A —
MEEK.
BY P. GRAY
Ink Slings.
— ABE MILLER is incompetent to fill
the office of prothonotary, the Gazeite
said so, and that is all there is of it.
—A Pittsburg insurance agent is re-
ported to have gone to Cuba to instruct
the insurgents. In taking lives, we
suppose.
—The Gazette, the leading Republi-
can organ in the county, admits MiL-
LER’S incompetency, so what is the use
of talking about electing him.
— Wouldn't it be funny if ABE MiL-
LER, or some of his friends, in writing
about his claim on the people of Centre
county shonld leave an rout and de-
scribe him as a battle scared veteran.
—The arm of American justice ought
to reach clear over to China and warm
the seat of a few Chinese bloomers just
a little. That would be the best way of
bringing them to a realization of the
fact that our missionaries must be left
alone.
—The best indication of improved
times is seen in the business done by-
the railroad companies. The freight re-
ceipts of the Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany, for the fiscal year just closed,
show an increase of $5,000,000 over
those for the year previous.
—HENRY QUIGLEY has adopted the
blarney campaign plan. He finds out
the names of men he never cared to
know before this ambition to become dis-
trict attorney seized him, and hails
them in the most effusive manner, as if
he had known them all his life. He is
truly a HAsTiNGs pupil.
—1It is said that eight thousand pec-
ple disappear, annually, from England
without leaving any trace of where they
have gone. Now in America quite a
large number of people do the same
thing, but we usually feel reasqnably
sure that if we want to see them again
we can find them in. Canada.
— With the Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph, the bitterest Republican
paper in the State, singing great praises
of the South's reverence for the Sabbath
and every daily in the land telling how
one southern State after another turns
out the law breaking prize fighters, we
would direct Republican=giténition to
such evidences of morality in a section
of country where they are so few.
—A Paris special tells of a pretty
French lass who has lost three lovers on
the very eve of their marriage to her.
All of them having died the poor girl
is accused of having the ‘evil eye’’ and
it will possibly: result in her being
quietly put ‘out of the road. A fellow
would feel a little bit creepy about such
a girl, but the superstition that obtains
ag a result of this fatal coincidence is
evidence of the crassest ignorance.
—HENRY QUIGLEY has never had a
case in court, yet he wants to be district
attorney for Centre county. Did any
of you taxpayers ever stop to reason out
why a lawyer doesn’t” have cases in
court? If you did you would come to
the conclusion that it must be, because
people don’t haye enough confidence in
them to entrust them with a case. QUIG-
LEY is one of the lawyers who doesn’t
inspire confidence. If he can’t be trusted
with an individual's business he can’t
be trusted with the county's.
—Hungary is ‘being torn up with
an epidemic of marriage just now as the
result of a new law, that will go into ef-
fect next Tuesday, regulating marriage.
Everyone is anxious to be the first mar-
ried under the new order of things and
it is reported that the number that will
be joined in wedlock next Tuesday will
be marvelous. The first couple married
will doubtless be entertained at a public
banquet, but oven such an honor, for
possibly a poor peasant will hardly com-
pensate for the babies when they begin
to come.
—Talk about Democratic treatment
of old soldiers. Why there are more
people on the pension rolls to-day than
ever before i@ the history of the
country ; the vast majority of old sol-
diers in Centre county who have held
public office have done so through the
medium of the Democratic party. The
very head of the Republican party in
this State to-day, Governor HASTINGS,
is the man who not six months ago
vetoed the bill to give old soldiers the
preference in the disposition of offices
at Harrisburg and yet they cry about
Democratic unfriendliness for the old
soldiers. Why the Democratic party is
the only friend they have.
—Democrats, don’t let yourselves be
fooled by the old soldier cry. Defy a
Republican to say that the Democrats
have not treated the old soldiers better
than the Republicans have. Last week
it was HARVEY YARNELL, at Pine
Grove Mills, who was granted a pen-
sion. SIMON SELLERS, of Stormstown, is
the latest. He has been granted $12 per
month with $250 back pay. Joun W.
