MEEK.
BY
Ink Slings.
—Don’t let the weather on Tuesday
keep Democrats from gettingamoveon.
—Centre county must record a Dem-
ocratic majority next Tuesday. Demo-
crats, getamoveon.
—Don't be fooled by Republican
promises. They are rarely fulfilled.
Democrats, getamoveon.
—Senator CHANDLER, of Maine,
thinks we are to have war with Erg-
land. Democrats, getamoveon.
--We have a good ticket this fall,
There is no reason why every-oneshould
not support it. Democrats, getamove-
on.
—Accept no excuse from stay at
homes. We must have every Demo-
crat at the polls next Tuesday. Demo-
crats, getamoveon. :
—They say it is true! That “Quic-
LEY don’t know the boys with whom
he used to run barefooted” in Liberty
township. Demccrats, getamoveon.
—HAsTINGS i8 very anxious that
QUIGLEY should be elected, so they say.
This is the very reason why the people
want him defeated. Democrats, get-
amoveon.
—1f ABE MILLER thinks old soldiers
ought to vote for him, why in the world
didn’t he support Democratic veterans
when they were out for office ? Demo-
crats, getamo veon. :
—ABE MILLER is not competent to
be made prothonotary, so the Gazette
says, but everybody knew it even before
the Gazette acknowledged it. Demo-
crats, getamoveon.
—ABE MILLER has been a bitter,
uncom promising, abusive, mud flinging
Republican all his life. There is not a
single reason why a Democrat should
support him. Democrats, getamoveon.
—Say, you fellows, who are going
to vote for QUIGLEY, stop and think a
moment ! Did he know you before he
found out that he needed your vote to
gratify his ambition ? Democrats,
getamoveon.
—The Gazelle can excuse the present
administration as much as it pleases for
signing the Standard oil bill, but the
people continue to pay an increased price
for their coal oil, all the same. Demo-
crats, getamoveon.
—Republicans would like to make
people believe that they are having
plain sailing in Ohio, but there is a
CAMPBELL out there with about as
many humps as they can crawl over.
Democrats, getamoveon.
—QUIGLEY is the man whom HasT-
ING’S wants elected, QUIGLEY is the
man who must therefore be rejected ;
QUIGLEY is the man who must not be
elected, for if he is, the county biz will
surely be neglected. Democrats, get-
amoveon.
—1It is being whispered that Quia-
LEY’s friends intend trading MILLER
wherever they can. The Republicans
would like to get complete control of
the court and they intend stopping at
nothing to accomplish this end. Demo-
crats, getamoveon.
—Since QUIGLEY can’t tell the differ.
ence between an intelligent citizen and
an ignorant Hungarian he practically
says there is no difference between the
two. Do you want to vote for a man
who rates you with an ignorant Hun:
Democrats, getamoveon.
—There are more pensioners on the
rolls now than there has ever been.
Over 1000 names have been added dur-
ing the past year, in addition to the
many old pensioners restored, yet the
Republicans claim all the credit for
taking care of the veterans. Democrats,
getamoveon.
—Czar REED is QuAY’s favorite for
the Republican presidential nomination
and is it any wonder? The methods of
the two men have been almost identical.
Each demands absolute control of ev-
erything he goes into, but neither will
have control of anything in the future,
if Democrats, getamoveon.
—The Gazette says: ‘‘Republics are
not ungrateful ; the people will remem.
ber services such as Mr. MILLER per-
formed.” Great JEHOSEPHAT! we
should say they are not ungrateful.
MiLLER has been feeding at the public
crib ever since he came home from the
war and this very fact is what the peo-
ple want to ‘remember when he tells
them how he has been neglected. Dem-
ocrats, getamoveon.
—A young German with three chil-
dren i§ detained on Ellis’ island, N. Y.,
because the immigration bureau fears
that she will become a public charge.
She came to this country from Rotter-
dam to marry ALBERT CorrI, of Chi-
cago, the result of an exchange of pic-
tures and correspondence. Her lover
was telegraphed for and this is the way
he answered :
No money. Can't come. I want to marry
her by telegraph or telephone. It has been
done. Can’t you accomodate me ?
The poor fellow is evidently very
anxious to get married, but the telephone
plan is a poor way of getting together.
Democrats, getamoveon.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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: VOL. 40
Shall it be Justified or Condemned ?
If a farmer or a business man
should have an agent in his employ to
whom he had entrusted a sum of
money, what would he think or do if
he should find that his agent had put
that money out at interest and pock-
eted the proceeds as his own personal
profit ?
