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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
— Eiffel Tower stockings are now the
rage among the ladies. What is their
altitude ?
—A tariffon beans, as is proposed by
the McKinley bill, is thé next thing to
tarifing the atmosphere.
—The farmers are not counting v.ry
largely on the wealth with which Mec-
Kinley’s corn law is going to fill their
cornucopias.
—Having pictures of their swell din-
ners taken by flash-light is getting to be
the fashion among people whose heads
are emptier than theirstomachs.
—-The New York Sun claims that for
itself, “Democracy is good enough polit-
ical reform.” But it never fails to be-
tray Democracy when it has the chance.
— Farmers in Bucks county who for
years cheerfully submitted to tariff rob-
bery are now making a big fuss because
SHELLENBERGER got away with a little
of their money.
—The carpet manufacturers who see
raination in the increased wool duties’
of the McKinley bill, are now becoming
convinced that they wasted their ‘fat”
in the campaign of 88.
—The term ‘kangaroo’ is not inap-
plicable to the Australian ballot system.
It has developed strength enough in its
hind legs to kick the boodler and bull-
dozer out of Rhode Island.
—The enemies of CLEVELAND are giv-
ing themselves much trouble about
his increasing weight. It may be to
them an unpleasant premonition of the
way GROVER it going to smash them in
1892.
—The new tariff proposes to tax cot-
ton-seed oil in order to give a monopoly
to Chicago parties who are furnishing a
defrauded public with alleged lard fried
from the dirtiest portions of the hog’s
anatomy.’
-.-The sheriffs of Kansas are enjoying a
boom that is having the effect of expand-
ing with smiles the faces of those fortu-
nate officials,and elongating with frowns
the countenances of the luckless
grangers.
—One a.week during the past year is
the record of the woolen factories
knocked out in Pailadeiphia by the be-
nign policy of taxing the materials they
must have to work with. This is
called protection.
—With BrAiNe suggesting Pan-
American free trade, and the Republi-
can congress tarifing the raw materials
of South America, such contradictory
political economy must have a bewilder-
ing effect upon the Spanish American
mind.
—There is reason to believe that the
BLAINEs, the SHERMANS, the QUAYS
and others of that ilk who have thriven
in official places, regard with a sort of
amused curiosity the humble pecuniary
results of SAM RANDALL'S long public
service.
—INGALLS says that “the purifica-
tion of politics is an iridescent dream.”
But the Kansas farmers, who propuse
to purify the politics of their state by
turning INGALLS out of office, will make
the purification more of a fact than a
dream.
—What nonsense it is for the Press
to call upon DELAMATER to stand up
and answer the charges made against
him by Ex-Senator EMERY, as if his
answer, whatever it might be, would af-
tect the action of that organ toward
him in ‘case of his nomination. It
will be remembered that the Press once
said that QUAY should be in ths peni-
tentiary, and yet no paper is more sub-
servient to QUAY’s rule.
—Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE has written
an article for the New York 7ribune
showing how young men may win for.
tune. He might have added to the in-
"terest and truth of his article by stating
that if the aspiring young man can get
the government to increase his profits
by the assistance of a tariff that will
give him monopolistic advantages,
it will greatly facilitate the acquire-
ment of his fortune. Mr, CARNEGIE
can speak from personal experience.
worsan
The dependent pension bill will
increase the total of pension expenses
to $161,000,000 a year, or 39 per cent.
of the entire government expenditure.
Tt: 1873 Garrieip said that $28,000,
000 should be the maximum of pension
appropriations. Bat the maximum of
Republican expenditure of public money
iz something that is susceptible of un-
limited expansion. :
In looking overthe New York
Sun since the final result of thé Rhode
Island election we fail to see its accus-
tomed swash about the Australian bal
lot system injuring the Democratic par-
ty. That unprincipled sheet has exer-
cised its malevolent ingenuity to the
fullest extent in misrepresenting ballot
reforuy a= being inimical to Democratic
Islani
pletely knockel it out.
success, but Rhode has com-
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 39.
Death of Samuel J. Randall.
