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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15
Communicated.

To the Editor of the Republican.
Will you please give space for the
following facts concerning the Mill
Run school house?
list. No bid to build the Mill Run
school house ever reached the School
Board from a citizen of that school
district.
Cd. Only one bid was received to
build said house from any one resid-
ing north of Deep Creek. Mr..
Grimm's agreement to build the
present house was $149 less than
said bid. We appeal to the tax
payers to know whether we did right
in saving this $40 to the county.
3rd. The board was obliged to
cheaper the houses after the bids
were received in order to build the
number absolutely required with the
funds available. In nearly every in
stance it was case of the price of the
material and the submission of the
modified specifications to the bidders
would not have changed the result.
For example, we covered our houses
with No. 1 white spruce clapboards
manufactured by the Blackwater
Lumber Co., Davis, W. Va. They
cost SIS per house less than split
poplar siding as specified. No con-
tractor could change his bid more
than SIS on account of this modifica-
ton.
4th. About the location. There is
on file in the office of the School
Board paper signed by the trustees
and patrons of the Mill Run district
which reads as follows: eve, the
undersigned persons, being all of the
patrons and tax payers of the Mill
Run school, unanimously agree that
our school house be built on the fol-
lowing site'-the place where it is
built. The School Board accepted
this paper in good faith.
5th. The School Board feels that
the tax payers have good value for
their money IN the Mill Run house.
Yours truly,
w. A. SMITH,
Member Garrett Co. School Board.
Hoyes, Md. March 10, 1900.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

United States Senator Mason, of
Illinois, in an anti-expansionist, or,
as he prefers to say, an "anti-imper-
ialist." For this reason the Spring
field Republican, the acknowl-
edged organ of Aguinaldo in this
country, is anxious to exploit Mr..
Mason and make it appear that he
has his constituents behind him.
Last Sunday this Springfield organ
said: Senator William E. Mason
faced popular audience in Chicago
the other day for the first time since
he broke with the Administration on
the Philippine question. Never in
his political career, say the local re-
ports. had he received so warm q
welcome.
Now what kind of an audience was
it that Senator Mason faced" and
which gave him such a warm well
come?' The Chicago Times Herald
says it would like to give full roll Of
Mr.. Mason's rally in that city, but it
contents itself with the following list
of conspicuous and representative
characters
Captain William P. Black, ex-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15
SwantOn.

Rev. G. A. Powers is conducting
revival services in Swanton.
Rev. Mr.. Howard, of Bloomington,
was in Swanton last week and
preached twice for us.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Rhodes is dead.
Levi Comp fell and broke two of his
ribs few days ago.
Mr.. Landslide, who hurt himself
by slipping on the ice, is getting
better.
We are glad to hear that Prof,
Chas. S. Friend, of this place, who is
now principal of the Grantsville
public school, is to be the principal
of the normal school at Hoyes this
spring. Professor Friend is an up-to-
date teacher, graduate of Western
Maryland College, and we predict
that he will do his part to have a
successful normal and those that at
tend his school will make no mistake.
Business is on the boom here; a
great deal of lumber, props, posts,
etc, being shipped nearly every
day.
Julius Littman has lumber on the
ground for a new store room. This will
be four stores in Swanton.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

FREE-TRADE trusts in the iron and
steel Industries were formed in Eng
land upwards of ten years ago. In
Birmingham the makers of carriage,
cart, and wagon axles combined, in
1888, to establish an advance of
twenty per cent. in prices. They sue
ceeded in maintaing the higher level
of values. In the same year more
than twenty manufacturers of sheet
iron combined in England to prevent
price cutting, and some four or five
firms that declined to enter the
combine practically supported it by
adhering to it's list of quotations.
In this case the members of the trust
abided by the decision of the ma
jority and rates were revised every
three months. Speaking of these
trusts, the london Iron and Steel
Trades Journal, of July IA, 1888, said:
1.-THE practice of combination to
maintain prices in certain branches
of the English iron trade is extend
ing" Trusts were no new thing,
then, in free-trade England in 1888.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15
Long John CLANCY.

Those persons who had come to the
conclusion that long John CLANCY
had passed over the Great Divide
will be glad to know that he is still
in 1.-The land of the living" The
Frostburg Journal notes his existence
in flesh as follows
Long John CLANCY, of Elbow,
Garrett county, was in town Wednes-
day. On being interviewed he said
he feared the British and the Re
publican party were in fair way to
gobble up all the money under as
we'll as above-ground, and that for
his part so long as he represented
Elbow in the Congress of Nations he
intended to vote against both single
and doublejointed monopolies." Mr.,
CLANCY is over 10 years old, but still
glorying in his youth and good
looks"
Mr.. CLANCY is known for radius
of many miles as the most persistent
attendant upon circuses in this
country So well known has he be-
come to the arena people that they
never fail to send John u compli-
mentary ticket when they exhibit
within reasonable distance of him.
May he live long to enjoy his hobby.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

