Democralic, Watdp, _- ~~ Seliefonte, Pa., September 17. 1908, _—_— mmm 6000 ADVICE TO COMRADES ‘Dne Pension Bill Vetoed on a False Pretense by a Republican Governor and Another Defeated by Act of Sen. ator Sisson, Republican Candidate For Auditor General. Veterans of the Civil War are be- ginning to take notice. For years the Republican party, especially in Penn- sylvania, has considered the soldier vote one of its principal assets. The veterans themselves have encouraged this fraudulent pretense, and profes- sing to believe that the war of the re- bellion was a conflict between the two parties, have with practical unanimity defeated such grizzled veterans as Wellington Ent, W. W. H. Davis, Rich- ard Coulter and others for the reason that they were nominees of the Demo- cratic party. l Without going into details the fact | that fully half the troops of Pennsyl- | vania enlisted in the Civil War were Democrats is susceptible of proof. It is an undisputed fact that Democrats in office have been more generous to the veterans in dispensing favors than } Republicans. It was a Democratic | state senator, Hon. J. Henry Cochran, | of Williamsport, friend and neighbor | of C. LaRue Munson, the present nomi. | nee of the Democratic party for jus. | tice of the supreme court. who first, introduced into the legislature a bill, providing for a state pension to vet: | erans of the Civil War and a Republi: | can governor who vetoed it. During the last session of the legislature every Democrat in the house voted for | a state pension bill, which was smoth- | ered in a senate committee named by | Senator Sisson, the Republican candi date for auditor general this year. “Truth travels with a leaden heel” according to the proverb, and facts tardily make their way through preju- | dice, but the veterans are coming to understand that it is the Democratic party to which they must look for jus: | tice. They are growing old, and there | are not as many of them as there used to be. But their needs are increasing as their years multiply. and the politi. | cal records of the state admonish them that it $= time to look to their real friends. That they are following this natural impulse is proved by the fol | lowing “Appeal to the Civil War Vet erans,” which has recently been sent out to his comrades in Blair county by | a battle scarred veteran of Al'oona: Comrades—There are times when a | man's self-respect conipels him to cut! asunder the political ties which have | bound him. and vote for his dignity. his manhood and his pocket. Such a time is at hand. 1 You all know how the nearly unani- | mous vote for a soldiers’ pension by | the state of Pennsylvania was defeat. | ed by the veto of the governor of the | state, on the false pretense of there not being any money to pay the amount appropriated, and those of you who have kept in touch with the treas- ury report of the state know that there i was a' no time less than twelve mil lions surnlus in the state treasury, while the amount appropriated was only about five millions. | At the last session of the legislature another pension bill was passed by! the house. and sent to the senate, where it was buried in the recesses of | the senate committee on finance. i Senator Albert E. Sisson was and is president pro tem. of the senate. As such president he made the committee on finance, and when the house bill! granting the pensions was sent to the | senate it went to Senator Sisson In| the regular order, and by him was re- ferred to a committee that he had created. All attempts to get him to] have it reported to the senate for ac- | tion failed—hence he is responsible for it being defeated the second time. | Senator Albert E. Sisson is now the | candidate of the Republican party for | auditor general. It is well known that the Republican management of the arty is against soldiers’ pensions by | he state. As the law prohibits them | from running Governor Stuart azain, they now propose to reward Senator | Sisson for kill ng the Pennsylvania sol- diers’ pension bill by electing him to the office of auditor general. If you. the soldiers and their sons! vote for Senator Sisson and elect him | as auditor general, it will be a plain declaration that veu don't want a Pennsylvania soldiers’ pension bill en- a ected. If vou defeat Senator Sisson, as yon | have the votes to do, the next legisla | ture will pass your bill. i It is squarely up to the soldiers ani | their sons. Elect Sisson and your bill is killed forever. Defeat Sisson and Jour bill will be passed by the next egislature. What will you do? A REPUBLICAN SOLDIER. Altoona, Pa., Sept. 6, 1809, Don’t imagine that the tarift-pam- | pered owners of the McKees Rocks | Pressed Steel Car company enjoyed themselves while they were signing! concessions to the strikers. They | came to the agreement very reluct: | antly and under the belief that it is only a temporary expedient. After the election the agreement will be broken in order to force the workingmen to yield. It is simply a “good enough un- til after the election” affair. Ewen the tedious details of a contro- | versy between Commander Peary and | Dr. Cook with respect to the discovery of the North Pole will make more in- teresting reading than the grewsome narrative of Roosevelt's butchery of harmless w.ld animals in the jungles of Africa, and the time is coming when we shall have to take one or the other. Sterilized. “Have you,” inquired the city vis ftor, “a moss covered bucket about the place?” “No, sir,” answered the farmer. “All our utensils are sterilized and strictly sanitary.”