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Democratic County Ticket.
For Prothonotary—M. 1. GARDNER.
For District Attorney—N. B. SPANGLER.
Thanks for Gov. Hastings.
It is not often that the WATCHMAN can
endorse his political views or is given rea-
son for thanking ex-Governor HASTINGS
for an honest expression of them. It has
been furnished an occasion for bath en-
dorsement and thanks and hereby makes
that acknowledgment publicly and with
pleasure.
In his convention, which he, Col.
REEDER and his chairman, Captain BENNI-
SON ran so ‘‘harmoniously’’ on Tuesday,
he rose to. oppose the endorsement of the
Republican state administration and the
work of the late Legislature, a matter that
Governor STONE'S Secretary of Agriculture,
Prof. JoHN HAMILTON, was sent to the
convention to secure, and seemed determin-
ed to have incorporated into the county
platform. When the committee on resolu-
tions made its report Prof. HAMILTON
moved to amend by adding to those report-
ed by the committee, the following, which
are given in brief :
6. We recognize in the administration of
the affairs of this State, the business in-
tegrity, courage, and high purpose of Gov-
ernor Stone in limiting the expenditures of
the State to the amount of its revenues.
7. We commend the action of the Legis-
lature whose session has just closed : as be-
ing of the most salutary character and high-
ly beneficial to the business and social inter-
ests of the State.
8. We commend the action of our Repre-
sentative, John K. Thompson, in his attitude
in associating himself with the majority of
the Republicans of the House.
9. We declare in favor of majority rule in
politics as in church or business life : and we
denounce those who reject this fundamental
principle of government by refusing to be
bound by the will of the majority : who
make common cause with Democrats against
the interests of the great Republican ma-
jority ; and who denounce and defame loyal
Republicans who will not join them in their
efforts to destroy their party.
In a speech opposing these the ex-Gover-
nor declared that their adoption would ‘be
the endorsement of the cutting of the pub-
lic school appropriation $1,000,000 for the
henefit of political rulers and jobbers—a
matter that Republicans dare not do. It
will be the endorsement of a policy that
has robbed our indigent insane, the help-
less wards of the State, that a gorgeous
capitol may be erected and contractors and
favorites profit out of thc stealings. It
will be the endorsement of the ripper leg-
islation that has disgraced the State and
violated constitutional rights by taking
from the people of cities of the second class
the right to elect their own officials and
empowering a single individual to appoint
whom he pleases to fill these positions; it
will be the endorsement of acts that have
given franchises belonging to the people
and the State worth millions upon millions
of dollars to individuals for political favors;
it will be the endorsement of JNo. K.
THOMPSON, a man whom no decent citizen
will recognize, whose neighbors abhor,
whose enemies despise, whose friends mis-
trust and whose employer discharged ; a
man who,Judas-like, betrayed his trust for
the silver that was offered him; and accept-
ed bribes to misrepresent the people; if
would be the endorsement of a man who
has proven himself both a liar and a thief.”’
For this honest acknowledgement of
what the Republican party has done under
the administration of Governor STONE we
must heartily thank ex-Governor HAs-
TINGS. It ought to open the eyes of hon-
est man who vote the Republican ticket.
It ought to show them the necessity of rid-
ding the State of the disgrace and wrong
and robbery of Republican rule.
But how cowardly and how craven was
it in both Governor HASTINGS and his con-
vention to fear to denounce these wrongs
and hold up their perpetrators to the con-
demnation of the public.
As for the vicious and cruel arraignment
of THOMPSON we have nothing to say.
That is a matter for the Republicans of the
county to settle among themselves. In or-
der to deceive somebody they refused to
pledge their candidates publicly two years
ago. They left the QUAY supporters un-
der the impression that one of their candi-
dates would represent the QUAY faction
and one theanti-QUAY ; they led the anti-
QuAY people to believe that both represen-
tatives were anti-QUAY men and would
vote against the re-election of QUAY and
the state machine measures. It wasa mat-
ter of deception all around. Someone had
to be cheated. Governor HASTINGS was in
control and at the bottom of the trickery,
and it ill becomes him to eomplain because
the dose he had prepared for hisenemies was
given to himself.
of
——The HASTINGS Republicans complain
that it was HAMILTON'S persistence in at-
tempting to have the state administration
endorsed that caused the bitterness and
trouble in the Republican county conven-
tion. Possibly it was. If Mr. HAMILTON and
his friends had remained quiet and allowed
HASTINGS and his crowd to have their own
way ; if they had accepted the dictation of
the hoss, without protest or opposition, of
course all would have been ‘‘harmonious.’’