RIDER, of Gatesburg, still another, has
lately been given $74 per month on ac-
count of total disability owing to paral-
ysis. Republican administrations re-
peatedly refused the two former appli-
cations and would never allow the lat-
ter as much as it deserved.
“construed as a rebuke to the adminis
VOL.
Ar? You For Higher Coal Oi! and
Higher Taxes ?
Republican leaders throughout the
county, are, we understand, appealing
to the voters to stand by their ticket,
particularly in this county, for the rea-
son that its defeat this fall would be
tration of Governor Hastings, Last
fall, through a mistaken idea ot local
pride, the county gave him a majority
of over 800. To change that back
now to a Democratic majority, his
friends argue, would be heralded as
the refusal of his home county to con-
tinue its endorsement of his course and
would generally be considered as. a
condemnation of his official acts.
And why should a Democratic
county—a county made up of honest
men and intelligent tax-payers, not _re-
pudiate, rebuke and condemn him?
Did ®he [not fasten a Republican
judge upon this Democratic county
for the next ten years, without the
restraint of associate judges and with
lees than six weeks work in a year, by
placing his signature to the judicial
apportionment bill—a bill that added
six unnecessary judges to the judicial
pay-roll of the State and $24,000, an-
nually, to the expenses the tax-payers
are compelled to meet !
Every vote cast for the Republican
ticket will be a vote to endorse his ap-
proval of this partisan and expensive
Do the
Democrats of the county propose say-
judical apportionment bill.
ing this was right by staying away
from the polls, or will the tax-payers
approve of this additional expense by
voting the Republican ticket ?
Did he not APPROVE the Mag-
sHaLL PIPE LINE BILL, that placed
the entire. coal oil interests of the State
at the mercy of the Standard oil com-
pany, and which DOUBLED THE
PRICE OF COIL OIL TO THE PEO-
PLE who use it, in less than six weeks
after its enactment ?
Every vote for the Republican tick-
et is a vote approving that Repub:
lican coal oil legislation, Do the la. |
boring men and farmers of the county
propose approving that legislation by |
voting to say the Governor did right
in signing it and the Republican party
in enacting it ? 5
Did he not add to the expenditures
of the State and the burdens of the tax-
payers over a8 half million of dollars,
annually, by signing bills creating an
unnecessary and partisan superior
court ;
clerks and hangers on about the state
multiplying the number of
capitol ; originating new, useless and
expensive departments and increasing
salaries for already over-paid officials ?
Every vote for the Republican tick-
et is a vote to endorse this reckless
official extravagance. Do the tax-
payers of the county propose to show
their approval of such acts by voting
to endorse them ?
Remember, voters, that every ballot
cast for the Republican ticket in this
county, will be construed as an en-
dorsement of Gov. Hastings’ official
acts, and the vicious work of the last
Legislature—coal oil and all.
——The Standard oil company last
fall paid the biggest subscription made
to the Republican campaign fund. It
was to receive in return the benefits of
provisions of the MARSHALL pipe line
bill. It got what it was promised and
the consumers of coal oil got it in
their pockets. Already the people of
this county have returned to the
Standard oil octopus over $10,000 of
the amount of its subscription to the
Republican campaign fund, in the in-
creased price they pay for coal oil. Of
course every one who uses coal oil is
satisfied with this manner of raising
money to buy votes, and will march
up to the polls on the 5th of Novem-
ber and cast his ballot to endorse the
Republican pipe line legislation.
STATE RIGHTS AN
_ BELLEFONTE, PA.,
Private Use of State Funds.
There is a reported balance of $4,
400,000 in the hands of the state
treasurer.- When it is aeked why
this large balance is allowed to remain
in the banks with which it is deposit:
ed the apologists for this unbusiness
like administration of public funds of
fer as an excuse that ‘there are con:
stant drafts on the state treasury that
must be promptly met.”
But there is still due the public
schools the sum of $2,500,000. Should
it not be paid at once, when there is
a balance of nearly twice that amount
at the command of the state treasur-
er?
