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Bellefonte, Pa., October 29, 1915.
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Democratic County Ticket.
For Sheriff,
GEo. H. RICHARDS, of Philipsburg.
For Prothonotary,
D. R. FOREMAN, of Bellefonte.
For Treasurer,
JAMES E. HARTER, of Penn Twp.
For Register,
J. FRANK SMITH, of Bellefonte.
For Recorder,
W. FRANCIS SPEER, of Bellefonte.
For County Commissioners,
W. H. NoLt, Jr., of Spring Twp.
D. A. GROVE, of College Twp.
For District Attorney,
D. PAUL FORTNEY, of Bellefonte.
For County Auditor,
JEREMIAH BRUNGART, Miles Twp.
SINIE H. Hoy, of Benner Twp.
For County Surveyor,
PAuL L. WETZEL, of Bellefonte.
District Attorney.
For this office the people have nomi-
nated D. PAUL FORTNEY, who by the will
of the voters has very honorably, satis-
factorily, and worthily prosecuted the
pleas of the Commonwealth since the be-
ginning of 1912. It being the custom to
give to all officers who faithfully met and
performed the obligations of the office
they held, two terms, he was accorded a
second nomination and he should be
given another term on his merits.
No District Attorney has met and over-
come the difficulties and prosecuted all
manner of pleas on the part of the Com-
monwealth with more care and dignity
and more successfully than the candi-
date now before the people. He con-
ducts cases very successfully as was
clearly shown in the cases of the Com-
monwealth against JOHN MOSARACH, and
the Commonwealth against JOHN ROBIN-
SON and others for the murder of HENRY
CONFER. :
These are only instances, but the man-
ner in which he conducts a prosecution
extends over the entire period he has
been in office.
Under an Act of Assembly approved
the 15th day of April 1907, providing
that in all kind of criminal cases, except-
ing homicide cases, the persons charged
with a crime may enter a plea of guilty
without the presentation of a bill of in-
dictment to a grand jury. Asis usually
the case with persons charged with a
crime innocence is stoutly maintained.
Only when such persons are confronted
with what the Commonwealth can and
. will produce against them do they come
and enter a plea of guilty.
Putting a person charged with a crime
in a position from which he is brought to
the conclusion that there is no escape
the District Attorney accomplishes much
and saves to the people all the cost of
witnesses, ranging anywhere from two to
ten dollars in each case.
The office of District Attorney as a
rule brings the officer invariably in con-
tact with the worst elements of human-
ity. In all this Mr. FORTNEY, during all
the time he has occupied the office, has
treated defendants and prosecutors kind-
ly and courteously and conducted all
prosecutions with the energy and ability
due from him and yet not vindictively.
For D. PAUL FORTNEY, a young man with
energy and ability, well educated, of
genial disposition, and forceful character
we bespeak the support of all voters.
Everyone has been amazed at what
wonderful savings in the management of
the county’s business have been accom-
plished by the present county officials.
While the County Commissioners, Messrs
NoLL and GROVE are the men who have
brought all these savings about they
could not have effected any such results
as are shown had not every other county
official worked in harmony with their
plans for economy. From the Sheriff's
office down to that of the Auditors there
has been splendid team work. Every
leak, every needless expenditure has been
taboo in every office in the county with !
the result that in three years time there |
has been an actual cash saving of $132,-
920.23. Almost $45,000.00 a year.
Just to show you how these wonders
have been worked without reducing the
service in any of the offices let us show
you how, in the mere matter of auditing
the county accounts, there has been an
almost unbelievable contribution to this
magnificent saving fund.
It cost the Board of Auditors of 1908,
1909, and 1910 $5690.89 to audit and cir-
culate the statements in three papers for
three years, or $1896.96 per year.
It cost the present Board of Auditors
of 1911, 1912, 1913, and 1914—$4247.11
to audit and circulate the statements in
from six to nine papers for four years,
or $1051.77 per year.
A saving of $835.19 per year in favor
of the present Board.
. That is what team work does. That
is how it pays you to haye men in office
who are not afraid of some political boss.
Men who have the courage to stand up
and look out for your interests whether
it pleases some little “inside ring” or not.
Vote for BRUNGART and Hoy.
Judge Orvis Will Not Get a Pension.
There seems to be more or less misunderstanding among some of the voters
in Centre county concerning the status of Judge ORvIS with relation to the Judge’s
Pension Act. In order that the whole question may be cleared up finally let us
state the following:
By Act of Assembly Judges of the Supreme and Superior courts may be retir-
ed AFTER TWENTY YEARS SERVICE on the bench at half the regular salary,
provided they have reached the age of 70 years during the service.
