The DeMocratic Watchman, lENI BELLEFONTE, PFAN' A P• Mr IfEkK, , Editor FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 4,1868 ERSEIM TERMS.-42 per year when paid iu ad wanes, 2, 0 when not paid in advanee, awl *3,00 when of paid befare the e;piratn:n of Ake year. National Democratic Nominations ,WENT, SEYMOUR mit rip HORATIO MEM UP NEW FOR VICE PRESIDENT GEN. FRANK P. BLAIR OF MIS :MUM VRESIDENTI A L ELECTORS ELECTons AT LAM E. V11.1,1A1l V. IWGRATII. KLEMM. 13 Jes. C A mmerninn, I'd' Win P NV •th ington 15 Win R liorgits I lIIWm P tivhell G.O.G. W.,C•01, DISTRICT 1. C.B.lCratnerl7 bonen% :3 Chaa. Bahkwaltet 4 (loorge K. torril 5 II K Coggahall 6 Itrub.n StAler 7 K B Monaghan Day L Wenderict I.rnard M'Or .0 10 Wrham Shirk -11 A 0 Broadhead 12 John Bland% 17 Pyru. L Perfhing, I 1 A C NuyeA. 19 Win A (ialbraith 211, John It Pa.C.aid 1 21 James C Clarke 22 Jninen fl Hopkins 12.1 hdward 8 21 Simnel I' Wilton Democratic State Ticket . SOU ILUDITOII. GE.NI:BALL,- HON. CHARLES E. BOYLE, of Fayette County FOR MVO bOR GENERAL, GEN.- WELLINGTON 11. ENT, of Columbia Cowl, y District and County ". icket FOR JUDGE. JOHN 11. OM' IS [Subject to the deem on of the Democratic Judical Clonlerence FOR CO NI (i RESS, L. A. MACKEY, .t Lock Ilareo. FOR AP:HM[ll,l'e P. GRAY MEEK, FOR DLSTILICT ATTORNEY, 11. Y. STITZEII FOR CONINIIIONER JOHN. BI NG, FOR AUDITOR, .JOIIN RISIIEL FOR COUNTY hURVRYOR WM P. MITCHELL, Congress —Our Candidate On Thursday, of last week, the conferce, chosen by the Democracy of this, the Igth District, met in con vention and by ezerlentatlun placed in nomination,forCongress,L A. MACK EY, EN ;of Lock Haven We are free to confess that the choice of the conference was not our choice at, individually, we ilould rather have Keen a life-long Democrat placed in front as standard bearer, but the Democracy, through their conferees, deemed it wise to choose our candi date rrom 'among the Conservative men of the distriet.and we know that from among them. no one more honest, worthy, capable or popularcould have been selected than Mu. MArICEY. His personal popularity at home and in those portions of the district where he is well known—his integrity as a man and his worth as a citizen, will bring to his support hundreds upon hundreds of honest voters, who desire to fee an honest white man, in prace ofd bigoted advocate of negro suffrage, represent this district in Congress. Ma. MACK EY was formerly an old and many of our readers will doubtless reinepriber him as one of the stump speakirs of that, party in the campaigns of '4ff and '52. Since that party was swallowed up in abo'itionism, he has taken but little part in polities than to vote with it up to the election of 18114. Since that time, seeing that the great aim of the, leaders of that party was the destruction of the government, the enfranchisement of the negro, and the enslavement of the white laboring masses, he, like Cowan and Doolittle and Blair; and thousands of other honest and true men, deserted the ranks of those who had proven them selves the enemies of the country and race, and has assisted the Democtaoy to battle the infernal and corrupt principles of radicalism. Unlike his opponent—pompous, stuck-up, labor-despising, Lord Arm strong—hill-the friend 'of tle labor ing muses—an advwcate of the inter ests of the working melt. In him the toiling, sweating masses will find's representative upon whom they can rely at all times and under "all circum stances—a man who 'will represent the people of the district and not the negro worshiping thieves who have controlled affairs for the past eight years. What the Democracy has to Fight It seems th'at . ftve have not only to encounter the 'Loyal League and Grand Army of the IteptitbrlieAc the Presidontl contest, but , ,,the of' the dead are to be plitiled hi- the front of the Radical line of battle to ' confront us. The ghost of the great Commonei is invoked to act as stand-' and bearer of the - Grant and Colfax forces', and carry aloft the banner of Redonstraction and Negro Equality, to inspirit and urge on the wavering Radical cohorts to victory. The Pittsburg Conintereiczl is the reviver of this old time, monkish strategenv,- ind confidently expects,' with the spiritual assistance of St Thaddeus, to conquer in the. coming fight. It has seized upon the "last words" of the dying