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Ink Slings.
—1Tt is wonderful how a bloody rebel
becomes a spotless patriot as soon as he
becomes a Republican politician.
—-Ep1sox, speaking of the phono-
* raph, says that the time is. coming
when the world will be one gigantic ear.
That will indeed be a great ear-a.
—An American device of a wind-bag
received a medal at the Paris exhibition.
This was unexpected as neither Fora-
KER, DALzELL or TANNER was on
exhibition at the great Fair.
--They are beginning to celebrate the
250th anniversary of towns in New
England, a circumstance that makes
gray hairs appear in the tresses of Co-
lumbia and puts her on the list of spin-
sters.
© «Mrs. HamiLTON,” remarks a con-
temporary, “has had her jewels returned
to her—all but the jewel reputation.”
As to the latter, it would be impossible
to return to her that which she never
possessed.
—There seems to be some doubt as to
whether E. BUrRD GRUBB is a resident
of New Jersey or Pennsylvania, but
this is really of no consequence in a
gubernatorial sense, as he will never be
the governor of either of these States.
—Ex-Vice President HAMLIN, whose
age is now over eighty, is represented as
attending corn husking parties up in
Maine. As a fossil he is in a better
state of preservation than the old party
ot which he was the first Vice President.
—TInstead of the tariff contributing to
the prosperity of the miners it turnsjout
that the miners of the Clearfield region
are contributing of their scanty means to
keep the Illinois and Indiana miners
from starving under the protective tariff.
—THaEODORE R00SVELT complains that
the Republican disregard for civil service
reform is a breach of faith. This may
excite the anger of the young reformer,
but it shouldn’t excite his surprise. In
everything that’s good the old party is a
* breachy one.
—It is said that RussELL HARRISON
claims the appointment of Naval Officer
at Philadelphia for one of his college
chums. This oughtn’t to be denied the
prince, as it may soothe the lacer-
ation of his feelings occasioned by the
Montana election.
—A Mugwump paper mournfully re-
marks : “There seems to be no comfort
in either party for reformers or indepen-
dents.” Fortunately there is a large ex-
tent of woods still standing on this con-
tinent to whose friendly shelter they can
betake themselves.
—Tom Reep went out to Montana
and took an active part in the election
with rthe evident purpose of securing; a
vote or two for the speakership. It ap-
pears from this that JAMES G. BLAINE
is not the only Maine statesman that
casts an anchor to windward.
—If the wife of JAMES BLAINE,jr. had
been a millionaire heiress, like the young
woman whom EMMoNsS BLAINE mar-
ried the other day, her marriage would
not have been so much of a failure.
The Blaine thritt is shown in their
aversion to dead heads in matrimonial
enterprises.
—A dispatch . concerning the New
York Democratic State Convention,
speaking of its platform, says “it advo-
cates tariff reform but not free trade.”
This is an unnecessary qualification as
Democratic platforms never advocate
free trade. The idea that they do is an
invention of the Republican campaign
liar.
—The meeting of the representatives
of the American nationalities is called
the Pan-American Congress, possibly
because it is expected to pan out large
commercial profits to the nations con-
cerned. As there will be much feasting
done in the entertainment of the dele-
gates, in that respect also will there be a
good deal of “pan” about it.
—The New York State party conven-
tions have declared in favor of the Co-
lumbus Exhibition being held in New
York. But it should be understood
that it isn’t a question of politics or of
party. If the New York moneyed men
come down with the “stuff” it is reason-
ably certain that they can have the
Fair. That is all there is of it.
The Elections in the New States.
Last Tuesday tha new States of
North and South Dakota, Montana and
Washington elected their State officers
and legislatures, members of Congress,
and adopted their State constitutions
by popular vote. The two Dakotas
have gone Republican by decided ma-
jorities, both as to State and congress.
The returns from Washington are mea-
ger, with no definite indications, al-
though the Republicans claim it, and
Montana is claimed by both parties,
but the returns which are coming in
slowly favor the belief that it has been
carried by a small Democratic ma-
jority.
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VOL. 81.
