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Milford, Pike County, Pa.
Regular Republican Nominations.
FOR PRESIDENT, t
WILLIAM M'KINLEY,
OF OHIO.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
GARRET A. IIOBART,
OF NEW JERSEY.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
For Congrosstnon-nt-lnrgo,
OALUSHA A. GROW,
of Susquolwnna County.
SAMUEL L. DAVENPORT,
of Erie County.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
For Representative in Congress,
W. S. KIRKPATRICK,
of Northampton.
For Representative,
AARON COURTRIGHT.
For Prothonotary,
EPHRIAM KIMBLE.
For County Treasurer,
CHARLES W. SHANNON.
For Associate Judge,
WILLIAM MITCHELL.
For County Commissioner,
JAMES M. BENSLEY.
For County Auditor,
JOHN C. WARNER.
Editorial.
THE NEXT CONGRESSMAN.
To the voters of the Eighth Con
gressional District :
Upon the question of the election
of a Congressman to represent this
District In the next Congress, does
it not occur to the voter that this
District would be better served by
having as its representative one who
is a momber of the political party
which will have a majority of Con
gress, and therefore control its or
ganization and work? Every candid
citizen, who has observed the drift
of political events, is ready1 to con
cede that the next Congress will be
Republican. Noither is it seriously
contended on the part of any Intel
ligent man that Major McKinley
will not be the next President of
the United States.
If, then, the next Congress will be
Republican, and the next President
likewise a Republican, do not com
nion sense and selfish interests dic
tate that this District should have a
Republican Congressman? What
influence or weight could the ablest
of Democratic Congressmen from
this District have with a Republican
majority compared with a Republi
can representative? This District
has vast business interests which re
quire the active intervention and at
tention of its representative. The
citizens generally have or may have
personal matters which require the
active assistance of their representa
tive. No man can expect that a
Congressman from some other Dig
trict in the State is going to give
this attention and assistance. Every
Congressman has the business of his
own District to look after without
concerning himself with the inter
ests of some other district. The
voters of this District have it in
their power to send to the next Re
publican Congress Hon. William 8
Kikkpatkick, a citizen of recognized
fitness and of such reputation that
he will be able to protect and speak
for his constituents and thereby
avoid the humiliation of appealing
to and depending upon some strange
Congressman to do this work.
These considerations ought to
weigh with every voter. It mat-
tors little whether the voter is a Sil
ver or a Gold man, a Democrat or a
Republican- The money question
will be determined and put at rest,
in all probability, by the election of
a Republican President. The result
means the maintenance of the pre
sent btuuilurd, which the next Con.
jjrtas will not attempt ti disturb,
Therefore, whatever may be the
vlow of the voter on this question of
the money, it should not interfere
with an intelligent consideration of
other questions which are involved
in the election of a Congressman.
It should be said, however, in this
connection that the Republican can
didate for Congress stands for the
maintenance of the present money
of the Country.
The very life of the people of this
district depends upon the vast man
ufacturing, mining and agricultural
interests which alnmud in the Dis
trict. Those require fit and ade
quate representation at Washington.
Applicants for pensions, petitioners
for governmental attention in what
ever form it may arise demand the
presence and active work of a Con
gressman with influence in the sev
eral departments of government.
With no intention to reflect upon
the Democratic candidate for Con
gress, is it not conceded equally by
friend and political foe that JcnoE
Kirkpatriok combines in himself all
the qualities requisite for the duties
of a Congressman to represent this
District in Congress? He is a train
ed lawyer, with the ability to at
once take a prominont position on
the floor as well as the committees
of Congress. He is a student of poli
tical questions and has the most in
telligent comprehension of the needs
of this District. In addition to this
and which Is not the least import
ant, he lms long been in public life
and has the acquaintance and know-
lodge of public men, wheroby he
would have weight and influence as
a Congressman.
