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The Somerset
SALISBURY. ELK
VOL. XIV.
LICK POSTOFFICE. PA.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1908.
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Gomnty Star,
NO. 13.
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G. O. P. Elephant too Swift for Democratic
Donkey—The Doubtful States "Nearly All
for Taft.
. The Official Count Necessary to Determine
"Result in Missouri and Maryland—The Lat-
ter Considered Safe for Taft, While Mis-
souri May Also be in the Taft Column.
Taft's Victory Second Only to that of Roosevelt, and in Excess
of Both of the McKinley Victories Over Bryan---Electoral Vote
Will be About 309, and Popular Majority Over 1,000,000---Not
Enough of Democracy Left to Hold an Inquest Over.
CONGRESSMAN-ALLEN F. COOPER,
* WHOSE SPLENDID CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Won Him His Fourta
ELECTION BY AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY.
The battle of the ballots is over, the smoke has cleared away,
and the Democratic party is so badly pulverized that it would re-
quire a blotting pad to gather up the remains of the old worth-
less thing. William Howard Taft has the honor of being elected
President of the greatest nation on earth by one of the greatest
majorities ever given to a candidate for that office. The victory
shows that a preponderance of the American people are in favor
of the Roosevelt policies, and the splendid victory is not only a
great triumph for Taft, but equally a great victory for Roosevelt,
and an endorsement of his splendidly aggressive and popular ad-
ministration.
The people have answered Mr. Bryan in thunder tones that
they shall rule, and that they are not yet ready to trust a dema-
gogue of his ilk, who is eager to stand for or endorse anything
that will make him votes. A dangerous man is he whose strength
is in his jaw alone, and the people have taken Mr. Bryan’s cor-
rect measure.
The complete official returns of all
able information as we go to press,
‘wil ‘classify’ them about as follows:
CARRIED BY TAFT.
Our own congressional” district, as
well as our county, piled up enormous
Republican majorities. Congressman
Allen F. Cooper has been re-elected by
about 6,000 tlurality in the district.
Old Somerset county has piled up be-
tween 4,000 and 5,000 plurality for the
entire Republican ticket.
In our two home districts, there was
a large Democratic gain over the vote
of 1904, and aheavy slump in the Bocial-
ist vote. Following are the Salis-
bury and Elk Lick figures for compari-
son for the heads of the tickets only:
SALISBURY IN 1904.
Roosevelt, Rep.,... «.............. 131
Parker, Dem... cocuvnsenn an, 41
Swallow, Pro.,...... cc. co cvivi vans 12
Debs, Boe.,.....0...c ous Biaiia 44
ELx Lick in 1904.
Boosevelt ..........» ............ 187
Parker on... oan cain Se an 57
Swallow ....... oon i rs 4
Debs... ..............covv 0 un. 186
SALISBURY IN 1908.
Taft, Rep. --.... Seether naa 109
Bryan, Pem,;.....................: 78
Chafin, Pro, ...... cc viv. in ds 10
DebE, 80C.,-c. .cvsiins un diinsiiin., 17
Evk Lick IN 1908
Taft... ee 203
Bryan ............ 0... 00 102
GChalin ............................ 4
Pebs.............o.....o....... 42
From the foregoing figures it is very
evident that the “Red Flag Party” has
about run its course in Salisbury and
Elk Lick, even though the Debsites
here were well organized and assisted
at long range by a wild-eyed crank in
California who formerly resided here.
The dirty red rag published at Girard,
Kansas, was sent free to scores of peo-
ple in this vicinity, but it availed the
Socialists nothing. It turned the most
reasonable and intelligent of the so-
cialistically inclined class of voters
either to Taft or Bryan, and the Cali-
fornia missionary was severely and
frequently denounced during the cam-
paign by many of those whom he tried
to influence. Intelligent workingmen
take no stock in fake reformers whose
own irresponsible, contradictory and
self-condemning seribblings give them
dead away. It is a hopeful sign indeed
when so many of the former Socialists
of this vicinity openly denounce the
“Red Flag Party” as have been heard
condemning it during the campaign
just ended, and casting aside with
scorn the free “Appeal to Treason”
sent to them from Girard, Kansas, and
paid for by cranks who either have dull
axes to grind, are after cheap notoriety,
or are more or less “daffy.”
