b ‘ - A ” t “ ~ ’ a 0 et re % 2 BY FP. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —=So far under the HARRISON admin- istration the politicians have got the ap- pointments—the soldiers the dis-ap- pointments. —The man who kicks about hav- ing a mother-in-law, should kick him- self. Its a matter of his own choosing that he has one. —We have upon our table, a new publication from Chicago, called the Liar. An examination of its columns shows it is properly named. —1Tt is now said that Senator VEsT is being urged to reply to INGALLS’ speech on the race problem. Wouldn't that be simply answering the wind ? —The picture of our “own” Daniel in his overalls and check shirt didn’t seem to have the proper effect upon the thankful(?) souls of Cambria county. —The day for the exhihition of American fine Arts is approaching. We believe it comes about the 14th of February and is commonly called St. Valentines day. —If there is anything at all in a name, one at least of Mr. HARRISON'S ap- pointees should be a “risin’ ”’ man. His name is YrAsT and he has just been “set” in a Kansas post office. —Maryland proposes to build, a new penitentiary. Itis time. Atleast the increase of her republican vote for a couple of years back would indicate that something of the kind was a necessity. —~Since his five hour speech claiming the position of Governor of West Vir- ginia,—a position which the people voted to another man, NATHAN GOFF has very appropriately been named NATHAN GALL. —There is nothing like sticking to an idea. The Woman's Christain Temper- ance Union, failing to make the public take water, has divided into factions which are now engaged in making each other do this same thing. '—Georgia has produced a thirteen year old revivalist,—Jimmy Cook--and the hope of many people down there now is, that through the instrumental- ity of this “jimmy’’ they will be able to get through the Golden Gates, — What is labeled and generally re- cognized as ‘the Philadelphia democ- racy,” is to its party in the State, what a green apple is to a boys belly—a breed- er only of trouble and busy always rais- ing h—I1 internally. -—One of our big daily exchanges sur- prises us with thestatement that NELLY Bry, on her recent trip, carried all the clothing she had with her on her back. Oh! naughty, naughty, NeLLy. What a sight you must have been ! r —The country can rest easy. BLAINE will not leave. All the opportunities Portugal offers to twisters of the Brit- tish lion’s tail, do not equal as induce- ments, the power, emoluments and salary, of the HARRISON premiership. —We areled to believe that proha- bilities GREELY,” who now predicts that the lic 3 a I wil lil WAY FRO has itch STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 35. BELLEFONTE, PA.,, JANUARY 31, 1890. NO. 5. The Desperate Straits of a Republican Congress. It is wonderful what a change of principle a small change in the situa- tion will bring about. During the last three or four Congresses, when the Democrats had a majority of the mem- bers of that vody, certain rules govern- ing its proceedings were adopted, that gave to the minority power at times to stay vicious legislation and prevent strictly partisan enactments, without free debate and a full hearing. During all the years of Democratic control in the lower House of Congress, we donot remember of ever reading a line in any Republican paper denouncing the rules that secured to the minority certain rights, nor do we know of any Republi- can congressman refusing to take ad- vantage of all the rights and privileges which they were entitled to, under those rules. It is all changed now however. The principle that the mority had rights that a majority should decasionally re- spect, has been. discovered, since the Republicans secured that majority, to mean that any rules that would prevent the majority, party from doing as it pleased, whether its members were present to vote or not, were vicious and designed to delay business and defeat the will of the people. The Republican majority is small in the present Congress, and it is not al- ways that ibey can ‘rely upon having a majority of members, present; so that in addition to depriving the minority of any power whatever, they now propose to empower the speaker to declare 100 members a quorum of a body consisting of 325, elected and paid representatives, and that this little ramp of a Congress, when it is made up of Republican mem” bers, shall have power to go on and enact laws, just:as 1f the entire body was present. It is a queer condition