It is easy to have ‘‘harmony’’ when you
give some people Bverything they demand,
and that is the only way the ex-Governor
is willing to have it. Such, at least, seems
to have been the lesson of Tuesday.
Harmony, a Lost Art Among Centre
County Republicans.
One Man Power is Still Being Felt in the Republican
Camp.—Harmony Won't Take the Place of “The
Real Thing'’ in Centre County Politics and Dan Will
Have to Shell out Right in the Future. He Gather-
“led ‘all ‘the Quayites in for Harmony's Sake then
Gave Them Hell for His Own Sake.
Well, harmony won’t work. That is in
so far as it applies to the contending ele-
ments in the Republican politics of Centre
county. It was tried last fall as a substi-
tute for ‘‘the real thing’’ and proved a very
happy arrangement until ‘‘the real thing’’
proved too much for the moral marrow in
Thompson’s back bone. Since then they
have been between the devil and the deep
sea, but it was cheaper for Hastings to
make certain of its failure by one more
trial and on Tuesday there was no room
left for guessing.
The Republican county convention meb
in the court house at noon, in pursuance to
a call issued by county chairman Reeder.
The plans were all laid, everything cut and
dried by a committee composed of Daniel
H. Hastings, John G. Love, W. E. Gray
and Wilbur F. Reeder that had met re-
spectively at Reeder’s office, Hastings’
house and Gray’s house, with T. H. Harter
as a witness to sundry acts and deeds.
Everything moved along nicely. There
was to be no fight of any sort. Hastings
even became so warm hearted as to speak
to Love and Chambers for the first time
in two years when he met them on
the street. The past was ‘to be wiped
out and a new start made. At this con-
ference it was decided that no reference was
to be made ih the resolutions to anything
unpleasant to either faction, Allison and
Jack Dale were to be sent to the state con-
vention as representatives of each side,
Phil. Foster, or anyone who would have it,
was to be the nominee for prothonotary
and, having failed to induce Ned Blanchard
to make the running for district attorney,
that office was to go by default. This, in
substance,embodies all of the agreements of
the conference. They were all right, but
when Secretary of Agriculture John Hamil-
ton heard of them and Representative John
Thompson learned that his cause in the
Legislature was not to be vindicated he got
mad and we don’t blame him. They sent
him there because they thought he was a
slick individual and when he proved him-
self a little slicker than they thought he
was they ought to have stood np and given
him credit for it. ‘Perhaps that was what
Dan was trying to do when he was making
that speech.
Hamilton and Thompson arrived on the
scene last Friday and at once began the
work of upsetting the plans that had been
so carefully made and while they are both
supposed to be discredited politicians in
their own county the fact that they scared
up 53% votes, out of 119, for their candi-
date for permanent chairman {is indisputa-
bie evidence that there are a few of them
lett, especially sind Will Gray is reported
to have said that the other side paid $50
for some of its votes on organization. Bat
he would be very apt to take to a tree if
called upon to prove this assertion. You
know Will is one of the greatest climbers
in the Republican outfit.
It was harmony and not ram that pre-
vailed up to noon on Tuesday. The dele-
gates were all sober and quiet. It didn’t
seem much like a Republican big day, but
then everything was pleasant until the un-
pleasantness began—and that was shortly
after the call to order.
Assistant Adjutant General Deputy At-
torney General Colonel Wilbur Fisk Reed-
er called the convention to order at noon
and so far as any speech making or con-
gratulations on the large attendance were
concerned he might as well have been a
fresh graduate from Mt. Airy or some other
deaf and dumb institution. His secretary,
partner and defunct candidate for district
attorney Henry C. Quigley read the call
and roll of delegates and it was found that
every township was represented.
The Hon. Harry Rindydick Curtin then
nominated Capt. S. H. Bennison, of Mar-
ion township, for permanent chairman of
the meeting and someone nominated W.
E. Gray, notwithstanding the latter's
promise to be good and keep his hands off.
