Bellefonte Democratic Watchman.
BEM
JOE W, FUREY, Assomtra EDITOR
Ink-Slings
A voto for Cleary, Williams,
Coburn, or any of the radical
candidates , is a vote to endorse
the "Fifteenth Amendment."
—The Fifteenth Amendment rlis
gleits t lI nensible men. '
—The Fifteenth Athesninient 18 the
delight of the niggerii.
—The Fill retail Amendment is t tie
r•hnurc of the white man.
_The Fifteenth A Indium en t is one
01 .loos W. GEAR% 'B, pets. .
—The Fifteenth Amendment ii ex
elasi% ely a negro menHitire.
—The •Fifteenth Amendment has iti;
Jrndhret foe in ANA Pii KFR.
—The Fifteenth Amenthneat 18
the disgrace of Modica') leginiation.
—The Fifteenth i\nienittnent should
be coteil against by every white man.
_—The Fifteenth Amen(lnwenl l the
ba.lanl child of Radical and negro on.
--The Filteentii Amendment will put.
fllfTg`r+ in nur jury boxeu and on our
judreuil hetielien.
—The Fifteenth Antendinef t Is trll
- AV% PACKV.II, the D em o cr aor
cafilidnie for (;overnor.
-- The Fifteenth Amendment is re
presented he Jon.; W. littAtti - ,the Rad
u•al candidate for tiovernor.
—The Fifteenth Amendment will be
opposed in the Legislature this win
ter by .1 troy t, Mr.l RR, Jr eleeted.
—Tbe.Fitteentla Amendment. Will be
supported in the Legislature this win
ter he .1%1114 P. Coin's's, tt elected.
--The Fifieenth Amendment in the
dnrk development of the Ithtekent leg.
!dation in the hintory of thin f}overn•
Mffil
—The Folecnth .Imendinent will en
courage nigger-, to be politicians and
make ilietiiiiiiPudent, limy arid "or
nitr 4
—The Fifteenth Amendment is in
direct violation of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania. By it negroes are allowed
to ote.
The Fifteenth Amendment in the
I'S CH 01 foreign nations ra the great
Hot upon the civilization of the pre4ent
century.
—The Fifteenth Amendment would
lower the white nien and women of the
country to the degraded level of the ne
grl, race.
Fifteenth Amendment will be
the death knell of liberty if it nhnuld
be finally ratified-by three fourthif of
the States
--The Fifteenth. Amendment eon
template,i the elevati o n negroe:l to
political and Hoeittl equality with white
men Anil' women
—The Fifteenth Amendment in what
the Radicals desire to inflict upon the
country, but which they -are afraid to
14111,4411( to a vote ot the people.
—The Fifteenth Amendment wits
passed on the recommendation of thn••
error tar,'who was the tool of the
Radical " ruint4rs" in Congress.
—The Fifteenth Amendment is an
iniquitous scheme resorted to by the
Radical party to secure the negro
vote and keep themselves in power.
—The Fifteenth Amendment says
tuggers shall vote and hold office.
The Constitution of Pennsylvania says
only /WHITE MEN shall hold office or
ME
—The Fifteenth Amendment will
bring the blush of shame to the cheek
of every white manoti cave 'L8110(114 be
perthatiently ratilied,am it will be if the
Ittulicala triumph this fall.
—The Fifteenth Amendment has
not yet been ratilieyl by three lbortlis
or the Htittea, but it will be unless
Pennsylvania sets the seal of her con
deiunatiun upon it this fall.
—The Fifteenth Amendment will be
killed deader than a door nad, and will
never beeone a part of the Co:1(0.4(1,0w(
of the United l States it the people of
Pennsylvania ( vote against it this WI.
—The Fifteenth Amendment would
hold up to,our view the pleasant spec
tacle of white men being judged and
ruled by niggers, as in now the case in
Washington city and eonie ofthe South
erg States.
—The Fifteenth Amendment wan
gotten up hi obedience to the dictation
of Radical leaders in the Rump Co i•
gross, who declared that "tbe negro
vote was necessary to save the Radical
party from ruin." •
—The Fifteenth Amendment gives
every lousy nigger in the State susl in
the United states the right to vote,
while foreign born white citizens are
compelled tcyreside ih the country five
years before they can vote.
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VOL. 14
Gov. Geary and the Twitohell Matter
Again !
