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Francis J. KooSER. ERNEST O. KOOSER.
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Office over Post Office.
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. E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
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Office opposite Cook & Beerits’ Store.
A. M. LICHTY,
Physician and Surgeon,
SALIS3URY, PENN’A.
Office one door east of I. S. Hay’s store.
A. F. SPEICHER,
Physician and Surgeon,
SALISBURY, PENN’A.
Office corner Grant and Union Streets.
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SCHEDULE :
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JH ACK ves Salisbury at 1
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sdale at 6 p. m., arriving at
Ing lode at 7.30 p. m.
® NT HAT.
Lucifer Ananias Smith’s Political
Remains to be Interred at Mey-
ersdale, Tomorrow Evening.
The dead and putrid remains of Lu-
cifer Ananias Smith will be interred at
Meyersdale, Pa., Friday evening, Nov.
2d, 1900, with James M. Cover, chair-
man of the Bolters’ convention in
charge.
George RR.
and chief
ance.
The Chaplain of the Bolters will pro-
nounce the funeral oration. Text,"“The
Ghost of a Chance.”
The officers of the
Scull, the only relative
mourner will be in attend-
Bolters’ conven-
tion will be the pall bearers, viz: Lucy
Colborn, preceptress and residuary
beneficiary at the Poor House; Mam-
my A. C. Holbert, watch dog to the en-
trance to membership of the Somerset
bar; J.C. Lowry, late supervisor of
roads of Addison township; J. B. Say-
lor, late guard over Milton Sheets and
Joe Polinkosh ; Alexander Postlewaithe,
now watchman at thg Gate of the Seven |
Sleepers; John R. Scott, dispenser of
quinine pills for the frost-bitten.
The Commercial has been in very
frail Republican health for some time.
It took a back-set ten days ago. Dr. Tim-
mie was called in and advised bleed-
ing. lle treats all political trouble by
bleeding the patient.
Lucifer was bled. Dauphin county
Court Cordial, Barker’s
Kendall’s Spavin Cure were in Dr.
Timmie’s saddle-bags, but the
decided it was too late to apply these
mild remedies,
Bleeding was the thing. It
sorted to. Lucifer died. lle kicked
like a stuck calf; kicked at Koontz and
Kendall—and—and died in the doctor’s
arms,
Dr. Timmie, chief and only
political relative, is making the ar-
rangements at Somerset for a special
funeral train to go to Meyersdale to
see the political remains for the last
time.
Timmie is offering a free trip to Mey-
ersdale and return; a free supper; free
booze; and $1.00 for time to each man
that will wear ecrape on his hat on the
Timmie will be heavily veil-
ed. Pall-bearers will wear gum shoes.
One dollar a gallon will be paid for
tears to be used at the solemn service.
Deliver supply at Sterald oflice.
Liniment and
doctor
WAS re-
mourner
A Card to Rerontienn Vot:rs.
On October 9th, 1800, the Chairman
of the Republican County Committee
of Somerset county, filed in the Coun-
ty Commissioners’ oflice a certificate
certifying that Samuel J. Bowser was
the Republican nominee
Houset Director, and on the
per the Chairman certified that I was
the Republican nominee for Jury Com-
missioner.
THIS WAS THE ONLY CERTIFI-
CATE FILED BY THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY OF SOMERSET COUNTY, AS
THE RECORDS OF TIIE COMMIS-
SIONERS’ OFFICE SHOW.
Under the leadership of George R.
Scull, editor of the Somerset Herald,
objections were filed to that part of the
certificate containing my name as a
candidate for Jury Commissioner.
for Poor
same pa-
The objections were certified to Judge
Longenecker alone. Ie fixed the time
for trial, giving me forty-nine hours
notice of the hour when he would hear
the case. A trial could not be prepar-
ed for in forty-nine hours that requir-
ed the summoning of fifty witnesses
scattered over the waole county.
I am a poor man. I could not bear
the expense of a trial that would have
cost me $500. For want of time and
money I was forced to withdraw from
the Republican ticket, and leave the
party without a candidate for Jury
Commissioner, THOUGH NO PERSON
THAN MYSELF EVER CLAIMED A
RIGHT TO A PLACE ON THE RE.
PUBLICAN TICKET FOR JURY
COMMISSIONER.
