luu(MrtMvuni fcfiiilT : IS AHOPSRII! It ank and Pile of liepublicnus Kesent Slander. THEY REMEMBER GARFIELD, j Governor Hastings Sonnds the Key- 1 note of the Campaign, The (iovernoi* Goes Throueh All tho i l.tbelou* und Scandalous Churces of 1 the Knemlesoft lie Republican Party nuil Exposes Their Weakness. (Special Correspondence.) Philadelphia. Oct. IS.—The Republl- ; can meeting at the Academy of Music at which Governor Daniel H. Hastings was the principal speaker was the ! event of last week. It marked there- I viva! of stalwartism. The sort of Re publicans who stood by Grant In '72, who had stood by Lincoln, and who stood by Blaine, were brought tore- ; allze that the same old agencies were | making another endeavor to bring trl- ' umph to tho Democratic party by '• vicious and unscrupulous personal as- : saults on Senator Quay and those who ( are known to be his friends. When Governor Hastings appeared he was greeted with an ovation, and spoke In part as follows: "One of the candidates for governor in February last year charged in a religious newspaper, of which he was editor, that new metal furnishings have been paid for by the state, but old oni:s in rise by the state carried into the state house cellar, cleaned and re turned wore made 10 personate the new ones paid for.' " 'That in the purchase of material and i labor for making additions, alterations, repairs and furnishings, the capitol \ buildings, and cellars anil grounds, also : for the executive mansion and now for ; Grace church, the stale has lost many j thousands of dollars as the result of an ! unfair system of competitive bidding. I in othei words, that the cost, to the I state has been two. three, four, as high | as eight times, in some instances, as ' much as it should have been, and that not all of this money went to the per- j sons furnishing the materials and la- i bor, and further that at least some of j the board of public grounds and build- 1 ings custodians have guilty knowledge • of this excessive cost.' These charges J if true, should have made it impossible J for me to appear before this audience ' or to hold the office of governor lor an- ! other day. "Let me tell you what followed the t publication which I have just read to i you. Its author was immediately at - - i rested 011 the charge of criminal libel. ' He was taken into the criminal court. He was tried 1 y a. jury of his peers and was convicted. The verdict of the jury was 'guilty.' He applied for a new trial. It was refused, and the trial judge, in his opinion refusing a. new trial, inter alia, said: 'The indictment alleged that these paragraphs (the quotations just read) were published of and concerning the members and su perintendent of the board of public grounds and buildings, and that the meaning of the paragraphs was to charge them with knowingly and corruptly and fraudulently cheating and defrauding the commonwealth, and with fraudulently and corruptly mis using and misappropriating to them selves and to others the public moneys of the commonwealth.' "Defendant admitted the publication, but denied that he Intended it to refer to the board or its members, or that it in fact charges them with the of fenses alleged in the indictment. "The burden was of course on the commonwealth to prove that these paragraphs would be understood by the public, to charge the members and su perintendent of the board or some of them, as alleged in the indictment, and the jury was instructed that if the commonwealth failed In this proof de fendant could not be convicted. In view of the verdict we must assume the jury found with the commonwealth 011 these points. "To establish the defense that the publication had not been maliciously or malignantly made, defendant testified at length, giving in detail all the facts claimed to be within his own knowl edge, and all the information that he had received which led him to make the publication: and nothing of this kind, however remote, was excluded. "Since then the convicted editor has mercilessly abused the trial judge, the jury, the opposing lawyers and the state, reiterating the same charges,par ticularly about Grace church. Who would not commend at least his misdi rected energy? His defense must have been well prepared. He was indefat igable. lie left no stone unturned. He was several times at my stable cross examining my hostler and the cook in our kitchen to find out something in the garbage or the manure pile to in jure me or my family. "11. Again this candidate in the same paper charged 'That articles have been furnished for the soldiers orphans' schools that cost the state eight fold more than