fund cut considerable of a swath ab the re-
catic editorial stop-gap of the Republican,
—_—_—————
vy P. GRAY MEEK.
Deuorralic atc
Ink Slings.
—Would you like to be a pheasant
Or a deer out in the wood?
It would be so very pleasant—
Now don’t you thinkit would—
To fly and run forever
On Nature's peaceful green
Where million guns are shootin oft
Every time you're seen.
—There is little difference between
hanting and fishing, except that the one is
all hunt and no game, while the other is
all fish and no fish.
—Judging from the results of the sena-
torial contest over in Clearfield its crop of
political sandbaggers must about equal
that of its hemlock stumps.
—The report that the supply of natural
gas in Indiana is failing is the first inti-
mation the public has had that there is
anything wrong with Senator BEVERIDGE.
—Republicans who are taking comfort
out of 1904 because of the result in 1902
must be trying to bluff us out of the no-
tion of getting at them again. But ‘‘they
don’t know their onion.”
—ROOSEVELT'S having decided to recognize
the ADDICK’s wing of the Republican party
in Delaware looks very much as if the
President has decided that “We talking
men must stand together.”’ A
—We should all be thankful that
Thanksgiving comes before Congress and
the Pennsylvania Legislature meets. Af-
ter that time it will be difficult to guess
what we have to be thankful for.
_It is now reported that Col. REEDER,
since the election, puts. in his extra time |
trying on the judicial ermine and posing
in the Judges chair—which is about as
near being judge as Gov. HASTINGS’ chair-
man is likely to get.
There was no difference of opinion
among Republicans while the rascality of
repeating, ballot-box stuffing} and false
counting was going on. Wait for a few
weeks and see how differently the division
of the spoils will affect this aggregation of
QUAY followers.
—~While the DRESSER--PATION boodle
cent election in this county, it was the
stay-at-home Democrat who rendered the
greatest aid in the gathering of the little
harvest that fell to the lot of our Republi-
can friends. :
— There is great reason to believe that if
Mr. ROOSEVELT would work his law de-
partment against the trusts with half the
strenuosity he does his mouth, some-
thing might be accomplished in the way of
crushing the power of these combinations
for the oppression of the people.
“When we waken up to the fact that
there were over '400 Democratic voters in
t his county, who were net at the polls
when they should have been. it iseasy to.
diagnose the trouble that has given the
Republicans the control of the ‘county
treasury and the commissioners office.
—_There is a counterfeit ten dollar bill in
circulation, so reports say, but as we
haven’ t seen such a laige piece of money
‘igince George Washington crossed the
Alps’? we spread the news for the benefit
of delinquent subscribers who are so
thoughtfully hoarding up our money forjus.
~ —The outcome of the MOLINEUX trial
was just what was expected. After keep:
ing the young New Yorker in prison for
four years, blasting his life, impoverishing
his parents and attracting the attention of
the entire world to a most cruel abortion of
justice, a jury deciares him not guilty and
says he may go free. But what redress is
there for the young man who has Jost
everything?
—In speaking of the result in Maryland,
under the new election law, the Philadel-
phia Press figures out that because they
got a plurality on the vote for Congress-
men the State is safely Republican and
that the election law is ‘‘another illustra-
tion of the mistake politicians make when
they try to prolong their power hy unfair
methods.’ It must be, then, as the Press
has so recently come to believe, that Mr.
QUAY made no mistake in Pennsylvania.
—1If the result of the election in Lehigh
and Berks does deprive our distinguished
political friend, the Honorable WILLIAM
HOPEFUL SOWDEN of the enjoyment of
resting hig heels on a congressional desk
aiid the satisfaction of drawing an official
salary, it at least opens the way for his re-
tirement to his back parlor where he can
ruminate over his defeat and come to an
understanding with himself as to the causes
that place him, for the future. on the
list of ‘‘Has Beens.”’
— If the editorials that bave been ap-
pearing in the Republican since the election
are inspired they area beautiful example
of man’s ingratitude to man. When Gen.
