THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, - - EDITOR
Democratic Nominations,
STATE TICKET,
For Governor,
ROBERT E. PATTISON.
For Lientenant Governor,
CHAUNCY F.BLACK.
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
WILLIAM H, BARCLAY,
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COUNTY TICKET.
For Congress,
GEORGE F. KRIBBS,
For Senate,
HON, P. GRAY MEEK,
[ Subject to the decision of the District Con
= ference ]
For Sheriff,
WILLIAM A. ISHLER,
For Treasurer,
JAMES J. GRAMLEY.
For Assembly,
HON. J, H. HOLT,
JOHN T. McCORMICK.
For Register,
JOBRN RUPP.
For Recorder,
W.GALER MORRISON,
For Commissioners,
T. FRANK ADAMS,
G.L. GOODHART,
For Auditors,
J. B. MITCHELL,
SAMUEL KLINE,
The Bellefonte News offers asareward
for the most popular councilman of that
town, the biggest pumpkin in the coun~
ty. The Neus, it seems, means to take
Fiedler's head ofl,
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Tax-payers of Centre county, vote to
redeem the county from the misrule of
the past three years. You wantan hon-
est and competent board of commissions
ers —Goolhart and Adams are the men
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Our farmer candidate for prothonato-
ry, J.J. Gramley, is making friends
every day. He isa man, every inch of
him, and bas the record that constitutes
the true man, He is competent, too, in
every respect, and deserving. Heis one
ofthe most untiring workers in the
Democratic iines.
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The new tariff bill which gos into
effect Monday, with the administiative
customs bill taxiog packiog, ete, will
increase the average duties on imports
$> about 60 per cent. This is the highest
rate in the history of the conntry—~while
the revenues are decreased the taxes
ere increased,
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Bro. Leonard , it s2ems, bas lately im-
portuned Gov, Pattison, by telegraph, to
take a hand in the senatorial fight in our
district. Gov, Pattison is wise enough
to know what to do with a fool's advice,
gad that Leonard does not control a
a siagle vote, often not his own, on ac
grunt of an accredited weakness in the
upper story.
Holt and McCormick for the legisla
ture, are far above their compsatitors
Mattern and Frybarger, in every partic-
ular needed to make creditable repre.
sentatives. Holt and McCormick are
ideotified with the interests of the tax-
payers, while Fryberger and Mattera
are mere wind splitters as rezards actual
worth.
I A.
Intelligence from every put of the
county indicates the election of the en-~
tire Democratic ticket by a handsome
majority. The good names nan ear
ticket, inspire the people with a hope of
better thiogs than we iad in the past
three years, when the county was run in
the direction of bankruptey by a Repub.
lican board of commissioners and dis
graced by the actions of a Republican
Sheriff,
The one sensible thing the co nmis-
sioners are doing is the removal of the
to see how it looks,
Now let them do the other sensible
thing, erect the fence for the purpose of
a pen, put themselves in 80 the outraged
and put an inscription on the pen, to
read, “These are the fellows who raised
surplus.”
Wm. Ishler has come thro the vile
wrongs attempted upon his private char
nectar,
His worth 48 a man hasbeen attested
a hole.
The $900 story put oat bv whisky
Fiedler has falle1 into contempt as does
any allegation coming from that fabrica-
tor of lies, Hurrah for Ishler!
Record of Robert E. Pattison.
The stainless private life of Robert E,
Pattison commends him to all men, His
public record cons itutes, in itself, a plat.
form upon which all political parties
might safely stand.
At the polls he has never been defeat-
ed.
In 1877 Mr. Pattison was elected
Controller of Republican Phiia-
delphia by a majority of.
In 1850 he was re-elected Con-
troller of Republican Philadel-
pha by a majority of.
