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Ink Slings.
—Even FrepLer must admit that
JIM ScHOFIELD is a “dandy.”
—The “colored troops” of this place
scattered their shots in the recent en-
gagement.
—The political miasma that pervades
Philadelphia is thick enough to be cut
with a knife.
— There are some rotte * Democratic
leaders in Philadelphia who have again
been mean enough to play jackal to the
Republican lion.
—1In taking a microscopic view of
Harrison Uncle Sam is fully justified
in the conclusion that he is the smallest
thing of the kind he ever saw.
—The Supreme Court of the United
States may throw a sprag in the! wheel
which REED is attempting to roll over
the Democratic minority in the House.
—The Postmaster’s trying to milk
Jim ScHOFIELD’S cow in the interest of
the Republican perty was the most
amusing incident of the borough con-
test.
--We have not yet received intel-
ligence of the ‘spanking which the
French authorities should administer to
the young Duke of Orleans before send-
ing him home to his mother.
—1Is there ground for the suspicion
that Sheriff Cooke put the gallows te
political use by dispensing his invitations
to attend the Hopkins hanging as re-
wards for voting the Republican ticket ?
—Boss PLATT may have relented too
late for New York to regain what she
has lost by delay in the contest for the
World’s Fair. Surely bossism has its
disadvantages.
—The fiction that tariff reform means
free trade was made to perform its ac-
customed service in the 4th District con-
gressional fight. When will the war
tariff supporters stop lying ?
—Sheriff Cook t's omission to furnish
the Democratic newspapers of this place
with tickets for the Hopkins execution,
leads to the supposition that he intended
it to be a strictly Republican hanging.
—The great reduction of the high
tariff majority in the 4th Congress dis-
trict clearly indicates that the scholars
attending the tariff retorm school are
numerous 2nd are learning their lesson
well.
—The war-tariff congress which has
just passed a bill directing that farm
mortgages be included in the coming
census returns, should have been pre-
viously warned that a gun of that kind
is loaded.
——The claim of some of the sancti-
monious supporters of HARRISON that
his election was the work of the Lord,
looks much like an attempt to make
the Lord responsible for MAT QUAY’s
boodle campaign.
— The scheme to elect Dom PEDRO
President of Brazil, improbable as it
may seem, would be more likely to
succeed than Mr. HARRISON’S scheme
to have himself re-elected President
of the United States.
—1If Quay had cut his throat in 1879,
as he contemplated doing to escape the
consequences of his participation in a
raid on the State treasury, who would
have managed the Republican boodle
campaign of 1888 that elected HARRI-
SON ?
-—Since pig-iron is being brought to
Pittsburg from Alabama in large quan-
tities, isn’t it about time for the Pennsyl-
vania iron kings to howl for protection
against the cheaper productions of
Southern furnaces? Shouldn’t the tar-
iff logic be general in its application?
—Puck’s cartoon representing TAL-
MAGE returning from his visit to the
Holy Land, loaded with alot of trump-
ery alleged to be relics from that sacred
region, shows that the targets at which
the shafts of that paper are directed, in-
clude clerical as well as other humbugs.
—1If CARLES EMORY SMITH, when
he gets to St. Petersburg, should take the
Czar aside and expostulate with him
concerning his despotic practices, could
not the Russian despot retort by asking
him what he thought of REEDS despot-
ism in the American House of Rep-
resentatives ?
—The editor ot the New York Sun,
in a tentative sort of way, is constantly
sugoesting names for the next Presiden-
tial candidacy and asking how they
would do? We venture to ask him
how BensaMIN F. BurLer would do ?
He tried BEN against the regular Dem-
ocratic nomineee in 1884, and ought to
know something about his availa bility
as a Presidential candidate.
—KrecHLINE has reason to be dissat-
isfied with the treatment he received
from FiepLER. If the latter had pitch-
ed into him in the columns of the Ga-
zette, as he did into JIM SCHOFIELD, he
would have been elected Tax Collector
by a handsome majority. FIEDLER’S
saying nothing against him resulted in
his defeat. A candidate who wants to
be elected must get the Gazette man to
abuse him.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 385.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 21, 1890.
