The Democratic Watchman, BELIEFONI%, 'A P. ORLY MEEK, Eniroit a IritornikTolt JOIIN ri. ELI., ASSOOIATE EDITOR FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1868 TERMB : - 7 t2 per year when paid in ad vance,2,sOlvhen not paid in ad alive, and $3,00 when not paid he fore the expiration of the yonr National Deritooratio , FOR PRESIDENT, HORATIO SEYMOUR, - OF NEW YORK 1 I'OR VICE PRESIDENT GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR or missouhr. Democratic State Ticket. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, LION. CIIAHLES ,E. ItOYLE. of Fayette County. FOR SERVI Yon GENERAL, GEN. WELLINGTON n. ENT, of en'lumhin County. County Convention The deterrents.rr voters of the sere-Tel Bev , ought' and Townships in Centre county, will meet at the naval places of bolding elections in their respoctive districts, on the afternoon of Saturday August 8, 1868, 'arid elect delegates to reprercnt eight Boroughs and Townships inn county convention to be be held at Bellefonte, on Tuesday, 'August 11th, 1868, it 2 o'clook P M , which convention will put in non inat ion one candidate for Congress,subject to the decis ion of the District conference ; one/anti date for President Judge, sul ject to the de. cielon s eibthe District Conference ; one can didate fur Assembly , one candidate for Diatrict Attorney : one candidate tor Coun ty Sorvej or , one candidate for County Commissioner and one candidate for County Auditor, and transact such other buoineee as may come before them. The number of delegates to which tech district is entitled under the last apportionment is as 'ollowa Bellefonte bor. A [toward 14. froward 1 Huston " Mile burg I Liberty " 2 Philipsburg Marion " 2 Unionville " I Mil. " Benner °Fp. 3 Proton " Boggs " 2 Penn " 5 Burnside " Curtin •• Ferguson " Gregg Haines " If alknooe llama " Pottmr " tomb " hr'ee She* " . I pring Taylor " 110100 Walker womhip Worth to By order of the Coo oty Committee. OiIN 11. ORVIB, Clsairmae Can You ? Can any reader of the WATCIIMAN, Or anybody else, point us to a line or a sentence in a newspaper that sup ports GRANT, denouncing the outra germs waste of public money, that has characterised every movement of the party in power ? Can they show us'a singlqweaf'd fa voring the abolishment of the Freed man's fkreau, to maintain which the laboring men - of the North are taxed almost two hundred millions of dollars annually, for the benefit of lazy ne groes and lazier officials? Can they point to a solitary article which advocates thecause of the poor man, and urges the - equalization o taxation, by compelling bond holders to pay their proportion of the burdens of the government ? Can they allow us a word against tom Felling laboring men, femora and mechanics, to take paper for money while the bond-holder is paid in gold ? • Can they produce a single line that opposes negrp suffrage—that denoun ces negro airalitY—that intimates that white men are better than as groes, or even kints that this govern• ment was made by white men and for white men Y.• Can they find a sentence in favor of saving te the white laboring men of the North the htTdred and fifty mil /191es ofdkorlisn* per year, that is no* sqbandered on a standing armyin the South. and is of no more use to the oountry than a band organ would be to a choir of Angles ia Heaven? Can they dad anything that books as if that party 4ealred to make bet ter times for the great maws of the people, S i g lessening their taxes Ind lowering the prizes of the neessesessa of life? Can they show us anything that, will prove thatfle friends of ciLAKT and . COLFAX would save to the public the hundred and lifti millions of dollars per year, that goes out it the public treasury into the coffers q National banks, as interest on the bonds they have deposited as security for the notes the government has fur nished them to speoulate upon? We receive *weekly at this die* of a thirty Mongrel given, and we % 4 ; ,;*e FA!" VaMIE:M I . O 7lad.^-4. iu have ak)t. seen a 1\ or d or a hit of them di at favor.; :taytEing of kind. 'l'hi• only moron per. rw that they give why men blinold vote Pit thrir candidates, is, that they ale Shvmtii , it and Bunt are "l'tipperheyds," "traitors, - "ref) el Fy1111)11 t 1112 ers," A,:e. They darn say.tlytt we I%ill not Intake the bond holder pay Lii share. of the taxi , — they (1. , 0 t , av that vie will not' the Freeilie,iii'• ; ; Ru reail ledve ih nnuc to p( standing,- aid t th, r7cn/Ilu r, THREE El) mil,i,!