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Ivy 2. GRAY MEEK.
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nk Slings.
—Next week the fair and a great one it
will be.
—II you want PENROSE for Senator vote
tor QuiGLEY for Senator.
—~Keep JonS NOLL in mind. He must
go back to the Legislature.
—It you are for reform attend the re-
form meeting in Bellefonte next Wedoes.
day night.
—Mr. QUIGLEY should ‘‘either be a
mouse or a loog tailed rat.” Are you for
or agsinss the gang, HENRY?
—Now the doctors are telling us thas
crossing the legs begets appendicitis. The
grape seed bugaboo wore out, you know.
—The physicians in attendance upon the
Sultan of Turkey say that he can’t live
long. In truth be must be ‘‘the sick man”
now.
—The squirrel season opeved Monday,
but up to this time there have been more
accidental shootings of hunters than of the
frisky rodent.
—The camel cannot swim, which, added
to the faos that it can go nine days without
a drink, simply emphasizes the fact that
no one wants to be a camel.
—Don’t forget to be here for the big re-
form rally in the court house next Wed-
nesday night. EMERY, BLACK, BLANE-
ENBURG and Treasurer BERRY will all be
here.
—**Nothing is too good for Pennsyl-
vania,’’ says PENXYPACKER, and for once
he is right. Bat anfortunately be did not
act upon this thought when QUAY induced
him to run for Governor.
—The new four million dollar capitol
that cost thirteen was dedicated yesterday.
Let us hope that the laws to be framed
within its stately walls will not be as de-
ceptive as the commission that built them.
—The auto heart is the latest addition to
the bicycle bend class of diseases. It is
caused by losing heart when you bave a
puncture forty miles from homie on a rainy
night and find yourself without any patches,
—Seoretary SHAW is to retire from the
cabinet on Feb. 1st, next. While he bas
made a very creditable official head for the
Treasury Department he bas been an utter
failure at keeping his presidential boom
in the air.
—Verily the way of the world is pecn-
liar. On Tuoesday the State College stu-
dents undertook to ‘‘put the oleaver’’ on
their new vice president because he didn’t
imitate the practices of the very president
whose heart and life they belped to break.
—Dr. SWALLOW nearly caused a riot in
a fusion meeting at Harrisburg on Monday
night. It might be true that one swallow
doesn’t make a summer but it is a subject
for debate as to whether one of this kind
of swallow doesn't make a pretty big ass.
— While the President is shaking ‘‘the
big stick’’ at the Cubans his eon, THEO-
pORE ROOSEVELT JR., gets mixed up ina
melee with Boston policemen and bas been
sammoned into court for assault. In truth
these ROOSEVELTS are a strenuous people.
—Interested investigators are just now
experimenting on the possibility of living
ob thirteen cents a day. How it is coming
out remains for the fatare, but it is a cer-
tainty that il yon miss the great fair here
next week you will feel like the thirteen
cents that one of those fellows has tried to
survive on.
—The Pennsylvania Construction Co., a
corporation that received two million dol-
lars for part of the furnishing of the new
state capitol went out of business the
moment it wae paid for the work. In
other words, this one job wae enough to
make a fortune for the promoters and the
people of Pennsylvania made it up in
taxes. .
—The esteemed Philadelphia Inquirer
has an imagination all its own. In the
first place it insists in calling the ‘‘frosts’
STUART is receiving in all parts of the State:
“ovations.” Ia the second, it said, on
Tuesday, that a Mr. NEWLINS bad thrown
four big BRYAN men aside in the Harris.
burg opera house avd made himself heard
clear above the pandemonium that was
being raised there. What a modern ajox
this man NEWLINS must be. But then the
Inquirer bas often been guilty of seeing
things through strange glasses.
—Mr. EMERY is a Republican. He says
he has voted for every Republican Presi:
dent from LINCOLN down. A man’s polit-
ical tendencies are best shown in national
issues and while we differ with Mr. EMERY
on national policies we are with him iv his
move to tear ont the gang that has been
bleeding Pennsylvania. That is the reason
the dyed in the wool old DEMOCRATIC
WATCHMAN sapports EMERY and that is
the reason that its editor will vote for him.