This was a great surprise. evidently for
Abe Jackson jumped to his feet at once—
po it wasn’t Abe either, it was his substi-
tute, Hastings, who jumped up and looked
at Reeder with such a meaning light in his
lamps that Wilbur promptly decided that
it would be necessary to have secretaries
before they proceeded: further. So, with
nominations for chairman. before the house
they elected J. Frank McCoy, of Potter
Twp., and Hard P. Harris, of Belle-
fonte, secretaries, then Secretary John
Hamilton was heard from. He arose to
ask : “Is this not an unusual proceeding?’
Reeder acknowledged that it was but re-
plied : “It might be, b b it is the way we
will ‘proceed today.” There was a slight
odor of hot oleo just then, but it passed on
out the windows, which had been lowered
to carry off such fumes.
After the secretaries had taken their
posts the vote was taken on permanent
chairman and resulted in Bennison’s get-
ting 65} sds 58}. Before the Marion
township ‘statesman could get his seas, or
his hooks on the gavel Abe Jackson ala
Hastings, was on his feet to move that a
committee of five be appointed on resolu-
tions and all resolutions besent to that
committee without debate. This started
the oleo to scorching right and the Secre-
tary of Agricnlture arose amidst the fumes.
to insist that the resolutions should be read
in convention before going to the commit.
tee. Then there was trouble, Abe Jackeon
Hastings, Hamilton and Gray got into an
altercation that reminded us of the days
when Steele Crissman was wont to send
them - twisters,” just for the fun of it.
They told all about their harmony confer-
ence and Hamilton denied their right to
patch up any such a scheme. Abe Hastings
said that they had agreed that there shonld
be no resolutions at all, except endorsing
the national administration, and called up-
on Gray as a witness to the truthfulness of
his statement. Gray, of course, had for-
gotten (?) whether the matter of resolutions
had been mentioned at all but thought it
hadn’t been and called on the equilibristic
Mr. Thomas Tash Taisy Harter to bear tes-
timony to him. With tears in his eyes and
looking like the picture on a slamon can
Thomas was dragged out from under cover.
It wae a pitiful sight and a pitiful tale he
had to tell. Swinging from out Love's
goatee with one hand he squirmed and
twisted and labored desperately to hook
his toe onto Hastings’ watch chain or vest
button until finally he accomplished
the feat and said that he thought the reso-
lutions had been spoken of outside the
meeting, but be didn’t remember of hear-
ing of them inside. Thus his old trick of
“carrying two waters on one shoulder”
was accomplished again, hut everyone was
onto it. Then Abe Daniel Hartman got up
again and there was a spouting that would
have done credit to a busted Standard pipe
line. Pointing to Hamilton, Gray and
Chambers, he said : ‘‘Here are office hold-
ers who are here to earn their salaries
by throwing fire brands into this conven-
tion.”” Whereupon Mr. Chambers caught
the infection of smart tbings and retorted :
‘Yes, and an EX-office holder and the peo-
ple are glad the accent is on the ex.”
The commoiion was frightful during all
this time. The fumes of coal oil got inter-
mingled with that of oleo until one could
scarcely stand it in there. They took all
the curl out of Clementina Dale’s, the beard-
ed lady’s, whiskers and she ran out to have
them attended to. All the while Hamil-
ton was trying to have his motion put
through and Bennison was just at the point
of going up in the air like a paper balloon,
when Daniel Hartman Jackson, on the one
side, and Reeder, on the other, pulled him
down onto the seat and told him that the
motion could be ruled out of order. He
did it very promptly, then poor Ned
Chambers jumped up in a perfect frenzy
and with a voice, like the fellow who had
the rope thrown to" him too late, squeaked
‘We want the motion!” ‘‘We want the
motion !”” When he found he couldn’t have
it he started to digging up some of those
tears he wasted at the famous Irvin trial
and wasn’t heard of again for several min-
utes. They certainly did do Hamilton and
and his friends bad in this mix-up. They
had a right to have their motion put and
when it was veted on and a division notic-
ed they had just as much right to call for
the ayes and nays.
After it had quieted down a little the
committee on resolutions was announced
as follows: Daniel Hartman Abraham
Jackson Hastings, Harry
Cartin, H. F. Cheney, John Oleo Hamil-
ton and C. H. Gramley.
As the next thing in order was the nom-
ination of a chairman for 1902, H. A. Me-
Kinney, of Worth, nominated Reeder and
John Hamilton, the Hon. Little Fillup
Womelsdorf, of Philipsburg, he who
hadn’t been heard of for so many moons.
