VOLUME 1V. Hisher’s Book Store SOMERSET, PA. WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL! DED OJDOVOVOIS S 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 are specially pushing Fishing Goods. Our stock cf these goods is large, full and complete, and the prices 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 Merchants and others can buy of us to ad- and Fancy Station- ery and Harmonicas. rantage, Tablets, Inks, Pens, Pencils, Envelopes, Bill Books and and such oter goods as are usually for sale in an up-to-date Book, | News and Stationery Store. { has. 1. Misher. - Dewey? Arbuckle’s and Enterprise Coffee, per pound only 10 ccents. Of course we do, We sell coods=s cheaper than other in town. Our prices speak selves, any store 4 Ibs. Best Nice 10 Ibs. Navy Beans... ( « Good Caxhineres from ... 15 1hs. White Tomy ...... oon Las Ce C 1! {8 Very best Cotton Bats... Good Calico...........0. Best Calico 7 Cakes Coke Soap 6 Cakes Waterlily Soap 5H lbs. Good Raisins. .... » - al Ct Ng od DY XT LD -) EE Just Received. A fine line of Ladies’ Shirt Waists, prices from 50 cents to SLO. Also a tiuficturers, from 39 cents up. All the Men's Suits front $4 up. y cents per yard. wi Good 7-cent Muslin reduced to HH oocents, AMen’s Dress Shirts, direct from thie mn latest-nov- elties in Neckwear and Gents’ Furnis Suits from 75 cents up. Boys” Knee Thants from 25 cents up. Overalls, ete, at prices away down, @n. GREAT BARGAINS IN SHOES = hing Goods. We enrry an immense line of SHOES and buy dircet turers—Rice & Hutchins, Walker and Donglas—thereby saving fully 25 per cent. of job- We warrant these shoes in every part. We are also agents for the famous REMEMBER, THE ABOVE ARIE CASIH PRICES, chers? prices, Carlisle and Evitt Ladies’ Shoes, Barchus& 1 avengood, Salisbury, Penna. {ret It At Jellery’s! ~~ When in need of anything in the line of Pure Fresh Groeeries, Fancy Confectionery, Marvin's Fresh Bread, Books, Stationery, Notions, ete. CALL AT ovm—— THE LEADING GROCERY. Space is too limited to enumerate all my bargains here, Call 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.T. JEFFERY, Opposite Po=stoflice. - Criavnt Street. mY S . TY . Sn BE Bh y 1 Grain Hlour and Heed! 8S. A. Lichliter is doing businees 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, | as individuals are concerned, we could vote | Feed, Flour, Corn, Oats, Tite. > 5 In short anything to. feed man or baast. Fuxnthermore, we are JOBBERS OF CARBON OIL and can save merchpuis money on.this line, as we buy car- | load lots. We are also THeadguarters It'or Maple Sweets. 1 We pay cash for good Butter and niece, clean I'resh 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 Monuments] work will find me in what was enge known as THE KOONTZ MARBLE WORKS. 1 am prepared as never-before tooffer to all those in need of Monumental.wark, | from small [Headstones to Granite Monuments. PRICES HERETOFORE UNIIEARD OF. None but the best of Marble and Granite, and workmanship tha. finest. I make Granite work a speeinlfy. You will be surprised at my prices. Gall and — ALBERT J, HILLEGASS, Berlin, Pa, for themn- Lancaster Ginghams........5 cents per yard. | res 121-2 cents ap. | fine line of | from the celebrated manufac- SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFF A LIE NAILED. | To the Republican Voters of Somcp- | set County. A set of political schemers ‘have attempted, by means of a letter published in this week's issue of the Somerset “Herald,” to create the hmpression that we lare in favor of cxtending the (term of the common schools in The fact that put in circulation only a | this county. was few days before the election, stamps it as a cowardly attempt | to mislead voters at the coming | primary clection. We now sol- | er heard the question of extend- | ing the school term raised in {this canvass. We have timated that we favored an ex- tension of the school term. And we defy the editors of the “Her- ald,” or anyone, to produce a | {letter containing any such senti- | ‘ment, or any person through | whom such statement was made | by either of us. We denounce it as an infamous lie gotten up | for the purpose of injuring us at | ; : [the coming primary election. | W. HH. KooNrz, S.A. KENDALL. | | cries nme nahn e RUC 4 cents per yard. | THE CAND:DATES. { How They Are Sized up by ‘“Lueci- fer’> A. a Scriptural Lesson Thrown In. Last week the Meyersdale Comnmer- Children’s | Men's Working Pants, Coats, | cial, or as it is commonly called, the | Reull organette, published the names which we reproduce herve: I REGULAR. L. 8. SENATE. M.S. Quay. CONGRESS. i J. D. licks. | STATE SENATE. | J. J. Iloblitzell. Jeremiah Maurer. ASSEMBLY, W. II. Koontz. S.A. Kendall. tA. W. Knepper. | | | IW. H. Ranner. |B. D. Miller. #11. C. McKinley. ASSOCIATE JUDGE, | J. C. Weller. A. Fx Dickey. | DISTRICT ATTORNEY. { A. C. Holbert. { | POOR DIRECTOR. W. W. Young. Adam 8. Miller. | DELEGATES, | RR. E. Meyers. Isaiah Good. 11. I. Barron. C. I'. Cook. | Following the above tabulated form, | the Commercial commented as follows: 1 | Edward Hoover. | Jac. W. Peck. David E. Wagner. “*Dr. McKinley has never been much with either faction, prefering to avoid factional- | ism, but as he never had any use for the { Combine and its tactics, he is placed where | he belongs, in the Regular column. {| Mr. Knepper was turned down by the Combine, and every effort was made to force | | him off the ticket, but without avail. He is on the returnand his friends had not the right to act as theydid. He will poll a large vote, owing to the manner he was treated, | and stands as good a chance of coming in under the wire as either of his two running mates. Please study this. Make up your mind to vote against the Combine. Not on account of the personality of the ticket, but because of the principles it really represents. Sofar for any man on that ticket (save onc), but when principle comes in, not one of them could command our vote. We have given the tickets as all concede they stand. Which are the sheep, and which, the goats? We do not know. Do you?” {© Now, since you have noted the ticket i as tabulated by “Lucifer,” and read his comments on the same, Tne Star will | do a little commenting itself and give you the straight goods. tse hine” are misnomers and are used by the Commercial, willfully and malicious- ly. to deceive voters. aimed at telling the truth, he would | lave labeled the umn “Anti-Scull ticket.” {is afraid to use the name Scull to any { great extent, knowing how odious it has got to be among the Republieans of | Somerset county. For that reason he is trying to railread the Scull ring tick- | et through under false colors. He like the candidates on that ticket are | themselves—afraid to make it known | that they are Scullions—thinking that ‘i by denying their masters they can fool { the people, sneak into office and then laugh at their dupes.. Bui the—people it | emnly declare that we have nev- | never | : 5 : {by word, written or spoken, in- | Legal Cap Papers, Fountain Pens, Blank Books, Judgment Notes, | I ? Receipt Books, School Books and Supplies, Miscellaneous Books | Smith.— Some Timely ' Suggestions for ‘““‘Lucifer,”’ with | COMBINE. | F. J. Kooser- | The serms “Regular” and “Com- | Ilad “Lucifer” | Left-hand column | “Scull ticket,” and the Right-hand col-! But “Lucifer” | is | | are onto the dodge and are not going to | be eaught napping. 2nd. Hasn't “Lucifer” told us all | along that Dr. McKinley is a middle- of-the-rond candidate? Now he puts him where he belongs, in the Scull ring column, just as Tue Srar predicted | several weeks ago that he would do “Lucifer” the doctor was never much with either faction. That is once | that “Lucifer” told the truth, tor the { doctor never was much anywhere, But [ say, what in “Sam il” has become of that middle-of<the-road policy of “Lu- cifers?” Didn’t Tie Star tell you all along that it was only a ruse to deliver votes to the Scull ring, and that “Luci- fer” would in due time show his cloven feet? And hasn’t he given himself beautifully away? “Lucifer” is entirely too soft to carry out the ring’s plans. Dr. McKinley is out to keep votes from S. A. Kendall, thereby niding Capt. San- | ner; but all the harm he can do a manu | of brains and ability, such as 8. A. Ken- dall possesses, will not be much. 3d. The assertion made by “Lucifer” that there was an attempt made to force Knepper off the ticket, is both ridiculous and untrue. It is true, how- lever, that some of Mr. Kendall’s friends asked Mr. Knepper to withdraw, and it is also true that some of Mr. Knepper’s friends asked Mr. Kendall to withdraw. Either of these men had a God-given right to try to get the other to with- draw, and either one had an eqnal { right to run. That all there is to this, and there was no force about it. 4th. The