Page 2 The Centre Demo CHAS, R, KURTZ, - - - PROPRIETOR FRED KURTZ, SR, (eoiToRS. CHAS. R. KURTZ, AAAI CIRCULATION OVER 4000. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: SUBSCRIPTION - - $1.50 PER-YEAR| Persons who send or bring the money to the office, and pay In advance, $l per year. CENTRE DEMOCRAT clubs with N. Y.8t-w World for.....omvemin Pittsburg Stockman for... Tribune Farmer. me The date your subseription expires is plainly printed on the label bearing your name. All eredits are given by a change of label the frst Issue of each month. Watch that, after you remit. We send no receipts unless by special request. Watch date on your label. Subscribers changing postoffice address, and not notifying us, are liable for same Subscriptions will be continued, otherwise directed, We employ no collector. You are expected to send or bring the money to this offies unless Democrati State Ticket. For State asurer, WILLIAM H. BERRY, of For Justice JOAN STEWART, of Franklin county For Judge of the JOHN B. HEAD, of West: Delaware o af the Supreme Court, Superior Cour oreland county County Ticket, For Sheriff ELLIS 8. SHAFFER, of Mil For Treasurer, DR. FRANK K. WHITE, of Philipsburg For Reg JACKSON Fo JOHN C, ROW} For Com ere, JOHN L. DUNLAP, of Spring C. A. WEAVER, of Per Twp. s Twp HARRY J. For. Aud JAMES W. SWABB, of 8. H. HOY, of Benner Harris Twp Fwy For Coro DR. P. 8. FISHER, of W rT n alker Twy EDITORIAL. affairs, but su- tv County 11 over the state, to root out ink . rte |} that nk Swartz boasts tha bad the use of tobacco, yet he will step into and pass ar young men. encouraging what he con- That is a crowd und the smokers to siders a vice not quite consist. ent. a ———— Axorner batch of Philadelphia bood- lers was arrested last week and put un der bail for appearance at « They stole thousands from the city and all are prominent politicians. Mayor Weaver assisted by James J. Gordon are bring- ing them one by one. to time. Let Berry get into the State Treasury and more such disclosures will follow ao——————— Artix a man has had a position as storekeeper at a distillery for years with a salary as high often as $4 per day, and six years as county commissioner at $3.50 per day, has he not had enough? The people in this county are opposed to third.termers, and when a disposition to continually hang at the public teat, the only way to get rid of them is to choke them off teed ourt. men show Tue influences of the city and state bosses of the machine, are the power that governs the petty machine bosses in the counties, and educate and graduate them in the work of plundering the tax- payers in the counties, as the big bosses do in the city and the state. This is] undeniable. An opportunity will be | given at the polls next month to put a | stop to thisinefarious work by casting | your votes against Plummer for state | treasurer, who has been a ready tool of the machine in his record in the legisla: | ture, and voting for Berry who bas a clean and unimpeachable record, : : f A vore for Ellis Shaeffer goes for | a clean, deserving man, a descendant of an old and respected pioneer family, | and an industrious and useful | citizen, who will make an excellent sheriff. He belongs to that class of poor , men, about whom the Gazette blabbers so much in favor when such an one 1s its party's nominee, but won't have a kind word for that sort of democrat, but rather be inconsistent, when a worthy, poor democrat is a candidate for office, Mr. Shaeffer is competent for the place, is of kind and obliging disposition, and well fitted because he is equipped with a knowledge of German as well as English, a qualification so much required by a sheriff. Vote for Ellis Shaeffer. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 1%, 1905, at [00TING THE TREASURY | Trail of Blood and Boodle Through History of Spoliation, ity of Republican Machine Managers, Who For a Quarter of a Century Have Been Preying Upon ' Life and Honor Freely Sacrificed to Feed the Rapac= the Industry and Energy of the People. The history of the Pennsylvania state treasury Is an ever interesting though essentially pridechastening study for the people. For years it has been a prolific source of graft and from the time that the late Senator Quay became secrotary of the common wealth and ex-officio commissioner of the sinking fund, a “trail of blood and boodle” has marked its records. Vast surpluses were unknown a quarter of a century ago, the fiscal officers of the commonwealth having been cap able if always conscientious, so that the receipts and expenditures about balanced. But Quay soon dis covered that the sinking fund was an avallable fountain of funds and by con- spiracy with a subordinate official of the (treasury he abstracted large amounts for use in speculative opera tions. Since the keen scent of cupid. ity di red the possibilities that are in big surpln mul tiplied to vast balances In a speech delivered at Pottstown, September 23d, by Eugene C. Bonni well, Esq, of Philadelphia, the shame. ful record of this pool of iniquity is fully Mr sald: not RCO Ve ea, taxes have been . 