BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—HeNDERsON's light estimate of
the value of an oath may have been
brought about by his swearing so much,
Itis a well known fact that familiarity
begets contempt
--When such usually reliable Reput-
lican voters as the Virginia Quakers de-
clare against MamnoNE it must be con-
fessed that the cause of the little rebel is
in a shaky condition.
—A fellow with two mouths is on ex-
hibition at a Philadelphia dime museum.
Although better provided in this re-
spect than ForRAKER, we doubt whether
he can do as much blowing.
—~Considering the quality of the wa-
ter, the Philadelphia milk dealer who
was fined fifty dollars for watering his
milk must be regarded as having got off
with a very light punishment.
—Another unsuccessful attempt to
blow up the Czar of Russia with dyna-
mite is reported. These demonstrations
don’t appear to diminish that potentate’s
chance of reaching a good old age.
—T'here isn’t much of a Republican
party in Berks county, but what there is
of it has managed to split itself in two
by a factional fight. The apple of dis-
cord is prominent in what would other-
wise be a fruitless contest:
—Sunday can hardly be considered
the correct day for holding an election,
but the French voters did so well at the
polls last Sunday that they seem to have
verified the old maxim of “the better
the day the better the deed.”
—The New York Sun is begging the
millicnaires of the metropolis to put up
$5000 apiece towards a fund of a
million dollars for the Columbus expo-
sition. The close fisted meanness of the
plutocrats of the great city doesn’t de-
serve the Fair.
—The New Yorkers have at last fixed
upon the site where the Columbus ex-
position shall be located, but the rich
men of the city are not reaching down
into their pockets with the air of men
who are determined to back the scheme
with their money.
-—The Chairman of the Republican
National Committee has devised a $10
bond as a means of raising a permanent
corruption fund for campaign use, and
he hashad the gall to embellish this evi-
dence of corrupt politics with a likeness
of honest OLD ABE.
—In getting a successor to TANNER
the Republican managers don’t consider
it of as much importance to select an
incumbent who will perform his trust to
the best interest of the people as to get
one whose appointment will be satisfac-
tory to the Grand Army of the Repub-
Yio.
—Chicago is usually regarded as a
fast town, but its characteristic rapidity
is not displayed in getting a jury for the
trial of the CRroNIN suspects. Weeks
were consumed in securing four who
were possessed of that degree of ignor-
ance which the law seems to require of
jurors in murder trials.
—The Commissioners of Pennsylvania
held a State Convention in Allentown
this week. Centre county's representa-
tives could impars to their official breth-
ren some brilliant financial ideas. Their
plan of reducing taxation by increasing
the valuation of taxable property, would
be calculated to produce a sensation in |
any assemblage of financiers.
—Ex-President CLEVELAND'S new
aphorism that “Party honesty is party
expediency,” is as obnoxious to Repub-
lican sentiment as his celebrated decla-
ration that “Public office is a public
trust.” Itis natural that such doctrines
should excite the contempt of a party |
that regards public office as merely the
avenue that leads to public plunder.
—Rev BARBOUR, a Baptist clergyman
of Chicago, startled his congregation the
other day by declaring his disbeliet in |
the existence of the devil, but his church
members dissented from this view with
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. —
YOY. 3
A Comparison That is Interesting to
the Voters.
The people will be interested at _ this
time in a comparison between thie man
to whom the Democrats would com-
mit the care of the State money and
the one who has been selected for the
Republicans as their candidate for
State Treasurer. Epmuxp A. BiGLER
is a gentleman whose personal charac-
ter is of the most unexceptionable or-
der. His whole life has been one of
the strictest personal integrity ; the po-
litical traditions with which his name
is connected are associated with honest
public service, and he is in no way con-
nected with cliques that have made the
State treasury the means of private ac
cumulation.
How does his opponent, Mr. Boyer,
compare with him in these respects?
Against the personal character of the
latter gentleman nothing can be said,
but his candidacy stands for all the bad
methods which for years have been
employed in the management of the
treasury and the general government of
the State. He is peculiarly Boss
Quay’s man. This was so distinctly
understood before the nomination that
of the numerous obsequious henchmen
of the Boss, who are never known to
decline the chance for an office that has
profitable stealing connected with it,
not one of them thought it worth while
to be a candidate when they knew that
the Boss had arranged for the treasury
goose to be plucked by young Bover
in the interest of the ring that has so
long flourished on pickings derived
from that source. Quay's convention
was duly instructed that he wanted that
place for Boyer, and, with its accus-
tomed obedience, gave him a unani-
mous nomination.