—Kansas City Jour- nal. . | more freely. | rant for a man who | sion, | meeting, together with the information PcRVERTED NOTIONS OF THE JUDICIARY Dean Trickett, of the Dickinson Law School, Discusses the Subject. Dr. William Trickett, dean of the justly celebrated Dickinson law school, doesn't share the absurd notions of | the bench that some of his colleagues at the bar are endeavoring to foster. | But he has a much better idea on the | subject, which he expressed in an in-| terview the other day. “It is neces sary.” Dean Trickett observed, “not! only that we shall have honest judges, | but judges in whose honesty and, krowledge of the law the people shall! believe.” In another part of the interview he | said: “I believe that the very first step toward making a new system should be the selection of honest judges. Not that there aren't many honest judges on the bench at pres- ent, but unfortunately there are too many in whom the people do not have confilence.” Dean Trickett must have had the present judicial contest in this state in mind when he made those observa- tions Senator Quay cast an indelible stain on the judiciary of Pennsylvania a few years ago when in an open let ter to Justice Brown, of the supreme court, he declared that unfit men had beer “catapaulted” on to that bench! as a reward for partisan service. That is precisely the present situa- tion. Judge Von Moschzisker had served the machine by making an ab- | surd decision affirming the constitu tionality of an act in palpable violaticn | of the organic law, and his nomination | is *he reward. If the people of the | etate would preserve the integrity of the hench they will refuse to ratify this hargain between corrupt machine | raliti-tane and judges of elastic con: | griences. Judge Trickett expresses some other views on the question in point worthy | of remerhrance. He says: Tho ects of the judges should be criticized, not only as freely as thos? of other public servants but even| The public should keep a closer watch on them than on any | cther class of officials. A judge should have every protec. | tion that any other citizen has against | attacks on hie charscter. He should | have an action for libel, and that is all | he needs. There is no reason why he ghonld have the power to issue a wor has criticised his: public acts and summarily put him in| prison. | The courts expand and contract the constitution to suit the whims of the individuale who happen to be on the i ! i i i i i | 1 i bench at the time. The income tax is a case in point. The princinle involved had been re-| peatedly adjudicated over a period of | s-venty vears, and the government’ had collected under these decisions something like $400.000,000. | It wasn’t nntil 1864 that the supreme conrt discovered that the income tax] was unconstitutional. Then it was bv a divided court, as is nearly aiways the | case when a constitutional question is inveclved. QUAY MONUMENT IS IN HARRISBURG In Pennsyivania Station Among Unclaimed Goods. The Quay monument has arrived in Harrisburg, according to press dis patches from that city, and is among the unclaimed freight in the Penn svlvania railroad freight station. Gov: ernor Stuart declines to express any opinion in respect to the ultimate dis posal of the effigy, but states that he will lay the letter of Dave Lane, chair man of the Quay monument commis before the board of public grounds and buildings at its next that the monument is at the freight station. State Treasurer Sheats is ominous ly silent on the subject. He declines to give even an intimation of what he will do when the matter comes before the board. Auditor General Young is on his vacation, the dispatches add, and can't he interviewed on the sub ject. though there is an impression current that he will oppose the ac ceptance of the effigy. In the first place there never Was a monument commission with power to order an effigy of Quay. An act was passed lu thorizing such a commission, and Gov ernor Pennypacker named certain gen- tlemen in pursuance of that act. But the senate refused to confirm the ap pointments, and under the constituticn no appointment is valid unless cou firmed by the senate. Thus it will be seen that the effigy was contracted for without