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Bellefonte. Pa., September 15, 1909.
JUSTICES OF THE
SUPREME COURT
Northern Part of the State and Im-
portant industries Unrepresented.
The geographical inequality in the
apportionment of the state on the
bench of the supreme court of Penn
sylvania is beginning to attract notice
and challenge comment. There are
seven justices, including the chief jus
tice, on the bench. Of these two live
in Philadelphia, one in Lancaster, on¢
in Franklin, one in Fayette, one ir
Allegheny, and one in Indiana county
All the counties represented om the
supreme bench, therefore, are on the
southern boundary line of the stat¢
except Allegheny and Indiana, anc
they are separated from the line b
narrow strips, one little more than the
width of one county and the other b)
the width of two counties, Westmore
land and Fayette. .
Every county can't have a justic.
of the supreme court, but each groug
representating distinctive industria
life might. For example, Philadelphis
is the commercial center and Alle
gheny county the manufacturing sec
tion. There are commerce and manu
factures in other counties, but those
two represent those elements essen
tially. Fayette county shares with
Pittsburg in eminence as a soft coal
region, and Franklin and Lancaster
may be classed as agricultural sec
tions. But there is the anthracite coal
region, the oil industry, the lumber in
dustry, the gas producing sections and
the vast proportion of the agriculture
of the state unrepresented on the
bench of the court of last resort.
Probably less than half a dozen
lawyers in Philadelphia would know
anything about the legal principles in
volved in litigation concerning anthra
cite coal measures, disputes about the
measurements of timber or question:
concerning natural gas. Lawyers, like
physicians and educators, have be
come specialists, and a man who may
be a master of corporation law has a
very imperfect conception of the legal
questions involved in a cause respect
ing the title to land or the intricacies
of a dispute over a transaction in tim-
ber. It is not surprising, therefore.
that the friends of C. LaRue Munson
are giving some attention to this quer
tion. He is not only an able lawyer,
but one of the all-around kind.
A line drawn from the center of the
state east to the center west would
cut through Northampton, Carbon.
Schuylkill, Northumberland, Snyder.
Centre, Clearfield, Indiana, Armstrong
and Butler, running the line between
Beaver and Lawrence. The greater
part of Northampton would be south
of the line and most of Carbon north
Only small slices of Schuylkill and
Snyder would be north, while most of
Centre and Clearfield would be on that
side of the line. A very narrow strip
of Indiana would be on the upper side
of the line and Armstrong and Butler
would be cut in the middle. There
would be twenty-nine counties souti.
of the line, twenty-eight counties north
and ten mutilated.
It is hardly a “square deal” to giv~
the twenty-nine counties south of the
line seven justices of the supreme
court out of a possible seven. In other
words it is hardly fair to give counties
on one side of the line all and those on
the other none when they are so near-
ly equal in number. In any event it
is not fair to give Philadelphia thre»
out of the s~rven judges. The Pennsyi-
vania metropolis is a great city, but
doesn't measure up to such propor-
tions as entitle her to that preponder-
ance in influence. If that city had put
forward one of her greatest lawyers
if she had named a man of the experi:
ence and standing of Justice Mitchell,
who is about to retire, it might be dif-
ferent,
But the Philadelphia candidate
doesn’t enjoy that distinction. He has
had comparatively little experience at
the bar. He served as assistant dis
trict attorney during one administra-
tion and part of another, and during
his incumbency of that office the mis-
carriage of justice which resulted in
the acquittal of Samuel Salter, a sell-
confessed ballot box stuffer, occurred.
Subsequently a prominent member of
the Philadelphia machine declared
that the district attorney's office was
responsible for that mistrial. But ths*
doesn’t entitle his city to an undue
proportion f the supreme court jur
tices any more than it entitled him to
the gratitude of the people of Penn:
sylvania who are averse to ballot box
~ stuffing.
That the Democrats will carry
Pennsylvania this year ie as certain
as any future event depending upon
~ human action can be. The city of
Philadelphia wii! give a majority to
all the Democratic candidates, both
on the state and local tickets and
every county in the state will show a
Democratic gain.
Every Democrat can get his own
~ vote to the polls and most Demo-
~ crats can get one or two of his neigh-
bors or friends to go to the polls and
vote the ticket. If every Democrat
does his best, therefore, the majority
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DEFEAT AMENDMENT
NO. 7 IS URGENT DUTY
Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce
Sounds Afarm to Voters.
POINTS OUT STARTLING DANGER
City Gangsters Could Manipulate Elec:
tion Results, Through Corrupt Elec
tion Officers, if the Seventh Amend.
ment Is Adopted. :
Defeat of amendment No. 7, of the
series of constitutional amendments
on which the people of Pennsylvania
are to vote this fall, has been called
for by the Pittsburg Chamber of Com:
merce,
It is the fear of the Chamber of
Commerce that amendment No. 7 will
allow political schemers to gain con
trol of city election boards for crooked
purposes, Should this particular
amendment be adopted, it would open
the way for the naming of such boards
in the city by appointment instead of
by election. That change undoubtedly
would serve to make election boards
more corrupt and to multiply ballot
frauds.
In a public statement the directors
of the Chamber of Commerce say:
The board of directors of the Cham-
ber of Commerce of Pittsburg wou!
respectfully call attention to the fo!
lowing maiter of vital importante to
the citizens of Pennsylvania, and on:
worthy of the most careful consider
ation and action by the electors of th
state:
By joint resolution of the senate and
house of general assembly of Pennsy!
vania, passed at the session of 1907, a
number of amendments were propose!
0 the present constitution of thi:
state, Among them are the following:
“Amendment 7—To Article VIII.
Section 14.