radical, which it looks upon as uttered:in a spirit of prophecy, and has paraded them in an editorial as an incentive to vigorous action, holding out the certainty of success. "Almost his last words.were for his country." "That" says, the Com mercial, "mill have to be written in MEE Wq, was not with the de s ad---we would not, wantonly, tear open the grave of the departed,find drag thence the sins that ehasity would fain cover with the niouldering dust trntil the sound of the the last trump—but in this case, the subject having .been thrust upon-public attention, we can not. furhear the_suggeation that, the fame of the dead prophet would ap pear brighter in the history if the words arid actions of his vivrous manhood, instead of hislfast breath had been '7 . 01' his coot() y.'' 'For Reconatructioi he spoke nobly, And expressed tae settled conviction that Gen. Grant would be elected and carry out the great work. Twu colored breth• ren prayed with him " '4l jp common to attach importance to the last words of sane dying men In disease! like that to which Mr. Steven's succumbed the mind to generally roused to more i hen ordinary intelligence shortly before death. • • * It ra therefore with pleasure that we refer to the pro phetic sentence of the old' veteran 'that Grad will he elected and trill carry out the Brea: Hernnt suction act. ' It sounds like the blessing and warning of old Israel. come It. a rime when ire, Import ance can .00lia estimated too highly ; aiid an it is read throughout the Union will infuse determination Into the minds of loyal men to make the saying a veri ly Mr Stevens epent a great part of his life in seeking the freedom of the colored rare, and hie great Foul was moved when representatives of that class found words of pence and benlsoh for his lost hours on earth " 'To those who are left rl,ll to fight for progress and liberty • • * the inspirations of a dying man • • coming at this particular crisis, wit he hailed qe of eaored import, and further nerve these who love the truth, coo. e firmly to battle for equal ypitircal rtghts " Why, this superstitions twaddler is a stranger to the age , he should have lived in the days of prophecy and miracles, when the dead were raised by supernatural power, and future events were foretold by inspiration , or in the times of the Crusades, or the Spanish and Moorish wars, when Saints, displaying celestial banners, often came to the rescue of the faint ing Christen] hosts In this 19th century no "signs and wonders" Wye as yet, appeared in the Heavens , no saints have taken part in the worldly warfare, whether of the sword or the ballot, nor have dying men, so far as is known, beck gifted with the spirit of prophecy. The radicals must therefore, we think fight the pending battle with what iving strength they have yet left., with tarty assistance from the spirit of . Thaddeus or any other departed or tCy of that persuasion. But if we a e mistaken in this, and must, per force, meet the ghosts of defunct Reconstructionists 'in the presidential contest, why, we have the language of Washington's Farewell Address to assure us where his spirit will be, end doubtlemmon the same side will be arrayed the shades of JEFIrillsON, MADISON, JACKSON and others of the illustrious departed, in whose footsteps we confidently tread, so that no ghost story is likely Ito frighten the Democratic army, when the line of battle is forma and the word to advance given. But, seriously, it is less for the pun pose of commenting upon the super stitious twaddle of the Commercial: than to show, taking it as a fair rep resentative of the Republican press, the intent of that party if it shall succeed in getting another four years' lease of power from the people. We have purposely italicized some words to draw more particular attention to them,, because they indicate an unfal-, tering purpose on the part of the rad icals to adhere to their doctrine of ne gro equality until it is universalljf es tablished. If the Radicals succeed in retaining power in the United States, and in this kits4e, it will not be long before the doctrine of equility of races will Ite eatablished here ; for Congress, which claims the power to do so, will firree it upon us if we do not voluntarily accept it; and so they will upon every Northern State. Nor will they—nor could they if they