—The President shot a bear, now the government at Washingsoo is safe. —Sa poor old PENNY didn't even get ob the Valley Forge Park commission. —A, vote for HARMAN will bea vote to endorse Honest government in Penvsylva ER oS merits your support. ~The frost these morniogs will haves bard time finding any pampkios in Ce county to lay its heavy flagerson. | 3 De ji: # £ —And Bellefonte ia to have the - VOL. 52 2/1 In dismissing a taisbta! publio official, | the other day, Mayor REYBURN, of Phila- delphia. Captain EpwARDS was appointed ] by Mayor WEAVER, dating the brief period age. Good luck to is. It can scarcely said shasiy fill a long lels wank. —Thes? are tre corporations who : take the place of money in heir bhasiness. ~Vote tor Kinport and belp a compe: tent aod faithlal offisial in a career that commands the respect of every fair minded citizen. —Vote for HagMAN. You have seen ‘and heard him now. And seeing and hearing such a mao is convincing proof that he will be an emineatly proper successor ‘for Mr. BERRY. ay 1 LL —Wall St. mast have what we used to eall intermittent fever. Oue day everying A; is all right over there while the next there | jg——Well, you koow what Geo. BHER- MAN said aboat war. ’ . —Like homing pigeons all the foreign balloons that left Si. Loais in she io- sernasional race sailed right straight to ward the Atlantic while the United States entrant strack north toward Canada. —1It it wasn’t Knox who got that $15, 000 check from the Camell Manufacturing company it muss have been PENROSE a8 be is the only other Pennsylvania Senator who is now in a position to explain the —These fellows who are continually planning to fly to the north pole in a bal- loon would be far more practical in their ideas if they were to take the nsnal {boat aud sledge route up ; then have the bal. loon to fly home in. —There isa difference between oorpora- tions as well as individuals. Here) she Btaodard Oil Co, has to give twenty five reasons why it can’t pay that $29,000,000 vom vo fue whereas she old, Bellefonte look works | “oul ha 5 : pr © =A meting was never held anywhere she HARMAN meeting in shis Wedneslay night; The three talks of Mr. DewALT/Mr. BERRY and Mr. HARMAN hejd the andience for almost three hours most intense in terest. It was m Oot ve ofa grave case nin tha isioal meeting and the Alcon was noticeable in the abworb- ed attention of the aadience. 3 ~The President may lay ol aim # tarn- ing ou, the light ou rotten corporati ns hut the,pu hitic hasn't forgotten, that THOMAS W: Lawson, Ina TArBELL. Jo FOLK and Wittiam RanpoLps Hearst Hid the light burning brighsly even when the dis- $inguished gentleman who’ bow lays claim $0 the honor was having “corespoud ence | with some of the ‘‘andesirable citizen” olass with a view to ra sing canspaigo funds $0 keep his party in power.’ —If Mr. SHEATZ hadn't bees to make himself solid bys propriations so indy there would have enbugh lefe in the State's strong hox to ive the old soldiers a little bit. That is what Senator COCHRAN thought of when he introduced the bill. The old soldiers have been thinking of it ever since SHEATZ'S extravagance made the veto of the bill necessary and shey will bave to think very hard before they will be able to vote to put bim in the office of State Treasurer. —The candor of the Philadelphia Press is admirable. In its Sanday issue it states that no matter how many votes HARMAN mav get in the other counties of the State “in Philadelphia SHEATZ is going to get aboat all the vote there is.’ Of course every one expects them to steal a few thousand in Philadelphia bus no one ex- pected that they intended to steal them all, mach less that the Philadelphia Press had joined hands with the thieves. !f the Press prediction is true then we are forced to agree with HARRY RUMBERGER, of Philips- bag, when he says: *'1¢'s all off.” ~The President may pra‘é.all he pleases about his policies representing an effort to punish dishonesty bus there is no doubs of their also erippling innocent share holders in t\e corporations affected. If he wants to punish dishonesty why doesn’s he have his Attorney General bring eriminal prose- ontion against some of the dishonest in. dividuals in high places he so frequently allud-s to. How is is going to help the poor depositors of the Knwokerhocker Trost Co, who have lo their savings in its crash to have the President continually blather. ing generalities abont dishonesty thereby shaking public confidence and straining credit. If he were to quietly ret the wheels of the law to moving alter the