TR HIER ; } i i i : ! i : i f Jv =. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The big stick for that Connellsville hotel proprittor who refused to permit one of Uncle SaM's =ailois to register at his hotel. —Mr. QUIGLEY is the machine candidate for Senator. If you want to vote for PEN- ROSE and his gang of Treasury iooters vote for QUIGLEY. --Senator Ji MCNICHOL is to prose- cate Mr. EMERY for slander. It most have heen something awful bad our candi- date said about JIM. —Some of she chais in the new state capi- tol must be regular centipedes. They were paid for by the cubic foot and some of them bad handreds of feet. —And now it turns out that much of the ‘hand catved solid mahogany’ iu the new capitol is really painted putty and plaster paris. Oh! This is awful! —Six inclement Thursdays in succession makes it look as though the weather man is trying to hreak up the practice of baving great gatherings in the middle of the week. —Mr. HEARST will probably not be elect- ed Governor of New York, hut the element of uncertainty about it is sufficient to make all sides a little anxious about the result. —Jons NoLi should be given a 1ousing majority next month. He stands for all the reforms that she people of Pennsyl- vania are demanding, while bie oppenent is au out and ont machine man. —Now architect CoBns comes forward with the claim that architect HUSTON stole the plans for the State capitol from bim. Dear, ob, dear. Is there anything left about the capitol that was not stolen? —The CARNEGIE hero medals, sixteen in number, have been awarded and Gover- por PEXNYPACKER didn’t get one of them. Talk a“ouns saving things. Didn't he save thirteen million dollars for his friends, the favorite contractors. —Former United States Senator BURTON, of Kansas, after failing in his efforts to invoke technicalities to escape just punish- ment for his malfeasance in office, will have to go the penitentiary. There may be some lesser lights from Pennsylvania taking the same course after EMERY gets into office. —Jeweler FRANK P. BLAIR bas develop- ed into a composite Sherlock Holmes and Pup'ty Heap WiLsoN. With nothing but a button from a thief's coat and an im- pression of his fingers in the dust, as a clue, he was captared aod is now in jail. The law will take ita course and the fellow who stole the time piece will get a piece of time. --PexRosE didn’t want PHIL WOMELS- DORF to represent this district in the Sen- ate. hevanse WOMELSDORF has a mind of his own, consequently he gave orders that QUIGLEY was to have the nomination. He bas it now, hnt are you going to help put another PENROSE man into office with the capitol scandal staring you right in the face. —Ot what avail will it be to elect a re- form Governor if we not back bim up with a reform Legislature. NoLL and DIME- LING are the men who should represent us in the House and Senate. We know where they stand. QUIGLEY and FRYBERGER are hoth machine men at heart and are try- ing to hood-wink the voters now by saying nothing. —QOur candidate for the Senate Mr. GEORGE M. DIMELING has been in Centre county this week looking after his political interests. Mr. DIMELING is a plain man, whose success dates hack to the early seven- ties, when he began work at the age of thirteen in a lumber camp. e is a sue- cessful business man now and just the kind who ought to be in the Senate to help along the cause of reform. —Now the Pennsylvania Railroad com- pany is selling mark down tickets to Harrisburg to view the new capitol. The purpose is plain. It is part of the gang plan to show the splendors of the building to the people of the State thereby dazzling them into forgetfulness of its outrageous cost. Look out for a deal in thie program. The machine has evidently promised the Penunsy that it will knock oat the 2 cents a mile rate, and the freight carrying possi- bilities of trolley lines. —Mr. QUIGLEY is all smiles and pleas- antries now that he wants votes to get to the Senate. There are some, however, who haveun’s forgotien how he bowled Mr. ALLisoN, of Gregg township, out of the nomination for Treasurer last fall; how he tarned Col. JoHN DALEY, down for the Legislature in order to further bis own in- terests and how he used his office as county chairman to defeat PHIL WOMELSDORF for the senatorial endorsement. These are the ghosts that are rising up now to haunt the would-be machine Senator. —Ot course Mr. STUART is opposed to maintaining a big treasary surplus. He needn’t be trying to fool the public into voting for him with that plea. The graft- ers got all they wanted in that capitol steal and it won't be necessary to maintain a big treasury surplus for some time to come. But Mr. STUART won't have anything to do with it any how. EMERY will be in the Governor's chair and he has said thas be will put the State's funds into the State's charitable and educational instita- tions where they belong, instead