Ink Slings.
—1It may be that BERTIE ADAMS con-
ceived the design of revolutionizing the
3d district from his recent association
with the Brazilian revolutionists.
—No other name has about it more of
the flavor of Democracy than has the
name of Dick VAux. There is in ig
something that Democrats may conjure
with.
—1If the New York Sun must have a
standing conundrum why doesn’t it give
its readers something harder than “Who
is the liar 2” Everybody knows that it’s
DANA.
—After coming all the way from
Brazil it wouldn’t look well for BERTIE
ADAMS to back out, and so it is said he
has concluded to take his licking like a
little man.
—There is a mightly sight of bursting
up going on under an administration
that promised to empty the horn of plen-
ty all over the land and surfeiteverybody
with prosperity. ;
—The Chicago Tribune thinks ¢‘there
is nothing meaner in the world than a
bad man—except a bad boy.” But
doesn’t a really bad woman discount
both of them ?
— What a sweet-scented national com-
mittee it must be to excite the fear that
its getting together would raise a stench
too powerful for the sensitive olfactories
of decent people.
—Quay differs from the speak-easy
in that he doesn’t speak at all,” says
the Philadelphia Times. But, consider-
ing the situation, it isn’t easy for Mr.
QUAY to speak.
—The prohibitionists of Delaware are
goi ng to put a state ticket in the field;
but one should think that good temper-
a nce people would want to raise a tem-
pest somewhere else than in a tea-pot.
—1If it is true, as reported, that Fora-
KER has gone into the railroad business,
he isn’t applying his talents to the right
vocation. Fog-horns are better adapt-
ed to steam navigation than to railroad-
ing.
—Boss REED has reduced the discussion
ot the tariff bill to one-minute speeches.
This is a reprehensible shortening of the
debate, but there willbe a proportional
abreviation of the Republican vote next
fall.
—The absence of hides from the list
of tariffed raw materials is such a slur
on the projectors of the new tariff bill
that one might believe that McKINLEY
would go a mile out of his way
to club a steer.
—The country is producing such a
big crop of embezzlers that 1f Mar
QUAY were to die or resign, “the grand
old party” would have no difficulty in
getting a chairman competent to take
charge of its campaigns.
—Ifalarge contingent of votes bad
depended upon pensioning the daughter
of “iron-sides’’ Stewart, of glorious
naval memory, a Republican Con-
gress wouldn’t have cut her short with
the paltry sum of $600 a year.
—The subtreasuries which the Far-
mers’ Alliance wants the government to
establish in the agricultural districts
would have to be about the size of
Lancaster county barns. Painted red they
would be an ornament to the rural
landscape.
—The pictures of Richard Vaux
printed in the papers represent him as
looking like an old lion. By bringing
him out of his lair and giving him a
chance to shake his mane in congress,
his constituents will do the country a
benefit.
—1It is entirely unnecessary as a mat-
ter of cautionary advice for any one to
say, “Dear Quay, don’t talk.” The
Boss is profoundly convinced that the
only thing he can do under the present
embarrassing circumstances is to keep his
mouth shut.
—The tariff supporters assert that
BurTERWORTH is disaffected on account
of an interest he has in brewing. They
are entirely correct if they mean the
brewing of the storm on the tariff ques-
tion that is going to bring the Republi-
can party to its bier.
—In saying that “The farmers’ home
market takes its instructions from the
seaboard,” Mr. CLEVELAND has added
another to his list of vigorous and ex-
pressive apothegms. His terse sayings
entitle him to the distinction of being
considered America’s epigrammatic
stutesman. /
—The hitch that occurred in’ the
meeting of the Republican national com-
mittee, which was to have gotten to-
gether at Washington last Monday but
failed to do soy strengthens the suspi- |
cion that Mr. HARRISON is raising ob- |
jections to the combination of rascality |
in the persons of QUAY and DUDLEY
that is at the head of the party manage-
ment. But this is both ungrateful and
unreasonable on the part of Mr. HARRI"
soN in view of the fact that had it not
been for those rascals he would not now
be President of the United States.
Jatchman;
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 35.
63 19
I_2LEFONTE, PA., MAY 16, 1890.
NO. 20.
The Tariff Mongers Surprised and
Shocked.
The people who have charge of the
tariff bil in congress have recently
met with several shocks and surprises
They were severely shocked on Friday
when Republican congressman ANDER-
sox, ot Kansas, offered an amendment
which provided that when in the judg-
ment of the President articles of manu-
facture or production were being made
the subjects of monopoly by trusts and
combines, he should have authority to
suspend the duties on imported articles
of that kind. This being a blow aimed
directly at monopoly, as a matter of
course it received no countenance from
a Republican congress and was voted
down. The gentleman from Kansas
should have known that Speaker REED
and his associates are not pasding any
tariff measures that will injure the
trusts.
