aR
Pemorraiic Walp
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BY P.
Ink Slings.
—1It is beginning to look as if CORAY
will take the PALM.
—To a competitor that is green with en-
vy any successful newspaper is likely to
look very yellow.
' —The ROOSEVELT children promise to
dim even the luminous white house light
of baby MCKEE.
—One or two more of those juvenile jabs
from the esteemed Republican will make us
“go away back and sit down.”” Maybe.
—The city papers are announcing that
Mr. and Mrs. ALFRED G. VANDERBILT €x-
pect the stork. Now that is real news,
isn’t it?
—The report of State Treasurer BARNET
shows a balance of $7,853.06 in the treasury
on the last day of September. How in the
world did it happen ?
* —Apple peeling’ will undoubtedly be’
come popular as a means of amusement for
spinsters since scientists have declared that
apples make people young.
—As might have been expected ghoul
stories are now the means of Canton space
writers to gather in a last harvest over the
body of the dead President.
—The W. C. T. U. has repudiated CAR-
RIE NATION; but up to the present writing
CARRIE hasn’t made any demonstration of
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A emaeratic:
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 46
Governor Stone’s Speech.
Governor STONE'S Pittsburg speech of
Saturday night was disingenous, to say the
least. He denied too much and asserted
too much. He denied the charge made in
the Democratic platform that the state
government is honey combed with profli-
gacy, and cited the reputation of the only
two public officials who have never been
charged with corruption to support his de-
niai. The Rev. Dr. REED, State Libra-
rian, is not a corruptionist and Dr. SCHAEF-
FER, Superintendent of Public Instruction,
is not a prolifigate. But notwithstanding
their freedom from blame the charge is cor-
rect. The state government is honey
combed with corruption and the Governor
himself is culpable above all. He has not
only contributed largely to the venality of
the Departments but he has encouraged
and promoted profligacy in the Legisla-
ture.
Accept the Opportunity When Offered.
The election of an efficient and able Su-
preme Court Judge and of an honest and
competent State Treasurer is an important
matter to the people of Pennsylvania. It is,
however, not half so important as a change
in the constitution whereby registration
and election laws cau be secured that will
insure honest elections and honest returns.
It is within the reach of the voters of the :
State to secure both these results at the
coming election. The election of Judge
YERKES or of Mr. PALM or Mr. CORAY
would insure the former and the adoption
of the proposed amendments to the consti-
tation would give an opportunity for the
latter.
Those who have an idea of the political
situation in the State can judge closely of
the chances of election of a competent
judge and an honest treasurer. But so little
has been said about the proposed amend-
will make a strong fight to retain control
of the State Treasury and maintain their
present strength on the Supreme court
bench. If the proper effort is made, how-
ever, the Democratic ticket will not only
be elected but the constitutional amend-
ment will be adopted by a safe majority.
ete —
The Bill Settled at Last.
The last chapter in the celebrated ETT-
LINGER tragedy which occurred at Wood-
ward on March 6th, 1896, was ‘enacted in
this place on Wednesday.
The awful scenes that aroused that or-
dinarily peaceful community on that fatal
day have been kept vivid before the public
eye ever since, but now the last case arising
from it has been settled and the details of
the harrowing stony will pass in to memory,
only to be recalled as parallels to some
equally atrocious crime. :
The story of the murder of constable
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 4, 1901.
Some of
From the Pittsbu
A brilliant
signed by
Massachusetts :
Foreigners.......
Pennsylvania :
Foreigners.......
Boston .
Foreigners.......
Philadelphia :
Foreigners.......
Native-born of native parents....... 47 per cent,
fre gteti meet Sven vasa yets 53 per cent.
As Webster said, ‘‘Massachusetts—theres
NO. 39.
Pennsylvania’s Ills.
rg Post.
writer in the ‘Atlantic
Monthly’ for October attempts an ex-
planation of the corrupt condition into
which Pennsylvania bas fallen under the
heading of “The Ills of Pennsylvania,”
“A Pennsylvanian.’
is a great deal of truth ip the paper and
much that is left unsaid. The usnal ex-
planation we hear from our own people is
the ignorance of great masses of our popu-
lation and the fact that they are foreigners.
