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, BUSH & GERTS,
The Somerset
Gounty Star,
VOL. X.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1904.
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For Assemblymen,
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of Conemaugh Township.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
A GEORGE'S CREEK WHINE.
Editor Clayton Wants to Know
Where the Miners Were on
Labor Day.
Creek Miners Abused by Labor Or-
gan—A Whine that Shows
Weakness of Miners’
Union.
Labor Day was celebrated in Froste
burg, Sept. 6th, just as it was in other
places, but the tournout was not at all
satisfactory to the Georges Creek
Press, the official organ of the United
Mine Workers of this district. The or-
ganized miners, especially, made a
poor showing. but then it must be re-
membered that the organization is a
very weak affair in the Creek region.
The miners there have long ago ceased
to blindly follow a few worthless jaw-
smiths, as the short-sighted men of the
Elk Lick region are doing to their own
great cost and detriment, while the
labor grafters, jawsmiths and walking
delegates are living on the fat of the
land at the miners’ expense.
A great majority of the Creek miners
ignore the union and its official organ,
but follow the sensible course of pro-
viding for their families instead of
supporting a lot of worthless organizers
that live by labor troubles and on
money that should go to the support of
hungry wives, mothers and children.
Editor Clayton, of the great (?) of-
ficial miners’ organ, waxes exceeding
wroth over the late Labor Day demon-
stration in the Creek region, and under
the caption of “Where Were the Min-
ers?” he rips the Creek miners up one
side and down the other in his issue of
last week. Following we reproduce by
paragraph what he says, adding our
comment:
Editor Clayton—"“There was a big
parade of organized labor at Frostburg,
Monday morning. Bands and banners
and the uniformity of serried ranks
made a spectacular picture, and the
white clothing of many bands from
various branches of industry made a
picturesque effect.”
Comment—-Your disappointment,
however, must indeed have been great,
judging from what follows, and the
fact that the Frostburg Herald says
there were only 1400 people in the pa
rade, all told, which was indeed a very
poor showing for the thickly populated
George’s Creek mining region, which
has a population of about 10,000, of
which at least half are miners.
Editor Clayton—“The worst showing,
considering their comparative numbers
in this county, was made by ;the miners,
With over 5,000 men in that industry
in this county alone, they ought to have
had at least 1,500 or 2,000 in rank, in-
stead of the beggarly turn-out they
furnished.”
Comment—That’s a bitter acknowl-
edgment of weakness for you to make,
but it gives a very clear idea of the
weakness of the miners’ organization in
your region. It also speaks volumes
for the good sense of the miners of the
Creek region, who can see the folly of
following the advice of their fool of-
ficial organ at Lonaconing and a lot of
worthless leaders from other states.
Editor Clayton—“As the long line
wended its way up the hill, miners
could be seen in houses, sitting on
fences, leaning against porchposts,
and hundreds walking along the side-
walks, admiring the men in the street,
whose courage they did not apparently
possess.”
Comment—You are getting mean
and angry now, but whom the gods
would destroy they first make mad.
You do not seem able to distinguish
between admiration and mere curiosity.
Editor Clayton—“Pitiful, wasn’t it?
But can this region claim any longer,
in view of the sort of unionism it is
displaying, that it 1s entitled to boast
of its faithfulness?”
Comment—Pitiful only to a lot of
grafters that desire to live and thrive
by labor troubles. Most of the Creek
miners can boast of faithfulness to
themselves, their families and their
best interests. In this region the union
miners, at least many of them, are
foolishly sacrificing their manhood and
everything of value that they possess
in order to be faithful to a losc cause
and a few jawsmiths.
Editor Clayton—*“Georges Creek is
no longer in the heroic class of Illinois
and Ohio and Meyersdale. It cannot
hold up the head and talk of past
bravery, what matters it how noble the
sire if the son be not a man?”
Comment—aA peach of a heroic class
is the one the Meyersdale strikers are
in! Most of thém haven't got sense
enough to walk in out of the rain.
What Editor Clayton calls bravery is
only rank foolishness.
Editor Clayton—*Why do the miners
of Maryland play the moral coward?
It is ignorance—stupidity! These re-
gions have been preached of as the
abode of wise men, thinking men, ad-
vanced men ; where is their leadership?
They surely have strayed for from the
path of honor and of right, and owe it
to themselves, to their families and to
their sacred honor to be true to their
own duties and their own interests.”
Comment—We have said all along
that the great bulk of the George's
Creek miners take no stock in the or-
ganization that has proven itself a det-
riment to the miners in every region
where it has gained a strong foothold,
and in Editor Clayton’s tirade we have
strong proof that we spoke the truth.
