~The Beaver & Gepbartvl na ” Vol. I3 BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSD Che Centre Deng, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - =~ =~ EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIVTION, Regular Price $1.50 per year. When Pald in Advance £1.00 ‘ When subscriptions are not paid inside of three 2.00 will be charged. Hditorial. DEMOCRATIO STATE TICKET years For Auditor General, ROBERT E. WRIGHT, of Lehigh Co. For State Treasurer, A. L. TILDEN, of Erie County. For Delegates to Constitutional Convention WILLEAM BIGLER, of Clearfield county ELLIS L. ORVIS, of Centre county. Delegates to Constitutional Convention. Chas. BR. Buckalew Chauncey F. Black Geo. A. Jenks, Geo. MM. Dallas, Sam'l. G. Thompson David W. Sellers, Henrn N. Seott. tobt. E. Monaghan. Wm. 8. McLean. F M. Vandling. Jno. Latta, Rodger Sherman. William Weihe. Thos. Lazare, Samue! Griffith Grant Weidman, Geo, W. Zeigler. R. Morgan Root. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. Jury Commisgioner—GEORGE BOWER. Tue Clevelands have little baby girl * Rnth”—the next should be Naomi. —— McCamant to Bardsley —'‘Blest be the tie that binds.” Bardsley to McCamant—"I'm wait- | ing, my darling for thee.” IX Ohio heavy bets are being made on the election for governor. The odds are given for Campbell. Such things are often good indications of the result. ———————— a —— IT is estimated that no fewer than 52,- 000,000 peasants in Russia are now desti- tute, and must be provided for during the next ten months, To put it in another shape, this is as half the people in the United States were starving. - GROVER CLEVELAND is now the ; heir | : named their |... cw. MARSH. -Was Cashier of the Keystone Bank under Lucas | THE BLACK ROLL. PUBLICANS. Not all the Roosters sceounted For, But a Pretty Good Showing Thieves, Defuultors Birds The New York Ev disclosures of png Post Bi Pennsylvania eontinne to be made from | {day to day. avd as further {tion of them is future, it has occurred to us that it might be convenient for our readers to have a the principal offenders thus far, rogethe: probable in the list of present time, { hand and republish it from time to time | with such charges and additions as may | be made necessary by future develop. ments: JOHN C. LUCAS.—Formerly Presi. $097,000 of its funds; entered into a speculation “deal” in Reading Rail. way stock with John Wanamaker, using the banks funds for the pur. pose. Dead. succeeded him in the Presidency; falsified the books to conceal Lu. cas’s theft, was arrested, admitted Wanamaker's brother being his before trial, forfeiting his bail, Whereabouts unknown. JOHN BARDSLEY.—Known as “Honest John,” was City Treas. urer of Philadelphia and has con. fessed to the charge of embezzling public funds, between 22.000,000 and 83,000,000 of which were sunk by him in the Keystone and Spring Garden National Banks, In the Penitentiary, THOMAS General of the State of Pennsylva. nia. had guilty knowledge that Bardsley was robbing the proprietor of a very prominent infant industry, and in some respects has changed his political views. Instead of talking tariff reform, he devotes his en. tire time and attention to it and believes in protection for the home enterprise— Francis and Ruth. — - READ the extracts, in another column, from an address delivered by Robert E. | Wright, democratic candidate for Au- ditor General. He discusses the tax question and points out a few very in- teresting facts for the careful perusal of | the farmers. Unequal taxation has | been the injury of every farmer in this state and the remedy of this great evil is clearly pointed out. Read it careful. ly and think over it before you vote. _— CouxTy Chairman L. A. Schaeffer is making arrangements for holding sev- eral large mass meetings in this county in the latter part of October. Promi- nent speakers will be furnished by Chairman Kerr. The intention is to hold three meetings; one at Bellefonte, another at Philipsburg and one at Mill. | heim, on about the 22nd and 23rd of | October. Tur republican papers are sending out startling statements to their readers that tha democrats intend to indulge in some dirty politics during the remain- der of the campaign. There is mach truth in the above. Take for instance the political rottenness and politicalieor- | rubtion brought to light in Philadelphia. | The present republican Auditor General and State Treasurer have so shamefully used their respective offices as to bring disgrace upon the Keystone state, and tated the assembling of the state senate to investigate the same. Yes, the democratic Gov, of this state and his assistants have a verv dirty job to handle. Bardsley and his Philadelphia | gang befouled their places and there are others of the same stripe who need be at- tended to and treated to the same dose. a Tux republicans are working the “old soldier’” racket