The young man fs emphatically
Quay’s candidate and if elected would
unquestionably be his servant, and
everybody knows what that would
mean in treasury management. Surely
the Boss has not such a reputation
that it could be expected that the sub-
jection of the State funds to his control
would be to the interest of the people.
His 1ecent relations with
“addition, division and silence,” have
sufficiently indicated his unreliability
as a manager of public moneys. In
this question the Boss is to be regarded
as the chief factor. By no construction
that can be put upon his candidacy can
Boyer be considered ayything more
than the tool of one who has selected
him for use.
A comparison between the two can-
didates for State Treasurer and the cir-
cumstances connected with their can-
didacy, is certainly of great interest to
the voters.
Change the Time.
A dispatch to an Altoona paper in
regard to the Grangers’ pic-nic at Cen-
tre Hall last week, called it a signal
failure in every respect. This was too
sweeping an assertion. The fact that it
said that twenty thousand people were
in attendance relieved the pic-nic of the
imputation of having been a failure.
In point of numbers in attandance it
was a great success, and the only re-
spect in which it failed was that of
the weather. This should teach a les-
son to those who may have charge of
its future manazement.
Make the pic-nics something that
will afford pleasure to those in attend-
a unanimity that must have been grat-
ifying to his Satanic Majesty, who, it
may be believed. is averse to having the |
impression created that he isn't doing |
business at the old stand.
—Secretary Tracy's determination to
ance. Nothing could be more con-
ducive to that object than to hold them
in pleasant weather, when it will be a
delight to sojourn under tents and to be
in the open air. There is a time inthe
late summer when this can be assured,
hereafter build the war ships in the |
government navy yards is in line with |
the Rebesonian policy which made a |
navy yard and a gold mine convertible |
Besides furnishing pickings for
the politicians, a navy yard can be made
useful as a snug-harbor for party work- |
ers, two considerations which have their |
influence in inducing this administration
toswork them to their full capacity.
terms,
= Victor E. Prouerr may be enti- |
tled to the questionable distinction of an-
tagopizing the comuion sense of his par-
ty on the subject of tariff reform, but the
Philadelphia Press credits him with too
much when it that he was the
Democratic candidate for Litutenant |
Govirnor when Judge
the nominee for Governor.
sayvs
PERSHING was
There was
no Lieutenat Governor elected that year,
a fact which a political authority, like
the Press ought to be acquainted with.
Land it would
1
'mannge these granger gatherings to
but it is not at the time of the autumnal
equinox which for the last two years
has been selected for the Grangers’ pic
I nicks with very unpleasant results to
those who attended them. People can’t
be comfortable in tents when their teeth
are chattering, and cold rains ar: not
{conducive to the comforty of a crowd.
Such a condition of affairs is less Iikely
to exist in August than in September,
be well for those who
bear this in mind.
That the location is admirably suited
for the collection of a great crowd has
been fully shown under the most ad-
[verse circumstances in regard to weath-
"er, To make them brilliantly successful
rin every
respect, better judgment
should be exercised in holding them at
a time when the weather ismore likely
to be favorable.
BELLEFONTE, PA
Jin KevpLe |
and his entire accord with the policy of |
In a Bad Humor.
. SEPTEMBER 27, 1889.
NO. 38.
A Change of Production Needed.
Both the wage-earuer and the farmer | The extent to which the farmers of
will not have reason to be in a good { Juniata county have gone into the pro-
humor when they exercise the right of | duction of peaches is attracting atten-
suffrage in Pennsylvania this year. | tion, this new industry being calculated
They will have cause to remember a to effecta great change in the character
good many pledges that were made | of the agricultural operations of that
them a year ago by the politicians who | region.
This departure from the old
secured a majority of their votes, which | rut of raising cereals commenced, with-
pledges have since been disregarded: |
|
Steady employment and better wages |
were promised the workingmen as a
sure consequence of the election of a
Republican President, and the farmers
were to be benefited by the mainte
nance of the war tariff. It was also
threatened that if CLEVELAND were
elected there would be a general col-
lapse of all kinds of business interests
which it was said were kept from going
to ruin only by the prospect that Har-
RISON’s election would rescue everything
from a general and eternal smash up.