()Ns 1)01.1. \ I'ER YEAR— they don't rely tint we will not re.-tore the linitin and by re•tor , lug It icrea.e the pro-poi it) and hall the !Told,. tiu don't that time , %%ill not In: bc , teied if itineracy nituni.l,,, but un they have done, they a. ',al only to the prejudices and and Impe to hold their Mill by hurtling '` co p i ,, hed," "traitor - ' and "rebel ' It'the: 141 , 1111101011 militia why la holing menrata tor 1;11A NI, it i. a reason why any one -hould vote. for him, let the poor fools who vote airitire-a theitown. intersets,,be eateot some luiztrer rind tell. them that 1)( inotemt•-• alto liaNe aNaytt Vice') the li lend, of the 1113 , ` , ', ate "cop pethea,j,'' and "lebeb j “ vew c e thrlli conit.laint..llllllll hall' and tuth mit patiently to the late that :wail them. A 11111.11 Witt% will attior prejudices to oriptrol hi. vote. de serve. to be nothint better than he i. —it tool Itir hemtt holder. and a ,lug to 110 jul.t try tilt bloated l'ely who ate favored with money tells hit& Good News---Glorious old Kentucky! We do not know, tilt presume that the GRANT and Coi.F.s.X journals will have but little to say about Ale elec tion that came off in Kentucky on tht• 3d inst., Gov. SrgvaNsoN die Democratic candidate for Governor was elected by over SIXTY THrou- SAND MAJORITY a gain of over 17,000 over' the election of '67. This is an indication of the way the political tide is drifting. It is a ,ample of tuntr's popularity. For in Kentucky the mongrels and bond holders used every means in their power to cut down the Democratic majority, in order that they could point 1.1 it as an evidence of their KUCCCES. But. niggers and bonds would not no 'down with the masses, and over seventeen thousand men who voted for Ilatusits the ablution candidate for governor in 1867, 'and 'over twooty thousand who voted for LtNnorAs in 1 864, earn° out boldly and labored for the Democracy, for eq ual taxation—and, for a white mans ,gov ernment. And is it was in Kentucky on Monday 'est, i.e Will it tie in every other State except . a few in New lsng• land, in NoVember next. The people have grown sick of taxes- tired of high prices--disgusted with negro equality, and are now working to restore the old state of affairs when Democracy ruled and white men prosrered. Let the good work go on. Let,oheer upon cheer go ap far. the gallant white men of noble old Kentucky, and let us of Pensurylva nia bee if we cannot almost equal their majority against a bonded aria• toracy and a negro government To the front white Amen I The work goes nobly onl. 1= MI --The mongrel papers are trying to cheer up their disorganised. and demoralized forces, by telling_ them that the New York Herald predicts the success of UFLILKT and COLFAX. They forget to tell thee that the MOM paper, in /844 said that Jimmy POLK would be the worst beaten man that ever run for airy position —that is HSS2 it said that4let..f3cm would be elected by an overwheling majori ty, and in 1856, Predicted the success of Fanuorrr beyond a -doubt. 'And its prophecies this year in -regard to the mem% of Gsawi, will hold just about ad good aS did those others. If Gaitsrr was not thi candidate oft; the bondholders, the /7ersald woald de optic as it did d few days before his nomination, that he "is not .blessed with capacity enough to preside over a town meeting." —A citizen of aim. place who has jot returned from a trip North to purchase horses, soy* that in crossing the State of New York, from thilySt. Lawrence to the Pennsylvania line,‘ he foiled but one man who was eppo• sed to Bierma; The gentlemaa we speak of is not.a politician, hut he rays GUST stands no more °Emma of election, than Then STDVINII does of salvation. Within a circle of five miles hos this plkee, we have the names of fourty three men who have all their jives voted:with the opposition, and who are earnestly working for the success of azvatotta and Buattt. Why Crahw Votes WI Jews Itll RANT'; hatred of the Jews was a matter of,,peenlation once, it is HO no longer. 