" It in not our desire to minrepreqent
Governor Or,Arw, neither is it our in
tention to allow his crimes to pass
known, or his mistlenseanors wino.
(iced. flu the tll of September we
published the following letter which
wns written and sent lig by a fOrliier
citizen of this place, a 14m/email with
whom we have been personally ac.
younted for yearn, and who would
morn to tell an untruth, or write a line
that could not be substantiated in a
fowl of Justiec—n citizen who taken
no part to politics other than to Yoh'
OpIRMIIIOII to the Democracy and
who could have no' 'objert tcholeert rr
trying In deceive either the editors or
retider4 of the W Vrellll %N. ...lie wrote
as tullous •
FMIT 4n inir„VIWIT NIA Tram - roily, I
thgti.t 2irt: Imo I
(invr
I, , mr So —Ear:!woad vim will
!lA.! 01,01 t dioilArA IttS) A' lilt h pleiv.eplavo I. the
crrulli of• • • • for aill,wript Inn
b. the 1111 lIIITO Ihu k 1111111t,11 to Al.•
1,11.1W10.1g0 11•Celpt I I..ttirm of 111A11 allil sf
your tlmr till permit, lel 111.• 11.11 what 14
111.% 1114.111 t my 0..1 Ilnino and lull the !WWII that
ould iniereal Itellelolll4/If In tllO wll.la of
11 01111111,1.
There are Anti. few Pennstylvaninnis here
a loan I 11111 V 1.114,111111 int.ioninted with na yet,
ntl.l gni adneaday hen the few alio are hole,
a loon I have be, °in° noinnlnted II ill, had
.01011 a 51:11/11101111 111,1011 11111 )1114 I 1111111, tly Ilin
introdUetioli to 1111 of auothttr l'etturylvaninn,
a Ito if not kilo. 11 111 I on personally, 10 nenilt
Jrl to yottrrelf and modern by the nnonviablo
notoriety ho gamed for hinirelf ul l'lttladel•
the mordl r 0f hi, In,,ito r m Init, mr.
1(111 and by the ropotta Oen inannei
II hich lot ereapo.l hanging by etiltttnr hie th toot
"r poiponing hist...lf, I 110,11 1 etnernher
loch, 011 1 night betore bin a iel tit ion lon .111
dottlaterm be ar notch tourist,' to loan that
..enott• H Twiteholl, whom every render Of
to...Pp/inept lathe, ea t. Inl In ell:I - 1111y, In bill'
all‘e and war 011 %VI-VlM:Willy 1.01 11141 ,
ill tht• I wnr to .11, And nonarrast with
11191 anritroeng a 4 1l ir, ll is tole 1 eon 1 ormell
1111 bun Iny+oll for altnot.l an boor, and a ottld
1101 have 11,11,1,1 My nut anrs, 1111.1
I net known lion pre, Pauly, and had he not
0111411 Me II lOU - 11011 1110.41 I pill 0, laGa, and
stalled by the Governor of toy 1111111„ State,
John 11/ l,lettrt• Ile looked roligh, broken
11111.4 iitspirtted He told me he was let
of proem on the night of Altril 1 ,111, tool
1111.1 nnnnler pt noon, who had died that any
I - tarried into hie, cell, and the 111 11 day
was taken out Of 11 and the pled iv, anti 111.11 ~1
111+ own frt. 11,14 left 1111111 r the 1111 1/1,.1.11011
1 hilt am 11i+ Vegan. 1 lilt WIWI hurled Ire
raid ho had traveled natter 11,14•01 flied name,.
until he 1 I 01111 .1 the. territory, had aorkod lll4
aay from Chicago, nod that If th I:ovation .
hadn't *rhea 4111•11 II log pro,. for 1110 pone!),
Ile might lotto had looney enough to start in
1,1,41114,1 0f 111111, k old but 11 , wl,l as
hoer as it ehntelt 1110114 e 11114 didn't know
Wirll to MI tin left t 11111,1•11 14111111 tiny 1
colt 111111 for thl Flat-head leg 10114
II Heart go.l Hine 11114 rope r rne.o Kh 1 "111
ght. you I dlemeripii4,ll 4 , 11110 In Oil. , ‘vll•lo4.lin
try 11l 0111 0011, , Of
un• klIl4l/y
Itempeetritlly yllir4,
Fur t;11 ilayi after the publication of
thin letter not a word way said' about
it, lo either tbmertior (4.1111 or ant
of his org,itue throughput the State.
