Page 6 THE-CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLFFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 9 Fe 8, 1907. : ARREST OF GRAFTERS A GREAT FARCE #® Parallel in Every Way. Idke that Infamous Ballot Box Stuff. er They Remained in ment Until Arrangements for Their Acquital Were Made. Conceals Progress of the Democratic Campaign The Surrender of Sanderson and Huge I | £3) the Success of the Mae ton a False Pretense Pro- mote chine Candidate. expense in n yeaver was elect y, defeated a cand! proved incorruptible, Then Salt purrendered to the authorities and submitted himself to the ordeal of a trial In the criminal courta. Of ¢ourse he was acquitted. The evi dence of his culpability was over- whelming. He had practically con fessed his gullt. But the safety of those “higher up" required his ac quital and the programme was made fo gi it the §fisenc es. 7hen the capital graft investiga tlofi assumed the appearance of earn- | ness, six mopths ago, Contractor Randerion and Architeot Huston left e jurisdiction of the courts and mained away until arrangements | or thelr acquittal had been perfect. 4 Then, following thé exatple of alter, they surrendered. Last week ey turned up In Harrisburg and gave ball for appearance in the Dau phin county criminal court, when anted, They will probably }e in- {ected during the présent session of e court, but that is not sertalih The machine District Attorney of that court is already protesting that the calendar 1a crowded with petty cases which may occupy the whole time of the Grand Jury. Only those concerned know exactly the terms of the qgresment The Arrest a Colossal Frand. One thing is absolutely fowever. They won't be tried be fore the election and if the machine candidate for State Treasurer Is suc- cesaful, it is not likely that they will be tried at all. The issuing of the warrants, the surrender and entering of bonds are the various parts of a big bluff. The arrest of Aud tor General Snyder and former Superia tendent of Public Grounds and Bu 14. ings Shumaker, Is merely an ire dent of farce. It the stag setting of the play which simili Hust the the of of te who had 3 el ! certain, the is glve a yt Sanderson lar been never anda or other ha hadn't tions Ever organization ment insult t} wealth and tt there to the Pennypacker the in consclier rod tad es of ¢ common reform in fact A false pretense that " There has bees no re is no contrition is nothing but : : nl ” : 4 lecelve the people In order ooting mi be resumed the Arch-Conspirator. cleanse Augean stables” Pennypacker would haye been the first man to be summoned to the bar of justice, The charges against all are that they conspired to loot the (treasury through collusion and the misinter pretation of the law in disbursing the funds of the State. It was Pen nypacker's interpretation of the jaw that was adopted It was he whe said that the act authorizing the Board of Public Grounds and Bulld ings to ‘furnish, alter, repair or im prove,” conveyed the authority to complete the bullding notwithstand. ing the specific Inhibition contained in the General Appropriation bills of 1901, 1902 and 1905 But he fonds ample shelter In his relationship to Quay and secures immunity from the humiliation of arrest "hers would be no cause of com- | plaint in the arrest of Auditor Gen- ersl Snyder and State Treasurer | Mathues if there was even the shad. ow of a hope that it is a genuine effort to punish malefactors and en- | force restitution of the golden treas. | ure But there Is no such purpose, | The machine candidate who helped | to create the legislation under which the looting was mada possible will not ald any movement to punish the criminals If successful. They are all active In supporting his can. They are anxious for his purpose had been 10 | | this correspondence, is the best evi | dence of hia servility to the mach- ine, | had splendid opportunities to serve | the people but invariably voted with | the gamsters or dodged. One not able Instance of hia recreancy In | this respect was revealed on the even ing of Monday, April 28. On that occasion Representative Flynn of Elk county offered a resolution reciting the fact that Contractor Sanderson and Architect Huston had demanded additional payments amounting to $200,000 which Mr. Berry had re fused to allow notwithstanding the opinion Attorney General Carson contrary, thanking the * his action and pledging 1 support of the Gen » the end 14 ] ol $ to the Tri State a rt ris 1 v 100 ) page Democratic Campaign Progressing. The Democratic campaign is mak ing gratifying progress and no intell gent observer, familiar with the facts, any longer doubts the election of John C. Harman to succeed Mr. Berry in the office of State Jreasuref. The State committee has the most flatter ing reports from all sections of the State and outside of Philadelphia Mr. Harman's vote and majority will far exceed those of Mr, Berry two years 0. Then Allegheny county, with Fi fraudulent tote mill running overtime, rolled up an Immense ma- jority for the machine gandigats. This year most of the machine lead- erg in that county are buay keeping out of jail, and the machine major ity will only ba nomipal TO day the State Committee opens branch headgugrters in rooms 101, 103 and 105, Hotel Walton, Phila delphia where county Chairmen and others with the C tee are requested to ad dress The commiillee occupied rooms during the otoathg period of the campaign for Mr. Berry two years ago and watched the manoevers and manipulations of the machine managers from them, It is not expected that the city will give Harman a majority as It gave Jerry, but it is absolutely