Circulation O & 5,200Largest in CHARGES AGAIN REFUTED Dirty Insinuations Made Against Several County Officials. AUDITORS’ REPORTS QUOTED A LOT OF Had to Raise Money to Pay a Form er Debt—Some Gross Misrepre- sentations— Beneath the Dignity of a Man, We want to give our readersa extracts from the Gazette, for last issue just uriosity. wish to that the last statement was not printed ina sati tory manner—in fact it was criticised by both the Demo "atchkman and Centre Hall satisfactory and meant fo conceal some- thing which sh 3 wn. Wheth- er they had inside knowledge of the work of the Commissioners which we did not possess we do not do know thatthe wud bidden by the Democre CommmMsioner in the publics tion, And that is w of County Auditors Jor if tRere i Invi “But lest they forget, we hal, - mind our readers cot wld be An i 17: y ere ror. now just where to find i The the above woul woman's italics are delil ple. For Board of Auditors, + the two years the Republica Messrs, Pontius Musser, spent weeks go counts in detail, scrutinizit count, and each time they their signatures and and anda ers, work was correct i by them. Is that not sufficient credit this insinuating attack? was approved to dis- Here is another hrotoh ha Carne irongh am persistent He peddled npaign r Rec'd on duplicate yrmer $61,333 94 (By Democratic B {ots Rec'd gn duplicate "former dup on duplicate former dup Le fe ma CR I 1907 Rec'd #4 WO AR $045.9 Total 2 ym» AYr's ami mMis gyr.on 3 mills Net income for 2 3 from extra t mills en $40,074 00 The following shows the actual debt left by the former Republican Board LIARICITIES OF FORMER REPUBLICAN B® fae .n LUE wx 'ARD According to Annual Statement Due on Mllesburg bridge Dillen and Green award Due on Soldiems’ Monument Condembed Turnplikes and Costs Other bills estimated | | Lun (RC TR 2.000) Total INDEBTEDNESS To this add the SURPLUS they found in the Treasury when they etter od 3 yours prior Cc Esnsanibirn $5.00 Total Shownge in 3 years. $68,778.72 Or an AVERAGE SHORTAGE year of ' ‘ MILT per All through this campaign this dis. credited Snyder countian, like an old woman, has been gossipping and allud. ing to “somethin Wrohg, insisuating that Messrs. Dunlap and Weaver have not accounted for $40,000, Every attack has been a base insinuation that, cer. tainly should be disgusting to a Man, porier as extremely un- know, but we | | But we b | horses will arrive in Bellefonte on Wed- { them $22,200.87 he —— Centre County. Today no man « Bryan or crats and blicans, alike, are These 1s the situation The will lose 73 bright. Republicans, we believe, per cent. of the organized 1" labor vote! the colored vote will resent the Brownsville affair; on account of Judge Taft's peculiar religious views will lose heavily among Christian de nominations; the idle workmen want is has caused a strong dri change, Th | to Bryan which can not be estimated 1 On the other hand Bryan than ever; the party isu where. It looks as 1 Maryland, Ohio, In York, battle g +! cess, whi Never We bel and the people will New h will insure were Democrat swe the Sa d bec Ad Democrat ratic | cratl they said ness would would walk ing for werk an 4 » | because | was a was elected that an speakers nev so far back t hey could not remember it. 4 panic in 1873 and it came | vider a Republican admioistration, came und 3 tariff and it came ju HE IS A MORAL MAN. H CENTRE LERS ra, OcCy Democrat 27. 1908 luformation has ome to us that certain parties if the western end of the county are assailing J. D. Miller's record and circulating some very ‘unsavory things concerning his character, We, as fellow citizens and neighbors of] Mr. Miller, hereby certify that he isa man who is perfectly hon- in all his dealings and of good moral character, est de D. A. Detrricn, Wa. H. Minxicu W. H. Markie, Range Horses Another car load of Dakota range nesday, November 4th and on Saturday will be sold at the Haag House stables | by Mr. Huyler. The furmer car load | gave the best of satisfaction. Many of | are now perfectly broken and | working regularly, For Calamity Howlers. “No one now fears that Mr. Bryan's election would provoke an industrial, commercial and financial cataclysm" — from the New York Herald, August, 1908, ReAv the prosperity advertisement on | will not be Mr. Bryafl has in him the material fot page 3. BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1008. AN IDEAL MAN AND FOREMOST AMERICAN ik! : [s Admired and Esteemed at Home and Abroad. REPRESENTS THE BETTER LIFE A man of Ripe Experience— Broad Statesmanship—A and Teacher Among A Christian Gentleman. Men exalt y } 1 18 an optim » ultimate | ugRested | wholseome ledness, his Igo to re woman the upward nend him to every mat and child that believes In trend, the higher view, the struggle for the soul's Aenthrallment Ag a thinker, Mr. Bryan stands in wet ront f the world's &t ro 54 =. gs Bryan Is pot the fact that eyery state wanted Bryan his election nomin icient to justify the fact that no state wanted Taft nominated sufficient his defeat Do the people want a man who stands upon his own merit or do they want an echo of anoth er! Have we reached the stage of de generacy where we, a sovereign people, will permit a president to name his su or have we retained vitality to assert our right of free choice These questions are big with interest and demand an answer in this cam- paign Of course, Mr. Bryan cannot please eveybody. Lincoln had bitter enemies, Washington was abused by foes, Is : fw to istify cessor, eno No man who does something for his fellows | can expect to escape the censure of the jealous and corrupt in heart Bryan | has been the victim of more abuse than any man now living, and paradoxical as it may seem, he is the most beloved. He has a world grasp on affairs of state, a clearly defined policy on all problems of discretion, and if the American peo fis do not elect him to the office of pres. dent the loss will be irreparable, is loss, but theirs, the greatest pF iklatit this nation, has ever seen. He minating the history of this country as po other man has ever {llumina it. His danger lies in his goodness and his greatness. He is therefore made the "Continued on bottom of next page Great Leader has the capacity for lla- | ry FOR BILLY T. FITZGERALD, | 1“ article “Li r in Politic in azette of ek, re 1 Pita ry ful ' Before he cs he an give him history Mr. Fitzgerald states Republican ( r eight-hour day for letter carrier wis no Republican Congres Congress was largely Demo March 1883 Whatever was done by a Democrat ) the incorporation « srovided for it Congress that on - establiishe 1888 from 4th, 1 } In November gress was elec vene in ses December, 1 Kinley mon ed vas also the It is rén wha! tar ff, C effect about t was passed by al n 1893. A blunder made Wm Qine in 18 igi to a man much a a3 $4 tae ¥ To repeal u by the Re; a SO88107 Willlam Montgomery, Q ashier of the Allegheny National Bank which failed | $2,000,000 re cently, Since the failure Montgomery has been in fail vader § Federal bail, and 820.000 State bail The charges incl abstraction and misapplication of funds, and in these cases he is alleged to have embezzled nearly $750.000 Ihousands of depositors will lose all their Savings, all of whom now would appreciate a guarantee bank law LUay s wr About 60 0X0 ide embes rlement Erie Shops to go to Renova, The large machine shops of the P. R. R. | company, located at Erie .are to be re- moved November 1, President McCrea and other officials of the road were at Erie Thursday and inspected the shops at that place and they were discour: aged with the conditions found there, and it is already understood, that the | employes of the machine shop shall be | ready to gd to Renova November 1 There are about joo men employed in the Erie machine shops and their re moval will take upwards of 1000 peeple, | including employes and their families, | It} to Renova, shining mark for the corrupt and danger.’ the envy of the small and mean, God grant that the better thought, the better conscience, the better impulses of our people may triumph in the election soon to come and that Bryan shall be exdlted and the nation glorified. By George F. Rinehart, { mortgages and the transfers A TIMELY WARNING You Afford Risk Valuable Holdings ? THE MISFORTUNES OF OTHERS. mouey it t 1 the office. The yeyvs at the Bar well know this and pre ests Le iy ympeten ’ Attor why they did not file fore the nomination, is what understand t may be that they never dreamed that a man of recognized abil ity like Laird Holmes would be ed: but it seems that the influence of the Taylors, along with Hurley opposing W. A. Cleese in Philipsburg, another competent man, Brown unexpectedly was pulled through by this combination The Democratic nominee, F. Pierce Musser. of Millbeim, is the editor of the Journal at that place. He hasa good education, is an expert penman and a conntant, for a number of years very efficiently has acted as Justice of the Peace at Millheim, where by virtue of his office he came 1a touch with this very line of work-ihe writing of deeds and of real mature years their 1 ao no we defeat. oy . 5 TE estate. He is a man of and sound judgment, accurate and methodical—and 1a all respects he is eminently qualified to fill the office to the advantage of all who may have oc casion to transact their most important business there If you are in doubt or hesitate on this issue, we appeal to you to investigate, If you have an ‘attorney, go to him frank! the facts, plainly and, fairly. The financial and property interests of Cen- . Bright, Sparkling Pargraphas T0 PROPERTY OWNERS“ "ed 87ic aad ask if we have not stated | Continued on bottom of next page. Centre Democrat. Vol. 3l. No. 42 FACT, FUN AND FANCY" Selec " 100 1 Ry! trier A manner Som as P. M. as salary. Smith Ins LESS at ASOD Ww ’ : were estad and nigety yUTSes beg r p February 24h M, For Calamity Howlers fears that Mr, Bryan's provese an indastria financial cataclysm York Herald, Aug me now election would commercial from 1998 the If you at have enough money to provide for the wants of yourself and the reason why oa page You will learn the reason why, and how to remedy the situation, family read tre county are tos great to entrust: them to an official who is incompetent to dis. charge his duties. (With such an official in charge confusing the records, bung- ling up the indexes, without a knowledge of correct use of wuius, how do you | know that when you buy property -—as shown above--you may later wake up to find that an unknown mortgage is plastered all over it? How do you know that in lending | money, for the same reason, you might | find a prior morthfe that renders your investment worthless’? As we have cited, the court records | are filled with such instances. Can the citizens of Centre county, therefore, afford to take the risk? The warning is timely it remains for them to decide,
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