The Republican victory of last Tues-
day is a most glorious one, and already,
since the result has been made kpown,
there are unmistakable signs of return-
the states, according to the bestobtain-
ing prosperty inthe financial and in-
dustrial circles. Another era of pros-
perity is without a doubt about to be
ush into existence as the result of
Mr, Taft's election, and the people may
well bé thankful that the Nebraska
California. ........ 0.0 0. rh 0% 10
Conpecticut........................ 7 | dreatiter and business disturber failed
Delaware. :.......oo iiss 3 | for w'third time to have his ambition
Idabo........... eee ae 3 | rewareed with success.
Ninols,....................0 v0; 27 y
Maryland ................... 0. 0. 8 . MID YOUR BUSINESS!
Indiana. :..0.... 5a. 0 Teele 15| If you don’t, nobody will. It is your
Yowa...........c.0.00 nd 13 | business to keep out of all the trouble
Kansas...............7 0. aa. 10 | you can, and you can and will keep out
Maine, ..........c..ivneneiirinnn, 6 | of liver and bowel trouble if you take
Massachusetts...................... 18 | Dr. King’s New Life Pills. . They keep
Michigan....... Nee ET eNO 14 | biliousness, malaria and jaundice out
Minnesota: .....F.... 0% 11 | of your system. 25c. at E. H. Miller's
Montana. fx. ..........5... 3 | drug sfore. - *2.1
New -Hampshire................... 4
New Jersey... .....i...... ios. 12 AETER ELECTION NOTES.
North Dakota... -................ 4| Aud the next day it rained.
OBle... iu vi. ca ini 2| poe. De Lozier laughed, as usual.
OFOgoN . ... lu icons nitritas vn 4 Te
Pennsylvania ..... ................. 34| And italso snowed a little the next
Rhode Island. ..... :..... 7... ... 4| day.
South Dakota..................... 4 —_————————
Utah... con unin ni vents sees 3| Old Bill Bryan, will he now quit
Yermont ................... ...... 4 | tryin’?
West Virginia....:................. 7 ST er TE
Washington. ....................... 5| The I-told-you-so man is as numer-
Wisconsin ......... tv esrideer 13 | ous as ever.
Wyoming .......co vi, 2 Wonder what, Squire” Lowry thinks
Total, 309 | of “my policies” now.
r Cased By Bazan. “Squire” Lowry’s imbecile letter in
Alabama ..............i or on 11 the Pittsburg Post did it.
Arkansas ................. 000 9
Colorado............,.. ol 000, 5 0 0 5| Wonder if Bryan could beat a yellow
Florida =...................o,.:.... 5| dog, anyway? It’s doubtful.
Georgia... ii. vik estas: 13
Rentneky.......:.............. 0. 13| And they called Ohio a doubtful
Louisiana .................c..ouvone 9| state! Ha! ha! ha! ho! ho! ho!
Missisgippl....... co 0... 10 =,
Missouri................ XN aaa . 18 Say, “Brer” Likins, who got the har-
Nevada -.................00..... 3 | poon in Salisbury last Tuesday?
North Carson. .............1111]] 12| The landslide even moved Burges
OkIaOmA... vo, vie ais 7| McKinley's fine Grant street business
South Carolins.........\... ....... g | block. a
Tennessee',......i:................ 12 It was clear awful, fellers, but the
Texas. i fae Rade a a rE oh her 18 “Dems” wonld have been licked worse
Virginia-. .o.o0i. cain. 00, . 12 yet, if Teddy would have been our can-
Total, 174 | id8te:
The Democrats, as usual, piled up
their big majorities in September and
October. The Republicans pile up theirs
in November.
RN
Some of the Democrats evidently in-
tend to skate up Salt river. Anyway
we see lots of them with a “skate” on
ever since the election.
The Democrats in this borough se-
lected Harry McCulloh’s old under-
taking establishment for their head-
quarters, Tuesday night. How ap-
propriate!
Likins claimed that more Republi-
cans in Somerset county would vote
for him than voted for Pete Livengood
at last spring’s primary. What say
you now, “Weary Willie?”
The victors can afford to be generous,
but the mean personal flings made at
certain Republicans behind their
backs, by arrogant and abusive Demo-
crats, will not soon forgotten.
be
The editor of this paper has been ac-
cused, by one W. M. Likins, of being
tt e manager of Congressman Cooper's
campaign in this county. If true, we
have much reason to feel proud of the
result.
Yes, the Republicans were somewhat
scared at ‘intervals during the cam-
paign, but whenever the G. O. P. gets
scared before the voting begins, the
“Demmies” are sure to get an awful
wallopping.
