BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Your first duty to-day is to see that you are registered. —It’s the mustering-out officer who will tell us which Johnny is to come marching home. —It is not so much a question now as tc who gets, as to how to get rid of, the Filipenos. —There may yet be reason to doubt if there was any other soldiers in the army but ““Teddy’’ ROOSEVELT. —If we had only captured a corner of Jamaica, there might have been more ginger about the settlement of matters. —And now the enemy asserts that Col. JIM GUFFEY is attempting to RoBB Pitts- burg Democracy of a candidate for judge. —The WANAMAKER movements may be a little slow on the trigger but great an- ticipations hang on the result of its going off. —From the way the weather-cock points it looks as if there would be more investi- gations than annexations as a result of the war. —If the Colon can be raised by wind bags Mr. Quay should experience but little trouble in keeping his boom floating very high. —From the length of time that Mr. BLANCO is holding over it begins to look as if he was a distant relative of our civil service system. —It is entirely in keeping with both doctrines and beliefs that the prohibition- ists should succeed only through the power of a tidal-wave. —If they don’t soon find something bet- ter, Philadelphia might improve the con- dition of their Schuylkill water by filtering it with a hay-rake. —The ‘‘harvest is past, the summer is ended’ and if you don’t look out you'll not be registered. Wednesday the 7th closes this business. —1If the hard-winter prophet is not too fast asleep the present lull in war news might afford him an opportunity of getting in some of his work. —The peace jubilees throughout the country need not necessarily interfere with the political funeral ceremonies daily ex- pected at the war department. —HoBSON may not have been much of a sailor but since his experience with that St. Louis girl there is no excuse for his not knowing all about a smack. -—The bombardment of fort ALGER is going on with unabated fury and indication of a white flag appearing over the ramparts of the war department grow stronger each day. —Come to think, it may not prove as troublesome a question to determine what to do with our newly acquired possessions, as what we will do with our newly acquired generals. —It’s beginning to look as if an other protocol would have to be signed by the contending parties before Mr. SWALLOW will be able to annex the WANAMAKER movement. —Chairman GARMAN’S peace commis- sion is making the discovery that the only peace the present leaders of the Philadel- phia Democracy will have is a piece of the party for each one of them. —The paralysis of the tongue with which candidate DALEY was smitten immediately after his nomination is said to be showing Symptoms of a let up. As yet, however, he is unable to speak on the QUAY question. —In these days of his’doubts and disap- pointments Mr. Quay might; find some consolation in getting his first view of the next new moon over his right shoulder. It is said to be an encouraging sign for those who have no other source of hope- fulness. —The problem for Republican leaders as to how to keep on stealing and keep out of the penitentiary is not as tough a one as many might imagine. It is solved safely and correctly by having the voters keep on electing Republican Governors and Repub- lican Legislatures. —By the way, have you ever heard a Republican deny that the expense of run- ning the State government is four times greater to-day than it was under a Demo- cratic administration? And yet the hoora! for QUAY, and the stealings continue to ascend from the throats of a tax-complain- ing people. —Candidate SToNE might somewhat re- lieve the situation caused by a lack of war issues if he would issue a statement ex- plaining that $10,000 charge to the State for the collection of a $3,000 claim. This probably would not prove one of the ‘‘burning’’ issues of the campaign, but in real down interest to the tax-payers, it would beat ‘rallying round the flag’ ail to pieces. yt —The emaciated forms of our tens of thousands of unfed and uncared for soldiers, at Montauk, and elsewhere, isa telling com- mentary on the honesty of the purpose that declared war for humanity’s sake. But, come to think about it, while ALGER en- joys the glory of being secretary of war, and HANNA the opportunity of unlimited con- tracts, what's the use of bothering about humanity or growling because of the con- dition of the brave boys, who went to the front ? -—— Temocruli a RO STATE RIGHTS AN BELLEFONTE, PA, SEPTEMBER 2, 1898, D FEDERAL UNION. State Reform Must Be Complete. After a period of inactivity since his fail- ure in the Republican State convention, JOHN WANAMAKER last week resumed his hostility to Quay with a speech to his anti-QUAY Republican collaborators at a meeting in the Philadelphia Bourse. This speech was characterized by the same severe denunciatic 1 of Quayism that made his series of addresses in the earlier part of the season so decidedly interesting, but it