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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
— There were no flies on Centre
county last Tuesday.
—The Democrats of Centre county
got together this fall.
—Brow~x and FIEDLER will be
blaming it on each other.
—The Hastings boom in Centre
county on Tuesday was a good deal
like the Mahone boom in Virginia.
— There is some question as to whe
struck BiLLy PATTERSON, but there is
no dispute as to what struck BrLry
MaHONR.
—It appeared easy enough to steal
Montana, but Quay didn’t tod Sinve
boodle enough to buy the Old Domin
“ion.
— The little rebel who was flattened
out in Virginia the other day is not
likely to go on the Republican presi-
dential ticket in 1892.
— With harmony and hard work the
Centre’ county Democracy achieved an
old time victory. They can always do
it when they pull togetl er.
— There wasn’t much of a Hastings
boom in last Tuesday's work in this
county. There isnothingin it to which
the young Napoleon can point with
pride.
— Ballot reform came near making
a Democratic State of Massachusetts,
affording another illustration of the
fact that reform and Democracy go
hand in hand.
—The most gratifying feature of the
result in Virginia is the notice it so
emphatically served on a meddlesome
administration to keep its nose out of
State elections.
—The people ot Virginia having pre-
vented Mahone and the niggers from
ruling their State the ery of “another
Southern outrage” will be heard all
along the Republican line.
—The ring leaders expected that the
‘vote for State lveasurer, in this county,
it not a Republican victory would at
least be a stand off. The county chair-
man displayed his political sagacity by
entertaining such an expectation.
Erm ————
A New Trust Looming Up.
The information of a Barbed Wire
and Wire Nail Trost is one of the re
ported future industrial events. In re-
gard to this new squeeze an influential
exchange says thatone or two sugges
tions may be timely to those who are
thinking of organizing it.
The first is that unless the combina-
tion will have some method of. freez-
ing out competition the trust organiza-
tion is not only useless but dangerous
to those who join it. The present con-
dition of the Cotton-seed oil, Sugar and
Lead Trusts proves that fact. If the
proposed trust cannot prevent other
concerns from competing, it will com.
pete with them at a disadvantage. If
it succeeds in raising the prices it offers
a premium the starting of new
works. Unless in one form or an-
other the proposed combination can
forbid competition it will bring loss in-
stead of profit to its members.
On the other hand, if the control of
patents enables it to shut off competi-
tion, another very possible result looms
up. The concerns that are threatened
with being frozen out say that they
will agitate among the farmers of the
West for a repeal of the tariff on wire
rods; and it isa well-known fact that
the temper of the West is very favor-
able to agitation ot that sort.
Are the wire manufacturers desirous
of supplying the strongest sort of am-
munition for that kind of a campaign.
I ——C————
for
The Supreme Court last Mon-
day gave a decision which is of consid-
erable importance on a certain point
to the liquor trade. Joseph Fleming,
a reputable druggist of Pittsburg, sold
a quantity of liguorin Allegheny coun-
ty to be delivered C. O. D. in Mercer
county. The Mercer county court
held that this was a sale in that coun-
ty in violation ot the liquor law. The
supreme court reverses this constre-
tion of the law. “To convert,” it says,
“this entirely iunocent and purely
civil transaction, respecting the mode
of collecting the price of the goods, n-
to a crime ig, in our judgment, a grave
the criminal law, to
' The deci
sion is of importance, as it affects a
larve traffic by wholesale dealers. The
court was pretty closely divided on the
subject, as Justices WiLLiams, CLARK
and McCorruy dissented. The other
tour judges united in: the majority
perversion of
which we cannot assent.’
opinion.
A —
a Wa-
was a
——1In this county it wasn’t
It
terloo tor the Republicans.
whiskey -loo.
VOL. 84.
THE ELECTIONE
NEW YORK FIRM IN THE DEMO-
CRATIC COLUMN.
It is Swept from the Hudson River to
Lake Erieby the Democratic Wave.
