BY =. GRAY MEEK. Ink Stings. —Brazil effected a great revolution with less fighting than it takes to settle a factional misunderstanding in XKen- tucky. —From the indifference shown by New York in the matter, it looks as if the World's Fair will take Horack GREELEY’s advice and go west. —A preacher with five wives is one of Pennsylvania's curiosities. ~~ SoLoMON must have been the biblical character that this much married minister tried to imitate. —Isn’t BEAVER, who is willing to hand Pennsylvania over to the control of the corporations, a nice character to assume the championship of state sover- eignty ? —1Is DECKER'S letter, which we pub- lish in this issue of the WATCHMAN, to be taken as a gauge of the intelligence of the party he represents in the Com- missioners’ office ? —The President came home from the Chesapeake with more game in his bag than he succeeded in securing in Vir- ginia, Ohio or Towa. His gun kicked awfully on those latter hunting grounds. —[t does not become the Democracy to assist in filling up the United States Senate with millionaires. The plutocrat in polities is an excrescence that should be confined exclusively to the monopoly party. —Mr. HARRISON'S admirers are brag- ging about the ducks he shot on the Chesapeake marshes last week. But isn’t this incident suggestive of the dead duck that will be found in the White House after the election of 1892 ? -—When honest GROVER CLEVELAND sits down to his Thanksgiving turkey he can do so with the consciousness that it would increase the thankfulness of a oreat majority of his fellow citizens if he were taking his turkey in the White House. —The vote in Philadelphia by no means indicated the relative strength of the two parties in that city, but it rather disclosed the disgraceful fact that rotten Democratic leaders in that quarter can’t keep away from the Republican barrel when it’s on tap. --We hope that our worthy Governor will not declare war against Uncle Sam for interfering with the Pennsylvania cow. But, speaking of cows, wasn’t the fence law which his Excellenzy signed, aimed at the liberty of those use- ful animals ? : —The movements that are being made in Kansas and Towa to resubmit the question of prohibition to a popu- lar vote would seem to indicate that long abstinence has made the people of that part of the wild and woolly west dis- tressingly dry. —The Brazilian upheavel may re- sult in loosening the underpinning of the Spanish as well as the Portu- gees throne, in which case the nursery of little ALpHONsO0, the Baby McKee of the Spanish monarchy, would have to be shifted to other quarters. —One would think that the turkeys, in view of their impending fate incident to Thanksgiving, would feel as down- hearted as the defeated Republican can- didates in Virginia, Towa and Ohio. It is certainly a sad season for turkeys and Republicans. —We can send our congratulations to the Brazilians on their adoption of a republican form of government, but when it comes to the question of trade a Chinese wall of our own building stands the way of commercial intercourse between the two republics. in —If the serious illness of JEFF Davis should result fatally the politicians whose chief stock in trade is sectional animosity would lose one of thei me st useful bugaboos. For their sake we hope that the old rebel will not pass in his checks just vot, for we know how badly they would feel about it. —The Philadelphia Press says tha “the New England cotton mills are paving the largest dividends of the de- 7 Why shouldn’t they be making when they have the ad- raw material? But mills which cade. biz money vantace of a free how is it with the woolen have to work with a taxed material ? —As Puck pictures it, Uncle Sam makes an apologetic bow to Mr. Haves and asks his pardon for having consid- «d him the weakest President the government has ever tad. Our Uncl is richt in believing that as a weakling the present presidental incumbent dis counts the fraudulent product of the 8 t 7 swindle. er ~—In Philadelphia a number of callow Republican young ‘men have formed what they eall an anti-Cobden clut Considering the benefits that have ro sulted from the teaching of the grea Hnglish economic reforneer, there woul be about as tnuch sense in f rming ant Galileo, anti Oberlin, anti-Jenner, anti Wilberforce, or anti-Franklin clubs, a there is in an anti-Cobden club, and th: time may come when the Philadelphi men will have understanding +nouzh to see it. young JHE. (Tr a — Democratic BL YOU, 8%. No Coercion. The Erie Herald, which hasthe repu- tation of being theorgan of Hon. W. L Scott, some days ago