The death of Hon. SaMver J. Ray.
paLL, which occurred last Sanday
morning, was not unexpected, for his
health had been in an impaired con
dition for several years, and during the
past winter he was in such a reduced
state physically that his death at any
moment would not have occasioned
surprise.
The deceased will long be remem-
bered in political history as an able
and faithful representative of the peo-
ple in the halls of congress. That he
had the entire confidence of his con-
stituents was shown by the long period
during which he represented them,
he having been elected to congress
in 1863 and continued in the ser-
vice of the same constituency until
the time of his death. Ie was a man
of incorruptible integrity and strong
convictions, a combination of charac-
teristics that enabled him to represent
his district and his party with con-
spicuous fidelity and honor. His ac-
complishments as a publicspeaker were
not of the first order, but he had such
a strong personality that he easily took
the position of leader and held it until
hig party left him behind in its move-
ment toward the reformation of a de-
tective and oppressive tariff system.
The conservatism of Mr. RANDALL'S
disposition caused him to halt while
the party moved on, and hence he lost
his leadership, but without losing the
respect of his party associates who
could not doubt the honesty although
they had reason to question the cor-
rectness of his tariff views. But what-
ever difference of opinion thzre may
have been on that point, there could be
no question aé to Mr. Ranpary’s high
character as 4 man, his great ability as
. 3 - . .
a legislator, and his eminent service as
a public official. -
Sem —
According to an estimate that
is considered reasonable there are 3000
“gpealk-easies” in Philadelphia doing a
liquor business that is none the less
lively because it is in a measure secret.
The evolution of the “speak-easy” in
that city is said to be due to an. insuf-
ficiency in the number of licensed
drinking places necessary to satisfy the:
g pla y y
popular thirs:.
The McKinley Bill as an Object Lesson.
What kind of opposition the Demo-
crats in the House will present to the
McKinley tariff abomination is a mat-
ter of interest. By some it is believed
that it would be well for the minority
of the Ways and Means committee to
present an opposition bill, and it issug-
gested that the Mills bill would answer
the purpose. It could not be expected
that this would be passed, buat it would
express the Democratic opposition to
the obnoxious McKinley measure. It
is the belief of others, however, that
the better policy of the Democrats
would be to present no bill, but to
fight those parts of the Republican bill
which they could hope to have strick
en out with Republican assistance. The
hide tax and the increase of du-
ties on wool and other raw materials
necessary for manufactures, present
such vulnerable points.
Mr. McMiLLey, the leading Demo-
cat on the Ways ani Means Commit-
tee, says that it ie not yet definitely de-
cided whether there will or will not be
a Democratic bill presented as the re-
port of the minority, although it is pos-
sible that later it might become appa-
rent that it would be best to have a
bill. Continuing the subject further,
he said :
“Our minority report is complete and in the
hands of Mr. Carlisle, subject to some change
as to phraseology. It makes a vigorous assault
upon the McKinley bill, the most outrageous
bill, in my opinion, that was ever produced. I
haven't the language at command in which to
express my honest convictions of it. Will it
pass the house you ask? Not if we can help it,
and there is a strong possibility that we may.
We eertainly shall not aid them by offering
| amendments, and in that way purify their bill.
| “The fact is that while we shall do all in our
| power to defeat this measure, it would be one
| of the best things that could possibly happen
! to the Democracy if it should become a law
' just as it is to-day. We would have no diffi-
culty in electing our candidates for sore years
to come. There is no telling, however, what
will beeome of the bill before it gets through
the two houses The probability is McKinley
himself will not know it when it becomes
a law. .
The appearance of the McKinley
bill before the House will certainly oc-
casion some very instructive tariff dis-
cussion, and its passage will furnish an
object lesson that will greatly advance
education on the subject of tariff reform.
An Unreasonable Complaint.
Mr Hexry Cuaruis Lea, of Phila-
-delphia, is unreasonable in the com-
plaint he makes in an open letter he
has written to President Harrisox
about the favors which the President
confers npon MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY.
