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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

THE Wilson bill is now 4 thing OF
shreds and patches, as motley and incon-
gruous as the raiment % e clown. Il has
been made an object Of trade and dicker
in tie Senate until of the original bill
little is left except the name. 1t was and
is wholly obnoxious to the Republicans
OF the Senate, and did not command the
support Of a majority of Democrats on
Its reference to that body. Under the
declaration that the salvation of the
Democratic party depends upon its adop-
ton the cuckoo Senators were first
brought TO its support, because the Ad-
ministraiion must be sustained :" then
the party lash was vigorously applied to
Others, and despairing of obtaining a
majority, concessions were offered to the
recusants and they were humblY asked
what they wanted or on what terms they
would agree TO support the bill. When
enough Senators had thus been bought
or bargained for, a caucus was called an d
each individual member of it was plede.
ed to support the bin regardless Of the
changes made or yet to be made, Of which
they had no knowledge. A more shame
fal barter Of principles for expediency
was never made. Only one Democratic
Senator-Dayid B. Hill, of New York
stoutly resisted the scandalous bargain.
refused to be bound by. and openly de-
nonnoed II, and it is now proclaimed that
with four hundred amendments Yet TO
be adopted, according to contract. the
passage Of the bill is assured. That Re-
publicans viii resist with all their
strength and all their might this rascally
dicker and sacrifice Of the industries Of
the country and its millions Of workers
goes without Saying. but If the free trade
jobeers, blsckmailers, and representa-
nves Of the trusts 90 not, like thieves
fAll out by the way-side, this thing of
shreds and patches, this base born bant
ling OF Democratic corruption will be
substituted for the original Wilson bill
and be put through under the party
whip. Looking merely at its political
results, the psssage Of this bill will IN
doubtedly rebound to the benefit of the
Republicans and assure their. return to
power IN the councils Of the Nation, but
the resultant destruction Of cur indus
tres and the lack Of employment, and
the misery and want Of the working peo-
pie OF the couatry that must follow is TO
be deeply deplored. 1t will require
years Of economy and thrift and cease
less energy and industry to recover from
the injury the passage of this measure
viii infict upon the country.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

the people repudiased his ideas and opened
the way for four Harrison years OF excep-
ti0nal prosperity that the President's appeal
10 social restiessness was loudest and mcst
dec smatory. In his message Of that year
be described American cities as the abiding
places of wealth and luxury; manufactures
a. yielding fortunes never dreamed Of by the
fathers Of the Republic business men as
madly striving IN the race for riches; the
working classes as overwhelmed with pow
cry, wretchedness and unremunerative toll !;
wealth as the result of discriminating favor
Of the Government and largely built upon
undue exactions from the masses, and the
gulf between employers and employed as
constantly widening with class legislation
That message-Eith its sympathetic referen-
oes to the farmers, "long-sufiering and pa
tent, struggling in the race Of life with the
hardest and most unremitting toll, and to
the working man, struggling far in the rear
or tramp.ed 10 death beneath an iron heel -
has supplied demagogues East and West for
six years with ammunition against " the
communism OF combined wealth and capi-
tai, the outgroEth of overwhelming eupidi-
ty and selfshness, which insidiously under
mines the justice and integrity Of free insti-
tations, and "is not less dangerous than
the communism Of oppressed poverty and
toll which, e1asperated by injustice and dis
content. attacks with wild disorder the cita-
del Of power.
Americans ought at least TO be just to
Coxey and the other fanatics who are now
heading for the citadel of power in Wash
ington. They are demagogues lusting after
notoriety With or without the help of the
newspapers, but they are mild and temper
ate in speech in comparison with the distin-
guished American who inspired the discon-
tent Of the country with prosperity, arrayed
class against class, and brought on some
thing closely resembling a social revolution
in the Populist movement The trsmps in
vading Washington in Cleveland hard times
are converts TO the Presidents own doc
trines. They have been slow in coming
but they are there at last, although he may
be reluctant to welcome them.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09
Mans Immunity to Himself.

