Punxsutawney Spirit, 1908-11-05

              4 • •> ► remn ftttiHttfattmeg Hiiifit PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1908 VOL III—NO.43 HAP HAZARD METHOD OF RETURNING RESULTS TOTALS FOR THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY CANDIDATES ARE BIG ODDS AND ENDS OF THE ELECTION TUESDAY TAFT'S ELECTION STARTED THE PROSPERITY WHEELS TAFT WINS STATE OF MISSOURI BY LESS THAN 100 VOTES PRICE TWO CENTS 7 13 3 . . . 4 3 . . . 4 10 3 31» 7 Tor Bryan . 152 l'nsiice« s*ful DrnuH rulle Candidate Wishes 1'rrsitloiit-I'* I* vi SlKHTss. Kepii hlie Iron *v Si eel Co.'m Furnace nl New Castle ISesuiiKf* Work Xl'ler I.ong Idleness. West Virginia, Maryland and Montana are Safely In Republican Column—Vote in Electoral College Now Stands 327 for Taft l/ical Man Sets Six Diamond Drills to Work as Result of Presidential Contest. Polled a Heavy Vi the 1 Change in tlio Kleetion l4»ws is Badly Xmkd—DuplictKo Should In* MimIo. fear by Townships—Deemer Tabulated Vote of a Few State—Labor Vote Did It. Tafl Had 15,645 Plurality In New York City—Bryan Carries Own The election of William H. Taft, of Ohio, to the presidency, brought quick 5.514 2,474 By United Press. election is still in the "show me" state. ST. Loi'lS, Mo., Nov. 5.— Missouri's political status following Tuesday's . .5,398 . . 2,647 For Tafi Following s how the states voted Republican control of congress does not seem to be seriously menaced although Republicans long familiar figures in public life have lost in many states. ocratic, Gov. Sheldon, a number of congressmen being eliminated and the legislature being made overwhelmingly Dem- . . .5,040 . . .3.252 5,34 6 2,824 I Following arc some odds and ends reports of Tuesday's election: William H. Tuft's plurality in NT«'W York <'ity is lf>,645. The Republican "steam roller" worked to perfection in New York State Tuesday, crushing out a plurality for Taft greater than that given Roosevelt four years ago. which was 176,000, and at the same time sweeping into office Gov. Charles Evans Hughes, and giving him a supporting company of j Republican State officers and the leg- i isiature. Hughes's plurality is estimated at 75,000. Both the senate and assembly arc overwhelmingly Republican.4,780 4,415 3,515 2,986 lieglHtrr A; IIc^hiKt I. J. Campbell  J. C. Shermcr  Protlmnotary B .E. Irvln . . .(  C Mowry  Sheriff A. E. Galbraith Ell Vasbinder County Trrnsuri'r W. G. Buffington . . J. H. Carr  County Com J. X. Kelly . A. F. Reitz E. T. McGaw A. C. Smith morrow. The official count will begin this afternoon, anil may be available io- 5,026 5,376 2,607 1,472 Following arc the totals for part of the county ticket: Taft & Sherman 5,648 Bryan & Kern 2,978 Chafln &. Watkins 578 Debs & Hanford 197 Hisgen & Graves 14 Gilhaus & Munro 12 J. N. Langham 5,296 J. S. Shirley 2,679 State Senator T. M. Kurtz . . 5 372 B. 13. Brumbaugh 2,654 Representative in Assembly R. H. Longwell . . . J. G. Mitchell  A D. Deemer  Irvln M. Simpson . Beginning: with a brilliant victory In h ishome precinct. William J. Bryan reversed a majority of 2,000 in Lincoln, carrying liis county by a handsome plurality and will win the Sta:«• by 10,00Q. His tfote was unprecedented, Lancaster County being accounted the banm r Republican .stronghold of the State. Lieutenant Governor MeKinley is leading Keruns for the Republican nomination by about thirteen thousand.Senator Stone has a lead of nearly sixteen thousand over Governor Folk in the raee for the Democratic nomination, but the governor declares he will win t\ut when the returns from the counties not yet heard from, come in. ('ongressmen, The Democrats have elected four or live, and the Republicans perhaps six. The Republicans claim a majority in the Legislature of three on a Joint ballot. Taft now leads with a majority of less than 100. and the official count may be required to decide the result of tlie Presidential race. Not until the complete figures are in will the exact result he known. Had ley has been elected governor by a majority that will exceed 15.000, with eighteen counties and a few scattered precincts yet to be heard from. Boll Tup. South North 75 35 77 41 15 12 0 3 1st 247 37 10 14 McCul. Tup. 2nd 78 41 1 YouiIK Tu p. N 1st N 2.1 South 98 145 97 40 39 44 0 60 