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VOL. XII.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 28. 1906.
NO. 24.
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BERKEY & SHAVER,
Attorneys-at-liaw.
SOMERSET, PA.
Coffroth & Ruppel Building.
ERNEST 0. KOOSER,
Attorney-At-Liaw,
SOMERSET, PA.
R.E. MEYERS, DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
Attorney-at-Liaw,
BOM¥RSET, PA.
Office in Court House.
W. H. KOONTZ.
KOONTZ & OGLE
Attormneys-At-Liaw,
SOMERSET, PENN’A
J. G.OGLE
Office opposite Court House.
VIRGIL R. SAYLOR,
Attorney-at-Liaw,
SOMERSET, PA.
Office in Mammoth Block.
E. H. PERRY,
Physician and Surgeon,
SALISBURY, PENN’A.
Office corner Grant and Union Streets
E.C.SAYLOR, D. D. S,,
SALISBURY, PA.
Office in Henry DeHaven Residence, Union
Street.
Special attention given to the preserva-
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Murphy Bros.
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Confectionery, Tobacco, Cigars, etc.
We try to please our patrons, and we
would thank you for a share of your
buying.
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WHY
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City DRUG STORE,
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THE ELK LICK DRUG STORE.
Ir anybody thinks for one moment
that “General” Koontz is a pure and
spotless angel in politics, the delusion
should be expelled at once. We have
been associated with “General” Koontz
long enough in politics to know that he
is for any old thing to win, when he is
to be the beneficiary. The “general” is
a counterfeit reformer of the first wa-
ter.
Porirican disappointment is usually
the father of political reforms, and
most of the pretended reformers are as
bad or worse than those whom they
rail against. Furthermore, the Con-
nellsville Courier very truthfully re-
marks that the citizen who cries loudest
against party nominations and party
profigacy is usually the citizen who
stays away from caucuses, suggestion
meetings, primaries and conventions.
He should do his. whole duty in poli-
tice, or accept the consequences -of his
failure to do so.
SuapEs of Colonel Edward BSeull,
what have your degenerate sons, “Tim-
mie” and Robert, brought the Stalwart
Republican faction to? They have
forsaken the wise counsel of their fath-
er and are following strange gods.
They have sold out to the Democrats
and renegades, and they now want to
deliver the votes of the Stalwart Re-
publicans to the life-long enemy and
traducer of Colonel Edward Scull,
“Bill” Koontz. Will the Stalwarts
tamely submit to such a sell-out? The
wise ones will not.
JubGcing from the amount of fusion
politics there is in the air, a lot of peo-
ple must be yearning for a return of
the good old Democratic soup-house
times. That is what the fusion move-
ments are sure to lead to in a few
years, if generally successful this year.
The fusion candidates usually have an
ax to grind, and after the public has
turned the grindstone for a few years,
people begin to wonder why they were
such fools. They always discover that
the only benefits that arise from fusion
go to the would-be reformers who ride
into office on calamity howls.
FOLLOWING THE FLAG.
When our soldiers went to Cuba and
the Philippines, health was the most
important consideration. Willis T.
Morgan, retired Commissary Sergeant
U.S. A, of Rural Route 1, Concord, N.
H. says: “I was two years in Cuba
and two years in the Philippines. and
being subject to colds, I took Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption, which
kept me in perfect health. And now,
in New Hampshire, we find it the best
medicine in the world for coughs, colds,
bronchial troubles and all lung diseases,
Guaranteed at E. H. Miller's, druggist.
Price 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
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Democratic State and County Con-
ventions.
The Democratic State convention
was pulled off at Harrisburg, yester-
day, and it was a victory for the mug-
wump Republicans or Lincoln party
men. The Lincolnites succeeded in
forcing the endorsement of Louis
Emery, Jr., their candidate for Gover-
nor. The balance of the ticket is as
follows: Black, of York county, for
Lieutenant Governor; Adjutant Gener-
al, W. T. Creasy, of Columbia county;
Secretary of Internal Affairs, John J.
Green.
Dewalt, straight Democrat of Lehigh
county, made a strenuous fight for the
Governorship nomination. but was un-
able to land.
