Bellefonte, Pa., October 4, 1907. Building Commissioner To Try Grafters. ——— PLAN OF ACQUITTAL Governor Stuart in the Scheme Which Has for its Purpose the Re-election of Penrose and the Rebuke of Roosevelt.—How Sheatz Won Ma- chine Favor Revealed: (Special Correspondence.) Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 2. Having vaguely promised that the eapital grafters will be punished some time after the election the ma- chine party managers appear to be highly delighted with themselves. We are great reformers, they say infer- entially, and are wiiling to hire any number of brass bands with which to hunt for criminals and prosecute looters. But to the average mind their promises are to the ear ‘to be broken to the hope.” That is to say they are simply ‘good enough Mor- gans until after the election,” and after the election the prosecutions will he abandoned or botched. This is hardly a matter of conject. ure. It is so completely supported by circumstantial evidence as to have assumed the form of fact. If there had been an intention to pro- gecute 8. J. M. McCarrell never would have been appointed Judge of the Dauphin county court by the Governor or nominated for that offi- ce by the Dauphin county +«Republi- can machine. If a man wanted to break up a gang of burgiars he would hardly put the matter in charge of other burglars, if he was a wise man. There is a code of honor among thieves which makes them help each other. When the fire of suspicious origin destroyed the capitol building in 1897 Mr. McCarrell was a State Senator. With the help of his own vote a law was enacted appropriat- ing $550,000 for the consiruction of a new capitol building. That law created a Commission of which Mr. McCarrell became a member which was bound ‘‘to complete and deliver” a capitol building, ‘ready for oceu- pancy and furnisaing not later than Nov. 16th 1898, “When the Legis- lature assembled for the session of 1899 it found an unfinished building resembling a tobacco warehouse, Not a Fit Judge of Grafters. The law not only required the completion of a building within the specified amount but actually for- bade the Commissioners from con- traciing for the expenditure of any money in excess of that figure. Yet Senator, now Judge McCarrell, cer- tified that the building was com- plete. It was so absurd a statement that everybody was astounded. The rough brick walls on the outside and the burlap walls on the inside stood as palpable protests against fraud. No charge of grafting was publicly made but the gossip of thé corriders freely chargéd not only that the contractors had looted the State but that the Building Com- missioners had participated in the division of the spoils. Of course a man so closely asso- ciated with the construction of the capitol would not be safe in the position of determining the gullt of the grafters. Naturally he would pre- fer that the agitation of the ques- tion be discontinued as speedily as possible and the surest and safest way to stop the agitation of a ques- tion is to forget it. Four years ago Mr. McCerrell aspired to a seat on " the bench and was defeated. Again a year ago he became a candidate and was forced out of the fight by ~ublic sentiment. A man of his reps. 2tiop and envifonment wasn't peeded of the Dauphin county benca at thosg times, But no other kind the pensioners of the Department was recelving the salary as a reward for service to the machine as a member of the perjured jury which acquitted Sam Salter after his practical comn- fession of gullt, Insurance Commissioner Durham who was responsible for and par- ticipated in these crimes against the State is getting ready to resume his position as ‘the most influential citi. zen of Philadelphia.” If Governor Stuart is going to purify the public life of the Commonwealth by purg- ing it of grafters through the agency of the criminal courts, why doesn’t he begin with those outlaws who were exposed more than a year and a-half ago? Why are not those men sent to prison as an admonition to others who are tempted to loot and in order to vindicate the law which has been outraged? Simply because public sentiment seems to have for- got the Crimes of those men, though 80 recent. Stuart Not a Reformer. And it is precisely for this reason that the machine managers includ- Ing Governor Stuart, are anxious to prevent the trial of the grafters now under the lime light of popular ex- ecration. They know that such things are soon forgot, Durham was forced to resign at the time and MecNicholl was compelled to declare that he would not again participate in muni. cipal spoils. But they are both back at the old business and the old tricks, just as Sanderson and Huston and the other capital grafters will