13 1 2 1 A tabulated statement of the complete returns of Tuesday's election would require more than an entire page of The Spirit, and, perhaps, few people take the time to read it. Hence there is submitted herewith only i few of the nearby precincts, and the totals for some of the candidates. The unofficial vote for Young, Bell and two precincts in McCalmont. follows: Superior CI. .Fudge Porter, Rep  Pres. & V. Pres. Taft & Sherman, Rep. . Bryan & Kern, Dem... Chafin & Watkins, Pro.. Debs & Hanford, Soc. . . CANDIDATES 94 137 95 67 35 222 79 (Continued on page two.) FOURTH WARD BANNER PRECINCT FOR AGED VOTERS THE NEXT MISTRESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE Utah Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Dakota Vermont Wyoming West Virginia Washington . . Wisconsin . . . Ni'W Jersey . . Ni'W York . . North Dakota Ohio  Oregon  New Hampshire Massachusetts Michigan . .. Minnesota M issouri .... Montana ... Ka nsas Maine Ma ryland Indiana Jowa . .. California Connecticut Delaware . Idaho . . . . Illinois . . . Seven Octogenarians, Five of Whom Voted Tuesday. Mrs. William If. Taft is E*i>ecially Adapted to Task Which Will Soon Be Hers. The official count of the vote was bt gun today, and it is believed that this will be necessary to accurately determine how many electoral votes each will receive. With a portion <>f Dorchester County missing Taft has a plurality in the State of 14 6. BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. —Bela- Belated returns from counties received up to eleven o'clock today, increase the estimate for Taft from las: night's tigures by ten votes, on the face of the unofficial returns up to this hour. "It is reported that Adrian furnace, which has been Idle for upwards of three months, is to resume about the 16th inst. There is at o:r:e an improved prospect for the furnace business, and if this plant starts as report says, it will make a large difference in the amount of wages that is- earned and paid out i:i DuBot* monthly." •Something like the above nrr!*t have furnished the <lata for the foil' vring artiele, whifh was printed in this morning's issue of the DuJtois Coar- In both Instances the firms, some of the members of which are Demo( rats, made the election of Taft the only contingency for "going ahead". Only the members of the firms and Mr. Hoffman knew of the contingency, so that they cannot be charged with attempting to influence votes. And that Is not nil the business that the election of Judge Taft brought to Mr. Hoffman. Down in West Virginia, where he has had one drill at work, two more drills will be added just as soon as they can be put on the ground. Four of the drills are now on the site, where they have been idle for some time, and two more will b«- shipped from Punxsutawney as soon as possible. "Go ahead" in this case means that Mr. Hoffman will set six diamond drill crews to work as soon as ho can get on thp job. Tt means that six diamond drills will be set to work testing extensive coal leases in one of the counties in Soutfy-rn Pennsylvania.(). c*. Hoffman, the diamo.id drill contractor, last night, in accordance with an agreement made several weeks ago with the election of Taft as the deciding element, received word from one of the largest coal operators in the country to "go ahead". results In the case of at least one Punxsutawney business man. h i ; * ■ TIlOM* Dcsil'iilK' to S«VIIIV (i(HNl Souls i'or (iov. Johnson's LccliU'o Will liave to Hurry. Texas Virginia Tennessee Oklahoma . . . South Carolina North Carolina Nebraska Nevada Mississippi Georgia Colorado Florida . Arkansas Alabama Kentucky 13 Louisiana 9 The unofficial returns up to this hour indicate Burke's election, but the Republican leaders claim a Joh.ison victory. FARGO, X. D. Nov. 5.