, Bowen 8Y RP. GRAY MEEK. ink Slings. —Vote for KEPLER and WETZEL. —Vote for MEYER and HUMPTON. ——Vote for BECK and TIBBENS for Auditors. ——1If you want Auditors who know bow to audit. If yon want Auditors who will audit vote for BECK and TIBBENS. —Mr. EARLY BIRD CHESTERFIELD 2-10 will find that he has lots of worms on elec- tion morning, but ARCHEY will have the votes. Everything that CAPT. TAYLOR has be made himself and under circumstances that would have discouraged many another "man completely. ——The Gazette's efforts to defame PHIL- IP MEYER resul ed only in showing that all the Gazette wants is to be fattened at the expense of the county. ——>peculation is great as to what MA- LIN is to get for carrying Centre county for PATTON, but speculation is greater as to when be will get it. Certainly not in this world. STROHM must want to go to Harris- barg to represent himself, for no one has been able io find out where he stands on the questions of vital importance to the peoble of Centre county. ~—CaPr. TAYLOR is one of the best known men in the county. He is a prom- inens Odd Fellow and Mason and belongs to 80 many other secret societies that he has a large acquaintance in every part of the county. ~———Yon never did believe that it is a good plan to put all your eggs in one bask- et, did you? Then why vote for FOSTER for Treasurer when you know he will pas - every cent of the county funds in HasT- ING’S hank. ——SCHOONOVER has gone home to save his time and money ; a very sensible con- clusion, for the people were not slow to les him understand that KEPLER and WETZEL are to be the next Members of the Legis- lature from Centre county. —The miners have had their dance now the consumers must pay the fiddler. It is estimated that at an increased price of fifty cents on a ton the operators will get an in- creased profit on their business of two mil- tion dollars per month. ——Last week we called attention to the necessity of selecting a good man for Coro- ner, because the Coroner might be forced into the position of Sheriff. Dr. BRAUCHT is everything that could be desired in either officer and you should not fail to support . him. HE Ae was to have been expected Colombo wants more money than Uncle SAM thought he ought to pay for the Panama canal route. Things invariably look cheaper on paper: than they are any other way and especially is this so when Uncle Saxr’s full coffers.are to be drawn upon. . ——ARCHEY is a man of sterling charac- ter, ahsolutely above anything questionable and bas made an official who has been a credit to Centre county’s intelligence. You can vote for him for a second term, because he deserves it and no better man for the place can be found. —The striking miners are certainly starting in at the little end “of the horn. ‘They have submitted their grievances to arbitration and while the commission is going on with its work the operators have pushed the price of coal up fifty-cents a ton. This will net them about two million a mouth extra while the miner’s are work- ing for the same old figures. —QUAY’S latest scheme is to secure a Legislat ure that will give the death-blow to organized labor. . This will be accom- plished’ by repealing the law requiring a miner to pass a rigid examination and se- cure a certificate from an examining board before he can get work. The Jaw was pass- ed to protect the lives of men at: work in ‘the mines from the careless acts of inexpe- rienced men. ——A vote for KEPLER and WETZEL is a vote for ‘men about whom there isn’t a shadow of a doubt. You don’t know where STROHM stands, even at this late date. and STROHM won’t tell you. Nor will Scii0oNoVER. Centre county is not ‘ready to endorse the rottenness at Harris- burg that has disgraced the State, conse- quently : KEPLER ahd WETZEL will be "elected. . —=—The consistent stand which H. H. HARSHBERGER' Esq., who is now county ‘chairman of the Uniou party of Centre, has taken and the call to duty he has issued to others. of that organization is enough’ to smite the conscience of the erst-while edi- tor of the Republican. ‘When the deserting former chairman MILLER sees the fearless manner in which one of his privates has taken command he will realize how, little he really did amount to and what a bad bargain the machine made when it bought him. —*‘“Me Too"! MALIN and EARLY BIrD TuTEN were hacking around through Peun township on Monday ‘buying cows for “Cousin” PENNYPACKER'S farm. They know about as much about the good points of a cow as a tumble-bug does of the Greek grammar, but they weré buying (?) them all the same—i. e. they tried to make the public believe they were. But if these two political fly-ap-the-creeks imagine they can corrupt or disaffect such honorable men as some of the ones they tried to reach on