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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11
POLITICAL DRIFT.

UThe democratic party is threat
ened with the most serious danger of
disruption in lis history-Kansas City
Independent.
rTWhen Thomas Jefferson annexed
Louisiana the consent of the governed
was not thought of by him Indian
apolis Journal.
UIowa out of debt and a Surplus
in sight, eh? And now the democratic
calamity press may soon be growing
about the great surplus.-Iowa State
Register.
GA man cannot be political big
amist." declared Mr.. Bryan in one of
his oratorical flights. Yet Mr.. Bryan
managed to we'd himself to three diff
ferent nominations in Washing
ton Post
DIf, as is reported, Col. Bryan
dropped the silver question at MAwau-
kee, he picked it up again before he
reached New York. The colonel with
out sixteen to one would be like baby
without rattle.--Omaha Bee.
E-T'What has happened to makemore
soldiers necessary" asks Mr.. Bryan,
and he proceeds to answer: Nothing
but republican administration" He
has forgotten the democratic cavort-
ipgs in congress to hasten the war with
Spain.-St Louis Globe-Democrat.
uyThe free and unlimited coinage of
silver at a ratio of sixteen to one, urged
as a cure-all at a time of popular dis
tress. reached its highest point when
Bryan was named for the presidency.
Urged anew. the disasters of '9S are like
" to be intensified in 1900.-Chicage
Chronicle (Dem.).
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11
M'KINLEY IS WINNING.
The Presidents Hold on the People
Compared to That of
Lincoln.

The growth of William Mckinley in
the respect and good graces of his fell
low-citizens is not confined to his own
party, but extends to all classes, re-
gardless of partisanship. In proof of
which see the following estimate of him
from the democratic Brooklyn Eagle;
In 1886 the question was Mckinley
or Bryan?' Most Americans, we are
sure, are glad it was Mckinley. He had
the experience in congress and the eX-
perience in politics which enabled him
to obtain necessary Legislation in
great emergency. lie had the knowl-
edge of a man which enabled him to
put at every point OF peril or of emer-
gency agents who We're equal to what
was required of them. He has had the
conciliatory, vet firm, the quiet, vet in
SiStent, temper, which has enabled him
to have his way at the last, by permit
ting all others TO have their say at first.
He has wisely used, on woll-chosen oc-
casions, a rare capacity for luminous
public statement and for moral appeal
to the people who have made up their
minds in his favor against al criticism
anu tlStIlSll anu III Sl'll' ~ Ai''E2
maintained the organization of his
party intact; he has greatly extended
the civil service rules and he has estab-
lished for himself a hold on the homes
and hearts of plain Americans that
cannot be mistaken. and that can we'll
nigh be compared to the hold which
Lincoln himself had under circum-
stances analogous TO those in which
Mr.. Mckinley has been placed"
BY the way, catch republican paper
comparing Mckinley to Lincoln and,
oh, what a howl would 60 up from GER
tain quarters-quarters too miracu-
lousy constituted and partisan-minded
epe6 - expand and broaden into fair
ress, no matter how much light may be
roured out upon them.-Oswego Times,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11
THE DEMOCR ACY.
A Frank Confession of It's Forlorn
and Helpless Condition by
Party Paper.

Let us face the facts, let us no longer
deceive ourselves. The democratic
party to-day is without character and
standing in the nation. 1t has lost the
confidence, if not the respect of the
great body of intelligent, thoughtful
men of this country. What does the
party stand for? What are its priiici-
pies? What man is there in this party
to-day who can stand up with any sort
of confidence and declare them? Does
democracy stand for Imperialism or eX-
pansion? Bryan answers one way and
Jones the other. Does it stand for free
silver or the single gold standard?
BRYAN and J,nes answer one way;
Croker and a distinguished member of
the national democratic committee an
swer another. Does the party stand for
tariff reform or protection? Nobody
knows, for the Chicago platform de-
clared that that question was retired
until the meney question should have
been settled.
Where are the party leaders? Where
are the great men of the past who could
upon any occasion, at any time of the
udN OF HlpHl, II Cdlltb upOlls Slthtl up
and with accuracy and confidence pro-
claim democratic doctrines? There are
no leaders, there is no man or set Of men
who are recognized to-day as the
mouthpieces of the party. There was
so-called leader of the minority forces
in the house of representatives. He
raised a constitutional question and
called upon the democrats in the house
to stand by him in the position that he
assumed but when the test came more
than 40 members of his party voted
against him, and he then and there re-
signed.
Alas for the party of Thomas Jeffer-
son! Surely it has fallen upon evil
times. 1t is paving the penalty of the
folly of 1896. Every prediction that we
made when it then went astray has been
fulfilled. or is about to be fulfilled. 1t
must reorganiZe upon a true democratic
platform or go to pieces. Gentlemen
may mock at this, as they Knocked at it
in 1896. but it is the truth. Those who
then forsook the old ship must come
back to the little band of democrats
who remained and kept the eolors fly
ing, or be wrecked.-Richmond (Na.)
Times (DemO.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11
| AN a DEMOCRAT.

