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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
Neg York's Consti .etioa.

BY the adoption Of the constitutional
amendments il New York the Legislature
has now the power 70 abolish the Office of
coroner; bills must b. printed three days
before passage; more than $500 damages
may be now obtained in case of death /;
the Speaker Of the Assembly has power
to ill vacancy "a Governor after Lieu
tenant Governor the President of the
Senate may act as Lieutenant Governor;
inmates fprivate charitable Institutions
do not acquire or lose a residence for the
pGrpoSe of voting; the Onondaga salt
springs may he sold; machines to register
a vote may be used instead o: tie ballot
the code commission i no more; riders
are not permitted on appropriation bills;
a man must he citizen for ninety days
before he can vote; the Legislature meets
on the first "Wednesday in January
railway, telegraph and telephone COM
panies must not give passes To public Off
cials prison labor masi Ros conflict with
free labor; election boards must be BIZ
partisan; public money cannot be used tc
aid sectarian schools: the Superior Court
is consolidated with the Supreme Court:
timber must not he cut nor the lard sold
in the forest preserves of the State; regis
try Of voters forms part of the Constitu-
ton; State and municipal elections will
be separate hereafter, and the terms of
Governor and State officers will he
changed there may be separate municipal
elections; the Hamburg canal, in Buffalo,
may be sold, the Legislature must not
pass mandatory laws compelling the pay
ment of public money TO private institu-
tions limitation will be placed upon city
and county debts; civil service reform is
part of the Constitution; agricultural
lands may be drained 10y the State; pool
selling. book-making and other forms of
gambling are prohibited; there viii be
a naval State force of not less .han 1000
men: there will be next year fifty State
Senators and $50 Assemblymen. but no
county can have more than one-third the
Senators, nor any two adjoining counties
have more than one-haif the Legislature
may improve the canals If IT can do so
without borrowing money for the purpose
The new constitution goes into effect
January Isl next
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
Grover Cleveland's Views Of the Tariff Are
Those Of IefTerson Davis.

In 1885, a quarter of a century after
Abraham Lincoln's election, the country
permitted a Democrat to occupy the Pres
ident's chair. Grover Cleveland's views
on the tariff were those of Jefferson Da-
Wis. but Republican Senate hindered
his doing any great evil till the end OF
his term. If Cleveland's FIRST term was
tolerable, it was 50 because neither he nor
his party was allowed to have their own
way. But negations don't satisfy. and in
1858 Cleveland was turned ont. The adj
ministration of President Harrison.
which followed, If is conceded, was one
of the most glorious administrations III
the history of Our government. Peace
and contentment at home and the nation
al flag upheld with honor abroad. There
was work for all who sought it, and wa
ges were never 50 high. The closing year
of Harrison's adminisiration-that of ISs2
is admitted to have been the most pros
porous year in the entire history Of the
country. But, like the man in Scripture,
the people ''waxed fat and Kicked The
American workman was doing well. bu;
because he had not everything to his
wish he concluded that protection didn't
protect" He wanted a change, and Ben
jamin Harrison went out and Grover
Cleveland came back. Il was a new gen
Grafton of voters that performed this
excellent foole-y;H generation that,
from personal experience, could form no
judgment as 10 the effect OF the applics-
ton Of the Democratic policy to national
affairs. The last time the Democrats were
in full power tIS5s-GO) they left the coun-
try in chaos; the Democrats are again in
fall power and -'chaOs is come again"
The voters Of to-day, as the voters Of
that day, have taken note Of facts. Il is
not the rhetoric of Republican orators
nor the argument Of Republican newspa-
pers that converted them. Ne; they have
been so5ered Iiy the hard times; they
have been taugh; in the school OF expert
ence, and they will not soon forget the
lesson they have learned. They realize
that lit is a condition, not theory, that
confronts Them" and helcegorth they
viii give a wide berth 10 theorists.-Trisb
U-6gFF
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
THE LATEST RETURNS.
Digest of News From the States Arranged
in Alphabetical Order.