4 Creale revealed, Bonniwell ne issue which con- i8 honesty Ough tandards ordinarily ty and business to gnored in Con- affairs, and the people of Pennsylva- the disposal of cor- ; stock gam- no party the ree alled ampalgn i Rent } urer must do so on one of two grounde—sither the conduct of the state treasury in the past has been of y merftorious an order as to justify the continuance of Repub- lean control, or the character of the publican nominee is so sig- iting a2 to make wad nduct of the offices cer Ain an ’ Dits his oH Tried by either of tl Rep ly fails DIlCAnR organization Record of Flagrant Dishonesty, Lest the frightful trall of honesty and blood of wrecked homes and broken hearts has come less than a memory, permit me to recapitulate the known his- tory of the state treasury. Within our own time when Samuel But- ler, an honest man, was elected treasurer of the state of Pennsyl- vania, in 187%, he refused to re- ceipt for the assets of the treas- ury because of the fact that $260-, 000 was represented by nothing more than promissory notes of cer- tain politicians. It was never de- nied that this money was taken out by Matthew Staniey Quay and lost in stock speculations. When exposure became imminent Blake Waiters, cashier of the state treas- ury, shot and killed himself. Amos CC. Noyes, the retiring treasurer, & man of such rugged honesty that he was known as “Square Timber” Noyes, took to his bed and died within a few months of a broken heart and nothing save the action of Don Cameron in contributing the $260- 000 in cash for political purposes, prevented a public scandal that should have driven the Republican administration from power It was asserted that at that time Quay contemplated suicide Undeterred by the murder of these two men, in 1385 and there. after, Quay having been elected state treasurer that year, renewed his raids on the state treasury. Following his brief term W. B, Hart was elected state treasurer and his friends have always be- lieved that his untimely death was caused by the frightful knowledge of the condition of the state treas- nry. Avesy succeeded Hart. In 1888 another colossal rald was made on the state treasury. With the as- sistance of A, Wilson Norris, then auditor general of Pennsylvani Quay secured from Livesy $400, with which to purchase stock in a Chicago traction deal, So deeply did his connection with this case bear upon Norris that before the end of the summer of 1888 he had drunk himself to death, The colored messenger of the state department, named Warren, who had helped Norris carry the securities to Priladalphia, was was found drowned in t usque- hanna canal, and Willlam Livesy, in 1891, fled from the state of Pennsylvania and has never re- turned. Forced to Divide the Loot. Before he died Norris left a lets ter addressed to Senator Quay, requesting him to see that his wid- ow received the $10,000 which was his share of this gigantic steal When Quay refused rs. Norris laced the matter in the hands of fiddle & Ward, a distinguished firm of lawyers, The response was instant and it is a curious commen tary upon the condition of af. fairs In Philadelphia that the gen- tleman who then stepped in as rep resenting Mr. Quay, and forestalled a public scandal of overwhelming proportions, was the same gentle Dna Crimi man who within a few months has sought to erect himself into a bul wark between outraged citizens of Philadelphia and demoralized ma- chine politicians, That eminently respectable member of the Union League of Philadelphin, who set- tiled the Quay case with Mrs. Nor- ris, was Silas W, Pettit, chairman of the so-called Committees of Twenty-one, "pure and undefiled reformers within the party lines” Through all these years had run the minor thievery, Favored banks, officered by corrupt business men, could always secure a share of the state deposits by promising loan a portion of them to the poli- ticians who secured the deposits, and iit of the state's money has beer in the absolute control of 1 tical bankers of Pennsyivania without a return of a rie ent of interest 10 the state 10 reo. iT Year B trea BE Se Bat - ‘ eo Fol Bol -0-1- ad arti Be BS } toiphia Press in 1885, in opposir the nomination of Quay for state trea ; riod it wouid take the lid from off the treasury and expose secrets before Republicans would stand I'he lid has never been (if. iption seethon nly the facile blican machine spectres of Norris, War- y wood driven rden of guilt ircumstan- 0 to the stories of urer, ass COTT Treasury Balance May Be Fictitious The books of the state treasury have never been audited, although the paper statements show a bal- ance of $10,000,000 annually. No school appropriation in Pennayliva- nia has ever been pald until long overdue, and then only in heed of the clamoring of the district boards. Indeed, there is a grave doubt that the $10,000,000 is In the state treasury, and it may be that the state of Pennsylvania carrim as a portion of that