of into the hands of gang contractors at so much per cubie foot. Mr. Berry's Emphatic Answer, “If the slightest shred of credible evi- dence that the discretion lodged in the bands of the Treasurer is being or bas been used to further the private or political in- terests of the Tieasurer is discovered, I will resign the office immediately.”” That is the unequivocal language in which State Treasurer BERRY has answered the most stupid and walicious slander ever conceiv- ed and perpesrated by a newspaper. The Philadelphia Inquirer, the journalistic scavenger of Pennsylvania, recently invent- ed a story to the effect that State Treasur- er BERRY bad been using one of the state depositories to finance some private enter- prise in which he is concerned. The lie was 80 rank that it contradicted itself. The malice in it was so obvious that no vews- paper except that disreputable organ of the Philadelphia criminals, the unspeakable Inquirer, would have printed is. But such a lie even from such a source may do barm unless contradicted, and with characteris- tio frankness Mr. BERRY contradicted it in the emphatic language quoted. The foundatiov for this vile accusation is a simple businese travsaction. Mr. BERRY with other citizens of Chester, Harrisburg and other communities is con- cerned in a corporation which desired to increase its operations and determined to issue bonds to provide the necessary funds. When a coproration issues bonds it is cne- tomary to bave shem disposed of through some substantial trust company which charges a fee just as it does when it be- comes bondsman for an individual or trus- tee for an estate. The corporation natural. ly makes the best terms it can with the trust company it selects and other things being equal will choose the trust company which will give it the best service. The corporation in question selected a substaun- tial Harrisburg trust company as its agent. It was not a matter of favoritism but buei- ness. The high character of the financial institution would inspire confidence in the bonds and expedite the sale even il it didn’s ivcrease their value. In any event there was nothing either unusual or extra- ordivary about the transaction. Since the State Treasury surplas bas ceas- ed to be a political asset the namber of state depositories bas vastly increased and the character of them has materially improved. Under the old regime banks which received state deposits were requir- ed to comply with the law with respect to the payment of interest and loan the money so acquired to politicians eometimes on precarious security. The result was that the best banks and trust companies were without state deposits. But since the induction of WiLriam H. BERRY into the office the very best banks have applied for the funds and obtained them so that it would bave been impossible to get a trust company to bandle the bonds of the Ches- ter corporation of a standing to help the corporation oatside of those holding state deposits. But in welecting an agent the funds of the State cut no figure. The trust company chosen would bave been chosen, probably, if it had had vo state fonds and would have been glad to get the business in any evens. The charge is a willful and malicious lie. Mr. Sinart's False Statement. In one of bis recent speeches candidate STUART declared tbat po dishonest man conld be a friend of his. He must have vast faith in the credulity of those he was addressing. Previons to the time that be became Mayor of Philadelphia, DAVE MARTIN was a very efficient but very in- conspicuous ward heeler. He was a profes. sional ballot box stuffer and had woa con- siderable reputation for daring and soe cess in that form of crime while leading a gaog of repeaters in Indiana. Bat as the intimate friend of Mr. STUART be was ad- vanced to leadership during his adminis- tration and within the four years MARTIN accumulated a splendid fortune from grafé and office brokerage. During the lase twenty years of his life the late Senator Quay bad uo more in- timate friend und devoted follower than Epwix 8. Stuart. Doriog the period of this intimacy QUAY bad looted the State Treasury twice, bankrupted the People’s bank of Philadelphia, forced the cashier to commit suicide and pleaded the statute of limitation to save himself from the peniten- tiary. ISRAEL DURHAM, SAMUEL SALTER and Jin MeNicnor had no closer friend during the period in which they were sue- phia than Mr. Stuart. Even after they had been found out he refused to turn in with she decent citizens to dethrone them and up to this moment he has never uttered a word of censure for their iniquities. We bave not been disposed to question his integrity or in any instance withheld from him the praise which ab honest and ami- able man deserves. But il be makes such statements in the of the known facts we may be compelled to alter our opinion of bim. Honest men don't deliberately cessfully plondering the city of Philadel. 