NO. 8.
An Interesting Extraet from; the Life
of Matthew Stanley Quay.
We publish in another;’part of this
issue of the Warcyan an article which
none of our readers should fail to peruse.
We particularly commend it to the at-
tention of Republicans. It is an ex-
tract from a correspondence in the
New York World treating of interesting
and instructive incidents in the public
career of MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY,the
boss of the Republican party of Penn-
sylvania and chairman of the Repub-
lican National Committee.
The incident particularly mentioned
in the article is connected with that
point in QuaY’s history when the ap-
prehension of the discovery of his im-
plication in a robbery of the State
treasury inclined him to the intention
of committing suicide. A set of gamb-
ling speculators, of which he was the
leading spirit, had obtained access to
the money in the State treasury and
lost in stock speculation alargeamount
of the public funds irregularly and un-
lawfully used for that purpose. The
gang were bankrupt, of course, and
hadn't the means of restoring the mon-
ey when the inevitable exposure was
at hand. At this serious juncture
Quay had about concluded that “the
only way of relieving his embar-
rassment was to sever his jugular vein
or jump into the Susquehanna river,
and as the distressful character of the
situation had caused him to keep him-
self in a condition of desperate intoxi-
cation, it is probable that he would
have gotten out of the scrape by means
of the razor or by way of the river if
Dox Cameron hadn't appeared upon
the scene and made arrangements by
which the money which had been vir-
tually stolen by these rascals, was re-
turned to the treasury. Cameron did
this to shield his party from disgrace,
for the gang who had used and lost
this public money included, in addition
to QUAY, a prominent member of the
State administration and other leading
Republicans.
It is remarkable that this occurrence
did not at the time it happened become
publicly known. The circumstance
that Quay had become so distraught
through fear of exposure as to purpose
getting out of the difficulty by suicide,
was an open secret among, and was
freely talked about by, the official
habitues of the State capital. It may
have been put in the back ground as a
matter of public notoriety by the greater
prominence which his connection with
the Pittsburg Riot Bill bribery case
assumed about that time, which the
Philadelphia Press and other leading
Republican papers said should have
landed him in the penitentiary.
These wretched 1nstances of Quay’s
rsscality in his public capacity, do not
require elaborate comment. It may
be well, however, to mention in this
connection that he is the individual to
whom is committed the political man-
agement of the Republican party which
in the last Presidential campaign de-
pended for success upon the methods
which such a character would natural-
ly resort to; and, also, that he is the
absolute Boss of the Republican party
in Pennsylvania, distributing its offi-
cial rewards, controlling the Legisla-
tures it elects, and dictating who shall
be its nominees for Governor and oth.
er State officers.
A Fraud Upon the School Children.
There ought to be some protest
against the fraud that is being attempt-
ed to be practiced upon the school
children of the State by parties who
are trying to get them to contribute
their pennies for the erection of a
monument to E. E. HiGBEE, the recent
State Superintendent of Public lnstruc-
tion. It should be impressed upon the
children’s understanding that the hon-
or which the memorial tribute of a
monument implies belongs only to
those who have been great and good.
Such an impression will act as a moral
stimulus to the youthful mind. Bat
what moral effect is produced by
making the children participants in the
erection of monuments to commemor-
rate men who have been notoriously
unfaithful in the discharge of public
trusts ?
The person whom the school chil-
dren are asked to assist in honoring,
was officially connected with the Sol-
diers’ Orphans School scandals, and
( there was such an appearance of his
implication in the abuses practiced in |
the management of those schools that |
an outraged public sentiment demand- |
ed his resignation. Under his Super-
intendency of the Orphans’ Schools the |
State was robbed and the children |
starved and abused ; a heartless syndi-
cate speculated and grew rich upon the
suffering and misery of these helpless
children, and so shameful was this
state of affairs, which should have
been known and prevented by the,
Superintendent, that public interference |
was necessary to check it.
If Superintendent Hiceee did not
know that these abuses were being
practiced he was incompetent to hold
the position he occupied. If he had
knowledge of them, he was offi-
cially responsible for their commission.
