Demorealic
ticA lata
BY P. GRAY ME
ERK.
Ink Slings.
—Hello, Gov. BEAVER, do you know
that there's a vacancy in the 3d con-
gress district that should be filled by a
special election? .
—After the avalanche of next No-
vember the Reed presidential boom may
be exhumed and exhibited asa sort of
paleontological curiosity.
—Bondsman DARLINGTON’S vindica-
tion of QUAY has the defect of not cov-
ering the date of the steal. It is al-
together too subsequent.
—The seasons come and the seasons
go, but the Lycoming judicial contest
goes on forever. Like death, “it hath
all seasons for its own.”
—Mrs. Lockwoop told a Bellefonte
audience on Wednesday evening that
marriage was nota failure. But wouldn’t
it be interesting to hear what Mr.
LockwooD has to say about it?
—Grandfather’s’ hat is amply large
enough to cover President HARRISON,
but in trying to get MAT QUAY under
it also his Excellency will find it a good
deal too small.
—There is a dark cloud hanging over
the agricultural interests of the country
which some of the western farmers er-
roneously believe can be brightened by
giving it a silver lining.
—The letter which Representative
Fow, who wants RANDALL'S place, has
written concerning his attitude on the
{tariff question, differs from that clarion
voice of his in that it has an uucertain
sound.
— When Speaker REED declared to
the Pittsburg banqueters that ‘‘contin-
uous victory we must have, he gave the
reason for the desperate expedients to
which he and the other Republican lead-
ers are resorting.
— What does the Altoona Tribune
mean by saying that Hon JAMES
MILLIKEN “has a ‘quasi’ home in the
city of Bellefonte?’ Is it the purpose
of that journal to impair Bellefonte’s
claim to itsown and only MILLIKEN ?
— President HarrIson’s first veto
was directed against the Mormons As
they can’t get back at him with their
votes he displayed no rashness in hitting
them. It will be different, though,
when pension bills are submitted to his
consideration.
—Tt is said that the English compa-
nies that are helping themselves to large
chunks of the Dark Continent have pro-
hibited the introduction jof liquor among
the natives ; but British civilization will
hardly be recognizable without the rum
accompaniment.
—The Philadelphia Press plumes it-
self upon having discovered that the Re-
publican members of congress will sol-
idly support the McKinley tariff bill ;
but as everybody knows that the party
lash wouldn’t allow them to do other-
wise, we fail to see the brilliancy of-the
discovery.
—It won’tdo to say in extenuation of
QUuAY’s embezzlement, that Pennsyl-
vania did not lose anything by it.
Dox CAMERON, who made up the loss,
is to be credited for that, although
some may be disposed to find fault with
him for interfering with the peniten-
tiary’s getting its own.
— Worthy Master RHONE says, in ef-
fect, that the grangers would not vote
for DELAMATER under any consideration,
and would not touch WALLACE with a
ten foot pole. In the event of the nom-
ination of these candidates by the
two parties, is it to be understood that
the grangers will politically take to the
woods ?
—In mentioning a recent visit of At-
torney CLEMENT DALE, of Bellefonte, to
Altoona, the Tribune, of that city, said
that he was reticent about the Hastings
campaign in Centre county. Probably
that journal is not aware that there is
nothing in the Hastings boom that is
calculated to excite the enthusiasm of
Mr. DALE.
— Congressman DALZELL,the toast mas-
ter at the Americus-Belshazzar feast, in
alluding to “the reyolution accomplish-
ed in parliamentary methods,” spoke of
that outrage upon the rights of the mi- |
nority with as much satisfaction as a
burglar would speak of the successful
cracking of a bank safe among a gang
of his pals.
—SHEPPARD, the well-heeled Pharisee
of the New York Mail and Express, |
who heads his editorial columns with a
fresh passage of scripture every day,
geslowsly, anslels the Wsokguard of the | poy, appeared before this collection of
Sun in abusing the private gentleman |
whose honest and faithful service in
official positions won the esteem and
applause of every fair-minded Amer-
ican citizen.
