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SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA.. THURSDAY. MARCH 19. 1908.
= Puli Amouncements,
TU Candidates, Toke Notice.
Announcements under this head will be
run until the date of the Spring primary
for $5.00. Additional matter will be insert-
ed for 5 cents per line, each insertion, ex-
cept for candidates who carry no standing
announcement in this paper, who will be
charged 10 cents. per line, each insertion.
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
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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
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