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Portrait cuts will be inserted at the rate of For ASSEMBLY, P. L. LIVENGOOD, Or SALISBURY BOROUGH. . Pledged to do all in his power for the re- peal of the compulsory vaccination law. I solicit the votes and influence of the Re- ‘publican voters at the Primary Election to be held April 11th, 1908. 1 am for local op- tion legislation and against the licensing of saloons, and I don’t care who knows it. P. L. LIVENGOOD. For ASSEMBLY, WILLIAM H. FLOTO, Or MEYEREDALE BOROUGH. Subject to the decision of the Republican votersat the Primary Election to be held April 11th, 1908. Your vote and influence respectfully solicited. FOR ASSEMBLY. To the Republican voters of Somerset county, Pa.: I hereby announce my candidacy for re- election to the Pennsylvania legislature. It has been a time honored custom that Somerset county members should be given a second term. 1 always yielded to this point in regard to my predecessors in that © body, and feel that IT am deserving of the same honor that was accorded them. I respectfully solicit your influence and support at the primary election to be held Saturday, April 11, 1908. AMOS W. KNEPPER. For PROTHONOTARY, J. H. HENTZ, BROTHERSVALLEY Twp. Subject to the decision of the Republican Primary Election ‘to be held Saturday, April 11,1908. Your vote and influence so- licited. To Tue VOTERS OF SoMERSET COUNTY. At the request of a large number of pa- trons of the Prothonotary’s Office. I have consented to be a candidate for re-election to said office. Thanking my many friends throughout the county for their kindness in the past, I again, most respectfully so- licit your support and influence at the Re- publican Primary Election to be held April 11,1908. Very respectrully, 4-9 s CHARLES C. SHAFER. For County TREASURER, U.F. RAYMAN, Or BROTHERSVALLEY TOWNSHIP. Subject to the decision of the Republican Primary Election, to be held Saturday, April 11,1908. YOUR VOTE AND INFLU- ENCE SOLICITED. For CouNTY TREASURER, JACOB KREGER, Or Kinewoobp, Pa. I am a candidate for nomination on the Republican ticket for County Treasurer, and solicit support at the Primary Elec- tion on April 11th, 1908. Iam an old soldier and lost a leg in the service. JACOB KREGER. For County TREASURER, J. 8. HARTZELL, OF ADDISON. 1 respectfully solicit your support for nomination on the Republican Ticket at the Primary Election to be held Saturday, April 11, 1908. FoR SHERIFF, J. W. HANNA, Or New CENTERVILLE. I solicit your support for nomination on the Republican Ticket, at the Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11, 1908. For SHERIFF, N. B. McGRIFF, Or SoMERSET BorOoUGH. I hereby’announce my candidacy for the | office of Sheriff of Somerset county, and respectfully ask the support of the Repub-~ licans at the coming Republican Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11 FOR RECORDER OF DEEDS. I hereby announce myself as a candidate for Recorder of Deeds, and solicit the sup- port of Republicans at the Primary Elec- tion to be held on Saturday, Aprilll, 1808. D. W. WELLER, Somerset, Pa. For COMMISSIONER, P. K. MOORE, Or M1DDLECREEK TOWNSHIP. Subject to the decision of the Republican Primary Election to be held April 11, 1908. I kindly solicit the support of the Republi- can voters. For County COMMISSIONER, | C. C. HECKLE; Or Summit TOWNSHIP. The support and influence of the Republi- cans of Somerset county is respectfully so- licited at the Primary Election to be held Saturday, April-1l, 1908. For County COMMISSIONER, JOSIAH SPECHT. Or QueEMAHONING TOWNSHIP. To the voters of Somerset county: At the request of a large number of par trons of the Commissioners’ office, I have consented to be a candidate for re-election to said office. Thanking my many friends throughout the cbunty for their kindness in the past, I again most respectfully so- licit their support and influence at the coming Republican Primary Election to be held April 11,1908. Very Respectfully, JOSIAH SPECHT. To Tue REPUBLICAN VOTERS OF SoMERSET COUNTY. I hereby announce myself as a Republi- ‘can candidate for the nomination of Coun- ty Commissioner at the primary election to be held Saturday, April 11th, 1908. Your support is respectfully solicited. 4-9 , RUSH 8S. MCMILLEN. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE For COUNTY COMMISSIONER, : HARRY 8. KIFER, Or SOMERSET BOROUGH. I solicit your support for nomination on the Republican ticket, at the Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11, 1908. - For County COMMISSIONER. I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of County Commissioner of Somerset county, and respectfully ask the support of the Republicans at the coming Republican Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11, 1908. ROBERT AUGUSTINE. . For County COMMISSIONER, J.J. REIMAN, OF SToNYCREEK TOWNSHIP. I solicit your support, at the Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11, 1908, for nomination on the Republican ticket. For: RECORDER OF DEEDS, NORMAN E. BERKEY, Or SoMERSET BOROUGH. 