I am a democrat.
H5w strong the words strike on the ear
Dispelling every doubt and fear,
Defending as a giants arm
The body polite from harm;
Extending from the great and small.
Until it takes in each and all
And fills them with the sacred fire
When echo rises to inquire,
Ten-dollar or one-dollar?
! am a democrat.
From north to south, from east to west.
The noblost patriots and the best
BY those plain words are filled anew
With fresher purpose to be true:
Are made to grasp and WELD again
The word Of mouth, the facile pen;
To lead, encourage and inspire
When echo rises to inquire,
Ten-dollar or one-dollar?
| am a democrat.
Could grander words exist than they?
Could jefferson in his great day
Have made nobler speech? Could he
Have told in such clear brevity
The wondrous story of soul
True to the democratic poll,
AS these words show each one to be
In his concrete democracy?
How nobly DO the words inspire
When echo rises to inquire.
Ten-dollar or one-dollar?
w. j. Hampton, in Judge.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11
UPHOLD GOLD STAND ARD.
Fa N.s Which Give the Lie to the As
sertions OF the Cheap Money
Colonel.

Mr.. Bryan, whose knowledge of cur
rency matters is in inverse ratio to the
quantity of his talk, about them, said
in New York that the republican party
has been burying the gold question"
AS usual, Mr.. Bryan was mistaken.
The republican party has been burying
several other things, including Bryan
ite assertions that high-priced wheat
and silver were incontrovertible terms,
and that republican success in 1896
meant continued commercial and in
dustral distress. Mr.. Bryan never did
shine as a prophet.
The gold question has never been
buried, for the reason that the people of
the country took the republican party
at its word when it promised to make
and keep the currency of the United
states ''as good as gold" That is what
the republicans have done and are do
ing. A paper dollar with the gold to
back il is valued so highly that the peo-
pie prefer the paper and leave the gold
in the treasury and bank vaults. The
endless chain" has gone into innocuous
desuetude.
That is simply the effect of putting in
a republican administration at Wash
ington, and of the popular confidence
that it would uphold a sound money
standard and guard the financial honor
of the nation. 1t could do no more be-
cause Bryan's free silver friends in the
senate blocked the way. 1t is going to
be different at the next session of con-
gress, and already the steps to accom-
plish something definite in the shape of
currency legislation have been taken.
The republican members of the house
Representatives. in the Fifty-fifth con-
gress, just before final adjournment
last month, appointed committee on
monetary legislation. That committee
is carefully constituted. Gen. David B.
Henderson, of Iowa, is chairman. and
the other members of the committee
are as follows: John Dalzell, Pennsyl-
vania; Serene +. Payne, New York;
Jesse Overstreet, Indiana; William C..
Lowering. Massachusetts,; Charles Cur
tbs, Kansas; Page Morris, Minnesota;
Eugene f. Loud California;; II. b. Haw-
ley, Texas; J. w. Babcock, Wisconsin,
and w. S. Kerr, Ohio.
These gentlemen fairly represent
sound money sentiment; they are
typical republicans, and almost with
out exception are noted for ability and
skill during long public service in hand
ling important questions. They met
at Atlantic City, y. j., where the pre-
limirary work in the way of prepar-
ing currency bill was done. No hasty
action is likely TO be taken, for the
subject with which they have to
deal demands care and dcliberation.
But that they will devise a measure
which in it's essential features viii com
mand the approval of those who favor
honest money and Legislation that will
assure the permanent stability and in
tegrity of our country is hardly to be
doubted This gathering, so closely
following the adjournment of a con-
gress in which all attempts at monetary
reform were abortive owing to silver
antagonism, is the best and most sig
nifcant reply to Mr.. Bryan's taunt.-
Troy Times,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11
Will Arrest Imported Laborers.

