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LICK, PA. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET. | : with each recurring election hjs can- | This procedure set the precedent for
es . vass becomes correspondingly Sosy he entire country, the order being
For President, His opposition amounts to practically | amplified later to meet a general con-
> . WILLIAM H. TAFT, nothing in the present campaign. His [dition that was rapidly becoming
ra $ Of Ohio. popularity may be justly attributed to ! alarming.
RSET, PA, i For Viee President, the generally recognized fact that his Much of the eredjt for the appoint-
{ JAMES 8S. SHERMAN life in a public and private capacity | ment of a commission and the appro-
{ oF Now York > has always been above question and | priation of $150,000 to investigate the
> - : beyond reproach. ! cause of the recent appalling mine
i STATE. ’ While Mr. Cooper’s political success disasters, properly belongs to Mr.
2 Jud {8 for. Court is the admiration of nearly every leader | Cooper. His short, crisp speech in its
BT/PA. nc go of Buperio : : in either party in the state, there is no | favor, when he predicated his remarks
. A WILLIAM D. PORTER, WORTHY REPU BLICAN CANDIDATE secret about it. Seghere, by the Rel, on the fat oa presented the
: RICT. are something that do not appea to | greatest fuel distriet in'the world, and
hn DISTRIO To FOR RE-ELECTION. him. He is plain-spoken, mild-man- his vote in its behalf, had much to do
ave ot Congress, 23rd Districe, nered, extremely sociable to all, a | with the passage of the measure.
Fesery i v= is ALLEN F. COOPER. staunch Republican—and in politics he As a member of the Committee on
Pets In. | . ¥ has never been anything else. As a Foreign Affairs—one of the most im-
P 1 COUNTY. member of Congress he never plays | portant in the House, and of supreme
. Legislature, ¢ | political favorites, and all complaints | importance in case of war and the set-
FONEER. y WM. H. FLOTO, 4 or appeals to him universally com- |tlement of international imbroglios—
A. W. KNEPPER. ' mand the same prompt and effective | Mr. Cooper's influence has been felt
les, Live Sheriff, service. Every foot of the territory in | more than once. His activity has
Ae. . CHARLES H. WEIMER. his district has the same relative im-'| taken the form of advancing the trade
N-8CHOOL. : > portance to him, every unit in its popu- | relations of the United States with the
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W. H. H. BAKER,
JACOB 8S. MILLER.
Recorder of Deeds,
NORMAN E. BERKEY.
Clerk of Courts,
F. A. HARAH.
Register of Wills,
BERT F. LANDIS.
hy Treasurer,
RUSSELL G. WALKER.
Prothonotary,
JACOB B. GERHARD.
Poor Director,
JACOB C. DEITZ.
County Commissioner,
R. 8. McMILLEN,
JOSIAH SPECHT.
‘ County Surveyor,
. IRENIS 8. PYLE.
Up to date Colonel Likins has not
advanced a single argument why he
should not be permitted to remain in
Uniontown.—Somerset Herald.
SomERsET county voters do not take
L . kindly, to the line of talk the Prohibi-
tion eandidate for ongress is hand-
. ing out. If a tithe of the “hot stuff”
he is pouring out on this side of. the
mountain is true, Likins should run
for Constable, where it would be his
duty io imform upon his neighbors
3 who overstep the law. Decent people
have no time for his unsupported
charges and nastier insinuations.—Som-
+ erset Herald.
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A poLL which was taken by a promi-
nent New York newspaper in a prom-
inent New York theater, the other
* night, resulted as follows: Number of
votes cast, 318; for Taft, 223; for Bryan,
83; for Debs, 10; for Hisgen. 2. As this
poll was taken by a paper that is
strenuous in its opposition to Taft, it
~ cannot take out of its poll anything
more than the satisfaction that it is
apparently honest with its readers. —
Uniontown Herald.