'flit: citias of Uineinnatti have furni-Led the best of evidence in the owe., slid a wandering public can :-.atisfy its curioAty by :,itnply re % crtio4 to the records. It appears that while the NI ong el candidate for Vie-ident, %td.l in eMninlnd or t h e ar my or thy Solidi West, life!) Motioned :if ()xi ord, no of the gicat),..t, rotten legions itithat state, dial .IF.ssE It. (lILANT, the , onpo..ed r ater finniMr.s. or the gentle c mecum' the idea of mak - Mg - 1k felt nue :as a trader. Adeor entered iiito an agreement witit Cincinnati —Mack & , .144 - secure fitr them a certain ainoimt of cottmi' at certain figures Ohl ,lEssE cw that his mouthing son, who had rot the mule in the elicits and left tho nkey tide him, hi d counmilftl of arnilb4,' and could pas= Ina _dad, if lie so • de -ired, into the regions of "rebels' . and riches without any trouble and with [dent:rya hocking. 89 getting together a parcel of medicines needed Lt thi Golfed( rate ,, , with seo;ral car loadi anyernmrat prorisiont and a fornudied by llLYssr.s, lie started un his erui4e for cotton. Ile huectsed r:rt When he conichit -steal he ' bou4ht, popiiag fq what he purriorsrd u ;di rartliemes and slams intendetUor Mr tar of lite klderai meat tran , portation was furnished kiln and the cotton thus secured was forwarded to the parties in Cincin natti. In the meantime the price went up,lind Mr GRANTBr. conclud ed that the firm in Cincinnitti should ; allow him the advanci in the market price This they refused to do, and in order to compel them to accede to I 019 dimiands of the "old nitin,“ Mr. URA NIT, .Jr ,or rather Lieutenant4len oral I II.YSSES HIRAM GRANT, Mongrel car.didate for President, threatened, that unless they divided spoils fairly, that he would issue an order expelling "the Jews as a class" from the lines of his army. The Messrs. MACK re-' fused to give more than they had con tracted to, and GRANT ; made good his, threat by issuing his infamous order driving the Jews as a class out of his army. JINSEE R. GRANT entered suit against the Cincinnati firm, and some two weeks since the ease came up for trial, from the records of which those facts hre been gleaned. In this cane our readers can see the character of the Mongrel candidate for president in about as clear alight as possible. ,A' general who would steal the rations of his own troops and give.them to his father to trade to the foe fur cotton to speculate upon, and who would make war upon an entire class of respectable, worthy citizens, because a couple of them would not Allow bimself and his fath er to fleece them, is certainly a fit candidate for a party that has stole the, country poer,and now seeks a lon gerlease of powj3r,in order that it may have an opportunity to take the little that is left as private property. If the people of this country think that this, man—whose mind centres entire ly on pitch pups and whiskey bottles, and whom the records of our courts prove used his position as commander of armies, to enable his own family to tfade and traffic with the enemy— is fit to fill the position that has been honored by, a WASHINGTON, a Jete- ZEIMON, a JACKSON and a Nlowitot, let them vote for him. ThOY deserve to be cursed with just such an ad min• istration as he will give them, if they have no more honor, no more respect for their country, or no more leve for the righttltan to vote fora m map who knows no more and has no more ap preciation at bow sad j usage, kh n . • has ilLyauca (11.0.arrr. The Palimony of • floptiViioan 0. \V Calume t the most attocessful newspaper publisher'' a the country, and a hie long opponent of the De mograey, says.in' Ms Pbandelphia kedge., that "[Loretto Seymour, the Democratic oaadi tilde for President to a atatemait *Dint alter rank end . • • • "It must Weald to his credit, as well as that of tho Ocavention, that he ia• 1111141 of eminent &billy, largely informed upon the public offal's of this country, experienced in *gird& oftint, and of irrepromisble of tsgrity and morally Witt' priwatollio, It is suck testimony that honest, and intelligent men, no matter, what their political predileetioms may be, must give, When they regard their honor or truth. The same cannot be said of the oandidat i e of themongrels: —Why should Ittcruiino Roz, who works by the day for a living, and who has a little bonne and lot worth say 4.1000, pay more Jabs than JOHN Do; who is wprth shr-teen' times sa much and 4fie his money: in government bonds P-•- Have the Power. if They would Use It "Will you let mo.h&vo these goods and :omit for your• pay about hilc months: Times are Fit - bard, taxes ate so high and money so searee,, that indeed I eannot raise the 111(11nm to puy you sooner Such was the request made to ono ()Caine merchants in our hearing only - yesterday, by - a laborer whose hands looked as if he toiled diligently, early and late, and whose toeless boots and ragged pants