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SEWING MACHINES.
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Somerset County Agents for Estey Pipe Organs.
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PF MSA present duty: Subscribe for THE
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL.
For President,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
of New York.
For Vice President,
CHARLES W, FAIRBANKS,
of Indiana.
STATE.
Judge of the Supreme Caurt,
Hox. Joux P. ELxIN,
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,
AARroN F. SwaNEK,
of Conemaugh Township.
. As USUAL, the Democrats grabbed the
hot end of the pension order poker.
Tre Democratic party is suffering
from an acute attack of intellectual in-
digestion.
Tae Democratic efforts to find a live
issue would be funny if they were not
so pathetically hopeless.
rr ee ees
A virrLE study of past history will
convince the first voter that Republi-
| can spells opportunity.
TrE real Democratic party 1s a thing
of the past; it is not a thing of the
present, and men like W.J. Bryan
know it.
Caxpipare Davis says some of the
trusts are bad. Exceptions are natur-
ally made in favor of the Belmont-Pea-
body list. :
THE soup house was more in evidence
than good jobs when the Democratic
era of low prices prevailed between
1893 and 1896.
JupGe PARKER has twice informed us
that he believes in the gold standard.
That evens matters up, as he voted
twice against it. :
————
THE morning after, the Democratic
machine is always found in the repair
shop awaiting numerous rectifications
of defective parts.
Some of the mud-slinging of Hill,
Gorman and Company is about as ef-
fective as the proverbial stone thrown
by a woman at a hen. :
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RepruBLICANS are running their cam-
paign on the main highway, while the
Democrats are becoming mired down
in the road through the woods.
Ax overwhelming majority of the
American people believe in a strong
navy and a well organized, small army.
They will prove it on November 8.
GrANDPA Davis should not be cen-
sured for making such a small cam-
paign contribution. He has a record
for dodging worthless investments.
“No work of real sustained humor
has been produced this season,” says a
New York publisher. He has not read
Judge Parker’s letter of acceptance.
THE real enemy to the laboring man
is the influence that closes the oppor-
tunity for employment. The working-
man remembers the closed mill era
under the last Democratic administra-
tion.
It sounds funny for Grandpa Davis
to lecture the country on extravagance
just after he has invested $50,000 in the
frivolous pastime of running for the
Vice Presidency on the Democratic
ticket.
Tom TAGGART is appealing to Indiana
Democrats to support Parker because
“he was loyal to Bryan in 1896 and
1900.” Tom wants the Western Demo-
crats to understand that that gold tele-
gram does not count.
S8EnATOR HoAR is universally respect-
ed as a man who never used money to
win an election, and died poor. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has never won an elec-
tion by the use of money, and he is not
rich. Perhaps the old type of states-
men and the new are not so far apart
after all.
Tue same Democratic doctors who
threw the country into fits in 1893,
Doctors Gorman and Hill, are prepar-
ing another prescription, but it will be
impossible to make the voters believe
they are ill, this year.
el
Tre old bolting Somerset Herald has
at last hoisted the whole Republican
ticket to its masthead. Is it possible
that the old disgruntled thing has de-
cided to come back into the Republi-
can ranks and follow a “safe and sane”
political policy, or is it merely acting
the snake in the grass?
Waar Gen. Grant said about the
Democrats being like a man on the
rear end of a train—never seeing a
thing until he has passed it—seems to
be eternally true. The gold standard
dawned on them for the first time at
the St. Louis Convention—several
lished it.
A NEwPpORT snob gave a party, he
acting as a proxy for his pug dog. A
course dinner was served in honor of
the brute’s third birthday, and the
guests were other dogs. This much
they showed as much brains as the
master. who spent his money on the
piece of tomfoolery, for they kept with-
in the sphere for which they were in-
tended. The daily papers of New York’
and Chicago, which take great delight
in reproducing and making sport of
some of the trivial news items in coun-
try papers, gave this “function” ex-
tended write-ups. Where is the coun-
try editor who would waste the time
to write up a two-column story on a
dog party, or give it space in his paper?
THE STAR is inreceipt of a long letter
from N. B. Critchfield, Secretary of
Agriculture, and B. H. Warren, Dairy
and Food Commissioner, in which they
ask the co-operation of the newspapers
in a fight against the repeal of the
Grout bill, which places a tax of 10
cents a pound on colored oleomargar-
ine. The Grout bill is threatened with
repeal, and the quicker that fool piece
of legislation is repealed, the better it
will suit this paper, as well as the
thousands of poor people who are
wronged by legislation that has been
unjustly passed in the interest of the
dairymen and to the detriment of the
oleo manufacturers and the poor people
who are unable to obtain anything but
oleo in the butter line. Oleomargarine
is better and more wholesome than
one-half of the dairy butter sold
throughout this state,and in the interest
of humanity it should be a cheap pro-
duct. so that it would be within the
reach of all. But as it is, the manu-
facture of it is hampered and made ex-
pensive by a lot of unfair legislation
that ought at once to be repealed.