The Democrats should quit their fool
habit of trying to win on blow and
bluster. It requires votes to elect
presidents. Hot air is a failure, even
though it emanates from the old Ne-
braska windmill.
Poor old Sam Gompers realizes about
now that he does not own and control
the labor vote after all, but we’d like
to have the big wad of Democratic
boodle he received for trying todeliver
it in bulk to Bryan.
To Wm. J. Bryan: Shall the people
rule?. Well, we rather think they
shall, and they have made an emphatic
ruling three different times that Mr.
Bryan should drop the erroneous idea
that he is the people. Scat!
Before the election, “Windy Bill”
Likins had much to say concerning how
enthusiastically he was received at the
various places where he spoke. He
ean now tell the readers of his paper
how enthusiastically he was deceived
The Pharisees who were crying out
against Taft’s Feliglon on have been given |
a fitting rebuke. Bigotry
persecution have had their day, and
the fellows who criticised Taft's religion
have never had any genuine religion
themselves.
We congratulate good old Grantsville
district on her rubstantial victory over
the rum devil. Charley Bender can
now go back to his old occupation of
superintending Sunday schools. But
he can never restore the lives that his
hellish business has snuffed out.
The Democrats made a big natural
gain in Salisbury and Elk Lick over
their vote of four years ago, and they
actually persuaded a few former Re-
publicans to vote their ticket. It’s a
consolation to know that the Repub-
licans have lots of votes to spare.
The straight Prohibition vote in
Salisbury was 10, but the gallant Col-
onel Likins received 13. The extra
three were cast by Roscoe Conklin
Welfley and two other weaklings who
thought they could defeat Cooper in
this borough. Great is would-be Post-
master Welfley.
The big, fat, lazy Democratic slob in
Grantsyville who reviled Taft through
the Oakland papers on account of his
religion, and signed his political scrib-
blings “A Republican,” ean now go
back to his former occupation of get-
ting drunk and quoting Kippling’s and
other poets’ productions in and about
bar rooms. He didn’t fool many peo-
ple, anyway.
Republican county Chairman Cook
depended solely on the Republican
newspapers of the county to assist him
in the work of the campaign just end-
ed, and he has every reason to feel
proud of the handsome majorities
piled up for the whole Republican
ticket. The day of the political fakir
and leg-puller is past in Pennsylvania
politics. The newspapers can dissemi-
nate all the information that is neces-
sery to enable voters to vote intelli-
gently.
The fellow who proclaimed in his
store that Bryan was conceded by
everybody, (“except by Pete Livengbod
and a few such narrow-minded fel-
lows”) to be one of the greatest states-
men America ever produced, must
have been wrong in his calculations.
Pete is used to being stabbed in the
back by people who are always friendly
to his face, hence "he wasn’t as badly
disgusted and offended as most of the
people who heard the cowardly and ur-
called for remark alluded to.
The concession of the Pittsburg Post
made this soon after the election that
Taft has won out, is positive proof that
the Post is no longer » very staunch
Democratic organ. Most Democratic
newspaper go on the theory thata
political lie well stuck to is as good as
the truth, and they seldom admit de-
feat of a Democratic candidate for
President much in advance of the
time his successful rival is to be in-
augurated, and especially has that
policy been adheared to in years past
by the Post.
SoME of the whisky people are pre-
dicting that the Rev. I. P. Young has
played the deuce with himself by tak-
ing a hand in the Grantsville local op-
tion fight. *“He’s got some of his
Grantsvile members down on him
through it, and they’ll no longer help
to pay his salary,” they say. What rot!
Church members that are so infernally
worthless as to get down on their pas-
tor for using his influence against a
great evil, are fit only for tinder for the
devil’s tinderbox. Whisky church
members bring reproach upon the
Christian religion, and all such should
be promptly fired out and hustled
around to the left, among the goats,
where they belong. Besides, a preach-
er should not simply be a bread and
butter preacher, and none should be
willing to compromise with the rum
devil by letting him alone in order to
please liquor dealers, old soaks and
worthless church members. It’s a
preacher’s duty to try to eradicate evil
wherever and whenever he can, and
the preacher who fails to take a hand
on the side of right when there is a
great moral contest on band, is not fit
to occupy the pulpit if he stands aloof
for fear of offending some one or hav-
ing to face a diminished salary.
LL I
RAW LUNGS.