Vhen Garfield had a majority of
Thereby making a change ©
In 1852 he was elected Governor
of Republican Pennsylvania
by plurality of............ srRiSe RRA EAR ASE Saath 40,202
As a result of Mr. Pattison’s election
to the office of Controller of Philadelphia
the whole method of that department
was changed, The records of the office
were thrown open to public scrutiny, and
old accounts were given a thorough over-
hauling, Systematicinquiries were made
that exposed the robbery of the City
Treasury through bogus jary lists. The
outdoor receipts of the Almshouse gunard-
ians for the years 1870 to 1879, amount-
10g to $26,398.61, that bad disappeared
from the public books, were traced up
and returned to the Treasury. In cone
junction with a committe of eminent
citizens he made a thorough exposure of
thefts in the Almshouse, amounting to
$570,000. He called attention to abuses
in the payment of madamuses and to de-
ficiencies in the Register of Wills Office.
His examination of tax accounts reveal-
el a discrepancy of $119,000 between the
statement of taxes paid into the Treas
ry and the amount reported to the Cone
troller, He secared the eaforcment of
the ordinance providing for the payment
into the Treasury of poll taxes that had
been previously pocieted by Tax Office
employes. He also secared a change in
the rate of interest on city warrants, sav-
ing $100,000 per annum to the taxpayers,
Daring his administration as Controller
the city refunded its debt and establish-
ed its fioances upon the pay-as-you-go
basis. For the first time ia its history
Philadelphia bad a Controlier who cons
troiled,
As Governor, Mr. Pattison showed
fidelity to the oath of office which he
had taken “to support, obey and defend”
the Constitution. He reinvigorated the
faith of the people in that iosiroment
which is the best charter of government
possessed by any of the States. He took
the position that the Constitution, which
had been adopted by a majority of 153,-
000 in 1873, must be enforced. He ins
sisted that the organic law must not be
violated through railroad discriminations
or by the consslidation of competing and
parallel lines of railroad, nor by corpora.
tions of coal-carriers to plunder the pub
lic by increasing the cost of fuel to con.
summers.
He follon ed the express command of
that instrument when he called the at-
tention of the General Assembly to laws
defled, rights uneoforced and the Cons
stitution of the people disregarded and
anexecuted. He urged and secured the
passage of a law providing that the large
cash surplus in the State Treasury must
be invested in United States and State
bonds, and not deposited without interest
‘with private banks and individuals
When the Sinking Fund Commissioners
refused to lavest the public moneys as
directed be caused proceedings to be in~
stituted against them to compel obedis
ence to the law. He improved the State's
finances in many ways, He made a sys-
tematic reduction of all kinds of expendi
tures in thelordinary affairs of the govern-
ment, saving a quarter million of dollars
during the first year of bis administras
tion. He cut down the extravagant sal-
aries of public officers to a figure com-
mensurate with the labor performed. He
substituted salaries for lees. He subject
ed the accounts of public institutions to
a close scrutiny. He stopped the waste
of public money in worthless printing,
and put an end to that species of public
advertising which forced the State to
pay more for the advertising of proposals
than the total value of the articles so
advertised. His administration closed
with a net redaction of more than five
million dollars in the State debt, He
labored earnestly with the Legislature to
obtain Ballot Reform and to bring about
an equalization of the burdens of taxa
tion. He took an active part in abolishes
ing needless and costly offices such as
that of Recorder of Philadelphia, a place
that was created to provide an annual
income of $40,000 for Mr. Quay, He also
secured the abolition of the offices of
Sealers of Weights and Measures, and
he vetoed the bill creating additional
sod useless Magistrates for Philadelphia.
He tried to obtain uniformity, simplici-
ty and convenience to taxpayers by the
abolition of the offices ¢f Mercantile
Appraisers, He tried to bring about a
repeal of the Street Railway act of 1868
which would have restored to Philadel
phia that control of all ite highways to
which every municipality is entitled.
He investigated the condidon of the
Soldiers’ Orphan Echools, and broke up
the syndicate that had pinched poor
children to provide spoils for human
harks. He establishment
or soviiesntnd the astsbiishment
President of the commission that ory
ganized the institution he dedicated it
on Fedruary 22, 1882, He participated
in the creation of commissions to revise
the code of laws relating to the mining
of aothracite and bituminous coals,
When he assumed office he found that
there were 700 corporations on the books
of the State Department that had not
paid a dollar in taxes to the State for
many years. He gave all of them the
alternative of bearing their share of the
barden of taxation or of surrendering
their franchises.
