Thenoceatic Waldman
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The way wealthy American girls
are selling themselves for noble Euro-
pean titles is but a species of aristo cratic
prostitution.
—Let’s see! CLARKSON is from Iowa.
His system of decapitation didn’t appear
to be enthusiastically indorsed by the vo-
ters of his State.
—Very unexpectedly to Mr. HARRISON,
his attempt to split the solid South was
attended with a will defined fissure in the
solid Northwest.
— Things may turn up in the Iowa
Legislature that may make ALLISON
wish that he hadn’t refused a place in
HARRISON'S cabinet.
—ForRAKER is too small a man to
pose as a magnanimous character, not-
withstanding his congratulatory letter
to his successful Democratic competi-
tor.
—Letters of congratulation on the
manner in which he carried Centre
county are not pouring in upon Adju-
tant General DANIEL HarryMAN HasT-
INGS.
—The recent Ohio election settles the
fact that wool can no longer be utilized
by the Republican politicians as some-
thing to pull over the eyes of credulous
voters.
—The elections having passed off,
the campaign between Chicago and
New York for the World's Fair may
be considered on, and a lively one it
is going to be. ;
—The vendetta among the Kentucky
Republicans threatens to wipe out their
minority in that State which needs ten-
der nursing instead of the hacking and
shooting which the leaders are indulg-
ing in.
—The opinion largely prevails that
the WATCHMAN’'S roosters last week
were the finest lot of Democratie poul-
try that was ever exhibited in Centre
county. They were, indeed, splendid
birds, and all game. :
—The New York city authorities
think they have abated a great nuisance
by stopping the horns of the street mu-
sicians. But the voters of Ohio abated
a good deal greater nuisance by stop-
ping Forakkr's fog horn.
—Thanksgiving is next in order.
Among the other things for which we
have reason to be thankful is the cir-
cumstance that the people are getting
their eyes open to the humbug of a pro-
tective system that doesn’t protect.
—Mr. Harrison's cor.duct in the Mon-
tana business is unique in its indecent
disregard for correct appearance, but.a
President who could puta JouN WANA-
MAKER in his cabinet is capable of com-
mitting almost any impropriety.
—1It is altogether likely that TANNER
is the only Republican that regards the
result of the recent elections with
satisfaction. He is just fool enough to
believe that it was a rebuke to the ad-
ministration for having turned him out.
© .—An exchange belonging to the oth-
er party says that ‘Vermont has the
proud distinction of being the only State
in which the Republican party has nev-
er encountered a disaster.” But is 1t
not rather an example of ingrained
Bourbonism ?
—The largest Democratic majority
ever given by New Jersey—-about 14,-
000 for ABBETT over the kid-glove gen-
tleman, Mr. Gruss—furnishes sufficient
evidence that the lawn tennis vote
doesn’t amount to a hill of beans as a
political factor.
—The handsome increase in the Dem
ocratic majority in Centre County shows
how easily Pennsylvania could have
been rescued from the political pirates
who have her in thrall if the Democrats
all over the State had been equally
united and determined.
—“The most effectual ballot reform is
that which reforms the voter,” sagely
remarks the Philadelphia Inquirer.
This platitude has » pretty sound, but
for practical results wouldn't something
that will keep the boodler and the bull-
dozer from getting in their work an-
swer the purpose better ?
--As the slump in the Republican
campaign in this county clearly shows
that neithes BrowN nor FiepLer
amounts to anything as a party leader,
why not throw them both out as appli-
eants for the Bellefonte post office and
give the place to either CHARLES GAR-
NER, Wirriam Miris, OCnArres
GREEN, or some other colored Repub-
lican who is of some account to the
party.
—By a most outrageous system of ger-
rymandering the Democrats of Towa
were prevented from electing u legisla-
tive majority in addition to a Governor.
If it should turn out that anti-prohibi-
tion Republicans in the Legislature
should join with the Democrats in hust-
ling Mr. ALLISON out of his Senatorial
zeat, a loud howl would be raised about
an unhallowed whisky combination, but
no one would be deceived by such a
hypocritical wail.
VOL. 34. BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 15, 1889.