conveyed nothing new in regard to the abuses of machine rule. It rather left the impression that Mr. WANAMAKER re- gards the election of an anti-QuAy Legisla- ture as about as much as is necessary for State reform. While it is true that the overthrow of QUAY'’S power in the Legislature is an in- dispensable part of the work of reform, it would be incomplete without the defeat of the machine candidate for Governor. Of what account would be the action of a re- form Legislature if a Governor owned by the boss and inspired by the machine would be found in its way ? One of the greatest abuses under machine rule is the persistent disregard of the State constitution which requires a periodical ap- portionment of the State, a disregard which has deprived Pennsylvania of a lawful sys- tem of representation. This is one of the greatest of evils, as it nullifies to a large extent the representative principle upon which popular government is based, and it is persisted in by the Republican machine managers for their political advantage. Unless there should be a very large anti- machine majority in both houses of the Legislature, which is hard] y attainable, QUAY’S man in the Governor’s office could defeat any action that could be taken by the Legislature to carry out the constitu- tion in regard to apportionment. The same may be said concerning the really criminal conduct of the machine managers in vitiating the ballot laws to enable them to corruptly influence the elec- tions. What chance would there be to correct this greatest of public evils by the ac- tion of the Legislature, with a machine Gov- ernor standing ready to interpose his veto ? In regard to legislation for the restraint of corporate encroachment, and for the rights and interests of labor, nothing could be done to secure reform in those respects unless there should be legislative and exe- cutive co-operation favorable to such meas- ures. Giving Mr. WANAMAKER and his inde- pendent contingent credit for a sincere de- sire to reform the debased condition of the State government, it may nevertheless be well to remind them that the election of an anti-machine majority in the Legislature without an anti-machine Governor, would be but an imperfect redem ption of the State. As men of practical sense it must be ob- vious to them that if the machine candi- date for Governor is to be defeated it can be done only by the candidate whose strength is based on the backing of four hundred thousand Democrats, who have laid aside every other issue in order that their fight for honest State government may not be embarrassed by extraneous questions. Keep It in the Public Views. It was eminently proper that the Ohio Democratic State convention included in its platform a denunciation of the political crime by which MARK HANNA holds a purchased seat in the United States Senate as a representative of Ohio in that body, while he is at the same time the confiden- tial associate and advisor of the man whom he assisted in putting into the Presidential office by methods similar to those by which he secured the Senatorship. Although a committee of the Ohio Legis- lature has convicted HANNA of buying his seat in the Senate, he is not disturbed in the corrupt tenure of his office by the Re- publican majority of that body, and re- tains his influence over the man at the head of the government. If public virtue is to survive, such po- litical crimes must not be forgotten, but must be kept before the contemptuous gaze of the people. HANNA-ism must be pil- loried in Ohio as QUA Y-ism must be rooted out in Pennsylvania. They both spring from the same corrupt source and have an equally malign effect in sapping public morals and undermining the popular in- stitutions of out country. They are de- priving the people of the right of self- government and transferring the governing power to state bosses. : When such a state of public affairs is brought about that political autoerats can buy Senatorships aud determine the elec- tion of Presidents by immense corruption fuuds, as in HANNA'S case, and pillage while they rule a great Commonwealth through the agency of a corrupt machine, as QUAY does in Pennsylvania, is it sur- prising that public affairs have reached such a degree of debasement that even the soldiers who go forth to defend their coun- try are made the victims of this vicious misrule ? Where the Responsibility Belongs. In the midst of their just pride, in the valorous achievements of their sailors and soldiers, the American people are over- whelmed with shame and aroused to indig- nation by the disclosures of the terrible treatment to which the country’s defend- ers have been subjected. They find no ex- ception to the general delinquency on the the part of those whose duty it was to pro- vide for the sustenance and health of the soldiers, but that everywhere, at the front where the fighting was going on, and in the camps where the troops were gathered preparatory for active service in the fields, the same incompetent or dishonest manage- ment exposed them to the frightful effects of