82.00 a Year, in Advance,
"Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 20, 1889.
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Ebprror.
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Democratic State Ticket.
FOR TREASURER,
EDMUND A. BIGLER,
fOF CLEARFIELD.
Democratic County Ticket.
For Associate Judge—THOS. F. RILEY.
For Prothonotary—L. A. SCHAEFFER.
For District Attorney—J. C. MEYER.
For County Survenor—GEO. D. JOHNSON.
For Coronor—Dr. JAMES W. NEFF.
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The Mismanagement of our County Af-
fairs and the Violated Pledges of
the Republican Commissioners.
We onlygwish that all the tax-payers
of Centre county could read the at-
tempted explanation of the manage
ment of the county finances, as given
by the organ of the Commissioners—
the Gazette—im its issue of last week.
If its failure to furnish a single fact or
figure in denial of the charges made
by this and other papers of the county,
of the almost criminal mismanage-
ment of county affairs by the present
Republican board of Commissioners,
would not convince them of the truth of
the charges, nothing else would. There
is nothing that so weakens a cause as
an effort to speak for it when nothing
can be said in its favor; and this is
just the position the organ finds itself
in when 1t attempts to cover up, ex-
plain, or justify the manner in which
the tax-payers’ interests are being cared
for by the county Commissioners.
Of over two columns of space occu-
pied in that paper for the purpose of
disproving the well known and gener-
ally believed facts, that the Commis
sioners have, during the past year and
a half, so mismanaged the business of
that office that they have used up the
surplus left by the Democratic board
and are now compelled to increase the
county taxes or show a county indebt-
edness in the next annual statement,
three fourths of that space is occupied
in personal abuse of the editor of the
Warcnmax, and the balance in fur-
nishing figures that prove exactly the
facts it would deny, and in misstate-
ments as to what it, the organ, has
heretofore shown.
As to the personalities and scarrility
of the Gazette's article, we have no
answer to make. It is like the skunk;
when it thinks it is making war it is
only stinking itself, and with its
stench sickening and disgusting the
community, more than itis injuring
the object it is squirting at. If the
editor of this paper had been arrested
a thousand times during the war, it
would neither explain nor excuse the
manner in which the organ’s bosses
are mismanaging the business of the
Commissioner's office; if he had per-
sonally abused every republican in the
county from the day he was able to
speak until the present hour, it would
not justify the misappropriation of the
people’s money, as is daily being done,
nor lessen the chances of increased
taxation of which we complain; if he
could be shown to bea score of “human
rattlesnakes,” in place of a single one,
as charged by the Gazette, it would
neither cover up the incompetency,
excuse the arrogance, or hide the no-
toriously inefficient and blundering
business ways of the twomen in whose
hands the republican bosses have
placed the management of our county
finances.
Last spring we charged thal the
county statement showed that $8,514,-
52 had been coilected the previous
year from the people of the county, as
State taxes; that but $5,716.52 had
been paid to che State, and that in 1.0
way, place or manner did that state-
ment show what became of the differ-
ence between those two amounts—s2,-
797-60. It was collected off the peo-
ple, it was not shown to have been
paid out, neither was it accounted for
as tmong the assets of the county.
WHAT BECAME OF IT, was then
and still is the question ‘the tax payers
would like to have answered? The
Gazette now pretends that it explained
itin one of its issues of March last?
In which one, pray? We have exam-
ined the files of that paper for the en-
tire month named, and now challenge
that organ of the Commissioners to
reproduce a single paragraph, line or
Sigure that it ever furnished, either
in March, April or any other month,
explanatory of this missing $2,797.60.
It is any easy matter for it to refer to
its own files, and if it can reproduce
any statement it ever made explaining
this matter we will cheerfully repub-
lish 1t for the information of the tax-
payers who are demanding to know
something about it. From the day the
charge was made that the sum named
wasuanaccounted for,the Commissioners
themselves and their organs have been
as quiet as the grave about it, and
mI
have left the tax-payers without any ! we are not mistaken not one of them Wanamaker Farnishes Himself With
knowledge as to where it went, for got even so much as a smell of the
what purposes it was used, or where it , flesh-pot which Beaver had in charge.
is to-day.