20 Does Mr. Stuagr thiok the people are | 1 fools that be thus insults their intelligence? | of STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. deceive the public by falsification and when | the friend of Quay, DAVE MARTIN, Sau SALTER and DAVE LANE declares that no man of questionable integrity can be his friend, we are compelled to doubt his honesty. ‘‘NED'’ STUART has aiways been: a supporter of the machine avd I'he has preserved a reputation for integrity he oughtn’t to trifle with public opinion. Staart’s Hamiliating Task. Mr. STUART'S masters have imposed a bard and humiliating task upon him. He has been compelled to go before the publio and promise for the future what his party refused to do in the pass. During the legis- lative session of 1905 fairly liberal appro- priations were made for the charitable in- stitut ions of the State bnt the Governor cat them down materially in order to re- tain in the treasury ample suiplus for graft operations in the construction of the capi- tol. During that vession philanthropists asked for a hospital in which consumptives might be treated hut were refused except on conditions which would bave made the inetitotion a political asset rather thane BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 19, 1906. The Facts In the Case. State Treasurer BERRY makes the inigui- ties of graft in the capitol building opera- #ionx so plain that no wan can misunder- stand. The impression, assiduously calti- ‘vated by Republican newspapers and ‘speakers, is that the $9,000,000 disho:sed by the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings was paid for foinitare for the ‘mew capitol. If that were true it would indicate shameless profligacy bas nos necessarily turpitude. The mao who will pay $500 for an office chair and $3,000 for a desk isa fool but be may not he a knave. ‘Bus the man who will knowingly pay out of his employer’s purse, without his em- ‘player's knowledge or consent, an exorbi- RL for either a ohair or desk for price, is both a fool and a koave, and that ‘is what has happened in Harrisharg. The contract for the construction of the building of the capitol was let on bids made upon plans and specifications which were published for the use of the bidders. Every ‘item in the construction was enumerated. The various kinds of floors, the different philanthropic institution. Now, however, | varieties of wainscoting, the several styles cardidate STUART is promising that if the atrocious machine is restored to power all the charitable institutions will be liberally taken cate of and a consumptive hospital provided for. : *‘The hospitals aod asylums for the in. digent insane are now very much over- crowded,” remarked Mr. STUART in his speech at Johnstown, ‘and while it is im- possible to remedy this at once, ove of the first duties of the Commonwealth is to see thatthe poor, nufortunate insane are given as comfortable quarters as possible.’ Im the aot of the session of 1905 appropriating fonds for the Danville insane asylom there wes a clanse which read: ‘‘For the purpose of erecting, furnishing and com- pleting a convalescent building for women, the sum of §50,000.”" It bad been shown that the absence of such an accommodation worked the most injurious effects npon patients appioaching recovery. But Gov ernor PENNYPACKER vetoed that clause for the absurd reason, as he declared, that the State revenue didn’t justify such an ap: propriation, though he subsequently cet | sented to the payment of more than $2,000,” 000 for chandaliers for the capitol. If Mr. STUART bad been Governor in- stead of PENXYPACKER the result would bave been precisely the same. The wa- chine wanted the surplus squandered in costly and needless luxuries because such disbursements afforded sources of graft and PENNYPACKER hadn't the moral force even if he bad the moral impulse to resist the purposes of the machine. When he was Mayor of Philadelphia he pever even pretended to restrain the criminal plaos of DAVE MARTIN and those who were as- sociated with him io the operation of loot- ing the city and as Governor he would be equally quiescent. Iu making such prom- ises at this time, therefore, be is insulting the intelligence of the public while ar- raigoing the machine of which he is the present ‘‘decoy duck’ for recreancy in the past. He knows that if the machine is restored to power through his election there will be no chacge either in its purposes or practices. * Centre County State Roads. These townships in Centre county have filed petitions for state aid in the recon- struction of roads, under the recent State Highway Act: Snow Shoe, 9,274 feet, Rush two portions, one of 5,237 fees and one of 3,085 feet, or over three miles of roadway. Bids covering the construction of the above roads were received for twenty days prior to August 25th, 1906, and the work finally awarded to the lowest bidders, namely, J. K. Palmer & Co., of Clearfield. The descriptions of the roads are as follows: 9,274 feet of road, 16 feet wide, in Snow Shoe township, extending from the railroad crossing at Clarence to the intersection of Sycamore street and Moshannon avenue, in Snow Shoe. Approximate cost of con- struction, $14,788.04, the State's share being about $11,091.03. 