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VOL. X.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. 1904.
NO. 30.
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Stirnirmer
Dress Goods,
Shirtwaistings,
Notions, Hats,
Shoes, Carpets,
Linoleums,
Hardware,
(Groceries.
J. L. BarcHUS, President.
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ALBERT REITZ, Cashier.
DIRECTORS :—1J. L. Barchus,
A. M. Lichty, F. A. Maust, A. E. Livengood, L. L. Beachy.
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OF SALISBURY.
Capital paid in, $50,000. Surplus & undiyided profits, $3,000.
J PER GENT. INTEREST
On Time
Deposits.
H. H. MausT, Vice President.
H. H. Maust, Norman D. Hay,
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Satisfied -:-
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Customers.
The above number of customers used our
Peptonized Beef,
[ron and Wine
during the Spring and Summer of 1903, and any one of
a tell you they were satisfied for the following
reasons:
1st. It tones up the system and makes you strong.
ond. It creates an appetite and ades digestion.
3rd. The cost is but 50c. per pint, or half the cost of
any other spring tonic on the market.
Get it at the Elk
Lick Drug Store.
Your money back if you are not satisfied.
Pianos trom $125.00 up.
Sewing Machines
LOOK -:- HERE!
Organs from $15.00 up.
from $10.00 up.
The asking for a catalogue, getting prices and looking over our stock may
mean the saving of a good many dollars.
PIANOS.
BUSH & GERTS,
CHICKERING & SONS,
STRICK & ZEIDLER,
VICTOR,
HOBERT M. CABLE,
KIMBALL,
SHUBERT,
OXFORD.
Agents for the following makes:
ORGANS.
FARRAND,
ESTEY,
KIMBALL.
SEWING MACHINES.
DAVIS,
WHITE,
STANDARD,
NEW HOME,
DAYTONIO,
GOLDEN STAR,
SUPERB.
We have engaged the services of C. E. LIVENGOOD, Piano and Organ
Tuner and Repairer, and orders for work in that line left at the music store
will receive prompt attention.
Somerset County Agents
for Estey Pipe Organs.
Cecilian Piano Players.
REICH & PLOCH, CENTRE STREET, MEY ERSDALE, PENNA.
MEA present duty:
STAR.
Subscribe for THE
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL.
For President,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
of New York.
For Vice President,
CARLES W. FAIRBANKS,
of Indiana.
STATH,
Judge of the Supreme Cart,
Hox. Jonx P. ELKIN,
of Indiana County.
COUNTY.
For Congress,
ALLEN F. COOPER,
of Uniontown, Pa.
For Assemblymen,
L. C. LAMBERT,
of Stonycreek Township.
J. W. ENDSLEY,
of Somerfield Borough.
For District Attorney,
Rurus E. MEYERS,
of Somerset Borough.
For Poor Director,
Aarox F. SwaNK,
of Conemaugh Township.
ROT FROM COAL RUN.
How Lying, Ignorant Correspond-
ents Help to Deceive Their
Own Organization.
United Mine Worker Correspond-
ents Hide the True Situation from
Their Official Organs—Read the
Following Letter and Judge for
Yourself.
Coax Run, Pa., July 18, 1904.
Epiror Mixe WORKERS’ JOURNAL:
A few lines from this place to let the
brothers know how we are getting
along. We are now in the eight month
of our strike. We are still holding our
own at this place. There has not one
of our men went to work. We have
had four Slavs to go scabbing. They
were expelled from our local, 2478.
They have a few scabs at Salisbury.
They are the lowest down cattle that IT
ever saw. They are natives of the
place where they were born scabbing.
There was a fire at Merchants No. 3
mine on last Tuesday night. It burned
up Noah’s Ark. All indications point
that it was burned for the insurance
that was on it. It was something like
the attempt to blow up Meagher tipple
—done by the hired thugs of the com-
pany, that they call deputy sheriff’s.
The guards are the only ones that
cause any trouble, for they are drunk
all of the time. There were three of
them riding all around here on the
night of the fire trying to incite a riot,
"but they did not have the sand to
stand a riot, all they were doing was to
1try to scare some women, but the wom-
en made them ashamed of themselves.
