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VOL. XIV.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 29. 1908.
NO. $2.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET.
For President,
WILLIAM H. TAFT,
Of Ohio.
For Vice President,
JAMES S. SHERMAN,
Of New York.
STATE.
Judge of Superior Court,
WILLIAM D. PORTER.
DISTRICT.
Congress, 23rd District,
ALLEN F. COOPER.
COUNTY.
Legislature,
WM. H. FLOTO,
A. W. KNEPPER.
Sheriff,
CHARLES H. WEIMER.
Auditor,
W. H. H. BAKER,
JACOB S. MILLER.
Recorder of Deeds,
NORMAN E. BERKEY.
Clerk of Courts,
F.A. HARAH.
Register of Wills, =
BERT F. LANDIS.
Treasurer,
RUSSELL G. WALKER.
Prothonotary,
JACOB B. GERHARD.
Poor Director,
JACOB C. DEITZ.
County Commissioner,
R. 8. McMILLEN,
: JOSIAH SPECHT.
County Surveyor,
IRENIS 8S. PYLE.
LYING LIKINS.
Lays Himself Liable to Civil and
Criminal Action by His Absurd
Wholesale Lying.
* One of the favorite pastimesof W.
M. Likins in making his campaign for
Congress on the Prohibition ticket, has
been to write garbled accounts of his
meetings. He has all "along been his
own reporter, and his reports have
been dated at various towns and head-
ed in such a way as to make them ap-
pear as telegraphic reports sent to his
paper by regular newspaper corre-
spondents.
Most of his reports have been made
up of anything and everything, except
facts. His account of ‘his Salisbury
meeting is especially deceptive and
full of lies, as all people here are well
aware of. It is devoted largely to
slandering and lying about the editor
of this paper, and his report is dated
Somerset, Pa., Oct. 20th. Among other
things it makes the lying assertion that
Livengood was appointed postmaster
some years ago by Congressman Coop-
er. but that he was drunk nearly all
the time, mismanaged the office, and
that finally Cooper had to name his
suece-sor.
Such charges are dangerous ones to
make, and if Likins gets himself be-
hind the bars, he will have no one to
blame but himself. The assertions
named are only a few of his damnable
lies, and if he will lie like that about
us, how much more will ke lie about
his opponent for office, the Hon. A. F.
Cooper?
As practically everybody in this town
and vicinity well knows, P. L. Liven-
good was postmaster here long before
A. F. Cooper was sent to Congress.
The appointment was made when Som-
erset county was yet a portion of the
Somerset, Bedford, Cambria and Blair
Congressional district. Congressman
Cooper had nothing whatever to do
with our appointment, and no petition
ever had anything whatever to do with
our resignation, which was a voluntary
never made any criticism on the man-
per we conducted the office. Neither
did any of the patrons of the office
them at the postoffice during the eight
years of our administration, for they
were always courteously treated” and
well served. And furthermore, after
we had served our first four years. and
another applicant tried his best to get
the office away from us, and even had
the endorsement and recommendation
of Alvin Evans, then our representative
in Congress and unfriendly to the Re-
publican faction we have always train-
ed with, the Department refused to
make the change, for the reason that
the postmaster had a splendid record
with the Department, and a very large
majority of the patrons of the office
petitioned for no change. And thus
did we continue to hold the office for
another four years, which was nearly
two years longer than we actually
We resigned for the simple reason
that the volume of business transacted
by the office had grown to such .pro-
portions as to require all our personal
attention, and not being able, on ac-
count of our printing aud publihing
business to devote more than two
or three hoursa day to the post-
office, we gladly and -willingly re-
signed, but held on as postmaster until
a competent successor put in an ap-
plication for the place. This was not
until Albert B. Lowry, our worthy
successor applied for the office and
was appointed in due time.
It is true that another person had
put in a petition for the office some
months in advance of Mr. Lowrv’s ap-
plication, but the applicant being ut-
torly incompetent for thelplace, and his
petition being supplemented by a ti-
rade of abuse and slander without
foundation against the outgoing post-
master, it was very properly ignored
by the Postoffice ~Department. Be-
sides, the defeated applicant’s petition
was signed by a number of people not
patrons of the office, while some signed
it through misrepresentation, and after-
wards, when they found that they had
been tricked, gave notice that they did
not want their signatures to be
counted. .
When Likins says or insinuates that
we have neglected our official or any-
other kind of business through drink,
be is a liar of the deepest dye. The
patrons of the postoffice and of THE
STAR printery have always found us at
our respective places of business, every
day, duly sober and ready to serve
them in a competent and. creditable
manner. We are not through with Mr.