disease, and caused far greater loss of life then the bullets of the enemy. No excuse can be offered for this shame- ful State of affairs. There can be no extenuation for the sac- rifice of brave men when all the means were at hand to supply them with provi- sions, clothing and medicine, for the lack of which they have suffered and perished. When it is considered that the people lav- ished millions for the support of their soldiers the contemplation of that fact in- creases the enormity of the offense com- mitted by those who either from careless- ness, incapacity, or corrupt design, were the cause of such conditions as have pro- duced disease and death wherever our troops have been stationed, whether at the front, or in the localities where they have been encamped. But was there reason to expect anything else from the character of the men who have had the management of this war? Nothing but the purposes of political job- bery and the designs of personal profit were to be looked for from war managers who owed their power to such corrupt influences as placed McKINLEY at the head of the government. A President whose election was due to the contributions of capitalistic and political boodlers would be necessarily inclined to select for his war secretary, a corrupt, plutocratic, politician like ALGER, who has left the dirty mark of his millions on every political project he has underta- ken. McKINLEY is but the creature of such characters as ALGER and HANNA, and when the jobbery of such potential factors. in this administration makes its appear- ance in the scandulous incidents of army mismanagement, sacrificing the lives of our soldiers, there is no reason for surprise. Algerism, Hannaism and McKinleyism are Synonymous terms. —— What does old “‘Git there’’ expect to tell the Democrats when he gets after them to vote for him. Surely he won’t remind them of what he said in his speech of ac- ceptance : “I was born in the very atmosphere of ABRAHAM LINCOLN and I never voted for a Democrat in my life.” Such bigotry as is here asserted is not the kind that will recommend ELI to the voters of Centre county. The Blunder of the War Loan, The wisdom of the Democratic Opposi- tion to the bond issue, to meet war expen- ses, has been vindicated by results. The Democrats contended that there was no occasion for such an increase of the bonded debt of the government, upon which interest would have to be paid, insisting that the issue of some $150,000,000 in greenbacks, in addition to the internal taxes that would be laid, would raise all the money needed for the emergency, be- sides supplying a sufficiency of paper cur- rency. The bonds, nevertheless, were issued to the amount of $200,000,000 with the effect that it is piling up in the Treasury, along with the receipts of the internal taxes, $300,000,000 of surplus funds. There is no way of getting this money back into circulation among the people except by the usual Republican method of extravagance. The million dollars a day, which the war tax bill is producing, is enough to pay the current expenses of the war, with a liberal margin for the stealage practiced by AL- GER’S army contractors. The consequence of such management is that the government will have to pay in- terest on the many hundred millions of bonds for which there is no use. They could have been dispensed with to the great advantage of the American taxpayers, while the $150,000,000 of greenbacks, which the Democrats desired to issue, would have supplied the government with war funds that would have not cost a cent of interest, and furnished business men with the very best quality of paper money, the scarcity of which is a decided embar- rassment to trade at this time. The management of the Treasury de- partment in this war emergency has been as blundering as the management of the War department, but with this difference that while the one has wasted the money of the people, the other has wasted the lives of the soldiers. -—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. Fighting for Its Corrupt Life. It was hardly necessary to have more disclosures of the debauchery of machine management in the public affairs of this State, but another was furnished some days ago, at a judicial hearing in Chester county, relative to the winding up of the defunct Chester Guarantee and Trust Company. This institution was one of the political banks that are allowed to handlée' State money, with an understanding between their officers and the managers of the Re- publican machine. SMEDLEY DARLING- TON, the President of this defunct institu- tion, told under oath how it secured a de- posit of $80,000 of the State's money, to be used in its husiness without paying the State a cent of interest. Bat instead of compensating the State, for this advantage, this bank was required to pay 3 per cent. on the investment to the Republican State committee and the Republican county committee for political purposes. From this one source alone the dishonest and un- faithful trustees of the People’s money drew $2,400 annually to debauch the elections, and