contradictory than usual, as the range
of interests to be affected by Presiden-
tial action is unusually wide on ac-
count of new foreign relations.
Sober persons are able to conclude
that President Mckinley will not be
buried for all the reasons stated. 1t
is out of his bower to earn burial by
so many contradictory acts. Some
of the predictions, which are only
threats, must be false in any case. 1t
is conceivable that he may not be
buried at all, under the votes of the
people or otherwise. Presidents so
vigorously threatened in March have
several times been reelected in No
vember. 1t is the widely prevailing
belief of Republicans, and of Demo
Gratis also, that President Mckinley
has much more than an even chance
for reelection, whether he pleases or
does not please everybody. In fact,
sound philosophy reckons him consid
erably more likely to be elected if he
does not please everybody, nor try to.
More Presidents have been beaten by
trying to please everybody than by
obeying their own convictions of duty.
The American people are not alto
gether destitute of practical sense.
They are well aware that the Presi-
dent has a more difficult task than
any other Chief Executive, to say the
least, in many years. Only very
few Presidents have bad to direct a
foreign war; only very few, and not
all the same, to settle questions grow
ing out of such war; and not one of
these has had to deal with as extern
sive and important additions of terri
tory as have been made by Jefferson
and Mckinley. No other President
before Mckinley has been obliged to
mark out for the United States pol
icy to meet European and Asiatic
problems at once, to serve the com
merce of the country with the Far
East, with the West Indies and also
with Europe, to meet greater expen-
ditures than have ever before been
necessary, and to assist the entrance
of American industries into foreign
markets which have heretofore been
beyond their reach. 1t is not to be
expected that a finite mind, called
suddenly to meet so many and such
difficult problems, should be absolute
ly free from error. Americans do not
expect impossibilities. They are not
likely to bury President who does
well in everything else because some
of them think he has made one or two
mistakes of Judgment. Still they
ask and with right and reason, that
their Chief Executive shall bring to
the hard problems before him train
ed judgement inspired by genuine pa
triotism, and shall fearlessly discharge
his duty according to his own convic-
lions. 1t is highly probable that men
who ask more and threaten much do
not speak for the American people
N. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15
At the Close of the Session.

The session of the Maryland legisla
ture expires by limitation on April 2.
Today is March Is. No new bill can
be introduced during the last ten
days of the session. There is at pres
ent enough work in hand to keep
both bodies employed until the day
of adjournment. Very few bills Of
Importance have been passed, al
though two and a half months of the
session have expired. Nearly all the
measures that are really needed-and
much that will be of little or no value
if enacted-are under consideration
by the committees. With the hear
ing of delegations and others interest
ed in bills, dicussions on the floor,
amendments and recommitments to
committees. all of which processes are
allowed to consume much valuable
time, it often happens that the really
meritorious measures fail to receive,
in the rush of the last days of the ses-
sion, that attention the people have a
right to demand should be bestowed
upon them.
Haste and inattention, not to say
ignorance of vital matters, result in
so much defective legislation being
passed that the Courts of Appeals,
not only in Maryland, but in other
states, declare imperative laws that
could have been made safe if legisla-
tors had properly attended to their
duty. The cost to litigants in conse-
quence of defective legislation in the
United States is considerable.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15
ETHURSDAY, MARCH is, 1900.
Volume "a, No. 1.

To-day's issue of THE REPUBLICAN
marks the beginning of new vol
ume-No. "a.
In the future, as in the past, it will
advocate the principles of the Repub-
lican party, believing that, other
things being equal, it is better for the
county, State and Nation that the
Republicans should control the desti-
MES of each.
While we believe all Republicans
are good, some are better than others,
s and believing this we will urge upon
all occasions and at all times the pol
icy of putting none but the best men
in nomination for the various county,
State and National offices.
While we have received the support
of many in office who can trace their
positions to the influence of THE RE-
PUBLICAN and its friends, there are
others who have and are now entirely
ignoring us in the distribution of the
patronage to which we are justly en-
titled.
A glance over our subscription
books will reveal the names of a
hundred or more subscribers who
have been leaders of THE REPUBLI-
CAN ever since the first number was
issued by its founder, Capt, James A.
Hayden we trust that they and
many Others rho have been patrons
of the paper for years past will con-
tinue to read it, enjoy it and say
kind word for it to their neighbors
who are non-subs6ribers.
During the pa st year a great many
new names have been added to our
list-a sure Indication that the paper
is growing IN favor.
To all our friends we extend our
best wishes for their future prosperity
and long life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15
"Nothing, Except the Mint, Can Make
Money without Advertising"

