Deoalics atm
Terms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Cct. 14, 1898.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - EbpiTor.
The Democratic State Ticket,
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEORGE A. JENKS,
of Jefferson.
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM H. SOWDEN,
of Lehigh.
FOR SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS,
PATRICK DELACEY, of Lackawanna.
TOR SUPERIOR JUDGE,
CALVIN M. BOWER, of Centre.
WILLIAM TRICKETT, of Cumberland.
FOR CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE,
J. M. WEILER, .of Carbon.
FRANK P. IAMS, of Allegheny.
Democratic District Ticket.
For Congress,
J. K, P. HALL.
For Senate,
W. C. HEINLE,
Democratic County Convention.
ROBT. M. FOSTER, State College.
J. H. WETZEL, Bellefonte.
Prothonotary,—M. 1. GARDNER, Bellefonte.
District Att’y,—N. B. SPANGLER, Bellefonte.
County Surveyor,—H. B. HERRING, Gregg Twp.
Assembly,
The State Leaders Coming.
On Saturday evening Oct. 29th, GEo. A.
JENKS, WM. H. SOWDEN, PATRICK DE-
LACEY and all the candidates on the Dem-
ocratic state ticket will be in Bellefonte to
attend the great meeting that will be held
here for honest government and state re-
form. :
On such a platform - they are the friend
of every citizen in the State. Turn out
and hear them.
Take Advantage of the Situation.
An opportunity such as the present af-
fords for winning an overwhelming victory
has seldom been presented the Democracy
of Centre county—at least not during the
last half score of years. From every pre-
cinct the same news comes of divisions and
dissuasion among Republicans, and of har-
mony and hopefulness among Democrats.
And there are reasons for this condition
of affairs. Honest Republicans have grown
tired of the rule of a boss. Self-respecting
Republicans have become disgusted with a
system of politics that makes two or three
political upstarts in this town the mouth-
pieces of a state machine that dictates not
only State, but district and county tickets
as well, and then demands obsequious sup-
port of all its acts, or denounces as disloyal
those who have manliness enough to pro-
test against them. Tax-paying Republi-
cans, are, with the other people of the
county, feeling the effects of incompetent
and profligate county management, and
are anxiously waiting for the time when
they can protest against the needless in-
crease of county expenditures and a finan-
cial management that has increased not
only the property valuation in the county
but the tax millage as well.
These conditions, coupled with the fact
that the local Republican ticket is distinct-
ly and avowedly a Quay ticket—a ticket
which if elected will exert every influence
to continue the same obnoxious system of
political bossism against which decent men
of all parties are now arrayed, has placed
that party in the county in a situation
that turn which way it will it finds trouble
in its own ranks, and which will require
every energy and every effort it can put
forth to save its own vote. It has no time
to spend on Democrats. It can make no
fight, for it has nothing to fight for but a
continuation of the same bad State and
County managements of which the people
now complain. It can promise nothing for
its candidates for they fear to open their
mouths, or say to the people what may be
expected of them if successful.
Handicapped, divided and discordant as
the Republicans are, there should he no
trouble for the Democracy redeeming the
county and placing it in the Democratic
column again by an old fashioned majority.
It can be done without doubt, and it
should be done without question. To do
it, and to do it certainly will r equire but
little work. Let each Democrat who feels
an interest in the honor of the Common-
wealth and in the welfare of the county,
interest his less interested neighbor in the
necessity of going out and voting the Dem-
ocratic ticket. Let the organization and
those charged with its work, simply at-
tend to getting the Democratic vote aroused
and to the polls, and the work will be
done. Converts are all right; there are
plenty of them ; but they will see to
themselves.
What is needed is to poll every Demo-
cratic vote, and when this is done, the vic-
tory will be won. The time to prepare for
that is now, and the way to begin is to get
your neighbor and your neighbor’s neigh-
bor interested in the good work.
———On the night of September 22nd W.
