The Democratic Watchman,
BELLEFONTE, PENN'A
P. ORAT XPIE, Editor
FRIDAY MORNIAG, AUGUST 281888
TRRIKS.—S2 per year when paid in ad
vane*, 2,50 when not paid in advance, and
43,00 when not paid before the expiration
of the year
National Democratic Nominations
FOR PRESIDENT;
HORATIO SEYMOUR,
OF NEW YORK
FOR VICE PRESlDeiv'e
GEN. PRANK P. BLAIR
Of MISSOURI
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
ELECTORS AT LARGE
WROitell W. CM, WILLIAM V. WGRATH
DISTRICT ELECTORS.
Jes. C Ammerman,
Ll Win P Withington
16 Wm R Orris
16 Win P Schell
17 Orus I. Pershing
18 A C Noyes
19 Win - A Galbraith
20 John R Packard
2LJames C Clarke
20 , Jmnes H Hopkins
23 Isciward 8 Golden
24 Samuel P Wilson
11. C.Z.Krowly.
M. Luna
3 Chas. Bunke&'tail
4 George IL Berritt
3 II A Coggehall
I Reuben Stabler
7 A IC Monaghan
I Day L Wenderiok
I Bernard Id'Oraa
543 Witham Shirk
II A 0 Broadhead
12 John Blandig
I=l
Demeeratio State Ticket.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
HON. _CHARLES E. BOYLE,
of Fayette County
FOR SIIRMOR GENERAL,
GEN. WELLINGTON H. ENT,
of Columbia County
==l
District and County Ticket
FOR JUDGE,
JOHN 11. ORVIS.
fintooot to the decision of the Democratic
Judiesi Conference•) "
FOR CONGRZBB,
D. G• BU)311.
[saloct to the decision of the Dinnooratio
Congressional Confluence:l
FOR ASSEMBLY,
I'. GRAY MEEK,
POIt DIBTRETT ATTORNEY,
H. Y. STITZER,
FOR COMMISSIONER.
JOHN BING,
rotW?ToR,
JOHN RISHEL,
FOR COUNTY SURV EYOR,
WM. P. MITCHELL,
I. It Safe ?
In ordinary business transactions be
fore they invest their money shrewd
men inquire "Is it safe 7"
In a momentous struggle for politi
cal supremacy, like the present, when
perhaps the destiny of - the country,
for all time to come, will be determin
ed by the issue of the contest, is it
not reasonable to suppose that the
masses, without regard to party dis
tinction, sill consider constitutional
government of at least as much value
to them as business matters, and in
quire, before they deposit their ballot.
"Is it safe 1"
The people know, or at least they I
ought to know, that under democrat
ic administrations, by which the
country was governed for nearly half
a century, and which made the con
stitution their 'guide, there were no
Federal taxed imposed, (although in
that time we had two foreign wars
and two of the beat sustained and
bloodiest Indian wars on rccord,) the
liberty of the citizen was carefully
guarded, the reserved rights of the
States respected, and economy in
every department rigidly enforced.
In short, during half a century of
democratic ascendancy, we have a
cheap oxistitutional republican gov
ernment honestly administered.
As the principles which goverted
the demeoracy during that half cen
tury of their politiial ascendancy, are
the principles of the party' now, and
still would be adhered to were they
again in power,the facts already stated
answer the Question, "Is it safe to
vote for the democratic nominees ?"
in the affirmative.
There can be no danger in restoring
to power a party which, when in pow
er always goierned the country wisely
and well.
But if we examine the policy and
measures of the radicals since their
rule commenced, in 1861 ; if we loot
at the system of falsehood and decep
tion, fraud and villainy, corruption
and oppression, extravagance and
plunder which has started their au
dacious and disgracellil career, se can
find nothing in their past to give the
slightest ground for the indulgent%
is even a trembling hope, that the
future would be "safe" in their herds.