—The Louisville Courier-Journal,
reflecting upon what might have been,
remarks that “had Boss Quay cut his
throat or jumped into the Susquehanna,
President HARRISON would now be
practicing law in Indianapolis.” —And
yet there are people foolish enough to
believe that BENJAMIN HARRISON dis-
approves of the methods of MATTHEW
STANLEY QUAY.
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VOL. 35.
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e EVTATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONTE, PA.,, MAY 2, 1890.
D FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 18.
The Pan-American Farce.
It was proposed to follow the adjoarn-
ment of the Pan-American conference
with an excursion of the dglegates
through the Southern States, as a wind-
up of the nation’s hospitality to the dist-
iuguished Spanish-American representa-
tives; but this was brought to aridicu-
lous conclusion by the excursion train
being halted and called back after it had
lett Washington and gone as far as
Richmond. It appears that only two
of the delegates, MARrTINES SILVA, of
Colombia, and Zacarra of Peru, went
along with the excursion, the others
declining to take part in the junket.
As the absurdity of continuing the
journey under the circumstances was
apparent, BLAINE ordered it to be
abandoned.
This absurd wind-up was a fitting
termination of the farce of calling to-
gether the representatives of American
nations for the purpose of establishing
commercial relations with them
while at the same time our Congress
was passing laws to more effectually
keep their products out of our ports by
increased tariff rates.
That the Spanish American delegates
were impressed by this inconsistency is
shown by the following expression of
AxseLymo Moraco, one of the Chilian
delegates, to a reporter of the New
York Herald:
The Pan-American Congress will not do this
country one bit of good. It was a foolish ex-
penditure of money, and it might as well have
been saved. We have seen enough of this
country, and want to get home. We are more
than satisfied that the United States does not
want the trade of the Spanish countries. Some
of the merchants are in sympathy with us, but
they are powerless. Your Government does
not want to trade with us, and if we had known
this eight months ago the invitation to look
over your industries would never have been
accepted. To-day the United States stands
with a massive stone wall around it. We see no
place to enter, and we can’t very well tear it
down to bring in our goods.
The cry of ‘Protection’ has heartily disgust-
ed all of the Spanish delegates, and ‘they will
be only tooglad to get home and begin the
work of bettering our trade relations with
foreign countries. We do not ask you to allow
manufactured goods to enter free of duty.
Free trade, in every sense of the word, would
be injurious to the United States and almost
as bad as the present state. I do not think
that Chili will feel quite so friendly to this
country after this. Our government has tak-
en off all duties on all kinds of machinery, and
every week mining machinery from this coun-
try is shipped to Chili. We do not charge you
a duty; yet when we try to send our wool here
you shut out our trade by a high tariff. We
are not going to force our trade upon you.
We feel sorry that the expensive trip over
the United States will not be worth two cents
to the people who so royally entertained us,
but that is not our fault. It lies entirely with
your government. If yoor tariff laws had been
amended before we came then the result
would have been totally different. We have
seen what a grand country you have here, but
before the government gets ready to trade
with us it is possible we will have forgotten
you.
There is certainly great reason for
the South Americans to he displeased.
They do not ask the United States
government to abandon a reasonable
policy of protection. That question is
viewed by them very much in the light
in which it is viewed by the Democratic
party. While reasonable but not mo-
nopolistic protection on manufactured
goods is dictated by sound policy, and
was endorsed by both the Mills bill
and the Cleveland message, the econo-
mic folly of keeping out raw materials
is as apparent to the South Americans
as it is to the Democrats. And it is
this folly, insisted upon by Republican
leaders, that cripples our manufactur-
ing industries, interferes with our com-
mercial relations with other countries,
and, by disgusting the foreign delegates,
has made a farce of the Pan-American
congress,
A Desperate Gang.
Was there ever such a brazen gang
of political desperadoes collected any-
where as was gathered at Pittsburg
last Saturday night? Flushed with
his triumph over the freedom of the
House of Representatives, Dictator
reckless politicians and electrified
them by the announcement that they
| must secure continuous victory by do-
"ing their own counting and their own
certification. This shameless decla-
ration of the Speaker was supnle-
mented by the effrontery of BAYNE who
paid ajtribute to the efficacy of the fat-
frying process by saying that the mon-
ey will be raised to carry out the
scheme of continuous victory. Are not
these fellows banking too heavily on
the belief that public sentiment is ut-
terly demoralized ?
