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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
The Solid Truth.

From Hoke Smiths Speech at the New York
Reform Club Sound Currency Dinner, May
If, 1885,
Ifa President and Congress were elect
ed in November committed to the free
and unlimited coinage of 37l! grains of
silver into dollars nearly six months
would pass before they could be inaugu-
rated. and six months more before the
proposed legislation could become law.
During that time creditors would seek TO
protect themselves against being paid in
dollars worth only about thirteen grains
Of gold, and they would endeavor to
make collections before the unlimited
coinage of deprecated dollars began. The
debtors would not be allowed to remain
debtors until they could get the adv an
tage of paying of what they owned at 20
cents on the dollar; they would be forced
to immediate settlements.
SheriffS and constableS would call upon
them without delay. Depositors in banks
would Withdraw their money. The large
merchants, forced To settle their foreign
Indebtedness, would insist upon the i'm
mediate payment of debts due from
smaller merchants. The smaller mer-
chants, in turn, would be compelled o
force collections from their customers.
The great volume OF business conducted
noon credits would cease.
Manufacturing enterprises could not af-
ford to continue business or make con-
tracts uniil the value Of the new dollar
could be settled by the determination of
just what 37li grains of silver would
prove to he worth. Manufactures would
close. Business houses would fail.
Banks would be raided The unem-
ployed would he numbered by millions.
The farmers would find few purchasers
for their products. Want and famine
would pervade the land.
Business interests, reaching from the
richest banker TO the poorest paid labOrer,
require the removal of all doubt about
the meaning OF a dollar.
No man should be trusted even with an
Unimportant nomination who does not
recognize that the value of dollar is now
measured 10y 2S.2 grains of gold, and who
is not willing openly to declare his pur-
pose to keep il there.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Here's the Record.
New York World. Dem.

New l Ork NorlO. Dehl.
Mr.. Bryan was a Populist four years
ago By his own public admission at
Mount Vernon, H., on the 18th of March
last. as certified to under oath by twelve
citizens of that place, he voted for Wea-
yer. the Populist candidate for President,
in ISa2. and against Cleveland, the candi-
date of the Democracy.
There has been no more significant
piece Of political news printed since the
Chicago nomination than this announce
meut. made exclusively in the World on
Tuesday. II i most extraordinary that
the fact has not been sooner revealed.
Had it been known at the time of the
Chicago convention it i doubtful If even
that body would have nominated Mr..
Bryan even in response to his crown-of-
thorns speech.
The purpose and the method of the dis
closure leave no room for doubt as to its
perfect truth. 1t was made in an aili-
dayit 10y twelve of Mr.. Bryan's friends,
to relieve him from the charge made by
another of his auditors in March last,
who said that Mr.. Bryan then proclaim
ed that he "was not Democrat" These
men aver that he did say in substance
that .'if the policy carried out 10y Presi-
dent Cleveland is Democracy, then / am
not a Democrat" This is absolutely
party disloyalty. 4 good many Demo-
Gratis did not approve of all Of Mr.. Cleve-
lands policy. But the twelve citizens
continue:
In answer 10 the question, Did yon
s.vote for Cleveland?' he answered; No:
1.-THE Democrats of Nebraska supported
''the Populist ticket, so as TO take away
'.the state from the Republicans, and ac-
"cording 10 that understanding | voted
.'for the Populist electors
This is explicit. 1t is an admission
that i'm the great contest four years ago
between Democracy and Republicanism
Mr. Bryan voted for James B. Weaver,
the Populist candidate, who received l.
I22.OOO votes.
Who was Weaver? \ former Republi
can congressman from Iowa, who never
supported a Democratic measure or voted
for a Democratic candidate.
And for what did Mr.. Weaver stand in
that campaign? He stood upon the Oma
ha platform, which declared:
"u) For irredeemable legal-tender
paper money, issued 10 the amount of
$50 per capita by the government, to be
distributed" on the Farmers Alliance
"sub-treasury system or in payment.for
public improvements ~ for free and
unlimited coinage Of silver at Is to l; q
''for government ownership and opera
''tion of railroads, telegraph and tele-
phone lines, which could only be secur-
led by cOnfiscation.
These and other vagarieS and danger
| Gus lunacies made up the Populist plat
form of ISg2 " hich Mr.. Bryan indorsed
| " voting for Mr.. Weaver. lie was cleo
ted to congress by Populist votes. He
tried to get in the Senate by Populist in
fluence, upon the distinct understanding
that the Populist convention would NOM
mate him also. This was done, and he
has received his official notification of
that nomination.
If Mr.. Bryan is not politician and
Populist, what Is he?
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
The Uses of Money.
From the New York World.

