\'OL. LXXVL. CENTRE COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR, CENTRE where there had been no fighting, we | the of six i Union Boldiers ; several | {of whom I hurriedly examined, and] 148th Regiment, Pennzylvania) found they had bullet holes in them, Vo! x. | They had been «hot. Now, who shot | Oil unteers, li | these Union Soldiers? At the time, HALL, PA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1903. SENATOR WILLIAM P. SNYDER’S PUBLIC RECORD, TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM “ALL PARTS. Fine October weather. Feaw scattered along, bodies or eight dead ‘He Supported Every Vicious Measure of Legislation Introduced.—Republican Candidate For Auditor General Supported All Kinds of Grabs, Pinch Bills, Corporation Measures and Rippers Find Favor,—A Subservient Tool of the Republican Machine. By T. P. Meyer, Sergeant Co. . Regiment, P. V, {To be Continued.] ¥. THE PRISONER'S The battle of Bristoe the Confederates comparison wi , 148th | CHAPTER STORY. was ended, defeated, it wtill In Wii4 the were th many others, not a hotly contesied battle ; Confederates heavily, judging by the wounded taken to the wagon and artillery trains move toward the Rappabanoock, by the 17th of Oct. their full retreat, slowly, but destroye! the R. R. as they retreated burniug the ties, and beuding the rails Our squad of prisovers, about a thou- sand in number, the hannoek in the evening and lay all'nizht quite u lively day. pressed the Cot must have lost number of rear. 1heir| hegan and army was in surely hey reached Rappa- there 18th, Arm hard at all points, crowding them to the rive sunday, October Was I'he Union federate Army whiel They piers Hasty 1 was high and Js a ible built a temporary bridge on the of the burned RB. R. bridge, a built, rickety structure. Gen. Lee with staff, He dismounted closely the building of bridge, then fine looking commanding presence, Pali, quite gray, full beard, wiilitary features, and looks ry dier. Che his rode up. and the fering suggestions, of diguified watched now and He was a man, and erect ev finished, we ¢ros Rappahannock in the were marched miles, w bridge afternoon and to Culpeper here we arrived at eig aud some time twelvs ht p.m. later were given thre Cracke We quartered in the rian church on M: rs for supper ere Pr in street, from whiel esby is theseats hud been removed Later this cbhureh w nnd Oct, 19th, us destroyed by th fw ar, flames « Monday, aud b delightful, a: fore na Was never retourit, dawned clea: I'he spel i and t autiful yet cold day was in ti Hie ad je We Tegeiveo il was ie be red chiureh, graveyard Chis morning and a iittle bacon his Ie ria three cruckers our days ratios winutes, and before During the forenoon were we ate Wwe more fo e for taken senrched, yiceaies weapons, than valuables Phere Was ver itttle from the Hes wile s #lld dageer pisiol gorb old story to ankels, polwithstandi ig the In d out the contrary. the aft- of along Ernoon we were marche igh the the hiro! SEO I Rupidan river, which we crossed by a rickety, military uight, Orange chureh, t town, and the w vad to the Lrussel after House, bridge, Court reached eighteen miles from Culpeper, about midnight, we were put Richmond. Here on a freight toain for | the general i that they | murdered vy opinion smong us was, prisoners and their were gunrds. { theory cou thosorable guards as were set Bat still the question Who killed should their bodies be Bubuied, Arm the y stragg uy the aver remains wered, them, and iyin road ten davs= after the had left t} section dling, Union Soldiers ichking” Moseby! Hbhush wh Cilizons, work of of gang derers ? | We the train fre had a «low and tiresome i Orange Court Richmond, by way « Wa aft the Louisa Court louse, the ugh reached Richmond lute in crnoon were mare thre Libby Prisor Many « glances edd City i, where we were lodged f the people gave us frowning we marched by them; had ns it wns vas seen that we few friends here, “Libby n plain was A very large, old brick round, aud quaint vhite-washed the the from of shelter clear ground up to the window sills third floor, three the It was and would easily usand men, formerly used as a ship-chan- hmeut, and » factory sand later as a to- ware-house, while the canal, The rear still full of fac dler’s establis brace the basement y fre mting on was used as a nk shop.’ roots of the basement were LODARCCO presses and aluer Lobaeeo tory mused The sign of reaked on the corner