Beaver & Geplarvi ny 4 BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 189l. —~ NO. 35 CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Regular Price A} per youl When Paid in Adv When sabseript vears $2.00 will be charged ne } Editoria ). DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET For Audit (yénei ROBERT E. WRIGHT, of Lehigh Co. For State 1 : A. L. TILDEN, of Erie ( ty. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKRE YT. Delegate to Constitutional ( ELLIS] yieet tO a « ORVIS ’ id GRORGE BOWER Tur proposed constitutional tion will be defeated in November by at Mark if our estimate is not about corre - least 200.060 vole that ang see since Ray and IT is said that have been in office the bor never There shou change of 1 Mi were in such a deploral Id be an improvemd officials - READ the platform Democratic St risburg last Thursday. to the point, and is alone. It will appeal to the support of every voter, taxpayer and lover of hon- est government in the keystone state. Reform is an old ery, but itis badly needed. ite Conver Is there one republican in Centre co., of the many hundred who voted for Pattison, who to-day regrets the step? The election of a democrat has resulted in much good. The pledges made to the people are being faithfully fulfilled. Now give us a democratic Auditor Gen- eral and State Treasurer and other re- forms will immediately follow. -— Boss rule, with a ring of politicians back of it, always results in some form of evil. The loss of the large amount of money in Philadelphia, belonging to the state, is directly doe to the ring poli, ticians of this state, who have been ma- nipulating the republican party for the past generation. The defeat of Dela. mater resulted in the exposure of more than one big steal. Give us a few more democratic officials the everybody will be benefitted. As far as the democrats of Pennsylva. nia are concerned they will conduct the present campaign upon The honor of the state has been traduced by the present officials, through whose official negligence and complicity, John Bardsley got away with over one million dollars of public funds. We want a change, democratic officials ghould be elected as a change would be beneficial. Give the republican party a rest of one term to purge itself. - state and mn stale issues, A. L. TiLpEx, the Jemocratic nomi. nee for State Treasurer, is a farmer of Erie county. The democratic party is not playing an “old soldier’ acket this year, nor will they ask the people to vote for Tilden for State Treasurer because he is a farmer-—instead, he is an honest man and will faithfully discharge his duties. Think what an improvement it would be to have an honest man in that position—there would be no more Berd. sley steals—no falsification of the ree. ords or squandering of the state's finan ces, Thue Pennsylvania democrats seize the republican party by the throat, says the New York Sun, and force it to its knees. The issue as presented at Har rishurg can be summed up in five words: “You thief, confess and disgorge!” Nothing like this spirited, direct, and terribly specific armignment can be found in the politieal archioves of any state. It fixes the issne in Pennsylvania 80 far as the democrats are concerned, It fixes the republican party, too, unless it can wriggle itself out of the the cluteh of the accusing hand, It is not surprising that our esteerned contemporary, the Philad, Press, should criticise the Harrisburg resolutions as “non committal on the controlling i= sues of the day,” or that our neighbor, the New York Tvibune, should find a “painful monotony about a platform which armignt and condemns the re. publican party ad nauseam through fourteen wearisome planks," To dodge the issue as presented Is to confess the truth of the charges. To nceept the issue is to put John Bardsley and the Hon, John Wanamaker on the witness stand, # Keystone Democrats, OLEVELAND'S NAME APPLAUDED | Bat the Platform Is Confined Strictly to State Issuos— Republican Assailed, Senator Quay Denounced and a Secret Ballot Favored, HARRISBURG, Sept, 4 state convention met in the opera house which was tastefully decorated with bunt ing. Benjamin M. Nead, J. F. Snyder, J P. J. Senceuderfer. George H. Hoffman, 8 B. Keefer, F. £. Bible and J slected An | sumed in the calling over and correction of the 1g composed of 461, based on the number of votes cast for the