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BY P. GRAY MEEK. ©
Ink slings.
We certainly got a knockout blow
Right in the solar plexus
They've surely got us on the go
‘Most everywhere, but Texas.
—We can stand it, if the other fellows
can. bis
—BRYAN could'nt have been such a Yad
mao, after all,
—O01lad fort Democracy ' has fallen.
will Pork Arthur be next.
Now
—I¢ is very pleasant to think that the 2
few of us who are lett are necessarily good |.
ones, ¢ :
~—pri vate tom - will now ‘have plenty of
‘use for ‘that ‘‘chair that the Judge ‘always
“sits in.”’
—Centre county seems to be ‘about the
‘only oasis in the dark desert of Demo-
‘cratic defeat.
—We would like to say. Les us forget
it, if we ‘did ‘not feel so morally certain
"that we can’t do it. :
~The Bellefonte Republicans are sorry
“that it wasn’t KNISELY. The Philipsburg
"Republicans saw to it, however, that it |
was 'WOMELSDORF. .
—Tt is all right to conduct a ‘‘safe abd
‘sane’ campaign, but what are we to do
.when the other, fellows go clean crazy, {
‘as they muss have done on Tuesday.
© _The famous “blind horse’ of the
. West ward had a colt on Taesday and
hereafter a team of the interesting anymiles
will be on exhibition on election days.
| —We congratulate Judge ORVIS last
week because we had faith in the upright
citizenship of Centre county. That that
faith was not misplaced was confirmed by
Tuesday’s over whelming verdics.
—No sooner is the elestion of ROOSEVELT
assured than we are informed that $41,-
300,0 00 is what they contemplate spend-
.ing on the navy. Strange that no announce-
ment of this intent was made last week.
—The retuins from Curtin township
-gseem ‘to indicate that Col. JOHN A. DALEY
amounts to a little more than they thought
be did when they enchred him out of the
nomination for the Legislature.
—The Hon. DAvID B. HILL appears to
‘be the only man with long-ranged vision
enough to see things right. He announs-
ed at least four weeks before the election
that he would retire permanently from
“politics on Jan. Ist.
—We are glad they are satisfied in
Enrope. It was'only a matter of twelve
years ago thas our friends, the Republicans,
‘were holding that same European satisfac-
tion up'asa page to scare voters away
from the To
c-Aliot all we ri expected, Whos
we started out, was the tioket in Centre
county. While we did not get quite as
much of that as we would like to have had;
yet we can’t see any good reason for Demo-
orats not jubilating accordingly.
—The defeat of Judge LOVE can not be
regarded as a personal rebuke. The people
of Centre county still believe him to bea
lawyer of eminent ability, bust they could
uot bring themselves to endorse his attemps
to join politics with the bench.
—It pays to advertise. W.L. DouG-
LASS the shoe man, was elected Governor
of Massachusetts. If the Demoorats up
there read ‘the lesson aright they will |
spring LYDIA PINKHAM or Mr. Hoop, of
Sarsaparilla fame, on them next time.
—The issues of the judicial fight in Cen-
tre county mark out the course which Mr.
ORvIs must follow daring his tenure of
office. The people have declared for a
non-political Judge and that is what they
must have if the Democratic party, which
has been honored by the elevation of Mr.
ORVIS to the bench, would keep faith
with them.
—The Democratic party is too deep root-
ed in this government to be shaken much
by Tuesday’s results. After the trusts
have made the slavery of the workingmen
complete and the government has been
carried to the verge of ruin by fruitless
foreign conquests, then, and not until
then, will the blind and fatuous common
people see that they have been gradually,
gradually plaiting the rope that has hang-
ed them.
—The boast that the Solid South has
been broken is one that onr. ‘Republican
friends should not feel much pride in
making. ‘The honest ‘Democrats of Mis-
gouri undertook ‘to purge their party
of corruptionists and boodlers and be it
said to their eternal shame the Republi-
cans joined forces with the ousted thieves
to win the victory that is recorded for
them in Missouri. The Democrats of Mis-
souri are greater victors even in defeat
than the Republicans of Penusylvania are
in their over whelming avalanche of nearly
half a million.
