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—For Sheriff, ARTHUR LEE.
—A vote for Francis SPEER will be a
vote for a deserving, capable christian
man.
—Let us make the change complete
next Tuesday by putting Democrats in
every one of the county offices. - wr
—A vote for JouN D. MILLER for County ¥ OL 006.
Treasurer is one you would never regret
and probably you would regret giving onc Entitled
to his opponent.
to Nothing from Democrats.
FeLLow DEMOCRATS, when Mi. GEORGE
—LEE is the man you should vote for : 4
for Sheriff. He is the best fitted of the | YARNELL, of any of his particular Repub-
: lican friends come smirking round to
aspirants for the office and would prove | ,
y ask vou to cast a complimentary ballot
more i ial. i .
the satisfactory officia | for him, as the Republican bosses in
—Pennsylvaniaonce called The Pennsyl- | Bellefonte have instructed them to do,
vania State College athletic teams “hay | ,oy them what Mr. YARNELL ever did for
seeders” and “Yokels. On Saturday HEY any Democrat that would entitle him to
discovered they were “some pumpkins | his support for one of the best offices
too. | in the county.
—Probably if State has more practice Ask him if he ever voted for a Democrat
games than she needs for her foot ball | for any county office, and if so what one.
schedule next fall the Bellefonte Academy He has had Democratic neighbors and
team might be persuaded to give Penn a friends candidates for office many times
date. ! since he was old enough to vote, and if
—If we get the new Pen we will never | he is as honest as his friends allege he is,
more hear the old expression, “He'll go! he will tell you frankly that he never
over the mountain.” In theother counties | voted for one; and if he wanted to be as
of the State it will be “Bellefonte for frank as he has been on many other oc-
his.” casions, he would tell you that he had not
—Don't let anything keep you away only never voted for a Democrat, BUT
from the polls on Tuesday and use your NEVER WOULD. And possibly he
every effort to get others to go. It is, might go farther and say to you, as he
important that the taxpayers of Centre | has to others that, "if it was a matter
county get together and put competent | between a Democrat and the devil, he
men in office. ' would vote for the devil.”
: : Its not very many years ago since this
Have you stopped to think that the same GEORGE YARNELL was an under-
amount of interest the Commissioners J ‘lon at the mine baaks be
have lost on their sinking fund agree-| .. .
i ¢ this place and Zion. Mr. AARON MALLORY,
ment would be en al to pay the | now a resident of Union Furnace, Hunt-
salaries of the entire Board of Commis. | ingdon county, was at that time a citizen
sionets for three ye : ' of Centre county, and a good honest day
—While the Republican has had columns | \ahorer. It was during the panic that
of space to devote to personal flings at | president HARRISON'S administration
the editor of the WATCHMAN it has not’ yrought upon the country. Mr. MALLORY
had a line to explain why Commissioners jo many another poor man was out of
WOODRING and ZIMMERMAN have employment. He applied to this same
to pay $109,182.93 into a sinking fund and pope YARNELL for work in the mines.
then get only $100,000.00 back. He had worked in other mines and was
—The county borrowed $100,000, but it ' rated as an excellent day laborer. In
has to pay back $255,000 befere the debt | place of getting work, he was told by Mr.
is paid. Whose fault is it? The County | YARNELL "TO GO TO THE FELLOWS
Commissioners. They know so little of | HE VOTED WITH FOR HIS JOBS— |
business that they ought never to have! THAT HE WASN'T FURNISHING
been put there. Vote sc they won't have | WORK FOR DEMOCRATS, AND
another chance to commit such a blunder. WOULDN'T GIVE ONE A JOB IF HIS
—If you wanta new jail, another bond | TONGUE WAS HANGING OUT.” i
issue that will take $255,000.00 of your Mr. MALLORY is living to-day, and if
money to pay a $100,000.00 debt vote to asked will verify this statement. There
put WOODRING and ZIMMERMAN back in are other Democrats living within reach
the Commissioner's office. It is part of whom he treated in the same manner:
the plan, if they get back, to do to the Ask Mr. J. W. HEPBURN, now a resident
jail what has been done to the court of Mt. Eagle, who was working about the
house. mines, when YARNELL became boss there
—The cost of everything has gone up | how he treated him because he was a
under Republican legislation. Taxes in’ Democrat. .
