BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
-—An exchange speaks of FRED Dou-
GLASS as the ablest specimen of his race.
Which race? As between black and
white Fre is half and half.
—There isn’t to be a legislature
elected this year, but the wage-earners
will have a chance to rebukea recreant
legislature that was elected last year.
—A political court is not a desirable
institution to have in a county. Vote for
RILEY and prevent our court from as-
suming too much of a partisan com-
plexion.
—Don’t fail to be at the pollsin No-
vember and bring your neighbor with
vou. This isn’t a year for Democrats
to stay at home when there is voting
going on.
—The success of the Democrats in
Pennsylvania this year will be a step
toward the adoption of the Australian
ballot system, and ballot reform means
the freedom of every workingman at
the polls.
—A full Democratic vote this year
will be the most effectual step toward
putting the Commissioners’ office next
year in the hands of competent officers
who won’t increase the taxes by increas-
ing the county debt.
—The administrative tergiversations
coing on at Washington give color to
the report that the President eats pie
for breakfast. There is every indication
of something heavy lying on the stom-
ach of the administration.
—The agricultural folks whose tax
bill was pigeon holed in the last Legis-
lature should see to it at the next No.
vember election. They can look at it
most effectively through the medium of
the Democratic State and county tickets
— Chicago has opened headquarters
at Washington as the nucleus of some
lively work designed to capture the con-
a ressional appropriation forthe World's
Fair. There won't be any modesty
«standing in the way of her operations.
—--At the election in November the
farmers will have a chance of show-
ing how they like the way their tax-
bill was treated by monopoly legis-
lature. Speaker Boyrr is now with-
in reach of the granger’s stogy boot.
—There isnodissatisfaction among our
county Democacy this year; they all
agree that the county ticket is worthy of
being elected. Then let them come to
the polls en masse and vote it. Votes are
necessary to make such harmony bear
its proper fruit.
—Harmony prevails to a most satis-
factory degree among the Democrats of
Centre counly. Butharmony can pro-
duce no practical results without ac-
tivity. There iz no kicking, but there
should be a great deal of walking—
toward the polls.
—RAUM may not have as big a hole
in his countenance as TANNER, but he
may be trusted to make as big a hole in
the surplus as his lavish predecessor
started out to make. He will keep his
mouth shut but the treasury door open
for the pension raiders.
—The exposure of the forgery that
was resorted to for the “promotion of
his election has had a bad effect upon
Foraker. He issick,and will be sicker
after the election, yet we hope he will
not die. There would be something
wanting in Ohio politics without the
familiar sound of the Foraker fog-horn.
—BiILLY GRAY is gaily traveling the
county in the zealous pursuit of votes
and with the happy anticipations of
guileless youth, blissfully ignorant of
the fact that the ringmasters have de-
termined to sever the jugular vein of
his political prospects in the interest of
Freming. But the longer WILLIAM
lives the more he will find out.
—Mr. PowbDERLY, you told the
Knights of Labor that the Australian
ballot system would be®the palladium
of the wage earners’ rights. Be alittle
more specific and tell your people that
a candidate who is so decidedly oppos-
ed to this palladium as Boyer has
shown himself (o be, isn’t worthy of
their votes. Now is the time to talk
with practical effect.
—Tolallow Hastings to pull the wires
of the Republican party in this county
is a matter that concerns only the mem-
bers of his party, but to put him in con-
trol of the Prothonotary’s office through
the medium of a henchman would in-
vest him with a legal bosship that would
affect interests wider than those of the
Bellefonte ring. It isn’t well to give a
boss control of such a variety of wires.
--When the official situation
different from what it is now, Mrs.
BrLaINe turned up her nose at Mrs.
HarersoN. But the vantage
ground of her position as mistress of
the White House Mrs. HARRISON now
elevates her nasal organ at Mrs. BLAINE,
and the complication is approaching the
erisis at which they may not speak as
It is to be hoped that
the administration isn’t drifting into
anarchy.
was
from
they pass by.
that’s the only reason why FrED was
Wack
"STATE mi
GHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 25, 1889.
Lr RL
The Unrewarded Colored Voter.