20,000 Majority Caps the Column of
its Victory.
In New York the Democrats won a
great victory. Their State ticket is
elected by a majority of about 20,000.
The city gave a Democratic major-
ity of 70,000. Cuarix, Democrat, is
re-elected mayor of Brooklyn. The
Democrats made large gains in both
branches of the Legislature.
CB ——T——
THE OHIO FOG HORN SHUT OFF.
Foraker Surrenders the Republican Flags
The Democracy of the Buckeye State
Pay Their Respects to the Ad-
ministration with a Majority
of 10,000.
gratifying feature of Tues-
A very
day's great work was the defeat of the |
blatant and Foraker in
Ohio. This personified the
vorst characteristies of the party he
epresented in the Buckeye State. He
made himself obnoxiously aggressive
in maintaining its worst measures, and
was the most active in keeping up the
animosities of the late war. His prin-
:ipal political stock in trade was the
bloody shirt, and his rebel flag episode,
oy which heendeavored to turnsection-
al feeling to political account,is remem-
yered with disgust by all who depri-
pestiferons
man
ate such incendiary demagoguism.
[he defeat that has overtaken him
vill go a great way to put an end to
such unpatriotic, political methods.
[n addition to a majority of nearly
10,000 for Campers, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, the Democrats
have won a majority of the Legielature
vhich ensures a Democratic United
Ste tes Senator, and a fair redistricting
Hf the State for congress.
Mahone Overwhelmed 4 in odie Old
Dominion.
40.000 Majority !
Boodle and Patronage Powerless to
Avert the Storm.
Rebuke to The Administration.
whole
was
where the
administration
In
Virginia
ower of the
i
BELLEF
“STATE RIG
whelming majority. The rebel candi-
date was backed by every influence in
they way of federal patronage that
bear in his favor.
use of money was conspicuous,
in spite
from 30,000 to 40,000.
HONE, and in their opposition to him
independent Republicans.
two-thirds majority.
telligent white people against
Fortress Defeated.
| A
| In Maryland the Republicans made
a bitter fight with the vain hope of car-
| rying that Democratic State, their ef-
| forts being particularly
along the line.
MISSISSIPPE.
|
! The Republican Campaign in Mississippi
| Ended ina Farce.
cidedly one sided. After CHALMERS,
the ex-rebel and negro-butcher, whom
the Republicans nominated for Gover-
Democratic ticket.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Tue REPUBLICAN
LY REDUCED.
The election in Massachusetts under
the operation of the Australian system,
passed off very satisfactorily. The
Yepublican plurality for Governor was
retuead to 5,979. It has formerly been
from 15,000 all the way up to 40,000.
HTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
FONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 8, 1889.
exerted to elect MAHONE, the State was
carried by the Democrats by an over-
President HARrrisoN could bring to
QUAY, CLARKSON
and DupLey gave the campaign their
direct attention, bringing to bear their
peculiar appliances among which the
and yet
of their worst efforts the
Democratic majority in the Old Domin-
jon reached the unusual figures of
Many of the
colored voters refused to vote for Ma-
they were joined by a large number of
The Gener-
al Assembly will be Democratic by a
This sweeping
victory, which has made the Virginia
Democracy wild with enthusiasm, is to
be attributed to the uprising of the in-
the
domination ef MauoNE through the
instrumentality of the negro popula-
tion, and against the methods of the
unserupulous politicians with whom
he surrounded himself and who had
the full backing of the administration.
MARYLAND REPELS THE ENEMY.
The Effort to Capture this Democratic
strenuous in
| Baltimore, but defeat attended them all
The election in Mississippi was de-
nor, withdrew from the contest, there
was practically no opposition to the
MAJORITY GREAT-
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NO. 44.
THE SOLID NORTHWEST BROKEN.
MARCH OF TARIFF REFORM ACROSS
THE PRAIRIES.
Ai Democratic Governor Elected in Towa.
