SBURY,
nh
ALN Mi LARK =
eer TAR, ATE ——
ERNE R——
Everything
matter
if you
to a business policy that makes folks want to deal with us.
stock is choice, well made and has the stamp of merit vpon it, no
small the It you to new fall
live twenty miles away.
price. will pay see our exhibits, even
be beat
Neeing is
Our $3:25 Iron Beds can’t
apy place for the money,
believing Drop in and convince your-
self of the bargains we offer.
Center Tables, 112.16, 55 cents.
Cauclies, $5.70.
$18.00 Parlor Suite.
ish, highly polished, artistic in design
and first-class in every respect.
Large Arm Rock. rs, 99 cents,
6-foot Iixtension Tables, $3.50.
Undertaking and Embalming
promptly attended {o. Night calls
call bell will be found on our door.
Johnson & NMicecCulloh,
ELK LICK, PENNA.
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.