Monday they have more to leain than we thought they had. )emacralic ~ "VOL. 47 Bright Outlook for Democracy. Of the result of the election next Tues- day there is little room for doubt. So far as the contest for the control of the lower branch of Congress is concerned it is confi- dently claimed by Chairman Griges and practically admitted by the Republican managers that the Democratic party will succeed. In an estimate published by the Republican chairman, the Democrats are conceded two members in Iowa, an unus- ual thing, but gains in the other States, in the middle West. which are eqnally certain, are not admitted. Less than half the Con- gressmen which the Democrats will get in this State, are acknowledged in Mr. BaAB- COCK's estimate and he claims for the Re- publicans members in New York, Massachu- setts aud several Southern States which the Democrats are certain to get. Notwith- standing these false estimates he is only able to build up a majority of about a doz- en, while his own figures, carefully ana- lyzed, give the Democrats a safe majority. In the state elections the Democrats stand to be equally successful. In Penn- sylvania the entire Democratic state ticket will be elected if thie. Democratic vote is polled. Governor Pattison has made a canvass unequalled in energy, intelligence and enthusiasm and the most conservative estimate places his majority at the Phila- delphia line at little less than 100,000. I= the city a most careful and comprehensive canvass has been made with the view to preventing fraud and the work has been so systematized thas it is confidently believed an honest, or comparatively speaking hon- est, vote will be polled in which event the majority of the Republican ticket will be less than 50,000, and PATTISON'S plurality in the State may reach that figure. The Democrats in the city are thoroughly arous- ed and for the first time in many years there will be honest minority representa- tion on every election board. New York is almost certain to elect a Democratic Governor a majority of the congressional delegation and probably a majority in the Legislature which will elect a successor to Senator PLATT. Delaware will also elect a Democratic Legislature which will.choose two United States Sena-' tors and Ohio has more than an even chance toeécure a majority in the Tegis- lature which will elect a Senator in place ‘of FORAKER. We will not he able to carry ‘the Senate as the result of the vote on Tuesday but there will be such a de- crease in the majority that the party will be obliged to go upon its good behavior. All in all the political out-look is so en- couraging that every Democrat ought to approach the election with courage and confidence for the tide has turned in favor of the party which has been the safe-guard of the Republic from the beginning and will be to the end. or . ——The more HUMPTON gets around over the county the stronger he grows. The people are nos slow to recognize a shrewd business man in the young Snow Shoe school master. Very Saspiclons Orders. There is a curions inconsistency in the actions of Governor STONE in relation to the troops in the coal regions. Last week be issued an order for the withdrawal of the troops and the return of them to their homes and this week he supplements that with an order appointing election commis- sioners to take the vote of the troops in the field. If they are to be removed to their homes with reasonable expedition there ‘can he no reason for holding elections in the field, for ten days is ample time in which to convey them to, their homes in the most Jeisurely fashion. There were grave fears entertained in all parts of thé State immediately after the strike, settlement was «¢ffected that. the presence of the troops in: the coal regions would be used to intimidate voters in the interest of the Republican candidates for state and legislative offices. Governor BTONE'S order of last week lor the removal of the troops had a most reassuring infla- ence on the public ‘wind for that reason. It was justly interpreted as a sign that so far as'he was concerned; at least, there was no danger of such a perversion of power, But the new order has renewed the feeling of unrest. Every soldier who has served in the coal region onght to have been home in time to vote if he is entitled to vote by election day. The order for the evacuation of the camps’ was issued a week ogo. That gave fally ten days for the breaking of the camps and the transfer of the men. There has been no neeessity, not even a reasou- able excuse for them in the coal region since the decldration of the end of the strike by the miners’ convention a week ago lass Wednesday. The fact that many of them are still ‘there and that preparations are being made to keep them there until after the election justifies the worst sus. picions, ——Beware of last stories and campaign roor-backs. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 31, The Dauphin County Decision. The Dauphin county court has heen cut- ting up some queer capers during the past month. From the beginning of the hear- ings of the disputed claims for places on the state and various county tickets, the judg- es of that tribunal have been keeping the public guessing. Most courts pay some regard to consistency. In fact, there is a tradition that in judicial affairs, especially, consistency is the crowning virtue. But it is not so in the Dauphin county court. A question is decided one way one day and precisely opposite way the next and the judges never even think as they are revers- ing themselves in the interest of the QUAY machine. But the worst bull made by that court during all the hearings in question was that involved in the decision in the Union party case. Every reader will remember that the convention was raided by a party of ruffians, sent there for the purpose by QUAY, and broken up. After it was found impossibie to transact business on account of the confusion the chairman adjourned if. to another hall where the nominations were made in an orderly and peaceful manuer. Subsequently the ruffians nominated the Republican candidates for the respective state offices and filed objections to putting | the real nominees of the party on the tick- et. After hearing a vast amount of perjur- ed evidence the court decided that neither of the nominations were valid for the rea- son that there was so much confusion that no business could he transacted and that a great number of the seats of delegates were contested. The effect of that decision was to give ju- dicial sanction to ruffianism in a political convention. If it is trae that contesting seats in a convention will invalidate its pro- ceedings there can never be valid nomina- tions made by a convention in which there is a high feeling. For example, a conven- tion made up of two or three hundred del- egates can be converted into a mob any time by two or three industrious hut eon- scienceless fellows, giving themselves over to the manufacture of bogus contests for a single night. Everybody knows that fhe manufacture of bogns contests bas become a fine art in the big cities. In afew hours enough of them can be made to puta doubt on the integrity of any claim to a seat in an ordinary convention. The gravest objection to the ruling in the case in question is that it promotes anar- chy. No man can have, respect for laws when they are thus perverted ‘in their ad- ministration,and it may be confidently said that Judges SIMONTON and WEIss did more to sow the seed of anarchy hy that one decision than a hundred blatherskites like HERR Most, CHOLGOSZ and kindred criminals could in a century. ——The man who is not. honest enough to start a story about a candidate while there is still time for said candidate to meet and refute it, if possible, before elec- tion day, is a miserable sneak, void of all sense of fairness, and should be treated with contempt by honest men. Pennypacker and the Prohibitionists. The QUAY state ticket derives bat little benefit from the remark made by candidate PENNYPACKER to a Lycoming audience about the Prohibitionists. He asked : ‘What have the Prohibitionists done in the cause of temperance ? I find that they have done nothing. - They talk: too much ; they open their mouths and swallow too much.”’ Whether the slur about their swallowing too much had reference to the name of their gubernatorial candidate, or wae intended to imply that they imbibed the spiritous liquids which they profess to abhor, it was in either sense offensive, and not calculated to make friends for the machine candidate. ' The Prohibition party, ‘though nomeric- ally weak, is composed of excellent materi- al. Its members, asa rule, are moral and reputable citizens. In fact it is the excess of their moral quality that bas inspired their endeavor tosuppress the evil of drnuok- enness. Though they may be mistaken in their belief that: the method they have adopted for the correction of this evil can be successful, yet their honest and earnest effort does not deserve PENNYPACKER'S sneering question :. ‘What have the Probi- bitionists done in the cause of temperance ?”’ There is now a cause presented to the people of Pennsylvania for their action, which the Prohibitionists — temporarily laying aside the special object of their or- ganization—can aid with their votes. It is the cause of good government in this State, which can be promoted by the elec- tion of ROBERT E. PATTISON and the conse- quent overthrow of a corrapt political ma: chine. tans —————— —— Tt you want to see the county treas- ury made a feeder for HASTING'S bank vote for FOSTER.