To continue the comparison a little
further, what would be the feelings of
that farmer or business man upon his
discovery that the money was not ap-
plied to the object for which he had
intended ‘it, because his agent had in-
vested it in his own private specula-
tion, and it was inconvenient or impos-
sible for him to call it in when wanted
for its legitimate purpose ?
It may be believed that that farmer
or business man, unless he were a very
pious character, would indulge in some
vigorous swearing at such an agent,
and would proceed to kick him out of
the fiduciary position he had so shame-
fully abused.
Such a case as this is the exact par-
allel of the conduct of the present Re-
publican state treasurer and his
predecessor. The state money that
should be ready at hand to pay all the
demands upon the State without de-
lay is distributed around among a
number of selected banks that use it
in their business, and the increment—
the interest—goes to a ring of politi-
cians, who absorb it as a personal per-
quisite, with the exception of what
may be contributed to Republican
campaign funds. :
According to the state treasurer's
own report there was a balance of
state money in the treasury on the
30th of June ; amounting to $4,400,000,
and at that time there was a delin-
quency of more than $2,000,000 in the
payment of the public school appro-
priation, a deficiency that is being
slowly made up in such installments as
these speculators with the public
money are able to call in from their
speculative investments.
It is unnecessary for us to tell our
readers that this a most shameful and
corrupt use of money committed to the
care of public officers. But it is a use
which has been sanctioned by the peo-
ple themselves in their not showing
their disapproval of it by their votes at
the polls.
Year after year this abuse has been
committed by Republican state treas-
urers, and the people have gone on
electing them at each recurring elec
tion. Can corrupt practices be stopped
in that way ?
BexsamiN F. MEevers, the Demo-
cratic candidate for state treasurer,
pledges himself not to use the interest
on this public money as private swag,
but will turn it into the treasury.
The Republican candidate keeps quiet
on this subject, giving no pledge, but
relying upon the usual Republican
majority to justify him in speculating
with the state money, and putting the
profits into the pockets of a set of po-
litical ringsters.
It is for the people to determine at
the polls whether this practice shall
be justified or shall be condemned !
EE —
Vote the Fall Ticket.
The supreme court of the State hav-
ing decided that a voter can not cast
his ballot for more than six of the sev-
en superior judges to be elected the
strict partisan character of the election,
as designed by the law creating the
court, will be carried out.
One of the Democratic candidates
will necessarily be elected, but the
Democrats should endeavor to elect
six by voting for all of them. There
is much dissatisfaction among the Re-
publicans with the judicial candidates
they have on their ticket. The man-
ner in which they were selected by
Hastings, to serve a partiean purpose,
is disliked by many members of their
own party, who look upon them as
political tools and disapprove of hav-
ing such characters on the bench.
For this reason the Republican
judicial ticket will be heavily cut, and
the Democrats will be remiss in their
duty if they do not poll the fullest possi.
{ ble vote for their judicial nominees,
| who stand a chance of being elected on
i account of Republican disaffection.
| If there are not six Democratic
‘superior judges elected it should not
: be because any of them did not receive
"the full Democratic vote.
The Theft ot the Increment.
It must seem strange to the people
that money belonging to them, and en-
trusted to a public officer for a public
purpose, should be put out as private
investment, producing an income that
is used as a personal profit.
The dullest mind can comprehend
the vicious character of such a finan-
cial practice, and yet it has been long
continued in this State, and has be-
come a regular custom with the Re:
publican officers that have control of
the state treasury,
It has been continued not because
there has not been an effort made to
correct it. Repeated attempts have
been made to induce Republican Leg-
islatures, to enact that if balances of the
state money in the treasury should
produce an increment it should go
to the State and be included with -its
other sources of revenue. But no Re-
publican Legislature could be pre
vailed upon to give this matter the
least atte ntion. No Republican Gov-
ernor showed an inclination to recom-
mend such a reform. This private
use of the State money produces be-
tween one and two hundred thousand
dollars & year in interest, and the Re-
publican managers have preferred that
it should go to party workers, and to
officials who could be assessed for
campaign purposes, rather than that
the State should get it,
Governor PATTISON, in his messages,
repeatedly urged Republican Legisla-
tures to protect the state money from
the danger of being loosely deposited
in banks that give no security for it,
and to require the interest accruing
from it to be paid into the state
treasury, for the benefit of the tax-pay-
ers, but he might as well have advised
a gang of footpads to return the money
which they had eecured by a success-
ful robbery.
This abuse in the management of
the state treasury has been brought
more directly to public attention this
year by the increased boldness of the
officials in their misuse of the public
funds The schools and charitable in-
stitutions must wait for what is due
them until the speculators with the
state money can release it from invest-
ment in which they are personally in-
at : zs.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOV. 1, 1895.”
