4 THE CENTRE DEMOORAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. MAY 21, 1903. CHAS. R. KURTZ, }. OIRCULATION OVER 33500. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR Persons who send or bring the money to the office, and pay in advance, §1 per year, CENTRE DEMOCRAT clubs with N.Y. 3t-w World for... Pittsburg Stockman for Tribute Farmer, N. ¥ The date your subscription ‘expires is plain. ty printed on the label bearing your name, All eredits wre given by a enange of label the first issue of each month. Watch that after you re mit. We send no receipts unless by special request, Watch date on your label, Subscribers changing postofiice address, and not notifying us, are liable for same Subscriptions will be continued, otherwise directed We employ no collector. You are expected to send the money to this office, DEM. COUNTY COMMITTEE, 1903. unless Districts. Chairman, Postoflice Boroughs Bellefonte, 1 Jno Trafford PF. H, Garrity tien. RB. Meek “ W. F. Bradford Centre Hall Abram Weber Howard George Noll Milesburg F, P. Muss; Milthelm Phillipsburg Istw. J, W. | Philipsburg . and w. Ira Howe " rdw. Ed. ¢;. Jones 8. Philipsburg C. D. Dutcher Btate College M.S McDowe Wniony G. W. Rumbe Townships Bellefonte w, QOentre Hall tkens ip reer Burnside Qollege Curtin Ferguson e. p Ym. Quay W. H. Fry w.p Frank Bowerso Gregg no. p W. Ream adie 8 ‘rank Fisher Ww. p. } Halnes eo. p, “ w. p Halfmoon Harris Howard Huston (eo Penn Ha . 1 " Jerry Glen R.D. Arde B.5. Bro PRIMARY ELECTION, Democratic Primary Election and Coun- ty Convention, The democratic voters of Centre coun. ty will meet at the regular places for holding the general elections, in their respective election districts, on Saturday, May 30, 1903, to elect delegates to the county convention, Under the rules of the party the elec tion will be opened at 3 p. m., and close at 7 p. m. The delegates chosen at the above stated time will meet in the court house, in Bellefonte, on Tuesday, June and, 1903, at 12 o'clock, noon, to nomin- ate one candidate for Jury Commission. er, one candidate for County Surveyor; elect four delegates to the state conven. tion to be held in Harrisburg, and a chair. man of the county from January 1st, 1904, to January 1st, 1405 ; and to transact such other business committee, to serve as may appear before the convention in the interest of the party, APPORTIONMENT OF DELEGATES. The number of delegates to which each election district 1s entitled, as ap- proved and ratified county by the democratic committee on the 15th day of January, 1903, isas follows : The following is the Election D and No.of Delegates Bellefonte N. W.. I's strict, Votes for Gov. Haines ¢ | Half Moon * SHAFFER JOHNSON EDITORIAL, thes DEMOC read over the rules for RATS can the republican make some necessary changes - Ir said that Col. smiles with approval Ed. Chambers bear his name mentioned in convection with the judge. is to ship contest next year. Philadelphia burned chines om Tuesday. devices were driven out of Bellefonte and their existence in Snow Shoe and Philipsburg has been reported to the proper authori ties, who seem slow to act, So they say. 10 siot ma Similar Gov. PENNVPACKER called Nelan, the cartoonist, a “hired outcast” and then to avoid prosecution made an apology saying that he unconscious of making such a reference. The general opinion is that Sammy simply lied a bit. was AFTER years of political conspiracies and petty personal revenge towards prominent repnblicans in Centre county, Judge Love now very appropriately de- sires harmony next year, as he expects to be a candidate for re-election. For his sake everybody should be good. How many delegates to the Republican State Convention will allow themselves to be muzzied by the Quay-Pennypacker powers when the Press brought before that body? muzzier is Where will the Centre county delegates stand, muoz- zled or for the liberty of the Press ? a——— - - — - GOVERNOR PENNVPACKER is catching hall Columbia from newspapers all over the state, and outside the state, for his signing the libel bill, and his silly and babyish apelogy for his signature. He has been scored with the mont stinging severity, now let him try the new libel law on the press, whose constitutions! liberties he meant to wipe ont, Tur newspapers of Schuylkill county are announcing thus early that they will oppose the re-election of all members of the Legislature who voted for the press- muzzler. This affects one senator and three or four members of the house, This the newspapers of all parties in the state, should do, if they cherish the great principle of ‘free press’ freedom to denounce rascalities as well as the rascals. InsuRAncR Commissioner Durham having been appointed for another term in his office is preparing to go to Europe, where he will spend the summer, It is sald that during the three years he has held the office of insurance commission. er he has not devoted 30 days, all told, to his official duties, Deputies and clerks transact the business, This