this year inthe hope that they may elect Gregg, their nomi. nee for state treasurer, Gregg no doubt served Mis country good and well, and everybody respects him for hiz noble war record. But to.day were are not selecting public officials because they once were soldiers. When a political party has so abused the confidence of the people, when a party is so complete. ly controlled by a set of unprincipled politicians like Quay and his followers, who it has been proven have squandered millions of the people’s money, has it not outlived its usefulness? Should the soldier question have any consideration in the face of these appalling facts? It is patriotic in the true sense of the eit Treasurers, if not himself in conspir- acy with him. In Office. HENRY K. BOY ER. —Stat Treasurer woods “for rest” when gation of the State Treasury, but has now returned. In Office. WILLIAM LIVSEY.—Was Cashier to Mr. Boyer, in the State Treas. ury, but fled to Wisconsin when the investigation begun: is shown by letters to Bardsley to have been with MeCamant, possessed of guilty knowledge of Bardsley's thefis; has resigned his office. In Canada. M.S. QUAY.—~Formerly State Treas. urer of Pennsylvania, and while in office said to have taken 2400000 of Commonwealth, and is said while and lost it in speculation, the loss having been made good in part by Senator Cameron, been absent from the state since the Investigating Committee began its sessions. At Atlantic City, N. J. JOHN B. ROBINSON.—~Known as “Jack Robinson of Delaware,” is now Quay’s President of the Penn. sylvania League of Republican Clubs; a rs in the MeCamant. Bardsley letters as a man who is “after something,” but who ean be controlled by “Dave” Martin. In Pennsylvania. WILLIAM P.DREW.—Was National Bank Examiner, and was accused the Comptroller of the Currency neglect of duty in not ly reporting the condition of the Key- stone Bank; was removed from of. fice, but protests that he is unjustly accused. In Philadelphia, FRANCIS W. KENNEDY.—-Was President of the Spring Garden National Bank when it collapsed; lead guilty to indictment for ill 1 use of the funds in his charge. In the Penitentiary. HENRY H. KENNEDY.—8on of Francis W., and Cashier under him in the Spring Garden Bank; pleaded guilty to similar indictment. In the Penitentiary. GEORGE W. DELAMATER.-—Re. Jabdican candidate for Governor of nsylvania in November last, with so a record his party re. fused to elect him: after election failed as a private banker, and is now awaiting trial on indictment for embezzlement; several thousand dollars of the county funds were lost in the failure. Some where in the West, dil ada—— A Rare Treat, The audience in the opera house on Monday evening enjoyed a rare treat word for all citizens to demand a change. SKETCH OF PROMINENT RE- | A Mixture of | and Penitentiary | As { republican misdeeds in | investiga. | near | with the charges | dent of the Keystone Bank: stole | to bail in the sum of 220.000, John ! chief bondsman, and fled the city | McCAMANT.—Auditor | Shown by his letters to have | and State | of Pennsylvania, went into the Lan. i a A islative committee began an vey: : State funds for use in speculation; | was also at one time Secretary of the | holding that office to have taken ! #200000 from the State Treasury | Mr. Quay has | A STORY OF TIN IN TWO CHAPTERS, ! | | plate | | | Chapter 1-The Assertion, From the speech of Willlam MeKinley, Jr., at Xenia, Ohlo, on Monday, Oet., 5, They talk about the tinplate tax, [Laughter] Buppose we don't make a pound of tin- The duty on It has been increased from 1 cent to 2 2.10 cents, but you're not paying a { cent more for your tin than you did before. The old tariff on tin brought 7,000,000 into the | Treasury The new one will bring in $16,000,000. Bupposing we continue to Import it all, We've a clear galn of $0,000,000, and your tin (sn't costing you a cent more. Chapter I1-The Fact, i | 1. ¢ 1885 1884 Average price rp | ¥ #4. Sample Niedringhaus tin, 6 cents per pound { Average Price. 4.79 4.85 Present import price, $6.90 { [From actual price lists furnished by Charles 8. French & Co. of No. 64 CL street, New York.) Hx Coxe TIN, tinplate and metal brokers 1847, 1885, 1840 #30 “az al | But not for sale, #.45 per box 1860, #7 ILC. CHARCOAL TIN 4.0 4.75 EE | LC. IXU-~ROOFING TRADB~DEAN GRADE u RS LR] AYOrage price mes . rican roofing tin, $16, 50 Laufman,s Ame against each and his whereabouts at the | We shall keep the list in | SOUND VIEWS Mr. Hampton L. Carson, a very prom. inent Philadelphia republican, had the following to say to a Record reporter in | regard to to the coming election in that city and the state this fall: “In my judgement all independent republicans {and all citizens, irrespective of party | preferences, should unite in supporting [the candidacy of William Redwood Wright for the office of city treasurer. * In municipal matters