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THE ELECTIONS
IN THE STATE.
The Anti-Quay Men Are Ahead,
Though the Machine Claims
to Be Gaining Strength.
GUFFEY DECLARES FOR FUSION.
The Honest Voters of the State Must
“TUinite to Purify Politics The Al-
lezed Bribers on Trial at Harris-
burz—The Missing Costello Is Put
on the Witness Stand.
(From Our Own Corfespondent.)
Harrisburg, March 27.—The machine
throughout the state has been claiming
great gains in the primary elections
held thus far. They advertise with big
headlines that they are sweeping the
state. The fact is that the anti-Quay
people are two members ahead of their
number last year, and are consequently
that much better off. The defeat of
Senator Chisholm for re-election in
Huntingdon has been made a great
deal of, but the Quay organs have neg-
lected to note the fact that Colonel
Alex Stewart has been nominated in
Franklin county for senator and that
he is the unopposed anti-Quay candi-
date in the county; that under the
rules Franklin county is entitled to the
nomination this year, and hence noth-
ing has been lost. The gain of a mem-
ber in Armstrong and two in Franklin
really puts the anti-Quayites three
members ahead of the game.
In Erie county on Saturday last the
machine carried the district. The same
is true of Blair county. But it must
not be forgotten that fusion in Blair
county won two years ago, after the
machine had carried everything, and
fusion will win again. There is no
longer any doubt that if the Quay ma-
chine is to be smashed it must be done
by the union of the honest voters of
the state, irrespective of party affilia-
tion. After the Quay machine has
been smashed there will be ample op-
portunity for the reorganization of the
Republican party, and not until then.
Colon=2l James M. Guffey, the head of
the Democratic party in Pennsylvania,
has declared in favor of fusion between
the honest Democrats and the honest
Republicans of Pennsylvania. His own
party has been debauched by the pur-
chase of its Philadelphia contingent by
the Quay machine. The same organ-
ization has debauched the Republican
party by its purchase of voters in al-
most every county of the state, and if
honest elections are to express the
voice of the people the corruptible
Democrats and the corrupting Repub-
licans must be thrown outside while
the honest people conduct affairs for
themselves.
In Union county the anti-Quay can-
didate for the legislature was defeated
by 71 votes, the machine candidate,
Dr. Mohn, refusing to allow an open-
ing of the ballot boxes where fraud was
alleged. In Lawrence county the anti-
Quay candidate was defeated by less
than 100 votes. In Blair, Erie, Cam-
bria, Huntingdon and other counties
the anti-Quay candidates were defeat-
ed by wholesale corruption and the
lavish use of money. A fusion of the
honest Democrats and decent Republi-
cans in these counties on a legislative
ticket that would represent the wishes
of the people wouid win beyond a
doubt.
And the belief is gaining ground that
to smash the ring this will be resorted
to, particularly as be
parties are being det
influences ruined Ly the corrupting
power of the machine. The fact is that
the machine is today trembling at the
prospect of fusion, because its leaders
recognize that if this is done the syay
of the unscrupulous, the debauching
and the tyrannical in both parties is at
an end.
The sensation at Harrisburg for the
past three days has been the trial of
the alleged bribers at the last session
of the legislature. They are the men
who, it is alleged, offered various sums
of money to members of the legisla-
ture, notably Representatives Engler
of Lycoming, Criste of Northumber-
land, Norton of Wayne and Wilson of
Westmoreland, to vote for the Mec-
Carroll bill and for Mr. Quay for Uni-
ted States senator. These cases have
attracted attention all over the state
because of the boldness of the oper-
ations of the alleged bribers.
Ex-Senator John J. Coyle, of Schuyl-
kill, ex-Representative Thomas M.
Moyles, J. R. Byrne and Robert Evans,
of Philadelphia, are the accused. Ex-
Kepresentative Engler swore on the
stand that cne Michael J. Costello had
taken him to Coyle's room in Harris-
burg, during the last session, where
the latter had said to him, that if he
would vote for the McCarroll bill,
which was intended to aid Mr. Quay
in his impending trial in Philadelphia,
that he would give him $200 in cash,
and pay him more after the vote had
been taken.