Centre county are up and going higher No, fellow Democrats, you don’t owe
unless something is done to stop it next Mr. YARNELL even a good political wish.
Tuesday. And we don’t know that there : He has been your bitter, unrelenting
is so awful much work for the laborer or | political enemy since he knew enough to
business for the merchant. Honestly, do, take sides against you, and he boasts that
you think a change could hurt. Let us he never expects to be anything else.
try it by beginning right at home on elec: Why then should you help give him one
tion day. of the best paying offices in the county,
{and particularly the one that would en-
—Don't let anyone fool you about the 3
County Commissioners. It matters not able him to harrass other Democrats.
how fine the court house is, nor who urged ' Give a few hours to the serv-
its remodelling the management of it Was ice of your party next Tuesday, no mat-
worse than school children could have: ter how busy you are or how far behind
done. As men Mr. WOODRING and Mr. | ith your work you may be. The Demo-
ZIMMERMAN are all right, but the job is cratic ticket this year is an honor to the
too big for their ability. Neither one of ! county and every Democratic voter should
them ever had much experience and the perform his share of the labor of electing
taxpayers are already the victims. Don't ji
give them another chance to get us in the
hole.
—Mr. Voter, don't be cauzht by this
buncombe about PAUL FORTNEY'S not Have you ever heard a man who had
being eligible to practice before the Su. anything but a good word for Mr. J.
preme court, after he is elected District FRANK SMITH the Democratic candidate ,
The Man for Register.
Attorney.
lawyer who passes the perfunctory ex
amination required can practice there.
In the second, ask the fellow who under-
takes to feed you such “dope’” how many
Commonwealth cases have been carried
to the Supreme court in the last fifty
years.
—Why has no one even attempted to
In the first place any good for Register, —either as to his qualifica- |
_ tion, his morals, his disposition or any
attribute that would go to make up a
man's perfect fitness for the place to
“which he will be elected? No you have
not. Loose tongued as some of the fel-
| lows who are trying to keep the county
offices in the control of the Bellefonte
ring, and as unprincipled as at least one |
i of the Republican county papers has |
’ Seer | {
o the WATCHMAN'S frequent | proven itself to be in other cases, no one
tions that the financing of the remodeling . .
; i has had the gall to challenge either his,
ofthe court has the worst entire fitness, his moral worth or the fact
bungle that has ever occurred in the is obi
4 : that his obliging nature makes him pre-
management of the county business? oc... the man for the place.
They can't be answered. Messrs. WooD- | : nil
RING ZIMMERMA | His competitor, Mr. WILLIAMS, while
ad have pi ctically | cn of a gemtleman, is nevertheless |
given away $9,182.93 of the county's
money. We are not charging that | one of the crow] vesponsitle to the peo- |
EE Ia itY Iupia for the divsreditable showing teat the |
i
ES Nhat they did Jt th | sounty commissioners, fics now makes:
y orient Dusiiiess Tod TOU8h | He has been its clark ever since Mr.
Centre county longer afford to pay for WooDRiNG and. 1I5.. ZIMMERMAN took:
o_o y rCed tye, | charge of it, and possibly more to him
In Sane the County Commission. Cam 0 Any Re Slielr many.
filed in the a office a stale. nro. Rots)
ment setting forth the purpose OE a He. SHAE HAY g i vive |
$100,000 bond issue. It was stated Sn, £8 wid) Be sald wens. you Wht
URL SO MD of it was Sox tive Sipicofh another of your couity’
OF Vi Sr ae, So Toe the . Fin of these dame Ie DN a
i — 1 ant the mismanagement, the reckless-
ohang Wetess Wish was _ | ness and carelessness that dvmractoried]
vesigins promised , jt, carried over to the Register's office?
should Ste) TON was fun 3) to If you don't, you will allow Mr. WiL-
ve $122,000 i g ousading em LIAMS to go back home, and you will put
have permitted such a fast and loose Bhat Sat e 0 Shatie 2 oneds SI; Aight
game with your money want you a place, and Be
to continue them in office next Tuesday, : you
I . be proud of him as a county official be-
Surely, as one men who have t0 gore he has been there a week. |
settle for such extravagance, you are mnt —————— i
going to do it. | ——Subbcribe for the WATCHMAN. |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 3, 1911.