Every thinking voter should give
this matter the most earnest and
sorious consideration. This is not
the time to allow mere party feeling
to influence one. It matters little
whether there is one more or less
Republican Congressman in the next
Congress. But it is of the most vi
tal importance to the people of this
district that they should be repre
sented fitly, intelligently and effec
tively in that Congress. '
A LAST WORD. ,
Before another issue of the Press
the numerous questions of the cam
paign will have been settled by the
American people. No doubt it will
be a sensible wise conclusion, at all
events it will be the people's will
and we have the utmost confidence
in their ultimate judgment. They
may all be fooled once in a while
and some all the time, but they
cannot all be fooled all the time and
if they make a mistake they are sure
to detect and are swift to change it.
Four years ago the country was
misled by the delusive but attrae
tive doctrine of free trade, the peo
ple were quick to discern the illusion
and two years later applied the
powerful remedy of the ballot.
They have not forgotten this dearly
bought lesson, and they will be
slow to again entrust the party with
powor which so cruelly deceived
them then. The country is safe for
McKinley and protection to Ameri
can industries and when the free
silver heresy is buried beneath the
ballots as it will oertainly be on
Tuesday next such a wave of pros
perity will sweep over this land as
has not been felt in years.
Lot every one aid in making it
larger and forever put an end to the
talk of anarchy, repudiation and
somothing for nothing. Get in the
grand procession now.
GO OUT AND VOTE.
The battle is ended so far as edu
cation and persuasion goes, but no
Republican should relax effort until
the polls close Nov. 3.
Get out and vote and see that your
tardy neighbor does likewise. Let
there be no stay-at-homes. In this
election it is an imperative duty
every man owes to himself and his
country to record his will as a free,
man and an American. Do not neg
loct the opportunity. If you do you
may regret it when too late. Have
your part in the great victory to be
won for the honesty, integrity and
morality of this nation. In future
years you will point to your vote for
McKinley as one of the proudest
acts of your lives, and your children
and children's children will rise up
and call you blessed. Vote.
A gentleman, who is highly intel
ligent, stated publicly this week
in Milford that he waa reliably in
formed that Bryan made at least 150
McKinley votes by a recent speech
in which ho advocated Goverment
ownership of railroads. The men
argued that if this come to pass,
their jobs would be mere political
situations, and they would be liable
to be turned out with every change
of administration. The public would
also bo interested in riding on roads
manned by unexperienced, and care-
loss employees who' could retain
their places with a political pull. Do
the people want this ? The railroad
men certainly do not.
With this issue the Press enters
on its second year. We have been
both fluttered and gratified with the
reception it has met with at the
hands of tlio peoplo. Our aim has
beon to fulfill the expectations of
our renders and to make the paper
lctter from week to week. How
far we have siKxccded in our aim
we leave others to Judge. If the
Press has established itself in your
homo and you feel that you can
commend it to your neighbor we
nok your cordial oo-oicration in ex
tending its sphere of interest and
usefulness.
SPEAKER CRISP DEAD.
f h Passim- Away of a Prominent Ha
tlanal Charaoter.
An.AtfTA. Oot. 84. The death of ex
Rpoaker Charles F. Crisp oooaslon area
nrrow In thin city and state and will b
deeply regretted throughout the nation.
Mr. Crisp died at the Halcyon aanltarlun
In this city, where he had been an Inmat
for several wanks. Though It had general
ly been known that he waa seriously 111
hi condition had not at any time been re
gnrded at crltlnnl, and the nnwl of hit
death waft a painful surprise to bll frlendi
and admirers.
Charles Frednrlok Crisp, although o.
American pnrcntaire, was born on .Tan
Bit, 1H45, In Sheffield, England, where hi
parent, who were actors, were playing ii
a stock oompnny. He was educated In th.
publlo schools of Savannah and Macon,
Ha., and enlisted In the Confederate arm)
the first year of the war, being then onlj
lfl years of sue. He was a lieutenant It
the Tenth Virginia Infantry when he wa
captured and taken to Fort Delaware as t
prisoner. On his return to his home It
Kllavllle, Ga., after his release, In Jane,
lHflft, he bogan to read law. Admitted tc
the bar in lHlift, he soon built tip a oonslcl
arable praotloa In 1X73 Mr. Crisp waa ap
pointed solicitor general of the southwest
ern Judloial olroult of Georgia, and flva
years later he became a Judge of the upe
rlor court by appointment In 1878 hi
was elected judge by the general asem
bly and twice re-oleoted. He resigned U
accept the nomination for oongress front
the Third district, whloh waa equivalent
to an election.
