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QBTTY4BTJBG COMPILER, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1810. (Rll CAIPA1G1 THE ISSUE PRESENTED BY THE SIUART ADMINISTRATION. it cannot be denied that the eyes of men lighten and that their hearts warm as they view its wondrous sue cess, at least it can be urged that it nas cost a considerable sum of money." As this splendid panegyricb failed Vnt.r tfnftt Pace and i conceal the corruption within, BO Voter Must i ne explanation of tne present i commission fail to satisfy the public. An investigation is imperative. For Approve in Casting His Vote This Fall.

some years it has been the practice in this State when a new institution Vebster Grim opened the i to be provided to make a partial i following clear I swc-ieedhig Legislature? would be ask- Senator Democratic at AUemown with the following clear explanation of the that face inaugural Governor JJj Stuait I he pianos the i i 9 lan naa ils which elected promised iiuporM cogt were estimate and asked ant which the reople had been for i(S a asked for demanding for years, and which in Qr ierhapi; to erect a some instance? have been persistently A i i piocecded to ihem. 1 gave my word to the a site and adoj)t )lans anc i lay fouudatious for i i which ihe-. knew at the time will cost a million or two minions. State officer is permitted under of law to bis appropriation or transfer would that ii elected Goveinor. 1 to the extent of mv power in- ises.

All the reioims pledged in thai piano: -hall constitute part ci the policy of my administration. The people i i assume from the re- BUlt of the recent a thes-e rptovms balances, and yu: under the machine practice prevailing today tlu- M-omotf-rs or these institutions would re accom- pli-iu The pany is again for 5 which it cannot help itself, by i no plans or estimates of cost, but i i c-rately put the State in a po a renewal ol power under the leadership 01 a candidate who declares that he will "carry out the wise and saga- starting a million dollar foundoatiou lor a building with a lifty thousand cloliar appropriation, and the Legisla- cious policies which have distinguish- and Governor enter upon the ed the administration of the the Hon. EC ie ir.e not only blindly but reckless Edwin S. Stuart." This record therefore makes up one of the leading issues in the campaign, and 1 propose this arternoon to call public attention to a portion of it and show why the Republican machine has lon'eited pub lie confidence. First, allow me to call your attention by way of contrast to the great difference between the platform of 1906 and 1910.

The platform of 1900 was r.doi-teu the year lollowing the adjournment of the special session in which we were able to scare trom the machine leaders some of the reforms that we had been so long demanding. The Republican machine was then upon its good behavior and in its choice ot a candidate for Governor, it showed great deference to public opinion. But today how changed! Scarcely one of the reforms pledged in that platform is found in that platform this year The mask is thrown aside and we must fight the same old power face to face. Xot that the reforms have been secured by legislation, for. with the exception of the railroad commission (and it is without adequate power to enforce its.

de crees). there has been no reform legislation enacted since the special session of 19U6. It was in that session 1 that we secured personal registration, uniform primaries, corrupt practices, reform in State deposits and apportionment, and the little volume ot pamphlet laws of 1906 will go down in history as a remarkable collection of reform legislation. But since then we have had practically nothing and it is up to the Republican machine and its candidates and to Governor Stuart to explain why. One of the most important reforms referred to in his inaugural was in the condition of our hospitals for the insane.

He declared that this could oe done promptly by a yearly appropriation to finish the new hospital at Allentown, and that no subject appeals for immediate legislative action as strongly as this. Nearly four years have passed since then, and this hospital at Rittersville is not ready for a single inmate while other hospital is overcrowded. Has then this promise teen redeemed. Whose fault, may we ask, has it been? The people want to know. In his second message two years ago, the Governor again referred to the delay in completing this hospital, but he cut down the appropriation so that it could not be finished, aad yet he made no effort to have it finished so far a sthe records show.

It does seem remarkable that with all the criticism of the methods in use in the construction of the State Capitol that there should be a practical repe tition of the same methods. But we arc in the praft age. Centuries ago in the development of architecture they developed the Gothic, Doric and Corinthian style, each peculiar of the epoch. The opening of the 20th century has added a new style, grafted upon form, and if you examine into the" buildings built by the State under the same management you find traces of the same system. It is the graft style.