The most remarkable
Tuesday's result is the probable election
of Borses Democratic governor of Iowa.
The returns, at last accounts, are not
full, but if the Democratic gains go on
increasing as they are so far reported,
the Democratic plurality will be be-
tween 8,000and 10,000. This will be the
first Democratic Governor in the his-
tory of Towa. The very latest from
this State is that Boises is elected by
3,000 and that the legislature which
choses a successorto Senator ALLISON
is very close, probably Democratic.
NEW JERSEY AS TRUE AS EVER.
The Blast of Defeat Blows
Through Grubb’s Whiskers.
Abbett Carries the State by a Handsome
Majority and the Legislature
All Right.
The election of ABsETT for governor
of New Jersey was a great Democratic
victory. Unusual efforts were made to
elect Gruss, his Republican oppouent,
but New Jersey remains solidly in the
Democratic column by a majority of
7585. The Democrats also carried a
majority of the Legislature.
STS ——
The Result in the State.
It could not be reasonably expected
that the Democrats would carry Penn-
sylvania in the face of the large ad-
verse majorities with which they have
been confronted for some years past.
There were good reasons why the Re-
publicans should be defeated, and for
these reasons there was ground for hope
that the contest might at least be
close. The contemptuous manner in
which the claims of labor were treated;
the crooked management of the State
treasury ; the failure to give the farm-
ers equal taxation, and the habitual
catering of Republican executives and
legislatures to the corporations, should
have had the effect of turning the
majority the other way. But the op-
portunity was lost through the apathy
of the Democrats themselves. To the
stay-at-home Democrats must be attri-
buted the large Republican majority.
In Philadelphia alone the Democratic
vote was 50,000 short. The same
supineness seemed to exist in other
parts of the State. In contrast with this
was the complete organization of the
Republican machine, which got in its
work with the usual effect. Bovrr’s
majority will be about 60,000. These
big Republican majorities can be
wiped out only when the Democrats of
Pennsylvania are moze thoroughly or-
the polls and does his full duty.
—————————
—In the language of “Col.” Go.
W. TaoMas, P. I. R. “who the devil is
9
this man FreyiNg, anyhow ?
feature of
ganized and every Democrat comes to |
Misrepresentation About Colored Edu-
cation.
That cranky public character, Sena-
tor BraIr, of New Hampshire,who has
been engineering the project of making
the United States Treasury an immense
school fund to be distributedamongthe
States, was one of the most active of
the northern Republican speakers who
were down in Virginia helping Ma-
HONE'S bad cause. In a speech to the
negroes of Richmond he declared that
the white people of the South were op-
posed to the education of the nogroes.
Facts and figures show how recklessly
false was this charge.
In an interview the other day Gov.
Lee showed that the annual outlay of
that State for negro education under
the public school system amounts to
$340,000, ninety per cent.of which is'paid
by white taxpayers. In addition, there
are advanced institutions for negroes
supported by the whites. Said Gover
nor LEE: .
I am sorry to see the two races drifting apart
in Virginia, but that is the unmistakable ten-
dency. They are getting farther apart every
year, and there seems to be no hope of ever re-
establishing cordial and kindly relations be-
tween them. This is chiefly the fault of the
colored people, and they will be the chief suf-
ferers by it. By their persistent political hos-
tility to the better elements of the white popu-
lation, they are driving off the only people who
can help the.n—the white taxpayers of the
State. The latter are already growing restive
under the great burden of negro education and
criminal expenses, which amounts to an enor-
mous sum annually, and for which the white
people have no return and seeno good results.
According to Dr. A. G. Haveoop,
the agent of the John F. Slater fund
for the education of the negro race,
during the last 20 years the Southern
States have contributed in the form of
direct taxation for the support of color-
ed schools $37,377,673.24. Nine-tenths
of the taxes for this purpose were paid
by the white taxpayers of the Southern
States. According to another estimate
of the New Orleans Times-Democrat,the
white taxpayers of the South have paid
out in the last two decades for thi edu-
cation of the colored youth $39,500,000.