The most inhuman outrages, outrsges
which would disgrace the savage. man per-
pelrates upon his own system by swallowing
drastic purgaiives which convulse his stom-
ach, agonizs his intesiines and weakens his
system. Many people constantly do this
under the impression that medicaments only
which are violent in their action, and par
ticularly cathartics, are of any avail. IRE
parable injury 70 health is wrought under
this mistaken idea. The laxative which
most nearly approaches the benefcient ac-
ton Of nature is Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers, which is painless but thorough, and in
yigorates the intestinal canal instead of
weakening and irritating it. The liver and
the stomach share in the benign discipline
instituted by this comprehensive medicine,
whose healthful influence is felt throughout
the system. Malarious, rheumatic, kidney
and nervous complaints succumb to it.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

WHAT has be come Of the blatant de
mand for free raw material" whereby
all articles Of everyday use and domes-
tic consumption were to be cheapened)
which was so noisily demanded by the
Democratic free traders previous TO the
assembling Of this Congress? Wool,
coal, iron ore, and other so called raw
materials were all to be placed upon the
free list and the people were to be reliev-
ed from the terrible taxation that is
grinding them into the dust And vet,
after all the outcry, all the denuneiation
Of the robber Barons who were enriched
BY protection Of the raw materials that
entered into their productions, wool only
is placed upon the free list in the amend
ed Wilson bill. Thefarmers alone are to
be made the victims Of the howl for free
raw material. Wool is to be made the
scape goat, and the wool grower is to be
made pay the piper for the free trade
dance. Democracy, thy name is hum
bug, and thy hand maiden is fraud.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

The Eaer Oceaa asks: " Won't SINE OF
the cuckoo organs point 10 q Democratic
speech in the United States Senate which
does not apologize for the makeshift
Wilson bill? They all acknowledge that
it is not a bill made in accord with the
platform, and that its leading measures
are antagonistic to all the teachings of
the party. Il is only Democratic because
the great and only boss Of the party has
so ordered IT,"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09
The president and the rramps.

Fro m the New York Tribune.
President Cleveland is reported 10 have
saddled the responsibility for the tramp agi-
tstion upon the newspapers. In his iudg-
ment they have paid undue attention to the
vagsries Of men like Coxey and to the ma
neavres Of the wandering unemployed now
paraiing in the West aud in the East and
unfUrling their banners in the streets Of
Washington They have created, the Peesi-
dent thinks, an appetite for notOriety aud a
thirst for eccentric adventure. 1.-THE news
papers had not advertised the first travelling
variety show orgsnizsd by CoKey, it would
not have enlisted a swarm of imitators nor
have involved disturbance Of railway traffic
and au outbreak of criminal lawlessness.
We suspect that the newspapers have had
something to do with instigating the tramp
movement, but not in the way suggested by
the cynical reflections OF the President. Il
has been the responsible duty Of the press Of
both parties 10 discuss the great public issue
which the President himself brought before
the attention Of the country in the last two
annual messages Of his first term. and 10
which, as the Peoples cause" he conse-
Grated himself in the last National canvass.
That issue has developed social restlessness
and class discomfort, and eliminated in
Populist agitation, class legislation ard the
march Of the trsmps across the continent.
President Cleveland has done more than
any other American in recent times TO pro
duce this prevailing feeling Of social unrest.
His first appeal to the spirit Of discomfort
was made in December, IsS7. when the ooun-
try was prosperous, the public debt shrink
ing every year aud the Treasury overfiowing
with the surplus revenues. In his tariff
message be denounced the system to which
labor and capital bad been satisfactorily ad-
justed for nearly thirty years as a vicious
source Of unnecessary taxation, by which
working people were systematically robbed
lie described the Treasury as a boarding
place for money Withdrawn from trade and
the peoples use, and asserted that the conn
iry's development was suspended and para.
lyzed by prevailing financial methods. In
that message were the germs Of the ensuing
Democratic agitation sgainst protection as
an 'inequitable and monstrous system for
enriching the few and 10 bing the many
and also Of the Populist idea that the Treas
ury should be emp;ied for the peoples use.
The Presidential canvass Of 1892 witnessed
the triumph Of the Democratic Populist CO.
alition. The Nation voted against Protec-
ton, not because the times were bad, but |
because President Cleveland and his Popu- !
list allies had convinced a large msjorlty Of |
The American people that prosperity was
uneqoally divided among classes, that the
rieh were getting too much, and that the
farmers and the wage-esruers we're not OBJ
tanning fair and proportionate share Of the
wealth.
i was in the hour of defeat in lsss when
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