The following digest of election returns
from the various States is compiled from
the latest dispatches:
ALAnAMA-Two Congressman out of
eight probably Populists.
ARIzoNA-Repubiicau elect Murphy
delegate to Congress by about 400 plurali-
ty, and majority OF one in the Lower
House of the Legislature.
CALIFoRNIA-The Democratic plurality
on Governor will be about 2.0oO. The re-
mainder of the Republican Stale ticket is
elected Republicans six of the seven
Congressman.
Plurality of Mcintyre Re. }
for Governor over Waite estimated at 49,
0b1. Republicans apparently have the
Legislature on joint ballot by Is majority.
Plurality ofCoiiin Rep
for Governor 1899. The House i Re
publican by 10 majority. and there is but
one Democrat in the Senate. Every city
went Republican.
INDIAxA-Rcpublican plurality about
5000 That party elects a full Congress
ional delegation and controls the Legis-
lature.
IowA-Republican plurality 5000.
KANsAs-Republican majority on Gov
ernor probably S0,0oo. Republicans elect
seven Congressman, and Will contest the
Populist elected in the Eighth district.
Neutrality-suspicious. claim Govern
or Rich's plurality will he I3a,7sl.
MIssoURI-Republica elect their en-
tire State ticket by pluralities ranging
from l0.O)O to l2,00a. 100 members of the
Lower House, a tie in the Senate and
probably II out of ID Congressman.
MoNTANA-Repuhlic elect their Con-
greSsman by 5000 plurality, and Legisla-
ture, which choose two United States Sen
ators, by ~ majority on joint ballot,
NEW YoRK-Completc returns show the
vote for Governor "a follows: Morton,
COS, 7l2; Hill, 5Il,s7I. Morton's plurality,
l5}.S}S.
NORTH CARoLINA-The State and Judi
cial ticket ofthe FuSioniSts is elcc:cd-by
several thousand. Marion Butler, the
Populist leader. claims 20,01a. The Leg
islatu-e ON joint ballot will probably be
Fusion.
NEBRAsKA-Fusion plurality on Gov
ernor 4,53l. Remainder OF State ticket in
doubt.
OHIo-Republicdns claim their plurali-
IL will exceed l50.OG).
NESsEE-Democratic strongholds in
the West may make the plurality of Tur-
ney Dem for Governor over i,0)0. Re
publicans still claim the State.
UTAH-Repu5lican plurality, 2,l35.
WEST NIRGEIA- Republican popular
majority about 1900; Legislative ma
jority on joint ballot, o.
WIsCoNsiS-Republican plurality, 81
600.
WYoNINa-Republioan plurality, 3,c9l,
WAsHINeroy-Legislature Republican
by y majority on Joint ballot.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
DEMOCRATIC MAJoRITIES.

The Republicans have captured both
branches OF the next Congress. They
have elected more than 30 members of
the lower house 10 l06 for the Democrats
and will have a majority of one or two in
the Senate. The Republicans have car
ried the solid congressional delegations
of twenty-three states. They have carried
the majority of the delegations in thirty
states, thereby enabling them to elect a
President, in case the election should be
thrown into the House.
Many Democratic landmarks went
from its moorings and went Republican,
as did Delaware. New Jersey, Tennessee
and West Virginia. There are no Demo-
Gratis in the Michigan Legislature, and
only one Democrat succeeded in getting
into the Connecticut Legislature.
Peunsylvania's Congress delegation
VIII be an oddity. Two Democrats viii
be the lonely Representatives Of the party
at Washington. William L. Wilson. the
father of the tariff bill, has been lef1 at
home in West Virginia. "Objector' Hol-
man has been cut down in Indiana.
Springer Is LEFT in Illinois. Bland. of sill
veT-dollar fame; DocSery and Hach, al
so, Of Missouri, have been defeated.
Tennessee viii have Republican gov
ernor in III. Clay Evans.
California was saved from the wreck,
electing 4 Democratic governor.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

DURING the political campaign that
has just closed there was considerable
discussion by the Democratic and Pop
uIist press over the probability of the
next Presidential election being thrown
into the House and the possibility Of
the PopuIists holding the balance of
power in that body, and thus being in
situation TO compel one or the other
of the old parties TO vote for the Popu-
list candidate for President The elec-
ton of last week has very summarily
settled that question. The Republicans
have not only majority Of Represen-
tatives, but also a majority of States in
the next Congress. They have elected
q majority Of the delegations in thirty
states, which leaves only fourteen states
in control Of the Democrats and Popu-
lists. Should il therefore unfortunate
iy turn out that in 1886 neither party
should be able to give a decided major
ity for It's Presidential candidate and the
election be thrown into the House the
Republicans are sure 10 elect. Thus a
remote possibility on which the Demo-
Gratis have builded has gone glimmer-
ing with their overwhelming defeat on
Tuesday last
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

