Bellefonte, Pa., September 21, 1906.
People Must Get What Democratic Leg
teintors Ask, :
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9,000 iO < state .
S-einth of our Tevenuss that we
are geiting from the corporations.
If we keep on awhile longer it will !
take the entire revenues of the |
Sigte to maintain the National
! “Charity Department” Blocked.
Mr. Creasy himrelf was surprised
by his success in knocking dead the’
bill, which the machine failed to make
es law, !
“creating the department of state
charitable institutio providing |
for the appointment of a commis-
sioner, Ww! shall head
be the
thereof, defining his duties, fixing
his compensation, designating the
number and salaries of his assist-
ants and making an appropriation
therefor.” ;
Mr. Creasy sald of the measure when
it was before the house:
“Just a few days ago I talked
with one of the leadi members
on the other side of the who
said he thought it was about time
to stop this salary busi-
ness and this creating of new de-
partments. Here we are
between $36,000 and ,000
I don’t think we
new departmen
wer to a few men, and I am sat-
ed the work this commission is
to do will be no more than what
is being dome in the state .
and I cannot see, if we want to
something, why we cannot do it
by a cheaper method than this.”
How They Fought the “Rippers.” '
Mr. Creasy, Mr. Harman and other
Democratic representatives spoke vig-
orously against the Philadelphia “rip-
per” bills. Seeing that they could
not defeat them, they strove to amend
them so as to have the directors
elected by the people Instead of by
the machine controlled city councils,
as the bilis provided. But all in vain.
Phat struggle alone sufficed to show
the necessity for an arousing of the
people of the state so as to elect a
trustworthy majority to the next leg-
islature.
Representative Flynn said during
the discussion on one of those “rip-
per” bills:
be passed during this session favor-
able action should be taken upon
it today. because, as I, understand,
this is thé last day.
“For some reason this bill, to-
gether with the bills for personal
registraticn. civil service reform
and the bil! with reference to our
election laws, is still slumber
fn this committee, These are all
nt mat‘ers and I think ths
either
this committee re ng them,
4 in the discharge of the commit-
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tee and reiurning the bill to the
senate. As the constitution re-
that the state be divided
to senatorial districts every 10
Joats, 7 think that we ale deluiici
n our duty if we do not make
some effort to pass some fair appor-
tionment."”
Mr. Grim was sustained by Senator
Arthur G. Dewalt, of Lehigh, who
paid:
“There is no more important sub-
t with which the senate and
ouse has to deal than the control
and supervision of the action of the
different committees serving in
either house or senate. I call your
attention to the fact that the gover-
nor in his last message to the gen-
eral assembly told us that the con-
stitution directs that immediately
after each decennial United States
census the general assembly shall
apportion the state into senatorial
and representative districts. Not
only is the mandate of the consti-
tution disobeyed, but the existi
condition of affairs is unjust
works great injury to a portion of
Th SHisane hoa this apporti
ey are en
ment and it should be given them.
The governor says in his m
that ‘not only is the mandate of the
constitution disobeyed, but the ex-
{sting condition of affairs is unjust
to Allegheny and other counties
who have not the re tation
to which they are entitled. With
the passing of each decade and the
shifting of population the unfitness
of the present apportionment is in-
“No wonder the people of this
state have cried out in stentorian
tones for the last 20 years that they
demanded a senatorial apportion-
ment bill. No wonder the governor
has said I not only request it but
I desire you to enforce it when
speaking of the constitution and
its various provisions. The cry has
gone out not only through Alle-
gheny county, not only through
Lackawanna county, but it has
come from every quarter of the
state, except, perhaps, from Phila-
delphia, and I say at this time that
we pursue the recommendation pro-
posed by the gentleman who occu-
fies the governor's chair. This reso-
ution is only asking this commit-
tee to perform its duties and send
this bill out from it.”
and the same can be done in Phila-
delphia. Under our system of -
ernment oll men, whether conduct-
ing a business involving millions
of dollars or inmates of our charit-
able institutions, are alike before
the law upon election day. The bal-
lot of the president of the Pennayl-
vania ra! courts no more than
the votes of miserable vultures who
infest the dens of vice and thrive
u the offal of human society,
ow terrible, therefore, to conto
plate that these same miserable
wretches, many of whom scarcely
read or write our lausguage, and
are unacquainted with our Jud.
ples of ernment, can poll prob-
ably a f dozen votes the same
day and thus put it into the hands
of the leaders of wards or divisions
to defeat the registered will of the
e.
“But you say that you are able to
care for your own affairs in r
cities, Our answer is that it in
the govt of the fraudulent voters
in the cities to control the affairs
of this state, It is therefore of vital
interest to the whole state that the
elections in the cities should be
made as fair and honest as it is
possible for legislation to make
them.
“1 well how that Lis about Fo
dangerous many of us
orders as it is to scale the famed
Matterhorn of the Alps. That fact
has become too patent in both
branches of this legislature at this
session.