The Republican C-unty Convention
held in Bedford on Tuesday of last week
unanimously endorsed Hon. J. D. Hicks
for e-nomination 10 Congress, his com
petitor, Jos. L. Thropp, declining to have
his name 90 before the convention. As
Blair and Cambria counties had preyi-
ously instructed for Mr.. Hicks, and as
Somerset Republicans have no candidate
in the field and have from the start con-
ceded his re nomination, he is 10 all in
tents and purposes, without the formali-
ty Of a conference, the unanimous nOmi-
nee Of the party in The district, and his
election is already as well assured as il
the November vote was east and counted
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09
BreckinrIoge After Votes.

LEXINGTON, Ky, May Col. W. C. P.
BreckinTidge made his opening address
here yesterday in his campaign for re-
nomination to Congress. People from al
over the district were present, but certain
better elements that formerly greeted the
man when be spoke here were missing.
Not one woman was in the audience he
faced. Apparently he recognized the forces
be must fghi, for in his speech he con-
ciliaied and defied. No man professed purer,
Ioftier sentiments with reference TO heaven
and home. He preached Christ and Him
crucifed with all the eloquence and fer
vor for which he is famous he avowed the
deepest oontrilion for his sins, but he re-
preached the ministers who have assailed
him from their pulpits and the journalists
who have upbraided him fer daring TO make
the race under cloud Of the great scandal.
After reviewing his boyhood life at
Lexington, his public services in the Con-
fsderate army and in Congress, Col. Breck-
inridge said
i do not wish this district to conceive
that have any defense to make FOX what l
have done and Of which have been guilty.
Entangled by weakness, by passion, by sin,
in coils which it was almost impossible TO
break, did everything that was within my
power 10 prevent public scandal, except
the one thing which for no moment ever
entered my mind. Your reelection Of me
| can never take from nor add to the punish
ment have suffered"
The applause he got all came from {
clscque led by Federal office holders. The
speaker exhausted all the arts of oratory
/ There could have been no finer acting, if i
was acting When he closed part Of th'
audience jumped on the stage to grasp hi:
hand, and, with tears in his eyes, he wa:
carried for squares by the applauding crowd
The warmth Of this demonstration was pas
doubt, but those who took part were no
over 400 or 500.
| Last evening Col. Bre kinridge appeare'
before the session Of the Mt. Horeb Church
Of which he is 3 member, in answer TO
| summons. He confessed his guilt an
after a consultation the session decided 3
forgive him and restore him 10 good stand
I inc
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

New NoRK S,m. But the real Coxey 5
army, the real danger TO the public Sc
curity, the real beginner Of sinister inno-
vations in the laws is not encamped in
BrightwoOd Park or parading the streets
of Washington. TIE genuine Coxey
army is composed of those men in the
Congress whose wish TO enact a proscrip-
tive law against the rich, erect a system
Of classes and class taxation, and pro-
claim the commune upon the statute
boo ks.
About this genuine Coxey' army, the
income-tsx Coxeyites, there is nothing
ridiculous. It is a real and appalling
danger. Until it is beaten, the red flag
will continue TO float over the Capitol.
Down with the red flag No incom e
tax for the freemsn's backs
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

LIKE the hoy who whistles to keep up
his courage when passing through a
grave yard, our Democratic friends are
trying to whistle up their courage over
the result Of the Congressional election
held in the Third Ohio district last week.
Tgo years ago G. W. Houk, the Demo
cratic candidate, whose death occasioned
the present vacancy, was elected by a
plurality Of 4,3l6 votes; last week his
successor carried the district by l,72l
votes, a Democratic slump Of 2.595 votes.
Because Mckinley carried the district
last year by Z few hundred votes, the
Democrats are claiming that a great re-
action has taken place.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

"HoLD the fort for | am coming" was
the message flashed by General Sher-
man to General Corss. The people send
the same message nov tothe Republican
members Of Congress. Hold the fort
against the industrial wreckers; re-en-
forcements will be sent after the Novem-
Der election. The tariff Of the trusts
must be defeated"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09
Bees For Sale !

