The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-10-30

laborer with the necessities. and COM
forts Of life.
NO TARIFF REVISION.
We in Pennsylvania are satisfied
with existing conditions, and as to re-
| vision. will have none. Agitators may
cry "Revision!" Revision" but there
will be no revision while Pennsylvania
maintains her commanding position in
the Republican party and nation-a
position she can only maintain by alb.
solute harmony in council and unity
In action among her Republican voters.
The present campaign of the Democ.
racy in Pennsylvania presents spec.
tacle unique in its effort to obliterate
| The evidence of the existence of that
party and the memory of its mis-.
deeds.
They merely scold and defame pub.
| lie officials, befoul the reputation Of
the state which shelters them, bark
Mt Quay and vouch for their own In.
| tegTity. You have all heard their
cries of agony evoked by the con.
80 much worse than they. l need not
recapitulate and | reply. 1t is false
that any member of the last legisla-
tNre was paid to vote for Mr.. Marshall
for the speakership of the house. Ii 1t
| Is true, who was the member who
paid him and what was the amount
paid?
1t is false that any member Of the
senate or house of representatives was
paid to vote for me for United States
senator If it is true, who was the
person purchased, who paid the money
and what was the amount paid?
HENSEL MUST GIVE NAMES.
see that my friend Hensel has ex'
perienced sudden attack of Quay.
phobia and that he is in travail be-
cause of corruption which will only
be brought to- light upon the chal'
lenge OF Senator Penrose or Senator
| Quay. Whatever the case and who
] ever the criminal. challenge Mr.. Hen
| sci to produce his charge. his specifi
cations and his proof. If he does not,
| he fails in his duty to the public.
The peripatetics of the opposition
produce but three cases of alleged cor
ruption at Harrisburg which they
claim were fully established. First,
there was the scandal on the Clarion
Normal School II was asserted that
$500 had been paid to the legislature
for an appropriation to that institu,
ton.
have seen no statement anywhere
to establish that II had been actually
paid, nor by whom. nor to whom 1t was
paid. The only member of the legis.
lature. named in its connection were
two Democrats. one of whom has been
renominated.
II was alleged also by the same Co
terie of scandal mongers that hid
eous case was made out aga nst Mr.
harris. the present state treasurer
Investigation disclosed that Mr.. Har
ris when a member Of the legislature
went to Harrisburg after the legisla
ture had adjourned at the request OF
the officers of a Clearfield county insti
tuition to represent them before the
governor and had rendered bill fol
800 or 5000 for that service and Other
extra legislative services in their be
half which the institution had refused
to pay. That was the extent of the
horrible case of corruption In Clear
field county.
Again 1t is said that my friend
David B. Oliver, is cognizant of cast
in point-indeed, have read hi
speech, which was direct and pert
nent. but Nr. Oliver does not disclos
the identity OF the heavy villain in tn
case nor the attendant circumstances
Mr.. Oliver should give them to tn
public. He should hew TO the line, lie
the chips fall where they may.
These are the only instances. so ia
as have found, produced by the scar
dal mongers to sustain their charge
that the state which gives them she
ter and has given them prominenc
and wealth is debauched. robbed an
misgoyerned.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
And now desire to present to 20
some statistics bearing upon the a
legged disagreement Of the state {
Pennsylvania, a state whose onl
cause to blush is that her own chi
dren are traducers. ! assert thu
Pennsylvania is the best goyerne
state in this Union-look at her educ
tional system.
! Under the Democratic administr
ton in 1860 the amount appropriate
for common schools was $3.50, 900.
1868 the Republicans had removed Il
state tax from real estate and 1
creased the common school apDroDri
ton TO rs per cent. over 1850.
In 1874 they had increased 1t 8
nor cent oyer 1850 and at the La