THE CENTRE REPORTER
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FRED KURTZ, Editor
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CENTRE HALL, PA., THURS, Oct. 6
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
For Governor,
A. JENKS, ....cooviinean.
For Lieutenant Governor,
WILLIAM H. SOWDEN,............... Lehigh County
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
PATRICK DELACEY, Lackawans County
For Superior Judge,
CALVIN M. BOWER. ...ccon nnn. Centre County
WILLIAM TRICKETT..........Camberland County
For Congressman-at.Large,
J. M. WEILER, sora ...Carbon County
FRANK P. 1AMS........ Allegheny County
For Congress,
Js K. Pi HALL oisisenssirnnsisanssnssonsssn
For Senate,
GEORGE Jefferson County
Elk County
Centre County
(DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET,
For Assembly,
R. M. FOSTER,
J. H. WETZEL.
For Prothonotary,
M, I. GARDNER.
For District Attorney,
N.B. SPANGLER, Esq.
For County Survoyor,
HARRY HERRING,
It is reported that China's emperor
had been assassinated. One report
has it that be committed suicide.
A UR JH
The nomination of Arnold for cons
gress has created great po giann all
over the district tor J. K. P. Hall
nem fp pel
Bowden’s charge that Quay bartered
off post-offices, backed up by proof,
has left the boss in a very deep hole.
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Stone has not yet promised, if elect-
ed he would veto the steals if again
passed, that were vetoed by Governor
Hastings.
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The state administration now spends
double what it cost when Pattison was
governor. Voters think—that Quay-
ism boiled down.
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Every Democrat should see that his
taxes are paid on or before October 8,
as that is the last day to enable him to
vote for George A. Jenks and honest
government,
Newt. Spangler is running for dis
trict attorney without opposition. It
is rare so high a tribute is paid any
one, and Mr. Spangler is in every way
deserving this honor and esteem.
The steamer Pretoria, Captain Me-
Kay, reports that the hurricane at the
island of Barbados destroyed from ten
to fifteen thousand houses and build-
ings and 50,000 people were left home-
less,
Ep Ae
The nomination of Wm. C. Heinle
meets with satisfaction all over the
district. He will be faithful, in the
senate, to the interests of the common
classes, from whose ranks he rose by
his own perseverance.
ns fA AL
Voting for Daly and Townsend, for
assembly, means support for all the
corrupt Quay plans to plander the
treasury.
Foster and Wetzel, for assembly,
means reform in the state government
and protection for the tax-payers.
Arnish
From Jenk’s speech : “If you are a
follower of Jefferson, and believe that
" man is capable of self-government, and
that you are the principal and your of-
ficers mere agents, stand by Democrat-
ic principles and say that there shall
be no absolute Quayism in this State
as long as Democratic blood shall
flow.”
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The Democrats of Connecticut, New
Jersey and New York have followed
the lead of Pennsylvania in putting
aside a question of Federal policy, as
to which the members of the party are
not agreed, and making the contest of
1898 on State issues, as to which not
only Democrats but independent vo-
ters of all parties are of one mind.
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Private Frank Fickes, of the 7th U,
8. Infantry, dying in Denver on Bun-
day of typhoid fever contracted in the
Santiago campaign, declared that he
had been ill-treated and neglected ever
since he had been taken ill, and made
a dying request that he should not be
buried in his uniform. His case would
seem to be fully worth investigating,
and yet it is very doubtful whether it
will ever be reached by the nine emi-
nent gentlemen whom President Me-
Kinley has selected to Juvastigete the
eonduct of the war.
J. K. P. Hall will redeem this con
gressional district by an easy triumph
over Arnold whose four years in con
gress have been no credit to himself
nor to the district. The better class of
Republicons will not vote for Arnold
“and no Democrat can. Mr. Hall hails
from good old Staite county stock,
and our people will on him faithful
; interests. For msny
co AA A gh i sn Ate rao
ty, Wentilving himself with its a devel
opment and prosperity. Vote for Hall
and you make no mistake.
stm fp A Ss
It is funny that some of the Repub-
lican organs claim their party fought
and whipped the Spaniards. We are
willing to allow them a little credit in
it, but the deeds of valor belong to
such Democrats as Dewey, BSchley,
Hobson, Lee, Wheeler and others,
The neglect of the soldier, causing
starvation, typhoid fever and death, |
by Republicans like Alger & Co., who |
heroic deeds of the above named Dem- |
ocrats,
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tion with which the nomination
ceived all over the district. In our]
expressed their intention of voting fo
Heinle, He deserves the support of |
government.
