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Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Nov. 2, 1894.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Ebpitor
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor,
WILLIAM WM. SINGERLY,
of Philadelphia.
For Lieutenant Governor,
JOHN S. RILLING,
of Erie.
For Auditor General,
DAVID F. MAGEE,
of Lancaster.
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
WALTER W. GREENLAND,
of ‘Clarion county.
For Congressman-at- Large,
THOS. COLLINS,
of Centre county.
HENRY MEYER,
of Allegheny county.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
—
For Congress—AARON WILLIAMS,
For State Senator—MATT. SAVAGE.
For President Judge—CALVIN M. BOWER,
; JAMES SCHOFIELD,
For Legishators, {ROBERT M. FOSTER.
For Jury Commissioner—JOSEPH J. HOY.
For Associate Judge—THOMAS F. RILEY.
Last Words to Our Voters.
It seems almost a work of super-ero-
gation to tell the Democrats of Centre
county their duty, for they have all
given such manifest evidence of their
knowledge of it so many times in past
campaigns, yet we cannot leave this
last opportunity, that we will have be-
fore the election, slip bye without call
ing your attention to a few matters
that are worthy the consideration of
every earnest Democrat.
This is not a national campaign, but
as the Republican party bas seen fit to
desert their State platform and make a
fight on the tariff, when it has nothing
whatever to do with the election next
Tuesday, we must meet
Danguen them on that issue. There
€ True 3 but one way todoit.
to Your .
You voted for a reform 1n
Colors.
1892 and gave CLEVELAND
a majority of 925 in the county. Re-at-
frm your faith in the principles of
Democracy and give just as large a
majority for the ticket next Tuesday.
Don’t trade on any of the candidates.
Thisis a scheme which the Republi-
cans have always tried to work in Centre
county with the hope that by splitting
up the Democratic vote in a systemat-
ic way they might gain one or more of-
fices. The county organization is work-
ing strictly for the whole ticket and
every Democrat should help by voting
for the whole ticket. If Republicans
offer to trade a vote for one of their
candidates for Legislature, don’t trade.
They are going to make every effort to
elect WomeLsDoRFF and have left Cur-
mix drop. They say he isnot popular,
and will offer to vote for either one of
the Democratic nominees if you will
; vote for WOMELSDORFF,but
Dom'tTrade go000 do it. There are
on enough Democrats in Cen-
Any
Condidate. tre county to elect the en-
tire ticket by a handsome
majority if you all vote straight, there
fore stick to your colors help the good
work along. Above all things don’t
believe any Republican stories that
Democrats in other parts of the county
are going to cut your friend if you haye
an especial one on the ticket. This is
a dodge they have begun working,
within the last week, with the hope of
creating disaffection in our lines. To
be very frank with you a careful can-
vass of every district in the county
leads us to the belief that there will be
an unusually large vote polled on Tues-
day and this means a brilliant Demo-
cratic victory.
Complimentary voting is a thing
which Democrats should be very wary
of. dts dangers are many, notwith-
standing it might seem like a very
harmless thing for you to cast just one
vote for some other candidate than
your own. In the first place nine com-
plimentary 1n each one of the fifty-two
precincts in the county will defeat any
candidate on our ticket. Then when
5 you are marking your bal-
Complimen- 1.ere is a great danger
tary Voting eg a &
of doing it wrong, thus
losing your whole vote.
Don’t cast any compli-
mentaries. Though the Republicans
tell you that they don’t hope to win, a
very few votes will change the result
and it will be too late to sce the mis-
take you will have made when the
polls are closed. Demacrats you have
everything to lose and nothing to gain
by doing this, so don't do it.
The man has not yet been born
whom some one does not dislike. Now
if you have a little gradge against one
of the Democratic candidates forget all
about it. They are all good men, yet
like the rest of morta's, have their
Dangerous.
