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Yo 188-146 West 14th Hy Returns From the Primaries Thus Far Held Show This Result. QUAYS LAST HOPE I GONE His Faction Cannot Count Nearly as Many Votes as They Hs Had Last Year. i SECRETARY ETTLA QUITS EIS JOB Says Young Men J¥iave No Chance With the Machine—The Bosses are Trying to lend the Republican Party in Twain—They Care Only for Themsclves—A Stinging Letter From Mr. Ettla. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Harrisburg, Aug. 14.—Matters politi- cal in Pennsylvania are moving with great rapidity as the primary election season draws to a close. And the move- ments are all against bossism, Quayism and the allied evils that have cursed the Republican party. The signal triumph which the anti- Quay people regard as the death blow of bossism and the last straw to break the back of Matthew Stanley Quay’s ambition to go back to the senate was the rout of the Quay machine forces in Bradford county. The anti- -Quay forces nominated a senator and three members by over 1,500 mojority. The county convention was held on Thurs- day last and the contrcl of the county committee passed into the hands of the anti-Quay men. In York county on the same day the control of the Republi- can party there passed into the hands of the anti-Quayites, Robert C. Bair being elected county chairman. FIGURES DO NOT LIE. “Figures do not lie,” and hence the following estimate and statement will be read with great interest by every man whose eves are on the trend of events. This compilation of the rela- tive strength of the contending powers within the Republican party was pre- pared from inside knowledge of facts by the Philadelphia Press, and pre- sented to its readers on Tuesd: ay last. The Press says: Republican primaries to select can- didates for the house of representatives of Pennsylvania have been held in 48, of the 67 counties of the state, and all but eight of the 26 districts in which state senators are to he elected this year have selected their Republican candidates. The 48 counties and 42 including those in which senators hold over, were repre- sented in the last legislature as fol- lows: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Quayltes oo 0 0 0 Anti-Quayites . Democrats .... SENATORS. Quayites Anti-Quayites . Demoerats ........................ ON JOINT BALLOT. Quavites. ei ar 0 Se Anti-Quayites . Democrats The nominati 3 de in the same 48 counties for 0 € ably this year and the senatorial districts, including the 24 holdover senators, indicates that they will be represented as follows: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Quayites. woo ooo Anti-Quayites.......... Bemoerats..... .......... 0... SENATORS. Quayitea. = one 0 2 Anti-Quayites . Democrats... .. ON JOINT BALLOT Quayites........ Anti-Quayites ...... Democrats. ......... THE END OF QUAYISM. In further discussion of these figures and the situation, The Press, says: “In the compilation of the foregoing table, an effort has been made to get at the exact result of the contest for con- trol of the next legislature. The Quay figures are more than generous. In them are included Quay candidates for both the senate and house, who have been nominated in districts where fu- sion between the anti-Quay Republi- cans and Democrats is sure to be re- sorted to with every prospect of de- feating the machine representatives at the polls in November. “In at least a half dozen such dis- tricts the majority of men who voted for Mr. Quay during the last session of the legislature, was so small that they have no reasonable chance of re-elec- tion. “Ex-Senator Quay, who has kept a close watch upon the contest, had ail of the results except the one in Bradford county in mind, before he left for Maine last week, and prompted by them, made his latest effort to induce his followers to permit him to with- draw from the senatorial race in which he has felt for some time he was only a stalking horse. He was induced, how- ever, by the plea that such action would injure the prospects of his Phila- delphia friends, to withhold his exit until after the Philadelphia primaries.” The most startling development of the last few days in the way of direct political climax was the resignation of Charles F. Ettla, one of the secretaries of the Republican state committee. Mr, Ettla has been identified with the state committee for 16 years. He was sent for by Chairman Reeder last week to come to headquarters and resume his position as one of the secretaries to the committee. WHY ETTLA QUIT. Mr. Ettla declined the invitation. He wrote a letter saying that the