It is what he stands for, as against what
STUART stands for. The personal char-
acter of neither man enters the equation.
—One doesn’t hear so much the old ex-
pression : “Well, what has BERRY done,
since he was elected Treasurer?’ BERRY
has been doing things indeed. He bas paid
out the public school moneys so that
the school districts have not had to
pay discounts on loans that were necessary
until the gang got through using the mon-
ey. And be bas revealed to the State the
awlal deception that was practiced in the
building of the new capitol. If he should
do nothing more that is enough to repay
the State for his election. He will do more,
however. Keep your eye on your first re
form office holder in Pennsylvania.
VOL. 51
Unfit for Auditor.
RoseRrT K. YoUuNG was counsel for the
capitol building commission. If be had
been faithful to bis obligations not a dollar
could have been disbursed in the construo-
tion of that building without authority of
law. It was not supposed that the build-
ing commissioners, some of whom were lay-
men, wonld anderstand the legal aspects
of the master. For that reason they were
authorized to appoint a lawyer at a gener-
ous salary to look after such waiters.
Ropert K. YouNe was chosen for some
reason. He had been an insurgent during
the session of the Legislature previously
closed and opposed the schemes of the ma-
chine. He was known as a lawyer of con-
siderable ability. His employment as
counsel for the capitol building commission
silenced his opposition to the machine.
The Auditor General elected{by the peo-
ple of Pennsylvania on November 6th, will
audit the accounts of the capitol building
commission as well as those of the board of
public buildings and grounds in connection
with all disbursements for the construction
of the capitol. Asan official of the com-
mittee ROBERT K. YOUNG, in the event of
his election to the office of Auditor General,
would enjoy the privilege of auditing his
own accounts. We submit to the reason of
the people that a man so involved is not a
fit auditor. He would be practically cer
tain to shisld bimeelf and his associates
from the penalty of snch misfeasance as is
charged against them. Men resort to des-
perate measures when their personal liberty
ig involved and Mr. YOUNG would have
that interest in the matter in question.
That the law was violated is beyond
question. The appropriation for the con-
struction of the capitol was precisely $4,-
000,000. It may be said that the building
commission didn’t disburse more than that.
Bat the law provided that the building
should be completed for that sum and the
commissioners must have known, and their
attoruey certainly was aware, tbat the
building was costing more and that in
spending money to complete the building
the board of public buildings and grounds
was violating the law and the knowledge
made the commissioners and their attorney
accessories beforethie fact. That being true
the attorney of thie commissioners should
not he entrusted with the auditing of the
accounts.
Young
Daty of Workingmen,
There are dix congressional districts in
this State nominally Republican in which
the labor vote can exercise control. The
labor organizations bave declared opposi-
tion to Speaker CANNON because daring the
last session he prevented the consideration
of needed legislation in the interest of
labor. His position as Speaker vested in
bim the power to control legislation and
be used the power to the dewriment of
labor. If the Republicans have a majority
io the next Congress Mr. CANNON will be
re-elected to the chair and hie opposition
to labor legislation will be continued and
potential. The obvious policy of labor ad-
vocates, therefore, is to prevent a Republi-
can majority in the next House.
It is admitted by the Republican mana-
gers that it is necessary for them to carry
every close district in the country in order
to hold a majority in the body. The loss
of six vominally Republican districts in
this State would make the re-election of
CANNOX absolutely impossible. There
are four surely Democratic districts in the
State and the labor vote can guarantee ten
Democratic Representatives in the Penn.
sylvania delegation in the next Congress.
The exercise of this power will cost nothing
but a little activity and vigilaoce. But
the reward will be great. It will aseure
them the legislation they need (for it will
guaiantee the organization of the Honee in
the interest of the people rather than the
corporations.
We submit that it is the plain duty of
workingmen to adopt that course. The
Republican machine has been cheating
them for years. One of the Republican
members of the Legislature from Schuylkill
county declared in a public speech that he
bad traded his soul to the machine for the
promise of labor legislation and was cheat-
ed. If he were wise he would oppose the
party that so deceived him. A Democratic
majority in the next Congress will make
just labor legislation certain and the labor-
ing man who fails to contribute to that
result is recreaut, not only to himself and
his own family but to his associates in
labor organizations. We are approaching
a crisis and labor ought to be on the right
side.