1 solicit your support at the Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11, 1908, for nomination on the Republican ticket. For PROTHONOTARY, JOHN H. SHAFFER, = Or LisTIE. I solicit your support at the Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11, 1908, for nomination on the Republican ticket, For REGISTER oF WILLS, ALBERT C. EICHER, Upper TURKEYFOOT TOWNSHIP, rt Fort HiLL P. O. Your vote and influence respectfully so- licited at the Republican Primary Election on April 11, 1908. For County TREASURER, WM. W. CRISE, Or LAVANSVILLE. v I solicit your support at the Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11, 3908, for nomination on the Republican ticket. For County COMMISSIONER, JOSEPH W. MEYERS, Or MivrorD TOWNSHIP. I solicit your support at the Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11, 1908, for nomination on the Republican ticket. For CLERK OF COURTS, F. A. HARAH, PRINCIPAL OF THE ROCKWO0OD SCHOOLS, solicitslyour support at the primary elec- tion on Saturday, April 11, 1908, for nomi- nation on the Republican Ticket. For SHERIFF, C.A. HUMBERT, Or MEYERSDALE Boro. I respectfully solicit your support, at the Primary Election to be held on Saturday, April 11th, 1908, for nomination on the Re- publican ticket. In Sheep's Away Startling Revelations The Anti-Saloon League Committee, which met in Rockwood a couple of weeks ago for the purpose of slating candidates for the Assembly, is being condemned on all sides, evenby many of the most pronounced temperance peoplein Somerset county. The ¢on- demnation and criticism is but just,so far as the schemers and double-dealers are concerned who dominated the little Rockwood convention reffered to. However, there were a few very honor- able men in that body, but they were innocently roped in by a few scheming Democrats and other wolves in sheep’s clothing who were more bent on dou- ble-dealing and spite work against cer- tain individuals than anything else. With them Local Option was,and still is only a secondary consideration. Such men are a hurt and a hindrance toany cause, and after the primary election is over they will find that they had picked up alive wire that played the very deuce with them. The members of the so-called Anti-q Saloon League committee are badly at variance with each other, for some of the duped ones have since gotten their eyes opened. Even some of those who are trying to sanction the work of the committee are spending about half of their time in bellyaching and lament- ing the fact that their slated candi- dates do not seem to enthuse thetem- perance people. The way they criticise one another is amusing in the extreme, and the way some of them tell conflict- ing stories and convict each. other of double-dealing is doubly amusing. ¢ is plain that practically everything was cut and dried before the committee met, and that Local Option sentiment was not the uppermost thing inthe minds of the schemers who dominated the committee. The Meyersdale Com- “mercial gives the whole scheme away in the two following articles. Follow- ing is what the Commercial had tosay in its issue of March 5th: HANDS OFF. The coming April primary promises to be one of the most unique ever held in Somerset county. We believe that the new Primary Election law has united both factions of the Republican party, so all that is needed to cement this union and weld it into one cohe- sive body, is for the self-styled bosses to keep their hands off. We need no bosses, but we do need fair play for every man that seeks an office. That’s all. : From the beginning it was announc- ed that contests would be made in As- sembly and delegates to the State Re- publican Convention, but that all ap- plicants for county offices should have a free field and fair fight for the offices they desire. This should be made good, and all attempts to pool issues by the Anti-Saloon League Slate-Makers Condemn- ~ed on All Sides—Local Option Only a Secondary Matter With Most of Them. Double Dealing and Deception Their Game — Meyersdale Commercial Gives Scheme High-Handed Bossism and Threats Indulgéd in. not Stand for—Democratic Tricksters Dominate Rockwood Convention. Clothing. that the People Will that Floto, like Editor Smith, has ever been a renegade Democrat and any old thing to down J. A. Berkey and the Re- publican county organization. = No sooner is Floto slated by the so-called Anti-Saloon League committee, than the Commercial comes out with the fol- lowing, which appeared in its issue of last week: : StrIPPED FoR BATTLE. The committee appointed by the Anti-Saloon League attended to that duty at Rockwood on Thursday last, the entire day being required to per- form the task alotted them. It was a foregone conclusion that A. W. Knepper, the present representa- tive, would be chosen, as he had voted with the Anti-Saloon people during the last session of the Legislature, when the latter came within a few votes of winning. Mr. W. H. Floto, of this bor- ough, was chosen as Mr. Knepper’s run- ning mate by a pronounced majority of the committee. ; This clarifies the situation. The fight is now on in earnest, as the Anti- Saloonists will have organizations, they say, in every district of the coun- ty. If they do this it means but little comfort for those candidates who are browsing under the talismanic cry of Local Option, but who have no right, since the Rockwood action, to sport the title. = On the other hand, the Liquor men have their chosen candidates, but who, they are zealously striving to conceal, and so far they seem to be successful in a measure, but as the