This hardly sustains the wild statement
of Senator BLAIR, to encourage the ne-
groes in solid opposition to the white
people of the South, which seems to
be the only return for the millions
which the latter are appropriating for
the education of their former slaves.
The Base Ball Monopoly.
The trouble among the Brotherhood
of Base Ball Players may be traced to
the disposition to run into monopoly
that so generally prevails. The base-
ball business having got down to a pe-
cuniary basis, it was organized strictly
on the principle of a close corporation
and monopoly. Competitors could not
be allowed in the profitable enterprise.
Players were bought and sold, as they
themselves say, “like sheep.” The
result of the monopoly is that while it
was sustained for some time by its form
of organization, its abuses have de-
stroyed it entirely. The Brotherhood
will be able to start grounds of their
own. The League will have to quit
the field or organize their teams
with unknown players. When it is
seen how easy it is to break up such
combinations as have recently existed,
the life of any that may be formed in
the future will not be long.
The baseball monopolies did not in-
crease the cost of life to the public.
They were no such burdens as those
which tax the people’s food, fuel and
light. It is to be wished that other and
more iniquitous combinations could be
broken up as easily as this seems like-
ly to be.
a —
The Montana Steal.
Tt was hoped that the decision of the
Supreme Court of Montana that the
vote of Silver Bow precinct must be
counted would prevent the Republicans
from stealing the State, but the Repub-
can returning board in spite of this de-
cision, has thrown out the vote of the
precinct, thus stealing for the Republi-
cans all the State cffices except the
Governor. The theft was especially in-
| tended to secure the control of the
| State Legislature and thereby get the
two United States Senators. This is
the most high-handed and infamous
political robbery committed since the
theft of Louisiana and Florida in 1876.
The present leaders of the Republican
| party are resolved to maintain them-
selves in power at any hazard and by
|
|
any means.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—About 90,000 eggs are being hatched at the
State Fishery.
—Reading’s game market was glutted with
rabbits on Saturday.
—A di:pht
lic schools in Erie.
: —The female athletic class of West Chester
is said to be very proficient.
—The Chester County Agricultural Society
cannot pay its premiums this year.
—In his excitement, a Norristown gunner
shot his dog, and the rabit escaped.
—A 16-year-old lad, of Oil City drove a hook
into the ceiling and hanged himself on it.
—Max Lowkenkind and Harris Beckor,
salesmen, have disappeared frem Hazelton
—Frank Weidel, of Lebanon, had a desperate
encounter ina dark cellar with a pole-cat a few
days ago.
—The Norristown Hospital Trustees will
id a tablet to the memory of General Hart-
ranft.
—The cattle disease, called ergotism, caused
by eating ceral grass, continnes unabated in
Berks county.
—A scarcity of corn huskers has delayed
the husking work with the farmers in the
adjacent counties,
—Pottstowners are complaining because the
bakers of that city cut the size of the loaf as
well as the price. :
—All the labor organizations of Lancaster
have formed into a certral union and perma-
nent officers elected. .
—Yellow was the dominant color at the
wedding at Muney of Miss Sprout and E. S.
Herbert, of Philadelphia.
—Wilson Moyer, of Re: wing vicinity, shota
silver hawk the other day measuring three
feetnine inches from tip to tip.
—John Shearer, a Stonerville blacksmith
who enjoyed the reputation of being the strong
est man in Berks county, is dead.
—A lizzard that is supposed to have lived i in
her stomach for twelve years was expector-
ated by Mrs. Bertram of Reading,
—Media’s colored population is indignant at
a barber of the town who has barred his door
against his colored brethren.
—All the girls employed in H. H. Roedel’s
shoe factory at Lebanon have struck because of
the discharge of a fellow employe.
—The Board of School Directors, of Potts-
town is about to establish a savings fund _in
connection with the public schools.