He served as a representative In eon
gress until the time of his death. Hit
knowledge of parliamentary law waa nol
exceeded by that of any man In the houst
exoept perhaps Speaker Heed, with whom
CHARLES F. CRISP,
he waa frequently In conflict on points oi
procedure. During the memorable fight
against the so called foroe bill Mr. Crisp
was the leader of his party on the floor,
displaying remarkable self oontrol, alert
ness, boldnoss and patience. In the oom
mlttee room and Mr. Crisp at one time
or another was a member of all the Im
portant oommlttees he showed unweary
ing Industry and grasp of detail.
In the spring of 188B Mr. Crisp was
ohosen speaker pro torn during the absenoe
of Mr. Carlisle, and while serving In that
oapaolty he made hla first speech advo
oatlng the free coinage of silver.
Mr. Crisp had displayed each ability as
parliamentary tactician that he waa se
lected by his party In the first session of
the Fifty-first congress to make the fight
against enforolng Speaker Heed I rules.
The Republicans won In the end, but only
after some of the most exciting scenes ev
er witnessed In oongress. When the Dem
ocrat secured a majority in the next con
gress, Mr. Crisp was ohosen speaker after
a oontest with Roger Q. Mills of Texas.
Mr. Crisp added to his reputation by the
fairness of his rulings and his uniform
courtesy, although be and Mr. Heed some
times olashed as of old.
At the time of bis death Mr. Crisp was
oandldate for United States senator from
Georgia, and would undoubtedly have
been ohosen to that honorable position,
Sneered to an American GlrL
London, Oot. 28. The Observer an
nounces the engagement of Coleand de
el Maurice and brace Corneau, daughter
of William Corneau of Springfield, Ilia.
A 1,000,000 Fire In Chicago.
Chicago, Oot. 87. The Paolflo elevator,
at Hlnes street and tbe north branch of
tba Chicago river, has. been burned. A
large amount of grain waa stored In It
The flames threatened the large malting
bouse of Hales at Curtis adjoining, and
ten extra fire engines were colled. Both
elevator A and elevator fl of the Paolflo
Elevator oompany were also destroyed,
with other small buildings. Tbe loss will
approximate 11,600,000. The wheat, It
la said, was Insured tor 1750,000.
Dr. Lao Oot Flva Tears.
Kxvr Haven, Oot. 88. Dr. 3. Edward
Lee, who has been before the oourta on
three different occasions, was found guilty
of nialpraotloe by tbe superior court and
sentenced to five years In prison. The
jury was out bnt 15 minutes. The only
witness presented by tbe state waa Mis
Bird M. Palmer, the alleged victim, and
tbe story told by ber waa the most revolt
ing In the history of Conneotlout oourta.
Portuguese Civilisation In A trie.
Lisbon, Oct isa A telegram received
here from Bt Paul de Loanda, Portuguese
nest Africa, say that tba Portuguese ex
pedition baa just punished the rebellious
tlendo natives, burning 4 of tbelr vil
lage and killing 100 of the rebel.
General Market.
New York, Oct. 7. FLOITR State and
wtmlerndull and easy; city mills patents. frlW
&.S.15; winter patents, k.VM.Ur, city mill
dears. H W-5fK winter itmltflil, HJU
WHKAT No. I red declined sharply undet
lower cables, furelxn selling aud hig-h money
receipt from the west; lleceoiber, 7o T-ltkii
77ftc.; January. 7ec
COHN-No. t declined under big recelpta.
fine weather and sympathy with wheal; De
cember, Blvic; May, iMWHHc
OATS No. quiet and easy; December,
raHr.; track, white, state, saiUlc,
loKK-yutot; luees, a.iuir, family, fl&oO
(ftii.au.