—Although the North Dakota result is settled aw being in Taft's favor It may take the Official count to decide whether C. A. Johnson, Republican, or John Rurke, Democrat, has 'been elected Governor.NEARLY All SEATS CONE w here." "Who dkl it? What caused it?" Those were the two questions on everyone's tongue Tuesday night, says a Xew York dispatch, as the returns poured in, all pradicaly Indicating a sweeping victory for Taft in New York and throughout the country. From out of the gloom at the Democratic headquarters at the Hoffman Mouse came sullen answers to both i questions. "The American people have no faith in William J. Bryan,'* said one of the men who worked hardest In the management of the campaign. "They respect him as a man, but they distrust him as a leader. If 1896 and 1000 couldn't conv'ncf our party of this great truth, surely 100s must." "The labor vote did it," was the reply of another of the managers to an inquiry as to the cause of Democratic defeat. "Whenever the Democratic party ties on to a Jot of labor leaders who believe or pretend to believe that labor will follow them, it is" bound to lose. Labor votes as it pleases, organized or unorganized, and it evidently sto'od by the Republican party this year. It has certainly done so in Xew York whatever it may have done else-' For the reasons above indicated The I Spirit has not undertaken to print a tabulated statement of the returns in this county, and furthermore will be unable to give the complete vote for only about half of the candidates. It would insu.'e the publication of the complete returns on the day following the election. For this rensc n the election law should be amended so as to provide for duplicate returns to be fllccl at the County Seal for public inspection. Somebody in this town has been making a practice of destroying the returns in t!i<- 'Second Wa:d soon after the officers leave, and it is done in other places, not infrequently. The duplicate which the election officers are required to pos*. up a4 each polling place would suffice for local purposes were it not for the fact that many of them are torn down soon after the election officers go home. if the return judges had Hied a duplicate copy with the Prothonotary for public inspection, the newspapers yesterday could have printed the returns complete, whereas under the present system i: will be Saturday before information will be forthcoming that will enable a paper to present the returns in anything like a satisfactory form. ceived in Jefferson County at Tuesday's election would make Interesting reading, but the newspapers are not able to present them in full today on account of our haphazard method of returning the election results.The total vote each candidate re- If the voters of this county desire to have the returns spread before them the next day after the election they should demand a change in the election laws. All that would be necessary to bring about the reform would be a law demanding that the return judges make a duplicate of the returns and Hie the duplicate in the Prothonotary's office for public Inspection. As it is now the judg?s seal their returns, tak< them to the county seat and file them away, to be opened in two or three days. ANOTHER VERSION OF FIGHT Hoy Who ITwmI Knife is Several Years Younger Than Ills Op|H»iieiit. As the date for Governor John- son's lecture on "The Landmarks of Total It is believed that there is not another voting: precinct in the United States, population considered, that can beat that record. The others, who were all at home and Tuesday exercised the right of franchise, arc: J. C. Ivirkpatrick, aged eighty-four; John J. Bubeck, etightytwo; J. B. Morris, eighty-one; J. A. Trultt, eighty-one, and Alex. Hughes, eighty. The Fourth has seven octogenarians, all of whom but two voted Tuesday, G. W. Marshall, who is eightyone years old, being absent, while Obed Nordstrum, who is eighty-eight years old, has denied himself the privilege of voting for several years. Fourth Ward, Punxsutawney, it is •believed, is the banner precinct in the State, and, perhaps, in the United States, for aged voters. CLARION COUNTY-OFFICIAL was KI relet I Republican County Treasurer For First Time in lis History. Taf't's plurality In Ohio will bo about -ixty thousand Harris was defeated by the liberal element. He stood as he champion • if the loeal opiion bill, and on that Issue made his campaign. The German Republicans, almost to •'* man, voted for Tuft, and against Harris. ('OLPMBUS, <»., Nov. —Gov. Harris, Republican and Republican State Chairman Williams toay concede tho defeat the former's defea' for reelection by Judson Harmon, Democrat, by a plurality in the neighborhood of twenty thousand. (Continued on pabe three.) very much afCect«d by the local liquor questions, and it is very difficult to figure out just how it operated. The * * # CINCINNATI, <>., Nov. u.