Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, October 31, 1902, Image 4

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    : Bellgfonte, Pa., October 31, 1902.
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Democratic State Ticket.
For Governor:
EoBERT E. PATTISON, of Philadelphia.
For Lieutenant Governor:
GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, of Allegheny.
Secretary of Internal Affairs:
JAMES NOLAN. of Berks.
The County Ticket.
For ‘Congress :
D. E. HIBNER, of Clearfield.
! For State Senator :
Ww. C. HEINLE, of Centre.
For Assembly :
J. W. KEPLER, of Ferguson Twp.
J. H. WETZEL, of Bellefonte.
; * For Sheriff :
AH. 8. TAYLOR, of Bellefonte.
For Register :
A."G!"ARCHEY, of Ferguson Twp.
rs For Recorder :
JNo. C. ROWE, of Philipsburg.
For Treasurer :
W. J. CARLIN, of Miles Twp.
hg . For Commissioner :
E. A. HUMPTON, of Snow Shoe Twp.
© ~ +P. H.-ME¥ER, of Harris Twp.
{erie si For Auditor;
J. H. BECK, of Walker Twp.
..» W. H. TIiBBENS, of COLLEGE TWP.
P——
A Few. Words of Advice to Denio-
crats. .
Tn tour ‘more ‘days you will be in. the
midst of .the greatest battle of ballots ever
fought in Pennsylvania. The engagement
will be most decisive because upon it will
hinge the future of this grand Common-
wealth. . Whether at is to continne in the
depths of. political “degradation or be lifted
tO a plabe’ of” dignity and self’ respect
among sister States.
The canses at issne. are purely local.
The tariff has pothing to: do with them. i
Prosperity has nothing to do with them.
The" money question has nothing to do
with then.
to disolose whether the sound minded, pure
“It remains only “for Tuesday
and virtnous people of Pennsylvania are
“eontent to have their halls of Legislature
filled with mién who barter legislation for
mondy and their executive mansion occn-
pied.by men who ‘are the avowed tools of a
notoriously corrupt machine.
Public speakers and the press “have heen
untiring in their expose of the awlinl crimes
that" “have disgraced Pennsylvania so that
at this late hour a recapitulation. is -00t-
necessary to. carry conviction to you, if
you are an honest man.
The machine is resorting to all manner
The one that has
been uncovered in Centre county is the
effort of the notorious ‘‘Birdie’”” WARREN
to persuade the Grangers to vote for PAT-
TON, SCHOONOVER and STROHM because
their votes will be cast to return Senator
PENROSE to the United States Senate.
This in consideration of PENROSE’S sup-
port of the GROUT oleomargarine bill. It
is & pretty story and we are not surprised
of tricks to deceive you.
that a few of the prominent Grangers of
thd county have been caught by it, but we
are confident that ere election day dawns
these gentlemen will realize that the scheme
is only one to get two QUAY Representa-
tives and a QUAY Senator from this dis-
trist.
It will be necessary for every Democrat
in the county to go to the polls. . Don’t let
any engagement, whatever, keep you from
he there.” Your vote might'be “the one:
thas will elect the ticket. Centre has been’
entirely too close of late years to warrant
the old time idea that “the ticket will be
elepted whether I go or not.”
here is another phase of the situation
thas you should look at. You may not be
pelpoually interested in any of the caudi-
dafes this fall, bus aside from the allegiance
you should give your party ‘who knows how’
sodu you might be in the breach yourself or
have some very dear friend whom you will
want the very men to get ous and support
who are now so needful of your help.
It you have been approached hy any of
the political ‘huxsters who are peddling
money over the county in the interest of
PATTON and DRESSER your manhood has
certainly revolted at such methods and your
firss impulse has undoubtedly been to turn
in‘and work as you have never done before
to rebuke these boodlers.
First impulses are invariably the best.
There are others who have probably been
to see you, who have not offered yon mon-
ey, but bave proposed to make you the
clyb with which they would strike down
some particular nominee becanse of their
personal animosity toward him. You have
independence enough nob to be used for
such purposes, besides, when you strike at
any candidate on your ticket you strike at
your own party. :
ty of going to the polls and getting every
Work from 7 in the morn-
We do not
urge this upon you for the mere sake of
vote possible.
ing until 7 in the evening.
rolling up a great majority in the county,
but because of the fact that if ten votes
are left at home in each precinct in the
county the entire Democratic ticket will,
in all probability, be defeated.
Get a vote wherever you can. Every
man on your ticket has more to recommend
him to the public than his opponent.
None of them will soffer by comparison
and you should be on hand to look after
their interests.
If you follow the advice we have given
you there will certainly be a glorious vic
tory for the people in Centre county next
Tuesday. If yon are indifferent to your
party and your friends remember where
the faalt will lie if there is defeat.