‘who may delay or have no way of get
Wi is self a committee of one to
for sze that the vote gets out.
faults, but it is not the way to correct
them, by not voting for them. Every
nominee of the Democratic party is a
man well fitted for the of-
fice to which he aspires,
else he would not be in
the position to ask your
suffrage next week. So
forget personal matters and remember
that you are Democrats. Remember
that it is your party principles that are
being attacked. This is the point
along which the Republicans have
made their special line of campaign.
They know the character of the men
oo our ticket, trom top to bottom, is
unassailable, so they have talked tar-
iff when it has nothing to do with the
question. If you have any personal
feeling against any of the candidates
remember that the Republicans have
opened an excellent way for you to
forget it. They are fighting you on
the tariff. Fight them back on the
same issue by voting the ticketstraight.
That is the only way to do it.
The tendency that manifests itself
sometimes among voters and keeps
them away from the polls until near
the hour of closing has cost us many
votes in this county. Don't put off
voting. Go to the polis early and get
through with your voting; then you
can turn in and help huntup others
Forget
Personal
Feelings.
ting out. Every Demo-
Vote Early crat should constitute him-
If your peighbor is a
Democrat take him to the
polls with you and if you know of any
who are disinclined to vote go after
them, showing them the needfuiness of
every vote and make the extremity so
plain to them that they will accom-
pany you to the election place.
As a last word let us remind you
that Centre is a Democratic county,
that we have an opportunity of elect-
ing a Judge to preside over our courts
for the next ten years and that every
Democrat is expected to do his duty.
Make yourself personally responsible
for the vote in your locality and it you
will do this much for the party you
love we are sure that when the Waron-
MAN comes to you next week it will
chronicle a victory such as Centre-
county Democracy has never rejoiced
over.
The Ticket.
——Don’'t cast any complimentary
votes,
A Matter of Imp ortance to You.
The Dauphin county courts decided
on Tuesday that MATT SAVAGE has a
right to have his name printed cn the
ballots in this district though it cannot
appear in the regular Damocratic col-
umn. He is the regular Damocratic
nominee for the State Senate
of the majority counties in the dis-
trict, Centre and Clearfield, and has
been cheated out of his regular place by
a Republican court that wants to see a
QUAY'’s tool elected to represent this dis-
trict. It is time for Democrats to rise up
against this scheme to send a Republi-
can like McQuowN to the Senate. It
is time to let such fellows as CALDWELL
understand that they cannot foist them-
selves on people who do not want them.
It is time to show Republican courts
that majorities will rule even if partisan
judges have declared that the conven-
tion that nominated SAVAGE was illegal,
though it was made up of the majority
of the counties in the district.
What we want to do is to elect SAv-
AGE. He is the cat’s paw of no ring ; he
isa man whose friendship for the farm-
ers has been proven by his great work
for them as a granger ; he is the friend
of the poor man because he isa poor
man himself,and greatest of them all he
has befriended the old soldiers by acting
as a pension agent for them for years.
He has procured many pensions for de-
serving veterans and what's best never
charged them a cet for his service. Now
this is the kind of a man you are to vote
tor and to do it you will only need to
mark two crosses on your ticket. One
in the circle at the top of the Demo-
cratic column and another in the circle
t the top of the column headed ‘‘citi-
zens.” SAVAGE'S name will be the
only one in the column and as we
have no name for Senator in the regular
Democratic column, a cress in the circle
at the top of the two columns will vote
a straight ticket, SAVAGE included. Re-
member the heading of his column is
‘“eitizens,” Den’t make a mis-
take and put your mark in the column
headed ‘Independent Democrat” for
then youwould be voting for CALDWELL,
which no good Democrat will do. We
can elect SAVAGE if you only take the
trouble to vote for him. If this is not
altogether clear to you ask your neigh-
bor to explain it or ask one of the watch-
ers how you are to do when you come
to vote. i
A cross mark in the second and
eighth circles as they will appear on the
ballot for this county will vote the
ticket with SAvaAGzE.
Be ———
—— Don't trade on any of the can-
didates.
Vigorous Action Against Republican
Fraud.