Durham is one of the infamous machine gang in Philadelphia, who did all in his power to have the “‘press.muzzier’’ passed. Of course, he don’t want any newspaper to say even as much as is given above. new | . | committee $s of Centre coun. | ’ ty and see where our own party could | Candidates to be Voted For Bellefonte, Pa. May 121} ’ thereby certify that in accorda of the den THE THIRD TERM TALK. A f the of poll o Democratic which made Arkansas, is chairman, has been by a Chicago paper on boom, or alleged boom. Of the twenty. eight Nationa! committeemen who res- ponded, out of about fifty who were con- sulted, only three expressed themselves in favor of Mr Twenty-five committeemen themselves strongly against such a nomi: nation or were nom committal. The seotiment elicited from the members of the National committee fairly represents the judgment of the party. It is not probable that it can be materially modi- fied or changed within the next year. Mr. Cleveland's name may 2s well be eliminated from the list of possible or probable Democratic candidates. The booming of his name appears to come more from Republicans than any other source. They want an easy mark. - DEMOCRATS who are jumping all over Pennypacker, Quay, Penrose, and the machine for the Press Muzzling should be honest. They certainly know that our present Democratic State Chair man, James K. Polk Hall, when this measure was up in the senate in his chair as dumb as a spoke when the roll was called, would not oppose the measure, practically assented in silence. It has been hinted that he was too frequently seen in company with Penrose at that time, to act otherwise. These are facts that are not palatable to honest Demo- crats. Such leadership does not inspire onfidence, passage, sat clam, never - Tur Governor of the Commonwealth has irritated the miners of the anthra. cite region by refusing to approve three of the bills which were introduced at their request and in the passagelof which they were specially interested. What the returns from the mining districts may reveal of the temper of the voters at the coming election will be another story. The miners are getling their eyes open to the fact that the machine bosses have been pulling the wool over their eyes. - Tun charge repeatedly made by the democrats, that the trusts were monopo- lizing everything to the detriment and lojury of the masses, was hooted at and denied by the party of trust builders. Now since the outcry against these mon. sters has brought several trusts into the courts and to (finding them qulitly, the people can see that the democrats were telling the truth, Tur republican resolutions, adopted at thelr convention om Tuesday, are silent as the grave on the trust iniquity, quiet on the stab at the liberty of the press, silent over the newly exposed post office frands—silent, is short, on all the abominations of the gang. A heroic set! ! too thin skinned to be in | | upon the Keystone State. { the ! | public official, | men | yoles | burg, POUNDING PENNYPACKER. If a public man ever dropped in the | estimation of the people, Gov. Penny- | packer is the man, His act of signing the new libel law, designed to muzzle | the newspapers of this state, aroused | such a storm of protest that it has attract- ed attention from Maine to California | and called forth a flood of criticism that is withering and humiliating, Never | was an official act so universally con- demned. It was conceived in infamy, to shield a set of political scoundrels, and put into force by a shameless, insolent apolo gist, the creature of Pennsylvania's politi- cal crooks. Gov. Pennypacker by this act has become a laughing stock and the subject for ridicule. His name arouses pity and contempt. The State Press is defiantly breaking the law in every pos- sible respect—they can not be curbed or restrained. The Press will be free be- cause the constitution guarantee's this right, and the publishers invite the gang to make a test of the law. One thing Pennypacker has won, and that is fame, for being the smallest of all the long line of men who have been call. ed to preside over wealth, this Great Common- His silly, absurd apology for signing ’ this new libel he was car- tooned and criticised, shows him to be because bill, public life, will long be remembered as one of the most rediculous state papers ever penned by a He has brought disgrace All this is t ose the by their £ 0 credit of Quay, Pent and who support such things After all the people dre reapin what they have sown RECENT DEATHS, I. NEWT of this place, died at his bome in a former resident x GinsoxN Lewis Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock Death was due to Jock jaw brought on by a fall. The deceased was 42 years of | age and some years ago was a baggage | master on the lLewishur | survived bh. Helis Barbara E bran r, Mrs his mother, by M. Gibson and one sister, Margaret. National | Senator Jones, of | the Cleveland | { fonte and was 63 | scientious member of the | church Cleveland's