commit- tee represented not the Republicans of the state, but one man and that the bosses in charge of the committee were not even honest with that one man, Mr. Quay. Mr. Ettla wrote two other letters which are here reproduced. Mr. Harrison is the Quay candidate for the legislature in the Germantown dis- trict of Philadelphia; Hon. John F. Keator is the anti-Quay Republican candidate. In his letter to Candidate Harrison, Secretary Ettla says: “Sometime during February of the present year there appeared in the po- litical columns of several Philadelphia newspapers, articles to the effect that vou would in all pr@bability be a can- didate for representative. I wrote you from Pittsburg at that time and in words as nearly as I can now recall that T would give you my support, ad- ding that there was no one in the dis- trict T would be better pleased to see thought. Instead of getting together as I anticipated, it has been all along and is now the aim of the combine now in control of city and state to tear the Republican party asunder. As you have been selected by this combine of party wreckers as their candidate for the nomination of representative in this district I must withdraw my support of your candidacy, and say frankly I will join with my friends in German- town and vicinity to further the nomi- nation and election of Hon. John F. Keator, believing that in giving my support to Mr. Keator I am serving the best interests of the Republican party in city and state.’ In his letter to Mr. Keator proffering him his support Secretary Ettla says: HARD ON THE MACHINE. “As to any further services on the Republican state executive committee, I have informed Gen. Reeder, the chairman, that he is not to appoint me to any place or to any special work connected with the committee during the campaign. Among my reasons for refusing longer to identify myself with the committee is that it fails to repre- sent Mr. Quay, whom it professes to represent, but simply voices the senti- ments of a class of discredited poli- ticians who have even lost interest in their professed friend, Mr. Quay, let alone having any interest in the Re- publican party. I could no longer re- main a member of this committee and preserve my self respect. I declare against the machine and from now on intend to support anti-Quaylsm and true Republicanism.” And this from one who has followed the fortunes of the machine for 16 years, and who possibly knows more of its secrets than any man outside of Mr. Quay himself. Can it be denied that Quayism and the machine are on their last legs? Sa School Principal a Poor Wrestler and Fighter. While in Somerset, last Saturday, we were informed by a well known and re- liable citizen of that town,that a school principal who is well known to many people in Salisbury got into trouble dur- ing the wee, small hours of last Fri- day night. We were told that the school principal in this case was on a big “bender,” and after becoming tired of exercising his voice in song, (which sounded like an old razor-back porker rubbing his sides against a rough board) he “got on his muscle” and wanted to wrestle with another man. Well, the wrestling match took place, our informant said, and resulted in the school principal being downed five times straight. A little later, so our inform- ant said, the great educator came to the conclusion that he could fight bet- ter than he could wrestle, but in this he was also disappointed. When last seen, we are reliably informed, the man of letters and learning was nurs- ing a very black and badly disfigured eye. It is therefore evident that some school principals can learn as well as teach. This brings to mind a little occur- rence that took place in this town not long ago, when a school principal was howling drunk in a pool and billiard room, where he was disposed to be quarrelsome, and yanked off his coat to fight one of our most peaceable and inoffensive citizens. God save the commonwealth when such men are hired to teach school, where secular education and good mor- al training are supposed to be imparted to the rising generation. School direc- tors that knowingly support such de- praved characters and vote to place them at the head of any school should lose no time in undoing their bad work or in decency’s name retire from the board and make room for directors that will fill their office with regard for the school laws, and with credit to themselves, the schools and the com- munity. The tickle-me-and-T’ll-tickle- you business in school boards is alto- gether too common. Evenhere in Sal- isbury it is too common, and the offi- cial