Get All The Votes
You Can For
Pattison.
Guthrie.
Nolan.
Hibner.
Heinle.
Wetzel.
Kepler.
5 Taylor.
Carlin.
Archey.
Rowe.
Meyer.
Humpton.
Tibbens.
Beck.
Braucht.
——Bear in mind that we need good
Auditors. Men who can be relied on to
uncover everything and be ahsolutely free
from the suspicion of connivance or collu-
sion. For that reason you should vote for
BECK and TIBBENS, two men of highest
integrity and years of experience in the
work.
7 Pie MEYER has made a good
Commissioner. You must Axe that
it is impossible for any official to cater to
any individual when the good of the whole
1-igto be considered. He has done the best
possible for the county and an experienced
man is needed on the new board. Vote for
MEYER.
Dr. Reed’s Revolt,
The declaration of Rev. Dr. GEORGE ED-
WARD REED, president of Dickinson col-
lege, Carlisle, and State Librarian at Har-
risburg, in favor of Governor PATTISON
and against Judge PENNYPACKER as a can-
didate for Governor of Pennsylvania is the |
significant political event of the week.
Dr. REED is a Republican and not of the
type that can be described as ‘‘disappoint-
ed.’”” The office which he resigns in order
to indulge his preference of candidates hon-
orahly, is a most attractive one. The sal-
ary of it amounts to $3,000 a year and the
labor is so light that it scarcely interfered
with his other business, professional’ and
social engagements. In the nature of
things he could have held it indefinitely,
as his predecessor 1n office, Dr. EGLE did.
He has no other political ambitions or offi-
cial aspirations. As a matter of fact he
was contented in his public life.
But Dr. REED’S conscience wouldn't per- |.
mit him to continne his official relations
and political associations with the Repub-
lican machine. ‘‘My intention is to vote
for ROBERT E. PATTISON for Governor of
Pennsylvania,”’ he writes, ‘not because I
“! am a Democrat, but because I am a Repub-
can, and a Republican who in the present
condition of Pennsylvania politics believes
that he can better serve the party of his
life-long association—the party of his love
‘and devotion—by voting this year for PAT-
‘TISON and GUTHRIE rather than by vot-
ing for PENNYPACKER and ex-Senator
BROWN.”’ In other words he votes to pre-
serve the honor and integrity of his party
through temporary defeat rather than by
prostitutiog it to the base uses of QUAY
aod his pirates and looters by helping to
elect a ticket in the nomination of which
“the will of the Repul lican party was
thwarted and trampled urder feet.”
The action of Dr. REED is significant
and important becaase is reflects the senti-
ments of thousands of voters in the State
of Penusylvania. It indicates an arousing
of the conscience of the people, not among
the clergy and the educators,but among all
those of our citizenship which represents
the best in the life of the Commonwealth,
In a speech delivered in the Academy of
Music in Philadelphia oz Saturday even-
ing the Rev. Dr. ALBERTSON, of German-
town, declared thas there are 100,000 Inde-
pendent Republicans who, influenced by
conscience and christianity, will vote the
Democratio ticket. The action of Dr. REED
confirms that. statement, for it shows that
the influence which led the Germantown
preacher to throw off the ties that bound }
him to paity are ‘working the same result
Again let us impress upon youn the necessi-
in other parts of the State.
mm——
Taylor Will Win.
Notwithstanding the strenuous’ efforts
that are being made to compass the defeat
‘of Capt: HuGH'S: TAYLOR for Sheriff of
iCentre county the tide of popular favor has
turned stronger than ever in his direction
‘and it remains for next Tuesday $0 develop
‘the fact that the people of Centre do recog-
nize ‘merit and are always ready to endorse
‘the houorable ambition that prompts young
‘men to strive for success, .
Ot all the candidates in the field pioba-
bly none have been more maligned than
Capt. TAYLOR and from sources from
‘which such dishonorable methods were
‘least to he expected.
.the county some malicioys story or other
. In every section of
has been circulated. With deep cunning
these traducers have made stories thau they
thought would stir up prejudice in pai-
ticular localities, but the people of Centre
‘county are far too sevsible to he parties 10
such belittling efforts to stab a worthy
‘young man. We use the word worthy
‘herein its deepest, fullest sense, for the
writer has known Capt. TAYLOR since . his
boyhood and knows of no young man in
Centre county who has made a more laud-
‘able effort to succeed in life.
