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Regular Republican Nominations.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM M'KINLEY,
OF OHIO.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
GARRET A. HOBART,
OF NEW JERSEY.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
For Congressmen-at-large,
GALUSHA A. GROW,
of Susquehanna County.
SAMUEL L. DAVENPORT,
of Erie County.
"Young men talk of trusting
to the spur of the occasion. That
trust Is vain. Occasions cannot make
spurs, young gentlemen. If you ex
pect to use them, you must buckle
them to your heels before you go
into the fight. Any success you
may achieve is not worth the hav
ing unless you fight for it. What
ever you win in life you must con
quer by you own efforts, and then it
is yours a part of yourself. James
A. Garfield.
EFFECTS OF A CHEAP DOLLAR.
Wage earners, Mr. Bryan says,
know that while a gold standard
raisos the purchasing power of the
dollar it also makes it more difficult
to obtain possession of the dollar.
They know that employment is less
permanent, loss of work more pro
bable, and re-einployment less oar-
tain. If that means anything it
means that a cheap dollar would
give him more employment, more
frequent employment, more work
and a ohanoe to get re-employment
after he, was discharged. Well,
now, if that means anything in the
world to a sane man, it means that
If the laborer is willing to have his
wages cut down he will get more
work. Burke Cochran's speech in
Madison Square Garden.
Editorial.
FARMERS THINK AND READ,
The free silver campaign is ad
dressed largely to the farmers of
the country, and the flattering idea
is held out to them that if we have
more money prices of produoq will
materially advance in proportion
This is the same chaff with which
they were caught four years ago.
Then the cry was the tariff is a tax
and that superficial argument had
its weight in controlling their votes
Let them go a little deeper this time,
and admitting that cheaper money
would raise prices, let thern ask
' would it increase values ? There is
a vast difference between the two
propositions. The one is pure sop
histry and the other sound sense.
If the free silver champion can de
monstrate that an unlimited ad
dition to the money of the country
will cause farm products to be of
greater value ; that a bushel of oorn
now worth 30 cents, or a pound of
butter worth in New York from 11
to 16 cents will bring under free sil
ver double these prices.and that the
dollar so obtained will have groator
purchasing power than the dollar
now lias, than he will be benefitted
to just that extent. If the farmer
under free silver can sell oorn at 60
cents and butter at 25 or 80 cents,
and that money will buy in the
markets double what the present
prices will thon the farmer should
vote for silver.
JJIf the laborer or the mechanio
now receiving 1 or f 2 per day will
have his wages doubled and he can
purchase of food and clothing double
the amount he now does then he
should vote for free silver. But he
should not do so until it is made
clear to his mind that the value of
the money he receives is greater
than its present value, hat is, that
its purchasing power in his hands is
increased in proportion to the rise.
If this is not to be so thon where is
his gain ? He will follow a Will-o'-the-Wisp
into a quagmire and real
tzo too late that he has boon made a
tool to aid a coterie of silver mine
owners to multiply their wealth at
his expense. Keep your eye on the
question, " Will value be increased
by free silver ?"
SILVER WOULD NOT RISE.
Mr. Bryan said that the United
States was big enough, powerful
enough and patriotic enough to
raise the price of silver if free
coinage was established. Mexico,
China and the other free sil
ver countries must be wholly lack
ing in these national traits for they
have not been able to keep up the
price of silver, and the assertion
that this country could do so is not
Dorne out by the history of other
nations. The facts are against it.
The decline in the price of silver is
due to the increased production of
the metal with a lower cost of pro
duction, and to a lessened demand
resulting from the closing of the
mints of other countries to its coin
age. in 1893 when the mints of
India were closed to the free coin
age of silver by order of the British
Government, the prioe of silver bul
lion declined in New York from 80
cents an ounce to 60 cents an ounce
within three days. Since 1873 Bel
gium, Holland, Denmark, Norway,
Sweden, Italy, Greece, Switzerland,
Finland, the Dutch colonies, Spain,
Austria-Hungary, Egypt.Roumania,
Tunis, Chili and" Costa Rica have
either adopted the gold Btandard or
limited their coinage of silver. Why
did all these nations " commit the
crime " of turning from silver to
gold ? And if we adopted free coin
ago all their silver would be brought
here for coinage. Can any sane
man say the prioe would rise ?
