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A llegany C ounty N ews VOLUME XIX WHITESYILLE, ALLEGANY COU NTY, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1913. u l ’- NUMBER 27 LESTER J. FORTNER, Who is Democratic-Progressive nominee for Supervisor from;the Town of Independence. ]Mr, Fortner is one of the hestiknown, most popular men of the township. He has been ! a resident of Whitesville since a youngster; was one-of!the founders of The News, of which he was editor.and publish- 'er for a long time. At the present time he is cashier of the First; Nation al 3ank, and that Institution is now enjoying under his immediate super vision, the most prosperous period ^ of its existence. Mr. Fortner is a mem- her of the I Board of Education and Treasurer of the Auto Club, the Whitesville Cluh, the Lecture Coarse and holds positions of trust in other organizations. He isja Mason and 'Odd Fellow. i D em o crats, Republicans and Progres sives Each Nominated a T icket A t Saturday Nights Caucuses The\ Democratic electors of the town of Independence m et in i caucus last Saturday evening, and were call ed to y>rder by , G ommittseman L.. G. Probasco. H. .AI. Peet was elected chairm an land L. J. Fortner secretary. Glenn C. B a ssett and B. H. Robbins were .appointed tellers. I T he following strong ticket was nominated; Supervisor—Lester J. Fortner, j Town Clerk—'Guy F. Basset. Justices—^(long term ) William Tea- ler, Floyd .Clark, (short term ) *M. \W. Reynolds, B. H. Robbins. Assessors—L. iW. Hull, E. L. Hear. Siipt. of Highways—L. H.iWildman. O v e rseer of the Poor—E. S. Battor- son. . i Collector—John Jones. a law, yet j th a t election over Murphy j and -Barnes, the Republican and Demoj cratic machines, joined forces to, a n d ! did make impossible, its ennactm ent. I Tho impeachment of a governor is j now sought because, forsooth, h e ' sought to enforce the keeping -of these pledges. Did the Republican machine of this county, which is but the adjunct of Barnes, contribute to the defeat of this' promised legislation? Let their acts speak. The Republican senator of this district and th e Republican Assemblyman of this county both vot ed with Murphy and Barnes to pre vent the passage of the promised State-wide Prim a ry law, thus contin uing the power of xMurphy and Barnes to select I fo r the people their candi dates for all State offices, thereby perpetuating their control of all the State departments' and all that that means. Yes, ’tis true, the Democratic par ty of this county which believes in the rule of the people and which is unalterably pledged to the passage of ^ State-wide prim ary law, and the Progressive party have struck hand^ upon this issue to secure the defeat of the Republican ring in this county in whose grasp and control I th e coun ty is, and by whom it has -ever been made a subservient factor in the ma chinations of Boss Barnes and Boss Murphy, with whom th e legislators of their making have voted and act- We send out a earnest call to .ev ery man, believing in honest govern ment and. clean politics, be he Demo crat, -Republican -cr P r o g r e s s i v e or w h at not, to join us in electing this fusion ticket, which means, down wiG th e Murphy—Barnes bosses and their henchmen who control and manipula^^ the politics of this county. When th e Republican bosses speak derisively of Murphy and the Tam many Tiger i t is but the “kettle call ing the pot black,” and both hitched the same route. Of! WaiStLE HOTEL A Quantity of Beeze, Found in, The Huffman. House at W e llsville Saturday Night Wellsville, Oct 6—^Acting under the authority of a court order, -Sheriff John Tunstead directed th a t i the Huffman House on South IMain street be searched Saturday night ,for the confiscation of any .liquors or beer found upon the premies -and suppos ed to,be selling illegally. The raid was made ibetween 8 and 9 o’clock in the -evening i under the leadership oft Deputy Sheriff A. M. Boyd and the local police,.and proved quite fruitful. The “find” was put -on'a -dray w'ag- 1 and taken to Justice Leonard’s of fice in City Hall where it was put under lock and key. The “loot” con sisted -of three , p int bottles of whis key, 17 half pints and about five gal- Constables-—F. R. Larkin, Hayden ' ions j of the same stuff in jugs. There Rogers, Clayton Green, Charles ; Grif fith, John Jones. j Town Committeemen—A. C. White, L. G. Probasco, B. |H. Robbins. Recommended for Inspectors of Election— Glenn C. Bassett, S. ' S. White, A. M. Austin, Lee .Millspaugh. The Repiiblic-ans -of the!town of In dependence held their