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FREELAND, SEPTEMBER 22, 1902. The Machine and the Strike. From the Philadelphia Record. The Republican managers may well be anxious on account of the far-reach ing effects of the strike In the anthra cite coal fields. There would have been no strike at this time If the corrupt Machine In control of the last legisla ture had not prevented the senate com mittee on mines and mining from re porting for consideration House bill No. 210, which was passed almost unani mously by the house of representatives. This bill provided that in every an thracite mine where coal is mined by weight or measure the miners should have a right to employ a competent check weighman or measurer, who should see that the coal was fairly weighed, and the miners given due credit for their work. This bill passed the house by orders of the Machine, on a doal in return for votes in behalf of the notorious bill for the abolition of the board of revision of taxes, but was never allowed to be re ported out of the senate committee on mines and mining, of which that distin guished follower of Mr. Quay, Milton Heldelbaugh, was chairman, and Messrs. Scott, Vare, Sproul, Haines and Stiles were among the members, three-fourths of the committee being Quay men. If this bill had become a law and the rights of the miners in the districts in which the miners are paid by weight or measure had been recognized, it can be asserted with confidence there would have been no coal strike; for, as Is well known, the vote in favor of the coal strike was carried by representatives of tho seventy-live thousand and more minors in the Lackawanna and Upper Luzerne coal fields. It is easy to understand why the Pen rose Club should give SSOO to tho strik ing miners, and why GovernorStonoand Senator Quay 9hould be anxious the strike should end; but tho people, who havo to pay the Increased prico for coal, and the miners and their families should understand that, those who deceivod and cheated them and defeated tho just legislation which would have prevented this strike are Republican bosses; that all their talk about sympathy for the suffering minors, an extra session of the legislature aud a compulsory arbitration law is bosh. All efforts to secure a band for tho Eighth regiment, N. G. P., on duty at Shenandoah, have so far failed. Tho laiuaqua band which held tho position for three years refused to ro-eniist when its term expired two weeks ago, and al though personally appealed to by Gen oral Gohin five bands have rofused to accept the job. Becauso the girls of the Mt. Carmel shirt factory struck for "live and let live' 1 wages, tho plant was removed from that town. Any plant that must pros per at the expense of Its crushed em ployes deserves a quick death.—Ashland News. B. Frank Moser, 50 years old, a Mah oning valley farmer and a Republican politician of Carbon county, was found •lead in his barn, having committed suicide by hanging. The motive of tho act is not known An effort Is being made to secure a pardon for James M. Griner, of Wilkes barre, ex-member of the legislature, who is serving a long term in the penitentiary for killing his step-daughter. Read - the - Tribune. CALLING UPON A FRIEND. Tlie "Way In Which Two UiiKlUh Ac tors Once I'dlil u Visit. riere is an amusing story of Messrs. Toole and Brough, the English comcdi aiuf. Huving appeared conjointly in a drama, "Dearer Than Life," in which they wore very ragged, woebegone cos tumes, they visited the well known artists Fradelle und Marshall to be photographed In their rugs. While waiting "between the plates" Toole, who was fond of a lark, suggested to his brother comedian to sally out and call upon a certain mutual acquaint ance, who would be horribly shocked at receiving visitors in such a garb. Brough at once assented, and, popping on their battered hats, out into the street the pair slipped and made for the house of their frieud. Of course the neat housemaid and the neater Buttons were horrified and declined even without being asked to purchase matches or the like. "I axes your pardon," said Toole in an assumed tone. "You're making a slight mistake. We want to see your master." And he mentioned the gen tleman's Christian name and that of his wife. "We have important business with him," chimed In Brough. The girl's face wore a dazed aspect, and she said: "Master never sees the likes of you at his house, lie's most pertickler, ain't he, Charles?" appeal ing to the page. "You must be making a mistake." "Oh, no, we ain't!" responded Toole with supreme gravity. "But I'm sor ry William"—the Christian name of tho gentleman—"ls out. I haven't got a card about me," pretending to fum ble among his rags, "but tell your mas ter that his two cousins from the work house called as they were passing through London."