EA SE 0 raf. Vol. I3 BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 189l. Ra— NO. 41 @he Centre Demon, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - =~ ~- EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Regular Price When Paid in Advance ; When subscriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. Editorial. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET, $1.50 per year, $1.00 °* y For Auditor General, ROBERT E. WRIGHT, of Lehigh Co, For State Treasurer, A. L. TILDEN, of Erie County. For Delegates to Constit utional Convention: WILLIAM BMLER, of Clearfield county. ELLIS L. ORVIS, of Centre county. Delegates to Constitutional Convention, : .R. Buckalew Chauncey F. Black. gts fo lush Geo, M. Dallas, Sam’'l. G. Thompson David W . Sellers, Henrn N. Scott, Robt. E. Monaghan ym. 8. McLean. F M. Vandling. ym Latta. Rodger Sherman. William Wethe Thos. Lazare. Samuel Griffith Grant Weldman, Geo, WW, Zeigler. R. Morgan Root DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. Jury Commissioner—GEORGE BOWER. Hear the words of Robert E, Wright, on the Democratic State platform: « Therefore, it has come to pass that your platform is a very simple one. It empasises the old truths of the Ten Commandments : The injunction ‘THOU SHALT NOT STEAL is its cardinal principle. “On that plank the impending bat- tle must be fought. We must not permit confusion of the issues when the honor of Pennsylvania is al stake." PEXNSYLVANIANS are busy hunting theives this campaign. Next year they will have plenty of time to talk tariff reform. A vote for Morrison and Gregg is an endorsement of the methods of Bard. sley, McCamant and the thieving politi. cians, Every democrat in Centre county should make it a point to be at the polls early on the day of the election. See that your neighbor turns out. ames ommam— Soxe republicans still claim that Centre county has a democratic majori. ty of but about 400. If you turn out in November we will sweep the county by over 1,000 for Wright and Tilden, I¥ there were no dishonest dealings at Harrisburg, in the State Treasury, why did Livesey, the cashier of that depart. ment, flee like a vagabond when the light was turned on. Livesey knows the reason why. Ture republicans may Loast of the brilliant war record of Gen. Gregg and Captain Morrison, but why dont they explain to the people who stole the #1. 500,000 from the state treasury? That is the most important question of all. —————————— a Tux people did well when they elect- od Pattison for Governor last fall. Give him democratic officials for State Treas. urer and Auditor General, and an era of good government will follow. Taxpay- ers should vote for their interests, A——————— A —-—— Tue decent element of the republican party of this section are seriously de. bating in their mind as to whether they shall go to the polls on election day to vote for the continuance in power of the clique of unprincipled politi. cians who control and manipulate the republican party of Pennsylvania. Since Judge Orvis has been retained to defend MeCamant and Boyer, the Gazette swears by the very name of Orvis. A few years ago when Judge Orvis, openly and defiantly declared the Gazette guilty of forgery, while ad. dressing a meeting In the court house they did not swear by Mr. Orvis—in sted they swore velemently at the same gentleman. He Is the same man he was the prospects of a mudslinging, dirty campaign on the part of the the democrats from this out, There is not the least intention on the part of the democrats of indulging In anything of the sort, but a guilty con- science need no accuser. The republi. can leaders know that the democrats have a magnificent opportunity and Eat umd to saves Tham ofl Goes “mud ns it, desired to. But the truth alone is reore than sufficient to politically damn the republican cause. “Mud” is not neces. my. | PENNSYLVANIA'S SHAME The evidence disclosed before the various committees appointed to investigate the grave charges of fraud, embezzlement and theft made against John Bardsley, late treasurer of the city and county of Phila- delphia, and against Thomas McCamant, Auditor General, and Henry K. Boyer, Treasurer of the state of Pennsylvania, shows that through been lost, embezzled, or stolen. twenty-five years. be their duty. turnpike road, at the rate of five dollars a rod. roads, to the public schools, or to the State debt. them about a million and a half dollars of the people's money have A Million and a Half Dollars! Enough money to pay the 250 school teachers of Centre county forty dollars a month, for six months school each year, for a period of Enough money to build nearly a thousand miles of Enough money to give to each voter in Centre county more than one