C. ArNoLD was made the Republican
nominee for Congress in this district. This
paragraph is published for the information
of our very honorable friend, the editor of
the Gazette. The matter of ARNOLD'S
candidacy for Congress seems to have slip-
ped his memory and we know that it would
be a lasting sorrow in the sanctum of our
up town contemporary if it missed any op-
portunity to say sweet scented things about
Mr. ARNOLD.
—=JIM HALL in Congress means that
ever man, woman and child in Centre,
Clearfield, Clarion, Elk and Forest coun-
ties will have a friend there.
It is a Good Sign.
When a man is popular at home there
can be no doubt of his being an honest, up-
right, estimable citizen. It is to the popu-
larity of J. K. P. HALL, the Democratic
nominee for Congress in this district, that
attention needs be called so that the voters
will know that the man who has friends at
home is the one who will look after the in-
terests of those abroad. as well. In com-
menting on Mr. HALL’S nomination the
Ridway Evening Star, the only Republican
paper in Elk county, gives the following
reasons for tacking his name to its mast-
head and giving him its unqualified sup-
port.
The result of the Democratic Congressional
conference at DuBois last night is extremely
gratifying to the majority of the voters in
Elk county, Republicans as well as Demo-
crats.
Not that the former have any love for the
nominee whose efforts have been the means
of keeping the county in the Democratic
column for years past, but because they
recognize in J. K.P. Hall a winner and a
man who will put an end to the disgraceful
misrepresentions that the district has labored
under for the past two years.
“Of two evils choose the lesser,” isan old
and time-honored injunction, and will be
faithfully followed by the greater number of
Republicans of the county, who believe in
bonesty, integrity and faithfulness.
No Democrat, whoever he may be, can
bring the 28th Congressional district into
more disrepute than it now is. For that
reason, Mr. Hall will be supported by hun-
dreds of Republicans who never voted any
but the Republican ticket, but who do not
hold to the fallacious idea that ‘‘the worst
Republican possible is better than the best
Democrat.”
Mr. Hall is able, conservative and honest,
and will not insult the Chief Executive of
the whole people with bombastic utterances
intended to further his own interests and to
please hair-brained jingoists and extremists.
Mr. Hall did not seek the nomination and
much preferred not to make the race. It
was only after he became convinced that the
majority of the people of the district irrespec-
tive of political lines, preferred him as their
representative instead of the present ‘en-
cumbrance,”’ that he consented to the use of
his name.
He has made no pledges has no promises to
redeem and will be the representative of the
who people, and not of a pap seeking and
office holding contingent whose interest in
politics never rises above post office appoint-
ments and federal plums.
Mr. HALL is exactly the kind of a man
that this honest Republican paper says he
is and when such a journal comes out open-
ly in support of him there ought to be no
doubt left in’ anyone’s mind as to his
desirability as a Representative.
Sudden Change of a Campaign Program.
There was something comical in the sud-
denness with which the machine managers
had to change the program of their cam-
paign. . They started out to whoop the
machine state ticket through with a war
hurrah. The people were to be so dazzled
by the brilliancy of the Republican war
record that they would lose sight of the
abuses in the state government.
This program broke down when the hor-
rors of ALGER’S army management began
to unfold themselves to the view of an out-
raged and indignant people. Instead of
being able to answer charges of state mis-
rule by ‘‘pointing with pride’’ to the man-
ner in which a Republican administration
conducted the war, army abuses were add-
ed to state misrule as a double odium
which the Republican politicians had to be
answerable for in the pending political con-
test.
They no longer flaunt the old flag in
connection with the war, as they did at
the beginning of their campaign, to cover
the rascalities of the state corruptionists.
The war record of the McKINLEY adminis-
tration has entirely failed as a source of
Republican campaign ammunition, leaving
the machine managers to face the fact that
while the Democrats forced the war for the
freedom of Cuba, and supported it by vot-
ing ample supplies of men and money, the
Republicans are responsible for all the out-
rages and disgraces connected with it.