5,237 feet of road, 16 feet wide, in Rush township. the borough line and Ninth streets, pve a LO 16 feet Yidein Rush et r ch a y W practically con- sumes the apportionment to J 1907. This still leaves the entire Soe 1x available June 1st, 1907, aud June irl 1908, unapplied for and gives some of the ‘of ceilings and the obaracter and type of the chandaliers, wiring and everything which is required in the construction and completion of a building for the purpose io which that in question wae to be put, was enumerated! Upon thas information PAYNE & Co., got the contract for a speoci- fied sum, less than $4,000,000. The Capi- tol Building commission asserts that all | those things were furnished by that firm for the amount expressed in their bid. Bus ‘the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings paid $9,000,000 additional, most of which went for things for which PAYNE & Co., had been paid. The crime was not in spending $9,000, 000, though that was in violation of the constitution and subversive of the law. The Board of Public Grounds avd Build- ings has vo right to spend money not specifically appropriated for anything even though there is statutory provision for such ‘expenditore, for the constitution forbids and a statute in conflict with the constitu. yu is null and void and every member of Board of Public Grounds and Buildings is under sworn obligation to “‘support,obey and defend’’ the constitution. But the culpability was in paying Pavynz & Co. for work they didn’t perform and payiog others exorbitant prices for work which PAYNE & Co. were under contract to per- form. These things were done to the ex- tent of several millious of dollarsand every man involved in the fraud is a criminal who ought to be imprisoned. ir. Young's Great Blunder. Roperr K. YOUNG, the machine eandi- date for Auditor General, will hardly sue- ceed in diverting public attention from bis own delinquencies by abusing the candi- dates on the fusion ticket. Daring the ses- sion of the Legislature of 1899 he was what was then called an insurgent but all the time watching a chance to betray the reform movement by joining with others equally insincere to elect the late C. L. MAGEE who bad a standing offer of big money out for votes. After the adjournment of the session he was induced to go along with the machive by the offer of the office of solicitor of the capitol building commis- sion in which position be earned the favor of the machine by keeping quiet while the looting was in progress. : The nomination of Mr. YoUuNa for Audi: tor General was his full reward for recre. ancy to the people as solicitor of the capi- tol bailding commission but with charactes- istic egotism be misinterpreted the incident and ned that he was chosen on ac: count of his high character and exceptional ability, Thereupon he got ‘‘chesty’’ and declared that he wouldn't accept the nomi- by himself. To this impudent proposition Secator PENROSE promptly replied that it didn’t make any difference whether Mr. YOUNG accepted or not aud less candid machine managers expressed the hope that he wouldn't accept. This brought the young jackanapes to his senses and he ac- cepted on any condition and at once pro- ceeded to abuse the opposition candidates. The truth of the matter is that Mr. YOUNG is neither morally nor mentally fis for the office for which be was nominated. He was favored by the machine with the nomination because it was believedjthat in auditing the accounts of the capitol build- ing commission he would be compelled to conceal the truth to secure his own safety and thus he would be guaranteeing the personal liberty of his associates in the looting operations. That this expectation would bave been fulfilled if the facts had not been disclosed by Mr. BERRY, we have no doubt, in the event of his election. But fortunately the graft has been revealed to the people and Mr. Youxc will not be ap- pointed official whitewasher for the gang by his election to the office of Auditor General. —Joy cannot come in the morning to those who cause the night of weeping. So tant ai ba. bas already paid a fair | General The Capitol as an ‘‘lssne.” From the Phila. Ledger.(Ind.) Mr. Stoart’s mild deprecation of the capitol scandal is evidently recognized as inadequate. The Advisory Com- mittee has ow come to the of the with a panic-stricken plea for a of jadgment until after the election. Just at this time, when we were r- ing to point with pride to the new tol, the committee is compelled, on the contrary to view with alarm a disposition to make he suse of 4s complative 4 political issue.’ expenditare of a trifle of $9,000, 000 by a Republican Governor and Auditor ren ptgority 58 » Repol re. are to fast so that which is good’’—however expensive—and to elect anotler Governor and Anditor General and another Legis- latare selected by the same on, and trust them not to do so any more. v press no opinion apon this monumental ex- tra bas to give a vote of renewed confidence to those responsible for it, on the promise that a new Organization Legis- lature will “‘investigate,” and thas the law under which $9,000,000 bas been se- cretly expended shall be “amended or re- pealed,’! exposure baviog made its forthur operation impracticable. We should never bave had this exposure if we bad not elected an opposition State Treasurer. We shall not get to the hottom of the business till we have elected an op- position Auditor General who will tarn over the accounts, and an independent Legislature that will have nothing to pro- tect or to conceal. It will not serve to shift the respouvsibil- ity for this scandal po Peony- , however willing he may be to bear t. The act of 1805 dates back long before his time, and the new Capitol has produced a constant series of scandals from its in- ception. New Governors and new Legis- Intures came in, to do what acd Daor- bam Penrose com ed, and the only change was to greater secrecy and ening extravagance. it i hos a continued Organization job, of which these ‘‘furnishing’’ contracts are bus the Slwiantion, Governos Pengy. packer’s part in it on ustrates the in- sufficiency of merely pi Fon men while the system that controls them hindered. If Penn these millions of anybody knowing it, how many millions bave been similarly spent on less respon- sible authority? To ask the people of Pennsylvania to ““hold fast’’ to such a system as this, upon whatever pretext, is to insult their intelli- gence. They have heen hoodwinked long enough. There is no ‘‘political issue’ in all this, bot simply an isene of public in- tegrity and security, and we mistake their temper if they do not express their judg- ment upon it in no uncertain terms. Rev. Wood in California. Tha following concerning Rev. John A. Wood in California member of the Central Pennsylvania Methodist Episcopal confer- evce is taken from the reports of the Metho- dist Episcopal conference held at Riverside, California. last week. The information is from the Los Angeles Times of Friday last. ‘‘Matters have become a little more com- plicated by the appearance on the scene of Dr. J. A. Wood, whose father died in the Methodist barness at Sonth Pasadena, not many months ago, and the son has come to be with his widowed mother. Dr. Wood has been in the service for many years, and comes directly from the leading puipite in Central Pennsylvania Conference. Tyrone, Bellefonte, Lock Haven, Williamsport and Carwensville are pulpits that only an able preacher can command. He has not yet been transfered to this conference, put hopes to be, and his eminent standing in the east bas caused his name to he associated with West Adams church, of Los Angeles, for which Dr. MocLish is slated. The sug- gestion comes from one in close touch with affairs, and who can see through a stone wall, as far as the next fellow, that there are prospects that Dr. McLish may be transfered to Topeka." The West Adams street church is jost a new on and is in the most aris- tooratic section of Los Angeles. It bas now a membership of only 200 but is éecting a church that when completed will cost about nation exoeps on conditions to be laid down | $60,000. The Capitol Scandal. From the Blossburg Advertiser. The secret spending of the $9,000,000 on the furnishing and Whaming of the State capitol at Hocrishars by consent of Governor Penn er, State Treasurer Matthues and ever other State in the adherents and allies of the old Quay that are now doing all in their power to continue the old methods, hes HH i i § i i 3 i R28 % g.382 iit g f g ; gs ~Sabscribe for the WATCHMAN. — —————————————————— Spawis from the Keystone. —Reports from Perry county are to the ef- fect that wild turkeys are more numerous this season than for many years past. ~Edward Welch, of Orbisonia, Hunting- dou county, recently caught an eel which measured four feet and weighed six pounds. —Solomon Cook, who resides at Cook's station, on the East Broad Top railroad, has a crop of over 1,000 bushels of fine apples this season. —The Bolivar National Bank has triomph- ed over the difficulties which caused it to close some time ago and was reopened on Saturday last. Since the beginning of the present year Pottsville has had 269 deaths and only 247 births. The Pottsvillians will have to do better than that. ~The tobacco growers of Clinton county will receive $100,000 for their crop of 1906 which was grown on 533 acres, the tobacco on each acre bringing over $187. —The telegraph operators of the Shamokin division of the Reading railway have been notified that their wages have been increased $5 aud $10 a month, respectively. The ad- vance took effect October 1. —Oscar Schmeyer, a notorious horse thief, who is wanted in three States, has been sen- tenced by Judge Heydt at Mauch Chunk to five years in the eastern penitentiary and to pay a fine of $500. He was convicted of hir- ing a horse from a liveryman and selling it. —W. W. Reading, of Mill Hall, Clinton county, is a patient in the Lock Haven hos: pital, suffering from a broken knee cap. Ho was thrown from a wagon in an accident and the bone was hioken. Itis the second time that he has been injured in the same man- ner. —An investigation by the county commis. sioners of Schuylkill county, it is alleged, has shown a shocking condition of the in- sane patients due to the inability of the State to provide quarters for the insane of that county. The state institutions are all over- crowded. ~—Mrs. Jacob Smeigh, of New Bloomfield, Perry county, is critically ill of blood poison- ing. Last summer she ran a fork into one of her fingers, and the finger became very sore and finally the end of it dropped off at the joint. It never healed and her whole arm is now terribly swollen. —John Good, - of Barnesboro, Cambria county, was sleeping on a low balcony of the house at which he boarded last Friday night, when he rolled off and his dead body was found on the pavement below Saturday morning. His neck was broken and there was a deep gash in his face. —Dr. Ellwood P. Corson, a Norristown physician, bas been sued by Patrick Naylor and wife for $15,000 damages for his alleged failure to properly set a fracture of the right arm of Mrs. Naylor. Mrs. Naylor wants $10,- 000 for her injuries and Mr. Naylor wants $5,000 for the loss of his wife's services. —One of the biggest lumber deals ever re: corded in Northeastern Penusylvania has been consummated st Milford, Pike county, by the Shahola Falls Lumber company, con. - oon all | 9 ips pe veying to Congressman Wright, of Susque- hanna, timber rights for a considerationof* $200,000. It is said there are 600,000,000 feet of lumber in the tract. —Lientenant Jacob Hawn, of Huntingdon, died at his home a few days ago, aged 80 years. He was a Mexican war veteran, hav. ing been a member of company D, Eleventh regiment, United States Infantry. He was also a civil war veteran, having served three years in company G. Fifth regiment, Penn: sylvania volunteers. At the time of his death he was captain of the camp of the Union Veteran Legion, located at Hunting: don. —A car load of 33 deer came east over the B.R. & P. railroad last Thursday afternoon which attracted the attentionjof many cur- ious people. The animals were all ages and sizes and were all excellent specimens. They» were on their way to Westover and were con." signed to W. F. Mosser, of that place. * They! will be put in & park there and ‘uséd for’ breeding purposes. The deer were’ shipped’ from Belvider, Ill. i —Milton lost its oldest inhabitant last week, in the person of Granite: Hun ter, as she was familiarly ealled, after an ill. ness of about six months. Mrs. Hunter was born April 3, 1800, so that if she had lived six months more she would have passed age of 107 years. She was a nati county, but had lived in Miltob years. Quite an article conld cerning the marvelous progress of the world since Mrs. Hunter was born in'the closing year of the eighteenth century. ~The home of G. B. Runyan, a farmer residing about three miles ‘east of Muncy, Lycoming county, is the target | ‘burglars. His house has been burglarized four “times since May, the last time being on F : when somebody ransacked the hotge from cellar to garret. Trunks were broken' open, bed ticks cat to pieces and bureau drawers rummaged, the ipod evden being a search for money. Mrs. : her 16-year-old son were away, while. Runyan was engaged in husking corn ; field. ot yr —Down in York county the modern girl develops capacity for usefulness along novel lives. In addition to the three girls who rumor says that much of t ent patronage is drawn by miller. * i to a Seattle firm at $5. Sober’s grove covers about 300 acres and is in Irish Valley, about six miles from Shamo- kin. A few years ago it was merely waste mountain land, having been denuded of tim: ber. Upon the native chestnut stock be grafted ' chestnut scions. This was the first real bearing season, but the locusts did such serious damage that he bas only about one-sixth of a crop or 1,000 bushels. written con-. are running a ferry service on the ue. banna, the 10 year-old daughter of Edware 5 Bentzell, of York, has for some’ title past been in complete charge of Bentzell's mill! controlling and manipula the machinery which grinds the farmers’ gheat and rye into flour. Katharine is , and A os ~ -
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