The George’s Creek miners are doing
the proper thing for their own interests
by ignoring the would-be official organ
and the jawsmiths from abroad. They
owe it to themselves, to their families
and to their sacred honor to be true to
their own duties and interests by con-
tinuing in the wise course they are
taking, Mr. Clayton and other para-
sites to the contrary, notwithstanding.
The Creek miners are done with labor
grafters and parasites that seek to
profit by strikes at the expense of the
honest miner and bis family, but up
this way we still have a lot of short-
sighted men that are just beginning to
cut their wisdom teeth.
-——
THREE JURORS CURED
Of Cholera Morbus with One Small Bottle
of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy.
Mr. G. W. Fowler, of Hightower,
Ala., relates an experience he had
while serving on a petit jury in a mur-
der case at Edwardsville, county seat
of Clebourne county, Alabama. He
says: “While there I ate some fresh
meat and some souse meat, and it gave
me cholera morbus in a very severe
form. 1 was never more sick in my
life, and sent to the drug store for a
certain cholera mixture, but the drug-
gist sent me a bottle of Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
instead, saying that he had what I sent
for, but that this medicine was so much
better he would rather send it to me
in the fix I was in. I took one dose of
it and was better in five minutes. The
second dose cured me entirely. Two
fellow jurors were afflicted in the same
manner, and one small bottle cured the
three of us.” For sale by E. H. Miller.
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MORE COAL RUN CRIMES.
Torch Twice More Applied to Coal
Cperator’s Property—Rejoieing
as Usual Among Strikers.
Last Saturday night a frame house at
Coal Run valued at about $350, which
was the property of John Meager, was
destroyed by fire, which was undoubt-
edly of incendiary origin.
On Monday night following, two
stacks containing 30 tons of hay, also
owned by Mr. Meager, were sent up in
the smoke of an incendiary fire.
We presume, of course. that the old
anarchistic Meyersdale Commercial
will try to make it appear that the
strikers were in no way to blame for
the fire, but at the same time its editor
and everybody else will think differ-
ently. There was no insurance on any
of the property, so it is not reasonable
to suppose that the burning was ar-
ranged for by the owner, as some of
the strikers and old Lou Smith have
been trying to make it appear every
time coal company property has been
destroyed. As only strikers are gloat-
ing and rejoicing over the loss, the
it belongs, and that isn’t hard to figure
out.
Up to date a block of ten houses have
been burned for the Merchants Coal
Company ; several buildings have been
destroyed and the tipple fired at the
Galloway & Clayton mine ; the Meager
tipple has been twice dynamited and
once set afire; a house and two hay-
stacks were burned for Mr. Meager,
and the bottoms opened on several
loaded railroad cars at” his mine; his
son-in-law and one of his horses have
been shot ; thirteen mine cars were run
down the Big Vein Coal Company’s
plane, doing damage to the amount of
$1,000; guards have been shot at, strik-
ers have been rejoicing over all these
and many other crimes laid at their
door, and yet the Meyersdale Commer-
cial absurdly takes the position that
the strikers are all innocent of these
crimes and actually tries to saddle
them onto the operators and guards.
Such a depraved editor ought to be
tarred, feathered and run out of the
region for publishing malicious rot
that he does not believe himself, but
only intends for the injury of the coal
operators, who, if not prosperous, can
do little for the welfare of the, region
and the men who have to depend on
mining for a living.
John Meager has worked hard for
what he has in this world, and the
miners admit that he always faithfully
kept his agreements with his employes,
but what thanks is he given for paying
65 cents per ton up to April 1st, 1904, as
per agreement, while the other com-
panics made a cut of 10 cents per ton
several months prior to that date? No
thanks whatever, and it’s no wonder
that public sympathy is so strongly on
the operators’ side at this time. The
lawless element in the miners’ union
has crippled the miners’ cause so badly
that it will take it years to recover,
and the sad part is that the innocent
must suffer with the guilty to some ex-
tent.
A POWER FOR GOOD.
The pills that are potent in their ac-
tion and pleasant in effect are DeWitt’s
Little Early Risers. W. 8S. Philpot, of
Albany, Ga., says: “During a bilious
attack I took one. Small as it was, it
did me more good than calomel, blue
mass or any other pill I ever took, and
at the same time the effect was pleas-
ant. Little Early Risers are certainly
an ideal pill.” Sold by E. H. Miller.
THE American people are slow to re-
peat calamitous blunders. They re-
member 1892.
Jonx Sarr WiLLiams declares that
Democrats do not die in office. They
are dying. however, to get in.
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AMERICANS are proverbially shrewd
in a trade, and will hardly take kindly
to a proposition to exchange John Hay
for Dave Hill.
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THE country would know what to do
if some of the “Anti-Imperialists” would
lay hands on the flag instead of just
spitting at it.
DeMocrATIC appeals | for the labor
vote are based on the hope that the
American workman has forgotten what
happened in 1893.