The sacrifice of the lives and health of
thousands of soldiers was caused by a Re-
publican President putting a corrupt and
incompetent politician in charge of the
army, and by the appointment of Shoals
of inexperienced and ignorant political
hangers-on and personal favorites, whose
incapacity to conduct the commissary,
quartermaster and medical departments
turned the camps into pest holes, where
American soldiers were made the victims of
Republican army management.
As the Democratic connection with the
war was honorable and patriotic, while
everything connected with it that was per-
nicious and disgraceful came from a Repub-
lican source, is there anything surprising
in the suddenness with which the machine
managers stopped waving the flag and
dropped the war as a campaign issue ?
——The reason that TOWNSEND and DA-
LEY don’t tell the people where they
would stand if elected to the Legislature
ought to he very apparent to all. Neither
one of them knows where he would stand,
simply because they would both stand on
QUAY legs.
— “Of two evils choose the lesser’’ and
vote for JIM HALL, for Congress, says the
Ridgway Evening Star, the only Republican
paper in Elk county.
The Boss in a Criminal Role.
The prosecution that has been instituted
against M. S. QUAY, ex-Treasurer HAY-
WooD and others of the political ring that
has had control of the state money, should
not surprise the public. They have been
prosecuted for using for their own personal
profit state funds which had been deposited
in a banking institution under the system
which has long served their personal and
political interests.
The people have no reason to be ignorant
of the fact that such abuseful use was being
made of the public money. For years the
Democrats have charged the machine cor-
ruptionists with using the state funds for
their personal and political profit. There
has not only been Democratic demands
that a stop should be put to the practice of
favored banks and machine politicians di-
viding the profits of public money deposit-
ed in such institutions, but during Gov-
ernor PATTISON’S first administration a
Democratic bill was passed that took at
least a part of the state funds from the
clutches of corrupt manipulators, and put
it where its profits could not be ‘‘divided’’
among a gang of thievish politicians, but
went to the State in the shape of interest.
The passage of the bill introduced by
Democratic Senator KIMES, and signed by
Democratic Governor PATTISON, was de-
signed to put state funds out of the reach
of the machine rascals by investing them in
United States bonds that would bear in-
terest for the benefit of the State. If
Democratic control of the state treasury
could have continued there would have
been an end put to the misuse of the state
money for which QUAY now finds himself
prosecuted.
The people had no reason to be ignorant
of these dishonest practices when they were
informed of them from Democratic sources,
but it appeared to require the suicide of
that poor victim HOPKINS to produce such
a disclosure of this corruption as to enable
it to be made the subject of criminal prose-
cution.
There is nothing in the public career of
QUAY that renders it improbable that there
is just cause for the prosecution against
him for using the money for his specula-
tions. His reputation is not of the kind to
fall back on for support under such a
charge. Acts imputed to him in connec-
tion with state funds, which, if true,
should have sent him to the penitentiary,
have been openly and repeatedly charged
in responsible public prints without evok-
ing from him the vindication of a prosecu-
tion for libel.
The proceedings against him in conneec-
tion with state money in the People’s bank
cannot be regarded as intended for political
effect, as they have been instituted by a
Republican prosecutor. But whether the
criminal action to which the Republican
state boss is now subjected has been insti-
gated by political enmity, or not, there has
been sufficient evidence .produced in the
preliminary hearing to justify proceedings
in the courts against MATTHEW STANLEY
QUAY for “shaking the plum tree” that has
furnished such profitable fruit to the ma-
chine ringsters.
Do You Favor the $60,000 Steal.
If you are opposed to paying the
$60,000 expense bill of the fake investigat-
ing committee that put in its time drink-
ing wine aud living high at the hotel Wal-
ton in Philadelphia, three years ago, un-
der the pretense of investigating the mu-
nicipal mavagement of that city, and
neither discovered nor tried to discover
anything wrong. you will vote for FOSTER
and WETZEL. An appropriation to pay
this bill was passed by the last Legislature.
