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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

paper of the country, after a closer
reading of the speech, has this severe
criticism to offer:
"If we can measure the disappoiut.
meut of others by our own feelings,
Mr. Bryan's speech in this city must
have fallen far below Democratic
hopes and expectations, While aux.
ious to take the most favorable
view possible, and coueeding ability
and adroitness Of certain kind, we
are bound to say that the Madison
Square speech will not rank even as
second.class oratory of the first order.
Gov. Stones effort, 10 point of catchy,
effective phrases, was recognized as
superior Mr. Bryan's speech lacked
dignity, consistency, elevation Of
thought, statesmauship There was
much of assertion without proof, OF
convictions having no visible founda.
ton. His words we're those Of poll
iticiau appealing to ignorance rather
than to reason-to passion and preju
dice rather than to principle"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
Free Silver and Free Trade.

In his speech to his Pennsylvania
visitors Saturday Major Mckinley
put before the country the two perils
which confront the land in the Chi.
cago and ST. Louis conventions-free
silver and free trade.
The country voted for the latter
four years ago and it has had de.
preston, disaster and panic ever
since. 1t is asked now to add free
silver to free trade. The industries
of the country having been wrecked
by the action taken in 1892, its cred
it is to be ruined now by adopting
free silver coinage. Voters we're de.
ceived once by one cry. Are they
willing to be deceived again by both ?
AS the situation is forcibly put by
Major MoKinley:-
Having dismissed our business
they now seek to diminish the value
of our money. Having cut wages 10
two, they want to cut the money in
which wages are paid in two, and we
will not have either the one or the
other.
This puts the whole question in two
sentences. A low tariff has destroyed
the market and depressed the prices
of the farmer and it has closed The
mills of the manufacturer and sus
pended the wages of the laborer
Both farmer and laborer, struggling
with the evils of a low tariff, ar,
asked to cure them by descending t,
the profits and the wages of silver
using countries by adopting a 50.cen
dollar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
WAY Out in MasIington.

Hugh c. Wallace, member of the
National Democratic committee from
Tacoma, Washington, resigned a few
days ago, and the 'ollowing is one of
the reasons he gives for this step:
my convictions Of duty require
me to tender my resignation as a
member of the Democratic National
committee. | cannot act with those
who have taken their stand upon the
Chicago platform "a question of
supreme Importance is presented in
that portion of the Chicago platform
that demands the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver at
the present legal ratio Of 16 to l.,
without waiting for the aid or con.
sent Of any other nation. This is q
demand which, if put into execution,
would change the money standard of
our country. To enact free coinage
at 16 to one would be to overvalue
silver by nearly one-half. The con.
sequences of such a change would be
catastrophe. Such violent altera.
ton of contracts and credits, of debts
and values, carrying with it reduction
of the purchasing power of wages,
could not take place without general
disaster, The mere thought of the
consequences of such transfer Of our
money from one metal to the other
upon a ratio so false, cannot be en-
tertained without deepest alarm"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

THE venerable Senator Morrill,, Of
Vermont, who understands the sub
ject of finance and currency as well
as any other man in this country, has
written a short letter to the farmers
Of Western New York, which should
be read aud thought about by that
class of citizens in all of the states.
1t is as follows:
Plain farmers must be able TO see
that they have nothing to gain by
accepting a cheap dollar for all they
have to sell. They will realize less,
much less, as none Of their products
will increase in nominal value to the
same extent as the fall in value OF
silver. The silver standard would
force our people to live on the lower
scale aud comforts and civilization OF
other silver standard countries, or as
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

A little daughter of Mr.. Lewis Dayton,
an old and much respected citizen of
Barnitz, Pa, occasionally has trouble
with her stomach which gives her con-
siderable distress. In speaking of it Mr..
Dayton said; Gas soon as she has an at
tack we give her dose of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
and it has never failed to relieve her
promptly. We all use it in our family
with the same good results" For sale
by G.. w. Bovard.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

"I BELIEVE it is good deal bet
ter" says Mckinley, "to open up the
mills of the United States to the la.
Dor of America than to open up the
mints of the United States to the sill.
yer of the world" One sentence of
this kind counts for more than the
whole $4,000 words of Bryan's New
York speech.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

THE people want neither free trade
nor free silver. The one will de.
grade our labor; the other our money.
We are opposed -unalterably op-
posed-to both of them. We have
tried the one 10 a modified form with
disastrous results to every American
home, and we are strongly opposed
to making an experiment with the
other. - William Mckinley.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
Executors Notice.