Little Rock, Ark, May 4.-Gov. Jones
has been informed of a movement to
bring into the coal mining district an
armed body of men to take the places
of the strikers. He instructed the state
authorities to summon every man in
Sebastian county, if necessary. to en-
force the injunction of Judge Rowe
prohibiting the Importation of laborers.
NJ such armed men are to be met at
She state line and placed under arrest,
rs are also those who supply the arms.
Mine operators will also DE arrested
when they attempt to bring in armed
iaborers.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

That hay fever is a mystery is very
evident. An editor in Ohio says it is
caused by kissing grass widows. y
Missouri editor says it is caused by a
grass widow kissing fellow by moon
light. An Iowa editor says it is caused
by the fellow kissing the girl while he
is feeding hay to the COW, and a Kansas
exchange is of the opinion that it's
caused by missing the girl and kissing
the COW. A poetical editor says that it
is caused by kissing in the heydey of
VOI1tb
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11
The farm on which Abraham Lincoln

The farm on which Abraham Lincoln
was born near Hodgensville, KY, has
been sold to David Grear, and will be
converted into park. The farm should
be preserved as a park for many rca-
sons, one of which is that it is the only
thing related to the place of the great
American birth that has not been
carted around for exhibition. The cabin
Lincoln was born in, the old oaken
bucket that hung in the well, and every
fence rail that was on the place when
Mr.. Lincoln died disappeared long ago.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11
Killed 100 OF the Escort.

Cairo. Egypt. May 4.-Ibrahim Ali,
whom Lord Kitchener sent upon a
mission to Ibrahim's uncle. the sultan
Of narfour, has returned 10 Cairo. Ibra-
him All found upon reaching Darfour
that his uncle had been dethroned by
Ali Dinar. The latter. on the appear
ance of Ibrahim Ali. turned out with
his troops and routed the escort Of
Gen. Kitchener's envoy. numbering $50,
Of whom 100 were killed
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

In recent experiments with the Mar
conf system of wireless telegraphy it
has been demonstrated that the wave
currents can be reproduced with ac-
curacy and clearness in spite of strong
winds or other atmospheric disturb
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

Congressman Joe Sibley, of Pennsyl-
vania, has furnished a startling prece-
dent for other congressman by giving
his entire salary for the term, amount
ing to $4,000, to public hospitals and
other charities in his district.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

EThere are many democrats who
are very much disturbed because Col.
Bryan is devoting so much of his
speeches to denouncing the occupation
Of Manila by American troops. III was
sixteen to one which fooled US in 1886,
and now Eryan is going about the
country attempting to commit the
party TO active hostility to the occupa-
ton of the Philippines, course which
will ALLEVIATE thousands of patriotic
democrats" Such was the remark of a
well-known democrat in this city.
There are great many others who
were the first to declare for what is
called the policy of expansion.-Indian-
apolis Journal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

The annual report of the inspector
general of the army shows that 20 reg
ular college students and 50 alumni
were commissioned in the regular army
and 157 students and 29G alumni in the
volunteer army, total of 541 officers,
or enoagh for about 12 regiments. Fur
ther, 1854 students and former students
joined the army as noncommissioned of
ficers or privates.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

Relic hunters are carrying away
piecemeal in their pockets the house in
Montpelier, VT, in which Dewey was
born. The number of relics immedi-
ately pertaining to the hero of Manila
are few in number. Those for which
he is responsible are numerous, but
they are not available as mementoes,
as they are at the bottom of Manila bay.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

In the last so years the total number
of public officials in France has in
creased from 1sS, 600 to Az, 900, and their
salaries have grown from $40, 900 to
$121.OOO,0 900. In the same period the
population has increased only ten per
cent. Either France did not have
enough government half a century ago,
or else it has too much now.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

The late John Walter, of the London
Times, made a peculiar will. He left
as a legacy to one of his daughters, one
of the advertising columns in that pa
per. The column is the best in the pa
per for advertising, it commands very
high price, and she is enjoying steady
income of $3.50 a day therefrom.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