would—stop atio/iticaiequality. The nagro having once obtained that; haying been washed, scoured. puri- ed and baptized "man and brother," will not rest himself, nor let others test, until he has entered into full fraternal communion, the soda/ as well as the political equal of the white. This is the relationship that 'MAD- EllB STEVENS desired to sea estab lished between the two" kces, what all she extreme radical leaders are contending for, and the point toward Which the entite Republiaan party are rapidly drifting. The election of GRANT and Cobrax, with a radical majority in the House at Washington, wjl settle the question ; and we oboe more earnestly warn every Conserva tive republican opposed to negro so cial and political equality, that a vote for GRANT Mkt COLFAX is a vote fo the t onsumation of that odious and degrading measure. • Connecticut, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, and Mines eta. have rejected the disgusting and insulting doctrine, and declared Their dbhorrence of it by decisive niajo.i- ties. These States Lad all been ar rayed under the Radical banner, and had readily swallowed everything-but the negro. When he was presented they revolted Their stomachs were not strong enough for the dosg, su garid as it was for tho odcas(on, ant'' they froitT.— of l'ennsylvania less fastidious than their neighbors? Will this great State do less than her sisters ? Auditor General I 1 the people want an honest Au ditor(;eneral, they must elect Cuts. BorLE, the Democratic candidate lIARTRANFT, the Radical candidate has been very negligent of his duty, if not positively dishonest. Placed where he is to guard the treasury, he has failed to do `so. He has not only permitted the Goths and Vandals to invade it and carry off spoils, but he actually gave them a pass to protect them. He authorized the Tortuent.to lurtts of $712, not one cent of which had been earned, and he "ordered," ac the Ilarriburg State Guard has it, the payment of nearly $lO,OOO to Legislative Committees for servicon, although the law emphatically, says such 'terriers shall not be paid for. What other similar wrongs HART RA NFT has perpet t rated we haveiyet n't knowledge of , but are not diode we have specified enough fio ratify the people that he is an unsafe officer,not to be trusted, and that the Treasury would be safer in other and honester hands' Elect Itorl.tt and all such plundering inroads on the people's money chest will be stopped The Drinking Candidate How many of the cold water lily, who have time and again pledged themselves to vote for no man for any office who was addicted to the INC of strong drinks, will vote for GRANT in November? .At !Nast half of them will, although the fact will not be denied, by any one that regards truth, that GRANT ika regular drinker of strong drinks, and often takes them in execss, while SEYMOUR never or seldom tastes them. Bah I This Radieel party is without principles, without consistency, without truth, without honor. Surveyor Goner aL If the people wan¢ to reward a real soldier, one who marched,fliught and bled, suffering all the Ithrships and encountering all the dangers of war, let them vote fur Gen. WELLINGTON II ) 11 $14X, and elect him Surveyor General over the Radical candidate CA MrEELL. who has no war record, and whose only evidence of so Idership is his commission. If a soldier must fill the office, let him be at least a genuine one, and not a sham. —The Harrisburg Telegraph. in view of the desperate straight in which the army of Radical plunderers find themselves, advises them of the neceessity of bringing up their heavi est artillery if they wish to elect Glum We should like to know what kind of newly invented ordnance they have got - by which t hey hope to summed? They have bursted or burnt out, since 1862, all the artil lery of hell in belching forth sulphur ous damnation over the land rindas they have geed up all the resources of that vast manufactory and magasile, ve know not from whence they are to get their offset ive guns'and ametuni tiqu. - - -r-- Ax commenced hu COD limed mal career as a ktiow-Nothing —and he has not advanced Inußsh_be yetind chats beelaided condition yet. Wh r ofid It,? It was the pa y that now aakei you to qup' port GRANT and COLFAX, that repeated the tonage tax on the Penn sYlvania Railroad, and thereby