Without money and without any
other autharity to fix a time and pass
upon my rights, the law of Pennsylva-
nia provides a way that a
may come before the peopl
poor man
e for an of-
fice. I carry my case beforethe people
of Somerset county. I AM A CANDI-
DATE FOR JURY COMMISSIONER
ON NOMINATION
THE POLICY
ERNMENT”.
IN VOTING PLACE
IN THE CIRCLE ABOVE
PUBLICAN COLUMN,
VOTE THE FULL REPUBLICAN |
TICKET, EXCEPT FOR JURY COM- |
MISSIONER, BECAUSE MY FORCED
WITHDRAWAL
PAPERS, U
OF *“HOXEST
NDER
GOV-
A CROSS (
THE R
AND YOU
X)
E-
LEFT THE PARTY
WITHOUT A CANDIDATE ON THE |
TICKET. PUT A CROSS (X) IN |
THE SQUARE ON THE RIGHT |
HAND SIDE OF MY NAME IN THE
HONEST GOVERNMENT COLUMN |
AND YOU VOTE FOR THE ONLY
PERSON WHO EVER HAD HIS
NAME ON THE REPUBLIC
ET FOR THIS OFFICE.
I earnestly solicit your support at
the polls.
ANTICK-
Very truly yours,
Ebpwarn Cc
Republican nominee for
missioner.
LEMAN,
Jury Com-
Commercial Admits That it is Not a
Republican Organ.
In last week’s Meyersdale
cial would-be editor Smith sa
Commer-
g -
While the Commercial is loyal to
Stalwart Republicanism as exemplified
in the Philadelphia National Republi-
can Convention which nominated Me-
Kinley and Roosevelt, and to the State
Republican Conveniion that met at
Harrisburg, it is in no sense the organ
of the party. It supports the prinei-
ples of the Republican party from faith
and choice, not from compulsion. In
other words it is a free lance, hence
regularity has no claims upon it.
Well, that is singing a different song
from the one Smith was singing a few
motnhs ago. Then he was boasting of
his regularity, his Republicanism, ete.
but now he says his paper is in no sense
an organ of the Republican party. “In
other words”, he says, it is a free lance,
hence regularity has no claims on it”.
He says he is a loyal
the outslart, but before finishes he
admits that he is not a Republican.
We believe his latter statement,
how could aloyal Republican support
Dr. P. P. Ritter as Smith is doing? Rit-
ter is a Virginian, and we have always
been told he was a soldier in the Rebel
army. What kind of a Republican is it
that would vote for an ex-rebel on the
Demoratic ticket? Just ask Ritter
which army he fought in during the
Civil War when he you to vote
for him, and then you'll likely see him
turn red.
Repubiican in
he
for
asks
A LIZ ON ITs FACE.
Lou Smith Proeclaimed a Liar by
His Own Paper.
Stalwarts have no candidates for
sembly in this county, neither
Republicans, Every vote
and Kendall is a vote inst the Re-
publican principle—majority rule. No
Stalwart Republican ean afford to vote
for either of the two K’s.—MWeyersdale
Commercial.
The above editorial taken from last
Ne
As-
have
for Koontz |
week’s Commercial is a lis on its face,
and we can prove it by the Commercial
itself. We are told by Smith that
neither the so-called Stalwarts nor the
Republicans have any candidates in
this county for Assembly, and the very
first sentence in the foregoing editorial
from old Polparrot Smith
’s editorial is
admission that Stalwarts and
Republicans are two different organiza-
tions. Well, it is true that the
wart bolters of this county have no
candidates for Assembly of their own,
but the have, and by
Smith's own paper we can prove that
they
of the Commercial that the foregoing
editorial appears, there appears
the entire Republican ticket, and in
reading the tieket over we find the fol-
lowing:
an open
Stal-
Republicans
have, for on the very same page
also
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
FOR CONGRESS,
Alvin Evans, of Cambria County.
ASSEMBLY,
W. I. Koontz, of Somerset
3. A. Kendall, of Meyersdale
Jorough.
Borough.
Now, Lucifer, the above is the identi-
cal ticket you have nailed to your mast-
head. You are publishing it and have
been proclaiming for weeks that it is
the Republican ticket, and you and ev-
erybody else knows that it is the Re-
publican ticket. Iurthermore, you
liave promised from the start that you |
would give the ticket your loyal sup-
port. Now, in the face of all this, how
can you deny your own published |
statements? You say that the Repub-
licans have no candidates for Assembly |
in this county, yet on the very same
page you publish the names of Koontz
and Kendall as being the candidates of
Republicans for Assembly in this coun-
ty. What kind of a “jassack”
anyway?
your
are you,
Do you think people will be-
lies when your own
liar? Not on your
crooked, worthless life! They will be
apt to say: “Lou Smith is a fool as
well as a knave, and he has a through
ticket for that warm place that is said
to be paved with gcod intentions, or
else a ticket for the lunatic asylum.”