The time hae again arrived when
the Republican leaders in State and
county will call on the colored breth-
rescued from defeat. In this county
the colored vote is a considerable fac-
tor. It is located chiefly in Bellefonte
where the colored population is large
for a town of its size. This vote has
been used by the Republican politicians |
of the county for their own benefit with- |
out a thought of giving anything in re- |
turn to the colored men who y~ar after |
year have voted their ticket with the |
regularity of machinery. It is large |
enough to turn the scale in a close elec-
tion, and the Republicans who are en-
joying the profits of county offices have
squeezed through by the assistance of
the colored people. What have they
given in return ? Absolutely nothing.
It would raise a big fuss among the
leaders if any of these “niggers,” as
they call them, should ask for a small
post office or the nomination for one of
the lower grade of county offices, ard
yet among the better class of colored
man of Bellefonte, who regularly vote
the party ticket, there are some who
could run the Commissioners’ office
better than it is run by the incom pe-
tents who are now mismanaging the
county affairs. We could pick ont at
least two colored men in Bellefonte who
could make more efficient Commission-
ers than HeNpERsoN and Decker. And
infinite disgust
vet it would cause g
among the ringsters who have been
enjoying the fruits of the colored vote,
if these men should ask the smallest
official favor.
This sort of
throughout the entire range of Repub-
lican official patronage. The black
men elect the Republican office-holders
from the highest to the lowest,but can’t
expect to be regarded as more than
party slaves. Harrison would have
been hopelessly defeated if it had not
been for the colored voters of New
York and Indiana. If they had voted
the other way both of these States
would have gone against him by large
majorities; vet how many offices have
been given to the men who gave him
his position? Even Frep DovGLass |
treatment prevails
wonldn’t have got an office if there |
hadn't been a black government to
send him to as No white
Republican cared about having it, and
minister.
allowed to have it.
Pennsylvania bas been made the
Republican State it is by the votes of |
its colored voters of which there are
at least 40,000, and which, if turned
the other way, would knock Quay and |
his party out of the box every time;
but notwithstanding this fact, when the |
Boss dispenses his official patronage he |
is careful that none of it" shall go to
the men of black skins who have so
faithfully saved his party from defeat
year after vear. While he and his |
minions sit down to the feast of official”
dainties, the colored men who farnish
them with the feast must stand at
distance and lick their chops as the
only compensation for their invaluable
service. What will it benefit them if
they elect Boyer State Treasurer—s
“a
young man who ever since he became
ot age has been enjoying the fruits of |
political victories won by black voters
to whom he has givin nothing in re-
turn ? :
The colored brethren may like this |
kind of treatment. They may think
they are getting all they deserve when
they give the Republican party victory
at the polls and get nothing for it.
The voters of that color in Centre coun- !
ty may believe that they are fit for |
nothing else than to be ‘“hewers of |
wood and drawers of water” tor the
Bellefonte Republican ringsters, who |
wouldn't vive them a ten dollar per-
quisite in recognition of their service,
If they like it, of course they will go
on keeping such ungrateful politicians
in office.
ning to get tired of it, we would sug-
gest that this would be a good year to
teach the Republican machine mana-
State
If, however, they are begin-
gers and ringters, both in and
county, by voting against them, that
the days of colored slavery are over.
re—————————
—ScHAEFFER and MEYER illustrate the
advantage of good reputations. The
voters appreciate the excellent official
service they have done and want them
to keep on doing it for three years wore.
ren to rally to the support of the rick- |
ety old party which they have so often
| become in truth a freeman.
| for any man until he pledges himself to stand
| to the Knights of Labor of Pennsylva-
| ty of running the Post Office Department
injunction to his Par-American pro-
Pan-American Free Trade.
|
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
! says that “the free trade orators who
| persist in thrusting themselves before
the Spanish-American visitors ought to
be taken in hand and muzzled.”
What foolish talk thisis. We don't
know whom the Philadelphia paper
means by ‘‘free trade orators,” but if
the object of getting the Pan-Americans
together is to secure commercial inter-
course between them, how is it to be
done ifhigh tariffs are to continue as
barriers to such intercourse? In invit-
ing them to trade with us, are we te
let them understand that they needn't
| expect their productions to enter our
ports unless the heavy tariff tax on
them is paid as usual ?
