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Bellefonte, Pa., July II, 1902
RANK WEEDS AND RARE PLANTS.
The rank weed grows in a single night,
While the rarer plant takes years,
An evil name will leap to fame
‘While a good name scarce appears.
But the rank weeds dies in a single night,
While the rare plant still blooms on,
And the evil name will sink to shame
While the good name’s in its dawn,
The way that is won without any work
Is not worth winning at all—
A sudden light—a meteor flight—
A sparkle—a trial and a fall.
Fear, not brave heart, whate’er thy lot,
Like the coral build deep in the sea,
And a beautiful land with a glittering strand
Shall owe its existence to thee.
And if failure be thy part. O heart!
What compensation shalt thou find
For thy weary years and bitter tears,
And thy mission half divined ?
But this can comfort bring to thee,
That like a sounding bell,
Men shall say on thy judgment day,
“This little work is done well I’
—Ella Sterling Cummins in Sanfrancisco Town
Talk.
WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK.
John Walsh had red hair.
If his hair. bad been brown, this story
would probably never have been written.
He bad, besides the bair, a pair of blue
eyes and a quick temper. An Irish ances-
tor who had come to America brought with
him a spade and a brogue, a keen wit, the
red hair and the quick temper. The spade
and the brogue had disappeared ; but the
temper and hair sarvived. Sometimes they
skipped a generation, and flashed out in the
next keener than before.
John Walsh bad them. He was teacher
in the Burleighville high school. There
were three rooms in the school building.
The room in which John Walsh taught was
called the High school room. The highest
class in it was fitting for college ; and the
lowest—in whioh were Annie Day, and
Dennis Quinn, and Edgar Button—was
studying decimals. They were in the up-
per room only because the lower rooms had
overflowed and floated them up to the front
seats in the high school room. They sat
there very much awed by their fate, and
thankful when the flash of John Walsh's
blue eyes overleaped them and landed on
the big boys in the back seats.
The master’s temper was no secret. ‘‘As
quick as John Walsh’s temper’? was a town
proverb. It had been the same in the boy
as in the man. As a pupil, he had made
his way through the school flashing and
fighting and excelling. There had never
been such a scholar in Burleighville. The
town was secretly proud of him; and when,
on his return fiom college, he had applied
for the position of teacher in the high school
to help him carry on his law studies, they
had welcomed him back. The life of the
school had quickened and broadened. He
imparted enthusiasm and knowledge in the
same breath. Every pupil in the room be-
came alert. They loved the fiery, impetn-
ous master ; and the fact that they stood a
little in awe of him did not diminish zeal.
It was the last week of the spring term.
John Walsh had been teaching in Burleigh-
ville two years. He was planning to go,at
the end of the term, to study with the well
known firm of Marsh & Blakewell, of Bos-
ton. His old mother was comfortably pro-
vided for, and there was money ahead to
carry him through. The last weeks of the
term promised to be balmy—indoors and
out.
Three weeks before the end of the term a
change had come. Word had been receiv-
ed from Marsh & Blakewell that there was
doubt of their being able to receive a law
student this year. They would write again
in two weeks. Meanwhile they ‘remained
regretfully, ete.’’
The sky clouded in the Burleighville
high school. Signs of a storm were on the
horizon, The school took in sail and steer-
ed very close to the wind, with cautious
glances at the blue eyes flashing and dart-
ing above them. The front seats quaked
and worked on decimals.
*“There he goes !”’
‘‘Hurry up, Annie!”
“We'll be late !”?
‘‘Let’s go ’cross the island !"’
The group broke into a swift, jogging
run. Books and slates and dinner pails
bumped in swinging hands, and panting
breaths escaped. Haurrying feet rattled the
Joose boards of the bridge and thudded on
the soft grass as they crossed the island.
Tommy Day was last in the race. He had
a round face and fat legs, and his little
brown trousers were too wide. He lumber-
ed along, holding fast to his. sister’s hand,
and wailing now and then at the flying
. group. They gave no heed till the other
bridge was reached. There they paused,
glancing at it a little donbtfully and nudg-
ing each other to.go on.
- Two signs were across it : ‘‘Danger.—Not
a Public Way.”
It was a swinging bridge—two parallel
cables with boards across and a stout rope
for band rail. It had been thrown across
for the operatives of the mill on the island.
But the island was a handy cut when one
was late and the last bell ringing.
‘Go on, Will.” Sammy Talcott gave the
boy in front a little push. : '
*‘G’on yourself !”’ {gr
“Hurry up! We'll he late.” .
