” T av Pe. GRAY MEEK. ink stings. Rips. 148 ¥ c=-Hurrah for Texms, gt —Hurrah for NOLL. a “Hurrah for Missouri. ,~—Hurrsh for Oklahoma. —Hurrah for DIMELISG. \—Harrah for J adge HALL. Honk for Rhode Island. '—Hurrabh for North Dakota. -—Hurrah for Senator HALL. yz usa for the big gain we made in ¥ “EH artis five Congressmen we ] gaiped io this State. —There is a good bis for the Devore wo hurrah for, after all. _—Hurrab for she thirty vew Dewooratie Members of the House in Pennsylvania. _—Mr. HEARST soared them some in New York, if be dido’s get to be the Governor. ““Clearfield county evidently thinks somethidg of Mr. DIMELING, our next Senator. _—Cotraps and sonehted Pennsylvavia will keep | ber skeletons bidden in the gavg closet a few years longer. ttt —I¢ "is all over now and we might as well settle down contentedly to get ready for Thanksgiving aud Christmas. Peonsylvaiiia not being ready to be relormed yes we reformers. will simply bave to wait unsil she dear old State is. —Mr. Giutogy.s defeat for district ate torney of P “in not as much of a loss to Mr. igersien, is to the christian people of that oity. . —Seuator PENROSE and postmaster Tox HARTER are the victors. They are entitled to all the Is they can get ; since that is all that excites them to work. ~From a purely, Democratic standpoint it wasn’t so bad. We gained in Repre- sentatives, Senators, Congressmen and county officials throughout the State. —Senator PENROSE has been endorsed in Pennsylvavia. He bas every claim on his party for re-election. The issue was almost exclusively PENROSE and be has won. —Col. Jonx A. DALEY and bis friends in Curtin township stoed ont to the finish against the combination that bowled the Colonel ont of a chance to get to the Legis- latare. —The peculiar action of the stock market alter the annouucement cf the election re- sults makes it look as if the money classes hadn’e gotten all the comfort out of it they would like to have, —The returns from the conntry districts seem to indicate that the most of the Granger desire for representation and a fair deal in the state government expends itsell in talking, not voting. — PENROSE, PENNYPACKER and public plunder are endorsed in Pennsylvania. At what a frightful sacrifice of public con- science has the imaginary vote of confidence in President ROOSEVELT heen recorded. —It was a nice clean election in Centre county. No hooze, no hoodle, no bad feel- ings. And the verdict was a small one in | favor of clean government, notwithstand- ing the indifference of hundreds who staid away from the pollo. —That solid wahogavy putty aud plaster paris combination certainly did put a crimp in us LINCOLNites--Democrats--Pro hibitionists and civic righteousness shout. ers. We have the cause, all right enough, but they seem to have the votes. -—With thirty new members of the Legis- lature, several new Senators, six new Con- gressmen in this State, the Governors of several others and the Republican majority in Congress cut down by hall there is surely much to feel thankful for. — 1 Crow for Senator Dimeling. —-The position that Col. Epwarp R. CHAMBERS finds himself in just now is one that i« likely to make some of the other local gang leaders a little jealous. The Colonel stamped part of the State for STUART and is entitled to a ‘‘stand-in’’ at Harrisburg as well as the right to a little extra chestyness which, we presume, bas already shown itself. —The great gain of Members of the House, Senators and Congressmen made by the Democrats in Pennsylvania could not have heen viewed as a Democratic victory bad the Republican gang not so persistent- ly injected national issnes into the contest © in'this State and tried to divert public at- tention from the teal local issues toa rally around the President. They made the _ rally avd the result cannet be looked on in any other light than that of a rebuke to the President for interfering in a local contest. —It iz strange that the same sentiment that soccessfully appealed to the ‘‘hefter " class” of Democrts to help overthrow Hearst in New York didn’t have much effect on she ‘‘better class’ of Republicans in. Peonsylvania. It is the old cace of ‘whose ox is gored’ however and the Demo- crata are left to do the business of putting the country’s good above party preference with the resolt that their's is usually snow water. It is cold comfort, but the best kind of comfort to feel that a duty has been per- The Criminals Must Suffer. | The i over hab he ian ae not determined. action because they i however ‘the contest ended the question of giait in tiie oapitol construction will be forgotten or neglected. Is was simply a campaign tcare, many earnest and anxious people de- clare, aud now that the purpose has been achieved and its usefulness spent, it will “be allowed to disappear in oblivion. There is no use in keeping up an agitation on the