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Sold Ly Druggists, or sent post-paid HUNPHREYS MED. €0., 118118 William & St, Ne or . sthe food and aids | 204 Tec Oh | A FREE P ATTERN | | | | | ben i ip | THE Me ATL COMPANY, A88-148 West 14th Street, . » New York City, N. Yo HIN PHILADELPHIA, AGANTID FR: IN PillLA Policemen Man the Polls and Open- ly Work For the Quay Machine. IN DEPENDENT TICKET ASSURED. | | What Seaator Flinn, | | Leader of the Insurgents, Says About the Result, Montzomery County Independents Get to Work and Name a Ticket—A Lot of Olcomargarine Dealers Sent to Prison by Pure Butter Men. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Harrisburg, Sept. 18.—Primary elec- tions were held in Philadelphia on Tuesday night of last week between the hours of 6 and 8 o'clock. That is, they were called primaries, but their real title ought to be “intimidation” | meeting The Quay machine swept nearly every district. And no wonder! No primary election ever held in Pennsylvania, or in any other state, was like this one. The entire police force of the city was turned out to man the polls and intimidate voters. Policemen, in citizens’ dress, and po- licemen in uniform bullied and threat- ened saloon keepers, grocers, private citizens, everybody. Mayor Ashbridge, as pointed cut months ago, has openly allied himself with the Quay machine, and as the primaries of last Tuesday show, brutality and political corrup- tion will go hand in hand to control Pennsylvania politics hereafter. That the people of the state may not think these are idle or unfounded as- sertions and ordinary campaign blus- ter, the figures in the returns show that in nearly every district more votes were counted by the machine than were cast for McKinley four years ago. The most glaring and outrageous frauds were cemmitted while the po- lice stood by and witnessed the perpe- | tration. In the Twenty-first ward, where Representative Nyce, anti-Quay, was defrauded of a renomination, the machine counted 5,528 votes. Gover- nor Stone's vote in this ward two years ago was only 3,224, while Presi- dent McKinley received but 4,920 votes in the ward four years ago. A com- parison of some of these divisions be- | tween t vote of last Tuesday night | and McKinley's vote is given below: | MeKinley’s Tuesday’s vote. vote. | Divisio I Eleventh Twelfth .. Thirteenth Fourteenth i Fifteenth | Sixteenth Se vi ene enh ) § chine ei for fre 1 suds can be perpe- | ion what hope | have the cot ry people, the plain, | : of the state to hope for ns unless there are new o Senator William i this 5 pub- day morning in sev- elphia papers. He ted at a pr | I'he vote pelled and the methods employed to secure results by the Quay | machine in Philadelphia is a final ar- gument for the necessity of a new | ballot law. I have gone over the re- | turns as published in the Philadelphia | papers, and on the face of them there is evidence of the most outrageous fraud. In almost every district and in alinc every ward the vote polled at the | wries on Tuesday was in ex- cess of the vote cast for °~ Governor Stone, and in excess even he phenomenal ‘ite for McKinley in the last presidential election. “There is always an outburst of in- dignation among northern Republicans over intimidation of the negroes in the south, but there has never been any intimidation short of murder in the south that was any worse than that practiced by machine gangs, with the | aid of the police, on the citizens of Philadelphia last ‘Tuesday night. I cannot see that intimidation by armed troops is any worse than intimida- tion by policemen, and I do not think, from all that I have read and from all that I have learned from eye witnesses, that any city in the country ever wit- nessed an election conducted as was that of last Tuesday night in Phila- del phia. I said, it all demonstrates the new ballot law. That fis Ww. a the ‘insurgent’ Republicans and the fair minded Democrats of Penn- sylvania are struggling for, and after the next session of the legislature I think that there will never be another such exhibition of intimidation by the | entire police power of a great city as | characterized these primaries.’ > you think that the result of the prin >s will have any effect through- out th e state on the anti-Quay move- Republicans in Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia rather expect such things as that of Tuesday night under the existing ballot laws and with the Quay machine in control, and the result will make them work all the harder in the future. All the bal- lot box stuffers who are in prison to- day and all the fugitives from justice for the same reason are from Phila- delphia. The country people have been so systematically defrauded . by the thousands of bogus ballots that the Quay machine, with the entire police force criminals, The of Philadelphia to protect the run the election.” Republicans of Philadelphia, er, do not propose to rest quiet- such fraud and corruption. > ticket will be put in the teld in every ward and legislative dis- tric t. Fusion with the Democrats will be encouraged, and every means taken to defeat the corrupt combined ma- chines that have taken Philadelphia | by the thro: t c eaks truly»when he 3 tha t this will only cause the s throughout th here is no pos- vy machine be- slation at Har- n, even if they in any means. The independent fusion vement is very popular. The decent ens all favor it, and the hottest ight in the state may be looked for in >hiladelphia in next November. The