Vol. 14 BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1892. @he Centre Demorrai, CHAS. R. KURTZ, - - =~ EDITOR TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION egular Price g - $1.50 per year. When Paid in Advance ‘ $l. When subseriptions are not paid inside of three years $2.88 will be char ged Democratic County Committee 1802 N. W —. sp J. OC. Meyer 5 W sees» NB. Garman ‘ WwW. W . Geo, BR. Meek Centre Hall Borough James Coldren Howard Borough Milesburg Borough Millheim Borough *hillpsburg, Ist W i ad W : WY cnsassmnrisns South Rhilipshurs . ERP Bellefonte Buckingham ‘rank W. Hess B. Wilcox Unionville Borough $. M. Griest Benner John Reed Boggs, N. P Hi] nfer B. Pov w.r Burnside... College Daniel Gregg, N. P agp Haines, E. P ‘ W.rP Halfmoon Harris .... Howard 4 ustics r | that we have fouud in i | have been | } ’ f | this office harmony has exist e | due to a minority of STROHM ANSWERED. THE TRUTH TOLD BY THE DEMOCRATIC COM. A Lotter from Aduwms and Goodhurt that Fx The enr and Distinot plains the Situption Contract for the Shelves In the explanatory ed in last issue { and signed by ‘ommissioners distorted rej of considerably un The the letter apparently attempts to show { unjustly mis tone of { the “usurpation of power,” as practiced | by the members of this board, rather justify the stand hn Democratic than te “ ) league wit | taken by our esteemed « | reference to the classification of our an | 3 | nual statement, During the one vear in which wie ated in the affairs of ASSOC) «1, and we | | have tried to show to our colleague the | courtesy and consideration which is f any board ; and to Mr. Strohm we wish t O Say HIN A Most agree: r lable and » gentleman, witl | Year a ball { | | * member, no matter a | be who stood alone I.. A. SCHAEFFER, C} G.B. CRAWFORD, See. Editorial. Fe idler, reform ! - IT appears to be a certainty that Har- rison will be renominated by his party. - he band-wag ind u Reform at once, hy 4 -— GoopHART and Adams are not inthe resigning mood and will continue in business at the court house for some time to come, at the same old stand - Ji Freprer has his Lottery Sheet ( (Fazette) filled with italic squibs of the ind “ Resign, Goodhart in reply it is appropriate following style : Adam resign!" to say: Stop your lying, Feidler, stop ! - - Muon hostility hasdeveloped among the Republicans of Pennsylvamia toward Senator Quay because of his unfnendli- ness to the Force bill in the Fifty-first Congress. Senator Quay never rendered the Republican party nor the country a greater service than in contributing to the defeat of that dangerous partisan measure. - AT the Democratic State convention of New York, on Monday, in Albany, resolutions were adopted endorsing Senator David B. Hill for President. It was a Hill convention from beginning tothe end and tbe Cleveland people were left out in the cold. Another State convention has been called for to meet at Syracuse on May 31 and they will adopt resolutions endorsing Cleve- land. This factional fight in New York State is a great mistake, and will tend to create discord in an important and doubtful State. The result of this fam- ily quarrel will be that the Democratic party will discard both Hill and Cleve. land and take up some man from anoth- er State, We must carry New York this year and we doubt the advisability of taking either of the aspiring candi. dates, Cleveland or Hill, from the Em. pire State for the Democratic standard bearer, - Tue deal by which the Reading rail road obtained control of the New Jersey Central, and Lehigh Valley system is considered a bold move of railroad financiering and the result will be to give the entire control of the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania in the hands of this corporation. The result of this deal has been to almost double the market price of Reading stock and it is being eagerly sought after, Many claim the consolidation is a violation of the constitution of the state for competing lines to be purchased and become the property of the same person or corpora tion. Some papers are clamoring for Gov. Pattison to interfere. What the result will be remains for the future. The various expressions of the city dailies are so different as to assure the reader that they are the hirelings of either the Reading or Pennsylvania systems, a Don't monkey with the Democratic busg-sawe, Mr. Strohm, don’t do it. ————————s of the board—reserving, of