Money Should Not Gain the Prize.
Having carried a majority of the
State Legislature at the last election it
devolves upon the Democrats of Ohio
to elect a successor to United States
Senator Payne, who is a Democrat.
This will not be the gain of a Senator,
but the holding of that which they al-
ready have, and which the Republicans
confidently expeeted to take from them
by a sweeping victory atthe November
election. It being a certainty that the
Democrats will elect the Senator in this |
instance, quite a number of candidates
are already being brought forward, and
among them unfortunately are the
names of some millionaires.
The United States Senate has become
a favorite object of ambition to pluto-
crats with political and social aspira-
tions. They already occupy more
seats in that body than is good for the
country, and it is to be hoped that the
Democratic Legislature of Ohio will
not add to their number. The Demo-
cratic party is not a platocratic party.
Its doctrines and its policy are antago-
nistic to the schemes of those who want
to bring the government under the con-
trol of the money power, and therefore
millionaires are not the right kind of
material out of which to make Demo-
cratic United States Senators.
The Ohio Legislature six years ago
made © great mistake in preferring Mr.
PayxEe, a millionaire, to that grand old
representative of Democratic principles,
Mr. THurMAN, for United States Sena-
tor, although the former in point of
qualification is greatly supericr to the
average millionaire aspirants for sena-
torial honors, That mistake exerted a
disturbing influence upon the Ohio
Democracy and placed the party in a
false position on the plutocratic ques-
tion. It is hoped that it will not be
repeated ; that the millionaires will be
made to understand that they are not
the sort of characters that the Ohio
Democracy are looking for to represent
them in the United States Senate, and
thatthe high office to be filled may be
given to some one who shall be more
distinguished for his superior qualifica-
tions and correct political principles
than for the extent of his pecuniary
possessions. The Ohio Democracy
should give notice that in the matter of
the United States Senatorship no mil-
lionaires need apply.
——The Republican Judge in Arm-
strong county had an experience at the
recent election which should be a warn-
ing to other judges. That judicial
fu: ctionary attempted to set himself
above the law on the license question.
Regarding his own idea of moral duty
as superior to the letter and spirit of
the statute which directs the granting
of licenses when its provisions are com-
plied with, he determined to follow
that idea as the better guide for his judi-
cial action. The consequence was that
he refused to grant any licenses, thus
making the law a dead-letter. This
suited a certain fanatical sentiment in
his county, but it didn't suit the com-
mon sense of the people who believe
that laws should be administered ac-
cording to their intention, and this
common sense party voted him clear
oft’ the bench.
The Effect of Bigheadeddoss.
Although naturally chagrinedat the
result of the November elections, it is
reported that President HAaARRRISON
can’t see in itany reflexion upon his ad-
ministration. It is not difficult for
him to find a number of personal and
local reasons for the majorities against
his party, but nowhere can he see
that anything he has done or omitted
to do has contributed to the party de-
feat. The way things turned out in
Ohio was, in his opinion, due to popular
objection to a third term; lowa went
Democratic on account of the temper-
ance issue and the personal unpopu-
larity of one of the Republican candi-
dates with the farmers, and as to Vir-
ginia he denies that ManoNE personal-
ly was his candidate or had received
any special support from him.
Mr. Harrisox is so constituted that
it is impossible for him to see
when he isin the wrong.
stitutionally big-headed, having the con-
ceit that usnally belongs to small minds.
Long after the farmers of the west shall
have been in opzn revolt against the
tariff taxes that are so oppressive to
them, the first rumbling of which was
ever
He is con- |
HAVH
undsy v1 og
'D
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
i heard in Iowa, his self-sufficiency will
“render him unable to comprehend the
dissatisfaction, or will lead Lim to at
, tribute it to some other cause. It is
impossible for him to understand that
the overwhelming defeat of Manone
was a condemnation of his unwarranta-
ble interference in State politics, which
he will be ready to repeat at the
next opportunity, notwithstanding the
rebuke. No one but a character
thoroughly saturated with conceit and
| panoplied by an overweening confi-
dence in his official importance and
personal infallibility, would adopt the
course he has done to bring Montana
into the Union as a Republican State
against the expressed will of a majori-
ty of its people and for the purpose of
putting his son into the United States
Senate.