NO. 43.
Censure That is Well Deserved.
A vote cast for the Democratic tick-
et will be a vote for censure to the ca-
lamity howlers who tried to prevent
the return of industrial prosperity.
It-will be a stinging rebuke to the
dishonest Republican leaders who last
year deceived the people by charging
8 Democratic administration and a
Democratic tariff with being the cause
of the hard times.
It will be the most effective way of
condemning a party that supported a
tariff under which labor was thrown
out of employment and its wages were
reduced, and whose organs and speak-
ers lied about the Democratic tariff
that has given industry the greatest
boom that it has had since the war,
and has put employers in such a pros.
perous condition that they voluntarily
increase the wages of their workmen.
For this reason, particularly, the
votes of the working people should ad-
minister the severest condemnation of
the McKINLEY policy.
A vote cast for the Democratic tick-
et will, moreover, be a rebuke to the
last Republican state Legislature, the
most scandalously corrupt, extrava-
gant, reckless and incapable legisla-
tive body that ever assembled at Har-
risburg. Such a vote will condemn
that Legislature's profligate waste of
the public money ; its multiplication
of unnecessary offices ; its addition to
the salaries of useless officials ; its sub-
traction from the hard-earned taxes
paid into the treasury by the people,
and its division of favors among the
office-holders, the corporations and the
monopolies.
The voters will be false to them-
selves if they do not rebuke that in.’
famous Legislature.
They are also called upon, by their
regard for the reputation and interest
of their State, to rebuke, through the
ballot box, the scheming politicians
who are trying to set up a political
‘machine for a court, and who are
dragging the robes of the judiciary
through the filth of a partisan cess-
pool ; and it is their interest as tax-
payers to condemn the
speculators who bave the state money
out at interest aud are putting the
profit into their own pockets,
terested as sharers of the prefits.
This kind of treasury management |
naturally accompanies such abuses as
those which the present state adminis |
tration is guilty of. It 13 0f a piece |
with the extravagant creation of un-
necessary offices, the profligate in-
crease of salaries, the prostitution of
executive action in the interest of ra-
pacious corporations, and the degrada-
tion of the judiciary to the level of
partisan machines ; and it is in keep-
ing with the generally scandalous |
character of Republican state legisla.
tion.
The pocketing of the interest on
state funds is nothing but official
theft, and after the votes are counted
at the next election we shall see wheth-
er the people are willing that the
treasury shall remain in the hands of
thieves.
CO
Stop the Treasury Stealing.
In replying to the committee which
notified him of his nomination for
state treasurer by the Democratic
state convention, Hon, B. F. MEYERS
expreased a principle which every hon-
est citizen will endorse, when he said
“he should regard all increments of
the funds in the treasury from what-
ever source, as accruing to the Com-
monwealth and not as his personal
perquisites or the epoils of party.”
This is a principle that should gov-'
ern every officer entrusted with the
funds of the State, but it has been con-
tinoally and systematically ignored by
Republican state treasurers, who
have placed millions of the state mon-
ey with banking institutions that have
used it without paying the State a
single cent of interest for its use.
That it bas produced an increment—
that it has brought its interest—goes
without saying, but that increment,
estimated to amount to $100,000 a
year, has gone into the pockets of the
treasury ring, with a possibility that
some of it has been used for political
purposes,
Hon. BeNsamiN F. Meyers, the
Democratic nominee, pledges himself
to stop this stealing if -he-shall be
elected state treasurer. He is a man
of well-known honor and probity, and
the people can rest assured that it
they give him the opportunity he will
treasury |
Aud they owe a severe reprimand to |
the Governor who, in the first year of
his term, has increased the expense of
the departments of his administration
‘at least $250,000 ; who bas approved
every extravagant and profligate act of
the Legislature ; who has intruded his
henchman, DeraNEY, into the custo-
dianship of the public grounds and
buildingg, to lavish money with an un-
sparing hand, and to furnish and em-
bellish the gubernatorial mansion with
barocial magnificence; who has
shown such favor to the petroleum oc-
topus that it has been enabled to in-
crease the cost of the lamp-light 1n
every household in the Commonwealth,
and who has withheld no franchise or
privilege from corporations and monop-
olies, while he has had no favors to
bestow upon the people who live by
their toil.
These are offenses which can be
righteously and effectively rebuked by
voting the Democratic ticket next
Tuesday.
Will the voters of Centre county
withhold their condemnation where
there is so much to be condemned?
We do not believe that it will be
withheld.
Democrats, getamoveon.
Cause and Effect.
