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———This is the first day of Summer.
—1If scientists keep on finding spots on |
the sun they will leave us no sun at all, |
nothing but spots.
--Linn street is getting in fie shape for
the next census, which is only three years
off. And there is time for more.
—The Minneapolis doctor who has de-
clared that kissing must go should be io.
formed that it does go, most everywhere.
—Isn’t it human nature? The fellow
who was kicking about it being =o cold last
week now has his bammer out because it is
80 warm.
——The curfew whistle has not been
blown since last Thursday evening but the
policemen continue to chase the kids home
at the usual time.
—Governor CuaINS, of Towa, bas ex-
plained that the ‘Iowa idea’ is to have
Ro0sEVELT for President a third term, and
TEDDY stands pat.
—The new German Ambassador to this
country is reported to be Baron Muy
Vox ScHWARIZENSTEIN. The Mumm
part of it sounds good enough so we will
let it go at that.
—A mad dog scare had Bishop street ex-
cited a few days ago. Strange! We
thought Bishop street beyond the stage of
being aroused over such a little thing asa
dog with the rabies.
—The latest news from the peace con-
ference at The Hague is to the effect that
everyone is afraid to broach the subjects
most desirable for discussion for fear of in-
volving the envoys in a scrap.
—Ambassador BRYCE told Chicagoans
that their city bas no parallel in the modern
world and Chicago isall happied up over it.
It has never dawned on the Windy city
how indefinite his remark was.
—Mayor ScEMIDT, of San Fraucieco, bas
proven such a rascally failure as to warn
organized labor against throwing its sup-
port to men who merely talk unions, and
bave never been proven either honest or
capable.
—Mr. HustoN is away and his family
does not know where he is. The gentleman
has probably placed himself outside the
jurisdiction of the courts of Pennsylvania,
which seems to be the wisest act of his
recent years.
—It was too bad that HUSTON wasn't
permitied to carry out that two million
dollar bath room idea he bad for the cap-
itol. It would bave come high but the
State might have been better off for having
cleaner Legislators,
—Secretary TAFT'S son bas wou another
prize at Yale and a contemporary observes
that ‘‘all his ancestors were smart boys.”
If indeed, it is true that they were all boys
then this later Tarr, like Topsy, must
have ‘‘just growed.”
SOL.
BELLEFONTE
STATE R
Frandulent Votes in Pennsylvania,
The testimony taken in the election cases
pow on trial in Schuylkill county is justly
described as startling. It was proved on
Monday that io the First ward of Shenan-
doah forty-four frandulent votes were cast
for the Republican ticket. Congressman
Bru, who is prosecutor in the case, al-
leges that a like proportion of frandulent
votes were cast in thirty other election dis-
tricts in the county. That is to say, in
about one-fifth of the election districts in
that county there were 1,320 fraudulent
votes cast for the Republican ticket aud
probably not lees thao 5,000 in the entire
county. The total vote for BERRY and
PrLuMMER outside of Philadelphia two
years ago was 760,871. If the ratio of
frandulent votes which Mr. BruMM, a
Republican, alleges were polled in Schuyl-
kill county last fall were cast in the other
election districts in the State the Republi-
can ticket was defeated by more than 100,-
000 instead of being elected by some 40,-
000 majority.
There is no use in going behind the re-
turns, however, and as STONE and PENNY-
PACKER accepted elections achieved by
fraud of which both bad guilty knowledge,
it is bardly worth while to complain that
STUART'S success was obtained in the same
way though probably be bad nothing to do
with the crimes. But we are justified in
protesting against the continuance of
this system of selecting the public officials
of the Commonwealth. It is absolute folly
to strive for honest government in the
State while the officials who admiuister the
government are chosen by fraud. How-
ever free {rom the taint of personal dishon-
esty an official chosen by fraud is necessa-
1ily the creature of those who bestowed
upon him the questionable favor and they
work him for their sinister purposes just
as the machine used PENXYPACKER dur-
ing the entire period of his official life.
They didn’t divide the loot with him be-
cause they didn’t have to. They owned
him, body and soul.
Of course Congressman BRUMM is not
influenced by civic virtue to the prosecu-
tion of these frauds, in whieh he is engaged.