—London Tit-lilts. PENNY POSTAGE. The Incident That Led to It* Rntah lfMhiiicnt In KiiKhiud. Many years ago, when Queen Vic toria llrst began to reign, it cost nine pence to send a letter from one Eng lish city to another. In those days the postage was not paid by tho sender of the letter, as is now customary, but by the receiver. So, of course, there were many poor people who could not afford to pay nincpence when their mail arrived, and it often happened that they were obliged to forfeit the letters. One day a man named Rowland Hill was riding on the outskirts of a city, and he saw a postman bring a letter to a young girl and demand ninepeiice for it. The girl took the letter, scru tinized It carefully and then handed it back to the man, saying she could not afford to pay the postage. Thereupon Rowlund Ilill, being a kind hearted man, rode up and insisted upon paying it himself. When the postman had gone, the girl confessed to her bene factor that, the letter was from her lover, and to avoid paying nincpence on every letter lie made certain marks on the envelope which she alone could decipher. "But," said Rowland llill, "don't you know you arc doing something very dishonest in thus cheating the government?" The girl admitted she did, but there was no other way to do. Hill rode away aud meditated over this little incident, and his farfamed Idea of "penny postage" was the re sult. At first he was laughed at by every one, but he fought bravely and finally was rewarded by seeing his Idea In practice all over the land.—New York Tribune. A JapnneNe Iletrnctlon. The art of retracting without taking anything back—if the Dull may be ul lowed—seems to be understood in Ja pan. A young orator ut a political meeting called a public official a thief. A policeman on duty gravely rose and uddressod u remark in a low tone to the speaker, who thereupon said, "The chief of police requests me to retract the word which I have Just spoken. Although the word of a sage should never re-enter, let us make a conces sion; let us take back the word and keep the idea." Great applause and cries of "Bravo!" greeted the orator's escape from his dilemma.—Youth's Companion. Wliy Tennyson Wrote No Letters. Tennyson once told Sir Henry Tay lor that he thanked God Almighty with his whole heart and soul that he knew nothing and that the world knew nothing of Shakespeare but his writ ings and that lie knew nothing of June Austen and that there were no letters preserved either of Shakespeare or of Jane Austen; that they, In fact, hud notlbeen "ripped open, like pigs." Time For Business. Pu—Has that young man who has been calling on you ruther frequently of late any steady occupation? Daughter—Oh, yes, pu. He's a trav eling man. Pa—lndeed! Well, please tell him when he calls again I'd like to have him attend strictly to business when the clock strikes 10.—Richmond Dis patch. Poetry nt Home. "Posterity will discover me," said the poet. "If it docs," replied his wife, who was all tired out because they couldn't afford to keep a girl, "it will probably regret any time it wasted in doing so." —Chicago Itecord-llerald. Children sweeten labor, but they make misfortune more bitter. They Increase the enres of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.— Bacon. 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F \_f* Ffl | lit/Rf FacSimitc Signature oF &KEZ. 1 Thirty Years | P A I PTIJ i 11 EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. > 911 Ijft M |ffl || ISm ————lllllllllllilllllßßlllllllll llllllillll II THE BLACK-JACK PARTY Graphic Account of the Mobbing of Union Men In Philadelphia—An Object Lesson of Quayism. The Quay machine literary bureau Is trying to create a false impression In the public mind concerning the re cent outrageous attack on the Union party convention in Philadelphia. For cible expression of what he thinks of the raid of the Quay mob is given by Harry S. Paul, chairman of the Alle gheny organization, and head of the Western Pennsylvania delegations, in a letter received by State Chairman Thomas L. Hicks. Ho vividly de scribes Incidents of the affair which came to his notice. Mr. Paul is a prominent business man of Pittsburg. He declares that the riotous attack was one of the greatest criminal outrages in the his tory of Pennsylvania politics, and will cost the Republican machine ticket many thousand