again come into favor of the machine and recume their predatory operations within a few months unless the ma- chine is completely exterminated by ihe election of John G. Harman this fall. In the light of these events it is absurd to say that Governor Stuart is a reformer. He is personally honest, no doubt just as Judge Pen- nypacker was personally beyond re- proach when he became Governor. But he is just as serviceable to the machine as Pennypacker. He won't openly boast of his iniquities as that abnormally vain old man did. But he will shield crimes perpetrated for the benefit of the party and protect criminals who have served the or- ganiation precisely as hig predeceas- or did. His appointment of McCar- rel’ to the Dauphin county bench at this time is the most convincing and | conclusive evidence of this fact. Fen- | rose knew his man. , Governor Stuart never interfered | with graft when he was Mayor of | Philadelphia and he will not be off- “= ensive to his party leaders as Gover- | nor. It was during his administration of the municipal government that | the Contractors’ combine was organ- iized. It was Dave Martin rather than Durham who was the boss in | those days. But the difference is without a distinction. A cancer is | loathsome no matter what the doctor | calls it and Durham is no worse than | Martin. In fact when Martin sue- | ceeded Durham as Insurance Com- | missioner he continued the padded | ' payroll until the shadow of the ap- | proaching investigation admonished {him to “clear the decks.’ Then he | dropped Davis, Reed and Stone. | Enmity to Roosevelt Secures Favor The Republican machine is striv- ling ‘to get complete control of the | administration of the State govern- ment because it is necessary in or- | der to secure the re-election of Pen- , rose and control the Delegates to the next National cbhvent against | Roosevelt. The President has ¢ensed the machine leaders in this | State by his indifference to their | wants. One of the most potent rea- {sons for the nomination of Sheatz is | that he shares this antipathy to | Roosevelt. It was only when he vot- ed against the Creasy resolution en- dorsing the President's policies and pledging the moral support of the | Legislature to his railroad rate bill | that Sheatz became a prime favorite | of the machine and the nomination | for State Treasurer {is his recom- | pense for that sinster service. If Sheatz is defeated the machine will be destroyed absolutely. The control of the State deposits is es- sen.al to machine success. The po- i practically proved that ome of these in- | litical bankers must be fed and fat- | tened or else they won't contribute | to the corruption fund and without | will seyvd the purpose now and Me- Carrell has n both nominated and ing easily duped voters into the sup- port of the Republican nominee. With the election of the machine candi- date to the office of state treasurer and that department of the state government again under the rule of the , the prosecution of the capi- tol gra might easily be expected to develop into a farce. It would be folly in the extreme even to ex- pect that the machine leaders would be active in handing out to members of their own gang the sort of punish. ment which the crime seems to merit. Significance of a Vote for Sheats. From the Philadelphia Record. Both Governor Stuart and Senator Knox shrewdly avoided all mention to the Republican League of Clubs of the issue of the re-election of Senator Penrose that is involved in- directly, but no less certainly, in this Pennsylvania contest. While they indulged in mutual admiration. they had not one word to say for Senator Penrose. This may be thought un- kind when it is considered that the influence of Senator Penrose was es- sential to the election of Senator Knox, and that his voice was equally potential in the nomination of Gov- ernor Stuart. But it was kindness in the Governor and Senator to at. tempt to keep the chieftain of the Machine in the background of this campaign, if such a thing were possible. Yet everybody knows that a vote for John O. Sheatz is a vote for Boles Penrose, and that the election of Sheatz would be followed by the certain return of Penrose to the United Stateg Senate. 0, Pennsylvania, How Long? From the Johnstown Democrat. There is to be no prosecution of the capitol grafters until December, if then. comes from an official source. It means that the truth is to be kept from the voters until after the Nov- ember election. If Sheatz is elected | time. | ers will be whitewashed. | talk that is in the air in Harrisburg. | It is the talk in all political circles. | The game of fooling the people is on. | And they will be fooled if they fail FIFE WON'T BUILD Refuses to Design Yaoht Challenger Under Old Rules. London, Sept. 28.