Beaver & Gephbartvl nt BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 189l. @he Centre Demon, - EDITOR Regular Price $1.50 per year, When Pald in Advance £1.00 ‘ When subscriptions are not paid Inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. Editorial. BANNER CONTEST, To the Democrats of Centre County The democratic county committee, of Centre county, offer a handsome banner costing about fifty dollarsto the election district of the county polling the largest percentage of the vote cast last year. The basis of caleulation will be the vote cast for W. H. Barclay, candidate for Secretary of Internal affairs. The comparison will be made between that vote and the vote cast this year for Robert E. Wright, candidate for Audi tor General. The banner shall belong to the win. ning district so long as it shall continue to poll the largest percentage of its vote at subsequent fall elections; the basis of calculation to be determined each year by the county committee, and to become the permanent property of the election district polling the highest percentage of votes according to the above plan for | three consecutive years. I.. A. SCHAEFFER, Chairman. No farmer in Centre county should hesitate to vote for Robert E. Wright this year. He is able, honest, and, above all, is eminently qualified for the position of Auditor General. Not a word ean be said against his character. a Just as we said to our readers for years, Quay is at last proven guilsy of obtaining some of the public funds. The article in another column shows that Bardsley sent him an eight thous and dollar slice. Defeat Quay's ticket this vear, Tue republicans claim that Wright should not be elected Auditor General Allentown he has been retained in the | " £ the burdens of taxation aod | : : : wu ¥ x - |) b { i : past as counsel for railroad companies. (8uare 6. Lhe DUCE 3 That is proof of his ability in the first place and is no reflection upon his char- acter or integrity. The best and most reliable attorneys of this county are always retained in such cases. THERE is no contest in Centre county this year. commissioner and constitutional dele. gates nominated by both parties will all be elected. Then while Jocal issues may dwindle into insignificance do not let your patriotism lag for we havea most important state election. The re. The candidates for Jury | A LIE NAILED. RHONE AND THOMAS DON'T TELL THE TRUTH. ort E. Wright, the Democeratic Candidate for Auditor General, in his speech at Williamsport, Tuesday evening, Oet, 20 “I regretito feel that I ought to turn aside for a moment from the discussion of the vital questions of the canvass to notice u few mistatements made by cer. tain opposition journals about me. I { have in my hand a copy of the Farmers’ | Friend, a jonrnal published by one R. | { HH, Thomas, a republican politician. In lit I find a letter from Leonard Rhone, {advising farmers to vole against me | because, a8 he declares, my “record shows me to be opposed to the farmers’ | demand far an equal distribution of the | necessary burdens of government.” In | an editorial on this letter the editor de- | elares that I appeared before the house | {and senate committees as counsel for | the Pennsylvania Railroad company and | other corporations, and that I was per- | haps the ablest of the opponents ol and | did more than any other man to defeat | the “Taggart bill." | coincidence that these articles appeared lin the Farmers' Friend within a week | socalled leaders of the grange were able | to control it, the farmer vote should be cast against me. I want to say to these two gentlemen that every important as. | 18 untrue. I did appear before the committees | named on behalf of one client, the Le. high Valley R. R. Co., to present an ar- gument against certain provisions of the bill as unwise and unconstitutional. I did not appear for the Pennsylvania Railroad company, for I have never company was represented before the | committee by republican ex-Attorney | | General Palmer, while another railroad | company was represented by republican | | ex-Attorney General Kinkpatrick., It is | not true, as declared by Messrs. Rhone | and Thomas, that I argued agalost tax | | equalization. | Before I appesred-before the commit | | farmers, were bearing more than their | that as compared with real estate own. | ers, the corporations were paying too | little: that I had confirmed this opinion by statistics collected by myself and that I must so stale in my plea I might make for the amendment of the Taggart bill. Before the committees I emphasized these views. 