cheated the State out of that amount, which was due her. This system of political corruption and State robbing has been maintained for Years by the combination of politicians who compose the Republican machine. It has been in operation for at least thirty years, and when it is considered that during all that time from four to six million dollars have been kept in the State Treasury for this purpose, some conception may be form- ed of how this money, virtually stolen from the people, and amounting to thous- ands annually, has been misused to enrich politicians, to buy and control conventions, and to corrupt elections and buy legisla- tors. The evil of such a system is not confin- ed merely to the official and political de- bauchery it produces, but it has done the tax-payers a material injury by robbing them of interest that should have gone in- to the Treasury, and withholding school funds and other money due from the State, which is detained in these banks for the profit of political beneficiaries. It is such a system as this, replete with political corruption and reeking with offi- cial rottenness, that has powerfull y assist- ed in maintaining the control of ‘the Quay machine in this State. Backed by re- sources, stolen from the people, it is making a desperate fight for the retention of its power and its plunder. Only the united votes of honest citizens, irrespective of party connections, can effect its overthrow. “War Issues.” Since the issues of the war are coming to the front, in the hollowed-eyed, emaciated, starved and broken down, soldiers who are returning to their homes, victims of Repub- lican incompe tency and political jobbery— there is not nearly so much shouting in the back pews of Republican audiences, nor are | the amens so loud and vigorous up in the | vicinity of the speakers stand. | The honest Republican sees that there is something wrong ; knows that great out- rages have been perpetrated on the brave boys who risked all for the glory of the flag and the honor of the goverment ; feels that his party has had the control of the camps and commissaries and conditions surrounding their soldier life, and accepts the fact of responsibility for the incom pe- tency that has disgraced the management in field, and camp, and hospital. It is this responsibility that is the issue. It is an issue forced upon the country by Republican incompetency, jobbery, and favoritism. It is an issue that will not down. ——The Curtin township lawyer, farmer, orator and political equilibrist is having a desperately hard time keeping that water on both shoulders. He knows the moment any of it jiggles out the jig will be up with him. A Little Previous. Just when we are preparing to grow a big navy; to graft an immense army upon our system of government, and to open the doors of the treasury to the contractors, and supply agents, and leeches, who hide under the flag and fatten on the public in the name of patriotism, CZAR NICHOLAS comes to the front with a proposition for universal peace, which if successful would make our anticipated preparations for war as useless as a cow’s tail in winter. Had his majesty only waited until our navy was built, our army equipped and the stealings pocketed, what a sensible, humane and acceptable proposition his arbitration would seem. But under the circumstances it takes neither a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, to see that they will not meet with the ap- proval of the American people. They are not made in the interest of the HANNAS, the ALGERS, the QUAYS and other political buzzards, and for this reason will attract but little attention or be treated with little respect on this continent. The Czar is right but is entirely too previous. Place Responsibility. From the Newark Advocate. _ With the coming of peace there will be 8lven an opportunity to look after some matters pertaining to the conduct of the war that badly need investigation. President McKinley has been accorded the united support of all the people for the war’s vigorous prosecution. Now, will he meet the demand of the people by investi- gating the departments which have proved incompetent during the progress of hostilities ? Why were the boys at Santiago forced to fight on half rations ? Why were the sick and wounded soldiers sent North in pest ships ? Why were the troops unnecessarily kept exposed to the yellow fever ? Why were the regiments kept at Santi- ago with nearly 20 per cent. of the force disabled by fever? These questions should be answered. Responsibility should be placed. It is not likely, however, that a rigid accounting will he had. President McKinley appoint- ed t00 many incompetent sons of rich men as officers of the commissary to make it pleasant for him to investigate that depart- ment. Alger as a Secretary of War was a crea- tion of the President’s, and he must be whitewashed. Shafter was appointed by Alger, and will doubtless be let down easy. Discipline and future safety demand in- vestigation, but politics will doubtless pre- vent it. espe span Therefore, Elect Jenks! From