~ INK SLINGS.
Tt may be wise to “cover a
multitude of sins” but it is a better
plan to repent. Sr
~ ~—You can help to save Pennsylva-
nia by helping to get every Democrat
“to the polls on November 2,
~ —Evidently the weather man wants
to hear the whole country join in that
old gospel song: “Let the Sunshine
An” rin
- —A vote to send Mr. Thompson to
the Legislature will, at least, be a vote
for a man who will do what he says
“he'll do. :
Xi the manufacturing corpora-
tions would pay their just share of
the taxes they could pay larger divi-
-dends on self respect. . rode
—Wilson will be elected if the
Democrats of Pennsylvania go to the
‘polls and vote. The Republicans who
are going to vote for him can’t do it
alone.
—As your Senator for four years
‘William I. Betts didn’t please the
gang. That’s the reason its after his
‘scalp now. If you want your Senator
to represent you vote for Betts.
—YVare put his seal of approval on
both Scott and Holmes last week and
‘Mr. Scott is on the Prohibition ticket
and Holmes was once the pet of the
Prohibitionists. Isn’t it awful what
bedfellows politics make.
—We haven’t yet been able to
understand what all this prosecution
of Aimee McPherson, the California
evangelist, is about. If she wanted
to be kidnapped and carried off to a
cabin in the desert hadn’t she the
right to be?
—We can understand why thous-
ands of Republicans in Pennsylvania
will not go to the polls next month,
but we can’t understand why any
Democrat should stay at home and
miss the opportunity that Republican
disgust with Vare is giving them.
—Because of their age the es-
capades of the two Altoona boys who
were taken into custody here on Sat-
urday might seen more amusing than
serious. It is a very serious matter,
however, and one that should give
every parent pause. There has been
something amiss in the training,
something wrong in the environment
of those lads.
—Put this in your pipe and smoke
it: If Vare were the Democratic nomi-
mee for Senator and Wilson were on
the Republican ticket you wouldn’t
hear anything about the tariff and
President Coolidge in the State cam-
paign. Those who are broadcasting
that bunk now would be telling you
to vote for Wilson because he is
capable and clean.
—~Queen Marie, of Rumania, is on
our shores. She’s a good locking lady,
it is said, but she could be as ugly as
a mud fence and millions of curious
Americans would be tearing the
clothes off one another in the mad
scramble to see her. We're getting
old, we suppose, but we would’nt walk
over to the railroad station if all the
‘Queens who have ever warmed a
throne were passing through.
—Talking about getting a kick from
a news item most anyone could get
one from Monday’s announcement
that Jack O’Hearn, a boot legger, was
arrested as he was coming out of Con-
.gressman Crampton’s home in Wash-
ington. Crampton is a Michigan
Member and one of the leading en-
forcement advocates in Congress.
“Twenty quarts of whiskey were con-
fiscated, but the news was not quite
clear as to weather it was found on
O’Hearn or in the Congressman’s
‘house.
—The ox roast which was the mag-
net that drew a fair crowd to Morris-
dale last week to hear Fisher, Vare
and all the other “slush fund” candi-
-dates turned out to be another kind of
a “roast” as well. When the crowd
got there it discovered that only the
“hot air” was free and any who
wanted ox had to pay seventy-five
cents per taste. As it was roast ox
and not “hot air” that most of them
really wanted they started in to “pan”
and “roast” the crowd that has been
fooling them for years.
—There’s likely to be trouble in
Howard. The High school athletes of
that place are going to have “big
doins” on Hallow-een night and what
do you suppose they have had the
nerve to announce. To the special
evening entertainment they are going
to let the men in free and charge
every woman who goes without a box
fifty cents. Did you ever hear the like.
And, my, don’t the women have a kick
comin’. If we happened to be one of
them we’d take a box, but the glutton-
ous man who expected to find a feast
in it would discover only a lemon.