‘Speaking of this delinquency the
Philadelphia Ledger says: “More
“than a million dollars was due from
“the State to Philadelphia on school
“account for the year ending June
“30th, 1895. On August 15th $150,
4000 of this over-due account was paid,
“and on September 15th avother in-
“stallment of $150,000 was received by
‘the city treasurer, leaving more than
$700,000 remaining due.”
Why is this money with-held when
there is in the treasury four times as
much as would pay it in full 2 The
same question may be asked in regard
to the $2,500,000 due the schools of
the State at large, which remains un-
paid although there are funds suffi-
cient to pay it twice over.
The truth of this matter is that the
treasury ring have deposited this state
money in certain banks which pay in
terest for the use of it and the profits
go into private pockets. The schools
are not paid what is due them because
those who have control of the state
funds can use it more profitably for
themselves.
It takes a bold eet of officials to play
such a game as this, but they have
reason to be bold and confident in such
proceedings, for they do not find them-
selves called to account by the people,
but are continued, year after year, in a
position where they practice such a
system of public theft. They have
every confidence in the large Republi
can majority which they expect will |
go on as usual electing unfaithful cus-
todians of the state money.
Money in Politics.
Although “reformer” Quay bas set
his virtuous face against the immoral-
ity of using money in politics, the Re- |
publican office-holders in the State do
not appear to be relieved from the
pressure of the campaign assessments:
Some months ago it was announced
that ex-chairman GiLkesoN had hand:
ed over to chairman Quay $5000 as
the remnant of last year's campaign
fund, but this amount is considered
entirely too small for the necessities of
the campaign, and the office-holders
have been summoned to pay one per
cent. of their salaries.
In the pressure for campaign funds
the official victims are between the
devil and the deep sea, for the com-
bine is subjecting them to a levy while
the Quay committee is afflicting them
with an assessment. The HasTiNGs
machine is levying all the money it
can raige from the municipal officials
in Philadelphia and Pittsburg, and
Quay has his chief deputy, Frank
Leach, traveling through the State
hitting every office-holder under his
coatrol for a contribution.
This is doing pretty well for a party
that has promised to reform the bad
practice of using boodle in the elec-
tions.
Last year the Standard oil company
filled the campaign chest full to over-
flowing in consideration of the Repub-
lican Legislature and Governor pass
ing and signing its pipe-line bill. In
the absence of that recourse this year
the office-holders must furnish the
campaign ammunition and both fac-
tions are levying on them.
——When you go to the election on
the 5th. of November, take your coal
oil can along and have it filled at the
store nearest th e polling place. When
you pay for it, the increased cost will
remind you that the Republican party
that is now asking you to endorse its
administration, is responsible for the
additional price charged, and which
goes into the coffers of the Standard
oil company,
——Read the WATCHMAN.
D FEDERAL UNION, i 2
OCT. 18, 1895.
NO. 41.
Do the People Prefer It?
Farming the state money for per
sonal profit is an abuse habitually
practiced by Republican state treasur-
ers. The funds are deposited in cer
tain banks that make use of it in their
business, and the interest derived from
it—the increment,— is divided among
the parties interested in these trans-
actions. The banks get their share
and the balance goes to the treasury
ring as official spoils.
The State does not get one cent for
this use of its money. Attention has
frequently been called to this abuse,
but Republican Legielatures and Gov-
ernors have failed to give the slightest
attention to it. They prefer to con-
tinue a practice that enables Republi-
can officials to use the public funds for
their personal profit.
The public schools of the State are
just now suffering from this vicious
system of farming the State money.
More than two million dollars are be-
ing with-held from the schools be-
cause the money is out at interest for
the benefit of the officials who have
control of it.
This custom has become a regular
practice in the state treasurer's office,
because the people have not objected
to it. They have at every election of
state treasurer given large majorities to
the Republicans who habitually use
the public money for this private pur-
pose.
