Page 6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLFFONTE, PA, OCTOBER CORRUPTION RAMPANT ON “THE HILL.” All Officialdom in Harris= | burg is Putrid in Vice and Crime. RASCALITY SANCTIONED Big and Little Abuses Go On Under the Eyes of High Officials.~=Prom. jses of Reform Without Perform ances Admonish People, Only Rem. dy is Election of John G. Harman. (Special Correspondence.) Harrisburg, Pa., Oct plenty of opportunities on “The Hill," without the court proceedings in In fact Mr lerry rated a new line of the public service, It isn't & matter of vast importance is a “straw” which Indicates rse and measures the velocity wind In official life ometimes ! small things from larger There are for reform waiting for the graft cases has just inaugu improvement in reform get How Official Grafters Help the Party. lent : on f +) atam* Bo howe ue 8 0 ‘ VR } work their relat the party The Harrisburg who & large fanily too easy ves and friends for $2 a day man in does the work has as a rule, and not a time making ends meet. atives hustle to “hold his job,” grocer and butcher and bak- erve him are interested. The not, here “tolls to vot The I have oorasions Public Printing Conspiracy. three job two Printing to ferred on or the State but thus far have been dis cover no signs that the reform im pulses of the Governor have turned his energies toward the correction of this abuse. The present State Print er was the highest bidder for that juley party plum instead of the low. est, as the law requires. The way It happened was this. Four or five men or firms bid for the contract and each deposited a bond for the per formance of the work In the event the award was to him. The lowest bidder got the contract and the bonds of the others were returned to them. Thus far the law had been scrupn. ously complied with, But the scheme. ing set In at once. The lowest bid- der made some absurd excuse for re. fusing to accept was offered to the next lowest bidder who also declined and the process was continued until the highest bid- dor was reached who got the con tract at an exorbitant figure One would have thought that the forfeit. ed bond would In some measure re compense the State for the difference in the rate beiween the highest and jowst bid, But no such result fol towed. The “system” never con templates recompense to the State for anything. Here Is what actually occurred. The forfeited bond was promptly re- turned to the Suimqueit bidder, not. : 0 able : takes the award and It | | the work and, It is alleged end T be- the | Murphy have meant wnen he sald in | | Talented Virgini Heve, not only he but two of other bidders get a rake off while the State “pays the freight’ It | clearly a conspiracy to rob the State There could hardly be a clegrer case of collusion and yet the Gov no steps to stop the crime. The Legislative Record Job, ina \ COLIN Refgrence has also been made previous letter to the corrupt sion In awarding the contract print the Legislative Record session of 1607 On the for letting tl who od office of the officer wi n the award printer sat In the ante: a minute before the t bids the official approached the in the anteroom and asked i a bid to submit negative, the offi office, and gOON that the contract to the only bidder The contract 0 day BR the it was nthe iT the Senate and another oom About for 0} ng an ad ml contract receiv Of 0 ade ime lela) afterw had been awarded price under the award thus made was nearly th times what the work had for the previous sion that is not In itself an evil either conspiracy collusion it is eged that between which the en to the man in the announcement bid had been changed near'y doubled bidder was award orbitant ree been done of Bat period ok- ind Of cour dence or during the official had ws) the anteroom of the let ures to » Departments Are Puatrid. pensioner paugeniial town ¢ home spend seven weeks was Immediately given in the Health Department standing around the office weeks he was given ‘vacation’ three weeks on full The returned, worked week went back to Am from vacation, He employment After for two of he and nis a pay two Cn 00 tefTorm., leach bath, Penn na- \Agers led to them can’t go to 1 the that ln money are The Machine Can't INEing the off rhile Republica ! linen by | as oo refor: sylvania chine 1s of that organ Izati 1e thelr inig eontl it in Kt r grave rel n prison a! olor most bought office they int they Bu