His object is to punish men in his own
party who are persoually antagonistic to
him and the piobable reason that he basn’g
included all the districts in the county in
his accusation is that in the others his
friends were culpable. It is impolite,
however, to ‘look a gilt horse in the
mouth,” and we shall accept Mr. BRUMM's
—Nobody accuses former treasurer
MATHUES of wanting to steal anything
from the State Treasury but his visit there
wouldn't bave looked so crooked had he
made it in bosiness hours, instead of wait-
ing until the dead of night to ge:
to look over the book:
a chance
— Lafayette conferred the degree ol doe-
tor of laws on Governor EDWIN 5. BTUART
on Wednesday. While the Governnr is not
made any the wiser by the houorary de-
gree it is certain that he is dignified and
prudent enough to hear it with oredit to]
Lafayette and himeell.
—Japao is not to be érifled with noris
she to be temporized with. If Japanese
living in this country do not find things to s
their liking let then go back te Japan.
America is for Americans and not for tem.
porary residents who come here to cke ont
a fortune to be canied back and used in
the fatherland.
—It was only to be expected that the
pew “burglar proof’ safe in the State
Treasury has turned out to be not burglar
proof at all. The gang that bought it and
had it placed there is not the kind that
wants the State’s funds too securely locked
up. When an emergency arises they al-
ways must feel that they have somewhere
to go for funds.
—The mayor of Camden might have
invited the eailors from the Italian croieer
Etraia, who left their boat to help fight a
big fire in that city on Monday, to mind
their own bosiness as did the delanct Gov-
ernor SWETTENHAM, of Jamaica, to the
American marines at the time of the earth.
quake, but he didn’t. Therein lies the dif-
ference between the mayor of an American
city and the over-pompous Governor of an
English Isle.
—The Centre Democrat seems determined
to find a *‘plot”’ in the movement to have
the proposed PRUNER orphanage supersed-
ed by a memorial hospital. In all candor
we can see nothing back of the proposition
farther than an honest difference of opin.
ion as to whether an orphanage is needed
at all in Bellefonte and as to whether a
wing on the new hospital would not prove
a more enduring memorial to Col. PRUNER
than an institution with doubtial means of
support and uncertain lines ol conduct.
While we do pot question the motives of
the Democrat in the matter we are of the
opinion that its arguments would command
more respect were they free from the in.
sinuations that persons who differ with it
are ipepired by motives not as high avd
| work for what it is worth and it mav be
{ worth a great deal. Meantime itis well
| enough to hold in mind the obwicus fact
{ that the Republican candidate for State
| Treasurer isa machine Republican with
| only a thin coat of reform veneer to dis |
{ guise him. If we would make the advan- |
| tages obtained by the election of BERRY |
| EWO years ago enduring it is necessary to |
{ kill the machine serpent and the clection
BERRY calls a “polarized”
Democrat this year will accowplisl: that
1 of what Mr.
| resnit beyond even the shadow of a doubt.
| An Esteemed but Mistaken Contem
i porary.
The estecraed Philadelphia Record is
| justly severe in its criticism of the Legisla-
e. Jt was a wratched admixture of
i bypoorisy and iucompetence. There were
| a few sincere and capable men occupying
| seats ou the floor, nearly all in the Demo. |
| cratic “‘cection,’’ for the streogth of the
Demorcals in the body was too meagre to
be called a ‘‘side.’” But the vast majority
were gangsters striving constantly to pre-
vent substantial reforms while pretending
to be in favor of all kinds of reform. The
esteemed Record is justified therefore, in
declaring that ‘‘they voted money prodigal-
ly for every purpose, good or bad, which
was a complete abondonment of their du-
ties.”
Bat our Philadelpbia contemporary fails
to lay the responsibility for this misuse of
opportunities where it belongs. It adds to
the sentence quoted, however, another
manilestly appropriate observation. “They
voted money,’ it declares, ‘‘because it
would be popular and they refused to vote
taxes because it would be unpopular.” As
a matter of fact they voted money hecause
the chairman of the House committee on
Appropriations was a candidate for the
Republican nomination for State Treasurer
and his consent to profligacy iu appropria-
tions made him so popular with his associ-
ates in the Legislatare that PENROSE
couldn't have beaten him if he wanted to,
though he didn’t want to.