Democratic candidate secretaries IF WAS con roll of delegates, the convention be for governor at the iast election. H. Willis Bland, of Reading, was elect ed temporary chairman without opposi tion. He said his selection was a compli ment to the county. He said the conditions for Dem OCratic success were never more promis 3. be f recent revelations of Re CAUSE ( publican corruption. The campaign, he said, would be conducted on state issues, | The prit » They still prophet, party would not deviate from the ciples of the national Democracy believed in their great political Grover Cleveland, Loud and long continued applause followed the an pounoement of Cleveland's name. Mr Bland said Cleveland's defeat was more glorious than his would have been under the circumstances. He had risen above personal ambition and had rightfully retained the confidence of the Democracy by his manly political attitude Pennsylvania Republicans Scored. election Mr. Bland then turned his speech into a | denunciation of the practices of the Re publican party in Peunsylvania. The honor of the state, he said, had never been 30 compromised as in the past twenty-five years, The election of Governor Pattison last fall was a pointed illustration of the sentiment of the people on this subject. But this result was only a skirmish, and the Waterloo would come in the wresting | of every state office from the Republicans, It was a shame that the auditor general, state treasurer, city treasurer of Philadel. phia, and prominent newspapers in that city should be engaged in a conspiracy to | plunder the commonwealth, It was im possible for the Democrals to lose under such circumstances, Governor Pattison w eld upas peer less among the governor Wi the state for the last thirty years, and his name was ap plauded as enthusiastically as that Cleveland Mr. Bland was hosored with a round of | apolause at the conclusion of his speech The rest of the morning session was de voted to the appointment of committees to select delegates to the constitutional convention on permanent organization and a platform Skinner for Permanent Chairman, The afternoon session of the conven tion began at 2 o'clock. on permanent or. ganization reported in favor of Hon. George W. Skin- ner, of Fulton coun- ty, for permanent chairman, and a vice president from each senatorial dis trict. The tempo- rary minor officials were retained - manently Mr, per vigoro AE WRIGHT. sailed Repu ican misrule, complimented the old sol diers, and ridiculed ‘the light, evas ive and deceitfol manner which char. acterized the nut. v terances of those who assembled here in a like ca pacity with us two weeks ago,” Congressman Mutchler, chair. a AL. TILDEN. by the comvenfion was heartily unani mons, The Platform, Wa, the representatives of the Democracy of Pennsylvania, in convention sssombled, renew our pledges of devotion to the principles of our party in the country st large, as declared in the platforms of the national conventions of 1884 and 1988, and approved in the elections of those years by a majority of the American people We are, as we have always bean, in favor of honest and economical administration of public affairs; of limiting expenses and reducing taxa tion to meet the actual necessities of govern ment; of a sound and stable currency, based on citizens, regard of past party af. to unite In vindiesting the honor of jail Sulbimunwieith and redecming the fecal i Ras | calities in Philadelphia Vigorously | ~The Democratic | D. Sell were | 18.000 Democrats of Berks | of The committee | | ect of daty, complicity in fraud and plan der of the public treasury a million and a half | dollars of the people's money has been stolen snd squandered. We arraign and condemn the {| Republican auditor general for having permit | ted John Bardsley, the Republican treasurer of Philadelphia city and county, to embezile more than $300,000 of state license money; for | having conspired with John Bardsley, the Re publican treasurer of Philadelphia, to appoint snd retain corrupt mercantile appraisers, and we demand dismissal of the mercantile ap prajsers; for permitting John Bardsley, the Republican trea r of Philadelphia city and county, to embezzle half a million dollars of state tax Wo arralgn and condemn the Republican | state treasurer for wilfully and knowingly permitting John Bardsley to retain in his pos session over a million dollars