—8ir Thomas Lip- ton and William Fife, the yacht de- signer, were in conference here. The net result of the long conference was that Fife positively refuses, in any circumstances, to design a challenger under the old rules, but is willing to undertake to design 2 90-footer under the “universal rule,” if such a prop- osition shall be acceptable to the New York Yacht club. Mr. Westwood, Sir Thomas Lipton’s secretary, will start for Ireland to con- sult with the authorities of the Royal Irish Yacht club and decide on a course of action. Sir Thomas Lipton is still strongly desirous of issuing a challenge, but finds designers of repute here averse to undertaking the task of designing what they speak of as a freak. Sir Thomas is ready to build a 90- footer under the new American rule. After the receipt of the cable dispatch from the Royal Irish Yacht club, it will be for the New York Yacht club to say whether there will be a race for the cup in 1908. Sir Thomas has received hundreds of dispatches, many of them from America, expressing re- gret at the fact that his challenge has | not been accepted. mean the triumph of the Machine, to | i i i i { This is Information which 1 i state treasurer it means that the | truth will be kept from them for all | If Sheatz is elected the graft- It is the | | elub is King Oscar, | to elect Harman to succeed Berry. | | The election of Harman will force | ! the prosecution of the grafters. The ! election of Sheatz will mean immuni- | ty for them. Already in prospect of this the grafters are shaking hands with themselves. —— An Ominous Coincidence. ' From the Bedford Gazette. In the Legislature of 1905 J. Lee ! Plummer was the Machine Chairman of the House Committee on Appro- priations, and froni this post the Ma- chine intended to promote him to the office of State Treasurer as a re- ward for his services. But a hitch | was found in the arrangement when , the votes were counted in November | 1905. In the Legislature of 1907 John O. Sheatz was the Machine Chair- i . mouth and splitting his tongue. , man of the Appropriations Commit- | tee, and, following the Plummer | precedent, he is also made the Ma- chine candidate for State Treasurer. —Ominous! What's the Use of Gilding Gold. From the Doylestown Democrat. Nearly every spellbinder who ‘speaks for Candidate Sheatz states ‘at great length and with much em- phasis that the candidate is an hon- ‘est man. Why is it necessary to make this point so emphatic? Is it | because Republican candidates in the . past have been so dishcnest that , people's suspicions as to the honesty of the present candidate must be al- layed? If Mr. Sheatz really is an | honest man, why do the spellbinders find it necessary to make that fact | 80 prominent? ! Governor of the Machine. | From the Harrisburg Patriot. Thousands of his fellow-citizens ! who would rather believe Governor | Edwin 8. Stuart a patriot and a statesman than a partisan politician will, for the @overnor's own sake, regret that he has seen fit only a few weeks before election to appoint Mr. McCarrell to the vacancy on the | finish the job.” SWEDEN AFTER CUP Stockholm Yacht Club May Challenge For America’s Trophy. Stockholm, Oct. 1.—The Swedish Yacht club has addressed an inquiry to the New York Yacht club as to whether the latter would accept a Swe- dish challenge for the America's cup. The prospective challengers are Wil- liam Olsson, a millionaire merchant, and M. Kyhlberger, a banker, whose yacht Santoy has won several races. The Royal Swedish Yacht club is one of the largest in the world, and, having over 1000 members and about 600 boats, of which only 10 are steam yachts. The honorary president of the and among the membership are Prince William, who recently visited the United States; Crown Prince Gustav, and Admiral Prince Oscar Bernardotte. POSSE PURSUES NEGRO Fatally Shot Girl's Sweetheart and Then Assaulted Her. Washington, Sept. 30.—A posse is scouring Alexandria county, Virginia, for a negro, who waylaid and perhaps fatally shot John Willlam Mullen, 21 years old, near Rosslyn, opposite this city, and then assaulted Miss Amelia | Weiss, aged 17, Mullen’s flance, with | whom he was out walking. Without a word of warning the negro opened fire on Mullen, shooting him through the The assaflant dragged the girl into a thicket, holding her a eaptive for more | than an hour. As he left her he said he was going back to her lover “and Mullen, however, was able to make his way up the hill and tell of the crime, the girl in the mean- time finding her way to her home, where she informed her parents of what had happened. Great excitement prevails, and searching parties are looking for the