There has been thirteen more of our
men and boys attached, to be brought
before the most corrupt judge that
ever disgraced a judge's bench. Colo-
rado does not exceed this county in
corruption. We have one man that
was sued for assault and battery that
was not allowed to present his side of
the case at all, but was bound over to
court. - He was at home at the time
and could have proved it by at least
five men and three women. They have
about 28 Italians working Merchants
No. 2 and about 32 American Italians
at Merchants No. 1, and about 18 or 19
of the same kind at Chapmans. Those
men that are working never did any-
thing else but scab in time of trouble
in this region, so you see we are not
afraid of losing our cause. They are
not doing any good. From a careful
calculation of what it is costing the
company to produce a ton of coal they
will soon get tired of their scab coal
and the price it is costing them. Every
ton of coal costs at least 75 cents per
ton more than they get for it in the
market. There is only a few weeks
more till the coal trade will be better
in this section of the country, then the
companies will be glad to get miners,
for there is but 150 practical miners
scabbing in the Meyersdale region all
told, so there is no question but that
we will win our strike in the end.
There is not a miner in this region that
has not got from one to three injunc-
tions and at least 100 men have been
attached and an attachment means
from $25 to $75, and maybe you get
anywhere from three days to one
month in jail. The judge asks the
company what the fine shall be, also
the jail sentence. The five Slavs that
went to work were always looked upon
as scabbit, as they call them. The
miners are confident that they will win
{in the end. There are men in this dis-
trict that are willing to strike for two
years for the union. The coal com-
panies make no bones about saying
that it is only the union they are fight-
ing and not the price. I think with the
assistance of the national we will come
off victorious in the early fall. A few
words for our .noble officers for the
good work they are doing. If one of
our officers was ever abused by the
press. the hired tool of the coal com-
panies, our Brothers E. 8. McCullough,
and Wm. Morgan have been lied on by
a couple of the most damnably corrupt
newspapers ever published. A few
words for our worthy Brother John
Blutneck, our Polish brother. Since he
came to this section last January he
has worked-hard and faithful. Te has
only lost six men. That shows what
good work he is doing. Our officers
could not do any more than they have
done. Brother Salmond and Brother
Smith are not with us at present.
They also worked while here. Brother
F. J. Dunn, district president; District
Secretary-Treasurer W. J. Ford—they
are busy as bees attending to their
duties. There are no drones among
any of the officers in this end of the
field. DIXIE.
For genuine “tommyrot,” the Coal
Run letter takes the cake. We have
reproduced it just as it appeared in
the United Mine Workers’ Journal, of
Indianopalis, July 21st. “Dixie’s” let-
ter is nothing but a big batch of un-
truths stated in badly bungled English,
and it will no doubt furnish lots of
amusement for a great many of our
readers. The poor fool that wrote that
letter evidently craves cheap notoriety,
and to get it he seems to think he must
resort to all manner of misrepresenta-
tion, just as the strike leaders and or-
ganizers of this region have been doing
all along. ILet us review some of his
rot.
Dixie——“We are still holding our own
at this place.”
Comment—Your own is very little in
this strike, and it requires no holding.
A whole lot of other men are holding
down good jobs, and a nice string of
loaded cars is shipped out of Coal Run
every day. Dixie knows it, too, and
that’s what hurts. :
Dixie—"There has not one of our men
went to work.”
Comment—Then why do you say in
the very next sentence that four of
your Slavs returned to work and were
expelled from union No. 2478? You
contradict your own words, and a
whole lot more of you would return to
work if you could only induce the op-
erators to give you work.
Dixie—'They have a few scabs at
Salisbury. They are the lowest down
cattle that I ever saw.”
Comment—You have evidently never
looked into a mirror, but you ought to
know that you are only an ignorant,
bellowing calf, just the same. You
ought to know that much by instinct.
Dixie—“There was a fire at Merch-
ants No. 3 mine. It burned up Noah’s
Ark. All indications point that it was
burned for the insurance.”
Comment—If you are brought into
court to prove your assertions, you will
fail, and then you will get the penalty
you deserve. It’s dollars to doughnuts
that if it is eyer found out who set the
Merchants Coal Company’s block of
houses afire, it will prove to be one or
more members of the U. M. W. of A.
Dixie—“The guards are the only
ones that cause any trouble, for they
are drunk all of the time. There were
three of them riding all around here
on the night of the fire trying to incite
a riot.”
Comment—A bigger lie than that
statement couldn’t be crowded into
that many lines, and Dixie knows it
While the building was burning, a lot
of strikers were gloating and rejoicing
over it, which is sufficent proof that
they do not think the company hired
some one to burn the building down
for the insurance.
