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SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA. THUR
QUAY’S CASE
BEFORE SENATE
Majority of Committee Decide
‘He Is Not Entitled to
a Seat.
STONE'S APPOINTMENT NOT GOOD.
Ex - Lieutenant Governor Watres
Says Pennsylvania Ilas Been Dis-
graced by Ballot Crimes—Reform
in the Repablican Party Is Needed.
The
ests of the Peeple and Not For the
Ilections Are For the Inter-
Benefit of a Political Boss.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Harrisburg, Jan. 30.—As foreshad-
owed in these letters, the senate com-
mittee reported last week against the
admission of M. S. Quay to the United
States senate on aC appointment of
Governor Stone. hat is, the major-
ity of the committee so decided. The
minority presented a report favoring
his admission. Quay’s case will now
hang fire before the senate until op-
portunity is presented to have it taken
up and debated; and then the whole
case will be decided by the senate vot-
ing for or a-ainst seating him. In de-
claring against the right of Quay to
have a seat in the senate the majority
report of the committee said:
“After a vacancy in the office of Uni-
ted States senator occurs or comes to
pass, if the next legislature does not
fill it, it continues to exist. It is the
same vacancy, not a new one. Now
the state executive is given power to
make temporary appointments in case
of a vacancy, not as long as it con-
tinues or cxists, put only until the next
meeting of the legislature, which is
then required to fill the vacancy. This
clearly means that the paramount in-
tent to have the legislature choose the
senatcrs is to prevail, and that, when-
ever the legislature has had the oppor-
tunity to fill the vacancy, either before
or after it occurs, the executive has no
power to appoint. And when we take
the phase “if vacancies happen by re-
gignation or otherwise, during the re-
cess of the legislature of any state,
it we concede that the general word
‘otherwise’ is not qualified nor lim-
ited by the specific word ‘resignation,’
and that it includes vacancies which
are caused by efflux of time, and which
can be foreseen, as well as vacancies
which are caused by a casualty or the
happening of an unexpected event, and
which cannot Le foreseen, still it must
be construc.ed and defined with refer-
ence to the balance of the phrase so as
to give effect to all its parts; and it
thus results that the vacancy, no mat-
ter how it is produced, must happen,
take place, or begin during a recess
of the legislature, and this of itseur
would be decisive against Mr. Quay’s
claim.
FAVORITE OF THE GOVERNOR.
“Thus construed, this clause cf the
constitution affords every facility for
always keeping the senate filled with
senators who are the real representa-
tives of their respective states. A sen-
ator who is chosen by the legislature
of his state is likely to be the choice
of the majority of the citizens of the
state. A senator who is appointed by
an executive dis -frequently only the
personal or political favcrite of the
executive.
“The legislature, as we construe the
clause, chooses the senator in the first
instance. 1f he declines to serve or
dies before he is inducted into cflice;
or if, after qualifying, he dies, re-
signs, or is expelled, the executive may
make a temporary appointment until
the legislature meets again; or if, ow-
ing to changes in the state constitu-
tion, the legislature, which is author-
ized to fill the term at its commence-
ment, cannot meet until after the term
has commenced, the executive can also
make a temporary appointment.
“Every contingency is thus provided
for except the sole contingency that
the legislature will fail to perform its
sworn duty. Against a contingency
of this kind the framers of the con-
stitution did not intend to provide.”
The report quotes numerous prece-
dents, beginning with that of Kensey
Johns. of Delaware, in 1704, and clos-
ing with tle case of Henry W. Cor-
bett, of Oregon, in 1898. It then read
in part:
“The statement of these cases and
precedents shows that from the begin-
ning of the government down to the
present time the senate has never rec-
ognized the rieht of a state cutive
to make a temporary appointment
where tie vacancy happened or oc-
curred during a session of the leg
lature.”
The minority report takes the op-
posite view.
GOVERNOR WATRES TALKS.