By that time, however, he found that
the many little MS 4terieq surrounding
the suppeied sudden death and owt
burrial of the convicted murderer, were
awakening in the minds of “intelligent
and revectable a oetitlemen throughout
the interior of the commonwealth," a
firm belief that the facts set forth by
our Montana correspondent were fitrts
beond any doubt, and to pireveirt that
belief, he presents to the reading pub.
lie the following statements:
Earll rive 111 t atm,
II ittinsiit tn, I'o Sept CI, 10b9
To Oil flier Lyle, Sher.," of 1 Voludelphln
Ott, st,,ry liar beim lint circula
lon, rounded mom a letter, pretended to 1111111
keen revel ve,l form Montana, by lien P isray
Meek editor of the lirtivr , rivi Win 0110, to
the effect that itcorKe 4 'Twitchy! Jr , Is olive
find has helm seen and ininevried with by per.
4,11,1 with 1/6111/1110 144 141 4 11 1)1141 illtllllol o ly
till hinted 'Thin statement l matte S. all !melt
aeetnlng aecnrites , and plat ll
and swi
positive decini ion.i tint nth, by 1111.11 who
40 4 1,11. 4 4 11, prominent ponittiiti to toetety, 10111
who for twn snevevsi re I entvi represented lits
district In the State Li gala urn, that it is re
eit mg a wide eireulation,ritni ~litainttig ere.
doneelimning intelligent all. r•pe ,• table {tete
llemen 111 the interior 01 1 4 1 4/11111101101011111
7110 111114100.11111 in, Ulla ON 0011Igili 1/1 - 0,410114
to 0111 ,lay net for the eceelltion a' Twitldiell,
by virtue of a paidou gralnicil by (love' nor
(b
1
eary. for Irlll,ll a large 141 lit tit / iiiii ley V 1.141
tall, the ,I,•.1 lady or ..It, 110( 44011,114.1 WWI
11111,041 10 TN114.1011 . 4 4,11, 1141 the murderer
vet a t liberty nod that be In now know. to be
at large and at weal benitl ~ If you received
a par,lon, 114 40111,41, it all ;all 11111111141114 (or
gory, an.' you were gr 0.41 111110144401 111,00
Noel' letter'', however, an SI lc found.' lily al
leglltl,4l/4 11114111 are 11411.111y1144 ra l / 1 1,111.101141
I .end you, herewithb a cep of i llll
iii paper, et/11-
Willing 111 e editorial end th (alter to which he
ttlitttigo I 4
Ann (mutt of the flonerii 11411 named tould
not p4,4hlv hare been in,rpntroted without
your knnwledgn, eonseitt tyul ran !thane°, RN
well 'IA of tho keeper and putin•rintendont of
Ow o,on, and of her 11,111 , lithiC I.ll.lzeilm,xol4l .
its well (11/Itt or the oor,rnor,
IVO nil, ITIOre or lean, vol edi It the, an ynt,
unrefutedi 4intententn of the 131ILLKIoNTLW troll
tr
An the iodate mind Is bertonlna uneasy On
flux xiildert, I 11104 L reopertfolly 11,411 04 1 OWL
you foto"m tile at pair earlle 4 t 1,40 , 1 1, 1 4. rou
♦onlenee, trlottlirr thou , r att be any truth or
foundation wltaterrr tit thoor tliotinglng state.
moots of lion l' (tray Merit.
Very tevertlolly and truly yours,
JNO W Gator,
(hotel nor of Petinsylvaiilit.
I' 11111 expert your apswer by return
malt.
Siltßity's
Pi111..1.1.P111 t, September 14,1861
To thjovrttsint
rtsvo just received you f
t avor
n(41.11101 hist together with tfii• ti or
oonlitineil in the Bellefonte newspaper Of
Hopt.:li4 In relation to the 1111140 of (temp S.
'l s siteliell My littellll ,,, , lona been 11 ailed lo
this publivittion several days,sinee,iiiiit I paid
uo regard to it, god loukod upon it an all Idle
story. There eertionly (NM 10 110 doubt 11 hat
ever that I ienrg.• S committed sui•
rids sti Alto morning of Ule lily 'bred ,Cpr 11111
411[111410111/11. 1 a eol to tho
prison on that morning at o ,'slid It, together
with a jelry io•lecteil foi the piir
fitoiti 4111114 1111111 g iii, 0).001111011 1001 the entl
111
er
of th ••11.,i .11 • 01 I ,!I ilt.i
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION."
BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1869. NO. 39.
feature. and pet .on. and hail no difilmilly in
101 , ,tilving hilt,, and I ant vary I o +llo.. as 10
1114 death I Mink a ruin, oto the No, retary ~1
the Commonwealth of rant+ tinder oath,
mob - triod on the death warrant, whit h von ratty
trier to MI lily in that department The (,0-
110 r nu. hold ,01 11111111•. t a.n Ilir body 0 fT004.11.
011 00 OM 4111111. 411 IV, and ilk I.llll c irt +h1,11,1 lie
1.1111,111141 We ar ho the deal!,
I verlainlv net er reeeive.l ant' 11.111 Inn
von In Twltehell's crew, met never heard
a thing spoken at until at appeared in the
1,1111 , What releired l 0 I riararl the ptilllion•
(inn I+ ml IMO vtnrv, WMI.IIO any 1(.1“).11111,41
whatPveY, and visolty , unCi•oftity of any belief
oir notice.
have OW )101111, In 110,
Very regpeetful your.. at , .
PrrEft LYLE, ShOrlti
TLr I;overnor milt r•••r0l a Teller to R • m 14
1',141114, lf,nin, of Voyntilell.l/11;
1.01110,01/11 ximllnr to the fu , ` /1.1,1r0,0c1 LIT
Sheila Lylu, Lu 111/lell the following ansa or aax
rvevit col
'fur Ilin F.xeellenev, John 11' Geary- ' 4 ll .
h mut. fnm of the I nit loot . earn- dolv to lined
and I nein], by retanl nuul, I he doeliment von
ed.. for, hoping It Vllll p1 ,,,,,, t1.1 ,, e%0rS 1 1 1 ,
N., hole bug 0111 11 1111111. Ole]
Ireiti4 the proof on Itn Im e, thou the 4;1.1..0 In
timinpaient to injure Inu , hot In that they NIB
moult nigeally toll
111111 voor friend. Are
Wv It PrrAtsui Siiiierintendent
Sept 14, 1,00
(}ty,Jl Mitirvirildno; .14
Perkt , M,lll7 uttupenredluefore nun, the goletefl
her, ono 1;1 the Aldermen of the eitV of Phil i
delphia, Win It. Perkin, stiperintetudent
Philadelphia Comity Prkon. 11 late Smith II
11, Beni F Bundler, M II phy.neinvin of nob]
prinon, and Potrlek I 'noddy, one of the keeper
id lii' 'MM., oho Andre. Flelning n.i - Sfoltn
11,0 , 1011, who had npounal elinate. of I; 1 ". 1 10 . 4
Twitehell, Jr alio way .entetioed to be Ming
on the nth of April. 11041, on,the l'llllll4l` Or into
der of ],.110, Ikellfft duly imolutied oe
cording to low, do demon. ny ti u m they
hare neon 1111 aIIIIIIVMI/11 , 1 PM, anted Fort
Mollthilit Territory, Artgnnt 21,1.1116%nd.
dre , uned in P (true 711 eels, Enut , Not pigfinnhett.
In the Bellefonte W utriim tn. lit Whieb it In al
leged, ROOMK other thnn , gn. 111 , tt George, S
the imirdeier of Non Mary F.
11111, In living and wan neon I , y the writer
al that place
The ntatemont In alunelunuly LJ.r I:i,lrgo
Twitoliell, Jr erntinuitted +meld. , In thi., per
tn; nn the 1110111111 g or the nth of Ipril 1.01,;,nd
I\ po.ut inortern examination of ht. kely inn
Mae by llr rileaplehr 11 nt the prt•Plellel• of
Ir-corn 31111111, Ctlill.lllllll II 1/31 . 111..111.• 1,1111,i
who hod defended t hr prinotter, and atum to the
preuounee of ftr It 1 rule Smith and 141.11 i F.
