Terms, 82.00 a Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., Cct. 28, 1898.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - Ebpi1Tor.
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.
FOR 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,
A Preposterous Claim.
Nothing could present candidate SWAL-
LOW in a more absurd light than his claim
that he was the original discoverer of the
machine abuses, and the first to make a
movement for their correction. In one of
his speeches he exclaimed, ‘how suddenly
Mr. JENKS and his Democratic supporters
became reformers. Why didn’t they begin
the attack on the QUAY machine 2’
Is it possible that the doctor does not
know that the Democratic party has been
fighting the Republican machine, and ex-
posing its corrupt practices, ever since it
secured the controlling power in the State?
The action of the Democracy of Pennsyl-
vania has been a prolonged protest against
the machine misrule, and that it has not
proven more successful was because there
were too many citizens who, like doctor
SWALLOW, continued to support this cor-
rupt combination while the Democracy was
waging war against it, and but recently
were able to see that there was anything
wrong.
Every abuse which the doctor has so
tardily discovered, and against which he is
now directing his belated attacks, was
known to and assailed by the Democrats
ever since the machine commenced its
career of corruption. The fact that the
QUAY politicians were dishonestly using
the State funds, deposited in favorite
banks, which the doctor appears to have
but lately discovered, was exposed and de-
nounced by the Democrats for at least
twenty years past, and an attempt was
made by them to partially prevent this
rascality by the passage of the HUMES bill,
which was introduced by a Democratic
Senator and signed by a Democratic Gov-
ernor. All this was going on while Dr.
SWALLOW was acting with the party whose
misrule the Democrats were trying to cor-
rect. At every state election for at least a
quarter of a century the Democracy of the
State fought the Republicans on the ground
of their corrupt management of the state
government, and in two instances elected a
Governor whose honesty and observance of
2.
Democratic principles temporarily checked | 3.
the reign of profligacy in our state affairs. | *
The extravagant waste of the public money | 5
by reckless legislation ; the use of the state | 6.
funds for political purposes ; the saddling [ 7
of unnecessary and expensive offices upon |
the tax payers, and the unfaithful service
of state officers at great public expense, | gq
were abuses that had been exposed and
made the subject of attack on the Repub-| 4,
lican machine by the State Democracy long n
before Dr. SWALLOW suddenly discovered :
that there was a corrupt power misruling | 12
the State, and made a sensational attack
on it. The only charge he made that had x
any novelty about it was that the rascals :
had fired the capitol, and although it is| 14.
probable that some of the gang did burn |
the old structure, he failed to sustain the
charge in the prosecution to which he was| 1%
subjected. 17.
The doctor’s claim to being the original
reformer and the first to attack the QUAY HE
machine has rather too unsubstantial a| »
foundation to warrant his getting a swelled | 2.
head over it. >
— ;
—— Deputy Secretary of Agriculture 5
JOHN HAMILTON is itching to get on the |
stump for Quay. Heisa Republican, ’tis
true, but what right has he to carry an of-
fice that should be purely non-partisan
into the politics of the State. It would
not be so odious to have the Deputy Secre-
tary of Agriculture trying to bolster up the
waning power of a boss, but when he
permits himself to be called a ‘‘Professor”’
of an institution with the teaching force of
which he has not been connected for twen-
ty years he is doing it an injustice that
every friend of The Pennsylvania State
College has a right to resent,
——You know where FosTER and WET-
ZEL stand. They are both unequivocally
against QUAY. If you are tired of QUAY
and QUAY-ism in Pennsylvania the only
way you can help yourself to get rid of
such a parasite on your manhood is by vot-
ing for men who are pledged to try to de-
feat him. Vote for FOSTER and WETZEL.
Ee ———————————
——MITCHELL I. GARDNER is a sober,
christian man. Don’t vote for him if you
don’t want such an oue’for your prothono-
tary.