Likins yet, and he will be both sadder
and wiser by the time we get through
with him. And he will not be elected
’| to Congress, either, on Nov. 3d, hor on
any other date.
WHERE BULLETS FLEW.
David Parker, of Fayette, N. Y., a
veteran of the civil war, who lost a
foot at Gettysburg, says: “The good
Electric Bitters have done is worth
more than five hundred dollars to me.
I spent much money doctoring for a
bad case of stomach trouble, to little
purpose. I then tried Electric Bitters,
and they cured me. I now take them
as a tonic, and they keep me strong
and well.” 50c. at E. H. Miller's drug
store. : i 11-1
SoMERSET county is likely to give
Cooper anywhere from 4500 to 5000
plurality, and his plurality in the dis-
trict will not fall short of 7000.—Som-
erset Herald.
Ir is all settled now that Taft is to be
defeated, for behold “Squire” Samuel
Lowry has come out flat-footed against
the Roosevelt policies, and in today’s
Pittsburg Post he delivers himself of a
lot of hot air and general nonsense
that rivals some of the effusions of the
“Boy Orator of the Platte’s A short
time ago “Squire” Levi Lichliter, who
had all along been claiming to Le a
Prohibitionist, when not harping on
Greenbackism or some other brand of
dentagogism, also delivered himself of
a windy and labored’ production in a
Philadelphia newspaper, in support of
Bryanism. But up to date the Repub-
licans have not taken to tall timber on
account of what the “Squires” have
written. 5
PENNSYLVANIA is the very last state
that could afford to send Democrats to
Congress, and particularly to a Con-
gress that is certain to take up the
tariff for revision. The Democratic
purpose is not to revise the tariff, but
to knock it to pieces, to destroy its pro-
tective principles. Democratic candi-
dates in Pennsylvania may parade
themselves as protectionists, but at
Washington they would be compelled
to act with their party, to attend its
caucuses and support its policies. They
could not in good faith accept election
on the Democratic ticket if they did
not intend to do that. Republicans
who vote for Democratic candidates—
if there are such—must know that they
are also voting for Democratic policies.
This is no time for Republicans in any
district in Pennsylvania to be led away
from their own party candidates for
Congress on any account whatever.
The eleciion of Congressmen is a party
and not a personal matter.—Philade!-
phia Press.
Every Republican in Somerset
county should feel that the results of
the election two weeks hence depends
Jargely on his personal efforts. De-
spite the fact that Pennsylvania will
give Taft and Sherman a plurality of
anywhere from 400,000 to 600,000, he
‘should feel that the responsibility rest-
ing upon him is important, that he
will exercise an influence on his neigh-
wanted it.
bor sand that his enthusiasm will help
farm to get -it.”
to swell the victory. There should be
no stay-at-homes. Every vote will
make the victory for clean govern-
ment, for the Roosevelt policies, all the
more decisive. Not only should every
Republican vote in Somerset county
be cast for Taft and Sherman, but
every voter who believes that the ad-
ministration should be sustained in
its warfare against the criminal trusts
and that honesty should prevail in all
public and private business transac-
tions, should give his vote to the Re-
publican candidate for Congress, Hon.
A. F. Cooper, who will uphold the ad-
ministration in the future as he has in
the past. Congressman Cooper is the
candidate of the Republican party.
fairly and squarely nominated by a
large mrjority at the primaries, and no
true Republican can find an excuse
for withholding his vote from him at
the polls on November 3rd. There is
no question about Mr. Cooper’s re-
election by a largely increased majority,
but the Republicans of Somerset coun-
ty should take a pride in making it
bigger than on any of his former elec-
tions.—Somerset Herald.
RE —— a —
WOULD MORTGAGE THE FARM.
A farmer on Rural Route 2, Empire,
Ga., W. A. Floyd by name, says: “Buck-
len’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst
sores I over saw ; one on my hand and
one on my leg. It is worth more than
its weight in gold. I would not be
without it if T had to mortgage the
: Only 25c. at E. H.
Miller’s drug store. 11-1
PROSPERITY IS RETURNING.
There 1s no surer test of the pros-
perity of the country than the number
of idle cars on its railroads, and any
reduction in the total may be taken as
a sure indication that the wheels of
industry are turning more rapidly,
Consequently. the recent report of the
committee on Car Efficency of the
American Railway Association, which
tells of a decrease of over fifty thou-
sand of the number of idle cars in two
weeks of September, is the most en-
couraging sign of returning prosperity
that has been given for months.