The esteemed Philadelphia Record, prob-
ably under orders from its Broad street
contemporary and master, appears to be
enamored of Mr. SHEATZ who, as the
records show, was the most servile instru-
ment of the PENROSE machine and re-
creant public official who has filled the im-
portant office of chairman of the commit-
tee on appropriations in a dozen years, It
has forfeited the respect of Democrats both
for its intelligence and integrity and earn-
ed a place among the mercenary newse
papers which are controlled by the corpora-
lofty as its own.
tions in the interest of the Republican ma-
chine. Mr. SHEATZ was responsible for
the profligacy of the Legislature and the
nomination is his reward.
Mr. Mathues' Strange Action.
Former State Treasarer WiLLiaM L.
MATHUES was unfortunate in his explana-
tion of his presence in the office of that de-
partment of the government ou a certain
midnight last week. He said first that he
watchman, who held the same office dur-
ing bis own administration and subsequent.
work of clerk YoUxaG,
from his time. Even il the statements
were not conflicting they were nnconvine-
ing. The night watchman would bave
gladly gone to Mr. MATHUES' quarters in
former chief, and it is not exaggerating to
express the belief that Mr. YouxG would
bave come to him with a sample of his
work if the desire to see it bad heen inti-
mated.
There is a remote possibility that Mr.
MATHUES may bave bad no worse motive
in mind when he made his nocturnal ivva-
gion of the Treasury than to refresh his
memory concerning the business of the of-
fice while he controlled it. But he could
have enjoyed that privilege in broad day-
light and in the ordinary way. No citizen
of the State is refused information that is
proper for him to acquire in that depart.
ment, and certainly one who had quite re-
cently been at the head of the department
would not bave been discriminated against
in that respect. Moreover an honest man
acting under proper impulses and with a
just purpose in mind would have preferred
the obviously right method of acquiring
the information he wanted, or needed, and
that right method is to apply to the proper
authorities daring business hours and in
the regular aud only orderly way.
It might be harsh to charge, even infer-
entially, that Mr. MATHUES bad clandes-
tively entered the office of the State Treas-
arer at midnight tor the purpose of destroy-
ing or mutilating the records in order to
remove evidence of his own culpability.
Mr. MATHUES ischarged with misfeasancein
office and proof of his guilt wight cost him
vast sums as well ae personal liberty. But
security against such consequences of mis-
conduct hardly justifies the adoption of the
methods of a burglar, and that is what Mr.
one employe of the department to let him
into the office ut an imprope: time and
either is oriminei if not burglarions Is
affords ao additional reason, moreover,
why a Democrat should be elested to one.
ceed Mr. BERRY in the office
cs
quay iz Incaipated
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No thooghtial aan will be surprised thas
| the evidence taken the capitol probers
| has finally incalpated QUAY. Before the
contracts were let, eeme, various notes
of QUAY wera paid by the endorsers sad i%
| is heliavad that they were reimbursed by
| the favored contractors. This wae a favorite
method of QUA v for acquiring money. Avy
ouc or more notes for the bose, who never
| were given plenty of time to meet the obli-
gations. That is they were never pressed
for payment unless they became obstiep-
erous. The banks which held State de-
posits were always obliging to ‘‘the old
man.’
QuAY was a liberal borrower and had a
peculiar way of getting accommodations.
His dispatch to the cashier of the People’s
bank of Philadelphia, was characteristic.
“‘Boy a thousand shares of Met.,” he tele-
graphed to the cashier in question, ‘on my
account, and I will shake the plum tree.”
He bad no money in the bank and buying
‘‘Met.,"” required cash. But shaking the
plum tree produced ‘‘graft’’ and the baok
was safe as a rule for QUAY never failed to
keep such agreements. In the case in point
there was a miscarriage of arrangements
and the cashier committed suicide. If he
bad held out the chances are that the fail
ure might have been averted. As in the
case of the Enterprise bank, of Allegheny,
the cashier’s lack of nerve caused the col-
lapse.