——WANAMAKER says a new trust has
been formed—a QUAY collar trust.
Proved Himself Honest.
The only and very queer charge the Re-
publican papers are making against repre-
sentative FOSTER is that he was a member
of some of the most important committees
of the House during the last session of the
Legislature.
for some people to oppose him.
with brains enough and with that kind of
go-a-head-itive-ness, that commands atten-
tion and respect of his opponents to a suffi-
cient extent to call them to recognize his
abilities and place him in important legis-
lative positions, is not the kind of a repre-
sentative some people want.
objects in view, and hosses henchmen,
desire nonentities as Legislators—tools who
can be worked and who amount to nothing
except to take and obey orders, as the boss
may give them.
This may be reason enough
A man
Bosses with
But BoB FOSTER is not one of this kind.
He knows what he does and he knows why
he does it.
straight-forward Representative.
home from Harrisburg with clean skirts
and the knowledge of having tried to do
the best he could for the interest of the
people of the county he represented.
He was an independent,
He came
There is no one who has yet dared to
charge him with any wrong.
committed any, if he had failed in anyway
to do his duty, it would long since have
been heralded through circulars, and the
Republican papers to. the voters of the
county.
had tried to fleece the tax-payers with un-
just bills for the extra service it would have
been charged against him long before this
But he was not.
was that he was important and influential
enough to be placed on ‘‘important com-
mittees ?”’
time.
If he had
If he had beena ‘‘rooster,’”” or
His only offense
What a complaint ?
One thing is certain, however, and that
same.
is that with all his service and extra work
on committees he neither asked nor accepted
either extra pay or extra mileage for the
While others demanded extra com-
pensation for everything they did, and
for what they did not do, BoB Foster
served his people diligently and faithfully
in whatever position he was placed without
expectation of, or demand for extra pay.
Among other committees upon which he
served, and one upon which he is still
serving, is that of the Soldier’s Orphan
school commission.
mittee is both onerous and expensive. A
meeting of it is held every month and often
twice a month when the Legislature is not
in session, and visits to these schools, lo-
cated in different parts of the State, have to
be made frequently. For this work there
is neither pay for time or expense allowed.
It is purely a matter of charity for the sol-
dier’s orphans of the State.
pocket and out of time for the members
and no one has been more prompt or care-
ful in attention to these, unpaid for, duties
than Mr. FOSTER. He has seen that every
soldiers orphan in Centre county, of whom
‘he had knowledge, ‘has been properly cared |
for as the law contemplates, and he has
tried to protect the interests of the tax-
payers to the fullest extent in these matters.
The work of this com-
It is out of
In other matters he was just as careful
1.
and conscientious as in his work on com-
mittees.
vote, every measure which, in his judg-
ment, was believed to be beneficial to the
people of the county and just as energetical-
ly opposed what he believed to be wrong.
HE VOTED FOR—
He supported, with his voice and
Act prohibiting the discharge of soldiers
[4
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from public positions in the State.
To protect employees in mines.
Protecting labor organizations.
Allowing school children the use of
books during vacation period.
Imposing tax on beer, ale and porter.
Re-organizing the National Guard.
Allowing labor claimants to enter ap-
peals, &e.
Prohibiting mine officials from solicit-
ing contributions from their em-
ployees.
Making eight hours a days work by
employees of state or municipal
corporations.
© To compel banks to pay interest on
state deposits.
Prohibiting adulteration of milk, cream
and cheese,
Regulating employment and providing
for, health and safety of men and
women employed in manufacturing
establishments.
Prohibiting the publication of immoral
writings and literature.
Authorizing boroughs to establish free
libraries.
Supporting the appropriation for State
College. .
Supporting the appropriation for Phil-
ipsburg hospital.
A more equal and just method of dis-
tributing money for public schools.
VOTED AGAINST—
Act cutting down school appropriation one
million dollars.
Legalizing sale of “‘Oleo” in the State.
