The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, October 27, 1898, Image 4

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    THE CENTRE REPORTER
FRED KURTZ, Editor
A ———— - a ————
TERMS. One year, $1.50, when paid in advance,
per year,
ADVERTISEMENTS. 20 cents per line for three
fnsertions, wand § cen per line for each subse
oti application.
CENTRE Hass, Pa. THURS. Oct, 27
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET,
For Governor,
GEORGE A. JENKS, ... coon Jefferson County
For Lientenant Governor,
WILLIAM H SOWDEN, .............Lehigh County
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
PATRICK DELACEY, Lackawana County
For Buperior Judge,
CALVIN M BOWER.....occia cin inven
WILLIAM TRICKETT...
For Congressman-at.Large,
J. M. WEILER, -
FRANK P. 1AMS ~..Allegheny County
For Congress,
3. KB. P. HALL, cnicsnsasns srevmssssnsvsinm
For Senate,
C. HBINLE,.....onicciaacinia
[DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TIUKET,
For Assembly,
R. M. FOSTER,
J. H. WETZEL
For Prothonotary,
M.I. GARDNER.
For Distiict Attorney,
N.B. SPANGLER, Esq
For County Survoyor,
HARRY HERRING,
Elk County
WM
Osborn, running for senator, is for
Quay. Vote for Heinle for senator,
eimai —————
The Pittsburg Chronicle credits Ga-
lusha Grow with baving been the au-
thor of the Homestead Act. Not cor-
rect ; congressman Dawson, Democrat,
was the father of that law.
meena pr
Daley and Townsend, candidates for
assembly, are for Quay,
the platform that endorses all the leg- |
islative steals, Vote for Foster and |
Wetzel, who are pledged the opposite. |
einem ———
The accusation is made that Abner
McKinley, the brother of the presi-
dent, has made $300,000 out of army
contracts obtained at the war depart-
ment and Mark Hanna $2,000,000 on
coal contracts with the government
since the war broke out. It not
stated whether or not transactions of
this kind will be looked into by the
president’s investigating board.
ree etm
Quay nominated Stone to use him if
elected.
The platform upon which Quay has
made Stone stand, endorses all the in-
famies of the last and previous legisla.
ture.
So then, if Stone is elected, Quay
will order all the steals vetoed by Gov-
ernor Hastings, to be passed again and
signed by Stone.
pe pt
Vote for Jenks for governor, and you
vote for an honest man who is the
great champion of honest government.
Vote for Wm. H. Sowden for lieu-
tenant governor, and you vote for the
manwho is traveling the state exposing
the astounding robberies and rascali-
ties committed at Harrisburg by the
Quay gang.
is
PRE BANKING DEPARTMENT, J
A Fake Scheme Costing the Taxpayers
About a Quarter of a Million Every
Time the Legislature Meots~-Exams- |
ners That
Federal Government Does For Noth- |
ing What the State Government |
Robs Us for Not Doing At All,
Nover Examine -- The
pages of |
the state |
Six thousand six hundred
printed matter, at a cost 10
of many thousands of dollars, wilh an- |
other volume to come before the expl- |
ration of the current year, represents
the work of the bank department of
Pennsylvania from the date of its or- |
ganization in 1861 up to the present
time. That it has been of any use LO
any mortal man or woman other than |
those employed in the paper making, |
the type setting and binding the eight |
huge volumes, and the commis- |
sioners, deputies and clerks who |
no sane man, familiar |
with the facts, will undertake to main- |
tain,
Prior to 1891 bank statistics were com- |
piled and the banks looked after by the |
auditor general, without costing the |
gtate one penny in excess of what would |
As to the efli- |
adequacy of this old time
Mr. Charles H. Krumbharr,
first chief of the new de-
partment, in his report for 1830 says:
“They (the auditor general and his as- |
gistants) were always ready to act in|
case of trouble overtaking an Institu-
tion, and have rendered vice in dis- |
counting the business of institu-
tions which were endangering the
munity.” If the new and costly
partment has done even as much
this in the cause of honest banking
and the safeguarding of deposito the
fact is but seems
the
anyhow,
and
method,
861
weak
com- |
de
as
I'S.
