most legitimate subject of taxation, could not be taxed, and that corporations would be protected at all yhazards. The demands of charity were urgent that money must be pro- vided to alleviate actual want and suf- fering. It was not a question of doing what they thought was right, but of doing what they believed to be best, and some of .the very best and truest men in the last lejislature were forced to vote for unjust revenue measures, be- dieving that the needs of charity should have preference over all things. Al revenue legiclation must originate in the ways and means committee otf the house. This committee was ap- pointed with special care that it could be controlled by long distance ‘phone from Washington. It was impossible to originate any revenue bill that did not have the approval of the machine, and the anti-Quay men had no alternative but to chocse from among the ma- shine-produced revenue bills, not one ot vhich was fair. SCHOOL‘: ROBBED TO PAY FOR BREWERS. To shew how determined the ma- Up in |! nd Reading, great | and cheered his ! NSULT THE PEOPLE'S INTELLI- | out of a measure that! reported fa- | forably by a Quay committee, ¢ given with no knowl- | | edge on the part of any one that such | l laws ever - chine men were that the brewers shouta not be taxed they attempted to take enc million dellars from the publi schools to pay the brewers’ share. They were willing to tax oleomargarine, though they well knew such a tax | meant the total destruction of the pure | butter interests of the state. They as- saulted the sreat commercial (not cor- porations) of Pennsylvania by the im- position of a mercantile tax that would have forced many large enterprises to | leave the state. They did not hesi- tate to divide dead men’s estates and | wring from the widow and orphan a part of all that stands betwen then: and actual want. Bicycles were to be taxed, and the wagon of the farmer was to be made to help pay the brew- ers’ portion. | The farmer, whose business compels | him to act more individually than any ‘other set of men, and who is less likely to organize for determined opposition | than other classes, seems to have been the special target for the politicians’ | discriminating arrows. It was when hard pressed to find something to tax, and to have that something belong to those who could the least effectually re- sent it, that they devised the land lien ax bill, and then try to compel farmer, who by dint of economy | toil has saved enough to buy a and little farm, to pay thousands ef dollars, that { he is In no wise morally responsible for, but which are te just dues of ‘corpora- tions and brewers. THE LAND LIEN TAX. The land lien tax bill was railroaded | through without being explained or un- politicians who were back of it. The that there should be no discussion of the bill, but they quietly sent their | agents about the house, saying it was only a local measure that would affect | but Erie county, the district represent- | ed by its author. But the bill had a | revenue | chine. The one chief characteristic of all revenue legislation considered by the vision was always made to distributa ticians. The mercantile tax bill, | created for Quay men, for expenditures. So with the machine land lien tax bill. After wringing large sums from the farmer the bill provided that the politicians tion of it that the machine might want, bill, which is as follows: ‘“‘That from the moneys so collected there shall be deducted such amounts for actual ex- be approved by the auditor general, state treasurer and secretary of inter- nal affairs.” THEIR UNBLUSHING It would AUDACITY. be very easy, under eral and state treasurer give nity bonds and padded payrolls, to ap- propriate every dollar of the raised from this source for the use of political henchmen. before if reac™es the state treasury. But the thing to me is the audacity men, who unblushingly make issue against honest men thei a bill that they were tricked by Quay agents into supporting, and a bill drawn as to furnish places and am- munition for the machine. It was a carefully planncd attack upon an un- feared class to produce revenue and of time to protect the favored The storm of opposition that has met the attempted collection of these taxes has temporarily halted their enforced collection. made governor and a machine-owned legislature is elected, when there no longer be any.mnecessity for the ma- chine heeding the protests of the peuple. In his speech at York Mr. Wanama- ker maid in the presence that paeked the Opera House: IN THE PANICEY DAYS. the advent of ‘the last Cleveland administration the pulse of business began to slacken, the