in. dividaal culprits be could accomplish the end and avers distress, That is not the Presilents game, however. He is a grand staud player. have tried to make’ air bat he was acting independently of the machine. His predecessor in the office was LANE, a brother of Day A. g, present chairman of the Republican amittee. Mr. LANE made no pre- tease of fos at all or of securing the uneration providid by law. He sim- ply acoepted a lamp sam from the Stand. ard Oil company, turned his stencils over to the agents of that predatory trast and permitted them so brand any kind of prod- not with the brand of avy standard. Oil of a low proof is not ovly exceeding. ly dangerons bat is vastly cheaper thau that of the higher proof which is required by law for illuminating purposes. Daring the admivistration of PETE LANE the brand on the low-grade product making noally, besides largely increasing the death and loss rates. When Captain Ep- WARDS assamed the office, the agents of the company offered him large amounts of fused to pay his fees in the hope of starv- ing him into submission. Bat he paid his inspeotors ous of his own resources and went without compensation himsell and continued to perform his duty. For that reason the Standard bad bim disobarged and when is was accomplished Mayor REY- BURN frankly admitted the reasons. The people of Philadelphia were fooled into the election of Mayor REYBURN by the false pretense made by himself and the machine managers that he was honest and a gentleman of high character. They be- lieved, moreover, that his election was es- sential to the suovess of RoosEVELT'S poli- oies, beoanse it was said during the cam- paign that REYBURN favored ROOSEVELT. Soon after his eledsion, however, REYBURN repudiated ROOSEVELT and since that has betrayed every reform pledge he had made. He has proved himself to be simply a ma- chine follower in a reform mask and has already restored all the iviguities of the machine into the governments of the oity. Joux O. SHEATZ, the machine candidate for State Treasarer, is exactly the same kind of a man and striving for precisely the same purpose. Will the people of Philadelphia be fooled again ? Sheatz and the Quay Monument. It every other vote of SHEATZ during his service in the Legislature had heen wise and worthy his vote for the QUAY monu- ment should condemn hin to the execora- tion of every honest man in the Common- wealth, The QUAY monument enterprise was a particularly impudent defiance of public morals and opinion QUAY bad heen all his life a political pirate. He bad not only perpetrated political crimes him- - | self but encouraged others to all forms of political immorality. Just before the pas- sage of the law providing for a monument to his memory he had escaped conviction on a grave charge by pleading the statate of limitations. His gail was proved be- yond the shadow of a doabt. The QUAY monument project was con- oeived in iniquity, Its purpose was to «how contempt for personal integrity and official decency. QUAY hed twice robbed the treasury of large sums. He had testi- fied to the nse of knowledge, acquired as a member of a committee of the Senate, in stock speculations and he bad left a trail of crime and suicide covering a period of thirty years of vicious publio life. The machiue managers had uodertaken to deify that sort of man. They wanted to demonstrate shat virtue is of no value and vice an object admiration. They wanted to teach ¢ ildren of the people of Pennsylvania cirvamspeot lives are worthless in SHEATZ voted f QUAY monument heoauve he admi e QUAY type. Like P YPACKER be imagined that QUAY was great because he was successfal io bay- ing elections with tainted money larnished by predatory corporations. That vote was a orime against public morals, an insalt to the public conscience. The monument has never heen errotvd and pever will be. Even PENNYPACKER and DAVE LANE are afraid to proceed farther with it. Bat there was an intention to erect it and it was expressed in the voteof JoHN O. SHEATZ, and that vote should keep all honest men from sapporting him now. . ——The Rouud Table conference of wu- perintendents and principals of public schools of Central Pennsylvania will be held in A toona this afternoon avd tomer- row. As Bellefonte and Centre county be- longs in this conterence it is likely that qnite a number of teachers from this seo- | rion will attend. « 4 BE EE — t delphia, d that be was influenced | ‘by the d Qit company. The : in question was Captain FRANK G. Br WARDS, oil inspector for the port of Phil money if he