Wixpy Bini Likins, in his People’s
~ . Tribune of last week, makes fun of us
because we are poor. That comes with
bad grace from a man who is pleading
for votes on the ground that he is
r. poor. He even says we are having a
« hard time to keep out of the Poor
House. That would be bad enough, if
‘true, but we are not so all-fired poor as
that. In fact we are in a position to
lend “Windy Bill” some money, if he
can give the proper sécurity. And
furthermore, we have issued many
hundreds of checks in our. time, and
snot one of them ever went to protest
° or eame back marked as worthless.
But how about yours, Billy?
©" “QongrEssMAN CooPER is oerralling
the votes of some of the Democratic
war veterans,” says the Connellsville:
Courier. This is only natural, as the
old soldiers, without regard to party,
¥* have found in Mr. Cooper the most ac-
tive and effective champion that has
yet represented. this district in Con-
gress. The only person who has ever
, found fault with Mr. Cooper for his un-
© tiring Work in behalf of the old war
veterans is the red-headed Kentucky
mutt and common puke known as
“Windy Bill” Likins, who is now going
about traducing Mr. Cooper and beg-
ging votes for the same office Mr.
Cooper is sure to be re-elected to on
ol Nov. 3rd. “Windy Bill” is trying to
make much of the fact ‘that he chal-
} lenged Mr. Cooper for a joint debate,
and that the ehallenge was not ac-
cepted, a fact which is highly creditable
» j= "to the gentleman challenged. Should
Mr. Cooper ever so far forget his manly
principles as to accept a challenge from
a dirty blackguard and insignificant
, nonentity of the Likins stripe, thereby
lending prominence to such an addle-
pated human microbe, he would in
i that event deserve to lose the respect
i and support of all honest and manly
i men,
casion.
Congress pledged to support him is the
only Yay in which to perpetuate the policy
of the Government as now carried on.
fel that all the aid that can be given to
this, policy by every good citizen sdould be
given; forthis is far more than a merely
partisan matter.— Theodore Roosevelt in
his letter to Hon. William B. McKinley,
Chairman of the Republican Congress-
ional Committee. >
While the election of a President may
be regarded as the supreme political
outcome of the year, it is doubtful if it
transcends in national interest the re-
sult of the Congressional elections the
country over. If the voters of this, the
Twenty-third Congressional district,
keep this thought in, mind and weigh
the importance of this election from
the supreme standpoint of the indorse-
ments of the Roosevelt administration
and the continuance of the Roosevelt
policies, together with the support of
Mr. Taft and his program and the pro-
tection of the great industrial interests
of this district in the extremely 'im-
portant approaching revision of the
tariff, they certainly cannot afford to
ignore the claims that the Republican
candidate. Allen F. Cooper, has upon
their consideration and suffrage. If
they weigh the importance of this
Congressional election from
ditional standpoints of able representa-
these needs, they are bound to return
| Mr. Cooper to Congress by the largest
| majority ever accorded any candidate
| in this district.
| But however strong his claims may
| be, Mr. Cooper is not the man to in-
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calamity to the country; and it would be |
folly, while electing him, yet at the same i
. : : of his cons s ;
time to elect a Congress hostile to him, a | he . hi Pilon thousands of whom
ws 'S >
Congress which under the influence of |p. be oy re ya Bg,
partisan leadership would be certain to years, and many of them all their
? . | lives. It is not only as a
thwart and baffle him on every possible oc- | : member of
To elect him and at the same time elect a |
the ad-|
tion, ample experience, a clean life, an |
admirable business, professional and |
Congressional record, a keen realiza- |
tion of the needs of this district and |
the disposition and energy to secure]
COOPER.
As a loyal Supporter in €ongress of Roosevelt, Mr. Cooper Pledg-
es His Support to Taft, to a Continuance of the Present
Government Policies and to that Revision of the Tariff Which
Will Best Conserve the Paramount Industrial Interests of
Somerset, Fayette and Greene Counties.
F.