1 gave my reasons for be- lieving that the tax equalization de. maniged by the farmers was just and ought to be conceded. When my argu. ment was interrupted by a representa. tive asking whether I thought that The Following Re.uarks were Made by Rob It is a remarkable | after Quay’s boast that so far as these | sertion or insinusation in this statement | been counsel for it in any matter. That | | tee 1 frankly declared to my client that | my investigations had satisfied me that | Ww L o . r, £8 is h | because as an attorney at his home in | the owners of real estate especially the corporations were paying their fair share ! publican party is in bad shape. Many | of them will refuse to go to the polls— they are disgusted. The opportunity | naver was better for electing a state ticket. Turn out and help to redeem | the Keystone State. Tux Taggart Tax Bill never became | tion. When I had concloded my argu. an aspirant for the nomination of State i of taxation. | they were not. I answered that in my | judgment, as compared with farmers, | I outlined the princi. | ples of a bill, which, if adopted, would have given to the farmers and to all | people of Pennsylvania tax elqualiza. | | but at the same time I assure them that the office shall not be used as the hatch. ing place for bogus claims and suits | devised for levying tribute upon them for personal or political use.” i . - - GEN. Gregg, the republican nominee for Auditor General, is an unfit man for that most important office. He was educated for a soldier and his record on the field of battle is brilliant. He to- day is a man well advanced in years and has reached that period of life when en- ergy and mental activity is on the de- The office of Auditor General active, energetic, strong, honest, clean man. A man with a mind that has had a most careful legal train. ing. as the office implies the auditing of accounts which are settled upon the legal questions involved. It takes a wide.awake, energetic man, in the prime of life, to look after the interests | of the state and for that reason we feel justified in saying that Mr. Wright is the most eminently qualified to fill that position. Mr. Gregg may successfully plan and lead a body of men into an | engagement and come out victorious but that is no guarantee that he can fill | the position of Auditor General. | Tet usgive due credit to the old sol. diers: but at the same time we should be patriotic enough not to let the inter. ests of the state be slighted, cline, requires an - — . No more chance for Rhone in the democratic party and he knows it. He | is by degrees going over to his original | nest. pT Toe fe site, geo S—— rr ealen — — — a —— titi | a How You'll Vote, | The ticket to be voted for at the com. | ing election is as follows One headed State, with the names of | the candidates for Auditor General and | State Treasurer, to be deposited nn a | box to be provided for that purpose. | One headed Delegates at Large, with the names of the persons nominated for | a Constitutional Convention, should one be held, to be deposited ina separate box. One headed County, with the names of the candidates to be voted for, to be deposited in a separate box. One headed District Delegates, with the names of the candidates for the Consti. tational Convention, if any ia held, for | this county, to be deposited in a separ. ate box. A separate box is required for the ballots on the question of holding a Constitutional Convention. ef out the vote, ———— Tuner years ago Leonard Rhone was a law, as the Grangers demanded, and | ment I was congratulated on my views | Treasurer on the democratic ticket. who is to blame? The republican party | is strong in the majority at Harrisbirg and they either pass or condemn what. | ever suits. They alone are responsible | for its defeat, yet the Hon. (?) Leonard Rhone is supporting the republican | ticket on the pretext that Robert E.| Wright killed that bill, This is a fair | sansple of Mr. Rhone's inconsistency — for which he has established a record, A. L. TiLoex, of Erie county, is the democratic nominee for State Treasur. | er. For years certain grangers have been clamoring for recognition—Tilden' at last, is a granger. The nominations made, do not suit certain grangers, who profess to be democrats, because the political lightning did not strike in the | vicinity of Centre county and place Mr, | Rhone on the ticket, His opposition, along with that of Granger McSparren, of Chester county, is the old song of the disappointed applicant for office. Tur people who have been voting the republican ticket for years may not be in sympathy with the Quay ring that has disgraced their party. The only way for them to dispose of Quay rule is to defeat his ticket and in that manner they will eventually drive him into ob. security. Quay and his political meth. ods defeated the republican party last year and the same gang have humbled the old Keystone State before the eyes of the entire nation. Will you endorse this great shame ut ah by voting Quays tick- by the true tax reformers on the com. mittee: I mean by those members of the committees who stood for tax equaliza. tion even after professional Farmer Taggart liad bowed to the order of the bosses and deserted his own bill, Tax equalization was defeated, not because I argued for the amendment of the Taggart bill, but because the repub- lican