The boy hesitated, Then, with a little
ran, his feet touched the bridge and sped
swiftly across. He swayed lightly to the
motion, and barely touched the hand rope
swinging beside him. :
With a whoop and a chase, they follow-
ed, big and little, speeding across one at a
time, and landing with a flying leap.
‘Come on, Annie.”’
‘Oh, leave him there 1’
‘‘He’s a baby !' ‘Come on 1”
Tommy pluniped himself on the ground,
his legs extended, and raised a round wail
- $0 heaven. :
The gronp across the river regarded him
with eager disgust. ‘Come along !’—
“He'll come if you leave him !"’—*“Hurry
up: Gili
Hobe ‘placed ‘one foot on the bridge and
glanced down at Tommy. Then she look-
ed at the bridge.
.. The group waited. ‘Coward yourself,
Annie Day I’ called Mary Bell, tauntingly.
““1Fraid cat! ’Fraid cat I”
She looked over
‘‘He’s too little,”’ she called back. Her
voice was high and squeaking, and her
small face was full of anxious care.
‘Oh, leave ‘ems alone I”’—‘‘Come on !”’
—*‘There’s the bell I’ They turned with
a wild scramble. Their voices floated back
as they ran, and grew faint and fainter.
The air was very still. The boom of the
mill on the other side of the island hum-
wed softly in it. A sparrow, hopping in a
at them appealingly. |
pered loudly.
bush by the water, looked up at the pair
and gave a little trill, and hopped away.
She bent over him sternly. ‘Get up,
Tommy ; I'm going back round the island
with you. Now don’t ery any more.”’
Tommy’s mouth, which bad opened to emit
a fresh sound, closed suddenly. He snuff-
ed and looked at her—resentfully and hope-
fully. ;
She wiped his eyes on her apron and held
out her hand. “Come along,”’ she said
swiftly.
They disappeared through the bushes,
Tommy’s fat legs wagging fast. The gray
stockings and flying shoe strings, seen from
behind, had an air of renewed courage.
The door opened timidly. It was Annie
Day—fifteen minutes late. She squeaked
respectfully and hurriedly to her seat.
The first cless in arithmetic was reciting.
The master looked up with a frown.
‘‘Wait !’? he said sharply to the boy who
was reciting.
The boy paused.
A hush was on the room.
Annie squeaked miserably through is, the
freckles on her small face lost in the rush
of color, and her little turned up nose, with
its anxious, deprecating look, glancing
hastily now and then at the master’s face.
The blue eyes were fixed on her sternly.
When she bad subsided into the front seat
and had bent her face to the desk to look
for her book and slate, the eye turned again
to the class.
‘‘Go on,’’ he said shortly.
The silence clicked, and the boy went on
reciting. :
The class in arithmetic was dismissed and
the second reading class had been called.
They sat erect in their seats, their hooks
clasped motionless, in front of them, wait-
ing the signal.
Into the silence fell a muffled clatter and
a crash—Dennis Quinn had tipped over his
dinner pail. He did it once a week on an
average. His feet were large. His scared
face disappeared under the desk. i
The master glared. ‘‘Come here,Quinn,”’
he said, sharply.
There was no response. Dennis, under
cover of the desk, was grappling with a
rolling tea-cup, cold boiled cabbage, and
doughnuts and pie ; and he was deaf to the
world above him.
A big, swift hand reached down and seiz-
ed him by the collar, throwing him half
across the open space in front of the school.
He stood quavering, the broken cup in
one hand and the sugared doughnut in the
other.
The master’s face was white with rage.
“I'll teach you to come when I call ?’’ he
said between his teeth. He reached ous
and seized the collar again. The boy’s
teeth chattered and the tea-cup and dough-
nut flew in two directions as he shook, like
a rat, in the strong hands. The master
threw him from him, with a force that sent
the boy sprawling under the table. Then
he stood staring down at a white, freckled
face at his elbow.
Little Annie Day, shaking with fright
and anger, had him by the coat. Her hands
shook and her white face worked helpless-
ly. “Don’t you touch him again, you
mean old thing,’’ she piped shrilly.
A deep hush was on the room. Breath-
less necks craned at the scene.
Dennis, from beneath the table, lifted a
trembling hand and straightened his collar
and groped for his doughnut.
A flood of color surged into the master’s
white face and out again, leaving it whiter
than before.
Annie had ceased pulling. She stood
with her head meekly bent, waiting for the
storm to descend.