of money collect M for and owing to the commonwealth of | Pennsylvania, by reason of which dereliction a large portion of the money has been lost to the people; for having conspired with John Bards loy to secure to him the payment of $425,000 of the public school funds, long in advance of the | usual time, which sum was by him embezzled, | to the loss of Philadelphia and the shame and | of the state Pattison Indorsed. | We arralgn and condemn the Republican | party of Pennsylvania for having fostered, en couraged, protected and continued a reckless system of official speculation with moneys, whereby state and city have suriched themselves, corro | morals and robbed the taxpayer i {of using public funds for private gain and | political advantage is to be condemned, and | should be completely and thoroughly | oated We arraign and condemn the Republican state | convention, recently assembled, | donation and defense of faithless Republican | tate officials guilty of the ereliotions, some | of whom sat in its cou renoed its action od and roll ta atterances ly indorse the statesmanlike n ir { Governor Pat | scandal able treasurers pled th The pra ie ° arad wine laws; his vigore | correction of publi tion to enforve the o« rs and secure publ) We favor the ads ) eantile appraiser and ¢ tation of ! rertain, economical Hthous meth sssemning and colle 3 ¢ taxes and 1 eruring of costs of colle where there can be RO recovery Quay Denounced. We approve all legislation looking to an | honest registry of voters, to the end that every [ qualified voter may be secured the exercise of his franchise, and that the lists may be purged of all names not rightly thereon in registratiin, | | Tothis end, and for these purposes only | favor the assembling of & constitutional o vention We pledge the candidates to be nominated | 10 correct these abuses, to reform these pra tices, to make such Investigation and giv | Information as will warrant the ment of the commonwealth to bring a punish { ment to those guilty of them And we pledge our support to the state administration to ae | compliah these onda We denounce the corrupt and shameloss | domination of Senator Matthew 8 Quay in the politios of the state and arraign and condemn the Republican party for ite servile soguios | comon in the leadership of & man who has gtter | ly falled to defend himself trom grave charges | against his honor » auch law depart Wright and Tilden Nominated, The nomination of candidates for anditor general and state treasurer was | ext begun, Hon. Walter E. Ritter, of | Lycoming, sited the nasne of Rob- ert E. Wright, of Allentown. The nowm- | ination was seconded by Frank Fits simmons, of Lackawanna, George Tille, of Lancaster, nominated James G. McSparran, of Lancaster, who, he said, as a member of the state grange, | would give strength to the ticket. D. | Dewitt, of Bradford, seconded the nom- ination. | The vote resulted: Wright, 372; Me | Sparren, 80. Wright's nowination was then made unanimous, At 3:45 A. L. Tilden, of Erie, was put {in nomination by Arbuckle. of Erie. Dunbar, of Crawford, seconded the nominstion, The name of Charles W. Raymond, of Dauphin county, was ted by Re walt, of Danphin, and seconded in a vigorous th by Rush Gillan. hen votes were counted they | showed a total of 3% for Tilden and 5 | was made ananimons, Constitutional Convention Delegates The following were wl aa dele. gates at to the constitutional con- vention and the convention ratified the action of the committee: Charles R. Buckalew, of Columbia: Chauncey F, Black. York; Samuel Gustine Thom {son, George M. Dallas and David Ww. | Seller, Phi atietphini Gh A. Jenks, Jeflerson; W. C. Scott, Northampton; R. E. Monaghan, Chester: W. 8S. Me- Laine, Luzerne; Frank M. Vandling, Lackawanna; John Latta, Westmore land; Sherman, Crawford; Will. ism Weihe and Thomas P. Lazare, Al Whany; Samuel Griffith, Mercer; Grant sidman, Lebanon; ( W. Zeigle, Bucks; RB. Morgan Root, Montgomery. A commities was appointed to wait upon candidates and escort them to the hall, and it sucoeeded in finding Mr, Wrignt, whoartaifned the Republican party for its corra Jenctices ie mnie Sursug rid to stick to siate fssnes. Mr. How the suckers do bite! A young man in a neighboring town read an adver, tisement in one of the city papers of the day. “Detectives wanted. Information free.” He lost no time in getting a lot. ter to headquarters