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CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed. and Prop.
DISTINGUISHED
CAMPAIGNERS
Who Will be at Bellefonte on Sat-
urday Evening
SPECIAL TRAINS PROVIDED
Over all the Railroads—A List of Speakers
Who Will
the Issues of the Campaign Presented,
Be Present—Come and Hear
The George A. Jenks campaigning
party will be in Bellefonte on October
2gth. It will be their first visit to this
county, since the great State Campaign
of 1895 has opened.
The Jenks party includes, in addition
to ex-Solicitor General George A. Jenks,
ex-Congressman W. H, Sowden, of Al-
lentown, candidate for Lieutenant Gov.
ernor; Captain Patrick Delacy, of Scran-
ton, candidate for Secretary of Internal
Affairs; Calvin M. Bower, of
candidate for Superior Court Judge, and
T
Je
Bellefonte,
1
by
N. Weiler, the workingman's friend
candidate for Congressman-at-large, to-
gether with a cor
| in Pennsylvania today, perhaps in the
| country. It is alleged that Senator Quay
| has recently said of him that “He is the
most dangerous man that ever took the
| stump against my people.”
| Senator Quay is also alleged to have | Printed in 1884 and Were Written |
{ said that the greatest mistake of his po- |
| litical life was the costermonger letter |
that he
which he called him a liar and a dog.
For turee days later, in Senator Quay's
own handwriting, Mr, Sowden proved
{ beyond all doubt the statements he made
and which called forth this abusive let.
ter, written on the United States Senate's
letter head.
Capt. Patrick Delacy, the hero of the
Battle of the Wilderness, and a comrade
of Corporal Sowden, has worked won-
ders by way of stirring ap the old vet.
crans who now appreciate the fact that
Senator Quay has surrendered himself
with a sclect little band of professional
which 1s
through it
lier
political soldiers,
hoped to get the sol vote in line,
Wherever the party has been ‘The
It against this little
¢ and hear the
MR. JENKS AND CORPORATIONS
Oue of the foolish allegations bro
against Mr. Jenks by Dr. Swallow
i certain of his reckless followers is
GEORGE A. JENKS.
The crowds that
party wherever it has been since the
opening of the campaign is clearly indic-
ative of the revolution against the Boss
and Machine in politics, aroused as the
people are against Treasury looters, pro-
moters of padded pay-rolls and inflated
investigating bills, they have turned out
in great numbers to hear Mr. Jenks’
proposition as to how best reform can be
installed at Harrisburg. His frank ex-
pressions, great sincerity and undoubted |
honesty of purpose have won his audi. |
ences wherever he has spoken.
The Secretary of the National House |
of Representatives has been flooded with
requests for the House record of Mr.
Jenks conduct as a member of the Forty-
fourth Congress. This is a mirror, so to |
speak, of this remarkable man’s life. |
The fearless leader of that Congress is |
the same George A. Jenks who now, in |
the name of reform and common hones-
ty, asks that the Machine be ousted
from the State (Capitol. His record as
Solicitor General of the United States
and as assistant Secretary of the Interior
is also attracting considerable attention.
Every act contained therein, official and
otherwise, indicates the noble, fearless
character and integrity of the man.
His supreme conservatism and high
regard for the truth have won him thou-
sands of votes in this campaign. In
spite of the fact that the paid agents of
she Machine have been at work seeking
flaws on his record since the day of his
snomination by the Altoona Convention,
not a reflection has been cast upon lus |
record, either as a citizen, a lawyer or a
public official. It is remarkable of him
that not once during this campaign bas |
Mr. Jenks made a statement against the |
Machine or the Republican party that is |
not either a matter of record or fact sus-
ceptible of proof by reputable witnesses.
.Even his statements as to the inequality
of the Republican tax laws, showing as
they do, the evident unfairness of this
system, remain uncontradicted by his
«opponents, It seems that his every
word is truthful and as far beyond re-
_proach as though it had been quoted di-
rectly from the Bible,
What be would do to wipe out the Ma-
chine in the eyent of his election he has
already said. Those who know him
deem this entirely sufficient; he said: “I
would use my best endeavors in the in-
terests of the common people. I can
promise nothing more than thie—I shall
do my best.” To anyon: who knows
Mr. Jenks, these words speak volumes,
Anything further would be superfluons.