Can the organ reproduce its explan- | with
The same is turning out to be the case :
the veterans who expected big |
ation it now says it made? - Will it by | things from HagrisoN. They have |
its failure to do so admit that it is try- | fared very badly so far. In giving ont
ing to deceive the people, or will it try | the Deputy Collectorship the old veter- |
at this late day to explain that which | an MiLLer was overlooked, and Ep
it was unable to do when its attention | Cuamsers, who was born since the war
was first called to the fact?
became of that $2,797.60 ?,
We have charged that,notwithstand-
|
|
i
What and upon no occasion was known to
have fought, bled and died in the ser-
vice of his country, was quietly slip-
ped into the snug berth which ought
ing the republican promise to run the to have been filled by a battle-scarred
county affairs on a two mill tax-levy,
through the ignorance and incom-
petence of the men who had charge of
that office they would be unable to
meet the ordinary expenditures of the
county without either increasing the
tax-levy to three mills or the tax valua-
tion of the county. In proof of this
we need only point to last years man-
agement, when, as shown by their own
statement, without expending anything
for bridges, or repairs to public build-
ings or grounds, it took the entire amount
raised by a 2} mill tar, and a goodly
portion of the surplus left in the county
Treasury by the Democratic board,
to foot the bills they ran up. We
charged further, that to keep from run-
ning in debt this year, and to avoid an
increase of the tax rate, the Com mis-
sioners had deliberately determined to
cover up their increased expenditures
by forcing an increased valuation of
taxable property. This is proved by
the Gazettes’ own figures, which gives
the total valuation of 1886 at $10,092,-
626, and of 1889 at $10,408,454, mak-
ing an increase in the taxable property
of the county of $305,828, and in this
Way AN INCREASE OF TAXES, DRAWN
FROM THE PEOPLE, of $6,268. In this
assessed valuation, farms that have de-
creased in actual value fully twenty
per cent. in the past three years, are
forced up to the full value they were
placed at when selling from twenty to
thirty dollars per acre more than they
would bring to-day, and additional
valuations added to personal and other
property to kring the sum total up to
the figures given above.
And this is the fulfillment of the
pledge given the people that their coun-
ty taxes would be reduced, if the re-
publican party was entrusted with the
management of the county finances.
Do you doubt that such a pledge
was given? We copy from the Ga-
zette of June 3, 1887, just what it was,
and what Mr. HexpersoN and his
party publicly promised. Here it is :
“We are authorized by Commission-
“er Henderson to state ‘that he agrees
“to the tollowing : If given complete
“control of the county affairs he will
“take taxes realized on 2 mills, for
“which he voted, in addition to the
“surplus cash on hand and immediate-
“ly available, as well as the judgments
“and claims against several townships
“in the hands of the Commissioners at
“this time ; with all these he will ad-
“minister the financial affairs of the
“county, pay*all claims due, build all
“bridges, make all repairs to county
“property in general, and leave a cash
“balance of respectable amount in the
“county Treasury when the year is
“done and the bills paid. For the
“iaithful performance of all these obii-
“gations, Mr. HeNDERsON agrees to
“furnish good bonds in the sum of
“320.000, or almost any amount need-
iad.”
And how has he and his republican
backers tulfilled that pledge? Will
the Commissioners’ organ from which
we copy it, answer? If it will not, the
county buildings and grounds, running
down and out of repair, without either
attention or expenditure, will. The
county bridges, one half of them im-
passible, the balance rusting out for
want of paint and care, will tell, or the
now vanished Democratic surplus that
was in the county Treasury when
“compl te control” was given the
present republican Commissioners, will
witness. If these are not sufficient, an
accumulating debt, with an increase of
taxation amounting to $6,268 for the
present vear, certainly will.
Summing all up, we have for the
pledges above given, the following :
Every bit of public property in the
county running down and uncared for.
$2,797.60 of the people's money lost,
squandered, embezzled, or unaccounted
for in the first year.
And the certainty of an unlimited
debt or a four mill tax for years to
come,
How do you li ‘e it, tax-payers ?
A ————
-—The old soldiers of Centre coun-
ty are going to fare about as well un-
der the Harrison administration as
they have under that of Beaver.