The very proposition of the Pan-
American arrangement invoives a free
trade idea. There can be no reciprocity
if there is a tariff barrier, and there
can he no intercourse without recipro-
city. Itis really Mr. Brave and his
followers that are floundering on the
verge of free trade in this Paun-Ameri-
can business, for if they don’t make
strong concessions to that principle their
congress will be nothing more than a
fruitless farce. Already we hear Mr.
JonN SHERMAN express his willingness
to enter into a free trade arrangement
with the South Ameriean countries.
And vet we hear foolish papers like
the Evening Bulletin advising the muz-
zling of those who talk free trade to
the Spanish American visitors.
The K. of L. and the Australian Bal- |
lot System.
The Knights ot Labor should, to a
man, be in favor of a reformed ballot |
system so that dependent working peo-
ple way be able to go untrammeled to
the polls. Master Workman Pow-
pERLY has used strong langaage in por-
traying the manner in which laboring
men are interfered with in the exercise
of the right of suffrage by the bull-doz-
ing power that holds them in subjec-
tion.
In a public address delivered recent
ly on this subject, he said: |
We cannot compel obedience to the Consti- |
tution of Pennsylvania while men can be |
browbeaten at the polls and compelled to vote |
as the Corporation Boss and the Political Boss
dictates. Before we can move hand or foot in
the way of Reform, we must throw every safe
guard around the ballot-box. Norifles or bayon- |
ets, bombs or other weapons of cowards wil 1
be necessary. What we require is a seeret bal- |
lot, one by which the partially free man may
How many citi-
zens of Pennsylvania will raise their hands |
with mine when they read this and pledge
themselves not to ask for another measure of
Reform at the coming session of the Legisla-
ture, except the passage of some such system
of Ballot Reform as the Australian System ? |
How many will pledge themselves not to vote |
by the people and vote for such a measure ?”
We would remind Brother PowperLY
that now is a good time to repeat this
nia and give it an especial application
to the candidacy of Mr. Henry C.
Boyer, the Republican nominee for
State Treasurer,who, as Speaker of the
Republican House of Representatives,
took the lead in the rejection of the
Australian ballot system by that body.
Wanamaker finds the double du-
at Washington and the Bethany Sun-
day School at Philadelphia a little too
much for him, and accordingly he has
withdrawn from the superintendency
of the latter institution over which he
s0 unctuously presided. The Sunday
school cause will not be injured by his
withdrawal. The active participation
in Sunday school work by a person
who has fizured prominently in the
most corrupt political scheme that ever
disgraced American politics, was far
from presenting an edifving spectacle,
and was not calculated to benefit the
canse,
—— A ————
Notwithstanding Mr. BramNg's
teges to lay low on Sunday and not to
stray over into ('anada, an cuterprising
Kanuek Wimax
them across the Niagara
enveigled
river last
named
Sunday and made a speech to them in
that a
arrange-
"Canada
which he endeavored to show
Pan-American commercial
ment that didn’t include
woulduit pan out to any material ex-
tent: inshort wonld be a delusionand a
fraud. Braing shonld keep his visit
ors locked in rhe cars when they get
| and the faithful performance of the same guar-
| anteed by all law-makers of all political par-
| their votes, and that since the Presiden-
| post office can’t be given to a soldier if |
! there is a party worker that wants it.
00 near the Canada line.
Why the K. of L. Will Oppose Boyer.
It is announced by the York Gazette
that at a meeting of Knights of Labor
comprising the assemblies of eight
counties, at that place last Saturday, it
was determined unanimously, as mem-
bers of that labor organization, to work
and vote against Boyer, the Republi
can candidate for State Treasurer.
The motive for this action is obvious.
During his entire legislative career,and
particularly as Speaker of the Touse,
the Republican Treasury candidate
showed no friendly disposition toward
the interests of labor. In no instance
did he favor any of the measures offer-
ed for the promotion of the welfare of
those who work for their living, but,on
the contrary, the legislative body of
which he was the presiding officer and
whose committees he appointed, refus-
ed to pass bills that were designed to
benefit labor, but did not neglect to
legislate for the advantage of capital
ard corporations. The course adopt-
ed by the body of which Boyer:
was the head, in the treatment of labor
bills,was not only an injury but a posi-
tive insult to wage-earners, and there-
fore it is not diffieult to understand why
the Knights of Labor are going to vote
against him.