Those who are engaged in dairying,
color much of their product, but a
great howl is set up by them when oleo
men want to exercise the same right.
Down with class legislation, and let the
dairymen and the oleo manufacturers
go into market unrestricted and sell
their goods on its merits. Much of the
dairy butter sold is fit omly for axle
grease, and if the people prefer colored
oleomargarine to colored butter, it is
because it is better.
U. M. W. of A. Fosters Rowdyism—
Time for Decent Men to With-
draw.
On Monday of this week the decent
people of this community were given
another exhibition of what unionism
means in this region. Eighteen men
were arrested, some for being drunk
and disorderly, others for using pro-
fane and foul language on the street,
and all for disturbing the peace. Of
the eighteen arrested men, an even
dozen were members of the United
Mine Workers, and the union promptly
paid the fines of the whole dozen, at’
the instigation of Organizer MeCul-
lough and President Drum. Thus does
the union encourage and foster rowdy-
ism and violations of the law, instead
of giving its erring members a severe
repremand or expelling them as an or-
ganization conducted on decent prin-
ciples would do.
When an organization puts a pre-
mium on rowdyism, drunkenness and
profanity by paying fines for its mem-
bers when arrested for such crimes, it
is time for decent men to abandon it.
How men who are members of Chris-
tian churches can justify themselves
before God and man by “holding mem-
bership in an organization that thus
aids and abets crime, we are at a loss
to know.
Honestly, now, is the miners’ union
as conducted in this region a benefit to
any decent man? You all know that
it isn’t. It is an aid only to the pro-
fessional loafer and rowdy, while to
the decent men who adhere to it, it is a
curse and a blight.
years after the Republicans had estab-
can be said in favor of the animals—
BETTER LET WELL ENOUGH
ALONE.
“It would have been better to let
well-enough alone.” This was the
sober second thought expression of the
New York Evening Post in 1893, about
a year after the last great Democratic
victory which gave that party control
of the Congress as well as the Presi-
dency. The Post had been one of Mr.
Cleveland’s most ardent supporters.
It had vigorously opposed the MecKin-
ley tariff bill, had urged tariff revision
| along Democratic lines, and supported
the Democratic ticket in 1892. It re-
joiced with Democrats over the victory
and prophesied no end of good things
that would come as the result.
But after six months of distrust and
disaster, with banks failing and fac-
tories closing their doors and working-
men thrown out of work, the Evening
Post said “It would have been better
to let well-enough alone.”
There were many thousands of people
in this country who had that same
sober second thought after the mis-
chief had been done. They had heark-
ened to the cry for a change, little
dreaming what such a change would
be. They had joined in the cry for
cheaper prices, and when they came,
labor was the cheapest product on the
market, and the loss of wages to the
workingmen caused a loss to the mer-
chant whose customers they had been,
then to the manufacturer, and so on
through the whole line of business en-
terprise, until there was stagnation and
bankruptcy on every hand.
In 1892, as now, the Democratic party
declared that protection was robbery
and that the tarriff must be revised for
revenue only. Then, as now, there
were blatant free traders in that party
demanding a revolutionary change,
and then, as now, there were more
cautious and conservative Democrats
who said they would go slow and bring
about a gradual change; they would,
as the late Thomas B. Reed expressed
it, amputate an arm this year, a leg
next year, and carve up the body piece-
meal. But they proposed in the end to
reach the same goal as the radical free
traders who insisted on tearing down
the custom houses at once.
3ut to those who had their capital
invested in business and adjusted to
the McKinley tariff, the threat of a
change, however effected, meant the
readjustment of their business. They
could not continue doing business on
the old basis. They could not pay
American wages and compete with
European manufacturers paying half
these wages. They waited for the blow
to fall and husbanded their revenues
for that event.
. That experience was only ten years
ago. It has notbeen forgotten. When
a change of policy is ordered at the
polls, that change is certain to come,
whether the party in power goes about
its work with a meatax or a pruning
knife. The business affairs of the
country will wait for the change and
bring a worse change in conditions by
their waiting than would have resulted
from immediate execation.
The Democratic party promises a
change in the tariff policy of the Gov-
ernment. If they elect Judge Parker
and a Democratic House, it will be an
order from the majority of the voters
that the tariff policy must be changed.
A Republican Senate can stand against
this policy for a short time, but busi-
ness conditions will change at once, as
they did after the election in 1892. The
disasters of that period did not wait for
the passage of the Wilson-Gorman
tariff biil. They began the day after
the election of Grover Cleveland and a
Democratic House of Representatives,
and they kept changing from bad to
worse through two years that inter-
vened between the election and the
passage of the Democratic tariff bill.
Like conditions produce like results.