MUCH have del h an ' extent } torats { thei: Vast 0 necessary to heir majorities Ballot box stuffing is a hazardous enterprise now and boodlers demand compensation according the has ard. The remedy is in the election of John OO. Harman to the office of State Treasurer Berry began the work of political regeneration and Har- man will complete It 0 0 voters Ave to sums { buy 1 to G. DD H John O former either in the Legisiature or out In the Legislature he voted for some of the most iniquitous measures and out of it he has sup ported some of the most notoriously bad men. Two years ago, for exam. ple, when all reformers were align- od against J. Lee Plummer, Sheatz stood with the machine. To rahk him as a reformer is not only absurd but it is actually dishonest month has elapsed since John 0, | ernor |! 80 Sheatz was never a ree despolling It, | duty this year. | We rise to remark that nearly al Harman challenged John O. Bheats | to discuss the question of minority representation on the Board of Pub. | lle Grounds and Pulldings and there has been no reply to the challenge. | Interior of the Btate who voted fq The delay Indieates that Mr. Sheats’s | mental machinery works entirely too What could Lieutenant Governor | his Jamestown speech the other day, “as Pennsylvania hundred ago to-day, each to strike which threatened to har, and Virginia were and thirty years | by ' down ant alert one the other, | Ponawyvania and Virgly’ , now when Jdirerant foes conquered? haven't there { VilTkini: ey be alert must heard matter be that with ut Virginia can hel; our The apply 18 see how troubles remed valch ‘we | must an aroused publio cone science to gulde us at the Virginia can’t participate tions. It is that State can sy our lack of spect, But ills with our to begin tion and the John G Treasurer, polla and in our « true tnat the people of mpathiz clvie virtue we must g own youu t the way is a Approac the ele Harman to the of Phi the same I and will of fore the The people of that « mac ladelphia dif tne 1 he The m igrence to MOOD outbreak of power ele indulging del M He ayor If every nocrat in Pennsylvania ’ plendid ndidate T reas: YOoles the rty or State irer next pa ual 10 ba Ir wise, how : pay the no at tention to Dave | stuffers will The of sort of calendar has vastly changed within a couple of Even erooked Dave Lane won't be immune from punishment this year If there fs anything doing in his line of poll. tical work this year 8 advice go to treating ane Hal lot box ] this that fall year style Years A citizen has not performed his | full duty in the election of this year when he casts his own vole any more than a man discharges his full duty when he notified the police that a crime is being He ought to assist the police In prevent. ing crime just as he ought to urge his neighbors to vote to rescue the! State from the desperadoea who are! Let us all do our full) committed The corrupt and contented City, Party men of Philadelphia may have like the dog, returned to theld vomit, but the vast hosts of Inde! | pendent Republican voters in th Mr. Berry two years ago will wo for Harman this year. They hav slow to be effective in the office of | not been purchased, dragooned nor State Treasurer, 0) —— aha deceived into supporting Sheats, A» tT BEE r AGE, ¢ ~ N%veiist Who + thi O1d South. Ms, I. H rris, a sontherr . Hterary Cre, Tho Nelson Pav, rapidly losing i vogue and has done his plitas tion this writer 1 t upon what nirendy hed, THOMAS NELSON The Birds A century John nightingale HEo n patriotic Ny Binclair, to in Scotland London Je 01 o Writes tried He dealer to at the | Accor of “lr ty Hi sloned a nightinga hera of shilling packed In w mail coacl n had is a best win ‘ CHAT he en tnke ex Mr flavor Didn't Come Back. ‘ot, establish purchase | price ind by orthy Sir the nd ge list vod bro ad. le world, ingredients WiGe the i | 2 he has AR | Druiapsus, overcomis of « Ar AT | i : ar ‘ pair | Boe sold hy Fe a TE rods, uming tion the writer mentioned says “$Me has Interpreted what was at the time he wrot he spirit of the » oth, * BARGAINS FOR MEN = a full ly taken Tease s ng ahont a perfect »t te all dealers In madicines WANTED Energetic representziives to sell our “Combination Life and Savings & Loan.” For full particulars and open territory write us PENNSYLVANIA SAVINGS FUND & LOAN ASSOCIATION 248 Fourth Ave Insurance . 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