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Bellefonte, Pa., October 19, 1906.
WHO FORCED
THE REFORMS?
Roosevelt's State-Capitol Remarks,
Supplemented With Between.
the-Lines Reading.
Edwin 8S. Stuart, as a drowning man
grasping a straw, reads to his zu
diences the brief paragraph which was
all that President Roosevelt had to
say, in his capitol-dedication speech,
about affairs in Pennsylvania since
the battle of Gettysburg. The presi-
dent did not even mention the exist-
ence of the $13,000,000 (or, as State
Treasurer Berry and Lewis Emery, Jr.,
say, perhaps $17,000,000) state capitol.
In all those 43 years Mr. Roosevelt
found nothing to mention except the
work of last winter's extra session,
which he summarized and commended
as being so far so good. He gave ef-
fusive praise to Senator Knox, who
sat near him, and he made much of
that senator with chatting and hand-
shaking, while he utterly ignored Pen-
rege in the speech, and before and af-
ter, although that senator also sat not
far from the president.
Mr. Roosevelt did not even make
the slightest reference to the congres-
sional fights in the state. His abso-
lute and complete avoidance of any-
thing that could be construed by the
gangsters as offering them the least
encouragement in the present state
fight. was studied and glaring. The
president practically acknowledged
that his reai Republican friexds were
not of the corrupt political dynasties
the elder Cameron to Boles Pen-
roze, all of which and whom he avoid-
ed the remotest reference to, but were
in the Lincoln Party, which, in state
and municipal affairs, casts off parti-
sanship in order to eliminate the pub-
lic thieves from the local govern-
ments, and gives the people the legis.
lation and executive management that
will release them from the bondage of
the combined political corruptionists
and lawless corporations.
And yet Candidate Stuart pretends
to get comfort out of the few Roose-
velt words upon which the only reas.
enable interpretation is that the Gang-
sters, after the political and state rev-
olution put William H. Berry in charge
of the state treasury, got badly frigh-
tened and hastened to grant a little
of what had been so insclently denied
for more than a generation. A mos!
telling way of submitting this whole
matter to the people is in the follow-
ing editorial in the Philadelphia Even.
ing Telegraph (Republican) on Octo- |
ber 6:
But Who Did it?
In addressing the citizens of Penn-
sylvania =2t the $13,000,000—possibly
the $17,000,000—capito!l dedication yes-
terday, President Roosevelt said:
You have placed the offices of the
secretary of the commonwealth and the
insurance commissioner u an hoa:
orable and honest basis of salary only
by abolishing the fee system;
But what did it? The force of
public sentiment in revolt against the
7. John J. Green. ™ .
Fusion candidate for Secretary of Inter.
nal affairs. A lawyer of acknowledged
~ability, the terror of election crooks
and a citizen whose personal wortt
and pure life silences even the lying
tongues of the political slanderers.
-
Penrose Organization, which had ad-
ministered those offices for graft.
you have 2 law com the
officers employes of great cities te
attend to the duties for w they ar¢
ne pow
But what did it? An aroused cifi-
zenship, commanding that the Pen-
rose Organization should no longer pol.
lute the public service and hold the
people under the yoke of their paid
servants.
ve prohibited the solici
Tonto
TE ane a
3 Re ate he" publ
on oT
But what did it? An
z¢nship demanding that
tion should no longer
a public purse and éreate
out of the public service fof
continued debasem:
and
for use
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you have by a law for the protectior
of the elective franchise made tamper:
ing with the ballot boxes and the cast
inz of illegal votes go difficult as in all
probability to be unprofitable; you
ave provided a primary election law
which guarantees to the voters free
expression in the selection of candi-
dates for office;
But what did it? A disgusted citi-
zenship rebelling against the prosti-
tution of the ballot by the Penrose
Organization to perpetuate its contro!
of public affairs to enrich its hench-
men with contract and official loot,
and to stifle investigation.
you have by law regulat2d and im
proved the civil! service systems of you
greatest cities; and finally, you have
passed a law containing a provision
which I most earnestly hope will in
substance be embodied likewise in a
law by the co at the coming
session—a provision prohibiting thc
officers of any corporation from mak-
ing a contribution of the money ol
that corporation to any candidate or
any political committee for the Bn
ment of any election expenses what.
ever.