caucus, Satur day evening, Oct. 4th, in Firemens’ hal' The meeting, which was largely attended was called,to order by com mitteeman C. C. Heselton, who was also- elected chairman. [Guy F. Bas sett was -elected secretary. H. B.Aus- tin landiC. E. Crittenden were ap pointed tellers. About the only con test shown -was in the nomination -of w h e n [ballots were called for against a motion to make Fred | Clark the unanimous choice,. Of .60 votes cast Clark received 34, C. L. Critten den fl9, H. K. Bassett 5, H. M. Bas- 2, Mr. Clark , was declared the nominee. The ticket as [finally nominated is as follows; Supervisor—AI. Fred Clark. [ Town Clerk—Guy F. Bassett. Justices—(long term) George Foi> sythe, H. IK. Bassett, (short term) C L. Crittenden, B. H. Robbins.: Assessors— A. Casey, H. L. Smith. T Supt. -of Highways—L. H. Wildman. Overseer of Poor—C. C. Heselton. Collector— B. M. Wilson. ; Constables—P. K. Millspaugh, W. F. Langdon, Prank Densmore, Gott- ieib Pfeiffer, tB. M. Wilson. Town C o m m itteem e n —H. yi. Bas- . s e t t , L. iH. Wildman, C. C. Heselton. Recommended for Inspectors of H f E. S. Bai[terson. Mr, Batterson is the Democratic- Progreslv-e candidate for Overseer of the poor in the town of Indepen dence. He is a prosperous and. well known merchant whojhas made sa host of friends^ in this vicinity -during his few years’'residence -here. were also in ,the invoice five full cases of bottled beer. Not 1 only was the beer and whiskey seized, but one Spencer Franklin,|the alleged bar tender was put under ai’- res -and locked up. The charge against .hini was not based on the finding of liquor,,but on a w a rrant is su e d by J u s t ic e .Leonard ch a r g in g a previous sale of liquor. Franklin was apparently ill the next m o rning and not.able to appear in court. He is be ing given medical attendance i.and will be arrainged later. Abe -Niles, the reputed i'landlord of the Huffman House was absent Sat urday night and .was said to be out of town. Niles is already under indict m ent to apear in county court this afternoon, under a charge of selling liquor. The case has already been ad journed , once and it was known thgt he is seeking further delaj’, through his attorney, Lae Passett, on account of the illness of Mrs. Niles.! It would seem in view of the suc cessfulraid on th e Niles hotel Satur day night th a t any further delay! in trying out the indictment against N’ esi would smack largely of a farce. There are much too many delays. ob tainable under the present laws. Bolivar Girl to Study Law yiiss Frances Scheffer of Bolivar left last -week for Buffalo v/here she will enter the Buffalo Law School to complete a course in Law, She has been stenographer for Atty. M'alter \01 C 4- \D 1-r ^ T »-»W»» \ ■ ,n.-P In Letter ta Editor, Correspondent Raps The Republican County Machine Quite Hard HI it or. The News \Vhitqpville, N. Y. Dear Sir: The Bolivar Breeze in its last week’s issue under the -headline, “A BAREPAOED BARGAIN,” said: “It IS not meet that salt .and vinegar should be poured in the smarting wounds of the earnest, if mistake^ men who left the ranks of the Repub lican party last fall to follow the light that lures to the habitat of the Bull Moose.” Continuing it says, “The signs of the times ^ are mislead ing if the bargain by which the votes of the sincere and earnest men who joined the Progressive party and last fall are to be sold like so much mercantile commodity to the Tam many Tiger and his brood in this county is to be ratified by the su pine acquiesence of the voters them selves,” It then says, “The day when Lhe votes 'Of sincere and earnest men were simply chatties in the hands of unscrupulous leaders must surely have passed and gone.” The man who penned those lines must surely have been under the spell of an awful nightmare, “Salt and vinegar” ! “Salt and vine gar” ! Since when has the Republican ■party perm itted the common people of this country to taste anything but wormwood and gall? Its iron heel of oppression has been ruthlessly se.t upon their necks while the bosses and their allies, the corporate inter-! together,\^ traveling _ ______ ests', have been fattening -on their The Allegany comity Democrats'are very life’s blood. They have lured 1 as hostile and bitterly opposed to and deceived the people by false Murphy, “The Tammany Tiger,” Tarn- promises and pretenses and have sold many Hall, Boss Barnes and the bi- them like slaves upon the auction partisan machine's of the Democratic block into bondage and servitude. But, “The worm will turn.” One year ago th e peope rose their m ight and smote this