appointed. The plain inference is that there will be no trial of the grafters. They will be indicted, of course, and the pretense will be kept up that, there is an intention to prosecute, But ft is a false and fraudulen’ pretense. McCarrell has too mufh interest in the suppression of the facts to per- mit a judicial Investigation if he is able te prevent it and if he is a Judge on the bench in the court in ‘which the cases are scheduled for ital he can Prevent it. Governor “Stuart mist have known this when he appointed McCarrell to the bench and the suspicion is justified that he made the appointment for the pur- pose of preventing the trial. Insurance Grafters Immune. There are other grounds, more- over, for the belief that it is not the intention to prosecute these grafters, During the special session of the Legislature of 1906 the Insurance Department of the State was investi. gated. The first witness examined during that inquiry was Samuel W. McCulloch, Deputy Insurance Com- missioner. Mr. McCulloch testified positively that Clayton W. Erb, Bd- ward J. Davis, R. J. Reed and Is- rael G. Stone were on the payroll of the Department, received checks regularly for many months though they were never at the Department and never performed any work for the State and notwithstanding there was no authority of law for paying them. Mr. McCulloch also testified to other misfeasances in the Depart. mént for which the Insurance Com- missioner was responsible. Among other things he declared that his own salary was augmented frequent. ly by adding expense accounts and {nferentially stated that whenever Captain Erb needed money he would make requisition on the Department and get whatever sums he wanted, His testimony was corroborated by Davis, Reed and Stone and it wg impotent. No self-respecting will vote for its candidates and few | of the other kind will do so unless | they are paid. The money to pay | them can't be got unless the mach- ine has control of the Treasury. The fast two years have been the hard- | est years of the life of the machine. | Another two years without the treas- | ury and they will despair. The bood- | fers won't work for nothing. These are the reasons why the i friends of good government should | gtrive earnestly for the election of | John G. Harman. He is a splendid | speciman of American citizenship. He is honest, able and courageous. f he Is elected the policies of Mr. ferry will be scrupulously followed. If he is elected the capitol grafters ¥ill be rosecuted and punished not- t iis the effort to pack the court in their Interest as McCarrell tsied to pack the Philadelphia jury in the interest of Quay half a dozen years Or sO ago. G. D. H. Mark the Vast Difference. From the Eastern Argus. The Republicans of the state of Pennsylvania on each occasion upon which they are offered an opportunity to express any sentiment in resolu- tions, spread themselves in condem- nation of the capitol grafters. Loudly do they call for the bringing of the guilty to justice—on paper. Strenu- ously they urge that they be permit- ted to hand out the justice to the gullty. That is one side of the ques- tion. Witness how differently the effective work of the organization ro Note the delay in bring. ing the men accused of wrong doing into the courts. Consider the deter mination of the political machine to put off the trials in court until after the fall election. Any fair minded citi. zen can see the fallacy of the position of the Republicans of the state in the premises. Censure for the capitol grafters serves the purpose of blind- a corruption fund the machine is man | | Dauphin eounty bench. In this act Mr. Stuart has shown that he considers himself rather the Governor of a party than the Gov- ernor of the people. ! Elements Against Sheats. , From the Blossburg Advertiser. We do not believe that the Tioga county miners, farmers and old soldiers will support John O. ! Sheatz for State Treasurer after his gang legislative record has been ex- posed. Neither do we see how any newspaper publisher can support him because of his vote for the press muzzler. He is of the gang, and for the gang first and last. A Strong Double Team. From the Williamsport Sun. With both the old soldiers, and the sons of old soldiers, entering protest against the Machine bosses’ defeat of the Cochran pension bill there will be a heavy verdict againat Sheatz at the ballot box in Novem- ber. PAY YOUR POLL TAX. EVERY VOTER SHOULD SEE THAT HIS STATE OR COUNTY TAX IS PAID ON OR BEFORE OCTOFPER 5. THAT WILL BE THE LAST DAY IF HE WANTS TO VOTE ON NOVEMBER 35. PAY YOUR POLL TAX. EVERY VOTER SHOULD SER THAT HIS STATE OR COUNTY TAX IS PAID ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER 5+ THAT WILL BE THE LAST DAY IF HE WANTS TO VOTE ON NOVEMBER 85. PAY YOUR POLL TAX. EVERY VOTER SHOULD SER THAT HIS STATE OR COUNTY TAX I8 PAID ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER 5+ THAT WILL BE THE LAST DAY IF HE WANTS TO VOTE ON NOVEMBER &. GRR negro. The affair is regarded as one of the most atrocious that has occurred In this vicinity, and if the negro is found it is believed that the threats of lynch- | ing. freely indulged in, will be made good. BATTLE HERO HONORED Gevernor Hughes Attends Unveiling of Statue to General Greene. Gettysburg, Pa., Sept. 28.