HasTINGs was a candidate for Governor
and was being pushed to the wall by
SINGERLY'S trenchant debate it was gen-
erally acknowledged that Dr. ATHERTON’S
brains were the ones that came to his res-
cue. But if the series of attacks on the
great institution of which Dr. ATHERTON
is president, are but the drivel of the er-
then they are not worthy of attention.
Possibly it is inconceivable toa man’ who |
is 80 completely subservient to the doubt-
ful HAsTINGS that any one else could
have intelligence enough to form an opin-
10h and back-bone enough to vote it, but if
it is he bas discovered lots of them at State
College and in trying to prejudice the in-
stisation therefore he will discover that. he
will only add to the admiration the people
of the State have for it.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Richard, son of John K. Ashman, of the :
Allen house, Orbisonia, fell froma wagon re-
cently and fractured his collar bone.
—Joseph Brehman, of Lewistown was ap-
pointed on Tuesday by Governor Stee as-
sociate judge of Mifflin county, vie. W.P.
Mendenhall, deceased.
—J. J. Walls, a member of ‘he firm of
Walls & Co. Lewisburg dry goo 110+ rchants,
died Monday morning sudd '=;. He had
just tied his shoes when fatally stricken, and
VOL. 47
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
fell forward a corpse.
—Rev. Dr. 8. C. Swallow has tendered his
resignation as superintendent of the Metho-
dist Book Rooms at Harrisburg, the same to
NO. 45.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 14, 1902.
Elkin Forever Out of it
Those who heard Attorney General JOHN
P. ELKIN declare from the platform while
addressing PENNYPACKER meetings, that
he will be a candidate for the gubernatorial
nomination of his party four years hence
will watch his course between now and
then with carions interest. The primary
contest - this year it will be remembered,
developed an intense bitterness. In the
state committee meeting the day before ‘the
convention QUAY and ELKIN narrowly es-
caped a personal altercation and even in the
convention they exchanged compliments in
the bitterest temper. But if PENNYPACK-
ER had been defeated ELKIN would, never-
theless, have had a chance of winning the
next time.
But as it is now ELKIN is completely
eliminated from the consideration. QUAY
bas demonstrated beyond doubt that he can
get along without him or STONE. With
the defeat of the FLINN ringin Pittsburg
the last vestige of STONE'S power vangish-
ed. It may be safely.said that he couldn’s
elect a precinct committeeman in any
election district “in the. State to-day.
DURHAM -will no longer trifle with either
of them and in the next fight ELKIN will
approach the entrenchments of the boss as
a private citizen without any of the power
of position and from which no corporation
can be summoned to furnish means of votes.
He will be helpless in the open,subject to a
fire from behind the breastworks,
ELKIN is to be pitied rather than censur-
ed for his unfortunate position. He came
.into the public life of the State a few years
ago with an attractive personality and a
bright prospect. He was clean and capable.
But he so completely surrendered himself
to the machine that ‘when ambition assert-
ed itself he was too odious for QUAY and
now he is beyond the hope of resuscitation.
It might have been different even after
Quay repudiated him. If he bad turned
and scourged the conspirators who destroy-
ed him the public might have taken him
back into its-confidence and permitted him
to live down his record. But he hadn’t the
courage to do that and he is lost.
Dalzell for Speaker.
The Speakership of the House at Wash-
ington is already attracting the attention
of the country, though that body will not
be organized until a year from the 1st of
December. Thus far three names are
prominently mentioned and it may be con-
‘jectured that the contest will he between
them. They are Mr. CANNON, of Illinois,
Mr. BABCOCK, of Wisconsin, and Mr. DAL-
7ELL, of Pennsylvania. Present indications
favor CANNON, as he is by far the older in
actual service and it may be added the
abler and better qualified for the service.
But those reasons are not certain to de-
termine the issue of the contest, and nobody
need be surprised to see a marked change
in favor of DALZELL. That gentleman, as
is well known, is a corporation lawyer on
the floor and off. From the beginning of
his congressional service he has been the
vigilant and resourceful attorney of the
corporations and the assiduous promoter of
trust legislation. CANNON has been fairly
obedient to past orders and BABCOCK hag
yielded both conscience and conviction in
emergencies *‘for the good of the party.”