of affairs, that requires rules to be annulil- ed, rights to Le®¥gnored, majorities to be dispensed with, and every rule and tradition that has governed the popular branch of Congress since the day that body first organized, to be violated and set aside, in order that the Republican party may do as it pleases. It is'an attempt to force a public policy and attain partisan ends that may prove a terrible boomerang some day. And the wonder will be, if speal- er Reep has the authority to declare 100 members a quorum of: 325, what is to hinder him from fixing the num- ber constituting that qnorum at any less figure, his fancy or the needs of his. party may necessitate ? wind? No Moye Fooling in Delaware. ~The Philadelphia Republican papers are just now in the slough of despond- ency over the recent decision of the Delaware court of Errors and. Appeals. That tribunal has had the audacity to decide that under the laws of" that State a Republican voter must pay his taxes, if he desired to cast his ballot. This isa terrible blow to the rights and privileges of Philadelphia repeaters,and . thejgreat depths to which this decision has weighted down the hopes of their Republican hackers; in that city, is shown by the 2mount of squealing the organs of the bosses are doing, © For years, after voting, counting or whatever vou may call it, for this State; Philadelphia has undertaken’ to attend to the same duties for both New Jersey and Delaware. In Jersey these efforts have been futile, but in Dela- ware on several occasions, they haye proven conspicuously successful. . Re- peaters ‘and darkeys by the score, would be run over into’ every little to join the great army of working-men and live a few weeks on the wages se- cured them by our glorious protective system. « These is no reducer of surplus flesh like a workingman’s high tariff | diet. : i —We symathize with our neighbor, i the Democrat. Just as it gets itsflag thrown to the breeze, and is enjoying the belief that the “masses are for” its candidate for governor—Gen HASTINGS, | up rises Cambria county, the one parti- cular spot in this broad Commonwealth where his “services” should have been appreciated and his “sacrifices” remem- bercd, and instructs her delegates for DELAMETER by a vote.of 99, to 4 for Hastings. Surely some one has been guying our contemporary, or is Cambrian 80 deat as not to hear the “popular sent- iment that elamors’ for our DAN. manufacturing town, and the boss fof the manufactory, who was generally a Philadelphia Republican doing business over in a Democratic State, because the | taxes were less there than at home, would see that they got their votes in. They didn’t pretend "to pay taxes: for these people; they made no show of proving them citizens ; they would sim- ply put a lot of fictitious names upon the registry list; and when voting time came, if they couldn't forge or steal tax receipts, they would claim tha it was the duty of the Democratic tax collector to collect the taxes in ‘time to give the party named the right to vote, and if he failed in that, it did not dis- franchise him, So far did their faith in their ability to. carry Delaware by these methods go, that they carried a case up to the highest tribunal of that ‘ Commonwealth and demanded a deci- I sion, that would enable them to accom- ' plish under a ruling of the Court, what, : for years, they had been trying to bring i about by sharp practices and political | trickery. Delaware Courts are neith- | er to be humbugged nor bull-dozed, and it very promptly and properly de- cided, that to be entittled to vote in that State, one must pay a tax, and that it wasn’t necessary,either,for a tax colleec- tor to run all over creation to hunt the delinquent up or to stand on the street corners day and night for the conveni- ence of those wanting to pay. . It is this decision that has blighted the hopes that Philadelphia Republi: cans had of controlling the little Com- monwealth lying so closely to the lines of their city, and it is this that there is such a weeping and wailing and gnash- ing of Republican. teeth about. Time may possibly assuage their grief, and while it is doing this Delaware will continue to be Democratic. I —— Up Goes our Hat. “NELLY Bry,” the indefatigable and spirited representative of the New York World, who has been making a circuit in a specified time, reached New ¥ork on Saturday last having made the trip in 72 days 6 hours and 11 minutes. This is eight days less time thau Jurzs VERNE'S hero got’ round in his imagi- nary trip, that theater ‘goers, a few years ao, were =o familiar with. Its a big thing of course, for Miss Bry, and with the rest of American humani- ty,we take off our hat and hurrah! until we are hoarse. : Just why, we don’t know. , Miss Bry neither swam the sea in front ot the steamer, nor trotted the tracks ahead of ‘the engines, that make their daily trips along the routes over which she passed, to accom plish the feat ; she did in fact what a million, or ten mil- do, if the funds. ‘were furnished —take the ordinary route. of travel and go ‘ahead. NecLy Bry. To be sure, the papers say, she traveled with her ward-robe on her back, whether they expected her to go it naked we are not informed ; she didn’t take a poodle or’ a mastiff as an escort, and proves by returning un- harmed, that dogs are not a necessary accompaniment to ladies when traveling alone. These two things she demon- strated ; that a lady with her clothes on gets along fully as fast as one who car- ries the most of them in a trunk, and that it is not necessary for a sprightly girl to go lugging a blear-eyed dog along to protect her from the attentions of the naughty, naughty men. If there is anything else of practical value that has been demonstrated by this trip, we fail to catch on to it. We hurtah'! however, all the same and {join our modest voice in with the tu- multuous crowd, who are shouting for | NeLLy Bry without knowing the rea- son thereof or stopping to ask if there is any. A Farmer That Seems Satisfied. We have a two page letter from a former Snyder county citizen,now a resi- dent of Hoover Nebraska, in which he criticizes as sharply as possible, the item published in this paper some weeks ago, giving the price of farm products at Nantasket, that State, as furnished by a farmer residing at that place. The gentleman, writing, to find fault with the prices as given, makes no cor- rection, except to quote corn at 15 cents per bushel, instead of 12, and beef at $3.50 to $4.00 per 100, in place of being a drug on the market. We can fully understand why an individual who had been raised, and schooled, and “brought up’ among the Republicans of Snyder county, this State, would be satisfied with most any condition of affairs he would find any place, he might move too; but for the life of us we can’t con- ceive how a man intelligent enough to bea successful farmer,could imagine that his business was prosperous, under a | system of tariff that taxed him unwmer- !cifuily for everything he bought, and ‘secured him but 15 cents a bushel for "bik corn, 40 cents for his wheat, 13 cents for his oats, and proportionately low prices for everything else his farm pro- There is but one reason for a man under such circumstances being satisfied, and that must be that he is too narrow minded, either from politi: duced. of the globe to see if it conld be done’ Tons of ‘people for that matter could But still we!whoop 'er up for cal prejudices,schooling or surroundings to appreciate how greatly he is being imposed upon, or to recognize the fact that one great cause of such low prices for farm products is our tariff system, that builds a wall about us, and pre- vents us securing any market for the surplus products of our farms, So long as the farmer is satisfied with the prices he is getting, just so long ought he to vote for, and support a system of government that secures this for him. When he widens out enough to kilow, that we can’t eat up all our agricpltural; lands produce, and that other countries won't take of our sur- plus grain; until the entire grain crop of every other agricultural district in the world is exhausted, for the reason that we refuse to trade with them until after we have imposed an enormous tariff upon everything they would bring to us, he will possibly changed his mind and‘allow the protected few to take care of themselves, while he takes care of his own interosts by vot. ing for a change that will secure him better prices for his wheat, corn and oats. PRIA TE . The Republican Disgrace. The West Virginia contestifor Gov- ernor will in all probability be brought to a close on Saturday. At that time it is expected the legislature will act finally upon the report of the commit- tee appointed to investigate the charges of fraud. That report has been made public and leaves no doubt of the elec- von of Judge Freying, the Democrat- ic nominee. It shows the boldest and most open frauds on the part of the re: publican managers and exposes one of the most villianous conspiracies to de- feat the will of thé people, that has been