—Ask the Hon. Holmes how he will
vote, should you think you ought to
help him get back to the Legislature,
on the bill that the Philadelphia gang
will try te jam through to make you
pay part of the deficit for the Sesqui-
Centennial. Mayor Kendrick sent that
project off half-cocked and because of
his folly the next Legislature will be
asked for millions to foot the bill.
And the millions will have to be taken
from the schools and hospitals of the
State. Ask the Hon. Holmes how he
EE ———————
Signs of a Moral Revolt.
At a meeting in Bloomsburg on Mon-
day evening, in the interest of Wil-
liam B. Wilson for United States Sen-
ator, the Rev. Charles E. Petrie, pastor
of the Methodist church said: “A
dangerous situation exists in Pennsyl-
vania when a Republican must stand
before a Democratic meeting to speak
what is in his heart.” Having thus
qualified himself the Rev. Mr. Petrie
continued, “I am a Republican. I be-
lieve in the political principles the
Republican party stands for. I do not
believe in some of the means which
have been used under the. name of Re-
publicanism. I will stand at the polls
on November 2 to protect my party
from a man who does not represent
the real principles of the party but
masquerades under the label of the
party nomination. I am glad to make
the statement here in the presence of
the man I hope to support.”
When the Rev. Mr. Petrie sat down
another Republican clergyman in the
audience addressed the meeting. The
Rev. Dr. Radcliffe, Rector of Holy
Trinity Protestant Episcopal church
said: “In our church when we agree
entirely with what has been said, we
say ‘amen.’ After hearing Mr. Wilson
speak I want to say amen to what Mr.
Petrie has said.” Both statements
came as surprises to the candidate,
Mr. Wilson, and to the audience. They
were not on the programme and when
Mr. Petrie asked the candidate for
permission to speak nobody knew
what was coming. But Mr. Wilson
felt that no evil could come to him
from a frank discussion of the subject
under consideration and welcomed the
interruption of the plans for the meet-
ing. The result was most encouraging
to the candidate and heartening to the
friends of good government through-
out the State.
In previous issues we have referred
to actions of religious bodies in differ-
ent sections of the State on the sub-
ject of a choice for Senator. In every
instance the.purpose to support Mr.
pressed. ese expressions naturally
indicated the trend of sentiment. among
the church:
the Democratic eandidate. It may be
interpreted as indicating a moral re.
volt against the abuses of the Repub-
lican machine in recent years. The
insolent refusal of the Republican
managers to protect the purity of the
ballot during the extra session of the
Legislature and the employment of a
$3,000,000 slush fund in the May pri-
mary, are teo much for the con-
sciences of men and women who be-
lieve in the doctrines taught in relig-
ious organizations.
————r eee.
——An ‘“up-lifter” blames the
safety razor for the flapper and the
sheik. The absence of the well known
“strop” he says, as an agent of family
discipline, is responsible for flapping
and sheiking,
Roosevelt Points the Way.
Recently there was issued by Serib-
ner’s an unusually interesting volume
written by Mark Sullivan, a widely
known Washington correspondent and
somewhat famous political writer. It
is entitled “The Turn of the Century”
and gives a graphic history of polities
and politicians in the country during
the period between 1900 to 1904. That
was the time in which Theodore Roose-
velt developed his ambitious politi-
cal career and laid the lines which
marked him as the most popular fig-
ure in public life since the Civil war.
Plainly an admirer of Roosevelt Mr.
Sullivan follows his successful move-
ments in public life until its close.
While Roosevelt was Governor of
New York he was in constant quarrel
with Senator Platt who tried to use
him to promote political schemes
rather than serve public interests.
“The hardest fight Roosevelt had with
Platt,” Mr. Sullivan writes, “was over
what was known as the “franchise
tax.” That proposal cut so deep into
Platt’s interests, into his very hold on
political and financial life, that he
could not yield. The franchise tax
was a measure designed to make
street railway corporations pay taxes
on the value of their franchises. It
was opposed naturally by the whole
fraternity of big business and by the
political machines and bosses who re-
flected these interests.”