subject, they think the leadeis of political thooght will conclude and the whole sub- ject might as well be dropped. There is nothing further from the puor- poses. Now that STUART has been elected Governor he cannot escape the necgssity of a thorough and searching in- vestigation of the charges of grafle. Of course trust magnates are not likely to he too severe in their criticism of trusts even if exigencies require a pretense of investi gation and possibly an inquiry conducted under the auspices of the machine will be more or less a whitewash. But bappily the investigation will not he left to the friendly agents of those who are or rather were concerned in the operations. The inquiry will be made by earnest men who are determined to expose the facts and the result will be a complete exposure. The grafs in the construction of the capi- tol is a frightful and shameful fact and it must be completely exposed and those con- cerned in it adequately punished. It may seem hash to contemplate SAMUEL W. PEXNYPACKER as a criminal. But that is precisely what he is and there is no reason under the sun why be should escape the penalty while some of the lesser lights in the conspiracy should be condemned. The time has come when equality before the law is to e a fact rather than a the- ory, and titled criminals should be wade feel the severity of the law just as certainly as the mendicants. Weaver Revealed Himself, Mayor The people of the State as well as the citizens of Philadelphia are to be congratu- lated on the fact that Mayor WEAVER has revealed himself. ere is nothing more dangerous to reform than a bogus reformer. Real friends ot civic progress are held aloof from reform movements by the presence of selfish and sinister leaders. From the be- gioning of the present reform it has soffer- ed, more or less on thas account, for Mayor WEAVER has been under suspicion all the time. The fact that he has gone back to the machine, therefore, is a happy avgury. That ‘‘you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear,” and it would be quite as impossible to make a reformer out of a crook like WEAVER. As Distriot Aitorney, under sworn obligation to conserve the in- terests of the Commonwealth in the crimi- nal coart, he fixed a jury in order to pro- cure the acquittal of SAMUEL SALTER after be bad practically confessed his guilt. Subsequently when he had been promoted as a reward for his perfidy, he became an active participant in the partnership be- tween the police authorities and the erimi. nals of the city. WEAVER'S purpose in professing reform was selfish. He hoped to promote absurd political ambitions by making a false pre- tense of civic rightousness. He wants to be Governor and conceived the idea that professing reform would help him to the achievement. He made application to every party but was rejected. Thereupon he undertook to act as a hoss and dictate the policies as well as the candidates of ths reform party. This was of course prepos- perous and because the pretensions were resented, he has lefs the city party and abandoned reform. Which Was 111? After looking over the returns from Peunsylvania, Mr. ROOSEVELT should find no trouble in coming to the concinsion that sometimes it is better to leave well enough alone. Two years ago the people c! this State expressed their confidence in bim by giving him the unprecedented majority of over 500,000. Oa Tuesday last, after in- jecting himself into the campaign, and sending two of his personal representatives here : Mr. JoE CANNON ; notorious for his opposition to organized labor, and Mr. PRILANDER C. KNox, the acknowledged spokesman of the most oppressive corpora- tions in the Commonwealth—to plead with the people to again show their confidence in him by voting for the machine ticket, he comes out of the tussle with the beggarly majority of less than 70,000. This as against 500,000 but two years ago is cer- tainly » showing without wuch credit in it for the President. If it is not an intended and deserved rebuke to him it must be taken as a decline in the popularity of, and confidence iv, President Roosk- VELT of a greased lightning brand, for surely no one ever fell faster, or came down flat. ter. % Which of the two it is, is no concern of ours, but Mr. RoosEVELY’'S friends, and the formed. backers of the old machine, for whom he STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BOROUGHS 2 F 'E TOWNSHIPS, : gs =| BE § | 198 149 61 of w “ 2 id i 19 a | 30! [119 | ® | 9 4 | 60) 47 MM 20 | 39 45) 6 | 1811 88 ses i M15 1 4501 46 IE. 121 64 IW. {481 IN. (~e8|l 7 E. 104 25 a 8m) o anes IW. P.... 80 13, 61 Halfmoon | cernryar 0, 7 Hartly: 124 5 Howard ‘es | 68] 59 60 Huston jr 3) || 3 Liberty IW. 