would continue the old system, | but he refused. Then the company re- | | i Standard invariably put the high-grade | unearned profits of millions of dollars an- i STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. LLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 25, 1907. An Absard Political Story. The silliest political fabrication ever of- tered to public credulity is that which par- | to show a conspiracy among the friends of Senator PENROSE to defeat the election of JouN O. SuEaTz It is palpa- bly a Philadelphia North American evter- prise. The obvioas purpose of is is to hold the anti-PENROSE voters in the Republican patty to the Penrose candidate. The PENROSE followers are sure to be in line on election day for the PENROSE leadership is involved. Bat there was grave danger of a diversion of the auti- PENROSE Repub- lican vote, which is a vast and potent foroe, from the PENROSE candidate, with the result that both PENROSE and the can- didate would have been buried in everlast- ing oblivion. Pexgrosk had Joan O. SHEATZ nomi- pated for State Treasurer not because of any personal friendship for SHEATZ but for the reason that in the Senator's political judgment it would help PeNgrosg. If the defeat of SHEATZ, now that he is nomi- pated, would in the least measure conserve the interests of PENROSE, that gentleman and his friends would oat and slash and atab him mercilessly. But SHEATZ is the PENROSE candidate, the product of the PENROSE policies, and if he is defeated PENROSE'S political control and influence are inevitably deséroyed. Nobody uoder stands this better than PENROSE. No op- ponent of PENROSE, of reasonable intelli- gence, doubts this proposition. It is sell- evident. Mr. PENROSE is for SHEATZ because if SHEATZ is defeated PENROSE is absolately eliminated from the politieal equation in Pennsylvania. Nothing will save] PEN. ROSE exoept ** the cohesive power of puhlio patronage,’’ and the use of the State funds in the fight is the principal essential to the achievement. If SHEATZ is defeated this essential will be absent and PENROSE'S candidate defeated and his policies dis- oredited, he will be completely and irre- vocably ‘‘down and ont.” No living man except the foolish fellow who! imagined that the election of QUAY'S candidate for Speaker of the Hoase in the session of 1899 would defeat QUAY'S election to the Sen: ate could conorive a story that PENROSE is against SHEATZ. A Surprising Criticism, The Repablican ‘‘spell-hinders ’ are condemning State Treasurer BERRY [in un, measured terms becaase he paid some of the exorbitant bills contracted during she PENNYPACKER administration. This theme is being worked especially hard by Representative BEIDLEMAN, of Dauphin county. Ina speech delivered at Brad- ford, Pa., the other day, he said that as high as $400 had been paid for chairs in some of the rooms of the * Palace of Graft" since the present State Treasurer bas been in office, and shat sach profligacy is outrageous. BERRY ought to have re- fosed payments on all such bills, Mr. BEIDLEMAN declared. BEIDLEMAN is a lawyer aud during the recent session of the Legislature was ohair- man of the House Committee on Judiciary General. He oaght to know, therefore, that the State Treasurer has no option in the master of paying warrants unless he has reason to believe that the bills are fraudulent or the work performed defec- tive. The fact that bills are exorbitant, if they are according to contrac, is not suf- ficient reason to withhold payment. There is cause of complaint against contracts which permit of exorbitans bills bat in the case in point the contracts were made be- fore Mr. BERRY assumed office. Treasurer BERRY did withhold payment of bills to the aggregate of aboat $300,000, notwithstanding the late Attorney Geueral, Hamprox L. Carson, warned him that be had no alternative bat to pay. Mr. Berry thoaght thet architect HusTON had no right to charge fees for designing work that he didn’t design and that con- tractor SANDERSON was nos entitled to payment fur solid bronze when be bad “ Joaded ’ the pieces with an inferior quality of iron, avd he refused payment, If JouN G. HARMAN is elected to succeed him thas refusal will he made perpetual, moreover, aud it i equally certain thas il SHEATZ is elected the hills will be paid. ——The appropriations for the township High schools are now available and war- rants are being sent cut this week to the districts entitled to them. Iu Centre coun- ty Walker township High school will re- ceive $450 and