The vote was taken and as Hamilton’s
name was called he tried to state his rea-
sons for voting against Reeder, and as they
wouldn’t listen to them up there we pub-
lish them here for the Secretary of Agri-
culture. He said :
“In voting as I do for the election of a chair-
man for the Republican county committee I de-
gire to record my protest against the election of
anyone to this position who has not been a con-
sistent, staunch and loyal Republican;against any
man who has so far forgotten his obligations to
the Republican party as to join with its enemies
in opposing the election of a speaker to the
House of Representatives who had been the choice
of the majority of his party associates; who
opposed the election of a President pro-tempore of
the Senate who was the choice of the majority of
his fellow Republican Senators; I wish to pro-
test against the election of a man for chairman
who de theraely joined the organized Democratic
Members of the Legislature in opposing the
choicé of the Republican caucus for United States
Senator ; of a man who has forfeited, and. now
does not have the confidence of a regular Republi-
can State Committee, but is so distrusted as to
be unable to secure for the Republicans of his
county the usual assistance, in a 'political cam-
paign, which is cheerfully and freely given to Re.
a ican chairmen in other counties of the State;
0 a man who has lost the confidence of the mass
of staunch Republicans at home who believe 1n
the principal of majority rule ; of a man who can
not command the confidence of regular Republi-
cans sufficiently to secure their contributions to
the legitimate expenses of a campaign and who
did not contribute last year to the expenses of
the regular Republicans in the state campaign;
for these and other reasons equally conclusive I
cast my vote for Phil Womelsdorf and file this
Protest against the re-election of this former coun-
y chairman, and I wish further by this to express
11y disapproval of any so-called “Agreement” or
“Compromise” which makes the election of such
a man possible in a regular Republican con-
vention, where such an election means a practic-
al endorsement of such a course and is a direct
insult to the regular state committee and every
loyal Republican.” .. .. .. .
There was howling and cat calls during
ing his paper, but he stuck to it. The
vote resulted in Reeder having 87 and
‘Womelsdorf 7. They didn’t call a divis-
ion on this one.
When the election of delegates to the
state convention was taken up Gray named
John M. Dale, ot Bellefonte. Abe Jackson
Hastings named Hon. William M. Allison,
of Spring Mills, and Git-there Eli Town-
send, who didn’t gét to the Legislature,
named J. N. Schoonover, of Philipsburg.
Here Hamilton undertook to give his rea-
sons for not voting for Allison and they
wouldn’t listen to him again, so we will
just publish them, also, for the sancti-
monious-oleaginous statesman from State
College. He said :
«I wish in casting my vote for delegates to the
Republican state convention, to enter along with
it my protest against the election, by the Repub-
licans of Centre county, as representing them, of
any man who refused to enter a party caucus
regularly called, to organize the House of Repre-
sentatives, of which he was a member ; who re-
fused after the caucus had been held, to abide by
its decision, but who voted against the caucus
nominee for Speakers notwithstanding the fact
that the nominee had received in caucus the ma-
jority of the votes of all the Republican Members
of the House ; I protest against the election of a
man as our Representative to the Republican con-
vention who united with the Democrats in voting
against our candidate for United States Senator ;
who voted regularly with the Democrats against
party measures in the House of Representatives
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the entire time that Hamilton was read-’
which had the endorsement of the regular Re-
publicans of that body ; who did what he could
to embarrass the state administration in the en-
actment of sgislation whenever this legislation;
was distasteful to the Democrats or Insurgents
against a man who in the State ‘Republican con
vention will, if he is consistent, vote against the
nomination of any man whom the regular Repub-
licans may select. For these reasons I cast my
vote for John M. Dale and J. N. Schoonover, and
[ also wish hereby to protest against any so-
called “agreement’’ or ‘compromise’ which has
made it possible for a man with such a record to
be nominated and elected ; whose election will
be a direct insult to the associate Member of the
House from this county, who stood with the regu-
lar Republicans and was loyal to the principles
of his party.”
The vote resulted as follows : Dale, 96,
Allison, 84, Schoonover, 30.