A Growl from the Old Soldiers.
Although Harrison last year re-
ceived a large portion of his support on
the claim that he was the especial
friend of thesoldiers,the veterans are al-
ready beginning tocomplain of the bad
treatment they are receiving from the
administration. Ata meeting of the
Veterans’ Union of Pennsylvania at
Harrisburg on Tuesday the resolutions
passed contained the following omi-
nous growl of the old soldiers :
It has been brought to the notice of the eon-
vention that certain true and faithful soldiers
of the war have been removed from positions
of trusts and profit in the gift of the present
adgginistration for no specific or apparent
cause, except it be to make place for politi-
cal managers, which is contrary to the letter
and spirit of the laws passed by congress, ap-
proved and concurred in from time to time,
ties.
* The soldiers wiil in time discover
that the profession of friendship for
then was merely intended to secure
ial prize was gained by their assistance
the “political managers’ need the of-
fices for the fellows to whom they are
indebted for personal political service.
It is the same all through the country
as it is in Centre county. Even a small
CC S——————
Sweat as an Element in Politics.
Nobody suspected that candidate
FreminG wassuch a poor man,requiring
the charitable votes of his fellow citi-
zens, until one of his supporters an-
nounced it in a Republican newspaper
of this place. Tis sympathetic friend
pictures him toiling on the tailor’s
bench, with the sweat streaming from
his care-worn brow. The Bellefonte
people who are personally acquainted
with the ring candidate for Prothono-
tary wouldn't be able to recognize him
from this picture. They are accustom-
ed to see him as a handsomely dressed,
aristocratic looking merchant tailbr,
and as viewed through the plate-glass
windows of his handsome establish-
ment he looks like one of the most
prosperous business men of the town.
And to say that he sweats from hard
work is the most ridiculous rot. He
is too great a gentleman to do such a
vulgar thing as to sweat. Perspiration
will do very well for farmers, mechan-
ics and laborers, but it is entirely out
of place with a weli-dressed merchant
tailor. It wouldn’t be doing FLEMING
injustice to say that he hasn’t handled
a tailors goose within the last ten
years, for his employes do that part of
the business for him, and vet he is rep-
resented as being “a poor man who
earns his living by the sweat of his
brow working at the tailor trade.” We
are warranted in saying that SCHEFFER,
when a farmer, did more work and
sweat more in hoeing a patch of pota-
toes than the gentleman merchant
tailor W. 1. FLeming ever did in the
whole course of his life. The ring
managers didu’t have any difficulty in
putting their Prothonotary candidate
on the ticket, but if they think they
can sweat him into office they are
greatly mistaken.
NO. 42.
Trying to Efface the Ring Mark.
This is about the time of year when
‘some Republican, closely connected
with the Bellefonte ring, publishes
communications in thering organ under
the assumption of giving the expression
of some Democrat counseling other
Democrats to vote the Republican tick-
et. An old trick like this fails to effect
its purpose and has no more influence
in deluding Democrats than if it came
directly from Hastings or any other
of the party bell-wethers. Words from
“Many Democrats of Ferguson,” or a
“Marien Township Demecrat,” appear-
ing in the ring organ,are neverof Demo-
cratic origin, and are usually written in
the organ’s sanctum. They are frauds,
their appearance being am insult to a
discerning public.
Such was thecharacter of the com-
munication inthe Keystone Gazette last
week, of bogus Democratic parentage,
defending Fremina against the charge
of being nominated by the ring that
pulls the wires in Bellefonte for the
entire county. But facts as well as ap-
pearances sustain the charge. Person-
ally Fremize had no strength that
would have legitimately gained him
the nomination, and yet the ease with
which he got on the ticket clearly in-
dicated the manipulation of the ring-
sters. Hastings, BrowN, READER,
FiepLER, and the select crew who pull
the strings, knew beforehand that the
nomination was going to go to Frem-
NG. They knew it because they bad
their hands on the lever that controls
the working of the machine, and they
knew how they intended that the ma-
chine should work.