Bensayin F. Meyers, the Demo.
cratic nominee for "the state treasurers
gives his pledge that if he should be
elected the increment of the state
money shall go to the State and shall
not be used as a personal perquisite.
The Republican aominee is silent
upon this subject. He has no idea of
departing from the Republican custom
of converting the balance in the treas-
ury into a means of private profit, and
relies upon the great Republican ma-
427ity to continue the abuse of entrust-
ing the state money to certain favored
banks for speculative purpeses, while
the schools and charitable institutions
{ must wait for what is due them.
If the people want this sort of busi-
ness to go on in the state treasury
they will of course vote for the Repub:
lican candidate for state treasurer.
His Sitence To Be Rewarded.
The pardon of BarbsLEy, for
| which a movement is being made,
would be nothing more than an ex-
| pected result of the election of Hast
INGs a8 Governor of the State. While
ParrisoNn was the chief executive a
pardon for the great plunderer of the
Philadelphia treasury was out of the
question. Clemency for such rascals
can never come from a Democratic
source.
But as the offense which BarpsLEY
committed was of a peculiarly Repub-
lican character, he is likely to receive
the benefit of a Republican pardon.
That there were others who had a
ed, and that his pals were Republican
politicians powerful enough to in-
fluence executive clemency if he should
keep his mouth shut is indicated by
the persistence with which he has re-
plices. The promise of a pardon has
strengthened his fortitude and
time has come for the reward
he has earned by his silence.
——The political revolution that
manifested itself last week in Indian-
apolis by the Democrats carrying the
city election by a majority of between
3000 and 4000, as against a Republican
majority of 2,479 last year, was a cir-
cumstance not calculated to encourage
the Republicans with the hope of
another tidal wave. They esdeavor
to explain it by saying that it was
brought about by dissatisfaction with
the attempt of the Republican city ad-
ministration to enforce blue-law regu-
lations, but although blue-laws are ob-
noxious, they could not have been the
cause of so great a change in the pop-
ular vote. It would be more correct to
attribute it to a change in public senti-
ment in favor of the Democratic
measures that have restored the pros-
perity of the country.
——Would you vote for QUIGLEY,
the man who has never had a case in
court, whom HasTiNGs wants made
district attorney ?
“WO hove
share of his plunder can not be doubt- |
‘the position.
the | ee
' From the Milton. Record.
A Disgruntled Organ’s Secret.
From the Harrisburg Evening News.
“If the Demacrat knows” of any rea-
song other than those given time and
again openly in this jowrnal “why
the Patriot criticised the late adminis-
tration we invite it to detail these in
its columus"'~ Harrisburg Patriot, Oct. 3,
The reason “why” the Patriol not
only f‘criticised’” but persistently as-
sailed the second administration of
Governor Pattison was simply because
William Swineford Stenger was not
appointed attorney * general. He was
secretary of the commonwealth under
the first administration and the gover-
nor had enough of him. Mr Steager
is one of the owners of the Patriot, —
Perry County Democrat.
It The Patriot wants to know some-
thing else concerning ex-Secretary of
State Stenger, old man Swineford, of
Snyder county, and Stenger’s contest
with the Bourbon editor of the Perry
county Democrat, when the two raced
for congress some twenty years back,
it could get the information from the
man who accused Stenger of some very
dark trieks.
People Who Live in Glass Houses.
From the Phila. Evening Telegraph.
Justice proverbially travels with a
leaden heel and most unfortunately,
does not always strike with the iron
hard. It is to be hoped, however, that
the out come of the Pittsburg munici-
pal revelations will be the administra-
tion of deserved chastisement to ‘those
who have long run things ; so reckless
in the ring-ridden Fron City. Only
through the prolonged continuance of
the loosest methods could any city be
robbed of half a million dollars in the
manner indicated by the present inves-
tigation, Such a result of maladminis-
tration shows what a wide field was
given conscienceless public officials.
The Courts of Allegheny county should
gladly embrace the opportunity which
seems about to be presented to teach a
wholesome lesson to those charged
with official, and especially judiciary,
responsibilities.
