_—mmsme Bellefonte, Pa., November 2, 1906. QUARTER MILLION TO CARE FOR CAPITOL That's What the Gang Demanded in Scott Bill to “Employ” 166 Care- i takers Under Penny- I packer’s Board. President Pennypacker’s board ef pub- Hic grounds and buildings appear to be able to take care of the new capitol and the grounds; to have the building floors scrubbed, the trees pruned and the squirrels fed all right without the army of employes that would have been “employed” there (killing time in one another's way) as soon as Stone's commission “finished” its work if Phil. adelphia Senator John M. Scott's won- derful bill of the last regular session had become a law. That proposed law would have sad- dled upon the taxpayers a biennial ap- propriation of $251,520 for the care o! the capitol and grounds. The scheme was part of the general plot for capitol t. In the light of recent revela- , the Scott bill is now evidence that, while the people were to be kep! in the dark, the machine bosses and a ew of their legislative servants were deep in the graft plot in the session of 1905. Both houses passed the bill, and Governor Pennypacker stated as his reason for vetoing it that it would be time enough to pay the squirrel keep- ers and other caretakers a quarter of a million dollars biennially from the date of the “completion” of the capitol, which, according to Stone, and even ac- cording to the $620,000 architect, Hus- ton, was done early this year. Let the voter run his eye over the amazing list of all sorts of ‘“‘chiefs” and “assistants,” mechanics, assistan{ mechanics, secretaries, electricians, la. borers, charmen, charwomen, watch- men, messengers, assistant messengers and what not—a total of 166 persons Even Pennypacker's veto seemed to ad- mit that when the capitol would be “finished” all those people would bs wanted to take care of it. If so, how has it been taken care of without them and without the proposed new law dur- ing all the time since the building was “completed?” The date fixed by the building law for “completion” was the first day of this year. Indeed, 21 of the new places were to be filled just after the 1905 session, and yet the su- perintendent got along without them during last year. Has Pennypacker’'s board been caring for the grounds and building during the last nine and one-half months with the annual expenditure of only $18,. 600 allowed by existing law? If so, where is the necessity of adding to that amount, as Scott's bill would have done, $107,160 a year by increasing from 19 to 166 the number - * employes | under the hoard thus appointing 147 new employes? In th~ salaries of the 19 persons authorized by existing law, the Scott bill would have made ia- creases amounting to $2800, including a $2000 addition to the superintend- ant's $3000 salary. Following are the Scott bill's partic- lars of the salary increases and of the proposed 147 employes that were to be added to the old force at the begin- ning of this year: Salary Increases At Once (1905). Superintendent of public nds and buildings, $3000 8000... ... coseassrs en $2,000 1000 to $1100....... t of police, $1000 to $1100 Night watchman, $900 to $1500. 106 Assistant superintendent...... $1,800 istant gardener............ 1,000 POERrY ....... ie Sia ee 904 esganger ............ sess 900 Assistant messenger.......... 480 Florist ............... 900 Conservatory watchman “ee 90¢ Foreman of grounds........... 1,000 Six caretakers, $720 each..... 4320 One carpenter.........;.....s a Six additional park policemen, CARN... ona s sine sciones 5,400 "Total new places at once.... $18,800 To Have Been Appointed When New Capitol Was Finisifed. For the mechanical plant: Chief neer : tresses anne essen anrnns eac stant EEE NY ) Srisemen, $900 each secre m Plumber's helper..........,... mai tenance: netmaker ..... Sessa nsannnans creas alc Thirty-six Twelve elevator sere sssrennn sree ne .s » SrErEANI NENT Esc esann of charwomen........ charwomen, $240 each. Eight Sessa Two female. attendants, $360 STEER AERA Eras Essen Two male ts, $720 each Th male telephone operat- a 50 cay ephe . ————— Additional for new capitol.. $85,66¢ Total annual addition.......". oH 55 Bd be nnn sas esasinnse Annual cost Thus to make the biennial ap- for taking care of capitol and grounds.....