When the lungs are sore and in-
flamed, the germs of pneumonia and
consumption find lodgement and mul-
tiply. Foley’s Honey and Tar kills
the cough germs, cures the most ob-
stinate racking cough, heals the lungs,
and prevents serious results. The
genuine is in the yellow package. Elk |
12-1
Lick Pharmacy, E. H, Miller, proprie-
y and religious | tor.
MAKE IT YOURSELF.
Says Many Persons Here Can Be
Made Happy Again By Using it.
There is so much Rheumatism here
in our neighborhood now that the fol-
lowing advice will be highly appre-
ciated by those who suffer:
Get from any good pharmacy one-
half ounce Fluid Extraet Dandelion,
one ounce Compound Kargon, three
ounces of Compound Syrup Sarsapa-
rilla. Shake these well in a bottle and
take in teaspoonful doses after each
meal and at bedtime; also drink Plenty
of good water. ¢
It is claimed that there are few vie-
tims of this dread and torturous dis-
ease who will fail to find ready relief
in this simple home-made mixture, and
in most cases a permanent cure is the
result. :
This simple recipe is said tostrength-
en and cleanse the eliminative tissues
of the Kidneys so that they can filter
and strain from the blood and system
the poisons, acids and waste matter,
which cause not only Rheumatism, but
numerous other diseases. Every man
or woman here who feels that their
kidneys are not healthy and active, or
who suffers from any urinary trouble
whatever, should not hesitate to make
up this mixture, as it is certain to do
much good, and may save you from
much misery and suffering after while.
Our home druggists say they will
either supply the ingredients or mix
the prescription ready to take if our
readers ask them.
“SHALL the people rule?” asked
windy Billy B. “Oh, yes, they shall,”
said sister Sal, “as you shall plainly
see. They’ll always rule, you blatant
fool, and they have ruled before. Not
just perhaps as windy chaps like you
would have them to, but they know
their ‘biz,’ and to your quiz they’ll an-
swer plain and true. They're ruling
now, you old bow wow, and at ruling
they’ll keep on, but just doggone if
they’ll be pawned for all the likes of
you. They’ll rule you out, you windy
lout, and put you on the ice, for ’twill
be nice to beat you thrice, and that’s
juet what they’ll do.” And so ’twas
done to the son-of-a-gun, and now he’ll
quiet keep, and in the brine, Salt
river’s brine, Bill Bryan’s buried deep.
P. 8. There was more of this back,
but just as our poetical editor was get-
ting warmed up to his work, a blood-
thirsty rebel shot him dead, and we
about half believe it was a case of jus-
tifiable homicide.
Tre place that gives a man his living
is entitled to his best efforts to ad-
vance everything calculated to benefit
the place and the community. No man
has a right to live in a live town who
seeks to enrich himself and not active-
ly identify himself with its interests,
To be classed as a drone, or chronic
kicker and opposed to every measure
believed to be for the good of the eciti-
zens, is a stigma that should attach to
no man in the corporation. The im-
provements necessary to be made, and
the manner of making them a monu-
ment to the enterprise and intelligence
of the citizens, is the duty each person
owes to the place in which he lives,
No man has a right to block legislation
in his town simply because he is not
personally benefited by the proposed
improvements, or perchance may have
to pay a little toward it, for in the end
it will no doubt have proven a wise
proceeding. Let all join in any move-
m~nt calculated to better our little
city.
AND now let it be said, in all serious-
ness, that it is time for the Democratic
party to quit the nasty business of
“throwing a scare” into the United
States every four years. It is time for
Democracy to turn its back once and
forever on that prince of hypnotizers,
the peerless charlatan of the Platte.
He.has brought nothing but disaster
to his party. Three times he has been
repudiated by the American people at
the polls. Is it not time, in all decency,
to spew him out and be done with him?
Let not this firebrand—this disturber
of all the conventions, this man who
threatens men, institutions, policies,
courts and business—come again into
position where he can cast his evil spell
or test his sinister sway upon a peace-
ful people. “God give us men” for
president upon the Democratic ticket
as well as upon the Republican tieket:
but let no oily orator, fanatic or agita-
tor use a great party for his personal
asset or vex a great people with his
fancied wrongs.
WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU it does
not pay to advertise, he is simply ad-
mitting that he is conducting a busi-
| ness that is not worth advertising, a
business conducted byta man unfit to
and a business which
lveriised for sale. tt