bosses applied the whip and by an almost strictly party vote set it aside. The charge of these men that I opposed tax equalization is contradicted and re- futed by every private and public ut. terance 1 have evet made on the subject, I say to Mr. Thomas that if he will print in the next issue of the Farmers’ Friend my entire, ungarbled argument before the senate or house committee I | will be glad to pay for such insertion at the usual advertising rates, It is also charged that I am a corpo. | ration lawyer. I happen in my own county to be the local counsel for the few railroads that pass through it. I try their cases there as do other lawyers in other counties, I endeaver in these cases to give them honest service for honest compensation, as I do to any other client I may have. They have never asked more, and I assume they never will. The auditor general's office has charge of the settlement of accounts against give notice to all corporat am chosen to that office I will expect every one of them to make prompt set | tlement and payment of all their taxes, He recently asked the nomination for State Senator, from this district and was badly disappointed. As an appli. cant for an appointment under Pattison he likewise was disappointed. Now posing as the Master of the State Grange—while in fact a disgruntled, defeated office seeker—he is oppos- ing the democratic ticket and calls upon the grangers of the state to defeat Wright. It looks to much like a threat for revenge. Ir the people of Pennsylvania will again endorse the republican officials in this state, after all the robbery and theft by these officials has been exposed, we might as well do away with our sys. tem of ballots and declare popular gov. ernment a complete fallure. We still have confidence in the manhood and in. tegrity of our peopls and believe they will carefully think and conscientiously vote on Tuesday. ——— Arten all the stealing and plunder. ing, that has been done for years by the republican ring at Harrisburg, is clearly brought to light, can any self respecting citizen go to the polls next Tuesday and conscientiously east a vote for the ring candidates, Morrison and Gregg? Re. member their election means the vindi- cation of McCamant, Boyer, Livesey and Quay. : Ru ~The new stock of overcoats and Philad. Branch beats the record. AND QUAY, TOO, WAS IN IT. RE THE GOVERNOR'S MISSAGE | The Philadelphia Ledger, edited by | George W. Childs, the leading and old | reliable republican paper of Philadel Bardsley sent Quay a nice slice phia, as well as a very able one editor- fally, has this to say: “The message which Governor Patti. { son sent to the convened in extraordinary session, is remarkable, state senate, of $8,877. most of all, for the grave matters which are the subject of it, remarkable for the Bardsley’s Two~-million-dollar Steal—-Generosity of the Convict | circumstances which demanded it, and Treasurer—$8,000 Due Bill sent to Quav—Endorser of the Certificate in Jall and the Drawer a Fugitive from Justice—Dividing the Spoils. | remarkable for the clearness, directness | and forcibleness with which it presents the evidence which has been with sash | careful, sagacious judgment and judi- | cial skill gathered and compressed into The story of the broken Keystone National Bank in Philadelphia is a tale of crime and robbery rarely equaled in the criminal annals of high and low degree. Its whole story has not yet been written. yet where some of the public money went has been disclosed, sley divided it with politicians, corrupt officials and women of loose habits, He speculated with some, Bardsley was a generous man. He wasted some. OQ i { " | an indictment as notable for its compre- | hensiveness for its overwhelming | array of inculpating facts, circumstan. fees and documents, It should have { been, under our laws, immpossible for {the chief magistrate of the state to { frame such an indictment; the circum- | stances demanding it should have been | similarly impossible of realization, and | it should have been impossible for the : | Governor, or for any one, to arrsign He gave the Auditor General of the | with such conciseness and directness Aas It involved men What we know is terrible; John Bard- state beautiful neckties, volumes of Tolstoi's works and charming onyx locks, any public servants who were elected to He gave money to the cashier of the state treasure for being “personally kind" to him, tor General, in one little chunk $1,575. (Fac-smile of a Due Bill found among the papers of the broken Keystone National bank, and now in the possession of Robert M. Yardley, receiver.) (FACE OF DRAFT) When John Bardsley went to jail, he had collected the following moneys for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which he had not paid over Personal property tax, (1890)......ceeviseeeees $622,013.11 ‘i i“ ‘“ License tax Municipal loans tax, Total About $1,000,000,00 of this had been in his hand since August ist, 1890, and the