the Philadelphia Press, Rep. Mr. Wanamaker did a great public serv- ice by his speeches throughout the State for the six weeks preceding the Harrisburg convention. A second such pilgrimage next fall will deepen and make permanent the profound impression created by his first series of addresses on the evils of ma- chine rule in Pennsylvania. The full ef- fect of such plain home truths as Mr. Wan- amaker prociaimed wherever he went is not seen at once. No one has challenged the truth of his assertions. Being uncon- tradicted they are tacitly admitted. They show that machine rule means a corrupt rule, a costly rule, a robbery of the Treas- ury for the benefit of the machine and its Supporters. Let this be brought home and pressed home to the people and the result will be a Legislature in 1899 for which the people will have no reason to blush or apologize. Te —— Even Sister Williams is Getting on the Governor's Neck. . From the Ph ilipsburg Ledger. : The Bellefonte correspondent of the Philadelphia Press is no “Trushfal James,’ at least when he gets into political mat- ters. The Press is authority for the state- ment that Gov. Hastings had not been in Bellefonte for several months before the late county convention, when the truth of the matter is he had been there twice the week previous and was there the very day of the convention. So far as his influence in his party is concerned he might as well have been in Kam Chatka, but he wasn’t He ‘‘wasn’t there” when the candidates were named, although he did promise, some months ago, the county to the anti. Quay wing. He is hardly likely to hazard any more promises in regard to this county when even his own ward would not sup- port him at the primaries or convention. ————— A Pointer for the Machine. From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.) “The machine has been trying to in- gratiate itself with the farmers and fisher- men by issuing all told during the past five or six years, bird books, fish books and other highly illustrated volumes at a cost-of over $150,000. Why does it not issue a cook book? That would tickle the farmer’s wife and set every city woman clamoring for a copy. The machine is making a mistake. A hoss cook hook with highly illustrated pictures of puddings, apple dumplings and liver and bacon would take immensely. The paternal character of the machine could not better be illus- | trated than by having the next Legislature pass a hill organizing a State culinary de- partment and authorizing the publication of a cook book.” : i as The Republican Way of Evening Up. From the Blossburg Advertiser. There is six hundred million dollars of corporate property in the state of Pennsy1l- vania that does not pay a cent in taxes either to the county or the Commonwealth. When corporate property is taxed, it is only at the rate of five mills on the dollar, while the farmer and business men is taxed all the way from twenty to thirty mills on the dol- lar. Is the dollar of the corporation more sacred than the dollar of the individual? If the farmer and the business man thinks that the corporation dollar is more sacred than their dollar, then keep right on vot- ing for the Republican boss machine. Bday In Need of New Issues. From the Greensburg Democrat. There is reason to suspect that Quay’s appointee for Governor, W. A. Stone, is far from pleased with the sudden termina. tion of the war. He has opened his cam- paign with the claim that kis election was necessary to sustain the war policy of the administration. As the conflict is now at an end, the administration hasn’t got and doesn’t need a war policy. If any person knows of any other dodge that Stone could adopt, in order to evade the real issue of legislative corruption and machine rule, no doubt, he would be glad to hear from such person and hear from him quickly. A Chance for Mr. Stone. From the Clearfield Spirit. When will candidate William A. Stone tell a patient and suffering people what he did to earn that $10,000 he obtained from the State Treasury when his boss Mr. Quay was at the head of the department? Speak right up in meeting Mr. Stone, we're listen- ing. [4 = ii ] Spawls from the Keystone. —While picking berries little Maze Epply, of Rosedale, Greene county, was fatally bit- ten by a coppperhead snake. —Typhoid fever is an epidemic at Vinton- dale, Cambria county, some twelve or four- teen persons being seriously ill with the dis- ease. —On the road in North Lebanon township, Lebanon county, Miss Mary Houtz was rob- bed of her pocketbook by a tramp, who threatened her with a pistol. —While assisting to remove the wreck of an exploded boiler at the Pen Argyl slate quarry, Northampton county, William Parsons was killed by a falling derrick. —The wife and 8-pear-old daughter of Rev. George Jeffers, of Philadelphia, died on Mon- day at Shippensburg from eating toadstools which they mistook for mushrooms, and Mr. Jeffers is critically ill. —Three highwaymen overpowered Charles Chesney, a collector and driver for Armour & Co., on the outskirts of Pittsburg and strip- ped him of money and