there should no partizanship. It has been our bane. Its eradiction may prove our | cure. To dismiss an honest and fearless democrat from office who has taken scoundrels by the throat, just as his | grasp has become one of iron, simply | because he is a democrat, would be the rankest folly. Partizanship, if guilty of an act hike this, amounts to lunacy. As well might General Hancock have been dismissed upon the field of Gettysburg because he was a democrat, A DEMOCRAT NEEDED, “Once more. It is always prudent in every Government to establish a system of checks and balances. Experience has shown that it is wise to have our City Controller and City Treasurer of opposite political faiths, As our pres. | ent excellent Controller is a republican and Mr. Wright is a democrat, this balance is now secured It is not prop er to disturb it, “As to state matters. The present condition of public affairs in Pennsyl. vania justifies revolution. Fraud, cor. ruption, theft, collusion, ignorance and neglect of duty, evasion of law, hard swearing, shallow inventions, conceal. ment of books and papers, and feeble as well as foolish efforts to delay or resist investigation, have supplanted honesty of administration, jutegrity of conduit protection of the people's rights, obser. vance of the law, truth, honor, fearless. ness and a bold challenge to public scrutiny, These were virtues of which republicans could once proudly boast; but now apology, excuse, cowardice, superstition and paralysis have afflicted. the leaders. On all sides the figures of officials are observed sulking in the dark, | crouching from the public gaze behind hastily constructed barriers, or burrow- | ing beneath heaps of registered letters | containing ‘neckties’ and silk hanker. | chiefs, | “It isthe duty of all men whether re. | publicans, independent republicans, | prohibitionists or democrats, to save | Pennsylvania from the fate of Actwon, who was devoured by his own dogs.” - -—— An Interesting Experience The Centre Hall Reporter says: One evening last week, while Samuel Mey. ers was coming down the mountain, he stepped on what he thought was a round | stick in the middle of the road, but was quite started from the mauner in which it flopped against his leg, and discoveced he had disturbed a snake, which en. deavored to strike him with its fangs. Sam made a mighty spring, but the snake still showed fight and followed him, and be backed around in a ring | with his snakeship closely following, it being rather dark he could not readily find a stone to do battle, and concluded that by taking to his heels he would some day be able to again enter into an engagement with the snake, which he did, and made some mighthy quick | tracks down the mountain. He said he thought it was of a copperhead species and was about four feet in length, —We hear now That building on the Lutheran church has been postponed until next summer, ~=It is said that Mr, Robert McKnight, Jr., left on Tuesday morning for Phila. delphia for the purpose being united in marriage to Miss Sadie McKnight of be 855 RAD 8.00 6.40 10.20 ~New York World, IMPORTANT ISSUE, Tie one difficulty to face in Centre county this campaign isto gt out the party vote. There are only two candi. dates and two places to be filled and each will be elected without a struggle, On the other hand we haye a very im. portant election in the state for the | offices of State Treasurer and Auditor General. The issue is not upon the merits of the candidates but the ques. | tion whether it is good citizenship for republicans and democrats to vote for the continuance of the power of the bosses and their thieving politicians. As long as the republican party is hope. lessly in the clutches of men like Quay, | Cameron, Bardsley, Livesy, McCamant and their like, there is no reason why the decent element of the republican party should again vote for their continuance, The times demand a change in state affairs. Republicans spoke strong and effectively when they cast aside Delamater last year; they did it Dot because they did not love the prin- ciples and traditions of their party, in. stead they knew public interests de- manded it. The republican state ticket this year is Quay's property. If you believe in Quay and his methods vote Quay's ticket. If you believe in the honest administration of state and national affairs come to the polls on next November; bring with you all vd neighbors and cast a creditable ballot against Quay polities, for clean government and honest officials- Wright and Tilden. To accomplish this, you must get out the vote, 820,000,000 By Scott's Will. The late Hon. William L. Scott's will leaves the use of all of the bulk of his estate, valued at between #20.000.000 and £25,000 000, to his widow and child. ren during their lives and after death to their children and their children's children. The estate yields an annual