Oh, you old blear-eyed shadow of a
man! You old pair of pants stuffed
with straw! You old peddler of eam-
paign lies and deception! You old
traitor to the Republican party! Is
your conscience but a shadow, the
same as your old, worthless carcass is
but the shadow of a man? Why should
you try to feed the people apples of
Sodom so that their bellies, like yours.
should be filled with wind?
You ought to be in better business,
lieve paper
proclaims you a
old man, than bolting the Republican
ticket, the ticket whieh you carry at
your masthead and have promised to
support. We believe you would rather
be dirty and treacherous for nothing
than to be clean, honorable and manly
for a good salary. For acting the fool
according torule like anignorant mule,
you're the proper tool, and you give
genuine, true blue Republicans a pain
in the seat
of their trousers. Go soak
your cloven hoofs, and pare your corns,
your head is soft enough
BEWARE! BEWARE]
| Do Not be Led Over to Demodvasy—
Beware of Party Tieachery—
Beware of Rule or Ruin
Policy.
As damnable a
was
conspiracy as ever
hatched out of the reckless brain
an is that by
George R.
turning. with his
loyal followers to rend the party
rand old party, from which he
of a scape-gallows politiei
which Confederate General
Scull is now
, the
gr and his
family have fattened and got gain for
lo! these many years. The honest hus-
bandman in the fable took up the ser-
pent from the freezing snow, and plac-
ing it in his bosom he warmed it to life
at his fireside, only to haveit turn poi-
sonous fangs against its benefactor.
Confederate General Scull and his
small rebellious band in times past
have held high seats in the councils of
the party. Upon them were placed the
gilts and honors of oflice,but now when
others are bidden to step up higher,
these disgruntled renegades fire on the
flag that kept them safe, charging on
the gallant defenders that sheltered
them all. Base, ignoble treachery!
Cruel, foul ingratitude!
Now that the thin-skinned hypocrisy
of these bandits is brought to open
view, their old-time babble of party
harmony and party-wrecking is seen to
be but the double-tongued fraud of
Ananias. They are the these
precious pets, who are the first to draw
the knife. Their fratricidal dirk is
quickest turned at brothers in arms,
and they strike in the back the men
that prospered them.
Fellow Republicans, our first duty is
to our party,and when we have won
the day, when the last armed foe ex-
pires, then we can reckoning
with treachery in our ranks. First we
must see to our vote; we must carry
the old standard to victory; each man
on our ticket must get the call if it
takes thirty-six hours work a day from
now until the polls close. Let each
good Republican hunt up his careless
neighbor; let each turn out early on
election morning and piteh in, tooth
and toenail, for the ticket, the whole
ticket and nothing but the Republican
ticket. Remember the Confederate
Scull gang's fight is made on Koontz
and Kendall. Center the defense where
danger most impends. The Somerset
Ilerald and Meyersdale Commercial
have opened their guns on the Legisla-
tive ticket, and there we must mass our
Four years from the day Fort
the Confederates
It will not be
until our Jeff Davises at
hall meet their Appomattox.
we told the people of Somerset
county time and again that this Con-
federate crowd were Republicans for
revenue only, that their desperate
tactics were to run the ship of state for
fraud and piracy, or to wreck it on the
rocks. But they can do neither. She
shall sail grandly on, and their weak
blows shall fall almost without effect
upon her iron sides.
Republicans of Somerset county, we
call you to witness who were the loyal
soldiers when honors were divided to
others. Who fought from the ranks
when their success and ability brought
them no reward? Things are different
Merit has won, and now what
returns do we get from the pampered
fatlings who once carved roast beef at
ones,
make a
force.
Sumter was fired on,
went down to the dust.
four months
hon
now,
the head of the table? Forthwith, in-
stantly, with pie crust still on their
vests, they turn to tear down the
house that kept them from the storm.