But who did it? The people déemand-
ing that public office should no longer
be a political reward, and that th
league between the Penrose Organiza-
tion and corporations founded on pub-
lic franchise should cease.
I do not recall any other state legis-
lature which, in a similar length of
time, has to its credit such a body of
admirable legislation.
But who did it? The people, united |
for common decency and common hon-
esty in the administration of their af-
fairs, before whose might and under
whose lash the legislative henchmen
of the Penrose Organization, including |
the most self-sufficient of governors, |
were forced against their will to peni- |
tential deeds, now hypocritically ac- |
claimed as the evidence of their politi- |
cal virtue! i
And the cost to the taxpayers of thug |
doing, in botched and slip-shod fash-
fon, only a little of what those legis-
lators had refused to do in the days |
when they thought that the people '
were under foot for a long time to |
come, if not until the republic should
fall, was more than $250,000. i
REV. SAM JONES DEAD
Noted Evangelist Died On a Train
Near Perry, Ark. |
Little Rock, Ark, Oct. 16. — Rev. |
Sam P. Jones, the well known evan- |
gelist of Cartersville, Ga. died of
heart failure in the sleeping car on |
train No. 4 of the Rock Island Rall
way near Perry, Ark.
Mr. Jones had been conducting a
most successful revival at Oklahoma
City, I. T., and left there for his home
in Georgia. He desired to attend a!
family reunion Tuesday, it being the
59th anniversary of his birth.
Mrs. Jones and his daughters, Mrs. |
Annie Pyron and Miss Julia Jones, |
were with him as he passed away. |!
Mr. Jones arose from his berth in|
the sleeper and complained of nau-
sea. e drank a glass of hot water and |
immediately afterward collapsed. Rev. |
Walt Holcomb, who had been asso
ciated with Mr. Jones for a number of
years, took the dying man in his arms |
and in a few minutes the evangelist |
breathed his last. The body was em-
balmed and was sent to Cartersville.
The funeral services will be conducted |
by Rev. George Stuart, Rev. J. A.
Brown, of Mississippi, and Rev. Walt |
Holcomb. i
ADDICKS’' FARMS SOLD
To Satisfy Judgment For $50,000
Against Gas Man.
Wilmington, Del., Oct. 13.—Under a
judgment obtained by Charles H.
Hinchman, of Camden, N. J, in liti-
gation over the Ruby Match company, |
the following farms of J. Edward Ad- |
dicks were sold by United States Mar- |
shal Flinn: Carr farm, Brandywine
hundred, $16,000; Handy farm, Bran. |
dywine hundred, $5000; mill property, |
Brandywine hundred, $800; small tract |
. of land in Brandywine hundred, $50;
brick yard farm, 102 acres, Newcastle |
hundred, $5000; Riverview farm, 140
acres, Castle hundred. $5000. Total, |
$31,850. The judgment secured by Mr. |
Hinchman against Addicks amounted |
to about $50,000. |
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS DYING
Widow of Confederate President Near
Death in New York.
New York, Oct. 16.—Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, widow of the president of the
Confederate states, is dying of pneu-
monia at the Hotel Majestic. It is
believed that she cannot survive more
than a few hours.
Mrs. Davis had been ill several days,
but it had been believed that she
would recover up to Monday night,
when a sudden change for the worse
was noted.
MEXICAN AMBASSADOR RESIGNS
Senor Sasaus Quits Owing to Failing
‘Health, 4
Mexico City, Oct. 15.—Joaquin D.
