Demon Yada, BY P. GRAY MEEK. smmarmm— Ink Slings. — Election day is near at hand, Mark Hanna's at the throttle, He'll try to wreck our dear old land With money or the bottle. So freemen vote to kill this Czar, Whose tyranny’s most tryin’ And send the presidential car, To Lincoln after BRyaxy. —Don’t trade. : ~Vote for WETZEL; and KEPLER. — Make no propositions for trades. Democrats have no reason to trade this fall. "Every Democrat has reason to be proud of the candidates for Legislature. They are both good men. Vote for them. —O0ld General Prosperity hasn’t been doing much marching over the farms of Centre county during the past four years. — Probably the reason that Sir THOMAS LipToN couldn’ preserve the corner he had in Chicago pork was because he had forgot- ten to buy up MARK HANNA. HASTINGS would like to form .a politic- al trust among the Republicans of Centre county. That is, he would like them to trust everything to him. Will they do it? —Vote next Tuesday for men who were nominated fair and square by the masses of their party and not for two who were ap- pointed by one man “against the wishes of many others. : —1If you are offered a vote for BRYAN for a vote for ALLISON or THOMPSON don’t make the trade. Any person who wants to vote for BRYAN will do so from prinei- ple and you would gain absolutely nothing by such a deal. —Tbe friends of ALLISON and THOMP- soN will have all manner of propositions to make next Tuesday. Listen to none of them, Democrats, but vote for two men who will be your representatives and not the tools of any one man. —TIf either THOMPSON or ALLISON should be elected Centre county will not be repre- sented in the next Legislature., All the other counties in the State and DAN HASTINGS will be represented; but Centre county will be without representatives. —ALVORD; the New York banker who stole $700,000 of bis bauk’s money, couldn’t have been a man who cared much for little things. He weighed 300lbs.and it is rea- sonable to suppose that now that he is be- hind the bars there will be no Squeezing out of it. —Adjntant General CORBIN has just re- ported that Uncle SAM’S army numbers 98,790 men. During the past year 74 officers and 1,930 men have died, in adsl dition to the thousands wounded. Tmper- ialism comes high, both in life and money, but MARK HANNA and McKINLEY say we must have it. —Director MERRIAM of the census burean has just announced that the popu- lation of the United States, on June 1st, 1900, was 76,295,220. Two of the most important individuals to Centre countians, who are counted in this great multitude, are Messrs. WETZEL and KEPLER, the Democratic nominees for Legislature. Vote for them. ‘ * Piesidont McKINLEY has definitely promised to attend the launching of the battleship Ohio at San Francisco next April. Next April is a long way off and by that time the President McKINLEY of today might he back again to the status of plain WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Canton, Ohio. In other words, they will have no use for “‘has beens’’ at thelaunching of the Ohio next April. : " —According to the last census’ Centre county had a population of 43, 190. ar KEPLER and W ETZEL are elected to the Legislature each one of these 43,190 per’ sons will be represented at Harrisburg, but should ALLISON and THOMPSON be | elected it would be quite different. They would represent DAN HASTINGS only and the other 43,189 could whistle, so far as having any representation is concerned. ~The mivers won every - point they claimed in the great strike that has" just been. called off in the anthracite regions. Their victory was as. much due to the sympathy gained by conducting themselves in an orderly. lawful way as by any’ oth-, er cause. It was a case of right triumpling over money and might and nex, Tuesday it will have a parallel, when thé cause of the: common pzople triumphs over that of aris- toeracy and piutocmos, 4 —Every Centre ants farmer who peed. ! fertilizer ‘to ‘sow “with his ‘grain this fall paid a tribute to the fertilizer trus , of $4 on every ton he used. The leaders of the Republican : party. say, ‘trusts are good, things. ?’ “Do you thinkiso, farmers, ‘when you have to pay ‘$1 extra just because’ a trust controls the fertilizer market. Trusts might be good things. for those who have stock in them, but hete is one thatiis not a very good thing for the fariiier. $0 ~—GROVER CLEVELAND was reported, on Monday, to. have said ‘‘you will ‘see a landslide for BRYAN on ‘the day after the election.” This’ significant prophiésy was supposed to have been made to R. J. BLACK, a reputable: gentleman ‘of Vinton, : Iowa. Next day GROVER denied having made such a prediction abd Mr. BLACK promptly made affidavit that he did and now it re- mains to be proven. whether GROVER or BLACK is the biggest liar. But that has nothing to do with next Tuesday. There will be’ a BRYAN land-slide all the same. | to-day who comm wields more personal