¢ Centre Democrat, Circulation Over 4,3C -! Largest in Centre County. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1906. INFORMATION ABOUT THE CANDIDATES short Sketches of Democratic Nomi. nees MEN WHO DESERVE SUPPORT Reasons why They Merit Your Vote-- considerate of the rights of his neighbor, We need business methods in the Com- | missioners’ office, and that is why C, A, Weaver deserves your support. A. J. Griest was a business man and Preferred Against Sheriff T made one of the best commissioners Cen | tre county ever had son Mr. Weaver's experience and t ing commend him to every taxpayer, raat John L. Dunlap. John for County Commissioner, is a native of For the same rea- | i r= Dunlap, the other candidate | AMAZING CHARGES aylor are Proven Deliberate False-| hoods. As the present campaign draws to a close a desperate effort is being made by the Gazette to distract public attention from the unsavory record of jrd. Term A. V. Miller, and John G. Bailey, With that purpose in view it began a series of personal attacks on the editor of thie paper, until we finally gave him his correct record, from the effects of which he has since been his head in shame. Then he resumed his “10 year.war” on th droopit or 's f ind oe udge of ous amount the Democratic board of com. missioners agreed to pay for inspecting the Spring Mills bridge in 1902, and then saddled the payment upon the Republican board; for which t now being abused, There isn'tan item in the whole three years transactions of the present board that looks so outrageously extravagant as this, and yet we cannot censure the Democratic board be we do not know what the not u statements ) vile present ey are busin ALINE work implied and are nia t one-sided make in order to misiead the enough to Dec peo Vol. 27. No. 42, i o— i ————————— 3rd—This extravagant bill for in. specting was due to the fact that the gang of Bridge Builders at Harrisburg sent a lot of political heelers here from distant parts of the state to inspect this little stn 4/4—This not only looks like, but is, “outrageous’extravagance” by the Pen. rose, Durham combine at Harrisburg - mina A 111ey all shit that nominated Plummer—all of which Gazette now champions and i up courts, Hon. Ellis L. Orvis. Col. J. L. Spangler continually is the tgrget for his spite and venom; and ever since H, S. Taylor was elected Sheriff that of ous, vindictive, inhuman, brutal, and ] ast issue Harter became unu He has openly mouthe y his readers another brazen fal ; ing in this campaign but we will take time and space to note and that T. H. Harter is not mly unrel deliberate and vic sand that no one is 1 l 1 the allegations of that paper, the Keystone ( 1S A SeTIONS one against a fello the parallel columns below. The gentleman hails from Philips. 3 ei Th hy : tract from a tripple-headed article attacking the sheriff, > last iss Friday Sept. 20th; while the nd signed by Pennypacker, (the original can be seer and authorizing Sheriff Taylor to rele: Are Qualified for the Various Of- fices--Representative Citizens of Centre County Penns Valley having been born in has been the object of vic r— saults in that paper, and in the | t hand, the sohood. wi average voter will be interested in the bear : various men nominated, For that reason to again prove to the p bl we publish the | llowing portraits and ious falsifier sketches fidence ir Dr. F. K. White. short \ 1 I'o prove our charge (and it ful attention 1s calied to This L appeare ue of the Gazette . rod po Fay welder * (34 sre will be recorde« rect copy of an order, Gov. be at this office) directing that section of which he Dr. 'W but in istly can hite is a dentist by pro- oners. he | and social proud that community SERIOUS CHARGE: SHERIFF'S AUTHORITY fession, 3 “ +} ~ been a potent force in public life— progressive 1 : IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY o | Be VE DEPARTMENT ever d energetic, he a ) OF THE man whose useful. FACTS FOR THE TAXPAYERS. recooniz recognized H4 sf tonwedity ol (COAT OF ness 1s nd appreciated the Wile He was educated at Gettysburg Col Figures that Show the Unexplainable Extravagance or the Extraordi- nary Incompetence of the Present Board of County Commissioners, An Increase of Expenditures over an Average for Fifteen Years of OVER £28,000. are after which he was graduated fron ARMS Fro » College of Dental Surgery jas { rg nineteen DEFYING COU 7% all to Who Frecting Wheneas, T) ~UexrRe Co | of wAUGUST A, D. IG, made In pursuance of be the prov sions : : CXITAYARAD ust : b sembly ‘of Pen 1 providing for td for good bebay Hentiaries, w this ™ same, AD A.D vw commana reeOmne the te the vied they ‘ ! ah as § duly fled with tie Go 1 YEA TOTAL EXPENDITURE mahiwer 1h : Ne . AXD Woeneas BOF, Ne forany Gene Affairs, alo notice and in ope rales adopied Ly them Wing to me. la Ww. llag commutations and diming tions of sentences 10 be allowed : Rwow Ya, Tha in consideration of If there is a single tax-payer io Cen expenditures of tl ly informed of iopers, it is full time result of shat the wmation, and makes t! ¢ present Board If there wh 1 es should be 8 one dot that be has 1048 about what gh time seeks inf up #1 wt } v We have gone | he of + } With this give 1 that the yearly 4 connected ff the cout : ) : 1¢ " 00st ¢ 1nty 1 the time men