Engler told his story in a straight-
forward way and made a good impres
sion. Then Michael J. Costello, w
has been missing for nearly a year, and
who is under indictment on a charge
of attempting to bribe Representative
Engler in Lycoming county, suddenly
appeared in the court room. Just as
he stepped into the court room he was
placed under arrest by Deputy Sheriff
Miller, of Williamsport. His attorneys
secured a writ of habeas corpus, and
he was released on $1,000 bail during
the time he would be in attendance at
court here in Harrisburg. After that
he is to be surrendered to the Lycom-
ing county authorities.
Costello went on the stand and de-
nied Engler’s story, as it was expected
he would do. He had been carefully
coached and told a plausible story, but
grew very indignant several times
when leading questions were put to
him. The cases are still on trial here
ir Harrisburg, and are likely to oc-
eupy the attention of the court for the
test of the week.
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Thropy’ s Big Majority.
Avrrooxa, March 25.—The primary
election of the Republican party was
largely attended,Saturday evening.
Beegle was nominated for Sheriff by
a large mojority.
For Assembly, Patterson and Gamble,
both Quay men, carried the county by
at least 1500 plurality.
Joseph E. Thropp, of Bedford county,
for Congress, carried the county by
3000 majority.
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Order Tae Star sent te your frien ds
abroad. It will be like a letter from
the old home to them and they will ap
preciate your kindness,
IH
THURSDAY,
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Like a Conscious Rase
al it's
fiver Looking For
Something fo Happen to its Gan
rte ere ——
TALKS GLIBLY
OF FAIR PLAY.
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Forgets the Conduct of the Chairmen of the County
Committee who Were Under Its Control.
ORGAN OF BOLTERS
(momma
MAD ALL THROUGH.
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It Chafes
Under the Fact that its Gang Lost Control of the Coun-
ty Committee, and it is Making a Pretty Show of Itself.
The old Union street Baznois lashing |
itself into a fury because Mr. J. A.
Berkey, chairman of the Republican
County Committee, has not consulied
with it and its gang concerning when
he should hold the county primary
election.
Sut why should the chairman con-
sult with these bolters? Why should
any one who has the interest of the re-
publican party at heart consult with
these soreheads.who bolted the regular
republican organization last year and
held opposition meetings under the
auspices of the fake Lincoln Club to
discredit the Republican County Com-
mittee? What right has this old gang
of pouters to the recognition of
ganization they defied and tried to hu-
miliate?
The Bazoo and its gang are wonder-
fully excited ; they have a bad case of
the political itch; they are afraid that
Chairman Berkey will treat them as
they know they ought to be treated;
the idea that a chairman living up to
the rules of the party is so foreign to
their methods that they can’t imagine
such a thing; they have been fluttering
about for the last week or twolike hens
on hot griddles; they have been in the
throes of political cholera morbus by
reason of a dose of the very same med-
icine they administered to republicans
of this county for years; they are
afraid the primary won’t be held, and
they may be sorry that it ever was
held ; they have been trotting after the
chairman they refused to recognize,
like so many sheep after the salt car-
rier; they are afraid of some trick, be-
cause they know nothing but tricks.
But while the Bazoo and its gang,
who are past-masters in the art of po-
litical trickery, have been spinning
around on the anxious seat Chairman
Berkey has been pursuing the even ten-
or of his way, observing every rule of
the party and accepting the announce-
ment of every candidate who offered it.
One of the rules of the party requires
the chairman to hold its primary elce-
tion on the fourth Saturday of June,
each year, and the same rule author-
izes the chairman to call the primary
at an earlier date when the State con-
vention is to be held before the fourth
Saturday in June. The authority given
by this rule neither expresses nor im-
plies an obligation to hold the primary
at an earlier date, acd in hunting for
some possible trick the Bazoo gang im-
agined that Chairman Berkey would
take advantage of this fact, but he did
not. When acting under his authority
to call the primary at an earlier date
than the fourth Saturday in June the
Chairman is required to give thirty
days’ notice of such change, which
Chairman Berkey does to-day in anoth-
er part of the Standard, designating
Saturday, April 21, as the day for hold-
ing the primary.