One of the most encouraging features
of the campaign is the vigor and deter-
mination with which the Democratic
managers in Philadelphia have taken
hold of the registry frauds. They have
produced such convincing proof that
thousands of false names had been put
on the lists for the purpose of swelling
the Republican vote, that the astute
lawyers employed by the combine to
defend the fraud in court broke down
in their case, and were powerless to
prevent thousands of bogus names
from being struck off the lists. In one
voting division no less than 500 fraudu-
lent entries were knocked off. It was
a case in which the thief was not only
arrested, but he was caught in posses
sion of the stolen goods.
The unzarthing of these frauds shows
that the rascality was particularly
rampant in the Third Congress district
where the Republican conspirators in
the interest of the McKINLEYISM, are
particularly determined to defeat the
only Democratic congressional can-
didate that has a chance of being elect:
ed in the city. The exhibits of the lists
of voters from this district in court
presented a mass of fraudulent names.
A pretty object lesson was presented
in the arrest of colored Assessor JoHN
Briscog, of this district, who failed to
respond to the summons to appear in
court and answer for his official mis-
conduct. He resisted arrest with the
ferocity of a bull dog, grasping hold of
lamp and awning posts as he was drag:
ged along the pavement by the officer
who was forced to level his revolver at
a crowd of colored Republicans that
attempted a rescue. The Brisco inci-
dent served to illustrate the methods
by which “Protection to American
Industry” is being maintained by Re
publican ringsters, and his arrest was
a “calamity” over which HastiNGs
may have occasion to howl. Briscoe
will serve time in the penitentiary along
with other official and unofficial Re-
publicans involved in this rascally reg-
istration.
This vigorous Democratic action in
Philadelphia is a great enzouragement
to the country Democrats. They can
be assured that Republican fraud in
the city will be reduced to a minimum.
They cau exert themselves to get out
their full vote without the fear that it
will be overwhelmed by a fraudulent
avalanche in Philadelphia.
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Here He Is,
Vote For Him.
The Labor Interest That Is a State
Issue,
The strong friendship which the
workingmen of New York State enter-
tain for Senator HiLL is one of the best
guarantees of his election as Governor.
They entertain this friendship for a
very good reason, for during his two
gubernatorial terms he signed sixty
separate and distinct labor measures
intended for the benefit of working peo-
ple, many of which he suggested and
urged in his messages. In this respect
he surpassed the record of any other
State executive in this country. There
is no doubt that Governor ParTISON,
of this State, would have been glad to
sign an equal number of bills in the
interest of working people, but the Re-
publican Legislatures by which he was
hampered were careful not to give him
a chance.
The Republican candidate for Gov-
ernor does not consider the question of
labor bills an issue in this campaign.
He ignores the necessity of legislation
that will shield the employe against
the robbery practiced in the “pluck:
me’ store, and facilitated by wage
payment at long intervals. He is silent
on the subject, giving the working peo-
ple no encouragement to hope that he
would use his executive influence
against such bastard labor bills, pase.
ed by Republican Lagislatures in re-
gard to “pluck-me’’ stores and semi-
monthly wage payment, which permit
extortionate employers to effect such
robbery of their employes as easily as
if they had never been passed.
Who can have any doubt as to what
Governor SiNGerLY would have to say,
anl do ty the extent of his executive
powers on that subject ?
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Intended Fraud in Philadelphia.
The praparations for frauduleat vot-
ing in Philadelphia, through the means
of registration padded by Republican
Assessors, are discovered to be of the
most astounding magnitade. There is
always more or less of this done in that
city by the dominant party, but this
year that form of political rascality
has been attempted with such reckless
and wholesale intention of fraud as to
be almost beyonl belief if there was
not positive evidence of it.