not apparent, to be
disproven in
most unprecs de ntedly. disastrous
failures in Philadelphia,
The banking di partment was created |
by an act of June 8, 18351. That
provided for a superintendent, to be ap- |
pointed by the for |
at a sal
it more than
should nt
act |
governor, to serve
ary © 3
three clerks, whose |
it exceed $1,400 |
to the re- |
and n«
annual salaries
each. During 1882, according
port of the auditor general, there
paid out of the state treasury for the
banking department the |
sum of $1,000. In 1883 it was $18.31432
| and In 1834 $18,183.16. 3ut during all
these years the department was self
supporting, the expenses of examina
tion, paid by the banks
the expenditure
the
was
ounting to |
yr salaries, |
ete,
But In 1895 an
a
een
ir Years,
at
yf “banks
ther act Was pass
that had
bank mrtment,
created and
and giving
and
banking
sit,
already b in
for f«
pervisi
panies
tions,
mortgage,
and
all other
acter, sav ings .
banks, provident institutions
other corporation having
celving money «
savings funds
clations and b«
panies.” By
DO temacnt
year, and h
in addition to
uty at 32.500 p
to time, to 3s
num be
on «
rp
trust,
ti
ii
perative
safe
insuran
demnity «
yaniles of a
institutions
tu
dep
tie
surety n
com
was *
WAR empowered to
clerks
S8ATry
ment, not to excee ten in "”
at a compensation of net
310 per day
In th
appropriat
to the
two years),
had co
$1,000,
Salary
ber,
nym
mere than
st
the
of chief (tw
secretary of internal affairs,
Vote or C.
ior court who will not wink at Quay-
ism and shield men who have been
guiity of gross violation of law.
For congressmen-at-large vote
J. M. Weiler and Frank P.
to the
gress,
Salary of clerks (tw
Salary of examiners (two Years),
Balary of stenographer and
writer years) 1.800 |
Salary of messenger (two years) 1.800
Contingent expenses
type
(two
$124, 000
an B. F
an attorney and professional
politician of Bucks county, had been
chairman of the Republican state com-
mittee. In that position he had shown
himeelf a master of boodle methods in
politics, and as a reward for such ser.
vices it was decreed that the salary of
Total
At the
revious elect ane
i
mechanics, was kind to the poor,
and public spirited.
traits of the true man are possessed by |
bis opponent, Mr. Arnold.
For senator, vote for
county, William C. Heinle.
his name.
among the honest farmers, he swung
himself upward upon the ladder of
usefulness and to positions of honor,
His opponent, Mr, Osborn, is an out.
and-out Quay man, endorsing a plat.
form that lauds padded pay rolls,
mileage steals, and ali the other robbe-
ries committed by the machine at
Harrisburg.
For assembly vote for R. M. Foster
and J. H. Wetzel, both pledged to fa
vor reform measures and honest gov-
ernment at Harrisburg, Their oppo-
pents are Daly and Townsend, en-
dorsers of ‘the platform that Quay
made praising the corrupt siation
at Harrisburg.
For prothonotary vote for Mitchel
IL Garduer, a sterling young man ; of
first class qualifications, and obliging
at all times,
Everybody vill vote for Newton B.
Spangler, for district attorney, because
no more fitting nomination could have
Harry Herring, nominated for sur:
‘comes from one of the oldest |
ilkeson given the
on the 1ith day of
legislative seasion
place. Accordingly,
February, when the
was as yet but a few days more than a
month old, the necessary act, having
heen rushed through both houses, was
signed by Governor Hastings, who obe-
diently and immediately proceeded to
fulfill the decree of the machine, and
commissioner.