Why is it that a certain architect gets this line of State work? And why do certain contractors get the contracts even if other contractors put in lower bids? There is no stronger advocate of these hospitals than the architect, and he is on hand when the proposed act for its erection is introduced in the Legislature. The Rittersville commission declare that they have not profited by the de lay. Xo one charges that they have. No one has come forward to charge eithei that Auditor General Snyder and Superintendent Shoemaker benefited financially from the Capitol graft. ly.

At the next session the commission return for another naif million and the contractor starts in again and the life of the commission is prolonged. If instead of appropriating a half million to several such projects at the same session, one institution was finished before another was start ed. the cost would be the same and the levciiues would be sufficient. A just criticism against the present system is that no act to erect an institution has a chance tor passage, no matter how nieritoiious, unless it niovides that certain of the membership the commission is taken from the Legisla riire. under the theory that the Legislature alone is responsible for the appropriation ni the money and charged with it proper return, but as a rule the-e Oiioracions extend beyond the term of the members any way.

The building of such an institution should not be under the supervision of any commission, unless they are practical men and can devote their personal attention to it in conjunction with the architect. The whole system is wrong. But you cannot remedy it unless you Take Tmters- What do the tear it up bv t'ae roots. ville for an example, meml-ers of this commission know until they are told about the quality of slate, glass, cement, copper or lumber? Granrina; that they do make an inspection tvery three months, what does such supervision amount to? Here are buildings, part of which stand a vear without a roof. There is not a man among you who would be satisfied to take a house built in that way.

You would have it to re- oair before you had finished it. But Rittersville is only ail example of others. It is but a part of a system tnat "bore its fullest fruits in the Capitol at Harrisburg. When RittersviHe is investigated it will be found that the cause of this delay is a part of the system at Harrisburg. The pledge that it should be remedied has been broken and we call upon Governor Stuart and the Republican party to explain why it has been broken.

There is in this connection another pledge still outstanding. Governor Stuart declared upon the stump and in his inaugural that if any persons had been guilty of crime in the construction ot the Capitol that they would be punished and restitution enforced. It has been four years since a modest clerk in the office of the State Treasurer made the exposure later established by the commission that the State had been cheated out of about $5,000.000. After many months of delay, two men who were the 'goats' for some one else, were convicted of fraud, but not one cent has been recovered to the State. Want of time cannot be pleaded.

Where has the money gone? Who got it is really the important question, and its recovery the important matter to the people of the State. The men in jail declare that they did net profit this steal and nobody believes now that they did. The architect declares that he only received his regular compensation and the Sanderson estate wor.ld seem to indicate that be was not the real beneficiary. What real effort has ever been made to ascertain where the money actually went beyond the limited inquiries before the conmiitsion? Certain ii is that the Republican party has not made good its promises to go to the bottom of the Capitol steal, and his failure except the simple filing of suits must have an important bearing upon this campaign. There is another a specifically mentioned in the platform upon which Governor Stuau was elected that calls for explanation.

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Trestle, Yors Street, (Gettysburg, a publicly endorsed Doau'Kiduey Pill? two years ago aud I now take pleasure iu eon tinning that stateiueot. A member of my fatuity a great deal of paius tbrouigh Hit small of the back aud always felt tired aud woru out Doau's Kiduey Piilfc were I doing etucii guuii work iu cafces that we decided to try them aud a supply was procured at the People's Drug Store. I heir use brought relief aud made a marked improvement in every way. We are firm believers iu the merits ot Doau's Kiduey Pills aud recoiurneud them to auyoue afflicted with kiduey coixiplaiut." for sale ty all aeiuers. cents.

Bufiaiu. sole agents lor the United Remember take no other. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION SUBMITTED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL, OR REJECTION, BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. IN PURSUANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITUTION. Number One.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to section twenty-six of article five of the Constitution of the Commonwealth ot Pennsylvania. Resolved (if the Senate concur). That the following amendment to section twenty-six of article five of the onstitution of Pennsylvania be. and the same is hereby, proposed, in accordance with the eighteenth article thereof: -That section 26 of Article which reads as follows: "Section 26. All laws relating to courts shall be general and of uniform operation, and the organization, jurisdiction, and powers of all courts of the same class or grade, so far as regulated by law, and the force and effect of the process and judgments of such courts, shall be "uniform; and the General Assembly is hereby prohibited from creating other courts to exercise the powers vented by this Constitution in the judges of the Courts of Common Pleas and Orphans' Courts," be amended so mat the same shall read as follows: -Section 26.