Wanting to Stem the Tide With
Hastings.
Some of the more reputable Repub-
licans of Philadelphia have taken a
stand in support of the nomination of
General HastiNGs as the caniidate of
their party for governor, being prompt-
ed to such action by the apprehension
that.their party would be in danger of
defeat if a candidate of less personal
strength than he is supposed to have,
should be nominated. They admit
this in an address which they have is-
sued “to the Republican voters of
Pennsylvania,” in which, among other
things they say: “The most thought-
“ful men of our party have not fail-
“ed to discern that the tide of popular
“support which carried BenjaMIN
“HAaRrRIsoN into the Presidential chair
“has been ebbing since the last election,
“and many strongholds of the Repub-
“lican party have been captured and
“some States, hitherto Republican,
“have’'gone. Democratic.”
These well-meaning Republicans,
however, would find that the nomina-
tion of Hastings would not stop the
current of popular sentiment that is
running against the Republican party
in this State. The people have not
only become nauseated by the gener-
al corruption of that party, but are be-
ing alarmed by its reckless policy that
is undermining the fundamental prin-
ciples of the government. HastiNGs
has given no evidence that he would
be anything more than the tool of the
dangerous politicians who engaged in
the'reckless political carnival at Pitts.
burg as the guests of the Americus
club. In fact he was a participator in
that shameless demonstration.
———We learn from tie Williams-
port papers of Tuesday that the Ly-
coming judgeship contest, which has
grown old and rusty, has assumed
a new aspect. The Judges were about
preparing to close the case when on
Monday the respondent received notice
from the counsel of the contestant that
a motion would be made to the court
for a reopening of the proceedings. It
isnow for the Judges to determine
whether this case shall continue indefi-
nitely. It has already lasted long
enough the make it celebrated as well
as expensive.
He Should Come Over.
Prince Bismarck being now a gentle-
man of leisure, some of his American
admirers are talking about inviting
him to come over and partake of
American hospitality. So great a
character as the ex-Chancellor, even if
he were inclined to come, might not be
willing to recogaize anything short of
a formal invitation from the govern-
ment, but shonld he visit this country,
either as a public or private guest, he
would meet with a reception that
would certainly be very flattering . to
him. He would scarcely realize that
he was in a foreign country, for thou-
sands of his countrymen would greet
him, and he would hear his native lan-
guage on every hand, and, as for his
favorite beverage, he would find lager
beer almost as popular in this country
as in Germany, and probably as good.
It would be a grand thing for our
German citizens to entertain the old
Prince. Their flourishing condition
under a free government would be a
revelation that would do him good. Of
course he would be an object of inter-
est to Americans, who in their admira-
tion for his hearty, bluff character and
great ability, would overlook his en-
mity to the American bog. Should
he conclude to come he can depend
upon having a good time.
Eight Hours a Day.
The contention of the organized
workingmen is for eight hours as the
limit of a day's work, with full pay as
compensation. The May demonstra-
tion is iniended to enforce the
demand for reduced hours of labor,
the movement being in greater force
than any thathas yet been made in the
labor interest.
The position taken by those who ad-
vocate the reduction of the hours of a
working day, is that it would give a
chance for work to thousands who are
crowded out by the overwork of those
who have employment. Its purpose is
to equalize, as far as possible, the op-
portunities of those whose living depends
upon their labor. The increased lei-
sure it would give working people is
merely an incidental object.
! A Questionable Vindication.
The Republican State committee at
its meeting last week in Philadelphia
| fixed upon Harrisburg as the place for
holding the State convention, and the
25th of June as the time. Among other
business it did was the passage of some
resolutions, the leading one of which
expressed their confidence in M. S.
Quay, and vouched for his reputa-
tion as against the charges to
which it has recently been subjected
in a manner peculiarly circumstantial
and damaging.
As this committee is composed ofthe
creatures of the Boss it was entirely
natural that they should be zealous in
giving him a certificate of character.