Ex-Lieutchant Governor Louis A.
Watres, of Scranton, who camc cut
from the Quay ranks several weeks
ago, was in Philadelphia last week and
gave the Quay machine another blow
in an interview. He declares against
the political corruption that has m
ed the Quay machine rule in Pennsyl-
vania, and said:
“When election frauds were first al-
leged it was lcoked upon by many as
a play to the galleries, and part of a
factional fight. The arrests and sub-
sequent flight of the accused have con-
vinced the general public that the
charges were based on fact, and that
election frauds are frequent!y practiced.
“It is a most humiliating comment
that the Republican organization in a
great Republican state like Pennsylva-
nia, with its enormous majorities, with
its fair record and glorious history,
should rely upon tricky primaries and
fraudulent ballots to keep it in power.
« PARTY NEEDS REFORMING.
“Pennsylvania in the past has enter-
tained a just pride in her devotion and
loyalty to the principles of the Repub-
lican party. Nothing but a sudden
awakening to the danger and duty of
the hour will save the proud name of
the commonwealth from merited re-
proach and disrepute.
“If the ballot is corrupt, what hope
fo)
have we for pure politics or pure gov-
ernment?
“The situation, briefly stated, is that
the Republican party in the state needs
reforming.
“Tt will certainly be reformed, either
within party lines or by forces out-
side of it. Party promises have gone
to protest, and no responsible endorser
for their renewal by the present regime
is in sight. New men and better meth-
ods are peremptorily demanded.
“The present is an opportune time
for action.
“The first duty of the citizen is to
address himself to the remedying of
defective election l®ws.
“None but men of known political
integrity should be sent to the next
legislature. Men who will not pledge
themselves to safeguard the people
this office.
properly at the primaries and the bal-
10T DOX, ana wnose recora 1s not a sur-
ficient guarantee for honest legislation,
should be permitted to remain at
home.
“To accomplish this requires vigi-
lance, effort and organization. Young
men should enter politics, and the
boodler should be sent to the rear.
“Prope. men should be selected iu
each legislative district as candidates,
and a vizorous campaign put forth in
their behalf.
RIGHT USE OF MACHINE.
“I am a firm believer in organiza-
tion. That it is sometimes called a ‘ma-
chine’ does not change its purpose
But the proper province of the organ-
ization is to formulate and execute the
party policy, and not to use the ‘ma-
chine’ for personal ends. Integrity
should be as much a fundamental vir-
tue with political parties as it is with
individuals.
“Under the present rules and prac-
tice county and district conventions for
the election of delegates to the state
conventions are held at different dates,
and when necessary for its purposes
are directed by the state organization.
“This enables the organization to
concentrate its forces on each district
separately, and the unorganized voter
is at a great disadvantage. This should
be chanred, and primaries throughout
ize state should be held simultaneous-
y
“The purpose of the primaries should
be to nominate men who will repre-
sent the people, and not a political boss.
“With a legislature composed of free
and untrammeled men, Pennsylvania
will then secure honest primaries, hon-
est elections and honest legislation;
factionalism would cease, the people’s
rights would be protected, extrava-
gance guarded against, patriotism pro-
moted, education advanced, the rights
of capital and labor adjusted and peace,
prosperity and the good name of the
commonwealth assured.”
Jonx Burn evidently didn’t know that
Spion Kop was loaded.
Tur British regulars seem tobe about
as dumb as they were away back in
Braddock's time. They’re dead easy
to lead into a trap.
Wnex the British took Spion Kop
they were like the fellow who laid hold
upon the bear—very anxious for some-
body to help them let go.
Coox tsu uns en onder nocht, und es
gept en grosser schlaught, und mer
scheesa dunner wetter dourich de looft.
—QOom Paul to Gen. Buller.