All laws relating to courts shall be general and of uniform operation, and the organization, jurisdiction, and powers of all courts of the same class or grade, so far as regulated by law, and the force and effect of the process and judgments of such courts, shall be uniform; but, notwithstanding any provisions of this Constitution, the General Assembly shall have full power to establish new courts, from time to time, as the same may be needed in any city or -county, and to prescribe the powers and jurisdiction thereof, and to increase the number of judges in any courts now existing or hereafter created, or to reorganize the same, or to vest in other courts the jurisdiction theretofore exercised by courts not of record, and to abolish the same wherever it may be deemed necessary for the orderly and efficient administration of justice. A true copy of Resolution No. 1. ROBERT MCAFEE, Secretary of the Commonwealth. In this connection it is to; the State in these words: "We also favor the recovery of The abandoned reter to the menage of Governor Pennypacker in reierence to the charges of graft in construction of the State Capitol.

words some day will become classic. They are as brazen a- lirass. "No important work." ne. "was ever achieved on this a a of the State, and i res-tora- tiuii to hignways of transportation un- lpr and liberal laws fo; establishment of canal companies independent of railroad control, and ing by the State of any existing oa- earth. whether for the betterment a i being pans of abandoned canal a affairs, the enhancement of necessary for the recla- man interests or the elevation of a i of such continuous canal sys- man sentiment, without an aftermath terns." How ha? this promise been of query, criticism, dissent, objection and even hostility.

Joan of Arc liberated her country and was burned as a witch by her enemies. Lincoln led his people through the dangers and vicissitudes of the rebellion and was assassinated at its close. Meade met with more criticism for not doing the Impossible things of capturing the army of Northern Virginia than hon- kept to the people of Pennsylvania? The report has been made by the railroad commission showing a number of abandoned canals now owned by competing railroad lines, yet not one sign of an action has been taken to reclpim them or to carry out the promise made. Why was not this promise kept? But let us refer to another more or for having won the most niomen-l specific oromise that has been likewise tou? victory of modern The in-1 hroke-i. That platform also contained dustr.ous plows- his field following plank: "We demand the next years crop, i birds of 511, investigation of the facts as to the omen sit along the fence and croak abandonment of the construction of their disnleasuro.

The vapors the competitive railroads by existing their displeasure. swampy ground often obscure for corporations, and the enactment of time the very moon in the heavens. suf legislation as will enable the It be tOO milCll tO i the franrhteoft a a ex per Capitol, beautiful in its adorned with the wealth of the thought of all past time, and builded for the centuries that are to follow, escape the whimpers of today, and i to retake the franchises so aban cloned, and any work which may have been done under them, and sell the same to an independent and compet- Continued ou page three.) Number Two. RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, so as to eliminate the requirement of payment of taxes as a qualification of the right to vote. Resolved (if the House of Representatives concur).

That the following amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania be, and the same is hereby, proposed, in accordance with the eighteenth article thereof: Thar section one of article eight be amended, by striking out the fourth numbered paragraph thereof, so that the said section shall read as follows: Section 1. Every male citizen twenty-on? years of age. possessing the following- qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, subject however to such Jaws requiring and regulating the registration of the General Assembly may enact. First. He shall have been a r-itiren of the United States at least one month.

Second He shall have resided in tb.p State one year or if. having previously been a qualified elector or nanve- born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned, then six immediately preceding election. Third. He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election. A true copy of Resolution No.

2 ROBERT MCAFEE. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Three. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, so as to consolidate the courts of common pleas of Allegheny County. Section 1.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met. That the following amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania be. and the same is hereby, proposed, in accordance with the eighteenth article section six of article five be amended, by striking out the said sec- and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 6 In the county of Philadelphia all the jurisdiction aad powers now vested in the district courts and courts of common pleas, subject to such changes as may be made by this Constitution or by law, shall he in Philadelphia vested in five distinct and separate courts of equal and coordinate jurisdiction, composed of three judges each. The said courts in Philadelphia shall be designated respectively as the court of common pleas number one, number two. num- ber three, number four, and number five, bat the number of said courts may be by law inc; eased, from time to time, and shall be in like manner designated by successive numbers.