In view of this new development it may
be hoped that the purpose to erect a monu-
went to the memory of QUAY in the cap:
itol grounds at Harrisburg will be aban-
doned. It is known that QUAY was the
greatest corruptionist of hizday aud gen-
eration. That of itself wouldn't deter those
who contemplated the monument from
carrying out their plans. But in the light
of these new exposures they will bardly in.
sult the conscience of the public by erect-
ing an effigy which will bring the blush of
shame to the face of every honest man who
sees it. The release from this humiliation
will not be complete recompense for the
looting of the treasury, either, but it will
be partial reparation for a great wrong. It
will show that we are not willing to deify
crime.
1GHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
PA. JUNE 21, 1907.
wanted to pay his respects to the night |
ly declared that he wanted to examine the |
also a hold-over
the hotel to receive the felicitations of his |
MaTitves did. He either bribed or eajoled |
auother to pernit an improper actiou, and |
aspirant for favor was obliped to endorse |
took the trouble to pay them nt maturity. !
It ic only just to say that the endorsers
| The Bewlldered Johnstown Oracle.
| We regret, far more than it is possible to
! express, that our esteemed contemporary,
| the Jobustown Democrat,bas transferred its
| allegiance from WILLIAM JENNINGS BRY-
| AN to THEODORE ROOSEVELT. For years
| our Johnstown contemporary bas been more
{ faithful to Mr. BRYAN than the proverbial
| “needle to the pole,’’ and even now it car-
| ries his banner at its masthead, whether he
| consents to be a presidential candidate or
| not. Much as we bave admired Mr. BRYAN
| the fidelity of our Johnstown contem-
poiary to his person avd policies has al-
ways scemed to us most sublime. While
| others hesitated it was always and iovari-
ably eager for the fray in his bebalf. Bata
change seems to bave come over the spirit
of the BAILEY dream, rose-tinted as it al-
ways bas been.
For example, in a recent issue of our es-
teemed contemporary, there appeared an
editorial allusion to President ROOSEVELT'S
recent Jawestown speech in which the
gospel of paternalism was presented in its
most advanced form, with the comment
that ‘no candidate has done better in one
speech to express his knowledge of the
needs of the public and his desire to meet
those needs.”” Mr. ROOSEVELT is prac-
tically certain to be the candidate for Presi-
dent in 1008 against Mr. BRYAN aud how
will our Johnstown contemporary, in view
of the language quoted, support Mr. BRY-
AN against ove who hest expresses ‘‘the
needs of the public and his desire to meet
those needs ?'’ To be consistent our es-
teemed contemporary will be compelled to
support ROOSEVELT against BRYAN.
In the history of the Republic there bas
been no man in public life who represents
so completely the antithesis of the fanda-
meutal principles of the Democracy of
Tuomas JEFFERsON than THEODORE
RooseEVELT. It was the imperial notions of
ALEXANDER HAMILTON that forced JEF-
FERSON to the promulgation of the im-
mortal doctrines which have since been the
foundation of Democracy. But HAMILTON
never dreamed of the centralization and
other forms of imperialism which are the
“apple of the eye’ of RoosEvELT., Our
Johnstown contemporary may imagine that
it can trifle with such heresies, but like the
woth ot the candle it will get its wings
ginged ultimately, bewildered with the
consequence of its folly, it will land in the
camp of the enemy.
The Gnug's All Here.
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{Two years age when the attempt of the
Philadelphia machine to steal the gas plant
of the city bal aroused public indiguation
to the higobest piteh, there was a scurrying
of the bauditti ‘for the tall timber.” JiIX
{ Mires, Harry RANSLEY, H. J. TRAINER,
'1z DurxaM, Jin McNICHOL,
{ KLEMMER, DAVE LANE, J. J. SEED
i 8, VARB, W. H. BERKELBACH, P. E. Cos
| TELLO, JOHN B. LUKINS and others
{ drew from the lime light by i
| from the city committee. The City party
leaders were more than exultans over ti
success in ‘‘purilying’’ the party. The bad
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there was
ty io the claim. The bad men tad osctain-
ly “‘side-stepped,’”’ or “‘dunoked.”’