Auditor General and State Treasurer had taken no legal steps to collect it, although it was their duty to do so on October 1st, 1890. of the above money John Bardsley had in the Keystone Bank Philadelphia has also lost about $600,000.00 in the same institution. None of the experts have yet been able to discover and report where high position of trust and responsibility | by the deliberately exercised will of the He gave to H. N. Graffen, a clerk in the office of the Aud- | people. But the indictment has been— had to be—framed, as the circumstances { fully warranted it, and the arraignment | of the Auditor General and State Treas. furer bad to be made, in view of the | mass of testimony produced which ren- {| dered the making of it an imperative duty. There is little in the matter of Gov- ernor Pattison’s message which is abse- { lutely new; it is the masterful, honest, { fearless manner of the reformulation, {the grouping, the placing in natursi | sequence, the binding together as a whole of old matters, unfortunately familiar enough to the public through | the published proceedings of inves igat- ing bodies, which makes it of such great land common interest, and which gives | it character, dignity and impressiveness. Through every paragraph of it there shines clearly as truth itself the light of a high official duty done, of public spirited purpose fulfilled. 1f this message served no other purpose | than that, which it so admirably serves, of carrying conviction to every intelli | gent, usprejudiced reader of it of the unquestionable propriety, of the impers. | tive obligation which Governor Pattison | owed to himself, his fellow citizens and the law to call the senate to meet m extraordinary session to inquire into the “grave sharges” so commonly made against the Auditor General and the State Treasurer, to the end that their innocence or guilt might be established, its author would still be more than justified in formulating and presenting it to the public through the senate. “Whether or not it is conclusive of the guilt, incompetency or errors of any one is for the senate alone, to which | body 1t is addressed, to declare, but that it gives ‘reasonable cause’ for an ex. He gave—Dbut stop! What is this? 289,232.96 367,604.18 1,497.54 $1,366,378.59 Most The City of this money went haustive inquiry of the subject-matter heavy clothing recently unpacked at the The due bill, above, shows that Bardsley got $8,877 from the bank on November 29th, 1889, and sent it to Quay. through his bank at Beaver; and when the certificate was sent on, the Key- stone Bank paid it (ENDORSEMENTS) of it may be authoritatively declared by any one who has eyes to read and sind to form a just opinion. The message cuts the last bit of stable ground rom under the feet of those who stated er insinuated that Governor Pattison had been actuated by the basest partisan motive in calling the senate to meet in extraordinary session; it not only dos that, but it covers with shame those who so impugned his purposes. Gov- ernor Pattison needs no testimonials to sustain his character for invincible per- sonal or official Integrity, for purity of motive in his public or private acts, for high courage and fidelity to duty. iu be did need them, they would be found in his call to the senate and in the mes. sage which besent to it. Itis a message which concerns the whole body of the people of this Commonwealth and city not less than the senate that is to pass upon it. + Quay collected the money Eveny district chairman in Centee county should make an attempt to pot Where did this money comefrom? Why did Bard- sley send it to Quay? On 2d November, 1889, Auditor General McCamant sent the money for the Magistrate's costs in Philadelphia to Bardsley—over $30,000. Bardsley deposited it in the Keystone bank, and on the 29th November, 1889, he, (Bardsley) paid $1,575 to H. N. Graffen, a clerk to Auditor General Me- Camant, On the same day he sent this $8,877 to Quay!!! Of the persons whose names appear on above certificate as drawer, payee and endorser, G. W. MARSH is a FUGITIVE. JOHN BARDSLEY is in JAIL. M.S. QUAY is in charge of the REPUBLICAN STATE COM- MITTEE, trying to elect Gregg and Morrison to succeed McCamant and Boyer, and preserve the “methods” and *‘customs’ that started Marsh run. ning for safety and put Bardsley behind prison bars, Is this not enough to condemn with Quay and Quayism in this State, ef out the vote, Quay and the republican ring? Down out the full party vote this year as am important election is on hand. Anoth- er reason is you may be successful im winning the banner offered by the County Chairman, I——— Eris L. Onvis, one of the disteiet nominees as delegate to the constite- tonal convention, is a good name on the ticket. Should the people vote for & convention Mr, Orvis would ably rep resent them, Ir you believe in rotten politics and plundering the people's money vote far ki ———
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