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Bellefonte, Pa., October 24, 1890.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Eprror
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STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor,
ROBERT E. PATTISON,
Of Philadelpbia.
For Lieutenant Governor,
CHAUNCEY F. BLACK,
Of York County.
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
WM. H. BARCLAY,
« Of Pittsburgh.
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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET,
For Congress—GEO. I’. KRIBBS, of Clarion.
For Senate.—~P. GRAY MEEK.
Representatives } JOHN. MCORMICK.
Sherif —WILLTAM A. ISHLER.
Treasurer —JAMES J. GRAMLEY.
Register.—JOHN A. RUPP.
Recorder.—W. GAYLOR MORRISON.
15a] GEO. L. GOODHART
Commissioners. {fF FRANK ADAMS.
} JOHN B. MiTCHELL
Auditors. 1 EH. CARR, :
Cononer.—DR. H. W. BUCKINGHAM,
Get Oat the Vote.
Every Democrat in the county should
be impressed with the importance of get-
ting ont the full Democratic vote at
the approaching State and county elec-
tion. With a fall poll of the party
vote not only will the county ticket be
elected, but such a majority as is due to
80 honest a man as Governor PATTISON
and to good State government, will
stand to the credit of Centre county.
Let no Democrat satisfy himself with
the idea that his vote will not be miss-
ed. He should act as if the election
depended upon his one vote. He
should not only regard it as a duty to
cast that vote but should take an inter
est in seeing that his Democratic neigh-
bor votes with him.
There should be no indifferent Demo-
crats in this contest. There should be
no laggards, There should be no excu-
ses for neglect of duty in a cause that
appeals to every Democrat and to
every good citizen who takes an
interest in redeeming the State from
the control of bosses who have corrupt-
ed its politics and debased its govern-
ment,
Democrats, you want bossism over
thrown ; you want to have an honest
man in the Governor's office; you
want to see your county ticket elected ;
but you can’t assist in accomplishing
these objects by staying at home on
the day of the election. Therefore,
make it a point of the highest duty to
cast your vote on the 4th of November,
and see that your Democratic neigh-
bor goes with you to the polls. =
A Lying Statement,
One Instance in Which the Commission-
ers Covered Up an Indebtedness
of $4.016.17.
Last spring when the county state-
ment was published we called attention
to the fact that it did not show the
amount of indebtedness outstanding,nor
an honest, intelligible condition of the
county finances.. The Commissioners’
organ, the Gazette, insisted that it
showed every cent of indebtedness,
which according to the statement. was
but about $4,000, which was shown
as amounts due Sheriff Cooke, the
Western Penitentiary, the Commis-
sioners, and other individuals.
Not a word was said or a figure giv-
en as to the amount of indebtedenss
contracted for bridges, etc., and which
the people were told was fully paid for.
‘A single instance has come to light
which shows how crooked and how
deceptive that statement was, and
how it was deliberately fixed to show a
fair balance in favor of the county and
no indebtedness against it.’ j
The Karthaus bridge ‘was huilt
jointly by Clearfield and Centre, the
Commissioners of Centre having charge
of the job. The statement as pub-
lished shows that $4,498.28 was paid
as Centre county’s share of the new
bridge, and no where in that document
is there a word about any unpaid bal-
ance being due upon it. In fact some
weeks afterward when the WarcH. AN
called attention to the tact that the
bridge cost more than the commission,
ers’ statement showed, 1t was vigorous.
ly denied by the Gazette, at the in-
stance of the commissioners, and the
ax-piyers were assured that every
cent of indebtedness against the connty
was shown in the statement.
We have the figures now,taken from
the books of the County Commissioners
of Clearfield county, showing that in
place of Centre county’s share of the
cost of building that bridge being $4,-
498.28 IT WAS $8,514.45, or double
the amount shown by the commission-
ers statement.
Itemized the ‘cost of
the Karthaus bridge is as follows :
Stone work..........cc...cii0. 3,375.90
Superstrocture 13,604,00
Filling abutments, ete...........orersssnreen 249.00
otal iin cinta arid $17.028.90
One half of this amount, $8,514.45,
was Centre county's share of the ex-
pense, and yet the Republican board of
commissioners set forth to our tax-pay-
ers in their sworn statement, an their
organs backed them up in it, that $4.