Known as “the Ripper Bill.”
Hood as the Kunkle “Fire Alarm
ill.*?
Known as “Drug Trust Bill.”
Increasing salaries of deputy sheriffs in
cities of the first class, and against
all Acts creating new offices.
Think of these things, honest voters of
Centre county, and then vote for one who
has proven himself a worthy, an honest
and a faithful Representative.
——The editor of the Daily News is lay-
ing himself open to serious charges of in-
cendiarism. His mud fence political ob-
servations are likely to set something afire
and for the good of the profession we must
urge him t6 desist in such recklessness.
On Monday he tried to challenge our as-
sertion that every voter in Centre county
could consistently vote for Mr. BOWER for
superior court judge by recalling the elec-
tion at which Mr. BOWER was the oppo-
nent of Judge LOVE in this judicial discrict.
The cases are not parallel at all. At that
time both candidates were residents of
Bellefonte and a choice was necessary.
Now Mr: BowER is the only aspirant from
this county on the state ticket and should
receive a rousing vote at home.
be well for the News to look up its file for
November, 1895, and see the complimen-
tary vote that Centre county gave the home
candidate, judge Beaver, for superior court,
at that time.
It might
‘sist in their revolutionary attitude.
Swallow’s Political Dishonesty.
At no time since the campaign opened
was there reason to believe that Dr. SWAL-
Low had a chance of election, and now it
is evident that if he polls as many votes as
be did last year it will be about as much
as he is able to do. The citizens of both
parties who are being moved by a desire to
overthrow a corrupt machine are not dis-
posed to throw away their votes.
This is a fact that renders SWALLOW’S
election an impossibility and will make
him a bad third in the race, and yet he is
claiming, as he did in his speech at Johns-
town last week, a vote of 525,000. Such
an extravagant claim shows either a dis-
creditable ignorance of the situation, or a
willingness to resort to conscious misrepre-
sentation by a candidate who claims to be
the special representative of honesty in
politics.
That the candidate who assumes to base
his contest on one of the ten command-
ments is not too honest to misrepresent is
additionally proven by his continuing to
repeat the charge that GEo. A. JENKS is
under the control of political bosses. Such
a misrepresentation could have been excused
at the beginning of the campaign, when Dr.
SWALLOW might have pleaded his ignorance
of politics and of public men, but to con-
tinue so falsea charge after the honesty,
honor, and high character of the Demo-
cratic nominee has been so fully revealed,
is rather strong evidence that the candi-
date who claims to be the champion of
political purity is not conducting an hon-
est campaign.
——The office of prothonotary is a very
important one to you all. You know that
it is to your interest to have the best offi-
cial in there that you can possibly get.
Mr. GARDNER will be the most satisfac-
tory. Vote for him.
——From this time until the election
it is quite likely that you will be told all
manner of stories about certain of the can-
didates. Don’t believe them. Bear in
mind that the men are all good and de-
serving of your support.
——Remember that you can’t defeat
QUAY except by voting against his candi-
dates for the Legislature. If the boss is
to be torn away, root and branch, from
the government of Pennsylvania you must
vote for FOSTER and WETZEL.
—1It is important that the prothono-
tary’s office be filled by a man who is in
every way fitted for it. MiTcHELL I.
GARDNER is that man. Vote for him.
——The melancholy days have come,
the saddest of all the year, when Spain
must march from Cuban soil and all else
she held dear.
———
Danger Signs in Cuba.
Spaniards Prompting the Insurgents to Resist the
American Occupation and Declare Independence.
HAVANA, Oct. 23 —The Cuban General
Rego is preaching in the Havana cafes and
the insurgent camps near the city the car-
rving on of war against Americans if inde-
pendence is not at once, granted to Cuba.