ESTATE OF A. NJ. FOREMAN, deceased.
Letters testamentary on the above es-
tate having been granted TO the UNDER
signed, all persons indebted 10 said es-
tate are requested to make payment, and
those having claims to present the same
without delay TO
w. j. FOREMAN, Executor,
East Hickory, Pa, or
SAMUEL ID. IRWIN, his Attorney,
Tionesta, Pa.
August 3, 1896. OF.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

A GOOD objection to Senator Cor.
man as manager of the Democratic
campaign is the fact that he has not
been able to prevent the Republicans
from capturing his own State.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
Executors Notice.

Estate of Bridget Duffy, Deceased.
having been granted to the undersigned,
all persons indebted to said estate are re-
quested to make payment, and those
having claims to present the same with
out delay, to
Patrick JOYCE and ANNIE Il. JOYCE,
Executors.
Tionesta, Pa, Aug. 20, 1896.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
Lace Curtains.

so Pairs Nottingham Lace, 3 yards
long, tape bound, worth 75c.-59c pair.
so Pairs Nottingham Lace, yards long,
the Sl.00 kind-79c. pair.
100 Pairs of the sl.25 grade, 81 yards
long-9Sc. pair.
Line Chenille Portiers, all colors,
$3.50 pair.
Lot Tapestry Portiers, all colors,
S2.9s pair.
l Lot Bag Dad Couch Covers, sl.39
each
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

REPUBLICANS, do not neglect the
matter of registration There is but
one week left in which to be legally
registered in order to secure a vote in
November. Sept. Sd is the last day.
Attend to it at once.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

they do in Mexico and Japan, and
then pay for all our tea and coffee
and for the greater part of our su.
gar and all merchandise from Europe
in gold. Farmers and wage earners
will not be slow to find out all this.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
Revising Its Estimate

On Friday, August IA, the New
York World said this about Bryan's
Madison Square Garden effort. which
item has been quoted in this section:
1t is a very foolish mistake in the
Mckinley newspapers to ridicule or
attempt to belitlle Mr. Bryan's
speech of acceptance. 1t is a very
able speech, logical in arrangement,
admirable in spirit and strongly rea.
sOned, clearly and clevery expressed.
We do not think there is another
free.silver advocate in the country
who could write so able or so efIec.
tive plea for his cause as was that
Of Mr.. Bryan 1t contained sophis-
tries, fallacies, unwarranted assump.
tions and deductions, Of course.
What long partisan speech does not {?
But there is nothing to be gained by
undertaking it,"
On the following day, Aug. 10, the
same World, the leading Democratic
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

HoKE SMITH, Secretary of the In.
terror has resigned himselffrom Presi-
dent Cleveland's cabinet because his
(Hoke's) support of the Bryan ticket
is distasteful to his chief The
"boys" whose pensions Hoke has so
numerically slashed in the past three
years will not regret his retirement,
nor will they follow him in his sup.
port of the free. trade ticket.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

WHEN John Sherman delivers a
speech on the money question, there
is something added to the general
stock of correct and useful informa.
ton in that respect.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

WHY do not the free silver papers
quote that part of Mr.. Blaines
speech in which he says that (not.
withstanding all this which he has
said regarding the place of silver) to
coin dollar of 412l grains when the
bullion was worth only 80 cents,
would be wrong and give illegitimste
profit to the seller of silver bullion.
But no. To quote the speech hon
estly would be to show that Blaine
occupied then, in 1878, the position
of the Republican party of to-day.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