It can’t be expected that Mr. Hag-
rRisoN will learn anything trom the
lessons taught by adverse majorities.
If things go wrong he is sure to believe
that it was everybody's fault but his
own. This is characteristic of people
whose heads are abnormally developed.
An Act That Would Justify Harrison's
Impeachment,
President HarRrI1soN is resorting to
desperate means to bring Mont: na into
the Union as a Republican State, with
two Republican United States Senators,
one of whom would likely be his son
Russern. After the conspiracy to
throw out the Silver Bow county vote,
whereby the State Legislature would
be securred for the Republicans, the
Democrats took the question to the ter-
ritorial courts, the only tribunals that
could rightfully take cognizance of the
matter. The lower court promptly de-
cided against an evident attempt to
steal the Silver Bow representatives,
directing that the vote should be count-
ed as it was cast. An appeal was then
taken to the Supreme Court of the Ter-
ritory, but that tribunal being presu-
mably ‘Demoeratie, President «Hapa:
sox hastened his proclamation admitting
Montana into the Union for no other
purpose than to supplant the territorial
Supreme Court by a State. Supreme
Court from which he expects a decision
in favor of the Republicans.
It is plain to any ordinary discern-
ment thatthe President is guilty of usur-
pation in this action. The territory is
constitutionally not prepared for admis-
sion until all the questions arising out
of its movement for statehood shall
have been determined by the territorial
authorities. Buta very important one
of these questions is deferred by the
President until after tbe territory shall
have become a State, and it is deferred
clearly for a partisan purpose. It is
saic that Mr, HarRrIsON'S action in this
matter was opposed by members of his
cabinet, who condemned it as being ir-
regular and unconstitutional. When
iv is considered that the President's ob-
ject is a personal as well as a partisan
one, involving the election of his son to
the United States Senate, his conduct
with regard to Montana is one of the
greatest outrages ever perpetrated by
the chief executive officer of this gov-
ernment.
Republican Savagery in Kentucky.
Kentucky continues to maintain her
old reputation of being “the dark and
bloody ground.” In some of her back
counties feuds between hostile families
and neighborhoods break out with a
fierceness that usually ends in blood-
shed. Some of these family disputes
have lasted for years,extending over en-
tire counties and ending only when
both factions become exterminated.
It has been the custom of Republi-
can journals to represent this lawless-
ness as springing from Democratic rule
in those regions, but it has been shown
that in both Kentucky and West Vir.
ginia the counties disturbed by these
feuds give Republican majorities, and
that the prominent actors are Republi-
{ can leaders and in some instances of
fice-holders. It is foolish to charge
such a state of affairs to any political
cause, for it springs from a condition of
society with which politics has noth-
ing to do whatever, but it is a fact that
these Kentucky and West Virginia
| vendettas have occurred in neighbor-
hoods where the civil authority is exer-
cised by the opponents of the Demo-
cratic party, the leading participants
being Republicans.
The latest deed of blood in Ken-
tucky was the miserable s'aughter of
each other by two Republican leaders
at Lexington last Friday. They were
not of the low-down uncultivated class
of Republican rutfians who have del-
uged Harlan and other counties of that
State with blood, but were prominent
leaders of Kentucky Republicanism.
Col, Swore and Col. Goonroe had both
been office-holders under the ‘grand
old party,” and one of them had receiv-
ed an appointment under the Harrison
administration, yet they murdered each
other with as much savagery as has
been displayed by the members of the
Howard and Turner factions in Harlan
county. Kentucky Republicanism is
certainly a fit subject for missionary ef-
fort.
Ballet Reform—Voting By Machinery.
The Australian ballot system was
thoroughly tried in Massechusetts on
the 5th inst. and its operation is
spoken of in terms of the highest
praise. The voting was done rap-
idly, accurately and fairly, its secresy
entirely eliminating the fluence of
those who were in the habit of affect
ing the vote by bribery and intimida-
tion, It was fully proved, what has
been claimed for it, that this new bal-
lot system is conducive to fair and
honest elections.