Upon that cause of quarrel Roose-
velt was adamant and forced his point
to achievement. The franchise tax in
New York was precisely the same as
the corporation tax in Pennsylvania
The franchises had escaped taxation
through political favor so long that
they had come to regard the exemption
as aright. For the same purpose the
Manufacturers’ Association in this
State have contributed $400,000 to se-
cure the nomination and election of a
Governor who will oppose such a just
tax. Mr. Grundy, president of the as-
will vote on such a proposal. Bill !
Vare has put his stamp of approval |
on Holmes and Bill usually knows !
what he does that for. t
sociation, has admitted this under
oath. If Roosevelt were in Pennsyl-
vania
how to vote.
Wilson against Mr. Vare was elearly ;
and-in some cases’ emphatically ex-
ing people in favor of jhe mio de
Methodist Preachers Speak.
of Philadelphia leave nothing to con-
jecture in declaring their preferences
for candidates for Senator in Con-
week, the subject was taken up and
a resolution unanimously adopted to
described as “a man of sterling in-
tegrity.” In presenting the resolu-
tion the Rev. Dr. John Watchorn said;
tion, represents all that is sinister and
perilous to Democratic institutions
and Republican forms of government.
He should not be permitted to escape
Calvin Coolidge and party regularity.”
The Methodist Episcopal clergy of
Philadelphia is a great force for good,
and in declaring the purpose of the
members of the preachers meeting to
cast political prejudices to the win
Senator inaugurated a movement
which will exercise a potent influence
on the vote, not only of Philadelphia,
but throughout the State. It has be-
come a custom for Philadelphia
preachers to vote the Republican tick-
et because a vast majority of the
church members are Republicans. If
the preachers break away from this
custom and assume a militant stand
for political righteousness it may be
assumed that a considerable number
of churchmen will follow their exam-
ple.
" “In the present political situation
in Pennsylvania,” these preachers de-
clare, “there are two issues clearly
defined. The first is political corrup-
tion” and the other “involves the Fed-
eral constitution at which Mr. Vare
strikes with the treacherous weapon
of nullification.” “The best service
and the Republican party is to save
them from Vareism and purge the
party of his type of leadership.” The
election of William B. Wilson will ac-
complish this result beyond question
. without sacrifice on the part of
any good Republican, for as the
" F av ey DD Jr a oT iv
of that type can do no harm.
——It is not surprising to hear that
Senator Borah is helping the Repub-
lican machine in Missouri. Borah
talks reform freely but he is always in
line with the organization when it
needs him. .
Ultimate Effect of the Slush Fund.
The Republican voters of Pennsyl-
vania are quite as deeply interested in
condemning the slush fund system of
nominating candidates as are the
Democrats. That system subverts the
American principle of equal oppor-
tunity and absolutely excludes from
public office all men and women with-
in the Commonwealth who are unable
to pay a quarter of a million dollars
or more for a nomination. The only
other type of aspirants who could in-
dulge a hope of attaining office is a
man or woman so servile to some sin-
ister interest as to induce the contri-
bution by its conquests of such sums
of money as Joseph R. Grundy put up
to secure the nomination of John S.
Fisher for Governor. Of these evils
the man who puts up his own money
is the lesser.
There are in every county in Penn-
sylvania and in every party capable
and properly ambitious men and wo-
of the country. Their parents have,
in many cases, made sacrifices in
order to give them the educational ad-
vantages to equip them for service in
Congress or other public office of hon-
or and ‘emolument. But if nomina-
tions for such offices are to be obtain-
ed only by the expenditure of vast
sums of money they are cut out from
the competition as completely as if
the law fixed a vast property qualifi-
cation for service. Every aspiring
young man in the State and the par-
ents of such young men are concerned
in putting an end to the slush fund
system and the time to do it is now.