authors of law. Then it is recalled that the act authorizing the creation of the commission provided for the erection f the monument in the capitol grounds, puring the last session ol e legislature, however, Senator Mc Nichol introduced a concurrent reso 1 which was adopted, providing for the placing of the monument in the corridor of the sapitol This resolution, if put into operation would work the repeal of the provision of the act of assembly which directed that the mon. ument be placed in the earitol grounds. Thus the entire affair is without authority of law and cong: quently invalid. In the event of the election of Sen- ator Sisson and former Senator Stober to the offices of anditor general an state treasurer, respectively, there will be no doubt of the outcome of this vexed question. Both Sisson and Stober voted for the act authorizing the creation of the monument com. mission and appropriating $20,000 to preserve Quay in marble and perpet- uate the memory of Quayism. and Sis son voted for the McNichel resolution directing that it be placed in the cor ridor of the capitol, Stober havine been retired by an ashamed constit- jency to PHYALR te i re n prineiples ay ism ang are obthd to those princi: ples and methods for all their past and present political favors, and will ad to ote to thus honor Quar, disgrace th state and outrage the consciences of the people. vw | exposed. I ——— OFFICE BUILDINGS THE FANCY Ample Room In the Present Building For Ail the Government Depart. ments, But the Hungry Horde Is Growing Ravenous For Spolis. Sent out as a feeler, but with an evident purpose back of it, was the announcement from Harrisburg last weely that the new capitol has been found too small to accommodate the growing number of departments, and that it will either have to be enlarged or the state will have to erect mew buildings in close proximity to the capitol, purchasing sites therefor from | private property owners. { As a matter of fact there is no ne-! cessity for more room to accommo- date the various departments of the! state administration; there is plenty of room in the big capitol at present, and that is apparent to anybody who visits it. Some of the departments oc- cupy suites of rooms in which an en- tire room is allotted to ome clerk, where a dozen clerks could be accom- | modated. In some departments there | may be some crowding, but that is the effect of the multiplying of many of-| fices in these particular departments | to make room for heelers and hench- | men on the pay rolls. The ery of more room wanted is laughed at by the peo- ple who are obliged to be at the capi- tol every day, but who are not con- nected with the state administration. Put this semi-official announcement | that more room is needed has a very | serious object bagk of it. It is evident | that any attempt to enlarge the capi | tol would result in failure, because the | stench of the capitol graft scandal hag not vet blown away. It is, therefore. | proposed to build near the capitol an | entirely new set of buildings, to be known as office buildings. This would not attract a; much attention as an addition to the capitol. but it would | afford a fine opportunity for grafting. and that ie the main object in this] move for a big new building to cost at least a million dollars of the tax | pavers’ money. It is known that the | Republican machine needs the money, Since State Treasurer Berry exposed | the looting that took from the state | treasury over $9.000,000 there have been no opportunities for grafting, and | there are a good many hungry and | thirsty patriots who will not be denied a whack at the treasury, and they are | not partienlar how it is brought about. i These are the men who have devised the scheme for a new office building to accommodate the departments, and they alone would profit by it. It may be said that any attompt at grafting in connection with the con- struction of a new building for the slate would be instantly detected and Pt would it? Not with ench a Republican state treasurer and anditor general as the Republicans have placed on their ticket t is year. Two worthies of that stripe would be very compl. isant officials as long as their friends in the machine were on the job. Sisson, of Erie, as auditor general. and Stober, of Lancaster. as state treasu~er, would stand for a good deal to obl e their friends. People who have a knowledge of the game as it is played on Capitol Hill are saying: “Just imagine Sisson and Stober on the board of public grounds and build- ings and a new state building bein erected. As a majority of the boal they could outvote the other member of the hoard, and they would do it, no matter if the other member is the gov- ernor. It would be a fine thing for two men like Sisson and Stober to over- rule the governor in a board meeting and order something that would cost the state a big sum of money, for then Stober, as