And now there is a revolt in Arabia
caused by the fleeing of pilgrims by
the Turkish authorities, and it is re-
ported by cable that the chiefs of the
Mohammedan church at Mecca may
throw off the yoke of the sultan for
ever, and give their undivided allegiance
to the grand cherif, who is England S
friend. This promises to be a turbulent
wear in Europe.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

A French centenarian has just com
mitted suicide because he was afraid
that he would live forever. 1t is not
necessary to inquire whether this aged
person was in the full possession of his
faculties. Evidently he had lived so
long as to lose the power to reason cor
rectly, or he would have appreciated the
truth of Mark Twain S remark that only
French duelists are immortal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

Admiral Dewey's favorite watch is
made of steel from the sunken battle
ship Maine. Capt. Sigsbee, who com
manded the Inflated war vessel at the
time she was blown up, carries similar
timepiece. Both were made by pa
triotic downeast Yankee.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

Oh, no. There is no hostility to demo-
Gratis who wish to return, 'providing
they admit that the party now has a
national platform which is satisfac-
tory" but the trouble is that the num-
Der of democrats who are willing TO re-
turn on that understanding seems to be
growing smaller instead of larger. The
colonel lost New York by nearly 27O,-
900, and if he expects his principles to
triumph, these votes must certainly be
made good somewhere. That they are
not being made good in the west is in
dicated by the drift of political senti-
ment in that section. The men who
either voted for Mckinley outright or
who helped to defeat Bryan by voting
for Palmer and Buckner, do not feel as
though they are called upon to perform
works meet for repentance. And it is
not probable that they will change their
minds between now and the next presi-
dental election. - Brooklyn E"gle.
(Dem.)
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11
SickIcs Is ReappOinIeH.

Washington, May 4.-Stanton Sickles,
CT New York, has been appointed sec
rotary of the United States legation at
Madrid. Mr.. Sickles is a son of Daniel
Sickles. formerly minister to Spain,
and held the same position to which he
IS now appointed when Mr.. Woodford
was minister there
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

Advertisements are published at the rate OF
enc dollar per square for one insertion and fifty
sspta per square for each subsequent insertion
Rates by the year, or for six or three months
application.
Legal and Onlcial Advertising per square
three times or less, t2; each subsequent inser-
Nen SO cents per square.
Local notices 10 cents per line for one inser-
sertion; s cents per limo for each subsequent
pepsecutve insertion.
Obituary notices over Ave lines 10 cents per
Hne. Simple announcements OF births mar
sisges and deaths will be inserted free.
Business cards. nve lines or less, rs per year
ever tive lines, At the regular rates OF adver-
Using
No local inserted for less than rs cents per
hsus
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

You best a man when he gets the
worst of it. You worst him when you
get the best of him. That is to say, ''to
best and "to worst" mean exactly the
same thing
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11
JOB PRINTING.

The JOB department OF the PREss is complete
snd affords facilities for doing the best class OF
work PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO Law
PRINTING.
No paper win be discontinued ntil arrear-
Hges are paid, except at the option OF the pub
Esher.
Papers sent out of the county must be paic
for in advance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

Municipal woman suffrage is a con-
dition and not theory at Beattie, Kan.
At the recent election the town elected
mayoress, five alderwomen and n
>lerkeSS
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11

pauper woman in Paris has been
convicted of having had her child bap-
tized IA times as Catholic and 12 times
as a Protestant for the purpose of Sc
curing five francs and dress each time.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-05-11
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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-04-01
Result OF German Greed.

What has come about in the Sa-
moan Islands is the direct result of
German greed. incidentally, our
own shifting policy has contributed
to the end, for nothing but make
shifts have ever been devised for the
joint government of the islands but
German greed, the desire to turn
everything to the profit of the father
land, to the violation of all agree
ments and the sacrifice Of life and
property, is directly responsible for
the crisis which Rear Admiral Kautz
and the commanders of the British
ships at Apia so promptly and judici-
ously met.
All three nations-Germany, Eng
land and the United States-were
bound under the agreement of 1889 to
abide by the decision Of Chief Justice
Chambers in matters coming within
his jurisdiction. When, upon the
death of King Malietoa Laupepa in
the summer Of 1898, and the conse-
quent dispute which arose between
Mataafa, the deposed King, and
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\ ..j!I!,;I,I I!;!E!E1! J u u
IN EFFECT FEBRUARY 5, 1899.