On~the first of this month the price
of coke made a considerable advance ;
which is av evidence of improvement
in the different kinds of business that
require that form of fuel. It ie partic-
ularly a proof that the iron business
is booming,
In consequence of their getting a
higher price for their coke the H. C.
Frick coke company have made an-
other voluntary advance in the wages
of their workmen, which applies to
about 13,000 men, and goes into effect
along with the advance in price of
coke.
These are the practical arguments
that are removing every doubt from
the public mind as to the beneficial ef-
fects of the Democratic tariff policy.
strictly fulfill his pledge.
Democrats, getamoveon.
*
Condemn the Judicial Machine.
—
There is scarcely a feature of the
new judicial creation, called the su-
perior court, that is not worthy of the
condemnation of sensible and honest
citizens,
Its name ie an absurdity, for when
the State has already a supreme court
how can it have a superior court?
What can be superior to that which is
supreme ?
Its creation was a political scheme,
the purpose of those who devised it
having been more to secure a partisan
object than to serve the ends of jus-
tice. :
There is no necessity for it as a
tribunal, there being a sufficient judi-
cial force to dispose of all the cases
that may arise for adjudication, and
this new tribunal is calculated to com-
plicate litigation and increase the ex-
pense of obtaining justice.
The large salaries of seven unneces-
sary judges will add many thousands
of dollars to the cost of maintaining
the judiciary.
The arrangement in the manner of
voting for these judges, by which six
are secured to one political party, and
only one to the other, indicates the de-
liberate fatention of imparting a politi-
cal character to this court, and is not
only outrageously unfair, but alarm.
ingly dangerous in its purpose to insti-
tute a partiean tribunal.
In its original conception it was in-
tended chiefly for the purpose of help-
ing HasTINGs capture the control of
the Republican organization and the
people have ro more reason to ap-
prove of it than they have to approve
his signing the Standard oil company’s
pipe line bill.
In view of these damaging facts, con
nected with this superior ogurt, what-
are the people going to do about it ?
At this time they can do no more
than to show their disapprobation by
voting against the candidates whom
Hastings selected to constitute his
partisan court, and who by Quay's
consent, are the Republican judicial
candidates.
Voting against them is the only
way in which the people can adminis-
ter a deserved rebuke.
Such a rebuke can be followed up
next year by electing a Legislature
that will"abolish this court, which if
it should be continued, will saddle a
useless expense upon the State, and by
complicating and prolonging litigation
will increase its cost.
Democrats, getamoveon.
Democratic Encourage ment.
The situation has so greatly improv-
ed since last year that the Democrats
have every reason to be encouraged
with the prospect in the present elec-
tion. The bard times, for which the
party was not responsible, was the
cause of defeat a year ago. But the
great improvement that has taken
place since then has quieted the calam-
ity how! and has vindicated the benef-
icent character of the Democratic
tariff.
If the Democrats lost votes on ac-
count of the prostration of business,
for which they were not responsible,
surely the popular favor will go with
them this year when the great revival
of prosperity is clearly the result of
Democratic measures.
The unparalleled activity io the iron
business, the steady work in the coal
mines, the boom in all the mills and
factories, the full employment of labor,
and the increased pay for it, are all
arguments that are convincing the peo-
ple that it is to their interest to vote
the Democratic ticket.
Moreover those who were deceived
into voting with the Republicans last
year by the calamity howl, have had
a bitter experience with the present
state administration and the last
Legislature. The increased expenses
that have been heaped upon the tax-
payers by executive and legislative ex-
travagance and corruption will long
be felt.
These are influences that will great-
ly affect the public mind and produce |
results at the polls next Tuesday that
are likely to be astonishing.
In order that it may have its full ef-
fect no Democrat should fail to cast
his ballot.
Democrats, getamoveon.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Goat picnics are popular at Reading.
—Postmaster A. P. MacDonald, of Al-
toona, is seriously ill.
—A destructive forest fire is sweeping
over the mountains at Auburn.
—Firebugs burned three barnsat Hazle.
ton worth $10,000 during the past week.
—There are 302 more registered voters
in Lycoming county this year than last.
—Two more suspects in the Hawley
robbery murder case are in Scranton jail
'—A little child of Mr, Pedel’s family at
East Stroudsburg was suffocated in bed.
—Brakeman Lewis Zehl, of Slatington,
was killed by a Lehigh valley train Satur-
day.
—Ground was broken at South Bethle-
hem for Lipp & Sutton’s new $50,000 silk
mill. :
—During the last two years in Pennsyl-
vania only ten death warrants have been
issued.
—Andrew Carnegie will present a $3000
organ to each of three Homestead
churches.