This intended political crime has
been unearthed by those who are
managing the Democratic campaign
in that city. The registration of vo-
ters in a number of the worst wards
has been overhauled aad at least
twenty-five per cent of the names are
found to be bogus. The Republican
assessors deliberately put them on the
lists with the object of their being used
by repeaters and false personators on
the day of the election. Dives, grog:
ghop's, and negro rookeries are repre-
sented in the registration as furnishing
as many as from thirty to fifty voters
each, although but few of them could
accommodate a dozen inmates. One
of them, on the corner of a street, ap-
pears on the registration as furnishing
geventeen votes from each entrance,
which, if the law does not interfere,
will enable thirty-four repeaters and
personators to cast that many fraudu-
lent votes for “protection to American
industry.”
This falsification of the registry ap-
paars to be so extensive that it is eati-
mated that at least 50,000 bogus names
have been placed on the registry lists
by the Republican assessors. Some
idea of the extent of this villainy may
be formed by comparing this year’s
registration of Philadelphia with that
of New York. The registration of the
latter city is 265,000 to a population
of 1,515,301, while that of Philadel-
phia is 285,000 to a population of 1,
046,964 ; or 20,000 more names on the
registry of voters than in a city that
has 500,000 more inhabitants. Yet
the corrupt and hypocritical rascals
who control the politics of Philadel-
phia complain of the political turpitude
of TAMMANY.
Bat this intended wholesale fraud is
not going to be left take its course un-
challenged. The trail of villainy has
been traced through every (raud-taint-
ed registry, and the false names have
been exposed to the light of day. If
there is any honesty left in Philadel
phia Republicanism it has been in-
voked to take cognizance of this terri-
ble conspiracy against the purity of the
ballot. Thelaw and the courts have
also been called upon to interfere, and
their utmost power will be employed
to secure a fair election in Philadel:
phia.
If this intended crime should be
successful, which is scarcely possible,
then could it be said that in that city
political corruption has become es-
tablished beyond correction. But Phil-
adelphiajwill be saved from that die-
honor. The determined Democrats,
who have this fraud by the throat, will
strangle it betore it can produce its
corrupt fruit at the ballot box in the
shape of an overwhelming Repablican
majority.
Will The Republicans Have a Majority?
Governor Pattison, in addressing
one of the largest and most enthu-
siastic political meetings evér held in
Johnstown, treated with merited con-
tampt the claim of Hastings’ support-
ers that they are going to carry the
State by 200,000 majority.
Upon his alluding to this preposter-
ous bluft of the Republican braggarts
a shout arose from his aadience : “They
are not going to have any majority.”
Indeed it begins to look as if this is
going to be the case. The way the
campaign is tending no one need be
surprised if it shall terminate as pre-
dicted by the enthusiastic Democrats
of the town which HasrINGs is most
ludicrously alleged to be the hero of.
It 1s now for the Democrats them-
gelves to determine whether HasTINGS
shall have a majority or not. The
whole thing depends upon their bring-
ing out their fall force. The lie that
the Democratic tariff destroyed busi-
ness has been disproved by the visibly
beneficial effects of that tariff. The re-
tara of business prosperity has nailed
that falsehood. Those who were fooled
by it a year ago will now naturally be
inclined to go the other way. Thou:
sands of them will go the other way,
aod if to this reflux is superadded a
full and $5lid Democratic vote, what
ghould prevent the Republican ma-
jority from being not merely reduced,
but entirely obliterated ?
Democrats with such a spirit of de-
termination actuating the party that
every one of you who is not actually
on a bed of sickn2ss will be at the
polls, the declaration of the Johns.
tywn Democrats that Hastings will:
not have a majority will be verified.
Semi-Monthly Wage Payment.
The law that requires the semi-
monthly payment of wages by mining
and manufacturing corporations is
virtually a dead letter, as it is not
observed in one case out of ten. The
object of the law is to insure money
payments to the wage-earners, at short
intervals, and thus protect them from
the necessity of resorting to the com.
pany stores for goods on credit. But
the semi-monthly payments are not
made, the company stores cootinue
their extortionate business, and the
employes must submit to being pluck-
ed.