But this incident was nothing in
comparison to the surprise with which
Republican congressman BUTTERWORTH
of Ohio startled the tariff mongers on
Tuesday by a savage attack on some
of the leading features of the bill. He
wanted a tariff measure so adjusted as
to operate to the interest of all and not
of a select few. Ie could not regard
the present bill as such a measure.
There was no justice in the policy of
favoring Paul at the expense of Peter,
which was being done by some of the
provisions of the bill by increasing the
profits of certain classes to the disad-
vantage of other classes. Why increase
the gains of capitalists whose profits
exceed those of all the agriculturists in
any state of the Union ? he asked.
Mr. BUTTERWORTH gave expression
to a great truth in saying that there
was such a thing as paying too much
to establish an industry. He gave as
an instance the tin-plate industry to
establish which this bill will impose a
tax of $50,000,000 a year upon
those who use tin, His denunciation
was directed against the ““cabbage-head”
policy of the bill which was intended
to delude the farmers into the belief
that their best interest was to sellin the
home market where there was not a
demand for one fourth of their product.
In order to save $17,000,000 spent in
Canada, this bill,hesaid, proposes to shut
our farmers out of the Canadian mark-
et where they sell $217,000,000 worth
of their products annually.
Mr. BurrerwortH indulged in other
severe strictures on the policy of the
bill, intimating that its provisions were
framed upon the testimony of the tariff
beneficiaries who had appeared before
the committee, and he declared that
when lower duties would do the coun-
try the most good, lower duties should
be had.
If a bombshell had fallen among the
Republicans of the House it could not
have produced greater consternation
than was caused by the speech of the
Ohio congressman, and we have no
doubt that while he was talking REED
regretted tht he could not apply the
gag to him.
——The Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany has contributed $275,000 to assist
in promoting the World's Fair which
je to be held in Chicago in 1893.
This is enlightened liberality worthy of
the great corporation that displays it.
There are other: interests that will be
benefited as much as the Pennsylvania
company by the great exhibition; and
if they shonld be proportionately lib-
eral in giving it assistance the World's
Fair will not lack the pecuniary
means necessary to make it a brilliant
success.
Drifting Towards Delamater.
DeLaMATER was subjected to a
fierce opposition in the northwestern
counties where hostility to the favorite
of the Boss was more strongly develop-
ed than any where else in the State,
but the power of the machine and the
force of discipline enabled him to grap-
ple successfully with his opponents:
He has carried Erie and Venango
counties, and it is doubtful whether he
has been defeated in Emrry's own
county of McKean, for, although Stone
claims the delegates, it is more than an
even chance that they will go for
QuaY’s candidate if wanted. The gen-
eral drift of the delegate elections
point to the nomination of DELAMATER
with an assurance that is the next
thing to a certainty.
Lucky in His Old Days.
's ou~ C. Freyoxt, the old “Path
finder,” and first Republican nominee
for President, is to be congratulated on
the good luck that has come to him in
his old days when poverty was making
the situation unpleasant for him. A
charge stood against him in the Gov-
ernment’s ledger for a shortage
incurred when. he was a Lieutenant
in the army entrusted with military bu-
siness many years ago. It had been
standing against him up to this time,
but as he was too poor to pay and had
nothing upon which the government
could levy, he wzs not in a shape to be
harrassed by it. But recently he was
placed upon the retired list with the
rank and pay of a Major General, and
then arose the fear that Uncle Sam
would avail himself of the chance to
collect the long standing claim by
withholding the retired general's pay
until the nineteen- thousand dollars
should be reimbursed. In great tribu-
lation he asked that the dock-
age should be made in instal:
ments and not all at once; but
upon overhauling his account to deter-
mine the exact amount he would have
to pay,ito his unspeakable delight, it
was discovered that a mistake had
been made in the bookkeeping of the
war department and that instead of his
owing the government $19,000, the
government owed him $21,000.
FreMoNT was a good deal of a hum-
bug in some respects. Without being
fit for the position of President he was
put up by a fanatical party that sought
to make political use of the notoriety
he had gained as an explorer. His utter
failure in everything he has since done
shows what an escape the country
made in his pot being elected at that
critical and delicate period of the sec-
tional coutroversy. As a soldier his
career during the rebellion was a com-
plete though a picturesque failure. No
general of that time failed more pyro-
technically. Yet Fremont in his ear-
ly life did the country great service
in blazing the path of empire across
the continent to the Pacific shore, and
therefore it is well that financial dis-
tress should not harrass his declining
years.