—If you believe that the safer policy of ‘distributing the county funds among all the banks is better vote for CARLIN. ; Vote for BRAUCHT for Coroner. The Union Republ.cans in (entre Chairman Harshberger Calls Upon All Republicans to Keep Up the Fight to Dethrone Quay and Save the State. Having for years supported the policies and candidates of the Republican party we deem it due to ourselves and to those who, like us, cherish the principles of free government and place the welfare of giance to define the purpcses of those with whom, as Independent Republicans, we are acting, and to set forth the causes which have compelled us in common with thousands of Republicans throughout the State, to take the position we hold. The opposition on our parts is not to the great Republican party and its policies as represented and declared hy President Roosevelt, but to the corruption, bribery, fraud aud false pretense of the ‘‘machine’” and ‘‘ring’’ that controls our party or- ganization in Penusylvania under the dictation of Mr. Quay. By his orders Mr. Elkin was defrauded of the nomination of Governor, and his ' delegates bonght like cattle to support Mr. Pennypacker, his fulsome eulogist. Under his manipulation and to advance his personal interests the Legislature of 1901 has passed into political history as the most corrupt ever know to any State. By his orders, and by means of the most open, notorious and unblushing bri- hery the ‘Rapid Transit’ and the ‘‘Ripper,”’ with other equally obnoxious meas- ures, were forced upon the statute books of the State. Under his mauipulation the State Treasury for years has been used to raise mon- ney to corrupt the ballot and buy the right of suffrage. By his orders the ‘‘Baker Ballot bill’’ was passed and enacted into law, by which the ring under his control dictates the fraudulent vote in our large cities and over- turns the will of the people of the State. forts to purify and simplify the ballot law have been defeated. These are bat few of the reasons which bave impelled us to join bands with true and loyal Republicans throughout the State, in the organization of a movement, having for its object the promotion of good government, the over-throw of the ma- , chine and bossism that have brough$ shame and disgrace upon our State and the welfare of our grand old Republican party: Recognizing as we do, that this can only be done by uniting with the good citi- zens of the State and acting independently of party lines we have determined that in the coming election we will support for Governor him who has been twice elect- ed and by his administration of the duties of the office has shown that he is S honest and capable. We urge all those who believe in honesty in the administration of public affairs, in the overthrow of bossism and ring rule in State and. conunty, in the election of men whose character, as well as their pledges, are a guarantee that if elected they - will conscientiously labor to overthrow corruption and bribery in public affairs ta join with us in this movement. J. E. HARDER : SeglE we & sowsis ane. Chairman Union Republican Committe, Cleatfield Oop JAcoB BURGE, TW. C. F. StuLL, P. L. SHOWERS, Clearfield, Pa., Oct. 220d, 1902. As Chairman of the Union Republican Party of Centre connty, I unqualifiedly endorse the above and earnestly request all Independent Republicans of Centre coun- ty to show their independence and vote against Quay methods and Quayism until the power of Quay in the State is completely broken. Having knowledge that A. E. Patton, Republican candidate for State Sedator of this district, is definitely identified and, knowing the honesty and integrity of our present State Senator, Hon. William C. Heinle, the Democratic candidate for re-election, and his fine four years’ record at Harrisburg, we earnestly advocate all Union party Republicans to vote and work for Senator Heinle for re-election as State Senator from this, the Thirty-fourth Sena- torial district. (Signed. ) H. H. HARSHBERGER, Chairman Union Republican Party of Centre County. ————————————————————————— A Crippled Court. There is complaint among the newspa- pers of the State concerning the crippled condition of the Supreme court. Of the seven judges on that bench three are dis- qualified for service on account of physical infirmities, leaving a bare majority to trans- Under | act the business of the tribunal. the law a majority of the court is necessary to decide any ‘question and one dissenting vote is fatal to the cause of any litigant. It is small wonder that the matter excites criticism and alarm. ' ‘The most important litigation ‘is likely to go wrong on ‘acconns of it and when it is remembered, that the condition is grounds