The Cuban Colonel Torriente is carrying
on a strong campaign against the Ameri-
cans and Calixto Garcia, whom he professes
to look upon as a traitor to the Cubans and
as bribed by American gold. A secret
circular has been sent to the presidents of
the Cuban patriotic committees denouncing
a large number of Cubans who are looked
apon as traitors to the cause of Cuban in-
dependence and attached to the Americans.
The circular recommends a vigorous con-
test against not only Spanish residents,
but against Americans as well, “who are
endeavoring to steal the Cubans’ victory’
The Spanish Colonel Cervera, military
governor of Marianao, pays daily visits to
the insurgent camps in his district advis-
ing the Cubans not to surrender their arms
and to make resistance until the inde-
pendence of the island is declared. Col.
Cervera is an intimate friend of Gen. Par-
rado, president of the Spanish evacuation
commission. During the last two weeks
several hundred Remington carbines and
large quantities of ammunition have been
sent from Havana, it is presumed, by some
of the Spanish chiefs. The Spanish resi-
dents criticise in very severe terms the be-
havior of some of the Spanish chiefs, who,
it is alleged are working in favor of Cuban
independence, advising the Cubans to per-
Many
Spanish residents here have written long
letters to friends in Madrid in order that
the home government may be made ac-
quainted with what is happening in the
island, and have requested that the evacu-
ation may be completed as soon as possible
80 as to avoid prolonging the existing dan-
gerous condition of affairs.
WASHINGTON, Oct. ‘23:—Reports from
the American military commissioners in
Cuba indicate that troops will not be re-
quired there before December 1st, when ‘the
rainy season will be ended and the danger
from yellow fever past.
Found Fault With Camp Thomas.
ANNISTON, Ala., Oct. 23.-—The war in-
vestigation commission yesterday heard
the testimony of Gen. Frank that Camp
Thomas, at Chickamauga, was good enough
for a temporary camp, but not suited for a
permanent camp for a large army. Sur-
geon Harry F. Hoyt thought much of the
malaria had been due to the fact that the
men were compelled to sleep on the ground.
He attributed the increase in typhoid to’
the sinks, to the flies, to the. fact that the.
wells were infected and to the carelessness.
of the men. :
General Merritt Married.
LONDON, Oct. 24.—General Merritt and
Miss Williams were married at 6 o'clock
this evening, in the bride’s apartments at
the Savoy hotel. ‘
It had been planned to have the cere-
mony take place in St. Andrew’s church
Westminister, but an illness which Miss
Williams contracted during the voyage
necessitated the simplest possible ceremon v
and the avoidance of exertion and excite-
ment Consequently only a few of the
most intimate friends were present.
Registration in New York.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-—The total regis-
tration of the city of New York is 556,389,
as against 567,192 in 1897.
War Investigating Commission Inserts
a Probe at Chicamauga.
Witnesses Give Testimony.—Major David Vickers
Very Positive in His Statements.—The Location
Was Poor—Lieutenant Colonel Bisbee Tells of the
Santiago Campaign—Of the Transportation and
of the Food Given.—The Third Tennessee's Can-
teen.
ANNISTON, Ala., October 24.—The war
investigating commission sat from 9 o’clock
till 6:30 to-day and examined about a doz-
en witnesses, including a number of volun-
teer officers. It is now expected that the
commission will leave for Huntsville to-
morrow night. Major David Vickers who
was inspector general for the Second divis-
ion, Third corps at Chickamauga, attribu-
ted the troubles in that camp to the shal-
lowness of the sinks. He said also that
some of the regimental officers insisted on
making poor selections of camp sites and
in one instance a Mississippi colonel who
had put his men in a swamp and insisted
upon remaining on the ground that a Miss-
issippian had a natural affection for
swamps. Nevertheless his men were taken
sick. Major Vickers also complained that
the drinking water was poor. He thought
the camp site unfit for so large an army but
so far as food went, the privates were fed
better than the officers. He said that at
one time the beds of all the patients were
on the floor and that there were some cases
when they were on the ground. Asked as
to the competency of the surgeons at the
hospital he said there was one man inthe
hospital whose proneness to profanity un-
fisted him for the service. This man was
Major Hubbard, surgeon of the Ninth New
York. ‘His profanity was of sucha vil-
lainous character’’ said Major Vickers, ‘‘as
to pretty nearly make me sick and I know
it could not have had a pleasant effect up-
on patients.”’ :
Lieutenant Colonel Bisbez, in command
of the First infantry, told the story of
transportation of his regiment to Santiago
and briefly described the fighting about
Santiago ; spoke of his experience in Cuba;
of the return to Montauk Point, of the stay
at that place, and the transfer south.