All being quiet along the line again the
matter of choosing a prothonotary was
taken up and Edward C. McKinley, of
Boggs Twp.; Phil D. Foster, of State Col-
lege; and Milford Fletcher, of Howard,
were placed in nomination. The first bal-
lot resulted McKinley 46, Foster 56,
Fletcher 17, but it didn’t go. The anti-
Quayites realized that with such a fight on
there would be no hope for their candidate
so they got there heads together’ quickly
and decided that McKinley would be a
better martyr than Foster who could be
saved to run for sheriff later. Accordingly
some one discovered Clementina Dale’s ab-
gence and he was sent for and another
ballot taken. Meanwhile Abe Dan had
leaned over and put a little message into
secretary Harris’ ear and when the next
ballot was announced McKinley had 59,
and Foster 58. It must have been a wire-
less telegram from Tommy Mitchell, who
was harrying home from Europe and whose
jugglery with figures had so often helped
Dan out in the past.
They couldn’ find a candidate for dis-
trict attorney so D. H. A. Jackson Hast-
ings took occasion to present the report of
the resolutions committee. It was read
hy the reading clerk as follows :
We, the Republicans of Centre county, by our
accredited representatives in convention as-
sembled, do hereby reiterate our allegiance to
the Republican party and renew our pledges of
devorion and loyalty to its principles and tra-
tions.
We rejoice with our fellow Republicans over
the triumphant re-e'ection of William McKinley
as President of the United States and extol the
intelligence and the wisdom of American electors
for haying by their action vouchsafed to the na-
tion and the people another four years of wise
and judicious government.
We praise and applaud the administration of
President McKinley and regard the domestic and
foreign policy which he has pursued to be in
perfect accord with the principles and doctrines
of the Republican party.
We have witnessed with gratification the pa-
triotic American spirit which has directed his
course in meeting the many and varied compli-
cations arising from a series of events involving
the nation in international disputes and con-
tentions, and we receive with Appropriate satis-
faction the abundant evidence of the success that
has marked the sagacity and foresight of Amer-
ican diplomacy under his careful and watchful
guidance.
We have experienced the benefitsand we share
the blessings which have come to our country
and our people through the application in the
administration of national affairs of the Repub-
lican principles of protection to Amercan labor,
and we rejoice that the re-election of President
McKinley assures us of a continuance for four
more years of a protected policy which has made
our country the commercial, industrial and the
financial leader among the Nations. of the world,
and has given our people a prosperity unequaled
in the history of this or any other government.
We commend and endorse the policy of Pres-
ident McKinley and his administration toward
the inhabitants of Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands, which® has been such that
commands the admiration and respect of all lib-
erty-loving people at home and abroad.
We join with our fellow countrymen in heart-
felt thanks to Our Father in Heaven for his
boundless mercy to our honored President in
sparing to him, and we hope for many years to
come, the life oi nis «nile and beloved wife,
whose comfort. and pleasure and [appiness has
been his chief thought during all the years of
their domestic association. We are proud of our
Chief Magistrate, who, burdened with the cares
and obligations of his high and responsible of-
ficial station, never wavers in his love and devo-
tion to her who has shared his joys and sorrows,
his disappointments and success.
We enthusiastically endorse the ticket which
this convention has this day nominated, and we
pledge to each candidate our united and hearty
support with the determination to exert our best
efforts to accomplish this election in November.
Immediately at its conclusion the mi-
nority report, submitted by Hamilton, was
also read as follows :
We commend the action of our Senators and
Representatives in Congress in Sustaining the
policy of the Republican administration in all
matters of public interest brought to their atten-
tion, and especially in advocating and supporting
the passage of the Grout bill.
e recognize in the administration of this
State, the business integrity, courage, and high
purpose of Governor Stone in limiting the expen-
ditures of the State to the amount of its revenues,
and in payment of the debt of over three million
of dollars which had accumulated in the past.
We commend the action of the Legislature whose
session has just .closed ; whose work as now
printed upon the statute books of the State shows
for itself and commends itself as being one of the
most salutary character and highly beneficial to
the business and social interests of the State.
We commend the action of our Representative,
John K. Thompson, in his attitude in associating
himself with the majority of the Rebablinans of
the House in his efforts to secure liberal appro-
priations for the various educational and chari-
table institutions of the county. 4
We declare in favor of majority rule in politi-
cal as in church or business life: and we de-
nounce those who reject this fundamental prin-
ciple of government by refusing to be bound by
the will of the majority: who make common
cause with Democrats against the interest of the
great Republican majority, and who dencunce
and defame loyal Republicans who wil! not join
them in their efforts to destroy their party.