. Golden Italian bees in S frame doyetailed
hives; combs built on wired foundation /;
everything in firs; class shape; bees strong
and warranted pure Italian. The Italian
bees are hardy, gentle and the best honey
gstherers in the world. Price for colony or
stand in May, s. 90; June. $500; July, s. 90.
Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed.
My apiapf-whieh is one of the largest and
best equipped bee yards in the Staie-is 10
Gated one mile west of Confluence, Pa,
where 1 produSe thousands of pounds of
choice comb honey every season.
Address c. S. YoUNKIS,
Confluence. Pa.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09
wArrEzsoN sPEAKs At LAST.

LxUIsyIILE, Ky, May 6.-The "C0luieT
Journal" which has heretofore maintained
a position of strict neutrality regarding the
case Of Congressman W. C. P. Breckenridge
since the beginning Of the Pollard scandal,
breaks silence in an editorial to-day, declar-
ing that Mr. Breckenridge should be beaten
for denomination. The paper says:
The situation in the Ashland district,
unfortunate as it is unprecedented, makes
it imperative that every Journal which has
the good of the party at heart, which
cherishes the honor Ofits State and which
appreciates its obligations to society, shall
protest with all its power against the re-
election to Congress of Col. w. C. P. Breck-
inridge The question simply is, do the
people Of Kentucky propose to send as a
representative to Congress the man whom
Col Bleckinridge confessed himself to be in
his testimony before a Washington jury
It is a question which transcendes the limits
Of the Ashland district and of Kentucky it
self Il is a question in which the people
Of the entire Nation are deeply interested.
That part OF his speech yesterday, devoted
to the scandal in which he has figured, were
better passed over in pity. 1t IS strange
exhibition Of marvellous efiiontry, wretched
taste and mentally and morally oblique
casuistry.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

CoxEYIsN Is the natural result Of four
teen months Of Democratic administra-
ton. It's the much-talked-of change
the people we're induced to vote for. 1t
is the holiday promised to Over-taxed
labor" by the Democracy. Under Re
publican rule and protection to labor
such armies as are now tramping and
begging through the land under Coxey
and similar leaders was an impOssibility
People we're too busy and prosperous to
leave their homes and occupations. Iti'
enforced idleness that has bred Coxey'
eyism.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09
A County Auditor Prosecuted.

LANCASTER, Pa, May 4.-County Auditor
Tobias Hershey is the defendant in a peculiar
lawsuit brought to day in Rapho township
by the School Directors. They allege that be
secured the Sporting Hill school house
without their consent one night in March,
and lectured there. Tracts prepared by inf
dels, il is alleged. were sold by Hershey.
This caused 4 row among the residents of
the place, and the preachers wanted an in
vestigation.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

DKNocRATIc Senators seem to think
they have TO pass the Wilson bill in
some form, CT the party will die. They
seem to overlook the plain fact that COM
merce and national prosperity died when
the Wilson bill was introduced. POis-
on'-with death and cross bones
should be "blywn in the glass" Of every
bottle containing any decoction Of thPt
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

THEAtlanta Consultation, looking at the
administration aud Congress, honestly
saws: HWe see how one victory has
wrought more damage than thirty years
of defeat" We have lost the Hawaiian
Islands. We have lost pretty much eV-
erything else, and have found only the
receiver" and sthe free soup-house.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

IT is the opinion of the Wheeling In
tsligenoT Rep that "from the point OF
view Of party and of tactics Secretary
Carlisle made a mistake to blurt out what
is going on in the way Of further doctor
ing the Senate Tariff bill. The mistake
lies in fastening attention on the fact
that the administration is pulling the
wires that make the Senate puppets
iump."
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

Arfhe municipal election in Indiana
last week the Republicans swept the
State. With very few exceptions, the
Republicans are triumphant in every To-
cality, sweeping Democratic strongholds
and largely increasing their msjorities IN
their own districts. Senator voorhees,
home was carried against him and Con
gresham Byrnum and others Of his col
leagues lost their districts. The Indiana
Bourbons have not received such a sha K
ing up since the war.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