—Asthe result of falling down stairsand
breaking his back, George Weiss, Of las
ton, died. 3
—Wendell Swartz, a farmer of White
Deer valley, near Lewisburg, shot him-
self to death.
—Injuries received in a runaway near
Adamsville, York county, caused Paniel
Hollinger’s death.
—Nearly all the anthracite miners in
the Wilkesbarre region began working
full time Monday. ]
—Postal Inspector Moore, of Philadel-
phia, Saturday finished his probe of the
Smoky City office.
—Edward Babb, a Philadelphia & Read-
ing railroad brakeman, lost an arm while
coupling ears at Norristown.
—Miners Joseph King and Paul Vanit-
sky were dangerously injured by a fall of
rock in Shenandoah collieries.
—The east Broad Top mines at Wood-
vale were obliged to shut down last week
because of a scarcity of water.
—The Lehigh valley company will to-
day make a general shift about of mine
bosses in the Hazleton district.
—The man captured near Stroudsburg
as the supposed murderer of Justice New.
burgh, of Pike county, was discharged.
—Poor women of Reading husk cern in
the country a day and get paid in husks.
with which they make bed mattresses.
—Detectives ran down Walter Shepley
at Reading, who is wanted for wholesale
robberies at Gordonville, Lancaster coun -
ty. :
—Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, of Lancaster,
who was in jail charged with setting fire
to her husband's proberty, has gone in-
sahe. ~
—Ground was broken Saturday at
Bloo urg for a new Methodist church
to cost $50,000, and which will seat 2000
people. .
—The corner-stone of Zion L=ztheran
church, at Stouchsburg, the oldest con-
gregation in Berks county, was laid on
Sunday. :
—The condition of John Tayloy, of Beth.
lehem, General Traffic manager of the
Lehigh Valley railroad, continues to im-
prove. 1
—Chief of Police Russell, of Williams.
port, shot RR. C. Chase’s herse, which fell
into a well, and now the owner has sued
the Chief for $210.
—Harvey Boles, of Saltillo, Huntingdon
county, fell off a wagon a few days since
and had his shoulder bone broken and
was pretty badly bruised.
—Judge McPherson decided that the
East Harrisburg trolley company must
pay a tax of $56-a year for every caroper-
ated,or a total of $4180 in 1804.
—Firebugs and thieves have conspired
to annoy William Thorpe, & wealthy con-
tractor in Dennison, Luzerne eounty, and
officers are looking for the raseals.
—A- charter was granted to the-Lel.
man manutacturing company, ofsPhila-
delphia ; capital, $10,000 ; directors, John
A. Lehman, George S. Hart, Harry B.
Hart.
—James Cunningham, employed in the
Berwind-White shaft near DuBois, was
killed Saturday by a premature fall of
fireclay. He was abou 33 years of age
and leaves a wife and two small children.
—David Dressler, a highly esteemed
citizen of Union tewnship, Clearfield
county, died at his home Wednesday
‘morning, @ctober 22, at the advanced age
of 8) years. He had been a resident of
the township for nearly half a century.
—A live bear was reported as having
been seen to enter the limits of ths
borough of Ebensburg on Monday even.
ing, whereupon each ‘Johnny got his
gun’’and started out on bear meat intent.
Latest reports are to the effect that bruin
escaped.
—~W hile out hunting turkeys near lew
Grenada, Fulton county, last week Wil.
liam Hunter aeeidently shot Thoraton
Foster, whom he mistook for a turkey.
Sixteen number four shot penetrated Fos.
ter’s body so deep that none of them
eould be probed out, ten in hisleft arm,
one in the breast, one in the stomeagh and
four in the left limb.
—The plant of the Muncy black fi ller
eompany, located along the Resding rail.
road at Muncy, was totally destzeyed by
fire, together with its contents, about 2
o’cloek Sunday morning. Tha. origin qf
the fire is unaccountable, but it is supposs
ed that the structure caught from sparks
from a passing train. The loss. is $15,000,
partly covered by insurange.
~The towns in Clearfieldcounty are be.
ing canvassed for subscaibers to a tele:
phone system to be erected in that county
by the American Electric Telephone
company. The company has not yes been
fully organized. It will be composed of
Clearfield county capitalists. The object
of the company is to, construct lines and
operate telephones, in Clearfleld county.
i =A stable belonging to Mrs. Lizzie
| Foreman, at Russellville, Hopewell town.
ship, Huntingdon county, together with
an ice house, chicken ecoop and other
| small out buildings, were destroyed by
, fire on Thursday morning at 3 o'clock.
There were thirty-three chickens in the
, coop, of which thirteen are missing:
The fire is believed to have been caused
, by a chicken thief, Loss $150; no insur.
ange,