Carey and 20th Nireels “+ Lib called iy" was guarded by EE will regiment, un regiment 0 up of clerks ol Lhe eity, who would stand gusrd around Libby the himoond Grays, made business en two hours, then spend four business then and =o hours io their plnces, { Lo ard il, In and doing 11 | | duty two bours, this way attending Lo business work of a soldier fine le beside EY Wer waking fellows, beauti- fully uniformed in gray and wore sear. let caps of the MeCleliau pattern, ered Libby fair ration We ent Oet, 21, when we of wheat bread We during received a and bolied beef, nothing more ek, It was long Wer fri we sOers just One, wi h el weer ate three times, meals On Oet, marched of the uenis and the were ght. I will be explicit 15th we Litre had nothing and On the morning then marched eighteen miles We W's bellows beavy rain and deep mud blacksmit But hollow ga n ensily the worst was At Bealton I met a sick Union dier, among the prisoners, wise name I never lear .ed ing for a drink of water. my canteen containing a quart ter. He drank it all with fever. water which was hard to get, for a doctor or I led I wailed os he was very His face; swollen, ernoon of the 20h, A mile tle while ; there hind the end of a stone ope yelled ‘fight I near aud | rushed iu to see w hat the fracas meant, A soldier was lying on the ground iu convulsions, It was my sick compan. | wire He said he was dy- I gave if wa : he I kept him supplied with , under the cl There was ro chianes for bid med icin ba 1 nig on the cur el but Kept hia fee were ait Nn thre sick hands aud Whieti we HE greatly fie cams with ve halted fa Was = ali SOmmo ion out of town bw - fete wad Next day a while the day hud the 17th, marched we had nothing ent ar iwelve ules, following, Sunday, Oct, nothing to eat and re, Now we ¢ hungry for a fact, aud we “had a pain.” We vo longer marched with the youthful spring of our boyish legs. fell frequently ; some stayed down of in the even- I18Li we miles mo Wer tottered and staggered and I ever heard At what became eight o'clock i i l et, Life had gone out, I straightened the body of the poor boy and covered his face with his cap, I felt greatly distressed. [ never thought be was dying sick and was not as attentive to him as I could have been ; to this day I feel sad when I think of the early, untimely end of this poor boy, ina fence corner, a pris. oner of war, among strangers, not one even knowing his name. We soon moved on ; be was left lay where he died. How I wished I knew his name and the address of his people, that I might inform them of the time and place of his death. How “anxiously the parents, brothers and sisters watch ed snd waited for news, that never came How they sorrowed, we can never know. Maiiy ihousands so died and are among the “unknown,” yet honored dead. This was the firat death ‘in our squad of prisoners. But we soon furnished victims rapidly. One fact often recurs to me, which always puzzled me, Between Culpeper and the Rapidan river along the pub- * lo row on which we marched, and Prison io Culpepper sod at ten we received three Union Army crackers Bh; how good these “hard tack” On the morning of the 19th they gave us three crackers and a lit- No more that day, while the 20th we had nothiog and arched eighteen nriles, on the 21st we had nothing and were on the freight rain eighteen hours, To sum up: From the 16th to the 2lst of Oct, (1863) seven days, each of us bad hall a pound of flour and six crackers eat, and during which time we warched sixty-four miles, Tue “Johnnies vac | tie bacon. Ww in were too poor to feed us. They had no “grub” for themselves, Their supply trains at this time were nothing more than long lines of ertupty wagons and bony horses, We remained in Libby a few days, duriug which time we were very un- ruly, and often amused ourselves in dropping lousy shirts and brick-bats on the stylish guards below. We pnever blamed them for shooting at us through the windows when we hit them with orick-bats. And we grin. ned when we read in northern papers avout the “inhuman custom’ of the Confederate guards of shooting at the Union prisoners, through the windows of Libby Prison. They knew not the provocation, Five hundred of us were transferred to “Castle Thunder,” a large three story brick building on Carey street, Hn hs A Bend the lovul news to the Reporter, Snyder's legislative career. No in- iquity was too rank for him, no in- famy too atrocious. He has been the