Bellefonte, Pa., October 26, 1906.
GOVERNOR FRANTIC
AT BERRY'S EXPOSE
If only Mr. Berry should remain after
the coming election to stand for the
people in Harrisburg, he would, of
course, accomplisk much, but he would
remain hampered, as he is in the pres-
ent board of public grounds and build-
ings, with Governor Pennypacker and
Auditor General Snyder refusing to
answer his pointed questions about the
enormous graft. But with William T.
Creasy as Auditor General, Emery as
Governor, an anti-machine majority in
the legislature and Jere Black presid-
ing over the senate, there would be a
clear track to complete exposure, not
only of the original $25,000,000 con-
spiracy, but also of all particulars of
the $9,000,000 for “extras.”
“Let us confound that bs ovler” (Ber-
ry), said Pennypacker to Sayder, just
after Berry made the firs. disclosure.
But the Governor has confounded
himself and the bosses whom he has
served. Berry is charitable enough to
say that the Governor did not know
he was being fooled by such graft as
paying for the $2,000,000 chadeliers by
the pound, at a rate about eight times
their value; or the clear “steal” of
$400,000 by Congressman Cassel's
“company” in net profits on the metal
work which that “company” did not
really do nor furnish. But the fatuous
Governor continues trying to cover up
all the “steals.” This is shown by his
having invited three editors, one of
whom, Charles H. Heustis, editor of
the Gang organ, the Philadelphia In-
quirer, is Pennypacker's appointee as
health officer, and draws $7100 a year
pay out of the taxpayers’ money, to ex-
amine the minutes of the board of P.
@G. and B., and see if everything is not
right—just as if looking at the min.
utes could make black white, the pub-
lic already possessing the proofs of de-
ception and graft, and only waiting to
ascertain into whose pockets the ab-
stracted millions went.
How Stuart and Young Would “Probe.”
There was far more in Pennypack-
er's record, as a judge and a scholar,
to warrant expectation of good things
from him as Governor than there is in
Stuart's. Pennypacker has been at
least bull-headed enough to have his
own way in a few things. But Stuart
is shown by the official records of his
five years’ career as Select Councilman
to have been an absentee or dodger
whenever any particularly important
measure, or even a slight matter affect-
ing any sort of corporation came be-
fore the chamber. He also dodged in
Councils everything raising conflict be-
tween the people and the bosses. Af |
the beginning of the municipal and
state revolution he was waited upon
twice by committees of representative
workingmen and businessmen, who re-
quested him to either attend or let his
name be used at the town meetings
of protest against the “gas lease,” pas-
senger railway grabs and other piun-
«ering, but he flatly refused, and be-
took himself to the cyclone cellar, pull-
ed down the door upon himself, and re-
mained fastened in until Penrose, Me-
Nichol and Martin nominated him for
Governor,
And now Stuart is striving to make
Robert K. Young Auditor General.
Young was paid by the state as legal
adviser of the capitol commission
throughout all the grafting, and re-
mained mum when the Gang, in order
10 influence the coming election, was
boasting that the capitol had been fin-
ished within the original $4,000,000 ap-
propriation. He was officially a party
to the scheme to keep the people in
ignorance of the secret but steady
march onward toward the $25,000,00
goal of graft. Yet a single word from
Young any time since 1901 would have
Malted the entire series of official
«crimes and misdemeanors, and shown
«the people that he was honestly en-
titled to the money they were paying
him. Now he wants to be elected to
the position in which, above all oth.
ers, he could guide a legislative inves-
tigation of the capitol piundering.
Young, as Auditor General, be inclined
to convict himself?
They Back White-Slavers’ Friends.
. Net only is Stuart backing Young,
but both Young and Stuart are sus-
taining the candidacy of more than
50 of the worst members of the last
legislature, who are now renominated,
despite their having voted against ev-
erything good, and supported all that
was vicious, including the bills that
-almed to protect the white-slavers,
speak-easies and all sorts of vice dens
in Philadelphia by putting D. C. Gib-
‘boney and the Law and Order Society
out of business. The kind of capitol
investigation that would be had if
‘those “roosters” were re-elected can be
easily imagined. Stuart professes to
want an investigation, but he wants
it to be done by the derelict and de-
linquent “Bob” Young and the renom-
inated legislative henchmen of Pen-
rose, McNichol and Martin.