The Influences that Made Your Debt.
Must Beat the Ring to Change the Management.
Mr. Tax-payer, have you ever reflected over the fact that after all it may not
be so much the two men who have filled the place of County Commissioner for
the past three years, who are to blame for the awful condition into which your
county finances have gotten, as it is to their surroundings and the influences
that have guided and directed them. Great as has been the wrong that Messrs.
WOODRING and ZIMMERMAN have permitted to he perpetrated upon you and
your children, it is only in keeping with conditions that have followed the
management of county affairs every time you have placed the power to do so in
the hands of the Republicans of the county. This allegation holds good as far
back as most of you can remember.
In fifty years there has not been a single instance in which the Republican
party elected its County Commissioners and took control of the county manage-
ment, that at the end of the term for which they had charge your county affairs
were not in worse condition, the general expenses largely increased and the in-
debtedness greatly enlarged, than when they were inducted into office.
We say that in not a single instance did this result fail to come as a conse-
quence of Republican management.
From the close of the war up to 1884 it was a constant and bitter struggle
with the tax-payers to meet the many obligations that relief funds, special war
taxes, the building of a new jail and other extraordinary expenditures growing
out of these things imposed upon them. Up to that time there had been negli-
gence in the collection of taxes and thousands upon thousands of dollars had
been permitted to remain in the hands of collectors while the county was com-
pelled to pay large amounts of interest for money to meet its increasing obliga-
tions.
In 1884 Messrs. A. J. GRIEST and JoHN WoLr—one a practical and thorough
business man, the other a progressive and intelligent farmer—(just as are the
two Democratic nominees to-day, Mr NOLL and Mr. GROVE) were elected as
Democratic Commissioners. They set themselves at work to straighten up the
county matters and at the end of their terms they turned over the office to their
successors, with the county books squared up, back taxes all collected, every
note and other obligation of the county paid up, and a considerable sum to the
credit of the tax-payers in the county treasury.
These Democrats were followed by two Republican Commissioners—Mr. JOHN
C. HENDERSON and Mr. Joun D. Decker. While these gentlemen made no im-
provements in the county buildings or other county property, their manage-
ment was such that at the end of their term the county was again in debt over
$15,000.
Then the people put in to this office Mr. FRANK Apams and Mr. GEORGE L,
GOODHART, two Democrats. They got down to work and, without either in-
creasing valuations or raising the taxes, they paid off the indebtedness left by
the Republican Commissioners and turned the office over to their successors
clear of all debt.
They were followed in 1897 by Mr. TuoMAs FisHER and Mr. MATTHEW RiD-
DLE, two Republicans and exactly the sani result was experienced—a large in-
crease in county expenditures and another debt for the tax-payers to settle up
when they went out of office.
Then in 1900 the office was again turned over to the Democrats, and Mr.
PHILIP MEYER and Mr. DANIEL HECKMAN attended to its affairs for a term of
three years. During their administration the county expenditures were again
reduced, and the debt that the Republican Commissioners had run up, prac-
tically wiped out.
From 1902 to 1905, the office was again in the hands of the Republicans, with
Mr. A. V. MiLLER and Mr. J. G. BAILEY acting for them. It was the same thing
over—an extravagant county management and a good sized debt to close up
with. Then Mr. DUNLAP and Mr. WEAVER were put in by the Democrats, and
when Mr. WOODRING and Mr. ZIMMERMAN, the present board of Commissioners
followed them in 1909, they found the county practically out of debt, its fixed expen-
ditures pruned down to the lowest cent, its bridges and buildings in fair repair,
and its taxes as low as they had been in twenty years.
They have been in that office now almost three vears and you know how
it is? -
A debt of over $150,000 saddled upon you.
