2 vets for Rowe. :
Vote for JACKSON.
+ =Vote for SHAFFER.
“BERRY if a dandy.
2 —When you are making up your ticket
on election - day. remember that JAMES
SWAB should be elected an auditor.
—L_Men who bave made higher taxes
for you inevitable are not deserving of your
support, therefore you should not vote for
MILLER or BAILEY.
—_Pennsvalley should pile up an
enormous vote for SHAFFER and WEAVER.
They are the only candidates on either
ticket tkat claims Pennsvalley as home.
—Few heard candidate BERRY on Wed-
nesday night who were not won to his sup-
port by his frank, ‘open magnetic appeal for
help in his effort to lift the politics of the
State onto a higher level.
It those TAGGARTS get another trial of
their divoroe case it should be behind clos-
ed doors. The details are entirely too
fils hy to occupy the columns they bave in
the daily press of the country.
== Frr1s SHAFFER, our candidate for
Sheriff, is in town this week and if you
havén’s met him try todoso. You will
be convinced that he is a better man for
the office than HENRY KLINE.
—The official ballot will be smaller than
usual this year, but it will still be large
enough for use as a blanket in which to
w rap up the political corpses of PLUMMER,
MILLER, BAILEY and a few other incom-
petents.
—A New Jersey minister has requested
the women of his congregation to keep their
hats on in church. He probably thinks
that the chance to display fine millinery
will be an incentive to get more of them to
the services.
—President McCURDY, of the Mutual
Life of New York, got very mad when he
thought lawyer HUGHES was making a fool
of him. How mad do you suppose the
policy holders of Mr. McCURDY’S company
have a right to get at the way he has been
making a fool of them.
—The man who ran away with $105,000
in cash from the Adams Express Co. in
Pittsburg is still beyond the ken of a corps
of the shrewdest detectives. Of course he
will be caught, but he can have an awfol
good time on his plunder, if he is only wise
enongh to do it, before the law selects his
future domicile for him.”
— While Mr. LINCOLN SWARTZ is run-
ning around over the county telling people
lies about Dr. WHITE'S imaginary wealth
he is keeping very quiet about thas bank
stook that he owns himeelf, Ask him
about it the next time he comes yammer-
ing to you about being ‘‘a poor buck-
wheater.”’
——This county should have Commis-
sioners who will expend your money as
carefully as they would their own. MILLER
and BAILEY have squandered it as though
all you have to dois to goout into the
fields and dig it up. Mouey is not gotten
t bat eacily. You have trouble enough sav-
ing up to pay your taxes now and {you can
only i magine what will become of; you if
MILLER and BAILEY are left in office to go
on throwing your money away.
——1It the fellows who are harping 80
much about giving the farmer a chance
would only stop to consider a moment they
would discover that ABE MILLER isn’t
giving the farmer much of a chance. He
has been making a close corporation of pub-
lic office for the last twenty years and seems
to think that he is the only farmer who de-
serves a ohance. Don’t you think he has
had about all the chances that are coming
to him.
—— Every day some new case of corrup-
tion is startling the people of Pennsylva-
nia. The failure of the Enterprise bank of
Allegheny, on Wednesday, and the suicide
of its cashier are the direct results of ma-
chine politics in Pennsylvania. The bank
carried over $600,000 of the State money
on deposit, but in return bad loaned
“Bnll’? ANDREWS and other machine lead-
ers so much money on rotten securities
that it was forced to the wall and its cash<
ier killed himself.
—— HENRY KLINE is making an especial
plea to the farmers for votes becamse he'is
a farmer. Come to think of it, that was
one of his father’s dodges when he was run-
ning for Treasurer vine years ago. He was
elected and made about $10,000 out of the
office. Now his son wants’a chance to
make $10,000 more. Of course the son’s
ambition is perfectly proper but don’t you
think the KLINE farms ought to wait a
little while. It has had $10,000 within
the past ten years. Why not give the
SHAFFER farms a chance.
——Dr. WHITE is naturally a modest
man and that probably accounts for his not
making is known that he is a Granger. He
joined the Philipsburg Grange over a year
ago and is one of its most active members.