It is argued by the Gang that there
is not a whisper against the personal
honor of Stuart. But the same was to
be said of Pennypacker before he be-
came Governor, and Pennypacker's
backbone, pliant as it has proved it-
self, is infinitely stronger than Stuart's,
Yet Pennypacker has been, from first
to last, in humiliating and most dis-
Sr em,
creditable subjection to the Gang
“system.” He has sanctioned some of
the worst of its logislation, and he
has connived, without a protest, at the
gigantic wrong perpetrated by the man
who squandered $9,000,000 upon “ex-
tras” in the capitol. If Stuart, with
an equally good character, but with
nothing in his known qualities to prove
that he is even as strong as Penny-
packer, gives better promise of sound
policy than Pennypacker did, the basis
of that promise remains hidden.
Penrose the Real Governor.
The $9,000,000 capitol robbery is not
an isolated and exceptional incident.
It is the culmination, the full, final fru-
ition of practices of graft, of recklesz
extravagance, of manipulation of pub-
lie funds, which have been followed for
vears by the gangsters who have mis-
rule] Pennsylvania. Nothing quite so
daring and monstrous has been at-
tempted at one coup heretofore. No
single act of graft upon a scale so gi-
gantic has been donc, because never
before was there so favorable a chance
and pretext. But the Gang “sytem”
has perpetuated larceny, from “petty”
to “grand,” as a familiar, everyday
practice, year in and year out. As a
little instance, it may be mentioned
that it was not surprising that Paul
W. Houck, treasurer of the pharma-
ceutical examining board, was $12,000
short in his aczounts, Houck is a typi-
eal product of the system which put
Stuart and Young on the state ticket,
and made “Joe” Hunter head of the
state highway department. Hunter
was expected to give the farmers good
roads with the $6,500,000 appropriated
to his department, but his most nota-
ble achievement, as exposed by Mr.
Emery’s showing a letter signed by
Hunter, is in confessing his crawling
subserviency to Boies Penrose, whose
word is proclaimed by Hunter to be
faw in the state highway department.
It turns out that Houck is the man
who won over by hook or crook—no
doubt by crook—the renegade Demo-
erat, William J. Galvin, of Schuylkill
county, to support Quay for United
States senator in 1901. Ever since that
time Penrose has strained his influence
and his resources to keep Houck in a |
comfortable office. On account of his |
embezzlement he must get out of his
present office, but if the Republican
ticket were elected Penrose would find
him another place elsewhere, very like.
ly under “Joe” Hunter. The recreani
Gaivin is said to be on the payroll of
the department of agriculture. The
Gang is not ungrateful to the rascals
who serve its ends.
No Good Roads From Gang.
Hunter, who is not in the scoundrel
class, may have meant as well in re.
gard to the public roads as Stuart says
he does, as to the Governor's office
and the capitol investigation. But Hun.
ter, in confessing over his signature
that he “made no appointments until
I had consulted Senator Penrose,”
prompts the query: “What has Pen-
rose to do with road building?’ The
answer is: “Nothing more than this
that the Gang claimed the highway
department as its perquisite, and Hun.
ter could not be permitted to give a
trained engineer a place into which
Penrose could thrust a ballot box stuf.
fer, a thug, a briber, or some other
knave whom the Gang wished to re
pay for service rendered. Naturally
the farmers will ask if their repre.
sentatives would dare vote in the com:
ing session to give $5,000,000 to a de.
partment controlled by Boies Penrose
and by creatures who do his bidding
In the very hour when Emery was ex
posing Hunter, Stuart's colleague, Mur.
phy, candidate for Lieutenant Gover
nor, with Stuart compiacently listen.
ing, declared that “bossism no longe:
existed in Pennsylvania.”