Is it proper that children should be
taught that it is the right thing to
build monuments to men who in offi-
cial positions have been either incom-
petent or criminal ? Under the circum-
stances, to lead the school children of
the State to believe that Superintend-
ent Hieser, as an official, was worthy
of a monument, is to practice a fraud
upon them.
Ingalls on the Origin of Religion.
In his harangue in the Senate on the
race question Senator INcarLs showed
that on some points he knew lessabout
the Caucasian than about the colored
race. He could not have committed a
greater blunder than he did in saying
that humanity is indebted to the Cau-
casian race for its religion. This as-
gertion is in contradiction to the fact
that great as was its genius in other
respects, that race never originated
anything in the way of a religious be-
lief that graded higher than a fantastic
superstition. In nothing else was it so
defective as in its original religion. Its
conceptions in that line were entirely
ofa pagan character, and if it had de-
pended upon itself for its theosophy it
probably would be still divided in its
worship between the multitudinous
gods of the Grecian mythology and the
savage deities of the Teutonic Walhal-
la, or, with a more advanced civiliza-
tion, would perhaps have adopted some
system of philosophy in lieu of a
religion.
The monotheism that prevails gener-
ally among civilized peoples, which is
one of the distinguishing features of
Christianity, and which Senator IN-
GALLS seems to think originated with
the Caucasian race, was of Semitic
ovigin. It was Moses, the Jewish
lawgiver, that made man acquainted
with the one true God through his
commandments. It was JEsuUs, also a
Jew, that perfected the world’s knowl-
edge of that one God, and it was a
member of another branch of the same
Semitic race that continued the mo-
notheistic idea in the declaration that
“there is but one God and Mahomet is
his Prophet.” It took nearly three
hundred years of fierce opposition and
contention before the race to which the
Senator says humanity is indebted for
its religion, was ready to dispense with
its extensive assortmen: of gods and
reconcile itself to having but one.
The Caucasian race, which is alleg-
ed to be descended from JaruerH, had
nothing whatever to do with originating
the theology which has elevated it from
its pristine paganism. Notwithstand-
ing the opinion of the Kansas orator to
the contrary,the credit for evolving the
one-God belief which characterizes the
religion of civilized humanity,is due to
the sons of §nEM.
IneaLLs is \ell evough versed in the
rotten politics of his party, but on a
question involving a religions point he
isaway off.
Constitutional Restraint to Be Invoked.
Speaker REED’s arbitrary sway hav-
ing been formulated by the adoption of
the new rules, it having before been en-
forced by his own dictum, his assump-
tion of power is now in shape for the
question of its constitutionality to be
brought before the Supreme Court of
the United States. It would not be
creditable to the spirit, determination
and sense of justice of the Democrats
of the House if this were not done. Ex-
Speaker CARLISLE no doubt voiced the
sentiment of his Democratic colleagues
when on Monday he declared that steps
would be taken to have iv determined |
by the highest tribunal whether the |
crowd can be constitutionally sustained.
high-handed conduct of Reep and his
Patriotism in the Schools.
A bill has been introduced in the
New York Legislature by a Republi-
can member, requiring that the Fridays
| before Washington's birth-day, the
| Fourth of July and Thanksgiving Day,
be devoted to exercises in all the public
schools that will be calculated to de-
velope patriotism.
Of what character should such exer
cises be? We would suggest that on
| such days set apart for the inculcation
of patriotism, the children should be
taught that they can best develop their
love of country, which is the synonym
of patriotism, by contracting an early
hatred for the currupt politics which is
threatening to undermine the free in-
stitutions of our eountry. The young
ghould be im pressed with a sense of the
disastrous consequences of using
money to control elections, and of the
inevitable ruin that will follow the
control of selfish and dishonest party
managers. They should be taught the
danger of making legislation subserve
the interests of favored classes at the
expense of the general mass of citizens,
and of the downward course that is in-
dicated by filling our legislatures,
State and national, with the representa-
tives of the money power. All these
chings should be brought to the atten-
tion of the youths, with instruction that
if they want to be patriots they must
set their faces against them.