most subservient tool of the machine at all times and under all circum- stances. The interests of the peopls have never challenged his attention, while every measure of spoliation for the benefit of corporations and politi- cal cliques has had his active support. To give the list of infamous bills supported in the legislature by Sena- tor Snyder from the beginning of his gerviee in that body would occupy too much space. Such a summary would fill a volume. But we may take the | record of the sions of 1801 and 1903 | and find room for the most conspicu~- ously bad bills he supported. In the session of 1901 the storm centre of | corruption was the bill known as the Pittsburg ‘ripper The purpose of that bill was to legislate out of office public servants chosen by the people for no other reason than that they re- fused to yield willing obedience to the mandates of the boss. Senator Snyder was one of its most active supporters, He appeared to take delight in the in- famy of his action. Some Other Vicious Bills. But there were dozens of other bills seeking with corruption which had his sarnest support during that session. Among them were the Philadelphia “ripper,” subsequently declared uncon- stituional by the supreme court; the measure creating another court in Philadelphia against the protest of the bench, bar and a vast majority of the people, the franchise grabs, which be- stowed upon a lot of political adven- turers property of the people of the ag- gregate value of millions of dollars, and the Steinman canal grab bill. For the Philadelphia part of the franchise grab Mr. John Wanamaker offered the cash consideration of $2,500,000, while the Pittsburg end, which went to Quay’'s son and the Bigelows, was equally valuable. The Erie land grab was one of the most unique gswindles ever perpetrated by a corrupt legislative clique. Pres- que Isle is a large body of land which forms one side of the beautiful harbor of Lake Erie at the city "Erle A group of land-grabbers have been striv- ing for years to get pos fon of that lovely spot in the session 1801 they swooped down on the legisiat laden with boodle. The meas was pressed with impudent vi and per- sistency. It was defeated in the House of Representatives, reconsidered and passed by fraud The next day the fraud was exposed and the measure put back upon the calendar, where it remained for some weeks and was fin- ally defeated. but it passed the senate and among its most earnest support. ers was Senator William P. Snyder. The Multiplication of Offices. One of the petty swindles of that machine governed and boss ridden leg- islature was the measure increasing the clerk hire allowances of the su- preme court judges. Under a previous law for which Snyder had voted each supreme judge was allowed a clerk at a salary of $1000 a year. At that it was a most desirable position and you couldn't have driven any occu- pant out with a battery of Gatling guns. But the machine wanted to in- crease the reward for party services to those gentlemen and a bill increasing their salaries to $2500 a year was in- troduced. Some of the judges protest ed against the extravagance, but the machine legislature disregarded the protest and railroaded the bill through. One of the active leaders in the trans- action was Senator William P. Sny- der. Senator Snyder has always began, not 80 much for the old flag and an ap- propriation, as for new offices and an appropriation. During the session of 1901 there were several bills of ‘that kind considered. Among them were bills creating new courts and addi- tional judges. We have referred to the new court in Philadelphia and his vote on that measure, troduced for a new court in Allegheny i i BORN of ROR of ure ure er gor court all the earnestness and zeal that a hun- ETY man puts into consuming a palat- able meal. The peopls of Pittsburg protested vehemently, but that made | Judge Cyrus Gordon, of Cleartioid, who has the Republican nomination for re-election, is being openly an- tagonized by the Democrats, who have named Allison ©. Smith, brother-in- law of ex-Judge Krebs, and, if reports be true, the incumbent has to contend with opposition, more or less conceal- ed, of factional foes, Much feeling was shown in the convention which nomi- nated Judge Gordoh, and should it be carried to the polls his re-election would be greatly imperiled. On the last vote for Governor the Republicans polled 6118, the Democrats 5801 and the Prohibitionists, 