HO ESS
+ SEPYEEI
: ~The stock market bas a bull head and
vy ©. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
_The Cuban rebels are not likely to be
sared by the offer of amnesty, especial-
is is the offices they are after.
r tail these days and lots of specu-
ators are like the tail—decidedly short.
_—PBwmis bad another killing in Union
Pacific yesterday and it is up to the Ger-
its reertay him another serenade.
'—Will there be any polities in New
York when Hearst and JEROME and
ODELL and PLATT and HIGGINS are gone?
~The sting of a bee, it is said will cure
rheumation but a good many who are
afflicted would probably rather hold onto
the rheumatism.
—Reformed spellers will soon be as in-
teresting characters as the reformed drunk-
ards who spout from the evangelistic plat-
forms of the country.
—The drunk who was knocking down
women on Thomas street Monday evening
started to baw] like the baby be is when a
policeman batted him on the mouth.
—Sgience tells us now that persons may
become intoxicated by inbaling gasoline
fumes and this might be one of the reasons
for the poo-poos loafing along the curbs so
much.
—If sotface indications count for avy-
thing that rousing meeting in Pittsburg,
Taesday night, makes it look as it Mr.
EMERY will get more than his own in
Allegheny county.
—The girls at Atlantic City are said to
be wearing knee-length skirts on the board-
walk. Itis a wonder that they are even
noticed when those worn on the beech are
so much more abbreviated.
—The Standard oil trust has been in-
dected on six thousand four hundred and
twenty counts in the Chicago courts. This
will not worry the octopus much, as none
of them are likely to count.
—-Among the other poisonous things that
have been discovered in the adulterated
candy we eat is terra alba. That sounds
bad but it is probably put in to help
make the candy taste good.
—1f the ladies who ran the Midway last
week were as good at abstracting money
from their husbands as they were at get-
ting it from the crowds in the armory we
would like to own a millinery store in the
town. a
—The lack of coal business in the Phil
ipsburg region has bad no effect on the
court business brought over from there.
Nearly all the attention of the court this
week bas been taken up with the trotibles
of people of that section.
—When riding through Pennsylvania
Mr. BRYAN wont need to beg to be per-
mitted to pay his car fare, as he bas done
for his trips over the New Haven and Hart.
ford. Here he will be expected to pay it
“just as he always does.”
—The EMERY movement in Centre coun-
ty bas called for an active LINCOLN party
organization and some of the best known
Republican workers in the county are tak-
ing hold. Look for results in November
for they are sure to follow.
—Mr. ADOLF SEGAL the man who broke |
the bank in Philadelphia got his start in
the financial world through his profits on a
plan to make waxed paper. The way he
waxed the paper wasn't a ciroumstance to
the way he waxed some people.
—Banker HIPPLE, of the Philadelphia
Real Estate Trust company, which closed
its doors on Monday with a $7,000,600
shortage, being a good Presbyterian, might
bave consoled himsell with the thought
that ‘‘what is to be will be.”
—BRYAN’s arrival in New York on
Taesday was the signal for much enthu-
siasm among the Democrats from ail over
the country who bad gathered there to
welcome him. If he is not a candidate for
President his friends are trying very hard
to make him one.
—General TREPOFF is a Russian officer
marked for death by the Terrorists of that
country and all the other officers who have
beards are having them cut off for fear of
being taken for TREPOFF. What a coward-
ly lot. In other words, they are making
the job of potting TREPOFF easier.
—Talking about spelling reform, which
really means phonetic spelling, or spelling
exactly as a word sounds, Mr. CARNEGIE
and President ROOSEVELT, who seem to be
the real pushers of the movement, could
get joie valuatl, information by looking
over the correspondence the average coun-
try newspaper receives.
—The Standard oil company is reported
a¥'trying to secure control of the distilling
interests in the United States in order to
block whatever competition denatured
alcohol might make for the petroleum
\ going to get into
VOL. 51
Recompensing the Machine.