actions of some of our directors are not at all in keeping with their relig- icus professions and claims to good citizenship. ee Before and After. (L) (X) Before. After. By looking at the above illustrations you can see the exact expression of “Timmie” Scull’s countenance before and after Judge Simonton’s decision. How a Confluence Young Man Was Gold-Bricked by the Scull Machine. “Timmie” tried to persuade the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Republican county organization, last spring, not to do its duty. By making a promise that a Confluence young man should have a position in the Census Bureau at a sal- ary of $100 per month, the said “Tim- mie” secured a proxy, bolted the convention, tried to wreck the party, and tried to steal two seats in the Leg- islature. Now he is bawling over spill- ed milk like a dehorned steer, but the Confluence young man has no position in Washington. “Timmie” never in- tended that this young man should have a position. The young man was gold-bricked, that’s all. ~~ editor of the Somer- ScuLy, set Whine, continues to abuse and throw mud at General Koontz, and “TimMIe” that’s what “Timmie” calls loyal sup- port of the Republican ticket. But the General does not mind “Timmie” a bit. In fact he seems to enjoy “Timmie’s” mud throwing, for it’s so amusing, and it brings to mind the great truth that the fools are not all dead yet. Let the wall-eyed, lop-eared mule of the Her- ald continue to bray,if he hasn’t got sense enough to take Kendall’s Spavin Cure, when there is no Barker’s Lini- ment in sight. Tne Democratic attempt to haul down the Fourth of July will be every bit as popular and successful as the Democratic effort to hauldown the flag in the Philippines, that it ever enacted. Ar the next fusion in Nebraska the Democrats will doubtless be called up- on to apologize for presuming to exist. “Bryax, Adlai, Aguinaldo, Agoncillo and Anti-Everything” will not be an attractive combination for American voters. Tue Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson posses- ses a keen faculty for adapting himself to changed conditions. He now refers to Democrats as “Bryan men.” A porLitTICAL party that puts forth a platform, and then tries to explain that it doesn’t mean what it says, naturally invites the suspicions of ihe voters. Mr. Croker has instructed the Tam- many orators to appeal to the young men. He evidently hopes to make headway with those who don’t have to pay the ice bills. Ix case Mr. Croker fails to rally the young men of the country, the work might be turned over to the Tammany Ice Trust. It has a business like way of going after things. Or the several nominees for the Presidency, Mr. Bryan is far the wealth- iest, and he made all his money during the prosperous times brought about by the McKinley administration. rn MR. AvrrGeLp has pronounced Mr. Bryan the greatest man in the eciviliz- ed world; and Mr. Bryan has all along contended that Mr. Altgeld is one of the best judges of greattiess extant. Tue Republican administration goes to the country upon its accomplish- ments. Incidentally, it will be mater- ially strengthened at the ballot box by the mistakes of the Democracy. Tinos: who vote for Bryan vote to abandon a condition more prosperous than ever before enjoyed by any na- tion, for the purpose of trying a finan- cial experiment condemned by all na- tions. Ir the 16 to 1 proposition is not anis- sue, why was it placed in the Kansas City platform? If that plank is dishon- est and doesn’t mean what it says,what must the public think of the remainder of the structure? CHAIRMAN JONES fhinks o one may be able to pick enough Democracy from the Kansas City platform to stand up- on. There are a great many distin- guished Democrats who are not inclin- ed to the Jones way of thinking. Ir is remarkable how the leaders of the Democratic party, while seated at home or in committee, can give advice as to the conduct of the war and criti- cise the work of those who go to the front and carry the flag to victory. Mgr. BryaN’s recent silence is ac- counted for by the fact that he was spending a good deal of time trying to decide whether to commence his speeches with “My comrades of the tented field” or “My fellow-farmers.” ———— Ir the Democrats elect their candi- date for President, and elect a Demo- cratic Congress, this fall, they feel sure there will be nothing done to disturb foreign shipping in its present enjoy- ment of 93 per cent of our foreign car- rying. Ix one breath the Democratic orator will assure his hearers that McKinley has no backbone, that he is a creature controlled by those