Having charge of a farm over there the pro-
moters of the Philipsburg Grange sought
him to join their order because it was weak:
in numbers and they thonght be could help
it. So he did and has been a working mem.
ber ever since. ~~ He bas made no attempt
to make political buncombe out of it be-
canse he is conscientious enongh to believe
that it would be wrong, but since Mr.
SWARTZ is making such a parade about
his being a farmer we think the Grangers
of the county should know what relation
Dr. WHITE bears to them.
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION. \"E
VOL. 50
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 20, 1965.
No Limit to Graft and Greed.
There is nothing sacred to the mind of
the grafter. The infirmities of the poor
and the misfor tunes of the rich are alike
subjects of his insatiable rapacity. For
example, it has been practically proved that
in the building of a pest-house in Phila-
delphia the brother-in-law and the cousin
of the boss in conspiracy with other favor-
ites have systematically plundered the
cit y treasury to the extent of something
like $50,000. The contract price of the
structure was $142,000 which was $2,000
more than an hones$ contractor asked for a
building according to plans and specifica-
tions. But the favored company which en-
tered into conspiracy with the agents of
the machine by substituting had for good
materials was able to construct an-inferior
building that was palmed off on the pub-
lic and yielded graft to the amount of near-
ly one third of tbe total cost.
This is the machine which depends upon
the retention of the State Treasury through
the election of J. LEE PLUMMER for resto-
ration to full power. Out of the sufferings
of small pox patients it has been coining
money. Out of the miseries of a loathsome
malady it bas been extracting graft. Can
greater iniquity be imagined? Men who
would pervert so sacred a trust to the uses
of a corrupt machine are destitute of every
principle. There is no conceivable crime
that they would not practice. Itis the
limit of infamy and has been practiced un-
der the sanction of the Republican ma-
chine and for the benefit of those who are
kin to the controlling masters of the organ-
ization. This is not a local affair. It puts
a stain upon the entire State and the re-
buke should come from every section of the
broad Commonwealth.
The way to administer this rebuke is to
defeat the candidate of the machine for
State Treasurer. So far as the looal offices
in Philadelphia are concerned the defeat of
the machine is admitted by those of the
leaders themselves who are candid. But
the resoue of the local offices is of compar.
atively little consequence. Entrenched in
the State Treasury, with the surplus of ten
to fifteen millions of dollars as an available
asset, the power temporarily suspended
will soon be recovered. The banks which
use this vast som _ of ‘money for political
purposes will goon assert themselves in
their several comimittees and before another
legislative election the machine will be as
strong and as insolent as ever. | Bat if the
Treasury is taken away its defeat will be
overwhelming and enduring and the scan-
dals which make Pennsylvania a reproach
will cease for all time.
— .
“Ball” Andiews’ Unexpected Visit.
“Ball”? ANDREWS has again left his chgr-
ished interests ih New Mexico for an east-
ern trip. Thi i is an unusual incident.
Only about four months ago he made’ the
pilgrimage from his arid adopted home to
the theatre of his early triumphs. But
there was obvions reasons for that event.
The machine of which he was so long an
impor tant factor had just sustained a ce-
vere shock and those in control bad com-
pletely collapsed. In the emergency the
“Bull’’ was summoned home, he quickly
re versed the craven policy of surrender,
and ordered that a stubborn fight be or-
ganized and a vigorous effort be made to re-
cover the lost ground. Having thus put
things in order be quietly slipped back to-
ward she setting sun.
Mr. ANDREWS’ present visit bas an en-
tirely different purpose, however. The
troubles of the machine have had nothing
to. do with his coming on this ccoasion. On
the contrary this visit is a purely personal
affair. That is it pertains exclusively to
the ‘ ‘Bull’s’? relations with the banks in
this State which bave been obliging to him
in c onsideration of favors extended to them
by the State Treasury. ~ In other words,
HOMER L. CASTLE’S exposure of the var-
ious deals between the “Bull” and those
banks have al
and they have called upon him to strength-
med the bank managers
en his securities before the bank examiners.
get a chance to make an adverse report to
the controller of the currency.
No doubt the **Bull’? would bave much’
preferred to remain in New Mexico for the
present. He is not too firmly entrenched
in the confidence of the “‘greasers’’ whom
he represents in Congress as Delegate and
whom he hopes to represent in the United
States Senate in the future and if the ter-
ritory shonld go Democratic, in the local
election two weeks from next Tuesday, his
fond ambition might go to the dogs. ‘And
that is just as
New Mexico was never much attached to
Republicanism and a slip over the line now
might he a permanent change in politics.