At the close of April the maximum
number of idle cars was 411,338; but
this number, according to the report
referred to, has gradually been reduced
to 170,652. Now that the crisis is well
passed, the fact has been made public
that the total number of idle cars, as
given out to the public, did not include
freight cars that were in the shops for
repairs. A prominent official recently
stated that, if these cars had been
added to the total shown by the com-
mittee’s report, the number of idle cars
would have been nearly six hundred
thousand.
MARRIED MAN IN TROUBLE.
A married man who” permits any
member of the family to take anything
except Foley’s Honey and Tar, for
coughs, colds and lung trouble, is guilty
of neglect. Nothing else is as good for
all pulmonary troubles. The genuine
Foley’s Honey and Tar contains no
opiates and is in a yellow package.
Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, pro-
prietor. 11-1
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FIGHT FOR THE HOUSE.
We can conscientiously endorse every
word of the following editorial which
appeared in last week’s Meyersdale
Com mercial:
“If it is essential to retain the Repub-
lican policies in power in the nation
(and a great majority of our people
claim this) it is just as essential that
the House of Representatives be of the
same party as Judge Taft, so he can be
free to act in the Executive chair, and
thus enforce, extend and widen out
these policies for the bettering and ex-
panding of the country. This can only
be done by electing a strong "working
majority of Republican congrassmen.
We must hold the House by a good
majority, or the new President will be
helpless. :
“The election of Congressman is thus
made an essential. No one who votes
for Taft should fail to vote for the Con-
gressman of his district.
“In our district—the 23d—it is our
duty, in common with the Republican
voters of every district of our nation,
to vote for the member who gained his
nomination at the regular Republican
primaries. In this instance it is the
Hon. A. F. Cooper, who has been
chosen for his fourth term, owing to
his constant patriotic service in sup-
porting and upholding the Roosevelt
policies, as well as his attention to the
interests of his constituents.
“Mr. Cooper should, therefore, run
with Judge Taft, vote for vote. Sueh
a vote is a vote of confidence, well
earned and due a worthy man and a
faithful public servent.”
LIKINS WILL LEARN.
Spicy Remarks from the Berlin
Gleaner, a Paper Whose Prinei-
pal Owners are Prominent
“Prohibs.”
William M. Likins came over to Ber-
lin, Thursday evening of last week, and
although his cards were placed on al-
most every telephone pole in town,
there were about fifty voters and as
many boys in knee pants that went to
hear him. ?
The auburn haired Kentucky orator
mounted a store box at the Lower
Diamond, and proceeded to explain
himself, He proceeded to abuse all
Fayette county people who did not
agree with him, piling all manner of
abuse upon the heads of Hon. Allen F.
Cooper, Judge John Q. Van Swear-
ingen, Sheriff P. A. Johns, Attorney
George Patterson, and many other
reputable Fayette county people, who
are regarded wherever they are known
as men of higher standing in the com-
munity in which they reside than is
their accuser.
There was no little stir caused when
he spoke about Joe Cannon, making a
determined effort to the re-election to
“the Pennsylvania legislature,” it being
generally supposed that “Uncle Joe”
was'a candidate for re-election in the
18th Illinois Congressional district.
There was never the slightest ap-
plause given the speaker. On the con-
trary, a number of good people were
disgusted with his rambling remarks
and retired to their homes before his
remarks were concluded. Certain it is
that by coming to Berlin with his tirade
of abuse he has lost a number of votes.
He offered a lame explanation for
having uttered checks in payment of
debts when he did not have sufficient
‘funds in bank to meet them, but his
explanation simply did not explain,
and the people were of the opinion
that he should not have issued checks
under such circumstances as he nar-
rated.
But a campaign of villificaticn and
mud slinging will in no case belp the
mud slinger. Mr. Likins is not an old
man yet; he has plenty of time to
learn. He came from Kentucky a few
years ago, and may not as yet have
learned Pennsylvania people. He will
learn to know them. They do not take
kindly to abuse, as may be the case in
Kentucky. They make it their busi-
ness te repudiate such an uncailed for
action at the polls. That he would
have received a much larger vote had
he remained at honfe and not gone on
the stump is evident. By his remarks
he has injured no one but himself.
We feel sorry for the Prohibition party,
but not for Mr. Likins. There is no
sympathy that is due him. Haman
was hanged on the gallows he made for
Mordecai, and who wept over the ex-
ecution?
But to the Prohibition party we ex-
tend our sympathy. The party is
composed mostly of fair-minded Chris-
tian people, and it is deplorable indeed
that they have a candidate no consci-
entious citizen can support. A num-
ber of Prohibitioniats will not support
for Congress any man that issues
worthless checks in payment of his
debts. They are too conscientious to
support such a man, no matter with
what political party he may be affili-
ated.