LAKD Dull and easy; prim western steam.
14 J. nominal.
liimtri Steady; stale dairy, 142.18c.; itat
Creamery, 12W(JOc.
CHthE-Bieau; state, large, 1&Wh&A
mall, 7Hkj,u-4C
ttiUS fitoatly; state and Pennsylvania, 18Q
auc.; western. uniilUc
SUOAH Haw firm: fair rednlng. I?c.
oenlrllugal. (M teat. Sc.; reuued, nrua; cruaued.
fct?.; powderct,
I L'Kr'B.M'IN'IC-Qulet; H&20.
MuLAf.-Kd-r'lriu: New Orleans. RKiW7e.
KICK Firm; duuuwuc, iidc.; Japan, W,&
4C.
iA.LLOW-Du.il; city, 3c.; oountry, &
COLONEL INQERSOLL ON MONEY.
Be atates Home Plain Trtiths In His Own
. ITnlqne Way.
Following in an extract from the
apocoh of Oolonol Robert O. Ingnrnoll
t Chicago on Oct 8 :
Money that ia roonoy neotla no pnar-
ant-oo, noeda no banker; It ia always
good. No matter how many nation go
down to dust, good mnnoy remain for
ever the same. We bave a man running
for tbe presidency on three plntforms,
with two vice presidents, that any
money ia the creature ot law. If the
government can make money by law,
why should the government collect
taxes? Anoording to Mr. Sryan, our
fathom wore the friends -ff ailvor, and
yet our dear old fatherA in all their
live only minted 8,000,000 of these sa
cred dollar. Mow see what the one
mie of silver bave dono. Since 1878
the enemio of lilver have coined over
430,000,000 of these dollars, and yot
silver kept going down. We are ooin-
ing now over 93,000,000 a month, and
silver keep going down.
Senator Jones of Nevada, in 1878,
voted for the law of 1878. Ha nid,
from his speech in the senate, that Hod
bad made gold the statulnrd. Ho said
that gold was the mother Of civiliza
tion. Whether ho ha heard from God
since or not I do not know. Hut now he
is on the other side. Senator Stewart of
Nevada was there at tho time, but voted
for the act of 1873 and said that gold
was the only standard. Ho has changed
his mind. No government can afford to
be a clipper on coins.
A great repnblio cannot afford to
stamp a lie on silver or gold or pnper.
Honest money for an honest peoplo, is
sued by an honest nation. Yon cannot
make a paper dollar without taking a
dollar's worth of paper. We must have
paper that represents money. I want it
lHHued by the government, and I want
behind every one of these paper dollars
either a dollar In gold or a silver
dollar worth 100 cents, so that every
greenback under the flag can lift np its
hands and swear, "I know that my re
deemer liveth. " That was where I was
80 years ago, and that is where I am
to-night
For nations and individuals, at all
times, everywhere and forever, honeBty
is the best policy. Better be an honest
bankrupt than a rich thief. Poverty can
hold in its hand the jewel honor a
Jewel that ontahines all other gems. A
thousand times better be poor and noble
than rich and fraudulent Nobody can
be helped by free coinage except the few
people who could pay their debts if they
were willing. Some say that it would
help the mine owners. It would not
Coining this bullion into dollars would
not Snereose its value, because you could
ooin the bullion of the whole world and
the supply would be greater than the
demand. Have freeooinage to-morrow,
and there is not a silver mine owner
that would make a dollar not one by
changing It into American coin. It
would only be worth what the bullion
is worth in tbe open market.
We want good money good, honest
money. And there was never any real
prosperity for a nation or an individual
without honesty, without integrity, and
it is our duty to preserve the reputation
of the great republic.
Wheat, Cotton and Silver.