- ———
Gexerarl Burner with 20,000 men
marched up Spion Kop hill, and then
marched dcwn again. Of course they
didn’t all march down, for Oom Paul
sent a cablegram direct to Tur Star
office, saying that about 1,500 of them
remained on the field.
Ix a lengthy special telegram to Sun-
day’s Philadelphia Times the political
situation in Bedford county is discuss-
ed. The candidacy of the Hon. John
M. Reynolds for the Republican nomi-
nation for Congress in this district is
touched up. The Bedford Inquirer ad-
vises Thropp to withdraw in the inter-
est of harmony, so the telegram says.
If Thropp takes the Inquirer's advice,
Blair county’s candidate stands a good
show for the nomination. Reynolds
was formerly a Democrat, and, even if
he was Bedford county’s choice for Con-
gress, he probably would not be nomi-
nated when the cenferees met.—Altoona
Times.
— ——l
Wirniaym Goeser, who was defeated
for Governor of Kentucky at last fall’s
election, but who has been trying to
over-ride the will of the people by re-
sorting to all manner of fraud, was shot
down by an assassin, about 11 o’clock,
Tuesday morning, while walking
through the Capitol grounds at Frank-
fort. The shot was fired from a tall
building that stood near by. The
wound is believed to be fatal. While
the affair is a bad one, Goebel never-
theless has no one to biame but him-
self. The high-handed outrages he has
committed against the people of Ken-
tuckey will never be forgotten and for
that reason the crime does not seem so
cold-blooded as it otherwise would.
Sl
If rumors are not groundless, some
surprises may shortly be sprung con-
cerning official methods at the county
capital. The Record is informed that
it comes from good authority that the
ex-county Treasurer is some dollars
over $2,500.00 short in his accounts.
The settlement is not on file to show it,
but at present writing the money is not
in the hands of the present treasurer.
The bondsmen, it is said, will make the
deficiency good, but meanwhile they
are searching the previous audits and
making an effort to find a mistake in
the work of the other two years. It is
further hinted that if bucket-shops had
souls and could talk, and they were in-
| clined to tell of the number of castals
| that have bursted above certain heads,
that many things that are now crook-
ed would be made plain.—Berlin Record
: ———
Soye of the Quay papers put great
stress on the fact that all the Senators
who signed the minority report for
seating Quay, are Republicans, while
the majority report, which is against
seating him, is signed principally by
Democrats. But they take good care
not to tell the public what kind of Re-
publican Senators favor seating Quay.
Let us examine the list. There is old
man Hoar to begin with, the leader of
the Quay skouters. Who is he? He is
a pompous old fellow from Massachu-
setts, who has all along been aiding and
abetting the Filipino rebels by making
fiery speeches in their favor. And
there are other Quay Republicans just
like him. Were it not for such men
and their treasonable utterances, the
Filipino insurrection never would have
been begun. About all the difference
a patriotic American citizen can see be-
tween Quay’s friend Hoar and Jeff
Davis, is this: Davis was a Democrat
who aided and encouraged a rebellion
that he was personally interested in,
while Hoar is a Quay Republican who
is encouraging treason and aiding a re-
bellion that he is not personally inter-
ested in. The Confederate soldiers who
used to sing, “There are rebels in the
North as well as in the South,” uttered
the truth, and some of the Northern
rebels are now in Washington posing
as Republican Senators,
PARTY WRECKERS IN BEDFORD.
Bedford County’s Leading Republi-
can Newspapzr Gives Some of
Congressman Thropp’s Ene-
mies a Much Needed
Trouncing.
The Pennsylvania Hawkeye, the lead-
ing Republican newspaper of Bedford,
is all wool and several yards wide. The
way it lays wide open the enemies of
Congressman Thropp, telling who they
are, what they are and some of the
shady tricks they have been doing, is
truly refresing and strictly in order.