They bolt the ticket, they damn the
nominees, they defy a court and deny
its decrees, they belie their readers
with false reports and crooked words,
the set up a pretender as County Chair-
man, they establish headquarters for
their rebellion and organizie a Con-
federate brigade. They have lost both
sense and conscience, and they are
bound for behind the bars on the bot-
tom of the sea. May God have mercy
on their souls!
Republicans, rally !
ahead—enemies abroad and rebels at
home. Man the forts and fill the
ranks! Rise up and march tothe tune,
“Were coming, Father Abraham, a
hunored thousand strong”. Confeder-
ate Brigadier Cover and his squad of
Jeff Davis cavalry can not as much as
capture one good Republican hen roost
when we get our pickets out. Be quick
and active, boys! Every true blue to
snakes in the
There is danger
his post! Aim low for
| grass
The old pair of drawers that pretends
to edit the Meyersdale Commercial
will get the seat spanked out this clip,
and then think of the cold winter
weather ahead.
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Some Political Ristory.
Away back in 1882 General James A.
Beaver was nominated on the Republi-
can ticket for Governor of this state.
He was an old soldier, and as a man
there was no ill feeling against him,
but he was not fairly nominated, and
owing to that Col. yohn Stewart, a life-
long Republican ran for Governor on
an independent ticket.
It is a matter of history that Lou
Smith and many much better men all
over the state voted for Col. Stewart.
As a matter of course both Beaver and
Stewart were defeated, and this brought
the Republicans to their senses. It
brought about fair nominations after
that, and it also brought all of Colonel
Stewart’s followers in this county back
to the Republican party, even down to
Lou Smith, the chief of the seceders.
And they have all remained there ever
since, with the single exception of Lou
Smith, the old pair of pants that pre-
sides over the uncertain destinies of
the Meyersdale Flipper-Flopper.
But Lou couldn’t stand it long in the
Republican ranks, so three years later,
in 1885, he again jumps over the party
fence to elect Samuel Philson, a life-
long Democrat, to the -office of Poor
Director, and mind you, after he
had al ed the name of John
C. Barron, the Republican candidate to
@
this,
ready hoist
few dis- |
| the masthead of his paper, and whom | Civil War.
he had promised from the start to sup- i
port. But he failed to elect Philson. |
and then, like a sneaking sheep dog, he |
came sneaking back into the Republi-
can ranks. |
But Le didn’t come to stay, and it’s a |
fine thing he didn’t, for such men are |
worth nothing to the party, and now
old Lucifer is again out of the Republi-
can ranks. He is now advocating the
election of two Democrats to the Legis-
Iature, instead of supporting the Re-
publican candidates, Koontz and Ken-
dall, as he promised to do when he
hoisted their names along with the rest
of the Republican ticket to the mast-
head of his paper.
In the face of all these things, which
none can deny, how ean Lou Smith
have any claims on the Republican
party?
. rr.
SEVERELY REBUKED.
Meyersdale Commercial Sat Down
Upon by the Leading Quay
Paper of Pittsburg.
The Meyersdale Commercial has al-
ways been a great admirer of the old
and well known Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette, the oldest newspaper of Pitts-
burg as well as the most prominent out
and out Quay organ in Western Penn-
sylvania. Lou Smith has quoted more
political editorials from the Pittsburg
Commercial Gazette, and did more
favorable commenting on the same
than it has from any other paper in
Pennsylvania; but we hardly think old
Lucifer will this week reprint the lead-
ing editorial from last Saturday’s edi-
tion of the Commercial Gazette, for it
is not likely that he will want his so-
called Stalwart friends in this county
to know how the Stalwart Commercial
Gazette censures and rebukes him for
bolting a portion of the regularly nomi-
nated Republican ticket of this county. |
Following is the Commercial
zett’s editorial in full:
The Meyersdale C ommercial | is wrong
in urging the stalwart Republican vot-
ers of Somerset county to vote against
the Republican nominees for the legis-
Inture, declaring they (Messrs. Koontz
and Kendall) are insurgents and that
the only way to kill the insurgent
movement in Somerset county is to
“vote it to death.” If the Republicans
of Somerset county should take the ad-
vice of the Meyersdale Commercial |
they would ce: to be stalwart Re-
publicans, and instead of voting the
insurgent movement to death they
would widen the already too wide
breach between Republicans and give
power to the Democrats. This is not
the stalwart Republican way of doing
things. The stalwart Republicans
should give hearty, honest support to
the two gentlemen who have been de-
clared by the courts the regular Re-
pubiican nominees for the legislature.