The machine managers
time that their retirement would be only
for a brief period. They were simply tak.
ing refuge temporarily in the eyclone cel-
lar waiting an opportnuity to “bob upse
renely,”” after ‘‘the clouds rolled by.’’ They
understood the Philadelphia reformers.
They bad correctly measured the cou-
science which was ‘‘rampaging,”’ so to
speak, in a fine frenzy. DAVE LANE
stopped openly advising the office hold-
ers to stuff ballot hoxes and Dur.
HAM took himself out of the reach of
court procesces. But they are are all back
again. RANsSLEY and TRAINER and DUR-
HAM and McNicHOL and LANEand “all
the bunch’’ bave returned to the comnmit-
tee. Literally it is ‘‘Hail, Hail, the
Gang's All Here."
Aud why shouldn't these political pirates
resume control of the party which they
have maintained for years by polluting the
ballot and looting the people? The City
party, the Committee of Seventy and all
the other reform organizations have aban-
doned the field and there is no resistance
to the predatory operations of the plander-
ers. Mr. SHEATZ has made merchandise
of his reform pretensions and the others
have deserted the field because they
conldn’t negotiate themselves into office.
It is the fit ending of a palpable farce and
it is both natural and logical tbat the re-
covery of power should be celebrated by
the election of DAVE LANE, the only open
advocate of ballot box stuffing, to command
as chairman of the City committee.
~The members of the Mileshurg Hook
and Ladder company are now busy rebears-
ing for the presentation of that stirring
western drama, ‘“The Honor of a Cowboy,’
in Boggs’ ball, Friday evening, June 23th.
The proceeds will be for the benefit of the
company and as the cause is a good one the
boys should be well patronized.
hoasted at the!
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. | campaign expenses ipeurred by prominent |
"| machine lenders, and ti
Ug | ly shat these bad been paid by the big
Accessories Before tne Facts.
From the Earnsburg Patriot,
The ‘‘eminently respectable’ men and
newspapers that are announcing that they
Will voile for the election of John O. Sheatz,
for State Treasurer, will not like to be told
that they are among the most valuable al-
lies of the Machine against which they
sometimes fight and always talk, but such
is the fact.
Without the aid and comfort the Machine
receives from them in emergencies like the
present, it would bave been smashed aud
pat ont of business finally long ago.
They were aiders and abettors with the
Gang in the capitol graft and morally ac-
cessories before the fact.
They rallied to the support of Samuel W.
Pennypacker, the Machine candidate for
Governor in 1902, just as they are coming
to the support of Sheatz now.
They would not have supported David
Martin for Governor; they threw up their
bats for Samuel W. Pennypacker but the
Gaug could not bave got away with any
more loot with Martin in the gubernatorial
chair than it did under Pennypacker ; per-
haps vot sa much, for Martin's administra-
tion would have been mistrusted and more
closely watched.
They lauded Mr. Pennypacker as a
great lawyer, an incorruptible judge, a
sincere patriot just as they are now prais-
ing Sheatz as a vigilant, honest and capa-
ble business man.
We all know what happened under
Pennypacker, though the extent of the
thefts bas not yet been fully revealed.
With the nomination of Peunnypacker
and his election, by the aid of those who
have professed horror over the exposure of
the Capitol graft, the Gang saved the Ma-
chine and wade the Capitol graft possible.
In the same way itis ying to save the
Machine now by the election of Sheatz and
it is getting assistance from the same short-
sighted men who helped it to elect Penny-
packer. Is therea manin Pennsylvania
who believes that if Robert E. Pattison
bad been elected Governor in 1902, $9,-
000,000 conld have been expended secret!
by the Board of Public Grounds aud Build-
ings and $6,000,000 of it stolen while he
was a member and president of the Board ?
Certainly not ; the question carries its own
answer. Not one dollar would have heen
spent without closest scrutiny and widest
publicity.
Every citizen of the Commonwealth knows
it. The ‘‘eminently and respectable’
wen and newspapers that helped to defeat
him and to elect the Machine candidate
helped to open the vaults of the Treasury
to Sanderson, to Huston, to Cassell and
those who shared the graft with them.
In supporting Sheatz they are doing all
they can to continue and perpetuate the
Gavg against which it is their = hit to
loudly protest.