Catching On to Tariff Reform.
Secretary BraiNe professes to be
greatly interested in the success of the
congress of representatives of the
American nations which is about to
meet in Washington to promote a clos-
er commercial intercourse between each
other. The proposition to hold such a
meeting came from the United States,
and delegates from Mexico, Central
America, Brazil and the South Ameri-
can republics will be there. Mr. BLAINE
has for some time been looking upon
these countries as opening a field for
the display of his great diplomatic
ability and it may be believed that he
intends to spread himself at the Con-
gress. He is not so lacking in shrewd-
ness, however, as not to see that this
assemblage of the representatives of the
American nations will not produce any
appreciable results commercially unless
obstructions to commerce are removed.
The high tariff policy which he has
always maintain is such an obstruc-
tion, but his friends say that he is so
interested in this diplomatic scheme
and so anxious to make a mark by
bringing the American states together
commercially through this conference,
that he is willing to throw to the dogs,
if need he, the tariff doctrines in main-
taining which he hustled through the
country in such a lively manner during
the last two Presidential campaigns.
If he should do this, what will he be
thought of by those who heard him so
loudly proclaim that the high tariff
should be maintained inviolate ? What
will the trusts think of him —the trusts
in whose behalf he had a friendly word
to say as private affairs that should
not be interfered with? How would
sach a change of position tally with:
the Republican platform which declar-
ed that everything should be sacrificed
rather than the tanff?
If Mr. BLAINE wants to enlarge the
commercial intercourse between the
American nationalities he must consent
to kicking over the tariff barrier, and
we believe that he is sagacious enough
to see this. All along the line the Re-
publicans appear to be ready to kick
over some portion of the barrier. In
New England the party conventions are
demanding free iron ore and coal for
the benefit of the languishing iron in-
terest of that section. Republican
woolen manufacturers are asking for
free wool to revive the drooping wool-
en industry. In the west Republican
farmers are clamoring for the free raw
material of which binder twine is made. |
And so it goes. Who would have
thought that so soon after the defeat of
Grover CLEVELAND not only Republi-
can manufacturers and farmers, but, if
reports be true, even BraiNe himself,
would be catching on to the Cleveland
tariff reform ideas.
How They Have Been Purified.
In nominating Manoxe for Gover-
nor in Virginia, and recognizing him
as the party leader in that State, it was
generally believed that the Republicans
could not have selected for such a high
distinction any one that was a more
bitter rebel in the years when the
Union was assailed and the national
authority set av defiance by armed re-
bellion. His hostility to the Union
cause and to its defenders was really of
a savage character, as was fully shown
when on a question of exchanging pris-
oners he proposed a brutal method of
treating the Union captives which was
rejected by the more humane comman-
der-in-chief the confederate forces.
It looked as if the Republicans had
gone tothe utmost limit of obnoxious
choice in selecting their Virginia lead-
er, but they have surpassed evea this
in Mississippi by nominating Crar-
MERS for Governor. ManoNE proposed
to kill §the Union prisoners, but
CuaLMERS subjected the negro prisoners
to actnal massacre at Fort Pillow, an
act of cruel barbarism for which he
was held up to the execration of the
civilized world by the Republicans un-
til he joined their party and became
one of its active workers in the South.
Now both these characters have be-
come reputable leaders in the estima-
tion of the “grand old party,” although
one is the same Manone and the other
the same CnaLMERS that justly deserv-
ed denunciation as bloody rebels and
traitors during the rebellion.
It is amusing to see how these fel-
lows are whitewashed by the organs.
Take, for example, the Lancaster FEu-
aminer,which with an air of seriousness
says in effect that the offense of their
rebellious conduct became expunged
by their joining the Republican party,
while those who fought against the
Union and are now Domocrats, have
lost none of their rebellious and treason-
able character. The fact that the for-
mer have sh: ped their politics in a
way that will secure for them a share
of political spoils has, it seems, cancel-
led the record they made in fighting
against the Union and the flag.
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Making It Hot for Foraker.