It is an insult to the intelligence of
Republicans in other parts of the coun-
ty to suppose that they don’t know
that FLEMING'S nomination was of ring
manufacture. The larger number of
them no doubt will support it, but it
would be putting too low an es
timate upon their, inteltigencé” 10 be-
lieve that they are not able to see the
ring mark on it.
But there is good assurance that
quite a number will not support the
ringsters’ choice, for the very good
reason that they are opposed to putting
an office so closely connected with the
Court under the influence ot a set of
politicians whe usually run things in
their own interest. FrLemiNG would be
incompetent to perform its duties, and
the deputy would be selected by Hasr-
NGS, and things would be run to suit
the county boss who Las his interests
to subserve in the courts as well as in
politics. Many Republicans fear this,
and on this account they find the
greatest objection to FLEMING as the
choice and tool of the boss ringster and
the wire-pullers associated with him.
There are plenty of prudent Republi
cans who wouldn’t like to see so im-
portant an officer as a Prothonotary
put to such use. The organ sees how
this is working against its candidate,
and is doing allit can to counteract the
unfavorable impression. But the ring
mark cannot be effaced.
——There isn’t a laboring man
whose condition has been improved by
the result of the election last year, al-
though it was represented by the mo-
nopoly supporters that if it should turn
out as it did it would be of great bene-
fit to those who live by their wages.
The low wages and scarcity of employ-
ment now existing are sufficient proof
of the falsity of last years’ promises.
Keep your eye on the lying politicians
who made them. They are again ask-
ing the laboring men for their votes.
IEEE ERE
—— Puck never fails in making a
hit. Concerning the Pan-American
cousining that is now going on, it has
a cartoon representing Uncle Sam
making love to South America at long
range. Our Uncle almost tears his
straps in his effort to embrace the fair
damsel of the Southern continent, but
the insuperable war-taritf wall sepa-
rates him from the object of his adora-
tion. It is a clear case of ‘so near and
yet so far.”
The laboring men of Centre
county who last year were promised
better times if Harrison should be
elected, have seen HARRISON go into
office,but they don’t see the better times,
The same fellows who fooled them with
false promises of plenty of wor < at big
wages are asking for their votes again.
Is it posssible that they will get them
either for State or county officers?
Spawls from the Keystone,
West Chester's Pedestrian Clabnever walks.
—Tramps arrested in West Chester are set
to work.
—One of Lancaster’s dudes carries his eigar
back of his ear.
—Steel rail ties are being made at Carnegie’s
Pittsbnrg works. ?
—Walnut wood in large quantities
from Lancaster.
Arbor day was quite generally observed
throughout the State.
—Chester huckters can make three pecks of
potatoes look like a bushel.
—A girl who smokes cigarettes in public
shocks Williamsport people.
; —A coon hunt in the very center of WII
lamsport was indulged in last Sunday.
—Persons living near the sulphuz springs of
wechlan have lost their sense of smell.
~~
—Chambersburg is troubled by misehief-
makers who sound false alarms of fire.
ol
—Lee You, a Chinaman, was arrested at Lan-
caster on a charge of stealing chickens.
—Policemen arrested a man in Reading,
with a bogus gold brick in his posession.
—The Labor Union Council of Reading” wilt
fight western beer and five cent barbers.
—A “keg detective”makes his living by trac-
‘ing stray beer kegs for the Reading brewers.
—A pair of twins weighing ten pounds each,
were presented to conduetor Honaf, of East
Reading.
—Thirteen cords of wood were sawed from
single tree in Colerain township, Lancaster
couitty.
—A gang of railroad Italians have been an-
noying Hatboro farmers by their thieving dep-
redations.
—The three months bride of a Williamsport.
piano tuner has eloped with one of the dudes of”
the town.
—The men of the Paoli wrecking erew wore
high hats a few days ago when the inspec-
tion train passed.
—The Carbondale anid Providence turnpike,
on which there are now four tol} gates, is to be
made a free highway.
—Robert Coleman, the millionaire of Leb-
anon, will give the baseball team of Trinity
College 850 for every game won.