498,28 paid our full share of the cost of
construction, and that there was no
debt on it remaining unpaid.
In this one instance alone is $4,016.-
17, entirely unaccounted for. The
same thing will be shown, when the
books are examined, as to the Miles-
burg, Howard and other bridges.
When county officials will deliber-
ately deceive the tax-payers in this
way, is it not time to put the control of
the county finances in other hands ?
Tax-payers of Centre county, we tell
you plaialy you have no idea of the
reckless manner in which your funds
have been squandered. This Kart
haus bridge case is but a single in-
stance in many.
Wake up and show if you approve
of these methods by your votes on
Nov. 4th.
More Facts Damaging to Quay’s Can-
didate.
One of the most serious charges
against the Republican candidate for
Governor is that he has violated the
constitution by using State funds for
his profit as a banker while a State
Senator, the constitution expressly pro-
hibiting such use of State money by
“any member of the General Assem-
bly,” prescribing as a punishment for
such an act ineligivility to office for
five years. Such use of public money
involved perjury when he took his
oath to observe and obey the constitu-
tion- He has not denied that he com-
mitted this offense, but at first was dis-
posed to consider it lightly, his only
solicitude being, not about his viola-
tion of the law, but whether its pro-
vision of inelegibility would interfere
with his holding the office of Governor,
upon which point he satisfied himself
by obtaining a legal opinion that he
could not be held amenable to that
provision without a conviction in court.
So well satisfied was he with this pro- |
tection from the consequences of violat-
tion of the constitution that he went
about bragging that he was safe on
that score.
But this matter has since assumed a
more serious aspect in the campaign,
and DeraMATER'S defenders are begin-
ning to resort to such puerile defences
as that he is only a partner in the
bank, as if that factd mitigated his of-
fense, and that the State Treasurer had
a right to deposit the State money in
the Delamater bank, as if it was the
State Treasurer and not the Republi-
can candidate that is being called to
answer for the offense in question.
Mr. HexsEir has given special atten-
tion to the unlawful use of State funds
by Denamater while a State Senator,
and in pursuing this subject in a speech
before the Pattison Association in
Philadelphia last Saturday evening,
he said : fs
He [Delamater] says in the first place: “It
has never_been’a secret that the funds of the
State were deposited;with the banking firm of
Delamater & Co.% They were so deposited for
many years beforelhe became a Senator, and
the amount of thosejdeposits has bsen from
monthJto - month publicly reported by the
State Treasurer during all the time that that
firm has been a|State;depositary.”
It is inconceivable what the concealment or
openness of the transaction has to do with the
casa, But, as a matter of fact, the assertion
that “the amount of these deposits has been,
from month to month, publicly reported by the |
State Treasurer during all the time that that
firm has been the Statedepositary,” is untrue.
When I first called attention to the misde-
meanor of Senator,Delamater a month ago, I,
myself, was not aware of the whole extent of
his offending. I gave him credit for having
ceased to be a depositary of the State funds on
July 1, 1839, about the time he began to can-
vass for Governor. The persons I had sent to
the commissioners of the sink ing fund, to as-
certain its depositaries, were'denied the in-
formation sought. But on last Wednesday I
went to Harrisburg myself and demanded an
inspection of the record, which the law says
shall be open to every citizen, and although
thoss in charge refused to allow me tomake a
copy of it. I saw, with my own eyes, that in
thé very month Delamater’s $50,000 deposit of
general funds was taken away from him, he
gota loan of $100,006 from the sinking fund ; he
has had it ever since and has it now, This
fact has not been “publicly repsrted by the
State Treasurer.” On ths other hand, he and
his colleages have ignored the law requiring
them to publish it, and tried to conceal and
withhold it from the public. This deposit
was not made ‘years before Dalamater ba-
came Senator,” but itis a fresh 2loan, made by
him himself sinee: he became Senator, and
made to him, at his request, because he was
Senator, and in, flagrant violation of the Con-
stitution and vhe law.