This the “Atlantic’’ writer demolishes. ‘He
compares our population with that of Mas-
sachusetts, as follows :
Native-born of native parents.....44 per cent.
seus easanigessesnavesvsriins 56 per cent.
Native-born ot native parents....... 66 per cent.
cE adRagoane cus gyainsie sb tases 34 per cent.’
Native-born of native parents....... 35 per cent.
ieseerervbiiasatestsiarine 65 per cent.
There
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union of
: :
Spawlis from the Keystone. ?
—District Attorney W. I. Swoope, of Clear-
field, has been elected a vice president of the
League of Republican Clubs of Pennsylvania.
—Harry W. Lentz, a well-known business
man of Williamsport, died suddenly Sunday
morning from a paralytic stroke. He was
42 years old.
—Dr. F. P. Ball, of Lock Haven, was elect-
ed president of the Medical Society of the
State of Pennsylvania at the annual meeting
of the society at Philadelphia Wednesday.
—Monday night thieves broke into the
barber shop of Ira Stoops, New Bloomfield
and stole therefrom eight razors, hair clip-
per, all his tonics and five boxes of cigars. °
—Early Monday morning James Foltz, of
Milton, fell out of bed and was a corpse be-
fore his wife could reach him. He was 46
years old and died from paralysis of the
heart.
—Pine Flats, Indiana county, and vicinity
are suffering from an epidemic of ‘typhoid
fever. There have been ‘several deaths and
there are still in the neighborhood of twenty
—The second annual meeting of the Penn-
sylvania Congress of Mothers will be held in
Williamsport at the Park hotel, on Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24th, 25th
‘and 26th. \
—James M. Mulville, a Pennsylvania mid-
dle division flagman, Saturday morning fell
{ from a train at Westport, and his right hand
was so badly mangled that it had to be
| amputated at Renovo.
—The eighteenth annual convention of the
untingdon county was held in Hunting-
‘don on Thursday and Friday of last week.
she stands. And Pennsylvania—there sh i 1'ofi
stands, too. Philadelphia is the most na- Al the sessious Were fi 1 of Imerest iio}
tive-born and the most evil large city inj —N- C. Simpson, of Hamill, Indiana coun-
America. You can’t dismiss Pennsylva- | t¥. harvested, perhaps, the largest crop: of
nia’s problem with a shrug of the should { hay gathered in the county during the sea-
ers and an easily uttered, ‘Ob, hordes of | son. The crop on his several farms totaled
ignorant foreigners!’ You may g0 OVer | 395 loads, which fill his many barns.
the whole list of the bosses and sub-bosses| - M aM
of the State, and find hardly ever a “Mac,” | 0 80¢ FIs. George Burkley, who re-
side near Blairsville, celebrated their golden
or an *‘0,” or a “‘berg,’’ ora ‘‘stein,”’ or a |
“gki.”” Itissons of the Revolution, de-| wedding Monday of last week. The celebra-
scendants of the first inhabitants, that are [tion was held in St. Simon and Jude's church,
responsible for Pennsylvania’s condition. | Blairsville, in which the venerable couple
Now why? Why is Massachusetts, with | were married. .
her native-born in a numerical minority, ££ . ji
the best governed Commonwealth in the | —While several boys were shooting pigeons
Union, while Pennsylvania, with native- {at Sunbury Monday morning, 15-year-old
‘Ralph Ramsey ran to pick up a wounded
“bird. As he ran close to John Specht, the
born in large majority, wallows in cor-
‘gun in the hands of the latter exploded.
ruption ?
The first answer is, Because Pennsylva-
‘Ramsey was instantly killed, but Specht was
‘not injured. :
BARNER, the burning of the GOODMAN
‘house in which ETTLINGER, the murderer,
resided, the subsequent suits against the
county and Sheriff CoNDo to recover for
the building and the unjust verdict of a
jury holding the latter responsible is too
well known to need retelling here. Suffice
it to say that on Feb. 9th the WATCHMAN
took the master up and never for a moment
ceased working until the Legislature of
Pennsylvania said that Centre county, and
not her dutiful Sheriff, should bear the
burden. :
Public opinion was so general in its ex-
pression of regret that the case should have
ended as it did that the WATCHMAN first
undertook the work of lifting the burden
‘from him by a popular subscription. The
amount had reached $175.00, when the
calls for other purposes became so numer-
ous that it was decided to withdraw the
Coxpo fand fora time. The thought then
ments and so little attention been given
them by the people that it isa very diffi-
cult matter to form any opinion as to the
chances of their success. Unless public
sentiment can be aroused on this subject
and the people he made to understand the
great importance of this matter it is fair to
presume that they will be allowed to go by
default and the State be left for another
period of from five to seven years with its
present inadequate and unsatisfactory elec-
tion system. This should not be allowed.