Why is not the law enforced? It is
a plain mandatory enactment and
there should be no difficulty in putting
it into effect. Is it allowed to be inop-
erative because the employes are ig-
norant of its provisions ? This is hardly
possible, but it is more likely that they
are deterred by the fear of being die-
charged if they should assert their
rights.
The company store system is noth-
ing but a plan to swindle the working
men out of a certain percentage of
their dues, and as they are afraid or
unable to make a stand against it, the
Philadelphia Record suggests that it
would be a judicious amendment of the
law intended to secure the semi-month-
ly payment of wages and the abolition
of the “pluck-me stores,” if it should
be made the duty of the Factory In-
spector and his assistante to see that
its provisions are enforced. Surely it
is high time that the evils involved in
the system of store credit and pay-
ment of wages should be corrected,
and that an example should be made
of some of the companies and indiyid-
ual employers who practice this ex-
tortion upon workingmen in defiance
of the law.
Ia this connection it is proper to say
that WiLLiam M. SINGERLY'S paper,
the Poiladelphia Record, which makes
the above suggestion, has repeatedly
urged the enforcement of the law re-
quiring the semi-monthly payment of
wages, and it has done this long before
its distinguished editor was nominated
for a State office. His advocacy of so
just a measure has eminated from that
sense of fairness which has always
characterized his attitude toward the
working people, and which will make
him the staunch friend of the working-
man if he should be elected Governor.
To vote the Democratic
Ticket straight and also to
vote for Savage, our nominee
for State Senator, put across
mark in the circles at the top
of the 2nd and 8th columns as
they will appear on the Centre
county ballot.
Hastings and Religious Intolerauce.
What is to be inferred rom Hast-
1~as shirking thie question whether he-
is or is not in favor of religious perse-
caution? What interpretation is to be
put upon his silence when asked the
question whether he is for or against
the introduction of sectarianism into
politics ?
WirLiaym M. SingerLy did not hesi-
tate a mioute in giving his answer to
the interrogatories of the bigoted and
intolerant A. P. A. There was no ua-
certainty of terms in his expression of
opposition to making religion a politi-
cal test, or the intrusion of sectarian-
ism into public affairs.
Hastings maintains absolute silence
on the issues raised by the A. P. A,
He dodges them, a3 he also dodges the
vital issues of State administration.
It is not unreasonable to infer that he
has an understanding with the dark
lantern organization. Taney uader-
stand his reticence, an1 appreciate the
political necessity that requires his not
offending a large religious denomina-
tion by openly avowing his attach-
ment to the new form of Know Noth-
ingis m.
Compare the conduct of the two can-
didates in this matter—the open frank-
pess of the one, and the cowardly
silence of the other—and then judge to
which of them the people of a great
State can most safely trust their con-
fidence.
nen ————————
Trying to Buy Democrats to Stay-at-
Home.
No Democrat who does not want to
be charged with being bought can af-
ford to stay away from the election on
Tuesday next. The Republicans are
boasting that they intend to buy enough
of Democrats to stay-at-home to give
them the county. They have tried
this out in Benner township alrealy,
but so far have meet with poor suc-
cess. They have their agents in every
township in the county, and the man
who stays at home, whether paid to do
85 or not, will be suspicioned of taking
Republican money to allow his party
to be defeated. No Democrat can af
ford this. Every Democrat should
show his contempt for sach practices
by go'nz to the polls early.
mn i —————
Are We te Have a Democratic Judge ?
It has been well and truthfully said
that the “judiciary should be beyond
reproach” and to this end we invite
the attention of the voters of the 49th
Judicial district to a comparison of the
two men who represent the leading
factions in the contest that isto have
its consummation in the election on
next Tuesday. Politics should not en-
ter into a judicial campaign, nor should
people let party ties bind them to the
support of any man who is not in every
way qualified to fill the exalted office
of President Judge. The man who is
to pass on our lives and our liberty
should be thoroughly studied before we
vote for him. The position he aspires
to fill is too grave an one to give be-
fore his merits, his character and his
temperament have been carefully
studied.