The political banks of this State are tobe
recompensed for tbe loss of the State depos-
its, it seems. The PENROSE machine needs
the money which has hitherto been sub-
soribed in consideration of the use of state
funds at the nominal interest of two per
cent. and has undertaken to provide means
to getit. Money can easily be disposed of
by the banks at six per cent. During recent
years the banks have been paying two per
cent. to the State and two to the political
corruption fund or some political favorite
of the machine. That left two per cent. to
the bank for bavdling the money which
was fair compensation. Since the inaugura-
tion of State Treasurer BERRY the party
graft bas been cut off. The legal rate must
be paid to the State as before, but no other
payment is required. There is, however
an implied understanding that no part of
it will be nsed for bribing voters or de-
bauching politics.
This change in the system of distribu-
ting the state funds caused a good deal of a
loss to the machine committee. The bal-
ance in the State Treasury during recent
years, including the sinking fund accounts,
averaged about $15,000,000, upon which
the two per cent. for t! e machine amount.
ed to about $300,000 a year.
In lien of that it is now proposed to dis-
tribute the funds of the National govern-
ment npon which no interest will be charg-
ed by the Treasurer. Pursuant to this
plan a considerable sum has already been
divided up in the State, some twenty-five
banks having been designed as new Nation-
al depositories. Of course the graft from
this source won't be as much as the aggre-
gate obtained from the state funds, because
the balance won't be nearly so large. But
as a higher rate of interestcan be charged,
the smaller total will yield a right hand-
gome campaign fund.
Thus far the new depositories in Penn-
sylvania have not received over $1,000,000.
d ur per cent. that sum will yield a
oe to $40,000, and the bank-
ers can afford to pay that rate of interest on
National government money as well as
they could pay two per cent. on state
funds to the machine for two per cent. had
to be paid to the State. In other words the
banks wiii¥et the same for handling the
money for the interest to the State and that
to the machine equaled a total of four per
cent. which left only two per ceni. to the
bauker for his profit. It is a criminal pro-
ceeding, of course, but President ROOSEVELT
doesn’t mind such things if they are for
the benefit of the Republican party. His
political morality is of the spurious variety
that becomes blind when bis personal or
political friends go wrong. But the com-
munities in which these banks are located
: have a remedy.
—— Remember that if your son, or your
Democratic neighbor's son, voted ov age
last fall he cannot, under any conditions,
vote this fall unless his name is upon the
registry.
Highway Department Iniguity.
An official of the State Highway De-
partment bas been discharged, according to
news dispatches, because he interfered with
the grafting operations of contractors. He
bad been inspector on a piece of road in
process of construction in the northern
portion of the State. The contractor put in
a bill for several thousand dollars for ex-
tras to which the inspector refused to as-
sent. Subsequently the inspector submit-
ted a statement of the facts showing that
nearly all the amount claimed for extras
was graft. In other words, there was no
extras worth speaking about and the
amount wonld have been stolen from the
State. The inspector was dropped from the
service, the story goes.
This is an incident which corroborates
what we have frequently asserted. The
Highway Department is honey-combed
with corruption. Not long age the exis-
tence of a burean of intormation was re-
vealed in the department. The chief clerk
and other officiale had organized a sort of
syndicate to dispense secrets of the de-
partment to contraciors for a consideration.
It ie also aHeged that moder conditions
1aid down by the department uo ome can
get a contract for road building unless he
supplies himself with a certain kind of roid
roller in the sale of which there is a rake-
off to some of the officials in the depart.
ment. We have heard other scandalous
charges against the department but that’s
enoagh.
The Highway Department was
2.43
ing lucrative jobs la.
The improvement |=
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 31, 1906.
No Excuse Available.
ME. CHARLES E. CARPENTER, of Phila-
delphia, writes to the chairman of the
Lincoln party State committee that ‘‘be bas
been hunting for an excuse to come out
acd openly declare for the Republican
State ticket.”’ But he bas been unable to
find it. He owns to an admiration for MR.
EpwiIx 8. STUART'S ‘‘lovely personality”
but it is insufficient reason for jeopardiz-
ing the reform advantages which bave
been gained. He has considered the claim
that MR. STUART is independent of the
machine and dismissed it. ‘Noman ever
has been or will be,” he adds, ‘‘strong
enough to combat the influences of an or-
ganization so thoroughly impregnated with
gangism as the Republican organization is
at the present time. Their entire game,”
he continues, ‘‘is to placate and deceive
the public; not to regenerate themselves or
their party.’