After stating that Quay has been pub-
licly charged with raiding the Pennsyl-
vania State treasury and committing
other flagrant acts of dishonesty, which
have not been denied, Mr. Lea says to
Mr. Harrison that “vour close con-
nection with him has rendered tbe
scandal national, and by accepting his
man, Mr. WANAMAKER, a8 a member of
your cabinet, you assumed responsibili-
ty for both of them.”
The Philadelphia complainantshould
be ashamed to be blubbering about
this matter at this late date. While he
was giving his support to HARRISON in
1888, doing all he could to aid his elec-
tion, he fully understood the methods
that Quay was employing to elect the
Republican candidate.. He had suffi-
cient. intelligence to know that the
Pennsylvania corruptionist would not
have been put at the head of the na-
tional committee if it had not been in-
tended that the party should have the
advantage or his methods, and be furth-
er knew of the fat frying that was go-
ing on under the management of Wax-
AMAKER. Yet, notwithstanding this
knowledge, he cheerfully and zealously
gave his support to the candidate. who
was being made the beneficiary of this
corruption.
Does it now become Mr. Liza to make
a fuss about the favors which Mr. IH AR-
RISON is showing Quay and WANAMAK-
Er? Could he have expected anything
else, and is he not himself to some ex-
tent responsible for that which is now
the subject of his complaint ?
AT S—
Ingenious but Dishonest.
The Republicans ot the lower house
of congress scored another victory by
managing to steal another Democratic
seat, the article stolen belonging to
congressman Wis, of the Richmond,
(Va.) district. The excuse ior the
theft was that a number of negro voter®
who intended to vote for Wisg's op-
ponent got so late to the polls that they
were unable to vote. This in substance
was the ground upon which Mr. Wise
was deprived of his seat. Ths differed
but little from the process by which the
other southern Democrats were unseat-
ed, which consisted in the committee
estimating the number of male negroes
in the contested districts and count-
ing them as having voted for the Re-
publican contestants.
Since Mr. RaNpALL'S death we
have seen at least a dozen pictures of
him in as many different newspapers
and no two of them Jooked alike.
From these presentments of Mr. RaN-
DALL's appearance there is necessarily
great confusion in the public mind asto
what kind of a looking man Mr. Rax-
DALL Was.
- EE SS ET
® Sticking To the Rotten Boss.
“There are no more independent Re-
publicans anywhere than those of Law-
rence county. ‘They read all the vile
things that the New York World and
Pittsburgh Clronicle Telegraph are say-
ing about Senator Quay and Mr. DeLa-
MATER and went to their primary elec-
tion on Saturday and elected Delama-
ter delegates to the state convention by
a majority of over 1,500. Such’ things
are to be expected.”
The above was said by the Altoona
Tribune, and the way it was said would
seem to indicate the belief that the
swallowing of such a dirty dose of
Quayism by the Republicans of Law-
rence county was a commendable act.
Nothing could afford more convincing
evidence of the utter depravity of Penn-
sylvania Republicanism than is fur-
nished by such incidents. The stronger
the proof of Quay's complete rotten-
ness, the closer his party sticks to him.
It is well that it is'so. It will hasten
the overthrow of a political domination
that has done so much to injure the
reputation and damage the ‘political 'in-
terests of the State. It was feared that
someching might turn up that would
prevent QuAv's nominating ‘DeLAMA-
tir, and thus delay the defeat that is
so righteously due the corrupt old par-
ty; but there is a most encouraging
likelihood of his putting his man on
the ticket.
&
BELLEFONTE, PA. APRIL 18, 1890.
Evasions of the Liquor Laws.
The appearance of the ‘“speak-easy”
among the places that supply liquor to
the thirsty, is something that is now
interesting those who are giving their
attention to the liquor question. The
“speak-easy” originated in the extreme
prohibition states of Kansas and Iowa,
having been evolved from the suppress-
ed thirst of those localities. It has
made its appearance in all places
where attempts have been made by |
operation of law to prevent the public
sale and use of liquor. Judge Furst has
testified that*‘speak-easies”’ have become
very numerous in Huntingdon county,
where for three years the coart has re- |
fused to grant liquor licenses.