To the Democrats this question is
already answered. C. M. Bower has
their endorsement because he has every
requirement desired, while to the Re-
publicans the situation is indeed a
serious one. The man who through
intriguing henchmen succeeded in hav-
ing his name placed on their ticket
and who gained the endorsement of
Centre county only after a fight the filth
of which alone should bury him un-
der an overwhelming defeat is not the
proper person to be elected to the high
office of Judge. His backers have
resorted to every disreputable means
known to political tricksters to pull
him along this far in the contest, and
we sincerely hope that the better judg-
ment of the voters of the district will
be recorded against him on Tuesday.
Do we want a Judge who has drag-
ged the church, under whose garb he
hides, into the campaign ? Do we want
a Judge who allowed whiskey and
money to be used to procure the en-
dorsement of this county ? Do we want
a Judge whois so vindictive and so
partisan minded that if elected will pos-
sibly carry his malice with him to
meet out vengeance instead of justice
on the bench? We leave these
questions for each of you to an-
swer for yourself and turn to Mr.
Bower.
He is a man against whose qualifica-
tions not a single charge can be brought.
He has kept aloof always from any-
thing that might compromise the good
name he cherishes, and his record for
fairness in all matters stands the best
recommendation we can give him for
the office of President Judge of the
49th district.
WHO OUR CANDIDATE IS.
Calvin M. Bower was born in Haines
township, Centre county, April 20,
1849. His father Jacob Bower, was
a prosperous and well todo farmer,
living near the village of Woodward.
He spent the early years of his life as
a farmer's boy, working on the farm
during the summer and attending the
public schools during the winter
months. In the fall of 1866 he entered
the Aaronsburg academy to prepare for
college, and for several years following
pursued a course of study there, in the
winter months, being employed on the
farm during the summer. In August,
1870, he entered Central Pennsylvania
College at New Berlin. He remained
at college until October, 1871, when he
came to Bellefonte to begin the study
of the law. He entered the law office
of Orvis & Alexander, then one of the
foremost law firms in Central Penun-
sylvania. Here he pursued his studies
with the same earnestness that char-
acterized his school work, and on De-
cember 3, 1873, he was admitted to the
bar of Centre county.
Immediately upon his admission to
the bar he was offered, and accepted,
an interest in the law firm with whom
he had been reading, and on January
1, 1874, he became a member of the
firm Orvis, Alexander & Bower. When
Judge Orvis, the senior member of the
firm, was appointed to the bench, the
remaining members of the firm con-
tinued the practice under the firm
name of Alexander & Bower. This
partnership continued for a period of
11 years, during which time they en-
gaged in most of the important cases
tried in this county. Mr. Bower was
recognized as a careful and conscien-
tious lawyer, and soon attained an in-
fluential position at the bar. He early
acquired a large practice in the or-
phaos’ court and was looked upon as
especially strong in this class of cases.
The firm having'a large general prac-
tice, he also took an active part in the
trial of cases and soon became one of
the leading lawyers in the county. One
of the strongest evidences of Mr. Bow-
er's ability as a lawyer is the fact that
when Judge Orvis retired from the
bench he chose him as his law part-
ner. The firm of Orvis, Bower & Orvis,
consisting of Judge Orvis, Mr. Bower
and Judge Orvis’ son, Elis L. Orvis,
was organized January 1, 1885. This
firm at once came into prominence,and
was soon recognized as one of the
leading law firms of Pennsylvania. Mr.
Bower took an active and prominent
part in their practice, and his success
has placed him prominently among the
leading attorneys of the State. Daring
the last 10 or 12 years he was concern:
ed in the trial of many of the impor-
tant ejectment cases tried in Centre
county and he is recognized as a well
equipped lawyer in this important
branch of the law. The supreme
court reports for years attest his promi-
nence at the bar and show that he fre-
quently appeared before that tribunal in
the leading cases from the courts to
which his practice extended.
Mr. Bower is an active and promi-