wheels of Pennsylvania's industries slowed up, { the volume of trade lessened until a business and industrial panic was upon us. Retrenchment and curtai!ment of expenses were necessary in branch of business. met upon Following middle grounds and agreed der that the fires in many a mill and factory could be kept alive. It was not so much a question of earning as it was a matter of saving. Self denial and most rigid €conomy floated many great business concern in Pennsylvania safely over the shoals of Democratic ralysis. Tailroads were obliged to re- duce expenses, merchants to lessen the to cut wages. The state's income, volume state for their daily Jread, hospitals were taxed beyond their healthful ca- pacity, and almshouses were filled to overflowing. It was a time when forced economy in the administration of the diture of the state's money would be Quay and his lieutenants, who con- ery, and who could increase or lessen needs of charity; they knew that the numbers of insane were lying on floors throughout the state. They knew that every dollar of Increased expenses wage earner, and the unemployed; they knew that every dollar of increased ex- penses must take just that much from dent and disease. VAST COST OF GOVERNMENT. It was a question between charity and political enrichment, between food less, and rew berths and fat salaries for politidal henchmen, and politics don. It was only one of the great vic- | orins that have demonstrated Senator | \ 1 the. [ the * derstood, except by the little coterie of ' ; | slavery, champions of the measure were careful | i their. lives. twofold purpose, as did nearly all the measures conceived by the ma- | last legislature was that after revenus? ; was provided from any source a pro- | a large portion of it among the poli- | . i family only is not the could first help themselves to any por- | as is shown by the sixth section of the! penses incurred and services rendered | in the enforcement of the act as may | | rule. the | same questionable construction of this | clause of the bill that the auditor gen- | s | irs ve will do so no longer. to indem-| affairs, and we Ss gery money | amazing | lent to justifying their acts. these | % the only | ¢3MP at the front we ‘enroll ourselves vote for | ! further SO | | we must have | guarantor. places for the machine, and at the sams | interests. | | henceforth they must ce It may be these claims will not be pressed again until a machine- | will | | does not retire | by | aside whenever of a crowd! | ture | islatures, | dates every | Capital and labor | | broken to unmendable upon reduced prices and wages in or- | I appear in the contest not desiring a | business depression and industrial pa- | force of employes, and manufacturers ! | smoke. based uvon the | of business and the value of | property, fell off rapidly. The demands ' of charity increased, thousands of un- |! loyed became dependent upon the | emp oy p D following things: 1. Put a tax upon the public schools | fn the effort to take away their needed commonwealth’s affairs and the expen- | little less than true patriotism. Senator | trolled the state governmcnt machin- | expenses, knew full well of the crying Somenited unfortunate were suffering and great | and in stone corridors of the hospitals | meant more burden upon the haif paid | delphians probably cost $5,000, or at the - | utmost $10,000 actual the dire needs of the victims of acci- | { compelled and shelter for the hungry and home- | - Quay's mastery over this common- wealth. But the figures speak for themselves. The cost of running the executive, legislative and judiciary de- partments of the state for the six years from 1889 to 1894, inclusive, was, during these years of perity, as follows: 1889-1890.... 1891-1892... 1893-1801 70 An average cost of $2,281,952.18 each two years. The cost of running the executive, business pros- PTR | 218.16 ) - War Wit] 1 Spain R lable War News IN THE GREAT el] National legislative and judicial departments of | the state for 40 1898, inclusive, business depre 1895-1896 1897-1898 the four under the most severe ssion, was as follows: $6,517,090.77 | cach | An average cost of $3,258.515.38 two years, showing an average increase of expenditures each two years during the hard times of $976,593.20, or about 43 per cent. To this enormous increase should be added $86,500.00 of items ve- toed by the governor in the general appropriation -bill, another of §67 that was cut from legislative gating committees through the efforts of the vetoes of the 908.96 Liexow governor, and the $65,- Lill that was defeated by ‘Seventy-six.” TIME TO CALL A HALT. Taxpayers of York county, Even