They have also beeen develop-
ed in places where licenses have
been granted under the high-license
law. This is particularly the case in
Pittsburg and Philadelphia, the growth
of the illicit drinking places being at-
tributed to the confinement of the legal
liquor traffic within too narrow
bounds by the existing law. It is claim-
ed that there are too few saloons for
the public accommodation—hence the
‘“speak-easies.”” This circumstance
shows the difficulty of -regulating and
restraining the traffic in ardent spirits
by any laws that the ingenuity of man
can devise.
Even the Philadelphia Press
protests against placing hides among
the tariffed articles. Free trade in
hides has acted with such splendid ef-
feet upon all associated interests that
even such a champion of tariff robbery
as the Press is abashed at the proposi-
tion of taking hides off the free list.
The Jersey Plan.
The ballot reform bill that has pass-
ed the New Jersey House of Represen-
tatives has features that recom-
megd it to those who object to
certain features of the regular Austra-
lian system. Gov. Hiv, for example,is
opposed to the regulation which pro-
vides the voter with an official ballot,
excluding him from the use of any
other. The Governor thinks that this
is too much of a restraint upon the
voter's choice.
The New Jersey bill allows him to
supply himself with ballots before he
comes to the polls, hut previous to his
entering the booth where he can se-
cretly make up his ticket, he is sup-
plied by a sworn election officer with
another set of ballots. He can then
choose for himself,secretly and without
interference or molestation, the ballots
he wishes to vote. All the protection
from undue influence that is contem-
plated by ballot reform is provided by.
this plan, and it avoids the objection to
the voter's being limited to the ballots
furnished by the election officers.
The New Jersey bill also provides
that none except those in the act of
voting shall be allowed to come with-
in a hundred feet of the polling booths.
A New Democratic State.
The Democrats have reason to be
pleased with the effect of the Aus tra-
lian. method of voting in Rhode
Is'and, which has resulted in giving
them the legislature and governor of
that State. Such a result is an unus-
ual thing in a State whose working-
men for many years were largely dis-
franchised, and the peculiarity . of
whose election laws made its govern-
ment an aristocratic one. The adop-
tion of ballot reform has changed this
st ate of affairs.
At the election last week the Dem-
ocratic State ticket had 1500 more
votes than the Republican, but as the
State constitution requires a majority
over all, the prohibition and scattering
votes were sufficiently large to prevent
the Democrats from having the neces-
sary majority. Under such circum-
stances the election of State officers
goes to the legislature. The Demo-
crats having succeeded also in electing
a majority of the legislature, their elec-
tion of Governor and other State of-
ficers according to the constitutional
requirement has likewise been ensured.
Little Rhody may now be safely count-
ed in the column of Democratic States,
for the new election law protects her
workingmen from the bulldozing in.
fluence of their wealthy employers.
She may be considered a newly acquir-
ed Democratic State that’ will set off the
Republican (heft of Montana,
NO. 16.
Financially Distressed Farmers.
| The great number of failures that
have recently occurred among the
| farmers of Montgomery, Bucks, Ches-
ter, Berks, Lancaster and other coun-
| ties of Rastern Pennsylvania in which
| the agricultural population has always
hitherto had the reputation of being
| peculiarly prosperous, is attracting
| widespread attention. The judgment
| docket of the Berks county courtis be-
ing rapidly filled with claims against
farmers who until ‘recently were con-
sidered as among the county's most
substantial and prosperous citizens.
During the week succeeling the lst of
the present month over 200 judgments
were entered against farmers on the
Lancaster county docket, and failures
were numerous. Among the assign-
G AMBER, of Manor township, liabilities
$39,000, assets, $7,000; Jacos H. Hos-
TETTER, of same township, liabilities,
$42,500, assets $27,000; Danien E.
PEIFER, of East Hempfield, liabilities
$13,564, assets about the same. A
number of executions were issued
against others, involving the sale of
their property by the Sheriff. About
the same state of affairs exists in the
the other couaties we have mentioned.
This situation has excited alarm in
that section to. the extent of inciting
a call for a meeting which is in-
tended to be preliminary to the
formation of an organization of farm-
ers in Montgomery, Bucks and Chester
counties, the object of which will be to
discover how they may be re-
lieved from their present distressed fi-
nancial condition. This meeting was
held at Norristown this we: k, with the
ultimate purpose of holding a mass
meeting in June where prominent
speakers will be on hand to tell the
farmers what it is that is ailing them.
