Vol. I3 BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1891. ta——— he Cente Demorai.| THAT INDICTMENT. | PERSECUTING DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS. CHAS. R. KURTZ, EDITOR TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION { { The Course Puarsued was Unealled For $1.50 per 3 Regular Price When Paid In Advance Whe COATS 22.00 will ba « rea More Light on the Sulject nsubseriy are not | itieal Dodge? During the first week of August term Editorial grand jury. at the indictment for The closet found the county * | Judge Furst, an DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET ommissioners *OINMmMOon nuisance, the water court house was in For Auditor (séne) ROBERT E. WRIGHT, of Lehigh Co. | accv=at {in the rear of » that For State Tre Pes the A. L. TILDEN, of Erie County. onal Conveniion Chauncey F. Bia eo. M.D Ww. Sellers F.. Monag! { intolerable nuisance. This closet has Delegates to Conatilu Chas. RB. Buckalew Geo. A. Jenks (34 Sam'l. G. Thompson David Henn N. Seott Robt Wm. 8S. McLean ng : Juo. Latta. Lodger Shermar ith William Welhe 1 Ar rath Samuel Griffith am Geo, WW, Z 1 for years been much than it is now: and why | this Worse was instituted just at when Prose CHL ion is time, and particularly the il complained of, we do not rh . Leig edy the ev Know ni | rv explanation from the responsible par- ties. The (Gazette, pretending to speak | for the prosecution, has attempted var- | ious explanations, every one of which is wve we heard any saiisfacto- DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. legate to Constitutional O ELLIS L. ORVIS, ¢ Subjeet to action of distri fer untruthful and unfounded, In the grand jury the entire responsibility was placed upon the District Attorney GEORGE BOWER Was ita Yo | direction of i such a condition that it had become an | in a bad condition, even | stoners were taking steps to rem. | the first issue after the action of | Tue poor tax in Bellefonte is slowly creeping up—S mills will be the next as. sessment. - THE text for the coming campaign in Pennsylvania for the democrats will be “Thou shalt not steal.” -— Jupee Furst evidently read the last | issue of the DEMOCRAT, as an explana- | and D. F. Fortney, Esq., counsel to th commissioners, and the reason assigned was that the commissioners had failed i to take any steps to remove this nui. | ance , after being urged to doso repeat. edly by thecourt. Since then, the organ of the republican ring has changed po- { sition, and claims the credit for Judge | Furst, alleging that he was compelled to do what was done in order to protect | | indictment in their presence, as emphat- jeally as they did. Now is there any | occasion for these proceedings? And if | there is such a crying necessity for it now, why was it not done it not have been prudent to wait until | the ec these questions ntemplated changes? were not taken in con. has was for sideration as mue the necessity to raise an se If what has been done, is to be the coming cam- | paign. judged by the utterances of the Gazelle the necessity for an issue upon which to | issue of the campaign. fight the future battles of the republi. ' ean party in the county was the object. ive point. We do not think it possible | that Judge Furst had this in view, but the actions of his friends, and especilly organ, have placed him lin this Unle repudiates his too ardent defenders, he will be judged by what they do and say. To draw it mildly be manifested in this prosecution, and there seems to be a desire to make polit. of his would position. undue zeal ical capital out of it at the expense of honest and faithful officials. ——— WHAT IT DOES | New York World Secretary Foster boasting! “The { Buys republican party { things.” ' ngs It does, indeed —but such thi The republican party squandered a surplus of #100,000,000, and increased the war taxes after twenty-five years of peace. Its congress spent a billion dollars in two years, It stole twenty seats in the last house | | | i { i to pay the expenses to be incurred by | Possibly s he speedialy | seems to | | roic deeds are to-day and now in gravest is the party that does | | obelsance tion followed in the Gazette that does | the citizens and taxpayers of the county not explain. | against the action of the commissioners. ——————— | Any one reading that paper and not Tre democrats of Centre county need | knowing its character for untruthful not make Judge Furst’s jury-indictment | oqq would come to the conclusion that a campaign issue, but this paper objects | : ) tie 1 1 of the present board of county see a democrat ; f com- $1 i to se ing a « ae ratic board of com | were systematically robbing the county, mMissioners imposed upon. and in order to stop them in their mad - - coms. : led byt} career, Judge Furst himself was com- STATISTICS compiled by the Secreta y pelled to assume the role of a public of Internal affairs show that three hun- | prosecutor. Nothing can be further | dred and seventy-eight persons were |g... tho truth, and the character of the | | of representatives, suppressed freedom | of debate and substituted the arbitrary land parliamentary methods of proced.