—The Hon. J. W. KEPLER, who ‘served
his constituents so well while in Harris-
burg, was the victim of a peculiar combina-
tion of unfortunate circumstances. We
honestly * believe it was the wish of the
people of Centre county that he be returned
to the Legislature for another session, but
when the Republicans realized that there
was no hope of electing their Judge they
abandoned every thing else and made a
desperate fight for both Members. So
crazed over the idea of getting ‘‘something’’
were they that many of Mr. Womelsdorf’s
avowed enemies forgot their differences
aud rallied to his support. This, coupled
with the undeniable fact that there was a
pronounced tendency toward Repub-
licanism in gsneral, was reaponsible for
Mr. KEPLER'S defeat and since it has been
accomplished, there are many who are
sorry for the part they played in it.
just olosed, there’ is something shat. goes
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STATE RIGHTS AN
~ BELLEFONTE, PA, NOV. 11,
Db FEDERAL UNION.
OFFICIAL RETURNS OF CENTRE. cou NTY, NOVEMBER - 8TH, 1904.
ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET ELECTED WITH TWO EXCEPTIONS.
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West ward..... 105) 61} - 5/| 98 72] © 67), 174 88) 71. 8 01 841.80} 93 7. 4 58 85 19) 74 95
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Harris township... 5 3|| 70|| 87 141 129] 5( 3 2! 62].1 125 |
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Penn township. 4 3i| 40| 186 181
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A Pledge That Binds For all Time.
' In-Judge PARKER’S reply to the Presi-
dent’s intemperate screed respecting the
relations of ‘the trusts to the campaign
beyond the election.” “Why: po a
truss take money out of its treasury,’’ he
observed, ‘‘money belonging. tc ite stock-
holders, consisting of women and children, |.
as well as men of both parties, unless its:
purpose is to get something in return,
something which its officers regard as
more than an equivalent for the money
taken ous of the treasury?’ In other words,
what right have the officers of the corpora-
tion to take money out of the treasury,
money which doesn’t belong to them bus
to the stockholders, unless they can show,
or at least prove that they believe, would
bring returns to the corporation.
Corporation officers can’t take money
ous of the treasury of said corporation to
contribute to a political organization with-
out violating the law. Men such as are
‘entrusted with the managements of corpora-
tions don’t violate the law in the use of the
funds of the corporation unless they bave
some assurance that there wiil hea return
from the transaction. It may be assumed
therefore thas the corporations which con-
tributed freely to the Republican campaign
fund bad reasonable ground for the belief
that the election of the Republican candi-
date for President: would inure to the ad-
vantage of the corporations: they favored.
In other worde, in the controversy be-
tween RL and ALTON B.
PARKER the prima facia case was with Mr.
PARKER. z
This brings us to the vital point. In
his magnificent speech delivered in Brook-
lyn, on Saturday evening last, Judge
PARKER said: “If my countrymen shall
call meto take up this work, I will, God
helping me, use every faculty of my mind,
and will employ every power that legally
and constitutionally inures in that great
office, to accomplish this most beneficent
result,” meaning thereby to*‘procure legis-
lation which shall make it a crime for the
officers of a trust or corporation to con-
tribute money for the control of an elec-
‘tion of any kind.”” That pledge which
should have been made by hoth candidates
and sanctified by spurning contributions
of trusts, is binding vot only on Judge
PARKER but on all candidates for Presi-
dent for all time.
——Twenty Democrats at home in the
eastern precinct of Haines township, nine
absent from the polls in Millheim bor-
ough, thirsy or more failing to vote in the
different districts of Gregg, will of them-
selves account for the defeat of Mr. J. W.
KEPLER, one of the most attentive and
obliging members of the Legislatnre that
Centre county has ever bad.
——*So near and yet so far,”’ is the 1e-
gretful thought that must come to the
mind of our big friend KNISELY when he
looks at that 65 votes that stood between
him and the $1,500 salary at Harris-
burg.
“Phil” is His Name.
Former Attorney General KNOX attend-{.
od a meéting of the Pistaburg: Republican |
city commiftee on Saturday evening last
| and assured the gentlemen present that |
hereafter. he ‘would keep in closer ‘touoh |
with the practical polisicians of the city.
Previously the distinguished lawyer didn’
see any necessity for such a sacrifice on his
part. The society of BILL FLINN, CHAR-
‘ LIE MUHLBRUNNER, BILL MARSHALL,
ANDY ROBERTSON, GEORGE HOBACK,
ALEX THOMPSON, BoB MCWHINNEY and
others, mainly saloon keepers and ‘‘run-
ners’’ abous the municipal building, bad
no attraction for him. But he has had a
taste of public office and is now willing to
do anything to keep himself i in. Even the
society of ANDY FULTON may he adneple:
ble to him.