anti-Quay Republicans of Mont- gomery county on Saturday last held a convention, which was packed to the doors. A full legislative ticket was nominated and resolutions denouncing the Quay machine, Governor Stone, John Hamilton, secretary of agricul- ture, and all the other members of the ring were passed. The Quay ticket in Montgomery county cannot win this fall. It will be interesting news for the farmers to know that the cases against the oleomorgarine men in Philadelphia is being pushed rapidly forward. Four bogus buttermen were fined and sent to prison by Judge McCarthy on Fri- day last. But it is not the department of agriculture that is pushing these men. It is the Pure Butter associa- tion. The dairy and food department is still leagued with the oleomargarine trust. ~~ DEAR ‘BOY LETTER No. 4. My Dear Bov:—As an American citizen T am happy over the vast prog- ress made by the United States during the administration of Wm. McKinley. It is true that the increase of our wealth, the enlargement of our posses- sions, and the position which we have gained among the nations of the earth, have brought to us a vast increase of responsibility. However, this respon- sibility came to us prowvidentially, un- expectedly and unsought; and, if we are true to ourselves and to righteous- ness, the God of nations will guide us in the future as in the past. It is also true that there are some sad things to contemplate in this connec- tion. War is always sad, and we have had practically three wars on our hands. None of them could be fore- seen four years ago. We were pushed into them and it is a good thing we had so wise a pilot at the helm in this critical period of our nation’s history. But while there are things that make one sad, there are many more to make one glad, and it is of these that I wish to speak. First—The better state of feeling be- tween the North and the South. You were born since those old days and can have but little idea of the intense bitterness engendered by the Civil War. It was a common saying at the close of the war that it would take several generations for the enmity to pass away. Men thought it impossible that North and South should come to- gether heartily during the lifetime of the men who fought the battles and the women who gave their husbands and their sons to the Northern and Southern causes. Gradually the fecl- ing between the sections became bet- ter. We made a long stride forward during the summer that Garfield lay dying and the whole nation, North and South, watched by his bedside in anxi- ety, hope and fear. But the Spanish- Ame war finished the trouble. Wken Joe Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee put on the blue and called themselves “Yan when the sons of the Union soldiers and the sons of the Confed- erate soldier, side by side. won vie- tories for America, the heart of the North and the South came together. 1 rejoice with joy unspeakable that I have lived to see the day when I and my comrades in arms for the Union can clasp the hands of our former foes and congratulate each other on the prosperity and increasing glory of our common country. rican Second—The expansion of American territory. It has been going on for a hundred years, and never more glori- ously than now. The American spirit is that of expansion. I was an Amer- ican boy who set the hen on forty- seven eggs and told his mother that he did so because he wanted to see the blamed old thing spread herself. To keep spreading is an instinct of Ameri- canism. And don’t you be one bit afraid, my boy, that the old mother American eagle will not be able to hover safely over all the eggs she can find. You see, my boy, I think that the best thing the whole world can do is to settle down quietly and be United States. I have a profound pity for anybody on the earth who does not live under the protecting folds of the star-spangled banner. Every drop of your father’s blood is American, and it tingles with delight at the sight of Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philippines added to our American possessions. True, affairs in the Philippines are not as pleasant now as we could wish, but “wait till the clouds roll by.” The flag has brought blessings to every place it has touched hitherto, and will do the same in the future. Third—I rejoice at the increased respect for our country among the na- tions of the earth. Manila Bay, San- tingo and San Juan were revelations to the nations abroad. Hitherto their idea has been that the Yankee is sim- ply a shrewd trader and inventor, with no soul beyond the Almighty Dollar. It was an awakening to them to dis- cover that American gunners are the best in the world, that American war- ships are unequalled, that American soldiers ars unsurpassed in courage, discipline, intelligence and eflicieney, and that Americans fight, not merely for money, but for ideas, for liberty and for he deliverance of the oppress- ed of other lands and races. And in the present trouble in China the Unit- ed States is winning the esteem of the world, not only by the success of our but by our careful, dignified, judicious diplomacy. arms, Fourth—1I rejoice in the increase of the nation’s wealth. In Cleveland’s time were a nation of borrowers. Now we are a nation of lenders. We are a happy and prosperous people. Meanwhile, the twentieth century yn us with tremendous possi- Just what we | bi store. not } ki ng the dry bones tremendous forward to tho coming of the kingdom part in life is nearly done, will live to sec