ARE YOU ONLY HALF ALIVE?.
People with kidney trouble are so
weak and exhausted that they are only
half alive. Foley’s Kidney Remedy
makes healthy kidneys, restores lost
vitality, and weak, delicate people are
restored to health. Refuse any but
Foley’s. Elk Lick Pharmacy, E. H.
Miller, proprietor. 11-1
ATTENTION, REPUBLICANS!
miler nse I
It is extremely important that every
Republican voter of Somerset county
attends the election on next Tuesday.
We are anxious to make this a banner
year for Somerset county Republican-
ism by giving the largest majority in
our history for the National, State,
District and County tickets. Not only
attend the election yourself. but urge
your Republican neighbors to turn out.
Mark an X in the square after the
word “Republican” in the first column.
Take no chance of having your ballot
thrown out and thus losing your vote
for the whole ticket.
Jonas M. Cook,
Chairman Rep. Co. Com.
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A HEALTHY FAMILY.
“Our whole family has sujsgzd good
health since we began using Dr. King’s
New Life Pills, three years ago,” says
L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guil-
ford, Maine. They cleanse and tone
tbe system in a gentle way that does
you good.
store. 11-1
BRYAN EXONERATES ROOSEVELT.
Congressman Cooper charges that
Candidate Bryan said to a Connells-
ville audience last fall that President
Roosevelt was in nowise responsible
for the bank wreckers’ panic of that
time, but that if the President in any
manner contributed to the situation by
his efforts looking toward the regula-
tion of the trusts, that he, Bryan, would
have been even more guilty had he
been President, because he would have
been even more strenuous in the good
work than Roosevelt had been.
The statement is in line with what
Bryan has said at other times and in
other places, and what he has from
time to time written, concerning his
claims as the political heir of Roose-
velt. :
Yet Candidate Bryan and his party
organs and orators are telling the peo-
ple that the present depression is in
some mysterious and unexplained man-
ner due to the Republican party, and
that the only remedy for it lies in the
election of the Democratic ticket.
As a matter of fact there is nothing
so certain as that the election of Bryan
will prove a blight to the steady
growth of better times for reasons
which we have from time to time en-
deavored to impress upon the minds of
our readers. This is no time for theo-
ries. The condition confronts us. The
remedy is apparent. Roosevelt him-
self says that if Taft is not elected “a
period of industrial chaos” will inevit-
able ensue.
Those who think Bryan can do no
harm in the White House with a Re-
publican Senate at the other end of
the line were shown quite plainly by
Congressman Burke in his Connells-
ville speech that they are mistaken;
besides, the Senate may not always be
Republican, as has been shown by
Senator Penrose on a recent occasion.
The country does uot need a change
of administration; on the contrary,
just now while we are crossing the
rabicon of business troubles, it is bet-
ter to hold fast to the faithful horse
that is carrying us safely over, and not
attempt to “swap” in the middle of the
stream.—Connellsville Courier.
SAVED HIS BOY’S LIFE.
“My three year old boy was badly
constipated, had a high fever and was
in an awful condition. I gave him two
doses of Foley’s Orino Laxative and
the next morning the fever was gone
and he was entirely well. Foley's
Orino Laxative saved his life.” A.
Wolkush, Casimer, Wis. Elk Lick
Pharmacy, E. H. Miller, proprietor.
11-1
Heard Bryan Leclare Glasswork-
ers Beggars.
Greensburg, Pa., Oct. 26.— West more-
land county workmen will be solidly
for Taft, as they have not forgotten
how Bryan called glassworkers “public
beggars.” John A. Kesley, a glass-
worker of Jeannette, was one of the
committee of workmen who visited
Washington in 1893 and went before
the ways and means committee to have
the tari on glass products raised. Mr.
Bryan was a member of the committee.
James E. Campbell, of the glassworkers,
was standing in the lobby when Mr.
Bryan left the committee room. Mr.
Campbell said to him: *“Mr. Bryan,
what do you think of the stand taken
by the workingmen on this question?”
(meaning the tariff).
Bryan replied: “I think you are a
pack of public beggars.”
James A. Chambers, who was then at
the head of the Jeannette window glass
works, then gaid: “What, then, Mr.
Bryan, is your opinion of the manu-
facturers?”’ “You are a pack of com-
mercial robbers,” was Mr. Bryan’s re-
ply.
Recently Charles Bryan, who is a
resident of Clarksburg, W. Va., wrote
to Mr. Kealey asking him if he recalled
the incident. Mr. Kealey wrote Mr.
