| i D0. D0. 00. ts. ul at- "alley. [1ER. shier. 0. ssued We TAHA, , also LOUR, rices. ‘. PP | 0 nN », S § 4 4 20) 3 He £2 we 4 «3% 4 4 the » ars 3! of 1% Are » an ¥ to 4 t Sosml . - : YaTeYoTol, 5 Ropmmcsiass s om———— BE a es in eg : FF r hi S : | | % - < : = = . - A Good Advertising e omerset oun : ar Fine Job Printing a | * r Medium. 4 Specialty | 7 & oS = q Wo { pe . VOLUME VI. SALISBURY, ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA.,, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1900. NO. 44 2 The Time— -I- Has Gone By when an inferior garment in the way of a Suit, Over- » > coat or Wrap was made to appear good by talk and 1 high-sounding words. People now want ~ . y a 2 |" / 1 Something Worth § The Price Asked. They are no longer carried away by the allurement of cheapness. We have a large line of Men's, Boys’ and Children’s Suits, Overcoats and Reefers, as well as Ladies’ and Misses’ Suits, Jackets, Capes and In- fants’ Coats. Our stock shows a matchless variety Pouplar-= | Priced Goods: We can meet the wants of every customer. We have a lot of Men’s Suits in heavy Kersey, Melton and Cheviot that we are closing out at greatly re- duced prices. These goods must go, as we need the room for our Christmas goods. We also have a few Ladies’ Coats at $2.25 to $5.00 They Arex Good Value~ W===Only a few left. chance to get a good article cheap. | Ek Lick Supply Co. . WHERE? {At Darchos & Liveneood s, 1 —=—()F COURSE! An immense stock of Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s —— This is your | Clothing. A fine assortment of Trousers, elegantly tail- i ored, made in New York, and will compare favorably with those you buy from the best tailors. * We guarantee them to fit. They consist of Men’s Winter Tans, Patent Leather, Patent Enamel, Box Calf, Willow Calf, Vici Kid, ete. At the same store is where the best Men’s Working Shoes are bought, also the hest shoes for women. We have them in all the best, fanciest and most subtantial makes. Here is where the school children like to “They are the real thing,” boys and girls say. «1 ~Fz==—SALISBURY, PA. have their shoes bought. is what the ae ic Et al ada Our fee returned if we fail. Any one sending sketch and description of any invention will promptly receive our opinion free concerning the patent- ability of same. ‘How to obtain a patent” sent upon request. Patents secured through us advertised for sale at our expense. oo Patents taken out through us receive special notice, without charge, in Tae PATENT RECORD, an illustrated and widely cinculated journal, consulted by Manufacturers and Investors. Send for sample copy FREE. Address, ’ VICTOR J. EVANS & CO. (Patent Attorneys,) Evans Building, WASHINGTON, D. ©. LICIILITER’S. LICHLITER’S. | J. A. LIGHLITER'S STORE 15 HEADQUARTERS FOR Groceries, Grain, All Kinds of Ground Feed, + Baled Hay, Straw, Oil, Salt and Potatoes. ; | We can suit the most fastidious in the line of Flour. We 4 handle the following brands—Prrrsstry’s Best, MINNEIAHA, 4. PERrs1aN, GorpeN Link and Excrre’s Winter WHEAT FLOUR, also i best brands of Buckwheat Frovr and ExTiRE WHEAT Frour, We buy our goods in car lots and sell at the lowest living prices. Grant St., : mr, Salisbury, Pa. : } ra on , So — W. H. KooxNTz. J. G. OGLE KOONTZ & OGLE, Attorneys-At-Law, SOMERSET, PENNA. Office opposite Court House. FRANCIS J. KOOSER. ERNEST O. KOOSER. KOOSER & KOOSER, Attorney=-At-I.aw, SOMERSET, PA. J. A. BERKEY Attorney-at-I.aw, SOMERSET, PA. Office over Post Office. R. E. MEY ERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Attorney-at-I.aw, SOMERSET, PA. Office opposite Cook & Beerits’ Store. A. M. LICHTY, Physician and Surgeon, SALISBURY, PENN’A. Office one door east of P. S. Hay’s store. A. F. SPEICHER, Physician and Surgeon, SALISBURY, PENN'A. Office corner Grant and Union Streets. P. L. Livengood, Will Clerk Your Sales at reasonable rates and furnish all Notes, Sale Papers, ete. When you come to us for your sale bills, don’t forget that you ean also get a clerk at Tue Star office. Ord Street, Salisbury, Pa. ALFRED SPEER, THE ORIGINAL Port Grape Wine Producer in America. The first native wine sold and used in San Francisco and Sacra- mento was from Speer’s Passaic, N. J, vineyards, was shipped around Cape Horn before there was any railroad to California, and are now being used by physi- cians and first families there as the richest and best wine to be had | 742 8 WY The juice of the Portugal Port Wine grape grown in N. J.is thick and rich sameas the juice of pears andother fruits grownhere. From California pears you can squeeze water as from a sponge; so with all fruits grown in Califor- nia; wnile those grown in New ersey are solid in substance—less juice but thick and richer. ‘The New Jersey apples, for instance, make a cider that was always popular the world over. If you want a wine for sickness or for entertainments don't take cheap, watery wines but choose a first class old, full