This is the curious Tesult of pratival
politics. When Mr. KNOX was appointed
to the office of Attorney General about
four years ago everybody was pleased, ap-
parently, except the Republican politi.
cians. He wae known as an eminent and
successful corporation’ lawyer but nobody
knew anything about his politics. The
Democratic and Independent newepapers
praised the appointment as an indication
of a higher course in government. The
Republican papers admitted his ability and
grudgingly spoke kindly of his fitness.
The conduct of his office for a time, at
least, justified the enlogies. But his ap-
pointment as Senator changed conditions
all around.
Being a lawyer Mr. KNOX must know
-| that the Governor of Pennsylvania has no
right to appoint a Senator. The constita-
tion requires the assembling of the Legis-
lature to fill snch vacancies as bad scecar-
red by the death of QUAY. Of course that
made no difference to Governor PENNY-
PACKER. That conceited old man has no
understanding of law or morals. Bat
KNoXx knew and in accepting the appoins-
ment he revealed an absence of conscience
and now that the machine has forced him
to sacrifice his self-respect and pay. tribute
to its potentiality, ‘he is a very poor figure |
indeed. As a matter of fact we may as
well call him PHIL KNOX at once.
a
Good Work of the Clergy,
During the catpaign which juss closed
a number of Philadelphia clergymen ‘in-
augurated a movement in favor of ballot |
reform in the shape of personal registration |
in the oities of this Commonwealth. The
result of the election in Philadelphia in-
dicates that the influence of those excellent
gentlemen on the vote was very meagre.
In other words it may safely be predicted
that not a single Senator or Representative
in the Legislature chosen in Philadelphia
on Tues lay will favor such legislation as
the clergymen in question have indicated.
It is possible, of course, that the gentle-
men, ambassadors of the Prince of Peace,
forgot their purpose in their anxiety to
elect a man of war to. the Presidency.
But whether that be true or not, they
failed to impress their views concerning
| ballot reform on the returns of the elec- | the way, rather than accept’ the Tesbous of
sion.
" We would counsel our good friends of
tbe pulpit to not dispair, however, on
account of the «disappointment of their
sed similarly and among them some ‘who |
‘practical politics. But perseverance is a
crowning virtue and if they will continue
their fight for personal registration in the
cities, they may finally compel respect for
their demands. The olergy are educated to
patience. From the beginning ‘they have
bad a bard fight. But they have always
won in the end, and no doubt the history
stance. They were never more clearly in
the right than in their present enterprise
and if they only have the ‘gift of continu-
‘ance,’’ we are almost tempted to guarantee
sucoess. :
That personal registration in the cities
is essential to honest elections isso well
established a fact that no argument is
needed to support it. That honest elec
tions are an absolute perquisite to honest
government is equally certain. There-
fore in working for personal registration
the gentlemen engaged in the movement
are promoting honest government which is
one of the main elements of Christian
civilization. In other words, the clergy-
men thus employed are doing the work of
The Master on earth apd it would be im-
possible for them to better empioy their
time. Moreover there is every promise of
success in their labor.
ported by the entire Democratic party of
the State and in the Legislature and thus
aided they ought to be able to get enough
Republicans to achieve their purpose at the
coming session,
Lessons ot _the Election. :
The result of the election i is disappoint
ing to those who favor honest and econom-
“izal government. Is ‘may be regarded asa|
popular endorsement of Imperialism, profli-
‘gacy and venality in ‘pablic life. With a
‘thorough understanding of the President’s
| relations with the corrupt officials’ ‘of the
"| postoffice: and other. departments, the elee-
torate of ' the country has commissioned |
him to continue in office. Tn the face of
| his open contempt of the constitation, he
{ bas been continued in position to further
violate its provisions. Notwithstanding
bis predilection for ‘militarism and em-
' pire, the voters of the country have declar-
ed a purpose to take chances with him for
another term. ‘
The wealth of this willy is 80 grea,
the resources so ahundant, that the people
refuse to take warning of impending dan-
ger. They are not ignorant of the facts.