In 1897 the appropriation to the bank-
ing department was again fixed at
$124,000, and the commissioner and his
deputy agd his three clerks and his
ten examiners continue to luxuriate on
the fat of the land, while the banks
go on collapsing in greater number and
with greater loss to the taxpayers than
ever before.
Speaking of the examiners, it is a
somewhat remarkable fact that as
shown by the state treasurer's reports,
the monthly payments to them always
amount to just as many hundreds of
dollars as there are secular days in the
month. Ten examiners at $10 per day
make exactly $100, See! And yet there
are no examinations required by law
and none are ever made, The places of
these men are absolute sinecures. They
are nothing more than barnacles on
the good old ship of state, helping by
their dead weight to sink it In the seca
of bankruptey and disgrace.
In addition to being a gross fraud
upon the taxpayers, the banking de-
partment exists in violation of the ex.
press mandate of the constitution,
which requires that all such matters
as come under its supervision shall be
subject to direction by the secretary
of internal affairs. When the miners
of the state sought to have a mine de.
partment created as a thing separate
and distinct by iteslf, which the miners
themselves should have some voles In
controlling, the law officers of the com.
monwealth were quick to find } Shat #uch
a project would trust the fu
that instrument
lal law. though now
Ban department snd Gatien o _—
shows
savings
made re-
volume We have from hd hand,
that 154 institutions, banks,
banks and trust companies
| port to him, In the
400 national banks.
United Btates are a great power,
means, and yet
managed, In the Interest of a
proper economy, though each bank
required by law to be actually
its accounts and resources
ast twice in each year, to do this
ik without Any expense to the gov-
ment, the regulations exacting from
tanks a sum that in the t«
anced the cost of the depn
somewhat significant
five examiners were
look after the
The
with
wor
er
riment.
fact is
required
$0 national banks,
Gilkeson has ten $10-a-day
8 making believe to watch and cor-
such fraudulent and dangerous
practices as the 194 state banks, sav.
An-
ant
venture,
While on this branch of this most
interesting subject let us again go
back to Mr. Krumbhaar, who organ.
the department under
son, and who seems to have some
conception of the seriousness of the
business In which he was engaged. In
that report Mr. Krumbhaar said: “While
ports and the publication of
portion of the same to
public with the condition of our
institutions, and the names of
responsible for the management,
experience has shown that r
ment can be safely run by
ence upon reports. Many matters
management and objectionable
tices may be readily omitted therefr
h would be most apg upor
personal visit of an eflic
examiner.” This
and yet to-day the
Pennsylvania
gively upon reg makes
until after the
Id that the banks
time for examinati
a sufli-
acquaint
no dep:
depend-
of
SRC
pra
mrent
and
was si
banking de
fent
Be
depends
#
MIris
Hews
ants pocket
lars anually
perfunctory
an « ight
for wi wk
and of no mors
than nothing at
te all this there the
sons for believeing
tion with the managemen
are
practices by certain
that are depositories of the stat
moneys that, being notified to the i
would make them th 1s
ae
the
Mr
ker referred to this phase
in sundry of his spee
partment in
ably profitab
banks that
moneys
and very prob
1
on the
¢ machine
Kembie's
SWALLOW’'S CHANCES.
an
Do No More Than Help Quasism,
of the
Prohibition
by the 1»
is rapidly
an
a gentieman
id he
the
roles. Or more T4000 fe
than Brown, the Det cand
date for the same ofMice
inn Ritter,
for auditor general, J
as ever, and riain
beat Jenks, and
he will
the exact
Brown
ratic
and 180. 000
the Democrat ‘
ang
ti
aii
govern
figures from
D., for state treasus
for state i{reaurer
Swallow
between the
vole, 20.610, prot
approximately, the
ber of Democrats that voted for 8
iow last year. jut the
party was then yery much dem
and disheartened and, besides
of 22008 to Swallow suffered
be elected
5
the
Brown over
The dir
the
represents,
sPEnee
€
Ritter
L 1g
wh
sralized
io
far
are united and the Democratic
is one that enlists the esteem
spires ‘he confidence of every
ticket
and in-
of independent
who have already pledged Mr
their support. Under these circ
stances not a tithe of the Democ
who voted for Swallow last year
be expected to do so this year,
instead gf beating Jenks, there
much chance of the overflowing
of Vesuvius extending and
a second Pompeil of New York.
his coming as close to Jenks as he
to Brown last year.