bodied, high grade wine from Speer’s Passaic vine- yards, _ Sold by Druggists. The Seaboard Air Line Railway, “Florida and West India Short Line,” is Posi- tively the Shortest Route to Scuth- ern Pines and Pinehurst, N. C., and Camden, 8. C., the Fa- mous Winter Resorts of the Carolinas. Winter excursion tickets are now on sale to Southern Pines and Pinehurst, and similar tickets to Camden may be purchased at principal points south of and including Washington, D. C. Dou- ble daily service and through Pull- man drawing room and buffet sleeping cars from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Richmond. Trains arrive and depart at Pennsylva- nia Railroad stations; also direet con- nections via Steamer Lines are made at Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va. For further information call on or address /. C. Shoemaker, General Eastern Passenger Agent, 1206 Broadway, New York; C. L. Longsdorf, New England Passenger Agent, 306 Washington St. Boston, Mass. ; W. M. McConnell, Gen- eral Agent, 1434 New York avenue, Washington, D. C., or the General Pas- senger Agent at Portsmouth, Va. 7. 8r. Jonx, L.S. ALLEN V-P.&G M. Gen. Pass. 11-25 N, Agt. FULL and complete line of Toys and Presents at New Racket Store. tf “THE ATLANTA SPECIAL.” The route of the “Atlanta Special” is via the Seaboard Air Line Railway, “Florida and West India Short Line,” with through Pullman drawing room and buffet sleeping cars from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash- ington and Richmond to Athens and Atlanta, where direct connections are made in Union Depot for Montgomery, Macon, New Orleans and all points South and Southwest. Trains arrive and depart at Pennsylvania Railroad stations. Kor further information call on or address WW. C. Shoemaker, Gen- eral Eastern Passenger Agent, 1206 Broadway, New York ; C. L.. Longsdorf, New England Passenger Agent, 306 Washington street, Boston, Mass.; W. M. McConnell, General Agent, 1434 New York avenue, Washington, D. C., or the General Passenger Agent at Portsmouth, Va. E. Sr. Jonx, L. 8. ALLEN, V,-P.& GM Gen. Pass. Agt. H& THE PLACE TO GET YOUR Coats and Capes, Overcoats and Cloth- ing is tf. Erk Lick Scrrry Co, THE MACHINE SHORT OF VOTES. Quay Writes an Appealing Letter Asking Members to Vote For Him. DRURY DECLARES ANTI-MACHINE Coercion Attempted in Philadelphin. They All the Votes They Want, and Yet They Try With Them. Leaders Say Have to Force Men to Vote Consternation Now Reigns in Their Camp as Anti-Quay Figures Grow. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Harrisburg, Nov. 20.—Ex-Senator M. 8B. Quay and all of his friends claim he will be re-elected United States sen- ator. They declare in the most posi- tive words that he is already as good as elected. And yet, as placing the stamp of falsity and insincerity upon all these claims, the Quay newspapers every few days point to the necessity of Republicans standing together in the fear that the Democrats may elect a United States senator through fusion. But Mr. Quay himself has given the strongest evidence of the falsity of the claim that he is sure of re-election by sending the following begging letter to every member of the house and sen- ate who has been elected as a Repub- lican: QUAY BEGS VOTES. Dear Sir: In view of the fact that the last Republican state convention, by resolution, insisted that I should be a candidate for United States sen- ator, you will probably not consider it impertinent if I ask you whether you will support me in case I should be nominated by a caucus of Republi- can senators and members of the house ci representatives. Begging the favor of an early reply, I am with much respect, Your obedient servant, M.S. QUAY. This effectively disposes of the Quay claim that he is sure to be the next United States senator from Pennsylva- nia, for Mr. Quay is begging for votes. But, if further proof were wanted to show how utterly unreliable are the machine claims, and how little the ma- chine leaders know what they are talk- ing about, the recent public statement of Senator-elect Drury, of Luzerne county, that he will not vcte for Quay is conclusive. In his newspaper inter- view Senator Drury declares against Quay in the following empbatic words: DRURY AGAINST QUAY. “My attention having been called to an article quoting me as intending to enter the caucus and support M. S. Quay for United States senator, I wish to deny the authority for such quota- tion. I have carefully considered the recent electoral decision in my district, and I can only interpret it as an em- phatic repudiation of M. S. Quay and his methods. “The election of G. J. Hartman, E. A. Coray, Dr. W. T. Mahon and P. L. Drum, all anti-Quay men, proves con- clusively to me that my constituents would, if possible, in overwhelming vote, Instruct me to vote against a continuation in power of Quay and Quayism, an influence damaging to the state and party both at home and abroad. “You