4 ~ Vol. I3 BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1801. NO. 43 Che Centre Bemorrai, - - EDITOR CHAS. R. KURTZ, TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION . Regular Price $1.50 per year, when Paid In Advance $1.00 © ‘ When subseriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.00 will be charged. Editorial. ————— New Y ork is solid for 0a. Bardsley and Quay have wien vindi- cated by their party in this state. am A democratic sheriff was "dlected in Blair county which usually gives over 1,000 republican majority. MATT Quay is playing a rent card to save his reputation if possible, by a series of libel suits. A rainy day on Tuesday would have brought several hundred more demo- cratic farmers to the polls. iis meno——— The thieves who stole the public funds at Harrisburg have been vindicated by the republican party to do it again. — — The constitutional convention was snowed under badly in Centre county. It met the same fate in other parts of the state. The republicans Jost two of their most | important states this year—New Y ork | and Massachusetts. Why should their roosters crow? tmetim———— ONE year ago the papers sade a great | exposure of Matt Quay. The New York World led the attack and invited Quay to sue, but he never saida word. He was mum. BH | Tae republican majority in Bellefonte was only 65 this year. Notwithstand. ing that all the clerks from Washington and Harrisburg came home to vote, and could shove out the boodle to help things along, the republicans did not hold their own, Tue defeat of Judge Bucher in Un- jon, Snyder and Mifflin counties, by McClure, of Sunbury, was a great mis. take on the part of the citizens of that district. They will discover that faet | later in their courts. Such are the re. | sults of politics, The people often vote against their interests. - -— Tass is trouble brewing between the United States and Chilli. A mob recently attacked American sailors of the man of war, Baltimore,” who had gone ashore and several were killed and others injured. This insult to the stars and stripes will not be tolerated and unless they make proper amends for the wrong bloody war may follow. LAST week the Gazette went to con. siderable trouble to inform its readers that M. 8. Quay was not guilty (?)of the charges recently preferred against him and that the democratic papers of Cen. tre county would be arrested for libel also. That was a great card, indeed. The (Gazette and Quay will have all the sport they want and more too when they commence, for you Know every democratic publisher would lock up his print shop and skip to Canada—yes they would-would not. —————— A ]— ————— An exchange has called attention to the fact that the area of the United States is very nearly equal to that of all Europe, which has a population of 857,000,000. The State of Texes alone has a greater area than either Germany or Austria, whose populations are re spectively 49,000,000 and 41,000,000, If that State were as densely settled as Massachusetts it would hold nearly 70000000, as much as France and Great Britain together, The area of the middle Atlantic States is a little in excess of that of Italy, and with a pop- ulation as dense as that of Massachu. setts could find room for all the Italian If the keen, shrewd and common. sense American purchased a suit of clothes, the price of which was $10 and an officer of the government should stop him as he was leaving the store and demand from him #6, he would knock the officer down and call a patrol wagon and bundle him off to a station. But 80 long as the government officials is a thousand miles away and collects his 80 by proxy, the keen, shrewd, common. sense American pays 816 for the clothes and walks out satisfied that he worked a pretty close bargain. In some things the keen, shrewd, common-sense Ameri. can is the biggest and most successful fool on the face of this green earth, hicago Globe, | New York, WE CAN RE] OICE. Many Dernoeratic Victories on Tuesday. -. New York go,000 Democratic. Flower elected. Elections were held in eleven states of the Union on Tuesday, and while each the Democracy comes off the field with a glorius record, The states that held elections were Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, Massachu- | setts, Missippi, Nebraska, Ohio, party won victories, New Jersey, | Pennsylvania and | Virginia. The most important elec. New York, Penn. | sylvania, Iowa and Massachusetts, | PENNSYLVANIA, The result in the Keystone state is | the election of the republican state | ticket, Gregg and Morrison by about | 40,000—the usual plurality given for the republican ticket. Philadelphia gave Gregg a plurality of 25000 and also elected their city