—"I believe I was elected by tin- business men of the country. Democrats as well as Republicans; that 1 receive <1 my .share of the labor vote, and that the farmers generally stood by me. I am very much graliliety William H. Taft was sitting in the library of his temporary home, the C. P. Taft residence this morning', when he gave the expression t«> the above declaration. Going" more into detail as to the returns, he added: "In my own State and Indiana, the result WON FROM DATION NORMAL Team Made I'p of Tigers and Second High School Played a Speedy <Sainc. ocrats. Yesterday afternoon a football Continued on Pago T wo There is, however, a way to make u.e of a good seat for these two notable lectures. Course tickets entitling the holder to his choice of seats still available for the next four lumbers are on sale at Beyer's Drug Sore, or will be delivered at your home if you call up Secretary Baer's residence. It will cost the same to to remind those who are planning to hear him that all seats from row "B" to row "X" on the first floor, all of the first two rows 0:1 the balcony and all the boxes and loges have already been reserved for the course. This doesn't mean that there are no good seats left, but does indicate thai by tin- time the second number has been given there will be very few desirable seats t<» be had 0:1 single admissions when Governor Johnson and Judge Brown are here. Liberty" approaches it may be well PRESMOERMRO COLLEGE INI I A N A POL1S, Ind., N<>v ,r».— The 1.. publican State Committee has e »needed all the State officers to the Democrats. Kleven Democratic congressmen are elcted and the Legislature is pem«»cratlc on a joint ballot. \VH KIOLlNCi, W. Va . Nov. 5.— Wlille fuller figures yesterday afterneon showed tiiat Taft had carried West Virginia by a safe plurality of several thousand, the State ticket may no have gone through with him, Louis Bennett. Democrat, for Governor. having tin better.of the argument in probably half the State. Fuller returns onl\ emphasize a Bryan landslide In his home state. He carried his whole ticket with him. Shallcnberger, Democrat, defeating The latter result. rumor .says, will s«*n«l Julm W. lOrn, d< - I'catt 1 cnadidau- for vice president, t" the faited Ktat<\s rSnattv Indiana i.s for Taft by about S.OOO, w h i 1»• the governorship and legislature have probHbly gone i<» the I >• 1 n governor. Ohio's plurality for Jut native son has climbed to 50,000, while Harmo.i, Democrat, has probably been elected West Virginia is safely f.»r Taft, while Bcnneft. Democrat, is probably elected governor. States yet to be heard from with complete figures show leaning as follows: Nevada, probably for Bryan: Colorado, Hryan by about 5.000 plurality is the claim; Idaho is likely for Taft. Montana y."->-'»erday was taken out of the Bryan column and given to Taft. Bryan. 1 1'. NKW YORK, Nov. 5.—West Virginia, Maryland and Montana were yesterday added to the Taft electoral column. With the adding of Missouri's eighteen votes to the Taft Column, the vote now stands Taft, 327; 300 ill REIN 10 WORK BRYAN CDNGRA1ULA1ES TAFI I>r. FJIiot Has Tendered Resignation —TIkmhIom1 Roosevelt is Much Talked of For Position, The county commissioners elected were D. B. Mercer and Anthony Cyphert, Democrats, and George Myer, Republican. Prothonotary— S. L. Pickens, Republican. 2,953; H. M. Hufnagle, Democrat, 3,176. -Hufnagle's plurality, 22#. Assembly—Fairman. Republican, 2,- 644; Lewis, Democrat, 2,955; John Mong, Independent, 4 36. Plurality for Lewis, 311. County Treasurer—Means Frazier, Republican, 2,998; Fasenmyer, 2,7 26. Congress—Langham, 2,299; Shirley, 3,072. Shirley's plurality, 7 73. The official totals of Clarion County are as follows: Taft, 2,915; Bryan, 3,290. Democratic majority, 375. ounty elected a Republican County Treasurer this year for the tirst time in its history, Means Frazier winning over John C. Fasenmyer by 272 votes. CLARION, Pa., Nov. 5.