nomivation. | expressed | | Philadelphia, was struck by a { which he died to i Was a son of who ago left Bell and DAvin Kru: PER fonte eighteen years went piece and ed injar timber sust the Klepper was aged 42 } ¥ a ain es fiom Mr years and leaves h He Cai of following day survive a wife one d and David Klepper, a native Aaronsburg who died about a year ago SARAH ELIZABETH GRAHAM Meshic Grabam, died East High Death was due to a ¢ wile of at her home on street, Friday afternoon. nplication of dis. 1 3 was born in Belle. of eases. The deceases years age. Ever ince her childhood she has been a cou. A. M. RE. She is survived by the follow ing children : Mrs. George W. Freeman and George Graham, of Bellefonte ; Me- { lissa Graham and Mrs. John H. Riley, | Alexander, of Newark, N. J. MRS. MARGARET ALRXANDER: —wid. ow of the late Cyrus T. Alexander, died at the bowe of ber daughter, Mrs. Har. vey 8S. Yarrington, at Richmond, Vir- ginia, Tuesday evening, May 19, from the effects of an attack of pneanmonia in carly spring Her maiden name was Margaret Potter and she was born near Boalsburg, Centre county, May 8, 1837. Her grandfather, Fergus Potter was one of the early settiers of Penns Valley and came to this coustry from Ireland. Her father was Samnel Potter, in his time a prominent business man of Bellefonte. In October 1858 she was married to Mr, Her husband died several years ago. Her only son, James Alex. ander a young attorney at the bar of for final | this county, died only a few years ago | She is survived by two brothers and one sister, namely, William, of Pleasant Gap; James W., of Foreston, Ill.; Mrs. Donald McBride, of Oklahoma. The re. maing will arrive in Bellefonte this Thursday morning and the funeral will be from the Presbyterian church. In. terment in the Union cemetery, E SCANDAL. POSTOFFIC The investigations of the Postoffice Department continue to unearth numer. ous instances of violated law and and loose administrative methods, ad- though the Postmaster General is doing everything in his power to belittle the discoveries made and keep them from the public, priding himself on the extent to which he has been able to keep the facts from the press and the people. It is known, for instance, that circulars were sent to all carriers on rural routes re- questing them to forward to the free de. livery division the names and addresses of persons residing on their routes and it were sold to “get-rich-quick” concerns, mall order houses and others for a gener. ous sum. The Department itself had no use for the names. A recent discovery is to the effect that a large number of physicians have been carried on the rolls | as clerks in various postoffices, the nomi: nal duties of these doctors being to as. certain if men who claimed disability to work on account of sickness were actu. ally {ll or were shaming. There is vo ap- propriation in the law for doctors for the postoffice department and the prac. tice will be discontinued, Political conyentions are tame Chis season, | REPUBLICAN C0. is believed that the lists of such names | | suoh? delegate or the validity of such in CONVENTION Continued from Ist page. Executive Committee shall have the POW er and authority to name a candidate to fil such vacancy and certify the in the manner required by law, b, The election of Delegnles the different Connty districts iy tion shall for hol Conven | place such t dew County Chairman, kanll 1} unnounced in of the County Republican nt least four weeks Chairman, said « the IT districts durin lection to be held hours of two ind nine P yolls ol 0 wd polis t L pen : g the hour announcement, 6 Ea) district I wlection shall be entitled to or forty thereof! over tepublican votes, « twenty trict at the unt preceding tion, provided that ea titled to ut least one delegate nt Convent esd; 14T & concerning hall be held to be re tes fi per nd obese tw sons having th of ve su bh office for the sons eat ’ ROO irther the candi recels a a vEntes | vention sha ¢ thereupon nated reons seeking nominatic the registrat i ha names wit} halrman f ? fee atthe registmtion H ¢ made and registration that ¢ dates for Mer Ih State ntions gressi i", nnirman Alter Aorial or Comat ingates and onve Se nal Conferees The regi at ation fee for andidates shall be as fol Congress $25.00 hm 10.00 Niate Senate Assembly President Judge Sheriff, Register Recorder, Treasurer County Commissioner & District Attorney, $m Prothonotary, A 5.00 onch Jury Commissioner, Auditor and County Surveyor, each 15.00 MOG 15, more Whenever from any district five or qualifisd Republican voters shall compinin, in writing, of an undue election or false return of delegate, or of instruc tions in which compizints the alleged facts Are specifically set forth and verified by the affidavit of one or more Republican voter of the district, sueh complainants shall have the right to contest the sont of structions. Such complaint shall be heard by a eommittee of five delegates to be ap pointed by the President of the