made the follow- ing expression : The Democratic voters everywhere should see to it that no man is “hnsen to represent the party in any eapacity--eithier as a local official, committeeman, county or State delegate--who is not a pronounced and open friend of GROVER CLeverLAND. Make every aspirant for Demo- cratic votes show his colors. He who hesitates or is suspected ot disloyalty to our great lead- er, who was defeated by fraud, corruption, and a disgraceful trade, shouid be relegated to the rear. Begin at the beginning and put only sound Democrats in representative positions. Send to the State Convention “men who are known to be in favor of the Cleveland policy of tariff reform and ballot reform. The candidate for Governor should be a pronounced, unequiv- ocal CLEVELAND man. Such a man will bring out the Democratic vote as it has never ieen brought out before, and we firmly believe he will be elected. This is an extraordinary proposition and as objectionable as it 1s extraordi- nary. What occasion is there for re- sorting to such coercive methods in be- half of Mr. CLeveEraNp ? The Presi- dential question is not before the Democracy at this time and will not be until 1892. will be time enough to determine how it shall be met, and it is not likely that | then the members of the party will al- low any such restriction uyon their ac- tion and choice as is proposed in the | above paragraph. There is no doubt that with but few exceptions the Democrats of Pennsylva- nia would prefer GROVER CLEVELAND as the next candidate of the party for President. best and most reliable representative of Democratic principles thai can be found among the party leaders, es- pecially entitled to their confidence and support on account of the stand he has taken for tariff reform. Their attach- ment to him has been strengthened by their consciousness of the villainous means that were used to defeat him. There is a combination of circum- stances operating to make him the favorite of the party in the question of | a Preside .tial nomination. This can | with reasonable confidence be relied upon to secure for him the support of the Pennsylvania Democracy, should | he again be presented for nomination, without a resort to the compulsory | measures suggested by the Erie jour- nal. from Mr. Scott, then we have to say | that he is displaying a premature and pernicious activity in this matter. As the situation now appears, we are em- phatically for Grover CLEVELAND as the leader of the party in the next Presidential contest, yet on this ques- tion our motto is, “no coercion.” —Wr regret to learn of the sever- ance of Joun H. McGiNyess, Esq. from the editorial department of the Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin with which he was connected for the long period of twenty-one years. The pros- perity of that paper has been due in a great measure to superior business man- | agement, but much of it could justly be - attributed to Mr. McGiNNess' editorial ability. He imparted to it the tone without which no journal can attain a respectable and influential position. As far back as the '50's this veteran journalist appeared as a historian in he publication of his first edition ot ‘he History of the West Branch Val- Recently he has interspersed his :ditorial duties with the labor of re- vising and enlarging this important :ontribution to the history of our State, ind now, having vacated the editorial ripod, he intends, as we learn, to de- vote his time and attention to the inter- ast of this publication. We trust that 1e may be abundantly rewarded for the -areful research and literary talent he aas devoted to it. ev. It would not be surprising if the Affects of the revolution in Brazil should extend to Portugal, which had een so long and so intimately connect- «di with its former great South Amer- can possession, and if Portugal should start oft on the republican track it vould be difficult to keep Spain from roing the same The Spanish eninsula, containing those two king- is permeated with a sentiment intagonistic to monarchy, and it may equire only an example such as that way. loms, et by Brazil to induce the Portugees ind Spaniards to give their sovereigns notice to quit, LLEFONTE, When it shall come it | They regard him as the If its method is an inspiration | as a D: fender of State Sov- ereignty. Posing is boiling over with indignation. ihe cause ot his wrath is the action of the agents of the Bureau of Animal Indus- try, a branch of the National Depart ment of Agriculture, in quarantining cattle in the neighborhood of Upland, Chester county. The Governor re- gards