The Democrats of Somerset county
assembled in convention at Somerset,
last Saturday, and nominated a fusion
ticket, as follows: For Assembly,
Harvey Hay, of Salisbury, and Frank
P. Saylor, of Somerset township. Jury
Commissioner, Joseph C. Harding, of
Windber. Poor House Director, C.
Wesley Landis, of Brothersvalley town-
ship. For Congress and State Senate,
E. O. Kooser was nominated for the
former office, and W. H. Koontz for the
latter, both subject to the action of the
district conferences.
It will be the Republican ticket
against the field, this campaign, and
the fight will be flerce and bitter.
However, we believe that a majority of
the right-thinking people will support
the Republican ticket, which is easily
the bestin the field.
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WE HAVE NOTHING TO TAKE
BACK.
The Meyersdale Commercial last
week took a fit over the fact that THE
STAR told a few plain, unvarnished
truths concerning Wm. H. Koontz, the
so-called general who never donned a
soldier’s uniform nor never smelled
gunpowder.
Well, let Lou Smith rave and swal-
low his vomit all he likes, but the fact
still remains that THE STAR told the
truth about Wm. H. Koontz, and we
bave nothing to take back. We reiter-
ate every word we have said concern-
ing him, namely, that he wasn’t worth
a hill of beans to his constituents when
he was in the Legislature ; that he can
play poker as well in Somerset as in
Harrisburg; that much of his time dur-
ing the past few years has been spent
in heifering around with Democrats,
trying to disrupt the Repdblican party ;
that he wasn’t entitled to a vote at the
late Republican primary ; that he knew
he had no right to vote there when he
attempted it, ete.
Lou Smith may call our allegations a
foul attack or whatever he pleases, but,
ell the same, they are the truth, and he
and Wm. H. Koontz know it as well as
we do. Our attack, if it can so be eall-
ed, was not a foul attack, for it was
made in the open, where the so-called
general could read it and defend him-
self in the open. We fight all our bat-
tles in the open, giving our adversaries
a fair chance for their defense, and
that is more than can be said of “Gen-
eral” Koontz, who, after the manner of
a snake in the grass, is now conspiring
against us. Koontz takes the coward’s
way to come back at us, and we add
without fear of any man that he is both
a coward and an ingrate.
We say right here that the only no-
table thing “General” Xoontz did in
the Legislature was to make a vigorous
fight for the speakership. In that fight
Hon. 8. A. Kendall and all Koontz’s
other Somerset county friends fought
the battle with him, and for his bene-
fit, to the last ditch. He was defeated
by one vote, which was no fault of his
friends ; but because of his defeat for
the speakership, and the election of M.
8. Quay to the United States Senate,
which followed, the “general” at once
began to sulk in his tent, turn away
from the very party leaders that resur-
rected him from the political scrap pile,
where he was placed in 1882, and fawn
and cringe before the very political
tricksters and vampires who for years
had pursued him with deadly hate and
malice, covering him with slander and
insult upon every occasion that pre-
sented itself. Now he and his former
political enemies are going hand in
hand, doing all they can to disrupt the
Republican party, and making asses of
themselves in general. They are try-
ing to rend asunder the very party at
whose hands they have received both
honor and profit, and which has made
our country so prosperous as to be en-
vied by all the world.
The Commercial prates of what
“General” Koontz did for the Republi-
can party when it was born, but that is
only done to cloud the people’s eyes
against what he is doing now to disrupt
the party he helped to usher into ex-
istence. What “General” Koontz did
for the Republican party at its birth is
to his credit, and we have no desire to
rob him of any credit that is his due.
But what he is now doing against the
party is to his everlasting disgrace, and
the same is inspired not by any motive
for the benefit of the people, but by
personal spite and the gratification of
self-interest.
When Koontz was a candidate on the
Republican ticket, only a few years
ago, for Assembly, the Commercial and
Herald both cried out loudly against
him. They painted him in the blackest
shades as a political charlatan, and the
Commercial openly declared that he
should be defeated, and that it would
do all in its power to bring about bis
defeat. But now. since Koontz is in
the party-wrecking business, both the
Herald and the Commercial laud him
to the skies as a true and honorable
Republican, and they declare that such
he has always been. What consistency !