brought to public view. In the purchase of voces, the ‘importation of not-resident darkeys from old Virginia and the open attempt to carry a State by fraud, the election in that State last fall has no parallell in the history ‘of the country, Low estimates fix the number of fraudulent votes, (imported darkeys) cast in the State at fully 3,000. Of these the committee was able to un- cover and expose 800. Throwing these out, gives Judge FLEMING a majority of 700. These frauds were confined mostly to the six counties in which Gorr, BLaive, ELkins & Co., have their mining ‘and railroad interests. Into these counties, negroes who were not voters or residents of the state were brought by train loads and voted. At two precincts upwards of one thousand of these imported blacks were marshall- ed, the election officers intimidated and their votes taken and counted. The boldness and defiant manner in which these frauds were perpetrated 1s with- out parallell. Scores of witnesses testi- fied to the following facts, which is but one ‘instance, of the many that are given in the report. '“Seventy-six of “the imported negroes were voted at “ Bluefield, Mercer county, where they “were then put on a train and carried “across the line in Virginia, where “ they were bona fide residents, and cast “their votes without protest. Another “ train then carried the gang back to “ Eik Horn, W. Va., where they were “marched to the polls, crazy with “drink, and were voted again.” ‘ Allover and all round is the same evidence of unadulterated rascality and unbiushing fraud, as thick = as claw marks on a lousy dog." And yet the candidate who was to be benefitted hy these frauds ; who was to be made Governor by these rascalities; who knew of them and assisted in their perpetration, had the unlimited gall to get up and plead his own case, for five long hours, and demand of" the legis- lature that it cast aside the report of its committee and declare him entitled to the seat. i Could effrontery ge farther? All-wise and all-knowing newspapers that know more than the racords show or more than sworn committees can find out, and which -have been insisting that Gorr was being cheated out of the gov- ernorship, have now an opportunity to revise their opinions and ad- mit that in this matter, they have been mistaken. The republican party we presume will stand up under the disgrace of this exposure as brassily as ever, and in spite of the trath, will contiue to ery about Democratic frauds in West Virginia and the outrage that has been perpetrated, when Judge FreMinG is given his seat. It Will be Forgiven and Forgotten. It may be and possibly is quite true, as charged by the friends of Gen. Hastings, that a sharp but very dirty trick was played upon him in Cam- bria county, that secured to his com- petitor DELAMETER, its delegates for Governor. It is asserted that the con- vention selecting the delegates, was called without sufficient public notice; that in many districts no election was held, although self appointed delegates presented themselves and were admit- ted ; that for other districts that neith erelccted ro: eect delegates, persons were substituted who were known {o be with the ring, and that the entire proceedings were illegal, contrary to party usages and a factional set up from beginning to end. We shouldn't wonder of these charges are true. It is a way republi- cans’ have of doing business. A party that depends for its success upon boodle, bribery,bossism and fraud, would not scruple to cheat a member of its own, political faith,when it didn’t want him to the front and had no oth- er way of preventing his getting there. Republican bossism requires this kind of work, and the cowardly creatures of that boss are used to obeying orders. In this case the boss is for the other fellow, and the other fellow must win, no matter how its done. The republi- can masses may be for Gen Hasr- INGS; we believe they are; but what do the wishes of the republican masses amount to as against the will of the boss ? No, we have no doabt whatever, but they did in Cambria county, just what the Hastings people charge, But what are they going to do about it ? : Simply go on wearing the collar of'a boss as they always have done; sub- mitting to any humliation that boss rule may subject them too, and 'bur- rahing for any fraud or outrage iit may perpetrate against the Democracy. They will whine like jchamed curs for awhile and thén when wanted, will wag their political tails and trot off again to do the will of their master. This is all