This latter production made the bob-
tailed horse switch his stump good and
Standard rose to about 6 ft. 2in. in &n in-
stant. :
There was talking then for your life.
Abe Hastings is an orator. He had three
‘speeches in his pocket and two up his
sleeve, but the one he got off was like the
withering jets of hot air that have swept
over the corn fields of the West during the
past month. Oleo wag scorched until it
fairly sizzled and still $he hot oil gushed
forth. “The Big Kettle in which it was
boiling ran over and called Pot - Thompson
black and then rubbed it in by saying that
he isa liar and a thief. It was awful.
Chairman Bennison just then sat on a
little of the filth that the judicial ermine
had left on the seat of the chair and slip-
ped off. It made a noise that sounded so
much like the clatter of the hoofs of the
horse thatJohn Baker rode down the val-
ley of the Conemaugh on the morning of
May 31st, 1889, to warn Johnstown of its
awful doom that it seemed to scare Abe, for
he sat down instanter. : :
Of course Hamilton’s resolutions were
knocked out and Abe Hastings’ were en-
dorsed, because it was important that they
should resolute about Mrs. McKinley's
health. Just then Chambers wakened up
again and called for three cheers for Thomp-
son, but Reeder pulled the thunder out of
his proposition by making it for Allison
and pandemonium reigned supreme.
There was no adjournment. = The}
just
quit. %
Hanna Has Eyes on the Presidency.
Possibility of His Candidacy Said to Be Worrying
Senator Fairbanks,
WASHINGTON, July 27.—It is reported
here on very good authority that Senator
Mark A. Hanna seriously intends to be the
next Republican candidate for President.
The story is not accompanied with affida-
vits, but it is so well authenticated as to
cause considerable uneasiness to the friends
of Senator Charles W. Fairbanks. The
gentleman from Indiana is a candidate un-
der cover. He has first to be re-elected to
the United States Senate, his term expir-
ing March 3, 1903, and he does not care to
figure as a candidate for two political hon-
ors at the same time. But whatever may
be done quietly in the way of organizing is
receiving the attention of his able lieuten-
ants.
Senator Hanna is looked on as the most
formidable obstacle in the way of the Fair-
banks boom. With the chairman of the
Republican national committee unfriendly,
the work of securing control of the nation-
al convention must be uphill work. The
secretary of the committee, Perry S. Heath,
has given evidence ‘of his unfriendliness in
other ways than by the interview in which
he first named Hanna as a possible candi-
date.
It is said now that the feeler then thrown
out brought some unexpectedly encourag-
ing returns, and the more Hauna has
thought it over, the more taken he is with
the idea of inheriting the McKinley mantle
and becoming the administrator of his po-
litical estate of prosperity. He knows he
would have been held responsible if the ad-
ministration had heen a failure. He bore
his part in the heat and labor of the day.
Now he believes he should receive his share
of the credit. What is of more importance
he is beginning to believe the voting public
is coming to regard the matter in this light
also. From the expressions which have ap-
peared in print, and from what certain of
his political friends have said to him in pri-
vate Senator Hanna is about persuaded
that he is no longer the bugbear in the
public estimation that he was painted in
the early days of the 96 campaign. His
friends tell him there has been a reaction
of sentiment, helped along greatly by the
Senator’s appearance on the stnmp and his
straightforward style of utterance in the
last campaign. y
Hanna realizes that the next Republican
convention is a long time in the future ;
but he knew the value of early beginnings
when he started out on the road as the ad-
vance for William McKinley back in 1894.
It was as early as March 27th, 1894, that
McKinley was sprung on the Northwest as
a candidate for the Presidency, at a con-
vention which he attended in Minneapolis
under the auspices of the State League of
Republican Clubs, with John Goodnow,
now Consul General at Shanghai, presiding.
And the work of propaganda was begun
before that.
Next to tbe influeuce of the Republican
national committee is the influence of the
administration as represented by President
McKinley. The friends of Fairbanks have
always made a point of the relations of
confidence said to exist hetween Fairbanks
and McKinley ; but as against Hanna this
argument Joses its weight. As there is no
one man to whom McKinley owes more in
a political way, so there is no one more
than Hanna who could command a larger
share of his assistance in a political game
like the one now beginning.