On the contrary the whole Mater/
of the republican' ;tarty, sines' Abe
radicals became the rang els/n.044
replete with laid faith, unconstitu
tional, despotic, burdensome and
republican legislatimk, tending to dis
turb the industry of the country, to
favor capital and oppress labor, to
feed the flames of sectional discord,
excite the passion's of the people, and
finally to 'deprive the States and the
people thereof of all declared consti
tutional and reserved rights, and sub
ject them to the control of a central
oligarchy, military despotism, or some
other form of arbitrary goversntent,
in which the only laws would be the
diverse will of the tyrant, enforced
by the bayonets of a hired soldiery.
Such being the past history and
future tendency of the radical "repub.
bean partnit is clear that its contin
uance in power must be dangerous
alike to the preservation of free gov
ernment ,and to individual liberty,
prosperity and happiness.
AGAIN, IT IS "UNSAFE", lISOAUsIt
It is a party unstable as water,
shifting as the winds.
It has no well-defined, common
sense, statesmanlike policy ; no set.
'l,led faith ; no liberal comprehensive
views.
Its ideas of government embrace
only power and force •
It rejects' reason, and tolerates no
sentinients-in eonfliet with its own.
Its measures are eccentric, arbitrary
and revolutionary.
It is ambitions of power, not that
it may govern constitutionally, wisely
and fot the general good ; but that it
may use it for purposes of veogoance
and.plunder. -
It regards no law but its own im
perious will, and trample&with equal
contempt upon the Bible pr the Con
stitution, when either of them op
poses a barrier to its designs.
In ten states it, has, by a usurpa-
Lion of authority, made an ignorant
negro population the dominant politi
cal power , and from seven of them
it has admitted into Congress sham
representative, and senators, most of
whom are not even citizens of the
states they pretend to represent.
It has released the holders of U.
S. bonds from taxation, and Worces
yearly from the labor of the country
the Mine:Weds of millions of dollars
necessary to pay the interest of its
debt and cover the extravag t ance of
its administration and the plundering
of its Congressmen arid party jobbers.
AND AGAIN -A/MAIM
It, ii a party devoid of honor and of
conscience.
It comes before • the country now,
with the brand of hypocrisy and false
hood stamped upon its front, convic
ted of both by 'its own enactments,
and with the brazen impudence of a
bedizened harlot, seeking to thrust
herself into decent aticiety; a aka the
suffrages of au enlightened and honest
people to continue it four year lon
ger in power.
We have said it comes before the
people now, branded ly its owe rnact
meats as a hypocrite and liar.
Its representatives in Congress, in
the early part of the war, unanimous
ly passed a joint resolution ,sanctioned
by President La NOoLN, that the war was
dot waged for purposes of sultjugation
or cottguest, er for any other purpose
than to defend and maintain the supre
macy of the Constitution, • • ~•
and to preserve the Union,with all the
dignity, equalitg and rights of the sev.
twat Btatessainspared." By subee- i
quent Legislation, the representatives
a( the same party,regardless of the sol
emn pledge.declared these "several
Suites" to be "conquered provinces,"
deprived them of all their "dignity,
equality and rights" in the Union,en
franchised the negroes, disfranchised
the larger and better portion of the
whites, and placed all under the gov
ernment of a military satrapcy and a
Freedmen's Bureau.
The representatives of this party
did also admit the State of Alabama
to representation in Congress, al
though the vote on the adoption of
the constitution formed by the Con
vention of November 1867, fell short
several thousand of the re quirement ,
of the Supplemental reconstruction
act of March 113, 1867.
Its platform of 1860 promised non•
interferenoe with State rights and in
stitutionme, It has interfered with
both.
The same platfurual promised hon
esty and elsososity in the administra
tion of government. Instead of
these, its whole career has been char
acterised by a venni of plunder and
extravagance unparalleled in the
history of nations.