They understand that profligacy is taxing
the industry of the country in a constantly
increasing ratio aud that sooner or later
the burdens will become too heavy to
bear. But they prefer to wait until the
last straw has been laid on before issming
their protest. They want to learn in the
school of experience—a fool’s college—by
‘have professed a greater knowledge of’
of the past will repeat itself in this in- |
They will be sap- |
history. They are Prckenting Beedlanly
toward the point at which it. will be. im-
possible to stop. That i is the Reight
improvidence. i
The great glory of this. cov ib
V'achifevements in the arts of peace.” The
| conquest of the commerce of the world was |
the ambition’ of the fathers. To become
the food-supply depot of ‘bivilization was
. their aim. But the people of the present
have determined upon other lines. We
are becoming a nation of warriors. ‘We
want to shed blood and destroy treasure.
That is the sentiment expressed in the
election of ROOSEVELT and-it is a danger-
ous doctrine. It is written that ‘‘He who
sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his
blood be shed.”” We are leading towards
that state and it is dangerous. We are
whirlwind. de of
Protest Against the Crime.
Ledger there were 80,000 fraudulent votes
polled in that city on Tuesday. The
frauds, we learn from the same: authority,
were ‘most open and shameless. Demo-
cratic officials were ‘‘held up’ on the
street and robbed of important documents
by colored criminals, after the fashion of
highwaymen in the West years ago. After-
ward gangs traveled from one poll to an-
other and voted as they wens. Respectable
citizens were driven from the polls in order
that the repeaters could vote on their
names. These iniquities were aided by
the police and are certain of immunity
from punishment.
We are not as well provided with details
with respect $0 Pittsburg bus it is safe to
predict that 25,000 fraudulent votes were
polled in that city and 50,000 in other
eities and towns throughout the State.
This makes a total of 150,000 illegal votes
cast in one form of electoral fraud. By
means of bribery, false. counting and other
processes known to the professional | ballos
| box stuffer, ‘it may be ‘said 30,000 ‘other
fraudulent votes were cast, making 180, -
000 in ‘all or within 50,000 of the, entire
majority. This is the record which clergy-
men ‘and other respectable citizens are
| asked to endorse by supporting, the, Re-
publican party.
Will this political depravity never cense
in Pennsylvania. Sball we al ways ‘tamely
submit to being thus robbed of onr most
priceless heritage. Philadelphians don’t
mind, it is said. That city is ‘‘corrupt and
contented.’” The bench and the pulpit
join in acquiescence in the iniquity there.
But will the people of the State, the citi-
zens of the roral districts and industrial
centres; submit to it? Carrying elections
“by fraud is practically disfranchising the
people. For that reason every Pennsyl-
vanian is concerned in the outrage which
was perpetrated in Philadelphia last Tues-
day and he is worse than a poltroon who
wou’t protest.
——When we come to consider the
political devastation of the cyclone in
other places, we have abundant reason to
be thankful that it was no worse with us
here.
“sowing to the wind ‘and may} reap the |.
: be started within ten days.
According to the Philadelphia * Public
Spawis. rom. th the Sorsione.
sips I
we 0, toiiei] Ji bonds
J been awa to oy Harris & Co.,
New York, : at $100, %
his “lis. RI new fire. brick. plant
at Bigler will be ready for operation in about
four ‘weeks. The work of ‘completing the
plant is being vigorously pushed.
—New Bloomfield has a sound sleeper in
the person of one Russell Rutter, who went
to Harrisburg the other night to attend the
theatre. Returning he boarded Pacific ex-
press, intending to get off at Newport. He
awoke at Altoona. ’
—A deal has been consummated by which
the Coleman house, Lewistown, will change
hands January 1st. William Ziegler, now
conducting a restaurant, ‘will be the new
landlord of this famous hostelry.
—Houtzdale and Brisbin are suffering
from an epidemic of diphtheria which is
gpreading with alarming speed and there is
talk of having to close the Woodward town-
= | ship:schools in consequence.
—T. A. Webb, of Lewistown, has secured
from the Philadelphia museum an extensive
collection of seeds and woods from all parts
of the globe which will be placed in the
Lewistown High school room.
—The Juniata Herald, of Mifflintown, has
'| been purchased by Foster Balentine from
.| Messrs. Carl F. Espenshade and Alton G.
Scholl, Ambrose Aurand, of Beaver Springs,
Snyder county, will be the new editor.
—John Whitehead, one of the pioneer coal
operators of Clearfield county, died at noon
Sunday at his, home i in Philadelphia. He
was aged about 72 years, and his widow and
ten children survive. Interment took place
at Philadelphia on Wednesday aftern oon.