“Section 8. Amend Section 14
o Article VIII, which reads as fol-
OWS:
“District election boards shall con-
sist of a judge and two inspectors,
who shall be chosen annually by
the citizens. Each elector shall
have the right to vote for the
judge and one inspector, and each
nspector shall appoint one clerk.
The first election board for any
new district shall be selected ani
vacancies in election boards filled
as shall be provided by law. Elec-
tion officers shall be privileged
from arrest upon days of election
and while engaged in making up
and transmitting returns, except
upon warrant of a court of record
or judge thereof, for an election
fraud, for felony or wanton breach
of the peace. In cities they may
claim exemption from jury duty
during their terms of service.
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“District election boards shall
consist of a judge and two inspec-
tors. who shall be chosen bien-
nially by the citizens at the mu-
nicipal el:ction; but the general
uire said rds
to be appointed in such manner
as it may by law provide. Laws
regulating the appointment of said
boards may be enacted to apply
to cities only; provided that suc
laws be uniform for cities of the
same class. Each elector shall
have the right to vote for the
judge and one inspector and each
nspector shall appoint one clerk.
The first election board for any
new district shall be selected, and
vacancies in election boards filled
as shall be provided by law. Elec:
tion officers shall be privileged
from arrest upon Jays of election
and while engaged in making up
and transmitting returns, except
upon warrant of a court of record.
or judge thereof, for an election
fraud, for felony or for wanton
breach of the peace. In cities they
may claim exemption from jury
duty during their terms of ser.
vice.”
assembly may
This proposed amendment will be
submitted te the voters at the election
this fall for approval or rejection, If
approved, it mes a part of the
state constitution, and must be ob-
served as such, unless eliminated by
a future constitutional amendment. It-
asmuch as the constitution cannot b-
amended more than once in five years,
this proposed amendment would hav.
considerable time to operate before it
soul be replaced or superseded by an.
other.
The amendment is surrounded by a
multitude of other proposed amend-
ments, which divert the mind from its
purport, and it is only by close read:
ng that its meaning and mischief be
cc ne clear.
oy oem Wolds Seek oe
change the p ce respec selec:
tion of election boards for a a
century, and to destroy the firet foun
dation of the people's political free.
dom. These words are so obscure anc
the amendment so sandwiched between
others of more or less harmlessness
and placed with such Sunhing in the
Jroposed amendment itself, that only
a close reading reveals the true pur
port of the change.
The proposed amendment first pur
Jorts to leave the constitution just a:
t is respecting the selection of elec-
tion boards. It begina:by al
most the exact words of the same sec
tion of the present constitution. viz.:
“District election boards shall consist
of a judge and two inspectors, whe
shall chosen biennially (instead of
annually) by the citizens at the mu:
meipal election.” A hasty reader
d overlook the meaning of wha
follows, for the last part ol
posed Smendient is Staufias
agra) e sam ject
plesont wongtitution. Iti as jollgws
e general assembly may requir:
said board to be appointed in such
EAE Tofuting the Appomthen:
WS a e
sald board
d s may be enacted to apply
to cities only, provided, ete.
It leaves the cities in a worse con
dition than the country districts
by its provisions the country districts
be left in full ent of their
at ra
em,
coun moy be 1 into the
Se aie ands of the political an
either or both at the
. It is
Plage was ever posed
fore to a free and opengl
mon oR —
We will never have good govern-
ment in this state until the people
make up their minds to punish re-
creancy. If the crimes of public men
are condoned because they belong to
this party or that, public men will con-
tinue to betray the people to the end
of time. The way to secure good gov-
ernment is for all men who favor good
government to vote against recreants
and for men who are faithful to the
people.
George W. Kipp served one term in
congress and achieved more in that
time than others have been able to in
three times the period. He is a man
of action. He obeys his conscience
and works hard urt’i the purpose in
mind is accomplished and then turns
his attention to something else. That
is the type of men who ought to be
commissioned to perform the affairs
of the public.
Residents of cities of the third
class have one more chance to reg-
ister. On Saturday, October 16, the
registrars will sit at the several poll-
ing places, in such cities, and voters
may then and there register. Every
Democrat residing in a city of the
third class should avail himself of the
opportunity to qualify himself to vote
for our admirable ticket if he has
not already done so.
The people of Philadelphia are get-
ting ready to give the machine man-
agers a surprise on election day. Un-
less the sigrs are misleading the close
of the pole on Tuesday evening, No
vember 2d, will mark the opening of
an exodus of political criminals from
that city that will purify the political
atmosphere of the whole state.
le So in tio
Bad government is bad, both fo
business and morals. While govern |
ment officia.s are looting the treasyry |
according tc laws made for that pur |
pose. they are robbing the people -
setting an example to others to lgot |
Graft is as reprehensible when pr.
tected by law as when it is not thu: |
encouraged. and when high officig : |
graft under invalid laws other peopie !
think they have a right to get all the i
can lawfully or otherwise High mind '
ed men will not graft, whether the
crime is sanctioned hy unconstitution
al laws or not.
Every Democrat in resists
ought to give one day during tjlie
month to the work of urging all other
Democrats t vote on election day au
on election day to take sufficient time
to vote himself and see that his Demc- |
cratic neighbor votes.
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mee MISSION
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This medicine eflects its wondertol
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most remedial values of more than 20 dif
ferent fogredients, each greatly strength.
ened and enriched by this peenliar cambi.
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If urged to buy any preparation said to be
“just as good"’ you may be sure it is infer-
ior, costs less to make, and yields the
dealer a larger profit, .
Get it today in the usual lignid form or
in chocolated tablet form called Sarsa
tabs, 25-39.
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Gas administered for painiess extracting
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