hae - proved - ituelf—tho-enetity- of
free, constitutional government ; nn
&Urnl to the white population that
foolishly placed it in power ; and
faithful thus far to the negro (to
whom also it will, ukitiuktely ptbve
unfaithful) only from interested par
tly motives. •
We have atatosl nothing but facts—
tints which thb ►Ltorj of the past
seven yeara of republican misrule
will verify to the very letter—and
with those before his,eyes, if any eon-
Bible white mlin, if ad honorable man,
if any honest man, if any truly chriii
tian man can believe it "safe" to vote
the republican &ate and National
tickets, why—Heaven forgive him—
let him do so,
Lo I the Poor Negro
A vast deal of radical sham sympa
thy has been and continues toe ex
posed on the negro. They want his
vote—and therefore ( nd for no oth
er reason) he is "a man and a broth
er." A western orator of the black
stripe radicals, tlx Gov. FAIRFtEr,D,
of Michigan, in a recent clap trap
speech to a nigger-head audience, ex
pressed the opinion that. if apv class
of men ought to be protected by the
government, it is the negroes, who
have hitherto beenddeprived 'of their
rights and have been trampled in the
dust. This sentiment, according to
the reporter, elicited "applause. In
their extravagant seal for the darlrey
these radical ranters too often forget
that there is a white race in the
country, The question is, not whet
er the negro should receive the pro
tection of law in his civil right-s—
-aint—all will concede—but whether he
should receive such partial and ox
elusive protection as to make him the
sole object of the ;law's ' care to the
great injury and oppression of the su
perior race? If the white man has
to tail and suffer In order that the
negfo may enjoy ease and safety—if'
negro protection can only be secured
by rifling white men's
freedom can only be secured by the
loss of theirs, which has been the ten
dency of radical policy heretofore,
why certainly, agaipst such one sideil t
bastard philanthlOpy a 4 this, the
Caucasian race will rebel. If 'there
is to be a mastory of races, his is the
master race, and will dominate ; if
the question ever narrows down to
the point whether forty millions of
intelligent white men, or three or
four millions of' ignorant negroes shall
"go to the wall," it won't be the forty
millions who will go there. The laws
of creation have settled this question;
nor can all the rantings of false
priests, the illogical harangues of
shallow-brained fanatics, or the hyp
ocritical cant of interested place—
men change the nature or operation
of those laws which are as immutable
as the God that ordained them.
There has been enough petting and
pampering of the negro. An eight
ears radical crusade in behalf of tur
key equality and a three year's ex
pensive Freedman's Bureau and army
protectorate over him, paid for by
the labor of the white men of the
nortt, has demor.lized nearly the
whole nogro population of the South,
converting tens of thousands of a
hitherto orderly and industrious pop
ulation into wandering beggars, im
pudent, 'vagabonds and prowling
thieves. This is the grand result,
the whole summing tip"of radical ne
gro sympathy ; and for this ruination
of the mortal and damnation of the
immortal part of the poor negro,
northern labor has paid millions of
hard earned dollars.
What say you, white men of the
north ; is the farce played out, or
shall we pay for another four years
enjoin:loot of it 7
One Item
The people are taxed yearly about
five millions of dollars to pay the sal
aries of the officers and regular em
ployees of the Freedman's Bureau.
This is exclusive of all incidental ex
penses incurred by that useful insti
tution for electioneering purposes,
and of all money and rations issued
to dilapidated and lazy negroes,
which amount in the gross, even, ac
cording to radical figures which usu
ally lie, to about thirty malions of dol
lars more. Here we have one little
litem of $35,000,000 wrung by taxa
tion 'from the white labor of the
country for the sole purpose of main
taining in idleness, and controling
the votes of Southern negroes. But
there is another and • larger item.
To keep up the pet radical policy of
reconstruction, and u a measure of
protection of three millions of ignor
ant, helpless blacks, requires the em
ployment of nearly the whole force of
the .army, which in the last three
years, sooordipg to radical figures,
has cost over nine hundred malions elf
dollars- -over three hundred millions
aea Ito bo paid b . s , taxes oollec
tea fictm northern white labor.—
Think of it- whitermen who work for
your bread. Isn't the radical ele
phant a rathersexpensive beast?
yon tell as why poor, men
should pay al/ the taxes and the rich
none? Ginanisiyi it is right;
nous says it is wrong.
The State Election.
Don't forgot—we say this to every
democrat , and cobsetvative—while
preparing to fight the big presidential
battle; that its result will very mue l h
depend upon the result of the pre
liminary engagement to come off on
the, second Tuesday of October.
We must offot deceive ourselves with
• the expectation or even hope of car
rying the grate for SEYMOUR and
BLAIR in November, if we fail to
elect BOYLE and ENT in October.