From the New York World
Let us sum up the uses Of money:
First, money is the common medium
of exchange. II transfers value. We sell
for money anything we make. We buy
for money anything we want. Money is
good anywhere 20 buy anything that is
for sale.
Second, money i the common measure
Of value We do not have To measure out
50 much flour for a pair Of shoes. Money
measures the value Of the flour and the
value Of the shoes. Ii makes trading
simple and easy.
Third, money divides value, In wages,
among all those who help to make a
thing. OF twenty people who help to
make pair of shoes. each Of the twenty
gets the worth Of his labor. not in piece
Of the shoe, but in his share of its money
value.
Fourth, money stores value. II Is a
standard of value. We count oar savings
in money; we can buy anything for mon
ey at any time when we want il.
These are the chief uses of money.
Good money must be good for all these
uses.
Gold is good money because it serves
all these uses. Silver Is not as good
money because it does not serve the use
Of storer Of values. Silver falls or rises
like other things.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Hanna on the Outlook.

Chairman Mark i. Hanna, of the Re-
publican National Committee, arrived in
New York Thursday.
Mr.. Hanna said: "Well, the situation
is all right and getting better all the time.
The free silver disease is curing itself as
the people come to their sober second
thought. / have no anxiety whatever
about the result. My stay here will
probably extend over ten days.
THE sound money advocates are hold
ing large meetings regardless of party,
and many converts are being made. We
have over 800 speakers talking sound
money in Central, Western and North
western States. The demand for sound
money literature in the Central Western
States is large, and think that it is an
excellent sign by which to judge the
ideas of the people.
Il see no reason To be discouraged with
the outlook in the Central Western
States.'
Chairman Hanna will go thoroughly
over the work of the campaign in the
Southern States before he makes his final
departure for Chicago, H., where he is
to remain until the close of the battle.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Thacher Pulls Out.

ALBANY, Sept. 27.-Without waiting for
the official notification from the commit
tee appointed by the Buffalo convention
to tell him of his nomination as the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of New
York, John Boyd Thacher yesterday
wrote a letter declining the nomination.
In it he avowed that it was his purpose
to organize the Democracy of the State
i'm a contest on local issues. He goes on
to say that As il is apparently the purpose
of the Democratic party to contest the
election on the sole issue of the free coin
age of silver, it is impossible for him TO
make a campaign on that question. He
adds:
There seems 10 be no place in the
Democratic party to-day for conservatism.
Men are divided into two classes, each
entertaining views exceedingly intoiera-
ble to the other. The history of legisla-
ton is that conservatism in the end pre-
walls. | believe that the Democratic par
ty, when it approaches the responsibility
of legislation, will be true TO itself and
the people,"
Mr.. Thacher concluded by saying that
he has no sympathy for those who desert
the Democratic party now in its hour of
need. Judge Porter, the nominee for
Lieutenant Governor, has also declined
the nomination, but this is supposed TO
be merely ruse TO obtain MS promotion
10 first place on the ticket.
Senator Hill was asked tonight if he
intended to attend the meeting of the
committee. He remarked that sufficient
unto the day is the matter thereof
The State committee will probably sub
stitute Elliott nanforth for Thacher at
its meeting tomorrow.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Mckinley First Vote.
From a Speech to First Voters.