The wage-earners, the farmers and
all others who were affected by such
representations have since had an op-
portunity of seeing how they were
humbugged. Work is scarcer, wages
are lower and times are harder than
they were at any time during CLEVE-
LAND'S term, and the time and atten-
tion of those in power are taken up en-
tirely with dividing the offices among
the spoilstnen, apportioning the surplus
among the pension claimants and
shaping the governmental policy in the
interests of the plutocrats who furnished
the money toelectthe Republican Presi-
dent.
When the working people turn their
attention from the broken promises in
regard to national measures, and direct
it to the State Legislature, they find
that in every instance in which they
asked favorsin that quarter they were
denied them by the party that had con-
trol of legislative action. Not a single
one of the many measures introduced
to protect the rights and promote the
wellfare of wage-earners met with the
slightest favor in thetwo sessions over
whieh Speaker Boyer, who is now the
Republican candidate for State Treasur-
er, presided. Laws were asked for to
suppress the extortionate pluck-me
store system,also for the enforcement of
semi-monthly payment of wages, and
for other legal defences that would pre-
vent the employee from being so entire-
ly at the mercy of the employer, but in
no instance were such reasonable de-
mands complied with, most of these
bills having been stranghed by the com-
mittees of Mr. Boyer’s creation, while
others were defeated outright when they
came to the test of a vote. It was a
pitiful exhibition of the Legislature of
a great commonwealth being used as
an instrument for the suppression of
the rights of the laboring population
that constitute the bone and sinew of
the State.
Nor were the farmers treated any bet-
ter in the defeat of the tax bills that
were offered forthe purpose of relieving
them of a tax burden which should be
more equally shared by the corporations,
Efforts were made in both sessions
over which Bover presided for a more
just equalization of taxes in the inter-
est of the farmers, but failed in both in-
stances,
Such systemetically bad treatment
has had the effect of putting the farm-
ers and the wagt-earners in an ill hu-
mor which will have its influence when
they come to cast their ballots at the
next election.
A ——————
The Reason Why.
It was not so very long ago that the
Philadelphia Press took a correct view
of M. S. Quay’s character as a public
man and a politician. When Quay
wag implicated in the Kemble bribery
case, a villainy that involved the cor-
ruption of the legislarive power of the
State, the Press more than intimated
that he ought to get his punishment in
the penitentiary. And when in 1885
this same Quay was a candidate forthe
Republican nomination for State Treas-
urer, this same Press declared that the
party would be dishonored and dis-
graced by such a nomination which
would clearly be in the interest of the
treasury ring. Why the organ should
have objected to Quay’s having control
of the State money at that time, but |
now favors Quay's man Boyer’s hand- |
ling the cash, can be accounted for on-
ly by the reason that an organ must al-
ways obey the command of the Boss.
Quay is now a good deal bigger Boss
than he was in 1885.
in the last ten years and the number of
peach trees that have been planted run
into the hundreds of thousands. The
fruit produced is of excellent quality,
the claim being made for it that it
stands at the head of the market.
This season it has been shipped in all
directions by the car loads, and there
can be no doubt that the Juniata peach
raisers are making far more money than
they could realize from the production
of grain.
There may exist favorable conditions in
the region in question that tend to make
the peach business successful, but there
can scarcely be a doubt that it would be
to the advantage of farmers in other
sections if they, like the Juniata peach
raisers, should strike out into a new
line. Would not the farmers of Centre
county be benefited by a greater diversi-
ty of productions? They are not mak-
ing as much as they should in raising
grain, and they might profit from the
example set by their Juniata brethren.
At all events it wouldn't hurt them any
to get out of the old rat, whether it be
by the raising of fruit, or some other
divergence from the routine which in
this region interferes with the profits of
farming.
SPRECKELS, the great sugar manufac-
turer, who proposes to go into the
manufacture of beet sugar, has made
an offer to the farmers of Berks county
to take the beets they may raise at a
price that will be much more profitable
to them than ordinary farm produce.