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WM $1] 1} 77 40 null 75) 581 Tv] 3 11 98) 35|| 74] 6] 18) s0| 35|| s0| 3} CO 39] sol 40 49 || 42 47] 48 47 4] Bl 41] 48 77 ff | Wl fl #7! Tl] wl 78 ff or) 73 28 ew] 1]l 5) | =m 0 ‘Il = a e1| ofl 22 eo || 22) 61] °8l 58 °4| 50 22 el 84 sine 38 5/18) sis) 38 [nr 32) us| 34) 5) 14] se 15 i pee | | | We ha was laboring, can determine for themselves | whether it was the weight and record of | the gang's rule in Pennsylvania that cut larity that bas reduced the usual Republi- can majority of over 300,000 to less than 70,000. Which of these it was is what the WATCHMAN is now waiting to learn. I Crow tor the Reform Victory in Old Centre, A Piltlable Wretch, Attorney General CARSON evaded the issue of the controversy between State Treasurer BERRY and himselfjjwith con- siderable skill. He parried the thrusts aod possibly made some stupid people im- agine that the charges of Mr. BERRY were without foundation in fact or at least of doubtful consequence. But he has had his labor for his pains. Of course the majority against Mr. STUART might have been afew thousands greater if CARSON had fulfilled his official obligation. Bat the majority is ample, anyway, and the investigation will be made by some one other than HayproN L. CArsoN and that recreant will come in for a share of the condemnva- tion. The facts are that State Treasurer BERRY having discovered that the State was being robbed called upon the proper public of- ficial to inagurate proceedings to stop the crime. It transpired, however, that the robbers were friends of the legal agent of the Commonwealth and were probably dividing the spoils with him so that in- stead of performing his duty he began quibbling with the informant in the hope that owing to an expected change in con- ditions the indignation would ‘“‘blow over’ and the crime be forgotten. It was the lame expedient of an accessory before the fact to escape responsibility and pun- ishment for his crimes. CARSON is really a most pitiable object. He occupies the unenviable position ofa mercenary in crime. Because of the com- pensation for the services he ought to per- form he tries to hold on at the expense of the sacrifice of his honor and integrity. The wretched criminal who stuffs a ballot box for a few drinks or makes a false re: turn of votes for a trifle of money, isa manly man compared with the scholar whose cupidity influences him to the most atrocious crimes. Attorney General CAR- SON has earned the contempt of every right thinking man in the State and should be pilloried as a miscreant. ment of the Y. M.C. A. attended a pop corn social at the association rooms on Tues appointment. ——Fifty members of the junior depars- | the day evening. The Result in Centre Connty. The outcome of the election in Centre county is not a matter of very great inter- Mr. ROOSEVELT'S majority from 500,000 to less than 70,000 in wien ears, or whether "8 at this Time ticcanse the § js, it was Mr. ROOSEVELT'S declining popu. XUOWD and that is all the majority of the people are concerned about. We canuot refrain from making a brief analysis of the vote, which is certainly somewhat of a dis- If ever there was a time iu the history of state politics when action was needed, when a better opportunity to wake that action effective presented itself and when all conditions seemed to favor the cause which Democrats had espoused is wae on Tuesday. This was especially the | case in Centre county where there is a | large agricultural vote and where it was | expected that the candidacy of Famer CREASY would attract the agriculturists, who have always contended that their in- teresis were never properly couserved in the state government. With everything to work for the Demo- cratic vote in the Pennsvalley precivets was 324 less than that cest for PATTISON four years ago. Of couse it most be ad- mitted that PATTISON was popular in Cen- tre county, hut EMERY had a stronger claim on the Democratic vote as well as the advantage of the Lincoln Republican strength. In these same districts EMERY received 210 votes less than SERRY did last fall, while the Repnblican vote fell off only 34. Eveu in the Bald Eagle Valley the Democratic vote fell off over three times the Republican. In ali the town. ships and boroughs fromTaylor east to Lib- erty the Republican luss was only 44 while the Democratic los: wes 142. All manver of reasons are advanced for this bus the one thas is principally respon- sible is indifference. The Republicans are active and interested all the time, while the Democrats bave no concern. President ROOSEVELT received many Democratic votes in Centre county. He must have be- cause he carried the county by 1389. These votes were secured as the expense of our candidate ALTON B. PARKER yet in the townships and boroughs from east Ferguson to Miles township EMERY fell 244 short of the PARKER vote. The same conditions that prevail in Centre county prevail all over the State. The Democratic and Lincoln party or- gavizations both