may say that, recognizing the voice of the sovereign people of my district, I shall not go into the caucus and will not support Matthew Stanley Quay for United States senator.” And yet just two days before Sena- tor Drury published this interview State Chairman Frank Reeder, in an interview, also stated: “There is not the slightest doubt as to where Mr. Drury stands. He is for Quay.” In connection with all the claims that are being made by machine lead- ‘ers that Mr. Quay will be elected, it is well to remember that every one of these leaders made similar predictions and claims two years ago. Attorney General John P. Elkin, Gen. Reeder, Insurance Commissioner Durham, T. Larry Eyre and all the rest of the ma- chine men, big and little, predicted the ‘triumphant election of M. S. Quay. As everyone knows, their predictions have not a basis of fact to stand on. These same gentleman are making predictions today, and they have as much to justify their utterances now as they had two years ago, and that is nothing at all. ANTIS WILL CONTROL. The figures given in last week’s let- ter of the strength of the anti-Quay forces have improved. With the decla- ration of Senator Drury the last hope of the Quay faction for controlling the senate has vanished. Today the anti- Quay Republicans and Democrats have 26 of the 50 votes in the senate. In the house the same combination which is opposing machine rule will organ- ize the house. The machine has al- ready selected its candidate for speaker in the person of William T. Marshall, of Allegheny, one of the two Quay men out of 16 in that county. The anti- Quay forces have agreed upon no can- didate. { A startling episode came to light in Philadelphia last week in the publica- tion of a letter and a statement by Samuel Ray, a Republican member- elect of the legislature from the Fifth district of that city. In his statement Mr. Ray declared that Police Lieuten- tnt O’Brien, of Philadelphia, 2 promi- nent worker in the Ashbridge-Quay faction, threatened him with arrest and prosecution for an imaginary ballot stuffing crime if he refused to go along with the Quay-Ashbridge machine and do as they demanded. Then Ray, as he stated to the re- porters, was taken to the room of Di- rector English, at the City Hall, where he was introduced to James T. McNich- ol, one of the machine leaders, and In- surance Commisioner Durham; that at this interview O’Brien promised to see that Ray was kept in his position as a clerk in the register of wills’ office, after the new register, Jacob Singer, takes office, and that Ray's brother, a janitor in one of the courts, should re- tain his place also in return for Ray voting with the Quay people in Har- risburg and doing as they desired; that Messrs. Durham and McNichol agreed to see the bargain fulfilled, and he signed an agreement to vote for Quay and enter the Quay caucus. REPUDIATED HIS ACTION. Immediately after leaving the room of Director English Ray sought legal advice, and then wrote a letter, in which he declared that he repudiated the machine and would not abide by the agreement he had signed to support Quay. He sta®ed that he had been coerced into signing it by threats, and that he proposed to act through his leg- islative course with the opponents of the machine. The publication of this correspond- ence and the facts of the case created great excitement in eastern Pennsyl- vania. It was a complete refutation of the claims of the machine that they nad €NOoUgn men to CONtroi tune caucus and nominate Quay. If their claims were true there was no need for them to have to secure additional votes by intimidation or offers of place. It was a final and convincing proof that the Quay leaders are short of votes, that they are already defeated, and that they know it. AVOTE THAT EXPLAINS Fraud at the Primary Shown by Clean Vote at Windber. POOR COMFORT FOR BOLTERS THERE. A very quiet election was held here, Tuesday, and the provisions of the Baker ballot law were strictly followed out in both precinets. The vote was not nearly co large as was generally expected, and the reason given for this is that at previous local elections, and at the special election, July 14, many votes passed that were not strictly legal. Last Tuesday the provisions of the law were strictly enforced, and it is thought that not a single illegal vote reached the ballot box. No literature was allowed to be distributed in the election houses, no electioneering was allowed there, and only fourteen per- sons, outside of officers and watchers were permitted to be in the building at one time.