Dixie—“There has been thirteen
more of our men and boys attached, to
be brought before the most corrupt
judge that ever disgraced a judge’s
bench. Colorado does not exceed this
county in corruption.”
Comment—No law-abiding citizen of
this county has anything to fear from
the judge you refer to. Judge Xooser
has only warned a lot of the strikers
that they must not violate the law.
The injunctions do not in any way in-
terfere with any of the lawful rights
of the strikers. The court concedes
that they have a right to strike when-
ever they please, and as long as they
please ; but they are restrained and en-
joined not to interfere with those who
desire to work, and the strikers are
also warned against trespassing on the
premises of the coal companies, at-
tempting to destroy their property, ete.
The thugs who depend on violence and
outlawry to win their strikes, are the
only people howling against the in-
junctions. The injunctions have had a
wholesome effect, and had injunctions
been asked for at Boswell before the
riot at that place, no blood would have
been spilled. Dixie is quite right when
he says that Colorado does not exceed
this county for corruption. What we
need here is a “bull pen” and a citizens’
alliance, as they have in Colorado, to
take care of Dixie and other corrup-
tionists of his stripe, for they are dang-
erously corrupt.
Dixie—“We have one man that was
sued for assault and battery that was
not allowed to present his side of the
case at all, but was bound over to
court.”
Comment—Dixie. you are as ignorant
as a hog. Your fool letter exposes
your ignorance all the way through,
and especially is this the case in your
mention of the assault and battery
case. Four your enlightenment we
will inform you that a justice of the
peace has no jurisdiction in this state
over cases of assault and battery. The
court alone can try such cases, and all
a justice of the peace can do in cases
of that nature is to hear the plaintiff’s
side and send the case to court, if, in
his judgment, the plantiff, produces
sufficient sworn testimony to make it
look reasonable that he has been as-
saulted. The justices do only what the
law and their oaths require of them,
and in assault and battery cases they
perform about the same function as a
grand jury, which body, as all men of
ordinary intelligence know, hear only
the plaintiff’s side, but let the court
and the petit jury decide the case after
hearing the testimony on both sides in
open court. Dixie would know this if
he were anything but an ignorant ass.
Dixie—“From a careful calculation
of what it is costing the company to
produce a ton of coal they will soon
get tired of their scab coal and the
price it is costing them. Every ton of
coal costs at least 75 cents per ton
more than they get for it in the mark-
et.”
Comment—A more absurd and ridie-
ulous statement than that we have
never seen in print Go bag your soft
head, you poor, benighted fool! Talk
about a “careful calculation!” Wouldn’t
you be a peach of a thing to select for
a careful calculator? It is impossible
to make a silk handkerchief of a sow’s
ear, but it is just as impossible for an
ignoramus like you to make a careful
calculation about anything, except,
perhaps, the number of drunks you
could get out of a gallon of whisky.
The operators in this coal region are
not such fools as to sell coal for less
than cost of production. That’s why
they refuse to let fools of the Dixie
stripe run their mines. The coal com-
panies never had better miners at
work than right now. Men that make
as high as $100 and more in two weeks,
must surely know how to dig coal.
We could go on and dissect many
more of Dixie’s fool utterances, but as
we have published his letter in full,
and his utterances are so thin that
even children will see the flimsyness
thereof, we will refrain from making
any further comment. Dixie has
shown to the world that he is nothing
but a poor fool, and the publication of
such rot only makes it the harder for
the strikers to win their battle. It also
makes Dixie and the United Mine
Workers’ Journal liable to suits for
criminal libel.
SUICIDE PREVENTED.
The startling announcement that a
preventive of suicide has been discover-
ed will interest many. A run down
system, or despondency invariably pre-
cede suicide and something has been
found that will prevent that condition
which makes suicide likely. At the
first thought of self destruction take
Electric Bitters. It being a great tonic
and nervine will strengthen the nerves
and build up the system. It’s also a
great Stomach, Liver and Kidney reg-
ulator. Only 50c. Satisfaction guar-
anteed by E. H. Miller, Druggist. 8-1
pinay.
THE miners’ officials of the Meyers-
dale region have been making speeches
abusing the local papers, and the lat-
ter now have their innings. It is an
unequal contest between the idle wind
that passeth by and the cold types that
imprint themselves upon the memory.
—Connellsvilie Courier.