How Well Mr. Cooper Measures Up to the
Roosevelt Congressional Standard—Six Years
of Tireless Endeavor for His District, Its
People and Their Interests.
‘| dulge in speculati
To fail to elect Mr. Taft would be ol KR “peculation as to the extent of
his majority. He is content to let his
[chances rest on a justifiable friendship
| Congress that Mr. Cooper meets the
| people of his district ; it is more as a
| friend and neighbor; for he was born,
(raised and sghooled among his ¢on-
| stituents, and he has lived among them
| since the day of his birth or a farm in
| Franklin township, Fayette county,
| Tune 16, 1862. Mr, Cooper needs no in-
| troduction to the people of his district.
| They know him, they understand him
{and they know what he has done and
[can do. Their friendships are as mu-
tual as their interests. However, in
the hope of emphasizing the importance
of the approaching Congressional elec-
tions in general, and that in this dis-
trict in particular, we deem it proper
to call attention to the career, ‘qualifi-
cations and record of Mr. Cooper in the
following resume:
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As soon ag Mr. Cooper was able to
work, he had to tackle. the farm. He
wintered in the country school and
summered among the crops. And
when he was old enough to command
authority, he taught school for six
years, always in his own county of
Fayette, fHe was pripeipal in the
Belle Vernon schools for two years,
and his last year of teaching was for
the normal term in Ohiopyle.
But Mr. Cooper was ambitious. In
[the fall of 1866 he entered the law de-
| partment of the University of Michi-
l gan. at Ann Arbor. He graduated two
years later, was admitted to the bar in
Fayette county, December 4,1888, and
while he prospered in business and ad-
vinced in his profession, he never of-
fered him-elf as a candidate for any
office until he entered the lists for
Congress. That was six years ago, and
[he has been there ever since, growing
{ more aetive in behalf of his constitu-
ents, and becoming “more valuable to
weir interests, until his hold on their
affections has become so strong that
lation has the same claims upon his
consideration. He represents the peo-
ple of the Twenty-third Congressional
district—that is all.
If there be an element ia the citizen-
ship of his district that appeals to Mr.
Cooper, to his instant consideration
and the imperative dictates of his
heart, it is that of the veterans of our
nation’s wars. If there be anything in
his Congressional career of which he is
particularly proud, it is the knowledge
which generally obtains in Washington
among his fellow-members and the
newspaper correspondents, that he is
one of the best friends of the old
soldier on the floor of the House. That
Mr. Cooper’s patriotic offorts in their
behalf are appreciated, was evidenced
at the last meeting of the Fayette
County Veterans’ Association, in
Uniontown, on Thursday, October 1,
when the hundreds of old soldiers
present at that gathering unanimously
adopted a ringing resolution of thanks
to him for his untifing efforts in look-
ing after and advancing their interests
at Washington. One of the last meas-
ures for which Mr. Cooper worked and
voted at the recent’ session of Con-
gress, was the Widows’ Pension bill,
making the minimum allowance $12
per month with the removal of any
property disqualification. Mr. Cooper
was also largely instrumental in se-
curing the passage of the bill granting
medals to the soldiers of the Spanish-
American war, who, at the instance of
President McKinley served in the
Philippines after their original term of
enlistment had expired. President
McKinley promised them that he would
recommend that Congress provide
suitable and proper recognition for
their patriotic service.
Next to Mr. Cooper’s pride in -his
efforts for the old soldiers. comes the
satisfaction he feels in having. as a
member of Congress, stood for every
policy and measure advocated by Mr.
Roosevelt that received the considera-
tion of Congress. Mr. Cooper support-
ed Mr. Roosevelt in, and voted for such
measures as the Meat Inspection bill,
those providing for the type and con-
struction of the Panama Canal, the
Employers’ Liability bill, the bill to
make the Government liable for injury
to employes, the Hepburn bill, the
Pure Food bill, the Railway Safety Ap-
pliance bill, the bill limiting the work-
ing hours of‘ railway employes, the
Anti-Rebate bill, an improved system
of naturalization, the law forbidding
child labor in the District of Columbia,
and the bill providing for a currency
commission.