The Hawkeye last week said:
“Who is responsible for the spirit of
faction which has turmoiled the Re-
publican party in Bedford county for
the last few years? It has had its
origin exclusively in the County Capi-
tal. It isnot a new thing. The past
history of Bedford town has been bur-
ied with the wasting fires of this mad-
ness. We imagine that the Golden
Age is behind us and criticise our own
degenerate day. But there is no shai-
low fury on which factional party spirit
indulges to-day in the County Capital
with which the fathers were not agi-
tated.
liam Lyon from all further practice of
the law because of the election of Judge
Kimmell to the bench testify. Let the
manner in which the Hon. John Cessna
and Hon. B. F. Meyers anathematized
each other as political Satyrs bear wit-
ness. But who is responsible for that
fresh outburst of factional ferocity
which has raged about the Hon. Joseph
E. Thropp for some four years? Itisa
certain small faction of Republican
politicians, with their Democratic allies,
in the town of Bedford who have been
trying their utmost to split the Repub-
lican party in twain in Bedford county,
and dig a bridgeless chasm in which to
bury themselves. It is this small Bed-
ford faction which has played the dog
in manger and insisted that if the
Congressional honor did not come to
one of their number it must go outside
of the county. It is this small faction
which seems to think that it is an un-
pardonable insult to themselves for a
citizen of any other town in the county
to aspire to Congress—that Bedford
has preempted this oflice and no other
place in the county need apply. It is
this small faction in Bedford town
which imagines that the way to’ build
up Bedford county is to load with vi-
tuperation and indignity any man whe
ventures with any considerable capital
within its borders and is disposed to |
develop its resources. It is this small
faction which has not had the courage
to come out and fight in the open, but
has sheltered itself behind the Bedford
Gazette and used this Democratic sheet
to pour their acrid political feculence
upon Republicans more loyal to the
party than themselvesy It is this small
faction in Bedford town which has neg-
lected no opportunity to play the po-
litical assassin and poniard Mr. Thropp
in the back and the dark. It is this
faction that spend money to accomplish
their ends and we are acquainted with
their agents and the sums expended.
It is this faction that was behind the
Haderman-Thropp libel suit and sought
unsuccessfully to accomplish by the
law what it had signally failed to ac-
complish by the primaries and the polls.
It is this small faction which has now
mustered up courage to hide behind
Mr. Reynolds in the columns of the In-
be the
stalking horse for the Congressional
nomination by whom they are to revive
They know
thoroughly well that if M= Thropp does
not secure the re-nomination = Con-
will
have any chance whatever. But what
care these wreckers for Mr. Reynold’s
fate or for the sacrifice of the Congress-
ional office to another county if they
can use his resources to restore their | that politicians in Bedford and other
His defeat would re- | parts of the county have stopped work-
We have had |
quirer. Mr. Reynolds is to
their political fortunes.
cress that no Bedford county man
o
factional sway.
move a dangerous rival.
Let the retirement of Mr. Wil- |
SDAY, FEBRUARY, 1, 1900.
There never has been an hour when the
Thropp people would not have made
common cause with them against the
common foe. And now like the cuttle
fish which exudes and surrounds itself
with a dark liquid, under cover of
which it hopes to strike more securely
its victim—this small faction seeks to
querading behind Mr. Reynolds and
by erying “Let us have peace!”
peace proposition is like that of Cham-
berlain who said to Oom Paul: “Let
us have peace!” but the same time was
forwarding munitions and men to
South Africa with utmost expedition.
But Oom Paul was not to be deceived
by that sort of overiure for peace. He
let loose the dogs of war and has been
pumping shot inte the English at a
healthy rate ever since. This is our
reply to the Inquirer’s peace proposals
the Congressional nomination. You do
not mean peace. Your spelling is
wrong. It should be W-A-R. It is
your desire to escape responsibility for
your acts in precipitating conflict
within the party in Bedford county. It
is your intention to carry your implac-
able factional spirit to the primaries
and sacrifice, if possible, Bedford coun-
ty’s possession of the Congressional of-
fice to your factional hate. But you
will deceive nobody, and will be held |
tostriet accountability by the conserva-
tive Republican voters of Bedford
county.”