The master looked at her for a long min-
ute. He brushed a quick hand before his
eyes and looked again, The rage had gone
from his face. No one in the school had
ever seen it look like this.
The silence deepened.
‘‘Take your seats,’’ he said, quietly.
He stepped to the table and touched the
little bell. Dennis, from beneath, sped
swiftly to his seat.
At a second tap of the bell, the class in
reading rose from .their seats and filed
silently to their places before him.
The school had assembled with white
aprons and clean collars and shining faces.
1t was the last day. To-morrow would be
vacation. To-day they would speak pieces
avd have prizes. A row of complacent
mothers and a scattering of fathers lined
the walls and gave glory to the day.
The pieces had been spoken and the last
prize distributed, when the master rose to
speak, His blue eyes swept the room. In
his hand he held a small object that shone
in the light.
‘I have another prize to give,” he said,
slowly. ‘Is was not offered, but it has
been earned.
The school looked on, breathless.
‘‘There is in England,’’ went ou the mas-
ter’s voice, ‘‘a reward that is given only for
bravery. It is known as the Victoria Cross.
No one can wear it who has not been very
brave. It is a great honor to have it. I
have here’’— He glanced at the bright ob-
jeet in his hand—*‘a cross that I should like
to give in the same way.’ i
He paused. A flutter ran through the
school. Pia Blige
“To-morrow,” said the master, *‘T shall
leave you. I may never live here again.
But I should like to think that you do not
forget me.”’ . WE
Some of the girls blinked very fast. The
boys looked ons of the window,
*‘I should like to send every year a cross
like this’’—he held it np—*‘to be given to
some one who has shown special courage.’’
They gazed at it respectfully. Envious
glances stole toward Willie Flint, in the
back row. He sat very straight, his eyes
fixed on the master’s face, a serene look on
hisown.: © = "0
There was no doubt as to who wonld
haye it. Willie Flint’s. name bad been in
all the local papers. He had become a hero
‘since the day ‘he rushed out and stopped
old Mose: Beokman’s . runaway horse. It
had all been done in a minute—old Mose
swaying: ‘drunkenly on the seat—a swift
plunge atthe horse, a turn toward the
fence, a blocking of the wheel against the
post, before the horse could plunge away—
any boy would have done it. Willie had
been very modest about it. But one or
two of the other boys longed to pummel
him as he gazed serenely at the master—
after the droop of an eyelid toward the
lapel of bis coat. ;
The master looked at the cross thought-
fully, and then at the school. He opened
his lips. “I give this cross,’’ he said slow-
5 ‘because of special bravery, to—-Annie
y.' :
The room stirred swiftly and shifted its
gaze to a small girl in the front seas. :
She sat with dazed countenance, blink-
ing at the glittering cross. Her anxious
little nose was upturned to it.
Dennis Quinn bent over and gave her a
labored punch. ‘It’s your'n,”’ he “whis-
“Bring her here
Dennis grinned. He reached out a hand
and, taking her by the elbow, shoved her
The master smiled.
“Dennis,’’ he said.
gently to the front of the room.
The master bent and pinned the cross on
the plaid shoulder, and she tiptoed back
amid breathless silence. Then the school
broke into cheers and clapping.
She looked up for a swift, doubtful mo-
ment, and her head fell forward on her
arms. She burst into tears. They ran
down her face and fell on the cross, and
took the starch out of her white apron.
Not until recess, when the older girls
gathered about her in the yard, fingering
the cross and admiring it, did she begin to
understand what it was all about.
Tommy, surrounded by a group of cronies
from the primary room, pointed a short, fat
finger at the cross. ‘That’s my sister!”
he said, proudly.
Years later, when John Walsh was a
leader at the bar, and his patience and skill
and swift wit and even temper with baffling
witnesses and opposing counsel were the
wonder and admiration of his fellow law-
yers, he was accustomed to say, with a
shrewd glint of the blue eye, that a little
girl in the upper room at Burleighville had
taught him to keep his temper.—By Jen-
nette Lee in The Outlook.
The Great Hood Farm Auction Sale.
Largest and Best Sale of Jerseys in This Country
for Years.
The recent auction sale at Hood Farm,
Lowel, Mass., dispersed 154 beautiful Jer-
seys to breaders and farmers all over the
country from Maine to Oregon, it being the
largest and most successful sale of Ameri-
can bred Jerseys that has been held in this
country for years. There was an attendance
of over 500, there being 58 different buyers
comprising the best known Jersey breeders
in the country. The sale was conducted by
Peter C. Kellogg of New York. The 48
cows sold brought $9165, an average of
$190, 67 heifers and calves sold for $5890,
and 39 bulls and bull calves brought $2895.