Benner, Boggs, College, Ferguson, Gregg, Haines, Harris, Liberty, Miles, Spring and Worth township High sohoole $300 each, or a total to the county of $3,750. This, of course, is in addition to the regular appropriation received. ——-County commissioner C. A. Weaver hae been confined to hie home at Coburn the past three or four weeks with an attack of syphoid fever. Though the disease was in an aggravated form is at vo time reach. ed the orisioal stage and the orisis now baving passed Mr. Weaver is on a fair way to an early recovery. Still Falsitying His Record. The falsification of his legislative record | by JOHN O. SuBATZ, the machine Repub- lican candidate for State Treasurer, on the question of his vote for the Susquebanna canal bill, is hardly more direos evidence of his false pretense of friendship for RooSeEVELT. In his Pittaharg apeech,a few nights ago Mr. SHEATZ declared that he is in favor of the renomination of the Presi- dent hy the Republican National couven- | tion next year. He knows that such is not the fact. The convention which nominat- ed him put a candidate in the field who is uot only opposed to ROOSEVELT and his policies but is against the President's choice for the succession. It is safe to assume that Senator PEN- ROSE has no desire lor she nomination of his senatorial oolieagne for Presilent. He had kis convention deolare tor Senator KNOX, however, for the double reason that he thought it would belp him and bars Roose: vELT He understood shat his candidatey for State Treasurer would need every element of strength, and imagined thas holding out the promise, however vagae, of a Penusyl- vania candidate for President would atoase interest in the contest, Besides that he hoped that hy getting the Pennsylvania delegation in the National convention “sied up” to a hame candidate, She nomination of ROOSEVELT or his candidate on the first ballos would be prevented, When the nomination is not made on the first ballot there is ohavce for manipula- tion. In any event, however, SHEATZ has no right to claim that he is either a friend or supporter of ROOSEVELT. Oa the evening of January 30. 1905, a resolution endorsing President ROOSEVELT'S most cherished poliov was introduced into the Legislature. KoosevELT was in Philadelphia at the time addressing a meeting in the Academy of Musio, called for the purpose of enlisting moral support for the measure referred to in the resolution. On she question of the adoption of the resolution, however, JOHN 0. SHEATZ voted in the negative, thus joining the the machine in a rebuke of she President and a condemnation of his policies. be found on page 204 of the Legislative Recoid of the session of 1905. The Siate Highway Department, The esteemed Philadelphia Record has taken notice that ‘‘the PENROSE State Highway Commissioner, Josep W. HUN- TER, bas appointed and has now under pay a batch of so-called road inspectors without the slightest authority of law’ and adds, “there are now 135 of the inspectors on 216} miles of road. Is this she beginning,” our Philadelphia contemporary continues, “of a new aunex to the machine and of a new scheme of widespread corruption ”’ Not the beginning, esteemed contem- porary, hy a large majority. This putrid and stinking pool of corruption was hegun when the State Department of Highways was organized. From somewhere and for some evil purpose PENROSE and PENNY. PACKER dug ap or discovered Josep W. Hunter and put him into the office in order to give force and effect to the corrupt purpose expressed in the language of the law creating the office. The Department was created for purposes of robbery and has fulfilled its mission to the overflowing measure, The desire for good roads is practically universal among the people of Penvsyl- vania. Toe advantage of fine highways is as keenly appreciated among the farmers in the country as i# it among the merchants in the cities and towns. Good roads are as usefal to the huokster as they are to the automobilist, and as enjoyable to the gen- tleman of leisure as to the driver of a cart. Bat there is no material difference between these classes. What is good lor one must be acceptable to the other or else there is something the matter. But she Highway Department was nei- ther intended nor has been conducted in the interest of the people. It is essentially a department of grafts. Mr. HUNTER must have heen chosen hy PENROSE aud PENNY: PACKER because of bis facility to grafs. In any event he was selected hy men who have nothing in mind bas grafs and it may be assumed that be accepted with the idea of grafs in his