Casasus, Mexican ambassador to the
United States, has formally tendered
his resignation to President Diaz, and
it has been accepted. Senor Casasus
gave as his reason for resigning the
fact that for some time past his health
has been seriously impaired. Enrique
C. Creel, governor of the state of Chi-
huahna, and one of the richest men in
the republic, is mentioned as a likely
candidate for the ambassadorship.
BROKEN BONES PIERCED EARTH
Young Chestnutter’s Frightful Mishap
Ended In Death.
Pottstown, Pa., Oct. 15.—The first
fatal accident of the chestnut hunting
hereabouts was that of John Missi.
mer, who died. He fell from a chest-
nut tree at Ringing Hill several days
ago, and both bones of his left fore-
arm were broken off and were forced
into the earth. Tetanus resulted, and
ho suffered terrible agony until death
* him
i then a much harsher word than “ig:
| protect the interests of the common: |
| city committee of Philadelphia anc
.didates now, in the full glare of all
YOUNG PERMITTED “STEAL”
A Word From Him, As Capitol Com-
raission’s Attorney, Would Have
Halted Plundering.
There is cne man who could have
baited the $9,000,060 “extras” graft in
the new capitol. By just taking the
public into his confidence and saying
the word, that one man could not only
have protected his own reputation, but
eal:c have saved the machine at least
that part of its present misery which
the revelations of the capitol “steal”
have caused. That man is Robert K.
Young, of Tioga county, the McNichol-
Penrcse-Martin nominee against
“Farmer” William T. Creasy for audi-
tor general.
Young was the paid attorney of the
capitol (buiiding) commission from
the time when it got down to work, in
1901, under the building act passed
carly in that year, until its president,
William A. Stone. wound up its af-
fairs recently with the boast that the
commission had “completed” the capi-
tol far enough within the $4,000,000
appropriated to turn $40,000 back into
the state treasury. Can Young offer
the excuse that he did not know what
he was paid by the state for knowing?
If so, he would be an incompetent, un-
trustworthy auditor general. If it be
assumed that he is too intelligent not
to have understocd that the board of |
public grounds and buildings were |
seizing the unappropriated millions to
pay for things that were in the speci
fications upon which all the bids for
“completing” the capitol were based,
norant” must be applied to Young.
Call it “ignorance” or worse, Young
remained silent while the bosses who
nominated him continued the deceiv-
ing of the people with the announce:
ment made by Stone to the public.
Young spent his time in Harrisburg, |
as th? commission's lawyer, to see
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THE WALK--OVER SHOES
that the building was put up in ac
cordance with law, and that his dear |
friend, Stone, formerly of Tioga. and |
the other commissioners, should not |
| make any mistake. Nearly all of the |
| “extras” were put into the capitol
while Young was supposed to be
earning his pay by staying around to
wealth. While the lawyers in various |
parts of the state are talking of the |
officials likely to be impeached or |
otherwise punished for their connec |
tion with this colossal crime, they |
have in Young a case for inquiry as to
what ought to be done with a com |
monwealth's “legal adviser” who never
let the public know if he “advised”
against the looting of the treasury tc
cover work and supplies which the
builders of the walls and roof were
paid for furnishing, but did not fur
nish.
Now Young asks the people to elect
him to a position in which he would
“audit” capitol accounts, and, in case
of a legislative probing of the $9,000,
000 graft, would be called upon to co
operate with the investigating ccm !
mittee. If Penrose and pals could
elect the vice-den and ripper voters
whom they have renominated for the
legislature, the character of their
“probing” could be foretold now. In
any event, Young, as auditor general
would not be expected to conviel
Young as solicitor of the commission. |
But Stuart says he would favor “s
rigid investigation.” His record as @
continual dodger of corporation bills
and all other important measures in
the Philadelphia select council, is not
a good reccmmendation for his back
bone. He positively refused, when re.