—Clarion INDIANA MOT'S VOTE "They exaggerated quite a bit in their story. He was able to walk bark to the shop, instead of being carried back and Clyde Goss is quite an old boy—in fact, he is a married man, the school teacher at Phoenix, and was not near the light when it occurred."your correspondent only knew about the feeling of their own friends. They didn't seem to know there is always two sides to a story. But good thinking people that know the truth of tiie matter, sympathize more with Shrauger than the other fellow. "McClelland being several years oldey than Shrauger, felt confident that he could lick Shrauger, and had been searching for trouble for two weeks or more, and Shrauger didn't want to strap with him. But McClelland waited for him and forced him to light. The l, in a moment of passioa, Shraugev used his knife. "Your correspondent seems to have misinformed you about the trouble with the knife. It was not an unwarranted attack on his rival. 1'. was in self-defense. "Editor Spirt: — I would like a word about the Porter Township schoolboys who settled a fight on the road going home from school, instead of behind tile school house. The Spirit recently printed a communication from Phoenix, Pa., giving an account of a cutting affray that had taken place between two schoolbeys. That there is another version of the affair will be seen by the following: The furnace had been iillo for a year. and will Immediately resume, employing' three hundred men. By United Press. XKW CASTLE. Pa., Nov. 3.—Orders were given today for resumption «>t operations at the Atlantic furnace «>I i rat« d by the ltpublle Iron and Steel Company. LINCOLN, Neb.. Nov. —William Jennings Bryan today sent the following: telegram to Judge William Howard Taft, his successful competitor in the Presidential race: By United Press. Kurtz I'olls Heavy Vote, Leading IlritiitlMiiiKli by More Than 3,000. ROOI-DEACOSIA WEDDING "FAIR PLAY". WM. J. BRYAN. Hon. William H. Taft, Cincinnati. Ohio. Please accept congratulations arid best wishes for the success of your administration. YOl'lt VOTK OF APPIlOVATi overpowered una taken In custody. It Is belii Vr'l lie suddenly went insane. Bl'PKAU). N. V., Nov. 5.—(Speclal—John Hagin. aged ">u, proprietor of a small hotel here, shot and i ls'anlly killed Ills son Oeorge, aged 17. and dangerously wounded his wife, Mrs. t'arrle Hagen, tiiis morning. Hagen then attempted suicde, but was Senate, with eight precincts missing, Kurtz, 4,720; jprumbaugh, Democrat, 1,452: Startzoll, Prohibition, 803. Kurtz's plurality over Brumbaugh, 3,208. ' Congress, with five precincts missing, Langham, 5,040; Shirley, 1,864; Pender, Prohibition, 9,57. Langham's plurality over Shirley, 3,676. Bryan and Kern, 1,727. for Taft. 3,793. Following are the official totals for Indiana County: Tuft and Sherman, with five precincts missing, 5,620. Plurality NEW YORK. Nov. 5.—Oren Root, manager of the Metropolitan Street Railroad system, a .son of Professor Oren Root of Hamilton College, nd a nephew of Secretary Elihu Root, nnd Miss Ada de Acosta, a daughter of Mrs. Rlcardo de Acosta and a sister of Mrs. Philip Lydig, were married today at the residence of the bride's moither on Madison Avenue. Only relatives of the two families were present at the ceremony, which was followed by a small reception to which about 150 Intimate friends of .the two families had been Invited. % >Oth Continued on Page Two Nowhere Is the new mistress of the White House seen to greater a\lvan- Although, probably, better equipped for a high social position than most women holding important positions In American society, Mrs. Taft is by no means a typical "society woman". For that she is too intelligent, sensible and well balanced. Ever since her husband entered official life in Washington, and even before that, when he was still holding a judgeship in Ohio, Mrs. Taft has made it her study and aim to fill to the best of her ability the position In society to which she was entitled by virtue of her husband's official rank. Her natural talent and the intellectual training of her girlhood dayB made the task easier for her and her Inborn tact helped her to avoid the pitfalls so disastrous to inexperienced and indifferently equipped women in official society. The new mistress of the White House was Miss Helen Herron. daughter of the law partner of the late President Hayes, when she married William H. Taft in Cncnnati