As object lessons of the decadence of
our republican government,it would be
well to include in the patriotic curricu-
lum of the schools a picture of the
chief office of the government gained
in one instance by theft, and in another
by the corrupt use of money, accom-
panied by the warning that it such
practices are not checked the existence
of the Republic will be of limited du-
ration.
Horrible Despotism.
The enormous outrages practiced
upon the political prisoners in Siberia,
including women as well as men, dis-
play in the most revolting light the
brutal despotism of the Russian auto-
cracy, and call for indignant protest
from the civilized nations of the world.
After KENNAN'S revelations almost any
wrong and cruelty in the treatment of
the unfortunate inmates of the Siberian
prisons should not be surprising, but
civilization was hardly prepared to.
believe that such barbarities as have
recently been credibly reported from
the prison-hells to which the victims of
autocratic brutality are consigned,
could be perpetrated by even the jail-
ors serving the cruel and cowardly
Russian tyrant.
These outrages are perpetrated tosus-
tain a most oppressive form of personal
government, and as that government
consists solely in the personality of an
autocrat, and exists only for his inter-
est, is it to be wondered—is it wrong
that the victims of his arbitrarily des-
potic power, confronted by an insuper-
able military force that precludes the
possibility of revolution, should strive
to remove him by the only available
means of dynamite? Would not the
bombs that should blow him sky-high,
and continue blowing up his successors
until through terror they should relax
their despotism, be fulfilling almost a
holy mission ?
——Congressman BurrerworTH, of
Ohio, had a pretty correct conception
of what will overtake the party that
will continue to maintain the iniquity
of war tariff faxation, when he said,
the other day : “Unless we thoroughly
overhaul the system we might as well
hang up our fiddles and gohome, with-
out any expectation of coming back
again.” As the situation of the Repub-
licans on the tariff question renders it
impossible for them to overhaul the
system, it may be considered a sure
thing that their fiddles will be
hung up.
President Harrison refused to
grant Mr. Ruraerrorp B. Haves the
only favor that the retired fraud asked
of him, it being the appointment of his
nephew, General Jouy G. MircHELL,
to the Pension Commissionership of
Ohio. One should think that the man
who gat the Presidency by theft would
receive more friendly treatment than
this from the one who got it by
purchase. There should naturally be a
fellow feeling between them.
Tariff Experience in Jefferson County.
The kind of protection that results
from a high war tariff is paening out
very poorly for the coal miners of
Jefferson county, this State. For that
matter, it is about the same with the
miners of other regions, but the case of
the former is particularly brought to our
attention by the following picture of
their plight resulting from a strike
for better pay, drawn by so good a Re-
publican newspaper as the Pittsburg
Times.
Now hope is waning, as they see day after
day new importations of men taking their
place. They are coming from the over-erowd-
ed anthracite region, darkies are coming from
Virginia, and immigrants, whom the agents of
this millionaire railroad and mining company
have gathered in New York, are arriving.
Black-faced fellows with lamps on their hats
are going to and fro in the streets. Day by day
the rumble of the dump-cars grow more fre-
quent, dragging coal from the drifts at Wal-
ston and Adrian ; day by day there are more
streams of smoke rising from these miles of
coke ovens into the winter air. And all about
the cheerless mine lands are squads of burly
Pinkerton men, with repeating Winchesters.
To trespass on the company’s property or in-
terfere with the scabs is out of the question, if
one cares aught for his life. The miners are
certainly having a hard and hungry row. They
are cold and their families and themselves are
poorly clad. They must have support or the
millions of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts-
burg railway and mining company, backed by
the small army of Pinkerton men, will force
them into submission or out of the region.
There cannot be adoubt that most of
these men who find themselvesin such a
sorry situation, were taught to regard
the tanff’ as something necessary to
secure them the means of living, and
that at every election involving the tariff
issue they were enthusiastic supporters
of “protection.” It is altogether like-
ly they voted tor Harrison, fully as-
sured that should they do otherwise
they would expose themselves to the
competition of foreign pauper labor, of
which they had heard so much.