An instance of Mr. Cooper’s effective
work in Washington arose in connec-
tion with the orders issued during the
recent money stringency, forbidding
the shipment of currency out of the
country districts where such moneys
were collected and kept on deposit in
the banks of those districts. When
currency was so scarce that tke people
were forced to the almost general use
of script, pay rolls could not be made
up, and there was an extravagant
premium on money, the depository
banks in Pittsburg undertook to drain
the banks of Fayette county of the
thousands of dollars collected weekly
in the shape of postal and money order
receipts and internal revenue collec-
tions under regulations made to suit
their selfish ends. The metropolitan
banks all over the country were doing
the same thing, to the detriment of the
country districts and their imminent
ruin. The bankers of Fayette county
then appealed to Mr. Cooper. Together
| with J. V. Thompson, of Uniontown,
| Mr. Cooper went to Washington, saw
[ the Secretary of
Postmaster General and even Presi-
dent Roosevelt himself, with the result |
that an order went forth from Wash-
ington that drafts would have to be ac-
| cepted for these moneys, an
| rency kept in the Fayett
{for the benefit of
the Treasury, the |
South. American republics, and with
the nations of the world, to the end
that there shall be the greatest possible
demand for the products ‘which have
made the Pittsburg district the great-
est industrial district in the world; and
Mr. Cooper’s own district the scene of
the most marvelous development in
the world’s history. Even along hu-
manitarian lines has he been active,
for the highly important Tuberculosis
Congress, which has just adjourned its
sessions in Washington, was called to-
gether at the instance of the United
States, upon a resolution affirmatively
recommended to Congress by the sub-
committee of the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, of which sub-committee Mr,
Cooper was chairman.
As a leading member of the Com-
mittee on Irrigation, Mr. Cooper has
done much to aid in the reclamation of
thousands of arid acres in the West.
As a member of the Committee on
Railways and Canals, he materially
assisted Congressman Dalzell in sccur-
ing the passage of the Ohio River and
Lake Erie Ship Canal bill, connecting
the Great Lakes with the Ohio river,
an improvement that will prove of in-
estimable transportation value to the
great Pittsburg district. It was large-
ly through Mr. Cooper’s efforts that the
new lock and dam No. 5, at Browns-
ville, is being constructed, his idea be-
ing that the improvement of the upper
Monongahela would permit of. the de-
velopment of the new coal fields of
Fuyetie and Greene counties, and get
these valuable deposits into touch with
the southern markets.
It was through Mr. Cooper's efforts
that the project of canalizing the
Yough river was reopened; that the
people from West Newton to Connells-
ville might be given a rehearing in the
NO. 10.
] Fayette to recount a few of his efforts
in their behalf.
| Mr. Cooper has been successful in
| securing rural free delivery through-
| out Somerset county, se that practice
| ally every farmer has his mail deliv-
ered at his door. He has persuaded
the Government to take up the propo-
sition of city free delivery in the town
of Meyersdale, and the Government
has promised its early establishment.
He succeeded in getting free delivery
established in the town of Somerset,
some time ago.
Mr. Cooper has also been instrumen--
tal n getting the Department of Geo-
logical Survey to undertake a topo-
graphical and geographical survey of
the entire county, with a view of get--
ting a complete and early report on the:
resources of the county and bring;
them to the attention of the business
world. His devotion to the interests
of the old soldiers of Somerset county
has been fully on a par with tha- for
the veterans of Fayette county.
. As for Greene county, it may be said
that Mr. Cooper has done as muel to
hasten he early coal development:
h-re as any man, with the exception
of J. V. Thompson. No man has done
more for its industrial extension. Mr.
Cooper has extensive interests in that
county, which make its development a
matter of common interest to him and
the people of Greene.