THEN AND NOW.
This is what the Chicago platform
on which Mr. Bryan stands says
on tne currency question in lsao :
We demand the free and nn
limited coinage of both silver and
gold at the present legal ratio of 16
to 1, without waiting for the aid or
consent of any other nation."
This is what Senator Jones, of
Nevada, one of the ablest silver ad
vocates in the country, said on the
subject in 1874 :
' I believe the soonor we come
down to a purely gold standard the
better it will be for the country."
What great light has been seen
since 1874 r Did it shine from
Bonan?A s liver mine 1
Challenge and Beplr.
That the wages of labor consist
not in mouey, which is a more med
ium of exchange, but in the com
modities which it buys that is, in
money s worth was easily shown.
Then the main question for the
laborer is the money's worth.
Now, the whole aim of the Bryan
party is to introduoe a Bllver dollar
worth loss than the gold dollar now
in use. It follows that unless the
laborer gets a larger number of
these silver dollars than he now gets
of gold dollars he will be in a worse
condition than he is in now.
This is so clear that Mr. Bryan
bad to meet it in some way.
Ho w did he meet it T This part of
Mr. Cock ran 's reply is perhaps the
most telling point in his discourse
Mr. Bryan said :
"Wage-earners know that while
a gold standard raises the purchas
ing power of the dollar.it also makes
it more difficult to obtain possession
of the dollar. They know that em
ployment is less permanent, loss of
work more probable, and re -employ
ment less certain.
To which Mr. Cockran responded :
"If that means anything in the
world to a Bane man, it means that
if the laborer is willing to have his
wages cut down he will get more
work. There never was a boss of
an establishment yet that meant to
make a cut in wages who did not say
that. I have never yet heard of
anybody who attempted to cut down
the rate of wages telling his men
that he did it because he liked to do
it. They would tell their men : If
you do not stand such a out in wa
ges I cannot employ you more than
half the time, and that is what Mr
Bryan proposes for the laboring
musses of this community that
they take a dollar of less purchasing
power, so that employment win be.
become more certain and the chan
ces of re-employment more fre
quent."
In other words, the chance of em.
ployment at 60 cents a day will be
greater than at tl per day, and that
in a gtxxi reason for reducing wages
one-hull all around !
FINANCIAL PANICS.
No On In This Country has been Caused
by a Lack of Currency.
New Orleans Picayune, Pern.
There have boon ten periods of
financial convulsion in this oonntry.
They have been stated as follows,
giving dates and causes. Some wero
very serious, others loss so : but they
were plainly the result of causes
which destroyed business oonfldenoe
and produced a sudden and gonernl
withdrawing of money from busi
ness enterprises and the locking of
it up in vaults and other places of
supposed safety.
Following were the panic periods :
1818 A result' of the war ; closing
of the ports ; speculation.
1826 and 1829 Unsound money;
wild banking j expansion of credit.
1837 Unwise banking mothods .
excessive speculation.
1848 Inflated values : overtrading
at homo and abroad.
1857 Unsound financial met hods ;
wild-cat business enterprises.
1864 An outcome of the Civil
War.
1873 Excessive railroad building
and overtrading following the war
period.
1884 Inflated credits ; vicious
banking.
1890 Mild disturbance, nn echo of
the Baring crisis in England.
1893 Restriction of credits,
liquidation in the stock market.bank
failures and the closing of industrial
establishments ollowing heavy gold
exports and loss of confidence in
ability to maintain a standard of
value, together with an outlook for
another change of tariff.
It is plain at a glance that these
financial convulsions were caused
solely by forces which destroyed
the credit and confidence which are
absolutely necessary to the conduct
of the business of a great agricultural
and producing country.
Five Points by Secretary Carlisle.
First. Not a free coinage country
exists in the world to-day that is
not on a silver basis.