right to have his vote recorded on the The idea ot legally publish minutes as he sho that the maj the statement, » mi is rid HOUs., ority mem- Mi a par | ber refuses to sign it, Strohm’s protest contained only . ts, and could we have yw the added bel facts complete : ‘ and an explanation of the matter ir the privilege of publicat n sould bhnt wa of up | been granted Mr. reader this propriety of taking the space on the annual statement with the arguments pro and enn of this board. article the We desire to call attention briefly to the main facts of the matter to whieh In the i article of agreement made October 7th, 1801, A The Office ialty M'f'g Co. agrees to furnish fixtures for the vaunlts of the our colleague Liu Kk exe eptions Spe files and snmissioners and deliver ut the for commissioners’ vault to be ready to put up by the mu of 1501, and the fixtures for the prothono. tary’s yault shall be put up in February, Second: The county commis. sioners agree to pay to The Office Spe- cialty M’'f"g. Co. the contract price on November 1st, 1802, “provided the work meets the approval of the commissioners’ The above embodies the main part of the article of agreement which is on file in this office and open to the perusal of those in doubt as to who has quoted correctly. The reader will see that the fixtures for the prothono. tary’s vault, which more than one half of the entire order, shall not be put up until the month of February, 1862 Further, at the time our statement was published, none of the boxes containing the fixtures were opened. Upon the comparison made in Mr, Strohm's letter prothonotary’s offices, and p fixtures ’ up the same in the vaults, nth December, 1892, when set up.” is and an article of agreement, the condi. tions of which have not been completed, we will respectfully ask business men to form their own opinion. The item above referred to is not left out of the statement as his article would have you believe, but is plaed where we believe it rightfully belongs, as an estimated lia- bility for the year 1592, and for which we will make provision in our tax levy of this year. With reference to the villifieation and abuse which Mr. Fiedler and other un- scrupulous party leaders heaped upon the Democratic members of the board, in last week's issue of the (fazette, sim. ply because we “dare to be Democrats,” instead of Republicans, and because our record for the first year in office presents 80 marked a contrast to the one left by three years of Republican management. We have nothing to say farther than to respectfully refer the public to our an. plete and correct and in every portion of which Mr. Strohm concurred with the exception of placing an item In one account instead of another, In conclusion we sincerely regret that our colleagues’ good sense and judg. ment could not hold its own when brought in contact with the advice of unscrupulous political advisers, ’ G. L. Goopuant, T. F. Avams, between a note given for value received | nual statement which we consider com. | A STRIKING CONTRAST The Work of the Former Republican and Present Democratic Board Contrasted For three (fazette had been threatening that it was going to rake the democratic members of the present board of commissioners | po / | Blair ¢ tv. throu: I'he raking bas | Blair county, through h ; ; { Centre county girl, even though he lives from tooth to toe.nail. come, and while for quality it exceeds all former efforts of the post master, | | finances that he bemoans the fact that the commissioners dre not hurt and their t4 But tell the truth: but because nails were still on, » while they are at do so, we will, The county auditors in their report filed February 3, 1892, sav. ** We find from the hooks and accounts in sioners office, that the total expenditures of the « nary 1, 1802. was 861,337.37, cludes 811,379.80 of loans paid, and #13. 205.47 of accounts of former years paid during 15801." The statement | shed put sioners shows the county commis T. Gray, the re. to ‘sreport, and Mr. Strohm ‘concurs’ in the latter same thing, Samuel 345148 publican auditor, certifies the cor. rectness of the and As Ccor- r. Strohm had desired tobe | fair t ' t ward 1nest y the people as well } itis JM : yntain the item 1 indebtedness for » vault furniture ‘as per contract |, ¥ This debt, al. ober 7, 1881.