reliable bidders were will ing to furnish the same articles for.' "The soldiers orphans' schools com- • mission immediately held a meeting in the executive chamber, its members consisting of General Gobin. Senator Mitchell, Captain William F. Stewart, Hon. Ira F. Mansfield. Hon. ttobert M. Foster, Colonel Ezra If. Hippie and Captain George W. Skinner. The mem bers of the commission tit once resolved to arrest him and the warrant was served. When he faced the jury his principal defense, was that there was 110 malice Intended. This was the first case tried, and the jury leniently found him "not guilty, but pay the costs.' It was in efTect notice to him that we will let you off this time, but pay the casts and don't do it again. "I am sure you will admire his mod- j tsty when I tell you that he shortly ! afterward wrote me a letter—here it js. j 1 hold it in my hands—asking me to donate him some money to help pav I these very costs. This is the letter: " 'HarrUburg, Fa.. Nov. 16, 1x97. * 'Governor Daniel H. Hastings: " 'My Dear Sir: The suit against me I «>ti the charge of having libeled the j lommlssion of soldiers orphans' schools. coen incurred, or at least should not lave been placed on me. " 'The bill of expenses, ov rand above JfillO. and which I was compelled to incur in my defense, including my witnesses, my time, my lawyers' fees If.nd Incidental expenses, amounting- in all to $1,250, is a burden I should not and will not be compelled to bear un -1 aided. " 'ln view of all the circumstances, ; the commission should, and can well , afford to. pay both of these bills, ag- , . gregating $1,910, or less than $175 for : each of the 11 commissioners. This i should be attended to by or before Dec. 1, 1897. " 'Yours truly, " S. C. SWALLOW.' "111. The same candidate has charged repeatedly on the stump and in the newspapers 'that the sum of $8,330.01 1 was paid for carpenter work on the rose propagating house, which the state au ! (horities admitted was worth, includ j ing material and labor, not more than j $1,800.' j "The rose propagating house referred ! tc was built under an act of the leg islature of the session of 1595, in which . | in the general appropriation bill the 1 sum of SI.SOO was appropriated. The ; language used in the act is as follows: I"For the payment of the erection, con j struetion. completion and furnishing of a rose propagating house, the sum of j one thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.' Under this act a house was built, to gether with all the excavation, mason ry, carpenter work, glass, iron, paint ing and material of every kind, finished j complete for use, for the sum of SI,BOO, : the amount appropriated, built by- Charles H. Miller, who took the bid. "I have these figures taken from the record of the auditor general of the state. The statement, therefore, that j this building cost over SB,OOO is utterly and unqualifiedly false, and I challenge -111 > practical builder, who understands the value of material and labor, to ; construct a duplicate of this building | for any smaller sum than was paid for ! this lose propagating house by the I board of public buildings and grounds , I of the commonwealth, and I also chal • lenge any man to show that the build - 'ing in question cost more than M.Sllo. "IV. At the trial in the Dauphin cuuu i ty court, above referred to.the candi -1 date, in his defense, brought out. of j course, everything Ue could to justify 1 his charges in regard to the fitting out | of Grace church, and inasmuch as ho | j was found guilty of criminal libel, after producing all the testimony within his ; ! reach, it is hardly worth the time of ! this audience to make any further ref- j erence to it. As a matter of fact, the 1 | church was fitted up for the occupancy | of the legislature in four days and I four nights I took personal charge of 112 the work myself, and if the Dauphin county jury had brought in a verdict of acquittal there might l>e some ground I on which the defendant might rest his allegations. It was necessary to fit ui> rooms for the senate and house of rep resentatives. The cellar was utilized for committee rooms. There were re quired new boilers, partitions, windows, electric light, steam heat, plumbing, j retiring rooms, desks, chairs, tables, carpets and whatever else was neces sary to make the church habitable by the legislature, its officers and em ployes. Every bidder who had obtain- i ed, after competitive bidding, the year- j ly contra-ct for furnishing the supplies to the state government, was summon- i ed and directed to do his part of the I work by the following Monday night. ' "The fire