R
me United | compelling political divisions | Shoes. Shoes.
votes declared for a Republican,” the| peed from the penal institutions.
VERNOR JUDSON | £5 58 555 Saris:
|} ing the conference. “lI would be| g struggle over a workingmen's com-
{| proud to do it. I would simply be| pensation act, and when it seemed
|] doing the will of the people.” One of | there would be no bill passed Gov-
HARMON OF OHIO {| the committee suggested the Oregon| ernor Harmon stepped in and acted as
. : Vlas Was ustemiocsitis. The uavative arbitrator. A Wl ve Samed 4d Y
i] rep very essence of drafted that has been approved
i} mocracy to put the government back both employees and employers. oe
ETHY i] into the hands of the people and let| The Soupuisary JJewisione which €agers Sh Store
. them say whom they want for United | made the New act unconstitu-
By A. V. ABERN | States senator.” y tional were not incorporated into the
Governor Harmon took a mew tack act. Instead the employer could
citizens had been demanding and plead-
and
OLUMBUS, O—(Special]- ing for in vain for decades. | the house, the Wyman bill. That| tion fund or not to par. If bo Sho
When the bribery charges The supremely important achleve- | body passed it and sent it to the sen- 1 a.
against members of the Ohlo ments of the Ohio Democracy under ate, where the governor finally got| the employee may sue for damages for
the leadership of Governor Harmon |
may be divided into transactions and |
legislations, first, for the elimination
of graft; second. such reform in the |
tax system as will protect the tax
payer from the tax spender and will
compel corporations to stop dodging
taxes and pay along with all indi-
vidual property owners: third, the ap-
general assembly exploded with
the suddenness and force of a bomb
and sent scores on a hunt for lawyers
Governor Judson Harmon took the
same view of the personality of guilt
that he did when he reported to Pres-
ident Roosevelt that Pau! Morton, a
member of his cabinet, bad been guilty
And in such suits the employer is de-
prived of the common law defenses of
fellow servant rule, assumed risk and
contributory negligence.
The employee cannot resort to the
courts for damages when injured in
Are Children
Worth
of grunting rebates while an officer
of the Santa Fe railroad. “Guilt is
always personal” said Harmon to
Roosevelt, and he resigned his com-
mission to {investigate rebating be-
cause Teddy wns inclined to shield
Morton.
A few hours after the bribery charges
plication of business methods and
economy In public expenditures, and.
fourth, the epactment of purely non- |
partisan laws for the benefit of the |
entire people. irrespective of political
parties, and designed to make rule by
interest seeking corporations extreme-
the law.
shield violators from the vengeance 0*
But-the general assembly took a long
the disregard of a law, ordinance or
order issued by an authorized public
officer providing for the protection of
employees or by the willful wrong of
Bringing Up?
It can’t be done without
RUBBERS.
| step forward from boss domination of
the courts by enacting a bill provid-
ing in the future that all Ohio judges,
from the dignified gowned justices of
the supreme court down to the humble
laymen who sit as justices of the
peace, shall be elected on tickets ab-
solutely free from party emblem or| joke when Mr. Harmon was inducted
device. Nominations may be made by | into office and the taxpayers had
conventions, but the power of bosses no means to check extravagance of
to control nominations was broken by, their public officers. These men decid-
a clause in the bill which says that ed on the amount of money they were
nominations may be made by peti-| going to spend in a year and then
tions. There is not another such law made a levy to produce that amount.
in the United States. | Taxpayers could do nothing but pay.
Ohlo has been hampered by the, “The authority which demands must
crude, unwieldy machinery of a con- | be curbed,” sald the executive In a
stitution which was adopted in 1851.) message to the general assembly. That
and the subject of making a new or-| body obeyed and passed the Smith bill
ganic law is the biggest and most im- which limited the maximum tax rate
portant proposition that has come be- | that could be levied by public officers
fore a Buckeye general assembly in' in each district to 1 per cent of tax
many years. Selfish hands were being duplicates. That was sufficient, the
outstretched to get centrol of the con- governor held, for an economical ad-
stitutional convention to be held In ministration. If more money were
1912 when Governor Harmon took needed there was incorporated in the
charge of the arrangements for it and Smith bill a provision for a referen-
succeeded in getting through the gen-| dum vote on a higher rate.