No great astuleness or skill
calculation is needed to understand the
clearness of all this
sun at high noon. The most the highly
impractical head of the
number
and,
is
to
that would otherwise come
The few Demorrats who have
port
Jenks,
class of Independent Republicans who
are sincorely anxious te rid the stats
of Quaylism,
Jenks is a growing candidate, Every.
where he goes, or his friends go, his
support is increased. SBwallow is far
stronger today than he will be a month
was, strong enough to come within
many thousands of the lowest vote
ever cast by the Democrats in the
state.
Sm AN
THE JUNKET BUSINESS.
How It Has Grown to Its Present Awe
ful Proportions-Domooratic and
Republioan Rule Compared.
In connection with state politice ia
Pennsylvania there are few things more
interesting or instructive and absolute
ly mothing more fully demonstrable
91 Sia curt of the maChine rule than a
de
for legislative Junkets,
of legislative
muititudinous
“extra services”
committees, and the
commissions that
money
henchmen and
dominant party throughout the state.
A carefully complied table, made up
from an item-by-item gearch of
into the pockets
years shows that in 1882, the first
of Governor Pattison's first admin
tion, there was a total of $7.1
for these purposes Theses
investigating the
clerical
gira-
the {force the
departments, the western
sylvania insane asylum and
the accounts of that expen
appendage to our state
Mr. John C. Delaney,
pying the position of librarian of
senate, which had no library.
They covered also the cost of the
ler-Wagner contested election
(31,185) and of a commission
to report a comprehensive system
bookkeeping for the
ments,
in the yen
of
state
ment,
selected
of
several depart-
1885 still fe
the
there were
appropriat
be ing
of $1,200,
Kind,
but of which
Purposes
In 1887, how
ing in the mean
A ee a8 A
“a
»
ure mad the general
gain
#il was
in the
1583 in
bilis
sharp
ners, but
ial
together,
Bum
they
STs
falled
Hastings
the machin
this clase i 8 am ‘
to $480.715, leaving alan nw
of §i4.771.%2 i
as the total
The
with
arded
§ Bs m
1867
ithin the
sion 341.401.4323
$60,123.02 in £1
gate
toed,
Of the aggre
slings ves
actual
There
Yd
m
plained
audac]
handful
many
the
the
state
jones
us
exposed
And vit
of the wh buss
than that of 1895 of swagh,
in those years {hy Democrati protests
went utterly unheeded by th called |
Republican and Prohibitionist reforms
and the perpetrators of the oun -
dreily grabs pocketed the swag and
in many instances triumphantly
returned to the places they had dise
by
the #L to the
ines
was much
that of 1889, th
i
ers,
No
the
falr man can ponder and digest
figures here given without being
forced to the conclusion that, both by
promise and performance, the Demo-
crats of Pennaylivania have approved
their title as the only genuine and re-
liable reformers of corruption and inex«
cusable waste in the matter of the state
expenditures.
-
MULTIPLYING OFFICES.
How the Political Rounders Have Been Pro-
vided With Snug Berths and
Fat Salaries.
The following carefully prepared
table shows how the Republican ma
chine has provided for political work.
ers and thelr friends by securing sal
aried offices for them at the expense
of the taxpayers,
If there were not enough offices to
go around, more were created with an
offhandedness which implied that the
mathine, not the people, were the only
stockholders and directors in the man-
agement of the affairs of state,
Comparative number of employes in
the several state departments in 1883
and in 1898, respectively:
1508,
————— ——
1883.