S—
Pay Your Taxes.
We want every Democrat in Centre
county, as well as every Republican in
favor of reform government, to remember
that tomorrow (Saturday, October 6th, ) is
the last day on which to pay a State and
county tax in order to vote at the Novem.
ber elestion. You don’t want to miss your
vote for EMERY and the entire reform
ticket, so be sure your taxes are paid by
tomorrow evening.
Be
STATE RIGHTS AN
The State Capitol Crime.
The confession of the crimes of the ma-
chine in connection with the building and
equipment of the new capitol is easily the
most shameful exhibiton of official mis-
feasance and vepality in the history of the
State. The Governor and Auditor General
have practically acknowledged the looting.
They plead justification, in a limping fash-
ion, but admit culpability. That is to
say, after acknowledging the expenditure
of more than $9,000,000 without legal war-
rant, they assert that the capitol at Wash-
ington, that at Albany, and the municipal
building in Philadelphia cost more. Grant-
ing that, it affords no palliation for the
crime at Harrisburg and that it was a
crime nobody knows better than Samuel
W. PENXYPACKER, the recreant Governor
of the Commonwealth.
The contract for the construction of the
capitol building was awarded to PAYNE
& Co., of Philadelphia, on plans and speci-
fications which included everything essen-
tial to the equipment of the structure for
its purpose except the movable furniture.
Certainly it included floors, ceilings, doors,
wind ows and ventilating apparatus. Every
other contractor who examined the ‘‘blue-
prints,” understood that fact. PAYNE &
Co., understood it unless they were told
differently by the architect or the State of
ficials. With this understanding they en-
gaged to complete the building for $4,000,-
000, and with the criminal knowledge of
the Board of Public Buildings and Grounds
they defaulted and the state completed
the structure at ao additional expense to
the public of more than the eriginal ap-
propriation.
The culpable officials express regret that
their delinquencies were exposed at this
time. To employ their own language,
“they would have preferred to have waited
until all the obligations incurred had been
paid,” hefore making a detailed statement.
In other words, if the villainy could bave
been concealed until after the election, they
feel that they could then have told the pub-
lio to “‘go havg.’”” But baving deliberately
deceived the public by the official annonnce-
ment that the building bad been completed
D FEDERAL UNION,
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 5, 1906.
Pennypacker’s Pure Character.
The apologists for the looting operations
in connection with the construction of the
new capitol are trying to excuse the Gov-
ernor on the ground that his excessive
State pride influenced him to consent to
the crimes. That is the most worthless of
all sorts of rubbish. He was influenced by
those impulses in his nature which makes
him admire QUAY not for his virtues but
for his vices. It was that in his nature
which impelled bim to set DURHAM upon
his mind as ‘‘the most influential citizen of
Philadelphia,’ and when DURHAM became
a fogitive from justice, induced him to
tarn to DAVE MARTIN. That which in-
fluenced him to select DAVE LANE for
honors influenced him to assent to the loot-
ing of the treasury.
PENNYPACKER is mot the guileless,
simple-minded, honest man that he tries to
bave the public imagine him to be. No
mau of that sort sets a felon up as an idol.
QuAY would bave died in the penitentiary
if he badn’s escaped the penalty of his ol-
fences by pleading the statute of limitation.
Even PENNYPACKER bas never denied the
transactions during the period in which
the late A>0s C. NOYES was ruined by the
can obscure the iniquity of QUAY'S transac-
tions with the People’s bank of Philadel-
pbia which sent the cashier of that concern
to a suicide’s grave and the State Treas-
urer of the time to a premature death.
All these things are known to PENNY-
PACKER and yet he insists on erecting a
monument to mark QUAY as Pennsyl-
vania's most worthy son.
After the sessions of the Legislature of
1903 and 1905, PENNYPACKER scaled the
appropriations for charitable purposes to
the narrowest margin and for what reason ?
In order that there would remain in the
treasury a vast surplns for the looting
operations in connection with the capitol
construction and to supply funds through
favored banks for impecanions politicians.