quested by leading citizens of Phila
delphia, to lend his name with theirs
against the “gas lease” and other out
rages which caused the upheaval icv
city and state. He now stands for the
election of Young, with full knowledge
of the latter's acquiescence in the cap
itol “steal.” What is the value of the
pledge of a gubernatorial candidate’
who wants such an auditor general? |
Stuart says he favors repeal of the
“furniture” act of 1895, but in this he
is backed up by hurriedly adoptad
alarm resolutions of both the gang
the Robbins “auxiliary” campaign com
mittee—selected by Penrose to work
as an “eminently respectable” annex
to that senator's state committee
which Wesley R. Andrews, in con
tempt for Young's now recanted pro
test, continues to head. If Penrose
elected the legislative majority he
could well afford to repeal that act, as
the gang has got all out of it that it
wanted, the capitol being packed tc |
overflowing with the $9,000,000 “fur. |
nishings.” And then Penrose could |
have just the kind of “investigation’
to suit him and Young.
Young's interest in appealing to the
voters to take the advice of Stuart
and re-elect the gang legislators of the
last session is too apparent to need ar
gument. If the election should be sc
split up as to let Young slip in over
Creasy, but to put a majority of hon
est men in the legislature, thsic
would be no chance of whitewashing
the solicitor of the capitol commission.
Stuart's interest for Young may be
explained by his dread that Young's
candidacy alone suffices to drag down
the whole gang ticket. The guberna-
torial nominee, in harmony with his
past trimming, dodging and time
serving, is willing to see any old legis
lative or auditor general candidate
pull through if Stuart could be saved
also. As Stuart is actually defending
and supporting those malodorous can-
their delinquencies, he would not be
expected to turn against them after
the entire gang outfit was elected and
snug in the Harrisburg offices. The
Penrose “investigators” would do the
rest.
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“Quincy Adams Sawyer.’
One of the attractions booked at Gar-
man’s opera house for Tuesday, Deo. 18th,
is ‘‘Quincy Adams Sawyer,’’ the great
| New England drama in its filth season of
uvinterrupted success. Everyone who bas
read the book of the same name from
which the play was taken, will want to se:
the dramatization, and those who bave not
read the book, will want tosee the play
just the same, for everybody loves a clean,
wholesome play of New life, and
this is just what ‘‘Quincy Adams Sawyer’
is.
Best of all it has departed from the
weather beaten tracks of the old-time
drama. The pleasing points are a simple,
sweet love story, a continuous series of
humorous incidents, and an almost here-
tofore unknown naturalness and purity
that pervades the entire play.
To begin with you start at the country
store and postoffice where you see ‘‘Quinoy
Adams Sawyer’ as the city chap helping
his conntry friends and ountdoing his conn-
try enemies. You are made known of the
pretty love affairs of several of the village
young folks and your interest in Mason's
corner folks is firmly established.
Next you find yourself at the Cross.
Roads. Here takes place one of the prettiest
tonches of the play, where iel de-
soribes the surroundings to his blind sister.
The scene shifts to Mrs. Patnam’s sitting-
roomand you meet the ludicrous Samantha,
and grow a bit apprehensive over Lindy’s
affairs which bave get into a curious tavgle. |
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due to them.
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BELLEFONTE.
Next you find yourself as a real hosking-
hee at the Pettengill farmyard. You will
hold your sides in lavghter at the grotesque
dancing of Abner Stiles and Mrs. Crowley.
When you recover, you find that you
are in the midst of a good old-fashioned
snow storm, but you shiver for only a
minute or two, for the interior
of the comfortable Pettengill homestead is
opened to your gaze. Everybody eats sup-
per, all the tangled love affairs are straigh-
tened out and everybody is supremely
bappy. You are happy too, for the joys
and sorrows of those quaint people have
been your own. You go away with the
singing of the doxology liogeting in your
ears, and feeling that you bave tasted a
piece of genuine rural atmosphere.
—*‘What a lovely collection cf odd caps!"
exclaimed a guest, peering into the china
cabinet. *‘Did it e you long to get so
many?”’
“Oh,v0,"" said the hostess, ‘‘those are
samples of the sets we have had in the
last two years!"
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