Chairman Berkey has not kept him-
self in hiding so that candidates could
| not find him to announce, nor has he
Senator Coyle was first placed on trial. |
required candidates to pledge them-
selves to pay any assessment that he
might please to make on them. This
should ereate no surprise, for in failing
to do these things he has merely re-
frained from doing what no chairman
ought to do, or has a right to do. But
we simply state the facts for the sake
of a contrast which will be readily ree-
ognized.
the or- |
In 1898 F¥. W. Biesecker was chair-
man of the county committee, but the
editor of the Bazoo assumed the chair-
manship while his brother-in-law went |
out through the county for something
he failed to bring home—the congres-
sional nomination. On the Saturday
evening preceding the last day upon
which announcements could be made
to the chairman, Mr. Scull secreted
himself at home, and upon the pretext
of illness refused to receive the an-
nouncement of an anti-Quay candidate
for delegate to the national convention.
On the next day he would not receive
the announcement because he ‘was not
doing business on Sunday,” (?) and on
Monday it was “too late” to announce.
| As a result of this piece of trickery Mr.
Scull announced himself as a candidate
| for delegate to the national convention,
having barred out all opposition. With
this sort of trickery while the chairman-
ship remained with the Bazoo gang is
it any wonder that the gang should ex-
pect some retaliation?
In 1897, when Harvey M. Berkley
was chairman, he outraged the Repub-
lican voters of this county as they were
never outraged before, and as it is to be
hoped they will never be outraged
again. It will be remembered how the
primary was deceitfully called that
year, only to be “called off ” a few days
| before the date named for holding it.
It will also be remembered how the
chairman, by setting up a barrier of
excessive fees, unauthorized by the
rules, practically barred anti-Quay can-
didates from announcement, and how
the chairman then simply declared the
slated ring candidates nominated. It
will be remembered how the Republi-
cans of the county held the election
they were entitled to under the rules
of they party, and how the gang wash-
ed the result of that election away with
Barker liniment, thus denying Repub-
licans of the county the right to select
candidates, and wiping out the Repub-
lican vote of the county that the ring
might rule. That is the record of the
county chairmanship for one brief year
| under the dictation of the Bazoo and
its gang. Is it surprising that they
should expect everything else on earth
to be as crooked as they were?
The Bazoo talks glibly of fair play
and majority rule, while it is a netori-
ous fact that the republicans of this
county have had to face foul play and
ring rule at tbe hands of the Bazoo
gang for twenty years, and it must be
fresh in the memory of every person in
the county how only last year the Ba-
zoo gang held the county committee at
Somerset for two days because the
gang would not submit to majority
rule, and how they tricked and schem-
ed all that time to defeat majority rule.
Are they not a pretty set of pretenders
to hold up to an intelligent public the
rights of the majority to rule? That is
isimply what the anti-Quay republicans
of this county and State have been con-
tending for all these years—the right
of the majority to rule.
The Bazoo sets up a whine because
the runners it sent to Chairman Berkey
to get advance information concerning
the date of the primary returned to it
without that information. The Bazoo
It is so utter-
ly new for its gang not to be running
things that it is aeting siily.—Somerset
acts like a spoiled child.
| Standard.
Cowboy Blacksmithing.
“Up at my camp near the Four
Peaks,” told Jim Bark, the well-known
cattleman, to the Arizon “Graphie,”’
“the boys are all handy with a rifle.