Thirty bead by the great show bull Hood
Farm Pogis sold for $3810; 19 by Torono
for $2907; 8 by Sophie’s Tormentor for
$2296, an average of $287; 8 by Brown
Bessie’s Son, $1200; and 8 by Chromo, $824.
Three young heifers by Hood Farm
Pops 9th, brought $655, an average of
18.
The remarkably good prices brought by
the young heifers of Hood Farm Pogis
9th show that breeders appreciate the great
breeding represented in this young bull
and his progeny. None of these heifers are
in milk, their average age being about 14
months. One of them brought $330, this
heiug the highest price paid for any. female
not in milk. Hood Farm Pogis 9th is
retained at the head of the Hood farm herd
He is a son of the famous cow Figgis, by
the great show bull Hood Farm Pogis.
Figgis herself was the great plam of the
sale and was booght hy the well known
banker and copper magnate, Mr. Thomas
W. Lawson of Boston. The price paid was
$875, This sale reduces the Hood Farm
berd to a more convenient basis for busi-
ness, and young stock from the producing
sires and dams at Hood Farm will continue
to be in demand among progressive breed-
ers. Besides others, the herd now contains
30 daughters and granddaughters of Hood
Farm Pogis, 36 daughters and granddaugh-
ters of Sophie’s Tormentor and 10 daugh-
ters:of Hood Farm Pogis 9th. The famous
imported Berkshire boar Sambo, which Mr.
Hood himself bought in England two years
ago, was purchased by Charles F. Millis of
Springfield, Ills., for $150, and about 50
other choice Berkshires were sold at average
prices which showed that the demand for
this breed of hogs is good.
Making Fine Furniture.
Woods Named fiom Their Grain and Cutting—No
Bird’s-eye Maple Tree.
Most of the people who hear the furni-
ture man talk glibly of bird’s-eye maple,
curly walnut, and quartered oak, imagine
that these are the products of some par-
ticular kind of tree in each species.
But all that is pure delusion. The
names are simply invented by the workers
in fine woods to distinguish particular ma-
terial. The terms refer entirely to the
graining shown by the different methods of
cutting oak. walnut, and maple.
Bird’s-eye maple is a veneer set upon a
body of solid wood. The bird’s-eye fig-
ure is produced by cutting around the log,
beginning immediately under the bark and
continuing till the log is used up.
The thin sbaving thus obtained is
smoothed and polished to show the grain
and then mounted upon rougher material.
Furniture made in this way, though beau-
tiful, is therefore somewhat perishable.
To cut up the log a huge knife and not a
saw is used, the wood being peeled off in
thin strips each many yards in length.
Few species of maple trees produce the
beautiful grain necessary aud many logs
are spoiled in cutting, so the furniture is
naturally expensive. The veneer obtained
from the sugar maple tree is the finest
produced. . .
Qnuartered oak iz made by sawing a fine
oak log into quarteirs—hence the name—
and theo sawing the quarters into boards,
working from the circumference to the cen-
tre. Thus the flake, as the wood workers
call the beautiful figure in quartered oak,
is brought out. E 2 :
Curly walnut is the root and that part
of the trunk of the walnut tree just above
the ground. The logs are sawed in the or-
divary way. Curly walnut is obtained
from all the species of the trees.
Curly birch is the same kind of wood ob:
tained from the birch tree. And so it
mighs go on through all the illustrations
of trees which under the skillful hands of
the trained worker, produce totally differ-
ent kinds of woods for the attractive fur-
niture which in these days adorus almost
every home.
——The Pennsylvania company has built
and is furnishing a ‘‘rest house’ for the
men at Conway, twenty-two miles west of
Pittsburg, on the Fort Wayue route, at a
cost of $30,000. Preparationsare now being
made to. bave a opening of the building
about July 1, when a number of the Penn-
sylvania officials will be prevent.
The improvement is in direct charge of
W. C. Cushing, superintendent of the East-
ern division of the Fort Wayne. However,
it was a pet scheme of the former Superin-
tendens, A. M. Schoyer, now general super-
intendent of the Pennsylvania lines. The
purpose is to erect and maintain a sort of
railroad hotel at this divisional point, where
the men may receive good accommodation
at a nominal cost. Conway is a freight di-
visiopal point for the Cleveland and
Pittsburg, Alliance, Crestline, Astabula,
and for Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston.