eral assembly a bill which will remove There were a large number of taxing
the delegates from political Influence poards composed of various state offi-
and make them responsible to the peo-' cers with jurisdiction over excise and
ple only. So well did he manage the other corporate taxation, but different
campaign that Ohio will set a prece poards were made up of different offi-
dent for all other states to foRow when cers so that there could be no uniform
they come to rewrite thelr organic laws.: and consistent action. Auditors In
Nominations of delegates will be eighty-eight Ohio counties had nearly
| made by petition only, and nominees eighty-eight different rules of apprais-
| will be elected on ballots absolutely ing property. with the result that no
free from party device or emblem or one got a square deal.
{| any form of party designation. The Governor Harmon had a bill drafted
liquor question, which has been a sore to abolish ail these boards aud to place
spot in Ohio for sixty years, will be the entire taxing machinery of the
finally settled when the new constitu. commonwealth in the hands of a sin-
tion is adopted. gle state commission of three mem-
The state when Governor Harmon bers. Other pew tax laws make it
' grasped the reins of government had possible to chase out of hiding millions
| nineteen penal, reformatory and beney. Of dollars of property and also strength-
olent institutions, with the responsibil. eb and broaden the inquisitorial pow-
ity of governing them divided among ers of the state tax commission.
nineteen separate boards of trustees, Obloans expected big things from
three members to a board. They were Judson Harmon when they elected him
so conducted as to secure neither econ- their governor. The achievements of
omy nor best results. the Democratic EO A show
e ex ations o e p e
ee Spooriote boon realized. He bad bee lading
been used as a sort of currency to pur. attorney for years. but a search of Ma
| chase nominations and to repay the record disclosed Harmon. wi ile he had
| boys who had delivered votes in con- corporations among hia ellents. ba
| ventions. The trustees appointed su- never given his talents to appear in a
court suit against the people. As an
perintendents and all subordinates,
and these combined to furnish the attorney general of the United States
he had proved to be a friend of the
dynamic power for the steam roller 1 hb h rt
which the late Mark Hanna and Boss people. Sghting through Sou pipe
George B. Cox used to crush the life which established the foundation of
ce on the anti-trust sub-
out of rebellions against the rule of
an employer, his officer or agents.
The employer contributes 90 per cent
of the compensation fund and the em-
ployees 10 per cent. Awards range
from $3,400 to $1,500 and are graded
on the scale of wages paid employees.
The taxing laws of the state were &
ly difficult and rule by the people easy.
After he became governor two years
ago Mr. Harmon quietly began bis in-
vestigation of the methods by which
public money had been loaned by Re-
publican state treasurers. He learned
they put interest earnings in their
pockets. There followed in rapid order
suits against the estate and bondsmen
of W. 8. McKinnon, former state treas-
urer, for $116,785 and interest thereon;
against former State Treasurer 1. B.
Cameron and his bondsmen for $211.-
721 and interest thereon. They were
were filed the Ohio executive sent out
an order that no man should be spared
in the legislative boodling investiga-
tion. Party and even personal friend-
ships must be set aside, the governor
said, and the entire situation cleaned
up.
Throughout niuereen years of con
tinuous control Republican state ad-
ministrations, when charges of irreg-
ularities were made involving members
of their party, assumed the attitude,
“They are our thieves, and we must
defend them.” There is an Ohio stat-
ute which grants immunity to every
This is what appeared in a recent
number of the American Journal ot
Health:
The family doctor should din it into
the mother's head all the time, that
the health of their children lies in the
feet. Keep the feet dry. Never let
them get wet. No child should be al-
lowed to go out in snow or rain, or
when walking is wet, without Rubbers.
REMEMBER, Yeager's Rubbers are
the best and the prices just a little
cheaper than the other fellows.
Yeager’s Shoe Store,
Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA.
Dry Goods.
LYON & CO.
HON. JUDSON HARMON, GOVERNOR OF OHIO. Our Summer White Sale is now on
at our store. The largest assortment
Republicans. Another graft investi
one who testifies before a legislative gation brought forth the ore:
uris;
committee, and this law, together with Jurispruden
a whitewash brush, had prevented any
Republican law violator from being
haled before a court of justice.
prosecution and conviction of Mark
Slater, former Republican state print-
er, on graft charges in lesser degrees;
the settlement of an interest claim of
the G. O. P. machine.