Iv would thus appew from the re-
cords which the people in the Treasury
office would exclude from public inspee-
tion, that DeLasarer bas offended not
only in using the ordinary State funds in
his bank while “a member of the Gen- |
eral Assembly,” but has magnified
his offénse by his use of one hun-
dred thousand dollars of the sinking
fund which ; State Treasnrer Boyer
loaned him for banking purposes in
direct violation of the law. No won-
der the fellows who have the custoly
of the Treasury records didn't want
anybody to see this damaging and self-
condemning eatry in their books. State
Treasurer Boyer, who is an official
creature of Boss Quay, as DevLaAMATER
would be if elected Governor, is bound
by law to make publication of all loans
of State funds ; but it appears that no
publication was made of this transac-
tion which gave DenaMaTer the use of
$100,000 of the sinking fund. It also
appears that this violation of the law,
in which both Quay’s State Treasurer
and his would-be Governor are involv-
ed, was committed as late as the
month in which the Boss compelled
the Republicans to accept the slippery
little Meadville banker as their guber-
natorial candidate.
TL TT CSE
Cooke’s Whisky Politics,
Sheriff Cooke is making himself ex-
tremely obnoxious to the decent and so-
ber people of Bellefonte by his open and
shameless use of liquor in electioneering
for the Republican candidate for Sheriff.
He has a gang of bummers around him
whom he keeps continually soaked and
who assist him in his campaign of intox-
ication,
Last Saturday evening he gave a
shameful exhibit of his whisky method
of electionecering. A resident of Spring
township, employed at one of the ore-
banks, came to town in the afiernoon
with a horse and wagon; bringing his
little boy of about ten years of age with
him. Towards evening he was about
to return home when CookE got ho'd of
him in the intarest of WoLF, and induc-
ed him to go into one of the hotels
where Wolf whisky was being freely
set up. The doses were frequently re-
peated with the result thatat aboat nine
o'clock this man, who should hava gone
home to his family sober, was lifted in-
to his wagon so helplessly drank that
his little boy had to take the reins and
drive home. The affair was so disgrace-
ful that Cook E was told by an indig-
nant observer of the transaction, that if
anything more of the kind should hap-
pen he would be prosecuted mnotwith-
standing that he was a public officer.
It is said that his object in making
himself serviceable to WoLr in this re-
prehensible way is to retain his connec-
tion with the Sheriff’s office as deputy.
Get out the full decent vote of the
conuty to put the stamp of condemna-
tion on such drunken politics.
Senseless Clatter.
We scarcely thought that the ZRe-
publican was capable of such unmiti-
gated slush as it gets off about the past
record of Democratic officials. In re-
ply to our presenting Cooxs and Hex
DERSON as samples of Repubiican offi-
cial reformers, it breaks out in a hys-
terical declaration of what a terrible
exposure it could make of “overtaxa-
tion, high valuation, misappropriation,
robbery, breach of trust, exorbitant
charges, dishonest dealings, party fav-
oritism, boodle, whisky, taunts and in.
sults,” and other offenses committed
by Democratic county officials. Why
doesn’t the dunce specify who were the
Democratic officers that did all these
bad things ? He seems to think that his
rambling and rattling array of charges,
without being applied specifically to
any one, will be accepted by his read-
ers as proof of misdeeds committed by"
Democratic county officers. But does
it amount to more than the chatter of
an idiotic monkey ? Aud of just as lit-
tle account is its indiscriminate claim
that under Republican county admin-
istration there were ‘‘decreased taxa-
tion, lower valuation, legitimate appro-
priation, fair and honest dealing, and
a ‘hundred other things.”
In contrast with ‘this clatter of
empty assertions without a single
specific charge, stands out in bold re
lief our assertion that sheriff Cooxg,
with his nice moral record, and Com-
missioner HENDERSON, with an empty
county treasury as the result of his
financial management, are lovely spec-
imens of. the reform which the ring
managers promised the people’ three.
years ago.
——The Gazette after admitting some
weeks ago that its $900 charge against
Mr. IsHLER wasn't true, revamps the
repudiated lie in its last issie with the
hope, probably, that it may be made
to suit the appetite of gullible readers
by being warmed up. Mr. IsuLER’S
word of honor is more than sufficient
to offset that falsehood, but in addition
to his word we have his affidavit as to
the untruthfulness of the $900 story.