Bryan an extended account of the
whole affair, and the information was
turned over to the Republican national
committee through Mr. Bryan.
Wagner’s Hotel Burglarized.
On Tuesday night Wagner’s hotel
was broken into by some thief or
thieves who looted the cash register
and also stole a case of beer. The
theft was evidently committed by some
person or persons well acquainted
about the premises, entrance being
gained by boring out a portion of a
paunel of a rear door, through which a
man’s hand could be thrust and the
door unbolted from the inside.
The Elk Lick Supply Company’s
warehouse, on Smith avenue, was also
broken open, but it cannot be deter-
mined definitely whether anything was
| taken therefrom or not, as nothing was
25¢c. at E. H. Miller’s drug | stored therein, except
| oats in bins,
of the grain was taken, as that kind of
goods was evidently not what the place
fwas entered for, and none of it ie
missed.
The tools used for gaining entrance
to the buildings aforesaid were stolea
from L. C. Boyer’s blacksmith shop,
and the burglars were none other tham
some of our home product, as no sus-
picious looking strangers have beem
seen in this town for some time.
It is a well known fact that there are
at least a dozen young men in this
town who are getting to be expert
crooks and all-around eriminalg, and it
wouldn’t be hard to name them all
They are all . well-known bar-room
loafers, cigarette fiends, poker de-
votees, ete., and there isn’t one of the
entire lot that hasn’t got orime and
general worthlessness stamped all over
his sneaking countenance. They are
all candidates for the pewitentiary or
the gallows, and the chances are that
they will all have to suffer the penalty
of their crimes sooner or later.
If the law-abiding people .of thie
town will use a little more vigilance,
it will not be a difficult matter to bring
some of Salisbury’s erop of criminals
to justice.
————————
REPUBLICAN RALLY.
Large and Enthusiastic Audience
Attend Rally in Salisbury.
The Republican rally billed to take
place in Hay’s opera house, last night
was a great success in every way. The
house was well filled with men from
every walk of life—farmers, business
men, mechanics, miners laborers ete.
The speakers were Jonas M.'Cook, C.
L. Shaver, M. J. Pritts and Norman T.
Boose, of Somerset; W. H. Floto, of
Meyersdale, and P. L. Livengood, of
Salisbury. All were enthusiasticall«
applauded, and we feel safe in saying
that the Republicans of Salisbury ané
Elk Lick are thoroughly alive to their
duty. They will do their full share i«
rolling up a record-breaking Republ.-
can majority in Somerset county, next
Tuesday.
It was a late hour when the meetiig
adjourned, and all in attendance wer=
pleased to have been there. The pr.-
gram was interspersed with music ly
the Salisbury Cornet Band.
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Frank 0. Livengood’s Barn a: i
Contents Burned.
Yesterday afternoon the magnificent
barn on the Frank O. Livengood farm
near Boynton, went up in smoke wiik
nearly all its contents.How the fire orig-
inated will perhaps never be known. as
no one is known to have been about
the barn at or near the time the fire
was discovered.
The Livengood farm is occupied by
Raphael Bluebaugh, who was not at
home when the fire occurred. He i- a
heavy loser, as is also the owner, Mr.
Livengood. What makes the loss «x-
tremely heavy is the fact that nei ier
building nor contents were insured.
and the barn was one of the best in
Somerset county. At the present hich
prices of good lumber, it would cost
probably $4,000 or $5,000 to duplicate
the barn. Mr. Bluebaugh had stored
therein, according to the best obiain-
able information, about 80 tons of hay,
500 bushels of potatoes, a big lui of
straw, fodder, grain, ete.
The fire was discovered in time te
get the live stock and a few vehicles
and implements out of the barn. but
all other contents were consumed with
the building. Much sympathy is fek
for the losers.
Keep Your Pluek!
When you acknowledge yew’re dowm
- and out, YOU'RE LICKED.
But so long as you swear that you
WON'T give in—
That you'll hang-on and bang-on unil
you WIN,
No matter how hard you were cuffed
and kicked,
No matter how sadly your faith was
tricked—
If you just remember what brought
you low
And keep away from the undertow,
It’s only a matter of HOLDING TIGHT
Before you’re back in the big world
fight!
But the man who pines and the man
who whines,
Who skulks away from the
lines,
Who hasn’t the Gri to swing and hit,
And svue his way, never counts a bit,
skirmish
some corn and |
It is not likely that any
He isn’t worth bothering over a
minute—
He’s our of the game and never was Iv
it,
| A man who is REALLY n man keeps hig
LUCK,
So long as he keeps a good chest full .&
PLUCK.
-=(licago Tribune