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SW GOODS ND—: LOW PRICES We have largely increased our stock answered at our store, where an goods and PUBLIC. to re better prepared than ever to ACCOMMODATE THE We want your trade and we will do our best make it profitable and interesting for you to do business with us. Jur. Shoe is full of MEN'S SCHOOL SHOES; DREN’S RUBBERS IINDERWEA rR for everybody and a full line of MEN'S and BOYS FALL and WINTER CLOTHING. “Departmen y LADI Si CHILDREN’S and MENS’, LADIE’S and CHIL- and A ARCTICS Very Respectfully, DBarchus & Lavengeood, Salisbury, Penna. Hisher’s Book Store, "SOMERSET, PA. WHOLESLAE AND RETAIL! VOTO BODODO® This large and pushing establishment sells at wholesale to 90 town and country merchants in this and adjoining counties. and West We are at all times prepared to compete in prices with the city murkets. : At this season - its wholesale trade extends into Maryland Virginia. ve are specially pushing Hehe! Books Our stock of full complete, and the prices lowest md 1d School Supplies. these goods is large, a vholesale. is also being (Goods. attention given to Holiday Miscellaneous Books and Baby Special We are alse deing a nice trade’in and Doll Carriages. Constantly in stock a full line of 8 ery and Harmonicas. rantage, Tablets, Inks, Pens, Pe Legal Cap Papers, Fountain Pens, Blank Books, Judgment Notes, Receipt Books, and such oter goods as are usually for sale in an up-to-date Book, News and Stationery Store. Chas. H. Hisher. apie and Faney Station- Ne all in our how | For Mahogany fin- | electric | { For { To rie How goes the fight in Pevnsylvania? | Merchants and otliers ean bay of us to ad-| ils, Envelopes, Bill Books aud | ELK L ICK POS STO FICE, REPUBLICAN TiC KET. STATI. | I'or Governor, Wa. A. StoNE, Of Allegheny County. » Lieutenant Corer — J: Po Si GomaN, Of Lebanon County. | Judge of Superior Court, — W. VW. PORTER, Of Philadelphia. | | | proverbial | Democratic Of Philadelphia. | publicans | work hard for the election of [ can congressmen. Of Philadelphia. | Wy. D. PorTER, » Secretary of Internal Affairs, JAMES WW. Lyra, Congressmen-al- Large, — GaLusta A. Grow, Of Susgehanna County. A. DAVENPORT, Of rie County. COLIN TY Tor State Senator,— Joux S. WELLER, .Of Bedford County. | rn Congressy— Josern BE. Turore. Of Bedford County. For Asseinbly,— V. H. Kooxrz, Of Somerset Borough. A. KExpaLL, Of Meyersaale Borough. | Associate Judge, — A. IF. Dickey, Of Somerset Township. District Attorncy,— Ruerus E. MEYERS, Of Somerset Borough. ior Poor Director, Apay 8S. MILLER, + Of Lincoln Township. POLITICS AT LONG MANGE LA Calfirmian's View of {he PennsyIvania. Interest Taken in Mr. Thropp’s Election on the Pacific Coast— His Fame as a Protection- ist Far-reaching — Tips on the Campaign in California. [Special Correspondence. ] Los ANGELES, Cal, Oct. Evirtor oF Tue Star: 25, 1898. That is a question I am sometimes ask- ed by political friends here, who know | that T am a loyal son of the old Key- stone state and that I but lately re- turned from a visit to my native heath. As T am a constant reader of Tie Svar I am able to give them pretty accurate | knowledge of the progress of the cam- | paign, but I confess that I do not | clearly the outcome of the great strug- I gle between the Quay and anti-Quay Yut 1 | that in the end the elements of reform [will triumph and that the venal boss I who has so leng corrupted the body politic will be overthrown. Twice since I became old the great banner of Pennsylvania | forces. enough to vole, | state has lican party emerged from defeats puri- fied and strengthened for the | presidential campaign, altheugh it had been loudly proclaimed by the bosses that defeat in the State campaign would mean party disaster tional campaign two years later. tory has proven the fallacy of this con- ensuing | do not wish to be understood as hoping Ito governor in my native state, this fall, but I am frank to say that might befall it, see an Demogeratic a worse i party. Should the Republican nomi- nee be defeated, as 1 hear predicted in som je quarters, it will be a just rebuke { plified by Quayism. Whatever the re- sult, I predict that the Republican vote the governorship will be reduced constitute an emphatic | protest the domination of the | pOrty in the state by leaders as Quay et al. | lon sufliciently to against such besmirched REPUBLICAN CONGRESS, What interests the pedple of the country at large most in Pei nsylvania | : : : . d | politics is the eomplexion of the con- School*Books and Supplies, Miscellaneous Books | gressional delegation the state will re- turn at the coming election, That is | the true keynote of the