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Adapted for Centre County Democrats,
From the Doylestown Demoerat.
Democrats, what are you doing; are
you doing anything > You have just
three weeks from to-day to complete
your arrangements to get out your
vote to carry the county, would you
carry it at all. If you build your an
ticipated success on Republican dis.
sensions, you are trusting to a very
unstable foundation-a foundation that
will be likely to tumble down and
bury the builders in the rnins. Such
a catastrophy might be followed by a
coroner's inquest but nothing better.
It the county nominees expect to be
elected let them immediately take the
steps to ‘‘get there.” Don’t forget
that Hastings is running the Republi-
can machine. He and his followers
would rather see the worst Republican
elected—and there are some very bad
ones—than the best Democrat.
There Will Still be Use for Men.
From the Easton Argue.
The “new woman’ may bea butt
for the joker in the comic papers, a
subject for theatre buriesque and may
be cousidered a legitimate object for
ridicule, but the fact remains that
whatever they are pleased to call her,
woman is rapidly forging to the front
and occupying places that men enjoy-
ed heretofore without thought of mol-
estation or interference from the fair
gex. Out in Colorado a woman has
been nominated for county treasurer
because she was eminently fitted for
En all parts women are
receiving acknowledgment in accord:
ance with their respective abilities and
all the shafts of the funny man will
i > ® : ‘not be able to prevent it.
mained silent in regard to his accom: |
A Good: One on Daniel.
It is said that Governor Hastings
has been asked to make speeches in |:
The Lebanon Advertiser very |
Ohio.
aptly notes that when we remembey
that Hastings had oaly one eet speech |
in his own campaign, and that speech
was written by a college professor, we
are led to the conclusion that Okio is
hard up tor speakers.
A Timely Reply.
From the Greensburg Argus.
Let us see; wasn’t one Pattison
(Pecksniff) spoken of as a Democratic
presidential possibility at one time ?
“Vere ish dot Pattison now ?"'—-Jo/ns-
town Tribune. 3
Let us see; wasn’t one Hastings
(hog combine) spoken of as a Repub.
lican presidential possibility at one
time ? “Vere ish dot Hastings now ?”
What Do They Want ?
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Why don’t those Republican papers
which insist that the tariff is an issue
in this year’s politics be more explicit ?
People canuot be deceived by glittering
generalities. In what way is the tar
iff in issue? Are the Republican cam-
paigners going to demand the restora.
tion of the odious McKinley law as
soon as practicable?
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Governor Hastings’ new carriage cost
$1500,
—Reading will have a poultry show this
fall.
—The State Pardon Board met at Har-
risburg Wednesday.
—A Lebanon factory makes many or-
gans for a London firm.
—T he large new shirt factory at Morris
ville started up Monday.
—Cigarmakers in York, Lancaster and
Berks counties are having a busy seasen.
—The new Lutheran and Reformed
Chapel at Monocacy was dedicated Sun.
day.
—In a miners’ riot at West Newton one
man was badly stabbed and another was
shot.
—The popular subscription for @ loapi-
tal at Allentown amounts to nearly
$2000.
—The price of bricks at Reading has-ad-
vanced owing to the extensive building
operations.
—A hot fight is en for president snd
secretary of the Window Glass Workers®'
Association.
—Returning home from work, at Ho-
kendauqua, John Worls was run over and
killed by a train,
—While picking coal’ by the railroad
track at Port Carbon Mrs. Hugh Boyle
was killed by a train.
—Edward Haltzman, » marble cutter at
Berrysburg, Dauphin county, hanged
him self in his shop.
—Joseph Bochine, who" killed Frank
Coufort, was Monday sentenced to be
hanged at Scranton.
—Highwaymen clubbed Charles Buch-
ner.insensible at Lebanon and then stole
his watch and money.
—The fourth victim of the Pittsburg
trolley accident, O. J. Baldwin, of War-
ren county, died Monday.