- | ure. | Itcame into power protesting its de. votion to civil service reform, and made | a cleaner sweep of the offices in a briefer | time than any other spoils administra. tion in the history of the government, It made a market for the entire prod. uct of the bonanza silver mines, inflated Capt, Skinner, chairman of the recent Democratic State Convention that as. On this point he said entering. It that seems racket must be again farmed for all it is | worth in order to obscure the real living Now, say here with all reverence and respect for the memory of their heroic sevices and sacrifices (and I speak only for my- who for almost four years shared in all the hardships and dangers of soldier { life in the very forefront of the conflict), | and that is that the manhood of the old ! soldier and the lustrous fame of his he- peril. Oh, I like to see our old soldiers carry themselves proudly, for if there is | { any wan in all this land who has earned | { the right to carry himself more proudly | | than another it is the man who faltered { not in his duty to his country in hour of | | its peril and its need, and to-day I would rather lift my hat in token of respectful to the old soldier or to his | widow, orto his orphaned or fatherless | {children as I pass them on the street, | though they live in a hovel and are clad in poverty and in rags, than I would to {lift it to any member of the family of | any purse-proud millionaire. whose only | | title in this land w | : tie to distinction in this land would be | people's money. that he is the owner of much gold and | silver and many houses and lands and | | stocks and bonds, which he had wrung | | , { unjustly out of the sweat and blood of | i rule of the speaker for constitutional | the faces and out of the broken hearts and dying bodies of the honest toiling masses of the land. Yes, | like to see our oM soldiers carry themselves proud. ly, and because of this I dislike to see them becoming suppliants at the shrine of official power, to be made the play- thingof an hour by scheming and de- signing polificians. Pursuing this thought a little farther, I must confess let me | | charges made in the { that the | through its laudable efi | and bring to light CRATIC ADMINISTRATION. In Pennsylvanin-Sonttering many Doers~Bome in jal], others in Exile Lesson for the people Every day SOC more that the election of { tison last Pe ple of year was a Pennsyly { through the teachings Quaylsm, } nacle ship. wd fastened on the good | The good people « { : { told last {all that there self in saying so, and I speak as one! radically wrong and rotten agement of affairs as their everlasting they heeded the wan for executive a and electing a 1 interests and that | wealth. And the people wes They committed no ers by subsequent developments, campaign last year are now being fully ters brought to light half was thanks to the honest workings « { almost da ly show never of administration, so opportunely ch by the people, the reward is cominy nt LO unears. 5 £ doing those who manipulat the affairs « the commonwealth handled the The glare of 8 { investi. | gation is either driving the evil doers to the penitentiary or to some other place | where they are beyond the ken or juris. diction of the courts, Look at the picture! It for democrats to look at, but our es. teemed republican friends would rather the light were not turned on so bright. Where is Delamater, the champion of Inst year’s campaign, who was nominat- | ed by Quay and defeated by the people? Delamater, instead of being known as | THE EFFECTS OF A DEMO- ooner? Would | sembled in Harrisburg, Sept. 8, in his | | address upon taking the chair, very ap- | the necessary funds had been provided | propriately made reference to the soldier | and the part the republicans are endeav- | oring to have him take in this campaign. | “This brings | me to the consideration of another feat. | ure of the campaign upon which we are | the soldier ! ¥ril A * 1 of Penns sustained, but mat- |, i is a dandy | 1 “Governor of Pennsylvania,” has tarn- | fer that the charges made | fully substan. tiated, At last the auditor general moved and mercantile gers, pending ar amination of harges ] 4 antile ap- blocks of suspended appra 11 « feat. lative in- Work now. are absent. 