—James Campbel, of Eddystown, near Chester
fell into a vat. knze deep with boiling soap
and he had to stand there tili rescued.
—Jack Manning, a Rouseville boy, who had
his skull fractured by a playmate a month ago
and was thought to be fatally hurt, is recover-
ing.
—Mrs. Eugene High, of Dillingersville, Le-~
high county, has a “hegonia” plant the leaves
of which measure forty inches in circumfer-
ence.
—Farmer Pottoger, of Rehrersburg, Berks
county, has raised 800 bushels of corn on six
acres, and thirty-two earson an average fill a
bushel.
—Charles Von Lew, of Reading,ginsisted on
making a lodging-house of the worshiping
place of the United Association, and has been
arrested.
—A l-year-old child of James Guldin, of
Montney, Berks county, was burned fatally by
upsetting a lamp, which exploded, on Thurs-
day night,
—Someone sent a lot of flowers to Murderer
Bartholomew in the Easton jail, but as he toss-
ed them aside he said he wished they were to-
bacco.
—Since October 16, Charles Mickley, of Allen-
town, has lost five of his six children by diph-
theria. They were all boys, ranging from 6 to
12 years.
—E. B. Montgomery, of West Burlington,
Bradford county, has found an ochre bed on
his farm which isin three shades, and yields
three more on burning.
—Fifty dollars has been returned to the
Penn Mutual Life Iusurance Company by a
conscience stricken resident of Downingtown
who had wrongfully received it.
—Tax Collector J. A. Schroeer, Albany town-
ship, Berks county, has been arrested and
held in bail to answer the charge of having
failed to pay over $1150 due the county.
—A small spice wood tree is growing through
a knot hole in the floor of the United Brethren
Church in Falmouth, Lancaster county. It is
three feet high, and in perfect health.
—Three West Chester men were arranged
for shooting a rabbit on Sunday, but they
were discharged from custody by proving
that the animal was killed by a, carrom shot.
—John Imodowiski, a Pole, with. $160 in his
posession, disappeared from his boarding-
house at Hazleton, on wedneseay, and the
entire Polish colony is searching for the body.
—A Harrisburg apothecary is working on a
slot-and-nickle dispensary which will shove
out a castor-oil-capsule, a mustard plaster, a
Seidlitz powder, ete. on the insertion of the
coin.
—An Allentown citizen, in endeavoring to
utilize all his time profitably, tried to cut his
corns on a rail-road train, and, while go-
ing round acurve he was thrown and the knife
entered his foot.
—Murderer Bartholomew, at Easten, come
plains that he cannot sleep with the watch-
man’s dark lantern turned upon him ; but the.
jail officials think he desires an oportunity to.
commit suicide.
—A Coroner's jury at Beaver Falls rendered.
averdict-of suicide in the case of a sudden
death at that place on the testimony of a phy-
sician that he had found a package of arsenic
in a neighboring lot.
—Its free lunches is. one of the features. of
Reading, and it has a national reputation, a-
mong traveling men on this account, On
Saturday thirty-seven free lunches wene adyer-
tised in one paper.
—Lancaster jokers made a saleon-keeper
pay for a string of birds three times. They re-
moved them, from his refrigerator each time
and sent them in to him by a different person
to be bartered for again.
—Josiah Fritz, a farmer living near Stony
Run, Berks county, hanged himself on Wed
nesday. He was formerly a hotel-keeper at
Summit Hill, and became erazed by the Pro-
hibition agitation last spring.
—Letter-Carrier Ealer, of Easton who was
charged with embezzling funds of Lafayette
Post, G. A. R.settled the case by refunding
the money, which he had loaned to friends who
were unable to pay it when promised.
— Patrick Hughes last Friday at Scranton en:
tered the house of Martin Schultz and deman-
ded money of Schultz's 2 year old daughter
but when Shultz appeared Hughes drew a
knife upon him, whereupon Schultz shot him
fatally.