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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
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“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
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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.