Such a thing is possible, to-be-sure,
but by no means probable, and re. ko
be thought of in the calculation of
chances. We must elect BOYLE and
ENT, and that, two, by a sweeping
majority which will. knock the noise
out of thetadical l . nigger-bread braw
lers. We must show_them that we
are alive and • in earnest—that the
corpse of. democracy whiett they hive,'
in the liteliness of their fancy,
"waked" l and buried so o ft en, has
burst the cerements of the grave, been
raised from the dead, filled with
creased vitality and vigor, and LT no
longer a foe to be conqueror by false
hood, force, stratagem or fra . ud. This
we can do by running the majority for
BoYLE and ENT up into the thousands.
We must have no few and feeble
hundreds as at the last State election,
to move against the enemy's line
with in November, but an overwhelm
ing force of thousands. And what is
to hinder us, if we make up our
minds that it shall be so, and do each
oneof utchis duty to the fL:ll,extent as
it (night to be done Our candidates
are good men, honest and competent
at least equal in the latter respect,
and superior in the former to their
opponents, for they come before the
public without a taint of radical cor
ruption on their hands:- --We do nut
belite that there is going to be much
of soldier feeling at the October elec
tion. But if there should be, was
not General ENT as gallant a soldier
SIR any of them ? Did he not meet
the enemy on hard fought fields, and
does he not bear the scars of honora
ble wounds up-an his person ? Can
more be said of the hangman of a
weak,i n noeen wornim--flativaa NV? ?
Can AS much be said of Camenet.r„
who is Gen. ENT's opponent on the
radical ticket ? CAMPBELL is, we
Iltelieir, little more than a paper sol
dier, .having done but little if any
campaigning and never having smelt
powder in the face of the enemy. So
that ENT, oar soldier is, in point of
I merit, equal to both the soldiers—the
real and the shame one—on the radi
cal ticket. Would it not be passing
strange then, if with our candidates
Wilms nod ENT, theformer acknowl
edged by even hie political opponents
to be a gentlemen without reproach.
intelligent, upright and honorable,
and the latter a gallant soldier of cul
tivated mind and strictest integrity-,
wouldn't it be a marvellous thing in
deed, if with two unexceptionable
standard bearers like these, we should
fail to carry the state by five or ten
thoutiand majority over thb radical
ticket ? Yes, it would be a wonder
ful thing ; and if all democrats and
conservatives in the State are, as we
believe them to be, of our mind in
this matter, we shall let no such as
tonishing circumstance occur. There
is a crack or two in fiARTRANFT'S
armor through which dangerous
wounds May the inflicted that will
somewhat unkring his nerves and
slacken his pace on the course over
wh he is entered to run. Ile has
ben -extravagant in office, having
expended over SIX THOUSAND
A YEAR MORE THAN HIS DEM
OCRATIC P.REDECE3SORS. That
isan item that will not add to his
popularity. Then there is that Ugly
little piece of rascality, paying $70 . 0
on somebody's or nobody's warrant to
a wan who acknowledges that he nev
er earned a cent of it, but came to
Harrisburg on the special invitation
of a radical Lancaster county mem
ber and drew it. That hese gangren
ous appearance—it looks rotten ; and
HARTRANYT must explain the trans
action or suffer the consequences; for
without explanation it willilook too
much like fraud and robbery to be
characterized by any softer terms.
Well, then, we shell bcat - thie; rad
ical fraud and plunder State ticket
by a majority of thousands ; that is,
we can do it and we ought to" do it.
But we mast do more—we must•
elect a majority of members of As
sembly large enough to overcome the
radical majority in the Senate. Or
can we do better still and elect Sena
tors enough this year to give a demo
cratic majority in that body ? Let us
try, and try hard ; many a thing
more doubtful has been accomplished
by energy and perseverance. It is
high time the whole radical nest was
boosted up Salt river. Come every,
one, beast and-band. Mho year will
clean out the Btate department and
the Legislature, elect Sit-tuella& and
BLAIR, put in honest men instead of
toques all around as far as we can,
and next jfear—we'll send the shal
low:pated GEARY himself to the dogs,
or any other place proper for him.