The people might as well have their
sober second thought before the elec-
tion as after. If they want a change
they had better get ready the cyclone
cellar and prepare to find shelter from
the cyclonic change that always fol-
lows a Democratic victory at the polls,
when that victory means an order for
the reversal of a revenue policy.
ONE OF MANY.
H. A. Tisdale, of Summerton, 8. C.,
suffered for twenty years with the Piles.
Specialists were employed and many
remedies used, but relief and perma-
nent good was found only in the use of
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. This is
only one of the many, many cures that
have been effected by this wonderful
remedy. In buying Witch Hazel Salve
it is only necessary to see that you get
the genuine DeWitt’s made by E. C.
DeWitt & Co. in Chicago, and a cure is
certain. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve
cures all kinds of piles, cuts, burns,
bruises, eczema, tetter, ringworm, skin
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IMPERIALISM.
Do not the anti-imperialists remem
ber that the party of McKinley amd
Roosevelt is the party that put an ems
to the rotten monarchy of Hawaii amd
substituted for it a government of law,
organized a legislature, raised the.
American flag, persuaded the people ts
elect an American governor and im-
vited them to send a representative to
Congress.
Dosthey forget that the party of
Roosevelt and Fairbanks hauled dowm
the imperial flag of Spain from Porte
Rico and the Philippines. yellow with
the accumulated oppression of centor
ies and red with the blood of innoceng
victims who dared to talk of. liberty, .
and replaced it with the flag. of the
Union, which stands for opportunity,
progress, liberty and equality?
Do they not wish to recall the faet
that McKinley and his party assisted
at the accouchement of the Republic of
Cuba, nursed it through the infant
years, instructed it in all the elements
of good house-keeping, and then, with
a paternal “God bless you,” sent it om
its way rejoicing? ,
Thus within the past few years the
yoke of imperialism has been lifted
from the necks of more than 10,000,088
subjects, and they have been putin the
way of becoming citizens. The party
has ever been prodigal, not miserly im
good works, and has advanced the
cause of representative governmemt
throughout the world.
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If you ever took DeWitt’s Little
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These famous little pills cleanse the
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without producing unpleasant effects.
They do not gripe, sicken or weaken,
but pleasantly give tone and strength
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Miller. 11-1
Says We ““Dassent” Use His Name
in the Paper.
Edgar Showalter, or whatever his
real name is, has served notice on Tae
STAR not to use his name in the paper,
and he says we “dassent” use his name
if he tells us “not fer to do so.” Re
further says that we have classed him
with the negroes of the South by drop-
ping the “r” in his name and printing
it “Edgah Showaltah.”
We think white-eyed “Edgah” is um
reasonable. In the first place, he must
remember that he is a statesmam, =
politician and a pretty good lawyer,
and thus, as a public man of renowm,
he becomes a legitimate subject for
newspaper comment, whether it be for
criticism or for praise. Our names are
always used more by others than by
ourselves, and as Grant Dean would
say, “we’re right here fer to tell yom
like that there that whenever we see
fit fer to print the name of a great
statesman in this here great paper,
we're goin’ fer to print it, as the feller
says, says he,” no matter whether it is
the name of Theodore Roosevelt, Altos
B. Parker or “Edgah Showaltah,” the
chalk-eyed statesman from cornecrack-
erdom. Of course, we presume “Ed-
gah” will sue THE STAR, but we can’®
help that, and we don’t care, for =
newspaper never becomes profitable
until it is sued several times for libel
We can readily see why the name of
one so holy as St. Joseph Hartline
should not be printed in a worldly
newspaper, but a politician and states
man like “Edgah” has no right to ex-
pect his name to be kept out of publke
print, and we’re not going to heed his
warning. Besides, we haven’t a thing
in this world against “Edgah,” and by
dropping the “r” in hi$ name we never
dreamed of classing him with the ne-
groes of the South. The southern ne-
groes never harmed us, hence we have
no desire to class “Edgah” with thems.
The spelling of a statesman’s name
who is fresh from the land of persim—
mons and ginseng is merely a matter
of taste, and as the editor was borm
south of the Mason & Dixon line him
self, he has a right to use southern pro-
nunciations if he feels so disposed.
Dear “Edgah,” don’t get gay;
Dear “Edgah,” please don’t bray ;
But wiggle your ears
And dry your tears,
For the union pays for your hay.
CONFESSIONS OF A PRIEST.
Rev. Jno. 8. Cox, of Wake, Ark,
writes, “For 12 years I suffered fromm
Yellow Jaundice. I consulted a nom-
ber of physicians and tried all sorts sf
medicines. but got no relief Ther X
began the use of Electric Bitters amd
feel that I am now cured of a disease
that had me in its grasp for twelre
years.” If you want a reliable medi-
cine for Liver and Kidney trouble,
stomach disorder or general debility,
get Electric Bitters. It’s guaranteed
by E. H. Miller. Only 50c. 11-2