How well they have succeeded will be
seen next Tuesday and no one is less fear:
ful of the results that Capt. TAYLOR. . He
‘knows the people of Centre county and
they know him. Ever since he has come
into public life he has stood out in thefull
glare of public seratiny, for full welldid
he know thas. his past could not but reflect
credit upon him,
Sprung from the humbless of homes, ‘bat :
inspired by an intrepid determination to
make for himself what many others in-
heris ‘he has kept plodding, ceaselessly
plodding, under burdens that would have
taken the heart out of less determined wen
until he “has attained a position in this
community that any young man might
‘aspire to.
Capt. TAYLOR is active in everything he
undertakes. The same spirit of eager
enthusiasm that has carried him to the fore
in the political arena pervades his busi-
ness and social life. He is a Mason, .is
prominent in the Odd Fellows and Wood-
men and helped to organize the new camp
of Red-Men in Bellefonte.
Iv isup to the fair minded people of
Centre county now as to whether they will
leave a few malicious stories that are abso-
‘lutely without foundation and should be
harled back into the teeth of their schem-
ing originators he the cause of with holding
their support from a man who deserves and
needs it. ;
Vote for TAYLOR.
—— -The ‘present Board of county Com:
missioners have paid off the debt lefs hy
their Republican predecessors, decreased
the valuation ‘by $160,000 and cus down
‘the ‘tax millage, all within three yeas.
What more could be asked for. "Vote for
MEYER and Humerox. = ©
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W. J. CARLIN.
“Two Men Yon Should Vote For.
Some county there are two ways to dispose
«+The Candidate for Sheriff, H. S. TAYLOR.
“ico” Brown's Blaff.
“Oleo”! BROWN admitted in a speech at hi,
Bethlehem the other evening that his offer |
to contribute $1,000 to charity if Mr. GUTH-
RIE would draft a senatorial apportion-
ment hill in accordance with the provisions
of the constitution was a bluff predicated
on a trick. That is to say in commenting
on the drafvof a bill outlined by Mr. HEN- |
SEL in his Philadelphia speech ‘‘Oleo’’ de- |
‘clared that it was unconstitutional because
.it made a »eparate district of Lebanon coun-
ty the population of which doesn’t reach
half a senatorial ratio.” But Mr. HENSEL
proved that the spirit of the constitution
permits such an arrangement of Lebanon
county, even if the letter of the instrument
doesn’t and *‘Oleo’s’’ criticism was worth-
less
But it would be an easy matter to make
a senatorial apportionment free of the ob-
jections to which *‘Oleo’’ refers. In other
words there is nothing in the constitution
which forbids the division of a county in
‘making a senatorial apportionment, and
Luzerne county is divided iu the present
apportionment. That being true Lebanon
could be attached to Lancaster county and
absorbed in one of the districts of that
county which has two, though Berks coun-
ty; with a greater population; has only one,
Or if that would he unsatisfactory Lebanon
could be attached to Dauphin waking a
district of less population than the Berks
‘district and certainly one of no greater im-
oitance. AS Lebanon is the only trouble-
of it.
‘But. Lebanon county isn’t the real rea-
son for continuing the present atrocious
senatorial apportionment. It is continued
‘because there is no ‘conceivable way of
framing another half as bad. Under the
provisions of that bill the Republicans could
hold a majoiity in the Senate if the Dem-
ocrats had 200,000 majority on the vote of
the State for four consecutive years. Even
with nearly half the Republicans in revols,
ay they were at the opening of the last ses-
sion, the purchase of a Senator elected as a
Democrat gave them a majority, and after
that they had no trouble in controlling the
legislation during shesession. But BROWN
ought to be held to his agreement to givea
thousand dollars to charity for any bright
boy can work the result he suggested.
——The people in Feiguson township
are going to give ARCHEY a nice vote be-
cause they regard him as a good citizen and
he deserves it. If every favor—even out:
side of an official nature—he has done ‘the
people of that community were possible to
result in a vote next Tuesday the election
board wouldn’s get done counting ARCHEY
votes for a week. © We can assure the good
people of Ferguson that they will have $o
work very hard if they want to out do
Bellefonte, as ALEX. has been a quasi resi-
dent here just long enough to make many
people believe it would be a good idea to
have him three years longer* 4
J.
so ROTA
C. RowE.
Care of the
It is very important that the people of
Centre county think well about the kind of
a man they will chose next Tuesday to take
charge of the connty funds for the three
vears, beginning on Jan. 1st, 1903. In W.
J. CARLIN you have the opportunity to
elect a man whose whole life has been a
training such as will fit hin: most admirably
for the duty. Almost from boyhood he has
been in the mercavtile and kindred branch-
es of trade and having been conservative,
safe and judicious in his own business there
is the surest guarantee of his being the
same in the county’s most itnportant trust.
Ina Treasurer we need a man of Mr.
CARLIN’S stability and integrity, one who
could not be wheedled by designing poli-
Take Treasury.
ticiaus into making the treasury a thing of
profit for n favorite bank, in fact, one who
would be the Treasurer himself.