Party Traitors in Bedford County—
A Sample of Their Would-be
Republicanism Exposed.
The R. ¢. Hadderman clique, have
started out to make a wicked fight
| through their personal organ, the Bed- |
| ford Inquirer, against the renomina-
i tion of Hon. Joseph E. Thropp for Con-
gress. Hadderman is the sorehead who
| tried to down Mr. Thropp during his
| first campaign, and failing to defeat
| him, he then sued Mr. Thropp for libel.
| In the lawsuit Hadderman was again
| defeated, the court deciding that Mr.
| Thropp had good and sufficient grounds |
| for all the things he had circulated
| against Mr. Hadderman.
| For Hadderman
clique, backed by their personal organ,
the Bedford Inquirer, is now branding
Mr. Thropp as a disturbing element in
| Bedford county polities.
| disturbing element to the Hadderman
these reasons the
clique, and he ought to be; but the |
| disturbing element to the true Repub-
licans in Bedford county is none other
than the Hadderman gang of sore-
| heads.
velopment of Bedford county than any
other man in it, and besides that he has
always been a staunch Republican. He
has never supported Democrats for
Congress and instructed voters that
the Republican party could afford to
lose at least ten Congressional districts
in Pennsylvania, but how about Mr.
Hadderman’s political record? Fol-
lowing we will give cur readers some
evidence as to Mr. Hadderman’s brand
of Republicanism. We reproduce one
of the Hadderman circulars that were
sent broadcast all over Bedford coun-
ty, during the campaign of 1898, and we
will let our readers judge as to who is
the disturbing element in Bedford
county politics, Thropp or Hadderman:
Beprorp, Pa, November 2, 1898.
My DEAR SIR: —
I enclose you a sample ballot
properly marked to be followed by
those who desire to vote against
Thropp.
Be active in this matter and arrange
that persons desiring to vote against
Thropp shall call in yourself or some
other trustworthy person, if they need
assistance in marking their ballots.
The opposition to Thropp is increas-
ing not only in this county but in every
county in the district and will continue
to increase.
friends circulating reports to the effect
ing against him, but T want to say that
these reports will be false and it mat-
considerably more faith in the sagacity | ters not who circulates them do not be-
of Mr. Reynolds than to believe that he
will permit himself to be the catspaw
for men who have no real desire to im-
We have
the highest opinion of Mr. Reynolds
personally—and if he will bide his time
and serve in the ranks of the Republi-
can party as faithfully as he did in the
Democratic, he will justly claim and
receive recognition commensuratewith
any sense
been
enemies are
those who for purposes of their own de-
that the Re-
publican party of Bedford county is
prepared to bestow its highest political
favors upon him immediately opon his
It is because we
believe that Mr. Reynolds has a politi-
cal future of no mean proportions be-
fore him in the Republican party that
we have ventured to intrude our solici-
prove his political fortunes.
his abilities. If we have in
wounded him the wounds
those of a friend. His
have
ceive him with the idea
accession to its ranks.
tude upon his notice.
_It is our sober conviction that if he
listens to the tempters about him, and
goes off half-cocked in a scramble for
which
Bedford
count y—throw away the chance of se-
curing the Congressional nomination
for our county—and merely satisfy pet-
ty wrongs, he will be buried ultimately
these
would-be friends have digged for him.
The men who give other advice than
this which we havejvolunteered are not
the Congressional. nomination
can only rend the party in
in the political grave which
eis true friends.
The idea that Mr. Reynolds should be
brought out for the Congressional nom-
ination to secure peace is such rot that
it will deceive nobody. This small fac-
tion in Bedford to which we have allud-
ed having failed at every point have but
one resource. It is to accuse the Thropp
people of being factionists and respon- | ate secretaries almost constantly to at-
tend to his official correspondence, vis-
its the departments in the interests of
petually held out the olive branch and | his constituents, and does the thousand
and one things which a large rural con-
fense. It is this small Bedford faction | stituency demand of their Representa-
that has been the constant aggressor.