influence than does he.’ term in Congress and | STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 45 Prosperity for Trusts Only, It is a fact that trusts have prospered under the rule of the Republicans. If is equally true that aggregated capital em- ployed in many lines of business has had large returns. But how about the farmer or the workingman? These two classes make up nine-tenths of the population of the country and if there is general pros- perity they should have their share. How have they prospered ? If you will ask the farmer he will tell you that he has worked just as hard and lived as savingly during the past four years as he has ever done and that his financial condition is not improved a particle. - In fact he is worse off now than he was this time four years ago. His reapers and rakes, his plows and caltivators, his wagons and harness, and all of the many implements he must have are wearing out and must soon be replaced. To do this, at the prices trusts have run these articles up to, simply wipes out all profit he has had from any increase in the value of his products, and leaves him nothing additional to show that there is prosperity in the country. He has expended nothing on his buildings, — made no improvements except such as conld be made with his own labor, has added nothing to the comforts of his home, he has taken no time off, nor has he re- duced his hours of labor, and yet, when he comes to balance up matters, he is even worse off than he was four years ago, with all the boasted prosperity. Ask him and he will tell you that this is a fact. The trusts and syndicates may rs prospered, but not the farmer. And so it is with the workingman, He may have had steady employment, but how about his gains. What has he to show for his four years of labor under the reign of McKINLEY and the role of trusts? Has he bought a little home? Has he been able to clothe his children comfortably and send them to school ? Have comforts been added to the scanty furniture that his wife is compelled to get along with ? In fact, is his condition a particle better, or his future a whit brighter, than it was this time four years ago ? 2 Ask him and be ill tell you it is not? “Where then “that WE hear so much about? The coal oil trust, the cracker trust, the sugar trust, the flour trust, the nail truss, the steel truss, and the hundreds of the other trusts that have sprung up and fattened under the protec tion of Republican rule, can answer this question. : Is this the kind of prosperity you want? Are not the people deserving of some little share of the good things that are going? Should the masses be enslaved that the Tow may live like lords? * These are questions’ you can’ ‘answer uk your vote on Tuesday nexbT If you are getting, out of this boasted prosperity, all that you want; if your con- dition or prospects eaunot be brightened; if you are receiving all that your labor or products are worth, in these times when trusts are making you pay double for everything you must have, or if you are | satisfied to see the few accumulate by. mil- lions while you toil on for a bare: living, | you should vote for a continuation off pres ent conditions. IF NOT, YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR A CHANGE AND A CHANCE FOR YOURSELF. A Faithful Representative. Democrats, you have a candidate for ‘Congress of whose record you can be proud —a candidate whom every citizen of the diss trict, who desires an active, intelligent representative in Congress, should delight to vote for. He began life as a bare footed boy in Milesburg. He has worked; and { won his way toa \ position of prominence, not only in political, but in social, charita- ble and business cigoles. In thegreat, State of ‘Pennsylvania there is mo one man, mands greater respect or He has served o has proven himself one of the most efficient, popular and worfby Representatives the district has ever had. ‘He was one of the hardest working mem- bers of Congress fr m the State. He is liberal and generous to the deserv- ing, wherever they may be. any individual in. ‘the district. His employees t to a man are for him. ‘He never turned man or woman away, if he could in any manner assist them. "He never asked a resident of the district who applied to Bim for aid or influence, what bis politics yas. He never tired of serving the people of his section of the State. He never forgot the interests of his dis- trict. # He' was always’ approachable and at the service of his constituency. ats There is no discounting his faithful- ness, his ability or the fact that he will be re-elected. - The people, however, whom he has served | so faithfully and well, should see to it,that he is returned by an overwieluing} ma- aa rer si jority. BELLEFONTE, PA., Unw orthy Aspirants. The coming session of the Legislature will be one of most serious importance to every voter and to every citizen who takes pride in the welfare and