Second. Not a gold standard
country exists in the world to-day
hat does not 'use silver as money
along with gold.
Third. Not a silver standard
country exists in the world to-day
hat uses any gold as money along
with silver.
Fourth. Not a silver standard
country exists in the world to day
that has more than one third as
muoh money in circulation per capl
tft as the United States has.
Fifth. Not a silver standard
country exists in the world to-day
in which the laboring man receives
fair pay for his day's labor.
Questions for Bryan.
(From the New York Pross.)
Once more, Mr. Bryan, we ask
you to explain a few of your opin
ions, beliefs and promises. The
American people never will be con
tent with your mere statement that
free silver would be a good thing for
the country. They never will be
satisfied with" your unproved asser
tion that the people will benefit by
free coinage. They never will ac-
oopt words for facts and sentences
for figures. They want to know
the why and how of everythina.
They want you to prove some of the
things yon say. Hero are some
questions they ask :
Is it not true that the actual sil
ver in a silver dollaj is worth only
50 cents ? Ia is not true that in
every country in the world the value
of that country's standard currency
is never more than the value of the
metal oontained in the currency ?
Can you deny this ?
is it not true that one of our bi1
ver dollars now is worth two Mexi
can silver dollars, but that under
free coinage one of our silver dol
lars would be worth less than one
Mexican silver dollar r Uan you
deny tnis I
It is not true, then, that our labor
would be paid in silver dollars worth
loss than the Mexican fifty -cent dol
lar r Can you deny this t
Is it not true that, under free
coinage, every depositor in a sav
ings bank would lose half the value
of his deposit amd every pensioner
of the Government half the value of
his pension ? Can you deny this t
is It not true that, under free
coinage of silver, there would be
less money in circulation than
there is now, because over half
billion of gold would be driven out
out of circulation t Can you deny
this r
These are questions that must be
answered, Mr. .Bryan with some.
thing more than word pictures
about our beautiful country, with
something more than advice to our
citizens to do as you do and trust in
silver. Then hero are some more
How is free coinage to make more
for the people r How can free coin,
age open factories and mills ?
How enn free coinage stop the rav
ages or tne w ilson law r How can
free coinage supply the Treasury
(lelloloncy, which at presont aver
ages something like a million dol
lars a day V
How can free coinage sell a sinirle
additional grain of wheat or ear of
corn for the farmer Y
How are these thincs to be done
Mr. Bryan, under your free coinage
programme V If they can be done
you must expluin how.
A LESSON FROM EGYPT.
Utinwln I'ffV T!it. Cnnnfry Fnl1A te
Melntnlf the Ilsflo of SlTteen Onions to
One Cat..
The ancient ?:yjliiiis hwl a currency
bawd on cals and onions, both of which.
Were sacred objects worshiped by the
people. As there wus some difficulty in
storing tho cats, and as tho onion was
-.Vr&Sffc-r
liable to decay, a circulating medium
Was provided of papyrus strips, repre
senting a certain number of cats and
onions at a ratio of 16 to 1. This was a
true double Btandard system and is be
lieved to hare been the origin of modern
paper currency. For a time the eat
onion money circulated at par, but the
historian Faque fiur records that about
908 B. a a serious difficulty arose.
New colonies had been established in
the region of the upper Nile, and the
savage Nubians bad been taught the
art of agriculture. The rich, black soil
of the valley which they inhabited wa
especially suited to the growth of
onions, and the production of those per
fumed bulbs was soon enormously in
creased. Meanwhile the oat crop bad
only grown in the usual ratio, and the
result was that, with the demand for
sacred animals in the new colonies, at
least 80 onions would be given for one
oat This brongh the papyrus ourrency
Into disfavor, and the ruling pharaoh,
Bam Buukshus III, issued a royal order
that cats should be the sole standard of
value, and that onions should be issued
only to the extent that they could be
kept at par with the "caterwanlors, " as
the unit of vulrto was termed.
This did not suit the onion growers,
who at once started an agitation for the
free and unlimited coinage of all onions
at the good old ratio of their daddies.