About 500 railroad men collect there from
time to time during a day.
—The strawberry harvest is about over in
this section. Cut down the weeds and mow
the rows with a lawn mower. The rows
may be hoed or the old bed left for another
year in the matted condition; but all weeds
must be kept down.
Robert Emory Pattison.
Sketch of the Career of the Democratic Stand-
ard Bearer in the Approaching Gubernatorial
Contest.
Robert Emory Pattison, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, was born-at Quan-
tico, Md., December 8th, 1850. His fath-
er, Robert Henry Pattison, a native of
Maryland, graduated from Dickinson col-
lege in 1843; entered the Philadelphia
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church in 1846; filled a number of promi-
nent appointments in Philadelphia and else
where; was presiding elder from 1869 to
1872; received the degree of D. D. from
Dickinson in 1867; was for several years
chaplain of the grand lodge of Masons, in
Pennsylvania,and at his death in Philadel-
phia February 14th, 1875, was one of the
ablest and most popular ministers of his
church. His mother, Catherine P. Wol-
ford was a granddaughter of Colonel Thom-
as Wolford, of the Maryland line in the
Revolution. When Robert was six years
old his father was appointed to Asbury
church, Philadelphia. He obtained his ed
ucation in the public schools of that city
and was graduated from the Central High
school, delivering the valedictory address.
In 1869 he entered the law office of Lew-
is C. Cassidy,then one of the most brilliant
advocates of the Philadelphia bar, and was
admitted to practice in 1872. He had good
prospect of success as a lawyer. but his ca-
reer was destined to be political, rather than
legal.
In 1877 he was named as a candidate of
the Democratic party for auditor genzral of
Pennsylvania, and oun first ballot in the con-
vention stood next to William P. Schell,
who was nominated and elected. A few
months later, at the suggestion of Mr. Cas-
sidy, he was the Democratic nominee for
city controller of Philadelphia. The people
were ripe with revolt and he was elected
by a majority of 2,000, although the Re-
publican candidates on the State ticket car-
ried the city by 6,000 majority.
Mr. Pattison entered upon his duties
January 1st, 1878, and recognizing the fact
that he was elected to reform the office and
its methods, he set about the work with a
determination to honestly administer its
affairs. He found the credit of the ocity
impaired; its paper at a discomot in the
money market—but by adopting a funding
plan, order was brought out of chaos; and
such was the appreciation of hisservices by
the people that at the expiration of his
three-year term he was re-elected by a ma-
jority of 13,593 over his contestant, one of
the most esteemed citizens and successful
merchants of Philadelphia. This was not
a trinmph of party, but one due to the per
sonal and exceptional abilities with which
Mr. Pattison had discharged his office for it
was at a time when the Republican candi
date for President carried the city by over
20,000 majority. This popularity placed
him in 1882 as an available candidate for
Governor. After a close and vigorous con-
test in the state convention he was nomi-
nated, and in November of that year was
elected by a plurality of 40,202 over his
Republican opponent, General James A.
Beaver, although for thirty years previous-
ly his party had been in a minority in the
State. This result was due more to his vig-
orous and independent personality and to
his successful administration of the finan-
cial affairs of the metropolis than to the
dissensions in the Republican ranks at that
particular time.
During his administration the finances of
the State were economically managed and
the State debt steadily reduced. Although
hampered at every step by the legislative
branch of the government, which was in
| the control of his political opponents, he
was patient and persevering, setting his face
against extravagant appropriations, and
holding the corporations of the State to a
strict obedience to the constitution and the
laws. His success was a phenomenal one.
Upon returning to private life he resum-
ed the practice of law in Philadelphia.
Three mouths later he was elected presi-
dent of the Chestnut street National bank.
He had previously declined the auditorship
of the treasury tendered him by President
Cleveland, but afterward accepted an ap-
pointment as Pacific railroad commissioner
and was elected president of that commis-
sion. His report on the relations of that
corporation to the government is one of the
ablest and most valuable papers in the fi-
nancial history of the land-aided roads and
on the existing status of their debt to the
government. On the completion of his
work as the head of the commission he re-
turned to Philadelphia and devoted his at-
tention to the bank. He was a lay delegate
to the general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church in 1884 and 1888; in 1890
fraternal delegate to the general conference
of the M. E. church south, and in 1891 a
delegate to the Methodist ecumenical coun-
cil held in Washington, D. C. In 1884
Dickinson college conferred upon him the
degree of doctor of laws. In 1890, owing
to the errors of the Republican party, the
Democracy seized the golden opportunity
and again nominated Mr. Pattison for the
execative office. His campaign was a vig-
orous and agressive one, and his speeches
were presentations of the real issues of the
people. ‘
For a second time he carried Pennsylva-
nia on a platform of reform, being elected by
a majority of 16,554,although the Republi-
can candidates for lieutenant governor and
the secretary of internal affairs were eleot-
ed by majorities above 20,000. His victory
gave him a position of national importance.