The number of judges in any of said courts, or in any countv where the establishment of an additional court may be authorized by law, may be increased, from time to time, and whenever such increase shall amount in the whole to such three shalt compose a distinct and separate court as afore shall be numbered as aforesaid. In Philadelphia all suits shall be instituted in the said courts of common pleas without designating the number of the said court, and the several courts shall distribute and apportion the business among them in such manner as shall be provided by rules of court, and each court, to which anv suit shall be thus assigned, shnll have exclusive jurisdiction thereof, subject to change of venue, as shall be provided by law. In the county of Allegheny all the jurisdiction and powers now vested in the several numbered courts of common pleas shall be vested in one court of common pleas, composed of all the judges in commission in said courts. Such jurisdiction and powers shall extend to all proceedings at law and in equity which shall have been instituted in the several numbered courts, and shall be subject to such changes as may be made by law, and subject to change of venue as provided by law. The president judge of said court shall be selected as provided by law.

The number of judges in said court may be by law increased from time to time. This amendment shall take effect on the first day of January succeeding its adoption. A true copy of Resolution No. 3. ROBERT MCAFEE.

Secretary of the Commonwealth. Number Four. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to section eight, article nine, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania. Secton 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That the following is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions of the eighteenth article to Article Nine.

Section Eight. Section 2. Amend section eight, article nirfe, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, which reads as 8. The debt of any county, city, borough, township, school district, or other municipality or incorporated district, except as herein provided, shall never exceed seven per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable property therein, nor shall any such municipality or district incur any new debt, or increase its indebtedness to an amount exceeding two per centum upon such assessed of property, without the assent of the electors thereof at a public election in such manner as shall be provided by law; but any city, the debt of which now exceeds seven per centum of such assessed valuation, may be authorized by law to increase the same three per centum, in the aggregate, at any one time, upon such valuation," so as to read as 8. The debt of any county, city, borough, township, school district, or other municipality or incorporated district, except as herein provided, shall never exceed seven per centum upon the assessed value of the taxable property therein, nor shall any such municipality or district any new debt, or increase its indebtedness to an amount exceeding two per cen- tum upon such assessed valuation of property, without the assent of the electors thereof at a public election in such manner as shall he provided by law; but any city, the debt of which now exceeds seven per centum of such assessed valuation, may be authorized by law to increase the same three per centum, in the aggregate, at any one time, upon such valuation, except that any debt or debts hereinafter incurred by the city and county of Philadelphia for the construction and development of subways for transit purposes, or for the construction of wharves and docks, or the reclamation of land to be used in the construction of a system of wharves and docks, as public improvements, owned or to be owned by said city and county of Philadelphia, and which shall yield to the city and county of Philadelphia current net revenue in excess of the interest on said debt debts and of the annual installments necessary for the cancellation of said debt or debts, may be exclud ed in ascertaining the power of the city and county of Philadelphia to become otherwise indebted: provided.

That a sinking fund for their cancella tion shall be established and maintained. A true copy of joint Resolution No. 4. ROBERT MCAFEE. Secretary of the Commonwealth Is the Story of the Weil Managed Bank How's this for Growth? Total Business Spring of 1889, 406.605.17 Surplus 20,000.00 Total Business Spring of 1899, 838,303.27 Surplus 90,000.00 Total Business last report, 1909, $1,268,925.47 Surplus 150,000.00 First National Rank of Gettysburg NEW BANK BUILDING Center Square.

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If you want Bargains NOW IS THE TIME TO GET THEM. SKELLY WARNER More Particularly For The Ladles, CHARTER NOTICE Notice is hereby given that an application will be made to the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania on MONDAY, the 22nd day of August, 1910, by George S. Kump, C. H. Basehoar, E.

E. Reindollar, Edwin H. Shar- ttts and Norman Hess, under the Act of Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, e'ntitled "An Act to provide for the Incorporation and Regulation of certain Corporations." approved April 29th, 1874, the supplements thereto, for the charter of an intended corporation to be called "Littlestown Milling Company." the character and object of vhlch is "wholesale acd retail dealing in all kinds of grain, feed, flour, coal lumber, cattle, building materials, fertilizers and other merchandise." and for these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges of the said Act of Assembly and its supplements. W. C.

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