° it payable until in my judgment as m ity as the notes for #6000 Leld by the Centre Co. Banking Co. and the othe: notes enumerated among the lial and which fall due at i d 1 ds 1802, ich a liabil. ties stale ates in Mi being i aly correct This being 50 and the same statements | being certified to by Mr. Gray, it is ab. { solntely certain that the financial state. ment of receipts and expenditures for correct. thing th 1801, as published, is has been ngsthe publie The annual statement for 180. which shows the receipts and expenditures of of the and which is certified to by the last year blican board, Mr. Strobm was on hand repu as correct, shows that there funds due the townships, arising from unseated lands amounting to 0.430. 2, and of this amount the republican board had used for county purposes §7 631.09, On this vast amount of money Treas. urer Goss demanded, and with the help of Strohm, succeeded in getting the aud. itors at the settlement in 15891, to allow him commissions, which amounted to $1,279.43, on moneys which he had not disbursed. It was a clear and clean swindle, for all this money had to be | paid out by Mr. Gramley. Beside this the | amount of $7,633.07, had to be raised by | the present board at once, to pay the districts as they demanded their money, Every desent citizen ought to be ashamed of the manner in which the late republican board managed the finances of the county. Indeed, we presume all | decent citizens are heartily ashamed of | the record made by the last board, while | those who undertake to defend any of these transactions do not belong to that | class of citizens. If the county could be run on a two mill tax why did the late republican | board not run it on a two mill rate? They { tried it, and because they found them. | selves short they used #7 .663.07 of funds needed by the townships to run their schools, make their roads and support | their poor, and $8,358.35 of money due {the state which should have been paid | to the state authorities not later than August 1, 15800, The use of these funds by the old board shows how absolutely impossible it was to run the county on a { two mill tax. But it is alleged that they had extra. ordinary expenses. The flood occurred in June, 1880; Hopkins was tried and | sentenced at November court, 1880, und Andrews was tried at January court, 11800, All this occurred before the tax levy of 1800, The then board of com. missioners knew exactly what they | would have to meet, and had they been | honest with themselves or the people, | they would have levied a sufficient mill. age to meet the expenses of the county, and not robbed the school, poor, road and state funds to meet the just obli. gation of the county. i But the present board committed one | more in weeks before it came, the | when last seen had their teeth, and said | be re eived no statement. | Financial it they should | they can not | the commis. | ounty for the year ending Jan- |, , g which in- | November 1, | great be offence, and just how it bothers us, Rev, CC. Hender. to condoned Fleck, ex-commissioner J { son's son-in-law, who lives in Bedford, Bedford county, writes the Gazette that he received no annual statement of the receipts and expenditures of this county. Poor Fleck! and born brought up in marriage to a in Bedford, is so much interested in our Poor Fleck ! of receipts and for the people of the The commissioners did right statements expenditures are county. to only supply the papers with supple- ments for their circulation inthe county { and no more tit Come off the bandwagon, Fiedler, t) vey up on fie and erau cage, where . MATERIAL YREE Times argument, to two MAKE RAW The New York great foree of Tarifl objec ts, of the special y agreed upon by the | Committee on Ways and Means, The bills to put cott nm the free | f nd bind ar twine t find wet that the du 1 effect taxe on the market, and t iy ' } 3 Way tated by a similar It would be right ough to repeal the d 1ty on cotton ties, but Southern farmer justi hould done to the i It would be goin wr end repeal the duty product while ret s dic om be doing justice thereby to the also be to manufactured first sining the duty on the materia The {« of cotton ties, who raw reign mania has no McK in ley legislation to contend with, turer gets his en. the As a matter of tire justice to both the makers and users of estton ties, the repeal of the ron ore and coal should go with the repeal of the duty cotton raw material free duties on on sidering the preponderat. of the farmers, Congress the aw y in ng ter shold d y Injustice