Corporal Sowden, with that famous
“Use the Federal patronage for what it
is worth’ letter of Senater Quay, and his
undeniable evidence of the sale of Fed-
eral and State offices throughout the
Commonwealth, together with his bold
and fearless arraignment of the Machine
is arousing the people wherever he goes.
M1. Sowden is a wonderful man, He
have greeted this |
he was a corporation lawyer, especi
a Standard Oil Company attorney.
nothing against the fair fame of a .
yer that he is employed by the Standard
Oil Company, or by any other corpor.
ation, Winless he allow himself to be paid
to uphold what he knows to be wrong.
The great corporations employ the best
legal talent
their
Jenks is
they can find to carry on
The Mr.
being in the
litigations. lie about
still circulated
The Standard Oil
Company has become 50 odious that the
Swallowites expected to soil Mr. Jenks’
back county d
istricts.
| reputation by rubbing off some of the
odium upon him. But they appear to |
bave made a miscalculation. In deny-
ing that he ever had been the attorney
of the Standard Oil Company Mr. Jenks
was enabled to deny that he had ever
been a corporation attorney except in a
single instance and for a short time in
settling the damage claims of a railroad
company which was pushing its lines in-
to the county in which he lives,
This was an astonishing revelation. |
The Philadelphia “Record” comment.
ing on it well says: "What other lawyer |
in Pennsylvania of like age, legal ability |
and large practice could truthfully say
that he had never but in a single in- |
stance been in the employ of a corpora.
tion ? In respect of his freedom from cor- |
poration influence, from machine politics i
or from any bias or prejudice that would |
lessen his capacity for faithful service as |
governor of Pennsylvania even his politi. |
cal enemies must in candor admit that |
George A. Jenks stands forth remarka. |
ble.”
,——
REAL ONES VS, PROFESSIONALS,
The Democratic state ticket is the real
soldier ticket. Mr, Jenks’ record on the |
pension question should make every |
soldier his friend and supporter,
ernmental charity, and all his votes on
pension bills were founded
theory.
Mr, Sowden was a corporal in the
war, was wounded at Antietam and won
an honorable record.
Mr. Delacy wears a congressional
medal of henor for conspicuous gallant.
ry at Gettysburg, is semor vice president
on that
United States and has been for thirty-one
years continuously president of the As.
sociation of Survivors of the One Hun.
dred and Forty-third Pennsylvania vol.
unteers, in which regiment he served
through the entire rebellion,
These were real soldiers as distinguish.
ed from the professional soldiers on the
Republican ticket, who have used the
stantly at the public crib ever since the
rebellion closed,
OT rs
Nobody doubts but that Jenks is ab.
solutely honest, No one can deny that
he is by far the ablest among ail the can.
is admittedly the greatest stump speaker
didates. Why then should an .
fuse to give theit Dearly sapaor, |
addressed to Mr. Sowden in |
ANCIENT HISTORY REVIVED
| these articles.
In |
congress he urged eloquently that pen. |
sions are the soldiers’ right, wot a gov. |
of the Medal of Hovor Legion of the |
soldier racket to keep themselves con. |
BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 27, 18¢8.
‘THOSE ATTACKS
| ON] KP HALL
!
by a Republican
|
Some Weak Efforts to Injure Hall—<A Lot of
| Abuse Relashed—How 1t Happened to be
Printed in The Centre Democrat in 1884
Without Foundauoen or Fact
During the past few weeks the moss.
back editors of some
}
ican coutemporaries—the Gazette
to a discussion of old dead issues,
date, progressive or original, and for that
reason it 18 a mistake to expect an
new or vigorous from them
This year these mossba
can’t adyance a si
argument why Wm. C. Ans
returned
time attacking i, were written }
Frank Bible, who never was a democrat,
get
except to get an office like some others,
i and now | iting a republican paper in
the western part of this state.
It matters not who wrote them, the im-
portant issue is are they true. After care-
fully looking over the files of the paper
for that campaign we find several col.
umns of abusive, scurrilous, malignant
attacks upon Mr. Hall
indecent.