-
It is:
remembered that when the latter was
a candidate for Governor the veterans
were led to expect great things in the
way of official reward for supporting
him. Every one of them in the coun-
ty was promised an office, and it was
expected that there would be a general
migration of old soldiers from Centre
county to Harrisburg to take posses-
sion of the nice fat places which the
Governor was going to give them. If
| took a seat in
hero, if there is anything more than
empty wind in Republican professions.
Industrial matters appear to be
badly mixed out in Jefferson county-
The workers in the bituminous coal
mines out there, who are not grateful
for the benefits which a protective tariff
has showered upon them, have struck
and raised adisturbance at the mines of
the Rochester, Buffalo and Pittsburg coal
and iron company. Two hundred men,
brought on to protect the company’s
property, disbanded and left when they
discovered that they were to be used in
antagonizing the strikers. Four hun-
dred negroes from West Virginia were
then expected to appear upon the scene
ang, taking up the shovel and the pick,
illustrate how the relics of southerr
slavery could be utilized as a substitute
for the white slaves who had grown
discontented with the rewards of their
“protected” labor,
We have received the first copies
of the National Democrat, a journal
published in Washington, D. C., for the
advocacy of Democratic principles and
the promotion of the success of the
Democratic party. Its editor and pub-
lisher is Epmuxp Hupsox, a gentleman
whose experience and ability well quali-
fy him for the work he has undertaken.
Its editorials are ably written and its se-
lections coverthe wide field of polities in
a way that is designed to impart reli-
able information and correct political
ideas to its readers. A publication of
this kind has long been needed at the
national capital and we trust that it
will receive such patronage from the
party as will make it a success both in
the effect it shall produce and the
profit it shall afford its publisher.
Price, $1.50 a year.
—=—Both Fremixe and Gray, who
have, since they were old enough to
vote, put in their entire time during poli-
tical campaigns abusing Democrats, are
now around begging the votes of those
whom they have denounced in the bit-
terest way. Neither one ofthese beauties
ever thought of voting for a Democrat,
no matter how small the office he was
running for, and if any one had asked
either of them to do so, he would have
been insulted by the reply given. If
there are any two republicans in the
county who have always been more
abusive bigoted and bitter toward
Damocrats then the mass of their
party, their names are W. I. Frew
NG and W. E. Grav.
rent ———
Prom:isirion County CoNVENTION
AND Nomivarions.—The following
candidates were nominated by the
Prohibitionists at their county conven-
tion in the Court House in this place
on Thursday :
Associate Judge, W. P. Fisher, of
Union township.
District Attorney, H.
berger, of Bellefonte,
Prothonotary, G.
Philispsburg-
Cororer, W. L. Biglow, of Philips-
burg.
County Serveyor, S. J. Dale, of Ben-
ner township.
—
After Campaign Funds,
H. Harsh-
W. Ganoe, of
—— |
The plan which has been adopted by |
the National Republicans Committee for
raising of campaign funds, shows that
the committee is giving its early atten-
tion to the raising of funds for inter-
mediate elections as well as for national | ty and keeping the Prohibitionists in the |
campaigns. Itis held forth as a means
of avoiding the quadrennial appeal for
money which has of late years been a
leading feature of the national canvass;
but it is likely, nevertheless, that when
More Room.
In speaking of the gentleman at the
Lead of the Post Office Department, a
Washington correspondent says;
Postmaster General Wanamuker is an
untiring official. In fact, it may truth-
fully be said that he has inaugurated
more reforms since the advent of the
| Administration than all the other Cabi-
net officers combined, with the exception,
| perhaps, of Corporal Tanner, but then
the generous Pension Commissioner is
not a Cabinetudviser. President Harri-
son’s Postmaster General is a man of
many ideas, especially business ideas,
and, as thisis a business Administration,
| it would appear that Hon. John Wana-
| maker fits in to his present, position like
a square plug into a square hole. Presi-
dent Harrison's Postmaster General has
learned a thing or two since the Fourth
of March. He has learned how to pose
before the people as the great economist
of the Administration, and he a showing
the cauntry how a Department of the
Government can be conducted on busi-
ness principles, the same as govern a
mammoth dry good store or iron
foundry. In all large establishments the
head of the firm enjoys a private office—
a sanctum, as it were. This rule also
applies to the Departments. The Secre-
taries have a private room, wherein they
are free from intrusion.