But DALZELL is essentially the corporation
agent of the House of Representatives.
It is practically certain that the billion
dollar steel trust is preparing to take a full
band in politics from this time on. More
than any other concern in the industrial
and commercial life of the country it needs
the fostering care of high tariff legislation
and L LzELLis itsman. For years be bas
been on the payroll ‘of the Carnegie concern
at Pittsburg and can be depended on to do
whatever that trust wants. Unless we are
greatly mistaken the trust will do what he
wants in relation to the speakership and
that vill be plenty for the others.
——————
An Interesting Program.
The program of the machine for looting
the treasury is already beginning to reveal
itself. At least that is what we read in the
announcement, by a Pittsburg paper, that
anew department of government is to be
created. Tt will be remembered that it
was charged and practically proved that
during the last three sessions a rake off was
charged against all charity and educational
appropriations, with the probable exception
of tl:e public school appropriation for which
no bargain. could be made. WILLIAM P.
MARSHALL, speaker of the last House of
Representative, was defeated for re-election
and the scheme now is to create a State
Board of charities of which he is to be the
‘Secretary, with powet to control the rake-
offs.
During the sessions of 1897 and 1899 Mr.
MARSHALL was chairman of the committee
ou appropriations and it is said that he pre-
ferred that position to the Bpeakership in
the last session. But WARD R. Briss, of
Delaware county, who had asted wish the
Insurgents in 1899 wanted the place and as
‘he is altogether the most efficient floor lead-
er in the body, they were afraid £0. disap- ||
point him. It used to be said in the lob-
bies that the Speaker during the session of
1899 was given a lump of sugar at the be-
ginning and in consideration of that re-
linguished all claims to the share of the
rake-offs. :
The new scheme was devised by MAR-
SHALL and it is said that properly framed it
will be worth to the machine and its agents
in the neighborhood of $300,000 a year.
Of course that amount will bave to be
divided among several. The Secretary,
Mr. MARSHALL, himself, according to pres-
ent plans will get a considerable slice. But
QUAY always likes to draw pin money from
the pool and it has been said that he al-
ways gets in all right, and the chairman of
the appropriations committee of the two
bodies must be taken care of while the
Speaker of the House, who appoints the
committees, will get aslice. But there will
be plenty to go around and it is safe to say
that it will be the neatest job of the session.
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reer err
. What the Vote Shows.
An analysis of the vote of the recent
election reveals two important facts. The
first of these is that the successful candi-
dates were elected by fraud and the other
that the fraud was consented to if not as-
sisted by professed Democrats of Philadel-
phia. It would have been impossible, for
example, to poll so large a fraudulent vote
in the lower wards of that city without the
co-operation of the minority election officers
and watchers. It may be said, and proba-
bly with truth,that there were no minority
representatives on some of the boards. But
the Democratic organization could have
had honest watchers appointed at such
points who would have detected the frand.
In 1900 it was estimated by the Phila-
delphia Prees that 80,000 fraudulents votes
were cast in the first fifteen wards’ of the
city. At the election on the 4th instant in
the first seven wards the Republican vote
of 1900 was doubled, trebled and in one
case quadrupled, notwithstanding that the
population of those wards is diminishing.
This means that the fraudulent vote of 1900
was largely increased and may safely be
estimated at no less than 100,000. It is
certain that frauds to the number of 30,000
were committed in Allegheny county, while
in Scranton, Wilkesbarre, Harrisburg and
other smaller oities sufficient were cast to
equal the entire Republican plurality, . :
The fraudulent vote carried not only the
commission to the candidates of the Repub-
lican party for the state offices but a ma-.
jority in the Legislature will give PENROSE
a re-election to the United States Sepate..
What use is there in talking about ballot
reform legislation under such circumstan-
ces? QUAY will never consent to relin-
quish the only chance he has for niaintain-
ing his power, for he understands that with
an honest vote of the people his infamous
reform would be repudiated with such em-
phasis that he would never recover from
the shock. He will probably pretend to
favor ballot reform during the coming. ses-
sion as he did during the last but it will
be but a pretense.