in 1886. She was a bright and talented girl with a perfect passion for music. In addition to a good education she received an excellent training in music and through all 'her future life music has ever been her favorite recreation. She is not only an accomplished pianist, but possesses a thorough knowledge of the theory of music and accomplished acquaintance with the best works of musical literature. But, notwithstanding her great love of music and her ardent devotion to it, she has never allowed it to become an all-absorbing passion, or even a fad to the extent of interfering with her duties to her husband and her family. point of view. She is fair, slender and girlish looking and no one would suspect from her appearance that she has a son old enough to be in college. She is frank and vivacious, unpretentious, and yet possessed of marked dignity of bearing and the self-poise so necessary to a woman in her exalted position. She is always cordial, a rare accomplishment among sooiety women, and possesses an excellent memory for persons and names, an invaluable gift for the wife of a political leader. Personally Mrs. Taft is quite as attractive as she is from an intellectual as mistress of the White House. man'of culture and refinement and of many accomplishments, possesses unusual tact, social finish and, above all, a large measure of sound common sense. For a number of years s'he has lived in Washington as one of the? most distinguished women of the official circles and the training which she received during that time will, undoubtedly, prove of great value to her She is a wo- President-elect Taft. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 5.—No woman ever called upon to fill the difflcuit and exacting position of a mistress oX. the White House was better prepared and equipped for her task than is Mrs. Helen H. Taft, the wife of Special to The Spirit THE WKXTHER WASHINGTON. D. C.. Nov. 5.— The weather forecast follows: Pair tonight and Friday. Warmer Friday. 1 h Cunningham Toucli#Owns—Jordan, Jones, Con! way. Time of halves—ir> and 20 minutes. Referee—Stetler. . H. Radaker Conway Jones Jordan c Marshall Mambuc*a <1 b Ashe Brady r g . . Sehreckengost Qutellus h t Radaker T. Mambuea. . . . r «• Alibhuuse Gordon r h McBrlde Moyer. Williams Shirk Greir 1 t  .1 g ... Marshall (c) Dayton N. I. 0 i Punx'y 15 Abrams Three touchdowns were made during the course of the contest. Jordan, Punx'y's little center, made the first when he fell on a return kick by Mambuea, back of the. Normal's goal line. Jones tallied live additional points after a long sprint of thirty yards around the end. Conway made it fifteen when, after a series of line bucks and end runs, ho tore through the opponents' lino for eight yards and a touchdown. Notwithstanding that the Dayton boys were husky young fellows who considerably outweighed! the local boys, it was only the wind and weather that prevented the home bunch from running up a larger score. eleven composed of three parts Tigers and one part of the second high school team, took the Dayton Normal School gridiron aggregation into camp by the score of 1 r» to 0. President Eliot will be 75 years old next March and he desires to retire while he is still capable of work. This if tli*1 only reason for his resignation. In spite of the fact that President Roosevelt has completed plans for a two-year absence from this aountry, his name was the one most generally mentioned yesterday afternoon when the unexpected ews of Dr. Eliot's action became known in Cambridge and Boston. Next to Mr. Roosevelt the man most likely to be offered the vacancy is Prof. A. Lawrence Lowell, occupant of the cliair of govdrntm.*Ht and one of the most prominent member sof the Harvard faculty. BOSTON. Mass., Nov. 5.—Tile report that President Roosevelt upon leaving the White House will succeed Charles W. Eliot as the head of Harvard. America's greatest university, was revived yesterday by the official announcement that Dr. Eliot has presented his resignation, to take effect May 19. 1909. We'll «.-t it If you com, to >.ur blanket and bedding sale today, tomorrow and Saturday. Style, quality, variety and the low prices are some of the reasons why you should go to Eherharts for your blankets and bedding.—1