auditor general, would audit the accounts made by the contract, then issue the warrants, pass them over to Sto'er, who as state treasurer would pay taem. Lovely arrangement ali around.” No wonder people are amused over the story that there is to be a new state building. But would Sisson and Stober do what they were told to do as state officials? Why not? They 100k or ders when they were in the state sen ate, and not an iniquitous measure during the notoriously corrupt sessions of 1903-5 that they did not vote for every machine measure that was sprung. T *y had to, for they were under orders. With an air of piety Sisson voted for all of the bad legisla tion, while Stober trailed along and voted just as he was told by the lead- ers. If they took orders as legislators they certainly would take them as state officia:s, for that is why they were nominated. They will favor a new state buliding all rigat for it will be a fine opportunity to help their ma. chine friends. President Taft has all his predeces- sors skinned a mile in the matter of profligacy. He is about to start out on a 13.000 mile trip at public expense, and part of the distance will be cov- ered by a whole flotilla of warships which will have to travel a thousan? miles in order to convey him a couple of hundred. The disclosures in the Schuylkill county baliot fraud cases surprises no close observer of events. The Repub. lican majorities in Schuylkill county have been built up in that way for more than a dozen years and we are only finding it out now because of a quarrel among the crooks themselves. ———————— Roosevelt's slaughtering operations in Africa “look like thirty cents” when compared with the achievements of others during this pericd of marvelous development. —————————— 4 - —— Origin of the Word Academy. Academus was a wealthy Greek of Athens who lived several hundred years before the birth of Christ. Among his possessions was a beautiful grove, where young men used to con- gregate and listen to the teachings of wise men, such as Plato and Socrates. This developed into the school of mod- ern times, and these modern schools take their name “academy” from the old Greek. Academus., The real mean- ing of the word academy is a school for boys. . A Wave of Water. There is no necessary connection be- tween the advance of a wave and the forward movement of the water com- posing it. as may be seen by running the fingers along the keys of a plano. An inverted wave travels along, but the keys merely move up and down. Similarly a wave may often be ob- served running along the ripe ears of golden grain. while the stalks are firm- ly rooted in the soil. The onward progress of a sea wave Is easily per- ceptible, and by watching some light substance floating on the surface the fact is revealed that the water is not moving with the same velocity. — Chambers’ Journal. A Hint and a Hump. A woman there was, and she wrote for the press. as you or 1 might do. She toid how to cut and sew a dress and how to cook many a savory mess, | but she never had done it herself, J guess, but none of her readers knew. She told how to comb and dress the bair and how out of a barrel to make a chair—'twould adorn any parlor and give it an air—we thought the tale was true. Oh. the days we spent and the nights we spent, with bammer and saw and tack, in making a chair in which no one would sit, in which no one could possibly sit, without a crick in the back.—Economical Housewife. : A Legal Query. Tired of the long winded oratory of the attorney for the defense, the judge interrupted him. “Mr. Sharke,” he said, “may 1 ask you a question?” “Certainly, your honor. it” “Language.” said the judge, “we are told, is given to conceal thought or words to that effect. Inasmuch as you don't seem to have any thought to conceal, 1 would like to know why you are talking?” What is Important to Mothers. 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She ha: also for sale a jarge collection of real and imita tion shell and jet combs and ornaments, small jewelry, belts and belt buckles, hair goods, and many novelties for the Christmas shopper, and will be able to supply you with all kinds of toilet articles, including creams, powders, toilet waters, extracts and all of Hudnut's preparations. 50-1¢ Fine Job Printing. arcsec Sm JE JOB PRINTING Ome A SPECIALTY =o AT THE WATCHMAN OFFICE. There {s no style of work, frown the cheapes Dodger" to the finest t—BOOK-WORK,—1 that we can not do in the most satisfactory maz ner, and at Prices consistent with the class of work, Call on or communicate with this office. Flour and Feed. Ee CURTIS Y. WAGNER, Baockeemorr Mints, Briievoxts Pa. Manufacturer, and wholesaler and retailers of ROLLER FLOUR, FEED, CORN MEAL, Et. Also Dealer in Grain. Manufactures and has on hand at ali ig the following brands of high grade our WHITE STAR, OUR BEST. 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