1ystery: State anada and ex- his ease on the | stay until They are all vorttoratis nanithz ; vestigaling committee is at i Three important where he + r Lo return. ng that the ratie execu- and while tic frauds ¢ majority wholly of party rule lirect man- ng to do with it. And a this teaches the people “Therefore,” in the language of Robert E, Wright in speak- ignment of “it has latform I= 4 sim. old truths The injune 108 steal,’ is its cardi- On that plank the im- must be fought. We confusion of the issues of Pennsylvania is at Vivalin. , Blake { What will the honest people of harvest be? Let the Pennsylvania answer November come. ————— FINANCIAL HISTORY | when the ides of We notice that the Ohio repualidicas | have put Senator Sherman on the stumg { to run the “honest dollar” end of | McKinley fight. This will lead to a review of the fis the viurally ! record {of the republican party, and the demo. erats will gladly welcome the challenge. ed out to be nothing more than a bank | It was the republican party that paid killed and 1,007 injured last year in the | articles readily #iscloses the malicious | the paper currency at the rate of #80. anthracite mines of this state, while one | {tent with which they were published hundred and forty-six were killed and | 1 perchance this assumed mouthpiece three hundred and eighty-one injured in | of the prosecutor speaks authoritively, the bituminous mines. Despite all the | the real gist of the prosecution is also improved methods of mining and de- | plainly What are the real vices for promoting safety, life in the | fu0t8? coal mines continues to be one long | For many years this water closet has tragedy. ' been more or less offensive during the | summer months, and as gradually filled {up became more so. The grand jury { for four or five years has reported it as | in bad condition, and repeatedly declar- | ing it as a nuisance. Upon the receipt | of such reports, the Court regularly | stated that steps would be taken to en- | force the suggestions of the grand jury. Heretofore that was the end of it until | the next report was received. During the three years of republican rule in the commissioners office the condition of | this place was worse than at any time disclosed, , - Tue fate of W. B. Hamilton, the embezzling book keeper of the Ioutz. dale bank to the amount of 855,000 and who was sentenced to five years in the Western penitentiary, is a warn- ing to others. Hamilton was a fast young man; he drove fine horses and carriages; he spent money with a lavish hand; he lived in royal style; he usually put in a good season at the fashionable summer resorts and all was with money stolen from the bank. He now has five years of life in disgrace before him, in which he will have time for reflection upon the error of his ways. last year of their term. | said, and not a step taken then to make la change. Why, we do not know, but | facts and circumstances that are no | secret, plainly indicate the reason. The {old board had assumed the control of Centre county.” No one will object to | the affairs of the county with a fine sur. that. But this rule should have been | plus inthe treasury, and in less than adopted when the former sheriff went | three years this surplus had been squan. into office—in that case a great wrong | dered and the county actually in debt, was brought to the Court's notice and | The contemplated changes would have it was perfectly silent. No District At. | added thousands of dollars to the al torney was directed to frame an indict. | ready existing indebtedness. The load ment, nor was a grand jury held over to | was already to heavy for the grand old find a “true bill” against that county | party, and a halt had to be called so as official who had been charged, upon the | to save at least something from the oath of others, of a great crime. Why? | wreck. Probably because he was of the same | The democratic board assumed con- Tae Court is very anxious to “see that the laws of this commonwealth are rigidly enforced, so far as pertains to political faith as the Court, and prob. | trol in January. They found the treas. ably not. The public have their own | ury empty, the county largely in debt, opinion of the matter. When demo. with no available assets worth mention. cratic officials offend (?) in the least, the | ing, and one of the first things they had ponderous “wheels of justice” begin to to do was to borrow money to run the revolve. machinery of the courts. At April | term the grand jury again reported the | water closet in bad condition and Judge -— Rufus C. Hox. Elder, one of the leading members of the MifMlin county’ pos wus very explicit in his direction | bar, recently received the republican | nomination for President Judge in the | omedy the evil. The commissioners Judicial district embracing the counties | did what th 0 wey could to prevent the place of Miflin, Snyder and Union. Judge | p00, becoming ns dh or as it had Bucher, of the same district, is now at been during previous summers, and took the close of his second term and he has | yong to lay a sewer 10 the creek, and been unamiously renominated for anoth- | jake other chan ges just as soon as the No he Ys Ean Ruatisel Bachn's | necessary funds could be raised without and knew that ® | yvorrowing any more , Yet in Bucher Soi voto will be A1VOR | gy ny all this and jury re. triep bit hig 8 koews sha Salon win ported the place an intolerable nuisance or thal [Ld the Court, before the sound of the reason be has declined to be a candidate | on the republican ticket. Bucher is a { elorks voice had died out, directed the ‘ District Attorney to send a bill before jofadins