It was vetoed bv the Governor. Senators
QUAY, ANDREWS and others in whose inter-
ests that committee was created, will again
attempt to saddle this hill upon the backs
of the tax-payers. DALEY and Town-
SEND will both vote for it. They are tied
up by the parties who nominated, and are
working to eleet them, to sustain the ac-
tion of the Republican legislative caucus,
and that causcus will endorse that bill.
QUAY is for it and Quay will control the
Republican caucus in its favor. If you
want to be fleeced with this bill, vote for
the two Republican candidates for Legisla-
ture. If you are opposed to it, you must
vote for FOSTER and W ETZEL.
——The Philipsburg Ledger has taken
up the Gazette's contention that ELT didn’t
say it, but we still insist that he did say it.
We were frank enough at the time we
quoted him to give him the benefit of the
doubt by suggesting that he might have
been so rattled that he didn’t know what
he was saying, but he did say that he had
never voted for a Democrat in his life all
the same, whether he knew it or not. And
if ELI and the Ledger and the Gazette wonld
like to hear it we will tell them that the
same day that he made that speech, in
talking the subject over with one of Phil-
ipsburg’s most responsible and popular
business men, this business man from his
own town said : ‘‘Well, even if he didn’t
say it I'll bet he never did vote for a
Democrat.”
——1If the editor of the Gazette would
stop to think a minute before he gets so ex-
cited over what he is pleased to call Jim
HALLS political perfidy he would look in-
to his own personal relations with Con-
gressman ARNOLD. By the way, dear
friend, why haven’t you said something
for Mr. ARNOLD, in your “official organ of
the Republican party for Centre county,”
since he was nominated. You have had
since Sept. 22nd to do it. This political
perfidy business depends entirely on whose
| ox is gored, doesn’ it ?
—A meeting of the Democratic state
press association, will be held at the Dem-
ocratic state headquarters in Philadelphia,
to-day, Friday, at 2 o’clock.
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sd Wy, | rd
{ forty years in the building.
Who Pays the State Taxes?
In his speech at Gettysburg Mr. Jenks
showed that the machine boast that the
cost of the state government is gotten from
the corporations, even if true, would be
small consolation to the average taxpayer.
This, because of the total taxes collected in
the State, only about $12,000,000 are col-
lected by the State, while $38 000,000 are
collected by the counties, municipalities,
etc., and the bargain of the machine with
the corporations is that, if they pay the
state tax they shall be exempt from all
other forms of taxation. In other words,
the people pay, as county and municipal
taxation, more than three times as much as
is collected as state tax. The people pay
all, indirectly, of course, and directly they
pay in this way more than $3.00 for every
$1.00 that passes into the hands of the state
treasurer. Under the Democratic party,
before the war, and in every other State of
the Union, the corporations pay their full
share of local as well as state taxation, so
that the rule in Pennsylvania is a favor to
the corporations rather than to the people.
But it is not true, as the machine apolo-
gists seek to show, that the corporations
pay all the state tax. The fact is they pay
little more than half of it. According to
the report of auditor general Mylin, in
1896 (the last auditor general’s report pub-
lished, though 1898 is nearly through
with), the sources of the state income were
as follows :
From financial corporations and
associations............... teres
From corporations (r
and associations............
$962,210 39
5,983,680 75
$6,945,900 14
From the counties in tax on per-
sonal property, liquor licenses,
CUCL... ute savienderoihinte se doniivasssanvanie
Other sources, notaries publie, fees
of officers, fines, etc..............u......
$5,967,943 45
5,406,371 88
561,571 57
Polak.iicii ii didi
Grand total...................0.. . $12,913,843 59
This completely explodes the contention
of the machine that the corporations pay
all, even of the state taxes. They pay, as
the foregoing figures show, but little more
than half of them. Of the $50,000,000 col-
lected by all the tax levying authorities in
1896 they contributed something less than
$7,000,000 and the people, chiefly the own-
ers of real estate, something more than
$43,000,000, so that as tax-yielders the
people, whose aggregate property is worth
very little more than that of the corpora-
tions, are made to give up, under machine
rule, over six dollars for every one dollar
surrendered by the corporations.