— Windber Era. The above item contains a very frank admission of what most people in the county must have believed, namely, that there was considerable fraud per- petrated in the Windber district at the tepublican primary election last April. When the primary election was held Paint district No. 2 practically com- prised what is now included in the dis- tricts of Paint borough, Windber, East, and Windber West. Or, to be more accurate, there were about twenty-five more voters in the old district than in the territory now included in the three new districts. At the primary election in April there were 727 votes cast in the district of Paint No.2. At the gereral election last week the highest Republi- can vote in the three districts was 499. There were, therefore 228 more votes cast at the party primary than Repub- lican votes polled at the general elec- tion, and 71 more votes polled at the Republican primary than the total of both the Republican and Democratic votes polled at the general election, Another fact to be taken into consider- ation is that since the primary election there have been probably one hundred voters naturalized in these districts, and it is a fair assumption that they voted at the general election last week. From these figures there is no injustice in inferring that there were from two hundred to three hundred illegal votes cast at the Republican primary elec- tion in the districts named. But that the legal voters of these dis- tricts disapprove of any such fraud at their elections is proven by the clean character of the vote there at the gen- eral election last week. The voters of these districts deserve the highest praise, for nowhere in the county do the returns show a cleaner or more honest vote. While in one of the three districts there is a small cut on the Re- publican legislative ticket, this is rea- sonably attributable to a very natural local pride, which gave a compliment- ary vote to a local candidate of the op- posing party. There is further evidence that the voters of the Windber districts have determined that there shall be no further such exhibitions as that given at the April primary, for at the big Re- publican rally held there a short time before the general election all parties were notified that no factional politics would be permitted at the meeting. Windber has easily and gracefully thrown off the shame put upon her by unclean hands at the primary, and she is entitled to fitting honor for that step. —Somerset Standard. AN EDITORIAL REVIEW. Somerset Standard Spends a Few Minutes Reviewing the Herald or Bolters’ Bazoo. Bazoo—Colonel Quay will be the next Senator. Comment—You said that two years ago, and the facts show that you were only a spouter then, just as you are now. Quay will never be elected Sen- ator of Pennsylvania again. Bazoo—In their anxiety to their Insurgent allies a number of Democrats in the county voted for Coleman for Jury Commissioner. Comment—You jump at a conclusion that pleases your fancy just as natural- ly as a cat jumps at a dish of cream. assist The circular sent out by Democratic leaders advising Democrats to carry out the advice you were giving to mis- lead Republicans is a strong indication that whatever Democrats split their ticket on Jury Commissioner voted for the candidate you set up and got whip- ped. It is one of your old tricks to blame your dirty work on other people. Bazoo—It was the silent vote that did it. Comment—Yes; and your hirelings throughout the county could not fol- low voters into the booth and make out their tickets against the Republican candidates for Assembly. The silent vote did you. Bazoo—Our candidate for Congress was “scratched” by some three or four hundred insurgents * * * Qur can- didates for Assembly fell short of the McKinley vote some ten to fifteen hun- dred by reason of that number of Re- publicans abstaining from voting for them. Comment—So when other people cut a candidate they “scratch,” but wuen you and your gang of bolters do that act you simply “abstain.” This ex- plains your boast some time ago that you had “never scratched a ticket.” Most people knew that boast was a lie, but they can now see through it. You don’t “scratch”; you simply “abstain.” Bazoo—So far as the Bazoo is con- cerned it is conscious 6f having per- | | formed its duty as a Republian paper. Comment—Ro far as you and your conscience are concerned the people of this county are not much concerned. But there are several thousand Repub- | licans in the county who know that { while you were claiming to edit a Re- | publican paper, and at the same time were denouncing certain candidates on the Republican ticket, and laying plans to defeat them, you were acting the in- fernal rascal. Bazoco—The Bazoo gave Mr. Koontz suppert. Comment—That’s only another lie to add to the collection you are turning out these days. Bazoo—Mr. Koontz knows that a ma- jority of his constituents favor the re- election of Colonel Quay to the United States Senate. Comment—You knew that assertion was false when you made it, yet you put it in cold type in order that you might send a marked copy of the Ba- zoo to “Colonel Quay” to show him how you were “whooping it up” for him among the Frosty Sons of Thun- der. Every Republican of this county knew that General Koontz had opposed the