Just pow the political situation in
Ohio is assuming a particularly inter-
esting character, and the boys who
take part in “ whoopin’ er” up out
there are having an immense amount
of fun. Foraker with his plenitude of
mouth and paucity of brains, has been
stirring the conservative element of his
party up by his inuendos and threats
and Gen. Bearry of Columbus, an
old soldier with a war record that
throws Foraker’s far in the shade, an
ex-congressman, an influential banker
and one of the most prominent Republi-
cans in the State, has come out in a 32
page pamphlet,giving ForaxEer's histo-
ry and his reason for refusing to support
him. In it he denounces Foragerism,
as a “pretense, sham, fastian, trickery,
fraud, clap-trap and falsehood,” and
charges that his pretentious devotion
to the soldier element is the flimsiest
of shams.” In proof of this he fur-
nishes a list of his appointees during
the two terms he has already been
governor, and shows by comparison
with those who have preceded him,
that he has given fewer and poorer
places to soldiers than any governor
the State has had since the war. Gen.
Bearry estimates that there are 20,000
Independent Republicans in the State,
who, like himself, are willing to be
called “ kickers,” “scratchers,” “sore-
heads,” ‘disgrantled politicians” or
what you please, but who, rather than
see ForAKER re-elected and his pre-
tense, hypocrisy, deceit, bossism and |
bad faith endorsed, would preter the
defeat of the entire Republican ticket.
Evidently the general indications
are that this is not a good year for big
mouths, With TANNER, DaLzELL and
Foraker all in the rear, there will be a
deathly silence along the front ranks of
the g. 0. p.
Meanness That May Defeat Itself.
The New York newspapers are tak
ing more interest in the proposed
American World's Fair, and doing
more to. secure its location
York, than are tRe men of boasted
wealth in the great metropolis. The
Sun devotes some of its best editorials |
to this object, and the other leading
papers of that city are doing their best
to boost the enterprise, the World hav- |
ing gone so far as to canvass the
delegates of the various foreign
nations to the Paris Exposition as to
their preference concerning the place
for the Exposition. A majority of them
appear to favor New York. But all
the zeal of the newspapers and the
preference of foreigners will be of no
avail in fixing the location in the big
city; if its rich men continue to display
the indifference and illiberality which
they have so far shown in the treat
ment of this question. The American
people will become disgusted with the
meanness of millionaires who are show-
ing about as small a spirit in this mat-
ter as they did with respect to the
Grant monument and the pedestal for
the statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World. Public sentiment will greatly
affect the action of Congress in giving
national assistance, and the location of
the Exposition will largely depend upon
what Congress does. If New York is
meanly depending upon government
help in this matter, the peopie will see
that she does not get it.
Since the Grand Jury’s report,
the holes in the Court House yard are
not nearly so numerous or deep. These
are the only ones however that have
been filled up. The taxpayers will dis-
cover some of these days that deeper
holes, and more of them,have been dug
in the surplus left by the Democratic
board of Commissioners, than those the
Grand Jury complained of as disgrac-
ing the appearance of the Court House
yard, and they won’t be half as easy to
level over or cover up.
in New |
E, PA., OCTOBER 4, 1889.
A Muddle.
Politics in general is a queer study,
but the twists and maneuvres of any
party sometimes compel the political
sphere to assume a very distorted shape.
Were any one to study our present
political state he would meet a puzzler
in the mixed and muddled condition of
the Republican party. If he would not
acknowledge himself beaten, he would
at least own to his being unable to for-
tell the outcome of the political plight.
Neither sect nor section can claim
the exclusive blame for this badly
muddled condition, for the party as a
whole in State and County is teeming
with inconsistencies and broken pledg-
es. Confronted with the great ques-
tion of benefits to the laboring man of
a high protective tariff, and thege bene-
fits never materializing, but always re-
maining a misty and soon to be musty
pretension, the party has stepped into
a rut which will require more than
party promises to extricate it; and espe-
cially is this the case when promises
are so far below par as are those of the
party at present.