occurred on Tuesday. The I contractors went to work on Wednes- | day, and although the church was not ; completed, the church was habitable j for the legislature,'and the two houses \ met on Monday evening, according to my promise to them. There was a dis position among the members of the gen eral assembly to take a recess of 30 days. "I was opposed to the recess, and it was only when I give tlicni my person al word that the bttiding would be ready for their occv _ncy on the fol lowing Monday night, "that they'acced ed to my wishes. A deiay of 30 clays would have cost the state, at a conserv ative estimate, between $20,000 and $30,- 000, perhaps more than the latter fig ure. The old Capitol building was com pletely destroyed by fire. Nothing but a. small amount of furniture was saved. Mark you. every contractor was re quired to furnish his material and do the work, under his contract price for the year, after the competitive bidding and letting on the previous first of June. Two sets and sometimes three ! sets of workmen worked alternately through 24 hours of each day. Th. desks, chairs, tables, bookcases and pa - per files comprised a large part of the expense, amounting to $16,531.68. The 1 lumber used was measured after It was j put In place, and paid for on thai measurement. I am informed the d, - fendant himself had It measured, at least he had the opportunity to have it measured for use in his trial, and still the jury found him guilty. Since his conviction he has been as assiduous in repeating his charges as he was before This must convince the people of the state the kind of r< gard he has for laws and courts—as after his conviction he continues to repeat the crime for which he was convicted. "It may be proper for me to say that the present law providing for the : purchase of supplies for the state gov ernment is modeled alter that In force by the Federal government at Wash ington. By our law and the constitu- , tiori there is a maximum price fixed for each article, and the commission is required to give contracts to the low- ! est responsible bidders, each bidder be - ing required to bid such percentage as lie may desire off the maximum fig ure. The law requires that each item |:iust be advertised for bids in 12 news papers of the state, anil that not more than three of the 12 shall be in the same county. Any person desiring to bid on any articles can apply to the board of ! public grounds and buildings through | its representative, who furnishes the j schedule of maximum prices, lie can make out his bid and hold it until the I day of the letting, which ts public, and in the executive . hamber. where all bids are opened. The contracts are by i law required to be awarded to the low | est responsible bidder, who must fur j nish a bond for the faithful perform ance of his contract. All parties have a right to be present, and the awards are made publicly, sind each and every bid der has the opportunity to' sop and ex amine the hlils of his rivals for the con tracts. 1 ii.isiiiuili n.-- ilio material fur- IIISIHMI ;IMI work done it l'or Tlie state tin l rivalry for t |j.• cupirin'is is always spirited. "On Ins.. Saturday nlfclu in this hall, anil standing on litis platform. this saint* candiiiatc mad • t'.ie following charge: " In (jrai'c church lln-y bought 1(6.- 000 feet of lunilx'r when only fiG.OOO feet were used. Tho.se familiar with their methods say that the> had the lumber carried in by the front door, I charged to the state, and then removed half of it by a back window, but I do not vouch for this. But that 146,000 were charged to the state while the i amount used was 66,000 I do vouch for. The bills were regularly O. K.. and would have been paid had we not ar rested them.' "The answer to the assertion is that it is not true. The state did not buy 1 146,000 feet of lumber, as alleged: neith er did the slate buy 66.000 feet of lum ber, as stated by the candidate. It did buy exactly 115.232 feet of lumber and paid for il the sum of Jti.S»lo.o4. The total cost of the lumber that went into the church repairing was $:!.910.04, and the total cost of the planing mill and carpenter work was $2,382.51. making i a total cost nf the lumber and the labor ! upon it of $5,292.55. Here are the bill and the voucher for it over the hand and seal of the auditor general of state. "Again, this candidate for governor has declared in his newspaper and on the stump that the burning of the state 1 capitol building was by design and that it was done for the purpose of burning up public documents which might be used as testimony against certain mem bers of the Republican party; and