The most precious birthright of
every American boy and girl is the
equality of opportunity which our sys-
tem of government literally followed
affords. Until recently this sacred
right had never been questioned. But
it is now in dispute and has assumed
the form of a progressive evil. Only
four years ago the country was out-
raged because a Michigan millionaire
paid $195,000 for a seat in the Senate.
This year in Pennsylvania William S.
Vare, a man notoriously unfit for the
office, paid $800,000 for a nomination
for the Senate and his friends boast
that the people of Pennsylvania will
ratify the outrage. We refuse to be-
lieve such a libel upon the honest vot-
ers of Pennsylvania. We have higher
respect for their integrity.
a ere————
——Now is the time to do effective
campaign work. Voters are in mood
now he would show his friends |!
to listen to the voice of reason. On
election day they are too busy.
gress. At their weekly meeting, last
vote for William B. Wilson, who was H
“Mr. Vare, as leader of the organiza-
defeat behind a smoke screen of tarift !
Pennsylvania can render the President, | -
4°
men who would adorn the: public life
One of the Hon. Holmes’ Fine
: of Work.
The Methodist Episcopal preachers | :
. When it was decided to resurface
and regrade the highway from Potters
Mills to Milroy there was a general
demand that part of the road be re-
routed so as to make a better grade
and eliminate several bad curves. The
Highway Department ran a survey
through what is called Coxe’s valley
and found it to be a far better route
than the old one since it followed the
stream most of the way and had what
is known as a water grade.
It was generally thought that the
“road would be built that way. In fact
Wwe are told that the new survey was
“virtually decided on when the Hon.
Holmes interested himself in the mat-
fer and the project was dropped.
- Whether this was done because of his
interference or not he is claiming
credit for it and offers the explana-
+ tion that it was done so as to keep the
and vote for William B. Wilson for hi
- highway out of a section where a few
hunting cabins are located.
| We cite the instance in order to re-
veal something of the breadth of this
| gentleman who claims to be represent-
ing all of the people of Centre county.
'It seems to us that he should be
apologizing for instead of boasting of
, an action that has subverted the best |
| interests of the many to the pleasure
jof a few. The highway to Lewistown
is a great public artery. It is used
j every day in the year by hundreds of
travelers and that they should be
forever compelled to negotiate dan-
gerous curves and steeper grades,
merely to preserve the isolation of a
few cabins, reveals an utter lack of
understanding of what public service
is on the part of Mr. Holmes.
~ Apparently he has no conception
of his real duty to the public. ~~
——A Wilkes-Barre = woman is
charged with maintaining a “love
school.” . Most of the young folk ave
willing pupils in such an institution.
the Sesqui Deficit.
shows a net deficit of over $3,000,
00, and it is difficult to estimate what
the total will be by the time it closes
its gates. This deficit was not unfore-
seen, but expected, as the celebration
instead of being held on the high
ground in Fairmount park, was held
in the marshes of South Philadelphia,
in order that its construction might
fill and improve the land of Philadel-
phia’s political bosses.
How this deficit is to be paid is a
significant problem to every citizen of
Pennsylvania. It is well understood,
in inside political circles, that a bill
will be introduced in the next Legisla-
ture to pay it out of State funds. The
last Legislature attempted to provide
for this contingency by paring agri-
cultural, and school appropriations, to
have a surplus for Philadelphia politi-
cians to spend next year. Centre
county’s contribution to the Legisla-
ture, J. L. Holmes, gave his hearty
support and vote to this program.
It would be a costly mistake to send
either Mr. Scott or Mr. Holmes to
Harrisburg at this time. They are
part and parcel of the machine and
because Vare wants them there is
warning enough. He said so at Mor-
risdale last week.
If Centre county wants its taxes
spent as they should be, its citizens
should send to Harrisburg William I.