mighty .oppressor and reduced it from the great and mighty m ajority party to the humiliation of carrying but two of the smallest and least im p o rtant states in the union at -a presidental election. How are the mighty fallen! “Salt and vinegar” ! Who -has “The smarting wounds? Who but that m ig h t y and arrogant Republican machine th a t was practi cally destroyed and torn limb from limb? “Salt and vinegar” ! AYhat are the “sma,rting wounds” of those whom the Breeze character izes as “The honest men who left the Republican party to follow the light to the habitat of the Bull Moose” ? They fought a good fignt, chey destroyed the corrupt. Republican machine, they came through that tight with flying colors and are still in.batte array upon the ram p arts of freedom and equal rights;to all meii, leady again to give battle to it« every foe whether it be the Republican machine, dominated by Boss Barnes or Tamraany Hall dominated by Boss Murphy. The men engaged in this great struggle were not -only those w h o were formerly E.epublicans but also those who were formerly Demo crats. They came from the rank and file of both the -old parties and they wnll continue to stand together un til the fight has been fought to a successful issue, “Salt and vinegar.” Shame upon the Republican bosses and their henchmen, that, for poiiti- and Republican parties as the most ardent Progressive could possibly be and in any part of the country where these two parties are fighting com mon -enemy why -shonldn’t they fuse on a ticket for th a t purpose? In this county we kno\w the Repub lican machine stands- for Boss- Barnes th a t Boss Barnes stands for Boss IMurphy and the Tammany Tiger .The rank and file of the Republican pai- ty of this county are as strongly op posed to these bosses and this com bination. Then why will they longer follow the lead of those who ever stand -determined to deliver the coun ty ,and its- political influence into the the hands of this organized tyranny. Let the honest people of this coun ty, irrespective of party, desiring good government -and. clean politics join in electing this fusion ticket which means the defeat \and retire ment of the self-constituted bosses who but manipulate the politics cf this county for its spoils. .Let us, for once, be just and honest to ourselves. Isn’t it more like wormwood and gall to ask the rank and file of the Republican party to vote for Jam es T. W ard for D istrict Attorney, a man who three years ago sought and re ceived the nomination fo r th a t o f fice on the D e m o c r a tic tic k e t and in his campaign talk and published utter ances duhhed them the corrupt Re publican gang. I t’s a pill prepared for you by the machine, destitute of sug ar I coating, bitter though it is. Will you swallow it and say the great fathers have so decreed and we sub- Aimomicement T h e Allegany County Nev/s with this issue succeeds the W h itesville News. The New name correc't.ly im- pliies w h a t the paper will be—a newspaper with county news gathering facilities, county circu lation and a medium for county as well as local advertising. T h e se new features wiil net detract from our record and slo gan, of many years: THE BEST LOCAL NEW SPAPER EVER PUBLISHED IN A TOWN OF 500, on.ly that to this will be sup plemented, ultim a tely: THE COMPLETE NEW SPAPER OF THE COUNTY. At the present rate foat our su.bscription, list is growing Vv'3 Will have tw ice as many subscrib ers, January 1st, 1914, as w e had on Sept. 1st, 1913. T h e s e new subscriptions are not coming from W h itesville,, but from the various town,s of the county—from people who v/ant a COUNTY PAPER. So to m eet this demand v/e are changing our title to conform with w h a t vi^e really are to be. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAI THE LOCAL NEWS WILL BE SLIGHTED. FAR BE 11^1 |T MEANS THAT WE WILL NOT ONLY GIVE MORE COUNTY NEW S BUT MORE LOCAL NEW S, IF SUCH IS POSSIBLE. One of the principal fea,tures of T h e Nevvs, v^hich will soon be ■put into effect, is its com p lete special county n.ewsgathering bu- reai. We are undertaking this nev/ feature at considerable ex pense. ' Another feature of the paper under its new title will be its staff of special writers, who will prepare: articles of moment on va rious topics of particular interest throughout the county. Still a,n,oth feature will be, the fair way 'n v/hich the editor will, through the editorial cojumns, work for b -tter farming, better schools, orxter comm u n ities, better civic and political life, etc. V/e ask no man, woman or cUiid to subscribe for The News, to advertise in it or support it ju any way AS A FAVOR. 