What gall it must require for self-styl-
ed stalwart Republican newspapers to
oppose Koontz when he is running on
the Republican ticket, declaring that
he is a renegade, half-breed, independ-
ent, etc., and then declaring that he is
a Simon-pure and stalwart Republican
when he is to run on a Democratic-
fusion ticket! What could be more
ridiculous and ludicrous than the Com-
mercial’s and Herald’s present po-
sition?
The Commercial now speaks of
Koontz as “this good and great man,”
and declares that the “general” has
friends at Washington and all over the
state who will not let THE SrTar’s at-
tack go unscathed. In spite of the
Commercial’s declaration now, its edi-
tor would not vote for “this good and
gréat man” the last time fie was a can-
didate on the Republican ticket. THE:
STAR fears neither Koontz nor bis
friends, nor have we ever fawned or
cringed before the “general,” as the
Commercial declares we have. Men of
our temperament are not built to fawn
or to cringe, and we wouldn’t know
how to do that if we wanted to. We
know how to chastise a man when he
needs it, but cringing and fawning are
strangers to our makeup.
Of course, “General” Koontz has:
friends. Every man has. He undoubt-
edly has some in Washington and all’
over the state, and it is pretty sure that
he will have lots of them in hades after-
a while—some from the Commercial’
and Herald offices, especially, for they:
are not honest, true friends, but only:
friends to the “general” when thew
think he can be of service in getting
the Commercial and Herald back to
the pie counter.
“General” Koontz, no matter what he-
may have been at one time, is not a:
great man now. Furthermore, his per--
sonal habits are not such, of late years,.
as to entitle him to be called a good
man. Anyway, no matter what he is or-
what he has been, Tur STAR is nov
afraid of the size of the game when it
goes gunning for “varmints” of any
kind, and any fellow we go after will
always find in us a foeman worthy of
his steel, no matter whether it be “Gen-
eral” Koontz or the devil with all his
1ups thrownin. THE STAR must indeed
be considered very formidable, if the
“general” is afraid to attack it without
his friends in Washington and all over
the state coming to his assistance.
POLITICAL ADVERTISING.
The Westmoreland Republican pri-
mary was perhaps as honest a primary
as has been held in that county for
some time, yet the admitted expendi-
tures of the candidates exceeded $5,000.
The fact is pointed out that the can-
didates who spent the most money re-
ceived the nominations. The fact is
perhaps not so significant as the in-
sinuation. If is reasonable to suppose
that thorough advertising had much to
do with success. Printers’ ink brings
success in business, and we see no rea-
son why it should not be a material
help in polities.
It will not, of course, insure the nom-
ination to a weak candidate, any more
than it will sell inferior goods at high
prices, but the candidate who has good
claims to the favor of his party will not
be wise if he fails to properly exploit
them by the liberal use of that general
publicity which the newspapers furnish
at so low a price.—Connellsville Cou-
rier.
The amounts spent by the Westmore-
land candidates are as follows, and by
comparing the figures with the amounts
spent by the candidates in Somerset
county during the last Republican pri-
mary campaign, it will be observed
that the Westmoreland candidates
spent far more money than did the
candidates in Somerset county:
Distriet Attorney: John F. Wentling,
Jr., $1326.38; W. T. Dom, Jr., of Greens-
burg, $776.66. Prothonotary: H. N.
Yont, of Greensburg, $611.01; William
J. Potts, of Ligonier, $608.73. Clerk of
Courts, John H. Hawke, of Greensburg,
$495.99 ; Hugh Price, of North Bellever-
non, $453.81. Assembly, E. P. Weddell,
of Scottdale, $149.46; D. B. Sullivan, of
New Kensington, $227.65; R. W. Fair,
of Loyalhanna township, $148.48; Ber-
key H. Boyd, of Scottdale, $197.50; Guy
B. Flyte, of Ligonier, $22350; E. E.
McAdoo, of Ligonier, $162.25. Jury
Commissioner, M. I. Barnhart, $119.85.
Here is what the Somerset county
candidates spent. For Congress: Mil-
ler, $1,021.83; Ogle, $428.02. Senate:
Berkey, $152.55; Weller, $147.05. As-
sembly: Horner, $329.75; Knepper,
$215.55; Endsley, $426.56; Duncan,
$281.75. The expenses of the other
Somerset county candidates did nod.
foot up to $50 each.
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