700. Misa Florence Whitmer Kline an nounces (hat she is opening her win- ter term in voeal and instrumental music. She has quite s number of scholars. LidEtence w sriyaer. Finally tivic organizations went to Harrisburg end frightened the machine leaders un- til they abandoned the enterprise. But the last to Snyder Montgomery County Court BIL The talk of the town during that ses- sion wa bill creating an orphans’ court {1 tgomery county. That rgounty was represented in the senate of that secsion by Senator John A Wentz, who protested most emphatic- ally against the profligacy involved in the measure. He said the people were opposed to it almost unanimously and declared that if action was postponed on the measure for a few days he would prove hi itement, Snyder, who was in.the chair, and his machine asso- ciates on the floor refused to postpone and the bill was Neverthe less during recess from give up was le sts exped ne 24001 nator Wenl's housanas y, but that made yder's mind. Ha it was passed ious method of valuable Friday to lay night Se uy hi A iii ana “There was another for robbing the people property developed during that session of odious memory. It will be remems- bered that a group of political crooks and machine dependents had discover- ed a scheme by which it was possible to acquire without giving valuable con- sideration millions of tons of coal un- der the the nwealth, The pro the same as that by h lands are taken by system of spdl- cur rivers of commo ORE whi wt yn § voy vs 8 foe patent AN i RF érne county, to revoke further issues He showed by red statistics fully au- dispute, that bill was not the enor- But that or from vot- ta appeared to his desire in the and he promptly tt of t rind ie { d thenticat nd beyond t if his to } 0000 ho 53 Lo t state amount Snyde In fact tted pa v ! fact n edge ted tio Voted For Every Bad Bill $ roe a number of other bills lenator Sayder voted neg- t has been said, not with- son, that he voted for and against every good 1g his ten years service in Among those which he were the so-called Guffey In his gpeeches dur evious campign for election and representatives in the Senator Quay had pledged self to the support of any fair bal- lot bill which Democratic National Commitieeman Guffey would recom- mend. Soon after the legislative ses- gion began a number of leading Demo- crats got together and framed a biil which Colonel Guffey recommended. It was introduced in bothshouses of the legislature and Senator Quay was in- vited to fulfill his pledge. He went to Harrisburg and with other leaders of his party went into conference with an equal number of leading Democrats, including Colonel Guffey, After going over tne measure carefully Quay admit- ted its fairness and the justice of the demand to make his pledge good, but said he couldn't control his men. Among those he couldn't control was Snyder, for he was among the most vociferous against the bill. But Quay had no trouble in controlling him sub- sequently for the franchise grabs and other vicious legislation. Another bill which Senator Sayder refused to vote for during that session was one ‘requiring state officials to itemize statements of expenses in an- nual reports.” There is no greater source of fraud in the public service than the expense accounts of state of- ficials. That is where the money comes from to pay salaries on padded pay rolls and make up deficits on any oid account. Expenses, so much, is a comprehensive and confusing expres sion. But if itemized statements were required there would be no oppor tunity to pad pay rolls or supply de ficiency through other irregularities, Out EB 1 rea every bad bill measure duris the vot senate od against iot reform i bi bill ire The Superior Court has decided that the sentence in the case of the four grafters in the Philadelphia school board, who were convicted of extort- ing money from school teachers for supporting them for positions, must stand. These men were all pets of the machine and were in politics for what there was in it. It was clearly shown that they compelled teachers to pay them for their support, which was not only bribery on their part, but was demoralizing to the teachers. The same practice is carried on to a greater or less extent In many sections of the state, and other practices equally per nicious in their effects upon the school are as common as showers in April. ———— A —————— The solution of the Wentz problem would be