the of God. but you, My | my son, is before ow. But there is a steps mightiest epoch in the world’s history. Be honest, be true, be Christian, and be an American. Do not vote to “swap while we are crossing streams to keep at the helm the man whose steady brain, loving heart and true hands have under God guided the ship of state so safely through peril to a new birth of national glory. Your FATHER. horses » i Yote ‘AN oLD CONFEDERATE. Shows How the Anti- beri lists Can Help Aguinaldo. I do not believe that the Southern border states would have seceded from the Union in 1861 but for the aid and comfort given them by the Copper- heads of the North. When one dis- tinguished orator declared that the Union army would have to march over the dead bodies of 40,000 Indiana Democrats before they reached the South, the magnificent utterance elec- trified Tennessee with hope. Thousands of men hesitated upon the brink of the awful abyss. They loved the Union and hated the Aboli- tionists.. The Union was a “theory” entwined with beautiful and patriotic sentiments. Slavery was a “condition” in which was invested the hard earn- ings of a life time. At the supreme crisis came the promises of Northern Democrats that they would not let us be hurt; their bitter denunciations of the Republican party. The South made the leap. During the war we saw Indiana regi- ments and brigades march through the state of Kentucky. “Wramp,” “Tramp,” “Tramp,” they passed through Ten- nessee, Georgia and South Carolina. We never did learn how the poor fel- lows got over those 40,000 dead bodies of their Democratic friends and neigh- bors. We were fully persuaded they killed and made a corduroy road of them, because the anti-imperialists of Indiana said they would. Our next hope after we got mixed up together was that England and France would help us for commercial reasons. Vallandigham, Stevenson and a thousand other Copperheads like the good brethren who held up Joshua's arms, held ours up by encouraging us to hold out a little longer, by denounc- ing the war a “failure” posted as to the movements of enemies. This is all ancient history, but I, an old Confederate, can see very readily how the anti-imperialist league can materially aid Aguinaldo and his crowd. Every old soldier, North and South, understands the force of moral support. Our war would not have lasted three months but for northern Democratic encouragement, and I be- lieve Aguinaldo would have been as peaceful a citizen as Gomez but for the encouragement he has received from the sentimental traitors of the Anti- Imperial League. Troyas 11. Baker, United States Marshal Western Dis- trict of Tennessee. Memphis, Tenn., August 2. 1900. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING. I belong to neither party. I vote in local and national elections as my in- dependent judgment dictates. Ne- braska is prosperous. [Four years ago the times were very hard. Our farm- ers burned their corn for fuel. Then it was that Mr. Bryan argued for free silver as the only remedy for those apparently hopeless conditions. The country did not take his remedy, and yet got well. What is the inference? Mr.Bryan’sremedy was not as much of a remedy as he thought it. Mr. McKinley will be re-elected because of the pros- perity now existing. A very large per- centage of the citizens will pay no at- tention to free silver, imperialism or anything else than our great prosperi- ty.—J. A. Smith, Humphrey, Neb. our Candy is one of the luxuries. When times are hard and money scarce, we feel it, I tell you we do. The last three or four years show a yast increase in our business. There has been im- provement each year over the preced- ing one, and this year the prospects are that business will be better than it has been for six years. The general trade throughout the United States in the last four years has increased fully 50 per cent. In some cases it has doubled, the increase being specially noticeable in large establishments. This business is essentially an indi- cator of the moment. Supply equals demand. We cannot store our goods away in barns and warehouses and wait for the market to rise or the trade to come to us. Instead we are con- trolled by the demands of (he hour. Take the chocolate trade alone. Amer- icans are only now beginning to awak- en to the nutritive and delightful qual- ities of good chocolate candies. Euro- peans have been familiar with this for years. During the past year or two our trade in this line has increased by bounds until to-day half of our cus- tomers call for chocolates. I am a Democrat, but am free to say that while conditions exist as they do at the present time, it would be wise to let well enough alone and make no change. —C. ¥. Gunther of Chicago. ex-Alder- man, Democrat, and candy manufac- turer. The whole situation can be expressed in a sentence. The country is enjoy- ing a most wonderful period of pros- perity. The country at large, the dividual corporations and the people themselves have been successful to a degree under the present administra- tion and the Republican party deserves universal support, and what is more to the point, I believe will have it. The country is greater than any helm, as there have been during the last four years, to direct this country of ours, conditions will continue to im- prove and we shall reap the benefit— and keeping us | in- man or | any party, and with wise men at the | C. F. Tlutchinson, of Exchange Bank of Chicago. Our business has been perous in the last three the entire previous history of the com- pany. This is true not only of Chicago, but elsewhere. It is chiefly due to two Not only has the telephone estalished itself as a necessity to busi- nore pros- years than in causes. ness and private interests, but it is also owing to the pronounc rosperi- ty which has been gener: ghout the country. As I said, the grow of the Chicago company in these years has been equal to the entire growth before that time. If this general pros- perity, which the country at large is enjoying, should be checked or should cease it would undoubtedly affect the growth of our business. Personally I believe that any material change in the present policy of government would affect all lines of business most disas trously. Ours would suffer withj the rest.