A mortgage on your homes and farms of $100,000 that you cannot get rid of
for THIRTY YEARS.
The annual county expenditures increased over 35 per cent.
When from forty to sixty thousand dollars per year was all that it required to
meet the ordinary county expenditures, under Democratic management, they have
run it up until their estimate for the present year is $105,000.
And these men may be honest—we do not charge that they are not. But
they listen to bad advisors. They are influenced by men who don’t care what
the debt is that is put upon you, or how high your taxes may be made. They
are creatures of a little crowd here in town who don't care for anything,
so that they can reap emoluments from county offices and make political assess-
ments against county officials.
It is these men who have loaded you down with debt and it is these men
who will add additional mills to your taxes, it you help them place in power the
candidates they want you to—men whom they can influence and control.
By voting for WOODRING and ZIMMERMAN you continue the county manage
ment in the hands of this same Bellefonte ring, that has put you in debt, and
squandered the county money, every time it elected its ticket.
To get a square deal you must defeat its ticket and destroy its power to
dictate and control.
By voting for NoLL and GROVE you vote for two men who will care for your
interests, and be guided in their official duties only by their own good judg-
ment. They will not be the tools of contractors, the creatures of speculators,
or the political friends of those who are always trying to filch from the county
treasury.
Promises that Wont Go with Tax-Payers.
And now Commissioners WOODRING and ZIMMERMAN are
out in a card promising the tax-payers that if they will re-
elect them, they wont either build a new jail or fix up the pub-
lic grounds between the Court House and the jail.
Didn't these two gentlemen promise the public less than two
vears ago that the improvements they purposed putting on the
Court House shouldn't cost over $60,000.
A county debt of over 150,000, and a thirty year mortgage
of a $100,000 on the homes of Centre county, that can only
be paid after $255,000 (counting the interest) has been wrung
from the tax-payers, shows how much their promises are
worth.
ed
Al
NO. 43.
Proof of Their Unftness.
Theres one thing the tax-payers of Cen-
| tre county should know, and have a right |
| to know and that is that the big bridge
over Spring creek right here at the door |
| of the WATCHMAN office is to be rebuilt
| without a letting. Two car loads of ma-
| terial that go into it, are already on the
' ground, and workmen are expected every
‘day to begin the job. The price to be
paid in addition to $2,000 charged for the |
| repairs started last spring and which
| were stopped by indignant citizens, is |
said to be $8,500 of which the Borough, |
rumor has it, is to be responsible for |
| $2,500.
Whether this price is too much, or not
too much, the WATCHMAN does not know |
| for we have no knowledge of the archi- |
' tecture of the bridge, how substantial it
|is to be, or how expensive material or |
| work is to be used upon it.
It is not the price that we are calling
attention to but the fact that it is to be
built without a letting. i
People generally understand what this
means and what may be expected from |
such kind of business.
There is another thing, however, that |
ber on Tuesday next, and it is that when
they elect Mr. W. H. NoLL and Mr. D. A
GROVE to be their County Commissioners,
there will be no more of this kind of
business done. There will be no bridges
built without lettings. There will be no
public improvements started or made,
without knowing, before they are begun,
exactly what they are tobe and what
they are to cost. There will be no going
into debt without a distinct knowledge of
what they are to have for that debt.
be done
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—John Subody, an employee of the Galeton tan-
| nery, isin the contagious ward of the Williams.
| port hospital, suffering from a bad case of an-
! thrax.
—The largest payment of State tax during the
prsent month was made by the Pennsylvania lines
west, which sent the State Treasurer a check for
| $341,000.
| —An eastern Pennsylvania farmer is the owner
| of a sow which recently gave birth to nine pigs,
| eight of which have no eves, while the other has
| but one.
| —Mrs. Susan Koontz Meyers. wife of exCon-
| gressman Benjamin F. Meyers, editor of the
| Star Independent, died at her home in Harrisburg
| last Saturday night. aged 75 years.
| Fish choked the pumps of the Pennsylvania
railroad shops at Columbia, and among the ag
gregate forty pounds of fish removed from them
was a carp weighing fourteen pounds and meas-
uring thirty-three inches in length.