The regular Republican nominees, from
President McKinley down, should re-
ceive every Republican vote. Differ-
ences of opinion should be laid on the
shelf, at least until the next primary
elections, and Republicans of all shades
of thought and feeling should go to the
polls on election day to mark in the cir-
cle at the head of the Republican col-
umn. Aid and comfort should not be
given the Democratic party by voting
for any part of the D’emocratic ticket
or by scratening any part of the Re-
publican ticket.
Our Meyersdale contemporary makes
a feature at the head of its editorial
columns of announcing as its choice
“for president in 1904, Theodore Roose-
velt, New York.” It can best help its
favorite by urging Republicans to be
true to their principles, to themselves
and to each other.
~~
DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
Two “Alecks” address a Salisbury
Audi nce.
Last Wednesday evening there was
to be a Democratic rally in Salisbury
which was to be addressed by such
men as Col. Robt. Me¢Namara and oth-
er prominent men, but no such gather-
ing materialized as was billed. Of
course there was a rally, but it was one
something after the manner of a freak
dime museum.
The first speaker, or rather apology
for a speaker, was the nonentity who
presides over the degenerated columns
of the Somerset Democrat, a paper
which in general appearance and make-
up resembles a chronic case of jim
jams. Yes, Alex. Grof was the first
speaker, and oh, Lord, what a speech!
He sputtered around for about fifteen
minutes without saying anything worth
listening to, as most of the Democrats
who heard him freely admit. His chief
stock in trade was made up of quota-
tions, or rather misquotaticns from
Bryan’s speeches, and these he would
get so badly mixed up. distorted and
twisted that by the time he would be
through with them he would leave im-
pressions just the opposite from those
intended. This “Aleck” actually made
himself ridiculous, and one Democrat
in the audience was heard to remark
in an audible tone: “D n such rot!
I came here to listen to facts, but I
hear nothing but d——-d lies, so I guess
I'll vote for MeKinley.”
The next speaker was Hon. A. H.
Coffroth, of Somerset, a Democratic
war horse who needs no introduction
to our people. Mr. Coffroth is an old
man beyond his three score years and
ten, yet he is remarkably well preserv-
ed for a man of his age. Outside of his
polities Mr. Coffroth is a gallant old
man, and on many topies he could still
make a good speech, despite his ad-
vanced age; but really it looks like an
imposition on the man to be sent out to
defend the rotten and undemocratic
cause of Bryanism.
Mr. Coffroth seemed to feel the im-
position thrust upon him, and he seem-
ed to realize most keenly that little or
no argument could be produced in
favor of Mr. Bryan and his wild and
woolly doctrines. At any rate Mr. |
Coffroth produced no argument. His |
speech was largely made up of a fine
eulogy on the memory of Abraham | |
Lincoln, adding, of course, that our flag
in the Philippines should be hauled
down, ete, ete.
Mr. Coffroth’s remarks brought tol
the mind of the writer a speech that
he Leard this same Mr. Coffroth make |
Ga-
in Salisbury, away back in the Sixties, |
during the dark and bloody days of the |
| mules and the
Mr. Coffroth wa favor |
1g the war and hauling down
the fag then, and at that : did
of stopp
time
ed
s he did in hie oh Tast Wednesd
vening. At that time he denou ans
tyrant, a despot,
Lincoln as a
and a man whose election was bound |
to destroy the Republic and give us |
militarism and imperialism instead.
But times have indeed elunge »d. and
Mr. Coffroth’s opinion of Lincoln chang-
ed with it. And just soit will be in
Major McKinley’s case. The time will
come when the very men who are now
denouncing MecKinley and the Philip-
pine war as a failure, will eulogize our
gallant President and acknowledge
that his Philippine policy was most
wise and statesmanlike.
AX 1863 REPUBLICAN.
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Great Republican Rally.
The Republican rally at Meyersdale,
last Friday evening, was one of the
largest and most enthusiastic ever held
in Somerset county. The people turn-
ed out en masse, and the crowd was
far too large to be seated in Slicer’s
large opera house, so the mecting was
held on the street, the weather being
warm and pleasant, and the neat and
substantial band stand at the foot of
Center street and Meyers avenue af-
forded a good place from which the
speakers could address the large crowd.
The speakers were Hon. C. H. Jén-
nings, of Sullivan county; Hon.