The Strike Settlement.
The question of the settlement of the coal
strike is now up to the commissioners ap-
pointed by the President. That is to say
the strikers have presented ‘their claims
and the operators made their statements.
As was to be expected none of the claims
are recognized and some of them appear to
be resented. But both sides are obliged to
acquiescence in the award of the commis-
sioners and we hope most sincerely that
most, if not all, the claims will be allowed.
There is certainly just ground for the de-
mand for higher wages, for the present rates
are inadequate to meet the expenses of liv-
ing under existing conditions.
After all, however, it may be said that
the settlement will neither be satisfactory
not enduring. There is on old adage that
no matter is finally settled until it is set-
tled right and the negotiations now in prog-
ress are not on right lines. The way to
settle the strike permanently would be to
enforce the constitution and the laws
against the trusts. That would put the
combination which is responsible for all the
evils out of business and that achieved the
rest would be easy. Alter a restoration of
industrial conditions to the healthful state
of fair and open competition there would
be neither reason nor opportunity for strik-
ers.
We sincerely hope the best results will
come from the deliberations of the strike
commission. An increase of wages is prac-
tically certain and the demands of the min-
ers for ‘fair treatment in the purchase of
supplies can hardly be denied either.
President BAER, in his answer to MITCHELL,
protests that there can be no question of the
weight of coal. But in that he is gravely
mistaken. It may be that the coal is meas-
ured rather than - weighed, but the miners
‘say that they are not paid for what ‘they
mine even by measurement and if that is
trae it ie just as bad one way 2s the other.
By weight or measurement the miner is en-
titled to what he earns. ~~ =
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‘his political "integrity.
Roosevelt’s Hypocrisy.
ee.
Probably nothing President ROOSEVELT
bas done since his induction into the office
he holds is more entirely characteristic than
his false pretense of indignation over
QUAY'’s violation of the civil service laws
in soliciting election funds from federal of-
ficials in Pennsylvania. If he cared to
vindicate the law be woulda’ proceed as
he has done. His course would have been
plain in that event. An ack of Congress had
been violated in the most open manner.
The remedy is prosecution and punishment
without circumlocution or ceremony. The
courts are open and a simple order to the
federal Disirict Attorney at Philadelphia to
begin proceedings would have been suf-
cient. But that wouldn’t have been dram-
atic enongh for Mr. ROOSEVELT. He wanted
to attract the attention of the galleries and
he has done so but mainly to his own arrant
hypocrisy.
When the contest for the Republican
gubernatorial nomination was in progress
Senator QUAY violated the civil service
laws vastly more directly and infinitely
more offensively and if well authenticated
reports are accurate he acted with President
ROOSEVELT'S knowledge and assistance.
That is to say he used the federal {offices
to buy delegates who had been instructed
foror pledged to Attorney General ELKIN
to vote for his cousin and fulsome panegyrist
Judge PENNYPACKER. - This was not only
a violation of the civil service laws of Con-
gress but of the act of Assembly against cor-
rupt solicitation and the common and statu-
tory laws against bribery. Senator QUAY
couldn’t have engaged in the traffic without
the knowledge and consent of President
ROOSEVELT or at least he couldn’t have
“made good,’ as the President designates
it, without his co-operation.
_ Besides the President put up no protest
until after Senator QUAY had achieved the
purpose of his violation of the laws. The
circular was issued early in September and
distributed among the office holders before
the middle of that month. They had dis-
cussed it among themselves and the civil
service association had been informed
of it within a week from the date of issue.
But ROOSEVELT remained as quiet as a
am until after QUAY had finished ‘‘Iry-
ing the fat,” avid-Hiad himself recalled the
{circular for the reason shat it was in: viola~.
$10n of the law. “Then ROOSEVELT, with a
flourish of trumpet, addressed a letter to
QUAY sharply rebuking bim and satisfy-
ing the minds of civil service reformers
that the country is safe under a Republican
administration because we have a President
who abhors erime, even| when committed
by so distinguished a gentleman as Senator
QUAY.
1t Will Require Better Witness.