In 1892, arguing against protec'
tive tariff, Mr.. Bryan said in regard
to the fall of prices;
"You must attribute it to the in
ventive genius that has multiplied, in
many instances, the strength Of sin
gle arm and enables US to do to-day
with one man what fifty could not do
fifty years ago. That is what brought
the prices down in this country and
everywhere"
Now Mr.. Bryan is attributing the
fall 10 prices to the fact that we
haven't enough silver. Things are
different now.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

COUNTY.
CoRgrcSS-WM. c. ARNOLD.
ASSemblV--J. Il. WENK.
Prothoaot0yY-JOHN II. ROBERT
SON.
Sheriff p. WALKER.
County CommiSsjonerS-W. NJ. COON,
CHAS. NJ. WHITEMAN.
AuditorS-M. L. ABBOTT, ]. r.
CLARK.
Jury Commissioner b. CARPEN-
TER.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

Any person desiring first.c class
dental work done will do well to bear
in mind that | will be in Tionesta
for the week commencing on the first
Monday of each month.
If Il. II. STILLsoN.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
GET registered.

FROM the graDd.stand it is appar.
ent that Tom Watson's scheme to
steal home on Bryan's three strikes
will not work this inning.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

"The Republican party stands for
honest money, and the chance to earn It
6y honest TOLL y William McKinley.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
Wash Goods.

l Lot Printed Organdies, worth &c.,
at 44c.
Lot Manchester Dimities, the same
goods which have always sold at l2lc.-
6lc.
l Lot Fine Persian Lawns, S2 in. wide,
Lemon Colored Lawns. etc., SC. yd.
l Case French Zephyr Gingham, all
this years best styles, the finest cloth
ever made, were sold last season at l5c.-
Tlc. yd,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
Special Mating Sale.

1 Lot Good Jointless Straw Mating &c.
yd. or 1926 for roll of 40 yds.
Lot of regular zoe Mating, 1Sc. yd,
or $500 for roll of 40 yds.
| Lot Fine Cotton Warp Japanese Mat
ting, worth 35c.-2lo. yd. or S7.75 for roll
of 40 yds.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL,

Prcsidcnt-WM. MCKINLEY.
Vice President-GARRETT A. no.
BERT.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
STATE,


Congress at Large - GALUSHA A.
GROW, SAMUEL A. DAVENPORT.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
Hats and BOnmets.

One look through our Millinery De-
partment will impress you with its
many superior features. Chances are it
will make a customer of you.
Trimmed Sailors at 25c., 35c., Soc, 75c.
and Sl.00.
Short Back Sailors-25c. to $l.00.
Flowers as low as &c. bunch.
White Duck Caps and Tams-25c.& .& SOC.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26
GOLD, SILVER and
PAPER MONEY

Which? Is the question of the hour.
Are you in doubt? They are all good at
our Goth Semi-Annual Clearance Sale.
Ten days more High-class to-order cloth
ing at the price of ready-made.
Scotch and Irish homespuns in plaids
and plaid effects
Sac suits to order, $3.50.
reduced from S27 90 and $500
Black and blue English worsteds, for
dressy all year round suits,
Sac suits to order S24.00,
reduced from $50, 90 and SsI.OO.
Fashionable Scotch and English mix
lures,
Sac suits to order 5000,
were $500.
Trousers to order $500 to $500.
TIE .MCELeEN Go.
Outfitters Of Men.
27 and 20 Seneca and II Elm Sts.,
OIL CITY, PA.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-08-26

Porch Shades
Japanese Split Bamboo Porch Shades,
complete, size Sxl0 ft.-$l,69.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-08-07
XIV