Asked if the landing at Santiago could
have been accomblished if opposed, he re-
plied : ‘‘The facilities were so poor that'I
think not. At, least, I shonld say if I had
been on shore no enemy would have been
permitted to.land. I cannot say how it
was with the Spaniards.” He said there
was considerable difficulty in getting food
while in front of Santiago, but we had
enough. He said if there had been more
to eat the men would probably have been
sicker. He expressed the opinion that the
only deprivation had been in not having
proper food for the sick. They could not
take the food in the condition it
was in, he said. He thought the
rations contained too much fat meat for the
climate. Colonel Bisbee stated that him-
self and sixteen men were the only mem-
bers of his regiment who had not been ill
at some time during the Santiago campaign.
“It was impossible to secure med-
ical supplies,”’ said the witness, ‘‘and if
we had them we could not have carried
them.”
Colonel James P. Fife, of the Third
Tennessee, whose regiment had been en-
camped at Chickamauga as a part of the
First division of the Third army corps
previous to removal here, said the com-
missary supplies had been excellent in
quality and ample in quantity till within
the past month. Colonel Fifesaid in reply
to questious that a canteen had been main-
tained in his regiment, and beer in large
quantities had been sold. Most. of the
receipts, amounting to $400 or $500 per
day of the canteen, were from beer.
“Did you consider it proper for your
regiment to maintain a general beer gar-
den for all the camp?’ asked Dr. Conner,
reading from a letter as his authority.
Colonel Fife answered : ‘‘No, but that
the beer was there to be sold.”
He denied that beer was sold to be carried
away, except to officers, and advocated the
sale of heer in canteens as a protection
against more serious indulgence in whisky.
He expressed the opinion that Chickaman-
ga was an excallent camp site, but he con-
sidered the water supply bad as it was ar-
ranged. He thought a pipe line should
have been run to the camp from Crawfish
Springs.
—————
Expected Riot Averted.
Several Blacks Fired into a Crowd of Whites and
Wounded Three Men.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 24th.—A special
from Lumberton, N. C., says :
The expected riot between the races at
Ashpole, this county, Saturday night, was
averted. A telephone message from Ash-
pole stated that a crowd of mutinous ne-
groes, who had been around the village all
day making threats, had entered the vil-
lage armed and the whites expected to be
attacked any minute and asked that aid be
sent. Several men went down from here,
and, as the negroes seemed to be quieting
down, the whites dispersed, a few gather-
ing around a small fire in the centre of the
street as a guard. About three o’clock
several blacks slipped up near the crowd
and fired into them, wounding three men,
none seriously.
They then ran and the whites immedi-
ately wired to Florence and procured
bloodhounds, which were met at Elrod by
a special engine, which had them at Ash-
pole by 10 o'clock. Immediately the dogs
struck a hot trail and by 1 o'clock four
blacks had been caught. They were taken
to Ashpole and, it is said, have confessed
that they were in the crowd and have im-
plicated several others, some of whom were
caught. This morning the sheriff is hunt-
ing others. The captured negroes told
who burned Tubbs’ store, at Ashpole, on
Thursday night. :
The negroes are confined in a box car at
Ashpole and are well guarded. It is re-
ported that the posse in pursuit of the
other negroes have shot one of them. It is
impossible to get telephone connections
with Ashpole to confirm the report.