It will take very different evidence than
that furnished by an anonymous scribbler
for a newspaper, tbat has accomplished as
little in the way of reforming conditions
about its own home as the Philadelphia
North American has, to create doubt in the
minds of the people of Pennsylvania as to
the Democracy of Col. Jas. M. GUFFEY, or
to lessen their faith in either his political
integrity or the honesty of his efforts for
his party’s success. : i
Charges of bad faith on the part of
other Democrats, by residents of a city
that made no effort to purge its padded
registry lists, that left it for Col. GUFFEY
and other country Democrats to buy the tax-
receipts that would enable its Democratic
voters to ‘cast their ballots, that refused to
raise sufficient funds to man its own polls;
that, after having its taxes and its watchers
paid by others, allowed the machine to in-
crease its majority over 100 per cent. ; gave
away every congressional district within it
without a.contest;permitted the QUAY-gang
to elect every Senator and Member of the
Legislature to which it was entitled with-
out a serious or determined contest ina
single district, and that lost every candi-
date on its local ticket by majorities that
were simply overwhelming, came from a
bad source to. have much weight with the
honest Democracy of other sections.
Pittsburg, even with its monatrons ma-
jority for PENNYPACKER, at least secured
something for the Democrats. Its three
Democratic Members of the Legislature,
its two Democratic Judges, and its Demo-
cratio Clerk of the Courts, shows a very fair
proportion of Democratic success, and par-
ticularly so when compared with results in
Philadelphia. H
Opposition to Col. GUFFEY well needs
emanate from some other source than that
which is credited with dictating the polit-
ical policy of the North American, and
which stands charged with betraying every
party interest and party candidate for the
past dozen years, before it will prove very
effective. : ,
The Democratic people of the State know
Col. GurFEY. They have confidence in
They have wit-
nessed his unselfish efforts for the party.
‘They appreciate the work that lie bas done.
They are proud of him as a citizen and a
Democrat, and it will take considerable
more than the furtive insinuations of afew’
who cannot nse hin to secure their own sel-
fish ends before their faith in either his mau-
hood, his honesty of purpose, his devotion
to Democratic principles or his good faith
to all Democratic candidates is shaken.
Next it poses
perverts, the laws
take effe
“A Chance t6' Make . te o Bay = Flin clone of the conference year
From the New York World.
President Roosevelt’s talent for the idio-
matic and epigrammatic statement of a fact
or a truth was never better illustrated than
‘in his interpretation of the meaning of the
recent elections : |
*“The people have given the Republican
party a chance to make good.” /
This is the exact truth, succinctly stated.
The Republican. party in its national
platform condemned ‘all conspiracies’ and
combinations intended to restrict business,
to create monopolies, to ‘limit production
or to control prices,’’ and: promised t0 en-
act legislation to “effectively restrain and
prevent all such abuses.”’
That party in six years of complete pow-
er has done absolutely nothing to redeem
this pledge, while during this period trusts
and other monopolies have multiplied like
toadstools after a summer rain.
It is now ‘‘a chance to make good.’
. The Republican party, through the voice
of its most successful leader since J,incoln,
declared that in trade ‘‘the era of exclu-
siveness is past,’’ that real reciproeity is
the. need of the hour, ‘and that duties no
longer needed either for protection or for
revenue should be reduced or repealed.
The party now has ‘‘a chance to make
good’ President McKinley's enlightened
policy. i ;
Through the resolutions of nearly all its
state conventions and by the word of the
President. the Republican party is commit-
ted as the nation is in honor bound to give
ita living chance to Cuba’ through recipro-
cal tariff concessions. Will it now ‘‘make
good 2’ vicki
President Roosevelt is undoubtedly right
in holding that ‘‘the result of the next elec-
tion depends entirely upon what is done at
Washington between now and. that time,
and not upon what was promised before the
recent election.’’ u he
Good.”
—The first week of hunting season was
marked with universal success in Mifflin
county. Hundreds of rabbits, quail and
other small game was brought in, as well as
wild turkeys, deer and bear.