EENI. NIDI. NICI was the shout that
went up from thousands of Republican
Threats all over the Union at the close
of the polls last week. :" came, saw,
l conquered - How inspiriting TO the
conquerors How gratifying and
hopeful 10 the toilers dependent and
out of work Never before in the his
tory of the Nation was 50 signal, so
stingiag a rebuke given an administra-
ton in the very zenith of its power
With the President, the Senate, and
one hundred of a majority in the
House. the Democratic party was ap-
parently intrenched in power, with the
probability Of its continuance for years
TO come. Drunken with its overwhelm-
ing victory i'm 1892, il faneied il owned
the earth and all that thereunto be
longed, and straightway betook itself
TO the pleasant task of undoing and
overthrowing the legislation of many
years of Republican control. Its chief
effort was TO destroy the system of pro-
lection to our home industries, under
which the country has so eminendy
prospered, and substitute therefor so
called reform on the line of free trade
in the interests of foreign competitors.
1t was on this rock the party met with
shipwreck. The people had tasted the
bitter friit profered them and saw the
wreck of their industries, the loss of
employment, the reduction Of their
daily wages, and the want and misery
brought upon them by the reckless pol
iticians TO whom they had entrusted
the welfare of themselves and Of the
Nation. The revulsion was speedy and
its effect overwhelming. 1t is too ear
ly yet to sum up the total results of
their action, so overwhelming is their
verdict, so far-reaching IS its results,
that amazement almost checks their
shouts of victory. Suffice il that the
solid South is broken, the entire North
has wheeled into the Republican col
umn, and out of thirty-nine states ten
alone-all south of the line-are left 10
the disconsolate and utterly routed De
mocracv. 1t is not merely a victory
| il is a revolution. Hereafter none but
idle babblers will pirate Of the beauties
of free trade and the markets of the
worldn to the workmen and producers
of this Nation. The people have spo-
ken and their verdict is immovable.
| Free trade is dead for at least this gen
Grafton and Protection Is enshrined in
the hearts OF the people. Long live
the party that conquered in this great
battle For The Democracy there are
neither regrets nor tears. They rushed
upon their fate and must abide the re-
suit. Revolutions never 90 backward.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

NOTWITHSTANDING the magnificent
victory last week, it is a matter oi
doubt. and il must be for some time, as
10 who viii control the next Senate.
As it now appears, the Populists will
probably hold the balance of power at
the organization, but it, final political
complexion will in all probability de
pend upon the admission of Utah, Ar
iona and New Mexico as states, each
with two Senators. A bill for the ad-
mission of Utah was passed al the last
session OF Congress and provision Is
made in il that its constitutional con-
Ventian shail meet in March next and
,he new constitution shall be submitted
to a vote of the people in the following
November. There is ample time after
this. before Congress meets, to comply
with ali other formalities, 50 that IFS
Senators may participate in the organ
ization. Bills for the admission of Ar
izona and New Mexico passed the last
House and are now on the calendar of
the Senate a,rd will probably pass that
body at an early day in the coming
session.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
A Broken South.

Later returns from Tuesdays elections
simply swell the proportions of the Re
publican victory. The normally Repub-
lican States have given abnormaliy large
najorifies, doubtful States have returned
good Republican pluralities,, and some
Democratic States have been swept into
the Republican column.
The National House of Representatives
has been recovered from the Democracy
by decisive majority, late returns show
ing the election of 2B9 Republicans to
ilO Democrats and Populists, and the
Republican list still growing as belated
returns are received.
Even the United States Senate may DC
organized by the Republicans after March
1. as a gain of one Senator in Wes; Vir-
ginia is certain, while the Tennessee
Legislature is claimed by the Republicans,
indicating a gain Of another senator.
Filling of vacancies and gains in the
northwest are believed to make proba-
BILE Republican control in the upper
branch of congress.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
PENNSYLVANIA.