re-electiont of Mr.Quay to the Sen- ate throughou the last session of the Legislature, and they were given to understand and knew that he would continue to oppose Quay’s re-election throughout the next session of the Leg- islature if he were sent there. There was no other thing more clearly before the voters of the county than this, and yet more than five thousand Republi- cans of the county have said to Gener- al Koontz through their votes: “Go back to the Legislature, representing us, and defeat the re-election of Matt Quay to the Senate if you can” And do not forget, sir, that that expression came from the people after you had used every means at your command to defeat Mr. Koontz. You may lie in your Bazoo for the eyes of “Colonel” Quay and the band of machine poli- ticians with whom you train, but you can’t do it any longer with much effect upon the people of Somerset county. Bazoo—The voters of Somerset town- ship did a great deal of kicking last week on account of the poor accommo- dations at the election house. Comment—Yes; about all the ac- commodation to spare there was util- ized by the bolters who were there to carry out your plans in working against the Republican ticket. The Commis- sioners ought to erect commodious and velvety rooms at each polling place, in which your bolters might carry on their instruction to voters with greater ease and effect. Bazoo—The Standard in an effort to belittle the immense Stalwart Republi- can Rally held at Meyersdale a few days preceding the election stated that the Lincoln Club special had laid at Stoystown for an hour and was com- pelled to leave that station without any passengers. As the special train only started from Iriedens, was ad- vertised through the papers and by posters to start from that point, the Stoystown fable was a deliberate lie—a lie of the first water. Comment—If you were ignorant of the fact that that train started at Stoys- tswn you ought to have had sense enough to get some information before making a dunce of yourself. If you knew it started there of course you are only maintaining your reputation as a falsifier by asserting that it did not. As a matter of fact that train did start at Stoystown, and the train records will so prove. More than that, posters announcing the special were hung up about Stoystown, and your heelers there tried to drum up a crowd to board it at that station. But the ef- fort was a dismal failure, for after ly- ing there for an hour, and for five min- utes after the time announced for leav- ing, it left without a single passenger, as we stated last week. - - - STOP THE RACKET. Under the above caption the Meyers- dale Commercial last week set up a plea for harmony between the two fuctions of the Republican party in Somerset county. Following we reproduce the principal parts of the Commercial’s ar- ticle, with comment added: Commercial—The Commercial be- lieves that the time is not far distant when the warring factions within our ranks will lay aside their weapons and unite their efforts in welding a strong- er Republican party. Comment—You doubtless formed this belief after seeing how little your advice was heeded, when, prior to the last election, you urged stalwart Re- publicans to vote for the Democratic candidates for Assembly, saying at the same time: “The Commercial is not an organ of the Republican party, but a free lance, hence regularity has no claims on it.” Seeing that you could not disrupt the party by opposing some of its candidates, you now believe that the party will unite. Commercial —There were no ques- tions or principles that both bodies did not hold in common. Comment—That statement is simply a lie. The anti-Scull faction in this county advocated voting the whole Re- publican ticket, while the organs of the Scull faction advocated voting for Democratic candidates for Assembly. Quite a difference in principles, that is. Commercial—If there were irregulars in any county on one side, there were irregulars in another county on the other side. Comment—The political fights in oth- er counties are the exclusive affairs of the people in the other counties, and your mention of outside affairs is only a clumsy excuse for the disloyalty you and the ring leaders of the Scull machine showed to the Republican party in this county. However, it is real interest- ing to hear you admit for the first time that the Quayites have ever been ir- regular anywhere. You knew it, of course, all along, but you were too dis- honest to admit it before the election. Furthermore, you also know that the | anti-Quay or anti-Scull faction has | ways supported the ticket nominated. | and proved themselves loyal to the | county chairmen elected, no matter | | from which faction they were chosen. same? You know it hasn’t, and you know that you fellows have b ting up fake elections, and th bolted the last county convention, and that you defied the Dauphin county court after it decided that you w | bolters when you set up a fake conven tion of yourown. Notwithstanding the F. Barron is the legally elected chair- man, you fellows still declare that James M. Cover is chairman. Commercial—All were loyal to Me- Kinley. their congressional candidates, for the Democrats who expected so much got so little. Comment—Exactly so; but the election you and the Somerset Herald did all in your power to make people believe that the anti-Scull fac- tion would not support Alvin Evans. Of course you knew you were lying.and the vote received by Mr. Evans in this county proves that you were lying. Bug then you had to have some excuse for openly bolting our Legislative tick- et, even if you had to use a lie for an excuse. Commercial—There has been no prin- ciple at stake, belonging to the Repub- lican party in common, that each indi- vidual of the factions did not hold, re- spect and fight for. Comment—So you admit after all | that even anti-Scull voters are in reality | Republicans? We are glad to know that you still have enough conscience to tell an occasional truth after an elec- before Has the Scull faction been doing the | ’ | 40,461. fact that the court decided that Henry | In the main all were loyal to | | | | { er than it has} | ing to the great tion if not before. Yes, there are good, loyal Republicans in both factions, but neither you nor the Sculls are number- ed among them. You are Republicans only when there is revenue in it for | you. Commercial—This factional should now cease. warfare It is wholly person- al in character and kept alive by the personal ambitions of our so- called state leaders. It is high time that they be taught that this must stop. Comment—=So say we all; but let it be remembered that “our so-called state leaders” are the henchmen of the Quay machine. Yes, they should be sat down upon. That’s what this paper advocated right along. Commercial—Most of us have no per- sonal interest in these men. They have made tools of us, and when we refuse to longer obey them they will sink to their common level. Comment—Just so, old man, just so indeed. When you say “they have made tools of us” you include yourself. We always said you were a tool, and as you are also a fool, you now openly admit it. Yes, Lou, it is time for you to refuse to longer obey them, and now that you humbly admit it, will you have courage enough to follow your own honest convictions? We hope so, but we doubt it, for you have been such a twisty old flopper in the past that few people can trust you any longer. You are getting old, and you ought to have manhood enough to own yourself before you pass away, but we fear you have sinned away your day of grace. You seem to be sorry now for the dirt you tried to do during the last campaign, but we fear you will be at your old tricks again at the very first opportunity you get. But follow whichever course you please, your Commercial is on the down grade, and all your efforts to keep it from being swallowed up in the dirty political mire you helped to make at the bottom of the toboggan slide will avail you noth- ing. Your Republican rival in Mey- ersdale is fast “doing you up,” and richly do you deserve it. k i : Who Are the Bolters? Under the heading “Letters from the People,” some ignorant belter wearing a Scull collar last week undertook to answer one of Tue Star’s questions. His reply is as follows: “Since Koontz received 5,580 votes, and Evans 5,353, it is self-evident that many insurgents did not vote for Evans, for had the insurgents supported Evans as the stalwarts supported Koontz, Evans should have received the same number of votes that Koontz did. Now who are tne bolters?” Now, Mr. Scullion, what a fool you | have made of yourself! Bag your big | numbskull head for a few hours, then go and post yourself before trying again to answer questions. Are you too infernally dumb to read figures, or do you purposely give out a lying sta ment? You are guilty of one or the other, or else you quote figures heresay, the ‘thing that when you vote. If you take your “good | old Commercial” of last week and look | over the published oflicial returns of | the election, you will see that Evans received 6,365 votes in Somerset coun- ty, while Koontz received 5/570. It therefore becomes our duty to remind you that if you so-called Stalwarts had supported Koontz as we so-called Insurgents supported Evans, Koontz should have received the same number of votes that Evans did. Now, who are the bolters? Will you dispute your own factional organs fig- ures? You may be a good fellow, but in politics you are a simpleton, and there 1s little use to waste ink on such from | 11 governs you | t a benighted relic as you are. be -— . Tiar prayer chain which the Wo- man’s Christian Temperance Union made use of to defeat President Me- Kinley must have had some weak links in it. The misguided women who originated the prayer chain idea should take the advice of a Western editor, who suggests that they go to raising boys to vote the liquor traflic out of ex- istence. At elections one vote is worth more than a thousand prayers. Some people are in the habit of praying for things which they could easily brii about without prayer,while others p able that they would be frighte death if their prayers were auswered for things so ridiculous and unreason- | POPULATION OF PENNSYLVANIA. Great Inerease in Somerset County —We Numb: r 49,461. 