M. Hosack, of Allegheny county; Mr.
Mackrell, of Pittsburg, who last year
was president of the Pennsylvania
State League of Republican Clubs;
Senator John 8. Weller, of Bedford
county ; Hon. W. H. Koontz and I. J.
Kooser, Esq., of Somerset.
Each speaker was roundly applauded,
and all of them urged the great im-
Geo.
tire Republican ticket from top to bot-
tom. The welcome accorded Hon. Wm
I. Koontz was a veritable ovation, and
it is needless to say that he
mist eloquent speech.
Musie was furnished by the Salisbury
and Meyersdale bands, and a most ex-
cellent male quintet from Pittsburg.
The audience was variously esti-
mated at from 3,000 to 4,000 people, and
Salisbury did herself proud in having a
large delegation there. Wherever our
man Jennings goes the crowd will go;
rest assured of that. We refer to the
first speaker, who is a Sullivan county
man, but whose temporary residence is
inSalisbury. Mr. Jennings is one of
our Republican presidential electors,
an® he is a good speaker as well
all-around good man. We
of him here in 8
as an
are proud
alisb
Bold Attempt to Boscive Voters.
The Somerset Herald this week tries
to deceive voters by telling them a
glaring untruth about marking their
bollots. It’s purpose in doing this is to
make it bothersome and inconvenient
for voters to mark their ballots. We
print the following great untruth from
this week’s Herald:
It will be impossible for a Somerset
county Republican to vote a “straight
ticket” by placing a X in the circle at
the top of the Republican column this
year, thanks to Koontz, Kooser, K
dall and their subservient tools. The
Republican eolumn does not contain
the name of the Republican candidate
for Jury Commissioner, and in order to
vote for him the voter will have to
make a X in the square opposite the
name of Theodore E. Rhoads, which
oppears in another column on the bal-
lot. In their effort to defeat a candi-
date for a minor office who received
more votes at the primary than did
either Koontz, Kooser or Kendall, these
gentlemen have made it impossible for
the Re publican voters of the county to
mark their tickets in the usual way and
will probably cause scores of voters to
lose their votes.
Now what are the facts in this case?
We will tell you, and the Herald will
read it and know that what we say is
true. First, it will not be necessary
for you to mark every name in the Re-
publican column to vote a straight Re-
publican ticket, as the Herald would
have you believe. All you will have to
do to vote for every candidate on the
Republican ticket is to make an X in
the circle at the top of the Republican
column. The fact that no candidate’s
name appears in the Republican
column for Jury Commissioner mekes
no difference whatever. ‘All the
Somerset Herald is after is to put you
to inconvenience and keep you from
voting a straight Republican ticket.
The arch fiend and party traitor of the
Somerset Herald knows this, but he
wants you to split your ticket, put your-
self to inconvenience and then blame
some innocent party for your blunder
and inconvenience.
An X mared in the circle at top of
the Republican column is a vote for ev-
ery Republican candidate onthe ticket.
Having done this, you are still entitled
to a vote for Jury Commissioner, and
there being no candidate’s name print-
ed in the Republican column for that of-
fice, you have a legal right to make an
X after the name of Edward Coleman
in the Honest Government column,who
is a Republican and was forced off the
ticket by unfair means. Mr.Coleman’s
card to voters, which appears in this
issue, explains all and makes your
duty plain.
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Mr. Threpo Gets Another Batch of
Pensions Granted.
Our Congressman has succeeded in
getting the following pensions and in-
creases granted. This is further proof
that he is still working for the old vet-
eran.
Leroy Elder, Johnstown, Pa., in-
crease; Joseph W. Orris, Johnstown,
Pa.. increase; Jeremiah Lavely,
town, Pa., increase; John MeChuillen,
Ehrenfeld, Cambria county, Pa.,
inal back to 1890; Raphael Segel, Mat-
tie, Bedford county, Pa. increase and |
back pension; Lucinda Calhoun, Ever-
ett, Bedford county, Pa., widow’s ac-
crued pension ; Charles Shank, Shanks-
ville, Pa., increase, back to 1898.