—The rain in Eastern Pennsylvania
eaused much rejoicing Satwrday, as it
broke the long water famine.
—H. 8. Whitmore was Saturday ape
pointed fourth-elass postmaster at Mast
hope, vice J. Sharff, resigned.
—About 20 students have left: Westmin.
ster College, Mercer county, on account
of hazing and secret societies.
—One of the best known miners in Lu.
zerne county, Edward J. Gibbons, was
killed by a fall of coal at Mill Creek.
—Judge Ermentrout says tie habeas
corpus cases are becoming a nuisance at
Reading and he proposes to stop them.
—With his throat cut, the bedy of
George Barr, was found in the woods
near Altoona, a victim of his own hand,
—Governor Hastings, who will speak in
the Ohio campaign, will beat €olumbus
October 31, end Toledo the day previous.
—Hugh Osborn, of Philadelphia, is ac-
cused of stealing $276 from Mrs. Annie
Hays, an Altoona boarding house keeper.
i Mallock, of Grecn-
land, kuzerne county, was skot in the
arm by Dido Rocco, whom he triad to are
rest.
—A little son of Mr. Spiker, in. Spruce
Hill tewnship, near Mifflintown, was
burned to death while playing with the
fire in the stove.
—Thiewves stole a large number of gold
medals from Weitzenkarn’s store, at
Wilkesbarre, that were intended for priz.
es at field sports.
—A Prttsburg police; lieutexent and «
patrolman.charged with grossly improper
language by a woman were exonerated
after investigation.
—The Pennsylvania railroad Monday
completedta pipa line fromm Adtoona to
Bellwood and is now receiving an abund-
ant supply: of water.
—The youngest man ever tried for nuur-
der at Seranton is Joseph Wisnisky, 20
years old, whose trial began: Monday.
He shot Felix Davidweiz.
—Mrs» Caroline A. Graffon, who was ar-
rested in Butler county for thie alleged
murder of her husband in €olorade six
months ago, bas been set free.
—The Shenandoah Daily News has made
its bow to the Schuylkill county public,
and the publisher, M. E. Doyle, may just-
ly feel proue of the first issue:
Lhd "Ringgold Light Axtillery, ot
Reading, among the First Defeaders,
will next spring march te. Washington
over the route they took in 1561.
—John Gilbert, the [Beech Creek rail-
road fireman, who was burned near Clear.
fleM several months ago, and whose life
was despaired of, has fully recovered and
has gone to work.
—The Red Mills of the C. L Co., at
Johnstown, started up Thursdey morn-
ing on single turn. This milk has been
idle for the past two years. About 20
men are employed.
—Councilmen in all parts of the State
are inspecting the source of the water
supplies of their localities. Lock Haven
F has considerable trouble at present to se.
care an abundance of pure water to meet
[the demands of that town.
—George Beale of Renovo, has been ap-
pointed assistant engineer of the middle
division of the Pennsylvania railroad and
J. B. Baker has beenappointed assistant
engineer of the Philadelphia and Erie, tc
succeed George Beala, transferred.
—The barn belonging to Mrs. O'Drien,
at Pine Station, was destroyed by ihre
Friday night. This season's crops
and a number of farming implements.
were also destroyed. The origin of the
fire is unknown. The loss is placed at
$1,000 with an insurance of $200.
—Mrs. Jennie Croft, wife of Josepl
Croft, who resides two miles south of
Roaring Spring, was fatally injured in wu
runaway accident in that town on, Sun-
day ewening. = With her two small child.
ren, she had spent the day with her
father, Joseph M. Hite, a business man at
Roaring Spring, attending the Methodist
church, of which she wasa member, in
the morning. Her brother, Howard Hite,
started to drive her home after supper
with his father’s double team. Shortly
after leaving the borough limits, the
horses took fright ata drunken man,
William Snyder, lying in the road and be.
came unmanageable. By their rearing
and plunging the wagon was upset, all
the occupants, save one child, being
thrown out. The runaway team re-
turned to the town, where it was stop.
ped and the child rescued.
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