asset the per. sonal notes, the memorandums of indebtedness and the 1. O. U's of politicians, many of them now out- lawed beyond redemption If the state treasurer's accounts are straight, why deny inspection wo the public? Why refuse that which every honest trustee demands, an auditing of his accounts? Why se Ject the most pliant tool In the am- ploy of the machine for this most responsible post? If any business man ware contemplating the ap- pointment of a treasurer to handle, uncontrolled, the receipta of a great business, what sane man would select J. lee Plummer? Upon his public record his ability fs so contemptible that he has never been admitted to the councils of the Republican organization, his disposition so pliant that he served that organization as a8 messanger boy without inquiry as to the rights or wrongs of the orders he delivered; his record, persistently adverse to every good measure, and consistently favoring every corrupt measure, This man bas made him- self impossible to the most narrow partisan who holds a remnant of self-respect Supported Infamous Legislation, He was an active supporter of the infamous Puhl bill, designed to cripple law and order societies fn their war upon the degrading forms of vice which menace our great cities; he was a supporter of the Ehrhardt bills which actually pro to protect the unthinkable white slave dealers In Philadelphia county. He supported the Busque- hanna river grab; the Snyder water works grab; all three of the Phila. delphia ripper bills; the Grady. Salus libel law; the bill autherizin the county commissioners inste of the courts of Philadelphia to gp. int election officers, to further 5 uch election conditions in Phila. delphia. The chief bill to which he was recorded in opposition was the bill to increase allowances to the township high schools No statement that I have made regarding Mr, Plummer is taken from any other source than the legislative record of his acts. He stands convicted upon his own ree. ord of a moral feebleness and tur. {tudo that can be equalled only hy hat of any free citizen who votes r him. John Fisk, the distin. ished economist, shortly before is death bemoaned “the fallen state of Pennsylvania morals, sunk anda petty tyrants to vila a8 ever cumbe the earth.” words used to Drerent da nal Episode of the People's Bank of that once invincible organize~ tion? Opposed to this character the onest citizens of Pennsylvania have united upon a man the anti- thesis of J. Lee Plummer: 8 man who ig the head of a large and suo- cessful manufacturing establish ment; an employer of labor whose voice has never been raised, save in the interest of honeet govern- ment; whose character among his neighbors is so transcendant that the town of Chester, which In No- vember, 1904, gave that magnificent president of ours, Theodore Roose velt, a majority of 15800, elected this man mayor of that town in Feb- ruary by a majo: ity of 600, That man is William J. Berry, m— SOME LOCAL HISTORY. When D. Governor, to give Revenue ler got after him and when h the ‘ Hasting Loami sn EXPLAINING. Q . MSO in Chicago at the Lime, anda wiael he went to Mr, Nearboof's room Tuesday +4 morning he found the latter dead | — Active at 11] Years On Monday the general council of the North America, in on at Milwankee, decided that min- arch of Lutheran chy i hearafter not sters of the church shoul officiate at the marriage of divorced per sons except in cases where a separation wilful The yet decreed for infidelity or on lasting at least one year ause leaves a large | ioophoie, less the action « church another advance upon the jon. The churches generally are oming aroused to the necessity of ng something to decrease the divorce evil, and to render more difficult the mar. riage of those who have been divorced Thegevil can never be reduced to a mini- mum untilflegislators and churchmen do i all in their power to limit it NOTICE! Our Sugar Prices FOR SATURDAY : Gran. Sugar, . 8c per Ib, reg. price Tc| A Sugar, . BYc per Ib, reg. price 8c C Sugar, . . Bc per Ib, reg. price 6¢ 11 cakes of Soap | Flour, Baker's Chocolate Gallon of Vinegar ons Coarse Salt in 12g Ibs, sk 28 1bs, sk. Dairy Salt..... 40 3 cans corn These prices good for Saturday only. Highest Cash Prices paid for Butter and Eggs, at GILLENS CASH GROCERY Allegheny St. Bellefonte, Pa. We are After You! We want you to buy your Shoes of us We have got an object for you, We are adding a FREE PREMIUM DEPARTMENT to our store, something that has never been done by any store in Cen- tre county. Our premi- ums will be of a kind that will help you to Furnish Your ‘home! Premiums that you will not have to buy a large amount to get them. Rugs, Rocking Chairs, Beautiful Pictures. Lace Curtains, Clocks and a full line of Silverware Articles that will make your home cosy and comfortable. They will all be given free if you buy your Shoes of us. WHY NOT BUY FROM THE STORE THAT HELPS YOU? Veager and Davis, The Shoe Money Savers, BELLEFONTE. 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