When a man of RoBerT VALENTINE'S
character publishes his attestation to
the honesty and integrity of Mr. Ism-
LER who has been his tenant,as a farm-
er, for many years, what do the charg-
es of a reckless organ amount to ?
Get out, the full Democratic vote to re-
buke this attack upon an honest farm-
er, a good citizen, and ajworthy man.
——What is the use of being a Dem-
ocrat for 864 days in the year, and then
failing to vote for your principles when
the opportunity is offered you?
Candidate Adams Vindicated.
The Gazette last week published a
letter signed “WiLrLiaM Apays,” which
charged J. FRANK Apams, one of the
Democratic candidates for Commission-
er, with dishonesty in settling the es
tate of F. M. Aragrron, decd, and
with bad treatment of his pareuats, to-
gether with an insinuation that he had
fired his own store. The letter pur-
ports to have been written by a broth-
er of Mr. Apams, but the general be-
lief is that it was prepared here in
town and the signature of WILLIAM
Apawms procured by taking advantage
of his unfortunate weakness.
The charges thus preferred are
squarely met and successfully disprov-
ed by the letters and affidavit of the pa-
rents and brothers of Mr. Apaums which
are hereto appended. The editor of}
the Gazette is so well satisfied that the
charges are false that he has promised
to publish the vindication of Mr. Ap-
Ams, made by his parents and brothers,
and if he keeps his promise they will
appear in this week's issue of his pa-
per. Of course he is trying to make
the best of a bad case, and endeav-
ors to get down as easily as possible,
but practically he admits the charges
to be grourdless.
"This same charge of dishonesty in
the settlement of the estate alluded to,
was brought against Mr. ApaMs in |
the form of a rule in Court to show
cause why he should not give security
or be discharged from the execatorship.
When the evidence was brought before
court the Judge literally kicked the
case out of court because there was ab-
solutely nothing in it, and Mr. Apaus’ |
course in the performance of his duty
as executor was sustained.
The malicious insinuation that he
attempted to fire lis own store is as
groundless as the other charges. It is
true that some time ago an attempt
was made to fire the building which
was partly occupied by Mr. Apawms,
|
but there was nothing whatever to |
connect him with it,but on the contrary
there were many circumstances that |
showed that it was done to taka re-
venge upon Mr. Apams and Mr, Wenz:
LER, who is the owner of the building.
It is really too bad that reputable
men cannot be candidates on the ticket
to which the editor of the Gazette is
opposed without being made the victims |
of his libelous and malicious attacks.
His assault on the personal character
and good name ot Mr. ApaMs was pecu-
liarly atrocious in its character, not
only because it was utterly groundless,
but particularly because his parents
and brothers are falsely and nunwarrant- |
ably used to give color to the libelous
charges. In the same issue other:
Democratic candidates are made the |
targets of the Gazette's libelous shafts,
Messrs. IsuLER and GrAMLEY being at
the same time victims with Mr. Apawms-
What man’s reputation is safe when at
the merey of such a wholesale and in-
«discriminately libelous sheet ? Will
the people sustain political warfare of
so reckless and dangerous a character ?
The following are the letters and affi-
davit of Mr. Apims’ parents and
brothers :
MiLEsBURG, PaA., Oct. 18, 1890.
Editor Gazette : —~
We have read with regret a letter pur-
porting to have been written by our son Wil.
liam Adams, against his brother Frank, seek.
ing to injure his brother in his canvass for
County Commissioner. Why William would
write such a letier we'do not know, because the
statements contained in it are entirely without
foundation. Frank has always treated us
kindly and considerately, and just lately when
his father was seriously injured, he rendered
all possible assistance, and showed him great
care and kindness. |
We also cheerfully testify to the hones'y and
integrity of our son Frank, and feel gratified
that his party have bestowed upon him the
nomination for Commissioner, feeling that he
would make a competent and faithful official.
THOMAS M. ADAMS,
Witness, ANNA C. ADAMS.