robbed the taxpayers of the atate over six millions of dollar*: It was_the party that asks you to suprirt RANT and COLFAX, that sold the'public works to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and thus placed the people of the State at the mercy of that soulless corporatioh. It was the mon who now support GaANT, that said, when secession was first talked of, "let the South go, we can get along twitter without it than with it," and who called the flag of our country a "flaunting lie," a ''polluted rag." It was the party that now asks you to support GRANT, that caused the war,and after they hadlt inaugurated, robbed the soldiers who enlisted in it, and taxed their families who were left at home. It was the party that now asks you to support GRANT that hired soldiers for Gold and compelled them to, take greenbacks—that fed them on rotten herring, clothed thorn in shoddy and gave them paper-soled shoes to wear. It was the party that now asks you to support. GRANT, that told you the War was waged "only /or the restora tion of the Union," and now when the War is over prevents the Union from tiejng_rejanco‘l,,, It was the party, that now a,ks you to Support GRANT, that established National Bunks for the benefit of the rich„iind by which the laboring men of the country are robbed annually of over eighteen millions of dollars. It was the patty, that now ethics you to support GRANT that conoocted the infamous bond scheme, by which the wealthy men of the country are ex empted from taxation, and the poor —the farmerk mechan ics, and labor ing men — made slaves to bond hol ders. It was the party, that now asks you to support GRANT, that gate tax-ex erupted bonds' to the rich for green backs, and now says that these bonds must be redeemed in gold. It was the party in power that es• tablished, and onw maintains, the ne gro bureau. to feed,,and clothe the ne gro pipulatieha of the South at an ex pence to the laboring white men of the North, of /orty millions of dolM"rs pnnuans It is the party, that asks you to support GRANT, that keeps a stand ing army in times of peace, to attend to niggers and Bureau officers, at an expense of Tirti IDINDRED AND FIFTY MILLIONS OP 'DOLLARS PER YEAR. It is the party, that asks you to support (1 ANT, that has made the public debt what it is, and increases it at the rate of ten millions of dollars per month. It is the party, that asks yog to support GRANT, that makes theex pensen of the government fire huntlrid millions of" doll ars per year When the Democracy controlled the expenses amounted to but eighry millions pee 1:131= It is the party that asks you to support GRANT, t hat coin pel Is you to pay the enormous taies that are levied upon you-- that gives gold to the rich and - greenbacks to the poor—that makes white men slaves for negroes—that keeps an army of officials to pry into your businesm,and that robs you with taxes and prices. such as has never cursed any country or peofsle. If you want a continuation of h a r d tirpes—high taxer—disunion and de moralization, vote for GRANT and 0111.. FAX. —An organized blind of horse thieves, which has Isstated in Alississippi lance the war, has just been found out, and asps tahlen (or their arrest —Ex. An extensive band of swindlers and treasury thieves, organized during the war, and extending througtiout all the Northern States, head quarters at Washington, was found out some time since by the people, who will serve a notice on thorn in November to disperse ; and it is expected that shortly after the 4th of March, next the whole brotherhood of rogues, swindlers, piek•poakets, plunderers, perjurers, sneaks, sniVellcrs, carpet baggers, scalawags, et id genus ontne will he scattered, howling , sirame: faced and conscience stricken to their respective dens. Then butcher GRANT will all the "peace" that an old sinner like him can enjoy. A GOOD Chozos.