We all remember the paring operation as
it was applied to the appropriation for the
Bellefoute hospital.
appropriated to that splendid institution
withio the appropriation, that is far'jess | he meager sum of $6,000, and he cut it
than $4,000,000, Mr. BERRY wisely and
properly exposed the fraud and stamped
PENNYPACKER as a falsifier. The expecta-
tion of making political capital out of the
dedication has been disappointed, as it
onght to have been.
——Don’t forget that tomorrow, Octo-
ber 6th, is the last day on whick to pay
your taxes if you want to vote in Novem-
ber. See to it that the same is attended to
at once.
The Only Safe Plan.
‘If there bas been any graft in the for-
nishing of the state capitol at Harrisburg,”
Epwix 8. STvART, Republican candidate
for Governor, said in his speech at Erie,
the other evening, ‘‘if there has been any
collusion or fraud, the man or men respon-
sible should be indicted and punished.’
That is the reply of the Republican ma-
chine to the shameless confession of Gover-
nor PEXNNYPACKER and Auditor General
SNYDER. ‘‘If there bas been any fraud ?”’
The schedules upon which the bids for the
construction of the capitol were made show
that two-thirds of the $9,000,000 paid by
the Board of Public Buildings.and Grounds
were for things included in the contract
and that in paying for them the contractor
was being relieved of obligations while the
treasury was being looted for bis bevedit.
It is more than likely that less expensive
materials would bave been used if the con-
tractor had been required to furnish the
materials. But they would bave been pre-
cisely what was set out in the contract,
seemed to the building commissioners good
enough and the people of the State would
have been saved the expense and the shame
of the criminal operations. But Mr. STUART
knows that iu the event of his election
there will be no indictments and no pun-
ishment. If the Republican candidate for
State Treasurer bad been elected last fall
there would have been no exposures. The
looting operations, with the sanction of the
Governor, aod the silence of everybody
else, would have continued, probably,
until the entire sarplas bad been exhaust.
ed.
The capitol building is not the only
source of graft from which the machine
politicians have been drawing during the
past several years. The Insurance Depart-
ment, the Auditor General's office and the
Department of State have all been yielding
generously and would have been milked
indefinitely if the election of W. H. BERRY
Inst fall hadn't given a chance to peep into
the accounts. PENNYPACKER may have
been honest enough when he went to Har-
risburg and when he was making promises
of reforms four years ago, he was as earnest
as STUART is now. Bat the exigencies of
the machine forced him to pus conscience
aside and join with the looters just as
STUART would be compelled to do if he
were elected. The only safety is in the
complete route of the machine.
down to $5,000 in order that the amount
could the more easily be hestowed on con-
tractor PAYNE. There was no state pride
in it at all. It was pare cussedness in
pursuance of bad impulses,
Stuart's Official Record.
EpwiIN 8. STUART, Republican candidate
for Governor, is predicating his claims for
election on the exemplary character of his
administration of the office of Mayor of
Philadelphia. We are entirely willing to
accept the challenge involved in that propo-
sition and at the outset will acknowledge
that Mr. STUART is free from the taint of
graft or any other form of iniquity, per-
sonally. Hedido’t rob the treasury, em-
bezzle the fees, steal the property of the
city, or even stuff ballot boxes during his
term of office as Mayor. So far as our in-
formation goes there is no evidence that
Mr. STUART promoted vice or protected
crime. He bad no conpection with the
white slave traffic or the speakeasies.
Bat it was daring bis administration as
Mayor of Philadelphia that all these evils
were introduced into the public life of the
city. It was while he was chiel magistrate
that the machine was organized, the dens
of iniquity established and the seeds of the
system sown. He probably has nothing to
do, personally, with the organization of the
contractors’ combine, or the formation of
the syndicate to levy blackmail on orim-
finals in consideration of protection. He
was much above such vicionsness then as
he is now. But he knew that such com-
bines were being organized and such syndi-
cates formed and he silently gave assent to
them. The MACKS, the DURHAMS and the
MeNicHOLS grew under his countenance.
It is precisely because be was personally
free from these iniquities but entirely wil.
ling to allow them to operate and prosper
that he was nominated for Governor this
year, just as RoBerT K. YOUNG'S nomina-
tion is his reward for allowing the looting
operations in the construction of the capitol.