if you enjoy political dare vou allow the state to be longer by such You are wondering why I, a robbed? conducted methods? Republican, dare ures. They say 1 munition for the They were never This am Democratic ‘more mistaken party. in is furnished by tion manufactured Quay and his followers. It has all been made, it is a matter of record, it can- not be destroyed. You must either say it is right or repudiate those who are and furnished by i responsible for it. There is a settled purpose in Penn- | | sylvania to put down the rule of beer, for instance, 76 high salaried collectorships with unlimited latitude | banks and big corporations in our leg- islature and public offices at Harris- burg. A party when one man rules for the | benefit of one man and his political | Republican party | that can command our respect, influ- | ence or votes. We shall no longer sub- mit to the filling of the public offices | and legislature with sworn or mere personal ends and emoluments. We shall have home rule and not Bea- ver or Allegheny or Philadelphia ward ! No one county, or three, shall compel capitulation of all the rest on any terms. ODIUM OF ACQUIESCENCE. Silently we have borne the odium of acquiescence in the conduct of public It but aggravates our guilt of unin- tentional complicity to go farther, and neglect of plain duty in voting all the machine candidates To the list of the heroic defenders of the flag in to guard the treasury of the state irom attack and to recover the jeo- pardized ceposits of taxpayers’ money, scattered about in bankrupt and other unguaranteed institutions. Ilereafter Those who have agement or our money concerns have been proven to be intimately concerned in the handling of that‘ money, and it by state treasurers, who when one is inducted into office retains the previous incumbent as general manager. ‘tae law requiring the state treasurer to re- tire at the end of his term evidently him. What is the use of laws and anactments, anyway, when political maneuvering they are set it is the interest of the rush crowd to play football with them. The proceedings of the last legisla- and the records of previous leg- and the set up jobs of candi- business of the next legislature and unfinished last legislature for the portend a storm of trouble, which no one can forecast. The reign of terror by the must be resisted at every cost. "The present Republican party is a counter- feit coin. The operators of it recast their machine or it will pieces. to be a candidate, but willing to act as one of many leaders firmly pledged not only to act jointly, but bound to the f thousands and tens of thousands of the people to labor for a new order of po- litical administration of the laws and business affairs of the state. The opposition is not of my making; rises from the Vesuvius at Harris- belching forth frauds upon the often hidden by harmless it burg, people, RECORD OF THE BOSSES I challenge denial that the Repub- lican party did under its boss leader- | ship fight hard last winter to do the support for the benefit of Mr. W. H. Andrews and other in the state. Thus did he try to dwarf the children of the poor by knowledge. 2. It whitewashed the crimes of the pleo business, and the committee charg- | ed the state $17,000 for 16 meetings. 3. Its penitentiary investigating |! charged $15,000, or $1,250 each man, and a $2,500 hotel bill. 4. The anthracite coal committee bill disclosed nothing but the committee's bill of $11,987. 5. The Lexow committee of W. H. Andrews and Quay to blackmail Phila- | expenditure at honest and usual rates of expenses charged to individuals, and Senator Andrews fought desperately to get $65, - 000. 6. Two high oflicials of the state were to resign for complicity in unlawfully aiding and .abetting with the state treasurer to use: the state money, afterward secured by bond and subsequently borrowed from the Peo- ple’s bank, where $505,000 was retained on deposit by the state treasurer. 500 | investi- | anti-Quay men in the house ard | how much longer will you permit yourselves to be | business | make-use-of suchsfig- | furnishing am- not ammunition | Wanamaker, but ammuni- | pledged | partners in degrading public office to | some guarantee of every | dictated the man- | 1s¢ to control | bosses, must | be brewing interests ' taxing | years from 1895 | ~ THE NEW-I NWT will contain al Special Ih 1 d dispatches up to attention il be r A Careful wi J 1aVv1l » a favorite home paper, INTIAL Send *urnished by important wa th Lopics, Foreign COTres pont all general news of the Wor Family Newspaper. Special Corre- the 1ront. 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