Every man who takes an interest in politics,
who desires to see honest elections, to have
election laws that will prevent the work of
repeaters, ballot-box stuffers, false counters
and intimidations should interest himself
in arousing public sentiment on this ques-
tion. It is really the most important mat-
ter the people of Pennsylvania bave been
called upon to determine since the adoption
of the present constitution. The machine,
The Governor declared that the re-
election of Senator QUAY was a ratification
of an issue that was settled by the people
at the last November election. He must
have known that that was a falsehood.
The people within the sound of his voice
knew that a majority of the General As-
sembly were chosen with the understand-
ing that they would vote, not for QUAY
but against him. They knew that Senator
WASHBURNE, of Crawford county, was
elected to vote against QUAY. They knew
that Senator BUDKE,of Washington county,
was instructed by the voters of his district
to vote against QUAY and they knew that
the five traitorous Democrats who voted
for MARSHALL for Speaker: of the House
never would have been elected if their per-
fidy had been even suspected. Governor
STONE well knew those things and he knew
that if MARSHALL had not been elected
Speaker and the machine which he repre-
regret at being cast out of the elect of
white ribboners.
—The Governor said that ‘‘the Demo-
cratic party is dead,” in a speech that he
made at Franklin, on Tuesday evening.
But the Governor really don’t believe what
be says. He will find it alive enough for
all purposes this fall.
—The young man whose mother is prob-
ably bending her back over a wash tub
now dons his yachting cap and talks about
the races with about as much intelligence
as a cow would show in a discussion of the
workings of wireless telegraphy. The
world is full of such Willies off the yacht,
however.
—Again they get through with § this
SCHLEY investigation business there will
be very few officers in the navy who will
not be wanting vindication. They seem
$0 be as bad as those Harrisburg Methodist
nia has an overwhelming majority. Buf
this is too obvious to be good. It doesn’t
carry us anywhere. Why does Pennsyl-
vania have such Republican majorities?
Again the obvious answer, Because itis a
manufacturing State, and wants a proteat-
ive tariff. But so is Massachusetts a man-
ufacturing State, so does Massachusetts
want a protective tariff. Massachusetts’
. .—Louis Craig, a carpenter whose home is
in Reward, Perry county, was struck on the
‘head by a stone in Wilmore Tuesday fore-
‘noon and so badly hurt that he died at 2
‘o'clock that afternoon. He was ewployed
preachers at calling each other liars, except
that they are a little more choice in the use
of words to mean the same thing.
—Pennsylvavia needs more than such a
homeopathic dose of reform as: one Demo-
erat and one Union Republican will be.
The only thing that will purge the State
of such a pernicions canker as QUAYism
sented been thus deprived of the patronage
of the office to use for bribing Legislators
QUAY would not have been elected. His
statement that the people shared in the
crime of electing QUAY was a slanderous
lie out of the whole cloth. 0
His statement that the Democratic plat-
form js anarchistic is no less reckless and
and those who profit by frauds at election,
will, in all probability, be against these
amendments and because they will be
against them is the strongest reason why
the people should be for them. In the
adoption of these amendments lies the
hope of better things for Pennsylvania in
the future, and every man who casts a bal-
lot, and every individual who bas the bon-
occurred that the proper course to pursue
would be to have the Legislature pass an
act instructing the Commissioners of Cen-
tre county to pay the bill. This seemed to
be the most equable course, after all, since
it wonld aj:nortion it among all the taxa-
bles of the county. Accordingly a bill was
drafted and presented to the Legislature.