Judges of the courts of Common Pleas, or county judges, may be retired
AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS SERVICE on the bench, at half their salary, pro-
vided they have attained the age of 70 years during their service.
Thus it will be seen that the re-election of Judge ORvIS for another term of
ten years will not bring him under the provisions of the Act. In the first place,
at the expiration of his second term he will have served only twenty-one years, or
four years short of the service required to secure him a pension. In the second
place, after Judge ‘ORVIS has completed his second term on the bench he will not
thenibe 70 years of age so that he would therefor also be ineligible to be retired
under the Pension Act. :
While there is no need of discussing, at this time, the wisdom of pension legis-
lation because it does not apply to the Judge to be chosen next Tuesday, the fact
remains that some people who are trying to fool others into voting against Judge
Orvis for fear he might get a pension, are openly advocating the election of
Judges ORLADY and HEAD to the Superior court bench, both of whom will be eli-
gible to the pension. ’
Judge ORLADY had the largest vote at the primaries that was cast for any
candidate, yet he is running for his third term and will be 70 years old long be-
fore he completes the service and will be eligible to retire at half his regular sal-
ary. He received nearly twice as many votes in Centre county as either of the
candidates for county Judge.
Can’t you see how inconsistent and untruthful is the story that is being used
to create sentiment against Judge ORVIS, who can’t possibly come under the pro-
visions of the Pension Act at the end of his second term, when the very same
people who are circulating it are urging you to vote for Judges ORLADY and HEAD,
both of whom will come under its provisions.
There is another angle to look at this matter from. Three years ago, when
state road work was beginning to take on the appearance of a substantial under-
taking in Centre county readers of the WATCHMAN were told to keep an eye on
Mr. HENRY CUTE QUIGLEY. The whole program of how he intended to organize |
the workers in the State’s employ into a machine for his own benefit was publish-
ed by this paper. The state road work, the forestry department and the new pen-
itentiary were seized upon by him as means to his end. He succeeded in workin g
two of them so successfully that everyone knows that no one has been able to
get a day’s employment on state road work unless he is acceptable to Mr. QuUIG-
LEY. So far as having been able to use the penitentiary is concerned he fell down
because there is a real, strong man there in JOHN FRANCIES, who has a problem to
work out, a problem the very principles of whick involve the disregard of ma-
chine politics.
With the lever of the state road and forestry jobs Mr. QUIGLEY began building
up a QUIGLEY Machine. He even seized the organization of his own party and
manipulated it to the end that he made a showing at the primaries that surprised
even the most sanguine of his lieutenants.
The WATCHMAN was not surprised, because it knew what Mr. QUIGLEY was
working to and had revealed his game several years before.
Now to come back to the pension matter again. Those of you who are op-
posed to putting Judges on the bench who might eventually become eligible to a
pension have far more to fear in Mr. QUIGLEY than you have in Judge ORvVIs, for
this reason: y
Mr. QUIGLEY is a machine politician. He is fooling even his own party men
when he states what he will do for the Republican organization if elected. He
will do nothing of the sort. He is for QUIGLEY and a QUIGLEY organization. He
courts power, he glories in bossing. If he is made Judge of Centre county, mark
the prediction, he will build a machine for himself through the state road work,
the licenses and the other opportunities that come to the hand of a Judge who
would use them for that purpose, that will be well nigh unbreakable. He is a
young man and at the end of ten years he would succeed himself on the bench
and still being a comparatively young man he would succeed himself the second
time, thus bringing himself under the provisions of the Pension Act that is so
much feared by some. :
These are not dreams, they are facts founded on an intimate knowledge of
the character and ambition of Mr. QUIGLEY. If you don’t want a Judge in Centre
county who will some day be drawing a pension don’t vote for him.
Aside from all this the question of fitness is paramount. Judge ORVIS never
was a politician. His record on the bench proves that he is not a political J udge.
Had he prostituted his judicial opportunities to his personal aggrandizement it is
not beyond the bounds of reason to say that he could have built up a personal ma-
chine that would have given him fifty-one per cent of the total vote of the prima-
ries and he would have had no opposition now. :
Judge ORVIS is and always has been a lawyer and a student. He has turned
a deaf ear always to political manipulators and devoted himself to the most hon-
orable service in the exalted office he holds.
It is not a reflection on the ability of Mr. QUIGLEY to say that. Judge ORVIS is
better fitted for the office than he is. :
His very nature is serious and profound, he has given his life to the study of
law in the most analytical way, he has had ten years of experience to add to a
splendid equipment when he went onto the bench and he is the safest man to en-
trust with the last word as to your property rights, your lives, your liberty and
your family happiness. .