Butcher (phytionatin of the primuni, lit liteli
ord f Le, in, Br .11onlo L Leneh, Br 'l' 4
ituuteher and lir Alter, ell iii W11"111 ee.• fe
millar with the pri,uner'n 11111/1•11111111•1. In turn
lifetime, and knew the body to Imo none other
Than that 4.1 George S 'Panchen, Jr Iles re
mein. were oleo neon by member.. of ilieiptenn,
win had been pre.ent rut the trial,hy hi" faill•
er, and by the °Meer. of the proutiel, all of
whom knew the bllt 1y to ho that of t 111• inn
lin was tried and onnviuted of the 'harder of
Mr.. Mary F. Hill (Ilk norther ) At the
p ,rat nourtem oxammatton Inn brain, heart and
were. rem , . , 'd (roan the body and
the traen of pronnleineirldineovered Thin wan
done in the Konen., 1.1 all the oominel and
playypnxna 111,01 , 11 111,1111111114, /111 , 1 the bottle
.4;m:tuning the remainder of the arid wo.
found by fly Slinpleigh in the biettitival boot
of the deceit:eel lichen. lily remains were
handed to Inn lather ltrid reeegnixed by him,
mid were interred tinder the Intr.. or Mr
itringhernt ,nnriertatter sivtturther defoSheills
ninth not
ll'm it I'EIiKIVS,
41 K '.YET/1, NI I),
It F Iturriema, M I),
l'ATni. K r 0411,1,
A +l,nr, )111:111,
I
qUorll run! Silll.lol Pled before me Ibin the
doy of September, 1 II i4l/9,
11,11. S n.. , SILL hie, MRS
It will very readily be observed
that the inilmilunts aho are here at
tempting to cic liivernor 171. tar's
skirts of the crime of pardor»ng and
spirrting away at erinvieted murderer
6,r matey, aru the very »Ai 'duals
who must necessarily have been nn
Titivated in and shared the profits of
the infamous tran•netion. Ullicials who
would carry out it prvramine such as
was that by which it is Charged If rm.
S. Ts ITCHEI.I. was released and Het at
liberty, would not scruple to sign till
davits by the score, denying the charge.,
Criminals, when arraigned, seldom, it
ever, acknowledge their entries, and if
the facts set forth by our correspond•
eat from Fort Shaw are correct, and
we believe they are, there IS not a man
whose signature is to the above unix
vit but is just as guilty in the eves of
the people as Governor Gr. lay llllllself.
Does any one, for a moment, suppose
that it money procured Tw ITi lir.i.l.s
-pardon and release, that the man who
reeco.il thatononey for his signature
to that pardon, and the prison officials
who received their ahare'for spiriting
awa'y the convict, in order to shield
the pardoner, would acknowledge the
fact? Would they nut do just as
GEARY and the tOficiais of the Phila.
delphia prison have dime—lcily it to
the last ? If the statements trade by
Sheriff Lrl.E, Superintendent PERKINS.
Keeper Ctssiny, Physicians 551T11
and BUTCIIER, and Attendants FI,EII
INU and CLAYTOSiare true, why was
not the Coroner who held the inquest,
and his jury whoset upon the r mains
called upon to testify to them? Why
was not Dr. Sits CLEIOII, who made
the post mortem examierttion,called rw
a s witness ? Why was not the evideive
iii the District Attorney who prosecu
ted the case for the COLlllllollwealth,
presented? Why is Mere NO evidence
that the charges are untrue from any
other than the snot who are to day
FINUERINU THE GUKENHACKS Til IT PAID
TIMM FOR TUJI ,11.19 E • BRED TIIAT la
CU tRUED AUAINST THEN?
These are questions that must be
answered, betore the public mind will
be set at rest on this most important
matter I
I, there are re .kittpiing
the death of Gem. Tw ITCTIELL,
outside of the certainty of his having
been seen and conversed with in Mon.
Mica; neither Governor oiv nor his
pri-on ofilends will dare deity. From
the flay-vir his sentence to the 4th of
April, three days prior to the tims4ixed
Mr his execution, the most furentious
efforts were made to seenrea pardon or
reprieve. From tbitt time until the
public was notified, on the morning
that (lie death penalty Was to' be
inflicted, that the culprit }unleaded his'
existence, his Mends seems.* perfectly
satisfietl with whatever deel , ion the
ihnernor had made. The last three
Jars that were allotted to TWITeIIEI.I.,
not It Hord way enid m his behalf, not
a friend appeared nbout the e‘ecutue
department ut Ilnrrishurg to ask for a
longer lease of life Mr hon. SmnorMinv
bald bean eflntlivied spin Mat N‘TlSrit u
Tule% , what iii at something was, Ilov.