good name of the Commonwealth. It will be a session at which a change of registration laws, a change of election laws, a change of con- gressional, senatorial and legislative ap- portionments, a change of tax laws, a change of the constitution, and a change of official methods in the several departments at Har- risburg will all be considered. : There is not a voter in the county who has not an interest in some of these proposed changes. There is not a citizen, whether he be rich or poor, white or black, who would not be benefited by them. And yet, with these important questions pending, men are asked to vote for Representatives who refuse to tell where they stand on any of them. Up to this date, and it is now within a few days of the election, neither ALLISON nor THOMPSON, nor anyone for them, has pledged their votes on any of ilese re- forms. It is not because they have not had an opportunity or been asked to do so, for this paper has weekly, since their nomina- tion, called attention to these questions and asked of them, or those who speak for them, where they stood and what they would do when these propositions are brought hefore the Legislature. To this day neither one has opened his mouth on any of these questions. Neither one has pledged or promised his support toany reform, whether it relates to the ballot, to taxation, to public expenditures or on any other subject. On what they will do they are as silent as the Phinx. Possibly, when we consider how they were nominated and for what purpose they were made the candidates of the two or three individuals who put them upon the Republican ticket, the fact that they will make no pledges may be to their credit. They are not their own masters, nor do they know where they will be or what they will do when the time comes. They are the creatures of ex-Governor HAST- INGS. If elected they will represent him / It will not be the people and his ie. VO ‘of Centre Gonnty that they will ask” what {down to the tounty nominees in return for | to do, or what is wabted. Tt will be Gov- | ernor HASTINGS, who will dictate every action and who will dominate every effort that they may make. Are these the kind of Representatives the tax payers of Centre county want to send to Harrisburg? Are these the kind of ‘men that independent, honorable and fair minded citizens desire to vote for? Are such tongue-tied, place seekers, who, to get an office would sink their manhood ‘and their independence and become the mere puppets of a boss, fit to represent the voters of Centre county ? : We think not, and we believe that your vote on Tuesday next will say that you want Representatives who will voice the sentiment of the people and who would scorn to be the tool or'creature of any man. There Has Been No Deception.’ One of the remarkable features of the campaign that is fast drawing to a close in this county has been the courteous and straightforward manner in which all the, Democratic caudidates have met the issaes before thém. No one can point out a sin- gle instance in which either Mr. WEITZEL or Mr. KEPLER has spoken. deprecatingly of their opponents. In fact, both have been uniformly considerate and fair, and’ whatever the outcome of next Tnesday,| may be they need bave no regret for the course they have pana, since entering the’ contest. LAs the yoangest man on the ticket | naturally the. most interest has centered in’ the conduct of Mr. KEPLER and be it said’ to his lasting credit that he has faithtally, : maintained his position as a young man with honorable wotives. He has kept no skeletons locked up in his closet, but with’ a courage seldom ‘witnessed ‘in any ‘man’ has gone before the people with. his past | laid before them. like an. open. book. Mr. KEPLER has ; shown that he is the possessor of a rare, character. In all of his | conversations with men he has been: fears, less and frank; never hesitating to admis al | fault nor. equivocating when questioned as’ He gives empldyment to more labor tha to his future actions. By reason of his education, by reason of the fact that he is the only. representative of the farming classes on the ticket, by’ rea- son of the earnestness he has evinced ever! since he was honored with the nomination; he is entitled to every Democratic vote in Centre county. There isn’t a_single reason why every Democrat should not be proud of Mr. Krp- LER and. avork to give him the full party vote on: next Tuesday. . His qualifications. iy the office he. seeks, are -equal. to those of either. one of: his op=; ponents in all, respects and superior in that, he stands committed; to represent every. person in Centre county, instead of the one, man who appointed. and controls his op", ponents. . » : LER is an, “admirable candidate. Ww » awake, alive to the needs of the, farmers and one of those men who consid-, ers on effort too much trouble if it favors a friend. Vote for KEPLER. NOV. 2, 1900. One of Congressman * citizen. " One