there will be about it. Another, to Their List of Steals. From present appearances it looks very much as if the republicans; have been able to add to their long list of villianous frauds, another that is scarcely eclipsed by the stealing of the Presidency in ’76: Dispatches state, that Mr. Harrison's packed Supreme Court of Colorado, has decided that the republican rump legislature there, is the properly qualified body 'of law- ‘ma ers ‘for the new Commonwealth, and that notwithstanding the fact that the peopleelected a majority ' of Demo- ‘crats, as representatives, that the will of a republican’ board of canyassers and not the ballets, should determine the result. This the republican papers claim asa “big vietory.! So it is. cracksman crows over, when he gets safely out of the clutches: of the law, with the contents of the sate he has robbed secure in his pockets. EERE ARR r The Coroner's Jury'in the KNrr- FEN murder case has found out ' after weeks of“ investigation, ' that the lady was chloroformed: The public knew that the morning of the tragedy. What was ‘wanted to be made clear was who committed the murder. This fact the Jury seems to have forgotten entirely to the Custom Cutters. Cruicaco, Jan. 24,—A letter from Ex-President Cleveland was read to-day at the concluding session of the Custom Cutters’ National Convention. The full text was as follows ; E. G. H. Hunton, Esq.. President. Dear Sir ; I thank yon for sending: me your address made at the convention of the Custom Foremen Tailors’ Association, and I have read the same with interest. 'The question of tariff . reform directly effects all the people of the | land in a substantial way, and they ought to | be interested in its discussion. I am afraid that a great many of our fellow eitizens are too apt to regard this as & Dotson question, in- tricate and complex, affecting them in a re- mote way and one which may well enongh be left for politicians to wrangle over. This in- duces a a of the saubjeet on the part of a reat number of our people, a willingness to Sindy follow the party to which they happen to belong in their action upon it. It is a good sign to see practical men, such as belong to your association, discussing the uestion for themselves. Ifthis is done intel ligently, and with sincere intent to secure the truth, tariff reformers, I think, have no need to fear the result of such a discassion. Very truly yours, GROVER CLEVELAND, This letter was written in reply to one hy Horton,the president of the Cnt- ters’ Association, asking for spme state. ed the tailors. ier was sent to President Harrison, hut as yet no reply has been received. After the letter had been read the con. land, But its of the some ‘character that a | Ex-Presidend Cleveland Writes a Letter |’ ment on the tariff question. as it aflect- | An exactly similar lets; vention extended its thanks to Cleve: Spawls from the Keystone, —The First Colored Church at N orristown is in the hands of the sheriff. —Of the 400 inmates of the Erie Soldier's Home 150 are on the sick list. —Rival doctors at Manor Station engaged in a fist fight over a professional dispute. —An epidemic of influenza prevails among the cattle of the eastern portion of Berks. —A Pittsburg sportsman owns an 8-months- old dog that hunts perfectly and was never trained, —The irrepressible Join Cessna has announ- ced himself as a candidate for congress for the Blair distriet, —Because of a coal famine at Uniontown the black diamonds are sold by the bushell at a fabulous rate. —A bottle of whisky carelessly dropped in a Scranton sehool-yard gave the scholars their first “booze.” —It will cost $100,000 to put the famous stone bridge at Johnstown in the condition it was before the flood. —Rev.M. J. Eckels, pastor of the Presbyte- rian Church at Salisbury, Md., has accepted a call to Bedford, Pa. —Rev. William B. Sando,a minister of the Re- formed Church, died on Sunday night of: influ- enza, aged 75 years. —As a cow at Bartonsville was jumping” over a little gulley her horns caught in a tree limb, and she was hanged. —Black children, white children and: red children sat down to & dinner at ‘the Indian school at Carlisle recently. —A. 8, Updegraft, of Williansport: has a hen that is parading at the head of a brood of chicks three months aheaa of time. —The last brick on the new Normal school at Lock Haven hasbeen. laid and. the structure is gradually nearing completion. —Senator Martz, of Williamsport : has almost recovered from his recent illness and will go to Ashville, North Carolina, to