EXeculive ...ooiivviiiiniiinig
State FEAR FE ERIE ED FRE T
Auditor general's ........... 13
fdjssant Kineral's Prsageeny
PE
: FB ccernanenneran
Srak rear Heb arener pF,
irulture
and groun
131 os
nploy
Agr
| Bulluings
Senate
Library
House employes
ame commisggione:
udiciary
Total ..
Increase Aka ‘ain
Omitting contingent and
counting the palaries at $1,400 per an-
i num, the average paid to clerks, the
| cost per annum to the people for these
UnneceEn; ry eXPeNses eXCed ed 5 $300,000.
Xpenses,
We fer will
vote from the orgs
in the state, He
long and faithfully.
idate Iams
a hard
of all public questions, He
and faithfully represent
nt Washington.
drmenrameconincuafi xt mss—
A Common Danger.
Jerry N. receive
nized
has served
Han
burg
ingmen
them
a
Cand
speaker,
giludent
would ably
the state
a taking
in
If you have ever had a cold which
you permitted to “wear away’
| interest you to know it
proceeding. Every
cough which neglected
was
cold
paves
OuUs
is
the fa-
lung reme-
ma or eatarrh, OUo's Cure,
mous German throat and
dy, will eure any cough or
| save you from eopsumption.
G. H. Long, Bpring Mills,
cold and
Hold by
h rare -
Care for Typhoid Fever,
Here is a treatment for ty
which cur informant says
| knowledge, never failed to cure:
the
sheets in as cold water as
phoid fever
to his
When
couple of
had,
ice water if obtainable; strip and wrap
has,
fever starts saturate a
can be
he patient in these water-soaked
shits bye o
i he
ts and as fast as the
warm from the heat of
ply another cold one until
{| breaks, which it will do
packings in (hese cold
All t hat is needed besides
ment for the recovery of
to administer remedies
any costiveness in the case,
nmap w——
i De Witt’s Witch Hazel Balve has
the largest sale of any Balve in the
This fact and its merit has led
fli
He
body up
the feve
after a few
water cloths
the treat
the patient is
fo
JY}
vere je
i terfeit it. Look out for the man who
| attempts to deceive you whe you eall
for De Witt’'s Witeh Hazel Bslve the
great pile cure; for sale by Smith &
Crawford
of walter
fall Ring
Hastntn farm, «
Inguire of or a
CATHARINE
AN RIT IX PARTITITIO
od
asl
A ress
BREON
entire
the helrsand |
inte of Hal
yer
present tives of Ge
Gevpased
Haines
Aaron
iw B
Ral re
fies Wow uship
rent
8 brother
Penmsyivetiin Ox
Hed
Pennsylvania
brothe re
Petinayivania: Henry O. Bowe
tre County, Peonevivazile Cae
f burn, Centre County, Posi
| Bower, Asromsbarg, Centre
nim: Susan Lo, interm
ver, poatoffies addres
Mictigan: Polls = erm
Centre Count
intersarried
i
i yor Woodw be
{ Candace M
: Rebersburg, Ornitre Count)
1d Bower Anromsburg Couls
§ nia, heirs apd legal nop
i Bower Jr. a8 He ohA; Te
{ and Michael 8 Bower. bis af represen
isativos of Adam Bower, a ther
I whose addres is Adromebur ulre Cotinty
Peneyivania, Thesald Kate J Bower is a mi
not
Take potice that in putsaanc
{ the Orphans Oourt of Centre Oo
{ unis, 8 Writ 10 partition has been
{ ble on Mouday, the 20 b day of 5
{| and thal an ingue«t be held for the -
{ ma king partition of the real odate of
i dent on
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH 185s
FAL Pocioek. a mm, Al Lhe late tesidencs
| decensedd, at which tite and place you
prose tH you see proper
NOLL. All thal o-fiain
Peansyivanis
line Bressler
Tome
sail dece
of the
can
a
in ihe
{ Hadves, Oonitily of Ueto and Niate
| vauia, bousded and desorited a8 follows - Be
{ ginning at a linden tree thence by Jands of Hen.