—The Democracy of the 17th district have nominated for Congress Col. John P. Linton,one of the bravest and beat young men in the State. If the people of that dis trict, don'tgive him an overwhelming majority, over his high -tax high -tar iff, nigger bureau' opponent, Morrell, thershonld be ashamed hereafter to ever make Pretensions of patriotism, honesty or even self-respect. Farmers 1 Laboring Men rTaxpayers 1 We salt your careful attention to the figures we present to you. We have taken the statistics of the two different periods and compared your condition eight years ago, with your condition to-dey, Eight years ago the people thought it necessary to have a change in the administration of our public affairs. Taxes then were light, the people prosperous, the hordes of hungry officials, that feed like leeches upon the treasury of the nation, had no existence. , Look at the figures ! In 1860 the Public debt was $64,- 750,703.08 and in 1868 taking the calculation of the Secretary of the Treasury we owe $12,510,245,886.74.' 4 Now estimating our population,cx elusive of the vagabond negroes of the South at thirty million, we find that in 1860 for every one of our peo ple we owed $2,04 of debt., and in 1868., for every man, woman and child we owe $79.88. In 1860, every per son paid or customs sl",2—and in 1868 we paid in duties $5 61. In 1860 no person paid Internal Revenue, in 1868 there is a sato as sessed upon us equal to $ll 46 for each of our inhabitants. In MO the people paid from all sources revenue 14r head $2 .16, and now we paid for the year ending June Ist, ISN. $35 t)5 , The total :c penditures for, the year I mit). under flepiocra tic rule, for each pirt,szn was 12 Orm o rl in- I fOrT ounlor Itadioal principles of reform, we pay $34 77. The assessed value of taxable prop erty in Pennsylvania, in proportion to the number of inhabitants, being greater than the general average of the States, makes the share of the public debt in round numbers, FIVE HUNDRED MILLIoN not.t.Atts, or one hundred and twenty three dollars and twenty nine cents, for every man, woman nnd•child in the State. Centre County's share of the pub lic debt is $4,644,000, or more than ONE HUNDRED AND-Tillltl'Y DOLLARS, for every one of our pen I , pre, AND our .sktre•of the INTERKST thereon is more than TEN 11( Ari,A.R.S for each person And now do the figure:istartle you? We have taken them from the Audi— tor General's Report and from the re• port of theFieeretary of the Treasury- We have not tampered with them We present a correct view of the stu pandous bricti that presAcs you down that hangs as a heavy incubus upon you, that retards the prosperity of the country, anti threaten.; Sys will, entire ruin. Are willing to übmit for four years wore to this corruption and plunder. If not, vote for SEYNLYUR and BLAIR "VnitstEol•NT. " —Beautiful, Green Mountain, cheese eating, negro wor shining. "Varincount," held vi eke , Lion on the Ist inst and bondoeracy succeeded so t I.e tune of about 23.500 majority. This will be a big bottle for Radicalism to suck consolation from—an oasis in the desert of nig gerdotn—as showe9 in the drought of despotism—and a stink pot under the boil of Democracy. Crow Varmeount ers I crow ! You have succeeded ! You have shown to the world that you are willing to be slaves for bond holders—boot blacks for niggers, and lackeys fur thieves! Howl, ye long tongued leyalistm l you have carried the Green Mountain State by six thousandlLESS than you did for the sainted /Lincoln, in 'when you. gave him and Andy Johnson 29,098 of a majority. 'Sing rinkle tin tinkle.Okbobbv.horte Grant' No TAKeits.--='As yet we have had no word from Radicals, who are anx ious tdetake their money on the result of the election. The bets offered last seek remains untaken. The $14,500 still remains in the vaults of the Banking home of W F. REYNOIAB & Co., and "nary" a stamp from the "loll" purses of confident 'tads. to keep it company. It you think you can defeat SEYMOUR and BLAIR, with your bondholder's candidate, back up your belief with your stamps.—There is $14,500 waiting for you. A New DAILY. —Our good friends; - Wiu. and Joe W. ,Filter' elite Clinton Democrat, have starred a neat, spicy and spiriteddaily, in con nection with their weekly, in Lock 'Haven. Wo hope they will find the enterprise a paying one, and know that they have the ability and vim to give the denizens of the West Branch a daily equal to any -erty paper. Go in boys! May your purses be filled and your principles be'suecessful —The Democracy of Blair ootihty made a ten strike in nominatingez sheriff Funk' an their candidate for AmuseMbly. He will be• cleated as sure as iheol3th of October comes . around ; and he deserves to be. Make Them tell You ? When a Radical asks you to vote for Thant and Colfax, make