One of its most gratifying effects was
the reduction of the usually large Re-
publican majority to a very slender
plurality. This was done, no doubt,
through its prevention of the bulldoz-
ing of employes which is so commonly
practiced by Republican employers.
Bat the new system is to be commend-
ed not because it affects the majority
of any particular party, but because it
renders the ballot free and untrammel-
ed. Whether the Republican or Dem-
ocratic vote may numerically suffer by
it, it is nevertheless the right method.
It is encouraging to see the wide-
srread interest that Las been excited
by the question of ballot reform. The
Australian system appears to be the
vehicle for carrying it out that receives
the largest amount of public favor.
There are, however, other plans offered.
One of them has been devised by Mr.
J. H. MxyERrs, of Rochester, N. Y., a
gentleman well known in Bellefonte
and neighborhood, who has invented a
device which he calls “The Poor Man's
American Voting Machine,” and which
he claims will furnish an effective means
of overcoming the bribery, intimidation
and ccrraption which to too great an
extent influence our elections. His de-
vice consists of a booth in which the
voter can be strictly private, inside of
which is an iron case provided with
push knobs, each knob representing a
candidate to be voted for and duly la-
beled with thie name. The voter upon
entering the booth pushes the knobs
representing the candidates he wishes
to vote for, which registers his vote in-
side of the iron case. The machinery
is so arranged that the knobs become
set after the voter has pushed them,
thus preventing him from voting more
than once. As he passes out of the
booth the closing of the door resets the
knobs for the next voter. This is
strictly mechanical, ensuring privacy
and a thoroughly correct registering of
the votes. It would dispense entirely
with the use of ballots. All that would
be necessary after the close of the polls
would be for the election officers to
open the machine and make a tran-
script of the votes registered by it.
But we don’t believe that this ma-
chine voting would satisfy the people.
We should think that they wonld pre-
fer the ballot as the medium through
which to express their choice. It is
less artificial and better represents their
individuality. Besides, if the voting
machine should get out of order it
would be fatal to the election. It could
be thrown out of gear by designing par-
ties who would have a point to gain
by such derangement.
The Australian system is the best
that has been devised to correct the
abuses that have crept into our elec-
tions, and no party that does not de-
pend upon intimidation and bribery for
its snecess ean ohjeet to its adoption.
-—— A decided reaction against Pro-
hibition has been shown this year in
Towa, with evidence of a strong dis-
position to iry high license, and a sim-
ilar feeling against constitutional Pro-
hibition is developing in Kansas.
’
NO. 45.
What Was Gainediin the State.
The attention of Democrats was so
much absorbed by the great victories
won everywhere outside of Pennsylva-
na, that they at first failed to realize
what they had actually achieved in
this State notwithstanding the appear-
ance of an unusually large Republi-
can majority. That majority is decep-
tive. It was gained not by Republi-
can strength, but unfortunately through
Democratic indifference, and, we are
ashamed to say, tosome extent through
Democratic treachery. The gain that
swelled the Republican majority to its
large proportions was chiefly made in
Philadelphia where a set of trading
Democratic leaders sold out to the
enemy.
In other counties the Democrats
made notavle gains on the McGrann
vote of 1887. This was notably the
casein Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin,
Franklin, Fulton, Juniata, Mifilin,
Perry and York, also in Bucks, Le-
high, Schuylkill, Lycoming, Centre,
Clearfield, Somerset, Lebanon, Cambria
and Erie. There was a great shrink-
age of the Republican majority inj Alle-
gheny. Altogether there was a gain
of over 10,000 on the MecGrann vote,
and had it not been for the bad faith
of some of the Democratic leaders in
Philadelphia, which swelled the Re-
publican vote to undue proportioas,
Boyer’s majority would have been of
a size that could easily have been over-
come by only half of the colored breth-
ren voting the other way. Asjit is, he
is indebted to the faithful colored hel-
ots who win the party victories and
get none of the spoils.
Of the Democratic counties that
covered themselves with glory by in-
creased majorities Centre can bepoint-
ed to with special pride. The great in-
crease in her majority was due to the
harmonious and united action of her
Democracy, yroducing a result that
fully justified the “halcyon? and vocif-
erous” crowing of her Democratic
roosters.