That is a precieely correct description of
the conditions and the purposes of the Re-
publican machine. MR. STUART was
named as the head of the decoy ticket be-
cause it was hoped that his “‘lovely person-
ality’ world detract the public mind from
the iniauities of the machine. His amia-
bility made him the more desirable as a
decoy. If be were elected, the machine
managers reasoned, he would not take the
trouble to interfere with the conspiracies
of the predatory gang. While he was the
ostensible Mayor of Philadelphia DAVE
MARTIN managed the municipal govern-
ment. Personally honest Mr. STUART got
no share of the hooty though he knew of it
and assented to it. No more available man
for their purpose could have been found,
therefore. His nomination would ‘‘placate
and deceive the public’’ if any nomination
could.
The letter of Mr. CARPENTER indicates,
however, that the intelligent portion of
the publid bas been neither placated nor
deceived. The trap was set in view of
those it was intended to catch and it bas
failed. There is no excuse for openly or
secretly espousing the cause of the Repub-
lican State ticket. It wonld be a crime
against the Commonwealth and an injus-
tice to the people. In the election of State
Treasurer BERRY last fall the cause of po:
litical morality and civic righteousness
made a vast gain. Bat the advantage will
all be sacrificed this year if the decoy tick-
et is successful. It represents the machine
in all its hideousness. A majority for it
will restore the pirates to power and renew
the pillage which they have practiced dur-
ing the score of years in which the late
Senator QUAY exercised control.
Amnspicions Rather Than Unfortunate,
The esteemed Philadelphia Press is sin-
gularly unfortunate or elee recklessly
mendacious in its statements. For ex-
ample, in a recent issue it says: ‘‘It is Mr.
BRYAN's misfortune that he returns to the
reception gathered in New York for his
home-coming in the very week that Re-
publican legislation on the regulation of
railroads goes into effect. Mr .BRYAN has
been talking many years over the regula-
tion of railroads, and just as he enters on a
new campaign of talk he and his party are
confronted with the accomplished results
of Republican legislation.”
Unless the esteemed Press is mentally
blind it knows that the railroad rate bill
which went into operation on Tuesday is
not Republican legislation. It knows that
it is legislation advocated by Mr. BRYAN
and other Democrats and that was forced
upon the Republicans in Congress by the
President who realized that the public
sentiment created by their advocacy would
overwhelm the Republican party unless
such legislation was enacted. Our con-
temporary alec knows that the President
was obliged to enter into an agreement,
which he subsequently betrayed, with the
Democrats in the Senate, in order to
frighten the Republicans of that body
into voting for the measure. The betrayal
was dishonorable and contemptible but it
was ROOSEVELTian.
More than any other man in this broad
land WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN is en-
titled to rejoice over the legislation which
at present holds out the hope of compell-
ing the railroads to deal justly and equally
with the people. Some of the Democratic
Senators had much to do with the achieve-
ment for they labored faithfully and tire-
leesly in the work. But it was Mr. BRYAN
who created the demand, it was he who
forced ROOSEVELT to the adoption of the
idea and ROOSEVELT apparently felt no
compunction in stealing his thoughts. Mr.
BRYAN'S home-coming is at an auspicious
rather than an unfortunate time.
© SEPT. 5TH. =e
Do you ask why we point to that date?
If you are not registered on or before that
, you may lose your vote. It is the last
day for thie important matter.
Democrats attend to this.
1m. NOW ~&a
Two Types of Homage.
The great naval parade, organized at an
expense of millions of dollars, for the
abnormal vanity of the President, will
occur next Monday. It will be the great-
est event of the kind in the history of the
world. More warships will participate in
the maneuvers than were ever assembled
in American waters before. It will be
colossal as well as spectacular and the
presidential salutes and the lesser cere
monials will be grand and imposing. No
monarch has ever enjoyed such an expres-
sion of deference. No emperor bas ever
had such tribute paid to him. The Khedive
of Egypt. the Sultan of Tarkey, even the
Akand of Swat can indulge in no such
laxury.