But men less servile than these hench-
men would have thought it due to pub-
lic opinion that a leader, charged as
Quay is charged, should at least meet
the accusations with a denial. If con-
fident of his innocence they should
have eagerly availed themselves of the
opportunity of calling upon him to
prove the falsity of the charges against
him by a prosecution for libel. The
confidence in him which they express
does not come from a source that will
assure the people of the honesty and
purity of MATHEW STANLEY QUAY.
—— That he has not been officially
notified of the death of Mr. RANDALL i8
given by Gov. BEAVER as the reason
for his not calling a special election to
fill the vacancy in the 3d congress dis-
trict. This subterfuge would not be
resorted to if it was a district that was
likely to elect a Republican representa-
tive. A very small business indeed and
therefore very much like BEAVER.
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A Farmers’ Tariff Bill.
The plan of aiding the farmers in
their financial distress, as proposed in
the. Vance bill, which designs to
make the government a factor in dis-
posing of their surplus products, is al-
ready being abandoned by its projectors
and advocates on account of its evi-
dent impracticability and unconstitu-
tionality. Something that appears to
be better is offered in. the proposition
of Mr. Bran, of Missouri, who has in-
troduced a tariff bill which would af-
ford the farmers more relief than they
can derive from the sham protection of
the McKinley measure. It is designed
to open the markets of the world to
our agricultural productions which are
now toa large extent confined to an
overstocked home market by the pre-
vailing tariff restrictions.
The plan of the bill is that all com-
modities imported into this country in
exchange for farm products shall be
admitted free of duty. Such importa-
tion of foreign commodities would be
in proportion to the amount of agricul-
tural products that would be reciprocal-
ly received from this country, the effect
being to encourage other countries to be-
come customers of our farmers,and the
consequent extension of their market.
They are now saffering chiefly on ac-
count of their not having an outlet for
what they producein excess of the
home demand.
We have all along been having tar-
iffs for the benefit of manufacturers,
their tendency being toward monopoly;
but it is time that some kind of a
tariff should be devised that will benefit
the farmers. It looks as if the Bland
bill would answer the purpose.
An Important Liquor Decision.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has just renderel a decision
which is extremely discouraging to the
good people who want to keep intoxi-
cating liquors at a distance by means
of prohibition. In a case brought be-
fore it from Iowa, the Court decided
that the prohibitory law of that State
could not prevent a citizen of the State
from receiving a supply of liquor from
another State. This is about the sub-
stance of the decision. The construc:
tion which we hear some put upon it,
that it enables the person who receives
it to sell the liquor to other parties in
the State into which it has been
| brought, is certainly erroneous. The
{ decision of the Court is that a Prohi-
| bition law is unconstitutional so far as
| interstate transactions in the liquor
business are concerned.
—There was a good deal of talking at
the Pittsburg banquet, but Mr. Quax’s
silence on a certain subject was more
expressive than the gab of all the otbers.
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Contempt That Won't Serve Its
Purpose.
The banquet of the Americus club, a
Republican organization of Pittsburg,
last Saturday aight, presented itself in
an interesting light as beinga presiden-
tial boom for Speaker Regn, who was
a couspicaous attendant ; but further
interest attached to it in the expecta-
tion that it would furnish M. S. Quay,
also in attendance, an opportunity to
rise in the presence of the club and its
distinguished guests and at least deny
if not disprove the charges by which
his reputation, hoth public and private,
is being so seriously assailed.
Mr. Quay was at the banguet, but
not a word had he to say in refutation
of the damaging indictment. To his
friends and retainersthis may appear to
be treating the charges against him
with dignified contempt. But the con-
tempt of a person who is charged with
embezzlement and other flagrant of-
fences by responsible accusers can not
be dignified.
When the parties who arraign M. S.
Quay declare that it was a no less not-
ed citizen and Republican than C.
L. Maezg, of Pittsburg, who found the
Pennsylvania Boss at the Lochiel
Hotel in the early spring of 1879, des-
perately drunk and threatening to com-
mit suicide on account of the discovery
of a treasury embezzlement of $260,000
staring him in the face, and that 1t was
a no less distinguised personage and
Republican than Wayne MacVEeasen
who used his influence to induce Dox
CAMERON to settle the embezzlement
and thus save the terrified culprit from |
suicide or the penitentiary, it wont do,
in the face of such specific designation
of witnesses, for the Republicar Boss to
rely upon dignified silence and contempt
for his vindication.