tha 'further, there Is convicting evidence of criminal carelessness and neglect on the part of the state house custodians.' "The last sentence, quoted from his newspaper, contains a serious charge in no ambiguous terms. After this state ment he was called upon to testify be fore the joint committees of the two branches of the general assembly on public grounds and buildings. He was sworn to tell the truth, and then under oath he did not in any way. either di rectly or indirectly, indicate that he j bad at any time regarded the building : as having been set on fire by design. He ! could give no names of the guilty: he could furnish no witnesses; he could give no data: he could do nothing, not even repeat the assertion made In his paper, and so at last h" declared under oath: 'I have already testified to all the facts within my personal knowledge in relation to the capitol building, and so far as 1 ran recall them. Any furth er testimony would lie hearsay evi- ' dence. as T have heard nothing from ! anyone responsible for the care of the l building burned.' This testimony is j contained in the Legislative Record, pages 72:! and 72S inclusive, and there is not a scintilla of evidence given by him or anyone else to support his , charge of carelessness or neglect. I "At a later date, in nn article pub- i llshed in the Pennsylvania Methodist, of Feb. 11. isos. he intimated that the ! building was burned in order that val uable papers and documents relating to the treasury investigation might be destroyed When called upon the wit ; ness stand he admitted writing the arti cle and said that when he wrote it h> bad in view statement which he had j seen in the Philadelphia newspapers bearing on the subject and averred that ; it was made "on the statement of gen- I tlemcn who profess to know of what they were talking.' lie refused to giv i the names of the gentlemen who had ! given him the information, and has not yet done so. although a year and a half i has elapsed since the investigation was i held. Everybody at all familiar with I the facts knows that there was not a | record relating to the treasury or any j ; other department on tile in the building ! burned. "A citizen of this commonwealth, who j Is a candidate for the highest office within the gift of the people, who with holds information from the public, which he av>-rs is 'convicting evidence' | of the destruction of the capitol build ' ing of our commonwealth for the pur pose of destroying valuable papers and documents relating to the investigation ' of the state treasury, then being made, charges an awful crime, and in with holding the evidence, if It exists, com mits himself a stealer crime against the people. He is constantly repeat ing the charge, but he steadfastly with holds the proof of guilt which he avers he possesses. No citizen need be told that if he is telling the truth it is his solemn duty togo to the nearest mag istrate and make his information and furnish the names of the witnesses. If he fails to do his duty in this regard he I Is worse than an assassin. "He has latterly in his public utter ances been declaring that he has the advice of able counsel to the effect that, under the law. the attorney general is j the only citizen of the state who has the power nnd whose duty it is to prosecute those whom he alleges to be guilty, and | he has. just as often, in his newspaper ; end on the stump, called upon the at torney general to institute proceedings | of this character. ' I do not know who his attorney is or where he gets his advice. The attorney general has. however, addressed to me a communication on the subject, which 1 will now read to you. It is as fol- j lows: " 'Oflice of the Attorney General. " 'Harrisburg, Oct. 10, IS9B. "'Daniel H. Hastings, Governor: "'Sir—lt has been charged by one of the candidates for governor of this commonwealth that sundry public of- ! ficials have been guilty of wrongdoing, and that under the law the attorney ' general only is clothed with the duty ! 1 and the power to prosecute. Tn ati- i rwer to your inquiry as to whether £CATHARTIC \abc CURE CONSTIPATION 25c sOfc DRUGGISTS suc.i is or is not tne case, I respect fully submit that there Is not only no such duty imposed upon the attorney i general in bis official capacity, but that it is the light of any citizen, having knowledge of the facts, to make in lormation before any aldern'an or lus tlce of the peat ■ in the commonwealth. • cause a warrant to be issued, and th. person charged with the offense duly tried, whether he be a public official or n priva'e individual. " 'The same candidate for governor has on repeated occasions stated to his ; audiences that he lias called upon the attorney general to institute proceed ings of this character. I believe it to , be due to you and to the public, as well as to myself to say that the can didate referred to has never, directly or I ndlrectly, mentioned the subject to me. and, of course, has furnished not a syllable of evidence to sustain any charge that he has made; nor has he, in any of his public utterances, shown that he possessed any evidence that would be admissible in any court lit 1 any civilized country in the world. " 'Very respectfully, " 'Henry C. McCormick, " 'Attorney General.