It passed both Houses without opposition
delegation in Congress have been just as
largely in favor of protection as Pennsyl-
vania’s; Massachusetts has just as uniform-
ly gone Republican "in general elections
when protection was involved : yet the
Massachusetts Republican voter does not
obey the Pennsylvania behest, ‘“Hold you
bands up, shut your eyes and vote the Re-
publican ticket.’’
Looking deeper, the .‘‘Atlantic’’ writer
‘by contractor Kerbaugh on the new railroad
work and wasin the trestle gang.
‘ —A few days ago while the morning train
on the Philadelphia and Erie railroad was
in the vicinity of the first fork of Sinne-
honing a deer was seen running along on
the tracks of the train. After a short race
the deer jumped down the embankment and
swam the riverin full view of the passengers.
has been is another one of those allopathic
doses such as it received in 1882 and 1890,
ON was elected on a straight
false. That platform simply condemns the
immoralities that have become gommon in
the public life of the State-and if that. is
‘anarchistio then ‘every clergyman who
performs his duty is an'anarchist. Would
the Governor have us remain silent while
crimes are committed before. our eves. It
is a principal of law that a man who is cog-
nizant of a crime, either before or after the
fact, and neglects to prevent it, ifin his
power, or invoke punishment, is culpable.
Governor STONE, therefore, promotes crime
by denouncing the condemnation of crime
as anarchy and the peopleshonld rebuke
discovers Quayism as the cause of the mor-
al degradation of the State. The corrupt |
politician demoralizes and corrupts Ve’
people. That is precisely what has ‘hap-
pened in Pennsylvania. Mr. Quay’s first
maxim is that every man. has his price.
The *‘Atlantic’’ philosopher says it applies:
- For car loads f. o. b. at Baltimore to
serve as repeatersat the Philadelphia elec-
tions, $1.00 per head; fdr a member of the
Legislature at a critical pinch, $37,000; for
a respectable business fan and church of-
ficial to lend the dignity of his name to a
Quay meeting, a reduced assessment on his
property, or a franchise to a company of
which he is a director; fora socially am-
bitious nouveauriche, the appointment of
his son as under secretary of a foreign
~—Miss Minta Beamer, of Latrobe, is. se-
viously ill, the tesulg of blood poisoning,
‘caused by being struck on the forehead by
the point of a lead pencil, which she request-
ed an employe in Williams's store where she
was employed, to throw her. Her face has
swollen to abnormal proportions and she
suffers greatly from the pain.
or. and welfare of the Commonwealth at
‘heart should devote his time and his ener-
gies, until the close of the polls on the 5th
of November, to arousing his neighbor and
associates to the great importance of secur-
ing their approval of these amendments.
and was signed by the Governor on Wed-
nesdagliar 23nd oR Len Bal
1 On Wednesday Sheriff CoNpo was ‘in
Bellefonte and the Commissioners handed
him $1405.03,it being the balance of $1805."
03 necessary to cover all the bills of expense
incurred by him in the litigation. While
there will be general satisfaction in know-
ing that justice has been done an official
who was plainly in pursuit of his duty it
will be but natural if there is wonderment
as to why the old board of Commissioners,
then in office, did not settle with the Goop-
MAN'S, when an opportanity to do so for
—My, the saucy little devil! Why, we
can’t ask a civil question any more with-
out making the Republican's editor cloud
up. Now we didn’t really care why DAN
wasn’t at the Union party convention, only
we thought that if there were no negro-
proxy for him to get in on we didn’t want
the Republican to ‘‘scoop’’ us on making
the fact public.
Should Be Satisfactory To Them.
If the contention of the Philadelphia
newspapers that are favoring fusion in that
city is correct, they should be satisfied
with the situation. During the entire
summer they have heen charging that the
organization claiming to represent the regu-
—The house of Clarence Bell, near the
Lutz school house in White township, In-
diana county, was totally destroyed by fire
last week. All the family were away from
home at the time and it is thought the fire
originated from a defective flue. Everything
in the house was burned with the exception
—As far back as 1899 Senator TILLMAN,
of South Carolina, said at his own table
one day : ‘‘The President embarrasses me
with his consideration and confidence. He
is the most lovable man I know.” He did
not wait until he was dead to ealogize the
President, yet there are.plenty of bigoted,
lying sneaks who would call TILLMAN an
anarchist.