Yea, verily, we will.
The Two Parties.
The election of GRANT and COLFAX
can bring no relief to the oppressed,
suffering, despot-ridden people, for it
is proposed, by those whose candi
dates they are, to plunge the country
still deeper into the difficulties which
now overwhelm us. Not a single
plank of their platform, and not a
lino or sentence from any of their pa
pers or speakers promises anything
but the same policy which has already
ruined us. If the people are satisfied
With what they now have in the way
of despotism, of, sword and bayonet,
at the South and the despotism of
taxation at the North, thou they
ought to vote for the party which
proposes to continue the same policy.
The election of SEYMOUR and
&ant will at thi very least bring
change, and surely if a people over
can he in a condition when any change
is better than none, we have reached
that condition novel But this is the
very least of the reasons why all men
ought to suispott.the standa rd bearers
of the Democratic party. While ev
ery man who looks around him and
observes the fearful penalty we have
suffered for putting the Mongrel par
ty in power, and the woful change
which-has blighted the interests of
the country since the Democracy
went out of power, ought not to need
any other inducement to lead him to
support our candidate in November
next, yet this is the smallest of the
inducements we hold out to freemen
of this country whose hallo? we ask
for.
Let every man read our platform,
with its glorious promises and its
hold and defiant declaration of prin
ciples, and contrast it with the cow
ardly thing concocted by negroes and
renegade whites at Chicago, which
promises nothing and indicates noti
ing, and he cannob.look a decent and
honest neighktor,in the face and vote
for GRANT nd COLFAX. Let us
study well all that we propose to do,
and search our past tiistory for all we
have done in the past. and contrast
it with the promises and past history
of thAMongrels, and he can arrive at
but one honest conclusion—he must
support SEYMOUR and BLAIR. The
past of the Mongrels though reach
ing back but eight years, stretches
over the graves of half a million of
American citizens, and is crowded
with the groans of nameless and un•
t old anguish which fill the whole land
Their present shows the spectacle of
a galling despotism over' ten of our
best States, and their future is
naught but blacker despotism and
more crushing taxation.
No man, wise or unwise, who has
a grain of sehse, can make a mistake
in his vote, if lie stop one moment to
think. He must support the Democ
racy.
Put up Your
.Stompe, or Shut up
Your Gob.
We have had placed at our dispo
sal for the acioommodation of betting
Radicals, fourteen thousand five bun
dredilollars ($14,5001, to be staked
on the coming presidential election,
as follows :
$l.OOO that, Seymour and Blair will
carry Connecticut.
$l.OOO that Seymour and Blair will
carry New York.
$l.OOO that Seymour arid Blair will
carry New Jersey.
1.000 that Seymour and Blair will
cailry Pennsylvania.
$ll.OOO that Seymour and Blair will
carry Deloware. • '
$4.000 that Sq./Sour end Blaii will
carry Maryland•
$1.060 that Seymour and Blair will
carry Ohio.
$l.OOO that Seymour aild Blair will
carry Kentucky.
$l.OOO that Sey;nour and Blair will
carry Indiana.
$l.OOO that Seymour and Blair will
carry Missouri.
$l.OOO that Seymour and Blair will
carry California.
. •
$l.OOO that Seymour and Blair will
carry Oregon. ..
$2.000 that Soymmir and Blair will
be elected: •
$5OO that no Radical Aare take tip
b.
, h This amount of money,to be bet as
stated, has been placed in the Bank:
ing House of W..F. Reynolds' & Co.,
and the editor of this paper will make
the necessary arrangements, with any
radical or any party of radicals who
desire to take it. Come on gentle
men or stop your blowing I We are
going to succeed thf•• jall. If you think
not, back up your opinion with your
told if you are bondholders, andvith
your greenbacks if you dq pot boiong
to that favored class.
"Dentoiratio Boosting."
The Democratic Watchman, publish e d
•t Bellefopte, say!:
"Within a oirole of eve miles from this
plate, we have the sautes of forty three men
who have all their INea voted with the op•
position, and who are earnestly working for
the summon of Seymour and Blair."