The minor advantages gained were
numerous. In Armstong, Chester and
Westmoreland counties the Democrats
elected President Judges. In Frank-
lin, Huntingdon, Perry and Venango
counties, all of them Republican,
Democratic Sheriffs were elected, the
Perry Democrats, in fact, electing all
the important officers. Allegheny
county elected a Democratic District
Attorney by over 10,000 majority, and
Fasette and Westmoreland, which last
year were carried by the Republicans,
returned to the Democratic fold with
old time majorities.
There is really nothing in the result
in the State to discourage its Demo-
crats, but a steadfastness was display-
ed by the rural Democracy that pro-
inises the ultimate redemption of the |
State. It may come sooner or later,
but come it will.
"A Vain Hope.
Our greatly esteemed contemporary,
the Philadelphia Record, in view of the
result of the recent elections, says that
it remains for the Republican leaders
“to arrest the tendency of their party to
dissolution” by boldly taking up the
work of tariff reform in the next Con-
gress. But to expect this is to indulge
a vain hope. When it is seen that all
the leaders of the party,from Mr. Hag-
r1soN down, and the leading journals,
are protesting against interpreting the
result in Iowa, Ohio and Massachu-
setts as having any reference whatever
to the tariff question, how can it be ex-
pected that wisdom will be imparted to
them on this subject by such experience ?
Besides, if it should begin to dawn up-
on them that there is something wrong,
the remedy could hardly be looked for
from party leaders who are indebted to
the tariff beneficiaries for the means
that secured their political success. Tt
wouldn't be easy for them to shake off’
the control of the fellows who furnish-
ed the “fat,” even if they were dispos-
ed to reform.
It is with regret we record the
deatl ot State Treasurer Wa. B. Harm
which occurred last week at Harrisburg,
not unexpectedly, as he had been in
poor health for the past year. Per-
sonally he had many friends,and in his
official career he bore a good reputation.
He was prominent in his party and
had the confidence of its leaders. His
services during the war gave him a
good military reputation. Gov, BEAVER
has appointed cashier Livsey to fill out
his unexpired term.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Indians at the Carlisle School eat 150
pounds of beef a day.
—Thirty tons of wire will be used for Will
iamsport’s electric light system.
—Eliza Savage, aged 63 years, of Reading,
has been arrested as a common seold.
—During the past year 200,000 rustless iron
kettles have been made in Pittsburg.
—The striking log drivers working on the
islands near Sunbury have returned to work.
—Ten gunners at Meadville, Lancaster, bag-
ged ninety-five rabbits on Monday afternoon.
—DPeter Elson, of Lancaster, has been held
for maliciously destroying property in a cem-
etery.
—A birth, a marriage and a death happened
in a West Conshohocken family within a
weel.
—On Tuesday next Mrs. Elizabeth Kuehn of
| Manchester, near York,will eelebrate her
102 birthday.
—For fifty-one years James O'Hare, of New
Philadelphia, near Pottstown, has served as an
, election officer.
i —Justas he had cast his vote on the 5th,
| inst.John Wildermouth, of Reading, was strick-
{ en with paralysis.
—The families of the men killed at the
Colebroke furnaces will be cared for by Mr.
Coleman, the owner.
—Professor Boyer, of Pottstown, has been a
chorister for over fifty years. He has pastiei-
pated in 4000 funerals.
— Constables of Darby and Shazon Hill are
making business for each other by hawing
one another arrested.
—Professor Frank Stouch has tasght [22,6953
persons at Reading how to dance. It took him
tiity-three years to do it.
— A single shot fired by George - Amey,. near
Scranton, blew off the ear of his Hound and
killed the rabbit too.
—I% is whispered that two partizipants in
Chester's baseball carnival will be: publicly
married at theend of the affair.
—Complaint is made of the snail like pace of
the Williamsport street cars, and thers is a ru-
mor that sleeping-ears will be put ow.
—The watch-dog in a Reading shoe factory
aroused the neighbors by its barking, and it
was found that the factory was in flames.