It is notorious that everywhere the poor
man’s cottage or the small farmer’s hold-
ing is assessed ata far greater percentage
of its real value than are the larger proper-
ties of wealthy individuals and corpora-
tions. It is the poor man, therefore, that
is most injured by the machine taxation
system. He pays in tax many times as
much in the first instance and in one way
or other is made to pay it all in the final
summing up. The Democratic party does
not believe in further taxing anybody.
The Republican machine, on the other
hand, is busily engaged in devising new
schemes of taxation to meet their steals
and extravagances. The Democratic party
would not alter the present tax laws other
than to amend them where it should be
made clear that they are unfair to any par-
ticular class. The Democrats believe in
economy, but are not content to sit silent-
ly by and have their Republican opponents
gather glory from a tax system that is not,
as they falsely. and impudently contend,
in any sense, a bénign scheme from the
standpoint of the best interests of the peo-
ple.—Dem. Press Bureau.
The Forty Years’ Carnival.
Mr. Wanamaker has repeatedly said that
the present Republican machine has taken
This carries
us back to the first election of Simon
Cameron to the United States Senate as a
Republican, in 1857. Three Democrats—
Lebo, Maneer and Wagonseller--voted for
Cameron under circumstances that left no
doubt of their having been corruptly in-
fluenced. All three were ruined by their
perfidy. [Five years later, in 1862, there
was a Democratic majority in the Legis-
lature on joint ballot, of just one. Charles
R. Buckalew was the Democratic choice
for Senator. On the day of election a host
of Democrats assembled at the capitol from
all parts of the state, some, it is said, with
pistols in their pockets. At any rate,
though there is every reason to believe
that certain Democratic members had been
tampered with, all voted for Buckalew
when the test came. It was considered
safer.
The elder Cameron was unquestionably
the founder of the Republican machine now
dominated by Matthew S. Quay. It had
taken shape with his election to the Sen-
ate. When the war began he was Secretary
of war. Our soldiers in the field were often
quartered, in those days, in rotten tents,
shivered under half-weight blankets, went
practically bare footed in shoes with paste
board insoles and as good as naked in
shoddy trousers. But the contractors
turned in for the machine. Cameron was
censured by formal resolution of the House,
and Lincoln was compelled to drive him
from the cabinet. Political influence sub-
sequently caused the resolution of censure
to be expunged from the record.
The tariff, about this time, was exploited
for all it was worth. Scores of tariff bills
were: passed and the beneficiaries joined
and ‘‘put up’’ for the machine.
Offices began to multiply, and corpora-
tions also, and these were made to pay the
machine tribute. And then, in their turn,
came the ten million steal, the lumber
boom bills, the Kemble & Mackey frauds,
the George O. Evans swindles, the Pitts-
burg riot loot and a hundred other in-
famous procedures differing from these in
degree but not in essence, each of which
marked some epoch in the rise of the ma-
chine on the tide of fraud and corruption.
With the single exception of Beaver,
every Republican Governor during these
forty years has, more or less openly, been
forced into antagonism to the machine, its
exactions of them hecoming, in the long
ran, too much to be patiently borne. Cur-
tin drifted into the Democratic party,
Geary revolted after he had signed legis-
lation at the machine's behest that he
knew to be unconstitutional and strikingly
in the nature of robbery. Even Hartranft
was finally goaded into kicking. Hoyt
entered upon open rebellion, but too late.
His final message, in 1883, was a fierce ex-
coriation of the machine's arrogance and
infamies. We all know how Hastings
turned upon the looters in 1897. Only
Beaver was complacent.
First the elder Cameron, then the younger
and now Quay—these make up the record.
Each in his turn was head of the machine.
Simon organized and started it upon its
career. Don improved upon the methods
of his father, from the machine standpoint;
Quay has made it intolerable. We have
had forty years of it, as Mr. Wanamaker
says, and forty years is an abundance.