Whether or not the party expected
its pledges to be made good, the labor-
ing man has waited patiently for those
benefits to come, meanwhile enjoying
the happiness and prosperity .consequent
on his wages being cut down on ac-
count of depressed industries. Policy
forbids the Republican party entering
into an explanation of the questions;
but surely thoughtful citizens will
solve for themselves, and so doing they
must conclude that these promises
were falslywnade, and that the party
meant to deceive. If a majority of our
citizens have not rightly explained this
matter to themselves before the party
comes before the people in another con-
test, the same issue will be raised
and the same promises of increased
wages and better living will be made,
despite the fact that in some parts of
our country men areslaving themselves
for 60 cents a day. Ah! ‘consistency
thou art a jewel,” but thy glittering
rays are doomed to shine from other
brows than that of the g. o. p.
If a comparison be made of the par-
ty in its present state with what a party
should be, we are led into a queery
, whether it deserves the name.
i In state politics its position upon
' prohibition is mighty hard to define or
| describe. Ever passing as the true
| champion of temperance, it has unin-
'tentionaily revealed itself in the true
[light by a defeat of prohibition
brought about by its own action. The
tact is that although it had not courage
| enough to make prohibition an issue,
and sought to win the temperance ele-
! ment of the Democratic party by dub-
bing it the “whisky party,” it wassecret-
ly the enemy of temperance measures.
The facts in the case serve as another
illustration of the muddled state of the
| party.
Were we to come down to county
politics and portray the mixed state of
affairs produced by some of our connty
officials, we should only conclude the
same thing: That this state was
brought about by trying to fulfill par-
ty pledges.
The problem is now open for solu-
tion to show how the citizens derive a
benefit from a pledge fulfilled at their
own expense. As Democrats, there is
only one moral for us to draw from
these facts: Don’t trust Republican
rule. Remembering this at the com-
ing election, let us vote accordingly. *
Speaking of the proposition of
the National Baptist Convention that
Congress shall appropriate $100,000,-
000 to help the Southern negroes to
leave the country, the Philadelphia /n-
quirer says that there are at least 25,-
000,000 negroes in the south. If this is
80, the fecundity of the colored people
down South since 1880 has equalled
the rabbits in multiplying their num-
bers. If the whites have done half as
well throughout the country we would
not be surprised if the census of 1890
should show a population of 200,000,
000. A thorough paced Republican
organ, like the Inquirer, is excusable
in imagining such a large aggregate
ot colored people, for without them
there wouldn't be much of a Republi-
can party.
—The broken promises in regard to
the GRANT monument rise up in judg-
ment against New York now that che
is asking for the Columbian exposition.
NO. 39.
A Rough Dose for the Darkies.
If there were any two men in the
Confederate army who got up earlier,
swore louder, or fought harder to pre-
vent the success of the army of the
North, and its consequent result, the
freedom of the negroes, than MamoNE
of Virginia and CHALMERS of Mississip-
pi, we have never heard of them. Of
all the hot-headed, rip-roarin,’ rantank-
erous representatives of the ultra South-
ern sentiment in regard to slavery, these
two beauties were the warmest and
most uncompromising. The massacre
of the darkies at Fort Pillow was a
righteous act in the eyes of its perpe-
trator, CuarLmers, and the brutal
treatment accorded every colored cap-
tive that fell into the hands of MAHONE
in Virginia, attested his regard for
the common instincts of humanity
when his victim was colored by a black
hide. It was for the perpetuation of
slavery, more than for the indepen-
dence of the confederate states, that
these two men fought. And yet with
this fact standing out so plain that the
blindest can see or the dumbest under:
stand, the Republican party, posing as
the friend of the negro, and boasting
that it was through its effort that
slavery was abolished, puts these two
old advocates of negro slavery up as
the. representatives of its ideas and
principles, and expects the negro vote
of the states in which they reside to
elect them as governors.
Could there be a more forcible illustra
tion of the abject slavery in which the
Republican leaders imagine they hold
the colored vote, than the simple fact
that they expect it to be cast almost
solid for these two mens.
Trying to Revive the Farms.