“We do not expect you to break
any orders in vo aE n this -mo-
tion. If your organ on has de-
creed that there is to be no per-
sopal fegistration law ad th that th
vote of the people upon q
tion Is to me disregarded, say so in
your votes upon this resolution,
for it must be as clear as the noon-
day sun that if you vote
this resolution that it is notice to
the people of this commonwealth
that your organization is against
peisoiial registration. The responsi-
lity will then be placed where it
belongs, and of this action the peo-
ple may take due notice.”
Herbst and Dewalt Against Stone Wall
Senator Dewalt also appealed for
action on the bill and was followed
by Senator Edwin M. Herbst, who
said:
“Where men not entitled to vote,
do vote, and when votes honestly
cast are not honestly eounted, free
vernment has ended and despot-
sm rules. Honest citizens and true
lovers of our state's welfare ¢f all
parties demand personal registra-
tion in our cities. They have said
so emphatically by the adoption of
an amendment to our constitution.
Political hoboes and sharks
course do not want it. The governor
of the state strongly recommends it
in his message, and let me remind
you, gentlemen of the majority in
Your Moneys Worth :
In every article you buy.
Everything sold for just what
it is. No misrepresentation
and we stand back of our
statements. Our new lines for
fall and winter service are for
every member of the family.
We are prepared to priced
them all and the goods are
placed strictly on their merits.
Examine what we have to of-
fer and satisfy yourself. No
trouble to show goods
Our premiums are useful
and ornamental. Entirely free.
this 3O4Y. that as a party you have
: Great Fight For Honest Elections. promi it to the people.
pve member o this oie : Equally ineffectual were the ap os & personal ww OB law
who votes ‘aye’ on © pas- r many
mage of this bil nds hitheelf 1. i Deals made by Senators Grim and De- | oxigting evils, The opportunities
| walt, among other Democratic mem-| for manipulation and for grosser
frauds would be curtailed to a no-
table degree by any bill that mark-
ed even a step toward the condi-
tions that every good citizen must
want to see. The position that good
citizens should take, without re-
gard to party affiliations, in this
directly to all the evils which have
been charged against the Philadel- |! bers, to get the personal registration
phia machine” ! bill out of the senate committee.
Kind of Men to Check Corporations. Upon a resclution which he offered tc
Mr. Creasy, in a clash with Thomas discharge the elections committee
V. Cooper a the bill from its “consideration” of that bill
YEAGER & DAVIS
OPEN EVENINGS. HIGH STREET, BELLEFONTE.
| Mr. Grim sata: matter is apparent. The biindest of
“to authorize foreign corporations | f fate
lawfully engaged in the manufac: | “This bill was introduced nearly ih oe eos yr "a change,
ture or production of articles of | two months ago. Therefore, the Whether Governor Pennypacker
trade or commerce in Pennsylvania | Ae as hal ape time to does favor such legislation the
own land in $s common- e senate. been ted,
wealth,” ! They have not done so, and it is extent that has intimated, Bis
further showed what a sharp eye was
kept upon corporate encroachments
by Columbia county's representative, |
now the fusion nominee for auditor,
general. Mr. Creasy said:
“1 would iike to call the attention
of the gentleman from Delaware to
one of the veto messages of the
governor at the last session where
something similar was up, in which
he says: ‘This bill proposes to give
to certain corporations incorporat-
ed in other states substantially the
same powers which they would
have had if they had been incor-
porated in this state. They m
erect buildings and maintain build-
shes” 8 cetera, and then fo ve
‘Ever since the passage o e ac
of 1874 it has been the custom
among some of the residents of
this state to evade the provisions
of the act by securing incorpora-
tion in other states where the re-
quirements are less strict and
where it may not be necessary to
y any proportion of the capital
nto the treasury in cash.’
“The corporation laws of Penn- |!
sylvania, I believe, are in advance |
of the corporation laws of many
other states, and if these ra~
tions want to do business in Penn-
sylvania we have a department here
where they can get their charters
by paying for them, but the object
of these co fons in getting
charters outside of the state is in
order that they may evade some
of the restrictions which the state
of Pennsylvania places on them,
and for this reason and the reagon
ven by the governor of the state
n his veto message, I believe this
bill should be voted down.
“We want corporations to
come to this state and get their
charters. Under our law they will
one-third of their italiza-
on. Under this measure
to another state and get a char-
r, perhaps for $40 or $50,
come here, and if they buy land
they pay no taxes on it, but will
enjoy the same privileges that our
corporations do when they pay
one-third of one per centum of their
capitalization.”
Men of the type of the Democrats
who thus strove to check the law-de-
fying corporation magnates are such
as will be wanted in the legislature
upon which the people will rely for
enactment of just and comprehensive
corporation laws.
Grim and Dewalt Appeal.