'Bu'S:, w o especially solicit sub scriptions and advertising upon th? merits and va.Iue, of the* pa- Pfc'r, PE R M A N E N C Y OF PATRON AGE is w h a t w e are working for. , U p tc-date SERVICE is our buU'3-eye. Watch us hit it. FRED CLARK Who is the Republican- -nominee !'for Supervisor of the town of Indepen dence. Mr. Clark is one -of !the most prosperous- farm-ers of th e township, and is a resident of Fulm er Valley. To Imov/ him is to.like him. If elect ed Supervisor, he will be one of the most capable representatives this townshin ever ;had a± ■ : I laCHBS’ COf HELD I ILLStLE About 250 Teachers of Ailegany Coun ty Attended Three Day Session L a s t W eek The conference of Allegany county high school and grade teachers which held in- W-elisviUe last week was pleasing and^^rofitable. There were about two hundred and fifty Aileco Printing Go. and the ir henenmen, tn a t lo r pouti- and ivinegar” ! “Salt and cal purposes only, point the finger of vinega’r’! Verily a i pleasant de- scorn and repudiation at the, ^ ' i coction in comparison with the potion many Tiger,' with which they -ha^e Republican ring- |of this county been sleeping and - v/hose liar they have shared since it came into con trol of the State. The Republican machine and the “Tammany Tiger” are inseparably yoked together in a determined -effort to hold their tyran nical grip on the State of New York and all tits governmental departments to the end that they may continue to loot and.dispoil its treasury, divert and appropriate the princely sums the people have voted to tax them selves to raise for public improve ments. These two great corrupt ma chines are the enimies of the common people and the battle is now on to the death between them and the peo- j 7TVV. ^ rt-r»/-vo+ O r» T y TT I Q C? O T»0 T 0*Vl t seekito force down the throats of the people. “Consistency Then Art a.Jew- A Progressive. Some M iscreat Put Dynamite Und^r Building in Effort to Blow up Cqudersport Paper Clinton Crandall, Scio Young Man, Ar rested W h ile onWay t,o Enter University of Canton, riinton Crandall, twenty-one years old a high school graduate of Scio liig;' school, was arrested recently charged with robbing the 'Erie station at t':ar place cf several mileage books and of having robbed the post offic© scvt.,ral times. He was arraniiged be fore JiistJce W. Q. Browning, cf Scio ,'and admitted to $500 bail, furnished by !;is fatber. to.avrait the action of- .the grand jury, (baiidili vvas on his way to enter the liniversity of Canton w-hen he wa-. capTurecI by two Erie officers at the kdatiori at Scio. Crandall Is alleg ed ro have robbed the station twice, once last February and again in in both instances he only took T. Bliss years. at Bolivar for a number of Election, H. C. Potter, C. E. Critten den, H e rbert; Spicer . pie. The two great machines are fight j ing together hand in hand. They i Gouaersport »-apci j books, and was shrewd are inseparable and, their purpose is a' An attem p t to wreck j th e plant ! enough to fill out and stam p them common one. { of the Potter Enterprise, published , be^-'ore he left the depot .The , officers It is a -well known and understood at | Coudersport, Pa., was made at 1 have been working on the case for fact th a t the Democratic party of | o’clock W ednesday morning of last ' the last six months. Crandall is wmll the county of Allegany is bitterly hQs-j-week. A heavy charge of dynamite known in Scio, his father being a tiiP. to Ta.mma.nv Hali. to the Tam-1 w'as exploded under the linotype | prominent farm er residing about a and i room. The side i of the bulding -wa.s | m j'r from Gio village. Crandall is both pleasing an-d^^rofitabl-e. There teachers in attendance and their tim e was. v/ell taken in attending the vari ous conferences. The high school building was 'Opeji- Wednesday night and the classes of the 7th -and 8th grad.es were inn ses sion and visited by a large number of the out of town tea'chers. A display of canned fruits from the Domestic Science department and an exhibition of work from the mannai training departm ent 'O f the High school, shown in the front -office of. thp building were fine and attracted much favorable coment. Interesting ad-dresses were given Wednesday evening by Alice S. !Mc- Closkey, of Cornell University and by Principal A. C. Thompson, of the Brockport Normal. There was a little too much rain to make the auto trip Thursday as pleasant as it would have been under better weather conditions. There were liow'ever, about fifty teachers who made the