showed too well that be needed—badly needed—the brogans and rough tow trousers, he wanted to pay for in six months. • As we looked at his broad, 'honest brow, burnt alMost biah by the reoph ing rays of a summer son, and kis large sinewy hands with great blisters and brnises upon them, we wondered why it was that people— honest, thinking, working people would suppert ary government or any party, that would impose upon. the Takwers of the country all the taxes, antrexempt from the payment of any of them - the favored few, who have been blessed with large fortunes and lonz,pqrses. They do not endorse it beentse it is right—because they desire-4<mee the pour njipressed to benefit the rich= because they believe in this injustice to the'lalio - ring - !misses I Rut tlfi‘y endorse it because their political prej• udices prevent them from doing what they know to be right, and what"hard times - and "high taxes" tell them i 4 their imperative rt,,y. It is preju dice and nothing more. A blind, bigoted, foolish, wicked prejudice, that is taking the bread from the mouths of thousands of hungry little ones, to place coupons and gold inter est in the calms of bloated bondhol ders. '. Did the laboring men of the coun try but think—did they but het as free men—did they but labor for their own interests there would be no need of them begging for six mpnths time, in which to pay for the shoes for themselves or calico dresses for their wives. They would not be refused goods by merchants, or insulted by those who halm =tire money thin manliness. But as lone as the labor ing masses are willing to be made "beasts of burden," to accommodate capitalists—as long as the working men HOC fit to act and vote as bond• holders and money aristocrats dictate, Just so long will they complain of hard times and high taxes. It.is in the power,pf the laboring claws to have just such "tiinep" as they want in this country. It is in their power to have just. such laws as , they need. It Is in their power to control administrations, and all that is wanted is for them to act as :nen as men having rights which they dare maintain—as men'who have the cour age and spirit to do for themselves, and dote only as their interests dictate. If laboring men would support only those whom they know to be their friends—if they would stand by each other.in demanding the rights which chili government is in duty, bound to protect them in—there would be no such laws as the infamous ones mon "graham is now enforcing, by which rich men are exempt from taxation, and poor men are crushed to the earth to pay the expenses of the govern ment; there would be no tax exeinp ted bondholders, to he paid gold in terest, sad ride on the necks of oar work ragmen ; there would be ho freedman's bureaa, to cram down the throats of lazy negroes, bread stolen from the white children of the land ; there would not be two currenoiea, gold hr the rich and paper for the poor— :wither would there be thousands of millions oP dollars stolen annually from the public treasury, to enrich thieving officials and political vaga bonds. Aa long as the great Masses are willing to pay all the taxes and al low the feW who pay none to make the laws and use' the public monies just so long may they expect "high taxes and hard times." If they would lessen their faxes and better the "times," they shoull vote to a !Will with the Deincmiracy for EQUAL TAX ANION MID PURL IC ECONOMY. --(BEN. GRANT says that if elect ed president "he does not know just what,policy ho will pursue ; whether he will declare negroeseitisen s and vo ters in Pena * , !vial* as they Pow ere in the Southern Sta tes, or whether he will alloto the white race to con- Cisme the ooatrol of mg Cohanton• wealth." The white men oftha State shoat& ktio*, tad the only way they can know is to elect SEYMOUR . , who is the White man's candidste, tied *lava that the white men have a right to decide the 'lineation whether the no grass N4all be voters or not. , --rr you want to vote for buttons In place of bribis vote for Crtuirri. Their Ticket On Wednesday last, tho Mongrel county convention met in Bush's Hall. There Was preoont.about thirty delegates or about a ono third repre sentation of that party. It was the neett forlorn, hopeless, dejected look ing gathering we ever beheld. There was no spirit., -no enthusinin—but a kind of n guilty feeling seemed to pervade the few, that, led one to bp 4iu,fig that they werelicaitily ashamed of tic work they