to manufac. turers, who 1 material as much as consumers need free -—— mal free goods, Hexey Warrersox in hb ville Courier Jourual says 5] Mr. Harrison will be his own successor upon the National Republican ticket, and if there are those who think he will prove a weak nominee or a candidate easy to be beaten, they will find them. selves mistaken, That Mr. Cleveland is, outside of the state of New York, the of an overwhelming majority of the Demo- erats of the United States is an indispu. table fact. It is Cleveland first. the rest nowhere. But to all appearance it seems with the Democrats of New York it { Hill first and Cleveland nowhere, Are we again going to fall between the two stools of this old, neverending faction fight; this eternal. incurable seven year itch renewing itself every four years among the Democratic poli. ticians of the state of New York ? —_——— - Quay to be Defeated. An organization known as the Penn. choice is headquarters at 608, Walnut street, | Philadelphia, are perfecting arrange. | ments to defeat Quay for re-election to { the United States Senate. It is the hope and wish of all good citizens that the Keystone State be no longer represented in the UU, 8S. Senate by political tricksters, a———— . ONE of the strange features in (he politics of these times is the Republican opposition to the attempt made by a Democratic congress to furnish the peo- ple with cheap clothing. A tariff policy based upon the laws of the Chinese is re. sponsible for the remarkable position | taken by the Republicans, -——— | IT is reported that President Harrison | has said that he wants no office holders or negroes sent as delegates to the na. tional convention. We doubt this story, It lacks the Harrisonian flavor. The rule of life in the Harrison family is to take anything they can get, without ex- ception as to race, color or position. —— Fro the bold stand taken by our friend James 1. Strohm, he certainly should be sure of the renomination from: his party : it was a great political move. Alexandrian.ike in conception and Na. poleon like in execution. It startled the populace—in his mind, | To with | | manufacturers, ] Louis- | |sylvania Republican Committee, with | WILL THEY RESIGN? WILL THE GAZETTE ‘EN. FORCE ITS DEMAND ? AnOpen Appeal lo Behalf of the Democrats of Contre county for Commissioners Ad to Remain Helm Let the Good Work Continne and the Band Play wms and Geodhart ut the (ied L. {hart Adams Democratic Board of Co Gon T. members and un.y Cor mismoners GENTLEMEN-We have observed in the last issue of the (Fazetis a paper sincere. of the world iz of the ir) ly devoted to the morals general and to the official conduct servants of tl e people in particul scathing arraignment of t which you have of Yitit Approa ys charge of the important trust to you by a confiding populace in ember 1860, It is imy Iss! H fe heartfelt sympathy we are sure you ly crave at our hand his the hour « To be the neion 1s of Mir want charge and A Journa extravagance, incompe flagrant mismanagement. Dn shall we vole +) , wie prize fishly laying bare H 1 VicCal I~ | w shall wear the signet of pa. | t riotie devot | | Surely we have the public ¢ 4 T¥ fore adequate. | ly appreciated the conscientious, non- | partisan minority member of yourboard: | but now all things are changed and the silent, undemonstrative gentleman be- | comes a giant in { bed of political chic the columns of the of | and synonym for that | not from the truth | requited devotion rendered an lable service to be | county; and we are almost persuaded to people of Cer | Join him his request {or your resignation But we have a lingering bope that there that that ears of this | devoted public servant and his unerring may have been some mistake and the rumblings and murmurings seem 10 have reached the mouthpiece were as greatly misunder- | stood and as widely misinterpreted as { the sounds and warnings of the political | avalanche of 1880, that engulfed and | swept the Republican party in | county from power. 1'bere is alurking suspicion that the sensible people of the county have correctly taken the measure of that sheet and its self sacrificing con- | tributors and, fearing you might unad.