around him, and with the next breath will accuse him of shaking the Republic t~ - Lu order to erect a throne thereof. . the ruins aE “I was a Democrat and a bolter in 1896,” declares the Hon. Thomas M. Walter, of Connecticut, “and as the situation has not changed, I am a Dem- ocrat and bolter still.” The Democrat- ic editors have devoted many columns to abject failures to answer this Con- necticut Democrat. ee. Some of Mr. Bryan’s injudicious friends are trying to show that his sup- port of the Paris treaty, like his 168 to 1 plank in the Kansas City platform, didn’t mean anything. Mr. Bryan's friends should step to one side and per- mit their candidate to appear as a can- did man in some matters. Ix one year (1894) of Democratic vote, the wage earners of the United States depleted their savings deposits by more than $37,000,000. Since Me- Kinley has been President they have earned enough to save and invest a surplus in savings banks deposits alone of more than $482,000,000. - Tue Hon. James M. Beck, of Phila- delphia, one of the leading lawyers of that city, announces that “I am no longer a Democrat. I don’t believe in free silver, nor do I believe in hauling down the flag in the Philippines.” It must be conceded that Mr. Beck has executed a very intelligent and busi- ness like exit from the party of Bryan and Aguinaldo. WAT is Mr. J Fire an’s plan for the dis- position of the Philippines? The only inference from his speeches is that he would let loose fair promises and hon- eyed words, and on the strength of these would withdraw the American troops from the Philippines. What would prevent, after withdrawal of the American troops, the same horrors in Manila that have visited Pekin? What would become of the natives who had helped to suppress the Tagal insurree- tion after they were thus left to the de- vices of Aguinaldo, whose cruelty did not stop at the murder of his own generals? politic. Skin deep Republican prosper- ity is a thousand-fold better than bone deep Democratic hard times. Tue Hon. E. Ellery Anderson, the leading representative of the former Southern men who make New York their home and represent the large in- terests of the South, has declared his opposition to the Kansas City ticket. He declares that the Democratic party had far better suffer defeat than as- sume the responsibility for a Bryan administration. Tir Democratic Memphis Commer- cial-Appeal admits that Mr. Bryan means 16 to 1, and has no patience with those Democrats who are trying to ig- nore the issue and take up the cry of “Imperialism.” The Commercial-Ap- peal is not over-enthusiastic for the Kansas City ticket, but it prefers to be honest with its readers, no matter how distasteful the task may be. Ir the Democratic party succeeds in persuading the business man that free silver will help business, and persuade the laboring man that free trade will help wages, and persuade the colored man that he is better off without the ballot than with it, and convince the soldiers that their blood and bravery has been spent in vain, then the party may have some chance of winning,next November. Tue civil service reform plank, and the income tax plank, and the calamity plank, and the anti-Supreme Court plank were all omitted from the Kan- sas City platform. This makes the structure so full of holes that some vig- orous patching must be done at once, or the candidates who try to stand up- on it will find themselves falling through, much to the detriment of both their shins and dignity. er — Tue school teachers of Cuba had a glorious trip to this country in the gov- ernment transport. After going back to Cuba they will be able to work with broadened ideas and freshened zeal for the welfare of the growing generation of Cuba. This incident is part and parcel of Republican “Imperialism.” It is surprising that, as such, it is meet- ing with no denunciation from the oracles of the Democratic party. Suvraeox Josern M. HELLER, who has seen brave service in the Philippines and has just gotten home, has given an interesting description of a Filipino fete in which a toast was drunk to “Bryan and Aguinaldo.” Mr. Bryan ought to send word to the Filipino rebel chiefs, through Senator Petti- grew, who seems a useful go-between, that Mr. Stevenson is the candidate of the Democratic party for vice president and not Aguinaldo. L BEAR E a Ir will be remembered that Senator Tillman, he of the pitchfork, helped to write the Kansas City platform which expresses such tender regard for the rights, liberties and independence of the brown man. But on the floor of the Senate of the United States this same Senator, while speaking of the black men, said with pride: “We stuffed ballot boxes, we shot them ; we are not ashamed of it.” The Senator must be an expert on the relation existing between shades of color and the degree of liberty that Democracy should portion out to each. a Tue Republican party demonstrated that self-government is not only possi- ble, but honorable and full of glory. The leaders of today take council of the wisdom of the past. They are the Qisiribaiors Hot the hosrders of liber- vy Bhey o> + Bi8%6 Cuba ana Porto Rico and will give freedom to the Philippines which will best protect in- dividual rights and guarau..