—John M. Clark, President Chica- go Telephone Company. DEMOCRATS FOR EXPANSION. We declare in favor of a strict ad- herance to the traditional policy of the Democratic party in the matter of territorial extension: that the speedy annexation of Hawaii, the independ- ence of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phil- ippines and their acquisitions are fav- ored, if in keeping with enduring peace with the powers of Europe. This is not an extract from a Repub- lican platform ; not at all. It is part of the platform adopted by the Democrats at Mt. Clements, Mich., in June, 1898. It contrasts strongly with what these same Democrats are now asked to sup- port if they follow the vagaries of Mr. Bryan. The Someries Roreid or Bolters’ Bazoo Challenged to Prove a Malicious Assertion. From the Somerset Standard. The Bolters’ Bazoo’s hatred for Rep- resentative W. H. Koontz impels it to pursue him with vicious falsehood, of which the following is a sample: “Democrats who are on the inside declare that all arrangements had been made to nominate General W | Koontz as a fusion candidate. * | Secure in the knowledge that the name | of any candidate printed in the Repub- | lican column on the official ballot would receive a large majority of the | votes cast in Somerset county, he | (General Koontz) discontinued nego- tiations with the represen tatives of the local Democracy. * * Upon these statements you base a half column of villainous misrepresen- tation for the craven purpose of bring- ing public odium upon a gentleman than whom none stands higher in the estimation of the people of this county. If your assertions are true they can be easily proven, and if they are false you are a consummate villain. Ry making public declaration that the enumerators for this county had not been appointed, after you had appointed them, you delivered a blow to your veracity from which it will never recover, but you are fortu- nate in that you will be able to prdve the above assertions if they are true, while yeu are unfortunate if they are not true. If “all arrangements had been made to nominate General W. II. Koontz as a fusion candidate,” General Koontz would necessarily have been a party to the arrangement, and proof of the ar- rangement will be easily obtainable. the census If you will give the names of the “Democrats” who “declare” that such an agreement had been made the Standard will give the information to its readers. If you will give the names of the “representatives of the local Democracy” with whom Gen. Koontz entered into any negotiations whereby he was to be made a fusion candidate, the Standard will also give that infor- mation to its readers. We brand your villainous assertions quoted above as absolutely false and the work of a craven, and challenge you to produce your proof. If you do not do so you must suffer the moral consequences of your attempt to in- jure an honorable man’s reputation by outright falsehood. Your habit of wilfully misrepresent- ing candidates for office whom you can- not control, and laughing your false- hoods off as a joke after they have serv- ed your malicious purpose, is a species of dishonest and disreputable journal ism that ail honest people should and will condemn. ~~ A Dilemma For Mr. Bevan, A good deal has been said about Mr. Bryan’s moral responsibility in the matter of the treaty with Spain for the Philippine Islands. He advised the ratification of that treaty. Without the Democratic votes which he infiu- enced in its favor, the treaty could not have been made. He is therefore mor- ally bound to help execute it in good faith and can not escape such responsi- bility. But leaying that aspect of the mat- ter wholly out of consideration, it would 2nd the Commercial the period of ten years. That is part which the Presi- hfully executed. Plainly then for ten years at least our authority must be maintained in those islands. Mr. Bryan could not American authority within ithout violating our su- Yet,aceording to his theory, he would have the United States leave the islands as soon as possible after his election and throw our treaty obliga- tions to the winds. On the other hand, if he would rec- ognize the obligations of the treaty, there would have to be at least ten years of government without the “con- sent of the governed.” There is no escape fron it. ‘supreme law” dent is to see fait time preme law. A Few from The Somerset Standard. It required four telegraphers for two or three d.ys to handle the special bus- iness created by the McKinley-Bear wedding. Several of the New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburg papers had special reporters here, and a small ar- my of photographers were “shooting” everything in sight. It will be distressing