The President and his sycophantic apol-
ogists will say that it is a public demon-
stration organized to inspire national
pride. But as the esteemed Philadelphia
Record observes if that were in purpose
New York harbor would bave been the
place. There hundreds of thousands of
people could bave assembled to enjoy the
novel and immense spectacle. At some of
the popular seashore resorts the same ad-
—— Democrats don’t forget your negli-
gent, or sick neighbor, who never does, or
cannot, attend to being registered. See
that his name ie upon the list, and be sure
that your own is there also. Wednesday,
September 5th, is the last day you can at-
tend to this matter.
Another District Assured.
We referred to the absolute certainty of
redeeming the York-Adams congressional
district in last issue and our estimate bas
heen corroborated by the best local author.
ity. We have equal satisfaction in esti-
mating that a similar result will ensue in
the sixteenth congressional district, com-
posed of the counties of Columbia, Mon-
tour, Northumberland and Sullivan. On
Tuesday of last week the conferees of that
district met at Shamokin and unanimously
nominated JOHN G. McHENRY, Esq., of
Columbia county. The event was extraor-
dinarily auspicions. The nomination was
in the open at Edgewood park and was at-
tended by from 800 to 1000 people and the
greatest enthusiasm characterized the pro-
ceeding.
This nomination is an event in the po-
litical history of the State, moreover. MR.
McHENRY is a young business man of
keen intelligence and though always active
in party service, had hitherto shown an
aversion to public life. He is president 0
the Columbia county National bank of
Benton, where he resides, and not only the
originator but the organizer of the Grange
National bank, aochain of which is being
established throughout the State. He was
prevailed upon this year to become a can-
didate for Congress in his own county and
to the surprise and gratification of bis
friends was unapimously nominated in all
the counties of the district. It was a rare
Oyster Bay, as our Philadelphia contem-
porary adds, it will be “merely a private
homage to President ROOSEVELT, from
which the American public are to a greater
or less extent excluded.” It is purely a
family affair conducted at public expense.
Notwithstanding the ‘‘pomp and cir-
cumstance’’ of this absurd and expensive
demonstration of official authority and
personal vanity, however, there will be an
event in New York to-day which will far
exoeed it in significance and magnificence.
A private citizen who bas no power over
the public other than that which confi
dence in his integrity and faith in his pa-
triotism creates, will be welcomed by
hundreds of thousands of American free.
men to the land he loves and the country
he has served. The cost of the event will
=. not be paid from the public treasury. It
to his fitness and popularity. will be willingly borne by the people who
= MR. MCHENRY bas already entered participate and it will make the pampered
‘4 campaign of great energy and com- | RooSEVELT affair look like thirty cents.
has
! deiauiin believer in adyer-
and has ‘space in every
per in the district, irrespective of
. must be registered or they cannot vote in
Can't Vote.
‘| November: Others who have paid a state
or counify * tax within‘two years may: be
Why | able to swear in their votes, if ‘their ii
bave beén overlooked and are not upon the
3 Jib, but the voter who ost his first
year bas no possible chance to
vantage might have been secured. Butat|,
ay :
Young men who voted on age lass fall
in order to secure his vote. By failing to
register he practically and effectively dis-
franchises himeelf. Democrats should re-
member this and make it their business to
know that the name of every young Demo-
crat who voted on age in 1905, is upon the
polling list of 1906. And this must be at-
tended to before the evening of September
5th.
Were Created for and
Why They Must Go.
What They
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The Cossacks were created for the pur-
pose of shouldering off the burden of pro-
corporations in their with
labor from the corporations ves
upon the State. For
had maintained a
their pus Sapense. rT
were scant respect ¢ blio
and they cost the at of
money. The corporations therefore sought
to get the State to relieve them of their
burden and at the same time sopply them
with a band of armed men to be used at
their pleasure in fighting their battles
with their employes.
However, we do not care so much for the
the corporations played in this nasty
ess. Whats we care for is the principal
involved. The Cossacks constitute a
force which is essentially military. It is
under military discipline and is organ
purely along military lines. Its functions
are supposed to be civil, yet it performs
these functions, not as a civil y would
do, but in conformity with military ideas.