fight progresses these will be smoked out, and the few who masquerade as Local Optionites, but without authority from the tem- perance people, will be ground to pow- der in the fierce contest. Thisthing of Local Option is mostly a matter of comscience, with which no one would care to interfere. In this connection it is just as well to say that every Anti-Saloonist is Anti-Penrose to the death. This” brings in Banking Commissioner Berkey, for he is expect- ed to beliver two solid Pensose mem- bers to the next Assembly. If this does not make a hot fight, then there never was one in Somerset county. Look for the fur to fly from this on. We predict this—if the Anti-Saloon- ists organize in every district of the county and men vote as they pray, then John A. Berkey is facing his Waterloo. But will they? Reader, did you ever see a more dis- gusting case of “before and after” than the Commercial’s approval and disap- proval of bossism and slate-making, coming almost in the same breath? In his “Hands Off” article the editor of the Commercial condemns bossism and slate-making, asking for an open field and a fair fight for all the candidates. big and little bosses, should be avoided, if the real good of the Republican party is to be considered. We have about eighty candidates for the several offices in question, and we defy any other county of this great com- monwealth to show a better, more in- telligent body of men, more earnest and more enthusiastic. Any boss that at- tempts to pool issues or effect combi- nations that will imperil any one of with all. tlands off and fair play for all. In the foregoing paragraphs under some docirine. to Peter couldn’t be any better: For CLERK OF THE COURTS, JOHN E. LENOX, ~R OF THE BERLIN RECORD. , | April 11th, 1908. 1908 respectfully solicited, Subject to the decision of the Republican voters at the Primary Election to be held | Your vote and influence | wallow, and the dog to his vomit. cial. these canlidates will have to reckon | {and the Commercial has given the | whole snap away. No sooner are two slated by a committee more interested in side is- sues than in Local Option, than the Commercial bobs up and gives notice to all candidates not on the slate to get off What could be a more arrogant brand of bossism the caption of “Hands Off)” the Com- | mercial has handed out some whole- | The gospel according | But | alas! the sow generally returns to her It is even so with the Meyersdale Commer- | That paper hasjalways been an out | | and out Floto organ, owing to the fact | were placed on theslate at Rockwood. | He threatens any effort at slate-making with the vengeance of the people. The fact is the leaders of the two fac- for it. tasteful to the voters. African in the woodpile, nevertheless anti-Penrose candidates .| except Hon. T.. C. Lambert. tions of the Republican party dare not attempt to make slates for themselves, this year, as the voters will not stand Neither have they dared, nor will they dare to make a combination slate, for that would be even more dis- But there is an Well, that may. be the view Editor | Smith takes of the matter, but we opine | that the voters in general will take =a vastly different view of it. The Uni- form Prim&ry Act. bars none out from becoming candidates on any issue they see fit, and the beauty of it is that no one needs to consult a boss, clique, com- mittee, newspaper or self-appointed gang of slate-makers in regard to the issues they desire to run on. Several of the Local Option candi- dates now in the field had announced their candidacy and their platform be- fore the committee of Rockwood slate- makers existed, and as they have spent considerable money in making their respective campaigns, they are not go- ing to be bulldozed or forced from the race at this stage of the game. So far as P. L.. Livengood is concerned, he was the first Legislative candidate in the field on any issue, and he has sofar been the only one of the Local Option candidates that has been outspoken and fearless in the cause of temperance, We can’t quite see our way clear to get out of the way for aman who sajd two years ago, before being elected to the Legislature, that he would be satisfied with one term, nor for his running mate, who has at no time openly declared himself for Local Option. The Local Optionist who will not publicly declare his position, is no better than the whiskey candidate who will not openly commit himself. Toremain silent on a great issue in which the people are interested, or to tell one’s position only in a whisper or toa few certain people, is dishonest politics, and such a course is intended only to deceive. P. L. Livengood is in the Legislative race to remain to the finish, and he will take orders from no ‘man on earth. Neither will he hide his candle under a bushel, for he wants noman to vote for him in the dark. The Meyersdale Com- mercial tries to drive him from the race by threats, and the Somerset Democrat is trying to force him out of the Re- publican party. But we are still with the G. O. P., standing firmly on the planks of Local Option and Anti-Vac- cination, and we intend to remain there. And why shouldn’t we remain in the race? Behold bulldozing has failed to frighten us, and now P. J. Blough, the secretary of the slate-makers, has fa- vored us with a personal letter