news to the sur- vivors of the One Hundred and Thirty- third Regiment, P. V., in this county that their Colonel, F. B. Speakman, died at his home in Coatsville, this state, last Sunday, Sept. 9th. The funeral took place yesterday at 2:30 p. m. Colonel Speakman was Presi- dent of the regimental organization, a large number of the members of which were present to witness the last sad rites over the grave of their beloved comrade. There were two companies of the One Hundred and Thirty-third tegiment from this county—Company D, Captain Amos Schrock, and Com- pany E, Captain Geo. ¥. Baer. Henry Y. Haws and Milton B. Young of Johustown have closed a deal for 1,600 acres of coal lands in the vicinity of #Holsopple, and in the near future they will open mines and operate them on an extensive scale. The 8S. & C. branch of the B. & O. railroad already touches the land, and in a few months the P. R. R. company will have a branch line at the point. The purchase is considered by expert coal men as one of the most fortunate of all the deals made in Somerset county in re- cent years. The location is ideal, and the coal underlying the lands is said to be as fine as any in the whole Somerset county belt. : —-— Mg. Bryan should cede the sover- eignty of his farm at Lincoln, Neb., t Spain France. The land was ac- quired by the United States without the “consent of the governed” by an- other Democrat, Thomas Jefferson How Mr. Bryan can conset to live in Nebraska, when this circumstance is considered, is unexpininnide. or Ix spite of all ther efforts to conceal it, the declaration of Senator William M. Stewart, of Nevada, has given the Democracy a nasty jar. There are a lot of miners and silver men all over the western country who are pretty apt to think that there is not much use of clinging to Bryan as a silver man when Stewart deserts him. Stewart was one of the first Republican sena- tors to leave the Republican party on the silver question. He was out of the party long before Dubois, Teller, Petti- grew, Towne and others, who made up the Silver Republican organization, ever thought of leaving. Stewart can- not stand the scuttling policy, and he has got a lot of friends throughout the western States who are likely to follow him. But long before Senator Stewart announced his determination to oppose Bryan, there had been a rapid revolu- tion in the former silver States in favor of the Republicans, and it was giving the Democrats a great deal of concern. Mg. Bryax doubtless fecks internally vexed over the praises bestowed upon him since his nomination, by prominent English papers like the “Spectator.” It must be naturally disagreeable to be taken for a friend by -a nation against which he wants to wage a wordy war in the hope of gaining the votes of such people in this country as feel hostile to it. The English appar- ently care nothing about Bryan’s pro- Boer protestations, for they do not be- lieve Mr. Bryan as President would be militant enough to involve the Anglo- Saxon countries in bloody war by go- ing any further than offering to medi- ate, as President McKinley did. Why England wishes for Bryan’s election is because he is a free-trader. By closing the mills of the United States the mills of Egland would do a bigger business. The work that Mr. Bryan would take away from American workmen would go to the workmen of England. Grosveson. o of Ohio, has a way of getting under the hides of humbugs better than almost any other man in public life. It is interesting to note how he punctured the “Windbag from Cumberland,” as Senator Wellington is now being called. He made Welling- ton very angry, and all that he could GEN, seem that Mr. Bryan, as President, would be legally barred from executing his proposed policy in the Philippines. The Constitution of the United St says that “all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land.” The Supreme Court has upheld that provision unflinchingly. Acts of State legislation or Acts of Congress which conflict with treaties are always treat- ed as nullities. The obligation which the Constitution puts upon the Presi- dent to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed” binds him to the execution of all treaties. How then would Mr. deal with the ates Bryan Philippines under the four of the treaty under whiel ve a red the Philippines the United Sta and merch: pledg tes to give Spanish ship ss to the Ss on ports of the Philipy terms as those of the United States for the same have to do was to 2all Grosvenor *ad old fool and an ass.” Of course everyone un- derstands that calling names is not argument. Wellington then goes on and indulges in abuse of President McKinley, and in his peculiarly Well- ingtonian style, challenges the Presi- dent to refute certain statements that he has made, just as if the President of the United States could descend to bandy words with a politician who has left the Republican party because he was dissatisfied with the patronage. One of the amazing things about Well- ington is how he ever came to the front. It can only be explained from the fact that when the Republicans threw off the Democratic yoke in Mary- and, up the first man that 1 that work, and Wellington dis- they took this was We e it! tepublican governor of AM arylat ad, d contributed his mite towards defeating the candidate last f2 the governor would not be absolutely ¢ .ontrolled in his appoint- ents by Wellington’s dictation, fall, because | | came to the Is | Lo
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