We've a lot of guns up there. The old-
fashioned black-powder Winchester has
been discarded and nothing but the
est goes. Most of the new guns were
bought during the Spanish war, when
we would experiment all day with tree
trunks and rough trenches, learning the
art of war at home. We found that a
bullet from one of the new Winchesters,
driven by smokeless powder, was good
for four foot and more pine timber and
for more than an inch of iron. I thought
the boys had done about everything in
the shooting line that could be done
long ago, but I was mistaken. I sent
them up a wagen. In hauling down
some firewood they broke the bolsters
all to flinders. The bosters hold up the
wagon bed, you know. Well, the boys
figured out all right the rebuilding of
the wood parts, but came near being
stumped on the iron fixing. They got
some old iron wagon tires and cut them
in proper lengths, but hadn’t a way
that they cold see to punch the neces-
sary bolt holes. Finally the question
was solved. One of the boys carefully
marked the places for the bolts, stood
the piece of tire against a tree and put
a ballet, 30 caliber through at each
place marked. It was a novel sort of
blacksmithing, buc it worked.”
Editor of “Tha Star” a Very Sick
Man.—A Few Words From the
Mrs. Editor.
1 am sorry to announce that the edi-
tor of this paper is very ill, and bas
been confined to his bed ever since last
Thursday evening. He is suffering
with an affection of the throat, also
with a very lame leg. Besides, there
seems to be a general breaking down
from over work and at this time there
is no telling when he will be able to re-
sume his duties at Tue Star office.
Until such time as Mr. Livengood will
again be able to take active contral of
the office, the paper will be entirely in
the hondt of employes and contributors.
The employes have been authorized to
receive and receipt for money due Tne
Star during the editor’s illness, and 1
wish to add that inasmuch as the run-
ning expenses of the office are now, ow-
ing to the circumstances already men-
tioned, exceptionally heavy, it is great-
ly desired that all persons indebted to
the paper make prompt settlements,
either partial or in full, according to
their ability.
Trusting that the patrons and friends
of Tne Star will do their duty manful-
ly by the paper during this crisis, and
thatthey will also generously overlook
any shortcomings in the same that may
occur. I give assurance that the paper
will be kept as near the standard as
possible until such time as Mr. Live
good will again De able to resume his
duties, which I trust will be at no very
distant day. Mgrs. P. L. LivExGoop.
MARCH 29, 1900.
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Maryland Marriage Law.
The Ministerial Association of Cum-
being a change in the state
laws pertaining to marriages.
laws stand girls of 16 may be married
in the state. and this provision of law
invites runaway couples from other
states to Maryland, where if the age re-
quirements were set higher many in-
discreet marriages would be prevented.
Ile proposed law provides that in the
case of girls under 18 years old the
written consent of parents or guardians
will be sufficient cause to issue license.
The new law is also made to require all
statements concerning age, residence,
ete, to be given under oath, either by
both the parties applying for the
license, or by a justice of the peace
qualified to act.
Sooner or later Maryland will im-
prove its present marriage laws, and
when it does, probably those injudicious
Pennsylvania girls who permit them-
selves to run away to be married will
be benefitted more than the people of
Maryland. The young man who will
not protect his wife with every legal
safeguard in her marriage is not a man
with whom a woman may safely trust
herself. The marriage license is not a
license at all,but is rather a record,and
its chief object is to plainly establish
the fact of marriage rather than to
grant permission. In a few cases it
may operate to interfere, but where it
interferes it does so wisely, and in no
place more wisely than iu requiring of
a 16-year-old girl the consent of her
parents or guardians before her mar-
ringe is vermitted.—Oalkland Republi-
can.
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Baker Heirs Give It Up.
The heirs to a supposed large estate
in Philadelphia, which once belonged
to a man named Baker, of whom quite
a number live in Johnstown and
throughout this section of the State
have, it is said, altogether abandoned
attempts to recover the same. The
matter has been agitdted time and
again and has been frequently referred
to in these columns. Meetings were
held, to which the Johnstown members
of the family sent reprezentatives, and
sums were subscribed to employ law-
yers to make an investigation in the
hope of establishing a valid claim.