him tell you how much benefit you or the country will derive from such a course, MAKE HIM TELL YOU why it is t i r in times of.,peace, the party he mks you to support keeps a ntand mg army that costs the tax pnyla of the country one hundred and fift3intil. lions of dollars per year: MAKE UN. TELL YOU what hasbecome of' tho millions upon mil lions of dollars that has been paid in to the public treasury since the intro duction of his party into power—that here is no account of now. MAKE RIM TELL YOU, why it 13 that with all the taxes and tariffs that ate wrung from the people annbally, the public debt is still increasing at the rate of ten millions of dollars per month. MAKE HIM TELL YOU why Ins party macs negro voters in all the States ofthe South, and then denies being in favor of negro suffrace,hera in the North MAKE HEM TELL YOU what justice there is in the !tidies! (It ctrine of tailtiore— which exempts the rich from all taxes and places them upon the shoulders or the poor MAKE ITEM TELL YOU hew it is that three years alter the war has ceased, that the Union for which we were told it was waged, is farther from being restored than it wa,at the ktegiuing- MAKE HIMTELL yorf why 1 1( . ' . bloated hondholders, wl.n rolikd the government and invested the money ho stole in tax-exempted hands, should receive Add for his interezt, while you aro compelled to take grrenharb for your work. MAKE lIIM TEI.J. YOU Why the laboring men at tine North should oil and sweat, day after day, to feed a lot of negroes and fatten a park of lou.y Bureau officials, who yearly taxe from the public treasury over FORTY millions of dollars. MAKE lIIM TELL YOU what good will asibe-froul, voting for Grant, how much it will lessen your tap 4— lower the prices of the necessai ie4 of 71f , and how soon it will restore the Union, and Inge out' govirinnem a gdvi‘rrinient of white men—establhii ed by white men for the benefit of whitia men. CIIANI7E. --We understand that a change is to be made the present treck in the name management and editor ,4 hip of the Centred Press, the Loud, holders organ of this County •fhe party, we believe, has purchased the eEtaldishinent and placed at its head as publishers, the Messrs and in • • editorial chair, W. IV se reputation is so good and *I . influence so great, that the part) 11l ployi rig hitu,intll not alh,w his limn toTarear in connection with it. The taper will appear as the Bellefonte National. Mr. KURTZ, the former editor and proprietor, with whom, personally, we have always got along pleasantly, has our best wishes foi‘ his future suc cess, and our congratulations on get ting rid of doing the dirty w(.1.1: of a party that has never a decent thing to do. firm, Bacrni. —The policy of the adieals in the witches caldron of hell-broth, into which the gho , ts of all the wierd sisters, strangled afore time by the l'untan fathers, Neon to have drotTped choir filthy and disgint ing ingredients. Around this kettle, kept at "boiling and bubbling" heat, the ring cf Radical leaders keep up an endless devil's dance, each one in turn, witch fashion, adding a little lore to the infernal compound' and all chanting in chorus their diabolical incantations. 'They may, like Mac- BEM, reach the kingly office by wa ding through a sea of blood , but no rower of the earth, or the air, or the pit can save them from ultimate and overwhelmning destruction In the mean time "may the Lord preserve us from witches and warlocks and long•nebbed things." —The illustration 4f "Equal Taxation," given by the "pro-tem pore" editor of the Ceara! Press last week, is a fair illustration of the "leareed,altprvey's" ability in finan ces; and 'the arguments adduced to meet Mr. Bush's propositionson that question, are as futile as the effort of a "Tumble• Bug" would be to roll his ball over an - eight inch curb stone. Tr.' -,ain Jack.. EZI3 —There le not a cotton their, not a disunionist, not a treasury plunder er t not a wetioh worspipper, not's Po litioal cut throat, not a "loil" coward, not a dirty, drunken advocate of mil itary law and high taxes, not a thiev ing,' sneaking, driviling pryer into other people's business, not a snails way carpet bagger, escaped convict, or gallove-deservinK wretch in the en tire country, but will vote for GRANT and CoL7A-x.
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