Betts and Andrew Curtin Thompson,
men of stalwart character, who will
know no master but the people they
would represent.
er ——— lp ————
——There are over 120,000 Repub-
lican voters in Philadelphia who can’t
read but they practically control the
elections in Pennsylvania.
er — lp e——
The People Always Pay.
it
§3413
=
Several hundred people from Clear-
field and Centre counties were in-
veigled into hearing Bill Vare, at
Morrisdale park, last week by the
promise of an ox roast. The ox was
there, the roast was there, but the
only way to get so much as a smell of
it was for each person to cough up
good coin of the realm.
from the Frenchville district, who had
traveled many miles with the taste
of ox in his mouth, was so disgusted
that he turned right around and went
home, without waiting to hear “the
Honorable.”
Certainly the voters should take a
moral from this event. The Repub-
lican organization never invited the
any kind, that it did not make the
voter pay for what he got, and pay
dearly for it. The machine in this
State has been for the past 25 years
nothing more than an organization of
political profiteers, and will continue
to be so. Centre county should do
all in its power to throw them out.
nn. a a—
—Subseride for the “Watchman.”
Bits' A Kick for a Faithful Friend.
j country or loyalty to principles, of
but loyalty to friendships,
‘loyalty to fellow-partici ants in the
\ -_ rr
Will Centre County Have to Help Pay |
One man
electorate of this State to a feast of It
| From the Philadelphia Record.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger has
described William S. Vare as “a hard-
boiled brutal and arrogant political
boss.” :
It would not be reasonable to sup-
pose that any one familiar with Vare’s
career could doubt the absolute justice
of this characterization. For Mr.
Vare’s political bossism is so hard--
boiled, brutal and arrogant that he
does not even play the game accord-
ing to his own low standards.
Loyalty is a cardinal point with or-
dinary political bosses; not loyalty to
course,
business of making political power
profitable, But what does Mr. Vare
know about loyalty to those who serve
him—Iloyalty to ‘those upon whose
backs he has risen until he is high
enough to grab at a lh
Take the case of W. Harry aker,
until lately chairman of the Republi-
can State Committee. Dur the
primary campaign Baker's position in
the councils of the party compelled
him to remain outwardly neutral.
Pressure was brought upon him to in-
duce him to oppose Vare’s aspirations
for the Senatorship. If he had yield-
ed, if he had used his influence against
Vare, Vare might not have been nom-
inated. But Baker, to help Vare,
maintained an apparent neutrality. If
there is one man in Pennsylvania to
whom Vare should have felt grateful,
one man above all others to whom he
was under heavy obilgations, it was
W. Harry Baker. =
When the primary campaign was
over the Mellon and Grundy interests
sought Baker’s scalp because he had
refused to help them. Mr. Vare, for
whose sake Baker incurred this pow-
erful enmity, could have saved Baker;
but it might have involved some un.
of protecting the faithful follower
who had befriended him, he acquiesced
in the humiliation of Baker and did
not raise a little to i
from being ousted from he chairman-
ship of the State Committee.
This was a violation of ‘the code of
honor that exists even among pro-
fessional politicians. This was an
i
statement of Senator Pepper, who
said of Vare, on March 17, that “the
members of the City Committee nei-
ther admire nor trust him.” Who could
trust a man who sacrifices his best
friends to gain for himself a fancied
advantage ?
” Yes, William 8. Vare is a hard-
boiled, brutal and arrogant political
boss; and not one man or woman who
1s now trying to put him in the United
States Senate can expect his grati-
tude in the future if he finds. it inim-
icable to his own interests to reward
fidelity with a kick. :
—————————
Do You Want This Throughout the
State?
From the Pittsburgh Post.