political situa- tion. The election of a Republican | personally to have heard of Mr. | er’s nomination in your distriet, | you have a strong and an ¢ Tin surprise you to see-how well Mr. | here, and after elec | know the result, so that you may judge | whether I am a political prophet, or a | mere wiseacre who misses his guess as Situation in| ! comrade Ile is not a chronic politician, this be- | | a nomination see | have an abiding faith | | handsome majority. Republican | elected a | Democratic governor, and the Repub- calamity | in view of the fact that | a ring candidate was foisted upon the | | a very short awhile. to bossism in its worst phase as exem- | | I ; PAS; THURSDAY, | eore Pennsylvania‘should elect a solid i ‘Republican delegation. Through a Re- i . : 1 oid i publican president, the country has in years been lifted from the | verge of national bankruptey and wide- spread business depression and replaced Lon a solid financial basis which is giv- ing us another such era of prosperity | as the nation has only enjoyed when all | branches of the government have been controlled by the Republican party. | The enemy is bending every energy to! break the gress, and is setting much store by the “off | | too short year” t(o It everywhere, bring SUCCESS, behooves Re- therefore, to Republi- THROPP FAR-FPAMED. Although it would have pleased me Koos- I think 1ble candidate It would Thropp Ion. Joseph E. Thropp. is known on this coast, interest of a protective tariff for ican products has been noticed here where protection sentiment Californians realize that in Mr. is strong. Ihropp | they will have a friend in the house | { who will aid them in getting protection for California farm and orchard pro- | duets, the same as for the coal and iron manufacturers | much | long- of Pennsylvania. So for Pennsylvania politics by a range observer. TIPS ON CALIEORNIA. Perhaps some of you? readers would { like to hear from one on the ground { how goes the fight in California. the situation will let a few tips on tion 1 give you political prognosticators will treat “peck of usually do. I to a oranges’ if 1 5 i shoot far from the mark. We, too, are electing a governor, « egislature and a full complement of state and county oflicers this fall. The prospects at this writing I consider very bright for Republican success all along the line. The Republican nomi- | nee for governor is Henry T. Gage, a Los Angeles lawyer, rancher and mine | owner. Mr. Gage has the reputation of being one of the best criminal law- yers in the state. Ile is not a ing of the term. That is, he is not » : polished orator nor a finished scholar. | But he is { and good business sense.. i a sociable gentleman, endowed with honesty, wit He is withal walks of life; fellow well people in all and a hale met. ing the first. time he hos ever accepted for oflice. Mr. law partner is United States Stephen JM. Gage’s to cling Mr. has a think they are the only men in the state who can ing, just because they happen to opposite political faiths. few fool friends who run a Republican campaign (all same | Boss Quay) and these same individuals | are doing him harm than good, yet I think he will pull through with a The but he will do more state man figures it at 17,000, vell if he has 7,000 the the returns are all in, for California al- ways hes been a close and uncertain state. to good after HYDRA-HEADED OPPOSITION, Mr. Gallagher Gage has for an opponent James Maguire, a name that ought : 5° | to capture the Irish vote, which is very in the Na- | His- | ee | counties. | the candidate of the Democratic, tention and may repeat itself again. 1 | heavy in San Francisco and the mining James Gallagher Maguire is | Pop- ulist and Silver Republican parties | combined, so you see he ought to have | elected | formidable following. in a Maguire has { served several times CONgress ns a | Democrat. Prohibitionist. A man of the name of Maguire could hardly belong to the cold water party, even for But he has raft the all the other i the acknowledged apostle of single tax gamut of parties. on this const since Henry George: went , hut he ii speeches that single tax is not an He is his campaign on almost the { of decrying the Southern Pacific zing that his opponent is wind died says'in lus eam- east issue in this emmpaign. waking sole’ issue Rail- {way and char the I'ree silver railroad’s candidate. and hunger for oflice also ent some fig- | In the last congress, Mr. Maguire | { opposed the declaration of war, the war | | are. revenue bill and nearly every other ad- | ministration measure relative to the war, He also opposed a protective tariff i { congress will be an endorsement of the | for our citrus and dried fruits,nuts and McKinley administration, and on that | other products that have for eign com- | he does operate two stores the same as NOV E M BER epublican majority in Con- | about | His work in the | Amer- | I will | ALL in touch with the | a genial | Senator | White, and we now have | the spectacle of Senator White stump- ing the state to defeat his business as- | sociate and bosom friend of long stand- | chair- | He has belonged to about | all the parties of his time, except the | be expected to | Ie is | Tonviy Bw. 3, 186 )8. petition to contend with mn the eastern I 1) ocier privaee individual, one at markets, yet he thinks the people of | Rin and the other at Earlston. this great state ought to eect him gov- | ernor. What preposterous presumption! SIGNS OF TIE TIMES. I base my prediction of Maguire's defeat on the following facts: That nearly all the old-time Democrats have | {turned their backs on the free | her resy and other vagaries of the na- | tional Democratic platform; that a | large proportion of the so-called Rilver seen the error returned to the the middle-of-the have signified their disap- proval cf making the People’s Party { tail to the Democratic kite, by bolting the fusion ticket and coming out boldly for the Republican nominees. These and other reasons give me confidence have and | Republicans their way party; that Populists old that California will elect a Republican | governor and a legislature that will | elect a Republican successor to U States Senator White, { pires March 4, next. The prospects are also very good for redeeming the two southern California { congressional districts from the control of the Demopops. Both of the protective orange growing districts of the misrepresented by obscure whose terms ex- are. now free trade Popoerats—Barlow and Cas- | tle. Both are candidates for re-elee- tion, but their records are so bad, that I am grievously mistaken if the people do not on the 8th of November name | too staunch Republicans—Waters and | { Needham—to succeed them and put an | | "end to the anomolous situation that has i existed for two years. My prognostications are of record. What will the harvest Dey WwW, MALIGE FULLY i STATEMENT CONCERNING Ih THROPP'S RE LATIONS 10 LABOR, BY 6. i. HUGHES. VERIFIE ) BY . LivENGOOD, you | His | There is Not a 2 Single I Italian in Mr. Thropp’s Employ, and Only Five Hungarians — Plain Facts in the Case Recited. brilliant | man in the commonly accepted mean- npn Yor oi Altoona Tribune. Certain false and malicious state- ments concerning Mr. Joseph E.Thropp | and his relations to labor having been | widely circulated by his personal and facts from Mr. G. WW. Ilughes, who is firms, and who is a trustworthy and reputable citizen of Bedford county. [is statement follows: 7 = ty papers upon the character of Joseph | E. Thropp, Republican nomince i Congress in this district. Such calumnies and be a candidate for office, as appeared | | in several papers last week, should not, | have, therefore, deemed this public ref- called for in the interest truth and justice. Iirst, utation of asserted by several papers inthis coun- | ty that Mr. nace, mines Pers. and especially Italians. Thropp employs at his fur- I desire to make an emphatic contradiction to in- nuendoes, insinuations and of this kind. I have been in the employ of Mr. Thropp continuously for nearly four timekeeper and chief clerk, years, as present time there are only five Hau- in this country and the others have been in this country for at least Any one who doubts this state- and will take the trouble to call "at the office I will show them the pay- roll for the last six years. ; The story put into circulation by de- Thropp had a years. ment signing enemies that Mr. curtond of Italians imported to work at | his furnace, is absolutely and unquali- On the other hand, I know | fiedly false. that Thropp’s superintendent have instructiotis to lis always been to Mr. ‘operates two company. stores and com- pels his employes to buy all their earn- ings out of Lhese stores,’ this assertion is as malicious as it is false. Mr. Thropp does not run any ‘company stores,’ but silver | of | road | a| United | state ! APFIDAVIT, tions, Readers. | disgruntled employe wholeft a position political enemies, the 7ibune has pro- | { cured the following plain statement of | in a position to know whereof he af-| have read the garbled and un- | | truthful attacks made by several-coun-! Ginge | for | misrepresenta- tions upon a private citizen, though he | it seems to me, pass unanswered, and I | It has been | and quarry mostly foreign- | assertions | and in that time he has not had a single | ! Ttalian in his employ, either at the far- | nace, ore mines or yuarry, and at the | eight | give preference to native born citizens. i As to the statement that Mr. Thropp The statement that his employes are compelled to deal at these stores or lose their jobs is absolutely false. 