income of 41,300,000, and this isto be very nearly equally divided in the family, The ex. | AY, OCTOBER 5, 189. FOR TAX REFORM, HOW FARMERS ARE UNJUST. LY TAXED. Robert E, Wright Makes » Strong Speech. The republicans never kept their Prom. Ises—The Remedy, THE democratic campaign was open- ed at Greensburg, Pa., on Thursday last, with a rousing mass meeting, which was largely attended by the farmers of Westmoreland county. Robert E. Wright, the party candidate for Auditor General, made an eloguent speech, in which he defined the basis upon which | the equalization of taxes can be effected 80 as to relieve those interested in agri- cultural pursuits from the burdens they are obliged to bear at present. Mr. Wright said: | “There is no branch of legislation in | which the power of an influench other than the will of the people to shape its course has been more forcibly illustrated {than in the matter of the tax laws of | your state. One of the worst results of | the system of special legislation existing | before the adoption of the present Con- stitution was the condition of our tax laws. The whole system was but a | patchwork of special acts enacted from | time to time to meet temporary emer. | gencies, There was an absolute want of uni. formity of objects and rate of taxation and of machinery for their collection. The system of collecting a State tax on real estate based on local assessments had fostered a practice of undervalua. tions resulting in the grossest injustice, and sometimes in absolnte fraud, CAUSED A PUBLIC SCANDAL. This inequality existed not only ay between counties, but between town. ships and towns in the same county, and finally became so general as to create a | public scandal. High nominal rates on low valuations in some districts created | the impression, by comparison with {other districts, of oyertaxation. This feeling was intensified by the palpable and indisputable fact that the personal property of the State was escaping taxa. tion entirely, and that while the bur. dens of State government were borne by the corporations, yet the much heavier burdens of local government were borne entirely by the owners of real estate, Naturally the feeling of unrest and dissatisfaction beceame strongest among the farmers of the State. They were most heavily burdened while they were least able to bear it. It is true that the in cities may have been higher than on farms, yet it was undeniable that the farmers were carrying the heaviest bur. den. For when you taxed the real es. tate of a farmer you taxed him upon all act terms of the will are not yet disclos. | P® Was worth. His farm, as a rule, con. od, Mr. Seott stigulated in this vastly important instrument that Matthew Taylor should have the active manage. ment of the big business interests. His salary is fixed at 850,000 per year, the same salary as that received by the Pres. ident of the United States. Mr. Taylor was once a poor railroad clerk in Mr. Scott's employ, and was promoted solely upon his merits, —— Tony Farrell Coming. “My Colleen,” an Irish comedy dram. ma, will be at Bellefonte next Saturday night, Oct. 17. The piece has won a notable success where ever it has been presented. The dialogue sparkles with pure Irish wit and humor and the ac- tion of the piece abounds in thrilling and effective situations, Tony Farrell, in the leading role portrays the author's ideal of a generous, whole-souled, hap. py-hearted Irish lad in a most effective manner, whilst prolonged applause nightly attest the public's appreciation of his beautiful rendition of Irish bal. lads. The stage settings will bo very elaborate. The supporting company is first class in every particular and in. cludes the well known soubrette and vocalist, Miss Jennie Leland, ———-—————— Foot Ball, Penna. State College is in the Inter. Collegiate Foot Ball League of Penna., and will take part in the following games: At Swarthmore, State College va. Swarthmore, Oct. 17; State State College vs. Franklin and Mar. shall, Oct. 24; Lewisburg, State College va. Bucknell, Nov. 7; Lancaster, State College vs. Haverford, Noy. 4 or 11; Sn m— | stituted his entire possessions, When you taxed that none of his means es caped, for be had none other. Aye, the probability was that the farm was mortgaged, but he got no credit on that score, In cities and towns this was not the case. When you taxed a city merchant, nominal rates of taxation on real estate | bill—a provision which they deemed un. constitutional, and which they claimed would result in inequality of taxation— and I there endeavored to impress upon them the thoughts to which I haye just given expression I objected to ome provision of the bill as unwise and un. | constitutional; but I declared that, in | my judgment, corporations are not pay- | ing their proportion of taxes and the farmers were paying too much. I pre {sented to the committee the