In the senate, during the last regu-
lar session in the winter and spring
of 1905, there were many notable
efforts by the Democratic members to
bring about action upon reform meas-
ures or to draw public attention to
“evils worthy of mention.” Senator
‘Webster Grim, of Bucks county, after
offering a resolution to force a report
from the committee which had charge
of his senatorial apportionment bill,
said:
the clceire 10 Jeltetute what 1 sala
Be a bY
apparent that they do not intend
to report it. As a member of
committee and as the one who in-
troduced the bill, I have asked the
chairman more than once to call
the committee together and con-
sider the bill. The chairman has
treated me with entire courtesy,
but he has not called the meeting,
and so far as I know the committee
has never held a fneeting. Yea,
more, Mr. President. so far as I
know, and I have at all times been
ready to perform my duty, the
committee has never been organ-
ized. More than two months have
Slapsed sirce we have gotten down
to hard work. We have been con-
sidering hundreds of biils upon the
floor of the senate, We have even
fixed the date for final adjourn-
ment. We have even passed a res-
olution against the introduction of
any new bills unless by unanimous
consent. All this suggests to us that
the period of the work of this ses-
sion is rapidly drawing to a close,
and that unless this bill is passed
no other similar bill can be passed,
and yet in the face of the over-
whelming demand from every part
of this commonwealth for a law
that will prevent fraudulent voting
and repeating in our cities, in the
face of the verdict of 165,000 ma-
jority for the constitutional amend-
ment, in the face of a practically
unanimous press which sub
the wishes of the people of this
commonwealth, this committee is
apparently giving no heed to these
demands. To our shame will it be
said that we have neglected the
most important subject before the
people of this commonwealth.
a Ps
e is p perso -
tration, to a fair election law, and
to the enactment of a civil service
law, but, gentlemen, we are not
alone in this demand. You mistake
the importance of the movement if
you do not realize that there are
thousands of voters in you
friends would like to know that he
held such views. If he did hold
them and secured the needed ligis-
lation he would find the number of
his friends greatly increased.
“By a reign of terror at the polls
organized with consummate and
merciless skill, the decent citizens
of our first city are held panic-
stricken at the machine's feet. Its
business interests are subject to
and in many instances have e
mere instruments of this central
despotism. Legislatures and coun-
cils asserable only to sanction by
statute the unscrupulous acts, de-
sires and tyranny of the bosses.
Arbitrary taxation, arbitrary fran-
chises, arbitrary statutes to annoy
and vex a people once so proud of
its liberty, all due to fraudulent
registration followed by fraudulent
elections, Ak! well, may decent men
exclaim: ‘Liberty, what crimes are
not committed in thy name!’ "”
Of course in the senate, as well as
in the house, the Democrats forced
everybody present to go upon record
when such demands as the foregoing
were made by the friends of honest
government. But the machine hench-
men brazenly fwent the limit” in de-
fiance of the popular will. The same
machine leaders and the same hench-
men are now struggling to control the
next legislature.
Explosion of White Slave Bomb.
Of all the bombs exploded in the
MceNichol-Penrose-Durham camp none
caused more consternation than the
following resolution offered by Sena-
tor Herbst on March 13, 1905, but of
course it was voted down by the over
whelming machine majority:
“Whereas, it is ¢ by news-
papers, civic organizations, clergy-
men’s associations and grand jur-
fes in Philadelphia, that vice of a
most revolting character is pro-
by the police authorities of
that city; that immigrant
girls, ignorant of the and
country, are lured
into dens that exist there under po-
1 and launched upon
a career of shame, and that -
a e es of June 1,
i
18 Ser judgment po
Mr. Herbst went on: “The
Tin Pe explanatory. | The
en slave trafic Is a Serious
80 serious that the t
States senate but last week it
; consideration Jn the Ti
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A ———,
tion of a (reaty. i uwup. .
senator in this body will vote upon
this resolution as a Christian not
a heathen, as a civilized citizen not
a barbarian, as a patriot not a par-
tisan. May every one vote as his
sainted mother, his good wife, and
his virtuous sister or daughter
would like to see him vote.”
But the large majority voted under
the same lash that is now being wield-
ed by Penrose and colleagues in the
hope of defeating the people's eandi-
dates.
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The Mongolia Goes Ashore On Reef
Near Hawaiian Islands.
Midway Island, North Pacific Ocean,
Sept. 17.—The Pacific Mail steamship
Mongolia. a sister ship of the Manchu-
ria, is aground on Midway reef, north-
west of the Hawaiian Islands. The
ship is being lightered and her passen-
gers are being landed safely.
The steamship Mongolia sailed from
Yokohama for San Francisco Septem-
ber 10.
The steamer is owned by the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company of New York
and is a sister ship of the Manchuria,
which went ashore on Rabbit Island
August 20 and was only floated yes-
terday (Sunday).
The Mongolia was built at Camden,
N. J, in 1904. Hor length is 600 feet,
beam 65.3, and she registers 13,638
tons gross.
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| Frank Hess, a white farmer, from a
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. latter used a knife on Hess. The mob
stormed the town prison. Mayor Stip-
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| him aside, and, breaking in the door,
took the negro to a scaffolding sup-
| porting a tank and hanged him.
Fell 350 Feet to Death.
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| Llewellyn, a contract miner, made a
| misstep and plunged 350 feet to his
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