The election of a Judge is a grave matter for anyone to have a voice in. Let
us regard it as such.
To the Taxpayers of Centre County.
Be Careful, Everybody.
Next Tuesday will be election day.
Men of all political beliefs who wish to
perform their duties as good citizens
will go to the polls to vote.
The ballot that will be given them will
be large and cumbersome. It will pre-
sent the name of every candidate who is
running for an office in the precinct,
county and State.
There is just one pointjthat we want
to call particular attention to, for the
benefit of every voter, irrespective of his
party affiliations.
At the primaries each voter was hand-
ed two ballots: One of the party with
which he was affiliated,.the other a non-
partisan ballot on which he had to vote
his preference for Judge. “spsfu
Next Tuesday only one ballot will be
given to the voters. On it will appear the
party nominees, as well as the non-par-
tisan aspirants for judicial honor.
If you vote a straight Democratic tick-
et or a straight Republican ticket
REMEMBER that that won’t be a vote
for any of the judicial candidates.
The man who puts a cross (X) mark
in the square to the right of either of the
party names on the ballot has not voted
for a Judge. If he does this he must
then find the column headed “Non-Parti-
san Column” and place a cross (X) mark
at the right of the names of three of the
men who are running for Supreme Court
Judge and also at the right of the name
of the candidate he prefers for President
Judge of Centre county.
Remember this. It is a matter to be
careful about, for it may be very con.
fusing.
You are hereby kindly requested to
call at the Commissioners’ office, where
every assistance, possible, will be gladly
rendered you, to make a thorough ex-
amination of therecords, if you have any
doubt, whatever, as to the correctness of
the brief financial statement, mailed to
you ona card, bearing the names of the
undersigned, relating to the amount of
County debt paid etc, during the first
three years of their term of office.
WM. H. Noir, Jr.,
D. A. GROVE.
Bellefonte, Oct. 26, 1915.
—1In a speech delivered in Bellefonte
Wednesday evening BURDINE BUTLER, of
Howard, advanced an argument in favor
of the election of Judge ORVIS that was
most unique, yet withal it was founded
on good, common sense. In discussing
the manner of marking the ballot to be
used next Tuesday BURDINE declared
that the voter need only mark opposite
Judge ORVIS' name on the “Non Par.
tisan” column; That there will be no
need of bothering with marking any of
the Superior Court Judges, because if
Judge ORvis is elected there will be no
need for a Superior Court at all. Bur-
DINE knows because he has been in the
Centre county courts as often as anyone
in the county. While every one should
be careful to vote for three of the Super-
ior Court Justices BURDINE'S tribute to
the exact justice that has been given
since Judge ORVIS has been on the bench
in Centre county was well merited.
A Last Word of the Voters of Centre
County.
The campaign in Centre county is drawing to a close. The last
word has been said in public print and little remains to be done but
the recording of the verdict. It isa significant fact that not one of
the opposition papers have been able to trump up a single charge or
reason why any of the present holding county officials should not be
re-elected. :
Their characters have been unassailable, their proficiency un-
questioned and their service to the taxpayers generally acknowledged.
The nominees of the Democratic party, collectively, are immeas-
urably superior to those of the opposition. They are men who have
regarded public office as a public trust and come before you with a
record of having paid off a county indebtedness of $139,505 in four
years and, at the same time, reduced your taxes to the lowest rate
that they have been for many years. ;
The court house has not been a sinecure for any one during the
past four years. It has been a regular business institution, run by
live wire officials who were chosen by the people and who have served
the people only. Every officer from Sherif LEE down to Auditors
BRUNGART and Hov has been on the job, giving the best that is in
him and working with an eye single to the public welfare.
Any criticism that may be heard of any of them must be based
on purely personal matters or because some one has failed to get them
to grant a favor that would be against the interests of the taxpayers.
There can be no criticism of their official acts because they have ever
been straightforward and businesslike.
What incentive can there be to make men work as they have done
for the public interest if there is to be no reward for such meritorious
conduct. Mr. Taxpayer don’t you appreciate a faithful servant?
Don’t you think men who have made money for you are men worth
having in your employ ? If you do, show your appreciation by re-
warding them with your vote.