Vote for CARLIN.
——Me and Taisy and Tash threw up
another flood of filth this morning. If you
chance to be passing the Gazette office throw
in a few dog biscuit so they can fill up on
something clean.
——They say that MALIN is handling
‘the PATTON money and SAM MILLER is at
;the spigot of DRESSER’S bar’l. It is very
probable that lots of the boys who will
‘help spend it will turn in and vote for
Heivie and HIBNER.
The Gazette's Last Lies Nailed.
‘With Its Last Hope of Grafting Thousands More from the
County Treasury Fleeting the Gazette Spreads Lies to
: ‘Bolster Up Miller and Lowry.
This orhing ‘the sore Gazette will make its last appeal
to the voters of Centre county to satiate its gluttonous rapac-
ity by voting ‘into office men who will throw all of the county
patronage into its greedy maw.
As might be expected from the sheet so crushingly convict-
ed of lying about the printing of the county ballots, it will be
full of lies this morning. The meanest kind of sneaking,
treacherous lies.
Spread broad-cast at an hour when it im-
agines it too late to be caught up, but the WarcumaN is here
to challenge it again;and hurl
its untruthtul assertions back
into the kennels whence they came.
Under the ‘caption “ABE MILLER’S Economy” THE GA-
ZETTE WILL SAY that Miter did more to accomplish the
work of copying the assessment books than the other two
members combined, : because
BUT THE GAZETTE LIES,
he copied 30 out of the 55.
for while MILLER did copy 30
of the assessment books, with the cunning of the fox he picked
out the 30 smallest districts in the county so that in numbers
his record would-appearrbest, while in work he actually ‘did
the least.
self.
Go to the Commissioner's office and see for your-
Under the same Siptioh THE GAZETTE WILL SAY in apol-
ogy for MILLER’S having charged the county $2.00 a day for
personal expenses alone while delivering tax duplicates, bal-
lots, etc. while MEvER charged
‘only $1.26 for the same pur-
pose that MILLER furnished his own horse, and the county had
to pay livery hire for Mever and HECKMAN.
BUT THE
GAZETTE LIES again, for if you refer to the same county
statement that the Gazette quotes from, under the head of mis-
cellaneous expenses, you will see this item, under livery hire :
Abram V. Miller, same.............
duensone ivswarasassseivssvraeaseves $12.00.
Here the Gazette's lie is shown up. MILLER not only got
$2.00 a day for his personal expenses but $2.00 for the horse
which the Gazette would have you believe he gave the county
for nothing.
THE GAZETTE ‘WILL SAY that Captain TAvLOR was
home from the coal fields on
a furlough and drawing gs5.00
a day from the State ‘while electioneering. BUT THE GA-
ZETTE LIES, for Captain TAYLOR was not only not en-
titled to pay while he was home but had to pay his own car
fare back and forth. - We make this statement and will pay
the telephone charges incurred by any person who comes to
this office and calls’ up Col.
R. C. ELDER, commander
of the regiment in Lewistown, to verify it.
Not only this, but Captain. TavLor took the salary that he
did earn while at Ashland and bought 20 oil stoves and a bar.
rel of oil for the tents of his privates, to make the soldier boys
comfortable while exposed as they were. And they were the
only company that had such comforts, because they were the
only company that had such a thoughtful, open-hearted com
mander.
The Candidate for Recorder.
There seems to be but one candidate for
| Recorder in the county and that man is
JoHN C ROWE, the affable gentleman from
Philipsborg who is impressing everyone
so favorably that his election is already
conceded hy the Republican organization.
Mr. ROWE is another example of the
self-made young men of which the Demo-
craic ticket this fall presents so many dis-
tinguished examples. He was born in Pitts-
burg in 1860 and at the early age of nine
years hegan to get a glimpse of the stern
realities of life, when he went to work in
a glass factory. Three years of that work |
nested him enough for books and clothes to
go to school and he laid the foundation of
a good practical education, later learning
She tailor trade, which he has followed ever
sinoe. .
Ask the boys of the company,
He is in business in Philipsburg, where
he enjoys the confidence of all.of the citi-
zens of that place, as will be shown by the
bandsome vote they will give him next
Tuesday.
Mr. ROWE is by nature peculiarly equip-
ped for the office of Recorder. He is young,
alert, of pleasing address and manner and
just the kind who will find no service for
the public too much trouble for him to
render.
Vote for RowE and be assured of Davivg
a Recorder who will he pleasant and agree-
able to you when you enter his office.
——The Gazette will through a few bo-
quets at the WATCHMAN staff this morn-
ing, bus they will he of skunk cabbage, with
| that characteristic @ az ette dog slnsh odor.