—lf lb* WATOMMA/1 Can produce and
publish "the uames of forty-three men"
living as stated above, "who have all
their lives voted with the opposition,"
that is all their live voted against the
Democratic party, Iliad who now intend
to vote for Seymour, we will make stir,
Merit a, present at the best parer boots
he ever hid on bls feet. , The "forty
three men" who 9,ra thus claimed by th e
WATCHMAN, HICALbt endorsed as ow_
nents of Democracy by some well known
leepublican of Bellefonte. This kind of
Detnomatlo brag has become too offen
sive to pass current any longer; and we
very much doubt it the DEMOCRATI C
WATCHMAN can Erciduoe a man In a cir
cle of five" miles front Bellefonte, who,
baring voted for Lincoln, is now resol
ed to vote for Seymour. Neverthelu s
we challenge the WATCHMAN to crodute
his boasted forty-three.—State duard,
We aro not in need of a pair of
boots just at this time, but, if hfr.
FORNEY is really in earnest in doubt
ing our assertion and is certain that
it is only "Democratic brag," as h e
!snacks, we will state for - his informa
tion that we ha"ie plaeed en deposit
a(the'bnnking house OcAr. F. Rey
nolds' & (b., of this place, five hun
dred dollars ($5001; which tie are
willing to lose in case we fail to prove
by their own affidavits, that there are
"forty-three men within a circle of
five miles of this place who have al
ways voted with the opposition and
who are-now- earnestly working-foe
the suocess ollSFY , atoun and Blatlit, " '
provided ho pays us that, amount
when we publisli the names and af
fidavits of the voters refered to.
It. is not "Democratic brag."
is plain Democratic truth that
ports of radicalism and ruin tremble
to hear. We know that they would
rather believe anything else, we know
that it is "offensive" to them, but
nevertheless, this does not alter the
case. The fact that thousands of
honest men are leaving the party that
has - plundered them and the country
--deserting ladicalism nand raging
themselves in the ranks of the Democ
racy is to patent, for any one to eren
pretend to disbelieve. It is not only
here that changes are taking place,
but over the entirecountry, and if
they continue fofthe next six weeks
as they have been for the past three,
GRANTS influential supporters will be
scarcer in I. , lnvember than his empty
whisky bottles about Washington, -or
his digger---inalitin babies in the far
west.
—Capt. SANDERSON boasts ol a
big' sucker caught in Fishing creek.
It is a whopper, measuring 3O Inches
and' weighing six pounds , but if
THEODORE TILTON, HORACE GEEELY
and WENDELL PHILIPS tell the truth s
the radicals have a much larger suck
er at the head of their Presidential
ticket.
—An exchange says: "The Chi
cago Convention has wonderfully im
proved the knowledge of the west u
to the value V wool grcisting-'''
Which convention, the Gamer and
CoLrAx or the other one 7 Both
wore interested in wool growing— but
the former—chiefly in black merino.
--When you hear a Radical
howl about "rebels" and "rebel-
prison—pens," ask him how it comes
that he supports a party that tried to
wake Joz BROWN, the "rebel" foun
der or 4ndersonville prisou,s United
States Senator.
—The man wh) wishes to vote
for the succeasfu) candidates, must
ttte with the party that fa . vora the
supremacy of the whits man—equal
taxation, and greenbacks or gold for
both rich and poor—for Szntotra
and BLAIR.
—Should a man who owns tkree
thousand dollars worth of government
bonds, pay no taxem and the man who
owns a house 'and' lot worth that
amount pay all? GRANTO party says
yes, SZYMOURfe says no.
"!'eace" that Gun and
radicalism will get by the November
elections will be a "piece of the pub
lic mind,:' that will consign them to
eternal and deigigud political die
grace
—Do you (rant bondholder% to
pay their proportion of the taxes
vote for SEYMOUR and &sta.
-GRANT "takes well" says a
radical exchange. About' the only
thing he takes is whiskey.
—lt was `•hard taolts"for the sol
diers during the war, it is high fax
for him now.
1 ----To force ,yourealf to pay rid,
mAn'A Lazo's. vote for tho.ho4dtkolder o
catiflidates—GßANT and _COLFAX.