But the ‘‘Bull’”! has no alternative when
the banks call on him to produce. Failure
to comply might involve penal servitnde
for himself as well as others.
$12 Vem ———
~——Philipsbuig people don’t want Mr.
HALL elected © Recorder.
““Allepoppet’’ railroad could not ran with-'
out him and it would be too bad to put the
“‘Allepopper’’ ont of business.
an
3
likely as not to bappen.
They say the
a
A New Version of the Old Potato
Game.
Nine years are not too many for the mem-
ory of the voters of Centre county so we
take it for granted that most of you will re-
call an incident in the campaign of 1896.
You will remember that that year there
was a most prolific crop of potatoes in the
county; in fact there were so many that
they couldn’t be disposed of at any price.
That fall Mr. HARRISON KLINE was ran-
ning for the office of Treasurer. He was
among the farmers who had more potatoes
than he knew what to do with and the bap-
py ideastrnck him that he could make
them serve a political purpose. According-
ly, with a great parade of liberality and
philanthrophy he began telling the people
that he would give potatoes for nothing to
all who would go to his farm and baul
them away.
it at the time,but not many of Mr. KLINE'S
tubers were carted away for the very suf-
ficient reason that everybody bad a ple-
thora of them.
His son HENRY is ronning for Sheriff
now and thinking that same little dodge
might help him he has hit upon one that
be expected to reap many votes from, but
the other farmers have gotten onto it and are
wondering why they should be made pay
for the game. Up to this time the price of
corn in the county has been 50 cents. But
on Monday there was a slump in tbe price
because it became known that a certain
farmer was selling corn to certain people for
40 cents a bushel. Upon investigation this
farmer was discovered(to be HENRY KLINE,
the candidate for Sheriff. According to
reports he has been offering corn ten cents
lower than the market price to persons
whom he hopes to get support from.
O! course it is Mr. KLINE’S right to sell
his corn for whatever he pleases;even to
give it away,but when he cuts the price toa
few it is certain that other consumers will
pay no more. And where will this put the
other farmers of the county?
The question is simply answered by the
fact thas they will have to sell theircorn at
40 cents a bushel. Think of it! Think of
the thousands of dollars that will be lost to
the farmers of Centre county through such
a drop in the price.
Mr. KLINE is asking for the farmer’s
vote because he is a farmer. Are youa
farmer? If you are do you think it is right
for you to lose 10 cents per bushel on your
corn in order that Mr. KLINE may make a
few votes to boost him into the Sheriff’s of-
fice? If you are a farmer it will only take
you a few minutes to figure up how much
you will lose by this little scheme that Mr.
KLINE has concocted.
Why the Machine Fought Hard.
We may as well be candid in discussing
the pending political campaign. Asa mat-
ter of fact it is not political but the atro-
cious Republican machine having nominat-
ed a candidate and drawn about him the
lines of the ‘‘organization,’’ it is called po-
lisical. There is no political question in-
volved however. The State Treasurer has
nothing to do with the tariff, the currency,
the expansion of territory, the ocentraliza-
tion of power or anything else that is po-
litical. He bas much to do, however, with
the honest administration of the fiscal af-
fairs of the State and may have consider:
able to say about the equal distribution of
the burdens of the government and the
honest disbursement of the revenues of the
State.
In fact those are the only questions to |
be considered by the voters in the present |
contest. The Republican machine has been
manipulating the revenues in various ways.
Everybody knows that the vast treasury
sarplusses have been farmed ont among
favored bankers and used freely to supply
funds to speculative politicians. That is a
criminal use of the public fands but no-
body any longer denies that it is a common
custom. There is another way of manipu-
lating the revenues, moreover, that is not
so commonly understood. That is, favored
corporations are taxed lightly or not at all
while the heavier burdens are put upon
o thers to make up the difference. The con-
| sideration for the unjust discrimination is
free passes on trains for the Politicians and
their friends.