as soon as possible, In due time an answer came to him stating that his appointment, with badge and full instructions would he pest him on receipt of 85. This was good enough, The y. m. forwarded the money a8 soon as possible and in return received his badge—a tin one—and in. structions to aryest all suspicious charac. ters wind vateh all the suckers like him. self he could, for its oom- | for Raymond, and Tilden's nomination | | SOURED SWEETNESS Major McKinley asked an Ohio andi. | ence the other day, says the Pittsburg { Post, Justifying the sugar bounty, if it | wasn't better to pay 211,000,000 bounty {to get rid of an annual burden of 844.. | { 000,000 customs tax on sugar, “since | sugar counldn’t be raised here in suffi- cient quantities for home consumption.” | But an experience of many years of high protection shows wool cannot be raised {in the United States “in sufficient quan. | tities for home consumption.” sume 600,000,000 pounds of wool annu- tally and only produce 560,000,000 { Should there not be a bounty on wool | 1 It is as great a necessity | | on this logic? | of life as sugar, There is one thing Major McKinley [ doesn’t explain. revenue from sugar and molasses in 1890 was 861 383, { 000, If to these we add #11,000,000 for | the sugar bounty, we find the treasury | will be out #72, by : | legislation of the McKinley bill. That | is a pretty big hole in Uncle Sam’s bank | account. The Billion Congress has seen to it that the public expenditures are | equal to the public revenues, Can Major McKinley suggest any { method by which the treasury can be | recompensed for the $72,000,000 sugar { duties repealed Ly the McKinley bill {other than by taxing the people? The It The burden it imposed Lhe (LEIRES §) SUZAr tax was a revenue lax. | little to collect. on the people went almost entirely into | the publie treasury. We consume 3. 000,000,000 pounds of sugar annually, and only produce 300,000. The total re. in a revenue point point of view, and { the treasury doctors will find it one | { when brought face to face with a deficit. ——— The Allegheny Conference | Conference Notice i : w- | United Brethern church will meet in | its vfty-third annual session in the U. | | B. church, of this place, Wednesday { the 16th inst, at 2 p. m. with the follow. ! ing programme, Organization—Bishop E. B. Kephart, D. D. Wednesday Evening, 7:30-"Confer. ence Sermon” by Rev. W., R. Funk. Thursdny evening—Anniversary of the Young Peoples Christain Union, addresses by Rev. H. F, Shupe, W. H. Mingle and 11. T. Denlinger. Also an- Biaaweh of he YY. P.C. U. Friday evening—Sermon xr. A. Funkhouser, 1. Bibical Seminary Sat ivi 3p. m~""Memoirs,” tme of wijonrument. Papers by Revs. L. W. Stahl, J. H. Pershing, H. F. Shupe, to J Zuke and D. Shearer. Saturday evening — Missions’ ducted by Rev. J. I. G. Resler. Sabbath morning —Sermon by Bishop E. B. Kephart, Sabbathfvening —church extentsion, conducted by Rev. W. R. Funk | other competent speakers, All are cordially invited to be present at each a d all meetings as well as the daily business sessions of the conference. -—— by Prof. D., of Union iN, to oon. and A Good Company | In another column will be found an {elaborate statement of the financial standing and summary of the North. western Mutual Life Insurance com- pany. It will give the reader an idea of the importance of this company in the insurance world and the claims it has for being in the foremost rank. Our friend W. C. Heinle, Esq , has been ap- pointed district agent for the same and will pay his entire time and attention to it. Everybody should carry insurance and it is well to consult with Mr. Heinle as he can point out to you the special claims and superior advantages of this organization. Are Death of Bev. Lambert, Last Tuesday, Sept. 1, Rev. A. I. Lambert, formerly pastor of the Metho- dist charge, at Pleasant Gap, died at his present appointment. Muncy, Pa., from. an attack of pneumonia. Rev, Lambert was a young man and his parents reside in Boggs twp., Clearfield co. About one year ago he had his life insured for #5.000 in the New York Mutoal Life Insurance Company which will be a source of support for his wife ——— — A AA ~Rob. Hunter, while riding his bi. cycle near Curtin’s works, last Sunday, struck a dog as he was crossing a bridge, Bob, turned a flipper in the alr and landed on his feet, the bicycle went the race along with his