Beets, to produce sugar, require a soil
of which lime is the basis, 1t being
SeRECRREL'S opinion that Berks coutity
land would in that respect be very
suitable. Centre country land possesses
the same quality, and if the Berks
county sugar enterprise should prove a
success the same conditions would
make a similar enterprise successful in
this limestone region.
Boyer’s Dislike for Investigation.
. At the last session of the Legislature,
when Mr. WaERRY and other Demo-
cratic members moved for an investiga
tion of the management of the State
treasury and the use to which the mon-
ey of the sinking fund was being ap-
plied by its Republican custodians, Mr.
Hexry C. Boyer, Republican Speaker
of the House, and now candidate for
State Treasurer, exerted all his efforts to
prevent such an investigation, and the
influence he could bring to bear had a
powerful effect in determining the re-
sult of a movement to investigate.
There were grounds for believing that
favored banks were being allowed to
use the State money, and that it was
being employed in private speculations |!
by members of the treasury ring. It
was known that United States bonds,
amounting to several millions, which
had been purchased for the State as an
interest-producing investment, had been
sold, and it was charged that there was
no other motive for this sale than the
desiretoget hold of this money for a pri-
vate speculative purpose. The demand
for an investigation was not unreason-
able. There were good reasons for
it, yet Speaker Boyer lent his efforts
to prevent it, and it was prevented by
| the Republican House of which he was
the presiding officer.
This should be enough to convince
every voter that the Republican candi-
date for State Treasurer is in sympathy
with the ring that have been using the
State money for their personal benefit,
and will assist and take part in their
speculations. In the face of so evident
a fact, to put him in charge of the
Treasury would be as foolish on the
part of the people as it would be for a
business man to put his safe in charge
of a burglar.
e—ereevemc—
—There is a breezy brag about Chica-
go's movements to secure the exposition
that is characteristic of the wild west,
and may secure the prize while New
York is meanly counting the cost.
ross ——
—James Conyard and Martin Freely were
1
{ quarreling in Richard Courtright’s hotel at
Plains, Luzerne county, when Anna Freely
interferred and was seriously stabbed in the
arm by one of the combatants.
A Methodist Minister Asks of Repub-
lican Politicians a Couple of
Pointed Questions. .
A great many of our readers, especi-
ally those along the Bald Eagle Valley,
will remember Rev. J. B. Manx, a
Methodist minister who filled the pul-
pit of the Milesburg M. E. Church some
years ago. They will likely remember
him more particularly for his extreme
partisan views—his outspoken and ul-
‘tra Republicanism—than for anything
else. Under all circumstances he was
for his party, and for it “all over” and
in the deadest kind of earnest. He
seems to have gotten his eyes open so
that he can “see a thing or two,” and
we judge from the following, which we
get from the Philadelphia Zimesof are-
cent date, that the Rev. Manx, like a
great many other honest and want-to-
do-right citizens, has ceased to be the
rip-roaring radical Republican he was
a few years ago:
To the Editor of the Times.
I will write for information and in the inter-
est of truth. I have been an ardent and unfal-
tering Republican for the past twenty-five
years, and twice voted the party ticket against
my judgmeut and conscience, giving it’ the
benefit of the doubt, (?) even when my convic-
tions were clearly averse to its action. I was
taught to regard it as the party, par excellence,
of chivalrous morality, and for a long time my
faith and satisfaction were perfect. I deeply
regret that I am unable to do so still, for I con.
fess to a decided “hankering” in that direction,
but honor and fidelity impel a halt. For many
years I was assured that the Republican party
was the only reliable temperance party, while
the “Democratic party was rum-soaked” and
hopelessly “in for free whisky;” all of
which I “steadfastly believed” and constantly
affirmed. Further, I was lead to accept the Re-
publican dictum that all genuine temperance
legislation originated with and owed its adop-
tion to the Republican party, and now, after a
most sad and sickening experience of false
hood and treachery, I am asked by the Repub-
lican press still to regard that party as the only
trae champion of temperance reform. Is not
that just a trifle cheeky ?
But if it be so I am more than anxious to
know it, as I really want an excuse for remain-
ing with the “grand old party of moral ideas.”