more profitable than the Ann question, was ntroqucea—%fg1 promptly dereat- ed, among its most active antagonists being Senator William P. Snyder. Mr. Creasy’'s amendment to the road bill of that session, providing for the taxation of corporations to pay the ex- peuses of road building, maintenance and improvement, was also opposed by Benator Snyder with equal energy and earnestness. He preferred to put that burden on the farmers. The legislature of 1903 was less pro- | lific In vielous legislation, but it was not free by any means. As a matter of fact most of the crooked bills were killed or rather dropped on the last day of the session, for the reason, it wag generally surmised, that Governor Pennypacker would veto them if they were passed. Among these were an act to repeal the act to authorize the governor to incorporate the Susque- hanna canal, which was approved in 1835. It is believed that there were all kinds of money in that measure for | the “gang.” Another was an act to amend the act authorizing county commissioners to bridges destroyed by flood or fire, was likewise a huey job and was sald to be good for a million at least. An act providing the incorporation of companies for the filtration and and purification of water and 1pply the same to the public is was known a8 "the water snake” pet of the mas Ampther t 01 1 put much hope for authorize bettin county fairs i measure was partici sistent several « Rk group of ers mercilessly supplement to suthorize the rivers and st wealth for the and and therewith This the millionaire vast retur was given son that for Another rich man's job was the bill to authorize the purchase of erty and franchises of corporations at judicial sale. The idea of that was « organize litigation against corporat whieh the gang aspired to control and foree sales a! sacrifices. It was a most dangerous scheme But these vicious measures were not stricken from the calendar at the in stance of Senator Snyder. On the contrary, he supported every ome of them at every stage and was ready to give them his vote on final passage But the night before the final adjourn- ment it was determined for some un- explained reason te drop them, and it was common talk in the lobbies that Pennypacker had made the kick that worked the result. Every vicious bill which did pass during the scssion was supported by Senator Snyder. These included the press muzzler abandon- ment of portions of railroads, increas ing salaries of clerks in agricultural department, the $6500,000 road law, the judicial salary bill, amendment to the act for the incorporation and gov- ernment of clevated and underground railroads, authorizing railroads to ac quire, hold and convey stock of other railroads in violation of the constitu rebuild for the machir an act Fad behind upon which loot was on horse § $8 nt The lobby ularly The scheme ounty agricultural gamble con rea purpose of st rating was measure | and promi of m for the power gene a bosses Any yYotles ns amount for it, was expected to yle for id mi it ne 18 ion parallel and competing railroads. The bills for additional clerks and depu- ties in the factory inspector's office was supported most actively by Sena tor Snyder, as well as that increasing the salary of the chaplains of the legislature to $6 a day and mileage, which will make it possible to tax | the treasury for mileage from the most remote part of the state every day of the session. Senator Snyder, who is responsible in part, and a very large part at that, is the Republican candidate for audi- tor general, the officer of the state who passes upon all those accounts and ratifies the robbery of the public by legal processes. No wise man puts a convicted thief in charge of his finances, and it would be equally fool ish to put a man who has proved him- self an unfaithful servant in the legis lature into an office which gives him Infnijelt greater opportunity to loot Death of a Latheran Missionary. Rev. Erias Unangst, D. D., a re- tired Lutheran missionary, known to many’ in Centre county, was found dead, sitting in an easy chair at the home of his son-in-law, W. I. Wood- cock, Esq., at Hollidaysburg. He was barn in Easton, Aug, 9, 1824, and was graduated from the Pennsylvania col lege, Gettysburg. About 1855 he was united in marriage with Miss Phoebe A. Milliken, of Lewistown. Rev, Dr. Unangst spent thirty-six years as a missionary at Guntur, India. ®* The death of his wife occurred at that place