His opponent,
ple of the state are heartily sick.
expenses of the state government have
pired.
salaries higher ; by mileage steals ; by
padded pay roils ; by creating new and
useless offices ; by creating an unnec-
essary superior court and making a
host of new president judgeships to
afford soft snaps for politicians with
a pull.
C. Heinle for senator.
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HONEST WORDS,
Jenks at Gettysburg Shows the Machine
Masquerade,
At the rally for reform, held at Get-
the masquerading of the Stone-quay
machine.
Rev. Dr. E. J. Wolf, of the Luther-
an Theological Seminary, presided.
In calling the meeting to order Dr.
not always brag when away from
home of the fact that a bad odor went
up from this Commonwealth.
fathers fought and bled for liberty and
freedom,” said he, “yet I feel we of
Pennsylvania have been existing un-
der the Quay monarchy for years. Men
do not deserve to be free who will not
exert themselves,
are ready now to take the government
back into their own hands. It is not
the character of our people to allow
the control of their affairs to drift ab-
solutely into the hands of one man
I am so glad the Democratic party
had the wisdom and good judgment to
give the people the man they need so
badly. Mr. Jenks 4s the man of the
hour, being especially fitted in every
way to strike the blow that will allow
and their own affairs,”
Mr. Jenks in his remarl s said :
“Quayism is the offshoot of Republi-
canism, its leaders having taken the
name of Republicanism, which is not
their right. Republicanism at its birth
of whom any
proud.
which we, as American citizens,
justly proud, but its reign at the pres-
party might well
Quay party. If you desire corruptiop,
extravagance and fraud to be contin
ued and are willing to cast your liber-
ties aside at the beck of one man, sus-
tain that man.”
It has probably never occurred to
you that it is within the power of the
Government to take every cent that
you have, if necessary, to keep that
Government alive. Therelore, you
have a pecuniary interest in the aflairs
of State, Taxation can be resorted to
to any extent. You and I are practi
cally in a great partoership. I own
property and so do you ; therefore, we
want to watch this taxation. You
have certain duties to perform this
fall, that is to select your agents. The
terms of office of the agents whom you
selected four years ago will expire in
January next. You are about to em-
ploy certain persons to perform the du-
ties which relate to your government
al rights and privileges and to fix
what your rights shall be in the fu-
ture, modify what they have been in
the past, remedy the one and main-
tain the other.
Approach this duty with good busi-
ness common sense. We, your candi-
dates, are men of character and will do
the right as God gives us light, I am
speaking with no other motive what-
ever in my mind. You may think it
nelf-seeking ; I assure you it isnot. I
am interested for my country. I
sought no nomination. I never asked
for office by nomination or appoint.
ment ; so you will understand that I
am not a politician in the sense that I
sought office, nor would I seek it now
did I not deem it my duty because it
THE TREASURY LO0TERS
The Appalling Figures That Show
How It Cost More Than Ten and a
HalfMillions of Dollars in Excess of
the Cost in 1883-80 to Run the State.
The Machine Figuring on New Tax
Bills to Get Money to Make Good the
Treasury Deficlency.
A Harrisburg correspondent writes:
| M'here are two problems of serious im-
| portan ¢ facing the treasury officials
of Pennsylvania to-day. The first is
how, far the sake of the Republican
machine, by whose favor they hold of-
fice, the fact that there is a practical
| deficit of nearly $3,000,000 in the state
i
| satisfactorily to the voters,
is, how they can get the
| money which will be absolutely needed
for the coming year's expenses If ma-
chine rule is to be continued, or unless
an anti-Republican legislature shall
be chosen this fall and shall proceed,
{| immediately after convening, to stop
ill the steals
agances,
As to
{ learning
{is an ugly one,
preventing the people from
that there {8 a deficit,
state and its cred-
impossible, The
The ordinarily in-
but to take up. the
treasurer and
ment, both for the
ftors, that is simply
facts are too plain.