incident worthy of special notice of absence. on Governor’s Island. of the barracks. cede for her. lightfully entertained. case. would be sent home to her. Republicans Resorting to Trading. We warn Democrats against trading. It is through this means that the Repub- lican boss of Centre county hopes to elect one; if not both, of his candidates for the Legislature. From different sections of the county word comes of Republican offers to trade, In every instiince it is an effort to secure votes for their candidates for Legislature. In some places the proposition is to give a vote for the entire Democratic ticket a vote for ALLISON and THOMPSON. In other places they offer a vote for the Democratic. state ticket and for HALL, in return for a vote for their candidates for the Legislature. In other parts of the county they offer to vote for MEEK and HALL in return for a vote for either one of their Legislative can- didates, and in other places a vote is offer- ed for any candidate on the ticket in re- turn for a vote for ALLISON. It is the plain duty of Democrats to spurn all of these offers. If the entire Republican vote of the county was cast for the Democratic presi- dential and state ticket it would not carry Pennsylvania for them, so that Democrats would make nothing by trading for them. Mr. HALL will be elected by the votes of Democrats and Republicans who appre- ciate his worth as a Congressman and who he neither needs nor would he: approve of such an effort i in his interest. ciating the friendship and kindness of Re- publicans who feel like giving him a com- plimentary. vote, wants no vote of the kind er candidate on the ticket. Democrats shold remember | that the few Republican bosses who are “backing him is to oarry. the county for his legisla- give ticket. ' It is only through a trade or out their full vote that Governor HASTINGS | and his. erowd have any hope of success. A fall and “straight vote will elect every man on, he ticket from HALL down. Let every ‘Democrat work, to this end. Centre County must be ‘kept Democratic.’ vote STRAIGHT. 2 DoNT TRADE or dont wait until ev ening to get in your ballot. : Poor Men's ‘Homes Under the Hammer. od Itisa 16d boast that Republicans have made about prosperity. So loud that many people actually believe that everybody, share of it. is But this is not so. Nine out of every ten men in'the country have, neither seen ‘nor felt its effects, except, in the increased price they pay. for everything: In the oity | of Philadelphia, proudly’ referred to ‘by its citizens as a city of homes, and a lo- cality where Republican prosperity ‘has sheriff's docket shows | surprising faots = "In 1898, the homes of "3,294 poor men were sold under. the sherift’s hammer. In 1899, +t this number = was increased six hundred and forty-five, or a total of 3,939, homes went in the same way. In the nine months that have passed up ‘to October of ‘tlie present year, the sheriff county, that we want the public to know. CHRISTIAN BECHDEL, a minor child, without the consent of his parents, joined the regular army. He served with his regiment in Caba, about the city of Havana, until about the time the regiment was to be transferred, ‘when he asked for a leave He was told that he was getting it and, acting on the assumption that it was all right, he went into Havana to spend a few days. When he voluntarily returned to his regiment he was court martialed and sentenced to a year’s service will vote for ‘him without. a trade, so. that. The editor of this paper, while appre: It would almost double the usual majority | fall on the floor. | and Milton moved the keg to get his nickle. { In doing 80 he exposed a large -sized roll of if it is to be had atthe expense of any oo | bills, which had evidently been there for a chief effort. of Governor HASTINGS and ‘the : failure ‘on the part of ‘Democrats to get | | The way’ ‘to do it is to vote only and to except themselves, has been enjoying a been boasted of to the greatest extent, the | ‘| pointed as the nominees of his party. NO. 43. Hall's Many Kind Acts. * The popularity of Congressman J. K.P. HALL in this District is unprecedented. On all sides we hear of the many gracious acts he has done for his constituents while in office and they Simply: bear out ibe record of his generous lifeasa private ocourred down in Liberty tomaship; this After he had been there for some time his health failed. He wrote of his condi- tion to his mother and his statements were corroborated by letters from the surgeon His frequent appeals alarmed his mother and she Sousulted. “her friends about what was best to do in the case. : They advised her to go to Washington and try to have Congressman HALL, os With letters of introduction she sought Mr. HALL, who, according to herown words, ‘‘was very genial and obliging.” He introduced her to Mis. HALL who, at once, insisted on her remaining as a guest of their family. Mrs. BECHDEL remained it the Has during her stay in Washington and was de- : The Congressman arranged for interviews for her with prominent men about Washington and took her in person to see the President, who heard her state her ‘Mr. HALL went right ahead in Mrs. BECHDEL'S behalf and she states $hat'she knows that it was entirely throngh his untiring efforts that shortly after she re- turned home she was rewarded with notice from the War Department. that Berson CHRISTIAN did arrive home shortly alter and Mrs. BECHDEL does not Tiesitate to speak in the warmest praises of our Congressman. 