J. M. GREEN, J.P.
‘CENTRE COUNTY, 88 :—
Before me personally came Thomas M
Adams, father of Frank T. Adams, and M. !
Weaver Adams and Geo. L. Adams, brothers of |
said T. Frank dams, who, after being duly ;
sworn according to law, say that they read the
communication in the Gazette of the 17th, pur-
porting to have been written by William Adams
charging his brother, T. Frank Adams, one of
the Democratic candidates for Commissioner,
with dishonesty in the settlement of our es-
tate, with attempted arson, and with shameful-
ly ill treating his parents. The statements con-
tained in the communication are wholly un-
true and have no foundation whatever. We
are highly gratified that his party have placed
Frank in nomination for such a responsible |
position, and feel that he would make a com-
petent and faithful official. Although some of !
us are Republicans, we expect to vote for him
and do all we can for his success at the polls.
Sworn and Se TL LL WEA M. ADAMS,
before me,Oct. 18,1800 > M. WEAVER ADAMS,
J. MILES GREEN, ) GE . L. ADAMS.
Justice of the Peacs. !
PuLipssurg, Oct. 22, 1890.
Editor Democratic WATCHMAN :—
That desreputable sheet, the Keystone Ga
zette, of last week’s issue, was handed me a
few days ago, in which I noticed an article
purported to have [been written by my brother,
William Adams, denouncing in severe terms
the character of my brother Frank, whois a
candidate for County Commissioner. 1 desire
to say to your readers that I do not believe that
my brother William ever ro the article re-
ferred to The whole thing has the smell of
Fiedlerism about it. There is not one word of
truth contained in it. I have held my brother
Frank in the highest esteem and if [ live un-
til the election I will vote for him and do all I
can for his ele tion. I can assure your readers
that my brother William is not capable of
writing an article like the one referred to, and
it was only through some unprincipled politi-
cian that he was induced to sign it. I have no
| fears of Frank's election as well as that of the
whole Democratic ticket from Pattison down
to Coroner. Yours truly,
M. R. ADAMS.
Do You Want Cooke Continued as
Shenff?
It is now alleged that the reason
Sheriff CookE is so much interested in
WoLr’s success, is thal he, COOKE, is
to continue running the sheriff’s office,
and that WoLF will stay at home and
run his furniture estabiishment.
‘We do not vouch for the truth of this
report, but the fact that Cook is taking
more interest in the election of the
Sheriff than in any other part of the
Republican ticket, and is openly trying
to trade it oft for WoLF’s benefit, gives
color of truth to this rumor.
At last accounts the Republican
congressional conferences of the district
The Farmers and Candidate Kribbs.
The following interchange of Com-
munications between farmers of Clarion
county and George F. Kribbs, Demo-
cratic nominee for Congress in this dis-
trict, explains itself :
MER. G. F. KriBsBs, CLARION, Pu.
Dear Sir :—At a representative meet-
ing ot farmers held October 2d and 3d,
I, as chairman, of their committee, wus
instructed to ask a pledge from you,
through the press : First, That you will
use all honorable means within your
power, if elected, to enact such laws as
will stop the gambling in farm pro-
ducts, buying and selling futures, ete.
Also to stop the adulteration of all food
products, or selling such in eompetition
with the genuine article. Likewise, the
slaughtering of diseased animals or those
off in condition for the purpose of placing
the flesh of such on sale in the markets
composed of the counties of Lycoming,
Clinton, Potter ana Tioga were stiil
engaged in fruitless ballotings, which
have been going on for weeks. The dis-
trict seems to be afilicted with too large
| a number of small Republican states-
men who want to go tocongress and
won’t yield an inch in their prateasions.
The people of the district should sit
down on the whole of them and elect
that good Democrat and able maa,
MorTiMER F. ELLIOT.
——When men known by their
neighbors to be reputable characters
and good citzens are subjected to reck-
less and scandalous charges, as Messrs.
IsaLeER, GraMLEY and Apame have
| been by the unserupalohs organ of the
“ring,” it ought to be resented by every
decent voter as due to the safety of per-
sonal character from slanderous at-
tacks. Get out the full Democratic
vote to put the stamp of condemnation
on such an outrage.