He also found that Pennsylvania had
become notorious as a place where di-
vorces could be easily and quickly ob-
tained, He urged legislation providing
not only for a more rigid and less expe-
pitious divorce law, but also tending to
prevent hasty and ill-assorted marriages.
Under the Pattison administration the
standard of the Pardon Board was ele.
vated above the suspicious influences that
had directed action of the preceding
Board. Out of 263 cases tried by the
Pattison Board only 51 were recommend.
ed for Executive clemency.
Governor Pattison's greatest work cons
sisted in his courageous use of the veto
power, lo passing upon bills brought to
him f.r Executive approval he made it
his duty to discover jobs and to preveut
their consummation at the expense of
the public. In this way, while inviting
the enmity of the lobbyists and plund-
erers, he earned the approval of the peo
ple. Oatof 901 bilis presented to him
for approval in 1883 and 1885 he vetoed
164, and of these only three were passed
by the Legislature over his vote. His
use of this power was unprecedented, He
vetoed more bills than any of his pre-
decessors bad done, because no one of
his predecessors had taken one-tenth of
the pains that he and his advisers took
to correct bungling legislative work, and
to prevent improper, mischievous, in
effective and unconstitutional legislation
from going on the statute.book to plague
the citizen and to torment the Courts,
Yet no other Governor ever had so few
bills passed over his veto, and upon this
point the Legislatures gave proof of his
vigilance and devotion to the public ins
terest. Armed with the veto power,
Governor Pattison stood between the
Commonwealth and as corrupt or ignor-
ant or reckless a gathering schemers es
ever sat in the State Capitol.
Though Governor Pattison was the
youngest of those who had held that ex
alted office, bis administration was the
purest in the history of the S'ate. He
waged an unceasing warfare against all
forms of official corruption, and strove
continvally to advance the material in-
terests of the State. He contended for
the equal rights of shippers, and checked
corporate encroachment. He upheld the
State Constitution as bis chart, and won
the respect of all good men by the ears
nestness, honesty and ability with which
he guided the affairs of the Common-
wealth, At the close of his admicistras
tion both of the great parties of the State
found it advisable to declare in their
platforms against the abuses which he
had opposed. His successor, however,
has failed to respect that pledge,
bay
The State campaign in the western
part of Pennsylvania has been much
quickened daring the past week by the
visits of the candidates of each party,
accompanied by a very considerable
number of their political associates. To
those who have been observant of the
demonstrations during the visits of Dela-
mater and Pattison to Northwestern
Pennsylvania, it is very evident that the
Republican lines are badly broken in
the great belt of counties from McKean
to Washington in which usually there is
a Republican majority in every one ex-
cept Clarion. These troubles began in
the nomination of Delamater himself,
who ie not particularly strong in his own
section. As a candidate for Benator,
even against a weak and unpopular
Democratic opponent, he ran behind his
ticket, In nearly every county there is
an element of dissatisfaction against
Quay, which has bzen aggravated by
disappointments in the distribution of
Federal patronage. The oil producers
almost to a man have felt that Delamater
was in sympathy with the Standard Oil
monopoly and against them, and they
have been strengthened in their purpose
of opposition by the assanlt of Emery
and the active personal efforts of Theo-
dore Barnsdell, the largest individual
prodacer in America, who, though a
Republican, is very active, in the anti
Delamater organization,
The inventor of the pigs-in-clover puz-
zle has been sent to an insame asylum.
Bappose his friends recognize him and
what will the harvest be?
Let him out, for he certainly might
run a pie-nic,
A New York woman has just secured
a verdict for $20,000 damages against
one of her own sex, for the alienati on of
her husband's affections. The latter
must have been of superior quality to be
comnts
Be on Your Guard.