5 ‘Just as Mr. HALL treated this sorrow-stricken woman from Eagleville he “has treated everyone else who has had anything to ask of him and for that reason the people of Centre county will not go back on HALL next Tuesday. of that same prosperous (?) Republican city had seized and sold the homes of 2,685, workingmen and mechanics. And in the face of these records it is claimed that the people are prosperous. Surely there is something wrong and rotten about this claim. Surely itis an effort to deceive, and to deceive for a pur- pose. And yet this is the kind of prosperity that Mr. McKINLEY wants to continue. ‘Should Attend to- to Our. Ovni Aaated: | Don't doit Itisa is a waste of time to sit around speculating on what other States or other counties will do at the election. It won’t make a vote. It don’t help the cause. It don’t zvsist a particle in win- ning an election. It is what your own district will do that should interest you most. It is right at your own home that you should be looking. There is where your work is, and about it your figuring and speculating should be done. It is the district you vote in that you should know all about and when you have it down fine it is time to give your atten- tion to and be concerned about others. The hours that are wasted figuring out how New York, Illinois; Indiana or some other distant State will vote, if devoted to ascertaining how your neighbors feel, how to capture the doubtful vote in your own ‘district, and planning a way to bave every Democratic vole at ‘the polls, would add | from three to a dozen votes to the Demo- cratic. tally in every district in the county. and would secure a result that we woul all have reason to rejoice’ over. wa - Let us try it from this until the elcetion, Let us plan and work to get out our own vote, and show that we are willing ‘todo that which we can do. : Other States will take care of themselves. ‘Let us take care of Centre Souls. will Test There Manliness ~ We have serious doubts if the Republi- cans of Centre county who believe in regu- larity and are opposed to the’ disruption of their own state organization will vote for ALLISON and THOMPSON. In fact, if they | do, ‘they are no’ better Republicans than the ‘men they denounce as ‘‘Tosurgents.” Both ‘of these candidates stand pledged against going into a Republican caucus or abiding by the will of ‘a majority ‘of Republican Representatives in case they name M. 8. Quay. for United States Senator, and both stand pledged to act as ex-Governor: Hast IxGs and ‘W. TF. REEDER dictate. © How ‘straight-out and self-respecting Republi- cans can assist in. building up and strength- ening a self constituted boss, who is open= ly and avow edly seeking to carry the conn- | ty for lis: own glorification and to’ place ‘him in a position to fight his own party or- ganization in the State, we do. not know. It is possibly none, of onr. business, how- ever, and ‘we ean only wait and judge of the manliness aud independence of the men who claim. to, be the Simon pure Republi- ‘cans of the county, by the vote that i is cast for the candidates whom HASTINGS ap- 1 : ie —— ee - — ——The President, by the usual procla- mation, has set aside Thursday; Nov. 29th, as a day of general thanksgiving for thé people of the United States. - ——Suboribe for the WATCHMAN. blow: open: the safe without success. tenth time the safe flew to pieces. | were seen at Rushtown, n { daybreak, left for that placed in Yi of the Spawls from the Heystons, T— John Maxfell, ‘a tramp, aged 3 years, had his head cut off at Brockwayville Mon- day, by a freight train running over him. Smith in Jersey Shore Saturday morning and stole from the bedroom a gold watch and nine dollars. Other houses were also entered. —Chicken stealing is annoying the owners of poultry in aud around Mackeyville, and threats are made that if it is not stopped, shooting irons will be brought into play, when the visits are made to the roosts. —While playing with a revolver, William Knight, aged 14 years, accidentally shot Guy Harman, aged 12 years, in the hip at Wil- liamsport Friday. Harmon is a cripple, having had his foot taken off two years ago in a saw mill. —Friday morning about 6 o'clock the ‘pusher’ ran into a flock - of wild turkeys at Dick’s station on the Bald Eagle Valley rail- road, and cut the head off a big gobbler slick as a sharp ax