hundred and fifty dollars. Had this money been paid by John Bardsley into the State Treasury every three months, as required by law, and properly taken care of by the Auditor General and State Treasurer, it would still be on hand to appropriate to some good purpose, such as building public It is the duty of the Auditor General and State Treasury to see that all county officers, who collect state moneys, make quarterly returns of it to the State Treasurer. Mr. McCamant and Mr. Boyer have admitted that they knew this to Notwithstanding that fact, they allowed John Bardsley to retain in his possession hundreds of thousands of dollars for more than a year after it was due to the state. The evidence clearly shows that this money was put out at in- clerk under them. above to be true. terest in certain banks in Philadelphia and the interest not paid into the State Treasury, but divided among Bardsley, McCamant, Boyer Wm. Livsey, cashier of the treasury (who has fled to Canada) and The evidence is admirably summed up in the mes- sage of Governor Pattison to the Senate now in session, aod shows the Who knows that the same state of affairs as that at Philadelphia does not exist at Pittsburg, Erie, Scranton, Wilkesbarre and other pla- going to learn? party will demand an investigation? mand the investigation now going on at Harrisburg. called together by Governor Pattison because he thought the evidence against the Auditor General and the State Treasurer was sufficient to cause their removal from office. ces where large amounts of state taxes are collected? Robert E. Wright and A, L. How are you Can you hope that the politicians of the Republican Surely not. They did not de- The Senate was Tilden, the democratic candidates for Auditor General and State Treasurer, are able and honest men and have pledged themselves, if elected, to act with Governor Pattison in opening the books and showing to the people the true condition of these two important offices. What will the people, the honest men, of Pennsylvania dotoward righting this great wrong which has been perpetrated upon them? Voters of Centre county, what will you do? Will you stay at home on election day and by your indifference allow your treasury to without one word of protest? be robbed of the hard-earned money arising from you yearly by taxation Will you permit the great State of Penn- sylvania to be degraded, plundered and disgraced and do nothing toward rebuking and punishing those who haye robbed, degraded and humiliated her before her sister states? Voters of Pennsylvania, the eyes of the nation are upon you. They expect you to rise in your might on the 3rd day of November, and by the power of your ballots say to the world that the fair name of the proud old Keystone State shall no longer be trampled in the dust. AX interesting contest ison now in the 20th Judickl district composed of Union, Snyder and Mifflin counties, Judge Bucher has been nominated for a third term. On the republican side no attorney in the district could be found to accept a nomination against Bucher. Through the scheming of B. K. Focht, of the Lewisburg Saturday News, H. M. McClure, of Sunbury, Focht's brotherdnJdaw and a second rate lawyer, was induced to accept the nomination. But two republican papers are working for MeClure, and the others while they have placed his name at the head of the ticket have nothing to say for him. Nearly all the repulican at. torneys are for Bucher, the democrat; and the only question now is as to how many thousand majority Bucher will have in a republican district. Jonx W. Morrison, republican nom. inee for state treasurer, has issued an appeal that is being sent to all the old soldiers in Pennsylvania urging the “comrades’ to be at the polls in Nov. ember and give him their support. If all in this state who were in the late war should be elected to office, simply because they once were soldiers, there would not be enongh offices in the United States to give each a position, Republicans refused to vote for Han. cock because he was a democrat; Mor. rison is a republican and was placed in nomination by a party that has disgrac- od the name of the Keystone state. Sixex Judge Orvis has been retained to defend Boyer and MoCamant, the (Fagetie argues that on that account they are not guilty. According to that line have the money to pgy for a first class attorney they can get him. The very fact that they employed Mr. Orvis is enough to show that they are in hot water. Oxe Million and a half dollars is the ——————— HON. JOHN ORVIS RETAINED, | | State Treasurer Boyer and Auditor | General McCamant, as all must admit, | are in a bad box, The state senate is! now investigating the method in which | they conducted their respective