Nothing is too
low or The whole tone of
these articles is enough to prove the bit.
er, spiteful, diity motive of the writer
and is enough to offend the intelligence
of any fair minded reader
In all these columns of slime and abuse
of Mr. Hall, there is nof a single fact or
data produced lo substantiale the asser
fioms. Euvough 1s known of the author of
these articles in this community to at
once discredit them.
Mr. Hall need pay little attention to
The democrats of this
county endorsed his candidacy. In fact,
they urged his nomination at the DuBois
conference and will ratify the same at |
the polls, m November.
tracts, written by a republican for this
aper in 1884. The people who live in |
pape ’ p i | management of public affairs to a plain,
Elk, Forrest and Clanon counties know |
. {| honest business basis,
Hall personally these many years | ‘
: + . | candidate is not a new man
and they will go to the polls in Novem. | .
ber to vindicate the career of Jim Hall as | pene
a citizen and busioess man in that com- | .
’ " | of the United States and acquitted him.
minnity. For every democrat the repub-
licans will capture by those articles ten |,
h ”™ . | ing down that office he returned to pri.
republicans will stand by Jim Hall. If } !
| vate life, making no endeavor
would be legitimate campaign literature, | furener political
As itis, the cowardly mossback editors |
have no hesitancy in using their mud |
: , | his
batteries, no matter what dirty ammuni- |
Mr.
these articles were backed by facts they
tion they use, and they will discover later
that they only besmirched themselves,
We hope the mossbacks will publish
more of this *‘Ancient History,"
supply is by no means exhausted.
———
LEGISLATIVE ISSUES,
Stone comes the duty to elect men to the
legislature who will not support Quay
| for re-election to the U. 8. Senate. The
is to defeat Quay. It is by his control of
party.
| All persons who favor 2 continuance of
| Quay methods should support Messrs,
| Daley and Townsend for the legislature,
| There can be no doubt but that they are
| Quay candidates. They have refused to |
| tell the people that they are anything
|else. They were nominated by a con-
| vention that was run by Quay republi-
{ cans and there is no evidence that they
| are for anything else but Quay.
Voters who want tosee a change in
state affairs, who are opposed to Quay
and his methods, will make no mistake
by voting for Messrs Wetzel and Foster,
They have openly pledged themselves
on this point. They do not wish to de.
ceive the people, but will oppos: Quay-
ism at every point,
of our local repub-
and
Republican—have devoted their attention
None
of these editors are wide-aw ake, up-lo-
Next in importance to the defeat of |,
| jons from
| this bids fair to be
| campaign reaches its chmax.
THE “LEADER” FOR JENKS.
Can't Stand Stone and the Bosses Any Longer
Supporting Jenks,
{ From the Pittsburg Leader of last Friday
When Hoo. William A. Stone began
| his canvass for the republican nomina-
| tion to the governorship, he had the
friendship and the hearty support of the
“Leader,” given him on the strength of
his individual good qualities, his status
as our home candidate and the assur.
that candidacy
involved neither subserviency to the po-
ances then received his
litical ring which operates at Harrisburg,
with the
whole te as its field, nor
state
association with the muni ring
the
county of Allegheny by the throat, and
ipal
which haus the city of Pittsburg d
an
which, two years ago, was denounced by
Colonel Stone hin accursed
behalf of
neotly
thereon, t
das Faeent
election purposes
efforts, and we feel that they are enlisted
in a cause the merit of which no
of Pennsylvania with an on
and a corresponding modicum of frank.
wd to challenge
-———
REPUBLICAN INDORSAL
ness can aff
burg Leader
: Reg
The candidacy of George A. Jenks has
been the means of causing a complete
union of the Democratic factions the
rubernatorial
Harrity and his
their
Mr. Jenks as are Colonel J
work of the
Wi
are as pronounced in
campaign
lam | lieutenants
advocacy of
M
and those who aided him in the handling
of the Altoona couvention,
Gufley
On all bands
it is understood tliat Mr. Jenks is not a
politician, is the ordinary sense of the
term; that he cares pothing about the
ups and downs of the factions in his par-
ty, and that his one ambition in seeking
i G -
We hope that every republican paper | the office of Governor is 10 acquire the
in the district will republish these ex- |
opportunity of cleansing the State gov.