—Annie Schalle, 20 yearsold, of Fullertown,
attempted suicide by taliing rat poisen, but
prompt efforts saved her life.
—Tormented by a safe agent, a Lock Haven
undertaker got rid of the bore by offering to
trade him a casket for a safe.
—Mrs. Péter Yoh, of State Hill, Berks county,
died on Tuesday a few minutes before the
time set for her husband's funeral.
—The Humane Fire Company of Norristown
which has been singularly unfortunate with
its horses has just lest another animal.
—Reading’s board of trade hasf avorably con-
sidered a proposition of a Philadelphia carpet
firm to establish a factory in that city.
—The proprietor of the Cooper House, at
Lancaster, followed the female paseball troupa
until the manager was able to pay his bill.
—Mary Wilbhart, of Greensburg, a religious
enthusiast, disturbs the neighborhood with
open air prayers and her midnight prowling.
—Landis Miller, of Auburn, Berks county,
with his family has just returned from Kan-
sas, having made the journey both ways in a
wagon,
—Twenty-five cents worth of apples which
dropped from a tree overhanging two proper-
ties, has lead to a lawsuit Letween Norristown
neighbors.
—The sour mucilage used by a Bethlehem
clerk who had been tampering with his em-
ployer’s mail matter led to the discovery of
his erime.
—The whiskers on a corpse disentered at
Montgomery Cemetery have grown six inches
during the twenty-five years the body has been
under the soil.
—His wife's infidelity being revealed to him
through a tell-tale letter, J. B. Flick, of Brad-
ford, packed:up the woman’s effects and sens"
her to her lover.
— Andrew Fleming, 78 years of age, a veters
an of the Florida war in 1836 and Court Crier
for Adams eounty for thirty years, died at Get:
tysburg, last week.
—Rev. J N. Steel of Ohio, has been elected
pastor of the Reform church of Trappe in place
of Rev. Sehmucker who was deposed for kiss.
ing one of: his parishioners.
—The uniform ofa pedestrian club compos-
ed of Montgomery county girls is red, but the
dear creatures can’t understand why they are
chased by bulls every time they go for a walk.
—Captain U. R. Burkhart, who is said‘to
have robbed McLean Post G. A. R. of Reading:
is also accused of having secured admission te
the Hampton Soldiers’Home by forged letters.
—While J. J. Mosser, of Allentown, was
speeding his horse on a race track Saturday
the animal ran away and was so badly hurt that
it had to be killed. Mosser’s leg was broken
—Henry Bachman, who was released from
the Allentown jail last week, was catight Satur-
day robbing Enoch Frankenfields residence in
South Whitehall. Several companions esaped.
—Jacob Scribner, formerly of Allentown,
who murdered his uncle (Franklin Schriber}
‘atMoorehead, Minn. on September 25, has been
declared insane, and will be sent to the Gov-
ernment Hospital at Washington, D. C.
—John Bucklen, of Phoenixville, visited
Pottstown on Wednesday night, missed all the
| down trains, and, while waiting for a morning
train, fell asleep beside a hob cinder pile, when
a train came atong and crushed his arm.
—Suit for $15 has been brought against
Lancaster county by one of its tavern keepers
on the strength of his having a watering trough
in front of his place. The County Auditors
have tried to cut the allowance down to $3.
—Two writs were issued directing the de-
tention of W. B. Moger, one of Reading's im-
prisoned saloon-keepars, after he had: served
his term, but neveastheless he was released. .
Subsequently he was rearrested and will be
held until his fine is paid.
—Thomas iuvason, of East Bedford, has nev-
er prohibited persons from coming on his prop-~
erty and taking a few apples, but he haa to
break his record for hospitality when a neigh-
bor commenced to load a wagon with fruit
from his orchard the other day.
—A Lancaster county pensioner drawing $14
a month recently boasted to a stranger that he
could set more fence than any man in the Co.
When his pension was stopped he learned
that the stranger was a Government deteet-
ive sent to investigate his ease.
‘—An equity suit was begun last week at
Chambersburg between the two factions of the
United Brethren Church, which has been pre-
pared as a test case, and will in all likelihood
decide the ownership ot hundreds of valuable
church properties in this and other Stateg