. The “reported vote” in Philadelphi
in the Republican primary AE ita
‘ious creditors’
pleasantness to himself. So, instead |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Thieves who broke all records for
nerve operated at the home of William
Craig, at Lattimer, recently. They stole
eight geese one night and went back the
next night and carried off the fifty pounds
of feed Craig had stored for the fowls,
..—Clement M. Stewart, 47 years old,
former bookkeeper of the First National
bank of Tyrone, was paroled for two years
by Judge W. H. §. Thompson in United
serves district court at Fittshireh op Fri-
day, after he pleaded guilty to au ¢harge
of taking $1,000 of the funds of the bank
in 1924. Yt fs sald the st6len money hdd
been made good. ' a
—Josept B. Guthrie, of Lycoming cours
ty, was killed while shooting stumps with
dynamite in the Vallamont section north
of Williamsport. He had placed a charge
which failed to explode. After waiting a
short time he was seen to return and bend
over the hole containing the dynamite. He
lit a match, and an explosion followed ine
stantly, blowing his body into the air and
fifty feet away.
—Parental opposition to her friendship
for a boy, a few years her senior, was be-
lieved to have led Mildred Burrie, 18 years
old Uniontown girl, to end her life by
shooting Monday night. The girl, with a
bullet wound in her forehead, was found
dead in a bedroom of her home by her
stepfather, J. H. Burrie. Indications were
that she had fired two shots, the first of
which failed to take effect.
—Samuel Bayle, 83 years old, of Altoona,
a Civil war veteran, in Philadelphia to wit-
ness the parade and other festivities of the
American Legion convention, died from
heart disease as he was looking out the
window at a passing band of music in a
Filbert street hotel last Thursday. With
him in the room was his friend and com-
rade during the Civil war, William FH,
Schaffer, 80 years old, also of Altoona.
—Gustave A. Sacks, of Johnstown, one
of the proprietors of “The Hub,” a cloth-
ing store in that city, was sentenced to one
year and a day in the Federal penitentiary
at Atlanta by Judge F. P, Schoonmaker in
United States District court at Pittsburgh,
on Monday. Mrs. Rea Sacks, his wife,
fainted when sentence was imposed, and
was assisted from the courtroom. Sacks
and his brother, Harry R. Sacks, were in-
‘dicted for making false statements to var-
associations . in connection
with the assets of their store.
—The Milliron Construction company’s
plant arrived in Yeagerstown ‘last week,
and broke ground Monday for the Mann's
Narrows improvement, which eliminates
two crossings at grade, one electric and
one team, two reverse curves at either ap-
proach of the one-way bridge spanning
the Kichacoquillas creek. The traffic, 100
automobiles an hour, will be carried over
the ravine on a viaduct 400 feet long and
thirty feet wide. The improvement musk
-be completed in 150 working days, ten of
which have already expired.
—Although 75 years old, Samuel Ramsey,
storekeeper at” Fisherdale, Columbia coun-
ty, still packs a punch in his right hand.
He had the opportunity to demonstrate
it when two armed men, ane masked, held
him up in his store. They took $5.70 from
the. cash. register, then demanded that he
lead them. to his ‘bedroem where ‘he had a
large sum in bills. When he reached tlie
top of the stairs, he swung on the nearest
man, knocking him down the steps. The
fall carried down his companion. Ramsey
called his son, but by the time they got to
the road, the holdup men were fleeing in an
automobile, }
—A nice big black bear has been mak-
ing his home the past summer within a
mile of the western limits of Ebensburg,
and has been seen frequently by persons
driving along the old Wilmore plank road.
' He frequents the neighborhood of the
Borough trash plant, where he no doubt
finds considerable refuse eatables, which
appeal to his taste. The animal does not
seem very wild, as he merely gazes on peo-
ple passing and sometimes rises up on his
hind legs to look after them. He never
runs away from nor approaches them, but
stands still. Probably by the opening of
the bear season on November 10th, bruin
will have departed for his winter home in
great difference from that of the rest
of the State ought to engage the ser-
lous thought of the citizenship. It |
shows a vote control, if not fraud and |
theft, that could upset practically any |
state-wide election. If not broken up |
it would leave a most dangerous pow- |
er in the head of the Vare machine.