Ringing Words of a Methodist Clergy-
man in Favor of Pattison.
' What a Republican Preacher Has to
Say About Quay’s Candidate.
Rev. J. Franklin Core is pastor of the
M. HK. church at Wilkinsburg, Alleg-
heny county, and is one of the most
prominent ministers in the Pittsburg M.
E. conference. He is a Republican in
politics and was a soldier in the late |
war. * He recently received a number of |
documents from the Allegheny county
Republican committee attacking Gover-
nor Pattison for his treatment of the
old soldiers, which elicited the following
letter addressed to the chairman of the
Republican county committee :
Dear Sir :—There came to my hands
to-day a mass of documents purporting
to come from a soldier to a soldier, and
the object of which was to secure my
vote for G. W. Delamater for governor.
Allow me to say, in reply to those docu-
ments and the committee sending them
out, that in the first place I do not be-
lieve a respectable and honorable soldier
would engage in any such small busi-
i ness—aad certainly not in such a cause.
I have been duped by such men and
through such channels as often as I ever
intend to be, and unless you can give me
better grounds for opposing Robert E:
Pattison than are therein contained, I
shall give hin my vote, and use all hon-
able means to secure his election as gov-
‘ernor of Pennsylvania.
I happen to know Governor Pattison,
and 1 also bappen to be perfectly
familiar with hisrecord as a public man.
He is not a briber, perjurer or forger.
Unless you have better material than
Delamater to offer me tor support, you
‘must take my excuse in this campaign.
I don’t train with that “ilk.”
I know that Robert E. Pattison is as
‘good a friend to the soldier as Pennsyl-
nia ever had in a governor ; that he was
the only one who had the courage to
‘uncover the outrages perpetrated on the
soldiers’ orphans by the very “gang
who are now hounding him. With tire-
less vigilance he hunted down and
brought to light their iniquity, and ,as
far as was in his power, visited condign
punishment upon those connected with
it, He was not willing to allow a set
of scoundrels to go on abusing the fath-
erless little ones, and making gain out of
the tears and groans of the soldier’s
child. I know also that as soon as his
successor was elected —a soldier and one
trom whom the public had a right to ex-
pect better things—there was not anoth-
er word said for the soldier's child, nor a
person punished for robbing and abus-
ing them. K . .
It is true Mr. Paittison had the cour-
age to veto a bill that classed every sol-
dier 1t affected as a pauper, and so placed
his name as such upon the records of
the county and state, and I honorhim
forit. 1d rather be buried by the road-
side in an unknown grave, to rest un-
marked by tablet or monument until
the judgment day, than be written
down “A Puuper Soldier,” and as a re-
ward, would have a pine coffin, and a
bit of granite to tell the story of my
humiliation and, shame. I honor the
man who had the manhood to refuse to
lend himself to such an infamy.
Governor Pattison made a record as
governor of Pennsylvania that any man
may well be proud of. There were no
Kembles pardned during his administra-
tion. There were no bills lost or left
unsigned by him, the object of which
was to lighten the burdens of the com-
mon people. He entered upon bis high
; trust without ostentation, und he retired
from it without a stain. He was found
equal to every occasion thay called for
_ executive capacity, and the people were
never humiliated with the thought that
the head of the state was a mere figure- |
bead, a tool in the hands of designing
men.
He comes before the people to-day
with clean hands and a pure heart. He
is good enough for me ; and as 1 once
fought to save the country from armed
rebels, I shall now vote to save it from
a more dangerous and decided enemy—
political plunderers.
J. FRANKLIN CORE.
Ae.
They have on Lake Geneva,
Switzerland, this season, a floating ho-
tel, which moves from piace to place, |
to the enjoyment of the boarders. :
in competition with healthy meats. In
short, if elected, will honestly try to pro-
tect the interests of agriculture in all its
| branches. Hoping to hear from you
through the press, we are.
© Very Respectfully, &e.
| GEo. W. SPENCER,
i Sligo, Pa., Oct. 13th 1890. Chairman.
| MR. Geo. W. SPENCER,
| Dear Sir .—I will say to your com-
mittee and those they represent through
| you, that if elected, I will cheerfully
{ and heartily do all in my power to hast-
| en the enactment of such laws as will
| fully meet the requirements set forth in
| your letter of this date.