$251,62( Of course, a Pennypacker board that secretly abstracted $9,000,000 for “ex- tras” on the capitol, may have had fits own surreptitious way of spending 100 | lieutenants in the regular army, and without warrant of law the quarter of a million called for by the Scott bill Who knows? Such a transaction would be no more astounding than what has been done. Now, the thought for the voters is that as Pennypacker would have ap- proved this $251,520 grab if the capitol had been finished, what better could be expected from another Penrose Gover nor and Gang-owned | lature? The plot of what the Gang has done, and of what more it aimed to do, through the Scott bill, is now laid bare. If the people indorse the Gang on November 6, will not the successful candidates consider that they have popular war. rant from the polls to go ahead ané consummate the stupendous graft? YOUNG EXPOSED AS “FAKE” INDEPENDENT Buncoed the Insurgents For the Benefit of Old Gang Bosses and Always False to His Professions. The hitherto unwritten record of Robert K. Young, “Republican” candi date for Auditor General, proves him to have been from the very outsel just as much of a “false” Independent as he has heen while Solicitor of the Capitol Commission and, later, as on¢ of the four Penrose-Andrews nominees on the state ticket. In 1895 he was state delegate from Tioge county, uninstructed, having heen elected prior to the beginning + the fight to defeat Quay for state chair man. Having posed for several year: as a reformer, the anti-Quay people | expected his vote. Many of them say | that he gave them every reason tc believe tha he would be with them. When he arrived at Harrisburg he was taken in hand by William A Stone and carried to a private house where he could not be found. He was vouched for at the Quay caucus that night and the next day voted for “Jack” Robinson, the Quay candidate for chairman of the convention. The next year, 1896, he was taken up by the Quay managers as a candi date for the legislature and was pu! through against an avowed anti-Quay candidate. When he turned up in the count of the “76” the Quay people were crazy. In 1898 Charles Tubbs was put in the flekl by the Tioga “insurgents” : a candidate for United States senator against Quay. Stone, then a candidate for Governor, had placed a ticket of | state delegates. The “insurgents’ | brought out an opposition ticket and! John Wanamaker went into the coun: | try to make speeches. | { One dark night Mr. Young induced | the anti-Quay state delegates to sien | a statement saying that because Stone | was a native of Tioga they would vote | for him if they wére elected. and that | they believed Stone: could not be con | trolled by Quay The ‘insurgents’ | were so enraged over this that they | refused to vote for the state delegates, | and while Quay lost the county by | 1000, Stone's slated delegates of the | Quay hrand were elected, t While Young as a representative | was playing as an “insurgent” leader | & plan was formed on Capitol Hill tc! - Eo Samson vis erat. omg hems sabe | elect Stone United States senator. The Stone conspirators were to induce | Quay to withdraw from the fight and | ¢hrow his support to Stone—to end | the long deadlock. Young was to be | the Moses to lead enough “insurgents” over to Stone tg make his election | sure. The schem® was discovered and | the “insurgents” were so lined up against it that it had to be aban- doned. A few weeks after that the Governor was allowed to name five he named Young's brother as one of them. The year 1900 was one of “carnage” in Tioga politics. Governor Stone had appointed David Cameron as judge to succeed John I. Mitchell and the anti: machine leaders had brought out Je: rome B. Niles against him. Young was the most active figure in trying to carry enough “insurgents” over to Cameron to elect him. Niles was too strong and he swept Stone's man off the bench by 1000 majority. While the judgeship fight was raging a big contest was going on for the legisla- ture and Young .had been supplied with the “sinews” to conduct the anti Quay legislative campaign. A. B. Hitchcock was running as an avowed “insurgent;” Henry M. Foote as a thick and thin Quay man; W. E. Champaign as a thinly disguised Quay man, but loudly supported by every heeler of the machine in the county. Young refused to assist in running an other “insurgent,” upon the ground that Champaign would be guided by public sentiment in voting for a Unit: ed States Senator. Hitchcock won by an immense majority, and Champaign was nominated over Foote. Cham: paign went to Harrisburg and cast the vote that elected Marshall speaker of the house and made the election of Quay possible. In the same year the “insurgents” were vitally interested in the election of the state senator from Young's dis trict, as it was known that the or ganization of the senate would depend upon one or two votes. The anti-Quay people induced W. W. Crittenden, of Potter, to become a candidate, and the Democrats endorsed him. The last minute, as Mr. Crittenden alleges, Young let go the fight in Tioga, and Myron Watson, a Standard Oil Quay ite, went to the senate, and his vote gave that body to Quay. As the Tioga men put it, Young was responsible for | ably fatally wounded by W. G. Auden- as a poor boy. After graduation he ! 