Now, at the Postoffic Department, the
‘Wanamaker, but his predecessors—tor
years past has occupied three rooms on
room, the Postmaster General's room
proper, and a private room attached.
These three rooms have been sufficient
for the transaction of all business that
came before the Postmaster General.
And the three rooms in question met the
requirements of President Harrison's
Postmaster General until about three
weeks ago, when it suddenly dawned
on Mr. Wanaamaker’s busy mind that
he was cramped for space. The Post-
master: General, like Corporal Tanner,
does not stand on the under of his doing,
but he proceeds to do in one, two, three
there. And in this instance, Ion.
John Wanamaker proceeded to obtain
more space. He walked up and down
the corridors of his Department, and on
the third floor, southeast corner of the
building, he discovered Mr. Patrick
Cunningham, chief of the collecting di-
vision, and a number of clerks busily at
work in Rooms 1 and 2. These rooms
are very pleasant, in tact, the most plea-
sant reoms in the Post Office Depart-
ment. President Harrison's Postmaster
General was charmed. Here was what
he longed for; they would make an
ideal private office. ~ Mr. Cunningham
was ordered to, move into Room 3, and
a part of his force of clerks were scatter-
ed around into different rooms.
Hon. John Wanamaker then gave
instructions to have the rooms put in
shape, as they were to be used for his
strictly private office. Workmen have
transformed the aforespid rooms into as
The floors are covered with soft. rich
the ceiling has been touched up by the
painter’s brush, while the most expen-
tically arranged round the rooms. A
arge handsome desk is situated in the
middle of Room 1, and on the mantle is
a sweet toned cathedral striking clock,
Room No. 2s not so large as No. 1, and
is used for the toilet. A massive station-
ary washstand, almost large enough to
permit of a complete ablution of the bo-
dy, occupies part of the room. Near the
window is a small writing desk. In
short the appointments of Room No. 2
annot be excelled.
Considering the expense and time con-
sumed in putting the rooms in order 1t is
commented on as rather singular that a
private combination bath-tub was not
putin. The rooms, dubbed the brida 1
chamber by the clerks on that floor,
eral’s pleasure the past week. I Lear
that he intends to transact his strictly
private business in the above rooms, and
attends the door of the regular room on
the second floor is to inform visitors,
Congressmen included, that the Post-
master General is not in the department.
Of course no one will begrudge Hon.
John Wanamaker the additional room.
be cramped for working space by being
his fellow Cabinet officers what a busi-
ness man can do in finding suitable
quarters to transact private affairs. Just
think of the opportunity Hon. Don 2M.
Dickinson missed |
A Tale of Deception.
Washington Sentinel.
Warner Miller confesses that he rn
for Governor of New York last year for
the purpose of heading off the third par-
Republican column. Clarkson bribed
the foreman of Te Voice to betray that
paper's mailing list. and now a person
named Foster has been appointed general
agent of the Department of Jstice be-
the next national campaign arrives, there | cause his wife, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, a
will be the same call on those who are
interested in the résult to come down
with the cash. The Democratic organs
will, of course, discover anjaroma of boo-
dle in the scheme. That suspicion will be
justified or not in proportion to the
amount of money raised and the way in
which it is spent. Its development p r-
mits the expression of the hope that the
time will come when principles will be
of more importance in our politics than
money.
vam e———
How a Wicked Bird Felt,
Philadelphia Record.
A refined and modest-looking Miss,
loaded down with bundles, emerged from
the Broad Street Station, and w arily
the corner of a Market
street car yesterday. The car had hard-
ly started when the other riders were
startled by a voice from the corner oc-
cupied by the quiet-looking Miss. «I
just feel like h—1," it said. = Amid her
confusion the young lady succeeded in
clearing up matters and relieving her-
self of a terrible suspicion by tearing
the wrapper from one of the bundles and
displaying a parrot in a cage.