The present condition of the campaign
is such as to assure a Democratic victory
at the polls in November, This is a fact
that is patent to the leaders of both pars
ties and whereever the masses of the peo-
ple have become acquainted with the
trae situation of aflaire the same opinion
is also beginning to prevail. Knowing
this to be the case the managers of the
Republican campaign in the State are
leaving no stone unturned to deceive the
people and create the impression that
causes of great dissatisfaction exist in
the Democratic ranks which are slowly
but surely working the defeat of the
ticket,
They are insidicusly endeavoring to
make it appear that the Democracy of
Philadelphia are in a bad shape and that
a large majority for the Republican tick-
et will be The purs
pose of this is manifest for it is well un-
derstood by these schemers that the
Democracy in the country remembering
the bitter experiences of the past are to
become discouraged at the first ill reports
that come from this Republican strongs
hold.
Let the people be warned in time.
These reports are simply the fabrications
of the Republican leaders.
the sure outcome,
Disaffection
ng the Democracy of Philadelphia
does not exist, on the contrary the Dems
party and the Democratic ors
ganization in that city have not been in
better shape for manys vears. True there
exist some local factional disturbances
but the results of these will not be of a
serious character and will not extend
any further than through the districts
where they exist. On the other hand
the Republicans are in sore straits, They
see Lhe Hats of Republicans and who will
not support their candidate for Governor
but who on the contrary will cast their
voles for Governor Pattison, daily ine
creasing they see the prominent end in.
fluential men of their party either indiffe-
rent or in open opposition to the meth
ods of Quay; they know that a large Res
publican vote will be cast for Governor
Pattison in the city of Philadeiphia and
they know of a certainty that if anything
like a fair percentage of the Democratic
vole in the Sate shall be brought to the
polls in November, that Governor Pats
ison will be elected by a handsome ma-
jority.
Their plan therefore is to discourage
the Democracy of the Siate by disseminat-
ing these stories in connection with the
condition of political affairs in Philadel-
phia, No Intelligent Democrat should
be milead by any such reports, from what-
ever sources they eminate, but, under
standing the situation as it really exists,
should make every effort in his power to
encourage his Democratic neighbor to go
to the polls and vote and to inspire him
with the belief that if he and his fellow
Democrats do their duty that this State
will surely be redeemed from the grasp
of Quayism,
An
ocratic
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Lea on Delamater,
Mr, Henry C. Lea, the well known in«
dependent republican of Pailadelphia,
has writlen an open letter to Senator
Delamater which makes it plain that
Delamater’'s wishy washy denial of the
Emery charges carried with it no weight,
Mr. Lea wants Delamater to bring Emery
into the courts. “Ihe courts,” he says,
“are open to you and there is yet time
before the election for you to vindicate
yourself. Mr, Emery is amply responsi-
ble, and if he should seek to delay the
trial of the fssue you will at least have
shown that you do not fear to face the
evidence in his hands or to trust yoursels
toa jury of your countrymen. Your
duty to yourself is to do this, and if yon
shrink from it, your duty to your party
and to your state is to retire from the
canvass. You forced yourself upon the
ticket as the henchman of Mr, Quay and
you must accept the responsibilities
which you have thus assumed. You
cannot expect the republican party to
enter upon the approaching presidential
canvass handicapped with such a double
load as Mr, Quay and your self, weight
ed down with the charges against you
both.”
Mr. Lea speaks entirely within the
limits of the truth. Mr. Emery courts
an investigation, and it is manifestly Del.
amater’s duty to have himself vindicat«
ed if he can do so. He has no right to
ask the sapport of self-respecting re-
publicans 80 long as he refuses to sub-
mit his case to the proper tribunal,
The Democratic county ticket, through-
out, is made up of farmers and working
men, The ticket from Rush township,
set up against it, is made up entirely of
opposite material-conspicions for its
absence of farmers and workingm en.
This is accounted for by the fact that
a ring will try to run the county as it
has been run in the past three years by
Henderson, Decker and sheriff Cook, to
the detriment of the tax-payers and the
utter disgrace of the county.
Vote the entire Democratic ticket,
worth so much.
Putting Demagogues to Shame
The Philad, Times: When Commands
er John Jones, of the Braddock Grand
Army Post, and an earnest Republican,
stood up before his fellow-workers in the
Carnegie Iron and Bteel Works on Fri
day evening last, and appealed to every
honest soldier and to every honest work -
ingman to vote for Pattison for Governor,
he put to shame the demagogic traders
in the honor of soldiers who aseail the
ex-Governor for his veto of the soldiers’
burial bill.
