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THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 25,
1900,
he Centre Demorvat,
CHAS, R. KURTZ, - - - PROPRIETOR.
FRED KURTZ, SR..}
CHAS. R. KURTZ, (
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
£1 50 per year,
$l "
EDITORS,
Regular Price « - - - - -
If pald in Apvance .
"CIRCULATION OVER 2600.
Democratic National Ticket.
PRESIDENT
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
VICE PRESIDENT
ADLAI E. STEVENSON oe
« Nebraska
I1inols
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL
P. GRAY MEEK.
POR CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE:
N.M. EDWARDS... cvceivnnnennnnnes WH TTAMS pOTt
HARRY E. GRIMM Doylestown
FOR CONGRESS
JAMES K. P. HALL. .i..covisse vr v une. KIK County
County Ticket.
FOR ASSEMII
J. H. WETZEL
J. W. KEPLER
FOR JURY COMMISSIONER
FREDERICK ROBB evra vriisnnnnns
Bellefonte,
«Ferguson Twp
EDITORIAL.
““lsee in the near fulure a crisis
approaching that unnerves me and
causes me lo tremble for the safely
of my country. As aresull of the
war, corporations have been en-
throned, and an era of corruption
in high places will follow, and the
money power of the country will
endeavor lo prolong ils reign by
working upon the prejudices of the
people, until all wealth is aggrega-
led in a few hands and the Republic
s destroyed. [feel al this moment
more anxious for the safely of I
country than ever before, even in
’
the midst of war.’
THE strike is over same as
the Philippines is over.
TaE Daily News announces ‘‘republi-
can victory in the air.” Yah, it's all air
with these gentry-millionaire,
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CENTRE should assert her
home pride and give her sons, Hall for
congress and Meek for auditor-general,a
good send off with their votes.
>
COUNTY
I¥ it were possible for the machine to
defeat Hall for congress (which is out of
the question
of his best and most useful friends.
se -
the soldier would lose one
Tox REED sneered at
Kinley
out of the Porto Ricans.
that Tom
two eights anti-McKinley.
making three.quarters
Reed is three
IT is stated in the Eastern
the Standard Oil Company,
|
w hict
Hanna
1
+L
a trust, if we are to believe Mr
is about to declare another dividend of 8
per cent 1g
50 per cent, or
making a total for this year of
7.000. 000.
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DEMOCRATS, independent re;
get out the whole vote for Bryan,
Meek and the entire ticket. The
are bright, avd a full vote will
downing of the trust machine
millionaire sharpers who are |
WETZEL AXD KEPLER will not vote
an
creating new offices, nor favor padded
increase of salaries, not in favor of
pay rolls, nor vote against any proposi-
tion to insure honest elections and to
balk ballot box stuffing and frandulent
registration,
- . .
the Sus
quehanna fishermen use crabs for bait
under the musical
Aroxc Penns creek and on
name of "hoofers.”
We know of no term which more fitting-
ly applies to McKinley than “hoofer”’
he has hoofed out of every
has yet taken on any political
position he
(question,
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Tug republicans ask Centre county
voters to support Clearwater because he
is a Sunday schod! man.
but if that is to be the issue for congress
man, and they were sincere, why dida"t
they take Crittenden, of
who has a tenfold better record as a Sun.
That's clever
our own county,
day school man, than Clearwater ?
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KEPLER is galning friends right along;
he is one of the rank and file and natur.
ally is in sympathy with whatever con.
duces to the public weal, Of Wetzel it is
sufficient to say that he has been tried
and not found wanting, Quayism will
be given a wide berth by these men of
the people and they will support no
legislation detrimental to the interests of
the taxpayers,
po ————————
Tux republican gimlet politicians are
trying to bore holes for their candidate
for congress because Lis name has the
high soundivg jingle of “Clearwater.”
They have nothing, it would seem, to
fall back on but that. A man might be
called “‘murkywater” and be a very
estimable man for all that, whilst some
other fellow might bear the name of
Clearwater who, if stirred up by even a
little stick would show up murkyness
over the whole pool,
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Bellefonte |
Liberty Twp. |
FOR FARMERS.