leaderamong the Prohibitionists, devoted
herself to betraying heravowed party in
to the hands of her real party, the Repub-
licans. The Republican party wot the
votes of the Prohibitionists last fall, and
| then turned around lust spring and buried
| the prohibitory amendments out of sicht
lin Pennsvlvania and Massachusetts
[ But Mrs. Foster is smarter than Warner
| Maller; she has secured her pay. By
the way, has Mr Louis Schade, who
| meanly attacks Mrs. Cleveland because
President Cleveland did not give him an
loffice, any authotity from the Harrison
funily for the following statement: «We
wie Guite sure that at diplomatic dinners
no such effect-hunting orders as were
given by Mrs. Cleveland, to remove all
wine glasses from her cover, will be given
by that truly refived lady, Mrs. Harrison,
nor du we believe that she will receive
presents and compliments from Prohibi-
tionists as ber fair predecessor received
so fresuently. Mps. Harrison will not
forget her high position so far as to dilly-
dally with polities and allow herself to
he used for petty political demonstra-
tions. Our compliments to that true and
refined lady now presiding at the White
House.”
Postmaster Gereral—not Hon. John |
the second floor; a reception, or ante- |
ashion, and he doesn’t stop till he gets |
fine an office as can be found anywhere |
Axminster; crushed strawberry heavy |
overlace curta'ns adorn the windows ;
sive leathered-covered furniture is artis- !
relieved by various small ornaments. |
have been waiting the Postmaster Gen- |
when he’s up there the messenger who |
While his predecessors were contented to
confined in three measly rooms, he shows |
Snort, Harrison and Wanamaker.
Snort Writes a Letter Giving an Ae-
count of the Business Operations of
the New Firm.
Texas Siftings
My Dear JoHNNY: As I wrote
you in a previous letter, since I have
adopted Lige Halford’s plan of making
both ends meet, I have been salting
dawn money every week. When any
body performs any personal service for
us members of the Administration, we
do not pay him in actual cash out of
our own pockets. Not a bit of it. We
simply go to the President and have
the aforesaid creditor appointed to a
lucrative office and that cancels the
debt.
But now, Johnny, we have struck a
new scheme that will cause our cheeks
to stick out with fatness. It will work
like a charm. I will explain it to you.
You must know, Johnny, that in’ the
various Departments there are thousands
ard thousands of clerks and clerkesses.
It has heretofore been the rule that
peddlers, distributors of circulars and
catchpenny advetisements should not be
allowed to invade the Department
buildings. The ostensible reason for
this exclusion was that Government
employees would be hindered in their
work. This was a flimsy excuse for
keeping the. peddlers out. There are
only comparatively few of the clerks
{ and clerkesses that work. If a barrel
of cider was appointed to a clerkship, it
would stop working right off. There is
a good deal of flirting going on, but
that’s not work. At least, it is not very
hard work, so T am told by some of the
| Senators and one of the Members from
Texas.
At any rate, all distributors of adver-
| tising circulars have been kept out. If
| one of tried to get in, a janitor would
rush at him with uplifted hoof and
| kick him until the foot-note sounded
| like the patter of a mule’s hind legs on
| the ribs of a hired man.
| "Ie occured to Wanamaker that this
arrangement might be changed to his
own personal advantage. Wanny has
| a great head for business. Yesterday I
|
happened to go into the Treasury De-
partment to see a beautiful clerkess who
{is paying me some few attentions.
| When I entered the building, the door-
| keeper shoved an illustrated circular in-
[to my astonished hand. Every door-
| keeper and watchman in the building
{had a wad of these circulars, and before
I'T got out of the sacred edifice I had a
i dozen copies
L did not have time to examine them
(until I got back to the office of Snort’
{ Harrison Vindicator, in the ‘White
| House. TI discovered then, that 1t was
! the advertisement of a ‘Washington bus-
| iness college. How did the author of
| this circular manage to evade the rules?
[On the front page was a picture of
| Wanamaker himself, ‘with a cast-iron
smile on his face, such as we see in pic-
| tures of martyred saints. - Opening the
circular, I read : “Worship the Lord
in the beauty of holiness and one of
Wanamaker's $17 suits. Men’s lawn-
{ tennis shirts, only 59 cents. Men's fan-
cy blazers, $2.48. Men's fancy hose,14
cents, ete. Clothe thyself in the gar-
ments of righteousnesss. See Wana-
maker’ adv.”
I caught on at once to what Wanny
really meant when le told me, confi-
dentially, the other day that his method
. and policy generally were beginning to
crystalli e, as the machinery of his De-
partment was working more smoothly.