While Bryan is telegraphing the New
York Journal that "the gold standard
makes a dearer dollar, a dearer dollar
means falling prices, and falling prices
mean hard times," the prices of wheat,
oorn and cotton are going np, and the
price of silver, the supposed barometer
of prioea of farm produots, is going
down.
Bryan must demodify his farm prod
not speeches or he will have to face
such hard questions as: "What about
wheat and cotton? Are their prices go
ing up In sympathy with silver or be
cause of a shortage of foreign crops?
Wbat connection is there, anyway, be
tween the prioea of farm produots and
of silver?"
Of coarse Bryan can answer all snch
questions. In fact, they are "dead easy"
for a powerful man who can lift the
price of all tbe silver in the world to
twice its present height, but it is just
as well to avoid all unnecessary embar
rassment Whet Ait tha Boneflur
If 60 oent silver dollars should double
the prices of farm products, it a quite
as certain that the prices of all the
product which the farmer consumes
would double in the same way. In that
case It is not eany to see how the farmer
would gain anything by the free coinage
of silver. Even the wages of labor, the
last to rise in an epoch of depreciated
currency and inflated prices, would
finally, after much distress of the work
ingmen, straggle np to the common
leveL
But whether the former should re
ceive 1 100 for 100 bushels of wheat and
pay out $1)0 for the necessaries of living
or should receive I J 00 fur tho suuie
wheat and pay out $180, in both cases
the balance on hand would have just
the same purchasing power. But in ac
complishing the degradation of the
monetary standard, which could do
neither the farmer nor the wage earner
any good, an enormous depreciation of
values aud confiscation of accumulated
earnings, involving publio and private
credit in a maelstrom ot destruction,
would Inevitably ensue. Are the farm
ers and workingmen of the country will
ing to invoke such a catastrophe?
Philadelphia KeoortL
There has been no time since the re
sumption of specie pay moots in 1879
when tbe depositors in savings banks
oould not get back a good money as
they earned and put in. Do they want
even to "chance it" on getting 61 cent
or even TS cent silver dollars?
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REPUDIATION AND DI8HONOR.
A Part of One of ttr-rtrr Ward Beecher
Meet Sermon.
During the flat money and unlimited
paper currency excitement of 1877 Mr.
Boeeher delivered a famous sermon on
Thanksgiving of that year on the perils
of the day. In it he need this language:
"Whenever In any nation there is
snnh an attempt to tamper with stand
ard that the moral sense of man is be-
wililered and liberty Is given to unprin
cipled men at large to chest, to be un
faithful to obligation, to refuse tbe
payment of honest debts whenever that
takes place, it is all the worse if done
with tho permission of the law. I hate
the devil riding on a law worse than I
do the devil riding without a law under
him. Whoever tampers with established
stnndards tampers with the very marrtrw
and vitality of publio faith. The
danger into which we are running is
hidden undor the mystery of finance and
the currenny. All money is bnt a repre
sentative of property. As now, by facil
ity of intercourse, all the world is one
open market, the need of one and she
same standard of money, uniform, uni
versal and unalterable, become imperi
ous.
"Gold is the world's standard. Gold
i the univerSal measure of value. Other
kinds of money there are silver, cop
per, paper but they all must conform
to gold and be measured by it and be -interchangeable
with it In fixed and
definite proportions. Gold Is king in
commerce. AH other money must rep
resent gold. No vote of legislature can
ohntige the nature of commerce, the na
ture of property, the nature of Its repre
sentative in money or the relative supe
riority or inferiority of different cur
rencies. Uold came to it supremacy as
a representative of property by the long
established consent of mankind. Oon
gress cannot change it for tbe world,
nor even for this nation, exoept upon
past transactions. It may give impu
nity to men to oheat confiding creditors,
but it cannot rule the value of currency
in all future transactions.