It is scarcely necessary for us in
this connection to repeat our oft ex-
pressed opinion that the war®ariff,
which taxes everything that is includ-
ed in the list of necessaries, is chiefly
responsible for the depressed condition
of the farming business. Thejclaim
that the farmer is benefited by the
home market which the tariff is alleg-
ed to secure for him, is very pointedly
refuted by the fact that this agricul-
tural depression exists in districts where
the tariff should be particularly effica-
cious in furnishing him a remuner-
ative home market, if there is any-
thing in that claim.
——Discussion on the McKinley
tariff bill will be cut short by the des-
potic ruling of the congressional czar.
He won't allow the bill to be subjected
to dissection, for the operation would
show up its manifold defects. But this
should not grieve the Democrats. They
should rather be pleased that their:
opponents will pass a measure that will
put them in such good shape for a
thorough beating at the elections that
are to come. It is such measures as
this tariff bill that are hastening and
intensifying the disgust ‘of the people
with the entire system of tariff rob-
bery.
Untruthful Gush.
Joux C. NEw, until recently the
leading Republican organist in Indiana,
is the Consul-Geeneral of the Harrison
administration in London. Some weeks
ago he was one of the guests at ‘a Ma-
sonic banquet in the English capital |
and among the other gush he got off
with the intention of tickling his Eng-
lish hearers, was the following, which
is as absurd as it is untrue:
“If England ever got into difficulty, America
would rally to the support of the old mother
country, for the English-speaking people domi-
nated the world. There was not in the United
States a well-thinking man who did not believe
in the integrity of Great Britain, and who was
not in favor of maintaining the ascendancy of
Great Britain in those parts that she claimed.”
Now the truth is that if England
should get into a tight with any enemy
whatever, nothing wounld afford nine-
tenths of the American people more
pleasure than to see her well whipped.
They would rejoice over it with exceed-
ing great joy. . The Americans are but
human beings, and very humanly they
remember with bitterness how the
English rejoiced over the prospect of
the Republic being destroyed by the
rebellion. That will not: be forgotten
in many years.
——The circus’ began on Wednesday
with the introduction of the McKinley
bill in the House,
ments made were those of BexyaminT. |
spawls from the Keystone.
—Navigation wasopened on the Pennsylva-
nia Canal last Friday.
—Edward Love was killed by lightning near
Tremont on Wednesday night.
—Murderer Bartholomew was buried at
Weaverville on Monday.
—Executions far $2206 have been issued
against Samuel Tinsman, proprietor of the
Scott House, Reading.
—Dull times in the miningregion arouud
Scranton have disheartened the miners, and
many are emigrating..
—A Ballot Reform Club, having for its ob-
ject theadoption of the Australian system of
voting, has been organizad at Reading.
—There is considerble excitement at
Hughesville, Luzerne county. Ata depth of
350 feet a fine rich deposit of anthracite coal
has been found.
—Judge Swartz, of Montgomery county, at
Norristown belivered an opinion that Consta-
bles elected in February, 1889, ware elected
for three years.
—David McKenna, of Slatington, a promi-
nent slate manufacturer, was struck on the
head in his quarry Tuesday bya decending
box and fatally injured.
—The body of Enos Winters, the hermit of
the Schuylkill, who has been missing since
February 13, was found ia Stony Creek, near
Norristown, Monday.
—The police of Reading have succeeded in
breaking up a gang of youthful thieves by
arresting the ringleaders. Warrants are out
for the remainder of the gang.
—Several improvements, including eleetrie
lights, are to be made at Mount Gretna before
the division encampment of the National
Guards will be held there next July.
—Henry Maltzberg, of Reading, has been ap=
pointed Special Agent by. the Census Superig-
‘tendent for the collection of mortgage statis-
ties in Berks and Lehigh counties.
® There is a bitter feeling growing up in
Pheenixville against the Huns. Over 1000 have
colonized there and have driven American
laborers away from the iron mills.