There is not an intelligent, self-respect~
ing soldier in Pennsylvania who would
not honor Pattison for that veto, and its
place on the pages of onr statutes is a res
proach to the patriotism of the Common
wealth, A law requires the formal de-
claration for public record that a dead
eoldier is a pauper, to procure charitable
burial from the State, is a disgrace to
Pennsylvania and a wanton shame upon
the soldiery of the State; and only ignor-
ant, inconsiderate or demagogic pretend~
ers among our soldiers can sanction such
a law,
.
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The Marietta Register, a republican
paper, in its issue of September 27,
of editorial columns,
Delamater’s
has
al the head its
“BScrateh name from the
ticket.” In other parts of the paper are
these paragraphe: “Don’t forget that by
indorging Delamater you indorse a worse
‘boss’ of political methods and a candi
date that was the of
a
revolt 1882, 11 it
much
were right 10 bolt in 18
{0 scratch
name from the ticket
you thought of that?”
“Have you any recollection of the riot
v
how
more 80 is il Delamater’s
in iN
Have
bill bribers who were pardoned in
and who was one of the
that board which so flagrantly ot
t
justice and set at large me
memoers )
raged
had
peniteatiary 7
through
politics, been put on the republicanticket
his candidate for governor. Will
walk up to the trough, through ¥y
fealty to party mmaoagement, and vote
for a representative of such practices?
You may be a republican, but one owes
a higher doty than to parly slone--
that is, to the good of all, aad only then
of
hie citizenship and party affiliations (the
latter when right) are synonymous.
Scratch Delamater’s name from the
ticket!”
n who
well earuey a term in the
That man has since, machine
you
ur
does he prove that the good quality
a
An important question was decided by
the supreme court. A motion to quash
an appeal made by the Prothonotary of
Greene County was argued, The Court
of Creene County some time since made
an order desiguatiog the Farmers and
Drovers’ Bank of Waynesburg as the de
pository.
In May, 1890 the Prothonotary receiv.
ed about $20,000, halfof which he deposit-
ed in the regularly designated depository
and the balance in another bank. A rule
to show cause why he should not deposit
the fuli amount in the regular bank was
taken. In his answer he gave among
other reasons for refusing to obey the
order of Court that he did no! believe
the Farmers and Drovers Bank was sol«
vent, and he was afraid the bank might
fail. The rule was however, made absol-
ute and he was ordered to deposit, the
full amount iu the bank. From this de.
cision he appealed and a motion to quash
the appeal was made no the the ground
he had no discretion in the matter,
The motion to quash was granted the
Court holding that he was bound to obey
the order of Court, and from it there
was no appeal. Chief Justice Paxson
said: “We are of unanimous opinion in
this matter, and 1 am astonished the
Prothonotary was not committed for
contempt of Court.”
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The Louisiana lottery swindlers are
playing in very bard luck, just now. Des
prived of the use of the mails, they pro~
pose to use the express companies for
carrying money and tickets, but there is
a chance that this, their last resort, will
be cot off. Congress has the power to
pass a law forbidding express companies
to serve the octopus, but it is believed
this can be bone under the Inter-State
Commerce law, and that no additional
legislation will be needed. Further,
banks can be forbidden to cash drafts
from another State for the lottery com
pany, as a draft is held to be an iostru-
ment of interState commerce. It looks
as if the great robbery was doomed.
The anti-lottery law has cat down the
registry and money order business of the
New Orleans postoffice 35 to 40 per cent.
sn A MP AILS,
wwweAltoons, October 5.—Henry H,
Herr, a leading member of the Blair
county bar, dropped] dead on the cars
near York late last evening, from heart
disease. He ran to catch the train,
complained of illness on reaching the
inside of the car and expired in a few
minutes, Mr. Herr was actively identi-
fied with the Board of Trade, was an ex-
City Solicitor and prominent in Demo.
cratic circles, ;
Another Kick Against Quay.