« Hobson's Big Undertaking.
If He Gets $1,000,000 He Will Raise the Vizcaya.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Oct. 24.—It is re-
ported from Guantanamo that Lieut.
Hobson is going to Washington to obtain
an appropriation, if possible, of $1,000,000
| for the purpose of raising the sunken Span-
ish cruiser Vizcaya. The plans for raising
the Cristobal Colon have been perfected
and the work is progressing in accordance
with the instructions left by Lieut. Hob-
son, who expects to return within a month.
The Maria Teresa will leave here for the
United States under her own steam on
Saturday.
Porto Rico Evacuated.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—The navy de-
partment to-day received the following :
SAN JUAN, Oct. 24.—Secretary of Navy:
Evacuation Porto Rico completed by sail-
in of the last detachment of Spanish troops
to-day.
(“‘Signed) SCHLEY.”?
Disappointment in Philadelphia.
On Account of Interruption of Jubilee Exercises in
Consequence of a Prevailing Rain Storm—Arrival
of the President—He Found a Dreary, Desolate
Condition of Affairs—It Was Concluded to Abandon
the Day’s Programme and Postpone the Parade
Until to-day.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26. — President
McKinley arrived here at noon to-day, but
instead of finding the city in the midst of
the enjoyment of its peace jubilee, he
fourd a dreary, desolate condition of affairs
and many thousands of citizens and visit-
ors in the throes of disappointment on ac-
count of the interruption of the jubilee ex-
ercises in consequence of the prevailing
rain storm.
The day’s jubilee program included the
civic parade, the greater portion of which,
it. was expected, would by witnessed by
the President, General Miles and other
distinguished visitors. At 5 o'clock this
morning, however, rain began to fall and
from that time on until 10 o'clock there
was an incessant and heavy downpour and
during the remainder of the day heavy
rain fell at frequent intervals.
Early in the day the citizens’ jubilee
committee met at the mayor’s office and
very quickly concluded to abandon the
day’s program and to postpone the parade
until Friday. The object of carrying the
civic parade over until Friday was to per-
mit to-morrow’s program, the military and
naval street parade, to proceed as had pre-
viously been arranged.
REDEDICATION OF INDEPENDENCE HALL
POSTPONED.
The rededication of Independence hall,
the exercises in connection with which
were to have taken place this morning,
was also postponed until Friday.
Emperor Incurably Sick.
No Chance of Recovery for his Chinese Majesty.
PEKIN, Oct. 24.—The Emperor of China
is believed to be infected with an incurable
kidney disease, though it is probable that
he will linger for a considerable time. The
French physician who examined him has
reported to the foreign office that he is suf-
fering from albuminuria, with incipient
phthisis and great debility.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
——While John Bryerton, of Fleming-
ton, was hunting in what is called “Nigger
Hollow,”” on Tuesday, he found a satchel
containing a lot of man’s clothing saturated
with blood. He turned it over to the
authorities. :
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MARRIAGE LickENsEs.—Following is the
list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phan’s court clerk, G. W. Rumberger, dur-
ing the past week :
Jesse E. Kaler and Mabel F. Campbell,
both of Coburn, Pa.
Henry R. Somers, of Benner township,
and Annie G. Sunday, of Potter township.
Robert H. Holter, of Rochester, N. Y.,
and Bettie R. Stitzer, of Howard, Pa.
Edward F. Dorman and Ida M. Fisher,
both of Walker township.
James E. Ardell, of Spangler, Cambria
county, 'Pa., and Mary A. Bathgate, of
South Philipsburg, Pa. :
is
THE CAMPAIGNING PARTY HERE To-
MORROW NIGHT.—The George A. Jenks
campaigning party will be in Bellefonte,
on October 20th. It will be their first vis-
it to this county since the great state cam-
paign of 1898 has opened.