I: has been said that the Republican ma-
chine will exhaust all its resources rather
than relinquish this agency of graft and
that the corporations interested will sup-
port them to the limit. = No doubt thas is
trune. There 18 a common interest in the
matter and ‘‘one touch of nature makes the
whole world kin.’” But the machine has a
graver reason for wanting to hold on to the
Treasury. It is whispered that many mil-
lions of dollars which have been loaned (to
speculative politicians can never be recov-
ered and those concerned in the sinister op:
erations don’t dare let the publig havea
peep into the treasury books. This is one
and a potent reason why the machine
fights hard to rétain the treasury bus it is
also a reason why the people should strive
on the other side of the question.
“
There was a great ado about |
Commissioners.
the expenditures of the present Board
he should be.
his mind for himself.
cost of the county government, up to
with the present Board took charge of
YEARS.
call the earnest and unprejudiced attention of every citizen.
from the county statements, as certified to by the different Boards of Commis-
sioners, and atiested by the Auditors, and are given correctly and fully, in or-
der that those interested may compare the management of former Boards—a
number of which were repudiated by the people—with ‘that of the present
Board, that is now asking a longer lease of power. These figures are as follows :
NO 41.
FACTS FOR THE TAX-PAYERS.
Figures that Show the Unexplainable Extravagance or the Ex-
traordinary Incompetence of the Present Board of County
An Increase of Expenditures over an
Average for Fifteen Years of OVER $28,000.
It there is a single tax-payer in Centre county who is nos fully informed of
of County. Commissioners, it is full time
If there is one who has doubts about what the result of that
extravaganse must be, it 1s high time that he seeks information, and makes up
‘We have gone back to 1885, and in connection with this give the yearly
1900—the time that the men connected
the county affairs. To these figures we
Théy are taken
TOTAL EXPENDITURES.
$42,011.81
they assumed control of tirese masters,
must go up proportionately.
ry to the taxpayers generally.
tra expenses.
fore these men went into office.
During the years we have referred
extraordinary expenses amounting to
filing cases were procured for the cou
jail, and thousands upon thousands of
And for what reason ?
And what must be the result.
is, ignore the above facts and keep
have to take our hat off to Mr. SWARTZ.
He has his imagination apparatus at work
all the time concocting, getting up new ones
about his opponent, Dr. WHITE. The
latest one comes from Gregg township,
where SWARTZ bas been trying. ‘to. poison
the farmers against Dr. WHITE by. - -enlling
hint ‘a ‘dude. Of course it is not possible
ed by such a story and we repeat it merely
to show how shallow Mr. SWARTZ is show-
ing himself to be and how utterly ily. he.
is to think that such trash wih
him: in bie castlidany,
As a versatile story maker we will
that any sensible person would be influeno-
1 help
Average yebrly expenditures $61,321.02.
Mr. ABRAM V. MILLER, the senior member of the present Board, and
who is now asking for a third term, took his place as County Commissioner
upon the death of Mr. RIDDLE, early in 1900. Three years later Mr. BAILEY,
who is also seeking re-election, took his place as one of the managers of the
oounty’s finavces. And how have they performed their duty as the financial
agents and bu-iness managers of the county’s affairs? Not a single year since
but shows an unexplainable and start-
ling increase of expenditures over the years referred to in the above table.
The last year of their management that the public knows anything about
—1904—shows the enormous increase over the averages given above, of $28,-
193.67 ; ALMOST ONE-THIRD GREATER THAN WAS FOUND NECESSARY DUR-
ING ANY OF THE 15 YEARS PRECEDING.
Their own statement as published in every newspaper in the county for
1904, shows that under their management it cost the tax-payers of the county
$89,514.69 to meet the county expenditures, as against $61,321.02, the yearly
cost for the filteen years preceding their induction into office.
crease of almost 33 per cent., and means that valuations, millage and taxations
This is an in-
As yet, we bave seen or heard of no one who has attempted an explana-
tion of this profligacy. Nor do we believe that there is a citizen in the county
who can explain the neoessity for this enormous outlay, that will be satisfacto-
An artiole in an up-town paper a few days ago attempted to excuse it, on
the ground that during the past year $11,000, or over, had been expended on
the erection of bridges; and the cost to the county in the murder trial of Dix-
LON and GREEN, amounting to less than $2,000, all told, had been paid as ex-
This might be considered as a partial excuse, were it not for the fact that
during the years mentioned above, the same kind of extraordinary expenses '
were met and are included in the figures given, and that fewer bridges have
been erected during the past six years, under the management of the present
Board, than during that of any of the six years preceding. In fact nearly every
large and important bridge within the county was completed and paid for be-
Those along the Bald Eagle, Moshannon,
Spring creek, Penns creek and Elk creek were all ereoted before either Mr.