made fairly reliable fore- casts of the votes in the cities. In fact they were not 5000 votes away from the actual results in either Allegheny or Phila. delphia. But in the country distriots, where they bad every reason to expect the people to be sincere and active in their cries of reform there was a slamp raogiog from twenty-five to seventy-five per cent. Centre county that gave BERRY last fall a majority of 986 gives EMERY only 203 and so it is all over the State in the rural coun- ties. Relorm in Peansyivanin w was not deleat- indifference and than a we bave no business to be harking about the sequities of the State government when we woot do what we can to correct them, then and not until then can we hope for anything better. Hiding Behind Roosevelt. From the Reading Telegram. Regardless of the result, there is one phase of the recent campaign in Pennsyl- vania which merits stern rebuke. That is the hypoerisy with which the managers of the Stuart campaign sought to make be- lieve that President Rooseveit’s political fate was coincident wish the fate of Sena- tor Penrose and the socalled Gang. A President of the United States, who is debarred by tradition from personal par- | ticipation in state campaigns, yet who is to some extent dependent on party organ- ization and who must maintain working relations with a majority of United States Senators, occupies naturally an em- barrassing position during a contest such as that which has just closed in this Com- monwealth. For political reasons he need- ed to keep from offending Penrose and Knox; he was also solicitous for the elec- tion of Republican Covgressmen, and he could not reconcile these considerations with any open show of favor for those who were battling for reform. Oo the other band, with Congressmen at issue, he could not well forbid members of his Cabinet to accept invitations from Senators Penrose and Knox to speak in Penusylvania on national issues, notwithstanding the tricky purpose of such invitations, which was to convey to Pennsylvanians the impression of Presidential endorsement of the rotten machine cause. Yet, in his heart of hearts, how Roose- velt must bave itched to add a muscalar blow at the abuses and disgraces so lon prevalent in our State, and to help to bury fathoms deep the infamous conspiracy of corruptionists who masquerading as Re- publicans, bave always stood in his path- way and in the pathway of honest Repub- licans everywhere. In his own State, through Secretaay Root, he let fly at Hearst. How he must have ached todo jue Situ thing at Penrose and the Penrose et Result in Pennsylvania, From the Altoona Times, The ohepablienn patty made a clean sweep of Pennsylvania in Tuesday's elee- tion nse a majority of the voters believed in Edwin 8. Stuart and bad con- fidence that if he were elected he would be Governor in fact as well as in name. He went before the People ded declarin, with all the earnestness that he recognized no ty — ‘he amenable alone to the will of the people; that if any wrong had been dove the State the wrongdoers would be punished, and that in the futare the government of the Commonwealth should be raised to a plane of common honesty and decency. His word was od be was elected. A Bo Ta is be used as a shield for any rotten combination. When a man with an obnoxious public record ap- pears he is in grave davger of defeat. Against Mr. Stoart personally not one word could be uttered, and not ove word was gaid about him. His personality was a vote getter; as stated before, the voters regarded him as a thoroughly honest man, who could b2 trusted to do what he said he would do. It matters little whether Mr. Stuart or Mr. Emery is Governor of Pennsylvania,so long ns the State’s affairs are conducted right. If Ms Sowmars keeps food his slum olgin, then a great victory has been It lies with him to write his name high in the estimation of lis citizens; before him i BY 55 Sppurtuniey Eo ~The Pennsylvania Live Stock Breeder's Association announces a corn show in con” nection with it¢ annual meeting at Harris burg in January at which liberal prizes will be given. —An old cradle that had been in use for many generations in the family of John Keinert, at Pennsburg, brought $35 dollars at auction, being bought by one of the de- scendents. ~The Central Pennsylvania conference of *| the Methodist Episcopal church will convene in Tyrone on March 20. Its deliberations will be presided over by Bishop W. F. McDowell, of Chicago. —Examination of a skirt belonging to Mrs, Amanda Scheetz, the wealthy Pennsburg widow, who died of grief because of the death of her attendant, disclosed $54 sewed in the folds. —Reading farmers have outdone the milk dealers. They are said to have urged an advance then gone into town and sold milk to thousands of customers at the old price. Dealers have withdrawn the advance. —Four Connellsville