After passing 8, 1 S7.0 13 resolutions de
nouncing tho horrible crimo of H(i8 the
ouionites man-hod iu a body to the pal
ace of their Phuraoh and demanded that
the unjust law enacted at tho instance
of the catbnps should be repealed and
the bioatalho standard restored. Ram
Bunkshus listened to them patiently and
answered: "Oreut, no doubt, wad the
wisdom of onr ancestors. But I am in
the wisdom bnninoss myself to some ex
tent When tho ratio of 18 to 1 was
adopted, that was tho true ratio of the
oats and onions. Nov, owing to a groat
increase in tho quantity of onions, tho
ratio is 80 to 1. All powerful as I am, I
cannot make onions worth more than
their market value. Tho present stand
ard stays. As for you, O foolish ouion
ites, your leaders shall feed the sacred
crocodiles. Tho rest of you will return
to your forms and hustle, I have re
marked. "
Thus ended the first and only cur
rency agitation in r-gypt Whidden
Graham in Puck.
A Trade Journal's Summary.
To a man who has no money there are
several ways to got it nuiuoly t
(a) Beg it
(b) Steal it
(o) Borrow it
(d) Secure it by gift
(e) Trade something for it
If we are to beg for it, we might just
as well do the best we can. Therefore a
dollar based on a gold standard is better
than a 16 to 1 silver dollar, which today
ia worth about 58 oents intrinsically.
If we are to steal it, we want the best
A thief who would steal a silver dollar
in preference to a gold dollar would be
acquitted on the ground that he was in
sane. If we borrow it, we want that kind of
money which will go farthest, for so we
oan get along with a smaller loan.
Therefore a gold dollar is better to bor
row than a 16 to 1 silver dollar.
If we are to secure it by gift, certainly
we ahould not depreciate that which we
are about to receive.
This brings us to e, which U the
way most money la obtained. A perti
nent question for each of us to ask at
this time ia, What have I got to trade
for money whioh I want? It may be
labor; it may be a horsa or oow ; it may
be lumber or shingles; it may be saw-
milL At the present time we oan trade
any of the abeve and get a gold dollar
for every dollar's worth of value, as may
be agreed upon between buyer and sell
er. We can get a dollar which ia worth
a dollur anywhere and everywhere.
Now, your labor or hone or oow or
lumber or mnchiuory will be worth Just
as much, or nearly as much, next year
as it is this, but if we have free coinage
at 18 to 1 will tho dollar which you got
In trade bo worth as much as the dollar
you can get now? What will that be
worth? Can yia toll? It may be worth
S3 cents or moro or less. One day this.
one day that, but can any one tell?
These are ail pertinent quewtions, and.
when carefully considered, moat guide
us in voting at tho next election iu No
vember, and do uot lo&wsiIitof tho fact
that if all tht river iu the world is
coined into uiom-y you oaiinot get u cent
of it except by a, b, c, d or e, above re
furred to. Lumber Trudo Jouruul.
.
"We don't wunt any C 3 cent dollars
in this town" was the emphatic greet
iiig of workman to the presidential
caudidute of tho Populists and Silverites
as he passed through Huntingdon, Pa.
If the American worknigmeu are wise
they will co to it that every town and
city iu the United Ktates gives the same
answer to the tiva coinage appeals for
'votes.
' If the faot that some farmers are pout
ia uned to Justify the confiscation of the
property of creditors, would not the pov
erty of the Ooxey armies of tramps aud
unemployed workers justify them in ae-
manding a share of the property ownud
VIEE SILVER AND THE PRICE OF COTTON.
Fopnlhtt Stftttxtu Wtilch Prove Boan4
Money Statement.
Tho Arena, a Popnlist magazine, pub
lishes a series of pictures Intended to
ihow the great decrease in the purchas
ing power of a balo cj cotton, owing to
the alleged "dornonrti nation" of silver.
The money value of tho first bale Is given
ts41d.fl0in 18015. The next In the
name series is for 1870, when the money
value had shrunk to 1118.90. Other
pictures give the varying valnes down
to 1894, the conclusion from the whole
being that the lack of free silver has
Caused the fall in the price of cotton.