He was inaugurated January 20th,1891,for
the term of four years.
GEORGE WILKINS GUTHRIE.
George Wilkins Guthrie, who was nom-
inated as Democratic candidate for Lien-
tenant Governor in the Erie conven-
tion, is about 50 years old, and one of
the leading lawyers of the State. For a
quarter of a century he has been an unfal.
tering opponent of one of the most oppress-
ive city rings that evercursed an American
city municipality. During much of that
time he has seen this ring increase in pow.
er, impudence and audacity; but while
many who hated the ring were driven in
despair toaccept its rule asa permanency, he
never once ceased his struggles against is,
or lost faith that eventually the people
would crush it to fragments. He has lived
to see the realization of this faith. In the
municipal election of February 18th, 1902,
the ring, which was thought to be invinci-
ble, was so routed and demoralized that the
regaining of its old-time supremacy is seen
by its leaders and all those opposed to it to
be an entire impossibility, and Mr. Guth-
rie,as chairman of the Democratic city com
mittee, and a member of the citizens’ com-
mittee of twenty-five, managed and led the
forces of the people which achieved that
notable victory. :
Mr. Guthrie was educated in the West-
ern university of Pennsylvania, Pittsburg,
and, after reading law with the late Judge
Wilkins of that city, gradnated from the
Columbian law school, Washington, D. C.
He began practice in 1869.
Mr. Guthrie, as a young man, was more
active in Democratic State and national
politics than he has been of late years, bis
RR e.
work in the cause of municipal reform con-
suming all the time which could be spared
from his law practice, and there is one in-
cident of his work at that time which is
worthy of particular notiee,and which con-
stitutes, perhaps, his most notable service
to the Democratic national organization.
He was one of the attorneys who, in 1876,
on behalf of the national committee, went
to Florida to represent the Democratic elec-
tors hefore the returning board of that state
in the Tilden-Hayes electoral contest. Mr.
Guthrie, in company with Malcolm Hay,
George W. Biddle, David W. Sellers and
John R. Reed, all men much older than
himself, was sent to Florida to act as
counsel for the Tilden electors, and re-
mained through the protracted proceedings
which were also in dispute. Mr. Guthrie,
who was then only twenty-eight years of
age, was probably the youngest of the
lawyers engaged upon this important work.
Upon only one occasion in his life time
has Mr. Guthrie been a candidate for pub-
lic office. That was in 1896, when he was
the nominee of the Democratic party and
the Citizens’ municipal league for mayor
of Pittsburg. The fight which was made
on that occasion for the redemption of the
city from machine control caused the at-
tention of the whole country to be fixed
upon Pittshurg. Mr. Guthrie was defeat-
ed by a small majority, upon the face of
the returns, but the character of the can-
vass he had made, and the attention which
was attracted to his great knowledge of
municipal affairs, and to his long and de-
termined fight for their improvement in
his native city, gave him a wide reputation
all over the country among men who were
devoting their talents and euergies to the
solution of the complicated question of mn-
nicipal government.
Mr. Guthrie bas had a very active part
in all of the movements to secure ballot re-
form which have been instituted during
the past several years. He has participated
in ‘many conferences of the men who were
laboring to bring it about, and, at their
request, has appeared often before commit-
tees of the House and Senate of the State
Legislature and urged the adoption of the
various bills which had been presented and
introduced. There has not been a session
for several years during which he did not
visit Harrisburg at least once in the inter-
est of some measure of this character.
Mr. Gathrie’s labors in behalf of better
government for cities have, since 1897, tak-
en in the entire scope of his country, he in
that year becoming a member of the exeen-
tive committee of the National municipal
leagne, and as such giving connsel and
assistance to the reformers of many cities
who were struggling for the improvement
of their local conditions. He also served
in this national organization as a member
of a special committee of ten, which after
two or three years of labor and investiga-
tion, prepared a program which has since
been the text hook of reformers of city gov-
ernment throughout the country. The
characters of many cities have been recon-
structed or modified upon lines which this
program snggests.