—Judging from the woeful tale that
his disregard of moral obligations by vot-
down the candidate of his party.
——To-morrow, Saturday, October 5th,
will be the last day on which taxes to se-
cure a vote may be paid. Remember this,
especially you young fellows who voted on
age last fall. You will have to pay a tax
before you can vote again,
lar Democracy is nothing more nor less than
an adjunct of the QUAY-ASHBRIDGE ma-
chine. If this charge is correct then the
placing of a regular Democratic ticket in
the field is exactly what they should desire.
Without a Democratic ticket to vote for
those belonging to this organization would,
if guilty of the duplicity laid at their door,
vote straight for the Republican candi-
$1,200 was offered.
Such a settlement would undoubtedly
have resulted in a saving of $605.03 to the
county, but the conditions of the case were
so peculiar as as give rise to doubt as to
whether the Commissioners had any right
to deal with it. It stood almost without
parallel in legal history and the course tak-
en was considered to be the right one at the
legation.
American wom
The First Lady of the Land.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Mrs. Rooseveelt is a type of the finest
anhood. 3
She is thoroughly domestic, devoted to
husband, children and home. :
One of the few clubs in which she takes
‘an active interest is the Mother's associa-
tion of New York state, of which sheisa
of one bed, which pupils of the school suc-
ceeded in saving.
—A Polish wedding was held at Clearfield
recently and the Karthaus Times secured a
copy of the original order for supplies for
the feast which is as follows: Thirty four kegs
of beer, 85 pounds of beef, 60 pounds of Po-
lish sausage, 2 hams, 11 gallons of whiskey,
15 cases of pop, 2 gallons wine. For the ball
which followed the order amounted to this.
Forty kegs of beer, 15 cases of pop, 7 boxes
came from the Philippines Lord KITCHEN- _———— dates. > With a ticket of their own, a good- ni: Siroons i came, very. Best Jasienidg member . President Roosevelt 18 on the cigars 400 sandwiches, 8 hams, 3 bushels pea-
ER isn’t the only leader of a great nation’s The Notification Meeting. ly portion of these voters must cast their arg 1 of expense on an official who | advisory board of the National association | Le
o ee +r ballots for it; thus preventing the swelling | was acting under the advice of counsel and | of mothers. : ; :
field forces who bas to ‘‘regret to report. The Democratic notification meeting in | of the votes cast for the Republican nomi- | the concurrence of the public at the time. Mrs. Roosevelt has published a volume | —According to the Lock Haven Express a
The killing of forty Americans at one time | Philadelphia last week was the most in- | Pes: In the light of the information that of poems. - | dastardly attempt was made early last Thurs-
looks as if our waris going on at pretty
near the same disastrous rate that charac-
terizes the English outrages in South
Africa.
—A strange fatality seems to bang over
the SCHLEY court of inquiry. It was only
a few days ago that SCHLEY’S senior coun-
sel, Judge WILSON, died suddenly and the
spiring incident of recent politics. It was
not only largely attended but'it brought
together the representatives of all factions
of the party for a common purpose, the
success of the party: ' There were present
from all sections of the State the old and
the new leaders of the organization. Gray
haired men who a quarter of a century ago
Independent papers have furnished us on
this subject, we take it they should be
thankful that these QUAY--ASHBRIGE
Democrats, as they call them, have cou-
cluded to vote for other persons than the
QUAY--ASHBRIDGE nominees. :
Support the Constitutional Amendment.
It the friends of ballot reform in the
State are wise they will not fail to give at-
A Proper Way to Vote.
If the Democrats of Philadelphia desire
to do themselves an honcr and their city a
good turn they will cast their votes for W.
FRED ROTHERMEL fcr District Attorney,
notwithstanding the fact that Mr. W. WiL-
KENS CARR is running as a Democratic
candidate for that office.” Mr. CARR may
She is a good
in their own
She knows politics like a mau.
She is an accomplished linguist.
her official receptions,’’ according to one
who knows her, ‘she will be able to &hat
She knows how to sew.
She is exceedingly fond of reading. |
horse woman.
3 SAL
languages with balf the
ambassadors there.”’