NUGGETS
The past two or three years the crops
In years previous
it isa
| have been a failure,
when there were such failures,
well known fact that the farmer
| compensated by an increase in price
| thé scarcity put up the price. Then why
| is it that the old rule no longer comes to
|
|
Was
the farmer's relief? Now
| every farmer in Centre county and in
| the this
[ to be a sad truth, worse
| than
.
| crops large or small,
unfortunate
United States’ knows and feels
The thing is
reversed : it is low prices, be his
leggparly
meet him in all he has to sell, whilst
| higher prices have been set up against
him for all he has to buy, One hears the
farmer making this his every-day come.
| plaint und while he prays for relief he
helps on the wrong by voting wrong.
The trusts have brought this unfortunate
| state of affairs upon him. The trusts
| control the prices of his crops and in
their unholy greed keep the price down
that they may reap a rich harvest from
the toil of the agriculturlst and then
double up the wrong on him by making
him pay double and treble for all he
| buys from them, and that means all he
needs- for it is a notorious fact that the
| trusts control all that is in the markets
the These
| including farmer's crops.
"| trusts are the oftspring of the republican |
| party, now the party of the rich and the
of the
their millions from the sweat of the agri-
| creator millionaires who amass
cultural and laboring classes.
Every toiler feels there is something |
Put the blame
| where you will and it will never fit
wrong and out of gear.
the
| day of the trusts there existed no such
wise than as above stated. Before
opportunities for the rich few to impov- |
erish the toilers of the land and reduce
to the
The
William J.
president.
them condition of serfs
be strangled if
the
siaves., trusts will
Bryan becomes next
If the farmers vote to con-
tinue the McKinley-Hanna regime
other four years, then the millionaires
and trusts remain on top and the toile
the bone and sinew of the land, will |
the under dog.
te ——— .
DISCOVERED IN CUBA.
The expedition sent to Cuba
Smithsonian Institute to coll
1 ¢
animals and plants has returned loade
prices |
other- |
and |
fl
THE BALLOT THIS YEAR.
At present the presses in this office are
hard at work turning out the ballots for
the coming
It will be a larger sheet than
use in Centre county at
election,
usual on accont of the presidential ticke t,
the
torn from the stub, and will require over
making ballot 20x23 inches when
a half ton of book paper for the job,
official
There
| seven columns and six tickets as follows :
there being about 18 and
00
4000 sample ballots. will be
| Republican, Democratic, Prohibition,
Socialist Labor, Peovles and
and then the blank column,
{ contains 32 names of the difterent presi
dential electors and that is what es
it so large, while the county nomiuces
only take up a small portion at the bot.
tom.
The p-ohibitionists in this county fail.
ed to file their vomination papers for the
| office of Assembly, within the proper
"time in the state department at Harris.
burg, and in consequence the same are
{ omitted from the ballot, and the pro.
hibition voters will have to write the
names in the blank column at the right
| of the ticket, Their nominees are John
D. Gill, of Rev,
Jezrell Womelsdorf, pastor of the Evan-
Philipsburg and the
| gelical church at this place.
| In Millkeim there will be two election
}
{| ballots, and a separate ballot box where
I!
they vote on the question of erecting
water works in that place.
lumn
the
In the adjoining « we give the
Democrat
the
| exact reproduction of
ticket as it will appear official
:
ap; on
ballot this year. t
is the same in size,
only there are dif-
ferent names in the various blanks, It
will aid you in voting by carefully
lowing instructions which are differ
{ent from years, in the
of the presidential ele
A
istructions carefully
an- |
down with specimens and with tales of |’
adventure more strange than the freaks |
| they brought with them.
Rats of an edible species—some three
feet long,
ing eighteen pounds
noue were brought back to this country
alive. All the
adventurers and the snakes
were eaten by
hese rats
none of which
hungry
on the isl; are ven
nearly all been eaten
omous—have
famished Cubans and are
sSCarce.