in 1896 and the year following he re- turned to this country and has since made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Woodcock, who 1s the sole survivor, BS AI MY Ss Bee the new advertising department. Last week was good weather for the postponed Bellefonte fair. Messrs. Charles Arney and Harry Harper each killed a wild turkey last week. An old people's service will be held the Evangelical church, Lemont, Bunday moruin Miss Onms week gold a 8011, in g. acht, piano in this place, of Bellefonte, to last Edward Robin- Mrs. Jared Kreamer, of Rebersburg, Thureday was the guest of Mrs. D. J. Meyer, in this place ’ Frank A. Foreman, of this Baturday lost one of his work for which he had paid $125, place, horses The report that a case of small- pox existe in the family of Ellis Horner, of jellefonte, is without foundation, Mr. Horner wishes it so stated, William Robert Clark, years old, a merchant of and secretary of Odd Fellows for te Mrs. Centre fifty-two Loew istown, Lewistown of the fodge n years, is dead. Anna Clements will move from Hall to Watsontown within the next few weeks. On a recent visit to that town rented a dwelling house, " Aaron Thomas and assistants put a new roof on the Evangelical ehurch, Lemont. The work was performed in two days, which again proves Thomas’ speed. she Mr. With good weather the of the week, Al, Osman finish the brick work on the dwelling house of A. E. Kerlin. The i= a credit to him. balance will work done A new and is to The done service modern railroad station at Lewistown Junction. station house, which for forty years, quate as well as antiquated. MifMinburg Times : to Loyalsock, Lycoming Thursday evening he will be employed in the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company’s tower, at night. be built present has is inade- Rufus Lee went county, where The mountains were than ne I'he can reproduce the the never prettier most skilled art but a small fraction everywhere present, vivid pen pictures real beauty, John Taylor, of Muney Ly- coming County, died of the stomach. That he lived ax long as he did was due entirely to wonderful vitality, no having passed his lips for forty-nine days. YW, ist of and merely benuty most al the valley, of cancer his food Irvin Gray, of Btormstown, purchas- ed Joe Wilkes, from 8. O. Watts, of lock Haven, at public sale on the Bellefonte fair grounds for $205. The horse took third money on the in a ruce track on which he was sold I'ie county fairs in Ceatral Pennsyl- a are over for this year., General- «peaking the trotting was better than heretofore. The fair, as understood by the older people, can scarcely be applied to fairs of today, where borse-racing is the traction. Val iy county only at- The woods were full of hunters on Thursday but the only ones we heard from were Morris Rine, Jacob Knisely snd Joe Rightoour. Rine had seven gray squirrels, Koisely had sixteen tquirrels, and Rightoour a turkey.— Daily News. [How about the squirrel limit 7] Trespass notices are much in evi dence to the gunner. The reason as- signed for the posting of these notices is that hunters are destructive and careless. There is more or less truth in the claim, and since the hunting ground thus posted is done so by the owner, the nimrod has no just com- plaint. If the owner has sny right on his premises whatever, he has the right to say whether or not his real es- tate shall be habitually traveled over by reckless hunters. In this case the skilled aud careful sportsman suffers with his injudicious brothers, The Lewistown Daily Democrat and Sentinel is meeting with favor by Mifflin county residents, and is being patronized largely by business men as an advertising wedium. The Demo- crat office is the best equipped print. ing house in Lewistown, a Mergen thaler linotype having only recently been installed, besides much other ma~ chinery and material. The writer on a visit to that office last week, was able to recognize little material or ‘machinery that was familiar to him fourteen years ago, when an employe on the Democrat. The then young and hopeful Walter, who boy-like oe« easionly had a finger in the pic, is now associate editor and capable of operat. ing a linoty pe, one of the most compli ented and delicately constructed ma- chines to be found in the printer's cat. alogue. The Senior Fosnot, howgver, is the same aggressive and progressive newspaper man, :
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