certain that there will be no ballot box stuffing there this year even though the municipal administration is will ing to encourage that form of crime, hav Commit ih a correspondence eir letters the same Sheatz Won't Meet Harman, Mr. Harman is still patiently wait ing for Mr answer to his to dis ¢ vital issue of hustings shealz s 184 th the ermitted } that wa diaastrous to Pens after all they » the matters « chief concern to the managers of the machine. Sheatz is only a picket for the Penrose camp. As Contracior McNichol declared the other day, the re election E the para mount question in the campaign from a machine viewpoint and Sheats won't be allowed to do anything that might impalr Penrose’'s chances G. D. H ambitions ar 0 nrose is Mr. Harman s Campaign. From the Philadelphia Record It is well that the Democratic lead- ers recognize that it la worth while | to make an effort to elect Mr. Har- the Lincoln Party and the City Party are not In the field, their voters ary In existence and plenty of them have no notion of wearing the collar of the Machine David Lane's appeal to the Organiza- tion voters to wake up and be reg tered indicates that the Organiza is not any too well satisfied with the outlook, and we trust that his shouts will be heard by sleepers, who, when sufficiently disturbed, will votes for good government, There is still an- other day of registration; the second man Although | day's registration was larger than the first days, and due diligence on Oect- ober § can make the total registra tion very full Democratic leaders are speaking within bounds when they say the prospect of Mr. Harman's election la better than the chances Mr. Berry seamed 10 have a couple of years ago. The collapse of the Enterprise Nat fonal Bank probably threw a good many votes to Mr. Berry, but the capitol exposures and the arrest of fourteen men, many of them high oh'els in the Republican army, are more lkely to affect the vols than | the fallure of one bank. The Btate jost nothing in the bank fallure, and an Investigating Commission of Republicans has figured out that the fitate lost 0 six million doliars in the ot During the session of 1907 he | | Hean ofMcials will not antagonize be. cause they are of the same party, The danger of having the State gov- ernment “too. unanimous’ has been abundantly proved, chine has been proved so completely that the meanest comprehension, | not hypnotized by partisanship, can- not fall seo it. Voters in this city who went back to the Organiza tian February have waked up to find themselves under the same old gang. The humbug of reform within the party his osed The chances of el Harman 4 od to in 0x1 Mr are Sheatz and Reyburn, the 1 Der “ile 3 * Organ ization is the standard by which May or Reyburn measures public and the organization, ace his potion, is the machine. The policy which Mayor Reyburn announces is precisely what is to be expected in the State In event that Sheatz, the machine candidate, is elected to the office of State Treas urer, He was nominated the machine to serve the machine. Prim. arily the machine cares nothing for Bheatz. Any other pan of the same characteristics would 40 as well. But Sheatz was {he available man at ime and was chosen because h alse pretense of reform would help Penrose and hurt no machine Repub. lean interest It will help the machine and in either event he will help serv ording to ” the by the D ro rt elected he Penrose Doesn t Believe in a Bogle. Correspondent ir *hila The writer t beldeve the el ection of a smocratie Treasurer will imperil the business Interests of this country or endanger Republican national and a number of voters Interviewed, who have always voted Republican ticket, are ia entire accord with this view Ledger AUcCCoas, the The Importance | of having a man in the Treasury who | fs under no obligations to the Ma- | | Owen Wister is so widely and fave orably known as a writer that one will be surprised that he ne touch graft pub od the very heart of the ca] scana in f ’ at self resp litical wen preying mmerce of the on if Philadelphia were not the ¢ lost the the smear ot map Unite States ts of d in't ¢ rotten d alter YOArs ARO Mr. “The Keystone Crime.” “Penusylivania's Graft-cankered Capital,” ought to be read and pondered by every citizen of the commonwealth machine woul have been restore to power and plunder so soon its Wister's two of of overthrow story and if the enemies of Senator Penrose had controlled the convention which nominated John O. Sheatz for State Treasurer, Harry Walton wouldn't have heen presiding officer and Wes ley R. Andrews, Me Penrose Be tary would not have choos n Chairman of the State Commities, been re It may safely be added that if Pen | rose hadn't been for Bheatz for State Treasurer, he wouldn't have been nominated, The Benator Isn't sa wise as Solomon, probably, or as cun. | ning as the late Mr knows when he controls a tion and just what to do conven with | when he has it In hand Quay, but he! The friends of President Roosevelt | in Pennsylvania are not promoting his policies or helping hin political estate by supporting John O, Bheats, | the machine candidate, for BHiate Treasurer, Mr. Sheatz is the candi date of a gang xhich would erucity rather than honor Roosevelt and his HER “PLATONIC SALUTE.” Mrs. May Pepper-Vanderbilt and Her “Little Bright Eyes.” The much talked of artist, Ferdinand | i | | | | tribution to the phraseology of the day the with his “se when he told ¢ poetic ions * and reid now tion has pet Val another conta been made MAY PEFPPER-VANDERBIL in | noes at the ITO rog Mrs, Pep- y Cure? fer . 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