- ‘he re- spect of other powers. This is the Im- perialism of true freedom, the royalty of justice, and will soon be recognized as the crowning glory of national achievement. Tue “Full Dinner Pail” is an argu- ment for the farmer as well as for the city laborer. Who supples what is put in the pail? The farmer. If the city laborer has wages cat in two by free silver, and is put out of a job by the closing of the mills, the farmer suffers equally; for the farmer may give away, but he cannot sell the products of his farm which the city laborer cannot af- ford to buy. Itis because of the “full dinner pail” that the farmer is getting so much better prices for what he sells than he could get before the election of McKinley. It is because of the “full dinner pail” that he has paid off his mortgages, and become a lender of money where he used to be a borrower. His Home Paper. “It’s strange,” said the celebrated author, recently, “and yet not strange —how these old associations cling to us! I was born in a rural district, and 40 years ago, the little country weekly was the only literature we had. It was published every Saturday, and when it didn’t come out ‘on time’ everybody was in a flurry. Well, I have not visit- ed my birthplace in 20 years, but dur- ing all that time I have been a sub- scriber to that little country weekly. I’ve crossed the seas, and it has follow- ed me faithfully to foreign capitals, I've taken it from my pocket in the clubs of London and Paris. and have read, with all the interest of old, how Colonel So-and-So is in our midst, how ‘John Jones Sundayed with us, and how ‘our esteemed coroner saton three dead men yesterday, and how ‘the edi- tor is thankful for » mess of cabbage, but needs some bacon to boil with it, &e. Yes, that little country weekly is a positive joy to me yet. And the edi- tor doesn’t have tc dun me for my sub- scription, either > Ad Good Advertising Fine Job Printing a Medium. ’ $ | Specialty. X 4 > = x FT Ct > = TY r 3 Q Syn v {0 > v Tory » 7 IME V] SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1900. NO. 39. 2 od e 9 ’ ’ W. H. KooNTz. J. G. OGLE 4 nominated tnan yourself. | Ir the silver question is out of poli- Tue Democratic press is telling the | ire Der delegates at the ® KOONTZ & OGLE ND OF QUAYISN; At that time it occurred to me the | tics, why was it hammered into a polit- | people that the McKinley prosperity is | Kansas City convention were parties : : differences existing in our party, city |. > Iy skin d Perl : the > richt. | {tho fr ao is - : Attorneys-At-T.aw, and state, would be at an end and a | ical platform? only ==n deep. terhaps thoy ate right, f of the first part, and the voters to whem Stnnasl Davis FIGURES TALK general gotting together of all factions .,—— but there is no question about the | the platform is addressed ere the party DN PRsrh IAN for the good of the party would be con- Tire Democratic party never pointed | Cleveland adversity having reached to | of the second part, while the platform Office opposite Court House. Smmaten Seta 1h sti with pride to any business measure | the joints and marrow of the body | itself is setting forth was, however, mistaken in this | the fospes and the two parti the ¢ ft. Yet the party of the first part is telling the party of the second part that the 18 to 1 obligation means nothing, and that if they will present votes they may be as- sured that the monetary standard of the country will not be tampered with. And this is the party of reform that in- vites the country to indorse promises unfulfilled and condemn obligations faithfully pe rformed. -- ontre SoMmEBODY ougt the Somer- set Herald calf for in its frantic efforts to become disentangled and bellow at the e time there is danger of strangulation. *Some calves are never satisfied unle they always have a teat to suck at, and that’s what ails “Timmie” Scull. He told some of his fool friends before he went to Harris- burg as a witness in the contested elee- tion case