outlines of { & bill that would have met all the ob- | jections urged against the Taggart bill | by its enemies. I know that the sincere | friends of that reform on both commit. [ tees approved of my suggestions, but | were powerless to adopt them. | If the principle outlined in that argu- | ment had been followed yyu would have had true tax equalization, but it was not. By almost a strict party vote in | Renate and House the Taggart bill was | thrown out by the republican bosses, and yet these men ask that farmers shall vote for them again. I am before the | people of Pennsylvania to-day to regret | no single word spoken, and to withdraw no principle announced in that argu. ment. I present it to the farmers of Pennsylvania as my plea in favor of that equalization of taxation for which they have so long fought. - a The Reason Being in need of funds, our entire list | was gone over recently and all parties | who were delinquent on subscription { for four or more years, and to whom bills were sent again and again without | them favoring us with a remittance, were all placed in the hands of an attor- | ney for collection. This became an ab. | solute necessity and there is no cause {for any to complain. We have been unusually lenient and patient with ovr patrons—always at an inconvenience to ourselves. It takes the ready.hardsgut {cash to run a paper and there is po ex- cuse why persons should feel dispoeed to neglect the payment of their subserip. tion. While some may grow angry. others must acknowledge that this is the only safe course for us to follow. There is no business s0 often embar- rassed as the average newspaper pub. lisher, on account of the great number | Of unpaid bills, | Some people imagine a newspaper is { sent them because they vote a certain | ticket—with us that is a mistake. We {are working for the purpose of giving | the full value of the subscription price | and expect to receive the same in every (case when due. Over one half of our {subscribers pay regularly in advance { and the others should do likewise. | Pay up your subscription and your | conscience will be relieved and the pub. lisher made happy. —Editor Joe. Furey, of the Democrat, Lock Haven, attended the Odd Fellows dedication exercises on Wednesday. ~Gen. Hastings is in Ohio talking protection and reciprocity for McKinley. { If Ohio should go democratic the Gen. won't have anything to say as to whe | did it. | —Supt. Ryan, of the water works, fit- ! i ted up the Angel, in front of the court | house, with a new and handsome white manufacturer, lawyer or banker on his | dress for winter. Sam. thinks a great real estate, you reached but a small pro. | deal of that girl and insists upon having portion of his wealth; the bulk escaped. | her appropriately attired whilo before These facts stared the people in the face when the Constitution of 1578 was adopted providing that thereafter taxes should be uniform and be levied under general laws, THE FARMERS' RIGHTS IGNORED, Ever since then, for fifteen years, the people have been insisting that the spirit of this provision of the Constitu. tion should be enforced, but year after year has the Legislature refused their petition. Stronger and stronger has become the demand as year by year the Legislature refused to heed the farmers’ demands, Governor Pattison in the first term of his administration pressed the Legisla- ture to meet this demand, but they ro. fused. Bill after bill was defeated or buried, until finally a bill actually passed the Legislature, but was lost or mislaid in some mysterious way. Fi. nally, at the last session of the Legisia- ture, and as a result of the farmers’ re. volt Jast year, a bill was passed that may afford some temporary measure of relief. But it comes far from meeting the de. mands of the Constitutios. It fails ut. | | the public. | ~Mr. Geo. B. Johnston has been ap- pointed an agent for the Eqintable Life | Assurance Society, withiMiffiin county | as his field of operations. He will have | his headquarters at Lewistown for the present and may move there later. | George is a reliable and energetic man, [well suited for the position and we know he will succeed. ~The wedding of Miss Mary B. Mos. ns, of this place, and Harry 8. Cooper, of Winston, N. C., occured on Wednes. day noon, in the Episcopal church. 1 was a society event and was attended | by many of our prominent young people | of the town. Miss Morris is an accom- plished young Indy and her husband is | a young wan who formerly was located at this place as electrician, and is a trae | man in the full sense of the word. | ==Mr. Jas. Lucas, of Moshannon. was | & pleasant caller on Saturday. Having , assisted last year in bringing home some | twenty bead of deer last season, he in | tends to put in several weeks this Fall | at the same job. The Moshannon deer
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