—The deepening of the Port Clinton tunnel
on the main line of the Reading Railroad, will
be commenced soon. When finished the
largest cars will be able to pass through.
—The large woolen-mill of the Conshohocken
Worsted Mills Company, at Norristown, has
been sold to Seth B. Stitt, of Philadelphia, for
$125,000, by James Moir, assignee of the com-
pany..
—Word has been received at Easton an-
nouncing the death in England of Richard
Griffith Bachelor, worbh several millions, which
will go to his relatives, nearly all of whom live
at Easton.
—William H. Wattles, who has been under
arrest at Buffalo charged with bigamy, was
turned over to the Sheriff from Warren on a-
requisition from the Governor of Pennsylvania
yesterday. !
—Three boys, named James Kern, Richard
Corcoran and Daniel Comisky, who ran away
from Phenixville, were captured on a coal
train at Reading on Sunday night and sent
back home. :
~The great demand for potatoes in the West
has sent the speculators up thé country, and -
the farmers of the northern portions of Berks .
and Lehigh counties have inostly’ disposed ‘of
their surplus stocks. ’
—The bricklayers of Phoenixville are on a.
strike because they were compelled to work
ten hours a day for $2.50 alongside of brieklay-
ers from Pittsburg—on a special job—who. got
84.50 for nine honrs.
—The committee making arrangements for
celebrating the centennial of Easton has de:
cided to give a banquet to all the organizations
in the parade, and also to furnish each division
with a band of musie.
——About 10 per cent. more of the coke ovens
in the Connellsville region will close down
next Monday on account of a lack of orders.
The suspension of operations will. throw 1200
men out of employment.
—Frank G. Klohr, aged 25, attempted to
commit suicide by drowning himself in the
Schuylkill River at Reading on Sunday -even-
ing. He was rescued in an unconscious con-
dition and taken to the hospital.
— After a stormy session of several hours the
Young Republicans of Lancaster have decided
that the club-room shall be open. on Sunday
from 1 o'clock in the afternoon until 10 o)glock
in the evening, but games are prohibited on
that day. 2 0h
—Fred M. Hans, a merchant tailor of Easton,
became despondent over the loss of “his wife
who died several weeks ago, and hung him-
self Friday night in the attic of his residence,
which is but a short distance from. where Bar-
tholomew was executed on Wednesday.
—The Society for the Prevention of ‘Cruelty
to Animals is following up the participants in
a cock fight which took place on last Saturday
night in Deleware county just beyond the
county line. Michael Hennessey, Michael
Neeson and Timothy Murray are now in the
Media jail. :
—The women of Bennett Square are. work=
ing with heart and soul to abolish the saloons
in that place. They have started a subsecripe
tion to buy out a hotel and make 1t a tempens
ance place, and have already $2800 subseribed,
‘Prohibition Bread” and “Prohibition Bonnets*
are in great demand.
—The Receiver of the defunct Schuylkill
Valley Mutual Fire Insurance Company has
begun proceedings against a number of poliew-
holders for unpaid assessments, for which he
holds their premium notes. There is aboud
#5000 due by persons living in Bucks, Berks,
Lehigh, Dauphin and Northampton counties.
—Miss Emma Bach, of Allentown, was rob-
bed of her pocketbook, containing $3, on =a
train between Easton and Bethlehem, on
last Thursday evening, by a young fellow
whom she supposed was trying to “mash” her.
He sat down beside her and tried to start a con=
versation, but she gave him to understand he
wasa’t wanted.
—Gilbort Shive, wholesale broom dealer, of
Easton, was taken with scarlet fever on Mon=
day, was on the mend Friday, became uncon-
scious Friday evening, aud remained in that
condition until noon Saturday, when he dieg.
Immediately afterward his body became blacks
His three children are also down with the dis-
ease, one of them being dangerously sick.
—The Reading Prison Inspectors have noti-
fied the Young Men's Christian, Association
that that organization will be no longer permit-
ted to hold services in the county prison, No
reason is assigned for this action, but as the
recent exposure of looseness in prison diseip-
line was made through these meetings proba-
bly it will not, he necessary to lookjfarther,