boys who used white- wash in their squirt guns were arrested and severely lectured, but let go on payment of costs and the price of cleaning the white- wash off the houses they had marred. —*"Aunt Peggy’ Sechler rounded out a century Monday when she celebrated her hundredth birthday at the home of 8. B. Kocher, on the Bloomsburg road, near Dan- ville, where she has lived for many years. —Albert Baker, of Reading, had a fierce battle with a mammoth hawk that he bad wounded, and during the encounter that continued for fifteen minutes before he killed it, he was badly clawed in the face, shoulder and hands. —Falling to sleep in his own kitchen while # heavy fire was in the kitchen stove, prov- ed fatal to Henry Coleman, aged 80 years who resides about two miles south of Wil- more, he being burned to death in the fire which entirely consumed his home. —An analysis of cement rock found at Lock Haven shows it to be eqaul to the best in the State, a hope is entertained by people of the city that a company with half a mil- lion dollars capital will be formed to develop the industrial possibilities in the rock. —Factory Inspecter Joseph Quinn publicly commends the people of York for the very little trouble they occasioned his depactment, He says factory owners and others there are observing the laws, and that there are no re* ports of violations of the child labor law. —James Griffith, of Freeland, a contractor, found a nugget of gold in the craw of a chicken purchased from a Butler valley farmer. Mr. Butterwick, a jeweler, to whom the stone was submitted for an assay, stated that it is genuine quartz and very valuable. _—The Round Table conference of superin- tendents and principals of CentraljPenusyl- vania will meet at Milton, November 9th and 10th. This conference meets twice each year to discuss questions of timely interest and importance affecting the public schools. —Miss Fannie E. Printz, who for forty years had been a teacher in the public schools of Philadelphia, droppedjdead in the hallway of the girls’ normal school as she was going to a teachers’ meeting. She had taught the same school during her whole term of service. ~The Clearfield Fire Brick works, known as No, 2 of the Bigler works, are to be en- larged. Six new kilns will be erected and the yard will be increased 150 yards in length and thus 4,000 square yards of floor space will be secured in addition to that al. ready in use. ~The top notch price for the new tobacco in Lancaster county has been reached in the sale of the entire crops of A. B. Herneisen and Samuel Steinmetz, of Clay township. They have received 20 cents throngh, which would ba equivalent to 21 eentsia pound for wrappers and 5 cents a pound for fillers. —Miss Blanche Miller, 17 years old, died early Sunday in Altcona from the effects of a bad scare a few hours previously, On Sat urday night a brother-in-law came up be. hind her and said “Booh!” She screamed, threw up her hands and fell in a swoon. She never recovered consciousness. Physi. cians declared she had been scired to death. —As a mark of appreciation of Lehigh University, from which he was graduated in 1887, from the school of Mines, Frank Wil- liams has left his entire residuary estate to the institutien in trust, the incom e to aid poor students. The bequest amounts to $122, 000 or more. Mr. Williams entered the uni. versity as a poor boy. He was only 35 years of age at the time of his death. —As the result of a knife duel at Portage, Juniata county, between Charles Enderline and Frank Brunette, both residents} of Oden. thal, a settlement about two miles south of Portage, Brunette is lying at his home terri- bly gashed about the neck and body, with little or no hope for his recovery. Ender- line has escaped, aud so far has eluded all efiorts of officers to apprehend him. —Last Saturday Col. John G. Freeze, of Bloomsburg, the Nestor of the bar in that judicial district, completed bis Slst year. He has been an interesting figure for a long time and in spite of his advanced age still “| takes a lively interest in passing events. For many years he was chancellor of the diocese of Central Pennsylvania, of the] Protestant Episcopal church, and at the formation of the Harrisburg diocese became its chancellor, a position which he resigned some time ago. —Frederick Scheflield, aged 56 years, city treasurer of Altoona, fell down the stairs at the Turn Verein Singing Society in that city and his neck was broken. He died instantly. About one year ago Mr. Scheffield walked in his sleep out of the second-story window of his home, fractured his right ankle, which left him a cripple and caused his fatal fall. Being a heavy man he was unable tosave himself. Scheflield was a native of Germany. He amassed a fortune in Altoona by frugal- ity and was long a leading resident there.
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