this as a presumptuous invasion of the sovereignty ot a State that is distinguished by having him as its chief executive officer, and he is going to let the general government under- stand that if the cows of Pennsylvania are to be quarantined it shali be done only by authority emanating from the source over which he presides. We should think that it makes very little difference to the farmers of Penn- sylvania whether their herds are pro- tected from infectious diseases by the action of the general or of the State government, and the excitement of the Governor on this question looks very much as if he wanted to swell out and look bigover a matter of very little | consequence. [There are other things about which | his indignation might be excited with | more advantage to the people of the | State than is likely to result from his wrath about the quarantined cattle. The habitual disregard for the pro- visions of the constitution intended to | restrain railroads and other corpora- [ tion; the legislative favoritism shown for corporate interests and contempt for the claims of the wage-earners ; | the jugglery by which the demand of the farmers for equalization of taxes has been set aside, and the general governmental policy of the State by which the money power is advanced to the detriment of the public welfare—- all these things should make him an- gry, but they don’t raffle his temper in the least. And on the subject of cattle, we don't believe the Governor is halt as ! mad about the general government in- terfering in the matter of quarantin- | ing Pennsylvania cattle as were the peopie of this region last spring on ac: Joon: of his signing the bill that re- strained the liberty of the poor man’s | cow. The | fender Governor's posing as the de- of Pennsylvania's sovereignty lin this quarantined cow business bor- ders closely on the ridiculous. Death of a Great Lawyer and Demo- crat. Philadelphia, and in fact Pennsyl- vania, shas sustained a great loss in the death of Hon. Lewis C. Cassy, the eminent lawyer and political leader, which occurred very unexpectedly last Tuesday morning at his home in Ger- mantown. He had been ill for several days, but his illness was not of such a character as to prepare the public for the announcement of a fatal termina- tion. A form of heart disease was the immediate cause of his death. He was easily the ablest member of the Philadelphia bar, occupyinga leading position for almost a generation, and in the counsels of the Democratic par- ty he exerted as great an influence as he did in thelegal faternity. Although never solicitous for official position he held several important public trusts, making a peculiarly lustrous record as Attorney General of Pennsylvania. It will be difficult to fill his place in the profession of which he was so brilliant a member and in the party to which he gave such able and distinguished support. Post Waster ttenarsl Ww ANAMAK- ER'S proposition to have the postage reduced on fourth-class mail matter is meeting strenuous with opposition from country merchants. This would in- clude small packages, by which the mails would be enabled todo a cheap express business, and the country mer- chants, who have given the matter at- tention, charge WaNAMAKER with wanting to make this postal reduction large its country trade if Uncle Sam Such a scheme as this is characteristic oftWaNamMaker who is much inclin- a way that will most benefit his private business. in NS in the interest of his Philadelphia dry | goods store which would greatly en- | should consent to carry his goods | . . | through the mails at nominal rates. | ed to run his branch of the government STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. PA.. NOVEMBER 22, 1889. Unfortunately Championed. A flutter has been raised in certain It is said that His Excellency, JAMES | quarters over an alleged design of Gov- A. Baaver, Governor of Pennsylvania, | erpor Hit, of New York, to capture the Democratic organization of Penn- sylvania in the interest of his candi- dacy for President in 1892. If there is a movement of this kind it has been kept well under cover, with little pros pect of making an open appearance above ground. Contingencies may happen that may make Governor TILL the candidate of the party in the next presidential contest, but at this time there is no sentiment in the party that has set with any degree of strength in that direction. The feeling appears to be decidedly for CLzvELAND, yet even this, strong as it is, is subject to the modifi- cation of circumstances that may yet arise. If Governor Hirw really is aspiring to