The Man Behind,
From the Pittsburg Post,
A dispatch from Harrisburg stated that
the capitol investigation commission bad
received information tending to show that
a considerable portion of the capitol graft |
was used to take up the notes of promivent
Republican politicians. The commission
should make every effort to verily this.
Tha Post months ago called the atten- |
tion of the commission to the probability |
of much of the capitol loot having been
need in this way. It averred that it
was a matter of common report that there
n large outstanding indebtedness for
capitel cantracters. It further stated that
it was very like- |
Spawls from the Keystone.
—For the year ending June 1 there were
520 marriage licenses issued in Butler coun-
ty, against 746 during the year ending June
1, 1906,
—There were eleven young women in the
class of nurses which graduated from the
Jobupstown Memorial hospital on Thursday,
June 6.
—Out of a total of 5,791 pupils in the pub-
lic schools of Johnstown, 372 were present
every day during the term of school just
closed.
—Albert Marquis, a civil war veteran,
who was an eye witness of the assassination
of President Lincoln, died at his home in
New Brighton last Friday, aged 77 years,
—York county farmers are worried over
their tobacco crop and fear there will be a
great shortage this year, owing to the cold
weather, which has greatly retarded the
plant growth.
~The new law increasing the pay of jur-
ors from $2 to $2.50 per day, does not be-
come effective until July 1, 1907. The jurors
for the terms after that time, will enjoy the
first fruits of the increased wages.
~The Hyde-Murphy company has just
closed a contract to erect sixty houses for the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad at
Homer City, Indiana county. This firm has
already built three towns in that county.
They are Iselin, Ernest and Josephine.
~The annual reunion of the survivors of
the Fifty-fourth Pennsylvania volunteer in-
fantry will be held at Lakemont park, near
Altoons, on Wednesday afternoon, July 24.
Invitations to this table event, one of those
annual reunions that will soon be of the
past, are being mailed to all members of the
regiment.
—Miss Sedla Jowells, of Shamokin, was
homeward bound Wednesday when a big
black bug settled on her lip and kissed her.
The lip immediately swelled lo twice its
normal size and the pain was so great that a
physician was summoned. He stated that
the girl had been attacked by a poisonous
kissing bug.
—The Central Pennsylvania Lutheran re-
union will be held at Lakemont park on
July 25. Speakers of note will be present to
deliver orations. One hundred children
under the leadership of A. E. Davis, of Al.
toona, will furnish the music. Lutherans of
Central Pennsylvania are planning to be
present on this great day.
~—Fire of an incendiary origin entirely de-
stroyed the home and stable of Charles W,
Shrefller, of Lewistown, early Sunday morn-
ing. Stephen, the 15 year-old son, perished
in the flames, and the mother was probably
fatally injured by the flanies and in jumping
from the second story window, after making
a futile effort to save her son, who was asleep
iu a second story hack room.
~The yellows and the hard winter have
made such inroads in Dr. J. M. Dumm’s
peach orchard, west of Mackeyville, that he
has employed workmen with a stump-puller
and steamer to uproot most of his trees. A
resetting of new young trees in another lo-
cation will be neccessary before the doctor
will again have another crop of such fine
fruit as his orchards have produced in the
past.
—W. Cal. Meeker, the aeronaut will make
daily balloon ascensions from Mill Hall park
during the week of July 4th and will use
the largest balloon ia the United States.
The first ascension will take place on Mon-
| day, July 1st, and vo doubt will attract large
| erowds throughout the week. Prof. Meeker
| will 1aake a parachute drop daily and intro.
| duce some interesting while in
id air at each performance
specinilies
~(iame Warden Humimelsbaughb, of Clear.
field of r. Berrier, went to
{ Morrisdale and sted Steve
comy
hloscow,
| Charles Jones and Nick Nusbaum for killing
ducks. The accused men were taken before
i Justice of the Pence MM. 8. Adams, of Cheater
| Hill, and were given a hearing. They were
| is was likely that banks holding large State | fined respectively $20, #10 and $10, together
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a algo held the notes of prominent
Tans
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| with tho costs. The parties settled, the
| politicians which had not been paid by the | amount paid being a total of $50.