JAMES NOLAN.
James Nolan is one of Reading's best
known citizens. He is nearly 60 years of
age and lives with his family at 236 North
Fifth street. He has been a resident of
Reading since a young man. He is one of
five brothers who came to America from
Ireland early in life—William, James,
Charles, Thomas and Ed ward—all of whom
bave been leading citizens. The last two
named are dead.
James was for many years a member of
the firm of William Nolan & Bro., railroad
contractors, which did a large business in
all sections of the eastern part of the Unit-
ed States.
He retired several years ago and at pres-
ent has under construction a magnificent
residence in the northwestern section of
Reading.
Mr. Nolan never held any public office,
but has always taken a deep and active in-
terest in the success of the Democratic
party, and among the leading politicians
of the State is well known. He has been
closely identified with the business inter-
est of Reading for many years, is a director
of the Farmers’ national bank and of other
Reading corporations. He is a public-
spirited citizens, a man of fine intelligence
and deep learning and possesses one of the
best equipped libraries in Reading. Hes
entirely a self-made man.
The nomination came to him as a com-
plete surprise, hut was received with much
enthusiasm hy his friends.
Mr. Nolan is a widower and his family
consists of two charming and accomplished
daughters, who recently made their debut
in society.
The Democratic Platform.
The Republican Organization of Pennsylvania In-
dicted for Crimes.
The platform adopted by the Democratic
convention at Erie on June 25th, was as fol-
lows :
The Democratic party of Pennsylvania
repeats and reaffirms all of the. statements,
promises and declarations of purpose con-
tained in the platform of its state conven-
tion of 1901. i
We repeat that every department of our
state government is honeycombed with prof-
ligacy, dishonesty and reckless disregard
of constitutional and moral obligations;
that the powers of government are prosti-
tuted to the purposes of public thieves;
thatconstitutional restraints and commands
the sanctity of the law, the obligation of
official oaths and demands of common hon-
esty are thrust aside by the substitution of
a higher law—the demands of an insatiate
greed of public plunderers for money, mon-
ey,more money; that shamelessly and open-
ly the votes of legislators are bought and so
persistently and constantly that market
values for legislators have been established
by settled custom; that the apparent in-
difference of our people to these outrages
emboldened the corruptionists to suchan ex-
tent that the last session of our legislature
out-Heroded Herod in ite infamies that all
men pronounce it the most corrupt legisla-
tive body that ever convened in any State
in the Union; that its very organization
was founded on the purchase of venal leg-
islators with money aud place and that it
closed its session with the crowning infamy
of that most stupendous franchiee steal,
shocking the moral sense of the entire conn
try; that the selection of a United States
Senator was accomplished in a carnival of
corruption and bribery ; that in the reckless
determination to punish enemies and re-
ward subservient tools, established munic-
ipal governments were ruthlessly overturn-
ed and the chosen servants of the people
expelled from their offices to make places
for the creatures of a corrupt machine
while the faith of the people in the sancti-
ty of the judiciary was broken by its halt-
ing efforte to find plausible excuse for the
crime; foiled in its efforts to rob the State
of millions of dollars of valuable coal de-
posits, the legislature proceeded to that
other and greater robbery of the railway
franchises of the State worth millions to
the plunderers and stripping every city,
town and township in the commonwealth
of the proper control of its streets for trol-
ley improvements; that even the public
charities of the State--its hospitals and asy-
lume, and the comfort of their unfortu-
nate inmates were made the sport of . polit-
ical greed and their appropriations measur-
ed and determined hy their use and serv-
ices to the machine; that no possible field
of corruption was left uncultivated by the
crew of public plunderers who have seized
upon your State—plunderers, who, in the
name of a great politica! party, have pros-
tituted all the purposes and powers of gov-
ernment to their own enrichment.
REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATIONS INDICTED.
For these crimes we again indict the
Republican organization of Pennsylvania
as it is now controlled. To the absolute
extirpation of all these evils we hereby
pledge our party and its nominees.
We promise an administration absolutely
clean. incorruptible and pledged to a ded-
ication of the powers of public position to
the public weal,
We aim at the banishment from the pre-
cincte of the legislature of the lobbyist, the
vote broker, the bribe giver and taker, the
franchise robber and the hordes of party
dependents locking to the public treasury
for pay for corrupt party service. ’
We assure the business interests of the
State absolute exemption from “pinch leg-
islation;"’ from threatened enactment of
oppressive laws designed only to invite
bribery as the condition of peace and pro-
tection from annoyance.