Recently, it is said, an attorney who
was not among those formerly employ-
ed came to Johnstown, and, with a gen-
tleman of this city who has been prom-
inently connected with the matter,went
to Philadelphia, where a thorough in-
vestigation of the records was made,
with the result that there was found
not to be the faintest shadow of a claim
for the property in question—for any
property, in fact. The verdict was that
the whole thing had been, in slang par-
lance, a “fake,” which was originated,
doubtless, and kept alive by attorneys
who hoped to reap rich rewards, in
which, it seems, they were not altogeth-
er disappointed, since at various times
money has been raised and paid over
by those who supposed themselves
heirs for the purposes of carrying on
the investigation.
Now, it is said, all the heirs have
given up the matter entirely, and it
will have to be a very plausible story,
indeed, which will bring money from
them in the future.—Jolnstown Tribune.
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Thiers a Very Biisy Man.
Mr. Thropp, the new member from
the Twentieth District, is about the
busiest man in the delegation at the
present writing. He keeps three pri-
vate secretaries busy attending to his
Congressional correspondence, and then
wishes there were thirty hours in a day.
He is hustling for a renomination with
all the enthusiasm and assurance of a
man who feels he already has a-grtip
upon the prize. The candidacy of ex-
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Reynolds, the Cleveland Gold Demo-
crat, who now claims to be a Republi-
can in good standing with all his dues
paid up, is causing Mr. Thropp some
uneasiness, but with loyalty in his own
party, he has no fear of results. There
is some uncertainty about the attitude
of one Josiah D. Hicks, ex-Congress-
man from that district, who claims to
be able to carry the vote of Blair Coun-
ty in his pocket.
friendly to Thropp and promises the
latter the Blair County delegates. If
he keeps lis promise Mr. Thropp will
probably be renominated. In view of
the indorsement given Mr. Thropp at
the Blair County primaries, Saturday,
it seems certain that he will have the
delegates from that county.
no doubt of his ability to defeat Rey-
nolds in his own county.—Press.
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When Almsgiving is a Sin.
Hicks professes to be
fe has
“It is no exaggeration to say that the
use of money is a test of character and
a revelation of a man’s nature,” writes
Ian Maclaren of “The Genteel Tramps
in Our Churches,” in the April Ladies’
Home Journal. “There are men who
lose money by their foolishness—Was-
trels ;there are men whospend it on their
vices—Prodigals; there are men who
hoard it with jealousy—>Misers; there
are men who lay it out in well-doing—
they are the Wise Men. When I say
well doing I am not thinking of that un-
reasoning and indiscriminate charity
which, whether it take the form of alms
to a lazy vagabond or a large benefac-
tion for the creation of paupers, is a
curse and not a blessing, a sin and not
a duty. We are not to read in a me-
chanical fashion the advice of our Lord
might have been the only pledge of
sincerity he could give in that day, it
Whatever may have been the case in
ancien{ times, there can be no question
that in our day the man who es
{ a manufactory in ¢
fair wages does ten times more rd
than he who would use his wealth to |
found an almshoyse,”
berland, Md, has issued a circular for |
distribution in Maryland, the object |
code of |
As the |
to the young ruler to sell his posessions |
and give to the poor, for though that |
would be a great calamity in our day. |
NO. ¥
SOMERSET CENSUS DISTRICT.
County Divided Into Thirty-nine
| Districts for Census Purposes.
George R. Scull, Esq., Supervisor of
the 13th Census District of Pennsyl-
vania, has announced the following
divi 1s in this county, each of which
will form the territory to be canvassed
by a single enumerator. The enumera-
tion will begin June first and be com-
pleted during the month of June.
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1. Addison township and Somerfield
borough.
2. Allegheny township
Baltimore borough.
3. Paint township (part of), exclud-
ing Benson borough. The part of town-
ship north and west of the public road
running from Foustwell at line of Con-
emaugh township to Paint Creek;
thence following Paint Creek to Cam-
bria county line.
4. Paint township (part of), includ-
ing Benson borough. That part of
township south and east of public road
running from Foustwell at line*of Con-
emaugh township to Paint Creek at
Sealp Level; thence following Paint
Creek to Cambria county line.