Conven. tion, which sald committee shall proceed 10 hear the parties, thelr proofs and allegra. tions and, as soon as may be, report to the Convention what delegates are entitled to A seat therein and what instroctions are binding on sald delegates ; whereupon the Convention shall proceed immediately up. on the call of the yeas and nays, to adopt ov reject the report of the commitioe, In whieh eall for the yeas and RAYS the name of the delegate whose seat Is contested or whose instructions are Alaputed, shall be omitted, This rule Is not to prevent the Convention or the Committee on Credens tials, from ascertaining without formal held, or whether there was such Bross ir. regularity or fraud as to render it void in whole or in part, asd thereupon to take : such action as is proper, The nuisance committee reported the 10. Each delegate must reside in the dis. | McBride corner in a bad condition, also trict which he repre In case of fuil- | that sewers were needed on Thomas ure to uttend the d, ute may, by writing, | greet: residents in that section will be | required to be more careful of wash water, Pe The question of securing power for the water works came up. The propositions were Col. Reynolds mill, Criders mill, the Mileshurg McBrides Gap stream, have sufficient power dynamos for street lighting and individual motors, Nothing |definite was reached, and the special t | committee on improvement of water | works will investigate further and report | at next meeting, { The coal suppl again and caused COUNCIL MEETING. nOte, appoint a substitute act in his place Substitutes in all cases to abe ¥ the instruc tions given to the principal, and if violated by the de legate or hi Blitute, or In case 4 1} 5 OF the abmence of the Ivlegnte or de eaten fromthe Convention. it shind] be the duty of the president of the ( nvention, to « ote of ich delegate of wet th th PY aordance w power, Some would 10 operate lone on end » HARLION Is made ness at each « ¥ question the usual came ap flurry with {no definite action, until two weeks later, ; | There seems 10 be a great deal of fric. [ tion on this point, | The street committee was advised to | secure bids by the perch for the erection | | of a stone wall along creek to the C | R. of Pa. station. | A motion { | paving R. Or a new case will { The usual bills oyer it : ean . g 7 FONCHITTIS Q ¢ All rious lung troubles begin with tickling in the throat. You can stop thi in a sing! Ayer’'s Cherry Use it al cons and fo LAS Three sine in iii TEYY umf TEL I Co less have ATiSloCracy of 2 nr its hideous wen mien THE VALUES WE ARE OFFERING IN “STANDARD” MADE PIANOS ARE ALMOST BEYOND BELIEF. Our stock is the finest, most varied and at- tractive we have ever shown, such as The Schomacker Hobart M. Gable Blassius Brumbach Este and Other Standard Made Pianos. SUCCESS PROVES PUBLIC TRUST It is only because of the greater that the great seems less. The achieve- ments of our stores of the are only less because of the greater achieve. ments of the present. The experience of yesterday are the inspirations of to- day. The proof of this is the success we have won through the fair treatment we have shown to THOUSANDS OF SATISFIED CUSTOMERS if you are a customer of ogrs we are anxious 10 increase our business with you. If you are not, we hope you will be, as no honorable means will be spared to attain this end. We guarantee to sell you a better grade Piano for less money than you can buy elsewhere, as all who have bought from us will attest ; and while the cheap and unreliable piano may catch the nowary and the inexperienced, we prefer to maintain our WELL EARNED REPUTATION and let others sell trash and shoddy. NOTEING IS MISREPRESENTED. There fire Two Things fo Consider in Purchasing a Piano : What it IS and what it WILL BE. In buying a Piano or an Organ the warranty should be carefully considered. We warrant all our instruments for five years, and make ourselves personally responsible for any defect in ma. terial or workmanship Anyone purchasing a Piano trom us will always be supplied with a competent tuner and will not be at the mercy of vagrants or vagabonds who go around the country representing themselves to be tuners, What we want you to do is to visit our store, whether you buy or not. We shall treat you courteously, and shall not insist on selling you against your inclination, but we do insist that you examine our s, make comparisons, and see for yourself if it is not to your interest to with us Remember, we are dealers and not agents. We are here to stay. We buy our goods in large quantities direct from the manufacturers for cash, and therefore can save you 30 per cent. on your purchases over the consignment dealers, ‘ We have slightly nsed Planos and Organs at bargain prices on hand a lana LO din at $35, 40 and upward n . . Organs from $10 and ‘ y M. C. GEPHART, Aikens Block, 29 8. Allegheny St. BELLEFONTE -—stores— CLEARFIELD. past complaint, whether such election haa been
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