man and will be elected TY that body, indicting the commissioners anyone. for maintaining a nuisance. Under that something must be done at once to Weekly Times will be mailed to dress for #1.45 u year. 0 A any ad. | Ing having directed the sending in of the | before or since, and especially during the Not a word was | Democrat and Philad, ' these circumstances they could do noth. wise than find a true bill, the Court | 000 000 a year, and yet prates of the { danger from sliver and boasts of its de- | votion to “honest money.” It has made reciprocity treaties ex. { protected Amer. inducing foreign themselves, without article for Ameri. tending the market « ican monopolies hwy i nations to | making cheaper one | can consumers | It “did” New York o Fair, and defranded sus, as a penalty for being city. Oh! yes—the republican partly untax tof the World's n a bogus cen. a democratic does : : | things!" i THE KEYSTONE "TATE I The State of Pennsylvania makes a | showing in the bureau of statistics of | which its residents may well be proud, It has an area of 46,000 square miles | and a population of 5.258014, It takes 811 902,261 to run the public school system of Pennsylvania one year, of which #6.660.778 goes to the teachers {and superintendents. These teachers | constitute an army of 24.917, the males | numbering 5,191 and the famales 15,726, | The number of pupils enrolled in the | public schools is 1,027,017, within a few thousand of the school enrollment of | New York, notwithstanding its much | larger population, There are 15 theological schools, with 666 pupils; one law school; five regular medical colleges, having 1,404 students, i one homeopathic school and 26 colleges | of liberal arts, having 5,708 pupils. The | female colleges are 12 in number, with | 1,834 scholars, No state is paying off its obligations ‘more rapidly than Pennsylvania, and | few so rapidly. This is the case with | both state and county governments, The | state debt, less sinking fund, was in 1880 | $18,302,405, while in 1890 this had dwin- dled to 84,090,792, The county debts, | exclusive of municipal and town indebt. edness, less sinking fund, was in 1880 $0,751 864; in 1800, #7.531.484; total debt, less sinking fund, in 1850, #23. L173,880; 1800, #11082.275. Debt per | capita, 1890, 5.41; 1800, $2.27, | The number of depositors in savings banks in the state is 221.618, and they have on deposit an average of $295.03 to | each depositor, | In coal and iron production Pennsyl. | vania takes the highest rank, In the number of miles of railroad in | operation Pennsylvania is the fourth state. It has 8.364" inlles, made sults always give satisfaction and then they are so much cheaper than that I have yet to learn that military training in the aristocratic school at West Point or elsewhere is in line with a proper understanding and appreciation of the peculiar and complicated duties which belong to the chief accounting department of the state. The principal now ines of this convention today may pot be men with military records, to blazen forth in the eyes of the people, for the purpose of blinding them to the grave issues which confront them, but they will be, I trust, men to whom every good citizen of the state may turn for relief from dangers of the most appall- ing kind." The Coming Falr at Brook Park, Lewnburg The Union county Agricultural Saciety is one of the oldest organizations of the kind within the confines of the State. The experience it bad, there fore, is of considerable moment, and fully justifies the officers therefore in saving that their exhibition this year— the thirty.cighth—promises to eclipse anything of the kind heretofore held. It will take place at Brook Park, Lewis. burg, Pa., Oct. 7, Sand 9, 1801, The preminms offered are very liberal, cover. ing all industries—the farm, the work- shop, the fireside, and the fleet-footed roadster. The meecourse or track is in first class condition, while the trials of speed promise to be most exciting, Their spacious grounds and buildings are are also in excellent order. The people of beautiful Buffalo Valley ex. tend hearty greeting to all visitors at their coming Fair. Make note of the date—Oect. 7, 8 and 9, 1801, - Handsome Loeation, Mr. Emil Joseph has rented the Reynolds residence on the corner of High and Spring streets and will soon be lo. cated there. His present location on Curtin street is a little too far away from the store and doesn’t suit him for that reason. Since Emil is married he is bound to have a nice home with all the conveniences that can be had, That is right; live well and be happy for man has but a short time here below, When in their new residence Mrs, Joseph, who is a lady of refined tastes and varied accomplishments, will be able to receive and and entertain her many friends in this vicinity, handsome. ly. Mrs Gutman, formerly of New York city, Mrs. Joseph's mother, will also assist in entertaining their many visitors, ~Naginey's furniture store on Bishop street is an interesting place to visit; the room is filled