Governor Harmon's idea was that
“the establishments which a Christian |
| ject. In private life he was recognized
' as one of the ablest lawyers in Ohio.
In February, 1910, ten months before
of Muslin Underwear for Women and
Children at Reduced Prices.
te maintains for chart cred! the state election in Ohio, when Judson
State every hin Ti are Jace Harmon would go before the people
perish at their doors.” for re-election, Ohio Republicans by or-
Acting on this principle, the Jovan] der of President Taft held n harmony
framed and forced through the general | meeting in Dayton. The Republicans
assembly a bill placing all employees at Dayton did not talk of helping Pres-
of the institutions ranking below sy. | ident Taft or of restoring the Repub-
perintendent under civil service rules. | lican party: they talked about the
The nineteen separate boards of trus-| chance of defeating Governor Harmon.
Naturally there was a great rush by
distraught members for legislative | Over $5,700 on funds carried in the
immunity. But Governor Harmon | bank for former Republican State Au-
promptly pulled the plug of the im- ditor Walter D. Guilbert and the filing
munity bathtub aud prevented any : of a claim for over $31,000 with the re-
one bathing in its svothing waters by | ceiver of a defunct bank at Columbus
insisting that no legislative investigat- | as an interest charge on funds carried
ing committee be appointed and that | in that bank by Mr. Guilbert as au-
the inquest of the grand jury be the | ditor.
only probe. i These revelations during the gover-
Indictments were returned against nor's first term awakened the civic
seven members of the general assem- conscience and paved the way for his
A full line of Gauze Underwear for Men, Women
and Children at reduced prices.
Silk Lisle and Cotton Hose for Ladies. Lisle and
Cotton Hose for Men. A big assortment in Socks for
Children, in all colors.
tees and nineteen stewards under this’ and they did not talk hopefully. Un-
law were legislated out of office, and consciously they paid a patent tribute
the duties of the fifty-seven trustees
One Piece Dresses.—Just received a fine assort-
to the real strength of the man. It ment of one-piece Dresses for Ladies, our line of Chil-
bly and the sergeant-at-arms of the
senate, and these cases will take the
same course as that of the most bhum-
ble citizen who becomes involved in
criminal charges. A coterie of Demo-
crats who had been fighting the gov-
ernor’'s bills were among the members
indicted.
In less than three years of his ad-
ministration Governor Harmon has
made a record of accomplishment un-
paralleled in the history of Ohio poli-
tics. He has wrought more progress
for the people than was accomplished
in the forty years that preceded him.
There has been written into the stat-
utes legislation that the enlightened
subsequent re-election. The Democrats
captured the general assembly at the
same time.
Then Governor Harmon renewed his
efforts in behalf of certain bills two
Republican general assemblies denied
him.
The most notable achievement ac-
complished by the executive during the
legislative session was the enactment
of the Wyman bill, including the Ore-
gon plan of nominating and electing
United States senators,
A conference committee was appoint.
ed to frame a compromise senatorial
nomination and election bill. “I would
as the Interests which profit through
is his crown, and no hand but his own can ever dis-
suddenly revealed the tremendous suc-
cess of Governor Harmon and his com-
plete mastery of the political situation
in Ohio. The pian of opposition out-
lined in Dayton has never ceased. No
arms were apparently tied, and
his enemies laughed at his discomfort.
* The governor promptly reduced public
expenditures. Then, instead of a gen-
dren's Dresses in White and Ginghams is again com.
plete.
The best assortment of Washable Dress Goods
now on hand. White and all colors in the new
shades, trimming to match every color.
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strap Slippers in tan and black. Ladies’ two strap
Slippers in black and tan. Children’s Slippers in
black, tan and Patent Leather. Men's Working
Shoes. Boy's Fine Shoes. Boy's Working Shoes. All
at Reduced Prices.
Come in and See Our Large Stock Be-
fore Buying Elsewhere.
LYON & COMPANY,
Allegheny St. 47-12 Bellefonte, Pa.