——According to a design formed
some weeks ago, a number of farmers of
Montgomery, Bucks, Berks, Delaware
and Chester counties met at Norristown
last week to devise ways and means
for promoting and protecting their in-
terests. We have not learned what
course they are going to adopt to ef-
fect this object, or what views they
expressed at their meeting, but we will
credit them with too much good sense
to expect any benefit from the ‘‘cab-
bage-head” tariff which McKinley is
‘getting up with the delusive promise
that it will help them ov* of their
difficulties.
A —————
Explanation of a Dark Conspiracy.
Collector Cooper's Media American
has made the discovery, and hastens
to divulge it to an astonished world,
that a dark conspiracy has been form-
ed in New York to break down the
character of the chairman of the Na-
tional Republican Committee. In con-
sequence of this conspiracy libelous
charges have been published in the
New York World and other evilly dis-
posed journals of that city, against the
pure and honest character who directs
the politics of the Republican pariy
and manages the party machinery in
Pennsylvania. It is to ruin the repu-
tation of this good man and to destroy
the influence which he is exerting for
the welfare of his country and the
benefitof the Grand Old Party, that the
New York conspirators are villitying
him and trying to destroy his good
name.
This is Cooper's explanation of the
reason for the charges made against
Quay, and he calls upon the faithful
men of his party to rally to the support
of the exalted character at the head of
the party whose ruin is intended to in-
volve the defeat of the Republican
State ticket. CooPEr thinks that hon-
est people should not be deceived by
these conspirators ; but wouldn't it be
more satisfactory to. honest people if
Quay should vindicate his reputation
by prosecuting those who it is alleged
should have no difficulty in bring his
defamers to punishment.
are defaming him? An innocent man |
Kicking Against a Dog Law.
Considerable discontent prevails
among the tax-payers of Lycoming
county about the dog law which they
have specially 1n that county for the
purpose of making good theloss of sheep
killed by marauding dogs. There is a
tax on the dogs, or, rather, the theory
is that there is such a tax, the proceeds
of such taxation going into the coun-
ty treasury to pay for sheep that have
fallen victims to the canine love of
mutton. But it is alleged that this
tax doesn’t begin to meet the claims of
the farmers who bring in bills for losses
occasioned by depredating dogs, de-
manding compensation according to
the provisions of the law. Thus, in
one townsbip, Cascade by name, the
dog tax paid last year amounted $84,
yet in April alone claims to the amount
of $193 were made on the county
treasury for sheep brought to an un-
timely end by prowling curs. The
farmers of Cascade township are evi-
dently making money by this system
of sheep raising, and can snap their
fingers at the protection with which
the McKinley bill intends to encourage
the wool industry. They don't need
any nurturing ot that kind as long as
they have the county treasury to cod-
dle them. There are other townships
that are doing equally well in the
sheep business with the assistance of
the dog law. The county commission-
ers despair of being able to make the
dog tax and the claims for sheep loss-
es balance, and the general tax-payers
are beginning to kick against the ex-
pense of fattening all the worthless
cars in the county with mutton.
——It is natural that the English
should be pleased with the failure of
the Pan-American congress. They
have practically a monopoly of the
Spanish American trade and can thank
our narrow tariff policy for it. They
would not like to see themselves
lose this great advantage which would
certainly happen if more liberal com-
mercial relations were established be-
tween this country and Spanish Amer-
ica. Hence the Eoglish rejoice in the
failure of the Pan American congress.
Nothing would be more distasteful, be-
cause nothing could be more injurious
to them than free trade between the
United States and the countries south
of us.
Indiana Repudiates the G. O P.
The political tide continues to run
against the Republicans in the State
which recently furnished the country
with a Republican President. Last
fall's elections in Indiana were any
thing but encouraging to Mr. Harri
SON’s party, and last week the elections
for mayors and common councils in
the cities and towns plainly indicated
that things are going from bad to worse
for the old party in that State. Of the
seventy-eight municipal election report-
ed fifty-four were carried by the Demo-
crats, and among these were such for-
mer Republican strongholds as Craw-
fordsville, Franklin, Lafayette, Leban-
on, Noblesville, Vincennes and Wa-
bash, some of which were nevericarried
by the Democrats since they were
chartered as cities.