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THE New York Herald’s straw vote
will likely be discontinued. It was un-
dertaken in the hope that the result
would show a large preponderance of
opinion in favor of Parker, but the
Herald has been compelled to report
just the opposite. The vote was taken
town Tribune.
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to bray at the miners’ meeting :
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held at Meyersdale, he soon became
violent, and it is said that he got so
wrathy before he got done denouncing
THE STAR that he tied himself in a
double bow knot several times and bit
several big pieces out of his gigantic
But he still has several square
feet of ear left.
GRIT, a trashy story paper published
at Williamsport, Pa., has lately been
publishing some great lies concerning
the mining situation in this region.
The lying articles have been contrib-
uted by United Mine Worker officials,
and the writers did not confine them-
selves to facts, knowing that it wouldn’t
be to the interest of the labor leaders
to have facts spread before their de-
luded followers. Grit is an ideal me-
dium through which to “bamfoozle”
the ignorant element among the miners,
for it is a paper ihat caters to that
class of people. The paper publishes
some respectable news matter. but in
the main it is made up of trashy litera-
ture, the kind that appeals to the ig-
norant classes. It’s patronage comes
principally from the ignorant classes,
and for that reason Grit publishes
mining news to suit its patrons, and te
do that it must omit the real facts.
THERE isn't one strike in forty that
the strikers don’t strike to the country
and take work from the regular hands
that work on farms, and they generally
work for less money. Others will ge
and pick the handy berries that belong
to the farmer’s wives and children, and
carry them away and appropriate them
to their own use, which under the law
is stealing. Others will go and tres-
pass, hunting and fishing, on the prop-
erty of the farmers. They take the
bread from the mouths of those to
whom it belongs, then when they re-
turn home and see some working in
their berry patch, or shooting their
squirrels, they begin to cry scab! scab!
and make a terrible ado. There is a
saying, never repealed, that it is a
poor rule that won’t work both ways.
If you don’t want scabs, don’t be scab-
by. We would not be at all surprised
to learn that some strikers from the
Mechanic street glass factory are work-
ing at some non-union man’s job some-
where. The Bible says: “Be not
among strikers. "Cumberland Courier.
Ix speaking of Organizers MecCul-
lough and Morgan, the Meyersdale Re-
publican, last week, said: “Did they
offer one word of truthful encourage-
ment to the striking miner who is se
blindly following them? No indeed.
Did they offer any argument in proof
of William Morgan’s profane assertion
that the Republican and Star were
printing damnable lies in regard to
him and the organization he repre-
sents? No indeed, they did not. The’
mere assertion of a man like Morgan
is no evidence to convict. He asked,
who is this man Bishop, and answered
his own query by the reply that the
same echo came back, who is he?
We are no violator of the laws of this
land, and we have never laid in a West :
Virginia jail, as he has. Neither were
or had our teeth knocked down our
affairs, as he has. We have never been
intoxicated in our life. Neither have
we been taken through the main streets
of Meyersdale in broad daylight in' a
beastly state of intoxication and pnt te
bed by our companions. These are a
few of the things in which we differ
from this parasite upon the miners
cause, William Morgan.” -
Orp Lov Smith seems to think that
he is not shown the respect his age en-
titles him to at the hands of THE Star
and the Meyersdale Republican. We
are indeed sorry that we can not show
have for sensible and decent men of
his age, but the fault is his, not ours.
Old Lou had a shady reputation when
he struck Somerset county, many years
ago, and he has never outlived it.
From the very start he seemed contin-
ually bent on “doing” other people or
dragging them down to his own low
level. In decency he has not improved
with ago, as most men do, but has gone
from bad to werse. He has no stand-
ing in the community where he resides,
and everything he advocates comes to
grief. The people you can hear prais-
ing his paper the most are the ignorant,
the low, the vicious and eriminal class-
es. “Lucifer,” don’t try to compare
yourself with such grand and able old
men as Depew, Hoar, Grow and others
that you have named. We know that
among employees of the dry goods dis- {
trict of New York City, says the Johns- |
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a man is no older than he feels, but we
also know that there is a whole lot of
truth in the old saying that “there is
no fool like an old fool” You are
rely an old fool, and when you v
u were a young fool. A fool
t you have ever beer
ere
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Well, we will tell him who we are not.
we ever driven out of any community °
throat for interfering in other people’s
the old fool the respect that we always |
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