were engaged in After being tnformcd'hy Mr. Yocum, Esq., the chairman df thuir commit tee that the "harvest was over. n it the pestilence that wept. Asia had not touched us," they proceeded to place in nomination candidates to he beaten at the coming election. AttllsTßONil of lacoming received their undorsowent for Congress. Of him Ive !diall hive something to say hereafter. hob a record which wo shall ventilate, nod a character which we shall expose to the public pate, io order that tho masses tray know who it it.thaC this party would foist upon this distritt as Its reprvben tative in Congress. roi °Nut, Timuitottk; Gurtio, wan ken ati their enoiee fin A•4embly man `l"te Col believe has the reputation of being a iron I holdier, sorved i 9 4-he Wi4f at , Ml`li- C ' er, the Indian ibar in Plot ida, and in Lilo late war. Personally we shill have tultillikg to say against hitn, po rally wt. know him to he one of the blackest ItepUblicaiii that has ever disgraced this couuty. JANES WILLIAMs, of Philipsburg, was chosen for Commissioner. We know nothing about Mr. Williams, other than than he is a radical of the extreme kind, and was one of the chief instruments, last winter, in cheating the people of' this district out of their legally elected senator. For Ifistriet Auto ney they took our loquacious fried Trim). STF:V EN.I ---not old cloven hoof TIRD who has cursed this country in Congresm and will represent it in before long— but MAD. his namesake, a very e'enr little fellow, but awfully de moralized in Litdities, The other positions, Auditor and County Surveyor, were given to EltrrcittsoN MITCHELL, of Harris township, and 11Enitv TRCZIYU!.NY, of Milebburg With the private character of these Candidates we *hull have nothing to do, unless the course of their speakers and papers force us to kompaie them with the charactess of the persons whom the Democtacy may honor with nominations. It is their political principles, corrupt, black and disgust ing, that we shall expose apd hold up to the public gaze, to meet the scorn and contempt of intelligent and hon est white men everywhere. Another War 1 Just at %is time the mongrel pa pers are busy in trying to induce the people to believe that should SET HOUR and BLAIR be successful, which they will, that our country will be cursed with .an other war. Now in all earnestness we snot to know who will be responsible for it? if the De mocracy succeed they will Dot for they will have control of the reigns of government, and it a war is inaugura ted it will have to be started by the mongrels, who vre aro very willing to believe would kvor such a warm if they thoughaihy doing so they could remain in place and power to cheat and rob, and oppress; the people. A 8 to these threatnings they situ ply show the extremity to which that party is driven• They have paysed, plead and coaxed of the masses, to 1•omo up to the , ,sap port of their candidates and now when they find that their is no in ducement they can hold out, sufficient to secure the end orscime nt oft he people —they attempt to frighten them into measures by crying war I war I If mongrelise' wants another war let it "fire ahead." Let it go on in its infamous course, and lot its rob bers' arid cowards whom it has gath ered jute brigades under thiktitii of the Grand Army of the Republic, to steal indekerni and frighten helpless old women, .but show a sign Of war and in lengthen ten days there will be feweisauengrel, voters in this country, than there are ehristiatieusipordition; The people are in no mood to'be tri fled with—they are not feeling as if they aro going to give up every right to which they are entitled, because a lot of eowerda and out-throats, say we will fight if you don't help us to suc ceed. No sirs! Go on - with your threats:. Arm your bummers and de seam and niggers, and marshal' your hosts to battle, and you will find thet you wifl be blotted from; eaietenets quicker than one of lent hen roost robbers eanwring thelleck of,aspring pulkt. , The National Bank 'Swindle A metre outrageous or villianow i swindle was never perpetrated upon anrpeople than that by whieh one hundred and twenty five " millio ns of 14 dollurslper year, t a CI) F('lil the • '1 pockets of the toiling tax paper, nti 4 ,placed in the :fills. of the nalM l , l l , bank controllers. It i,,easy \ people to understand how done, but not so ea-y as it i, dealers in "government, s , minito.s" to pock( t, their 20 . arid 22 wrung from the laboring