—Governor Charles E. Hughes, of New York state, the distinguished veteran officers com- prising the New York state monu- ment commission, and committees representing the state legislature, par- ticipated in the dedication of a bronze statue erected on Culp’s hill to com- memorate the services of Brevet Ma- jor General George Sears Greene and the regiments under his command, who repulsed the confederate attack upon the hill in the famous “night fight” of July 2, 1863. A feature of the ceremonies was i i i i i i ! | | Bellefonte Shoe Emporium, The New Season Came in nicely. The late styles are on exhibition and all are invited to look them over. We offer the best in styles and makes and always save yon money. Yeager & Davis BELLEFONTE, PA. Lyon & Co. LYON & CO. We are showing new Fall Goods all over the store, every department is bright with new goods. Everything that is new and stylish in Dress Goods. A full line of Plaids from 10c. up to the all Wool and Silk mixed at $1.00 per yard. All Wool novelties in the new checks and stripes all new colors from soc. to $1.50. The largest line of Black Dress Stuffs and best assortment of Black Dress Goods in the town. Everything new. Broadcloths, fancy weaves, stripes and figured effects from soc. to $1.75. Special line of Grays in voils, The Wool Batist and novelty checks. LADIES’ WINTER COATS. A large assortment of Ladies’ Coats in black and all the new colors in the new loose and balf fisting models and fall lengths, lined and uolined, from $7 to $25.00. the presence of survivors of the nine New York regiments which bore the brunt of this attack. The last legisla- ture provided free transportation for a delegation of 50 men from each regi- ment, and these old soldiers, some of them for the first time since the bloody days of war, looked upon the fleld to which their bravery gave fame. Boy Insane, Father Dies of Grief. Hartford, Conn., Sept. 28.—John M. | Ney, Democratic nominee for lieuten- ant governor and a former state sena- tor, is dead here of a broken heart. Four days ago his son surrendered to the police after having escaped from an insane asylum at Middleburg, N. Y. None of the friends of the fam- ily knew of the boy's condition until news of his escape became public, and Mr. Ney collapsed when he found that his efforts to shield his boy's condition had failed. Mr. Ney was found dead in his bed. He was a prominent manu- facturer, Killed Sweetheart and Himself. Johnstown, Pa., Oct. 1.—John Miller, aged 24 years and single, shot and killed Mrs. Rose Pier, aged 24 years, said to have been his sweetheart, and then committed suicide at his mother's home in Walnut Grove, a suburb of this city. It is said the couple quar- reled on their way home from this city, and on their arrival, when the girl sat down at a table, Miller is al- leged to have picked up a shotgun and practically blown her head off. He then turned the weapon on himasel? snd shot off part of his own head. ”~ MISSES COATS. Misses Coats, everything in the new plain cloths and plaids, all the new colors and models from $3.90 to $18.00. CHILDREN'S COATS. Children’s Coats, new styles, and all the latest color” ings. Also white, all colors, in Bear Skins and Astra- kan and logvest prices. Caps to matoh. NOTIONS. Everything new in Trimmings, Notions, Laces and Embroideries, Hosiery, Gloves and Corsets. CLOTHING. We have just received a new line of Men's, Boy's and Children's Clothing. Men’s Suits from $5.00 to $20.00. Boy's Suits trom $3.50 to $10.00. Children’s Suits from $1.50 to $5.00. Men's Overcoats from $3.50 to $25.00. Boy's Overcoats from $2.50 to $7.50. Children’s Overcoats from $1.00 to $5.00. SHOES. A full line of Men’s Working Shoes. A fall line of Men's Dress Shoes. A full line of Boy's Working Shoes. A full line of Boy's Dress Shoes. A full line of Ladies’ and Children’s Shoes. UNDERWEAR. A complete line of Men's, Women’s and Children’s Fall aud Winter weights in Wool and Cotton Underwear. Come in and see all our new goods before you buy and you ) will save money. Lyon & Co. Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Pa.
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