But the days and weeks passed on.
and lsora seemed no nearer her Jun
ishment than ever. Out in the Bromn-
ton cottage all was calm and peaceful
to the outward eye. Miss Durnton
was in Rome, although Mrs. Graham,
from some unexpected reason, had re-
turned after a very short absence. But
the pale and patient face of the
former mistress of the cottage was
now no longer there. 1t smiled serene
and placid still, from beneath the
white veil of a novice of the Sisters
of Mercy, and Frances Kent was in
Paris.
Mrs. Graham now occupied the cot
tage alone. She had been, this dav.
paying Mrs. Trotter a visit, for the
purpose OF learning if anything had
been heard of Lily or the missing
child. 1t was growing dusk when she
bid the good old creature good night,
and she fastened to her little cottage.
The lamps were lit when she reached
the street in which it was, and before
the gate stood a small and slender
girl, who turned around and looked at
her as she approached, with a face SO
pale and wasted and haggard, that it
made her positively shrink back with
fear. Not a beggar, evidently from
her dress, which was neat and clean
and quite tasteful. But someone
wanting to see her, and she addressed
her without further ceremony, and
asked what she could do for her
k-t"I wish to see Miss Kent, if you
please" replied the girl in a faint tone.
''She has gone away"
"Where. ma'am."
s.To Paris
The girl clasped her hands anG
locked aopelessly round.
! ITO BE CONTINUED.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-08-07
GENERAL GRANT.

MH1Ts E%Er IHFa GE &-A Mt
Iho Village ball toH'd In cadence droar,
As tho MESA go came ..The chief il dead -.
me play was hush'd. while ths bell strucl
On the summer air. its requiem note
In silence profound thu chief had sat.
On . lonely mount. through many q night
" storm and cloud He had sought
trim shadows OF loss and pam, and shar'd
The burden Of comrade and friend
Silent and stern he measur'd the path
OF his rut HESS foe.
s:Gird me anew
With breastplate AMI helmet and courage
Strong as the hills of God, ;" he prayed.
he drew his plans-his armor he burnish'd-
with grasp of steel his 8 pirit CHERISHED
The hope of immortal victory.
ORDERS were written Scouts were sent
70 search the Land OF Memory, and
Bring back the tidings, good or i'll.
March1ns with double step, they reach
wilderness of wasted life. Anon,
great plain stretches its gaunt arms
seeking to clasp the eddyins stream. that
FLOWS, with a sad moan, from lake to gulf.
And nova change of base"
The warrior
bold mas grown, and counts his trophies
Ger and Ger
The men again are marshall'd.
Iney come with banners, shouting,
me land is free, o General great.
Ine Sky Is clear. the stars are out. and
A~ppomattox won.
"A M Gardiner
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-08-07

tef could gil her no information
which she didiot already possess.
a letter seIto the market town Of
Treston, askik for particulars Of her
early life, bright back an account Of
the murder, b which she was sup
posed to be principal or accomplice,
The mere TT of her never having
written hom to explain her sudden
flight was fcepted there as proof
Ipositive of n guilt. And the cousin
who had bh about to marry her was
so overcom| with grief and horror
that he toohad deserted his native
place, andas trying to forget her in
another lat.
But Rudlph was proof even against
this last aiful revelation, and Frances
Kent, hedng him speak of the lost
girl one dy, avowed to him in a low
whisper lat she also could not help
trusting Ind believing in her stil,,
though ~9pearances were so terribly
against er.
Lily at the child had vanished as
completely from all human view as if
they hanover existed, while her &C
complicehad only been seen by Mrs.
Trotter, and was therefore free to
walk thestreets of London every day
it he likd, and stand, secretly laugh
ing, beide the very e who were
ready tsperil life and limb for his cap
ture atany day.
The reat house in Park Lane was
darkend and closed against all COM
ers. hd in the gayly furnished nurs-
cry wBnce the child had been stolen
in it's sumber, while the parents were
absentat a ball, and the careless nurse
was g,ssiping in the hall below, in
that nlrsery-ah! so empty and silent
now-sat the lonely, despairing mother
weeping night and day overa tiny half
wornshoe and a coral rattle set with
gold or some such little treasure, that
brought the lost one forever before her
mind.
And sometimes beside her, some
times pacing up and down the splen-
didlibrary or the magnificent drawing
room, was Sir Laurence. struck to the
very heart by this sudden blow; and
what was worse than all, more than
half suspecting the quarter whence it
came, though never daring to breathe
such suspicious, since his young wife,
happy in her child, her home, and at
last in him, had forgotten the dire
warming that had hung like a fore
cloud Of evil omen forever over their
welded path.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-08-07
CHAPTER XIV.