figures we bey are taken jonrds of C given correctly and folly, in ver Boards—a ty aflairs l'o these of every oi sent Board ( narge « al aud con pect] i with y the pre oail the Ld ia eth K 01 u r tut | bs tention ed to by the differ Cart iy slater MN ms. se nd attested | are or. r that thos teres WAY COmMpare ¢ MmAnAgen 1m her present we . atare s ste ne we of $1 e A argument is i n 3 Toe Ad LORS ae isonment i HAYE Te endmd however hay nded > : Notwithstanding the fa ’ h may be. could become | lence of these three men does nd bia L Pia SPUN da 1905, L Premises and by virtas of the power and i . then Tehn 4 Waal joan LL. ad sat pren al how like many others s has been done in defiance he ARINONRTY In ma Vested Constitution ; and Laws of th sonwealth LL SamoeL W.PessTraceEen . rt of the Commo wealth of Penn na DER AND amed a worthe or able he fa candidate for any IR 3 e, ¥ by Lai nhs. + Tui . ec anh SIN He Tes Average yearly expenditures $61,321.02 Me. Aprad V. MinLer, the senior member of the present Board, aod ¢ wow asking for a third term, took his place as County Commissioner upou the death of Ms. RIDDLE, estly in 1900. Three years later Mr. BAILEY, who te election, took his place as one of the managers of the yw hare they performed their duty ss the financial f the aunts MA single year sinoe but shows an unexplainable and start- d to in kt Rive UND are an ver 1% by the rrty wh be has worked e Lon wh PDO HEREBY : i» also seeking n 1ty = finances And b Agente aud agers he they assumed control business at s affairs N fs tures over matters : the above table we anything about of $28, ESSARY DUR tncrease of ¢ X pet Ibe last year of the 1904 -—<shows the the Years referre t management that DOTPASE Over Lhe AVeTARDS 193.67 ; ALMOST ONE-THIRD GREATER THANX W ING ANY OF THE 15 EDING Their own statement as published 1904. shows that ander their $50 514 89 10 meet the cost for the fifteen year crease of almost 33 per cent, must go up proportionately As yet, we have seen or heard of neo bas attempted an explana tion of this profligacy Nor do we believe that there is a citizen in the county who oan explain the necessity for this enormous outlay, that will be satisfacto- ty to the taxpayers generally An article in an ap town paper a few days ago attempted to excuse it, on the ground that daring the past year $11,000, or over, had been expend«d on the erection of hridges: and the cot to the connty in the murder trial of DIL LOX and GREENS, amouatiog to less thao $2 000, all told, bad been paid as ex- ra expenses This might be considered as a partial excose, were it not for the fact that daring the years mentioned above, the same kind of extraordinary exproses were met and are ineloded in the fignres given, aod that fewer bridges have been erected during the past six years, under the mavagement of the present Board, than daring that of any of the six years preceding. In fact nearly every large and important bridge within the connty was completed and paid for be- fore these men went into office. Those along the Fagle, Moshannon, Spring creek, Penns creck and Elk creek were all erected before either Mr MILLER or Mr. Barney koew anvthing about the Commissioners’ affairs Nor does the fact of calling attention to the cost of the murder vial in the case of DiLLOX and GREEN help it any Dating the years we have referred to ANDREWS trial, the ETrLINGER at the City cide RE La the of the and 0} hills of were the extramdinary vontested election symm issioner, Mr the publ enor ns n above AS ¥ N Ex YEARS PRE shall, du f bis or mmuatat of the fu tenoed date n every newspaper in the county for management it cost the tax pavers of the county as against $61,321 02, the vearly yweoeding their aotion into office an in- and means that valuations, millage and taxations such ation was sen sounty expenditures oA i term waich be or ah This is be he vavieted of any felony ty whi r she pena may tted aforesaid, be compelled t prism Mm 10 the felony one wh the interval Serve an 0 in the penlisniiary or work Taq +r 18 LAY MH not . h r office, se in whioens he or for the felony for wal ed. the remainder of the tern mutation, which he ompeliad to tion of his or her a the aforement she may be confined ang we bh he or she is con witho or she would hav bul for sentence as Tas A 5 fact that he heen votes f¢ issue which « LF lo make An if refea EMrve the commuts provived for oned act Name WiLiiav Gn JONX GILLILAND ’ po Date sept Disch lL A. Ha LALAN Calvin f Henry H : Ei pp y JACOB JACKRON AND 1 DO FURTHER ORDER RECT. That the aforesaid prisoners sha discharged from confinement AND II te days Hald ipon Lhe and after sald from of imprisonment as fixed by the ( on which Making the Aaductions as afore the terms rong rules the w And waiting Justice Arts Ime the Horkixs murder tragedy, and we had trial, homi- their of a sought make he had piled upon the county Not was this all of the ex- MILLER posing thelr rentences der : a OG EN us and and he the maraqe several attention Courts aided eh the present | to overtarn the will of the people of the him Sheriff, and did not stop in his efforts unt all Ooste to aocapy To in pier my great Seal of pie up Harrisburg, this 3 the siatle : | SH } EAL these FX Pees MiLLen refosed to of of our and five ay September n the yea Wf th and