—~Frank Keener. one of Indiana's prominent
attorneys, not feeling well, went to his room the
other day after breakfast fora short rest. After
a time his wife went to call him and found him
dying, the end coming in a few minutes.
—Another fine vein of coal has been discovered
by the drillers of the W. E. Hoffman company's
artesian well at Philipsburg. Only a few days
ago they found one at a depth of sixty-one feet.
“This one was found 131 feet below the surface.
—A wheel flew off a car on the Pennsylvania
Fire Brick company’s line down the mountain
near Beech Creek. Several men who were'on it
were thrown, but only one injured. He was
thrown fifteen feet and landed in a growth of un-
derbrush.
~The largest chestnut farm in eastern Penn-
sylvania is located in York county and isTknown
. Its350 acres of woodland are
mostly covered with chestnut trees which this
year will yield a crop of not less than 700 bushels
of chestnuts.
--Four Hoover boys are under arrest at Home
Camp, near DuBois, charged with stealing $600
worth of ginseng. It is alleged that they had
been offering ginseng at reduced rates to merch-
ants, which gave the police a clue to the identity
of the thieves.
—Nine pigs, twenty thoroughbred white Wyan-
dotte chickens and about twenty-five pigeons lost
their lives in a fire which consumed the bam of
the St. Cloud hotel, Lock Haven. A large quanti-
ty of cabbage, endive, straw and other things
also went up in smoke.
—There is an apple orchard in Cranberry town-
ship, Venango county, consisting of twelve acres
on which the trees are generally old. From thes
trees this year the owner will finally gather from
2,200 to 2,500 bushels of apples. One tree alone
will yield fifty bushels.
—~Christ Muth, a prominent farmer residing
near Big Run, Clearfield county, is in a critical
condition as a result of being gored by a young
bull in his barnyard a few evenings ago. Only
the fact that he was tossed over a stone wall sav-
ed him from instant death.
—Mrs. Mary Smith. a resident of Philadelphia,
held a burglar at bay in her home, early Sunday
morning, until the arrival of a policeman, who
took the intruder into custody. The prisoner,
who answers to the name of William J. Dacy, is
said to be a much wanted individual.
—~Three prizes in gold are offered by the Hunt-
ingdon camp of the Patriotic Order Sons of Amer -
icu to the public school pupils who come out first
in an oratorical contest to be held next spring.
They will also buy a banner to be given to the
school having the best attendance record.
~The bank of Austin opened Saturday morn-
vince every thinking tax-payer of the
county of the utter incompetence of the!
two men now acting as County Commis- |
| sioners and who are asking the voters to
| keep them in their position for four years !
longer.
——President TAFT has returned from
his vast Western junket filled with fore- |
bodings as to the future of his party and
is uttering admonitions of danger at ;
every opportunity. The President's tour!
was simply an electioneering enterprise
at public expense and the fact that it
failed of its purpose is a tribute to the
intelligence of the people.
The Right Man for That Office.
——
That Mr. JouN D. MILLER, or as he is,
more familiarly known. "JOHNNY MILLER,” |
is going to be the next Treasurer of Cen- |
tre county, is almost as certain as that
an election will be held on Tuesday next.
From every portion of the county comes
the word that every known Democrat is
giving him the heartiest support, and
that there is not a precinct in the coun-
ty in which he will not receive more or!
less Republican support. Most of this |
strength comes from the fact that the
honest, maniy, straight-forward man that |
he is. Some of it from the fact that the
present Treasurer, Mr. FINK, is under-
confidentially |
to his friends, that he is to be continued
in the Treasurer's office if PRITCHARD A
can be elected. This of itself drives
scores of reputable Republicans to Mr. |
a clear track for an overwhelming victo-
ry. For if there is any one thing that
the better class of Republicans in Centre |
county don’t want, and won't have, it is’
a continuation of FINK in the Treasurer's
office.