But bitter disappointment has made me snspi-
cious and something more than partisan :«®x-
ment {s necessary. If my memory serves me
correctly it was the Rev. W. H. Boole—New
York Conference Methodist Episcopal Church,
brother of a somewhat celebrated Alderman of
New York city, a gentleman still living—who
exploded the claim of the Republican party
and showed conclusively in a pamphlet com-
piled mainly from the legislative records of the
several States and Territories, that the Demo-
cratic party had put more real temperance laws
upon the statute books of the various Common-
wealths of the Union than its boasting rival.
Am I right in supposing such a publication-ex-
ists and that it contains the proof of what I
have indicated ?
Will not some of the great newspapers look
into this matter and give us the facts? Why
not the Press ? which so often and vehemently
declares that all efficient legislation for the
suppression ot the rum traffic is to be credited
to its party. It would render the truth, as also
its own party, a magnificent service. Nothing
is ultimately gained, even in politics, by empty
sound and idle boasting; and if the Republi-
can assumption is true and well established it
can very readily be shown; if not, then, in view
of the June election especially, it is worse than
folly—it is a erime—to reiterate it, as is con”
stantly done. Irepeat, [ am in search of infor-
mation, and shall be most happy to receive it,
that I may act wisely in the future.
Should any of the newspapers conclude to
enlighten me on this subject, may I further
request that they explain how it is that high-
license Chicago required the past year 128,000
barrels of beer more than the “big city of New
York, where rum selling is practically free ? A
truthfully and manly answer to these questions
will greatly gratify a sorely perplexed and
painfully bewildered haniioe “Tarn on
the light” and give us the “truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth.”
Yours in Christ, J. B. MANN,
Pastor Newberry M. E. Church.
A Fearful Issue.
The attention of the friends of good
and honest government is attracted to
Virginia where a desperate attempt is
being made to carry the election of Ma-
HONE by the same corrupt means that
were used last year in electing Harrr-
soN. The chairman of the Republican
National Committee is taking a hand
in the contest and the corruption fund
that is being raised by the issuing of
Quay's $10 bonds, is furnishing the
means upon which the rebel candidate
of the Virginia Republicans relies for
success. In addition to this money in-
fluence the government offices are be-
ing prostituted to the base purposes of
these corruptionists. The civil service
in Virginia is being made an adjunct
to the method of carrying elections with
money which the Republicans have
regularly adopted by the systematic is-
suing of bonds for the raising of a cor-
ruption fund. A fearful interest at-
taches to the question whether this de-
liberate villainy is to become a perma-
nent feature of American politics. The
defeat of ManoNE will go a great way
toward discouraging the desperate po-
litical characters who seek to secure
success by such corrupt appliances.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Rat bites killed a child of Daniel Rhine, of
Robesonia.
—Tyrone merchants have to send all the
way to Michigan for potatoes.
—Twenty-six new locomotives have just been
turned out of the Altoona shops.
—A 2-months-old calf raised on the farm of
Tho mas king, of West Chester, weighed 249
pounds.
—The Bethlehem Iron Company is erecting a
building to contain the largest steam hammer
in the world.
—Constable Emers, of Towanda, has caught
and caged a humming bird—something rarely
seen in captivity.
—The car that bore Lincoln to Washington
to be sworn in is now running between Wells-
boro and Antrim.
—The Pittsburg Johnstown Committee has
wound up its affairs, turning over $160,000 to
the State funds.
~Crawford county farmers are building
silos extensively. This plan of winter feeding
cattle is growing.
—Mr. Sallive, of Tionesta vicinity, has a bad
ly scarred face, the result of a recent encoun
ter with a squirrel.
—Reading’s Board of Trade has appointed a
committee to encourage the establishment of
new industries in the city.
—Josiah Sheck was held in bail at Hazleton
last week on a charge of having burned his
barn te get the insurance.
—Half a dozen gas wells are being put down
by as many different parties in the eastern
and southern parts of Erie City.
—Ben Graham, a farmer residing near Deck-
ards, Crawford county, died from the effects of
ivy poisoning several days ago.
—Henry Fry, of Strasburg, Lancaster county,
60 years old, committed suicide on Friday by
hanging. Ill health was the cause.
—At the Berks County Fair Common Councils
man John C. Hesler had 124 cases containing
34,000 buttons, no two of which are alike.