TaE monthly reports Of the United
States Treasury continue to show deh-
cts aud q oonstact increase Of the Na-
tional debt During the month Of April
the debt increased s., $4,000, and during
the last ten months it was increased at
the rate Of s., 900 month. All tins
must be sci down 10 Democratic hnan-
ciering and monkeying with the tariff,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

SAYS the Ilter Oceaa: The elections
in every Northern State the past year
point unmistakably to the fact that the
people believe the political blunder Of
1892 was the greatest Of the century.
And yet the organs and statesmen of
Washington are harping about redeem
ing their pledges to the people" They
well know that the people viii reverse
the verdict Of 1892, and that they have
done 50 az every opportunity.n
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

The State Of Pennsylvania is doing
quite well, thank you. in the matter OF
cash. Treasurer Morrison reports that
when he closed business on April 5Oth
be had over 100000 in the general
fund, ready TO pay out on demand
PENNSYLVANIA, it should be remembered
Is q rood old Republican State.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

All the right. title interest claim and demand
of samuel X. Metzler, OF, in and to the following
described real estate, viz
No IA certain tract OF land situate In Upper
Turkey foo. township, Somerset county, Pa, con-
tanning 1o2 acres, about 75 acres clear. balance
timber adjoining lands Of Daniel Dumbauld <
BIO Daniel Sechler A. Knabb & Co, and the
Walter heirs. having thereon erected a twO-stOry
frame dwelling house. bank barn, distillery,
grist mill, a water power saw mill and other out
buildings with the appurtenances-
No. "A tract Of land situate in the township,
county and state Aforesaid. containing g acres,
about 60 acres Gear. balance timber, adjoining
No. above and lands Of simon Faidley and 1.
W. sullivan, having thereon erected twO-stOry
frame dwelling house, bank barn and other out
buildings, with the appurtenances
Taken in execution aud 10 be sold As the prop
erty OF samuel K. Ietzler, at the suit OF II. VI.
BeFkley, Cashier, et. al
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

TIE Kennebec Journal says: Now
that the price Of American wool has been
scared down to a free trzde basis the
Englishman Is buying IT, taking it home
and manufacturing from it goods for the
American market, which are held only
until Congress may let down the tariff
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-05-09

All the right, title, interest, claim and demand
Of ]. T. shipley OF. IN and 10 the following de-
scribed real estate. to wit
No. Ia certain lot Of ground situate in the
borough Of Meyersdale. Somerset county. Pa
known As lot No. Is. Beachiey survey, fronting 81
feet on Salisbury street and extending 80 feet
along Fourth street 70 Apple alley.
No. 1.-Two lots situate as abOye, known As
lots s and = located on north side Meyers Ave
nue.. with 80 feet frontage and extending lis feet
70 alley, with frsIne dwelling and stable thereon
erected.
no. 2-One lot Of ground situate in town,
county and state Aforesaid, known a. lot No. 81
located on north side OF Meyers Avenue, having
40 feet frontage. and extending 10 feet 70 alley.
having frame dwelling thereon erected
No One lot OF ground situate as Aforesaid,
known Is lot No %, located on north side OF
Meyers Avenue having frontage Of 20 feet and
extending 30 feet 20 alley, having thereon erect
ed a frame dwelling house, also a small piece Of
ground adjoining lot at the rear end and extend
ing 10 the b & o. X. K.
No 5-Two los situate as Aforesaid. and
known As lots Nos lo9 and III on nnIthside Of
second Avenue, extending 10 B. T. q. r. K hay
ing a ware house thereon erected
No 6.-One parcel Of land situate as aforesaid,
fronting A. feet on Dale street and extending 5
feet on alley. having a stable thereon erected.
adllining properties Of A. F. WelshOnse and MIS-.
VI. z. Hammond
No. Z-One parcel OF land situate as Aforesaid
fronting .5 feet on Dale street, and extending S6
feet on alley, having A stable thereon erected,
adjoining property OF John NJ. Oiinger.
No S-One par sel OF land situate a. Aforesaid
irontiI 90 feet on center street and fronting To-
feet on Dale street, having thereon erected two
story building and occupied as a hardware ore,
with the apTurtenances.
Taken in execution and 10 be sold a. the prop
erfy OF J. r. Shipley, at the suit OF A. + John, in
tsust for himself and :. D. LiyengOod.