In another place in the circular, un-
der the headine of “Golden Words,”
the Post-master General is referred to as
a mechant prince, and there is a rebus
on the art of finding money in the pock-
et of every man who wears a pair of
Wanamaker’s three and a half dollar
| pants.
I After looking over this circular care-
fully, 1t occurred to me that the Wana-
! maker idea might be worked on a big
"scale to the great advantage of this re-
form Administration in general and
Bill Snort in particular,
My idea is that Snort, Harrison. and
Wanamaker be photographed together
in a group, with me in the middle, as
the bright sun around which they re-
volve. This photograph, under the
| great seal of the United States, will be
used to advance the sale of any article
that the thousand of Department clerks
may or may not want. The following
business letter tou New York chewing-
gum firm will give vou an idea of how
we are going to work this little scheme:
“Wiairre House, I. C., Aug. 22, 1889.
“My Dear Sik: As you are well
aware, your brand of chewing gum has
only a limited circulation in Washing-
ton. 1 propose the following arrange-
ment, by which we can be mutually
benefitted :
‘ We, that is, Snort, Harrison and
- Wanamaker, will furnish vou with
wrappers for each chunk of gum. On
these wrappers will be the portraits of
Snort, Harrison and Wanamaker, to-
gether with some such little printed
g ms of thought as.
‘t ‘Colonel Snort, of Texas, is uniyer-
sally conceded to bs the handsomest
man in Washington.’
“ ‘Pants bought at Wanamaker's
bazaar never bag at the knees. Hold
fast unto that which is cood—St. John’s
Epistle to tha Philadelphians.’
‘ ‘President Harrison, the peer of
Washington, uses our gum exclusively.
Studio Lige and Russ.’
“All the janitors and doorkeepers in
the department buildings, not to speak
of numberless other Federal officials,
owing to a pressure I will bring to bear
on them, Will sell your gum exclusive-
ly, without commission, to the em-
plovees. You could also print on the
wrappers: {To be had on applying to
all Federal officials, doorkeepers, jani-
tors, et al?
eign countries would be instructed to
push your gum all overthe known world
as a part of their official duty.
“The prevailing rule in the Depart-
ment building forbidding the chewing
of gum during office hours would be re-
scinded, and the employees will under-
stand that if they are found without
your gum in their mouths they will be
fired out and their places given ‘to those
whese hearts are in the good work of
booming our reform administration.
“The result will be that thousands of
pounds of your chewing gum will he
sold in Washington. Like the praises
of the present administration, it will be
in everybody’s mouth. You will be-
i Pennsylvania,
come suddenly rich. Now, the ques-
tion is, what is your chewing gum com-
pany going to do for Snort, Harrison
and Wanamaker in return for these
privileges ?
“We are willing to accept a round
sum annually for these facilities, but it
will have to contain five figures, How
does a check for $20,000 strike you,
witha liberal contribution to the elec.
tion expenses in 1892 ?
“Or, we will accept a moderate roval.
ty on each package of gum.’ Or,” ye
will accept shares of stock in your firm
and you ean rely on our not being dead-
heads in this scheme.
“Please reply at once, as TI have al-
ready been approached by a rival chey-
ing gum firm.
“SNORT, HARRISON & WANAMAKER.
“(Per BILL SNoRT.)” ’
So you see, Johnny, if this scheme
works, I'll have money enough to go
out West to one of the new States and
get myself elected Senator.
There is no telling what amount of
business we may notdo. I am already
negotiating with a cigar firm to supply
the Department clerks with cigars,
Some of them may not care to smoke,
but if they don’t learn they will not be
in their places very long. The clerks
have been taught to take a hint. If
the cigar firm comes down handsomely
there will be so much smoking that
strangers in Washington will think the
town is on fire,
The name of the brand of cigars will
be La Reforma. They will really be
worth about a cent a piece, but the De.
partment clerks will get only two for a
quarter. The photograph of ‘the firm of
Snort, Harrison & Wanamaker, highly
colored, will be on the box. Henry
Clay has got his mug on cigar boxes,
hence why should not the intellectual
faces of living statesmen be similarly
perpetuated ?