The Jenks party includes, in addition to
ex-solicitor General George A. Jenks, ex-
Congressman W. H. Sowden, of Allentown,
candidate for Lieutenant Governor ; Cap-
tain Patrick DeLacy, of Scranton, candi-
date for Secretary of Internal Affairs ; Cal-
vin M. Bower, of Bellefonte, candidate for
Superior Court Judge, and J erry N. Weiler,
the workingman’s friend, candidate for
Congressman-at-large, together with a corps
of newspaper men representing the big dail-
ies of Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Harrisburg
and Scranton. ' ‘ :
The crowds that have greeted this party
wherever it has been since the opening of
the campaign is clearly indicative of the
revolution against the hoss and machine in
politics, aroused as the people are against
treasury looters, promoters of padded pay-
rolls and inflated investigation bills, they
have turned out in great numbers to hear
Mr. Jenks’ proposition as to how hest re-
form can he installed at Harrisburg. His
frank expressions, great sincerity and un-
doubted honesty of purpose have won his
audiences wherever he has spoken.
The secretary of the national House of
Representatives has been flooded with re-
quests for the House record of Mr. Jenks’
conduct as a member of the Forty-fourth
Congress. This is a mirror, so to speak, of
this remarkable man’s life. The fearless
leader of that Congress is the same George
A. Jenks who now, in the name of reform
and common honesty, asks that the ma-
chine be ousted from the state capitol.
His record as solicitor general of the Unit-
ed States and as assistant secretary of the
interior is also attracting considerable at-
tention. Every act contained therein, of-
ficial and otherwise, ‘indicating the noble,
fearless character and integrity of the man.
His supreme conservatism and high re--
gard for the truth have won him thousands
of votes in this campaign. In spite of the
fact that the paid agents of the machine
have been at work. seeking flaws on his
record since the day. of his nomination by
‘the Altoona convention, not a reflection has
"been cast upon his record; either as a citi-
zen, a lawyer or a public official. It is re-
markable of him that not, once during
this campaign has Mr. Jenks made a
statement against the machine or the Re-
publican party that is not either a matter
of record or fact susceptible of proof by
reputable witnesses. Even his statements
as to the inequality of the Republican
tax laws, showing as they do, the evident
unfairness of this system, remain uncon-
tradicted by his opponents. It seems that
his every word is truthful and as far be-
yond reproach as though it had been quot-
ed directly from the Bible. .
What he would do to wipe out the ma-
chine in the event of his election he has al-
ready said. Those who know him deem
this entirely sufficient ; hesaid.: “I would
use my best endeavors in the interests of
the commonpeople. I can promise noth-
ing more than this—I shall do my best.”” To
anyone who knows Mr. Jenks, these words
speak volumes. Anything further would
be superfluous.
Corporal Sowden, with that famous ‘use
the federal patronage for what it is worth’’
letter of Senator Quay, and his undeniable
evidence of the sale of federal and state of-
fices throughout the Commonwealth, to-
gether with his bold and fearless arraign-
ment of the machine, is arousing the people
wherever he goes.
Mr. Sowden is a wonderful man. He is
admittedly the greatest stump speaker in
Pennsylvania to-day, perhaps in the
country. It is alleged that Senator Quay
has recently said of him that ‘‘He is the
most dangerous man that ever took the
stump against my people.’
Senator Quay is also alleged to have said
that the greatest mistake of his political
life was the costermonger letter that he ad-
dressed to Mr. Sowden in which he called
him a liaranda dog. For three days later,
in Senator Quay’s own handwriting, Mr,
Sowden proved beyond all doubt the state-
ments he made and which called forth this
abusive letter, written on the United
States Senate’s letter heads.
Capt. Patrick DeLacy, the hero of the
Battle of the Wilderness, and a comrade of
corporal Sowden, has worked wonders by
way of stirring up the old veterans who
now appreciate the fact that Senator Quay
has surrounded himself with a select little
band of professional political soldiers,
through which it is hoped to get the sol-
dier vote in line.