Jne Cdn MAKE
Money without Advertising"
A great many merchants are less
successful than their competitors be-
cause they are ignorant or Indifferent
to newspaper advertising as means
of developing their business.
There are others who, while approx
ing the theory of advertising, do not
know how to apply it,
The science of advertising, however,
steadily advances. Year after year
more firms advertise. advertise more
and advertise in better way. The
fundamental facts about advertising
are better understood now than ever
before.
First-The merchant must have
something to advertise. There must
be a demand for his goods, or there
must be merit behind them to Gre
ate demand.
Second-He must use a newspaper
that has character and that reaches
possible customers in sufficient num-
Der to Justify the price it charges
preferably a newspaper that tells
him exactly how many readers it does
reach.
Third-He must have well prepar-
ed advertisements.
Fourth-His advertising must be
continuous and persistent.
The best medium is not necessarily
one that brings immediate and tenn
porarY results. Customers worth hav-
ing are those who become attached
and cannot be drawn away by an oc-
casional catch-penny lad" Why APP
peal to people that your next-door
neighbor can take away from you the
minute he offers something more
catch-penny than you do? Good Gus
toners are conservative customers.
A drygoods store advertised an en-
broidery sale one afternoon. The
next day the store was so crowded
that mild riot was narrowly averGed.
This store had advertised regularly
for years. A new advertiser would
not have succeeded in drawing that
crowd
A prominent and successful evening
paper in o leading American city tells
the following story on itself:
There was a nearby laundry patron
lied by the manager of the paper. He
tried in vain to get it to advertise in
his paper. Finally he made this prop
osition to the laundry man: II will
advertise you for 10 years on shares,
you giving me percentage of the in
creased returns" To this the laun-
dryman assented, and the advertising
was undertaken on quite large
scale.
First year, disappointing. The re-
turns were $1,000 short of paying for
the space given.
Second year, still short 500 or $500.
Third year, broke about even.
Fourth year, the laundryman had
to pay the newspaper man $500.
Fifth year, newspaper man drew
$4,000.
At this stage the laundryman hol-
Tered "nough'' and continued his ad-
vertising on cash basis.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

Measles are ipe here.
Phil Hess was in Piedmont last
Thursday.
Albert King is down with the mea-
sles.
s. S. Browning, who has been quite
sick, we are glad to see ON duty again.
Mrs. Jno. w. Wolfe, who has been
spending the winter at Bloomington,
has returned home.
Rev. W. H. Clary, of Keyser, is Wis
iting his daughter, Mrs. F. H. Thrash
or.
Geo. Walters was in Oakland on
Thursday.
Frank Laughlin spent Sunday with
his parents here.
Jos. Helbig, of Oakland, was on our
streets Saturday.
F. H. Thrasher was in Oakland on
business one day last week.
Mr.. E. G.. Miller, of near town, is
belfast with stomach trouble.
Mr.. John Friend is lying dangerous
ly low at his home near town with
cancer of the stomach.
W. G. Jones was called to the bed
side of his mother in Pennsylvania
who is lying seriously i'll with pneu-
monia.
j. E. Elliot has had sign painted
on his blacksmith shop.
Our band gave us another open air
concert Saturday evening.
The last few good days brought
back the ring of the carpenters ham
mer which reminds us that spring is
near at hand.
Our town ought to be pretty well
cleaned up of old iron. The black
smiths are buying a great amount
out of the country contemplating
shipping a car load.
Jos. Lashorn has completed lathing
the Specht store room and is now at
work on the Chebec cottage.
Mr.. Chas. Pysell brought his new
wife home last Monday and entertain
ed host of friends Monday evening.
The band went out and rendered
some fine music for the occasion. Con-
gratulations, Charley.
The M. E. protracted meeting,
which has been in progress for the
last five weeks, has closed. There
were forty-four conversions and a
great many accessions to the church.
Rev. Funk deserves a great deal of
praise for his good work.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15
IT Is recorded that a farmer in Full

IT IS recorded that farmer in Full
ton county, Ohio, recently sold 1876
head of sheep for $500, being an
average of $6.40 per head. The
farmers there say under the Wilson
trade period that number of
sheep would not have brought to ex-
coed $125, and that the owner would
have had to look around long while
for purchaser at any price.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15
A Fien(iish Attack.