How false this argnment is can be
seen by lroking at the figures quoted.
Between 1865 and 1870 the price of oot
ton fell from 88.88 cents per pound to
28.98 cents. By 1878, the year of the
"crime, " the price bad gone down to
18.80 ceuta In other words, the money
value of a bale of cotton shrank from
1416.90 in 18015 to (94, a difference
f 1323.90, while tho country had free
coinage of silver at 18 to 1. Since that
time the fall in price has been much
less, having been only from 94 in 1878
to i)9 in 1898 at the present quota
tions of 7.80 cents per pound.
The history of cotton prices shows,
therefore, that under free silver the
price of a bale of cotton declined 323. 90,
(Money valne o 600 pounds In 1866 at 10.6
per pound, M16.B0.)
(Money value of 600 pound In 1878 at 10.18.90
per pound, tM.
Money valne of tOO pounds In 1600 at t0.0f.80
per pound, tUl.J
or 64.58 cents per pound, in eight yean,
Under our present financial system the
prico has only fallen $55 per bale, or 11
cents per pound, in 28 years. In face of
these official figures how can any intel
ligent man pretend that it was the
chango in our currency laws in 1878
which has reduced tho money valne of
cotton?
Tho advocates of free silver may at
tempt to answer this exposure of their
low price for cotton argument by show
ing that there was a great increase in
the cotton crop between 1866 and 1878.
This is true, but there has also been a
far greater quantity of cotton produced
every year since 1878 than ever before.
tho crop for 181)2 reaching 9,085,879
bales as compared with 8,980,608 bales
in 1873, the largest crop during the
period from 1865 to 1873, so that if in.
creased production caused the great do
oline in price in one case it is surely
fair to credit it, and not the stoppage of
free silver coinage, with the lower prices
of the past 23 years.
Suppose Von Should Be Mistaken.
Farmers who think that free silver
will help them to get rid of their mort
gages should consider carefully what ef
fect a 1 6 to 1 la w will h ave on the lenders
of capital. The silveritos are telling you
beautiful stories about the great volume
of money which will be ready for loan.
ing at low rates of interest as soon ai
we adopt the silver standard. But sup
pose the scheme should not work in the
way they expect? Suppose that as soon
as it becomes likely that a free ooinage
law will be enacted there is a general
demand that all mortgages should at
once be paid in full? The promise of
cheap money when free silver oomes
won't help you now. Where are you
going to get the money to pay off yonr
mortgage? Do you suppose any man is
going to make loam while there ia
possi bility of his being repaid in 60 oent
dollars And if yon can't raise the
money when it is called for, and if yonr
farm is sold at a sacrifice, where will
you be then?
Think these things over. Don't be
fooled by the free silver idea that cheap
money means low rates of interest The
facts are just the other way. Interest is
far higher in all silver using countries
than in gold countries. If we go on the
silver standard the men who have oapl
tal to lend will charge more interest
than they do now in order to oover the
riitk of being repaid In depreciated all
ver dollars. So if you succeed in bor
rowing under free coinage yon will pay
higher interest on the loan. Ask any
body who knows the facts whether in
terest ia not much higher in Mexico, In.
dia or the silver South American ooon.
tries than in the United States, Eng
land or Germany, with their ourrency
baaed on gold. Then make up yonr mind
that yon will vote for the financial sys
tem which if left undisturbed will ben
efit you for more thou free silver wilL
Omrsnuit Ownership of Silver Mil ,
Why is it that both the Populists and
the Uemocrars failed to pnt s plank in
their platforms demanding that the
government own and control the silver
mines of this country, so that the profit
which would be made from free ooinage
would go to our government and thus
indirectly be a benefit to the whole
people? Why should this profit go to
few individuals who own the silver
mines and who are already enormously
rich? Is not thin building up one of the
most dangerous trusts that the country
has ever seen?