spend the wintere —Lea P. Brown, a prominent farmer: and Republican of Drumore township, Lancaster county, is dead from an attack of. ‘the grippe. —When Mrs. Rorer, at New Galena, Bucks county awoke on Saturday morning she found her little daughter lying dead by her side from suffocation. —At Mount Washington , Pittsburg, there is a man who thinks his mission on earth is to kill stray dogs, and in six months he has ‘slain 100 animals. h : —Rats were found =o plentiful’'in a barn near Williamsport that the men who had been en- gaged to dosome thrashing were driven from their work. i : —Wounded by a bullet a dog at’ Pittsburg fell into a pool of water, and lay there helpless till ice formed around the animal making him a prisoner: i —Mrs. Jackson Malin, of Kennett Square, died yeserday from the" effects of ‘a surgical operation performed on Friday to relieve in- testinal obstruction, 3 —The Detridge Flint Glass. Company will moveé its factory from New.Brighton because a bonus of $6000 promised it by the Board of Trade has not been paid. ©" ’ —Two little sons of Patrick Oolan, aged re- spectively 5 and 8 years, .were drowned by breaking through the ice on a pond at Yardley, Pa., on Saturday afternoon. al : —While Abraham Keller was engaged in loading legs in the woods near Bedminsteryille Bucks county, he suddenly fell back and ex- pired. Hewas70 yearsold. Pe —Sentences of twenty-one and seventeen years respectively, for the two Wilkinsburg burglars, is calculated to; be a decided draw- back to the house breaking profession. ; —Two hundred Polanders and Hungarians. were talzen by a labor contractor on monday from Piymouth to Punxsutawney. to take the places of the striking miners af that place. . —Pennsylvanians in Washington are putting: forward Judge Harry White, of Indiana county for the vacancy in the office of solieitor-gener- al, caused by the death of Judge Chapman. : —While getting. the safe: out: of the Gorry post office, some time ago; John Armstrong had his leg crushed and now he wants Congress to pay him $2500 on acéonnt of the accident. —A suburban jeweler fell over a step at Pitts- burg, spilled’ part of his ‘purchases on thie ground and a detective who was at band ‘arrest ed him on suspicion of having stolen the stuff’ —The Queens Run Fire Brick Company have erected eleven new houses at Queens Run for accomodation of the miners. . They are substantial and comfortable frame struct- ures. —The prospect ofpreaching his firstsermon so excited a:Diekson Seminary student that he got into the wrong chureh and had taken his place in the pulpit before he- discovered his error. i 4 Fach of the aspirants for the: Repuiiican gubernatorial nomination has warm fiiemds in Bldir county.’ Hastings and” Délamater seem to lead in: this section, though’ Montooih ‘has. ‘many enthusiastic followers. | Sticking his foot into the leg: of ‘an old pair of pants that had hung inthe garret clos. et a long while, a Parlertown youth disturbed a wasp’s nest, and his action Brought the in- sects out and around his ears: i is ~The dead body of Edward: Andrews was found in the cabin ofia boat near Chester. It is probable that he died of starvation: as When ast seen alive he was ill and it is believed he became unable to care for himself er __\Whiie John Best, of Derry; was engaged" 3 at that place Thursday after. and was caught between the badly crushed that ampita- He is unmarried. | in coupling car: noon, his right ht bumpers and s0 tion was necessary. —As he was returning home from his honey- moon Peter Tighe of Jochranton jumped off the train to get some cigars, and remaining long the train with his bride pulled ; ott: overtook her on & freight train and was happy, Fredrick Strong;who died recently in Mont. gomery township, had a great propensity, for- bringing petty lawsuits against his neighbors, and once, it is said, he was told by Jadge Chap. man that if he ever showed his red head in Court againhe wonld be sent to jail. ..It was not long before Strong brought another suit, and when he came in Court his hair had been dyed black. k —At Dehaven Station, Pa, ow the Pittsburg and Western Railroad, a natural gas well with | a pressure of 500 pounds, ignited on: Saturday, | while four drillers were. plugging it. The | four men were terribly burned, but all but one George Moore, will recover. The well is still ; burning, and it; is probable that it will, be necessary to smother the fire. It is by a great smokestack, as was successfully done at the great Murraysville gss well fire some years ! ago. :