The machine must go.—Dem. Press Bureau.
Pittsburgers Never Saw the Like of the
Knights.
Two Score Thousand Men Were in the Grand
Knights Templar Demonstration There.—An Im-
mense Assemblage Viewed the Demonstration
from Many Points of Vantage—Even the Down-
fall of Rain Did Not Interfere.—Opening of the
Conclave.
PITTSBURG, October 11.—The parade of
the twenty-seventh triennial conclave of
Knights Templar is now an event of his-
tory. Whatever had been anticipated in
the way of gorgeousness and splendor and
all-round success was amply realized—that
is, all but the rain, which was not expect-
ed. But even at that, it was the grandest
parade ever held in this city from which-
ever view one may take it. In point of
numbers there were 20,000 marchers in
line, it easily doubled similar occurrences
of the past, and as far as the appearance of
the men, their uniforms, the trappings of
their horses as well as the perfection of
their movements were concerned, Pitts-
burg has never seen anything to equal it.
The day started with not a cloud in the
sky and long before the booming cannon
announced the start of the marchers there
was a multitude of people packed together
in an impenetrable crowd along the line,
extending from the heart of Allegheny
City over into Pittsburg, out Fifth Avenue
to Schenley park, a distance of seven miles.
The number of onlookers on the streets, in
the windows and on the roofs and in the
reviewing stands has been variously esti-
mated from 500,000 to 1,000,000 people.
At 10 o'clock the wonderful cavalcade
completed its formation and the march be-
gan, and three hours later the last detach-
ment passed the same point. The rain com-
menced at 1.30 o’clock, and for a while it
looked as if the parade might be broken up
but the knights walked along with the
same spirit and displayed the same martial
and dignified bearing in the rain as they
had done under the shining sun. The
crowd soon began to reorganize, and the
volleys of cheers and applause, that had
been thunderous before, now buist forth in
perfect tornadoes. Such encouragement
could not but have its effect, and the re-
sult was the line remained unbroken until
the end came. The arrangements were
perfect.
The social features of the conclave took
place to-night at the Duquesne Garden.
This was the reception exclusively for mem-
bers of the different Knights Templar com-
manderies and no laymen or any one ex-
cept ladies, without a templar uniform,
was admitted. The guest of honor was
grandmaster of the grand encampment
Warren Larue Thomas. After the recep-
tion there was a grand ball and the gather-
ing did not break up until after midnight.
Duquesne Garden is an immense building
and it is estimated that more than 8,000
knights with their ladies attended the re-
ception.
Immediately after the parade the formal
opening of the twenty-seventh triennial
conclave of the grand encampment of
Knights Templar of the United States of
America, took place in Carnegie music
hall.
Chairman Wigley, of the reception com-
mittee, introduced mayor Ford, who wel-
comed the grandmaster and Sir Knights to
Pittsburg in a few appropriate remarks.
The mayor was followed by grand com-
mander H. H. Kuhn. of Pennsylvania, and
Sir Knight Lee S. Smith, the chairman of
the local executive committee, both of
whom indulged in a few words of welcome
to the meeting.
Grandmaster Thomas was then formally;
introduced, whereupon he delivered the
annual address.
After the formal opening the grand mas-
ter ordered the roll call, and the organiza-
tion of the grand encampment took place.
Thereafter the reports of the grand treas-
urer Lines and general and recorder Mills
were read and referred to the proper com-
mittees.
The meeting adjourned to reconvene at
10 o’clock to-morrow morning. When the
election is taken up on Thursday the of-
ficers will he moved up in rank, each a
point, except the grand recorder, who holds
his office permanently. The grand prelate
may be advanced. His term of office does
not expire triennially, but there is a move-
ment to change the constitution as regards
this office.
elected, and for this office Lees Smith, of
this city, is suggested.