It Gives the Tnhsa-i Of Majority Of 243-
900 for the Republican Ticket.
The next congressional delegation
| from Pennsylvania will stand twenty
eight Republicans TO two Democrats.
Ex-senator Bucisalev falls in the wreck
with ,201 majority registered for Monroe
II. Kulp. and Col. Stohle carries the
nineteenth district by 2,5H, majority
over Strubinger. who did not carry a
county. In every instance the majoTities
given are record breakers. Wanger
with nearly 1000 in the Montgomery
Backs district, Brumm with $500 in
/ Schuykill. LeisenriHg touching the GEO
mark in Llzerne, and Arnold taking
every county but Xix in the twenty
eighth district, are some of the prizes in
the election ring this year.
Democratic representation in the next
state legislature will likewise be very
slim. out of 20 members in the senate
but are Democrats. Of the 29l menu
bers in the house the Republicans Sc
care liz and the Democrats y. This
gives the Republicans a majority of ISL
on joint ballot, more than double their
number in the legislature of 1885.
There never was such a record in the
history of the state and things are about
as unanimous as they can ever get. OF
the fourteen judges elected Tuesday the
Republicans secure y and the Democrats
two.
Judge Clayton is reelected in Della
ware county 10y 1908 majority. Robert
e. ISair is beaten for state senator in
York county by 40. Judge Recder is
defeated for Fe-sieetiop ip Northampton
by -.
Singerly carried i:ik county by II and
Fulton by NJ.
The 300,00O loan bIll was defeated in
York city 10y more than a thousand votes.
Colonel Stable is the first Republican
congressman ever sent from the York
district and is very jubilant over his great
victory.
Complete returns from Indiana county
give Harry White 81 plurality over John
p. Blair, Independent. in the judgeship
fight.
In Homestead borough, the scene of
the great strike and riots in 1892, the
vote Of Hastings is ISL; Singerly, 2l6,
and Altman. Populist, pig. Homestead
is Populist stronghold i'm Allegheny
county. In lSe Cleveland carried the
borough.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
Hastings Highly Gratifed.

Governor-elect ID. IL. Hastings has
been kept quite busy reading and answer
ing telegrams Of congratulation, some
20O or more being received from pIomi-
nent men of both parties oil over the
country. the General is highly graft
fed at the way the majority was piling
Ep, Dot only all over the state. but in his
own county, where be ran about 800
ahead Of the average Republican vote.
General Hastings will remain at his
home for ten days or 80 to reeupsrate
from the fatigue of his campaign trip,
when he Will at once get down to busi-
ness in the arrangement of his personal
business, 50 that it will not conflict with
the discharge OF his duties when he be-
comes Governor in reality.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
PEGISTER'S NOTICES.

NOTICE i hereby given 20 all persons con-
ccrned as icgatecs creditors, or otherwise,
that :hc following accounts have passed Reg
lister. aud that the same viii b. presented for
conformation and allowance at an Orphans
Court to Ia held al Somerset. Pa ON Wrsinc>-
day. Dee. l2th. 1871.
First and final account OF II. II. Stahl, ad-
miniStrator OF Peter L.. Baker. deed.
First and final account of Joseph Johns, cx-
ccutor of Tobias lOdeT. deed.
First and final account of Joseph r. Meyers,
administrator OF Josiah I. Meyers. decd.
FirSt and final account Of John - Miller.
administrator OF Samuel :. Miller. deed.
First and final account of W. II. StEiub and
Geor-c G.. S;raGb. executors of Casper S.raab
who WAS executor OF John l.. Stnub. deed.
First ;tnd iinai account of John y. Woy. ad-
minisiEttor cf Henry Smith. deed.
Partial account of James NJ. Cover and J. J.
Bowman, executors oi George Rink. deed.
First and partial account OF Montgomery j.
King, executor of Sarah King deed.
Registers Office, JACOB :. MILLER.
Nov. lith, ls9i. Register.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

AND now comes the news FROM
Washington that the President and
Secretary Carlisle contemplate throw
ing on the market an additional batch
of government bonds to the amount of
SlOo,030,001. Already SO, 100000 have
been negotiated and spent. If this
profiigacy continues the country will
Ike bankrupt at the end Of Cleveland's
term
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
North Carolina Goes Fusion.