with all kinds of handsome defaulter and embezzier who was foreed to flee from his former home and friends and angry creditors, and is now hiding | in the far west in the hope that he may live down his infamy start in life. This crookedness would never have been shown had he been fered. The flight of Marsh, the incarceration of Bardsley and the Kennedys is well known. During the trial of the latter parties it was shown that the present jon cashier of the treasury were mixed up in matters, which if proven, are crimi- pal. McCamant, the auditor general, has thus far faced the music, but the meshes are being woven around him, and we would not be surprised if he were caught in them. former state treasurer, and until a few days ago cashier of the treasury, has skipped to parts unknown. He it was to whom Bardsley sent a check for 8500, | “for kindness shown during the year.” He knows much, but he did not stay to tell. He removed all his personal effects from Harrisburg, sold his fine residence at Pittsburg and is now hovering be. tween the United states and Canada, ready at any moment to flee to that hospitable shore for thieves and defaul- ters. Next comes the arrest of J. Frank Lawrence, E. IL. Maguire and Charles Ege, clerks of the looted Keystone bank, in which Rardsley figured—"honest John,” who tried to steal all the money of the state and that of Philadelphia, These arrests were made this week, Then comes Roney, of Philadelphia, who got himself out of a $10,000 a year job by trying to get away with the sur. plus of an almshouse and part of the furniture. Roney had been superintend.- ent of the Blockley almshouse, but was appointed to the head of the department of public safety last spring by Mayor Stuart. He went wrong and his head went off, Then Treasurer Wright, appointed by Gov. Pattison to take the place of Bards. ley who had involuntarily retired to du. rance vile, took it into Ins head to ex. amine matters pertaining to his office. He discovered crookedness in the way the mercantile appraisers transacted business with the state through the au. ditor general, and asked that officer for their dismissal. The appraisers got wrothy and threatened the treasurer with a suit for libel. The auditor gen. eral falled to act, but despite that the charges made by the city treasurer were of such grave character that the district attorney felt it his duty to move in the matter, A conference was had between furniture among which the city treasurer and the district attor- and make a new | elected, and the public would have suf. | | the poor soldier with paper money and { the rich bondbolder with gold | It was the republican party that con- {tributed to the wealth of millionaires and put a {remendous ! m the necks of poor men by driving silver out | of circulation It was the republican party that so { adjusted the public debt that for long { periods of years no bonds fall due, and { millions of dollars have been taken from [the treasury to buy these bonds at an ormous advance on their true value. It was the republican party at the very last session of congress that de cided to double the monthly coinage of “dishonest dollars,” and it is now going about the country denouncing its own child. i { It wasthe Billion Dollar republican Livesy, the | congress that emptied the treasury and made default on the bonds that fell due on the first of September, For the first time since the war the United States government was obliged to say to its creditors: “I cannot pay my debts!” Secretary Foster declared that the surplus iu the treasury was four times greater than the matured bonds, and then at once gave the lie to his declaration by extending the bonds in- stead of paying them off. He is either guilty of a falsehood or he is paying in- terest on bonds that should Lave Leen cancelled. A single republican congress has wrecked the treasury. That is the big, black cloud that all the wind of all the stump speakers in Ohjo can’t blow away. sn — About Marringe Licenses, The marriage license law in Pennsyl- vania seems to be differently interpreted in various sections of the state. In Dau- phin county, for instance, the license can be obtained by either the man or woman making application and appear. ing before the clerk of the courts, white in Lancaster county both parties are re- quired to appear to obtain the coveted license to wed, The law clearly states that both parties must make legal quah- fications as to their freadom from legal impediments. It has been the custom in many counties for the male portion eof the contracting party Ww appear and qualify to the questions demanded by law. A prospective groom might, in caso there were some legal objections still swear as to the correctness of his application, Either the man of woman cas secure a license in Northumberland county. Inquiry at the recorder’s office reveals the fact that most of the licenses are issued to the prospective groom without the bride or her relatives being present,
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