ernment, abolishing official criminality
rod maladmivistration and restoring the
The Democratic
before the
Under President Cleveland he
filled the high office of Solicitor General
self with distinguished ability. On lay.
seek
preferment on the
strength of the success already achieved;
but the worth of the man, integrity,
trustworthiness and his splendid
qualifications for service in an adminis.
his
| trative capacity could not be hidden un-
der a bushel, and, by a peculiarly happy
| inspiration, the Democracy turned to him
as the |
at the moment when the naming of an
irreproachable candidate meant every.
thing to that party,
Having the solid support of the Democ-
racy and the certainty ol heavy access.
the Republican ranks, Mr.
Jenks’ prospects are unquestionably of
the most promising character, The on.
| ly obstacle remaining in his path is the
! way to destroy Quayism and corruption | ; : "
] y y Quay ! | disposition of many bolting Republicans
| to give their support to Dr, Swallow, the
| federal patronage that he has been able | a Pi
to hold the control over the republican | ‘
jl P | traditions by supporting a Democrat; but
Prohibitionist, rather than violate empty
removed before the
TRE following leading Republican
papers have turned their backs on Stone
and gre supporting Jenks: The Phila-
delphia Ledger, The Philadelphia Press,
The Pittsburg Dispatc: and The Pitts.
burg Leader, The Philadelphia Timex
is indirectly supportihg Quay and Stone
by urging Democrats to vote for Swallow,
They are under obligations to Quay and
will 1u this way help him pull through. |
The Times always occupied a question.
able political course.
pi
Joux [7 DALEY wants a continual
pull. He was at Washington long’
enongh to get uneasy without an office.
| sent some of them to you,
Che Centre Lemocy
"UNFAIR TAXATION
OF OUR FARMERS.
Corporations Pay Less and Often
Wholly Exempt.
BURDEN PUT ON FARMLAND.
Mr. Wanamaker Explasas it with fasts and
figures— What the Kepublican Party has
Done, by Legislation, for Our Farmers
Why a Change is Necessary
For years th
have been clamoring
equitable
have been unfairly treated
taxation while great
been
specially favore
wholly
that the
been
ners pald
nged In
by the Can
and the Republican
The statements
foo much tax }
speeches
IAYe
public Heput mn
didate for governor
slate cl mar
Nomine
burg speech
his reg
eaid
Pennsylvanis
realized that it
Republican party” (mear
machine). Speaking of ou
he jared This is a great triumph
for the Republican party, and one of
which all Republicans should feel justly
proud.” and, continuing. he said "It
seems to me that it would be much
easier to prove that farmers, laborers
and mechanics are the favorites of the
Republican party, who have been so
highly favored by its legislation.”
At Hollidaysburg on Bept. 15 Candi-
date Stone Is again quoted as saying
that “The people are not taxed, and
not one foot of your land (meaning
the people) pays one cent of tax; we
have taken the tax off the lands and
put it on corporations.”
ELKIN QUOTED.
Republican Chairman Eikin, at Car-
Hisle on Aug. 31, said: “We (meaning
the Quay machine) have taken taxes
off the lands, occupations, trades and
all personal property, except money at
interest.” At Pittsburg on Sept. 7 he
again declared that “the purpose and
policy of the Republican party (mean-
ing the Quay machine) has been to re-
move the burden of taxation from the
people and place it upon those who
obtain some franchise from the state,
and we (meaning the Quay machine)
have reason to feel proud of our rec
ord."
I am facing
largely of farmers
of the
Guay
fax sysiem
ded
an audience composed
Before me are men
who gain their livelihoud by the tilling
and handling of land. If there Is one
among you all who does not know that
the statements of Candidate Stone and
Chairman Elkin are false let him stand
up and say so. There may some
farmers here who on next election day
intend to vote to perpetuate the Quay
machine. To them 1 want to ask if
it ia a fact, as Candidate Stone assert.
ed in his Hollidaysburg speech, “that
you are not taxed and that not one
foot of your land pays one cent of |
taxes.” and whether It is true, as Chalr-
man Elkin states, that the Quay ma-
chine has taken the taxes off land?