of complaint multiply: - » Judge MITCHELL was elected in 1899 and hae never eat on the bench a day. His resignation has been in the bands of the | Governor for at least a couple of years, ac: cording to well authenticated reports, and during the contest for Senator in 1901 the commission ‘was offered in various direc- ‘tions for votes for QUAY. huxters were never able to make a bar- |. Bat the ‘party gain that was entirely satisfactory and the transaction was never completed. Jadge SMITH bas also been absent: from his seat for several years. He is a Democrat and under the law his success by appointment must be of the same party faith so that his seat has been kept vacant for political rea- SONS. Unde: the law both these invalid jurists might have heen retired after a year’s illness and their successors duly elected, thus pre- serving the integrity of the bench. Bust so long as there are possibilities of making vacancies at will Senator QUAY "has stock in trade for political huxtering and he has not allowed the law to beenforced. Meantime Judge Rick was taken sick some weeks ago’ and now the bench is reduced to the number necessary to transact business and if another member should bestricken down with any malady the business of the court would be brought to a stand still alto- gether. In this there is an ill which even Judge PENNYPACKER might have seen. 1902. the result of politics, the | NO. 43. Comnty Endorse Pattison. our State and county above party alle- votes of those who do not appreciate the And by his dictation and orders all ef- “nid BARRETT, Executive Com, hand-in-hand with the Quay ring, and Vote the Straight Ticket. Of the result of the election in this coun- ty we have no fear. The signs all point to an old-fashioned Democratic majority. But there is no harm in admonishing voters of the importance of voting the whole ticket. There is something more than the offices to be determined by the vote of this year. The future of politics will turn: largely on the result of this election. The trend dur- ing recent years has been i in the wrong di- rection. Political immorality has been con- stantly on the increase. The time hascome to start the pendulum in the other diree- tion. The way to achieve this result is for every Democratic voter to go to the polls and vote the entire ticket. ‘There is the same proportion of Democrats to the number of Republicans in, this county that. there was when oar party majorities were as certain if not as large here ‘as in Berks county. That preponderance has been lost at times and worthy candidates have heen defeated at other times. For once, Democrats of Centre county, let us all go to the polls and vote the straight ticket. That will bring a satisfactory an- wer, but it isn’6 all that might be done. - In‘addition to voting yourself it is your ‘duty to see that your neighbor votes and that every vote cast is counted. 1f all do that there will be no uncertainty ae to the result when the polls close. Every Democratic candidate from Governor down to Auditor, will be elected and every Democratic voter | will have a right to share in the rejoicing that will follow. ~——Col. ALEXANDER EASYSTREET PAT- TON has just been awarded another very large rail-road contract which, it is esti- mated, will take a year to complete. The people of this district are respeetfnlly so- licited not to vote for him for State Sena- tor, 80 that he will be able to get the job finished on contract time. cident Saturday afternoon at his home. Spawls trom the Keystone. —Three persons have been arrested in Da- Bois on the charge of selling liquor without : license. Two of them are women. ° —A New Bloomfield 2 year old swallowed a campaign button the other day. No iil re- sults followed. —The Episcopal Board of Inqniry met in Harrisburg on Wednesday and decided not to reopen Dr, Irvine's case against Bishop Tal- bot. —Snow fell throughout Pennsylvania om Wednesd»y and in the mountainous regions the ground was covered to the depth of sey- eral inches. —The whole Eighth regiment, stationed at Duryea and Parsons, and the two companies of the Fourth, stationed at Nanticoke, have. been recalled. They will leave for home: today. —Daniel Roy, a well known colored barber of Curwensville, who was taken to the Du- Bois hospital the other day with gangrene in his foot, was obliged to have his leg-amputat- ed and died on Monday night. —The small pox situation at Ehrenfeld, Cambria county, is more favorable.. The vac- cination campaign has been completed and all the affected ones are now in the pest house at Webster's mines. —Henry Eckle, of Sugar Valley, while carelessly handling a shot gun Sunday, at. Big Run was shot through the right wrist. The bone was shattered. He went to the hospital in Lock Haven, Monday, where