error tie %lir and the friends of the
murderer, alone know. \V know that
Grittl,D E %TON'S case- 7 a man in thi
same prison and to be bung at the satife
tune—it w.is r cry different. No with
standing the posave declaration or the
(lovernor that laW s utna,ft take,tts
course" his frieinifi r tiOv the scOVe, staid
about Harrisburg, hopingitand working ,
for executive clemency, until the news
of his execution told them thnt It %vas
too late then. Were Ta tyf friends
Vsi sincere than EvioN's ? Or rlrts
the little at rangement by N‘ bleb he wa ,
to be secretly released and sent nut of
the State, jtist as all the report- :env
way lie was, the cause or telt
Harrisburg Mice dayr Me tx,cri
tweminafy satisfied with the deci•
shut of the Governor
Another Yumpteloun cirminstance
connected With 01113 MOW, WEIN the ta
king to Tw home after his re
ported death. another body, then repor
tel to he I.:ITON'4, which upon dol.
COA cry was hurriedly carried otr, and
while the people were waiting fon thi.
funeral in one part of the city, the
body of somebody, asserted to he
Tit 1TC11K1.123, was hurriedly and quiet
ly, with scarcely anybody in attend
ance, interred in another. Will Cloy
ernur GE tav or him prison officials, en
plain how this wag? If It was Tw
CIIF 1 body that wan found in the
cell, if it was handed to his father As
Superintendent PlAiti.uss and party
swear It wag, hole comes rt that it trim
never taken Inane, that a strange body
Inas Wen there and then humedly fa-
A await AND 111 RI ED AS TWITCII3I.I. ' S?
TheMe are circumstances which every
reader of newspapers knows to have
occurred, and which must be explained,
or they will be net down am no much
esidence that Geo. S. TWITCII3I.I. 13
tl.lvic,—pardoned for a prier, and
that the staternentm of our Fort Shaw
correspondent are true beyond any
ariadow of übt.
'Another Page from Geary'• Pardon
Record !
On the lath of! 1868, Governor
tieeav pardoned a Wan named Mi;•
Q coVV , who had been conVieted of
the crime of manslaughter in Indiana
county, and sentenced to the penitenti
ary. In the tall of that year ( EA HY
'mule a speech one evening in a school
house, !tear Marion, in the northern
part of the county, where McQcows
lived, in behalf of Jolts: Covong, who
was then run wig for Congrette against
KW D. FOSTER. MCQUOWN was
present, and, when Genet( had conclu
ded his speech, Mine forward to ex
press his thanks for the Governor's
clemency. I itv asked him if he now
intended to voe for Covonx. Mc
QuowN answered that he was under so
mneli obligation to Mr. FOfiTER for
legal services during his trial, that he
felt it to be his duty to vote for that
gentleman. Graiy, on hearing this,
remarked, angrily, "If I had known
that, you might have rotted in the pm
itentiary before I would hare granted
you a pardon."
This incident reveals the moral and
political character or tiovernor GLARY
in its true light, and shows that he %in
fluenced in his pardons ot criminals by
the basest and most unworthy motive&
lie didn't pai'don this man bicgtmwx
because he cOliceived lie was suffering
mijust or unnecessarily severe punish.
ment, but. , because ho understood he
Wll9 a Radical voter, and Radical vo
ters were then wanted in the West
increland district to elect .ImIN Covens.
kne,. such nu eviiibition of moral de.
it
i t( 111 alt 4
!wavily and political iseltislinetiti,! how
can it he doubted that GrAin" wits:even
capable orpardoo 1101 1 1'10E TW
i relf -
CI A, for money If lie would ti rdon
a man coat ieted of manslaughter
order to make a Radical vote lOr old
Joiry Covolit:,' is it not entirelyiprolat•
ble that he would pardim a coavieted
murderer for the Pouch stronger iiiduee•
ment of three or four thousandil'ollarel
We (motet; it looks fons almost like it
certainty, and the ptolia bi lay grit.vt; the
stronger when we take into emisidera.
Unit. UEAROI inortlinate and.gt ti rsping
desire for wie'alth. A mall who, hecord•
lug to his own conlesmon, goes into
a Mee poor, and at the end of the first
ear is able to otter to pay thirty thou.
sand dollars CASH for a film], must
have monetary resources that are not
generally known to the puldic at Tarp.