* "As Abraham Lincoln, in speaking of a candidate, once said, 'lf the people like this kind of a man, this is a very good man for the people to like.' If the , people of this state want this kind of j a man for governor to enforce the laws, i to do justice to all and wrong to none, to safeguard their lives, their property i and their character, if they want such a man.this is a very good man for them to vote for." Governor Hastings also took Or. Swal low to task for his charges that the state had been paying exorbitant prices for its supplies. On this point the gov ernor said he instructed James Camp bell. the factory inspector, to send to Dr. Swallow's own bookstore in Har risburg and purchase similar articles to those used by the state. In every case it was found that the prices charged by Dr. Swallow and paid for | by the state were procured at prices ranging from 10 per cent to "86 per cent above the regular prices paid by the commonwealth. He reail a number of the ligures showing the comparison of prices; among them; Swal- State low price, price. One ream of Mt. Holly Crown linen, 16 lbs. to ream $2.32 $3.30 i One box, of 100 sheets W. S. B. Canton paper. No. 1, black 8-3 3.08 4.00 1000 circulars 71 J. 50 These were but sample figures of a ' long list which he exhibited. The governor closed with a defense , of liis administration from criticisms of ; increased expenditures and a reference to the objectionable bills passed by the j i last legislature and which were vetoed | i by him. He said that he had no regrets for j 1 those vetoes and that he would not ask the people to return to the legislative ! j halls those who betrayed the trust re- ; posed in them by their constituents who : honored them. In conclusion he said: "Prudent bankers do not go out of i business because they discover the I peculations of a dishonest teller. "The thrifty farmer who discovers his i barn infested with vermin will not burn ! down the building filled with the j year's crops only for the purpose of rid ding himself of the pests. "Our victorious hosts at Santiago did not thrown down their arms and sur- j render to the enemy because some quarter master failed in his duty, or the j commissary neglected to bring forward the rations or the hospitals were remiss in caring for sick and wounded. No. they scaled the heights of El Caney j and planted the flag" on the summit and looked after the maligner after the battle was won. "Neither will the Kepublican party, with all its glorious history and all its j achievements for humanity: with all its j | victories in peace and in war; with all \ its accomplishments for mankind and ! for civilization and all its brightening prospects for the future, now standing in the sunlight of its noblest achieve- : ments, break ranks and disintegrate because of the wrongdoing of a few , men who wear its uniform." Dickinson College tins just honored j William 11. Wooilin. Republican candi-i .late lor Congress, l>v election to] member ship on the Hoard of Trustees. A busi ness mi Mr. Woodin'sjstamp will be a valuable a>sessioii to Dickinson's execu tive hoard. A Famous School In a Famous Place. The KAST STIUU DSHI IM;, PA., NOR MA I, OTT'T-rs Mtporior eilucational wlcantat/ex. Healthful and Picturesquo Location i in Hit' rrxort region of the state. Building* new and motlem. Students Room furnished with brus sels Carpet. No other school pro vides such hu urioux home contforfs. ; The Best Boarding. The Most lleatfonable It* it ex. The first Normal in the state to introduce Plain and Fancy Sewing. , College Preparatory, Music and Elo cutionary Departments, j Write at once for a catalogue, free. Wi.VTKH TKKM OPENS JAN. 2, '99. | Addres (i i:o. P. Bihle, A. M., Principal. i Season is upon us again. We are better prepared to serve you than ever. i The factories have greatly improved our Heaters and Ranges. Mo Range can equal the RED CROSS . assortment. No COOK STOVE does better work than RED CROSS Champion. 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