that the Scull faction had the party rules and the law against them, but added sneeringly that Sanner and Rowe would get the decision anyway. Because the case was to be tried by a judge who is a warm friend of Mr. Quay, “Timmie” gave it out that San- ner and Rowe would surely win, which was virtually admitting that Judge Si- monton would violate his oath of office and commit a high crime in order to help Sanner and Rowe steal the seats of Koontz and Kendall in the Legisla- ture. But the Dauphin county court, be it said with much credit to the zame, scorned the idea of committing a crime in order to foster the Somerset county branch of the Quay machine, and the case was accordingly decided by Judge Simonton in favor of Koontz and Ken- dall, the candidates legally and hon- estly entitled to the nomination. Let “Timmie” continue to bellow, but he ought to have more rope, for there is danger of his choking to death on the stuff he is trying to palm off on his readers for the truth. It comes with a poor grace from modern so-called Democrats to oppose expansion—even island expansion— when that has been the traditional policy of the party from the days of Jefferson to the days of Buchanan. In 1846 President Polk offered to pur- chase Cuba from Spain for the sum of $100,000,000, though he had no author- ity from Congress to make the proposal and he certainly could not have obtain- ed the money without such authority, had Spain accepted. But the offer was refused. t to give more rope, Again in 1824, under the administra- tion of President Pierce, our then min- isters to England, France and Spain, who were James Buchanan, James Y. Mason and Pierre Soule, met at Os- tend and issued the famous Ostend manifesto, which in effect was that if Spain should refuse to sell Cuba to the United States for $120,000,000, “we should be justified by every law, hu- man and divine, in wresting it from Spain if we possess the power.” This came to nothing, but in the next administration President Buchanan in three of his annual messages to Con- gress urged that Cuba ought to be made by purchase a part of the United States. A bill for the purchase of Cuba was introduced during Buchanan's term by Senator Slidell, but failed of adoption. In both the Democratic platforms of 1860—the Breckenridge and the Doug- las—there were planks favoring the annexation of Cuba. : But not only did Democratic Presi- dents favor the annexation of Cuba, but an effort was made by President Pierce to anuex Hawaii, and a treaty of annexation was made by our minis- ter to the Hawaii s, David L. Gregg. The President aid not of some of the arti s of the tres cause they provided for the immediat2 incorporation of the islands as an inde- pendent state in the Union. He wish- ed to receive them as a territory, leavy- ing the question of statehood to future determination. The negotiations sub- quently failed, owing to the death of the King of the islands. Forty-four years later President McKinley sue- cessfully established the policy initia- ted by President Pierce. approve fy be- The Southern people are now and al- ways have been in favor of expansion, It was through the influence of the South and of Southern statesmen that Louisiana, Florida, Texas, California and Oregon were acquired. Imperial- ism is the traditional policy of the South, if expansion means imperialism. No part of the Union was more eager to free Cuba from the Spanish oppres- sion than the South. It was the south- ern Democrats in Congress who united with the Republicans of the Northwest and far West to bring on the war. Certainly there were no more gal- lant soldiers in the war than General Wheeler, General Fitzhugh Lee and others whose names are known through out the country. With such a record in bringing on the war and fighting it to a successful issue, why the South should oppose President McKinley for attempting to secure the results of the war is more than ean easily be under- stood. On the issue of imperialism the South stands with McKinley. Why should it not support him? A review of the past platforms of the Democratic party will reveal the fact that the party is short on promises fulfilled and long on false prophesies, It declared that the war was a failure; it wasn’t. It declared that free trade would bring prosperity; it didn’t. I¢ said that the gold standard would cause a paaic; it didn’t. It promised to benefit the laboring man; it didn’t, Having failed in all its promises, it now comes up with a new stock decls ed to do better than the old and gsks for indorsement tions of 3}
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