The machine knew that STUART could be
referred to as an exemplary official and
YOUNG as a man of independent character,
while both could be depended upon to al-
low the plunderers to loot. QUAY taoght
them the trick in the nomination of PEXNY-
PACKER who has proved not only the worst
but the most venal Governorjwho has ever
disgraced the State. STUART'S] record
ought to work his rain.
~The WATCHMAN editor seems to be
very well favored this year with gifts of
luscious fruit. Several weeks ago Daniel
Grove, of Zion, brought us samples of hi#
big apples, and last Friday Mr. D. G.
Knox, of Buffalo Run, brought te this of-
fice a box of the biggest and nicest grapes
it has been our good fortune to see this
year. They were both white and blue and
were grown entirely by himself. Of course
onr heartiest thanks are due him.
—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
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Miner May Down Longworth.
If Nick Longworth, the President's son-
julaw, is adlented ind the race for Song
n the First district, the campaign of a form-
. for it. Thomas
was able to
knowledge; Wi
be would stody law at nights and finally,
alter he had burning the midnight
oil for a number of years, he succeded in
saving enough money to take a finishing
course io the Cincinnati Law School, his
Jiloin She’ meantime going back to the
parents,
Bentham graduated from the same olass
the same year that le i
came a lawyer. only '-
sue the enjoyment his wealth Si
him. Bent horrowed the $10 necessary
for the papers that entitled him to ad-
mission to the Snpreme court.
— Remember that Saturday, October
6th, is the last day on which to pay your
taxes if you want to vote on November
6th.
The New Jersey Primaries,
From the New York Press.
The failure of Senator Colby to storm the
intrenchments of the Dryden Machine in
New Jersey does not mean that there is no
demand by the voters of his State for the
reforms which be bas urged. It means that
a system which can call upon Demooratio re-
inforcements to carry Republican primaries
dies bard. It does not mean that Dryden
should have the nomination for United
States Senator, any more than the resnlt
of the New York primaries meant that Gov-
ernor Higgins should be renominated.
Dryden cannot persist in his attempt to
Ee Se Segate With} shaking She
a part; ew Jersey on the
foundations which Machines cannot buttres2
with Democratic aid of the primary sort—
the foundations which stand only on the
votes of the general public. Just as much
as on last Tuesday morning the candidacy
8 Diyden Shrenyene the lose ot SheSmes of
ew Jersey by the Repu n party.
indeed, there would be more honor to the
Republicans of New Jersey and more bene-
fit to their party to lose the State and end
the Senatorship of Dryden than to carry it
and perpetuate the abominations of the
Dryden system in public affairs.
—Pay your taxes on or before Satur-
day, October 6th, or sou will not be able
to vote at the coming election.
Adds Insult to lujury.
———
——Babscribe for the WATCHMAN,
Spawlis from the Keystone.
~The Snyder county court of common
pleas which opened Monday had one case on
the list. .
ria and one case of scarlet fever under quar.
antine in Tyrone. ££."
—Ridgeway’'s opera house, desioroffity
fire a year ago, bas been rebuilt. The
structure will seat 1,100.
~The window glass manufacturers of
Pittsburg are trying to devise a scheme
which will eliminate the jobber.
—In Lewistown, as in Tyrone, the dairy-
men gave the price of milk aboost from six
to eight cents a quart on October 1.
—Somerset county's apple crop is one of
the biggest ever known and thousands of
bushels are rotting in the orchards.
—Nearly all the DuBois candy dealers
have been arrested and heavily fined for
selling about $65 worth of adulterated candy
each.
~The principal of the Huazletown high
schol is about to take the warpath after boy
pupils who spend so much of their time
loafing about pool rooms that they are fall-
ing behind in their studies.
—W. B. Hughes and Assistant D. D,
Guppy, of Clearfield, have secured the con-
tract to erect the new railroad branch of the
New York Central between Munson and
Hawk Run, and begin work at once.
—A syndicate of Pittsburg capitalists are
securing options from land owners along the
Juniata river and will build a large dam
across the river at Losh’s Run, Perry county,
which will be used for furnishing power.