From Speech to First Voters.
/ recall, young men, my first vote With
what thrill of pride | exercised for the
first time the full prerogative of citizen
shipi have not realized greater pride
since. | felt that had some part in the
government. The period and circum-
stances when l cast my first vote may
have made a deeper impression upon me
than it otherwise would, but | recall il
now after thirty-twO years with sensa-
tions of joy and satisfaction. Applause.
In the crisis of war, on the very field Of
conflict, my first vote was cast for Abra-
ham Lincoln. (Great cheering 1t is to
me priceless memory. What glorious
privilege to have been permitted to vote
for candidate for President whose ser
vices To his country in the greatest peril
OF Its life rank with the services of Wash
ington, the father of his country. (Ap-
plause.l Priceless memory to me that
could vote for the martyr of liberty, the
emancipation of a race and the saviour of
the only free government among men.
(Great cheering
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
On The Crime of '73"

The Cincinnati Post publishes letter
from Senator Sherman emanating from
the National Republican Campaign Com
mittee, defending the position his party
took in the so-called Crime of'73." Mr..
Sherman declares:
II have never been able to see what
motive could have existed for secrecy in
this matter. There was no indication
whatever Of the fall of silver. and no one
could foresee that it was destined to rap
idly decline in price. No one asked to
have the dollar coined. and no one was
opposed 10 its discontinuance.
ITO prove that there was no secrecy
and not leave the matter to argument or
inference copies OF the bill were sent TO
experts all over the country, asking their
opinion, and answers were received and
laid before the Congress in printed form,
in which the discontinuance of the silver
dollar was thoroughly discussed.
The bill was reprinted thirteen times,
and extra copies were printed for dis
tributiOn. Ii was conned over, amended
and debated almost as copiously as any
measure ever considered in Congress. and
no man in either house proposed to re-
tain the old silver dollar. The fact that
il WAS omitted from our coins was re-
ierTed 10 in debate'
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
A Negro Roughly Treated.

Snow HILL, Md, September 2G.-Chris
Green, ,colored, was nearly beaten to death
here last night by crowd of Indignant
citizens. The negro had been selling
pictures in the town, and he spoke in an
impudent manner to a woman on the
street. She told several persons OF the
insult. The report spread, and late at
night crowd went to the house where
he was stopping, battered down the door
and dragged him out with a rope about
his waist. 4 desperate attempt was
made to lynch him, but this was preven-
ted. The crowd then began beating
the man with whips and clubs. Dozens
of times he was knocked down and trod
upon. Finally he was struck by large
club and fell to the gronnd apparently
dead. The crowd then dispersed. He
became conscious later and crawled out
of town.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
News Items.

The department of Agriculture is send
ing out bulletin relative to butter colors
to the farmers and dairymen of the State.
The document was prepared by State
Chemist Cochran, of West Chester, who
recommends that the use of coloring mat
tiers be prohibited until their influence
on the human organs las been investi-
gated.
Everybody will want To vote this fall
and every body who wants 10 vote must
he qualified. Therefore pay your taxes.
They must be paid at least thirty days
before election or, prior to October 3. 1t
is necessary to have paid a State or Coun-
ty tax within two years, and those who
owe should be sure and pay them before
October ). Don't neglect this.
Only $40 persons in l.O)J.OOJ, according
to medical authority, die from old age,
while 100 succumb to gout, lS.4DDto
measles, 200 to apoplexy, 1000 TO erysip-
elias, 7,-00 10 consumption, Is, ,O0O To- scarlet
fever, 2j.0tl - whooping cough, 5000 TO
typhoid and 'yphuS and 7,0JJ to rhenml-
tism. The averages vary according to To-
cality, but these are considered pretty ac-
curate as regards the population of the
globe as a whole.
Members of the Nansen expedition say
that so tired did they become of seeing
the same faces and hearing the same
voices day after day in the course of the
slow drift Northward that in the end a
feeling of irritation was produced. At
times this irritability became well nigh
insuppOrtable, and the men would set
Oft on long walks across the ice, each
man by himself and carefully avoiding
mis- fellows.
The Pittsburg Daily News is Just about
six months old. 1t is Republican eve
ming newspaper of eight pages, neatly
printed, and served by mail or carrier at
one cent a copy, or s. year. The Dai-
ly News aims to be paper for the home,
and it spares neither labor nor expense
to cater to the family circle. 1t claims To
have been phenomenally successful in its
effor.s. 1t is the only Ii tsburg daily
with page devoted entirely tn women.
If you have not seen it you can get
sample OF it 10y mail free OF charge.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Victoria's Reign.