But FINK or no FINK, Mr. MILLER'S
election is already practically assured,
because of his own good qualities, and
the manly, fair and honest manner in
which he has made his campaign. The |
people want, and they know they wil}
have, a reputable man in that position as
soon as Mr. MILLER takes the oath of of- |
fice; they know they will have their ,
treasury in safe hands and that there :
will be no acts of his to cause them i
shame, during his administration of its |
affairs. '
We congratulate Mr. MILLER on the |
assurances of the support he is receiving,
and the people of the county on the fact
that in choosing him they are
zens for this important place.
——
——The New York State authorities
are disclosing the causes of the recent
disaster at Austin while our own officials
at Harrisburg are still wondering. New
York State has a Democratic administra-
tion, however, and that makes a differ-
eace.
people have learned to know him as the
MILLER'S support, and leaves him almost issued
one of their most upright and best citi- | not alarmed at his absence, because
ing at nine o'clock. Contrary to the expectations
of many, a run on the bank did not materialize.
The bank took its usual Saturday half holiday.
and at twelve o'clock the cashier reported having
received a larger number of deposits than there
were withdrawals.
. —The plant of the Lewisburg Chair company
. at Lewisburg. was destroyed by fire Monday
: night. Loss $100.00. An automatic extinguish-
er had the fire practically under control when the
fire department attached hose to the main which
proved insufficient to supply both and by drawing
the water away from the sprinkler caused the
building to burn.
—Samuel Heverly, Joseph Englert, Harry Yost
and John Greth. who are employed in the clay,
mines in the Scootac regions, killed two raccoons
in the mines last week, one on Monday and
another on Friday. It is thought there is a nest
of these animals in an old drift and the miners
expect to get more of them. Both the coons
were young and in prime condition.
—Frank Wasser, aged fifty-five years, and his
young son, of Hellertown, were in the
Delaware canal, a mile above Easton on Saturday
night, when their automobile went over an em-
bankment. Mr. Wasser turned to the side of the
road to pass a wagon. when the whee! slipped
over the turf, crashed through a guard rail and
wept down a ten-foot bank into the water.
—Justice W. F. Leopold, of Tamaqua. has been
arrested by order of Judge Bechtel, of the Schuyl-
kill county court, on the charge of misdemeanor
in office. Leopold attested, under his official seal,
to the genuineness of certain signatures on the
| nomination papers of a would-be independent
candidate for Prothonotary. but the citizens
themselves declare that they were not sworn.
—Recently the auditors of Erie county refused
to allow the bill of the county commissioners for
expenses incurred in attending the annual State
Convention of Commissioners of Pennsylvania.
The Commissioners refused to settle the bill,
the matter was taken into court and
Judge Walling ordered them to pay the money
into the county treasury or executions would be
—A. B. Farquhar, J. Horace McFarland and M.
I. McCreight. president, vice president and treas-
urer, respectively, of the State Conservation As-
sociation, have just returned from the inspection
of a tract of land in the counties of Jefferson,
Clarion and Clearfield, which they have unani-
mously agreed is ideal in all its aspects for use as
a State park. The tract consists of over 30,000
acres, much of which is virgin white pine forest.
reported to be the largest remaining area of its
kind on the American continent.
—The last link in the double-tracking of the
Erie division and Northern Central Railway all
the way from Harrisburg north to Renovo is the
building of the new bridge over the Susquehanna
river at Montgomery. The bridge is now a sin”
gle track structure. Contracts will be let for a
piers and foundation has already been started.
The new Montgomery bridge is to be of the half-
through girder type. with a reinforced concrete
floor and the ballast and ties on that slab of con-
crete that rests on the simple steel frame of {the
i I Bachman. aged seventy years, a Civil
{ war veteran residing at Yeagertown,
she “bean soup" at McClure on October
has not been seen since. His home
ifs
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tunded to visit friends at Beaver
he did not return at the appointed
" developed the fact that he
He isfive feet, five inches
tache and wears glasses, weighs
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Hi
Hi
and had on a black suit and black derby. His
sons, U. T. Bachman, of Lewistown, and W. R,
Bachman, of Yeagertown, are prosecuting a vig-
orous search for him. When he left home he bad
* $60 in his pocket.