1 { have been in charge of the Earlston most of the time since I have been in Mr. Thropp’s employ, and he | never has given such instructions. My to keep prices of all as at the other stores in town, for the same quality of goods. ‘No one is compelled to deal at the Earlston store because he is employ- ed by Mr. Thropp, and I aver that all assertions to the contrary are false and untrue. As to the | den, Jr., I store instructions are goods the same affidavit of Edward Bow- that he was discharged by Mr. | Thropp because lie did not buy enough out of the store and that he refused to move into a house one and a-half stor- { ies high with four roams and pay $5.50 | oa month rent: This is a garbled statement and does not axpress the correct facts. Mr. Bow- | den was not discharged hecause he did | not the store, discharged because he buy enough goods at {neither was he [would house not /move into a four- roomed and hay $5.50 a month rent. 1 had Eharze of renting all the for/ the last two years. Mr. | Thropp has only four houses that rent for $5.50 per month and they have each six rooms; all the rooms rent for $ several for less. have houses other houses with £50 per month and I averthat any statement to the con- trary is maliciously false and untrue. As to the statement that James C McGonagle, at one time an employe of ! Mr. Thropp, has not been able to cellect a balance of $55 due him for services, | taver that when Mr. MeGonagle left Me, Thropp’s employ, on December 22, 1896, i he filled out his own check for his ser- i vices up to that date, and Mr. | signed it. If there was any amount.due it more than certain that would have ineluded it in his final set- tlement with Mr. Thropp. Mr. MeGonagle also states in a letter to a supposed friend that he had in- structions to discharge every man who did not deal at the Earlston store. This is not only untrue, from the fact that Mr. Thropp never gives such instrue- but from the fact that Mr. Me- I Gonagle did not have authority to dis- | charge any one. He held the | position as I have held since his leav- ling, and I have no such authority. His utterings are the breathings of a Thropp [him is he Saline three different times and feels grieved because he was not employed a fourth | time. There are letters on file in the office, I written this year, in which Mr. Me- Gonagle asks Mr. Thropp to take him back. I invite any person who may doubt the crrectness of these statements to call at the furnace office and I will | show them the original records verify- | ing the correctness thereof.” GrorGe W. Huanes. EvererT, Pa, Oct. 25, 1898. STATE oF PENNSYLVANIA) | 9% $8: 3EDRrORD COUNTY. ) On this 25th day of October, 1898, be- fore me, a notary public ih and for said { county, personally came George W. ITughes, who being duly sworn accord- ing to law. says that he is a native of Bedford county, P’a., and that he has | been continuously in the employ of Jos- {eph I. Thropp, Republican nominee | for Congress in this district, since April 1894, as tine keeper and book-keep- Thropp has not at any time had in his employ ono at Everett furnaee, stone and at the pres- only five (5) Hun- and none at the Any state- are absolutely W. Huanes. 3d, Ler and that said Joseph E. Italian, either quarry or ore mines, ent there are | garians at furnace stone quarry or ore mines. | ments to the contrary | false. time Sworn to and subseribed before me this 25th day October, A. D. 1898. AM. D. Barxporrar, Notary Public. garinns at the furnace and none at the mines or quarry ; one of these was born | Tne obituary notices the Democratic ! papers are publishing of James M.Wal- ters are premature, as the crucifixion [will not take place until November 8th. When Mr. Walters had it written and | sent out he neglected to state on the [ copies that it was “not to be used until released.’—Jolhastown Tribune. A pisparenr from Altoona says a war- rant has been issued for the arrest of S. Marshall Williams, of Everett, Bed- ford county, Pa., who is wanted for ob- taining money under false Williams is one of the Democratic aids who is said to be out trying to defeat Thropp for Congress, and no doubt he is a fair sample of the trash running | about the country to defame Mr. { Thropp. Of all the personal enemies of Mr. Thropp there isn’t one décent, | manly man among them. pretense.
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