A notable feature of the result is the
manner in which the towns that were
the especial recipients of Mr. HaRrrI-
soN’s official favor repaid his kindness
by increasing the Democratic vote.
Thus Franklin, from which the Presi-
dent appointed the United States Mar-
shal for Indiana, last week elected the
Democratic ' ticket the first time in
twenty years. He took his District At-
torney from Vincennes, and that town
changed its majority from largely Re-
publican to largely Democratic, Wa-
bash furnished the Cherokee Indian
Commissioner and has also furnished
a Democratic. majority for the first
time in its history as a city, and Madi-
son, which was favored with a Collec-
tor of Customs, returned the favor by
electing its first Democratic city of-
ficers.
All of this goes to show that political
favors dispensed by Mr. Harrison
does not change thejcontemptuous opin-
ion of him as a President which the
people of his own State have had rea-
son to form, and it-also shows that the
popular sentiment against the adminis:
tration and the policy of the Republi-
can party is as strong in Indiana as in
other States that have given expres-
gion to it at the polls within the past
year.
Most Satisfactorily Settled.
The satisfactory settlement of the
difficulty that complicated the contest
for the Democratic congressional nom-
ination in the 3d district, is a great re-
lief to those who feel an interest in
having that district properly represent-
ed in Congress.
At one time it looked as if the war-
ring factions would inflict a pair of in-
ferior candidates upon the Democrats
of the district and bring about such a
situation that no respectable Democrat
would care much whether 1t would be
a victory or a defeat, and already the
monopoly tariff yultures were whetting
their beaks for what they expected was
going to be easy prey; but at the last
moment devotion to Democratic prin-
ciples and regard for Democratic suc-
cess triumphed over factional feeling,
and victory has been assured by the
nomination of that sterling Democrat,
high-minded gentleman, and patriotic
citizen, Ricuarp VAUX.
He was the very man whom all good
Democrats all over the State had ment-
ally designated as the best choice that
the party in the 3rd district could
make, and the proper person to succeed
SauvEL J.RANDALL as its congressional
representative. The nomination of
Mr. Vaux insures a majority that
will gloriously endorse the principle of
tariff reform.
It Should be Widely Circulated.
There being no response from Sena-
tor Quay to the damaging charges
made against him, impugning his per-
sonal and official reputation, the New
York Evening Post, one of the papers
that published in detail the incidents
and circumstances of his offending, has
issued a pamphlet embodying a full
record of the rascalities with which he
is charged. The price of this pam-
phlet is 5 centsapiece, or $3 a hundred.
“with liberal deductions for churches,
colleges and schools.”
Quay’s crimes stand confessed by
his silence and the absence of any de-
nial of them from any quarter what-
ever. They are in effect admitted, and
such being the case it is due to public
morality, and required by a regard for
the public welfare, that they should be
published as widely and fully as possi-
ble. This should be done to counteract
the evil effect of a political party em-
ploying such a rogue to manage its
politics and utilizing his dishonest
and corrupt methods to pro
mote its designs. It is a matter affect-
ing grave public interests, and the
Evening Post is doing a patriotic jduty
in giving the knowledge of Quay's
character the widest possible publicity.
ss ——
Bismarck Threatened With Punish-
ment.
There is a report that the young
German Emperor is greatly angered by
the supposed intention of ex-Chancel-
lor Bismarck to publish the particu-
lars of his dismissal from office, in-
cluding the circumstances that led to
it. There would be embraced in such
a publication much that the Emperor
would not like to have made public,
otherwise the intended divaulgement
would give him no annoyance, It is
said that his sovereign has sent the re-
tired statesman a letter reminding him
that he would render himself liable to
punishment by divulging state secrets
that came to his knowledge during his
official life. Wouldn't there be a
spectacle presented to the world if un-
der the rule of this erratic and testy
young potentate the giant who may be
said to have created the German Em-
pire should be punished like some or-
dinary offender that had made him-
self amenable to penalty ?
ATT ETT EAS.
Sham Patriotism.
A disturbance has broken out in the
Order of the Patriotic Sons of America,
a number of its members having with-
drawn for the reason, as is alledged,
that its object is the same as that of
the old Know Nothing organization.
Whether this be true or not, there
are indications that the Order is be-
ing run with a strong Republican bias.
As in the case of the G. A.'R,,
it may be claimed that the ‘Sons
of America” have not a political de-
sign, butinvestigation would show that
Republican partisans are manipulating
them. All sons of America should
be patriotic, but there is no call for
any particular set of them to claim to
be especially so.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Jsaac Schaeffer, aged 76, of Middletown,
Dauphin county, and for fifty years a miller,
died on Friday. ; me
—A new library for the use of the organized.
laboring people of Lancaster on Saturday
night has been opened. )
—The Keystone Cement Works at Porticad,
Lehigh county, have been seized by the Sher-
iff for claims amounting to $7000.