glasses and —— i, 4 We con- ! the sugar | cost | peal of the sugar tax was a great mistake | of the | nial business meeting of the Allegheny | JUDGE FURST'S POSITION. THE INDICYMENT FOR PO- LITICAL EFFECT. } | | | Who is at Fault in the Mastter—Unealled for Censure of the County Commissioners That “New Court House * The last two issues of the Gazette, th | fonte, were literally packed with mis. representations respecting the { board of county commissioners. present the facts relating to the against the commissioners {torted that there was not even a blance of truth left. The entire sponsibility was thrown upon | Attorney Meyer and D, F. F Esq., counsel to the commissioners, were so dis, WEI - re- oriney, and Judge Furst was not even mentioned in connection with the case. In the of September 4th this Judge Furst is gi { entire proceeding, issue reversed, and ven the credit for bit it he is placed the light of a champion of the rights of | | the citizens and tax payars of the county Both articles are false, ed solely for Furst, as the President Judge of the county, has a right to look after the and were prepar ali t } y POLLICAL effect, J ’ M 4 y 4 als is interests of the county CREE * {of the Gaze organ of the Republican Ring of Belle. | In the | first issue, that of Friday, August 28th, | indictment | 1 v + 1 District i the adge | possibility becomes stronger when it is remembered that the republican bomed had made such a miserable record, and the new board were careful of the peoples money, and likely to reduce the | current expenses to such an extent that the old board before the t have seen t Action liar} ’ } inthis light but the in a comparison would place in position people. Judge Furst may n the matter in t 77 places him i this position, | Heis in bad company roundings are anything but non-political. By these surroundings he is to be judged. { He has a right to his opinions. He hag new court ng to go furth_ ht to advocate a should be ngs that create the 18 using this right to iterests of his party, and the chars of honest oen now standing 5 position be ti of this county, and his ue Opie pet party organ has 1 him in that and his sur- . er) | r . » | & right lo be in favor of a | house, will | ; 1 18 a perfect 1 Ii ne t house. But he carefu! not wo do thi V impression that plese i Lua furthe r the i | injure He is { fore : 43 peopl placed h position. board of commissioners charge prepared, then he former toard were equally guilty. Why were they not indicted? and why | the me mbez 5 of this board, when they to remedy If the present f {| are guilty of the duty to do so, but when his personal jorgan and mouth piece misrepresents and distorts the facts, as was done in this case, for the purpose of furthering | | party ends, it | should be known. is time that the truth We do not say that Judge Furst sanctions the course of the | (Gazetie, but the articles refered to are written, and his conduct put to use for | party purposes; consequently it becomes necessary to refer to what he has done {in this behalf, in order that honest and | competent officials may not suffer by means of these misrepresentations. Prior to Judge Furst’s candidacy for the Judgeship, nothing was heard about | & new court house. During that cam. paign it was frequently alleged that he was in favor of building one. This was denied stoutly by both himself and his (friends. He was elected, and imme- | diately upon his advent the new court | house movement sprang into being. | The grand jury was instructed to it {quire into the matter and given to un. { derstand very plainly that the Court | and the attorneys would be pleased to | have them report favorably, | desired report was made and the | | discharged with the special thanks of | the Court. The succeeding grand jury | falled to follow the example of its im. | | mediate predecessors, and the move. iment fell through. then the | subject has been left alive. and at the Inst term of court astill hunt was in. | augurated, and came very near being Since successful, the report in fevor of a new i court house being lost by only two votes. As a compromise, the report rehashed the regulation clause against the water closets, with a little extra spice put in to alleviate the disappoint. ments of the new court house advocates. | | Immediately after the report was read, | Judge Furst directed the District At. |torney to prepare