valuables, leaving him unconscious in the road. —Joseph Hollinger, the Derry township farmer, who killed his wife in a quarrel, has made a statement to District Attorney Det- weiler, confessing his guilt. He will be ar- raigned for trial at the September term of court. —The Berwind White company shipped 250 cars of coal from their mines at Wyndber, Cambria county, one day recently. At an average of 25 tons per car this would make 6250 tons of coal—a large amount to be ship- ped from one plant in one day. —At the firemen’s tournament held at Cur- wensville, the Citizens’ fire company, of Tyrone, won the first prize for equipments, two handsome lamps, and second prize $25, in the steamer contest. The tournament will be held in Tyrone next year. —The old Juniata property on Blair street, in Holidaysburg, has been purchased by Lewis H. Wiseman. Consideration $525. Some idea of the depreciation of property in Hollidaysburg can be formed from this trans- action. Several years ago this same proper- ty sold for $3000. ~The strike of the mixers and layers in the polishing department of the Standard plate glass works at Butler, which threw out of employment about 500 people, was settled Saturday and the works started on Monday. The advance of wages was refused, but the amount of work was reduced. —Seth McCormick Leiter, member Co. B, died at the Williamsport hospital yesterday, of typhoid fever, being the thirteenth Twelfth regiment victim of the disease. He was 23 years old, and was a popular gentle- man. He was a brother of “Buz” Leiter, of the Fallon house, Lock Haven. —The many friends of Frank L. McNar- ney, formerly captain of Co. H, of Lock Haven, but now sergeant in Co. H, Tenth United States infantry, will be gratified to learn that the young officer has been given special mention by General Shafter for con- spicuous bravery at the battle of Santiago. —John H. Bowersox, who was supposed to have died at Davis, W. Va., appeared at Pen- field. Hehad given a brother Odd Fellow, who was sick, a piece of tobacco in an enve- lope of a DuBois lodge, addressed to Bowersox, and this man dying, the envelope was the only clue to indentification found upon him. : —Renovo citizens have received an offer from a gentleman at Bloomsburg who desires to find a suitable location for a silk mill. Up- wards of $160,000 will be needed to build a mill. Of this amount, Renova is expected to contribute at least $20,000. The citizens have already raised nearly $15,000 and have offered a land site. —One of the new battleships provided for by the last navy bill will be named Penn- sylvania, in honor of the grand old Keystone State. The Pennsylvania will be built at Cramps shipyard, Philadelphia, armored with plate from Pittsburg and armed with guns from Bethlehem. She will be all Penn- sylvania from the keel up. 4 —Petro Dimri, one of Howley & Co,’s men employed at Kittanning Point, was com- pletely buried under a fall of rock and earth Monday. Everyone thought that the Italian had been killed, but when a rescuing party dug down to him he crawled out unhurt, with the exception of a few bruises. About two tons of earth fell upon him. —Richard B. Painton, the inventor of a new method of propelling vessels at a great rate of speed has bid on the construction of a number of torpedo beat destroyers for the government capable ot making 40 knots an hour, four with a speed of 30 knots and four able to cover 35 knots. If he 1s capable of constructing these vessels they will be the envy of all other nations. Mr. Painton is a resident of Willlamsport. —A company of Clearfield capitalists, of which A. W. Lee, of that place is president, will build sixteen miles of railroad through the lumber and coal fields of southern Clear- field county. The road begins at Clearfield bridge, on the Beech Creek railroad, four miles southeast of Clearfield, and runs down Clearfield creek sixteen miles to Balsena. P. E. McGovern, of Punxsutawney, has the contract for the construction of the entire road. —At Milton yesterday morning, Lewis Et- tinger, foreman in the machine shops of Shimer & Son, attempted to shift a belt. His clothing was caught on a line shaft, and he was whirled around at the rate of 200 rev- olutions a minute. The machinery was stopped and Ettinger was found to have his left leg broken below the knee, the left shoulder blade broken, the left arm fractured in two places below the elbow and in one place above, one rib broken, his right leg badly bruised and otherwise seriously in- jured. —Mrs. Bridget Hurrington met with a dis- tressing accident near DuBois on Wednesday. In company with her daughter she had been picking berries when a storm came up. The | Women when near a mine crept beneath a string of empty cars. While they were there the cars began to move and the frightened women made a desperate effort to escape the rolling wheels. The daughter crept from under the train in safety, but the mother was not so fortunate and the wheels passed over both of her legs, which were severed from her body.
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