~John Walls, an employe in the office of
the Adams Express Co., at Altoona, recently
absconded with $1.300 entrusted to the care
of the company, and, although be is being
hunted in all parts of the country, he is still
at large.
—Small-pox has again invaded Schuylkill
county. One fully developed case has been
found at Branchville and there are several
other persons under suspicion. It is also re-
ported that there is much diphtheria in the
lower part of the county.
—Panama seems to be the centre of attrac-
tion for many of the Clearfield people at this
time. Four of the 20 locomotive engineers
on the Panama R. R. are from Clearfield
and many of the employes on the isthmus
hail from Clearfield county.
~—Merl Plyer, of Dubois, was to have
pitched in the baseball game between the
Elks and Commercial Travelers at Dubois on
Saturday. He had pitched but four balls
and was in the act of throwing the fifth
when he broke the bone between the elbow
and shoulder.
~The twenty-third annual reunion of the
One Hundred and Tenth Pennsylvania
Veteran Volunteer association will be held
at Tyrone on October 19, 1906, Any infor:
mation desired in regards to same can be
had by writing to the secretary, G. W.
Buck, Altoona, Pa.
—Mrs. Stilwell Truax, who lives on the
be. | Shaffer farm, near Orbisonia, while engaged
at her household duties a few days ago heard
a noise in the chicken yard and upon in-
vestigation discovered a large bawk tangled
upin the fence. The lady promptly killed
it with a broom. It measured four feet from
tip to tip.
—Upon being thrown aside after a twelve
year courtship of the most ardent charac
ter, during which time her affections were
won, Elizabeth Gamm, a pretty seamstress
of Tyrone, through her attorney, H. Price
Grafiius, Thursday filed a breach of promise
suit for £25,000 against Edgar G. Toner, an
ex-councilman of Tyrone.
—At a meeting of the 300 subscribers
to the stock of the Farmers’ and Traders’
National bank at Clearfield, Tuesday, the
new bank was formally organized by the
election of a board of directors. This is the
fourth national bank in Pennsylvania to be
organized under the patronage of the State
Grange. Master of the State Grange W. F,
Hill presided at the meeting.
—John 8. Bare, of Huntingdon, who was
defeated for the Republican nomination for
Senator in the Thirtieth District, composed
of Blair aud Huntingdon counties, brought
suit Friday in the Dauphin county court
to test the legality of Templeton's nomina-
tion. Bare alleges that the nomination was
irregular and illegal because it was made by
the votes of two outside conferees appointed
by Republican State Chairman Andrews.
This case will be heard on Oct. 9.
~The Carbon Coal Mining company, of
Altoona, which is composed of George C.
Eppelman and Jonn W. Mentzer, of Holli-
daysburg, with mines in the Cambria and
Clearfield regions and the Bachman Coal
company, of Allentown, have been consoli-
dated, taking over the interests of the Car.
bon Coal Mining company, John Mentzer, C.
R. Bachman Coal company, aud the Jordan
Coal and Coke company. The new firm will
be known as the Bachman Coal Mining com-
pany, incorporated, and capitalized at $500,
000.
—William Croft, a Lock Haven young
man, who has been employed as a brakeman
in the Renovo railroad yards, met witha
frightful accident Saturday evening which
caused his death at midnight. The young
man had taken a string of cars down to
what is known as the “hump” in the east-
orn end of Renovo, to be weighed, and was
returning up the track to start another
string down, when he was struck by a draft
of cars and knocked down, the wheels pass.
ing over both legs, which were fearfully
mangled from the knees to the hips.
~Comparatively few people know that
there is a cranberry patch in Lycoming coun-
ty. And itisapatch from which in very
recent years, as many as one hundred bush.
els of berries have been picked, says the
Williamsport Sun. This year, owing to
several drawbacks, but half a crop will be
bad. The berries are ripening now, and the
picking will be done in time to escape the
possibility of a frost. This Lycoming county
cranberry bog is at the eastern end of Rose
valley, at what is known to many as Lippin-
cott’s pond and it is about thirteen miles
frem Williamsport by way of the Quaker
Hill and Sugar Camp roads. The place is
tioket | now, and has been for many years, the home
of Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, whose husband
bought the Lippincott property.
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