4he loss of both houses of the legisla ture to the machine. Conn nw - Next, Young was appointed by the grace of Stone as attorney for the Capitol Building Commission. One word from Young could have stopped all the graft, but he never spoke that word. When Young was proposed for a place on the state ticket, the Tioga Republicans flew to arms, and Young was forced upon the ticket against the bitter protest of three of the four dele gates, and of all the leading Republi cans of the country. A prominent machine state official who was trying to induce an anti-ma chine leader from Young's county to withdraw his opposition, said: “It you will go along, you and [ can do all the law business before the Auditor Gen eral.” The kicker replied: “I have ne doubt you can do all the business, but there will be nothing for reformers.” In 1902 the anti-machine Republi cans ran Andrew B. Dunsmore, a real Independent. against mis-Representa tive Champaign for representative and soon had the fight practically won Young was chairman of the county committee and was active in the fight for John P. Elkin. He is said to have placed much of the Elkin money, and the anti-ma~hine people declare that every dollar of it was placed where il would do Champaign the most good and Dunsmore the most harm. DILWORTH FLED FROM NEGROES Oxford, Pa., Preacher Tells Son How He Reached Johnstown. Johnstown, Pa., Oct. 27.—Rev. Rich- ard Dilworth, the Oxford minister, who was assaulted by negroes eight days ago, regained partial control of himself when he was greeted at the Memorial hospital by his son, Rich- ard, of Brooklyn. The meeting between them was quite pathetic, Rev. Dil. worth being unable to talk and seem- ing content to hold his boy's hand. Rev. Dilworth told his son that he now seems to be reading the past. He sald: “When I came from Philadelphia last week I was attacked on the street and beaten by three negroes. One had a revolver and threatened to shoot. I went home, and, getting my grip, de- parted. I do not remember of sleeping in theopen or of having been on a trip. Once I heard of New York city, but dont know how I got here. It seems I have been walking and walk- ing.” SHOT IN MISTAKE FOR BURGLAR Son of Prominent Philadelphian Fa- tally Wounded at Bryn Mawr. Philadelphia, Oct. 29.—Mistaken for a burglar, Clayton B. French, son of Harry B. French, member of a firm of wholesale chemists, was shot and prob- reid at the Montgomery Inn at Bryn Mawr, near here. Mr. French had lost his key to the hotel and was endeav- oring to gain an entrance through a window. The window opened into a room occupied by Audenreid ,and as French stepped through the opening Audeareid discharged his revolver. The bullet lodged in French's lungs, and physicians have little hope of his recovery. French, who is a Harvard graduate, is 24 years of age. Mr. Audenreid is a member of a brokerage firm and is prostrated by the unfortunate occurrence. WILLS $122,000 TO STUDENTS Lehigh University Graduate Leaves Trust Fund For Scholarships. South Bethlehem, Pa., Oct. 29.—As a mark of appreciation of Lehigh Uni- versity, from which he was graduated in 1887, from the School of Mines, Frank Williams has left his entire re- siduary estate to the institution in trust, the income to aid poor students. The bequest amounts to $122,000 or more. Mr. Williams entered the university made a fortune in business, largely through the establishment of firebrick plants in the western part of the state. He was only 35 years of age at the time of his death. SHOT DEAD BY DEPUTY James Aiken, of Pyiesville, Md., Killed When He Resisted Arrest. York, Pa., Oct. 27.—Deputy Sheriff John Worthington, of Harford county, Md., shot and killed James Aiken, who he was attempting to arrest at his home at Pylesville, near the York county line. Worthington had a war rant for Aikens’ arrest on a charge of surety of the peace. When he ap- proached Aiken the latter threw an axe at the deputy. Aiken then seized a shot gun, but Worthington shot him dead before he could fire the gun. Miss Rosemary Sartoris Married. New York, Oct. 30.—Miss Rosemary Sartoris, daughter of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris and the late Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris and grand. daughter of the late General U. 8, Grant, was married here at noon to George H. Woolston, of Hibernia, Fla. The wedding took place at the Calvary Episcopal church, Rev. Thornton F. Turner officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Wool- ston left immediately on a wedding trip. Mrs. Sartoris and her daughter returned from Eurcpe Saturday. Mr. Woolston is the owner of a large plan- tation in Florida. Supreme Secretary of Arcanum Dead. Boston, Oct. 29.