It is this implreable group that has re-
fused to bury the hatchet and whose
sible for stirring up quarrels.
have never fought except in self-de-
The
truth is the Thropp people have per-
lieve them. The4ight is on and will be
kept up until the polls close on election
night.
Our people are determined to get rid
of Thropp as a disturbing element in
politics and it can now be safely done
as Chairman Babcock, of the Congress-
that the next Congress will be safely
Republican, even though we lose ten
districts in Pennsylvania, in which
number this one is counted.
Poll as large a vote as possible against
Thropp.
Sincerely yours,
[Signed.] RR. C. HADERMAN.
ee
Thropp vs. Reynolds.
man by the Washington correspondent
Sunday’s edition of that leading Re
publican journal:
Congress in the Twentieth
against the present member, Joseph E
Thropp, is no great surprise to Pennsyl
sonable fight against Mr. Thropp.
the Quay henchmen in the Twentietl
for daring to be a candidate and for se
country districts in Pennsylvania, hav
and those who know
industry and ability do no
years,
Thropp’s
sent to his receiving but one term.
in the House.
| tive. Mr. Thropp gives his personal at
yoice has perpetually been for war. | tend to minor departmental appoint
blow dust in everybody's eyes by mas- |
Their |
in the direction of Mr. Reynolds and |
Well, he is a |
Mr. Thropp has done more for the de- |
You will find Thropp's'
ional Committee, gives the assurance |
A correct estimate of our Congress- |
of the Philadelphia Press is given in
the following, which appeared in last |
“The rumors that ex-Assistant Secre- |
tary of the Interior John M. Reynolds |
will signalize his advent into the Re- |
publican party by being a eandidate for
District
_ | that time.
vanians here who know of the unrea-
Ex- |
Congressman Hicks’ friends, who are
District, have not forgiven Mr. Thropp
curing the nomination and election.
The Twentieth District does not change
representatives as often as some other
ing had but two in the last ten or twelve
of Mr.
believe that his constituents will con-
Mr. Thropp is one of the busiest men
Ie employs three priv
tention to every request, but does not
neglect his duties in the House to at-
and
| ments. H
| studies d tly all
comes before the
!
| the legislation that
I house.
He is a member of three very
| important committee
| factures, Paci
and never mis
them. The majority of the Pennsylva-
nia delegation cannot conceive why a
| man well fitted for the position
should be opposed for renomination by
| a Democrat committed to
se on manu-
ic railroac
and claims,
es a meeting of any of
S0
Republican-
ism on the money question alone. Mr,
r= of the
gue and
| i3 now second vice-president of that or-
ganization. Ile is well known in Phila-
| delphia as a member of the Manufac-
turers’ Club of that city.”
Mr. Reynolds, whom reported
will contest the field against a renomi-
|
| Thropp was one of the organi
| American Protective Tariff Le:
it is
nation for Mr. Thropp, has always been
a violent Free Trade Democrat, but be-
ing a banker, he entercd the Republi-
can ranks when Bryan was nominated
for President, seeing that his personal
| business would be jeopardized by a
change in the country’s financial sys-
{ tem. While glad to gather
| Democrats into our fold, it is neverthe-
less not likely that Mr. Reynolds has
given up his Free Trade ideas, and we
| do not consider it good policy for the
| Republican party to set aside lifelong
| Republicans for late recruits from the
| Democratic ranks. Consistent Repub-
| licans cannot favor the candidacy of
Mr. Reynolds at this time.
we are
|
| FAMILIAR KINDS OF SUBSCRIBERS.
| nin
i An Exchange Describes Types Every
Reader Will Recognize.