Think of a few men having under
their control all tho silver of this ooun
try and the government compelled to
turn it into dollars as fast as they pro
duce it I Suppose that these silver men
oombiue to shut down work on their
mines when they want to produce
stringency in the money market, then
open them again when ttiey want to
make money abundant Would not this
put the whole buaiuesa of the oouutry at
their mercy?
ft '- L llf
mil
WOULD HURT INSTEAD OF HELP.
Row Free Cotne Wonld Injare the
The chief strength of the 18 to 1 agi
tation lies in the belief that it would
benefit tho agricultural classes. This Is s
serions error. The facts of all human
experience show conclusively that free
silver would oanse widespread and pro
longed injury to the farmers of this
country.
The more threat of free coinage would
greatly injnro tho farmers by causing
an immediate calling in of all loans
through the natural desire of lenders to
get back money worth as much as they
lent Hnndreds of thousands of farmers
would be unable to pay their mort
gages, and their farms would be sold at
sacrifice. No new loans would be
forthcoming, as the owners of capital
would not Invest so long as there was
any danger that by a change in the
money standard the valne of loans
would be cut in two. As the chief com
plaint of the farmers now is that inter
est is too high and capital too scarce.
the effect of a policy which wonld make
capital scarcer and dearer can be figured
out by each farmer for himself.
A second way in which free coinage
would hurt agriculture would be by the
financial panio which would inevitably
follow the overthrow of our present
sound fills wial system and the adoption
of the rmatnMe cheap silver standard.
With the millions of bank depositors
demanding their Savings the machinery
of credits, by which so large a part of
the country s business is done, wonld be
suddenly stopped. Merchants would be
unable to buy goods for lack of credit ;
manufacturing industries wonld be clos
ed down, as in 1898, and millions of
workers wonld be idle. Men out of em
ployment do not buy as mnch farm
products as when they are at work, and
the farmers who now complain of the
lack of markets for their produce wonld
find themselves with a large port of
their crops unsold. Would not this be a
serious Injury to agrioulture?
Another evil which free coinage
wonld bring to American farmers would
be the unsettlement of their trade rela
tion with the great gold standard com
mercial nations, whioh purchase each
year $800,000,000 worth of our surplus
farm products. The adoption of the sil
ver standard, with its constantly fluotu
ating Bcale of prices, would prove the
same barrier to commerce between this
and other countries that it has to trade
between gold Btandard Europe and In
dia, China and Japan. Do the farmers
want to curtail and unsettle onr foreign
trade?
These are some of the ways in whioh
free ooinage at 16 to 1 would hurt the
farmers? No advocate of 68 oent dollars
has ever been able to show a single way
in which it wonld help them.
One Neglected Detail.
"No, sir," said the man who was
chewing a long straw, "I ain't satisfied
yet. I don't think ary one o' them con
ventions went fnr enough.
'I thought you regarded the future
Very hopefully. "
'I did fur a time. Bat in the exoite.
ment we overlooked things thet orter 'a'
been dona It never occurred ter me at
the time, but we made a big mistake by
not havina plank pnt inter the platform
makin it ag'in the law fnr it ter rain
on a man's hay when he's gone ter town
ter 'tend a p'htical meetiu. ' Wash
ington Star.
With free coinage of silver at the ra.
tio of 16 to 1 every mine in the world
would be worked to its fullest capacity
and the entire output dumped at our
mints. Why? Because for every $9. 94
of silver bullion our government would
give the owner 918.60 a net profit of
18.06 upon 16 ennoes. Who would
blame the millionaires who own silver
mines for making this money? Common
people will be forced to take from the
rich mine owner a dollur at 100 cents
whose intrinsio value is about 53 oents
and whose purchasing value is never
higher than its intrinsio value. Rich.
mondville (N. Y.) Phoenix.
An Eminent Bimetallisms Opinion.
Professor Edouard Suesa, the leading
bimetallist of Austria, states briefly but
with great force the objections to free
ooinage by this country alone. The re.
suit would be, be says, "the loss of all
your (onr) gold, and the obligation to
buy in England the gold necessary to
meet your (oar) obligations in foreign
oountriea" He declares that "one na
tion alone ia too weak to take such
step, which must lead to a financial
and perhaps an economical crisis. "
Conditions Prior to 1873.