—William O. Rob- son, supreme secretary of the Royal Arcanum, died of pneumonia at his home in Wellesley Hills, after an ill ness of two days. Mr. Robson was elected supreme secretary in 1877, and has held the office ever since. He was born at Loyal ©®aks, Md. in 1823, COME TO US IF YOU WISH A SQUARE DEAL. a ———————— Sse eo Aree Sear On account of the great advance in the price of hides and leat her it is im- possible to get good shoes cheap. Shoes are higher in price than they have been in many years. Others may tell you they 2re not, but this is the truth. We have as many cheap shoes as ever, but they are not good shoes, THEY ARE SHODDY. With all our ex- perience of over 25 years we have never seen so many poor shoddy shoes as the markets offer for sale this season But on the other hand we have Good Shoes, shoes that are all solid leather and shoes that we guarantee to give satisfaction and wear, but they are not CHEAP SHOES, We have worked very hard to ge. good solid leather Shoes for people who want them. We have shoes made by The Watsontown Boot & Shoe Co., Daytons of Williamsport and many other good makers. The best all solid shoes in the United States are made in Pennsylva- nia and most of our good shoes are made by Pennsylvania makers. Now if you are looking for Good Shoes, we have them, and we assure you that we will not let you out of our store with a pair of shoes that you are not told just how they are made and what they are made of. Every pair we guarantee we will stand back of, but we will not guaran- tee cheap shoes. > The Truth and Nothing but the Truth. YEAGER & DAVIS OPEN EVENINGS. Butter Socotoh.—Boil together for halt an hour one saplal of molasses, two oup- fals of sugar, three spoonfuls of butter,one heaping teas fal of soda, one teaspoon- fal of lemon or vanilla. Stir constantly, and pour on plates to cool. Peanut Candy.—Five cupfule of sugar, six tablespoonfuls of water, four tablespoon. fals of vinegar and vue sablespoonful of butter. Boil without stirring until it hardens in cold water. Pour into buttered pans lined with peanuts, and when nearly cold, mark off in squares. Pepperminte.—Pour one-ball cuplal of boiling water upon two cupfuls of granu. lated sugar. Boil over a quick fire five minutes; add 15 drops of essence of - mint; stir briskly for 15 minutes; then Siop from a teaspoon on buttered plates too cool. Molasses Cocoanut Balls.—Boil a pound of sugar, ball a pint of water and two cnp- fuls of molasses, stirring slightly until it will form a soft ball when dropped in cold water. Stir io all the shredded cocoanut it will hold. Let stand in sau until cold. Make into balls and roll in dry granulated sugar or drop in melted choco- late. Ice Cream Candy.—Boil two pounds of granulated sugar, one cupfal of cold wa. ! ter, with one teabl ful of vinegar, without stirring, till brittle. . Pour on but- tered tins, and when nearly cold, pull rapidly till white and brittle. Medical. A HUMORS Are impure matters which the skin, liver, kidneys, and other organs can not take care of without help, there is such an ac- cumulation cf them. They litter the whole system, Pimples, boils, eczema and other erup- tions, loss of appetite, that tired feeling, bilious turns, fits of indigestion, dull headaches and many other troubles are due to them. HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA AND PILLS Remove all humors, overcome all their ef- forts, strengthen, tone and invigorate the whole system, “I had salt rheum on hands 1 could not work. Teak Coe pace hat rilla and , sores » I He Denver. Hood's la ises to eaets Sarsupneil prom cure and a HIGH STREET, BELLEFONTE. ———— Ar A It wasn’t a Missouri editor but a prin- ter’s devil who was going through his first experiment of making up forms, The paper was late and the boy got the galleys mixed. The first part of the obitu- ary notice of a penurious citizen had been dumped in the forme, and the next hand- ful of type come off a galley describing a recent fire. It read like shis: “The pall bearers lowered the body to the grave and as it was being consignedto the flames, there were few if any regrets. For the old wreck had heen an eyesore to the town for years. Of course there was individual loss, but that was fally covered hy insurance.” The widow thinks that the editor wrote the obituary that way because the lamented partner of her joys and eorrows owed him five years’ subscription. ——Towne—So Dumley married a col- lege woman. My ! it must he fierce for him to he tied to a woman who knows so much that he doesn’t know. Browne—O ! that doesn’t hurt so much as the fact that she knows, ‘‘how’” much he doesn’t know. RH SA BOE WR AOD. Coal and Wood. JEPVARD K. RHOADS Shipping and Commission Merchant, ne DEALER [New ANTHRACITE axp BITUMINOUS jFeres ~=CORN EARS, SHELLED CORN, OATS —- snd other grains. —BALED HAY and STRAW— | BUILDERS’ and PLASTERERS' SAND «eee KINDLING WOOD by the bunch or cord as may sait purchasers. Respectfully solicits the patronage of his friends and the public, at weer HIS COAL YARD... Plumbing etc. A. E. SCHAD Fine Sanitary Plumbing, Gas Fitting, Furnace, Steam and Hot Water Heating, Slating, Roofing and Spouting, Tinware of all kinds made to order, Estimates cheerfully furnished. Both Phones. 1243-1y Eagle Block. BELLEFONTE, PA Telephone. OUR TELEPHONE is a door to your establish- which much business enters KEEP THIS DOOR OPEN by answering your ealls ptly as you would TRE good service, If Your Time Has Commercial Value, If Promptness Secure Business. 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