MILLER or Mr. BAILEY knew anything about the Commissioners’ affairs.
Nor does the fact of calling attention to the cost of the murder trial in the
case of DILLON and GREEN help it any.
to, we had the HOPKINS murder trial,
the ANDREWS murder trial, the ETLINGER tragedy, and several homi-
cide cases, all to ocoupy the attention of the courts, and pile up their
bills of costs. To these were added the extraordinary expenses of a
contested election, in which the present Commissioner, Mr. MILLER, sought
to overturn the will of the people of the county, when they refused to make
him Sheriff, and did not stop in his efforts until be had piled upon the county
over $2,000. Nor was this all of the ex-
traordinary expenses that are included in the 15 years prior to Mr. MILLER
and Mr. BAILEY’S beginning as Commissioners. During that period the court
honse was re-roofed, re-floored, re-plumbed, re-seated, re-farnished and almost
entirely re-built, barring the outside walls.
ing, steam heating and eleotrio light were added, and in every way that build-
ing was finished up in the best of style, at a large expense. Expensive steel
Toilet rooms avd costly plumb-
nty offices, new steel cells placed in the
dollars were expended 1 beautify and
improve the public buildings and grounds. :
Ana to none of these expenditures has the present Board been subjected,
and yet they spend $28,193.67 more per year than did any of their predecessors.
Simply because of incompetency and extravagance.
INCREASED VALUATION, IN CREASED
MILLAGE AND INCREASED TAXATION. You can’t pay $89,514.67 of
* county expenditures with $60,000 of an income, and to have a greater income,
higher taxes MUST be levied. Is this what you are after Mr. Taxpayer? If it
MILLER and BAILEY in the office they
have so badly managed; and you will have it.
——Our prophecy is coming trae. There
has been a great ado for weeks because
SHAFFER had not appeared in Bellefonte.
Alarmists have heen spreading the story that
KLINE is running away with everything
but we insisted that there would be a
‘change just as soon as Mr. SHAFFER ‘got
here and the people had an opportunity of
meetiog him. Mr. SHAFFER is here and
the tide is turned. Everyone who meets
him is delighted with his manly, open
manner and he gives the impression of
‘being the ideal candidate for Sheriff.
ROWE bas made a good Recorder.
i Whas mete do you want ? !
eet Sa renee od
Sprawls from the Keystone.
—Pennsylvania railroad company em-
ployees have donned their winter uniforms,
—The Harbison-Walker Refractories com-
‘| pany has restored the 2} per cent. quarterly
dividend on the preferred stock.
—T¢t is again reported in railroad circles
that the Hollidaysburg and Bedford railroad
will be completed early next spring, and will
be operated under the management of the
Pennsylvania railroad company.
—In accordance with a law of the church
Bishop Eugene A. Garvey has issued orders
that hereafter all public entertainments in
the form of dances, which heretofore have
been held in the parish halls of the Catholic
churches of the Altoona diocese, will cease.
—The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is
richer by $900 as a result of fines paid during
the past few days by meat dealers in Mifflin
and Clearfield counties, who were prosecuted
by the agents of the dairy and food depart.
ment, for selling meats which were preserved
with druogs, in violation of the law.
—The Superior court decided that the law
passed by the Legislature providing for the
destruction of wild cats, foxes and minks in
Pennsylvania, and offering bounties for the
same is ineffective. The court holds that
the title of the bill is defective and that there
is nothing in the act to show who would pay
the bounties.
—S. S. Wertz, of Altoona, has come into
possession of a most valuable and historic
heirloom. It is a watch that was once owned
by Lafayette. He came by the watch through
‘| the death of a relative, John Van Pelt, at
Germantown. The watch, a rather unique
timepiece, was made by Gregson, Paris,
France, for Lafayette.