Some of the free ooinage men still
say that all they want ia to "restore the
conditions that existed prior to 1878. '
In 1878 (he total world's production of
silver was 61,100,000 ounces and the
silver in a dollar was worth 11.04
gold. Last year the world's product of
silver was 165,000,000 ounces and the
silver in a dollar - was worth only
60 7-10 oents. Will the silver miner!
restore the production of 1878 as the
first step toward "restoring the condi.
tions? '
"Uoid is tne speculator's dollar" say
the advocates of the silver standard.
How about the , cheap money period
from 1861 to 1878? Did not speculation
of all kinds flourish then, and were not
the gamblers in bonds, stocks or farm
products greatly aided by the depreoi
ated and fluctuating ourrency?
Cheap money means dear goods. If
yon want to pay doubled prices for what
you buy and take slim chances of get
ting more wages, vote for the 16 to
schema.
What Bryan's Speech Demonstrates.
From the Sun, Dom.
That there is nothing in tho free
silver agitation.
That it is all a mere bubble.
That it will burst and go to pieces
lonir before .November.
Bryan himself hue pricked it, and
now we have only to wait a little to
see it collapse for good and all.
Buuinettg is safe. The nation
honor is secure from Baton. There
will be no S3 cent dollars. There
will be no repudiation.
Except wind stands as never it stood
it is an ill wind turns none to good
Thomas Tusser.
OIHSSIOMIS' SALE
The nde- ""v"
4,'ounty Commls
v' ..--11 sell to
s fited and
sioners of th
highest bld(lv
unseated tracts Til i y d ml rnted below, .
at the Court. House, in Milford, on
Thursday, October 1st. 1896,
commencing at 3 o'clock.
SEATED LANDS,
looming Orovs Township.
Mitchell, Walter, n. T. 73 acres nnlmpd,
liaviu KHIgeway, No. 97, 100 acres, un
linral. Isaac Decow. No. 101, adjoining lands of
Amanda Bchlner and John Newman.
Delaware) Township.
Lalng, John W., ert. lno acres nnlmpd,
partoi inos t;arney, No. lis, adjoining
lots No. 147 and HH.
Oresne Township.
French, Jnme, n. r., 2H seres, nnlmpd,
Howe anil Wliot.No. K.7, adjoining lauds
of Chas. Hilts and.Tosinh Whlttnker.
Peffer, Lewis, n. r., lot) acres nnlnipd.Miiry
StocKor, Mo. l adjoining lamia of Ku
dolph Linck and Levi Shaw.
Lsokswsxan Township.
Bovee, Christian, n. r., 2 acres nnlmpd and
house, adjoining lands of J. . Kilgour
andN. Y. I.. E. & W. B. B. Co.
Brnmer, N. W., est. 4 lots In Mast, Hope,
nam aujoining lauds oi .1 units scnarff
and T. 1). Shav.
Crlssman, Frank, n. r., 50 acres nnlmpd,
adjoining lands of David Mclntyro and
James Selden.
Kettle,.Tonas, est. house and lot. adjoining
mnus oi a. j. nogersana u. ec i. canal
Co.
Moran, James, n. r. 85 acres nnlmpd, lot
JNo. l, adjoining lands or John Merlale
and Michael Gradv.
Riviere, K. T., n. r., 9 ncrcs Impd, 85 acres
unimpd, adjoining lands of Patrick
Moral, and others. Formerly assessed
to Thomas Gaffnev.
Riviere, K. T., n. r. 50 acres unimpd, ad
joining lands or ferclval W. llnvis and
.aeharinh Dalev.
Wilson, George, n. r. 100 acres nnlinpd.nd-
joining laiuis or wm. lioluert and Uavld
Mclntvro.
Blackmore, Maria, n. r. 1 nero lmpd, 8
acres, unimpd, house, adjoining lands ot
B. (x. Park Association and John Smith.
Westbrook, Lafayette, n. r. 100 acres un-
lmpo, isano jieeow, jmo. 11H, ml joining
lots No. 105 and 96.
t-ahman Township.