Passenger trains leave Shenandoah for Penn
Haven Junction, Mauch Chunk Lehighton,
Slatington, White Hall, Catasauq9a, Allentown.
Bethlehem, Easton New York and Philadelphia
at %, z ~ a. m. II So and IA p. m.
For Wilkesbarre, White Haven and Pittston,
%, 10 13 a. M, u SO and ID p.
For Laceyville, Towanda, Sayre, Waverly,
Elmira, Rochester; Buffalo, Niagara Falls,
Auburn Syracuse, Ithaca, Geneva and the
West, 10 l3 a. M, 10 SO and IA p. m.
For Belvidere, Delaware Water Gap and
Stroudsburg, % a. M, IA p. m.
For Lambertyille and Trenton, z 40 a. M
For Jeanesville, Lewiston and Beaver Meadow,
For McAdoo, Audenried, Hazleton, Stockton
and Lumber Yard, %, 7 40, 10 l3 a.m IL 5s and
For Jeddo, Drifton and Freeland, %, 10 1a
a, m, IA p. m.
For Lost Creek, Girardville, and Ashland, 90,
For Raven Run, Centralia, Mount Carmel and
ShamolSin, 10 5s a. m. ~, 6 07, % p IN.
For Mahanoy City, Park Place and Delano,
5 2s, z 49, 10 13 a. M and l2 So. 8 Il p.
For Yatesville, %, 10 l3 a. m.
Trains will leave Shamokin at 90, 20 a. M,
l2 10 and 20 p. m, and arrive at Shenandoah
at 40, 10 l3 a. m, l2 5S, II p. m.
Leave Shenandoah for Pottsville, st. Clair,
New CASTLE Morea and New Boston, 40 and
10 l3 a m and - SO p. IN.
Leave Pottsville for Shenandoah, As a M,
Leave Hazleton for Shenandoah, 10 90 a. m.
II 4s, 5 90, 6 &C. 8 32 p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Trains leave for Raven Run, Centralia, Mt.
Carmel and Shamokin, 46 a. m, 2l p. m,
Trains leave Shamokin for Shenandoah at
so a. m, and 80 p. m.
Leave Shenandoah for Yatesville, Mahanoy
City, Park Place, Delano, McAdOo, Audenried,
Hazleton, Stockton, Lumber Yard, Weatherly
| and Maueh Chunk, 9 AZ a m, and 80 p m.
For Lehighton, Slatington, Catasauqua; White
Hall, Coplay, Allentown, EastOn and Phillips
burg, 9 A a m, and 6 32 p. m.
| For New York and Philadelphia, AZ a. m.
Leave Hazleton for Shenandoah, 90, a. M,
| and "a p. m.
NJ. b. CUTTER, Supt Transportation,
South Bethlehem, Pa.
ROLLIN II. WILBUR, Genl. Supt.,
South Bethlehem, Pa.
| CHARLES S. LEE, Genl. Pass Agt.,
| New York, N Y.
| A. W. NONNEMACHER, Div. p. A.,
| South Bethlehem, Pa.
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lib BREF INVESTIGATION.
Secretary AlRer Advised Eagan to Try
the Refrigerated Beef.

Secretary AlRer Advised Eagan to Try
the Refrigerated Beef.
Washington, April 1.-All but two Of
the witnesses before the army beef in
Quiry court yesterday were members Of
the medical staff of the army who were
ON service in Cuba during the Spanish
war. The other two witnesses were Mr..
George IL. Giddings and General ].
Hale Sypher who had been interested
in securing contracts for supplying beef
on the hoof and on the block for the
army in Cuba. They testified that Gen
eral Eagan had told them that the sec
retary of war had asked him to give the
refrigerator beef a trial, while Mr.. Sy-
pher said that General Eagan had
created the impression upon him that
he preferred beef on the block to re-
frigerator beef Their testimony through
out was contradictory to General
Eagan's testimony, and Mr.. Giddings
said that Congressman Hawley was
present at several Of his conferences with
General Eagan.
A majority of the army surgeons ex-
pressed the opinion that the canned beef
was unsatisfactory as food for the troops,
but some of them thought it no more
harmful than other meat in the Cuban
climate.