If one gingle farmer in this audience
will come upon the platform and show
that his land 12 not taxed I will agree
to make six speeches a week for the
Quay machine from now until election
time, and If there Is one farmer here
who owns or works a farm that cane
not show by his tax receipts that ali |
these statements are untrue 1 will |
stand by the same offer. And If there
is one farmer who does not know that
he is unjustly taxed and is paying part
of the corporation's share I want him
to send me his hame and he will be
given proof of his happy ignorance.
The subject of taxation is a vast and
complex question, but there are phases
of It and facts concerning it that can
be reduced to simple, practical and con«
vincing propositions. And specifically
and with varied figures I want to pre- |
be
In this argument when I make use of
the word “corporations” I mean those
of that class that have 55 right to cone
demn and take private property for
their own use, sich as steam reuilroads
which pay no local taxes for county
| the
VOL. 20, NO. 42
township, school or road purposes pon
their roaMed and other property used
in the operation of thelr franchise And
also other gr combinations of cor-
porate such as pools and trusts
and companies capitalized t millions,
all of which maintain armies of agents
and to and surround
Jegislat) bodies whether national,
slate or munic
Candidate Bios
the st that the
entire cost
ernment,
to publi
grossly
eat
wealth,
a
lobbyists invade
ve
pal
lin the farmers of
ate r the
the
10 that
nio
t TReT
of C the
} coun-
ts i | Nt 1p treasury
3 5.8 Ther t passes through the
count r Yates and On-
: : Niagara Falls, paying at
the same rate in all inties named
Then take the Lehigh Valley
raliroad, which does not pay one cent
of tax on its roadbed and other real
estate for local purposes from the Del-
aware at Easton through the
counties of Northampton, Lehigh, Car-
bon, Luzerne, Wyoming and Bradford.
When it reaches the township of Van
Etten, in the state of New York, it
contributes $1.%2.33 to that township
treasury
ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION.
Then take the Delaware and Lacka-
wanna railroad, which contributes noth-
ing to the local treasuries in Pennsyl-
vania. When it reaches the township
of Ashland, New York, only touching
ene corner, it contributes 3226.60 toward
township taxes. To the township of
Elmira it pays M2582 to the city of
Elmira $1188.70, to Horseheads $926.06,
to Big Flats $1,157.20, and s0 on to
every township it passes through.
Then take the Tioga branch of the
Erie railroad, which runs through Tio-
ga county, Pennsylvania, and does not
pay one dollar on its 50 miles of road-
bed in that county. When it reaches
Southport, in the state of New York,
on a valuation of $63,000 it pays to the
township treasury $441
Then the Fall Brook railroad and
leased lines, which pay nothing on
thelr foadbed in the state of Pennsyl-
vania, the moment it reaches the town.
ship of Lindley, in New’ York state,
contributes $1500 to the local treasury
of that township
It should be remembered that in New
York all these railroads, in addition to
local taxes specified, pay also a
#tate tax for the general purposes of
slate government. Yet all the raliroads
I have mentioned pay no more or no
less in tie state of New York than the
farmer, merchant, manufacturer, or the
money lender on their dollar. So agsin
“ i Schuyis
ari nt
again
river
| Candidate Stone's statement that core
porations pay more taxes in Pennsyl-
vania than In other states is proven
false
This ia Candidate Stone's misrepre-
sentation number 2.
Again, Candidate Btone asserts that
the corporations in Pennsylvania pay
their full and equal share of taxes,
| Now, under our state law, they pay
| but four mills on the dollar of their cap-
| tal stock (not counting the $500,000,000
| that escapes altogether); but does not
every farmer here know that he pays
from 15 to 26 mills on every dollar of
his capital stock? Is this equal and
falr taxation? This proves the falsity
of another of Mr. Stone's statements,
This is misrepresentation number 3.
FARMERS IN OTHER STATES,
Again, Candidate Stone asserts that
the farmers of Pennsylvania are no
more heavily taxed than those of other
states, Yet the average tax in Penne
sylvania on your land, for the
weary. has been from 16 to 30