—The publishers of Grit, at Williams-
port, have been acquitted of the charge of
sending obscene literature through the mails,
—A fisherman at Doylestown saw a sunfish
swallow abee and a few minutes later saw the
fish on the water dead. He cut it open and
the bee flew off.
—During a violent rain-storm a few days ago
an old woman at Wilksbarre took off her outer
clothing and lay down on a door step, thinking
it was her bed.
—Widow Catherine Deemer,aged 83 years, of
Moorestown, Northampton County, fell down a
flight of stairs, Thursday, and fractured her
leg in four places.
—Quite a number of deer have been seen in
Southern Pennsylvania. Small game is also
very plenty—the result of close enforcement
of the State laws.
—At Wilkesbarre John Tate was acquitted
of responsibility for the death of William Snell,
who was killed by a blow or fall during a fight
in a Pittston saloon.
—Milkman Beatty's horse met with a pecu-
liar mishap in Meadville. He was stricken
with paralysis in one foreleg while being driv+
en at a leisurely pace.
—James Lascomb, of Chester, had the handle
of a $ umbrella broken short off in an odd
way, having accidentally struck it against a
passing lady’s bustle.
—Fully 500 houses renting at $8 to $12 a
month will have been built in Harrisburg by
the close of the season, and still the demand
exceeds the supply.
—In Pittsburg next year the change of mov-
ing day from April 1 to May 1 will be effected
by making all leases to run thirteen months
from April 1, 1890.
—Alvin Maurer, while gunning on Saturday
near Fleetwood, Berks county, shot a “Virgin
ia reed-bird, resembling a quail, the first of the
kind ever seen there.”
—A 15-year-old boy, named Franzenfield,
had one of his eyes knocked out by a vicious
cow “horning” him on Friday on a farm in
Salzbury, Lehigh County.
—George B. Hickman, of West Chester, has
just received an order for forty head of hogs
from Frank James, of Mexico, the famous ex
outlaw of Missouri, now settled down.
—Blackbirds still flock on the island near
Middletown, and great numbers are shot
nightly. The birds are quickly cleaned by
skinnig instead of picking, and mostly served
in pot-pie.
—VWilliamspcrters are mad because Governor
Beaver has ignored their request for the
appointment ot a fellow-townsman on the Flood
Commission in place of the late Judge Cum-
min.
—Edward Levengood was arrested at Norris.
town on Thur#day night while trying to sell a
horse which he afterward confessed he’ had
stolen from a shed at the Gentlemen's Driving
Park.
—Samnel Epright, of South Lebanon towns
ship, Lebanon county, fell from a straw-stack
and landed on his head, on Friday, causing
complete paralysis of his body. He is not ex-
pected to recover.
—W. Rockway, aged 36, and Miss Maggie
Hartzell, aged 17, went to the Court Clerk’s of-
fice in Clarion recently, took out a marriage
license, and were married right on the spot by
Commissioner Bell.
—XKatie Smiley was playing with her father,
C. A. Smiley, of Alleghany, two nights ago,
when her foot caught in a rug and she fell
cutting a gash five inches long in her head«
The wound may prove fatal.
—Mary Paposeck, a Polish girl living in
Wilksbarre, applied to the Orphan’s Court to
have the marriage license granted to her the
day before altered so as to permit of her
marrying another man instead of the one
named in the paper.
-—The company which has operated Logan's
Ferry, near Parnassus, for eighty years is just
being sued for the first time. A $300 horse
owned by the plaintiff, while being ferried
across the Alleghany, became maddened, by
sand-fly bites, leaped overboard and was
drowned.
—A Mount Carmel woman, some of whose
grapes had been sampled by thievish boys,
sprinkled paris green on all the others res
maining on the vines, and went and told the
neighbors of her vengeful act. On being told
that she had'made herself amerable to law ,she
hurried home, picked all the grapes and de®
stroyed them.
—Barney Martin, a noted character of Tion-
esta, just acquitted of having sold liquor with-
out a license, once beat Forest county out of
several hundred dollars by manufacturing the
ears of wildeats and getting bounties on the
same. He used a genuine ear fora pattern,
cutting them {rom the animals’ hide. As the
wildeat’s ear has hair on both sides he scraped
the hide thin and glued two pieces together,
One day while getting a false ear cashed it
fell into a tub of water, came apart, and expos-
ed the game,