telligent man has
| reports of the state
tor general and glance
at the
the
Each year, for the four years last past,
the appropriations have exceeded the
estimated expenditures, and the actaal
expenditures have been greater
the estimated Income by from two to
four millions of dollars. For the year
1868 the treasurer's estimdte of income,
leaving the sinking fund out of consid-
eration, was $11,191,628, while he found
that, in going over the 1897 appropria-
tion bills and adding to their totals the
overdue payments on previous appro-
priations, there would be needed during
| 1868, again omitting the sinking fund
items, the enormous sum of $17,346,823
That sort of financlering, continued for
ia few years, would bankrupt even a
Standard Oil trust,
Corruption and waste have
spicuous in Pennsyl
mental matters for very
but it was not until Beaver's adminis.
tration began, in 1887, that the
| got things down fine and began steallr
and squandering by wholesale
| doubtedly there were moneys unneces.
sarily expended from 15883 to > 1856
| give under Pattison, but the total
penditures were nevertheless comp
tively modest. The following, taken
{ from the reports of the auditor general
show the total expenditures during that
period on current account—that is 18
interest, loans redeemed and Un od
States bonds purchased:
been con.
MANY years
jonters
Rg
inclu-
eX ~
Mra-
$4.336.974
Average each year......
During the same period there
state Joans redeemed, Including
premiums paid thereon, aggregating
$3,200,427, and United States bonds pur-
chased under the Humes’ amount.
ing to $5.306.814. These items are not
included in the above total.
As an exhibit of how the machine
learned to get away with
money since then, the following ex-
| hibit of the yearly expendi tures under
Hastings, added to the actual surplus
left over from 1884 in the general fund,
{ and the deficit that will show at the
| close of 1808 will be found edifying
{ The 1884 surplus...... .33.807.747
{ The 1865 actual expend! tures 123.402.5682
The 1806 actual expenditures... 11.004 517
The 1887 actual expenditures... 12.788 515
| The 1888 estimated exp........17.073.4562
i The probable deficlt............ 2.762.834
act
han
the taxpayers’
e asernusnais $60,520,027
Average per year 1805-58 $15,205,008
| Average per year 1883.96 4.535.258
| Bo that the Hastings administration
{ has cost the state more than ten and
{ one-half milllons of dollars each year
over and above the yearly cost of the
first Pattison administration
Again, 1 say, financlering of that sort
would quickly bankrupt even a Stand.
ard Ofl trust. What are they going
to do about it? They don't know them-
ceives, And, except for the disastrous
effect It ix apt to have upon the, pros.
pecte of Republican success In Novem
ber, when the facts become generally
known, as they certainly will be, they
don’t care much, They are just now
most concerned regarding the threat of
certain school districts to test the
state's right to hold moneys that have
been appropriated to thelr use and that
are due under the terms of the law.
If that test should be made and the
decision be against the state, it would
not be surprising to see the treasury
issuing orders at no distant day in
payment of salaries and other current
expenses, Of course, If that result can
be avoided, it will be, and In the hope
of avoiding it the treasury officials are
busily engaged in devising schemes to
get more money out of the corporations
faa tax on thelr capital stock, ete. This
will be done by raising the assessments
as made In the auditor general's de-
partment, and If that plan will not
work, then they will be prepared with
a bill, to accomplish it, which they will
urge upon the legislature next winter,
If that legisiature is an anti-machine
body, as is now hoped, It will address
itself rather to lopping off expendi.
tures than to devising new tax schemes,
Total
It Is really amusing that “Boss” Mar.
tin should be lauded as a reformer.
What Wanamaker says and what
Bwallow says all goes to prove that
Jenks should be elected,
All the “Pluck me store” proprietors
in the field are candidates on the Re-
publican ticket. There are Thropp In
the Bedtord and Woodin in the Colum-
bia district running for songre an
Republ
The Philadelphia Times oy that
two influential Democratic papers are
out for Swallow, Dn of them i4 a Pops
ulist paper and the thar a a side
QUAYISM IN FIGURES,
flow Four Years of Machine Rule Cone-
verted a Real Surplus of Nearly Four
Nearly Three Miilions-~1he Figures
Jenks’ Charge
ury Is Bankrupt.