Pattison at the Head,
The Rehabilitation and Revival'of the Philadelphia
Democracy. Hope for the State and Encourage-
ment for Democrats Throughoutithe Country.
At a special meeting of the Democratic
committee of Philadelphia, on last Friday
Mr. Charles Donnely, who has been chair-
man of that organization for the past five
or six years, handed in his resignation
which was accepted at once, and with a
unanimity seldom experienced Ex-
Governor Robert E. Pattison was chosen
to the position. In a letter to the commit-
tee accepting the chairmanship, Mr. Patti-
son says :
“I would much rather that the respon-
sibilities of so important a position should
have fallen upon other shoulders. I am
unwilling, however,to he numbered among
those who shirk the duties and burdens of
citizenship while enjoying its benefits. I
accept the election.’”’ Continning he says
in part :
“It is openly charged and admitted that,
in this Republican stronghold, political
corruption and political rings now hold the
seats of power and place. These have been
deaf to the voice of the people. Public
works have been made the source of ex-
orbitant private gain. Public franchises
have been distributed as personal gifts.
“These evils cannot continue in the
presence of an intelligent and aroused peo-
ple. Parties are now organizing for the
struggle--the Republican ring for its de-
fense, the people for the overthrow of the
ring.
“In this contest the Democratic party
must take its place with the people. Twice
in the history of the city the Democratic
party, in the administration of the office of
district attorney, has demonstrated that
the people made no mistake in the commis-
sion of public affairs to its hands. Its ad-
ministrations are bright pages in our city’s
history. 3
‘Let us rally under the Democratic ban-
ner, and, by thorough organization and in-
telligent co-operation, deserve a victory
that will again prove to our fellow citizens
that we are worthy of their confidence.’
Governor Stone Announces the Names
of the Capitol Commission.
HARRISBURG, July 27.—Governor Stone
to-day named the following Commission,
who will spend $4,000,000 to complete the
state capitol.
William H. Graham, Allegheny.
William P. Snyder, Spring City.
Edward Bailey, Harrisburg.
Nathan C. Schaeffer, Lancaster.
The first three are Republicans and Dr.
Schaeffer is a Democrat. The commission
is named under the provisions of the Fox
capitol completion bill. Under the act
Governor Stone will be president of the
commission, which is required to complete
the present legislative building by January
1st, 1905. :
The announcement of the Commission
was made shortly before Governor Stone
left for Wellsboro, Tioga county, where he
has taken a house for the remainder of the
summer. :
The first meeting of the Commission will
be held in the Governor's office here at
noon on August 20th.
——A burglar attempted to enter a
creamery at Benton, Wis., the other day,
through a trap door in the roof. He had a
bottle of nitro-glycerine in his hip pocket,
and the trap door, falling, struck him on
the hip. He was literally blown to pieces
by the force of the explosion which follow-
ed. ¥ora
More Rain Fell in the West.
Corn Crop in Southeastern lowa May be Saved—
Arizona Rejoices in a Downpour.
BURLINGTON, Ia., July 29.—Reports re-
ceived here show that the drouth in south-
eastern Towa has been effectively broken
by heavy rain which lasted all night. It
is believed that the rain arrived in time to
largely save the corn crop in this section
of the State.
PHOENIX, Ariz., July 29.—Within the
past twenty-four hours very heavy rain-
storms have covered all of central and
southern Arizona and extended down into
Mexico. In some parts of the Salt River
valley the storm assumed extraordinary
proportions and in the western part a
large amount. of water fell. The rains
will help stock and forests in the moun-
tains, where fires have been creating hav-
oc.
MADISON, Wis., July 29.—A heavy rain
fell in this vicinity through the night,
effectually breaking a protracted drougth.
St. Lous, July 29.—Telegrams from
Marshall, Boonville, Mexico,Jefferson City
and Louisiana, among other points in cen-
tral and northern Missouri, report heavy
rains to-day.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., July 29.—A heavy
rain fell to-day throughout central Illinois
It gras the first recorded here since July
th.
WaTerTOWN, N. Y., A severe electric-
al storm accompanied by a copious rain,
swept over northern New York, begin-
ning early Sunday morning and lasting till
late last night. The rain broke the drouth
and watered the parched crops. The ben-
efit to the farmers in this way was great.
To offset the gain lightning struck scores
of barns, destroying them, together with
their contents, including the newly har-
vested crops.