Ix the Philippines the Republicans
are showing what they have done with
conditions. The Domocrats are still
wrestling with a theory.
Tre New York Herald declares that
“New York Democrats must wake up.”
Their chances of success would be im-
proved if some of them would shut up.
A¥rer all, the Republican party’s
chief source of strength lies in the fact
that its principles appeal to the rugged
common sense of the American people.
Cor. BRYAN says that Hamlet is his
favorite play. Judge Parker probably
fears that the grave-digger is the Col-
onel’s favorite character in the play.
Kansas banks have $100,000,000 on
deposit, almost as much as the amount
of mortgage foreclosures in the state
during the last Democratic administra-
tion.
Carerur perusal of Democratic
speeches this year fails to disclose any
inspired orator who is claiming that
wheat and silver always maintain a
parity.
Tre Democrats of the West are more
interested in again securing control of
the party,in 1908, than they are in
what will happen to Parker and Bel-
mont in 1904.
Tre workman knows that the differ-
ence between Republican and Demo-
cratic administrations is the difference
between good times and bad, between
general public will lay the blame where
wages and want.
It is all right for Judge Parker to ex-
plain where he stands on the money
question, but there is nothing in the
convention record to show that his
party stands with him.
Davip B. HiLL announces his inten-
tion to retire from politics and publie
life on January 1. He is determined,
apparently, to stay a couple of months
longer than Parker and Davis.
Tae Democratic plea that the country
needs “a change” might be more effee-
tive if the country did not remember
the disastrous results that fallowed the
last trial of Democratic theories.
JUDGE PARKER claims that the Re-
publican Senate will watch the Demo-
crate and prevent them from doing any
harm, which would be just like a father
watching his boy play with a loaded
revolver.
Nerraer the gold standard nor nation-
al prosperity is irrevocably established.
Both are matters of legislation, and
both depend upon the supremacy of
the Republican party for their per-
manency.
Ix making wagers on the election re-
sults, the Democrats will not even ac-
cept the 18 to 1 ratio. Some of the dar-
ing ones express a mild willingness te
take the short end of 100 to nothing
propositions.
Ovr average national income under
the Democratic party from 1894 to 1897
was $321,000,000 a year The income
during the fiscal year 1904 under
Roosevelt and the Dingley tariff was
$541,186,745.
SENATOR DAVIS compares present ex-
penditures with those under Buchanan.
Would Senator Davis bring about the
industrial and financial conditions un-
der which Buchanan wrote his famous
message in 1857?
A Famous French chef, visiting in
New York, says he can not understand
why the American people do not eat
more soup! He ought to be told that
they had an overdose of it when the
Democrats were in power.
June PARKER’s conversion to the
gold standard bears a later date, evi-
dently, than when he voted for Bryanr
in 1900. He allowed the New York
Democratic convention, as late as last
April, to dodge the issue.
THe Ohio miners’ strike is off, the
Chicago packers’ strike is off, and
there’s a regiment of strike breeders
abroad in the land, leeches on the body
of labor, that ought to be plucked off
and cast aside.—Connellsville Courier.
Ix 1893 when the Democrats came
into power under Cleveland our sav-
ings bank deposits were $1,785,150,957.
They were cut down in 1894 to $1,747-
861,280. To-day under Roosevelt and
protection they are ouer $3,000,000,000.
AMERICAN workmen are so well em-
ployed that it is very difficult to find
the recruits necessary for the army and
navy. Recruiting officers probably re-
member the Democratic administration
when idle men fought for the opportu-
nity to enlist.
Tue trouble with the Democratie
candidate for the Presidency seems te
be that he is too radical for the con.
servative Democrats and too conserva-
tive for the radicals, and between them
there is still a breach which divides
them irreconcilably.
Tue Western Laborer, Omaha, Neb,
which claims to be the oldest labor pa-
per in the West, “will support Theo-
dore Roosevelt with all the power it
possesses, and will do its best to show
the Bryan men of 1896 and 1900 a way
to rebuke his enemies.”
By 1892 the Republican party had re-
duced the interest on the public debt
to $23,000,000 a year. The Democratic
party under Cleveland increased it ir
time of peace to $38,000,000. The Re-
publican party in spite of the Spanish
war has reduced it since to $28,000,000.
U~ABLE to point to any act of Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s administration that is
censurable, the Democrats are express-
ing the fear that he will prove his
“dangerous” character if he is elected.
Funny, but that is just what the voters
of the nation are thinking about the
Democratic party.
A coxveENTION may be trapped te
nominate a candidate who does not
stand on the platform, but it is a dif-
ferent proposition to induce the voters
to support such a candidate at the polls.
Democratic managers admit this by
giving up hope of carrying any of the
Western states which went for Bryaa
in 1896 and 1800.