combine that “Lucifer” re- | fers to is nothing more nor less than a combine against the Scull ring, and it | is made up of & large majority of the | best Republicans in Somerset county. { The larger this combine or anti-Scull | element becomes, the better it will be | for the county and every honest man | in it. Every man the ticket is a gentleman and an honest gays 15 on | vote. | on the other ticket, but some of them no more of them. Most of them, at | least, stand for corrupt Quay bossism | and misruie, such as the Quay machine | | was responsible for at Harrisburg, for {the past few years, and all intelligent | men will want no more of that. bth. “Lucifer” asks this question: i “Which are the sheep and which the | goats?” | know. If he | did he assume the right to tell you in | the first portion of his last paragraph | for whom you should vote? 1f he does | not know the sheep from the goats, as ! he has admitted, it necessarily follows | that he is not competent to make a rec- | ommendation or an indorsement for | either ticket. | know? We fear that you have not | been reading your Bible. Does not the good book tell us that the sheep shall i appear on the right and the goats on | the left? Now look at the tabulated ticket form, which we have reproduced from your own paper, and see which candidates you have on the right and which on the left. That will tell you at. a glance which are the sheep and which the goats. tures, you miserable, silurian betrayer of the people. You lose no time in learning to be decent tell the sheep from the goats. The Kind of a Combine Lou Smith Is Fighting. Read over the combine ticket. dividually it "is composed of men the most of us respect. bine they represent that hurts ticket.—Meyersdale Commercial. The above is refreshing, to say the least. What is this combine { Smith speaks of, and what are its aims and objects? Tue Soar will tell you. What “Lucifer” pleases to call a com- bine is a mighty army Somerset county Republicans, made up of farm- the of the. brain and brawn of What are they are going to arrogant that | diers and the county. to do? They i obne-family polities, ism and everything smash boss- is The work of this combine isa righteous i work and has already been bringing about some good results. Fellewing are some examples: The Scull newspaper, the Somerset leirald, used to get $150 for printing thie. county’s assessment blanks and { blotters, when:the Scull gang controll- | | ed the Commissioners’ office. The pres- ent Commissioners, whom the Sculls do nat control, now get this work done elsewhere tor only $66. The Sculls used to get $70 per set for. anti-Scull | man; every one is. a man worthy of | { your respect, your confidence and your | There may be some good men | are already condemned by their past | ] t | official records and the people will want | | of the candidates in the tabulated form, | Then he adds that he does not | does not know, as he | himself admits, then on what authority | “Lucifer,” why don’t you | Go_and search the Serip- | debauched old | have a whole lot to learn yet, old man, | { a whole lot to learn; and you should | and honorable in politics. to be able to! In-} It is the evil Com- that Lou | ers, mechanics, laboring men, old sol- trying | detri-| mental and obnoxious to the people. NUMBER 18. | very “small potatoes” and are getting smaller all the time. ‘Why should Ed- i ward Scull, who fed at the public crib ‘for years, not have been required to | pay announcement fees and party as- The Sculls used to get $98 per set for | sessments, the same as other Republi- election blanks. The same material is cans? You know he had it to pay. now secured elsewhere for only $30. don’t yon? Ile didn’t pay, simply be- The Sculls used to get $53 per set for «cause the Sculls had the party in their military rolls. The same material is own grasp and could doas they pleased, now purchased elsewhere for only $13. | They and their henchmen held the of- The Sculls used to get $170 for print- fices, and other people kept up the ing the county’s annual statement. party. Yet the Sculls want to pose as Tue Star now prints the same for only | the guardians of the party; but what $75 and feels that it is well paid. | they really want is to have control of The Scull newspaper, the Herald, and | the party funds and the offices. Turn the Meyersdale Commercial, its organ- | their men down all along the