It is possible to recount the personal
and Congressional efforts of Mr. Cooper
in behalf of the reople of his entire
district to an indefinite degree, but that
is unnecessary. It is sufficient to say
in closing—and there is ample evidence
to bear out this oft-repeated remark—
that Mr. Cooper has done more for this
district than any other member of Con-
gress that ever represented it. His
election, as Mr. Roosevelt says, is far
more than a merely partisan matter.
His candidacy demands the support
of every good citizen without regard
to party.
NOT A SINGLE OBJECTION TO RE-
PUBLICAN TICKET.
From the Somerset Herald.
Not a single objection can be raised
against any of the candidates on the
Republican ticket, from Taft and Sher-
man down to the end of the list. There
is not the slightest doubt that every
man on the ticket will be triumphant-
ly elected. but the Republicans of Som-
erset county should do their full duty
by seeing that the mujority 1s the
largest ever polled in this Republican
stronghold. Congressman Allen F.
Cooper has no opposition worthy of
the name. He was fairly cominated at
the primaries, and as the candidate of
the party is entitled to the votes of all
matter of securing a new survey, to the
end that the enormous shipping of the
Yough valley should be developed, and
Conrellsville accorded her just trans-
portation due. ”
It was Mr. Cooper who secured an
appropriation of $90,000 to secure a site
for and provide the erection of a fine
postoffice building in Connellsville, the
first public building to be secured for
any city or town in this district.
But all this is a matter of retrospect.
More important than all is the pros-
pective. No matter who is elected
President next month, there is bound
to be a revision of the tariff at an extra
session of Congress to be called im-
mediately after the fourth ef next
March. The platforms of both the
great parties demand this. The in-
terests of the people of this district, as
well as those of the great Pittsburg
district, of which this is considered a
part, are at stake in this proposed re-
vision. There are certain schedules
which must be accorded that treatment
calculated not only to preserve the in-
dustries which have made Fayette,
Greene aud Somerset counties part of
the richest and most prosperous dis-
“trict in the United States, but to con-
tinue their development so magnifi-
cently begun.
This revision demands careful, cour-
ageous, inteliigent and experienced
treatment, such treatment as can only
be accorded by a man so keenly alive
to the industrial importance of his dis-
trict as Mr. Cooper is known to be. In
this connection it may be said that a
new man would be of little service.
For next to Mr. Cooper’s pre-eminent
qualifications for this duty, his charac-
ter and standing with his fellow-mem-
bers of Congress are such as to enable
him to enlist their co-operation and
| support in behalf of any measure or |
policy calculated to extend the inter- |
| ests of his constituents. Congress
recognizes his conscientious devotion
to duty and his capacity for fairness,
a recognition
in.
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Republicans, if for no other reason.
But there are other reasons why Mr.
Cooper should be returned to Wash-
ington at this time. President Taft
must have the aid of a Republican
House in order ‘to carry forward the
Roosevelt policies to which he stands
committed, and for which Republicans
are united everywhere. Mr. Cooper
has served acceptably as member of
Congress for three terms, and his fa-
miliarity with his duties and the re-
quirements of the people of this im-
portant mining and manufacturing
distriet ably qualify him to represent
them at Washington. Mr. Cooper has
shown his friendship for the veteran
soldiers on many occasions, .and they
are for him almost to a man.
Every candidate on the county tick-
et is worthy of the support the Herald
is confident they will receive at the polls
on November 3rd. Not one of them is
beholden to a party boss for his nomi-
nation, and all were chosen at open
and fairly conducted primaries. Let
us make the majority for the whole
ticket, National, State and County, the
largest ever given in Somerset county.
TE People’s Tribune says a vote
for Cooper is a vote for Rinehart. This
statement certainly needs a diagram.
Rinehart isn’t running for anything,
and if he was, he wouldn’t be running
on the Republican ticket.—Connells-
ville Courier.
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