would do it. Fireman John Priest jumped from his engine and possessed the bird. ~While returning from a funeral as Mun- cy recently, the horses drawing a carriage occupied by Mrs. Edward Bower and son ran away. Mrs. Bower jumped and was badly hurt. Her son tripped in jumping and was dragged a quarter of a mile, but will recover. —MTrs. George W. Abbey, wife of a well known farmer residing two miles and a half from Woodhill, near Coudersport, burned to death Wednesday night. She was carrying a lighted lamp, when she fell and the thing exploded. Her husband and son rushed to her aid, but she was so badly burned that she died soon after. —George H. Batschlet, of Queen’s Run, has been annoyed by a bear entering his field at night and destroying a lot of corn in bags, The next morning Mr. Batschlet went into’ the field and learned that the bear had not only torn the bag open and ate a lot of it, but had attempted to carry a bagful away as the bag was found some distance from where it had been placed by the gentleman. —George A. Goehrig, a local electrician, of Williamsport, saved his life Friday morning by turning a flipper in mid air. He had trimmed an are light at the top of a fifty foot pole at Newberry Junction and was descend- ing when he lost his hold,plunging headlong toward the ground. He knew he would be killed unless he could right himself. By a superhuman effort he turned a flipper and landed sjuarely on his feet, escaping with sprained ankles. —The post-office at Lilly, Cambria county, was entered by thieves Thursday night and robbed. The burglars secured about 45 cents for their pains. Less than a week ago the same office was entered and about $1.75 or $2, all in pennies, was stolen. The thieves in each instance forced an entrance by breaking the bars off a side window and raising the sash. Itisthought that the same parties committed both offenses and that they are local people. ~=More than 80 per cent of the men dis- charged from the service of the New York Central railroad company twenty years ago ,were dropped from the rolls for drunkenness. Now, however, with 30,000 men in the cm- ploy of the company, less thay 1 per cent. of those annually discharged owe the loss of their situations to over-indulgence in liquor. This change in conditions is said to be large- ly due to the beneficent influence of the rail- road department of the Young Men's Chris- tian Association. —Governor Stone Thursday appointed Addison Candor Judge of the Twenty-ninth Judicial district, Lycoming county, to sue- ceed the late Judge John J. Meizger. He is the senior member of the law firm of Candor & Munson. He was born in Lewistown, in 1852, at the age of 20 he graduated from Princeton, having taken the full academic ‘course. He was admitted to practice at the Lycoming bar in 1875, and soon thereafter formed a partnership with C. Larue Munson, at Williamsport. He declined the appoint- ment however. —Milton Gibson was in a store at Penrun, Indiana county, recently, purchasing some article, and in making change let a nickle It rolled behind a nail keg long time, as they were covered with dust: Milton promptly handed the roll over to the proprietor of the store and went home and told his wife how honest he was. ‘She view- ed the matter in another way, and with de- cided emphasis made Milton return to the Sw store and get the money, which he did. And now—Mrs. Gibson has the money. . —The Methodist church at Stoneville, one, of the appointments of the Woodland charge, of which Rev. C. W. Rishel is pastor, and which recently underwent extensive repairs, was reopened on Sunday last with very impressive services. Rev. W. W. Cadle gave his lecture on his own personal experiences as a mission ary for two years in Africa, He also preach, at night. All the indebtedness inenrred i in making the repairs, amounting to $300, was raised in cash, with a surplus of $12. A series of revival meetings will be continued. —Saturday morning about 2 o'clock six small masked men, uniformly dressed, broke into the station of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad at Danville, through a pan- el in the door. They all pointed their re- volvers at Anunon Keiser, the operator, seized him, forced a gag into his mouth, tied his arms and legs, carried him into the ad- joining room, and threw him on the floor. The burglars then made nine attempts to The The burg- lars secured upwards of $500 in cash. They then relieved Kiser of his watch and other valuables and left. About an hour’ later Kiser ‘succeeded in releasing ‘himself and not- ified ‘the authorities. The police of that town and railroad officers, hearing that the men near Danville at | men. —A burglar entered the home of Chatles On Saturday evening: ed on Sabbath morning; at the afternoon ser- vice, Rev. J. W. Rue, D.D., of Cucwensville,s <~ preached and the pastor occupied the pulpitf - rei i p—
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