An attack was lately made on G. F.
Collier of Cherokee, Iowa, that near
ly proved fatal. 1t came through his
kidneys. His back got so lame he
could not stoop without great pain,
nor sit in a chair unless proped by
cushions. No remedy helped him un-
til he tried Electric Bitters which eff
fected such wonderful change that
he feels like new man. This marvel
GUS medicine cures backache and
kidney trouble, purifies the blood
and builds up your health. Only SOC
at all druggists.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

Not A single failure was recorded
last month among the manufacturers
# iron, cotton goods, hats. There
re only five failures among all the
ess.Or4en ware, brick and glass manu-
facturers; and in the wooden and
leather manufactures they were
smaller than in any other year except
one. And still the Democrats are not
happy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

ST Mckinley signs bill imposing
any tariff whatever on imports from
Puerto Rico he will be buried by the
votes of the people in November"
"If Mckinley consents to free trade
in sugar and tobacco with Puerto
Rico he will be buried by the votes Of
the people in November
He will be buried if he tries to gov
of their people,
lays, Mestizos, Chinese and Spanish
inhabitants of the islands to share in
government of this country
He will be buried if he consents to
an isthmus canal not fortified and
owned by the United States, and just
as surely and deeply if he prevents
building any canal by insisting upon
conditions which other Powers can
not accept"
HE will be buried if he carries
through a reciprocity treaty which
exposes American industries to hurt
full foreign competition, and as surely
and deeply if he fails to gain for his
country the advantages of the recip-
rocity policy promised by the Repub-
lcan platform.
All these are predictions found with
slight variation of phraseology in one
mornings newspapers. 1t is not a
new thing. Presidents are generally
advised in the early months of a Pres
idential year that they will be buried
if they do not behave exactly as some
deeply convinced or deeply interested
persons would have them behave.
But possibly the vaccinations are
This year little more numerous and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

labor as well as capital will profit
anew by this cumulative prosperity
which loans the money abroad and
yet spends it among the workingmen
at home. And yet there are a few
who will tell you that this is merely
Fictitious prosperitY.n
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

THERE is an old saying that ''you
can't eat your cake and have it," but
the case of the loan of $25, 100000 to
Russia just made by New Workers
comes pretty near upsetting that
theory. The money, although loaned
to Russia, is to be expended in the
United States for the purchase of the
products of American labor, and thus
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

COKE is scarce, and in spite of the
largest output ever known, the price
has advanced. AS natural sequence
in these good times the wages of the
hands have been raised 12s per cent,
the highest ever paid.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

SENATOR LODGE made an able
speech outlining his views of this
Governments duty toward the Fill
pinos and highly endorsing the policy
of the Administration. He truly said
that Mr.. McKinley's Gown policy and
his own acts in the East are his all
sufficient defence, both now and in
history
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15
Nome City, Alaska,

is twenty-eight hundred miles from
Seattle, via ocean. Is said to be the
richest gold field discovered up to this
time. The first steamer will leave
Seattle on or about May 10, 1900. For
full particulars, maps, ETC., address
W. S. Howell, General Eastern Pass
enger Agent, Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul Railway, 381 Broadway, New
York, or John r. Pott, District Pass
enger Agent, Williamsport, Pa.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

will generally correct this
difficulty.
If you will put from one
fourth to half a teaspoonfuI
in baby's bottle three or four
times a day you will soon see
a marked improvement. For
larger children, from half to
a teaspoonful, according to
age, dissolved in their milk,
if you so desire, will very
soon show its great nourish-
ing power. If the mothfS
milk does not nourish the
baby, she needs the emul-
sion. II will show an effect
at once both upon mother
and child.
SOC. and @r.oo, all druggists
SCOTT x BOVINE, Chemists, New York. y
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

For RENT.-6 room new house on
Liberty street; s room house on 3rd
street. For particulars apply to Jno.
T, Sincell, Real Estate and Insurance
Agent, Oakland, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

EVEN the Kentucky Democrats are
growing ashamed of the Goebel law,
and a movement is on foot in their
own ranks for it's repeal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

COLONEL BRYAN having paused to
catch his breath, the japanese vol
cano Asama improves the oppor-
tunity of breaking into eruption.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

BI A larj majoriti, the Massachusetts,
Hous has void for a bill to rekwir the
us ov reformd spelling in public
documents.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-03-15

for a purchaser at any price.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-10-03
u onday of January. A. D. 1901.

Monday of January A. d. 1901
A Sheriff in place of John O'Sullivan,
whose term of Office will expire on the first
Monday of January, A. D. 1901.
A Coroner in place of H, G. Lampson.
whose term of Office will expire on the first
Monday of January. A. d. 1901.
A Clerk of the Circuit Court in place of
George F. McCIintock, whose term of office
will expire on the first Monday of January
A. D. 1901.
A Register of Deeds in place of George A.
Calder, whose term of Office will expire on
the first Monday of January A D. 1901.
District Attorney in place of E. G,
Alvord, whose term of Office will expire on
the first Monday of January. A. D. 1901.
A Surveyor in place of D. +. Glover, whose
term of Office will expire on the first Monday
of January, A. d. 1901.
A superintendent of Schools in place of
Jessie n. Smith, whose term of office will ex-
pire on the first Monday of January, A. D.
1901
Given under my hand and seal in the town
of Washburn this 10th day Of August, A. d.
| 1900 JOHN FROsElH.
County Clerk.