offices | and they are in danger of being sent | to join Honest John Bardsley. To save | themselves they naturally would em. | ploy the very best legal talent to be had, | and for that reason they sent to Belle. | fonte and enlisted Hon. John H. Orvis | to assist them, while before the investi. gation of the state senate. This isa | decided compliment to Mr. Orvis and Bellefonte is proud to have one of such | ability In its midst, Judge Orvis is not accustomed to! defend republican officials, but in this | case politics must be laid aside and his two eminent clients will get the ful) benefit of his legal training. And if he can not save them from disgrace and ex- pulsion from office, no one else could. While the Judge will remain true to | the interests of his clients, his demo. cracy will not be in the least affected from his association with such men as Boyer and McCamant, ct A —— Be Careful, Trustworthy newspapers have united | in warning against haste in investing in financial schemes based on operations in the South, in which fabulous profits are promised to investors. No rule is more true than were great insterest or divi. | dends are promise. or held out as an in. ducement to the public to invest, in that proportion is the safety of all that may be invested in jeopardy. We urge this on our readers when the bond invest. | ment, or short term orders, that have been toppling, were gathering in their ! victims, and we again repeat the warn. | ing. It was an easy matter to pay the ; money into the short term orders, but | the great majority lost lisrgely, notwith. | standing the enormous “profits” which were promised. — Er, Youxa Jim Blaine’s poverty as sworn | to by him in his answer to the divorce | proceedings broaght by his wife, has | excited much commiseration in this | state. “If Blaine is the favorite son of | Pennsyteania,” it is argued, “surely the | week in ove of the many mammoth tin. | plate factories that have been started | recently. But when the son of his fath. | er received his appointment it would be | that he may be abie to find his job. RE Politieal Mostings. following places: Saturday, Oct. 24. Sugar Grove school house, Huston twp. and Pleasant Gap. | Monday, Oct. 28. ~Linden Hall. Tuesday, Oct. 27. —Tusseyville, Farmers’ MilL Thursday, Oct, 20.—~Woodward, Madisonburg. Friday, Oct. 30.—Eagleville, Coburn. Saturday, Oct. 31.—Snow Shoe, Hublersburg. Tue Reformed Presbyterians of New. castle, this state, have decided that the Farmers’ Alliance is a secret society, and that nobody who is a member of it | ean belong to their church. These ex. | cellent but somewhat narrow-minded people have a perfect right to take such action as is pleasing to them and nobody should censure them. But an organi. zation which stands upon such a plat. form will grow very slowly. Ir the light were properly turned on, we have no doubt but that in Bellefonte some Bardsleys could be found who scooped the taxpayers money and brought about a debt of over $150,000, A vore for the republican ticket and its election this year means a vindica. | tion of M. 8, Quay. He dictated and framed that ticket, the parly did not do Tu republicans ave noting to my recent course at Harrisburg. The old soldier rmeket is being worked THE EXTRA SESSION. Pennsylvania's Senate Responds to the Governor's Call, ONLY FOUR MEMBERS ABSENT. They Listen to the Reading of the Governor's Message, Committee and Adiourn for the Day-—-The Special Committees He ports No Cause for Suspicion. Harmisnora, Oct, ate convened in extraordinary session at | noon yesterday to consider whether suf- | ficient cause existed for removal from | office of Auditor General Thomas Me- Camant and State Treasurer Henry K. er, who are alleged to have been in collusion with John Bardsley in his malfeasance in office, ernor Watres occupied the chair, members were absent, Senhtors Grady and Markly were ap- | pointed a committee to notify the gov- ornor of the assembly of the senate. | The committee returned in ten minutes, and were followed almost immediately by Private Secretary Tate, who pre- sented the governor's message, which | was read by the clerk. The Governor's Message. After stating at length the facts brought out about Bardsley by the Phila- | delphia investigation of his accounts and finan, and the revelations made by the cCamaht- Livsey-Bardsley correspond ence, the governor goes on to say: From the testimony given by Thomas Me. | | Osmant, asditor general, and by Henry K. Boyer, state treasurer, before the joint legis. lative investigating commitiee, it appears further that of the moneys collected by John Bardsley for the commonwealth of Pennsyl. | yania he has falled to pay over the following amounts Personal property tax (1500). Personal property tax (1881) License taxes (1999) Liosnse taxes (1991) Municipal loans tax (1800) Total Of this total po portios Las been sectired 10 the commonwealth except $12,000, the entire by him for amount of w phia claim to have tion against the com the losses of be divided between the state is the sutdert of claded. ing the administration of these two depart. ments, admitted and testified to by thelr chief officers before a joint committee of the legis. lature, in order that the senate may determine the action appropriate in the premises i : i 14.