—Clint Cunningham, of Bolivar, while
hunting in Washington township, Indiana
county, last week, shot a pure white squirrel
The hair was very coarse and the animal
was slightly smaller than the average gray
squirrel. :
—The freight movement over the Middle-
division of the Pennsylvania railroad for the
month of October reached 170,552 cars, or 110
Jess than in September and 9,000 less than im
August, the record breaking month of the
year.
—This fall Henry Sheaffer husked off &
ten-acre field, in Centre township, Perry
county, 2,440 bushels of icorn. The yield is
phenomenal. The ears are extraordinarily
large. Our western brethren will have to .
look to their laurels for big yields.
—Erhest Howard of Corry, was found
guilty of murder in the second degree Wed --
nesday evening for the killing near that city
on May 29th last of an old soldier named’
Henry Haddock, whom he had enticed into
| the woods for the purpose of robbery.
—A novel election bet was paid in Clear-
field Friday night, when Ogden R. Denning,
who is six feet four inches tall, rolled a pea-
nut around a block in the central part of
town with a six-pound crowbar. He was
“jollied”’ unmercifully by a crowd that fol- :
lowed. :
| “Alexander Lee, Lancaster's veteran
hunter, who is about 73 years old, returned
from his annual gunning trip to York coun-
ty, on Saturday where he bagged twenty -
three squirrels, two ‘possums and six rabbits.
Of the squirrels, he says, ten were killed
with eleven shots, as he stood in one place.
—A young son of Harry Cochran, who °
lives on Mt. Zion, in Clearfield county, had
one of his eyes blown out by an explosion of
dynamite Tuesday. He and another boy
found several sticks of dynamite in a barn
and while playing with them one exploded,
striking young Cochran in the eye, destroy -
ing that organ entirely.
The Outlook for the 58th Congress.
While the official vote may slightly
change the following estimate of party
strength in the two houses in the next Con-
gress, it will not materially effect the rep-
resentatives given in any of the States. In
the present Senate the Democrats have but
29 members, while in the coming one they’
will have 36—a clear gain of 7. Tn the
House they willl have 178 members as
against 150 in the 57th Congress. He must
be a confirmed pessimist who cannot see
hope for the Democracy in such results :
States Senne se There are 15 applicants for the appoiut-
Alabama 9 | ment of State librarian to succeed Rev. Dr.
Arians, ; 3 Reed, president of Dickinson college, who
Colorado... ‘2. | resigned during the campaign. Among them
Gonneeticdt. — | are President W. H. McKnight, of Pennsyl-:
vania college, Gettsburg; President J. S.
Stahr, of Franklin and Marshall, Laneaster,
“J and Rev. A. 8. Stapleton, of Carlisle,
2
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71
3 ,—DuBois has another mysterious disap=:
k pearance case. Elihu Dixon has been miss-
; 1 ing since May last; and although a search
— | bas been made for him at different times,
+ | nothing has been heard of him. On Sunday’
Michigan..... 1 | morning John Vasbinder, aged 7b years, left
Minnesota... . 8 1 .’ "
Mississippi.. ‘_ . g | home to ga to Adrian furnace, and that was
Missouri. .1 15 | the last seen of him.
Montana.. — 1 3
Jovraska: "3 1 | —The First city troop, of Philadelphia and
hd non 2 1 | the Sheridan troop, of Tyrone were relieved
Noy Jersey: .7 3 |ofdutyin the coal fields on Tuesday after-
North Caroline [5 20 rn noon. They were the last of the National
Nonh Dakota 2 .2 —| Guard on duty on account of the anthracite
Dragon. i 3 go : coal strike. Sheridan troop was called out.
Pennsylvania. “2 1 | on Sunday September 28th and served forty
Rhode Island..... 2 on) . 3
South Carolina.. 7 | six days at Audenried, Carbon county.
Sout Palio =| —william Mills, of Sandy Ridge, on bis
Texas. 16 | way howe on the evening train from Osceola
Ly — | Saturday, attempted to alight from the cars
Virginia... a. | while they were yet moving,at Retort which
West Eo 9 — | he thought ‘was Sandy Ridge, and he fell
Wisconsin. 2 1 | under the train, the wheels passing over his
Wyoming. «2 —ie 7 right foot. He was taken to the Philipsburg
i 36.....208.....178 | hospital where his foot was amputated. .
