—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. |
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—And Bellefonte ia to have the
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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.
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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- |
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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<lature aud for the construction of a
kitchen and grill room, beside other
things. It has been known that it was
contemplated to sperd many millions of
dollars wore upon the capitol and its
grounds, bad nos Stare Treasurer Berry
spoiled the game. Bat it has not been uo-
til now ascertaiuved that contracts were
actually awarded for some of the intended
work.
There can be no doubt that if John O.
Sheatz should be elected, the chances for
the conviction and punishment of the
capitol grafiers would he greatly lessened.
In the event of their esoaping punishment
they would be emboldened to insist upon
the keeping of these contracts, and well
they might, for they would naturally as-
sume that the majority of the people of the
State had no resentment hecause of being
robbed, and desired the process to continue.
There has been talk of the State some
time or other endeavoring to recover some
of she millions of dollars of loot secured hy
the capitol grafters. Shonld such an at-
tempt be wade no doubt Sanderson wounld
threaten to prooeed with his new contracts
unless the snits were abandoned. In all
probability the present State authorities
would he willing to compromise by agree-
ing to diop the civil suits in return for
the canceling of the as yes nnexecuted oon-
tracts. If the majority of the voters of
Pennsylvania decide to elect John O.
Sheatz as State treasurer they willgun-
doubtedly play directly into the hands of
the capitol grafrers and invite further dep-
redations on their treasary. Oaly hy de-
feating him can they he assured of jostice
being done so these gralters, and shat they
will not have to pay out further large
sums for the eapitol and ie farnishings.
They Sey Nothing.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The one sided character of the political
What the People Would Do to Grafters.
From the Easton Argus.
It she people of she state had a voice in
the master the conrt trials wou!d he at.
tached before the date of the fall election.
This is the contingency the Repablican
machine is fighting hard to prevent. Its
reasons in reality ought to react as an in-
centive to the officers in whose hands the
matter rests so speed the action in order
that the voters of the state may be made
acqnainted with all the features of the
capitol steal that they might apply the in-
formation when they go to the polls in
November to make their selection of a
state treasurer to snoceed W. H. Berry—
the man who started the hall rolling.
Not Asking Too much.
From the Norristown Register.
Sarely the five hundred thousand Demo-
orate in Pennsylvania are really not asking
for verv much when they seek to have
only one representative in the state's gov-
a as Harrisburg. Give Harmao a
ifs.
——On Monday Samuel Rine witha
force of men resumed work on the digeing
of the the ditch on Howard street for that
new sewer. He also has two or three
teams at work hauling the dirt and stone
off of Allegheny street and in course of
time that thoroughfare will be in good
shape again. morning at 10 o'clock.