ticket by 20,000, Gains and losses were made by each party in the different counties owing to local tickets being in the field. The election of Gregg shows that the republicans will vote that ticket, no matter how infamous their record has been, or how many millions are annual. ly stolen from the people by the men they place in powefs* They are willing to submit and wear the Quay collar and tions were in Ohio, | will vote the way he tells them. That is the reason Wright and Tilden were defeated; and the democratic ticket went down knowing that it fought nobly ' for honest govornment and clean of. ficials, The Democracy has no apologies to make and there is nothing of which it need hide, smother up or be ashamed. Pennsylvania is a republican state and they managed to poll their usual major. ity. That is all. MASSACHUSETTS. This is a republican stronghold but on Tuesday it was again swung into the democratic ranks by the re-election of Gov. Russell by a majority of at least 10,000, This is a notable victory for the Democracy and is an indication that it will be In line in "92 for Cleveland. NEW YORK IN LINE. In the Empire state a bitter contest was waged, as the resalt would affect the vote in 92. The latest dispatches indicate that Flower the democratic nominee hasjdefeated Fasset, republican, for governor by over 43000. This isa significant victory for the Democracy throughout the land and shows that New York, although it voted for Har. rison in '88, will be in the democratic ranks in 92. The great democratic victory in New York state is the great. est of the year. We can truly rejoice, OHIO ELECTS M'KINLEY. Ohio it is said, never reclects a gov. ernor and, as usual, on Tuesday, Gov. Campbell was defeated for a re-election by McKinley, republican, by about 18. 000, That is about the usaal republi. can majority of that state and the re. publicans merely held their own in the election on Tuesday. They flooded th® state with boodle from all parts of the country; there was dissatisfaction in the democratic party in Hamilton county and the fight was from the start in Me. Kinley's favor. With all, they only polled their usual vote. Ohio always votes republican on national issues and in presidential years, so the republicans have gained practically nothing. IOWA DEMOCRATIC. This is another republican stronghold but the latest returns are that Governor Boles, the democrat, is reelected. Both parties are claiming it. OTHER STATES. In Virginia the republican and in- Massachusetts biects Russell by 12,000 Majority. licans were no where, In the local elections in Illinois the democrats made large gains everywhere. New Jersey made heavy democratic gains in the state legislature and senate. No important changes occurred in the other states, IN CENTRE COUNTY. The vote polled this year is unusually small. This is due to two causes. There was no local ticket of importance in the field and both republican and demo. cratic tickets were entitled to electing their nominees for jury coms. For that reason no interest could be awakened. The democratic vote is in the country districts and as the farmers are unusual. busy getting in their corn crop, many stayed from the polls. For that reason the majority was not as large as was desired. 663 majority for Wright is good. An Explanation Editor Centre Democrat: I see a report going the rounds of the county papers, of last week, stating that ‘Squire Rankin, of Karthaus, had com- mitted several forgeries and skipped the country. Not liking to see 4 man belied and abused 1 concluded to give to the public, through the columns of the DEMOCRAT, a more correct version of the case. "Squire Rankin has not committed any forgeries whatever, neither has he skipped the country. He has been a trustworthy citizen of Karthaus twp. for the past twentysix years, and justice of the peace for fifteen years, and always proved faithful and honest. He was armed with a State's warrant, and probably went on the hunt for Livesey, and will return in a very few days and settle up his accounts and gladen the hearts of his many inquiring friends aud conduct his business as usual. Howard, Pa. "y. 1." Tine democratic majority in Centre county is 663 this year according to the last computation made on the returns. That is good considering everything be- ing unfavorable to get out the vote. A —— — Makes Them Swear, Some of the concrete pavements in this city ara punctuated with depress. fons that in rainy weather are filled with water Such places are bad for men with irritable tempers and when the fluid splashes up their pant legs they are just as liable to yell “damn it" as not. For the sake of repressing profan- ity, if for no other reason, these places ought to be fixed.