the hand was amputated. —J. Frank Dockey, of Seven Stars, Jobia- ta county, has been incarcerated in the Perry county jail, charged with forgery, on infor- “mation furnished by W. H. Minick, broker, ‘| of Newport, who is likely to lose shots 300 ‘through Dockey’ s crookedness. —The one and a half story frame residence property. of William B. Smith, situated near Vail station, caught. fire Sunday afternoon ‘from an overheated stove and with the house- hold goods was totally destroyed, causing an estimated loss of $300. There isan insurance of $200 on the building. ~~—Michael Kutz,a well known German resi- dent of Altoona, was the ‘victim of a fatal ac- He fell from a roof'and fractured his skull at the base of the brain and sustained other inju- ries, He died as a result of the injuries re- ceived on Sunday afternoon. —1It is said that there are 150 cases of ty- phoid fever in and about Spangler: and Barnesboro. Some time ago Barnesboro was visited by an" official of the State board of health, who made an examination of the sonrces of the water supply, and promptly condemned it in unmeasured terms. { —@George Leighty, a half-breed miner of Kearney, near Bedford, was arrésted on the charge of murder. Eli Chamberlain was found on the railroad Tuesday and he was supposed to ‘have been killed by a train. Lat- er. “developments brought suspicion upon. Leighty and sufficient evidence was produced ‘ab the hearing to warrant his commitment: Sip Maxwell, said to be the oldest ilroad cele ver Meadows. built in America. For fifty years he worked for the Lehigh railroad, which now pays him a pension, ; —The new railroad which Jones & Laugh- lin, the great independent steel company of Pittsburg, propose to build from that city to a new Lake Erie port mear Girard, will, it is estimated, cost $15,000,000, and next to the extension of the Wabash system to Pitts- burg, will be the most important piece of rail- road construction begun in the east for some time. —John Burke, aged 24 years, of Bellwood, is at the hospital in Altoona with his le(t side painfully burned. Saturday evening he was enjoying a cigar wien he fell asleep. While he slumbered his coat on the left side caught fire from the cigar. The flames ate their way through his clothing and he only awakened when the fire reached his flesh. Before he could extinguish the flames he was painfully burned. He was admitted to the hospital for treatment. —Captain D. B. Else, a well known citizen and a prominent Knight Templar, died in Williamsport Saturday after being in ill health two years. He was born in Salona in 1830. After receiving his education he ran'a packet hoat. between Lock H aven and Wil- liamsport: He engaged 1m various other busi - ness enterprises, was hotel keeper many years, and served Williamsport as city treas- urer, overseer of the poor and as councilman. His wife avd four children survive. —Mules are always regarded as good kick- ers and - they have started in to renew their reputation, says the Shamokin Ilerald. One man was kicked over at Alaska yesterday and put out of business for a time, and one boy at Green Ridge with a broken arm today is a pretty good fair start. One mule at Green Ridge kicked himself out of business yester- day morning. The first mule taken out of the stables to be hitched shied in passing & pit inside and jumped down some twenty ft. and was almost instantly killed. . —A train of sixty five cars of hard coal passed through Lock Haven Sunday, three days after the mines resumed operations, The train came from Wilkesbarre and was ‘being shipped to Michigan by way of Erie and the lakes. The train was hauled by one of the large new engines. Between Sunbury ‘and Renovo the train had a clear track and covered the distance of nearly 100 miles in 4 hours and twenty minutes, The time requir- ed for the same distance for passenger trains is over three hours. TheP. R. R. traffic in hard coal is increasing each day. —For more than a year Osceola has been troubled with robberies, but finally one of the culprits at Jeast has come'to grief. Thurs- day morning between the. hours of 3 and 4 ‘o'clock. George Sweigart, chief of police, ob~ served a light in the millinery store of Mrs. ‘Mary Loomis. Investigation proved thata burglar was within. As quickly as possible he called Constable W. J. O'Brien to his as- sistance, and the burglar was soon captured. He proved to be Millard Spiece, aged 21 years and a resident of the town. A search of his home was afterward made, and in his posses- sions were found many things stolen from dif- ferent places at various times during the past year. He wasgiven a hearing and in default | of bail w was committed to Cleurfield eis tas He began workis se Sires : ‘Béaver Meadows railroad, one of the first