| ry Bame emia eo, south 31; degrees east 07.2
! ghee bo Stones; thence by ands of Adam Stover
{ noth ody gegrers east 4 perches to «Lones
i theuoe y ispds of John M. Stover and
i porth 314 deg een west 67 7-10 perches 0 Sones
| thenoe = wih Si 4 eres eas 4 porches to
| stoves; thence north Hig degrees west 10 perches
{ 10 slopes; ihence south 870 degrees west § peret
{ v8 10 stone; thenoe orth 34 deerves west 0p 1
| ehea bo stones; ihetine south 87%
perches to stones thence orth 3%
| 41 30 perches 10 stones: thence
{ | Bames, sath 72 degrves wisi, 5
stones | thewoe saith 3H 4 1esroes past 2 perches
10 the place of beginning, cOutaining 3
| and 5 perehes Deal ceastire,
NO. 3
Haines Township, Usntre County, St te of Pon
ev ivauia, bounded ou the porth b
devedent and Daniel Cortnen;
Ya of Pullip Bwover: op the south by lands
Adam Stover, and on the west by lands of J
Meyer, contaiaiig 6 acres sid 62 perches,
NO 3.
of Venusyl
Tego
by lauds of
boteded and ae oribed as oll we, viz. Begin.
Burrell, north 10 degrees west, 2 perches 0
stones: thenee along smme uoarih 88 degrees east,
82 perches te stolies; thenoe sloug same south 10
degrees erst 2) perches 10 siones; Lhenss along
lands of Bamos south 88 degrees west 52 perches
to the place of begiuning, tontainiug § scres
neat Nieasure
86.4. The one-half undivided interest in all
those two pleces of laud shiuste in the Township
of n, Centre County, Pennsylvania One
thereo| beginning al states, thenoe along lands
of Johts Bowersox and lanas of Meyers North 4
d grees west 3 1-1 perches to post: thence South
31 3-4 degrees West 1 6 Dutch = | go! thenoe
Riorg South 4 degrees Kast i porches to
post, thence public road oth 71 84 de
East 1.6 10 the place of Chai
sonraiuing FY Five perches,
other theren! begioni
Neth bank of Pine Crevk, thence
«AND.
Goods..
The f
store i= fall of
things nsefu aad
tiful
the
bean-
Goode that give
iargest ocpmvaient
alike + S| . #
alige iO Lie rest
and to the prrse
: 4 Y a
iengthened bY
chicnritior
Hr ming,
5 10
ii to
ooods
flowing with g
ial
with EDeCial
eds and
H. F. ROSSMAN,
wing Mills, - -
THE MIFFLINBURG
STEAM LAUNDRY
MifHli
ini burg. ’a
Wesley Neda, Proprietor.
SMOOTH IVORY-
LIKE EDGES.:
‘Union Finish.’
The Top Notch in Laundry Art
tre Hall.
Sugar
19 + EE $.1.}
Any quantity, bl
} gran
ial ed, 8S will
A car little less than
i i $ ou
all AL 4
prices. & ib . packet to 280
3 1 TT aass13 § nf
barreis. Fhe car will be on side
track some week and you
should leave your order at the store
to get the right prices. You
time next
once
fi th
108 wait 11
it 0 e car, for cash,
take
| stored.
I am sole agent for the
Don’t
I sell
genuine
buy i
the gen-
price,
Roller
tsburg Flour. imi-
lowest possible
and guarantee satisfaction.
be
h
jess than any miller will sell
Come and see.
G. H. LONG,
tO vou.
-
Pa.
§ Cavestu. and Trade- Marks obtained, and ail Pat.
ent business conducted for Mobenate Fries.
rete 18 OPromTE VU. 8. Pa
Sree " Pent ib Jets ie ThAR
charge, Our fee not rentable or
A Paweniey, “How to Obtain Patents,
cost of same in the U, Band foreign countries
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