"The crime of paying a debt in a cur
rency inferior in value to that in whioh
it was contracted, base at all times and
anywhere, has a doeper guilt and a
baser Infamy in our case. When in our
mortal struggle capitalists were solicited
to lend their money to ns on the faith of
the nation, we were too glad, most
grateful, for their aid. Then they were
not graspiirg and swollen usurers. Oh,
nol They were benefactors. We rejoiced
In tbeir bounty and gave thanks for
their confiding faith in our national
honesty. Now, our danger past, we re
vile them, finding no epithet too vio
lent, and strive to pay them, not gold
for the gold they lent our misery, but in
a dishonest measure of an Inferior
metal.
"In the court of the commercial
wolrd's oonsoience we shall be convict
ed of endeavoring to cheat the men who
oame to our rescue in the dark day.
Ibis congress would not have existed
nor any government of the United
States but for the strength given to our
armies by foreign capitalists, and now
to return their aid by a base treachery
is to deserve an , infamy as deep as the
lowest depths of hell. But woe to those
men, bull headed, without eyes, who are
attempting to undermine the integrity
aud simplicity of the nation."
An Unworthy Cltuten.
Bilverite Orator What we want is
more money.
Bkeptio Would free coinage make
more money?
8. O. Certainly. It would give ns
both gold and silver.
S. But wouldn't free coinage at 18
to 1 drive gold out of circulation. In ac
cordance with the Gresbam law?
S. O. My friend, Mr. Bryan pro
poses to repeal any law that is working
in the interest of the goldbngs and Shy
looks. 8, But the Gresbam law la a natu
re! law, like the law of gravitation.
8. O. My friend, yon are a pessimist
and don't know that you are a citison
of the grandest country on earth one
that can "without the aid or consent of
any other nation" repeal even the law
of gravitation itself if it should beoome
a tool of Wall street Shame on you I
You don't belong to this country. At I
was saying
Ex-Oorernor Bole and Bis Hired Man.
Hired Man I heard that in your De
Moinea speech yon said prioea are so
low that you have either got to get
more for your oat or else out my wage.
Boies Yon heard right
Hired Man Well, whioh are yon
going to do?
Boies I am going to get more for
my oats, '
Hired Man How?
Boies By lessening the purchasing
power of money. Free coinage will give
ns a dollar whioh will only buy five
bushels of oats instead of ten bushels.
and that will be the same a getting 30
cents for my oat.
Hired Man Well, what are yon go
ing to do about my wages?
Boies Oh, I'll pay yon just the same
as I'm paying you now, $20 a month.
Hired Man Are yon going to pay
me in these new dollars?
Boies Certainly ; tbe same kind of
dollars that I get for my oat.
Hired Man Those dollar that can't
buy only half a much of anything a
tbe old dollar?
Boies Yes, yea; the same sort of dol
lars.
Hired Man Then, a I understand
it, yon propose to get twice a moon for
your oata and pay me only half what
I'm getting now?
Boies Why, no. I'll still pay yon
$20.
Hired Man Bnt this $20 won't buy
only half as much stuff a now, yon say,
for the purchasing power i to be less
ened one-half ; so with my $20 I can
only get $10 worth of stuff. Your
scheme would bring yon twice a much
fur your oats and bring me only half a
much for my work. I this fair, do yon
think?
Boies Well, every man ha to look
out for himself.
Hired Man So I see, and I think I'll
look out for myself and vote for an hon
est dollar for an honest day's work."
Council Bluffs (la.) Nonpareil.
The farmers oomplain because they
cannot find markets for all their prod
ucts. How would the doubling of prioea
under free silver enable tbe working
men of the cities and factory town to
buy more thou they do uow ?
True Iemoeratle Doctrine, , j
Jefferson, In 1788, wrote: "Just i
principle will lead ns to disregard legal
proportion altogether, to inqnire into
the market price of gold In the several
countries with which we shall prinoi
pally be connected in commerce and to
take an average from them. I very
much don tit a right now to change the
valne, and especially to lessen it"
Tbe house committee, in 1821, report
ed: "It is sufficient to know, by un
happy experience, that it ratio of 15
to 1 tendency I to rid nsof a gold cur
rency and leave us nothing but silver."