RALEIGH, y. C., Nov. s-Fus.onists
carry the judicial and State ticket, and
both Houses of the Legislature. Wood
ward, Shaw and Lockhart, Democratic
Congressman from the Second, Third
and Sixth districts, may possibly pull
through. but il is doubtful.
The Legislature will have the election
oftwo United States Senators, to sue
eesd Messrs. Ransom and Jarvis.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

II Grover Cleveland bowed TO the
''puhlic sentiment of which his
friends have prated 50 much Of late he
woaId at once tender his resignation "a
President Among his English friends
such an overwhelming defeat would
cause Il change of administration with
ont DELAY
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

As the Republicans have practically
all but two of the present Congression-
al districts in this State, there ought
not 10 be any trouble this winter in
making a new apportionment, and no
excuse for our Democratic brethren
whining over so-called gerrymander.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

IL their blind rage, some Of the ir-
reconcilable fools with which the Dem
ocratic party is infested are demanding
that the pop-gun bills, placing iron-ore
and coal on the free list, be rushed
through the coming short session OF
Congress. such insensate folly, in the
face of the sentiment expressed at the
polls last week, would only cap the eli
maX OF Democratic idiocy.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

WHEN Mr.. Speaker Crisp takes his
seat on the floor in the next Congress
ne viii have sickening sense of his
own tvrannical actions should 'Tomn
Reed rs Speaker give him a dose of his
own mehicine.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
Where a Man
Can Save.

~ IGHT i'm this store.-We stand ready
Mo give our patrons the pecuniary
advantage of every discount our big
buying brings us.-Every army has n
leader.-So does every line of business
WE'RE THE LEADERS IN OUR
LINES.-In Gentleman's Furnishings
we clip dimes and quarters OFF Of our
usual priccs-that give You the best the
market affords al . Bargain.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

4'WHAT did it? the disgusted DEM
ocratic organs are lugubriously inquif-
ing. Each one Of them has ready
answer. according to its fancy, but
they all avoid the plain and patent
explanation that the American people
came to their senses when they Were
compelled To taste the bitter fruits OF
free trade, pressed to their lips by the
partY now in power.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

THE gay William Springer, of Hi
nois, with his crimson bouttOnnieTe
can now manfully recite:
'''Twas ever thus from childhood's hour.
I've seen my fondeSt hopes decay;
] never loved a crimson flower
But twas the first to fade away"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
Congressional District
Senatorial District.
Pennsylvania Legislature.

The Democratic representation in the
Pennsylvania Legislature will be very
thin. ont Of fifty members of the Senate
caly eight will be Democrats. while in
the Lower House nos more than b of the
70i Representative viii be Democrats
Republican majority on joint ballot oi
2lL There viii not be enough Democrats
to properly make up the committees.
The most important work for the in
coming Legislature will be the re-dis-
tric:ing of the State. The Republicans,
with the aid of disaffected Democrats,
clrried the Third Congressional District
in Philadelphia, unusually strong in its
De nccracy, by G, i9l majority. II is prob
able that this district, which embraces all
of the Democratic wards in the city, will
be placed permanently in the Republican
column.
Governor PattiSon, IN the last four years
has vetoed apportionment bills passed by
the Republican Legislature, designed TO
increase the Republican strength in the
varioIs Congressional. Legislative, and
Judicial districts With Governor Hast
ings at the head, there is no reason 10
doubt tina the State Will be redistricted
according to Republican ideas.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

The present indications are that all
three of these new states viii elect Re
publican Senators, but until their action
i known the political complexion of
the Senate viii not certainly be deter
.,,i,,aH
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

THIS Administration cannot even
furnish the people with reliable postage
stamps. The first issue of its new
stamps had to be destroyed few days
since because "the plaguey things
Monldn't stick.n
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14
VIII Tell All he Knows.

NEW YORK. Nov. 9.-When the Lexow
Committee meets again there will. in all
probability, occur the greatest sensation
that has vet marked its proceedings. The
Mail and Express has information that
one of the most prominent leaders of
Tsmmany. knowing that he was TO beput
en- the stand, has declared that if given
immunity be would make a clean breas:
OF everything asked kin.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

COLONEL WATTERSoN proved a true
prophet when he notified his political
friends, after Cleveland's nomination,
that their party would march through
a slaughter-house TO an open grave"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-11-14

CLEVELAND has the satisfaction of
knowing that his personal foe-David
B. Hills practically dead and damn
ed, and that the bill Of "periidy and
dishonor' has met the same fate.