Mr. Jenks has charged, upon
stump, that the state treasury is bank-
rupt and the astounding fact has not
been and cannot be denied, Here
the figures, from the
the machine state
prove it:
GENERAL FUND RECEIPTS.
$11,746,411
treasurers,
1896
3,29)vas
GENE RAL FU ND P AY ME NT.
.. $13,402,962
11,0045
17.073,
Total
The figures for 1808 are the
state treasurer,
culates the probable receipts,
puts down the actual obligations,
the end of the year, therefore,
in the meanwhile
state will have expended,
four years of Governor
stration, $6,670,081 more
income,
But there was a real balance
from Governor Pattison's last
1594
Auditor General Gregg
in his
vear as fol
that the nominal
$5,014,942, he sald: "Of the
into the state treasury
property tax) there remains
back to the counties $1,273
should properly be deducted from
reported balance, In order to
the real, which deduction being
would show a real balance of
747.62
“While
the existence
it must not be
it will prove an unmi
existence will
for its appropriz in
€Tr necessary
nues of the
to meet {ts expenses if
plied.”
And then this Re
went on to recommend
tion f the surplus
public use, whose
enjoyed by the
piacing upon the common
annual charge therefor.”
Inheriting this
£67,747 from
pending in four years $6570.08]
cons of its
official es-
He cal-
met
for that
HOWE
noting balance was
(an
to be
578.09
ascertain
$3.807
3
we with pride
baland
may
of
1006
point
this
readily as
xed bless
vite applica
to purposd
nor deserving
state are at 3
'
iarge
HU ITO
©COr
publican FR
the
to go
should be
:
benefits
entire people
wealth ar
“vonl surplus”
predecessos and
iin and
Lah 4
in ¢x-
income Hastings ad
on has ex} qd the
and loft the slate § £34 in
With “money to burn.” so to
four years ago, the
if its debts were pald, nearly
less than nothing
This is Quayism
in figures
STATE REFORM.
Demoerats No Eleventh
verte to the Doctrine -« Pertinent
Extracts From Thelr State
Platforms,
The Democratic
hour convert to
years it has been presenting the ugly
facts and urging amendment When-
ever it has had opportunity
ally redeemed its pledges, to
Limit of {ts power, The follow
be interesting reading in
tion
In 1874 the Democrats of the
their platform denounced the Republi.
cans for fostering corporations to
detriment and Injury of the great
cultural Interest; for having introduced
frauds and corruption into the depart-
ments of the state government and
among the state officials generally, and
for having falled to dismiss them when
exposed and convicted, They demand-
ed a greater economy and the lopping
off of every needless expense
In 1882 the Democrats elected thelr
state ticket and secured a majority in
the house on a platform devoted to
state issues and condemning Republi
can theft and reckless expenditure,
In 1885 the party thus said: "The
long continued abuses and spoliations
of the state treasury and the defiance
of laws by its management make ea.
sential a radical reform so that large
sums shall not be accumulated by tax-
ation of the people to be distributed
among the favored depositories of the
state.”
The convention of 1887 denounced the
Republican legislature for “ita fallure
to pass the state revenue bill, which
was urged by nearly all the people In
the commonwealth and which, by its
failure, made the people pay a million
of dollars annually that should and
would have been paid by corporations.”
It denounced, also, “the failure of the
administration to atiempt any correc.
fon of the wrong doing or exposure of
the fraud or criminal neglect, as con.
fessing the supremacy of ring rule in
Pennsylvania”
The convention of 1880 again urged re-
form, condemned the Bardsley steal,
and, following the election of the
Democratic governor, Hobert E. Pat.
tison, the monies stolen by the said
Bardsley and others were restored to
the state treasury.
the
mnt surpi
£ rpius
the hols
speak,
has
G00 OOO
treat
iry now
£0
fittingly
is no eleventh
ref
form For
party
stats
the
ing will
this
glate in
A Rallying Cry Everywhere,
All along the northern tier of coun-
ties, throughout the oll regions and in
the iron manufacturing districts the
name of the Democratic candidate for
vernor is a talisman to conjure with,
rallying ory for multitudes of honest
men who stand stoutly together for
honest politics. The western Pennsyl-
vania Democrats and independents are
flocking to the standard of George A.