—L. H. Democrat. ~A problem which no country editor has been able to solve, People will take a city daily right along for which they pay cash in advance, but when the country editor calls around with his little bill for four or five years back subscription he is put off with the excuse «111 settle that in & few days,” which runs into years, ~The Blair county almshouse, locat. od near Holidaysburg, was destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon, incurring a Joss of $30,000, on which there is an in. surance of $16,000, All the inmates with the probable exception of one were saved. The fire originated from a de. fective flue, ~The latest heard from Mr. H. G. DeSylvia, who had been traveling through this part of the state in the in. terest of a Philadelphia grocery firm, was that he changed jobs. He is en. gaged in the theatrical business and is manager for the “Kindergarden” com. pany which was here recently. «The Centre Democrat and Philad, Weekly Times will be mailed to any ad- by about 20,000 majority. The repub. dress for $1.45 a year. A GOOD STORY, How Judge Orvis Changed a Speech for Hastings to One for Wallace, A good story is told of Judge Orvis, who is engaged as counsel in the Boyer and McCamant cases, The judge was sick at his Centre county home last year and was confined to his bed for several weeks, Just before the Repub- lican State Convention the judge was called upon by General Hastings, who was then a candidate for Governor. “Reach me that portfolio,” said the judge, indicating from his sick bed an old geography filled with papers. The General did as he was requested. “1 have been amusing myself getting up a speech for you, and the man who places your name in nomination must use it in the convention,” said the judge, opening the book and selecting a page or two of letter paper, closely written. “All right, judge, let's hear it,” said Hastings, and the judge began to read as follows: “Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention: I am not imbued with any supernatural powers and capacities, I can not scent the violet, paint the lily nor gild refined gold. I cannot enlogize a man, the mention of whose name,” ete., and then followed a glowing eulo- gy of Hastings. Nothing more was said of the speech. Hastings was placed in nomination, but the judges address was not on hand at the convention. Shortly afterwards the democrats had their gathering at Scran. ton, and the contestants were Wallace and Pattison. Hastings was in New York at the time, and the morning after the convention he picked up a paper | and read the account of the proceedings. When nominations were called for, a gentleman arose, walked down the aisle and mounted the platform. It was Judge Orvis. He turned to the presi. dent, and, bowing, said: “Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention: I am not imbued with any supernatural powers and capacities, | cannot scent the violet, paint the lily nor gild refined gold. 1 cannot eulogize a man, the mention of whose name, ete.” The J oF fe address rather took Hastiog's away. Meeting Judge Orvis a few davs Inter, Hastings re. marked upon the similarity of the speeches, “Yea said the judge. “‘It was too god a one to lose, so I just scratched the name of Hastings and inserted that of Wallace and wherever there was mention of republicanism I placed de. moeracy and let her go --——— FARM TAXATION. Statistions Collected hy the State Board of Arieunltare, The State Board of Agriculture has concluded its collection of statistics re. lating to farm taxation for the present year, and Secretary Edge has arranged [pry the data already collected into a table which will show the number of farms returned from each county, the total estimated value of the farms, total amount of tax pad on each, the ratio of the assessed to the real value of farms in each county, and the average rate of farm taxation in each county of the state, Thus far 7.568 farms have been re- the turned. Their estimated actual valoe | d— is $50,171,194, and the total amount of |3™ tax paid upon them is $421,090.80; this indicates an average rate of 8.3 mills, The taxes are all based upon the rates for the year 1580, and show a variation from 6.1 mills in Dauphin to 18.62 mills in Susquehanna. The tableshows that in five counties the assessed value is one-fourth of the real value; in fifteen counties the as sessed value is one-third of the real value; in five counties the assessed value is one-half of the estimated real value, That is to say that properties are valued at their actual or real value and one. fourth, one-third or one-half of this amount taken for the assessed value upon which the tax rate is levied. Twenty. five