—In the spring of 1903 Frank Lieb, of
Carroltown, Cambria county, bought 698
acres of coal land from farmers in White and
Armstrong townships, paying them about
$18,000 for it. In June, 1903, Lieb sold this
coal to John Curry, of Connellsville, for
$26,700. Curry kept it until last week when
he sold it to the Jefferson & Clearfield Coal
& Iron company, for $37,200.
—On Saturday, October 28th, will occur
the anniversary of the muster-out of the
Twelfth regiment, P. V. I, and it will be
appropriately celebrated by a reunion of the
regiment at Sunbury. General J. P. S.
Gobin,who commanded the brigade,to which
the Twelfth was assigned, and Colonel James
B. Coryell, who commanded the regiment,
will be present and are to speak.
—The largest amount of pay ever dis-
tributed to the employes of the Pittsburg
division of the Pennsylvania railroad was
given them this week. Exclusive of the
office forces there are about 14,000 names on
the September payroll of the division. The
amount of money being distributed ap-
proximates $725,000. The employes include
conductors, shopmen and section hands.
—Octoher 16th, 1755, all the inhabitants in
Buffalo valley were massacred by the Indians
and the valley was not again occupied by
white people until 1768, and a. movement is
on foot in Union county to have the anni-
versary recognized in a fitting manner. It
is proposed to hold a grand rally at Le Roy
Spring, near Lewisburg, where a family
named Le Roy was wiped out by the red
men. '
—Mirs. James D. McGregor, of Flemington,
Pa., desires to know the whereabouts of her
son, John E. McGregor, (or MacGregor) who
has not been heard from for many months,
The mother fears that it may be he who was
found near Clermont, taken to the McKean
county home where he died and the com-
missioners sent his body to Philadelphia for
dissection. Mr. McGregor was about 25
years of age and had his name tatooed on his
arm,
—Lumbermen on the west branch of the
Susquehanna are hoping for more rain, so
that the 6,000,000 feet of logs back can be
driven into the Williamsport boom before
the winter closes in. The remaining logs,
with the 4,000,000 feet still in the boom, will
make a total of about 50,000,000 feet handled
by the boom company this year. It is in-
teresting to know that about 50,000,000 feet
are expected next year, and probably the
same amount the year following.
— A meeting of the directors of the Newton
Hamilton Camp association was held on the
grounds Tuesday for the annual election of
officers and other routine business. The
following officers were elected : T. J. Arm-
strong, Altoona, president; Jobn D. Gill,
Philipsburg, secretary; Rev. James Hartman,
Bellwcud, tresusurer. A committee was ap-
pointed to erect new cottages on the grounds.
The date for campmeeting for next year was
fixed for August 2-21.
— Hanging to a chandelier 35 feet from the
floor of his church, the presence of mind of
Rev. F. T. Cady, pastor of the church of the
Redeemer of Towanda, saved him from seri-
ous injury and perhaps death. While ad-
Jjusting the chandelier, the high stepladder
upon which he was working slipped from
under him, and he clung to the chandelier.
No one was near the building, and his cries
for help went unheeded. Mr. Cady finally
discovered a rope hanging from the upper
arch of the church, and reaching it with
difficulty tied it with his teeth and one
hand. Exhausted, he slid to the floor on the
rope. :
| —The venerable Mrs. Elizabeth Stalker,
of Williamsburg, who was born December
19th, 1800, was an interested observer of
Saturday’s parade, on the oceasion of cele-
brating the formal opening of the new paper
mill at that place. She also received visits
from many of those who were in town for
the day and had a hand grasp and a word of
welcome for all who came. Bright and
cheerful in mind she is certainly a wonder.
Born a year after the death of Washington,
she has lived under the administration of
every one of the American Presidents except
that illustrious statesman. : She saw the last
year of the eighteenth century, the whole of
the remarkable nineteenth and is going along
with the twentieth with as much vitality as
nfany possess who are two score years young-
er. ‘One sometimes hears of andoubted cen-
tenarians and of others who are believed to
have attained a great age, but Mrs. Stalker
has lived all her life-time, we believe, in
Pennsylvania, and there is not the slightest
‘| doubt but that she is the oldest resident of
the State and probably.of the country. She
is now approaching the close of her 105th
- year,