trip around Wellsville -and' vicinity and would have been more had it not been for a lack of autos which failed to put in an appearanpe probably 'On 'account of the rainy weather. T h u r sd a y night at the C o u n try Club H enrietta Heaton from the education al department of the Victor Talking machine Co., gave the teachers a -dein onstration on the use of the Victor in the public schools. Her address wa rendered in a very abl« manner show ing her to be an authority -on musical education. The teachers were .all en thusiastic -over the work suggested by Mrs. Heaton and vowed th a t they would do all in their power to further the use of the Victor in schools. Mrs. Heaton -show^ed how the Victor could *be used, not only in marching but in all departments of education. Oire instance sighted was thew s e on the Victor in Geography, to shov/ th e dif ference in music of the different countries. !\irs. Heaton said tiiat if children read dime novels it is be cause they have not been taught to read something better. It is the same with music, it is because they have not been taught to like the better class -of music. She proved the fact that where children were in the hab it of listening to the great musical m asters through a Victor, they soon cultivate a liking for this class of music and did not care for the cheap trash. The electors of the Progressive par ty-m e t in adjourned caucus meeting in the Relief Corps r-oom in Firem en’s building Saturday evenifig, -with chair man D. 0. Barney presiding and G. Ellis - Day secretary. The following nominations were decided upon: Supervisor—Lester J. Fortner. Town Clerk—Guy P. Bassett. Justices— (long' term) William Teater,'Floyd Clark, (short term) M. W. Reynolds, B. H. Robbins. I A s s e s s o r—^Lu W. Hull, E. L. Kear. Supt. pf Highways—L. H.'Wildman. Overseer of Poor —E. S. Batterson.. Collector—^John Jones. Constables—^F. R. Larkin, Hayden Rogers, Claytan Green, ^ Charles Grif fith, John Jones. Town Committeemen—D. C. B arn ey, A. ’D. Howe, E. L». K ear. Tiger, to Boss iMurphy and [ room. The side i of the bulding -wa.s | m j'r from that practically to a man they believe i blown Q-nt but the machine escaped ' aduyted boy. The officers recovered themselves, and are in favor of a ■ the building at the! time. The force | larUs trunk, and Justice Browning State-w'ide Primary law that shall ^ of the explosion broke -windows in ■ s'-ated that the Jad had later confes- give to the people the right to se -1 surrounding buildings. 1 sed to both affairs. j lect their own candidates for office. i The Enterprise is published by M.: - ---- - ------- ------ - To that end they kave put in nomi-|T. stokes. A reward of $500 has : nation for Assemblyman' for this ! been offered by the county com mis-; 7\ county, Mr. Fred Litchard, than -whom, sioners for information leading to the | v ¥ iJ . V no more sturdy and sincere advocate | arrest of the person responsible, of that right can be found. He has ev j been an ardent advocate in that i behalf and. before Ms nomination j Bennie Wilson and Donald Stone, most solemnly pledged himself to the ■ the two fourteen year old boys, who people of this county that, if elected j some weeks ago'started the engine Committed to tbe Reformatory j he would give his every effort to th e ; a t SMnglehouse in a spirit of wan- “Salt and I tonness and w-ere,-the cause of a fire boss-'man losing his life, plead guilty to vinegar’ of su c h a law . Are the Republican es- of this county pledged to the pas- sagefof such a.»measure? Nay, verily They are pledged \ to defeat it. ,, XXX. X.X. . Though i t ' was^^ n,.. solemn\ promise Recommended tfor Inspectors of made by both - the. Republican and reformatory on Sunday last, returning Election—Milan Barney, Prank G. Democratic parties one year ago to the following day.—Coudersport Demo Rigby, A. D. Howe,’Jr. ,, give to the people of the State such crat. the offense and by the order of Judge Ormerod were committed to the re formatory at organza. Sheriff ^Clhrk [took the boys to the A shipment cf print paper due ttere- Monday has not arrived y- 2 t. Through the kindness cf the Can- isteo Timas we have borrowed enough to print this GUY F. BASSETT The people of Whitesville like Guy well that'(the Democrats and -the Progressives wouldn’t find a candidate to jopp.ose him—^fhus, he is the can didate of the three p a rties'for Town Clerk. F o r this reason little interest —. . . , ... will be aroused over his election. Tdis IS only one of many trouble interest, ^however, will be in pr'mteis have. evidence, v/hen he gets married. edition.