It is a roving band of armed men which
can be sent and bas been sent into com-
munities where they were not needed,
where the local authorities declare them to
be a menace to order, where they actually
brought on violence and bloodshed and
where they acted, not under the orders of
the civil authorities, but in open disregard
and defiance of those authorities.
The brief record of the Cossacks isa
bloody one. There ig no evidence that they
have promoted public order. There is
much evidence that they bave done the
very opposite. The people instinctively
resent the appearance of the Cossacks in
Pennsylvania as the people of Russia resent
the appearance of the Cossacks there. They
instinctively feel that this military bod
masquerading in the guise of constables is
a threat against local self-government.
And so obvious is the real purpose behind
the Cossacks that instirotively the right
minded le of all political affiliation
join in the demand for the abolition of this
dangerous forerunner of centralized power
backed by guns and bayonets,
The Cossacks must go because tuey pro-
voke disorder. They must because
they are undermining the very foundations
of civil authority.
ons
3 private police at
ese ‘ police
Similar in Many Ways.
From the Portland Oregonian.
Providence seems to have a grudge
inst Philadelphia. No sooner is that
city rid of its grafters than a plague of
fleas besets it. The latter pest is more
numerous than the former, perbaps, and
attacks in a manner somewhat different;
but it requires no very active imagination
to conceive that the woes of the city are nos
essentially altered.
The grafter is a kind of flea. A parasite
on the body politic, he sucks the blood like
his agile prototype, and too often, when
the finger of justice descends to grab him,
he hops gleefully away.
The grafter, or human flea, thrives wher-
ever publio business of any sort is trane-
acted. He is on hand when a building is
to be erected or a ship constructed. He
feeds on the supplies to the army and fat.
tens on the food of soldiers. Three thons-
and dead in the Spanish war died of the
bite of the human flea. He swarms about
State Legislatures and appears in Capitols
in divers forms. Now he is a sweet young
Jody clerk; now he is a suave lobbyist; now
he iz a member plundering the chamber of
stationery and furniture, as he sets ous for
home. A flea, fine, fat and e, which
Jactivalanly affects Capitols, is of the lob-
yist variety. Swept away, he hops back
again as lively as ever. Crushed, he flat-
tens himself out and escapes unhurt. He
seers to he immune to insect powders, and
go spray has been invented that will kill
m
There is another variety of flea tbat in-
fests the public schools. He grows fat on
contracts for furniture and books. He
nibbles at the salaries of teachers and
goaws into the perquisites of janitors. He
s always on hand when a building is to be
erected, and grows Bofiseably 10084 be-
fore it is completed. The 1 flea as-
sumes various ing disguises. Some-
times he looks like a director, sometimes
like a teacher, sometimes like a superin-
tendent. His tricks for diverting the pub-
lic funds into his stomach are many and
nh i
eina e ers
to raise teachers’ salaries. He bas been
suspected of swallowing a pile of wood.
Should Tell the Whole Truth.
From the York Gazette.
“‘We have money to spend,’”’ exul
proclaim the e organs, but ry
to inform us whence it was obtained. They
olaim credit for granting to the old soldiers
that which no one has ever denied them—
pensions for their servios in the armies of
their country—but they withhold the im-
t that those brave men, ‘“‘who
to face bullets in defense
of the "’ are com
led to give up the | past.
Spawls from the Keystone.
~The Masonic fraternity has purchased
land at Sunbury on which to erect a $30.000
temple.
—There are 174 prisoners in the West:
moreland county jail at Greensburg awaiting
trial, twelve of whom are charged with mur-
der.
—All arrangements and details sre near-
ing completed for the big county Patriotic
Order Sons of America picnic to be held at
Agar's park, Clinton county, on Labor Day,
September 3rd.
—Because the members of the Watsontown
school board could not agree upon the selec.
tion of a school teacher, Judge Savidge
Monday removed the entire board and will
appoint new members.
~—Thomas Rager, of New Alverton, is the
champion wheat grower of the county. his
crop this season having averaged thirty-five
bushels to the acre. What other farmer can
beat or equal this yield.