5. Ogle township.
and New
6. Brothersvalley township (part of),
excluding Berlin borough. All west of
Buffalo Valley R. R. to borough of Ber-
lin, and all west of public road leading
from borough of Berlin to Roxbury.
7. Brothersvalley township (part of),
excluding Berlin borough. All east of
Buffalo Valley R. R. to borough of Ber-
lin, and all east of public road leading
from borough of Berlin to Roxbury.
8. Berlin borough.
9. Black township and Casselman
borough.
10. Upper Turkeyfoot township.
11. Conemaugh township (part of).
That part of township north of public
road leading from Foustwell through
town of Davidsville to Thomas’ Mills,
and thence along Somerset and Johns-
town turnpike to Jenuner township line.
12. Conemaugh township (part of).
That part of township south of public
road leading from IFoustwell through
town of Davidsville to Thomas’ Mills
and thence along Somerset and Johns-
town turnpike to Jenner township line.
13. Lower Turkeyfoot township (part
of). That part of township south of
Laurel Hill Creek and Confluence boro.
14. Lower Tuarkeyfoot township (part
of). That part of township north of
Laurel Hill Creek and Ursina borough.
15. Elk Lick township (part of), in-
cluding Salisbury borough. That part
of township east of Casselman river.
168. Elk Lick township (part of). That
part of township west of Casselman
river.
17. I'airhope township.
18. Greenville township.
19. Quemahoning township (part of),
including Hooversville borough. That
part of township north of Greensburg
and Stoystown turnpike.
20. Quemahoning township (part of),
including Sloystown borough. That
pari of township south of Greensburg
and Stoystown turnpike.
21 Jefferson township.
22, Jenner township (part of),includ-
ing Jennertown borough. That part of
township west of Somerset and Johns-
town turnpike.
23. Jenner township (part of). That
part of township east of Somerset and
Johnstown turnpike.
24. Larimer township.
25. Lincoln township.
26. Meyersdale borough.
Middlecreek township.
28. Milford township and New Cen-
terville borough.
29. Rockwood borough.
30. Northampton township.
31. Shade township.
32. Somerset borough.
33. Somerset township (part of). That
part of township west of Somerset and
Stoy stown road from Quemahoning
tow NSH Lo. mhanersel borough, and
west of S. & “a. lan thed
borough to Black [owes “eit he
om Somerset
in
31. Somerset township (parese
That part of township east of erat
and Stoyestown road from Quemahon-
ing township to Somerset borough, and
east of 8. & C. R. R. from. Somerset
borough to Black township line.
35. Southampton township and Wel-
v
lersburg borough.
36. Stonycreek township (part of).
That part of township north of Suhrie
road from Allegheny township line to
Stull’s tavern in the fown of Shanks-
ville, and all north of lower road lead-
ing from Stull’s
station.
tavern to Coleman’s
37. Stoneycreek township (part of).
That part of township south of Suhrie
road from Allegheny township line to
Stull’s tavern in Shanksville, and all
south of lower road leading from Stull’s
tavern to Coleman’s station.
38. Summit township (part of), in-
cluding Garrett borough. That part of
township north of the following line:
Commencing at line of Brothersvalley
township, follow Blue Lick creek to
Casselman river ; follow Casselman riy-
er to mouth of E Ik 1 ick ereek, and fol-
low Elk Lick creek to Elk Lick towne
ship line.
39. Summit township (part of). That
part of township south of the following
line: Commenceing at line of Broth-
ersvalley township; follow Blue Lick
creek to Casselman river: follow Cas-
selman river to ilk Lick creek, and fol-
low Elk Lick creek to Elk :k towne
ship line.
The trout season in Sargland begins
on April Ist. The near approach of
this season causes many a pleasant an-
ticipation to rise in the breast of the
lover of the piscatorial sport. Already
the fishermen of town are laying plans
for trips to the near by brooks where
they expect to make big catches, the
streams in the county having been so
.! well taken care of Juries the adminis-
| tration of 1 1» Com ioner George
| that no fear is entertain :d for a scar-
city of the juicy and wholesome fish ~
| Oalland Republican
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