A movement is being made to reoc-
cupy and bring again under cultiva-
tion the deserted farms of Masszibu-
setts and other portions of New Eng-
land. Farming in that part of the
country has gradually fallen toa low
condition, it becoming more and more |
un profitable until large areas have been
abandoned, and this has been going on
notwithstanding the home market
which the many manufacturing centers
of New England furnish for agricul-
tural produce. According to the high
tariff theory of the advantage of a
home market provided by protection,
farming should be particularly flourish-
ing in New England, and the price of
land should be high. But instead of
that an opposite state of facts exists.
The Massachusetts Commissioner of
Agriculture in canvassing the State to
ascertain the character and price of
unoccupied farms, reports that in one
township alone there are 4000 acres
which can be had for from #1 to $4
per acre. A farm of 200 acres is men-
tioned, with good buildings and plenty
of timber, which is offered at $310.
It is proposed to attract settlers to!
these run-down farms.
In Vermont, wherea similar condi-
tion exists, an effort is being made to
induce Swedish immigrants to settle |
on the abandoned lands. The old
farms of the East may be again made
productive, but farming them will}
never be profitable as long as their cul- |
tivators are made to pay heavy tariff.
taxes on the necessaries of life.
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It is being shown that the blat-
ant ForAkER, who claims to have been |
especially friendly and helpful to the |
soldiers in favoring them officially, has
done less than any other Ohio Gover- |
nor in giving offices to the veterans. |
It 1s madeevident that his professions
in this [respect area sham, but he is
not the only Republican = governor
whose friendship for the soldiers is
merely pretentious humbug. The vet
erans of Centre County know how
much official favor they received from
Beaver who floated into office on the
military wave. There has not been
awarded a single favor to a Centre
county soldier to verify the expecta-
tions that were founded on Braver's
promises. The same is the case in
the conduct of the national administra-
tion with respect to the soldiers in this
county. Tney are overlooked when
the better class of post offices and de-
puty collectorships are handed around. |
In time the Republican veterans may
become tired of such kind of treatment,
but so far they seem to have been satis. '
fied with it.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Erie has a chrysanthemum club, which is
preparing for a show in November,
—Michael Quinn, another of the victims of
the Edgar Thomas Steel Works accident, is
dead.
—Tramps who reject work but insist on hizh
living are causing much annoyance to Evie
county farmers.
—The Homeopathic Hospital in Pittsburg is
to build a $20,000 annex, necessitated by the
growth of the nurses’ training school.
—James Weyandt fell off a car platform
while crossing the Juniata River at Hollidays-
burg on Saturday night, and was drowned.
—The Wilkesbarre Record has been priv-
ileged to listen to the first phcnograph to
reach that city; it is “loaded with sopranno
songs.”
—The Unitarians of Pittsburg are organiz-
ing to erect a church. Twenty families are in
the movement, and Andrew Carnegie is giving
financial help.
—A couple of Huntingdon Nimrods shot a
farmer’s calf for a deer the other day. He is
looking for the noble hunters for pay or prose-
cution.
—A boiler in a quarry at Wrightsville, York
county, Pa., burst on Saturday morning, kill
ing Mrs. Lemuel Barnes and fatally fracturing
her husband’s skull.
—Contrary to all expectations, Deputy Sher-
iff McMillan, of Somerset, who was twice shot
by the Nicely brothers in their desperate at-
tempt to escape, is still living.
—Charles Hain, a young merchant of Sha-
mokin Dam, was found dead ina cemetery
there the other day. Whether he shot him-
self or was murdered has not been decided.
—Howard Leber, of York, was arrested at
that place Monday and lodged in jail at Lock
Haven. The charge against him is forgery,
preferred by Mrs. Mary B. Irvin, of Lock Ha-
ven.
—The Chairman of the Democratic and Re-
publican County Committee of Lancaster sign-
ed an agreement yesterday not to pay the poll-
tax of voters or for naturalization papers this
campaign. :
—The Mine Examing Boards, embracing
nearly 100 members, were in session at Wilkes
barre Saturday considering defects in the law
which should be remedied ty the next Leg-
islature.