an indictment against { the commussioners, and instead of dis | charging the grand jury asked them to {meet again in the afternoon, and act [upon the indictment he had ordered to | | be sent in against the commissioners, | He gave as his reasons that he wanted | this prosecution instituted in order to { compel] these offi *ials to obey the wishes {of the Court. AD this was done in the presence of the members of the grand jury, and when they met in the after. {moon they very promptly returned a | “true bill.” Judge Furst has a perfect (right to do all this, and no doubt he felt it his duty to do just what was done; but what we complain of is that the republican papers are trying to put the responsibility on some one else, and that they are willfully and maliciously misrepresenting, for the purpose of prejudicing the minds of the people for political effect. Judge Furst's sincerity is not in question atall. He wants a new court house, or the old one exten. sively repaired. He is not afraid to say 80. But his offense consists in not taking his party organ in hand, and compelling it to tell the truth. So long as he fails to do this, he must share a part of the responsibility for the dis. affair, is to know why, just at this time, such radical action was necessary when it is admitted that this water closet is no worse than it has been for several years, And particuriarly when it was well known to everybody that the com. missioners were preparing (0 make a dee ided change. Is it possible after all that the Court had more on the former republican officials, than on the present democratic board? This : answenred A Lengthy Legal Document On the first of September there was entered for the Recorder's | office of Centre county one of the long- | est, if not the largest legal documents record in | ever recorded in this county. It is a | mortgage given by the Clearfield Bitu- | minous Coal Corporation to the Kuick. | erbocker Trust Company. of New Yerd | trustee, to 225.000 of four p= | cent bonds on the coal la in Cents | and Clearfield counties. The | covers 138 pages of printed matter saw | when recorded will be sprea | ninety pages on the mortgage record book. The fees for recording the same { will be anywhere from seventy-five 1 one hundred dollars, — News | ———— A ——— - Nittany snd Viglnity { Our celebrated marksioen, IW. E. Shaffer, Rev. Dwilil | merman and Alfred Rol to the first day of sq secure ' ds mortgage 1 over about Messrs, Will Zim. lid justice “OAsOn n (tie animals, Backford aad ng ceeded ih get. ags full—not of squirrels thing, with no sugar in it bagging 16 of those frisky The same day Messrs, Gross, of Bellefonte, were hunti on the same ground and su ting two large! but of pure 1 at that, “Chuck” you have our heart-felt sympathy. “Steel” sn the brain must be a yer y sad affliction. The latest—wheel of poverty on mens’ | hats. Nittany cornet band is booming and the festival and oyster supper Saturday evening will be the event of the season: Elwood and Alfred took a certain | family by storm on Sunday evening. | And still they come, and the longer {they eome, the handsomer they sre. ! Thats what Beaver thought on Sunday { evening. Wanted, 5,000 people to attend the | festival on Saturday evening, 12th inst. Try again, Irvin: you are doing fine. Nelson Robband A. A. Pletcher were squirrel hunting last Saturday. They | report them so plenty that they wen afraid to shoot for fear of hurting some of them. Fetch your muskets around | gents, we'll give you a few lessons | Charley says his arms were very lame on Monday morning. No wonder—two is one too many. Our intelligent drum major, Mr. Laubaugh, says his heartsdesire is living at Hublersburg. We congas. late that place; it always did seem tobe | lucky. An elopement is one of our recent | specialties. Nittany Hall is never be. hind the times it seems, even if it does take the sacrifice of a mother's heart to keep up. Quite a number of our Sir Knights | attended the K. G. E. festival at Mil, heim on last Saturday. The Misses Laura Johnston and Alma Zimmerman, of Walker, were among our last weeks visitors, Grandmother Snavely is on the siek list, How did you happen to break that spring. wagon seat, boys? JUNENAW KER, Died in Hines Mr. William Strank, of Nittany Vial ley, and his sister, Mrs. Isanc Ralsh, ——— wet th, at The deceased
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