{ I well known the depression under
| which our agricultural interests are
| struggling ; interests that are the most
| important and extensive of any in the
‘land, and yet, instead of being the first.
| are most frequent:y the last to receive
consideration. I apprehend, also, that
unless something is done right speedily
to revive our farming interests, there will
be still further depreciation in farm val-
ues, which means bankruptcy to many
in every community.
I therefore pledge myself unhesita-
tingly to always stand ready to advance
in every honorable way these ‘and such
other measures of legislation as may
wisely and justly give relief and protec-
tion to the agrieultural business of the
country. Very Respectfully Yours,
G. F. KaiBB:.
Clarion, Pa. Oct, 12, 1890.
His Labor Record.
The Knights Would Like Quay’s Man
Delamater to Explain His Treat-
ment of Labor Bills.
Hugh McGarvey, chairman of the
Knights of Labor legislative committe
of the state, has just issued a circular to
the order, in which he reviews at some
length the labor legislation of the last
assembly, and calls upon the members
of the order to exercise their franchise
“to defeat those who, by their opposition
or their silence, defeated your bopes and
aspirations, your petitions and prayers
for the enactment of practical labor leg-
islation, such as the semi-monthly pay,
anti-company' store, miners’ dockage,
and employes’ liability bills, wheth-
er they be Democrats or Repub-
licans.”
He asserts that the charges of imprac-
ticabillty made against proposed labor
measures are simply the reiterations of
years gone by, and charges that this cry
nas been the excuse for closing the legis-
lature to the justice demanded by labor.
LABOR SHOULD ELECT ITS FRIENDS.
He urges labor to elect labor represen-
tatives and says : :
“The coal miners of the state having
patriotism to work on this line could send
at least sixty friendly representatives
and a dozen senators to the legislature.
Why should they re-elected to the same
or to higher stations such men as Sena-
tors Keefer, Thompson and Watres,
who in their opposition to the anti-com-
pany store and miners’ dockage bill
were aided and abetted by Senators
Gobin, Grady, Allen, Delamater and
others ? : :
“Why should the wage-workers of
this state elevate to higher position the
members of the senate judiciaty general
committee who killed the bill to enforce
semi-monthly payment of wages and the
Farrell store bills ? :
“Why, in the name of God and hu-
man reason, should the wage-workers of
this state, who have about as mnch to
do with shaping the course of either po-
litical party or nominating candidates
as the man in the moon, again lick the
hands that for twenty years have’ smote
them 2 IA ; : a
He states that some of the candidates
for office in the present campaign, by
act, deed ard cowardly silence, denied
labor the practieal protection that would
protect their earnings from the extortions
of the many unscrupulous among em-
ployers.. . oy
ASKED TO EXPLAIN.
He asks that Delamater and 'Watres
explain to the people why they defeated -
the anti company store bill and miners’
dockage bill, and why they allowed the
semi-monthly pay bill to be negatived,
if they are the friends labor. | . '
“For the first time in the history of
the labor movement in this state,”’ he
says, “the leading candidates of a party
can be'pointed at by labor, and of them
it can be said : “These are men who ure
willing to rob us of our hard earnings
by the dockage system, by pluck-me
stores, and by denying us payment of
wages in cash.”
He urges the re-election of those who
stood by labor, and the defeat of those
who failed to stand by it.
He asserts that the letter sent by A.
M. Dewey, of Washington, to the two
gubernatorial candidates is equivocal,
and says the answers given by Delama-
ter constitute a part of the political
scheme. !
He declares also that Pattison refused
to respect Dewey’s letter because he
knew that Dewey asked without author-
ity, and urges that these things “should
teach labor not to be led to the support
of a candidate who now in a question-
able way promises, if elected governor,
that which he opposed while state sen-
ator.” The letter closes with a list of
the divisions in the house and senate of
the last assembly on matters affecting
labor.
——Minnesota’s life prisoners are al-
i lowed to go fishing outside the walls.
Only peur fishing within the walls
would warrant such license.