the Presidency he is unfortunate in the organ that is doing the most to push him into notice as a candidate. The Democracy were greatly aggrieved by the methods that were employed to de- feat Grover CLEVELAND, especially the misrepresentation of the tariff reform principles he stood for in the contest. No journal bore a more reprehensible part in this bad business than the New York Sun which, while pretending to be Democratie, vented its personal ha- tred for the Democratic candidate through the self stultifying msrepresen- tation that the tariff reform herepresent- ed meant free trade. When a paper that has left such an unpleasant mem- ory in the minds of Democrats ap- pears as the chief if not the only advo. cate of Governor HiLL's presidential aspirations, continuing its malicious abuse of Mr. CLEVELAND at every op- portunity, there can be no other con- clusion than that the Governor is being unfortunately championed and that it would be better for his candidacy if he should call Daxa off. A Republican Tariff Reformer. Tite declaration of Hon. Huen Me- CuLLocH against the Republican mon- opoly tarift’ is an important accession to the movement of tariff reform and furnishes an interesting and instructive illustration of the way the Cleveland leaven is working. Mr. McCuLLocH was Secretary of the Treasury at the close of LiNcoLN’s term, during the entire administration of JonnsoN and part of ARTHUR'S, thus holding one of the highest and most responsible posi- tions under three Republican Presi- dents. In a letter in the New York Times the other day, this old and experienced Republican statesman and financier gave it as his opinion that our manu- facturers no longer needed protection ; that'they had reached a point of devel- opment at which high tariff rates did more to promote trusts than to protect industry, and that what is most needed at this stage of our industrial develop- ment for the interest of manufacturers, wage-earners and the people generally, is a lower tariff, wider production and access to foreign markets. In conclud- ing his article Mr. McCrrLocn said that ‘‘the present tariff is at war with “the best interests ot the country. It “is continued by being made a party “question and the free use of money in “elections,” and he declares that its days are numbered. This is excellent Democratic doc- trine coming from a very respectable and intelligent Republican source. ——The Detroit Free Press takes some pains to show that this century will not end until the lst of January, 1901. This oughtn’t to require any explanation to. people of ordinary dis- cernment. Of course a century has not terminated until all its years are com- pleted, the same as in the case of a centenarian who is not a centenarian until he has lived a full hundred years. —The Philadelphia Inquirer scouts | the charge that it is in favor of “tariff reform,” but claims to be strong for “tariff revision on protection lines.” This is the sort of jugelery wich the tariff that is calculated to tickle the trusts and make the monopolists smile. ——— ——1It was a crime in a Democratic | candidate, a few years ago, to spell | city with two t's, but the same party that so decided, elected at the same time a county commissioner who spells “bitch” with the t left out. uo NO. 46. Their Changed Views. It is reported that Hon. WiLriam L. WiLsox, of West Virginia, in a speech he made in the recent Virginia cam. paign, said that immediately after Mr. CLEVELAND'S defeat last year the latter told him that in preparing his tariff message, which has since taken its place among the great official docu- ments, he had especially in view the condition and welfare of the agricul tural classes ot this country. Mr. Crevenanp had the sagacity to see that the farmers were particularly oppressed by the heavy taxation inci- dent to a high tariff, but when he spoke in their behalf there was unfor- tunately a class of politicians who gain- ed the ears of a large portion of the agriculturists and led them to believe that they were benefited by a system which Mr. CLEVELAND stigmatized as extortionate and oppressive. Since then the tariff reform education has greatly progressed among the farmers, the late elections, especially in the West, showing that they are rapidly adopting Mr, CLEVELAND'S views in re- gard to the oppressiveness of the mo- nopoly tariff. Written for the Warcuyax., THANKSGIVING. T. P. + MRS. RYNDER, We thank Thee, O Lord, for the blessing living, For the sun-shine that brightens, the bird song that cheers, For the sense of thy watch-care whose firey pillar Has lighted the night through