~Pursuant to | | the call of Governor Pattison, the sen- | Lieutenant Gov- | Four | tigation But, In aay event, it appears thats been in an i > ot | bee y way guilty of miscondunt, | misbehavior, or maladministration im | his office. Treasurer Boyer's denial is in a simi- | lar vein, | Hanmspono, Oct, 20.-—The senate st | yesterday afternoon's session decided to ooeed first with the hearing of evi | dence in the case of Treasurer Boyer { Mr. Reeves was the only witness exam- | ined, and gave evidence regard the | amount of state funds held by ren, From Appoint a | ADDITIONAL LOCALS, | ~The “Kindergarden” will be at the | opera house on Friday evening. ~A good entertainment always takes {in Bellefonte and for that reason the | opera house will be packed this evening. | ~=Mrs. Tobias, aged 89 years, of Mill- | heim, died on Tuesday the 18th, at the | residence of ber son, ex-recorder Wm. | Tobias. ~My. Samuel Musser, widow, died on Monday evening at her residence near Penn Hall. She had been ill fora about a year and of late was confined to her bed. Her husband died recently five children survive. ~The State College foot ball team defeated the Haverford eleven at the latter's ground, near Philadel phia, bys score of 40 to 0. The College boys are becoming experts at the game and en- tertain strong hopes of capturing the pennant from the other colleges of this | state who belong to the association. ~A subscriber in sending a remit. tance to his local paper says: “I might flog my wife; I might murder my grand. mother; I suppose I might possibly smother a blind baby; I think I eculd steal ginger bread from a nigger baby, but I have not got so low that I can cheat a poor printer, ~A story is going the rounds of the press to the effect that a certain farmers out west had a clause in his wid setting apart 8100 of his estate to pay for the home paper to be sent to his neigh. bor for life, as the neighbor had been a constant borrower of his paper, and the dying man dud not want him to bother any of the other neighbors. ~The seats in the opera house are to be renumbered. The rows will be la beled from the alphabet and the sides will be known as “Right” and * Left.” The seats will be numbered from the centre isle to the wall, beginning on each side of the isle at 1. 2, ete... on ap for each row. It will be more conven- jent than at present. Mr. Garman wants everything in the proper shape. ~ Royal Arcanum district convention will be held in Philipsburg on the 12th of November. Councils will be present from the counties of Lycoming, Clinton, Centre, Clearfield, Cambria, Jefferson, Blair and Huntingdon. Grand Regent of Pennsylvania, Owen D. Robert, of Philadelphia, will be in attendance, in addition to several other distinguished orators —A man who has intelligence enough to be a fairly good workman in any in- dustry is intelligent enough to under- stand that every idle man in the country is a man whom workingmen belp to support. An idler has a digestive ap- paratus which has to be kept busy; he must be supplied with clothing, shelter and warmth, and somebody must pay for these things. The persons who do pay for the wealth thus consumed am the men who produce wealth, namely, the workingmen. The greater the number of idlers, the larger must be the amount deducted from the earnings of those who toil. ———————" Tux Philadelphia Ledger, the most reliable, trustworthy republican paper published in Pennsylvania, endorses Gov, Pattison’s bold stand in convening the State Senate to investigate and i possible find out who was to blame that $1,500,000 were taken from the state. The small fry naturally denounce Pat. tison; they can’t help it, Tux election of Gregg and Morrison will be considered a vindication of the men who stolea million and a half dal. lars from the state treasury. AA A Iv a man was a good soldier, that is no guarantee why he should be elected to the most responsible position in the state, Troy shait not steal™ is a good cam. paign motto, especially after over & million and a half of the people's mony were stolen from the state. HARD to find—a man who will vole
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