There
that beat these all
are around
not edible; but
Hanna |
rodent ]
are over five feet ut
from
THE CURRENT.
doctrine
leaders. Among these may be mention.
ed, notably, ex-Governor Boutwell, Mas
sachusetts ; General John Beatty, Ohio:
Senator Wellington, Maryland ; late As- |
sistant Secretary of the Interior, Webster
Davis ; Joseph DD. Buery,
West
many others we might mention
Republican
Elector-at-Large, Virginia, and
exr-President Harrison, who pronounces
M'Kinley's policy wrong.
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A FEW FACTS.
“The republican patty spends its time
congratulating itself upon the existence
did not cause and
for
of things which it
shirking respon things which
it has done.”
“We are not opposed to that wealth |
which the reward of honest
toil, and is enjoyed by those who give to
comes as
society something in for
which society bestows upon them,
\ retarn
The
democratic party is not only not
enemy of honest wealth, but the demo.
cratic party is the best friend of that
wealth that represents ability of muscle
of
tion,"
Speed A
| or mind
employed in its accumla
Irom Bryan's Madison Juare
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CLEARWATER is being run for con
gress on the Sunday school hobby with
being a dyed in-the.wool machine man
and consequently will support Hauna's
270 million subsidy steal and cast his
votes in favor of keeping up the gigantic
trusts, This district does not want that
brand of Sunday school man to repre.
set it in congress.
Tug tariff hakes the trusts—put every
trust article on the free list and the trusts
are halted at once, no need of waiting
five years for a constitutional amend:
ment in which time the trusts would have
raked in what little value the consumers
have left,
Notably |
that |
the |
the hope of drawing attention from his
including the tail, and weigh. |
were captured, but
DINNER PAIL X-RAYED
BRYAN'S POSITION
In his speech last week at Gloversville,
‘ , Mr, he
elected, immediately give independence
. wr
N \ 14) ’
said that i
ryan would, if
to the natives of Philippine Islands aad
then protect them
He
of
{ county of Fulton in
from outside interfer.
| ence referred particularly to the
the
In
danger Glove Trusts, affecting
a large degree,
he
response to in he said that
wouM
tariff from all
destroy trusts by removing
they
an in
goods which manu.
factured in order to prevent
in prices at home, and so they could
not
sell goods abroad im competition
foreign manufacturers
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TWO SIDED
was two sided on the silver qu
He was two sided on the Porto
question
He wastwo sided on a mattero
duty!
He was two sided in his Cuban policy
He
policy.
With him it has been all things toevery
was two sided in his Philippine
:
| body, and nothing for any boly to safe-
ly swear by at any time,
Aud that's all there is about Bill Mc
Kinley,
|
a ————
Tun deserving soldier has found a trae
i friend in congressman J. K.P. Hall, Mr.
| Hall has secured more pensions for de.
| serving soldiers of this district than any
| of our former congressmen. Bear this
in mind, soldier boys, when you vote and
let gratitude lead you to cast your bal.
lots for your sincere friend, J. K.P, Hall,
for congress,
Socialist |
Each ticket
The Republican ticket |
{ the same, and reading the fol. |
the |
rease |
with
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FOR A STRAIGHT TICKET
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STERN
TrUTNMen
EVENS ON.
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
(Mark 22.)
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AUDITOR GENERAL.
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CONGRESS.
(Mark 2)
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Representative in Congress.
(Muk 1)
James KK. P. Hall.
Representative in the General
Assembly.
(Mark 2
J. H Wetzel,
J. W. Kepler.
Jury Commissioner.
(Mark 1)
Frederick Robb,
FOR THIS WEEK ONLY
we will sell Men's regular Black Clay Worsted
$10.00 Suits at
$7.50
You have your choice in either Sack or Cutaway.
vy
We also receved a lot of Men's and Boys’
heavy blue SERGE SUITS that we will sell at
We also have one of the newest and most up-
to-date lines of
GNIS Furnishing Goods
ever shown in Centre county.
When you buy here you are
sure to get the proper thing, and
at the proper prices.
YOURS FOR BUSINESS,
SIM, THE GLOTHIER,
Reynold’s Bank Building,
Allegheny St. BELLEFONTE, PA.