The farmers of Minnesota make
a remarkable proposition in asking
that binder twine shall be made in the
State penitentiary, as a means of relief
from the extortion of the Twine Trust.
Things have come to a pretty pass
when penitentiary criminals are looked
to for protection against the robbery of
Republican tariff laws.
Drifting Towards Pattison.
The drift of Democratic sentiment
in Philadelpia on the question of the
party nomination for Governor,has tak-
en a decided turn in the direction of ex-
Governor Parison. Within the past
two weeks quiet but active work has
been done in the interest of his candi-
dacy with a result which shows that
the estimation in which he is held by
the Democrats of the city has not di-
minished since his retirement from the
governor's office. Itis reported that
a number of leading Philadelphia
Democrats haye within the past week
come out in his favor, including such
leaders as ex-Postmaster HARRITY, ex-
Representative George McGowan,
Joux M. Reap, RoBErT S. PATTERSON,
Sheriff KrumBHAAR, City Chairman
DoxNELLY, Magistrate JoHN SLEVIN,
Select Councilman Ryax and ex-chair-
man JoHN JorNsoN. The statement is
made that the Philadelphia delegation
to the State Convention will vote for
him almost solidly.
The Worst Yet.
The bill introduced by Senator Hoar,
which 1s intended to subject presiden-
tial and congressional elections to fed-
eral supervision and interference, has
been aptly described by Senator Pues,
of Alabama, as a design to “prostitute
the judiciary of the United States to
political and partisan uses.”
This bill is the worst in the list of
usurpations by which the party in pow-
er propose to maintain and continue
their hold on the government. For
this purpose the courts, controlled by
political influence, are to be made par-
ty machines, and every election dis-
trict is to be invaded by the agents of
this new order of political absoluteism.
To what use partisan judges could
be put in such a business, may be
judged from the service rendered by
Judge Woons in the Dudley prosecu-
tion.
Our free institutions were never be-
fore menaced by such danger as now
threatens them through the reckless
designs of men in whom partisaa spirit
has entirely destroyed the sentiment of
patriotism.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Reading beaux are quaking. The price o
ice-cream has gone up.
—Senator Quay has contributed $10 for the
workingmen’s library at Laneaster,
—Greencastle boasts that it is the prize town:
in the State for the largest number of loafers.
—DMeadville bobs up with another oldest Odd
Fellow. He has been a member sixty years.
—Execution was issued;fon Wednesday at
Lancaster against Benjamin Soudes, farmer,
for $7500.
—A gang of wire-tence swindlers are mak =
ing life unhappy for the farmers in the inte-
rior of the State.
—A child of John Shrom accidentally felt in-
toatubof scalding water at Lancaster snd
was fatally scalded.
—Williamsport is rejoicing because the retmil
merchants of the State will hold their next as-
sociation within its limits.
—The insurance on machinery and stock of:
the burned silk-mili at Catasaqua is estimated’
at $240,000, and on building, $50,000.
—Dr.R. S. Marshall, a prominent -physician
of Allegheny, committed suicide last Friday:
by shooting himself in the head.
—It is believed that in a short time all the:
turnpike roads in Montgomery county, which
are valued a $1,000,000, will be abrogated.
—Supervisor White, of the Third Census
district, finds it very difficult to find the prop-
er men to fill the positions of enumerators.
—Judge Stewart, of Chambersburg, has refus -
€d torelease John L. Rhodes on habeas corpus.
Rhodes is charged with killing his nephew.
—Alfred W. Croll has been arrested at Read-
ing and held in $1600 bail on the charge of
swindling people with tbe “green goods”
game.
—DMatilda, wife of Milton Detwiler, a butcher
of Pottstown, attempted suicide on Monday by
cutting her throat with a razor. Her wounds
are fatal.
—Buck Mountain Colliery, at Bek Moun-
tain, and Middle Lehigh Colliery, at New Bos -
ton, have suspended operations for an indefinite
period.