To one who is fond of studying hu-
man nature, there is no business that
| offers so rich a field as that of a coun-
| try newspaper, in every type of human
! nature that has thus far been discover-
| ed. The subscription book ean proper-
[ly be called the index of the town’s
people—a reflector, so to speak. Tt has
them all there—the good, the bad and
| the indifferent. You may think you
are onto them all, but you are not, if at
some time in the village's history you
have not studied the subscription book
of the newspaper oflice.
Upon this book is the man who in-
sists on paying for his paper in advance.
He knows the exact day it expires, and
and on that date he annual
visit to the office.
There is another kind, who always
pays when you present the bill, be it
one or five years’ subscription. You
| must go after it, but it is always wait
| ing for you.
There are some pay the
street, never take a receipt, leaving it
to the editor’s honesty to give him the
proper credit. This man doesn’t know
| exactly when his paper does expire,but
he is good pay just the same.
But they are not all that kind, for
here comes part of the shadows of the
business. Here is a class of fellows
who, when presented with a bill of ac-
count, swell up like the copperhead,
and get very mad for your having
wounded their dignity. They pay up
and stop the paper at once. ’
makes his
who on
|
|
1
Another kind is the fellow who, every
{ime he sees you, duns himself. Ie is
coming to the office right away, and
pay it, and apologizes for not having
done so leng ago. Again and again we
see him, and again and again, as ear-
nest and suave as Colonel Sellers ever
dared to be, he tells you he is coming
to the office right away—perhaps that
day.
We pass on, and here comes the fel-
low who never sees us. He suddenly
becomes attracted to something across
the street; and if he doesn’t cut across
between crossings, his eyes are riveted
ction until you pass by.
i in another dir
i Then he moves on.
more papers thu
{ is what he says of
fellow who “takes
n read.” That
& 3 some
He
aginary grievy. nee and jg Rn hg
S10
®
im-
{ Vv ‘he Aus
flunky to tell be he eg i
| fact is that he i thw
2 iG cores
| adieed to read intelligently, ‘and me.
| hasn’t got enough ambition to try to
| improve.
| The man who pleads poverty when
| he asks you to discontinue his paper
| is another unique character. In avery
| few cases he utters the truth, and when
he does he is to be pitied, for a man
| too poor to take a newspaper is dis-
| tressingly poor indeed. But the most
| fellows who plead voverty when dis-
continuing a newspaper are setting up
a plea that there isn’t one word of truth
| in, and as a general thing they spend
| the price of a newspa
every week for beer, wi
|
|
|
|
|
i
seription
¥, pool, bil-
liards or some other foolishness.
But one of the meanest of them all is
| the man who claims he doesn’t get the
| paper half the time, when il is sent to
| his address every week.
owes four years’ sub
One man who
iption, and gets
ed to
mad, cut
up a good deal, and then claimed that
| he hadn’t received a single copy during
.}
the paper every week, v
pay noi long since, got ver
| And there are other kinds, too, that
| cast their the little
| bursts of sunshine that occasionally
shadows amidst
| ereep into the office.
1 .
Reader, which class
do you belong
_ | to? Which class ought you to belong
to? Are you treating the publisher as
you would like tosbe treated yourself?
It you have not been doing the square
thing. can you see where you have
- | gained anything in the long run? If
your own conscience condemns your
record, resolve to do better. If you
have no conscience, you are a poor ex-
cuse in this world, 1 the next
t
and 1n
world you will amount to still less than
you do here.
——
Working for Humanity.
Congressman Thropp has introduced
bills to correct the ary records of
John Pitts, late of the Twenty-eighth
infantry, and Peter Bader, late of the
Twelfth Pennsyiv valry; also to
pension Mrs. C n McMullen, wid-
n, late of the Sec-
: Mr. Thropp
1
Pennell
of “original
father of a
widows, ete.” |
- | dead volunteer,