votes. His letter iu part follows: As I looked upon the Union party as semblage, just before the rioters broke in, 1 saw an unusually fine body of re spectable, law-abiding Republican bus iness men, gathered from all parts of the commonwealui, at least live-sixths of whom had never before sat in a po litical state convention, and who were earnestly desirous of discharging the duty committed to them by thefr fel low citizens and constituents. As If Jail Doors Had Opened. After the mob appeared all was changed. Then in the portions of the hall occupied by its members could be seen only brutal, criminal laces, bear ing the marks of vice all over them, and the thought occurred that Moya mensing and the Eastern Penitentiary had opened their doors and given a day's holiday to several hundred of their inmates for the sole purpose of advancing the interests of Quayism, Penroseism and Pennypackerism in this commonwealth. The impression was deepened by the sight of revolvers bulging from the hip pockets of some of the; mob, and of billies and knives in the possession of others, some of the latter having been used in the attack upon the hall. The sight of Quayism, Penroseism and Pennypackerism thus nakedly un masked was worth a thousand cam paign speeches and 10,000 newspaper articles, and its effect upon the de cent citizens who beheld it and who would not have believed that such things were possimo otherwise was in calculable. The result, as I personally know, was the instant conversion of twenty dele gates holding legal certificates, who in tended to oppose Pattison's nomina tion, and some of whom proposed to vote for Pennypacker, to the support of Pattison and this number fell short of all so converted. Signed Statement By Clearfield Dele gates. Believing it their duty to enlighten as many voters as possible as to the attack of 200 armed Quay thugs on the recent Union party convention in Phil adelphia, Clearfield county's five dele gates have united In a signed state ment setting forth the facts. These delegates are Frank W. Bar ratt, real estate agent and lumber dealer: Jacob Burge, lumberman; Cas ner J. Stull, policeman; P. L. Showers, dentist, and John E. Harder, merchant, all reputable men. When they went to the convention they were not for Pattison, but their experience in the riot quickly converted them. After describing in detail how the mob led by Sheehan broke up the con vention, they go on to say: We want to say that we have always been Republicans, but of late years, since the Quay machine has become a public stench to the nostrils of the peo ple of Pennsylvania, we have linen In dependent Republicans. We believe in the doctrines of Roosevelt and the Re publican party. We cannot vote for or support Judge Pcnnypackrr. because he is being held up as a shield in front of the dirty ma chine, which has no more principle or any better standing in the great com monwealth than those criminals which were hired by the machine to break into the Union party convention on the 3d day of September, 1902. 1 We had heard of the disgraceful and shameless method's employed by the machine at their conventions, in the late legislature, and at many of the election districts in Philadelphia and Pittsburg, but wo had never seen one in full bloom until wo witnessed the diegraceul riot In Musical Fund Hall. We were not committed to any cantii date when we left Clearfield for the ronvention. We nad not been instruct ed, neither had we signed any agree ment to support any particular candi date, but our minds were soon made up when we saw a machine mob in con trol of a convention, and saw the char acter of the criminals employed by the machine to carry out its designs, even at the cost of murder, if necessary. These are our observations, and we believe it is our duty as business men of this great state of Pennsylvania to support, vote for and work to the best of our ability for the election of Hon. Robert E. Pattison for governor of Pennsylvania, and to employ every honorable means possible to elect good men to supersede the disreputable and disgraceful gang of machine boodlers now in charge of the affairs of our state. Loot Equals One-Half the Taxes. Here are a few paragraphs picked from the Pattison speech at Carlisle: in the last legislative session a Unit ed States senatorsnip was nteiuiiy auctioned off to the highest bidder. You don't need to take my word for it. You have the word of prominent and re liable members ot the Republican party. The public franchises issued by the machine to its members, tor which an offer of $2,500,000 from John