It may be that they are now learn-
ing something from experience. With
reduced wages, and their places taken
by cheap contract laborers and negroes,
and Pinkerton’s men restraining their
disposition to rebel against the hard-
ship of their situation, it may bother
them to see how they have been bene-
fited by the election of Harrison and
the maintenance of the tariff.
In Effect a Tariff Reform Victory.
All was effected at the special con-
gressional election in the 4th District
that was expected by the friends of tariff
reform,by a substantial reduction of the
majority of the monopoly tariff candi-
date. It would have been too much
even to hope for a repudiation of the
war tariff in a district that only last
year expressed itself in favor of the fis-
cal fraud by nearly 10,000 majority.
Avers knocked 2700 off that majority.
It won't do to attribute this to a fall-
ing off of the general vote, as TAYLOR,
the Republican candidate for Receiver
of Taxes, got a majority in the dis-
trict equal to KuLLy'e majority last
year.
—— Prof. WALLER, of the Blooms-
burg Normal School, is such an im-
provement on HiaBer that the Gov-
ernor in appointing him Superintendent
of Public Instruction is to be con gratu-
lated in doing the right thing at ieast
once. ’
—TIt was idle to expect that party pre-
judiee in the 4th congress district would
yield to the evident advantage of free
raw materials. The majority in that
manufacturing district would sooner see
their industries ruined than their party
def eated. Such is fanaticism in politics.
——The consciences of too many
Philadelphia Democratic leaders seem
to be asphyxiated by the foul politi-
cal atmosphere that envelopes that
Republican stronghold.
WiILLIAMSPORT’S POSTMASTER. —Con-
gressman McCormick has settled the econ-
test for the Williamsport post office by
deciding to recommend John B. Emery
for that position. The Williamsport
post office is a nice plum and we suppose
of course that Mr. McCormick knows
which of the Republican aspirants did
the most for his party and his (McCor-
mick’s) election. But what we want to
know now is,'is this the Mr. Emery,for-
merly ot Bellefonte nail mill notoriety,
who busted in the windows of the Belle
fonte Watchman office on the day of the
Blaine demonstration in that place dur-
ing the Beaver campaign ?— Lock Haven
Democrat.
sSpawls from the Keystone.
—A dog census of Chester county shows 1116
| animals. {
i —A colored man was nominated for Burgess
of Marietta.
—Trains of four ears will be run on Pittsburg
{ cable lines.
—A solid vein of lead ore has been found at
Marshalltown.
—Edwin Haverstick, of Hanover, uses a Bi-
ble 151 years old.
—Nearly all of Narristown’s hc {e's have been
visited by thieves lately.
—A little fire at Lancaster was extinguish”
ed with a tub of oysters.
—~Colonel Theodore W. Bean, of Norristown,
is talked of for Congress.
—West Chester anctioneers complain of un-
usually dull business in the county.
—Spring poets are encouraged at Lancaster.
A literary society offers prizes.
—Seven steamers are being constructed at
Pittsburg for the United States of Columbia.
—The total collected from 153 schools of the
State for the Higbee memorial was only $135.65.
—Within two years George P. Bender and
son, of Pittsburg, met with horrible deaths by
accident.
—Benjamin Haverstiteh, of Mechanicsburg,
who played with President Buchanan when
a boy, is cead.
—A most exciting hunt is promised for the
25th instant at Lititz, where a ferocious wolf
will be chased.
—John Reidlinger, 4 years old, of Columbia
died on Thursday from the effects of a dose of
laudanum accidentally taken.
—Colonel W. W. Scott, of West Chester, went
from Rising Sun, sixty miles away, to cast his
ballot at the primary election.
of Chester, was pushed under an engine by an-
other boy and had a leg taken off
—The building of a new design [of scaffold
which he hoped would bring him fortune has
robbed John Heimback of his mind.
because one of their number accepted a nemi-
nation on the Democratic ticket.
—The Relic Committee of Johnstown Fldod
Commission is making an effort to find the
owners of all the property in its posession.