- | visedly grant their request, we feel it | incumbent upon us to urge you not io re- | sign. Should you resign now the court, | as itis at present constituted, wight not | adopt the suggestion of the Gazette and Centre | appoint two good competent democrats | | to take charge of the important affairs of your office which the taxpayers of Centre county (in no uncertain tone) indicated in 1890 should Le managed by the party to which you belong. Had they cause to ask that a change | be made ? perhaps not. On January 1st 1858 a Republican Board, by their own statement, found a balance in favor of nest egg as it were, and on Jan. 1st 1891 turned over to you a balance against the county of $5267 63, to pay—with what nothing. If you had even a State tax fund or an unseated land fund to daw upon we could understand how you might have worried through at least one year on a two mill-tax, but then you hadn't, and we have been informed that you were not only deprived of that source of revenue, but, this years state. ment also shows that your predecesso in office left one small bill’ of #7608.00 which had been stolen from the town. ship's road, school and poor funds; also an item of #1 350.46 of state tax of 1880, requiring you to pay in addition $35.80 interest, and $67.52 collection fee to the Atty, General on account of the delay, and #7,001.89 State tax of 1800—making a total of $10,124.65 misappropriated by them , and used to pay county orders ; and also other unsettied bills of former years which you had to pay to the am't of #4 805,87 «making inall a grand total of 820.928.52, for weal 7 | the county of only, #2100853, a little | rs | which And a additional tax of one mill. amo 4) were lo your inted to former Re- indebted- you have n and treasury of ; pavers of Centre eounty or tl and other it your s not to resign, In the make provision, hough £11,500, it would not pay the | publican board’s monstrous | ness of 820 928.52 by #9 425.52, administration, clea are, with a balance in t given us an HE i I 2 351 64 to IAL mr accusms feelings and ily the terms cartless, and we reflection { change its mind an rithdraw its im. 1 sign. » beg of you not to resign have rue thos that mn Lhe calamity rejoice ha i ( entre cou 3 | present ; in favor was sem exact truth made Na certain | to prison for stealing. Ti in regard to that matter hi, if | known, be as troublesome 1 he | tional Banking high-toned politicians unpaign fund handlers. We hope that the Con- nvestigating nd some sysieln may - > “ The Coal Trust and its Victims [N.Y World Editorial Fel the State of Peamn- supporting the | great coal trust because they think that the people of New York will be the | ahief sufferers ? It is true that nearly all the people of New York will suffer from this con. spiracy to raise the price of fuel. It i» { true that the beneficiary of the conspir acy will be the great Penasylvania eo. poration that has monopolized the cosl | properties of the State, Bat it is alee. | true that the coal consumers of Pean- | sylvania will suffer from the tyrany of the trust, Are the people of sylvania in earnest in It is the Pennsylvania idea, however, | that capitalists and corporations, espe. | cially of the State, are of the first im | portance, and that consumers are per. sons who ought willingly and cheerful. ly to contribute to the enrichment of {the special favorites of eleemosynaey | laws. From the most conspicuons te | the humblest citizen a great majority of | Pennsylvanians assume this attitude. | But when they say that New York will {suffer and Pennsylvania will prosper | they forget that New York in this in | stance stands for all consumers of coal | wherever they may dwell. There are some people in Pennaylva. Inia who have heretofore made manly {and successful fights against similar | conspiracies. Fortunately one of these is Governor and another is Attorney” { General of the State, Governor Patti son once Look the initiative for the peo. | ple, and it is to be hoped that he will {not falter now. The iden that the | State cannot interfere for the righting of a private wrong does not apply im this case. This combination is am | Assault upon the people, and the duty of the Governor is to protect both the | people of his own State and those of | other States who are assailed by law {less conspiracies existing in Penney | vaaia, As the York (Pa) Gasette says: | “There are some things about which a conscientious magistrate has no personal | choice.” The enforcing of obedience | to the Constitution of the State is one of them. ~( Published by roquest.) —Selling my entire | stock at and below cost—Simon Loeb,
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