mind, Democratic Meotings. For the parpose of carrying the oam- paign against grafs and corruption in Penn. sylvania to the homes of the people moat vitally interested public meetings have heen arranged for the following places in Centre county. Alle speakers will aadress each meeting and large audiences should greet them, HuBLERsBURG. OCT. 20th. CoBurN, Oct 30th, MapisoNBura, Oor. 31st. CoLykRr, Nov. 1ss. —Dollar wheat is here aud the only way you can get around is is by putting more soda in the bread to make it ligher. i mt ——— Spawls from the Keystone. —By order of the court, the pay of the court tipstaves in Cambria county was on Saturday raised from $2 to $2 50 per day, the same that jurors get. ~The Danville rolling mill which had been running day turn only for the last six months went on double turn on Saturday, giving employment to an increased number of men. —While going to church in Altoona Sun- day morning with his daughter, Peter Tay- lor, aged 75 years, of Aaronsville, Adams county, dropped dead in the street. He was stricken with heart disease. —The people of Carrolltown, Cambria county, are now enjoying the advantages of natural gas for light aud fuel and are taking advantage of the fuel as fast as the fittings ean be put in. The gas costs $1 per 5,000 feet. —The miners of the Panther Creek valley in the anthracite region were motified on Wednesday that the $11.000 back money awarded them through the conciliation board over a timber dispute, will ba paid this month. —A special election must be held in West Hazelton to authorize the school board to increase the bonded indebtedness of the bor- ough, for the erection of another school building to relieve the overcrowding in the lower grades. —Vernon Wosteott, alleged to be the leader of a gang of horse thieves operating in Crawford and upper Mercer counties has been placed under arrest by members of the state constabulary. This is the first move toward breaking up the gang. —Mrs. James Graff, of Duffield, Franklin county, was shot on Sunday evening at her home and died instantly, Her young son has a new rifle and while he was showing it to Lis mother he accidentally pulled the trigger. The bullet entered the mother’s heart. —Rev. B. C. Conner, the presiding eldar of the Altoona district, hus been elected a min- iaterial representative of the board of mana- gers of the Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church and will be a member of the general committee which meets Nov. Oth in Seattle. —Philip Raymer, of Lewistown, who ecar- ries the mail between the postoffice and the railroad and trolley station, ntly cele- brated his 87¢th birthda rsary. He continues regularly an ally, at his work aud steps along as AS 4 man in the prime of bife. 3 ~Twenty-five $1,000 notes were found in the bed in which Thomas McDerwond, of Newville, Camberiand county, died sudden ~ ly. He was 73 years of age and & traveling man, and sithough he was a stockholder in the Newville National bank, he appears not to have had very strong faith in banks. ® Sheriff Con Allen, ot Clearfield county, is making a hard fight to influence the coun- ty commissioners to pay him a bigger price than 25 cents a day for feeding the prisoners in the county jail, on account of the increas - ed cost of provisions, but the commissioners campaign now being waged in Pennaylva- seem determined not to allow § . nia is beginning to aterack sblentic fy fo Lows ines Reese yond our borders. A New York esa yin iain was driving horse NEWS: | the Allentown race track on Saturday he BAe re poe ie to be ure wis shot through the nose by a stray bullet what it has amoanted 10 thus far. Renders | {rom some careless hunter's rifle it is sup- of the lvoal machines newspapers vainly | posed. Reeser fell forward from his seat on the sulky between the sulky and the horse sean their colamuns for political news or editorial comment, and are moved to |and was dragged some distance and badly injured. wonder at the unwonted wisdom of jour- ~Three weeks ago a pocketbook contain. pals which having nothing to say, say nothing. ' And, in truth, there is practically noth- | I"€ $44 was rifled in the home of J. A. Craig, of Butler. Sunday the money was returoed while the family was away and was placed ing worth saying to be said upon the Re- publican side in this campaign. They have in the same pockethook in an upper {window where it had first been found. The thief said it all when they say that their cand:- date a'so is an houest man ; and thas is entered through a back window to return the money. bardly