—The Westinghouse Electric Light. Com-
pany, of Pittshurg, has just closed a contract
for lighting a Japanese town with electricity.
—At the eighty-fifth anniversary of the set-
tlewent at Economy a brass band stationed in
music.
—The theft of a can of milk from tite resi-
dence of J. Waln Vaux led to the report: that
the house had been ransacked by a gong of law
less Italians.
—His horse being sick a Springfield (Bucks
county) farmer pressed his wife and hired boy
into doing tread-mill duty, and thrashed a lot
of wheat.
. —Dr. Warren the State ornithologijs® is hunt-
ing up the origin of a new breed of white rab-
bits that has been discovered in the western
part of the State.
—In a drunken altercation at the Rocktown
Hotel,near Ashland,Henry Glover stabbed Dan-
iel Paul and then accidentally stabbed himself,
Both men will die.
—Pittsburg property-owners who. would not
stoop to run a saloon have nevertheless made
applieation for license and will rent privile
es
to desirable tenants. b 2
—The Reading Herald quotes.a well known
politician in saying “Delamater will be the reg-
ularjcandidate and Warton Barker will oppose
him as an independent *’
—As he was dying in a Pittsburg hospital,
Patrick Haynes gave direction for reaching
his friends in Brooklyn, but letters and tele-
grams have failed to get response.
—The two daughters of C. F. Lawrence, of
New Castle, publicly cowhided John Magee,
a young man, who, it is said, circulated dam-
aging reports about them,
—T he aid of the Lackawanna county Court
had to be invoked before a marriage license:
could be granted to a Scranton lad of 19 years;
who had neither parents nor guardian. ,
—Ths 7-year-old daughter of Mrs. Fisher, of
Rutledge, recently had sufficient presence of
mind to throw a bucket of water over her
mother, whose clothes had caught fire.
—Joseph Minnick, an inmate of the Harris-
burg Asylum, escaped’ from that institution
and wandered back to his home in Ashland,
from which he also suddenly disappeared.
—A Lancaster jury awarded Abraham W.
Gantz 1 cent damages in his suit against his
brother Henry for $1000 damages for circula-
ting a report that Abraham had forged a note.
—What might be called a XXX wedding
took place at Kingston a few days ago: The
groom, bride and’ best man were unable to
write their names, and all made their- marks.
—An unknown man about 30 years: old was
found dead in.one of the gas ovens ot the War-
wick furnace, at Pottstown. on Monday, having
evidently crawled in to warm himself and been
overcome with gas.
—Aaron Werner, 35 years old, of Bushkill
township, Northampton county, bought two
quarts of whisky and drank it in short time
and several hours afterward he was found dead
in a stable.
—The Coroner’s Jury at Norristown yester-
day held Charles Money and Peter J. Grady
responsible for the death of Michael Kennedy
by running against him while driving reckless-
ly through the streets.
—John Nankervis, employed in the mines
ofithe Pheonix Iron Company near Boyertown,
was standing on a projecting rock when it fell
a distance of torty feet, carrying him with it,
but he escaped serious: injury. :
—Johp Evans, a contractor, had John Wag”
per arrested for stealing lead pipe. Wagner
proved his innocence and was discharged, ard
atonce entered suit against Evans for $5600
damages on account of his arrest.
—A squad of policemen was necessary to
drive away the horde of storekeepers who were
trying to collect their bills from two carloads
of Poles and Hungarians who were loaded at
Scranton the. other day for the Punxsutawny
region.
—J. Hayes, Sr., of Birmingham township,
Chester county, planted a patch of potatoes on
February 5, and if the seed does not die from
influenza or be blown into New Jersey by the
March winds, he expects a crop of new pota-
toes by April 1.
—Nine-year-old Terisea Romaski was terribly
burned by her clothing taking fire a few days
ago, and despite her suffering, she refused to
| surrender the care of the infant left in her
| charge to any one but her mother, who was
temporarily away from home when the acei-
{ dent occurred,
—Engaging in a quarrel, Charles Hamersly,
—Colored men of €Coatsville were indignant
the highest steeple in the town diseoursed .
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