There is no telling how many more
such reputations as Hunter's, Penny-
packer’s and Stuart's would be wrecked
by the Gang bosses if William H. Ber
ry’s election and success as a “lid
lifter” had not done so much toward
assuring the people that Stuart will
not get the chance to destroy himself,
and that a full array of trusted and
competent servants of the taxpayers
will soon be officially installed in Har.
risburg.
Berry's Word, or the Machine's?
An opera-bouffe ture is given to the
capitol controversy by the “Republi-
can State Advisory Committee,” which
is one of the “eminently repsectable”
elements that have attempted to keep
a cloud of dust in the people's eyes
until after the election. This commit.
tee, which is an annex to Wesley R
Andrews’ state committee, collaborat-
ed with Candidate Young, and then
gave out a statement denying that the
abstraction of the nine millions had
been secretly dome. The people's an-
swer to this is that they knew nothing
about it until Berry spoke out. The
“statement” declared also that there
was “no extravagance. Is the word
of that committee to be taken against
Treasurer Berry's assertion that “there
was at least $1,000,000 of graft in the
$2,000,000 chandeliers?” that “more
than $1,000,000 in the $1,500,000 for
metal-filing cases was graft?” that “s
bunch comprising T. Larry Eyre, Con.
gressman Cassel and William W. Griest
composed the metal-filing case com.
pany, which had no plact to do the
work, and yet, after they got the con-
tract, received an advance payment
from the state?” that “the item of
wood floors, $7100, in the original con.
tract was waived, and a floor costing
$167,000 substituted by the board of
P. G. and B.?” that “sculpture, wain.
sccting, decorating, glass Mosaic, fire
places, tile floors, wood floors, mantels,
vaults and safes, drinking water plant,
telegraph system, thermostats, ete,
were all specified in the original build.
ing contract, and yet paid for the board
pan amen 9
of P., B. and G., and that the prices of
these, with the $303,693 for fitting up
the eighth floor, made a grand total of
$3,238,121 spent by that board in de-
flance of the plain mandate of the
law?”
Will the public believe that gang
campaign committee as against Berry
in his assertion that, in addition to the
foregoing count of a terrific indictment,
there has been spent $4562252 for
“furnishings” In accordance with: the
letter of the law, of which at least
“$2,000,000 was overcharge?’ that the
items thus overcharged were “chande-
liers and brackets, bacarat cut glass
panels, bronze decorations, filing cases
and furniture?” that a “proportionate
overcharge is probable in the other
$4,000,000 of expenditures, but nothing
short of a rigid investigation by experts,
empowered to subpoena witnesses, will
reveal the whole truth?” that “some of
the chandeliers were made to weigh
as much as 4,000 pounds, and costing
more than $206,000 each?’ that more
than 300,000 pounds of bronze was put
into these chandeliers, costing the
maker 30 cents a pound, or $590,000?"
that the work upon them cost, say
twice as much more, making $270,000,
and sold to the state for $1,600,000,
showing an overcharge of at least a
million dollars in this one item?” that
“the glass globes and panels were
‘extra,’ and cost $138,757.09?" and that
“every item on this schedule Is open
to the same criticism and the estimate
1 have made of the total overcharge is
extremely conservative?”
Berry's Appeal to All Voters.
The folowing concluding remarks of
Mr. Berry, in his Bellefonte speech,
after going into the minutest details
of the foregoing exhibit of overcharges
and violations of the law, are sufficient,
without any figuring at all, to decide
the coming election for the anti-graft
candidates, state and local:
But, gentlemen, a carpet or a capitol
may be Yet fine, and yet have woven
into every fibre of its structure the fig-
ures of t and corruption by the
people who build it. Just so a state.
And, grand and glorious as is our com-
monwealth, she has been permeated
from centre to circumference with graft
and corruption by those who have fig.
ured largely in the recent history.