Campbell, Wm'., n. r. 60 acres, nnlmpd ad
joining inmis or Mrs. u. f,. rlatingcr ana
Jacob Otteuheimer.
McCarty, Arthur, n. r. 6 acres unimpd.
adjoining lands oi Harriet CooK est, and
Abram Garlss est.
Palmyra Township.
Skinner, John, n. r. house and lot, adjoin
ing lands of Newcomb Kimble and
Abeam Ernie, est.
UNSEATED LANDS.
Blooming Orove Township.
No. Warrantee Names. Acres. Perches
ISO
Kanouse, John 95
Kleinllans, Horace 4"2
Stocker, Margaret 4:19
70
116
loo
100
69
146
80
Stocker, Margaret 815
Mott, O. H., 208
Delaware Township.
109 Mcaso, Isabella, pt 55
24
DlngmanTownshlp,
141 Brodhead, Jane 483
Oreene Township.
260 Arndt, Jacob 60
51 Double, Krodriok .... 50
156 Howe and Klliot 7
299 Paschal. Thomas 50
Laokawaqan Township.
2 Condell, William 200
83 Hewcs, Robert 8X6
8 Powell, Peter 60 .
60 Shoo, Ann 1H7
70
128 Howell, Richard 115
Lehman Township.
149 Ingraham, Elizabeth . . 80 .
148 Kinnear, William 10 '
2H6 Brotzman, John 7 '
Porter Township.
26 Beecher, David Ill
60 Kdsnll, David 400
69 Miller, William 219
168 Pollard, William 130
40
140
63
15
130
66 Singer, Abraham 413
Shohola Township.
26 Nolelgh, John 437
UK) Huston, Mary 415
144 Scott, John 46
148 Wells, James, jr 60
Westfall Township.
24 Mease, James 489
187
J AMKS H. H KI.I.KK, rommlssicmors
Alfkkd S. Dingmas. j immMsluners
Attest:
I (tRO. A. Swrprniskr,
Commissioners' Clerk.
Commissioners' Ollloe, Aug. 24, ltwtt.
CANDIDATES' CAEDS.
To THR VOTKH8 or PIKE CoTlNTT: I here
by announce myself a candidate for
County Treasurer
under the title or policy of "People's
Party," as regulated by tho Act of Juno
iu, 1X9.1, providing ror nominations ny nom
ination Daners. and solicit vour votes at
the general election Nov. II, 1K96.
J lxliN A. jvir
August 5, 1898.
Having been appointed to fill a vacancy
In the office of
Associate Judge.
I hereby announce myself a candidate for
the nomination at the Republican Conven
tion. Should I receive It, ami be elected,
I shall endeavor to perform, the duties of
the olliee impartially and to the bust of '
my ability.
WILLIAM MITCHELL.
July 2, 1898.
TO THB RRPUBLICAN VOTKR8 OF PlKB
county. I hereby olfor myself a candidate
for the office of
County Auditor,
and respectfully ask that delegates be
elected favoring my caudidaov.
john c. Warner.
Milford Borough, Aug. 24, 1HVH.
Having been solicited by a manlier of
friends f hereby offer myself a candidate
for nomination to the offiue of
County Auditor
at the Republican Convention and ask
that delegates be elected tu my interest.
If elected I pledge myself to perform the
duties of the posltiou Impartially aud tu
the best of my ability.
JOSEPH SCHANNO.
Dlngman Township, Aug. 24, lu6.
All persons are hereby notified that
throwing or burning palters or refuse of
any kind in the struuU of the Borough ia
prohibited.
By onler of the town council,
J. C. CHAMHKRLAIN,
President, pro tern.
Attest, D. H. HORN13D.CK, Soc'y.
Milford, May 6, 1a0.
It was a pert young lady, who,
when the minister remarked that it
was his business to save young men,
asked him to save a good one for
her.
"Go 'round the world?" But few
can do it ;
The most cf us, we just go through
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