worth saying for sorely no man — Fire early on Saturday morning at Elsia, with the least shadow of dishonesty upon him woun!d be placed conspionounsly hefore a suburb of Pittsburg, for a time threatened to destroy the borough, but was got under the people as a caudidase for the office of control after destroying six houses. The fire state treasurer, Things worth saying, if they could be started in a vacant house and it is believed was started by & tramp. Property loss] $20, said, would be in reply to the D-mocratic eontention that, in view of the exposures 000. A 50.000 gallon tank of oil was in great danger, but did not ignite, of grate and stealing made under the pres- sare hrought to hear by the present Demo- —The Huntingdon county courts have granted the petition for a resurvey of the cratic #iate treasarer, and in view of she fact that all the other officers of the state Huntingdon Bediord county line from the top of Tussey mountaio to the Fulton county are of the machine Reputlican sort, the next state treasurer should, as a measare line. The Bedford courts will probably ap- prove the survey. Fora number of years a of expediency and for she stimulation of warchfulness and reform, be a Democrat. controversy has arisen about lands near Sax ~ ton us to what couuty they were in, and To that, itis quite evident, noshing some ands have thus escaped taxation and worth saving can he said. Evervhody knows that if we had nos their title made doubtful. —~While some young men were bunting now a Democrasio state treasurer we would for a disguised cloak man who had (been not have hed the exposures of state capitol 1asoality, and would uot now have a state vernment 80 strenuously bent upon re- orm ! frightening women and children for about a week in Shamokin, they attacked Mrs. Mary Baker, aged 77 years, on Sunday night as she was resting under an awning in a sparsely It is all very well to stolidly pretend the contrary, and to now and then protest the settled section and kicked aud clubbed her severely, mistaking her for the man they undoubted honesty of a machine candidate or the awakened zeal of the machine iwell for reform, has the less said she better. Candidate Sheatz is the candidate of the machine ; he has often, if not always, were looking for. She is in a critical con- dition, —Dr. Dumm, of Mackeyville, who bad a large peach orchard, is busy having the trees pulled up. The doctor, like some others, shown hie devotion to the machine ; the people of Pennsyivinia should not, as this finds that peach trees are no go in this oli- mate. Another owner of a peach orchard in time, be particulary disposed sowards the the same section is also removing the trees, election of thar amt of a state treasarer. finding it an unprofitable investment. Ex- Sheriff Benjamin Schaffer, of Nittany, who had 1.600 peach trees planted some five years ago, is having all of them removed for rea- sons similar to the above, ~The first ground excavated for the road- bed of the extension of the Chambershurg, Greencastle and Waynesboro trolley line from Greencastle to Chambersburg, was thrown out on Taursday afternoon. J. J. Oller,one of the directors and a commanding figure in the fia wncial direction of the com- pany, sent the first pick into the earth and general manager M. Wolff pitched out the first shovelful of loose ground. The road will be pushed north to Chambersburg as fast as possible. —The eleventh annual State conference of the D. A. R. will be held in Williamsport on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 29th and 30th. Among the leading members of the organization who will bs present are Mrs, Donald McLean, the national president, who will be the guest of Mrs. Allen P. Perley, state regent. A reception in her houor will be given at Greystone on Wednesday even. ing. The seszons of the conference will be held at the Park hotel, beginning Tuesday NO. 42. More Capliol Graft From the Pittsburg Post. Is will pe most 1nteresting news to the taxpayers of Pennsylvania that John H. Sanderson, who is now under indictment upon the charge of having defranded the Siate of several millions of dollars in the furnishing of the capitol, holds eontiacts for shout $10,000,000 wore of work not yet dove aud which were awarded to him, or the firm of which he is te head, hy the hoard of pahiic grounds and bauildiogs. The record of such awards is in evidence, bus the State has no evidence to show that the contracts were ever cauceled. These contracts provide for the building of a swimming pool for the members of the Lei