Wherever the party has been ‘‘the boys’?
are in revolt against this little band of of-
fice holding soldiers, whose records as war-
riors are short, but whose office-holding
records are long,
Jerry N. Weiler, through the various
bills introduced at his instance in Congress
and by him in the State Legislature, in
the interest of the toiler, have made him
intensely popular. Several times during
the campaign he has been carried from the
meeting places on the shoulders of the
workingmen, whose sensible appreciation
brings them close to Mr. Weiler.
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Items From Huston Township.
J. C. Nason has moved back to his resi-
dence in Julian.
S. R. Dillen, who bas been in the woods
since the first of June, has returned home.
D. I. Richards has just finished a fine new
barn on the Mudlick farm for H. K. Mattern,
in place of the one destroyed by fire last
spring. .
Wild turkeys and bears seem to be very
plentiful from the number of the former re-
ported shot and the latter seen in this com-
munity.
Ex-treas. John Q. Miles, who Has become
quite a farmer since his return from B.'is out
electioneering and positive of the
the entire Democratic ticket.
Robert Robison, his daughter and his son
Charles and Mrs. James C, Shaffer are all re-
covering from serious attacks of typhoid fe-
ver, under the able care of Dr. W. U. Irvin.
There is much sickness about here at pres-
ent and Dr. W. U. Irvin has his hands full,
O. H. Nason, justice of peace, who has been
seriously ill with catarrh of the stomach and
general system is improving under Dr. Big-
low’s care, of Philipsburg, hut day after day
new cases of fever and sickness are reported.
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Pine Grove Mention.
success of
Wm. E. Meek lost a valuable horse this
week with tetanus.
Michael Leasch, one of our push farmers,
is building a new front to his house.
John H. Bailey is among the sight seers at
the peace jubilee in Philadelphia this week.
Our man of hammer and tongs, Sam Irvin,
is navigating on crutches on account of a
crushed foot.
We are glad to note the improvement of
Mrs. John Snyder, who has been seriously ill
for some weeks.
The venerable Amos Clemson has been
very sick the last week with heart trouble
but is now some better.
J. D. Tanyer is lamenting the loss of his
hunting dog Sport, which was accidently
shot by Dr. Kuhn recently.
We gladly note the improvement of Char-
lotte O’Bryan, whose life has been despaired
of for some weeks by her family and physi-
cian.
J. Cal. Struble, one of Huntingdon county’s
big farmers, transacted business here Satur-
day. He was accompanied by his ‘excellent
‘wife.
Dog court next Saturday at Justin Miller's.
If reports are true there will be fewer courts
hereafter from the number of dogs dead
about Gatesburg.
John George Heberling and wife are tak-
ing a prolonged visit among their Eagleville
friends with head quarters at his brother
Joe’s hospitable and cosy home.
Dr. Frugate, a specialist of Oil City, was
summoned to the bedside of Mrs. Johnson
and after diagnosing her case said there was
not a ray of hope for her recovery from the
effects of a floating kidney. fe!
A special train will’ carry’ the undivided
and unterrified Democracy to Bellefonte next
Saturday evening. One fare tickets will be
issued morning and noon on Bellefonte Cen-
tral railroad. A big delegation will go from
here to hear Hon. George A. Jenks and the
Hon. Wm. A. Sowden. of Allentown, who is
undoubtedly a brilliant man.
Last Friday evening Mr. Elmer Bowersox
arrived home from Tampa, where his regi-
ment the 5th U.S. regulars are stationed.
He is a member of the band of that Regt.
which was stationed at Fort Sam. Huston,
Texas until last June. He has been sick for
the last month with typhoid fever and looks
both peaked and weak. He brought along a
great variety of interesting relics, which are
on exhibition at the Bowersox home near
Rock Springs.