—————————————"
—George England, a well known farmer:
of East Providence township, Bedford coun- -
ty, died suddenly along the roadside a few:
days ago. During the day he had been en-
gaged in loading some old saw mill machin-
ery and it is supposed he over -exerted him-
self. Atall events he became suddenly ill.
and died within a few moments after the
seizure. ‘ i
Mrs. Robert North was accidentally shot
and killed a day or two ago by her son.
The family had moved from DuBois to
Chestwick and were unpacking their goods.
The boy was unpacking a revolver, which
was not supposed to be loaded. The weapon
was accidentally discharged, the bullet:iodg-
ing in the mother’s breast and she died in-
stantly. 4 tay
— Raymond Eckenrode, the 10-year-old son
of H. E. Eckenrode, of Gallitzin, was fatally .
injured at the passenger station there ou
Monday evening while attempting to board
an east bound freight train. In trying to get
on it he was thrown under the wheels. His
left arm and leg were crushed and his skull
fractured. He waslin a dying condition and
a short time later he passed away. :
—The extensive plant of the Keystone
Driller company at Beaver Falls was almost
totally destroyed by fire Sunday. The loss
———— Eo “will be fully $100,000, with insurance on the
Oficial Vote for Congress and Senate. | Plant of $55,000. The portion destroyed are
on — : > the blacksmith shop, the machine, erecting
The following is the official vote as re- | 4;q pattern department. Much, valuable
turned for members of Congress. from this | machinery was ruined. Over 100 men will
the 21st district. be thrown out of employment. The origin of
‘The Mnjoritles and the Frauds.
From the New York Evening Post.
Simultaneous reports of a Republi can
majority of 150,000 in the State of Penn-
sylvania and of shocking frauds at the polls
in Philadelphia teach their own lesson.
The State of Pennsylvania to-day is what
the entire country would be if the baser
Republican party were in ‘full control. It
is instructive to see how the grip of a cor-
rapt party is maintained upon a State which
lacks neither wealth nor intelligence.
First the party promises to make everybody
rich; virtually subsidizes the prominent
industries, and in’ general ‘offers business
and political favors at the market price.
as the party of respectability,
puts up candidates of good family and posi-
tion like Governor-elect Pennypacker, and
presents only the Sunday face of the bosses
to church-going voters. Finally, it cloaks
under this reputation’ of respectability the
grossest forms of bribery —parades bands of
repeaters publicly’ from voting-place, to
voting place, buys : election judges, and
to its own purposes. Tt
is this kind of Republicanism that trinmph-
ed Tuesday in Pennsylvania. It is this
kind of Republicanism that the Democracy,
evidently convalescent; must contrive to
crash, so that the infamyof Pennsylvania:
may not extend to the entire country, and
Matt Quay beconie the representative Amer-
ican. : i i :
CADID is ivaseitig weseg, R. HIbEL,D. | gn fire is a mystery. :
Reid 405 ; a _-After a race for his life Darlington Kulp,
McKean. A818. 2526 | aged 17 nephew of Congessman Kulp killed
Totals rrr Tsoi; | ® bear near Kulp’s lumber camp, Mifflin coun-
DIPQSZOT PHITAILY correresesesssssrsngassssgs sss 416 | ty Saturday morning. Kulp left t he camp on
—— ig ‘hunt for big game and soon found a 300-pound
pear. He fired one shot at the lear. wounding
him in the leg. The angry hear then advanc-
ed on the young hunter who after firing
again and missing took to his heels. An excit-
| SENATE, OFFICIAL.
The official returns show the following
votes for Senator for this the 34th district.
: * Hemig D. Parton, R.
Centre... 4718 “M4043 | ipg race ensued, the bear gaining slowly on
Clearfield yin ase | 18 TD ded victim. Kulp loaded his weapon
‘Clinton... 27 2864 | oe ran and when the bear was twel ve feet
BE
Br ms 12416
Total way he quickly turned. and shot the-animal
Patten Pinratity...... wh oat
ough the heart.