Seriousness of Uprising was Exaggerated.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—Officials of both
the war department and the interior de-
partment are inclined to the belief that the
seriousness of the Indian uprisings in
Minnesota has been exaggerated. They
are not disposed, however, to take anything
for granted. Adjutant General Corbin
telegraphed General Bacon to-night that
he could have all the troops he might deem
necessary to quell the demonstration of the
hostiles. The Fourth infantry, now at
Fort Sheridan, Chicago, and the Eighteenth
infantry, now at Columbus barracks, have
been placed at General Bacon’s disposal.
Both regiments are prepared to move to
the scene of the uprising at a few hours’
notice.
Indian Commissioner Jones has gone in
person to Minnesota to investigate the sub-
ject of the uprising. He was expected to
arrive there to-day, and the Indian bureau
is looking for information from him to-
morrow.
Litigation About Roosevelt’s Tax Ended,
NEW YORK, Oct 10.—The motion of
counsel of Theodore Roosevelt to discon-
tinue the certiorari proceeding brought in
his behalf to contest the assessments on
him of a personal tax of $1,005, by the city
authorities, was consented to by the cor-
poration counsel when the motion was call-
ed by Justice Smyth in the supreme court
this morning. The payment of the tax
and the order of discontinuance therefore
ends the litigation over Col. Roosevelt’s
liability to pay taxes as a resident of this
city.
——Is it right that public school offi-
cials should be forced to borrow to main-
tain the schools? Well, that is what they
are now doing, and it is just what they have
been doing for some time, and all over the
State too, While favored bankers are
holding school funds and dividing the prof-
its with certain state officers, the tax pay-
ers are obliged to hire money at six per
cent. The fact is the State is bankrupt
and cannot pay the appropriations made
for schools and charities. It is high time
there was a change.
——The railroads all over the country
are retrenching. How ? By throwing men
out of employment. Is this done because
railroad officials are opposed to the work-
ingmen having steady employment? No.
‘Why is it then ? The why and wherefore is
that bard times, another name for McKin-
ley prosperity, has struck the railroads and
struck them hard. That’sall. Vote for
Jenks.
EEE R A \
A grand junior warden is to be:
Bloody Fight With Strikers.
Imported Negroes Shot Down in [llinois.—S8even
Dead and Eighteen Wounded.—Troops Were Or-
dered to the Scene and the Town is Compara-
‘tively Quiet. History of the Trouble.
VIRDEN, Illl.,, October 12.—The little
town of Virden is comparatively quiet to-
night after a day of riot and blood-shed,
the long expected clash between the union
miners and imported negroes having taken
place. At 12.40 o’clock this afternoon the
Chicago and Alton special bearing 200 ne-
gro miners from the South arrived at the
stockade around the Chicago-Virden Coal
company’s mines and immediately the ter-
rific firing began. The list at 10 o’clock
to-night stands seven dead and eighteen
wounded.
It is said that six men were wounded in-
side the stockade, but this has not been
verified, and those inside the stockade re-
fuse to communicate with outsiders.
TRAIN WAYLAID.
For the past two weeks rumors have
reached Virden daily that a train having
negroes from Alabama would reach the
city and the Chicago and Alton depot has
been surrounded day and night by vigilant
miners determinedly awaiting their arriv-
al.
To-day the Chicago and Alton limited,
due to pass here at 10 o’clock, got through
en route to Chicago an hour late displaying
flags on their rear indicating that a special
was following. Immediately the word
was spread and a dense crowd of miners
lined the station platform, while another
crowd collected at the entrance of the stock-
ade, a half mile north of the station. D.
B. Kiley, a Chicago and Alton detective,
stood guard at a switch at the south end of
the station platform to see it was not tam-
pered with.
At 12.40 the special train passed the sta-
tion and signal shots were fired from the
south end of the train announcing the spec-
ial’s arrival.
FIRST SHOTS FROM THE TRAIN.
Immediately shots were fired from the
moving train and outside and the battle
was on. A few moments after the train
had passed the switch where Kiley was sta-
tioned and while he was talking with two
citizens he threw up his arms and dropped
dead with a bullet through his brain. He
was the first man killed.