1 don’t see any reason why this plan
of raising the wind should not be ex-
tended to cvery article that clerks and
clerkesses use. © We might make an ar-
rangement with some local bakery that
pies, properly stamped with Bill Snort’s
features and the Lone Star of Texas, be
furnished the employees for a mild con-
sideration, no other pie maker being al-
lowed to have access to the buildings.
The ginger snaps and soda crackers
might be richly embossed with the pro-
file of the President.
Yousee, Johnny, that this scheme is
in its infancy as yet, but when the
members of the firm of Snort, Harri-
son & Wanamaker put their heads to-
gether and develope it more thoroughly
at least nine-tenths of the salaries of
the Government employees ought to
goyinto the pockets of the new firm
and the contractors who furnish the
chewing gum, pies, ete. Your friend,
Birr Sxorr.
A Lunatic’s Inside Veiw of Pennsylva-
nia Politics.
We give the following, communicated
to the New York Sun, as a specimen of
the rot which is passed off’ as sagacious
political foresight and made to do duty
in inflating small politicians into great
public characters, ~ If nothing else, it is
certainly a curiosity :
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 15.—The re-
cent declaration of Mayor Fitler of Phil-
adelphia in favor of Gen. Daniel H.
Hastings for Governor of Pennsylvania
next year may have a most important
influence upon the Presidential cam-
paign of 1892. Gen. Hastings will be
best remembered as the eloquent Penn-
sylvanian who placed Senator Sherman
in nomination at the Chicaco Conven-
tion last year.
Until Mayor Fitlers’s declaration for
Gen. Hastings, Senator Delamater, as
Senator Quay’s candidate, held the field
against all comers, and the nomination
of Senator Quay’s man seemed so well
assured that ex-Congressman William
L. Seott, Editor Singerly ot the Phila-
delphia Record, Editor Meyers of the
Harrisburg" Patriot, and ex-Attorney-
Gen ral Cassidy had about concluded to
set the pins up for the nomination of ex-
Gov. Robert E. Pattison, who defoated
Gen. Beaver by 40,000 majority in 1882.
Ex-Gov. Pattison would doubtless poll
many thousand more votes for Governor
than any other Democrat in Pennsylva-
nia, and with Chris Magee, the Repub.
lican leader of Pittsburgh; James Me-
Manes of Philadelphia, together with
some other disaffected county leaders, all
combining to defeat Quay’s candidate,
Senator Delamater, the chances of Pat-
tison’s election would be as 60 to 40, es-
pecially as the Prohibitionists, while
shouting for their nominee, would gen-
erally vote for Pattison.
‘With the election of Pattison, Messrs,
Singerly, Scott, Cassidy & Co., would
say: “You held that Pattison’s elec-
tion in 1882 v asan accident. He runs
again, afterthe four vears’ constitutional
interregnum, and not only overturns
the 80,000 Republican majority, but adds
30,000 majority to the Democratic col-
umn. It was not an accident this time;
it was the will of the people deliberately
expressed, and it stamps Robert E. Pat-
tison as a most available candidate for
President three years hence.”
It Mayor Fitler’s candidate, Gen.
Hastings, should secure the Republican
nomination, Gov. Pattison would not
i run against him, as Hastings is by all
odds the most popular Republican in
and ordinarily would
sweep the State by 60,000 majority.
In the event of Hastines’s nomina-
| tion, ex-Sanator William A. Wallace
would have only one competitor for the
Democratic nomination, Ex-Lieut.-Gov.,
* Chauncey F. Black, son of Judge Black;
rand if by any political cyclone Hastings
i should be snowed under, the successful
American consuls in” fop-
Democratic candidate would beconse a
formidable candidate for President.
One of the most surprising things in
American polities is the fact that what
is known as the Philadelphia traction
syndicate, composed mainly of William
H. Kemble, Peter A. B. Widener, and
William L. Elkins, all three claiming
to be Republicans, is earnestly for Cleve
land’s nomination.
Widener and Elkins have a grievance
agninst President Harrison, They claim
that the traction syndicate contributed
$40,000 toward Harrison's election ; that
they asked for one appointment only at
his hands; that it was denied them. and
they find that if they want political fa-
vors they must go to Demeccirats for
them.
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