—Thirteen thousand gallons of water per
minute are being flung down the shaft of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company,s blaz-
ing colliery at Olyphant, which has been on
fire for some days.
—The Juniata County Prohibitionists at
their Convention at Mifflintown on Friday re-
frained from making any county nominations,
but elected W. F. Snyder Chairman of the
County Committee.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad company re-
ceived a grand prize, being the highest award,
for its exhibits at the Paris exposition. The
cars, ete, that were on exhibition, were pro-
ducts of the company’s shops at Altoona.
—A company composed of Philalelphia and
Hazleton capitalists is to start a factory at
Colebrook, Lebanon county, for the manufae-
ture of electric light, telegraph and telephone
wires and insultated tapes undera new pat-
ent.
—The trial of Sydney Weir for the murder
of Maurice Miller and Frederick Kindler, in
Lykens on May 4th, which occupied the term
of the Dauphin county court last week, resulted
in a verdict of “guilty of murder in the first
degree.”
—The Johnstown people protest against be-
| ing abandoned by the state at the approach of
cold weather and with so much remaining to
be done. But Governor Beaver says the state
has reached the limit of its resources and can
a0 no more.
—The outlook for the extension of the Ty-
rone and Clearfield railroad from Curwens-
ville to Mahaffey is assuming such shape as to
warrant the Philipsburg Journal in saying that
railroad connection between the two places
will be soon made.
—Recently the machinery in Nelson's mill
at Cessna, Bedford county, suddenly stopped.
An investigation followed and it was discover-
ed that the water wheel had become clogged
up with eels. Ninety-two eels were taken out
of the wheel that day.
—Drillers at the old “water well” at Irwin,
which was abandoned some time ago at a
depth of about 2500 feet and work upon which
was resumed about a week ago with a view of
going to the “Gordon” sand in search of oil,
struck gas two days ago 2600 feet down.
—Gertrunde Newell, a 10 year old girl at Bear
Lake, about fifteen miles from Wilkesbarre,
Pa, was fatally injured by playing with a dyna-
mite cartridge on Sunday. She struck it with
her foot and it exploded, tearing away part of
her left arm and terribly cutting her on the
body.
—W. B. Lynton, of Dupton, Ohio, aged about
75 years, stopped at the Leister House Hunt-
ingdon on Friday night last, having arrived on
a late train enroute to Everett, Pa. The next
morning he was found dead, and itis thought
he blew outthe gas on retiring, and was sui=
focated.
—Robert P. Halliday, the defaulting cashier
of the First National bank of Mount Gilead,
Ohio, who it was supposed had fled to Canada,
and who surrendered himself to the aunthori-
ties at Columbus on Sunday, has been spend-
ing most of his time with friends at Reedsville
Mifilin county.
—The Chester Times says: A wolf, with a
chain dangling from its neck, yesterday ran
across the Herkness farm. It was chased by
two colored men anda young lady named
Harrison. After a run of about three miles
the lady captured the animal, catching the
chain as it dragged along the ground.
—While Ephraim Hazelet, a rich farmer of
! Allentown, Mifflin County, was driving across
the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks three miles
below Huntingdon on Friday of last week, he
was struck by the second section of Day Ex-
press and instantly killed. One of the horses
was also killed and the wagon was broken Into
a thousand pieces.
—Mr. H. P. Graffius, an Altoona lawyer,
writes to a friend that he killed six black
squirrels at one shot three days ago. “His
great haul was in consequence of his forget-
ting to remove the ramrod, which plunged
through the sides of the squirrels who were
sitting in a row on a barn and in an excellent
position for the marksman.” The sextet
dropped to the ground, dangling to the rod, to
his “utter amazement.”
—A horse owned by W. P. Owen, of Erie
vicinity, while tied in a stall a coupls of nights
ago with a hemlock scantling separating it
from its mate, got its halter strap wound
around the end of the scantling, drawing its
head down to the piece, on which was a large
splinter, which was forced into the animal's
throat until it came out in its mouth. A wound
five inches long was torn in the throat, hut
the animal will live.