of the ¢ A wi sountr, when they Lord one huandre the sand ne amon wealth ne hundred extraordinary « Lpeases AMOUNNINE to over $2 LLL traordinary expenses that are inolnded io the 15 years prior to Mr and Mr. BAILEY'S beginning as Commissioners. During that period the court hoase was re-roofed, re floored, re-plumbed, resented, re farvished and almost entirely re-buils, barring the outside walle. Toilet rooms and costly plumb. ing, steam heating and electric light were added, and in every way that build. ing was finished up io the best of style, at a large expense. Expensive steel filing oases were procared for the county offices, new steel cells placed in the jail, and thousands upon thousands of dollars were expended to beautify and improve the pablio buildings and groonds And to none of these expenditures has the present Board been subjected, and yet they spend $28,193.67 more per year than did any of their predecessors, And for what reason ? Simply because of incompetency and extravagance And what must be the result INCREASED VALUATION, INCREASED MILLAGE AXD INCREASED TAXATION. You can't pay $49.514 67 of connty expenditures with $60,000 of an income, and to have a greater income higher taxes MUST be levied. Is this what you are after Mr. Taxpayer? If is is, ignore the above facts aod keep MILLER sod Barney lo office Vey have so badly managed, and you will have is, From last isswe of the Watchman, ond thirtieth By the Govern SAMI Ares Ww W. PENNYPACKER Ronr, Mo M1 the that faitl and | is the su wr of either of Rep 100M larger present t 5 : Pennsylvania to the Sher. mnly npiy The above copy of an order from the Governor of an candidates, and will have a iff orders of Centre county absolutely proves that our Sheriff s obeyed than either when the returns vote and the Gazette is guilty of another falsehood, Such untruthful allegations are simply amaring ! are counted Both of the Y su can hardly understand how anyone, if possessed of but ordinary sense, (though unprincipled and even with malicious intent) would dare attempt such a foolish course; he cer. tainly would know that ultimately his act would brand him as an ignorant knave, and bring him humiliation and the contempt of all honest people. Pass. ing by the question of common honesty, the above attack gives evidence of a lack of ordinary prudence, is a display of mental weakness; the writer thereof must be developing senile debility (unusual in the early soties,) which is but a short step from the mental excentricities exhibited by him in recent years, and grown so marked of late, Let us be just to the unfortunate—overiook these ir. on them faithfully and successfully and | rational rantings, rather than hold Mr, Harter to a full account, to the satisfaction of all the people. So | We may say that other assaults on Sheriff Taylor, by the Gazette, are found. will Dunlap and Weaver. | od on about as much fact as this one. Because John Dunlap is a poor man | AR [that is no reason why he will not make a | good commissioner i ANOTHER PARALLEL. The article'in the first column also appeared in the last issue of the Gazette THE CHARGE : THE FACTS : this office ! Democratic ticket are § the candidates for on wor, but they are intelligent, honest, and perfectly {capable of performing every duty that | may devolve upon them, Some of the best officers the county | has ever had, were poor, When they | came into office they had nothing but | honor, capability and intelligence. They | performed every duty that devolved up. CAMPAIGN EXPENSES. Paid By the Taxpayers of Centre County, At this season of the year the supplies for the assessment are delivered to the various assessors by the County Commis. sioners. Each official takes an equal portion of the county. Ordinarily it takes each about three days. This year Mr. Meyer covered his territory in three days. Mr, Bailey charged the county for eight ‘days and expenses, for what formerly was done in four days. Ab, V, Miller has five days entered and when | through will have about seven or eight days. As their expenses are generally $2 per day for their own horse and bug. gy. and other expenses included, it is making a costly job, Miller and Bailey are putting in about four days each more than usual, which is charged to the coun. {ty at about the following rate: Salary $3.50, horse hire $2.00, expenses $1.24, or about $6 a day. At this rate the county will be paying each from $ao to $30 for | electioneering, That is one reason why expenses are running so high, in our county. Harry J. Jackson, {is the democratic nominee for Regis ii —— w | ter, and is especially well qualified for integrity is of the highest order, He is | that office, When a youth his purents | a man of broad, liberal views, and while | “ame here from Philadelphia, his father he is firm and strong, he ever was known | "010K a cutter in Lewin's tailoring estab. as courteous and obliging, and especially Continued on page 4, FOR COMMISSIONER, Carvin A, Weaver 16/=The State built this bridge, ac. | cording to an act of Assembly. Prom last issue Keysions Gasetie | | andThe former Democratic Board “Three hundred and fifty-nine dollars did not contract for one cent of this and forty-four cents ($350.44) Is the | bill,
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