the long march of years. of The toil-curse of Eden, O Lord, Thou hast blessed it With seed to the sower a hundred fold yield; We Thank Thee, O Lord, for the wealth of our garners, The generous offering of many a field. The rod of Thy chastening, O Lord, we have felt it, Its stripes are upon us, we bow ’'neath its weight, But a Father's hand held it, all-wise and un- erring, 3 Qur sorrows are not the dictations of fate. We thank Thee, Oh Father, that into the dark- ness, Mid the wreckage of homes and the erush- ing of hearts, The light of the brother-love, best gift of Heaven, Iliumined the gloom by its griel-piercing darts. Each wave that rolled westward bore out on its billow, Rich offerings of love from the dwellers afar, As sweet as the spices at Bethlehem offered By the wise men who followed the light of the star. > If before we had doubted, O Lord, shown us Thine image still bright in the warm hearts of men, In afflictions deep waters so often reflected, Bending low to up-lift us again and again. Thou hast May the pathway before us, unknown and un trodden, Awaiting the coming of faltering feet, Be bright with the rays of thy love's lumina- tion, With peace and the blessings of plenty re- plete. The Rorotoion in ons, ‘We make the following extract from a letter we have just received from Mr. Wm. A. Kerlin, a former Centre coun- ty citizen now resident at Rudd, Iowa, which furnishes very pleasant reading for Democrats who have taken an interest in the recent election in that State: When 1 moved out here, on the afternoon of the day we left I happened to meet Brother Wm, Srortlidge who, when he gave me good by, said I should pecome a good Republican since I was going to such a strong Republican some State. I replied that I was going to the State of Towa to help make it a Democratic State. Ifyou see my friend Shortlidge tell hun I have now lived to see my prediction come true. We have elected a Governor by the ad- | voeacy of Democratic principles, and reduced the Republican majority in our Assembly from 48 to 4 on joint ballot. Think of it, ye Gods t And this all done without ever expecting the | like, for the principal issues were Prohibition, Ballot reform and Tariff reform. The vote for Governor was the test, and the rest were bound to follow. You must also remember the Republicans gerrymandered the State sena- torially aud legislatively tor the express pur. pose of electing their United States Senator, and the Democrats did not expect to be able i to accomplish any thing in that line. I tell yon, Brother Meek, there was a mighty re- volution in Towa this As the fellow would say, “did you hear something We have been having some great jubi- lation meetings, I can assure you. It is not | «ure that Mr. Allison wilt be returned to the | 4 United Staces Senate. We as Democrats hope he wont, and they will make abara figut, 1 ean | assure you. last election. drop?” Will you kindly show me your winter un crclothing 27 asked a young man, stepping up to the new suleslady in a furnishing gouds store. Hixcuse me, sir,’ said the miss, somewhat embar- rassed, “I —I am sti wearing last sum. | mer's.” —Kxchange- i AN. 4 Spawls from the Keystone. —~Charles Berger drew abear at a raffle last weelk. —It costs $25 fine to shoot rabbits on Sunday in Warwick township. —Rabbit hunters near Phenixville use fer- rits in lieu of dogs. —Reading’s Labor Council will give its at- tention to child labor. —The growth of Kutztown is hampered for the want of dwelling houses. —Alfred Show, of Altoona, has rolled a cent into a ribbon eighty-four inches long. —A Johnstown widow has been on a prolong- ed spree and spent all her relief money. —Artificial eggs have been peddled in South Side, Pit:sburg, for the genuine article. —The tin roof of a railraad caboose was torn oft and wrapped itself around a brakeman. — Lancaster people are laughing because a man named Wolf caught a fox near that town. —The Pennsylvania Railroad is anxious to abolish the five grade crossings in West Gosh- en. —Two heaping spoonfu!s of sugar in a glass of beer is the regular drink of a Lancaster tipper. —Ladies at Easton are interesting them- selves in a project for a hospital for the poor there. —Next to receiving a fresh plug of tobacco murderer Bartholomew likes to have his pic- ture taken. —Grirls at the Morganza Reformatory started a fire and tried to escape during the excite- ment, —Puddlers in Carnegie’s mill at Pittsburg are dissatisfied with the new rules just made for them. —ElImer Scheetz of Pleasant Valley, while out gunning last Tuesday, killed; two rabbits with one shot, —Charles Pharo, a