in which he assures us that there is to be no further dictation or coercion in the matter. Well, we should rather think not, for our nose isn’t shaped right to be coerced, and judging from what we hear people say, making a slate and getting the people to stand by it, are two widely different propositions. The Commercial cannot discuss Local Option without bringing Banking Com- missioner Berkey and Senator Penrose into the discussion, and declares that every Anti-Saloonist is Anti-Penrose to the death. That’s the same silly view a few niscredited political ward-heelers in the League committee took of the matter, and that’s why they made an irreparable blunder of the work they had to perform. The President of that committee has himself admitted to Tre STAR that they made a sorry mess of it, but added, “we’ll go down with colors flying.” That they will go down, there is not the slightest doubt, and the deeper they go down into political oblivion, the better. Had the officers of the committee apprised the different candidates before getting promises from them, that the committee to act on their political fortunes was made up partly of Democrats and Prohibitionists, not one of the candidates, except the twoslated at Rockwood, would have had anything to do with that kind of a committee. Democrats and Prohibi- tionists are all right in their proper place, but their proper place is not in a conference with Republicans to slate candidates for the Republican party. In conclusion we beg to say that it is not true that all Local Optionists are Anti-Penrose. The percentage of Pen- rose people in favor of Local Option is as large as it is in the Anti-Penrose crowd, and, we believe, larger. Neither Penrose nor Berkey are in the least a portion of this issue,and the attempt to inject them into it is altogether out of place, and those attempting it are mere- ly after the grinding of some very dull political axes, and the wreaking of per- '| sonal spite, while pretending to be greatly interested in Local Option. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing, and after April 11th they can go away back and sit down. JOHN E. LENOX, Editor Berlin Record, of Berlin Borough. ‘An Open Field For All and No Slate.” : To Tre REPUBLI€AN VOVERS: I am a candidate for Clerk of Courts, and ask your support for the Republi- can nomination at the Primary Elec- tion, Saturday, April 11, 1908. To be eandid with you, I want the office for what remuneration can be honestly derived therefrom. I am capable of filling the position, other- wise I would not seek it, and if nomi- nated and elected, pledge that the of- fice shall be conducted in a satisfactory manner to all concerned. In season and out of season, year in and year out, through the columns: of the “Record” and in a personal way, I have always served the best interests of the people, and when “workers” were most needed by the Republican party, my coat was off until the last vote had been polled. No reasonable favor asked of me has ever met with a refusal, and now, in return, I am ask- ing the party to favor me with the nomination for Clerk of Courts. I have two opponents in the field, both excellent gentlemen. Mr. Fike, the present incumbent, is seeking another term, but the sentiment of the voters is against retention in office. Mr. Harah is not a politician and never rendered the party any service. He is an educator of marked ability and one of the very few men in the county pe- culiarly fitted to succeed to the County Superintendency of Schools, which is his ambition. The loss of his abilities to the schools would be a misfortune. The foregoing is an honest and straightforward statement of facts for your careful consideration. ; My editorial duties will not permit of a very extensive personal canvass of the county, and I will here thank you for what you may do in my behalf. Very Respectfully. Jorx E. Lenox. THE LUCKY QUARTER Is the one you pay out for a box of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. They bring you the health that’s more precious than jewels. Try them for headache, biliousness, constipation and malaria If they disappoint you the price will be cheerfully refunded at E. H. Miller's drug store. ™ 4-1 A Belated Letter that is Somewhat Complimentary, Although from a Prejudiced Source. SoMERSET, PA., March 14th, 1908. Peter L. Livengood, Salisbury, Pa. My Dear Bir: —At a meeting of the campaign committee, = Anti-Saloon League, March 6th, I was asked to in- form you of the action of said committee in the indorsement of Amos W. Knepper and W. H. Floto for the General As- sembly, from Somerset county, and to say that the committee was not un- mindful of your claims or merit, as well as of your courteous bearing in seeking our endorsement. We bear you the best of good will, and wish for you under different and more favorable circumstances the success which your intellectual at- tainment would merit. The delay in communicating this to you is my fault, and is due largely to my being away from home. Cordially, J.D. GARRISON. GOOD FOR EVERYBODY. Mr. Norman R. Coulter, a prominent architect, in the Delbert Building, San Francisco, says: “I fully endorse all NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. or be ground to powder. | than that? 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