—Adjudged guilty of removing ten little
wild turkeys from their nest, Abraham San-
ders, of Cogan Station, near Williamsport,
has been fined $250 by the alderman before
whom the case was tried.
~Mrs. Hazlett, of Vandegrift Heights,
Westmoreland connty, was sitting in a room
on the first floor of her home when a stroke
of lightning came down the chimney and
tore out the fire place. Mrs. Hazlett sat
within a few feet of the chimney rocking
her baby but neither received the least in-
jury.
—Rev. E. O. Irvin, of Lock Haven, had
his pocket picked in the Western Union Tel-
egraph company’s office at that place. Two
strangers who were in the office at the time
were arrested, one of whom was held, but
the pocketbook which contained the preach.
er’s clerical railroad orders and other valua-
ble papers, was missing.
—An addition is to be built to the Lock
Haven Trust company building for the use
of the directors of the bank. The large
room, now used by the directors will be fit.
ted up with private booths for the use of pa-
trons of the popular banking institution. A
new vault 12x8 feet, 7 feet high, is also to be
put in for the special use of box renters.
—1t is announced that one large farm be-
tween Selinsgrove and Shamokin dam, a
part of a five-mile tract bought recently by
mysterious capitalists, has been laid out in
building lots to accommodate at least 700
families. This means an additional popula-
tion for Selinsgrove of about 3,500 persons,
and the trolley from Selinsgrove to Sunbury
is now an assured fact.
—Philip McGuire, a desperate highway-
man who is believed to have hailed from
Chicago, is in jail in Williamsport in default
of $1,000 bail for an attempted highway rob-
bery. McGuire accosted Mrs. M. R. Zitch iv
broad daylight on Market street, Saturday
and demanded her money but she got away
from him and a little later an officer arrested
him on the charge of attempted highway
robbery and assault.
—Wellsboro money is back of the Deemer
Mannfacturing company, organized witha
capital of $1,200,000. The company has
bought the timber on 40,000 acres of land
near Philadelphia, Miss,, estimated at 400,-
000,000 feet, and will develop the tract at
once. An architect is in Wellsboro from
Michigan, drawing plans for a mill to cost
£100,000, with a capacity of 150,000 feet of
hardwood every 24 hours, The timber is
pine and oak.
—A common house fly has czused Miss
Mary Ryan, of Renovo, Clinton county, to
lose the complete sight of one eye and only
with extreme care can the sight of the other
be saved. On last Fourth of July a fly flew
into her eye and caused the most excruciat-
ing pain. She consulted a physician, who
applied proper remedies, but the optic con-
tinued to inflame from the poison. She fi-
nally entered the Hahnemann hospital in
Philadelphia for treatment.
~The fish and game wardens in Clinton
and Lycoming counties are determined to
break up the practice of illegal fishing,
which it is alleged, is being practiced along
the Susquebanna river from Sunbury to
Lock Haven to such an extent as to serious”
ly hinder the sport. The violators of the
fish laws have grown careless in their un-
lawful fishing, seemingly resting secure in
the belief that the fish and game wardens in
that vicinity were mere figurebeads.
—A friendly streak of lightning came to
the aid of Miss Sadie McConsivk, 17 years
old, near Lewistown, Wednes/ay night. She
was on her way to visit a family in which a
death had occurred, when she was grabbed
in a lonely spot by some one, who tried to
gag her. A flash of lightning, incident toa
gathering storm, revealed the man's face,
and Miss McCormick says it was John
Mitchell's. She screamed for help, but the
fellow escaped. Half an hour later Mitchell
was dragged from his bed by the police and
identified by Miss McCormick.
—Pierce Schug, a prominent citizen of
Hughesville, who a few days ago returned
from a two months’ stay in the west, was ar-
rested at Hughesville Tuesday night on the
charge of obtaining money under false pre.
tense. Jacob Per, a Hughesville merchant,
is the prosecutor. Schug waived a hearing
and furnished $1000 bail for trial at court.
Schug was formerly an officer of the Muncy
Valley Farmers’ club, but while be was in
the west he sent in his resignation. He is
said to be involved for $17,000, due to unfor-
tunate investments and loans. His friends
say that before his case comes to trial, he
will be able to effect a settlement.
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