Wana inaker was rejected, have been con verted into the assets oi a 'syndicate, whose stock, according to the ratings of the Philadelphia Exchange, is val ued at $6,000,000. Do you know what $6,000,000 means? It represents half the total expenses of the state government for a year. If that sum had been turned into the state treasury, where it belongs, in- Btead of into the pockets of the machine favorites, the people of Pennsylvania could have been relieved of one-half of the taxation for state purposes this year. Or, suppose it had been devoted to good roads. It would have meant $l3O for every square mile in the state, or an average of nearly SIOO,OOO to each of the 67 counties. Guthrie's Sledge-Hammer Blows. Candidate Guthrie was at his best at Carlisle. Following are some of his declarations which provoked great ap plause: Don't be deceived by men who, start in:; out in the cause "i good govern ment, have grown weary. In every great movement there are those who go out with the van. but soon fall to the rear with the slaves. The dominant machine lives by trick ery, gains power by ballot fraud and uses that power to make money for its adherents. No man ever stole an office for a good purpose. The worst charges against the ma chine have never been denied. They cannot be denied. When a man occupying a private trust uses the money of others in stock speculations the law calls him an embezzler and sends him to a felon's cell. Yet we see today men holding high public offices converting the prop erty of the people into franchises for themselves and their associates. The machine has been promising bal lot reform since 1895. If the boss in Philadelphia were to issue the order, every illegal name on the padded regis try list would disappear. If such an outrage as the assault on the Union party state convention were to be perpetrated in Russia, the man hood of the civilized world would cry out against it. It is said that among the state militia men doing service in the coal region 307 enlistments expired since they went on duty and of these only twenty-two pri vates fejoinod the National Guard. Some of the companies have only a skeleton organization and the officers cannot induce men to enlist. The kind that cured your Grandfather. DR. DAVID CRCC KENNEDY'S .USrls " kidney, FAVORITE SS K F PHlf tills miner and addn-HH Or. Ktm tU V ir±£Ts: Coriwr,u,pu '. I Fall Stocks I V V a are now A | Ready for Your Inspection. p p Complete Lines ■; II Of , £ Fall Hats and Caps, $1 Si Underwear and Hosiery, X S; Furnishings and Neckwear. M i I 1 Shoes for Men, Women, Boys p i and Girls at Very | £ Lowest Prices. | I ™ 1 ?; McMenamin's Gents' Furnishing, p | Hat and Shoe Store. | ft M South Centre Street. 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Curmel, Shenan doah, Mahanoy City, Delano and Huzlc ton. 7 29 P 50 from Serauton, Wilkes-Ilarre and White Haven. For further information inquire of Ticket Agents. KULLIN 11. W1 LBUK, General Superintendent. 20 Cortlandt street. New York City. CHAS. S. LEH, General Passenger Aaent, 20 Cortlandt Street. New York City. G. J. GILDKOY, Division Superintendent, Huttleton. Pa. THE DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA AND SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD. Time table In effect May 10. JPOI. Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckloy, Huzlo Brook, Stockton, Leaver Meadow ltoad, Hoan and Huzlcton Junction at 000 u iu, daily except Sunday; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Drittou for Oneida Junction, ilarwood ltoad, Humboldt ltoad, Oneida and Sheppton at 000 a m, daily except Sun day; and 7 07 a m, 2 38 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida Juuetion, Harwood ltoad. Humboldt ltoad, Oneida and Sheppton at 6 32.11 10 am,441 pm, daily except Sunday; and 737 a m, 311 pm Sunday. Trains leave Derinirer for Tomhickon, Cran berry. Hai wood, Hnzleton Junction and Itoan at 600 p m, daily except Sunday; and 337 a m, f> 07 p m, Sunday. Trains leave beppton for Ik-aver Moadow Head, Stockton. JlHttle Brook. Eckloy Jeddo and Drifton at 5 20 p m, daily, except Sunday: and H 11 a m, 3 44 p m, Sunday. Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver Meadow ltoad, Stockton, Hazle lirook, Eokley. Jeddo and Drifton at 549 p m , dally, except Sunday; and 10 10 a m, 5 40 p m, Sunday. All trains connect at llazieton Junction with oleotric ears for Hazleton, Jeaueevillc, Auden ried and other point* on the Traction Com pany's lino T.nTH7o " qw?-~Tr Promptljr Douu at the Trlbuoo otUo#.
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