The house committee, in 1834, report
ed: "The desideratum in the monetary
system ia a standard of uniform value.
We cannot ascertain that both metals
have ever circulated simultaneously,
concurrently and indiscriminately in
any country where there are bank or
money dealers, and we entertain the
conviction that the nearest approach to
an invariable standard is its establish
ment in one metal, which metal shall
compose exclusively the currency for
large payments.
Andrew Jackson, in 1888, wrote:
"There is no fraud in gold. It is un
changeable and will do it office every
where and at all timea Labor imparts
an invariable value to it."
Benton, in 1884, said in debate: "It
gold ho an intrinsio value, whloh
gives it ourrenoy all over the world to
the full amount of that value without
regard to law or circumstanoe. It ha
a uniformity of value which make it
the safest standard of value of property
which the wisdom of man has yet dis
covered. Its Superiority over all other
money give to it possessor the choice
and command of all other money."
Following this dobate the act called
the "administration gold bill," In
tended to put the country on a single
gold standard, was passed, 14S to 88 in
the house and 85 to 7 in the senate, and
signed by Andrew Jackson, president
The house committee, in 1858, report
ed : ' 'Gold is the only standard of value
by which all property is now measured.
It is virtually the only currency of tbe
country. We desire to have the standard
currency to consist of gold only, and
that these silver ooins shall be entirely
subservient to it, and that they shall be
nsed rather as tokons than as standard
coins."
"Per Capita."
It is more money the Bryanltes want
Now, whioh nations have tbe most
money those with the gold standard
or those with the silver standard?
The silverites are fond of talking
about per capita circulation.
Under free coinage of both gold and
silver the United State had a per cap
ita circulation in 1800 of $4.09, in
1888 of (18.60, in 1853 of $14.68, in
1873 of $18.19. In 1894 we had a per
capita of $24.28; in 1896 we have one
of $21.10.
The per capita circulation of the
world is about $5. 15.
Tbe per capita of the gold standard
countries ia $18.
Tbe per capita of the silver standard
countries is nearly $4. 80.
Tbe gold standard countries have a
per capita of silver alone of $5. 40.
The silver standard oonntries have a
per capita of silver of $2. 83, the rest of
their small circulation being mainly de
preciated paper.
Tbe gold standard countries, with
loss than one-third of the world's popu
lation, bave very nearly two-thirds of
the world's currency circulation.
And yet Mr. Bryan wonld take the
United State from the gold standard
and place it upon the silver standard.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A Few Facta.
In 1878 farm products were lower
than ever before sinoe theoivil war, and
the "greenbaokers" were arguing that
the preparation for resumption on Jan.
1, 1879, had produoed the hard times,
and their advocate tried to posptone
the date for resumption. But resump
tion came Jan, 1, 1879, and No. 8 cash
wheat sold at 81 ; by May it was up
to $1.01 Ji, and by December, 1879, it
was up to $1.83. Corn was 9 in
January, 1879, bnt in December, 1879,
it waa 43 W.
Such facte need to be borne in mind
at this time, when so many false the
ories are afloat
Any workingman who found hi
market basket too heavy on Saturday
night can vote to lighten it hereafter by
supporting the presidential candidate
who is telling the people of the south
and west that the purchasing power of
the dollar ia too great
Cuba's IUKoa raffing Experiment.
Cuba ia furnishing a nearby example
of the beauties of government regulation
of the value of money on the Bryan
plan. Captain General Weyler had
deficient supply of cash, and so he had
the Banco Espanol put out a lot of pa
per money and issued a stringent edict
that everybody should take it at par
with gold. As the island ia practically
under martial law, here was govern
ment oontrol of the currency at Its best
If yon didn't take the bank bills at par,
yon were liable to be shot Even Bryan
conldn t do more for silver than that
But did the edict keep tbe bank note at
par? Not for a day. Almost instantly
they were at a disoount, which soon
amounted to 20 per cent Even with
guns and bayonets yon cannot make 80
cent equal a dollar. Weyler has had to
give up trying. He ha finally allowed
tha Havana Stock Exohange to quote tbe
value of the bank bills in gold. We
were going to say that this proves the
powerleasness of law to establish the
value of money, but we remember in
time that Cuba ha loss than 2,000,000
population to our 70,000,000; that she
never put down the greatest rebellion of
modern time; that her inhabitants are
not the riohest proudest, most intelli
gent people on earth, and o we are not
so sure. Her case is only a part of uni
versal experiefeoe, but we have ohanged
ail that New York Post
la Your Mortganw Overdue
Have yon a mortgage? Is it overdue?