cottony. • .n.t the sy,tein * . Four, fist , hIX 01' IROVOII V 111.401,, WllO, lui lag war mold eninumed collectively Root 111011S:11d d.)11 , 11, gold. took that a mount of itiont:v pui e l ki .cd with it one liiiiidrud tho u ,. and dollar:I in gicenhaels. e l‘ 11 , „ these greenbacks they purehased the government one, hundred thou. end dollars worth of bond; Tlic, they deposited with the Scoretaiv of the tretuairy as seeurity thou , nrid dollars t i tiationhl hark note 4, and in midi! us i to the n0t, , ,, reet , itt , ed , ' - t!ertificates entitling th-ia draw annually 7 e-n , ore,. ~, on the hundred thou , ..n: I lo!!,r. mutt of 1i0n.14 They iove , toil in Illy fir-t p 11104.4 forty Allow:roil for that ono4urplre , l th0tt•a0.1,h,11,,,, of interest. be.a.cing booJi, op,g, th.y afttsv 7'3 I pto- c nl , or alat,,,t filleott pt r Writ. t0t0..0.4 oft orr7 ;nal itve.stotopt or forty thouitod. The national bank unto that to tLein ns reproymtati Ye, of their bonds, they loan not to whoevi , v money at eight, ten or twelve, rtr cput. just as the (-age may he, th a , adding to their other Twrernlag, on an average, ahont eight per ewit. Making in all, upon the original in. inve4tinent of forty thou,ind orer twenty three per cent, inlereet. The bond Which with their gold are olio exciript from taxation, thus forcing the people to pay to national banks twenty three percent. I NITEREsT ANT) THEIR 111.1miKEi• And this it seems is not enough to satisfy th'b shytnok:i ° who are thus bleeding the people, they n 0.. ., demand that the interest on there greenback bonds shall be paid in gold, and that the people shall be further taxed to — ri.atilt increase their interest. ' Will the toiling, sweating laborer, who receives nothing but paper won ey for hie hard days work, tell um what justioe there is in a financed system like this ? It coats not a cent more to print greenbacks than it does to print these national bank notes, and the former cost the people noth ing, while the latter, representing tax exempted bonds, costs them over fifteen per cent. annually 7 Why not substitute greenbacks for this national hank currency ? Can you give ns any reason ? Because Democracy desires to do en, promises to do so, in the event of its success, the supporters of these naticnal banks cry:repudiation,' and attempt to make the people he lieve that a grand financial crash will be the result of Democratic success. To substitute greenbacks for nation al bank notes, wifl not increase the currency a particle, but will save the people over one hundred and twenty-five millions of dollars every year, that national banks n'w receive as interest on their bonds. If you want to lessen your taxes by saving this amount vote for HEYmocs and Itr.ma, if...not stick to the bondhol der's candidates, GRANT add Cot, TAX. Over • Thousand Dollars per Minute This iv what mongrelism costs you, fat mere, mechanics, work ingmen 1 Every minute that you labor, every minute that you rest, costs you over a thousand dollars, to carry out the "reconstruction" and othef acts of the party in power. You may cease to work, but time don't stop nor do the expenses that are fastened upon you by the ruinous policy of the friends of GRANT and COLFAX. A THOUSAND A MINUTZ And what for? To feed negroes who aro to laz9f,to earn vituale for themselves—to Keep an army in the South to prevent the People from returning to their cultural and mechanics' ParNaito by which they would be enabled to par share of the,taxes that are levied up on you—to ply golg ,t.terest to men who have robbed t e overnment and invested their riches in government bonds because they were exempt from tasations—to pay assesaors and collec tors who arq stationed in every city and town in the country, and who bang like leeches' to your purses as long as they contain a cent—to enrich national bank controllers who charge you 12 per cent. for money for which the government . pays - them 14 per oent—to make negroes voters and of holders ip the States of the South —to destroy the government founded by our fathers and to °Wave you. 4 tet Too TrA,ttip IT 7 If so vot,is for the paity that has run the expenies of the government itp to this figure—that believes in making von slaves for niggers and bondhol dors—and that po sake you to sup port 'GRANT and COLraz the repro sentativee of the men who are charg ing you to benefit themselves. A thousand dollars a minute / El
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