line. ette, each charged the county $567 for | This rotten system must be completely printing a single election proclamation, | broken up. A good start has already when the ruling price in other counties, | been made and the victory must be fol- for the same proclamation, was from $75 | lowed up until there is not a grease: to $150. The. present anti-Scull Com - { spot of the Scull ring left. missioners refused to pay this outrage- | ous, highway-robbery bill. And here | printing the tax duplicates. Now this work is done elsewhere for only $15. The Sculls used to get $120 per set for registration books. These are now purchased elsewhere for only $20. Don’t take our word for the above ‘ ! affidavit, but call and see the original is where the howl, “combiners,” comes | document itself. “Seeing is believing,” : m te whe 5 . : ak ot ear : Fy ams 22 in. That is why the Scull ring is mak- | and Trewnar is always ready to prove . s or > m rs | ing such a vigorous fight. They can |a)] the assertions it makes. We are no longer thrust their grasping hands | not like the Scull boodle mongers 1 0 r y 1 X RL ” > ’ : : Si ae the CONNLY treasury; and it sets | young here, who make assertions and ard on them. Their frying the fat out | (yap sneak away when you demand of the Republican party is also rapidly | proof playing out, and oh, how they whine! | — Tire Star has poked these facts and | To the Dunkards and the Amish. figures at the Scull gang all through | this campaign, and challenged them time and again to refute them. Dut Many of you to whom this article is addressed, will remember that a few | years ago Tue Star reproduced an ar-- they keep as mum as clams on the real | ticle from the Somerset erald—an ar- questions at issue, and have NEVEr | ticle in which the Herald had greatly mage bre least attempt to deny one | misrepresented the Dunkards and the: charges. All they could do in reply { Amish. It pictured them out as an was harp on issues that > i is]: 1: . S pb on issues that are not in this | ignorant, illiterate, unprogressive class. ic | Z La v ; . opposed to education, ete. The old Now, Mr. , ponder ov 2 fig- | § inka OW) ; r. Voter, ponder over the fig- | Scull paper seemed to think it was very ures quoted and see whether the “com- | smart to thus ridicule the two churches bine,” as Lou Swiith calls it, has not | aforesaid 0 savi ) ¢ , ars Tr : | been saving the county many dollars | Many of you wiil remember how Tir annually. And remember that a sav-| Soap took the 2ferddd to task for its un- ing to the county is a saxing to every kind and. false [tax=payer. ; . ; church at that The The following ticket is the one that ferred to showed narrow-minded <Q 1 : 3 Sth 1 V7 tick ot. . x Lou Smith calls the “combine” ticket : and bigoted the Sculls are, but now. For-Congress.............. F. J. Kooser. | they would be exceedingly glad to have: | For State Senator. ..Jeremiah Maurer. every Dunkard and every Amish church * Koontz. | member vote for its slated ring candi- \ La S.A. Kendall. gates. Will you do it? We think not. ‘or Associate Judge......: A. IF. Dickey. : 2 ; Bk 5 ' De After holding the Dunkards and the For I’oor Director Adam S. Miller. : vie : L a a Amish up to public ridicule, the Sculls For District Attorney....R. E. Meyers. | : ; : : ra are now glad enough to trot Rev. Jacob Ifor Delegates . KF. Barron. Peck, n Dunkard o} i 1 to State ie vate Isainhi Good. | -ECH.-8 JuNRArd-prenche I; lntothe race Convention, Vi. ..... = C¢. I. Cook. as one of their candidates for Delegate to the State convention. He is now to [Lou Smith admits that all of them | ; { are men that he respects, yet he tells act as a Moses for the Scull ring to lead: 3 [it out of the We do not you not to vote for them, and his rea- sons for not voting for them we trust S¢¢ what Rev. Peck means by allowing we have made plain. All we have to such a rotten gang of politicians to use: add is just this: The ticket, as it ap- | him. He evidently hasn’t learned to. above, can’t be beat. Nobody know them yet; but he will learn to. i know them:in due time, we will war- can vote for a better set of men. rant you, and when lie does, they willl I hear something drop. Some of the Seull adherents are boast-. ing that the ring will’ sway the whole: | Dunkard church into line; because a: ! . : o a Lo] Dunkard preacher is one of their can-- i y or years the Scull ring in | omerset ! didates. But they will find: out differ-- | has tyranized over the Republicans in | ently. | Somerset county. The Sculls made the | - party a sort of family affair and used it To The Miners. | to further their own selfish ends, while | The Meyersdnle Commercial: wants to. others were forced to pay the Party's | gietate to Salisbury and Elk Lick how rexpenses. We all know how Col. Ed- | ward Scull fed himself fat at the public toyoie; bat it doesn't digtate much to» crib, but it is not generally known that | bas yolens of Meyersdule, Deana the: Mr. Scull did not pay announcement | yoress of thnk town ore tos, i quainted with old "Lugifer’” and fees and party assessments, the same many-sided. political’ capers, and they: as other candidates Ware compelled. to | always pile up an overwhelming major- {do. Yet, such is evidently the case, ns ity against the men the the following sworn statement will Potts : avors. verify, It is a sublime spectacle, indeed, tos | COUNTY OF SOMERSET, ss. | wateh old Lou trying to taffy the labor-- | ing men wlienever there is an election: fon hand. But wheneverthe miners 6f’ | this region strike, no matter how just their demands. the ways pitched’into them and sided with, | the operators. Every miner in this re- gion knows this. The editor of Tue has been a miner himself, and every miner: | knows, has always upheld the cause of labor, while the Commercial has always remarks about your time, article re- how For Assembly { wilderness. pears A FAMILY AFFAIR. The Disruption of a Family Brings Out Something Racy. his: Conunercial! Personally eame before me, a Justice o } the Peace, in and for said County, Chas. (. | Shafer, who being duly affirmed, as is re- quired by law, says, that he was Chairman | of County Committee off the Republican | party of Somerset County from June, 1887, | to June, 1880. | That during his term of ofice of Chairman | of the County Committee, Kdward Scull was a candidate for the County nomination for Congress; that his name was announced in the Republican papers and the Primary Flection held for his benefit, the same as for « thor eandidates, but that the said Edward Scull neglected to pay lis announcement strenuously opposed it. But when elee- [1:0 to the County organization” of the Rew, fmmesmesthencld Lou has the: | publican party, as is required by rule 20; 0 A = | neltherdid he (Edward Scull) pay any fall | impudence and gallto dictate to work- | assessment to me, as other candidates were required to pay, and that so far as your atfi- Comercial has al-- Sran as ing men how they shail vote. Just vote against every man that the: Congmereial favors, and you will always vote about right. The people off Mey-- ersdale found that out some few years.’ ago, and “Lucifer’s” checkered career about ended: Working men, voie for your own interests, by casting your: votes against the Loa A. Smith, the enemy of labor, asks you to ant knows never has paid either. Your afiant further says that at the time he went out of otllce he turned over to Fred. W. Bicsecker $07.50, thereby owverdrawing the amount due the Republican €ounty Committee inthe sum of $10.15. This latter sum oCHI0LLIS Chairman Biésecker has retus- ed and neglectrd to pay afffant and still does refuse and negleet to pay the same, whiel is justly and legally due your afliant. Afliant further says that the statement I published over his nume in the Somerset Stendard, in the issue under date of Friday, + February 21st, i860 was authorized by him | and is a frue and correct statement of the party’s financial affairs during his incum-.| beney inoflice. CHAS. UC. SIIAFER. is men whom support. Tite Somerset flerald and the Mey-. ersdale Commercial barkers are follow- ing on the heeis of Hon. W. II. Koontz: Aflirmed and subscribed before me this as the canvass forAssemaly progresses. | 10th day of. May, A. D. 1804. | This does -not matter; what we: > Opiver KNepeen, J. Po | hear the General will get there all the: Now, fellow Republicans, do you |same. After the Republican primary | think Edward Scull had any right tobe | Koontz’s name will'uppear on the Re-. | a privileged character? Do you think | publican ticket; he will be elected this. the Sculls nre greater than the Replb- | fall and will be a credit to the people: | lican party? Tur Star thinks they are. of Somerset. county.—Rerlin. Record. from | |
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