If so, vote for free coinage, and yon in
vito the mortgagee to foreclose as soon
aa possible after election and before
there i time to pas a free ooinage bill.
If yon don't think so, just Imagine that
yon have changed places with your
creditor aud then consider wbat yon
would do six months before the cheap
money era waa ex poo tod to begin.
PureFood
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it good none of It bad, by K
having it made with digestion- ft
aiding Ingredient at In fA
KEYSTAR i greatest raising f.
strength, no bad effect. No f,
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what never helps make flesh f.
and blood. f.
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digestible baking powder. Just .
right for best baking results ; fA
harmlesa to a delicate digea-
tion. fiooo forfeit if made
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With It digest to easily that fi
yon are quickly surprised with ft
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CANDIDATES' CARDS.
Receivlnfl' the linfinlrnolIH nnlnllintln n
by the Republican convention of Pikn
oonnty for tho ollice of
COUNTY TREASURER,
herebv most renpctftillv Riillr-.1t-. t.hr. aun.
port of tho voters and pledge myself time
If elected It will ho my iiini and object to
administer tho duties of the offico faith
fully and to tho Im-h of mv ability.
C. v SHANNON,
ijacKnwaxcu, uct. iniio.
Hnvlng beon nominated by the Repub
lican Convention as a candidate for tho
ollloeof
Representative,
to be voted for at tho General Election. I
hun-hy n-spcctfiilly solicit tho support of
tho people of the county and If elected
nlmlirt. tiivu.tlf tn fiii-th.... !, ,,.ir..M ...
constituents and conserve their interests
laiiiiiuuy to tne nest or my anility,
AARON OOKTH'lGHT.
Wcstfall Township, Sept. ao, lwxi.
Receiving tho nomination forthoofneo
of
Associate Judge
at the hands of tho Republican Conven
tion I hereby respectfully ask the sup
port of my fellow-cltl.ens. If elected 16
will le my aim to fuitnfully and Imparti
ally aid In the administration of the duties
pertaining to the ollice, to the host of my
ability. WILLIAM MITCHKLL.
Milford, Sept. 30, 1MU.
Having been solicited by many friends
who believe that tho will of tho people was
not allowed to be fairly expressed at tho
recent. Republican primaries, I hereby an
nounce myself a candidate for tho ollice of
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
to be voted for at the General F.li-ction to
be held Nov. a, l!i, under the title or po
licy of People' Party, as regulated by tho
act of June 10, lwiH; providing for nomina
tion by nomination papers, and respect
fully ask the supiKirt of all who favor fair
and just method In politic. If elected I
pledge myself to administer my ottlclal
duties In such manner as to guard the In
terests of the people, and promote the gen
eral welfare of the taxpayers.
GKORGFH. BORTREE,
Greentown, Sept. aa, IB!!.
To thr voters of PikrCounty: I here
by announce myself a candidate for
County Treasurer
under tho title or policy of "People'
Party," as regulated by tlio Act of June
10, imS.provlding for nominations by nom
ination papers, and solicit your vote at
the general election Nov. 8, lHiKi.
JOHN A. KIPP.
August 5, 181)6.
All persons are hereby notified that
throwing or burning papers or refuse of
any kind iu the streets of the Borough Is
prohibited.
By order of the town council,
J. C. CHAM BKRLA1N,
President, pro tern.
Attest, D. H. HORNBKCK, h'eo'y.
Milford, May 5, 1HW1.
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