Wednesday marked new record in
the history of the British throne and the
event was recognized and celebrated
throughout the wide extent of the British
Empire. Queen Victoria was then 81
years and % days an occupant of the
British throne, beating the longest prev
ious reign by one day. Next year sixty
ceeded her uncle. William w., and she
herself has commaned that the celebra-
tion of the length of her rule shall be
postponed until the even number of years
shall be rounded out next summer. The
day of her birth, May q, when she will
be ~ the date of her accession, June 20,
and the date OF her coronation, June 2S,
come so near together that the next
Jubilee. a decade after the celebration of
her half century of ruling, will embrace
all these notable events.
OF the preceding occupants of the
British throne, only three have sat as
long as fifty years, and they were Henry
Ill. the Oldest son of John, of Magma
Charta fame. who reigned about fifty
six years; Edward Ill, about fifty. and
George Ill, who was king for more than
fifty-nine years. George III. was born
June I, l73s, succeeded to the throne on
October p, l760, when he was -, became
permanently insane on his third serious
attack tlSll), and died January %, 1870,
in his sd year. lie reigned, therefore,
in name at least, from October p, l7G0, TO
January %, 1920, or fifty-nine years. three
months and four days.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
The Tyranny OF the Desk.

We will suppose that your occupation
is sedentary-thaty you are chained, so TO
speak to the desk in some counting house,
or perhaps TO the loom in some vast mill
where you are compelled To labor from
morning till night. Sunday is your only
day of relaxation. You return home
every evening wearied mentally and bod
lily. Your health and strength begin to
fail. What will most effectually recI-
perate your vital energy? The weight of
evidence points to no other conclusion
than that HCstetter's Stomach Bitters is
your safest, most reliable sheet anchor.
Use it persistently, and your system will
soon regain its pristine vigor. Every
function will receive healthful impulse.
There is no remedy to equal the Bitters
for nervousness and want of sleep, dys-
pepsia, constipation and biliousness. 1t
averts and remedies all forms of malarial
disease, and is preventive of rheuma-
tism and neuralgia.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Pensioners Diving RAPIDLY,

Commissioner of Pensions Murphy, in
his annual report on the operations of the
Pension Bureau, shows that 1854 new
pensioners We're added and 3,S72 restored
who had been previously dropped, max
Ing a total af 4i,2I7. The losses for vari-
Gus reasons aggregated iI093. The whole
number of pensioners ON the roll June
80, 1896, was g1O,673.
The Commissioner states il may now
safely be assured that the roll from this
time on will show a steady diminution,
unless Congress should enact still more
liberal provisions. The rate of mortality
of the pensioners, particularly those who
served through the war of the rebellion,
is rapidly increasing.
DisallOwances of pensions during the
year amounted to $3.50, most of them be-
ing applications for increases. The
amount disbursed WIS $l3S, S,2l4,00O, a de-
crease of 81, $4,000.
The amount appropriated for pension
payments, Sli0,OJ0,O00. was found to he
more than sufficient. There was at the
close of the fiscal year an uneXpended
balance of 81, $4,000 The Commissioner
dopts Nhe estimates of his predecessor,
Judge Lochren, for lSgS, namely, sIl0.-
100000 for pensions and ,, ~, 900 for 9TH
er expenses.
The act Of January >, 1893. increasing
pensions from s. to SD of certain Mexi-
can veterans whose names were then on
the roll, the Commissioner says, does not
make any provisions for the pensions of
others whose names might he subsequent
ly recorded, and he recommends that the
So increase be granted to all Mexican
survivors who are totally disabled, and
in destitute circumstances.
The Commissioner also calls attention
to the fact that there is no statute provid-
ing pension for the widows of officers
or soldiers who died from causes origi-
mating in the service prior to March 1,
ladl, during a time of peace. This, he
thinks, is an inequality in the law which
should be remedied by Congressional ac-
tiOn
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

WILLIAM J.. CURTIS, who was sent
30 Mexico 10 ascertain the effect of the
free coinage of silver in that country,
has made a very important discovery,
and he tells about it very entertainingly
IN the Chicago Record. He says that
Senator Stewart, the great Popo"rat
aud free silver advocate, owns the con-
trolling interest In the largest silver
inine in Mexico, and that the profits
from the mine are over a hundred thou
sand dollars 4 year after all the expenses
are paid. At this rate Stewards profits
would be at least fifty thousand dollars.
No woRder that distinguished old Pop
ocrat j. for free silver. 1t means big
money 10 him. But how sly he was
about keeping it quiet.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Stung to Death by Bees.