,lil, in the case of Governo'r GE tar,
the pardon source seems to have been
one of his most lucrative and unfailing
resorts. May beat en preserve the
State frum 40.01.ber. Lea luars.otlytneit
gubernatorial quill nality'
, To the Tax-Payers!
We feel it to be our duty to reprint
the following article on the public
finances, from our able cotemporary,
the Harrisburg Patriot. It contrasts
the enormous expenditures of dit:tht's
mho' Ilistration with what the State et ,
',eases were in Democratic daystind the
palmy hours of Om Commonwealth.
Such information will be valuable to
the people in helping them to make up
their 111111114 to throw oft the terrible
incubus that now oppresses them.
The following is the Polders article :
%I - TS Stilt THE Tlx I'Alf RS TO CRACK.
The Gearyites are stramtng erery
nerve to I,fivert public attention from
the real issues of the present contest by
lighting the battles of the war over
again. Their fate depends in a great
measure in their success in this effort,
and well they know it. The duty of
the Democratic Tress of the State is,
therefore, a plain one. It is to keep
constantly to view of the tax-payers the
enormous expenditures orate present
administration as contrasted with that
of the democrats, and the profligate
squandering of the people's money. It
is the tax-rlyers of the Commonwealth
who have the deepest interest in I his
matter. Let the !acts and the figures
as found in official documents lie hon
estly and truthfully lied befiore them,
and then let them judge whether or
riot their interests and the honor of the
Commonwealth will be promoted by a
change of rulers.
We begin will) a few of thew items
he aggregate expenditures of the Stitto
goverionent for 1868 wero 5845,539,89
Do. do for 1860 401,863,14
Increase $443,576,48.
Here we find that the present public
servants, under John Gear's ad
ministrntion, are more than twice as
expensive to their eastern—the people
—as mere their democratic predeces-
SUN of 1801, under the administration
of W. F. Paeker.
Among the items composing this ag
gregate we take, first, the expenditures
of the Executive Department, which
were for Is6tl. $32,475
For MO 16,&(X)
In c roma
Again we find the expenses doubled
without any evidence of additional eer
vives rendered.
Tho expemes of the Attorney Gene
ral's office for 1868 were $6,409
For 186 Q 4,276
111 c l -c m e $2,125
„s
The evils! e.
of the Adjutant (len
rare office re 1 T BOB were $20,839
For 1860 r 800
lnerease ..`520,289
• ThinenoVntus increase is made up
in part by appropriation for compiling
and printing Bates's History, a very
cumbersome and inaccurate work, den.
tined to cost many more thong/Inds of
dollars before it is completed.
Tho aggregate expenditurtsi for these
three departments is therefore shown to
he, for 1868 $69,119
For 1860.20,875
,
Increase
Let us now turn to the expenses of
e legiglaturo for the mune yeare.
Total oxpon3os for 1868 $868,224,66
Total expenses for 1866 177,284,65
Increase $176,989,91
In 18118 the total number
of euiployeos in tho two
Ilouses was one hundred
and twenty, at a cost of $118,863,00
n 1860, the total number
was forty, at a cost of
When the tak•payere rettieinhee that
there le no increase in the number of
Senatore or members of the House of
Representatives, and no additional eer•
vices required of them, they will be
(breed (0 the iuer•itableeuuclueion that
tAtitt i ritotpiding increase of the public
etc
..
91
itnteti can only be traced to the
OA MYSTEM Or PROFLIGACY AND
i
~ (2, 0 i. , and their verdict will be
(Wad let once that the guilty and
vccitid inn nut hors milk and mhall be
)11 iiAtid, f ni the sacred truete they have
84,10 to dy betrayed.
''tlir• i t A Silly Story.
kg cal newspapers and Radical or
ator llot4e reiterated, time aft'er time,
theltilill&ls charge that ABA PACKER
left ' tclCOutitry during the war and
went-tidii i trok. They have told this
Rtory,
,10111. tit ittat they really believe
it, attiricit it ils wholly untrue. Mr.
Pecxxiktil indeed go to Europe for hie
healtki. ' inotuntil after the close of
the wt '• 71e-first completed the con
voyati pill munificent gift of $5OO.