—A church organ is-the bone of contention
among the members. of a congregation near
Cressona, and the music in the air is very pro-
nounced at present.
—The body of Ellis Rhoads,a farmer who dis-
appeared about jfour months ago, was found
nearthe Reading Railroad viaduct across the
Swatara at Hummelstown.
A bazaar got up by the ladies of Easton to
secure funds for the erection of a city hospital
was opened by Governor Beaver Friday night
in the opera house of that city.
—The trustees of the Bristol Methodist
: Church have threatened to prosecute some of
the young folks who sit in the rear pews of the
church and create disturbances,
—There is a man in Schuylkill county who
| makes a regular business of peddling sand
He carries his product in barges on the Schuyl-
kill Canal, and enjoys a large trade.
—All the restaurants of Media were closed
last Sunday through the quietinfluence of Chie
Burgess Reilly. He was asked to close them
by the Young Men's Christian Association.
—Through the generosity of W. C. Allison,
Esq., the car manufacturer of Philadelphia, a
large and commedious grand stand will be built
on the Dickinson College new athletic field a
Carlisle.
—The jury in the case of Martin Wilkes, the
leader of the Polish faction in the church war
at Plymouth, rendered a verdict of guilty of
aggravated assault and battery. Sentence was
postponed.
—James Shaw,the oldest resident of Carvers--
ville, Bucks county, while engaged in cutting
down a tree on Friday afternoon, was stricken
with paralysis of the heart, and died in a few
minutes. 2
—J. W. Orcult, Hanover, the wire fence
swindler, who has swindled the farmers of
York and Adams counties out of neariy $125,000
has been arrested in Hanover. He gave bail
for a hearing.
—The Crawford eounty farmers will hold a
Convention the coming week to nominate the
candidates for the Legislature. The public
road question is the one the farmers are keep--
ing their eye upon..
—Charles Johnson, convicted at Mauch
Chunk for defrauding the people in Carbon
county by obtaining subscriptions without
authority and pocketing the money, was sen--
tenced toone year’s imprisonment.
—An execution was issued on Saturday
against Aaron Whitalker, proprietor, of the ex-
change Hotel,'one of the oldest hostelries in.
Wilkesbarre, for $10,204. The writ was issued.
by S. B. Price, Trustee, to whom Whitaker gave
a judgment note in 1880.
—Lebanon Classis of the Reformed Church
convened at Sinking Spring Monday to try Rev
M. L. Fritch, of Skillington, on the charges
preferred by a committee of Classis. The
charges are theft and falsehood. Rev. Fritch
was not present, as he denies the jurisdiction
of Classis.
—Annie Holland, the young woman who was
arrested in Philadelphia last Saturday for
abandoning her infant in the woods near Chaé-
ham, on March 31, had #hearing at Avondale
and was committed to the Chester county jail
without bail. She was afterward released on.
a writ of habeas corpus.
There was a big wreck on the Lehigh Val-
ley Road on Sunday dear Lehigh Gap.. A
freight train of forty-five cars ran. into ajgravel
train and scattered cars in every dir ection.
Seven of the train hands were more or less in-
jured, but none fatally. The collision was
due to non-observance of orders..
— Lawrence Smith, of Bethlehem, whcse
mind is said to have been affected by the grip»
called on Miss Fannie Flyte, to whom he was.
engaged to be married, on Tharsday of las§
week, and said she would never see him again-
He disappeared from his boarding-house early
the following morning, and is still missing.
—A Lehigh Valley passenger train struck
and killed Mrs. Patrick McLaughlin, aged 65,
near Hazleton Friday morning. She was on
her way with her husbaud and two children to
the depot to take a train for the West, where
they were to reside. In stepping out of the
way of a coal train she got in front of the ex-
press.
—Seigfried’s Bridge, Northampton countys
has a marvelous medica loase which the doctors
are unable to account for. Mrs Wuchter,aged 40
years, has been athlicted with convulsions for
over a year, which attack her every half hourp
and last for some time. Athough she has a
strong inclination to drink, not a drop of water
has passed her lips since Good Friday.