Sir Laurence sat alone in his library
one fine morning some two months
after his child was lost. He looked
aged and worn, and had turned from
the business papers that demanded his
attention to gaze or the portrait of his
daughter which hung above the man
telpiece. A heavy sigh broke from
his lips as he studied the a~rtless,
beautiful face over and over again. A
knock at the door. Then a footman
entered, bearing a letter on a silver
salvfr, and ~retreated in respectful
silence. Sir Laurence broke the seal
idlysthe next moment his face turned
crin6on. This is what he read:
ID lave | kept my word: I stole
youfchild. | entered your house, dis
gui3d as a servant maid, with a pre-
ten9d message. I left the servants
hall hnd passed to the area door, but
not but of it. They were eating and
drinfing and making merry below,
and paid no heed to me. Presently
the 1urse came down to join them. I
watched my chance and stole up the
staili. The nursery was deserted;
the lhder nurse, taking advantage of
the bther's absence, had gone away
for ! few moments. The child, still
dressed, was sleeping. l stole down
again with her in my arms. The
porter was sleeping in his chair; the
gas IN the hall burned low. I glided
down again and out at the area door
into the street; l hurried into the city,
still trusting to my disguise. I laid
the child beneath the bar, and waited.
A lad came there, and presently found
the child; he nearly found me, too,
and my maid, who was with me; but
we escaped him. l satisfied myself
the next night that she was in good
hands; | had provided for her kind
reception by leaving money with her,
and promising ore These were
good people, and fond of your child,
too, which was better still. And /
ali, Laurence, as I held her in my
arms | thought of the baby we buried
at Naples, you and ], SO many years
ago. Have you forgotten? l kissed
your child for the sake of that dead
infant, and for yours. And now I
hear that she is lost, stolen again; and
far more strangely this time. Well, I
had no hand in that, at all events.
For the rest, I have kept my word.
And now, if before, your baby
wife will remember what was sIsora's
Bridal Vow"
He thrust the letter into his breast,
seized his hat and rushed from the
house as if a fiend was after him; and
the fend Remorse was at his elbow, in
very truth.
Straight to the police Office he went,
and, demanding an audience with the
Inspector, showed him the letter. The
officer knit his brows a moment and
then turned to him:
s'Sir Laurence, l thank you for the
confidence you have shown in me.
Here is a clew at last. The latter yart
OF this letter is a blind; that woman
has your child now"
$50 you think SOP"
81 do"
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NOTES AND COMMENT.
FLASHES of Thought Prompted by Pass
ing Events.

s0
The annual drain of gold upon this
country from British investments is
said to be not less than $3.50, OOO, 900 or
5000, O00, 900. This is about five times as
much gold as we produce. Every dol
lar of interest and dividends on these
foreign investments is payable in this
country, and therefore payable in any
lawful money Of the United States.
But little gold is in circulation. The
business is carried on with silver and
paper money. What is left in profits
consists of that kind of money. How
then does the foreigner turn his profits
into gold to take to Europe?
Away back in 1879 this government
resumed specie payment. That is to
say it piled up $100, 000, 900 in gold, for
which it sold bonds, and said, this ire
serve fund is for the purpose of max
ing the ~greenbacks as good as gold.
Anybody who wanted gold for green
backs or treasury notes could get it..
But nobody wanted it, for the green
backs answered the same purpose as
gold and were much more convenient.
It looked like a sort of superstition to
keep that gold piled up there t make
the treasury notes or greenbacks good,
when back of the 500, DOC, 900 in gold
was $50, 000, 200, 900 worth of other prop
erty, and nobody wanted the green
backs redeemed other than such re-
demption as that Of every man receiy-