"Patrick Campbell, the superintendent of
| the Puritan Coal company at Puritan, Cam-
bria, county, who was held up last summer
| and robbed of $3,000 by unknown highway-
‘men, who also killed his driver, Charles
/ ‘Hays, has returned to his old occupation.
| * —Mts. Emeline Shaffer, the oldest female
school teacher in Bedford county, died the
: other day at her home near Piney Creek,
aged 75 years. Mrs, Shaffer taught school
| fifty years ago, when women teachers were
not. many.
$10,700 worth of Jersey Shore school
: board four per cent. bonds were Wednesday
| night awarded to the firm of Lamprecht
| Bros. and Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, who took
the whole audunt, paying a premium on
them of $132. v
—Last Teesisy afternoon a party of Ebens-
burg hunters on their return home, discoyer-
ed the decomposed remains of an elderly
man in the densest section of a small swamp
situated on the Ann Glass farm, about four
.| ‘miles east of Ebensburg.
~—It is rumored that the Pennsylvania
railroad company will soon spend $300,000
| for improvements at the Renovo car shops.
The present size and capacity of the shops
‘will be doubled, and will be next in size to
the Altoona shops, says the News.
" —Adam Baer, aged about 42 years, by
trade a blacksmith, fell dead about. 8 o’clock
Tuesday | ‘morning’ while at work in the
blacksmith shop of the Standard Steel works,
at Lewistown. - He leaves a wife ‘and four
children and was a resident of Yeagertown.
the treasurer of the Pennsylvania Railroad
compary will begin the distribution of more
than $9,000,000 to stockholders on record at ~
the close of business on Nov. 5th. This: is
the regular semi-annual dividend of three
per cent. declared at a special meeting of the
board of directors Thursday.
—Sheldon, Thompson & Co, of Da Bois,
who recently contracted to do the big job of
tunnelling for the Morrisdale Coal Co., have
also just signed a contract to sink four shafts
at Portage, Cambria county, for the J. C.
Martin Coal Co., of Philadelphia. The work
involves an outlay of about $90,000, ani! will
—Jacob Stall, a Williamsport butcher and
gardener, retired Tuesday night as usual,
feeling very well. He arose early in order
to attend the market. Just after getting out
of bed he was seized with a spell and sat
down on a chair, from which he fell. He
died before the members of the family could
do anything to relieve him. He was 58 years
old.
—By the explosion of a threshing machine
at Donation on Monday morning Stephen A.
Snyder, of Cornpropst Mills, had his left
arm broken and sustained other injuries.
The machine was literally blown to pieces,
scattering fragments of iron and wood in all
directions, and two large holes were torn in
the roof of the barn, each large enough for
the body of a man to pass through.
—Rev. L. 0. Pearch is not only pastor of
the Boquet, (Westmoreland county) Lutheran
church, but also leader of the Boquet band.
‘He has recently been away from home and
during his absence was the victim of an at-
tack of typhoid fever. Upon his return
home he was given a reception and presented
with $50 by the band and $125 by the mem-
bers and friends of his church. He is proba-
bly the only ministerial band leader in Penn-
sylvania.
—Charles Quest, aged 12 years, living near
Greencastle, killed his sister Elsie, aged 15
years, with a shot gun Thursday. afternoon.
The girl is the housekeeper for the family,
and she wanted her brother to go to school.
George Stickell, a companion, began teasing
him and young Quest pointed a gun at him.
| The weapon went off and the full load of
shot struck the sister in the head, killing her
instantly. The tragedy occurred in a peach
orchard, a mile and a half west of Green-
castle. Young Quest was arrested and plac-
ed in jail there.
—As George P. Shaffer, of Lok Haven,
accompanied by his housekeeper,Mrs. Gram-
ley, was returning Wednesday. night from
Sugar Valley, with horse and buggy, and
had reached a point in Mill Hall just above
the school house bridge, along Fishing creek,
Mr. Shaffer drove too near the edge of the
bank and horse, buggy and occupants were
suddenly dropped over the high embank-
ment. Mr. Shaffer and the lady were thrown
out. The horse and buggy caught on a small
tree which held them from being precipitated
to the bottom. Mr. Shaffer had his collar
bone broken and was otherwise bruised.
Mrs. Gramley was but slight y bruised. The
horse was uninjured and the buggy had but
the single tree broken.
—Commencing Wednesday, Nov. 30th, er