18 ( tmen t has just an- f Pennsylva- 3 ies. The f the state is 6,302.115, of 1,044,101, 19.8 per cent. | is e 1880. | The population of our own county is In 1890 it w 217. Our gain t while our but 8,644 in 1890 to {in the ten years is mother county, Bedford, gained | 824, growi { only from 3 | ac | 39,468 in 0. Of the 67 counties in | : Tye t Pennsyly a, Somerset in 1890 ranked } (ois: AE Hes | 45th in po 1, while it now ranks 38th. Thi : that we “Frosty well feel proud sured that our t 1d wealth dar- years will be far great- en in the last ten, ow- coal developments now going on in our county. of,and we 1 increase in | ing the next t Under the constitut over 100,000 ion, counties with must be dis- tricted for legislative purposes. Cam- bria, Westmoreland and York sre now inhabitants in this class. In counties with a popu- of over 150,000, ate Or- phans’ courts must be established, and the county officers must be paid by sal- ary and not by fees, provisions which now apply to Westmoreland, Lanecas- ter, Lackawanna and Berks. The lat- ter county, has already a separate Orphans’ court, the Legisla- ture having power to establish such courts at discretion. Somerset county is now entitled to its own Com- mon Pleas judge, owing to an increase over the 40,000 limit. Bedford, which now forms a judicial district with Som- erset, lacks 531 of having enough popu- lation to give it a judge. The increase of population of the state will g Pennsylvania about four more Cong n and the same num- ial electoral votes. lation sep: however, its What Colonel Quay Should Do. ladelphia Pr Colo ] Qua 1z loud claims, ), that he has adherents ct of the Legis- ion tothe Uni- This is disputed, that Colonel Quay friends do not, that his better basis ago, and is he did two years as 1 secured enough persc among the membe 1 C lature to assure h ted States and knows, if Senate. we believe his present claims have no than of which proved so false. The Legislature to meet next Janu- ary will have a large Republican ma- jority, and the Senator elected by it will be a Republican without the shad- If Colonel Quay had,as he claims sccured a majority parsonally to him he un- doubtedly would be entitled to expeet election. The canvass for members of of the Legislature has been conducted largely on after full consideration of the question, the peo- ple of the State have decided by their votes that they want Colonel Quay for United States Senator then he should be elected to carry out the popular Jut we do not believe they have so decided. If the claims of those who do not favor Colonel Quay for United States Senator are correct, he has not enough votes to elect him, he not only cannot expect election but he wild have no right to continue his candidgey af- ascertained and of some Republican. He out the last session, do to attempt a repeti- of insisting upon Quay or nobody The Republican members of the last Legis- lature sincere in the belief that it was not for the best interests of the State to eleet Colonel Quay did nos those two years ow of a doubt. he favorable that issue, and if verdict. and ter that fact has been thereby prevent the election good repre did that tl} and it will not tion of it. The pol is intolerable. who were confine the votes to any one candi- date, They voted for many different and di ihed Republicans Ss come declaration The 1 vr Colonel Quay to make a tusk, if it shown he has not votes enough to elect a candidate and permit his friends in the Legisla- ture to the Republican members who will not vote for him in choice of a will be an honor to the national wouneils. He would have done this at session if he had but a slight i tion to the n public office he interruptedly for rather in the and demand )t be elected no one is him, he will decline to be unite with the free and untrammeled Republican Senator who State in the par has e for f chose to pt 1 ness 3 he has pledged to secure his afford to declare that mistaken he will not be a that fact has been demonstrated by a vote; that he will then withdraw. and will not thereafter to influence friends in their choice. If he would so act there would be no doubt of the prompt elee- tion of a Senator who would be satis- factory to the people generally. : - uay believes he can » after attempt his GREAT OFFER TC WOREN. A Matter of Prime Importance to Every Busy Housewife. st opportunity ever offor- ed is presented with the great Philadelphia Sunday Press. 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