4 despatch from Milan, Michigan, says
that James Morrells engaged i'm a deSper-
ate battle with bees on Thursday OF last
week and was stung To death.
In driving past his hives one Of the
wheels of the wagon struck the platform,
and the hive were overturned. The horses
ran away when the bees attacked them,
and Morrell was thrown out. Although a
robust man, he was pOwerless against the
insects. He battled with them for some
time but at last, overcome by their
stings, sank 10 the ground unconscious.
He was removed to his home and every
effort made 10 save him, but he died in
side of an hour, the doctors say, from the
result of the poison inoculated by the
stings of the bees.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Bryan Gives Up the East.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2i.-The branch
headquarters here of the Bryan Demo-
closed. The sign over a part of the old
Wormely Observation-Disclosures of
Democratic National Committee"-will
be taken down and the space made va
cant by the department of the regulars"
will be allotted to the Populists and the
Silver League. This is a gloomy ending
Of an attempt to emphasize the national
character of the Popocratic appeal by
placing tho headquarters well into the
''epemy's country"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

satisfied with the debasement OF the
currency; the platform on which he Is
running is not confined TO that one
thing as a remedy for the alleged evils
and misfortunes of the times. lie Is
the leader of a movement that involves
infinite possibilities Of mischief. What
ever his personal motives and purposes
may he. he is not superior to the forces
behind him, and can not expect to con-
troll them. They are nothing If not
revolutionary. The spirit by which
they are animated is one of general
hostility to existing methods and insti-
tutions. They are sewers OF wind who
want to reap the whirlwind. It's easy
70 see that free silver is only symp-
tom, and that the real disease lies deeper
and includes far more perilous condi-
tions than those which relate strictly
to the currency.
We are accustomed to think that such
an occurrence as the French Revolution
Is impossible in our country. This may
be true, and yet there are certain traits
and qualities of human nature which
are never entirely subdued 10y civiliza
ton. and which are the same in all
countries. We have passed safely
through several severe tests of our abil-
ity TO avert social and political combus-
ton, but we have never before had just
such situation a. the present one To
face. ! great party is seeking control
of the Government by appeals 10 pref
udice and passion, TO mercenary and
insurrectionary instincts. Ii aims 10
array classes against one another in a
violent way, and to substitute emotion
and excitement for intelligent and tenn
perate discussion. Possibly our COM
Portable theory that political explosives
are comparatively harmless when per
mitted to have free action, and that the
influences of reason and patriotism are
a sufficient protection against anarchy,
is correct, but at the same time, there
is room for doubt, and it is best not to
be too certain where there is so much
at stake. The part Of wisdom is to look
at the matter soberly, and with due
sense Of the obligation that rests upon
all good citizens to see that seditiOus
and destructive forces do not gain as
tendency in our affairs.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30
Separated Eighty Years

ADRAIN, Mich, Sept. 2S.-Charles Ben
nett and his sister, Mrs. Lucy Townsend,
were united to-day after separation oil
50 years, In 1916. Bennett's step-mother
ordered him out of her house in small
New York village and he started away
on a career of adventure, finally settling
i'm Monroe, this state. as retired sea
captain. lie lost all track of his family
until last week.
His sister, it happened, married and
came West. settling down at Clayton.
Mich. \ newspaper item. giving a
sketch of the old captains life attracted
the sisters attention, and a mutual friend
was the means of bringing the aged
couple together after 50 many years.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-09-30

The fact that there i not silver
country in the world in which labor j.
paid one-half the average wages paid
in the United States, and in which the
money when received will buy one
half a much a it will buy here, furn-
ishes complete answer to Bryan's
speeches, 50 far as the workingmen are
concerned