She has taught her children to say
‘“‘Father’’ and ‘‘Mother.”’
day morning to wreck one of the flyer pas-
sénger trains on the Pennsylvania road near
the end of the bridge which crosses the river
at Montgomery. The track walker while
walking over his beat found a piece of iron a
foot in length solidly wedged between the
“Y? of the switch frog in such a manner as
would have derailed and thrown over a steep
embankment the first train striking it.
court had scarcely recovered from that | were familiar fizures in Democratic con- | yengion to the pending constitutional | bea very good lawyer and a respectable | She isdeeply religious. 16 Bis been, discovered that Daleville,
shock when: it was startled by the sad news | ventions were fraternizing with the hust- | ay endments. The tone of the Governors | citizen but his Democracy was of that Mrs. Roosevelt bas brown eyes and Delaware county, Ind, a town of about ous
that Capt. LEMLY’S sister had been burned | ling young fellows who are the present : brown hair. thousand inhabitants, has not been included
to death at her home at Charlotte, N. C.
The Captain is Judge Advocate General of
the board.
managers of the campaign and equal inter-
est in the work was revealed by both.
The speeches on the occasion were like-
Pittsburg speech in referring to the matter
is not reassuring. That is to say while he
did not declare an opposition to the amend-
ment providing for personal registration in
character that thought it no crime to assist
in the election of a Republican President
both: times Mr. BRYAN was a nomi-
nee. This, however, has nothing to do
She dresses
She wears her hair in one way always
—brushed away smoothly from her face
and then coiled at the back.
simply especially . in the
in the last census, although the township in
which it is located is given. The census of-
ficials in Washington say they had to depend
“61 the supervisors and enumerators entirely
ional ast ; HE : : Leg : treet, ting with | :
—The statement of the United States Vise a ry toma » ae A Bode the proposition which is ominous. “So | with the present situation. It isa fact that ia Teas a De and if they failed to make a separate nota-
Steel Co., just published, showing that the 7 J uCp , who presided at | gar a5 I know,’’ hesaid, “it will meet with | he stands no more chance of an election | some. : tion of a village in a township, the head-
net earnings of the great corporation dur-
ing six months have been $54,954,871 is
enough to engender anarchism. Such
enormous profits, in the face of a refusal to
give employees even a considerate hearing
of their request for better wages,are brought
about through governmental favoritism that
makes the masses feel that all is for the few.
—It is a most unseemly squabble that
Dr. SinAs C. SwarLLow and Rev. C. V.
HARTZELL, two ministers of the Methodist
church residing in Harrisburg, bave gotten
into. Calling each other liar may not be
far from ‘‘giving the devil his dues,” in
this particular case, but it would be far
better to keep up the deception than to drag
the clergy and the church intosuach unfort-
unate publicity. It does seem strange
that a Methodist minist.:: can be counted
on nearly every time, to lose his head
about as quick as the owner of a fighting
dog. = Of course there are exceptions in the
ministry wlio seem to comprehend their
real mission, but much’ of their efficiency is
counteracted by the effects of just such in-
cidents as this SWALLOW-HARTZELL name
calling. matoh. ‘
.| eamipaign progresses.
the meeting, conveyed the official notifica-
tion in an address worthy of the best tradi-
tion of the party and the responses were of
the same high character. Judge YERKES
pledged himself in the event of his election
to perform the daties of his office to the
hest of his ability and his long and able
service on the bench of Bucks county isa
guarantee that it will be: well performed.
Representative PALM was equally clear and
emphatic in his pledges of reform in the
conduct of the office for which he has been
nominated.
No political campaign was ever more
auspiciously opened in this State. Chair-
man CREASY has revealed the highest order
of ability as a political manager and organ-
izer and the splendid success of the open-
ing meeting of the campaign is a most sub-
stantial evidence of the fact. It made the
most favorable impression upon the minds of
all those who were brought to the scene by
personal or, political interest and command-
ed the admiration: of others who bappened
to be spectators of the event willingly or
unwillingly. It isto be hoped that there
will be no relaxation of interest as’ the
no serious opposition atthe polls.”’” But
he preceded that remark by expressing a
doubt as to the efficacy of such a cure for
the existing evil.