Nothing is too for Pennsylva.
nia. I believe in liberal expenditures
of public money, when collected from
the right sources and spent fo proper
purposes; and yet I read as tae final
count in this indictment the charge of
gross extravagance,
Conceding, for the sake of argument,
that the expenditure has been legally
made, and that no graft or overc
can be traced in any part of it. I hold
that the erection of such a palatial
building for the use of a few men, and
the gratification of the pride of a larg.
er umber, is a jhout i while
mi worthy c¢ es and necessary
ublic works are denied the suppori
hey need. My sense of comfort in the
sumptuous quarters we occupy is mar-
red the thought that the helpless
wards of the state are suffering for
common necessities, and the in {
insane are sleeping and dying in the
corridors of the over-crowded asylums
of the state, appropriations for which
have been denied and vetoed to k
the money in the treasury, so that this
building scheme and the farming oul
of the surplus could continue,
This whole matter needs to be inves.
tigated. We are about to choose the
men who are to do it. Shall we choose
the men whose political interest lies ir
exonerating the politicians who have
made it possible? For instance, Mr
Young, the candidate for Auditor Gen-
eral, whose head ap in bronze
upon the door, and who drew a salary
$2000 per year as attorney for the
commission. Is he the man to put in
ec e of the records from which alone
the facts may be ascertained? I dc
not think so.
Will Go to Court, Ail Right.
The “Advisory Committee” (Wesley
R. Andrews’ annex), in its ridiculous
effort to make the public believe thal
a real argument is being put forth by
the Gang for a “suspension of populal
jugment until all the facts shall be
krown,” plays the pitiable bluff of
challenging Mr. Berry to take the mat.
ter into either the civil or criminal
courts, or both. It should not be ne.
cessary to remark that the courts coulé
not do anything with such a case be-
fore the election, occurring a little
more than three weeks from the dats
of the frantic challenge of the affright-
ed bosses. The cases will be taken t¢
court, all right, and there is little fea:
that the people will let a Penrose-Mar-.
tin-McNichol Governor, Auditor Gener.
al, state legislature and other state
officers prepare the case for the courts
after laying bare the criminals and
beneficiaries of the stupendous graft.
While Peanypacker, as head of th¢
board accused by Berry of the tramp:
ling upon the law, and of squandering
the $9,000,000, was either sanctioning
the vast plunder or was blind to it
he vetoed in 1905 bills upon bills for
worthy charities, until the total amount
thus denied by him amounted to $2,
500,000. All this was wanted for graft
and could not be spared to the deserv.
ing unfortunates of the state. He sign:
ed bills for the multiplication of sine.
cure offices and salaries, but when s
charity bill came before him he wrote:
“Vetoed for the reason that the fi
nances of the state do not warrani
such expenditures at this time.” No
not at that time, when the Gang had
their arms up to the elbows in the
treasury, scooping out the millions of
capitol plunder in the light of the dark
lantern.
inhumanity to State's Wards.
While those millions were being thus
grabbed for the private benefit of mer.
cenaries of the Gang, the patients of
the hospitals for the insans were suf:
fering for want of sleeping accommo:
dations. Investigations made withir
the last few days show those institu
tions to be shockingly overcrowded
the helpless creatures being obliged tc
sleep in the corridors. The sanitary
conditions are such as to endanger the
health of patients and nurses, and
there is a woeful lack of facilities tec
care for the unfortunates. The rec
ords prove that these facts were be-
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fore the last legislature, but that the
needs of the insane asylums were ig-
nored in order that millions might be
available for state capitol “trimmings.”
In the Warren Hospital light and fresh
air are denied to the patients, and those
suffering from acute mania have noth.
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What Are You Going to Do About It?
And so on could this tragic narrative
of inhuman neglect of the state's help-
less wards be continued. But enough
has been sketched of the robbery of
the poor, the crippled and the insane
by the band of bandits, who turned
heartlessly away from the appeals of
the sufferers in order to pile up the!
state capitol loot for themselves.
The people have paid dearly for!
trusting, four years ago, in Pennypack-
er's personality and record as a judge.
Stuart has a weaker personality, and
2, record as a dodger and non-comba-
tant. He never fought anything or
anybody, and couldn't fight if he tried. |
With such a nerveless man in the
Governor's chair, and with an Auditor
General who hid the state capitol rob-
bery, and a Gang legislature to thwart
Berry, it would seem too late to pray,
“God save the commonwealth!”
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