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capitol graft in order that the accounts of
the depositories with the State treasury
might be properly adjuated
Tt ie not within reason to believe that the
{ big capitol contractors and the architeot
were permitéed to pocket the $8,000,000 of
rofits which are charged to their account.
seading politicians of the State were not
true to their well-known records if they
failed to get a big share of this money.
The investigation commission should look
into this phase of the matter most carefully.
It should show who were the men behind
the contractors and the architect, and who
shared largely with them in the looting of
the treasury.
Secretary Taft's Predicament.
From the New York Press.
Secretary Taft, who complains bitterly
that the newspapers have forced him into
his predicament as the heredit legatee
Ee is MeugRiinR manfully to ex-
tricate himself. He bas bad a fair measure
of success so far in Wisconsin, where his
unqualified praise for the discredited Spoon-
er promises to make him impossible as the
second choice of the delegation from La Fol-
lette’s State. Now he set himself the
task of turning Iowa hopeless!y against his
involuntary aspirations.
In an address at Dea Moines the secretary
denounced the stock manipulators, rebaters
and other betrayers of trusts, but then he
asserted that their orimes ‘‘were the natur-
al outgrowth of the enormous expansion of
business and of capitol iuvolved in the
reading business of this conntry."”
While they were to he deplored and con-
demned, caution must be observed in the
remedial legislation. There was no sugges-
tion that aeyidly ought to go to jail. As
befits a conservative presidential candidate,
Mr. Taft balanced the business in a delicate
manner and shuuned the specifics like
smallpox.
——While fishing on Fishing creek,
Monday evening, Dr. Dave Dale caught
geven trout ranging in length from 11 to
14} inches in just ball an hour. And he
doesn’t pose as a fisherman. Not knowing
the Doctor nor the place some of our com-
temporaries, when they read this, will de-
clare that he should pose as a liar, but he
is not, because the writer was on the gronnd
and saw the remarkable catoh made.
men had been driven ent, itis claimed, and | Jagier,and that when Mr. Berry was elected
t least the shadow of probabili- | these were taken up with a portion of the |
—More than £6000 worth of plunder stolen
| from the Pennsylvania railroad near Greens.
| burg, Pa., was located Thursday Ly railroad
{ detectives, aided by the local police, in the
| reside res of Mrs. John Boros and Mrs, 8.
| Slikes, of Wilkesbarre. It was Jearned that
Andrew and John Celesko, of Greensburg,
were shipping goods to Wilkesbarre, and
after they bad lLeen connected with the
thefts, an attewpt wus wade to arrest them.
They escaped, and the stolen goods were
traced to Wilkesbarre.
—A crew of eighteen railroad surveyors
and engineers are now at Renovo working
west toward Keating. A gentleman, who
had staked out foundations for a new house
at Shintown, near Renovo, was advised not
to proceed with the work as the tracks for
the proposed new railroad would run direct-
ly through the plot staked out. It is believ-
ed work will begin very soon and it is gen-
erally thought the road is a spur of the New
York Central railroad connecting the river
line with the Beech Creek road eithir at
Avis or Youngdale.
—Three hundred men are at work upon
the new town to be built upon the site of
the old South Fork dam, the breaking of
which wiped cut Johnstown. At present all
the summer cottages erected by the now de-
funct South Fork Hunting and Fishing club
have been remodeled and are occupied by
men employed by the Maryland Coal com-
pany. This corporation is at work upon two
shafts which will be rushed to completion.
When the proposed mines are in operation
5,000 tons of coal will be taken out daily.
Plans are being made for a town of 5,000 in-
habitants.
—Miss Martha Morgan, daughter of T. 8,
Morgan, the Third street clothier, of Wil.
linmsport, has suffered for some time with
pain in the lower part of her forehead.
Tuesday evening Dr, Glosser removed a shoe
button from the painful spot, and then it
was remembered that twelve years ago,
when a child, Miss Morgan bad in some
manner gotten the button in her nose. A
surgeon was called at that time, but he fail-
ed to locate the button and expressed the
opinion that it was not there. Now, after
twelve years in its queer resting place, it has
been discovered and removed.
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