Bethlehem dog fancier, the other day lost by death an English setter valued at $1000. —Isaac 8S. Rahn, of Perkiomenville who is in his 89 year, deposited his sixty-eighth bale lot at the last election. —By mistake a Norristown livery man senta herse and carriage to a house of mourning a day ahead ‘of the funeral. —In trying to imitate his father, the 16 months-old child of James Kean, a West Ches- | ter barber, nearly cut its throat. —A Pittsburg paper says: The total number of whippings reported for the month of October in the city schools was 249. ; —At Johnstown a jury was severely re- bulked for bringing in a verdict of “uninten- tionally guilty.” —Miss Ida Warner who was on her death bed at Pottstown, was on Saturday married to her affianced lover, John Trout, of Reading. —George Springer, an engineer on the Phila- delphia and Reading Railroad, had his foot eut off Monday by falling from his engine, near Minersvill, Pa. —The Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Fire Brigade of Renova will give its sixth annual ass embly and concert at the Renova Hotel on November 27. —Miner Mertz, 45 years old, was ground te small fragments between rollers at Red Ash breaker of the:Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company at Ashly. —If any one will make it worth his while Frank Weaver, of West Chester will try and beat his record of eating forty-five fried oysters in fifteen minutes. —Jacob Brownwell, a well-known citizen of Reading, was fonnd wandering aimlessly about, in an almost nude condition and somewhat deranged, last Friday. —Evidence in a Shenandoah criminal case showed that the defendant, a boy of 12 years, was so poor that he had to horrow the clothes in which he appeared in Court. —When searched at the Pittsburg jail a large bottle of vitriol and another of raorphine were found on Laura Bailey, one of the de- fendants in the May Sullivan case. —A Pottstown lunatic called on his sister at Cold Springs, and before entering the house deposited all his clothing and personal effects, including his false teeth, on the door step. —James Hartman, of Lynnport, Lehigh county, was attacked by a frenzied boar a few days ago, the animal fastened its teeth in his hip, tearing the flesh and severing an artery. —A Port Jarvis paper says: A piece of coat tail floating from a barbed wire fence in front of a house in Callicoon depot a few mornings ago created no little sensation in that vile lage. 2 —In order to win a $20 bet Frank Van Horn, of Churchville, carried! eighty-five pounds of corn three andja half miles on a dark night. The trlp consumed'an hour and five minutes. —With a view of testinga new tooth pulling machine which he was about to purchase a Williamsport dentist allowed himself to be op- erated upon, and the lower part of his face was nearly torn away. —John Henry, an inmate of the Soldier's Home at Erie, who was returning from a visit to friends in Chester county, either fell or jumped from a passenger-train and was killed at Williamsport some days ago. —Some Hungarian residents of South Beth- lehem butchered a pig by sticking it with a poker, and instead of scalding its desh they burned off its bristles by tying the earcass. up in straw and setting fize to it. — Bartholomew, the condemned murderer of A. W. Dilliard, had his photograph taken in the Easton jail, aed expressed a desire to have a picture taken with Mrs. Dilliard sitting in his lap, but the jailer refused. —Swooping down on a weasel a chicken hawk at Manatawny earried the animal up, but before many minutes the weasel planted its teeth in the bird’s neck and killed it. The weasel was not hurt by its fall to the ground. —Peter Kunkel, of Trexler's Station, on the Berks and Lehigh Railroad, the other day shot: a bine heron, measuring five feet and seven inenes across the wings, which used to visit his carp pond and feed upon the fish. —Squire Manger, of Douglasville, has issued a warrant for the arrest of Thomas Clark, a former resident of Pottstown, charged with as- Anna Hath, a Douglasvill wom- Both saulting Mrs. The affair Hanpened at the old fort. are married people. —Three men being unable to drive or drag qo0-pound pig from its at Reinhold, Berks county, they calied in the assistance of John Berkley, a giant in strength. He deliber- ately picked the kicking porker up and car- pen ried him out unaided. —George Burgoyne, of Poughtown, was res cently fined for driving past a toll-gate with out paying the toll, and the next time he j went by he demanded a receipt for the toll* As it was not forthcoming he refused to pay, {and will be again arrested,