NEw York, July 29.—Corn fell 2} cents
here and 3} cents in Chicago to-day on
news of heavy rains in the West.
WASHINGTON. July 29.—Official ad-
vices to the Weather Bureau are confirma-
tory of the press reports of the prevalence
of rains over much of. the corn belt ‘since
last night, with cooler weather than yes-
terday. At Kansas City there was over
an inch of precipitation; from one-fourth
to almost two inches in various parts of
Iowa; in Nebraska the rainfall was fair;
in eastern and northern Oklahoma there
were some showers and in Missouri they
were pretty fair. Showers are predicted
for tomorrow east of the Mississippi river,
and fair farther west.
Kansas City, Mo., July 29-—The
drought has been broken in Kansas and Mis-
souri by good rains which have fallen in
heavy and frequent showers since Sunday
morning.
Colonel George W. Veale, who has
watched conditions closely in Kansas for a
score of years, says that Kansas will raise
nearly half a crop of corn.
ADDITIONAL LOCALS
MARRIAGE LIcENSES.—Following is
the list of marriage licenses granted by or-
phan’s court clerk, A. G. Archey, during
the past week : : i
Harvey L. Truckenmiller, of Zion, and
Rebecca S. Corman, of Bellefonte.
H. F. McManaway and Eleanor B.
Meyer, both of Penn Hall. :
& Andro Drapo and Lizzie Horodo, hoth of
Clarence.
Chester S. Kerns, of Jersey Shore, and
Ruby M. Wright, of Apalachacola, Fla.
Wm. H. Allen and Mabel C. Wian, both
of Bellefonte.
AN OvUT-SIDE VIEW, OF THE PROPOSED
‘“‘PETRIKEN HALL.””—‘‘And Jesus sat over
against the treasury, and beheld how the
people cast money into the treasury, and
many that were rich, cast in much, and there
came, a certain poor widow and she threw
in two mites, which make a farthing. And
He called unto Him, His disciples, and saith
unto them, verily Isay unto you, that this
poor widow, hath cast more in, than all they,
which have cast into the treasury. For all
they did cast in of their abundance, but she,
of her want did cast in all that she had, even
all her living.—Mark 12th chapter, verses
41-42-43-44.
It is almost two years since the death of
Marion Petriken, the present seems a suit-
able time towards the garrying out of her
will. The significance of this bequest im-
pressed all, as Miss Petriken was an Epis-
copalian, a staunch church woman. She
was not an active member of the W. C. T.
U., although a regular attendaut at their
meetings, and a contributor. She seemed
to have clearly seen the aim and scope of
this organization, in its christian philan-
throphy comprehended in its forty depart-
ments of work, and she consulted the best
interests of the community in which she
lived, in opening a way for better aiding
the Bellefonte W. C. T. U. in its effort to
uplift and bless all. She recognized that
this organization, being undenominational,
could reach all classes and conditions of
“humanity, as no denominational organiza-
‘tion could. The existence and history of
the W. C..T. U. all over the world, proved
to her the necessity of sustaining the one:
in her own town. By this'act she calls on
all christians of whatever creed, to assist
in the completion of this most worthy en-
terprise. To those who knew of her spot-
less character, sterling worth and usefal
life, she especially appenfs. The community
recognizing the largeness of her thought
for them in this bequest, should unite
with the churches, and in every way aid in
the rapid completion of this hall.
Our distinguished citizens have the op-
portunity of making Bellefonte more con-
spicuous by their generous assistance in
the erection of a building that will be an
ornament to the town, and a worthy mem-
orial of Marion Petriken, and their gener-
osity, furthermore, aiding the town in se-
curing a hall which has so long been need-
ed. Since this is the first time in the his-
tory of Bellefonte such a bequest has been
made for a christian benevolence whose ob-
ject is the benefit of all classes, conditions
and creeds, and this by a woman who gave:
all she had. : x
Shall not such effort be respected by the:
the united action of all, in the completing’
of the object of such bequest. Therefore,
the writer of this article places this matter:
before all named, who by virtue of their
interest, are called upon now to act. The
Bellefonte W. C. T. U. as an organization
deeply feel the responsibility laid upon
them in tbis bequest and are now ready to
unite in definite action. There is little
time for delay. * Rok
— Guberibe for the WATCHMAN.