Last week the Gazette, with its characteristic child’s play, pub-
lished a two column story about differences that have arisen between
Commissioners NOLL and GROVE over the conduct of the office they
hold. Muck raking frantically, that has been the only thing it has
been able to produce during the entire campaign. And of what ac"
count is it after all.
who have not had honest differences of opinion over matters of busi-
ness management. ‘This mole hill thing that the Gazette tries to mag-
nify into a mountain was merely the matter of a $40 clerkship, involv-
ing an annual expenditure of $480. The Commissioners disa-
greed as to who should have the job and Mr. WoOODRING, the minori-
ty member of the board cast the deciding vote in favor of the appli-
cant Mr. NoLL favored. Naturally Mr. GROVE was disappointed
and expressed himself to several people. That was all there was to
it and the Gazette's puerile attempt to throw dust in the public eye has
become a boomerang to it for everywhere men are saying : ‘If that
is all he can say against NoLL and GROVE he had better keep his
mouth shut. That doesn’t deny that they have paid the county debt
and reduced the taxes and we're for the men who have made good
for us.”
In today’s Gazette is a signed article by JAcoB WOODRING, the |
minority Commissioner, in which he states that things are not as we
have said they are in the Commissioner’s office, and that the county
debt is not paid off because the bonds that he and ZIMMERMAN put
out are not lifted. Why, bless his dear, guileless old soul, no one
ever said that the bonds had been litted. That's where he made his
mistake. If some one hadn’t fooled him into issuing. such long term
bonds, just like HARTER fooled, him into writing the letter in the
Gazette, the bonds would and could be lifted because the money is on
hand to pay them. He is responsible for this situation. The pres-
ent Commissioners have had nothing whatever to do with it. They
had to accept things as they found them when they went into office
and almost the worst thing they found was that Mr. WOODRING and
his associate had tied the County up so that no matter how much
money it might have it will have to go on paying interest for twenty-
four years. A man who burdened the taxpayers that way when
he was in control is a pretty fellow to presume to advise them now.
When anybody tells you, as the Gazette does this week, that the
County Commissioners have not kept up public improvements and
that by that method they were able to make the wonderful showing
they have made, they are telling you a deliberate falsehood. The rec-
ords in the Treasurer’s office will show that they have expended over
$32,000.00 for bridges, roads, etc., and that is more than the average
allowance for extraordinary expenditures in Centre county has ever
been.
Stand by the men who have saved your money.
Finally, if JAcoB WOODRING, or anybody else says that there is
more than one note outstanding against the county they are not truth-
ful. That note is one for $1000 held by a woman who refused to ac-
cept payment of it before maturity. The money has been in the treas-
ury to pay it and Mr. WooDRING knows that.
one was paid on January 1st, 1915, and the order to pay this one was
drawn at that time, sent to the lady and returned by her because her
note was not then due.
Furthermore, when he says that county bridges were viewed and
nothing done with them he makes another misstatement of facts. If
he pulled the wool out of his own eyes and looked at the records in
the office he is drawing a salary for making a bluff at filling he would
see that every bridge upon which ‘'notes were made’’ has been repair-
ed or is under contract for repairs at this time. Everyone who reads
the papers might have seen that on July 7th last the Commissioners
advertised in the Gazette itself for proposals for painting all of the
County bridges. Proposals were received, contracts let and most of
the work was completed long ago.
JacoB WooDRING must te in his dotage. We can account for
his wholely untruthful statement in no other way.
~ When the Gazette says that the Republican Board of Commission-
ers paid the State tax to the Commonwealth and got nothing back, it
maliciously lies, for it knows and everybody else knows, that the State
returned seventy-five per cent of the State tax to the County Treasury
in 1908,1909, 1910, 1911, i912, and 1913 and always did it before
those years. In 1913 a new Act of Assembly permitted the County
to retain all of the State tax. This Act did not become operative
until 1914 so that there has been only one year in which the present
Board of Commissioners have had any advantage over their pre-
decessors in this matter, and that advantage has only amounted to 25
per cent of $15000, or $3750.00.
Has Long Perjured Himself.
[Continued from page 1, columns 3 and 4.]
To us the whole thing looks like “a frame-up.” Why did Long have Waite
secreted under the bed in the room and why did he have others posted to listen
at the doors when he did not even know at the time Mac Heinle called upon him
what he was there for. The Bellefone Republican yesterday published long sto-
ry but frankly questioned its truthfulness. :
There isn’t another hotel keeper in Centre county who will tell you that mon-
ey has been demanded of him.
Did you ever know of partners in any business |
Every note but this |
For Prothonotary.