The Lincoln independent republican
committee, of Philadelphia, has sddresse
ed an open letter to the president of the
United States calling upon him to with
hold from Benator Quay all federal pat~
ronage in this state, A ceompanying the
letter is the appeal of the eommittes to
the voters of the state which is sent to
explain a request which the committee
admit is “extraordinary.”
After rehearing the charges against
Senator Quay in brief, the letter says:
The issue is plain, In the interest of
sound public morals and of primitive re~
publican faith, we seek the political
downfall of a man who dishonors him-
self, his party and his state.
publican party is t
and the
ideas,
of
The re~
he party of progress
f
representative of
great moral
If it must accept the ignoble title
the party of immoral ideas, whose
claim to power is no longer right, but
might, and whose appeal is not now, as
in the days of Lincoln, addressed through
lofty and legitimate argument to the rea.
son of the people, to their natural sense
of justice and of truth—it will become a
party whose youthful aspiration is sunk
in hopeless corruption and whose purse
strings have strangled its patriotism.
To divert such a catastrophe we appea]
to you as chief magistrate of the pation
to aid us in the struggle by w ithdrawing
from Mr. Quay the patronage of Penns
syivanis, the responsibility for which
has deen placed by the constitution in
your bands. Itisin this delegated pow-
er to give and withhold office, to bribe
and to punish that Mr. Qaay's strength
inrgely lies. Withhold it from him and
his political power will cease to exist.
Accompanying ietter is
phlet charges
Juny, president is
read and reflect upon,
& pam-
against
asked to
containing the
which the
a
The d
mitlees
emocratic and republican com.
of Philadelphia have bought
tax receipts year. This
means that there are 125.000 voters in
Pennsylvania's chief city who are too
oht
125 000
this
fens
Laat
lifferent to pay fifiy cents apiece once
every two years for the privilege ofatak
ing part in our state elections.
toy a
i
We ought
have coustilutional amendment
absolutely forbidding the payment of poll
tax by proxy, fora man who is unwill.
ing to pay the beggarly sum required is
not fit to exercise the privileges of a free-
man. Besides itis a heavy tax on cans
lidates, so much so that in this republic
& poor man cannot afiored to be a cans
didate for any considerable office, In
Philadelphia alone the two parties have
paid out this year $62 500 for taxes alone
and there has been a corresponding ex-
penditure in each county in the State,
There ought to be a remedy provided by
law, for mutual agreement between the
two parties seems impossible,
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~(Our forests and mountains are
now clothed in their most beautiful garb,
The autumnal tints of the folisge in all
their varied hues lenda charm to the
beauties of the woods, that is entrancing
and which no artist can imitate. We
now enjoy the endorse of nature's
flower gardens all arvuud ue iu the hugs
est proportions to enchbaut the eye of
the iover of the be fal 1» nature,
We country folks need not go to the art
galleries of the cities to behold the
touches upon canvass of the skilled band
of the artist, no, for we can present pic.
tures all over the county of Centre that
the artist can not approach for beauty
or immensity. The variegated colors of
our mountain sides and valley forests,
are splendid to look upon just now.
~The wife of Join Beam, Mitchell*
ville, Westmoreland county, aged 65 years
presented him with twins on Monday
evening of last week. Her daughter,
Mrs, Stratton, who lives in a neighbors
ing township, presented her husband
with twins the same evening. Mrs, Strate
ton’s daughter Eve was married a year
ago and lives in Bradford. The friends
of Mrs. Beam and Mrs, Stratton were not
yet through congratulating them over
the interesting coincidence in their fami
lies when a telegram came from Brad.
ford saying that Mrs. Stratton’s daughter
had also given birth to twins the same
evening. The three double births oc
curred within ten minutes of each oths
er.
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Hon William A. Wallace returned
from Europe yesterday. He will enter
sctively into the canvass for the election
of the democratic state ticket in Penns
sylvania and will speak with Governor
Pattison at the Academy of Music, Phila-
delphia, on Saturday evening next, He
will also accompany the democratic can
didates on their tour through the coun-
ties of the old Tenth Legion next week,
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