It may be true that the proposed amend-
ment will not cure all the evils of the pres-
ent election law. But it will provide a
means of stopping the most prolific source
of election frauds. In other words it will
minimize the opportunities for repeaters
and personators to operate where they are
able to completely - control elections by
fraud. If election frauds are practiced in
spite of personal registration, those who en-
gage in the work will take greater risks
than they do at present and the chances of
punishment will be correspondingly in-
creased. That is a sufficient reason for
supporting the amendments if there were
no other.
"The present indications are that the
amendment will be adopted. But nothing
in politics is certain and those who favor
honest elections should proceed on the
theory that every effort is necessary - to
guarantee, the, victory. Men are liable to
forget side issues when a bitter campaign is
on for important offices and the machine
than a wingless bird does of flying to the
moon and that his candidacy can only assist
in making the machine nominee successful.
In the election of Mr. ROTHERMEL lies the
hope of meting ont punishment to the de-
bauachers of elections in Philadelphia. It was
his persistent prosecution of these offenders
that caused his own party machine to turn
him down. It is the knowledge that they
can neither control nor prevent these pros-
eontions, in case of his re-election, that
creates the bitterness the machine shows
towards him and inspires its efforts for his
defeat.
With no chance to elect a Democrat, the
best Democrat in the world is excusable
for casting his vote where it will do the
most good. It should be left to the friends
| of the QUAY machine to divide their votes
between WEAVER and CARR while it is-
the plain duty of every honest citizen, no
matter what his political predilections, to
cast ‘his ballot for the one man who has
proved himself true to the peqple’s ingerests
and thus made himself the target for th
QUAY-ASHBRIDGE outfit. = -
——Voters whose taxes are not paid
should remember that to-morrow, Satur-
day, is the last day on which tax pay-
ment will securea vote.
. ‘side over Corne
Young Men
ton,
dent of the
inia, was
Colwell Davis
Rev.
niversity of
E.
elected
when 28 years old.
She has the enviable faculty which
helped to make Mrs. Cleveland so popular
of remembering not only the personality of
those she meets even only occasionally, but
their names and facts regarding them.
at the Head of Colleges.
From the Success. ;
The youngest college President is said
to be John H. McCracken,
presides over Westminster College at Fal-
Mo., while his father, Henry M. Mo-
Cracken is the executive head of New York
University. Jerome Hall Raymond, presi-
who at 25,
University of West Vir-
to that office
President Boothe
of Alfred University
New York, was elected when 35 years old.
Burris A. Jenkins was two years
‘vounger when he became President, of the
Indianapolis. Dr. Daniel
Jenkins, President of Parsons College,
Towa was just 30 years of age when he took
the place, in 1896. Dr. Jacob Gould Schur-
man was 38 years old when he went to
) pre-
11 University.
© — Tt is a good thing for the young men
of the county, who voted on age last, fall,
to ‘remember that unless their taxes are
paid by to-morrow, Saturday, they will be
unable to vote at the coming election.
quarter officials could not know such a town
exisled. The town of Daleville does not ap-
pear in the census roll of 1890 either. Itisa
postoffice,but the fact that it was not separate-
ly enumerated in 1890 or 1900 is taken as
evidence that legally it is merely a part of a
township. ’ :
—A special dispatch to the Pittsburg com-
mercial Gazette dated Sept. 29th says: ‘A
queer suit for damages comes from the neigh-
borhood of Karthaus. The claimant is a
farmer who lives near the line of the new
West Branch railroad, now being built from
Clearfield to Williamsport. William Hughes
is the contractor at this point on the road,
and the farmer makes a claim for $300 dam-
ages for the annoyance and fear from the
snakes that, he alleges, have been driven
from the railroad to his farm and buildings.
The farmer sent for contractor Hughes and
when the latter arrived he found the farmer
and all his family killing snakes; the man
declared they had done: little else for three
weeks. In proof of his assertion he escorted
Hughes behind the barn where on a fence
were strung 123 copperheads, 45 rattlers and
99 snakes of a less dangerous variety. Con-
tractor Hughes offered to pay $25, but this
sum was refused and the farmer went before -
a Girard township. justice of the peace and
entered suit.