The train continued to the stockade, the
miners firing into it all along the route and
the negro passengers returning the fire.
The moment the train reached the stockade
the miners opened a desperate fire with
Winchesters, revolvers and firearms of
every description. The negroes on the
train answered with a steady fire.
A CONTINUOUS VOLLEY.
The miners and the train were envel-
oped in a cloud of smoke and the shooting
sounded like a continuous volley. Engi-
neer Burt Tigar received a bullet in the
arm and dropped from his seat. His fire-
man seized the throttle and pulled it open
with a jerk. The train was under speed
carrying a load of negro passengers to
Springfield. How many were wounded is
not known. .
The train stopped at the stockade but
two minutes. Its departure did not cause
the firemen to cease. The tower of the
stockade was filled with sharpshooters
armed with Winchesters and they kept up
a steady fire into the crowd of union min-
ers. Eyewitnesses say miners were killed
after the train had departed. It is not
known how many men are stationed be-
hind the walls of the stockade, but an es-
timate is placed at between twenty-five
and forty.
Harrowing Story.
Told by a DuBois Soldier of Treatment Received by
Himself and Companions.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—The transport
Obdam, with troops from Porto Rico, ar-
rived at quarantine late this afternoon.
Speaking to Governor Hastings, of Penn-
sylvania, who went down to the Obdam
to-night on the steamer Fletcher, Colonel
Gibson, of the National Relief association,
said that he had been the means of saving
many soldiers from starving.
‘‘Governor,”’ he said, after an exchange
of greetings, ‘I have a story to tell you
that will startle the country.”
As a result of this remark there was a
conference between the commissioner and
Governor Hastings, after which the Gover-
nor decided to take off the Pennsylvanir
soldiers and have them sent to the hotel
for the night.
Ralph Harwick, of DuBois, a mem-
ber of the Pennsylvania volunteers, told a
harrowing story of the treatment he and
his companions had received while in
Porto Rico. ‘‘“We got there on July 28th,’
he said. ‘‘and were landed from the trans-
port Mobile. Many of us had contracted
typhoid fever in the military camps in the
South. The tropical climate developed
the disease but, notwithstanding our
weakened condition, the Sixteenth made a
good fight when it encountered the Span-
iards.
‘The regiment was under fire for over
an hour and at the close of the engagement
thirteen Spaniards had been killed and
sixty-five wounded. We deserved better
treatment than we got when Porto Rico
had been taken. The regulars were well
looked after, but the volunteers were
starved. When finally the men were
forced to succumb to the fever and were
sent to the hospitals, they were treated
shamefully. Although delirious, we were
forced to get out of our cots to watch some
poor, brave fellow dying. Some of the
men went mad under the strain: Only
think of it, delirious men nursing the dy-
in 1
Harwick’s story was but a sample of the
complaints which were recited hy the men
to Governor Hastings as they had been
transferred from the Obdam to the
Fletcher.
Reduced Rates to Philadelphia via Penn-
sylvania Railroad, Account Peace
Jubilee.
For the grand Peace Jubilee at Philadel-
phia, October 26th and 27, the Pennsylva-
nia railroad company will sell excursion
tickets from all ticket stations on its line,
to Philadelphia, at rate of single fare for
the round trip (minimum rate, 50 cents).
Tickets will be sold and good, going Octo-
ber 24th to 27th, and returning leaving
Philadelphia to October 31st, inclusive.
This jubilee will be one of the greatest
events in the history of Philadelphia. The
rededication of Independence Hall, recent-
ly restored, the unveiling of the Grant
Equestrian Monument, Fairmount Park ;
a monster civic and industrial parade, and
a grand military and naval pageant, led by
General Miles and other distinguished
heroes of the late war, will be prominent
features. The President and his Cabinet
will also he present.
For the accommodation of persons desir-
ing to witness the evening ceremonies and
return the same night, special late trains
will be run from Philadelphia to the prin-
cipal cities on each division each night.
43-40-2¢.
hii, nin,