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Tur English invested in Missouri |
Boe rs invesed
souri statesmans
the mules accomy
made a |
a fool |
When the Child ‘Plays Hookey. »
Chi metimes pretend to be ill
i to ool. Feigning
duty is called in the
ing and is always pun-
| ished detected. A child who
habitually complains of headache just
hculd be put on a
sofa in a darkened room, not permitted
to read, nor Ic at pietures, and have
placed at his feet. If
the best
treatment for the early stages; if it is
feigned the silence and solitude soon
some that the culprit is
glad to do anything to escape from
them. Other affected pains should be
treated as if they were real, and it
should be distinctly understood in the
family that the child who is too ill to
go to school, and to learn his lessons,
is too ill to be out of bed. If a child
play truant the lessons he loses should
be made up at home in his playtime,
and the mother should take pains to
see that this is done,so that he may
find truaney un He may be
put to bed as soon as he returns home
on the assumption that he must be ill,
because nothing but illness should keep
him from going to school.—November
Ladies Hom Journal.
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Tue only German daily newspaper in
Kansas has joined the big procession in
that prosperous state and declared for
McMinley and Roosevelt.
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Tue Kansas banks hare over $61,000-
000 they are unable to loan. Yet Mr.
Bryan complains because we are loan-
ing money abroad at a good rate of in-
terest.
before school time s
a hot-water b
the
ailment is real this is
become so
profitable.
—
Tie e dito of the Louisville Dispateh
| portance of Republicans voting the en- |
|
|
{
Johns- |
| the
orig- | activity is ca
bowed himself out of the Democratie
| party after ing Mr. Bryan’s speech
in which he indorsed the legatee of
Goebelism.
En BET .
Tire Democrat stone and egg throwers
have manifested their dislike for Gov-
. but the American vote-
casters will offset that sort of thing on
election day.
enor Roosevelt
IRL SR
With Mr. Bryan in the White House,
his domestic policy would be even more
dangerous than his foreign policy. Mr,
Bryan was one of the architects of the
Wilson tar
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alleged that Mr. Bryan has an
wnt who mixes with his audiences
and asks question for which he has pre-
Stal answers. This smacks strongly
of the vaudeville mode of entertain-
ment.
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Former President Harrison hits the
nail on the head when he declares the
full dinner pail is not a sordid emblem
The man who will not work and vote te
provide for his family is not a good
citizer
Ru -
Mg. ArLrGeLD told a Cincinnati audi-
ence that he will not be the Attorney
General of the Bryan cabinet. This is
about the only statement in the course
of Mr. Altgeld’s speech that impressed
his hearers.
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Ad vs Democratic paper says:
“Who can wonder that the people of the
South refuse to listen to the discordant
and untimely howls of the calamity-
ites?” Is that the reason why Mr.
Bryan makes no speeches in the South?
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test of loyalty is
be willing to starve and
stagnate under Democratic manage-
ment, rather than indorse by his vote
one of the most magnificent administra-
tions ever enjoyed by the American
P eople.
Tre Democratic
that one mu
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iar all the great powers have adopt-
ed the policy of the American Admin-
istration in dealing with the perplexing
Chinese question is evidence of the
wisdom which rulesin our State Depart-
ment and the respect shown abroad for
American opinions.
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Mg. Bryax deplores his enforced abs,
sence from his home to {ill the demands
upon his time during the campaign, but
there are a number of people who are
willing to console him with the thought
that he will have lots of time to spend
there after November.
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Bryax denied the report that he had
promised a cabinet position to Croker.
The fact seems to be that Bryan has
promised nothing at all except to kick
the spinal column out of the gold stand-
ard and te make the American flag in
the Philippines look like a back-mumber
porus plaster.
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Coxrtrow of the next Congress by the
Republicans is very important. See to
it that your ballot is cast in the right
way to help elect a Republican Con-
gressman Republican Senator
Remember, too, that unexpected vacan-
cies in the Senate may happen at any
time, to be filled by actiod of the Gov-
ernor or State Legislature, if
sion.
and a
in ses-
ie a
Ir American statesmanship had no
better representatives than such men as
Bryan, Altgeld, Pettigrew and Tillman,
the country would have to confess thot
“the white man’s burden” was tooheavy,
But the mantels of Jefferson, Jackson
and Lincoln have been inherited by
others as patriotic as they, who will not
pawn their judgment for nominations
or trade their influence for votes,
io
Ir the private letters from officers
serving in the Philippines could reach
the public there would be no doubt of
fact that present
sed entirely by the hopes
| they have of Brym To say
| the 1 an unfortunate position
| for a candidate to bepliced in when his
words and a ive hope and
of his
the insurgents’
i's election.
east it is
wed poli
it to the armed foes
encourage
| own government,
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