—*“Lemon parties” are becoming very pop--
ular in. Williamsport, as every young mau is
expected to bring a lemon, girl and squeezer.
—An; Allentown tailor has invented a.*‘shoul-
der pretector,” to prevent the powder on the
girl's faces from soiling the young men’s coats.
—A young Moreland farmer has named’ his
cows after his various sweethearts: He has a
large herd,. but found names enough to go
round.
—Three Williamsport grocerymen have
been arrested for selling liquor to boys and on
Sunday. The liquor was cider, but it “got
there.”
—Christian Fegley, aged 64 years, of Sha-
molkin, has worked around coal mines for
fifty-t wo years. The average life of a-miner is
45 years.
—Coxe Bros & Co. are ercting a lange iron
breaker at Drifton, the first one in the coun-
try, with a capacity esti mated at 1800 mine cars-
per day.
—The- Seventh day Adventists,. who have
been holding meetings at Pottstown in a tent,
baptised four converts in the Schuylkill River
on Sunday.
—George Johnson, colored, now in Lancaster
jail for robbery, is wanted in Dauphin, North-
umberland, and Lycuming counties on sim-
ilar offences.
—Clifton S. Denney, of Harrisburg, has been
given a gold medal by fellow-workmen for
having landed a ten pound salmon a few
weeks ago.
—A $310 colt belonging to W. H. D. Goodshall
near Lancaster, choked itself to death a few
days ago by having its head caught in the
feed: box.
—Norristown was startled by the rumored
death of Fannie Davenport in that towu on
Saturday. Fannie, however, was a well
known car herse.
—DBurglars have been very bold at Sechuylki:l
Haven, and the other night they ransacked
a house where three men were sleeping with
guns at their bedside.
—Seventy year old Mr. Dusel became hope-
lessly mired in the mud on one of Lancaster's
street corners. The old man had to call for
assistance to be dragged out.
| —Led to the spot by a.dream, Frank Stout,
| of Catasauqua, recovered the body of his friend
| William Kennedy, who was swept over a dam
and drowned a few days ago.
—The club house of the Lehigh Wniversity
students are favorite places for visits.of thieves,
three robberies having occurred in as many
weeks, in which nearly a hundred, dollars and
a large amount of clothing were carried off.
—Henry and Daniel Wick, pork butchers of
Montgomeryville, were stopped on: the road a
few days ago by a masked and armed highway
man, but they drove into. him and left him in.
jured on the road.
—A few nights ago thousands of wild
geese passed over Easton on their way South.
The electric lights seemed to. attract them.
The policemen say they could have hit the
geese with stones,
—David Moyer, 23 years old, committed sui-
cide on Thursday at South Whitehall, Lehigh
county, on account of remorse for the burning
of the barn of his employer, Farmer Henry
Hundt, on. last Sunday.
—John McCartney, the proprietor of the
Lenni House, at Lenni, has been held for sell-
ing liquor to Nehemiah Ford, who was intox-
icated and who lost his life on a railvoad after
leaving McCartney's house.
—Winnie Hunter, of New Castle, was improp-
erly addressed by aman on the street, and
quietly stepping into a restaurant she borrow.
ed a bung driver, with which she pummeled.
her tormenter until he eried for mercy.
—Mur. and Mrs. Charles Dengler, of Bulltowa
became separated from their child while visig®
ing Pottstown a few days ago, The mother se-
cured the sympathy of a lot of school children
and pressed them into service as detectives.
By this means the lost child was restored to
her in a short time.
—Alderman Jones yesterday at Allentown
gave judgment against the borough of Ma.
cungie in favor of Eugene Wertz for $30) boun-
ty elaimed by him for services in the late war.
The case will be appealed to test the constitu-
tionality of the act of May 8, 1880, under which
the elaim was brought,
—~Collections are being taken up In the pub.
lie s2hools of Lehigh county for the Johnstown
Schools. Each teacher is expected to give a
day’s salary, and this, with what the children
contribute, will be forwarded by Superinten-
dant Knauss, of Lehigh, on the 27th instant, as
a Thanksziving day offering,