counties appear to use the estimated real value as a basis for taxation, and Secretary Edge reports that there isa growing tendency on the part of county commissioners to use full value as the «It is very foolish for people to send communications, of a questionable or. der, to this office and expect to see them «QUAY BOSSED THE J0B." |! MORE LIGHT Tt THROWN ON THE TREASURY LOOTING. Biske Walters. the Desd Cashier of the Treasury, Wrote Just Before his Desth » Letter Appealing to 8 ¥=lend for Finan. cinl Help, Which Hlaminates Matt Quay's “Explanation” Made in the United States Nenate, From the N.Y. World. On the 16th of February last Senator Matthey Stanley Quay rose in the Senate Chamber at Washington for the pur. pose of making a personal explanation. In the course of his intended reply to the serious allegations made against his official integrity, Senator Quay used the following language: In some transactions ! was associated and jointly interested with the gentle. man who was at that time the cashier of the State Treasury. These transac. tions proved yy disastrous and 1 was compelled to pay a portion of his loss as well as my own fa doing this it became necessary to supply an alleged deficiency he caused in the Troasury The “gentleman’’ was J. Blake Walt. ers. On this man, who died at Harris. burg on June 350, 1884, Senator Quay placed the responsibility of that looting of the State Treasurery of which Sena. tor Quay has been specifically charged as being a promoter. In the World of Feb. 10, 1990, in chapter VI. of the story of the corrupt career of Matthew Stanley Quay, the part Blake Walters played in the now famous episode was briefly related. The Senator received the “explana. tion"’in silence. Nota sympathetic voice was uplifted to chear the speaker, not a hand was outstreached in friendly grasp not an indication of any kind whatso- ever was there that a single Senator credited the denial, for nearly every every senator present was in the posses. sion of reliable information as to the exact facts in the case, A few minutes after the junior Penn sylvania Senator sat down, a republican Senator standing in the lobby remarked to another: ** De mortuis nil wisi bonum,” BLAKE WALTER'S VERSION, A letter written by Blake Walters has been read by a number of | in Penusylvania, At least three are beld by other persons than the man to whom the original was addressed. It was sent by Blake Walters to an ac. quaintance with whom he had talked freely on the subject of the Treasury business. It is as follows: PHILADELPHIA, May 28, 1884, MY DEAR wee: | am in the devil's own way. and I hb you will answer the letter | wrote to you Everything is miserable, and | have no home. | feel like | would jump off top of Pike's Peak If | got a chance. | got ona bh] of a spree in Philadelphia and Camden, and the first thing | knew my wife and the mother came down and had me arrested. 1 don't blame Hun, for Itiedup to * * * and there wasn't much left of me. 1 ought to have been A ny peared f. d th yap or me, and the mag istrate told there was a fellow round the sorner who would go ball. 1 had to part with my watch, ete, oft the ball. arrity did things up for me well and I am 3r¥ing v0 brace up. A man without m much show nowadays. You know how i feel over old “Square Timber.” 1 am thinking of what I told you. He was under no obligation and he didn’t want me, but that don't eme feel any better for getting him in a hole, * * Quay bossed the Treasury fu an honest man, but rum did the business for him and me. He was like a in Quay's bands when he was full, and then he is a do . | have had more than one t worked up Ike wee {8 MAL UTALLY You know how ee ce Well, 1 worse than he. y saved something out of and I never trusted him a All a mint Era up. his T used to th — rr y fscent Bolg when * went to and fell in with TARAS (io im od thats all ama wreck and acquaintances of Blake Walters ex- RUIN MADE HIM DESPERATE, After the Treasury embezzlement was settled through the invervention of Sen. ator Cameron, Senator Wallace and the bondsmen of Treasurer Amos C. Noyes, Walters was bankrupt. His timber and coal lands In Clearfield county had been taken by Judge Leonard, a credit. or, and Walters’s habits of dissipation, which became confirmed after he went to Harrisburg, as cashier of the Treas. ury, increased until he had grovelled in the muck and mire of debauchery, Walters was liberated and was taken in charge by an old friend, who acted nobly and disinterestedly towards him, He was broken down mentally and physically, and never recovered from the effects of the dissipation. He died a few weeks later. “OLD SQUARE TixaER." “Old Square Timber,” is a popular soubriguet