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|
Few men have held office in Centre
{ county who have given more uniform
: satisfaction than DAVID R. FOREMAN, the
i present Prothonotary. Vainly are the
: few opponents he has trying to make
capital out of the fact that he has been
connected with the prothonotary’s office
a great many years. But sensible people
know that he has actually been Prothon-
otary only for one term. All of his pre-
vious service in that office was as a clerk
at a salary that was very meagre indeed.
Mr. FOREMAN might have made more
money at numbers of other occupations,
but he liked the work and hoped that
some day the public would recognize his
sterling qualities and his peculiar fitness
for the office and reward him by placing
him in charge. That time came and he
was elected. Now he is a candidate for
a second term to which he is fairly en-
titled because of his faithful service.
DAVE FOREMAN is really the informa-
tion bureau of the court house. Nearly
i every stranger who has busines there
lands in his office first and if his mission
is really not to the Prothonotary’s office
DAVE pilots him whither he wants to g0
and invariably helps in his quest of rec-
ords, if that happens to be what he is
after.
The Prothonotary’s office is not the
| “snit” that it once was. There was a
I time when it paid nearly twice as much
| as any office in the court house, but there
is not as much litigation now and the
fees have been reduced as well, so that
. we venture that if all the salary DAVE
| received as clerk in the office were added
| to his fees for two terms now the gross
| amount would not be as large as were
the emoluments from the office alone at
' the time the lamented J. C. HARPER was
Prothonotary.
Give him a second term. He is enti-
tled to it. He has never been surpassed
| as a competent official in the office and
it will be a long time before Centre
{county has another Prothonotary as
good.
| ——Seldom have the voters of Centre
i county had an opportunity to show real,
| patriotic citizenship in their voting like
they will have when they come to elect a
County Treasurer next Tuesday. In Mr.
JAMES E. HARTER, of Penn township,
| they have a successful business man
whose life is an open book, whose whole
| career hasbeen such as to inspire confi-
j dence and respect for his sterling man-
hood. He is a business man running for
la business man’s job. Opposed to him
!is a man without equipment of any sort
'and about whom we have thrown the
{cloak of charity rather than reveal a
record that, to say the least, would not
be a very high recommendation for a
‘man seeking so honorable an office as
' the County Treasurership.
| ——GEO. RICHARDS, candidate for
| Sheriff from Philipsburg, will come over
| the mountain with a vote that will as-
‘ tound those uninformed as to his popu-
| larity in his home country. What does
| thismean? It means that when home
| people have confidence in their home
man he must be worthy of it. Let the
| voters on this side meet Philipsburg and
the Rushes with an equalling overwhelm-
ing vote for RICHARDS for Sheriff.
CARNEY BACK IN PENITENTIARY—Clyde
Carney, who escaped from the new peni-
tentiary at Rockview on October 7th and
was arrested in Chicago last week by
postoffice inspectors, was put behind the
bars of the western penitentiary at Alle-
gheny yesterday and now has a long
term of prison life facing him.
Carney had served but a little over six
months of a sentence of not less than
four years nor more than eight years for
assault with intent to kill when he made
his escape, and not content with adding
the crime of jail breaking to his original
crime, he made his way to New Florence
from Centre county, where he robbed the
postoffice, securing $25 in cash and $306
worth of postage stamps. Fortunately
the latter proved his undoing. Not wish-
ing to carry the stamps with him Carney °
mailed them to Chicago to a fictitious
(address. Enroute the package was brok-
en and the stolen stamps revealed. This
gave the postoffice officials a clue and
when Carney called for the package at
the general delivery of the Chicago post-
office on Tuesday of last week he was
promptly arrested by postoffice inspec-
tors. He later confessed to being the
man who escaped from the penitentiary
at Rockview and to having robbed the
New Florence postoffice.
Carney was brought east to Pittsburgh
on Tuesday and given a hearing before
United States commissioner Roger Knox
on the charge of robbing the post-office
and was released on $5,000 bail. He was
immediately rearrested by parole officers
of the western penitentiary and on Wed-
nesday afternoon brought to Bellefonte
and lodged in the Centre county jail.
Under the law Carney will now have to
serve out the maximum of his original
sentence, an equal length of time for es-
caping from the western penitentiary and
upon his release can be taken by the fed-
eral authorities and tried on the charge
of robbing the New Florence postoffice.
ee ee Qe reer
——The Earl Stock company comes to
Bellefonte as the most highly recom-
mended repertoire show since the days
of the Kennedy players and Chester De-
Vond. Only high class plays, beginning
with a Saturday matinee November 6th,
with “Amy of the Circus.” Seven days
and three matinees. Prices, 10, 20, 30
and 50 cents. Matinees, 10 and 20 cents..