. Keep in mind that William 8. Vare,
judging by the fact that all the news.
papers of his city and practically all
the civic organizations were against
m, seemed to be little, if any,
stronger in Philadelphia than in the
rest of the State. It is to be assum-
ed that the citizens of Philadelphia
are affected in the main by issues
same as those of other parts of the
Commonwealth, Yet Philadelphia’s
vote in the primary was so different
from that of the other counties as to
make it difficult to think of it as cast
in the same State.
Admittedly Pinchot was not as
strong as he was four years ago and
nowhere was he criticised more than
in Allegheny county, Yet Pinchot’s
primary vote here on May 18 last was
not far below that he received .in the
1922 Governorship primary contest,
and but 35,141 below his election mark
as the Republican nominee in a Re-
publican stronghold. In the rest of
the State outside Philadelphia this
year Pinchot’s aggregate vote was
much larger than that of Vare. of
course, in the three-cornered fight in
Philadelphia the vote of each normal-
ly would be expected to be lower.
Still it is to be remembered that Pin-
chot’s primary vote in Philadelphia in
1922 was nearly 120,000 and that his
vote in it that fall was 245,321. This
year he was credited with but 26,667
in Philadelphia.
Who wants such a system of “vote
control” as that of the Philadelphia
machine spread throughout the State ?
The Philadelphia machine does not
represent the true Republican party.
is a cancerous growth upon the
party as it is upon the public life of
Philadelphia, and real Republicans
should join the movement led by Wil-
liam B. Wilson to destroy it.
hae
~——The Republicans of New York
nominated for Governor a man rich
enough to buy an election but the |
friends of Governor Smith refuse to
sell their votes.
aT sme
some mountain cavern.
—Ralph H. Taylor, 38, former cashier of
the Milroy National bank, was sentenced
to serve six months in the Mifilin county
jail, pay a fine of $500 and the costs, when
he pleaded guilty to perjury, falsifying ac-
counts and misapplication of funds before
Judge Thomas F. Bailey, Saturday after-
noon, in connection with a shortage of ap-
: proximately $13,000 in the Milroy bank.
: Taylor, as cashier, had been taking care of
I' worthless checks for. Thomas
J. Ayres,
salesman for the Star automobile, and ac-
cording to Taylor's statement Ayers sold
$240,000 worth of automobiles. Taylor's
graft was the commission on the sale of
the insurance on cars, about $75. Petitions
were useless as Judge Bailey said thes
patrons of banks must be protected. Tay-
i lor was cashier nineteen years.
—Alfred M. Liveright, attorney for L. FP.
Geynet, of Clearfield, who was swindled
out of $6,500 through the alleged manipula-
tions of Frank Guimario and Charles E.
Knapp, of Pittsburgh, on Monday swore
out warrants for the arrest of the two men.
Guimario is charged with fraud and Knapp
is wanted for conspiracy. Mrs. Guimario
went to Clearfield on Monday afternoon
and endeavored to ascertain from the dis-
trict attorney as to whether or not any
action had been taken against her husband
and seemed willing to do her best to make
a settlement with L, P. Geynet, who bought
$6,500 worth of Midnight Radium Cor-
poration stock and then handed it back to
Guimario on his statement that there were
chances of consolidation and the stock
could be sold at a big advance.
~Three months ago a poorly dresssed
man who gave evidence of being a way-
farer, purchased a cheap working suit
from Thomas H. Suckling & Son, in Holli-
daysburg, leaving his old coat in the store.
The coat hung on a peg until last week,
when Suckling, ready to burn it examined
the pockets. He found a $50 Liberty bond,
tax notices, receipts for property in Cali-
fornia, a membership card from the
Carpenters’ Union in El Paso, Tex., motor
license application in Idaho and papers
showing ownership of land in Idaho and
Texas. The union card bore the name of
W. H. Tompkins, New Rochelle, N. Y., and
a letter to that gentlemen brought the re-
ply that the coat was one he used in mo-
toring and instead of remembering that he
had left it in the Suckling store he had
thought it lost. The Liberty bound and
papers were sent to Mr. Tompkins.
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