applied to Treasurer Noyes on account of his wpright sterling char. actor. He was a timber merchant at Tock Haven. The appointment Blake Walters as Cashier of the Treas. ury was one be did not seek. Personal. | | “a pretty decent fellow" Thexe was then no taint on Walter's character. He was selected by Benator Wallace and was an esteemed and active busi. ness man at Clearfield. Some of the bondsmen of Noyes objected to the ap. pointment of Walters to the cashiershin, not on the ground of personal disquali- fications, but they wished to choose the man who would virtually conduct the office. Before the new Treasurer as. sumed office there was a serious disa- greement and the signatures to the bond required by law were not complete. BB was over the cashiership, and Senator Wallace, who was at Washington, was sent for. An adjustment was made through his mediation. When Blake Walters went into the Treasury “Square timber” Noyes go- quired no bond of him. Therefore the deficiency in the Treasury after Quay and Walters and another had been un- fortunate in their speculations was sab. ject to recoupment through the bond of the Treasurer. Old Noyes knew no more of the transaction than an unborn babe. His enlightenment occurred when the deficiency was in such a shape that exposure appeared inevitable. It almost broke the old man’s heart, and the indirect disgrace hastened “Square Timbers" death, The blank which follows the reference to Quay represents the name of the third of the little group of speculators. Good will not be accomplished by men- tioning that name. No less distinguish. od a citizen than Wayne MacVeagh deprecated the introduction of this name on the ground that it would cause “worthy people pain.” Mr. Mae. Veagh's motives cannot be questioned, and, then, other prominent people hawe expressed similar views. Therefore, the subject will be pursued no further. When Blake Walters began his letter he was in a mood of sell depreciation, but as he progressed his feelings against the man whom he regarded as his evil genius apparently swelled apace and he uttered the terrible denunciations against him which appear The twe indulged in recriminations over the de- ficiency. Walters told Quay he wanted to kill himself. Quay’s remarks during the memorable interview at the Lochiel Hotel at Harrisburg are already a mai. ter of history. Hismind varied between throat cutting and “jumping into the Susquehanna river.” TRIED TO MAKE HIM A SCAPEGOAT. A resident of Harrisburg, who is familar with the details of the Treasury job, informed the writer that xn attempt was made to saddle the loss on Walters, He was urged to assume the deficiency on his own broad shoulders. He was assured of a pardon in due time—just an Bill Kemble was pardoned oul of the Penitentiary by a complaisant Parden- ing Board and by Quay's direction. Johu Bardsley, in deference to a some- what similar case arrangement, holds his tongue and suffers in silence in his prison cell. Blake Walters was not that kind of = man. Big, bluff, hearty, reckless when charged with liquor, he did not purpose to be a scapegoat. Walking up and down the room, with heavy tread, a minute, he stopped and said, impressive. ly: “Well, boys, if there are to be any striped suits, we will all wear them te- gether.” Walters says in the letter that he was until be went to Harrisburg. An intimate friend of hy, he had another proforence. | the dead cashier says that the words are true. Walters was very well liked a Clearfield, and “while not a saint be was honest and trustworthy up to the time he fell into bad habits and got under adverse influences while Cashier of the Treasury.” The place is one which exposes the incumbent to the approaches of ring of corrupt politicians who ruled the state government. It was necossary to have the cashier as an actual partner in the various deals which involved the people’s money. “Bill” Liveey, the fugative ex-cashier, for whom Attorney. General Hensel caused a search last week, understood the opportunities of the office better than any other persom who ever held it. As the letter reaches the close the nervous tention of the writer cansed him to become inconerent. He omits words and one sentence seemingly has no meaning whatever. His property was all gone and he threw the onus on Quay. Hence he uses the strong words which a man who is angry.and exeitell will throw off, and he calls his oid as. sociate an approbrious name. Poor Blake Walters, truly, as he signs himself, “sick and miserable.” «Mr. Lewin, the proprietor of the of , Philad. Branch, return this week from ! the eastern cities with a fine line of over coats and winter clothing. ?
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