I t
000 t o't /11Alligh University, and then
left for nitolielto repair a system stint
,• .
tered by, A too Close attention to busi
ness. 'TO wait fn the summer of 18133
—silt,illie close of the war, duritig the
whole 9rtlis I,4,fiOcly, years of which he
retain hi hig post, of duty as chief
director* the tehigh Valley railroad,
contributing ttnitiFtise sums to the sup•
port of tIM Groy4ctittient, and doing all
in his power toll bring success to the
Federal anti.. In order to induce men
to enlist he pa d them their regular
wages dittinig.a the time of their alo•
sence, and ,Icei their families beside.
Na titaftdidre for the Government
in its hour d it
re extremity than Ase
PACKER, not, u , ttii the bedecked and
epnitletted Gemara] on the " tented
field." , . •
»_ i _ r =-
And yet in s' its of all this, we have
our Radical o pthients charging that,
Judge PAczeitiwas in Europe during'
the whole of dies war I Certainty they?
ought to know fetter, and if they would
but take the i !isains to inquire they
would speedily4ee the silliness of the{
story, and renitie the fact that they
have been outulpine the people to be. ,
heve a he. •
Judge Psuzitile was ,not out of the!
country during Se war. On the con.:
trary, he was s4rcely out of PCnnsyl
vania, and was conscientious, mum.:
•
ticent and zeal : supporter of the Gov
ernment. Just ! ear his fact in mind. 1
This quesiiiin is asauming even morel ,
importance novvi thati , before its Aden iali
by the Governor andjirie,friends. The..
Carbon Democrat of last week, lifts the rl
following in relation A to it
A few weeks eaten the Bellofonte WITCPIIIAIII
published atelier from a correspondent writ
ing from .Fort Shaw, Montana Territory, In
which lie made the antounding statement that
he had Seen and conversed with George
Twitehell, supposed to have committed not
elet* the night preceding the day set for his
execution for the murder of his mother-in
law, Mrs 11111 The matement at the time
was generally regarded by the public and the
press 111 sensational end highly improbable,
114 It woo deemed inipoexible that tho plot
described by the correspondent of tho Waves
al4, LW the mewls adopted by bieliry and his
coadjutors to spirit away the con•Mted nuir
derer, meld have been suctiewifully carried
out Circumstances which have since occur
red, howevor.bui well as the extreme anxiety
displayed on the pert of lieary and his friends
to bush the matter up, by no means aids in
allaying the now prevalent impreasion that
Tait, hell is 41111 Ante—haring ;mod Oruro t/is
prier of blond! We are personally neytuainted
with the writer o f the letter is the Wsrciusxm
who was formerly a citizen of Bellefonte, and
whose relations and friends still reside there.
Moro than thin, we have seen and read the
Tir , ginal letter Itself and do not believe that
its author would assert what he did not know
to ho a fact.
None so Blind as Those Who Won't
After the record of extravagance and
cupidity, which we have presented to
the consideration of the people, is the
result of Radical rule in Pennsylvania,
it does seem to us that nothing more
nehd be said upon the subject. If any
man can now be found who is 60 blind
ed by party prejudice as not to be able
to see with the light that has been giv
en him for his guidance, his case must
indeed be hopeless. We have no de
sire to talk or write to such men. Their
ignorance is willful, and their under
standing belouded because they have
made no effort to arrive at the truth.
If, in the face of the fact that the pub
lic money has been shamelessly squan
dered—that the State debt has not
been reduced —that the executive is
venal and corrupt, a tool of rings and
lobbyists—that pardons have been is
sued wholesale for money to the great
est criminals that the people lire
groaning with taxes—that legislation
has become a reproach—that the State
Capitol is a pest house where schemes
are perfected for the robbing of the peo
ple by the people's Servants—if, we
say, in the face of all' these facts, an'
man can be found who is willing to
kee the authors of all•-this.disgrace
any longer in power, then we have no
wis .to say anything further to that
man. " Ile is joined to his idols" and
we now intend to "let him alone" to
enjoy the happy (t) state of things that
his friends hove brought upon the
country. It is to the sensible, tUnking
men of the'State that we look for no.
demption, and ih them alone we hope
to find the balm for the deceased state
of the 1)04_1101We, We have con&
dance thilt they will no longer allow
this infamous and outrageous elate of
things to prevail, and will so decide oa
the second Tudesday of ~the present
month. • .
$16,976
$38,789
28,654,40
$89,708,60
MI
hell"Ative ?
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