Jenks because they see In his candi-
dacy an assurance of deliverance of
the state from the clutches of unclean
hands that have grasped power only
for plunder d personal advantage.
Wherever intelligent public opinion
finds expression throughout the state
there is ready and ample concession of
Me. Jenks’ Sithoss or the offjss of gov.
and especially at this juncture,
babies "there is need for a stern executive
hand at Harrisburg to restore old
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tion. ~Philadelphia
| making special inducements and ext
oJ
C
}
h of Augnst
and September we are
raordinarily low prices.
We |
bary gai n days.
everyday, We have
from the eastern cities a
: stock ble goods,
Hats, DB« Shots
and
plete.
have no speci ial
AINA
gal are
02 ive a
¢
03 sSCABONA
ois
now 6¢
worth dout X price
it. about ?
Men's Trousers, Ste
ot © best
Men's Dress Shoes at greatly sduoed prices
pay you examine our
oe purchasing.
We have a nice assortment of
INGRAIN CARPETS,
Li assortment Rag
Rs tor Eery » nothing better can
any whe
DRY GOODS.
Our stock is complete and we are offer.
inducements in this depart-
to
stock
hoice patt CTE,
arpet
Ine
lita
Lia 5.
have
fo
| GroceriesIn this line we
| cided bargains, and in position
Window Shades—We have
{ line, complete, 10c and up on roller
| tures. We are headquarters for
| and Tin W ore, Glass, Queens Ware
| housekeepers’ supplies.
| buying from our counters.
| market prices paid for butter, eggs,
| try, potatoes, ele.
'C. P. LONG,
Spring Millis,
High
Dress
prices. Trimmings and
They must go.
pe N
de-
yo - hd
est
THE MIFFLINBURG
STEAM LAUNDRY
Misi Pa.
Proprietor,
nburg,
‘Wesley Kleckner,
We use the soap that aekie *
| the dirt and not the shirt,
Linen sent to this laundry is
washed white, not whitewashed
Collars and Cuffs
Laundered with..
SMOOTH IVORY-
LIKE EDGES.:
“Union Finish.”
The Top Notch in Laundry Art
High Gloss or Dull Finish.
Wm. Mc. WOLF,
Agent for Centre Hal
* Another
Lot of Muslin goes at less than
cost. Many customers come too
late, but there is a second
Chance
to get fine Unbleached Muslin at
8%ec., worth be, and 4c. worth
Ge.
For
good bread and good coffee. The
flour she gets by using Pillsbury
Spring Wheat Flour, makes lovely
bread. Have you tried it? Mar
acabo, dry roast, large bean, fancy
loose coffe makes the proper drink,
and to get you all to try it will sell | ha
at 17% ec. for one week only, regu-
lar price, 20c. With these and
many other bargains we hope to
C-U-B-A
New Fall
~AND...
Winter
Goods..
18 full of
things useful and bean-
Goods that give
the
alike
largest equivalent
to the longest
yarse and to the purse
I
that is lengthened by
economical choosing.
Every corner is full to
overflowing with goods
selected with special
care for your needs and
desire. Come and be
convinced.
H. F. ROSSMAN,
Spring Mills, . - Pa.
DMINISTRATOR'S ROTOR ~LELTERS
of Administration ¢. 8. 8. u" m the
wate of Clement M. Hemphill, late o. Centre Hall
Borough, Centre county, Pa, baving been law.
fully framed to the under sign 4, she would re-
spectiully request all per.ons knowing them.
selves § 13 the 5 make immediate
payment, and the ¢ having claims the
same to present them duly suthentioated for set
tement.
ANNA MARY HEMPHIM..
Ww. G, RUNKL E, Administratrix ¢. t
Horney Centre Hall, Ba.
AN DMINISTRATORS NOTICE. LETTERS
all
0
ne
for
WH. G. RUNKLE,
payment,
MH YXEOR smo,
regular customer at our store.