Corporation lobbyists, no longer needed
for protection against the schemes of plun-
derers, will cease to exist,and thas will dis-
appear the temptation (so often yielded to)
to use their power to improperly influence
legislation affecting public interests.
An honest administration will insure the
business interests of the State absolute ex-
emption from the forced levies of political
parties and leaders. . :
Officers of corporations shall no longer he
compelled to use the money of their stock-
holders in lavish contributions to the cor-
raption fund of political parties, their man-
agers and office seekers. ’
EQUAL AND JUST LAWS PROMISED.
To the people of the State we promise -
equal and just laws; pure, honest and eco-
nomical administrations, and an invitation
to public positions of pure honorable, and
upright men to take the places of the scur-
vy politicians who now disgrace them.
We denounce those who control the Re-
publican organization for their refusal to
fulfill their party pledge to give ballot re-
form to our people. In its formal platform
in 1900 it solemnly ‘ promises this reform.
So clear was the pledge that the senior sen-
ator from Pennsylvania declared himself
in writing that if the Republican organiza-
tion failed to discharge this obligation it
would “sink finally into merited infamy.’”
Yet at the dictation of those who, through
ballot frauds, control one of the great cities
of the State, all ballot reform legisation
was throttled and the ‘‘merited infamy’’
fully earned.
Corruption and frauds, either at prima-
ries, conventions or general elections, are
absolutely destructive of the spirit of re-
publican institutions and incompatible
with good government.
In order to secure to the people the pow-
er to govern themselves and secure the per-
petuation of republican government, the
Democratic party is hereby pledged to the
adoption of a uniform primary election law
a personal registration in all the cities of
the commonwealth and a free, equal, and
seoure ballot, assuring to all citizens equal
rights and affording the greatest facilities
for independent voting, and to make the
appointment of overseers and the opening
of the ballot boxes obligatory when de-
manded by the citizens.
We recommend that all Democratic can-
didates for the legislature pledge themselv-
es, in case of election, to use all honorable
means to secure the adoption of these meas-
ures.
We deplore the existence of the labor
trouble now affecting important interests
and a large portion of the people of our
State, and express the earnest hope that,
through concession, moderation and fair
dealing, an early adjustment may be reach-
ed. While we concede to capital its rights
to the utmost protection, guaranteed it by
the constitution and the laws, we declare
it as the conviction of this convention that
labor also bas the right to that protection,
which comes through organization and un-
ion. We believe that labor unions organ-
ized for the betterment of the condition of
earners, acting within the limits of the law
and not subversive of public order, are not
only lawful, but commendable, and should
be met, recognized and dealt with accord-
ingly. The right of labor to organize with
in these limits is as sacred as any righ$ of
person or property. For the evils under
which Pennsylvania suffers the Republican
organization suggests no remedy. Its plat-
form is absolutely barren of reference to
them.
existence and promises no change. :
At the dictation of a boss, supported by
a machine made delegation representing
nothing, but the will of another boss,it has
nominated a candidate for governor who
offers no promises of reform. This candi-
date has solemnly and deliberately declar-
ed that the senior senator from Pennsylva-
nia ‘fails in no duty,’” that the criticism
that has followed him is but further evi-
dence of his real greatness; that he fally
represents the State of which he is the fore
most representative and that ‘‘Pennsylva-
‘nia has no ills that are worthy of mention.
Verily this.candidate selected by the senior
senator because of his laudations of the
men and measures that we denounce as po-
litically infamous holds forth no promise
of relief to our dishonored State.
To the pledges and the candidates of this
present convention, and to them alone, can
the people turn for deliverance.
AID OF HONEST MEN INVITED.
We invite the aid of all honest men in
this contest. This Democratic Convention
waves all expression of opinion oa question
of national policy that might divert atten-
tion from the pressing problems that con-
front the people of our own State or that
might distract and divide the army of
reform. In the contest about opening we
are concerned only as Pennsylvanians and
only for the good of Penasylvania.
While we act to-day as a political organ-
ization, in presenting this platform and our
candidates we seek no party advantage or
victory.
We freely and gladly dedicate our organ-
ization and the great body of voters it rep-
resents to the work of cleansing cur State
from the stain of dishonor that has come
upon her. ‘
To a fall union with us in this effort we
invite honest men of all parties and ali or-
ganizations sincerely intent upon the re-
formation of public affairs, assuring to
them a complete fulfilment of every pledge
now made by this convention.
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