—In stepping out of the way of one train at
Gilberton Saturday John Short, aged 60, got in
the way of another and was killed.
— The general store of Mrs. M. J. Sticker at
Milton was totally destroyed by fire last Fri-
day. Loss, $28,000 ; insurance, $21.000.
—MNillon Sandt.a young married man of
South Easton, died of lockjaw, the result of be-
ing thrown from a carriage last Sunday.
—John H. Graffin, one of the victims of the
Unicorn Silk-Mill fire at Catasauqua on April
24, died Saturday, making the sixth death.
—John Wurich, a detective at Reading, has
sued Berks county in a test case for fees for
serving warrants, in addition te his salary.
—Five bodies were found last week at Johns-
town by workmen. Two of them were a moth-
er and child clasped in each other’s arms,
—The editors of the various papers publish-
ed in Schuylkill county met at Pottsville and
organized the Schuylkill Press Association.
—The schools savings banks have been open-
ed in the Williamsport schools for six weeks,
and nearly $3000 have been deposited by the
pupils.
—The Sheriff of Berks county has seized up-
on the personal effects of H. K. Frantz,'a farm-
er of Bethel township, on an execution for
700.
—A fire in a clothes closet in the residence
of Henry Erwin,of Bethlehem, on Thursday
night destroyed #800 worth of dresses and
coats.
—The Trade and Labor Council of Reading
is making arrangements to organize all the
workmen in that section of the S tate into one
organization.
—Jackson Heinzer, 25 years old, was cut in
two at Mill Creek, on Friday night, by a Le-
high Valley train, and his gold watch driven
into his heart.
—William Horn, aged 12, lost his right foot
and had several ribs broken in attempting to
jump from a train at Mount Carmel on Monday
and died within an hour.
—La grippe in an epidemic form has ‘made
its appearance in portions of Berks county.
In the northern part quite a numberof cases
of pneumonia are reported.
—John M. Krauth, district Attorney of
Adams county and Secretery of the Gettys-
burg Battlefield Memorial Association, died of
consumptfon on Saturday, aged 44 years.
—A burglar entered the store of Hugh
Sweeny, at Mauch Chunk, on Friday morning
and got away with shoes and the proprietor’s
hat and coat, amounting in all to over $100
worth of booty. :
—Mrs Catharine Brown, a resident of Lan-
caster, died from lockjaw, caused by the sting
of an insect a few weeks ago at Port Providence
Montgomery county, where she was visiting
her granddaughter.
—The Juniata Sand Company, with princi-
pal office at Lancaster,Pa., has been chartered.
The capital stock is $100,000. The works are
at Granville, Mifflin county, and Mill Creek,
Huntingdon county. -
—A number of York boys, who have been in
the habit of stoning the train-men as they pass
through the town, were caught in the act last
week, and will be brought into Court to answer
for their malicious conduct.
—President Judge-€harles E. Rice, of Lu-
zerne county, has appointed ex.Governor Hen
ry Hoyt, now a resident of Wilkesbarre, stand-
ing Master in Chancery. This office.in Luzerne
county is worth $3000 a year.
—W. Wall Fenther, formerly of Philadel-
phia, and Laura E. his wife, have brought suit .
against the city of Reading for $20,000 damages
for injuries sustained by Mrs. Feather in fall-
ing into an unprotected excavation.
—The.farmers of Berks county are alarmed
at the appearance of myriades of worms in the
grain and. green grass fields. The pest re-
cembles the army-worm, and is particul: riy de,
structive to young timothy and clover.
David Zortman, of York county, is a be-
reaved man. Last Thursday a sou, aged 14
years, and a daughter aged 5 years, both died
of diphtheria. They were the ouly cases of
suffering from that diseave in their vicintty.
_The divorce suit of Ida Shinkle - against
Horace J. Shinkle, at Reading, has resulted in
a verdict for the plaintiff, The evidence de-
veloped one of the most remarkable cases of
brutal treatment ever heard of in this section.
—James F. Mogle, a brakeman on coal train
engine No. 869, Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad, was. instantly killed at Pottstown
early Saturday morning, the wheels of an up
freight, passing over him, severing his head
from his body.
—Benjamin Deeble, aged 50, § employed 1m
the Avoca mine at Avoca, met with a horrible
death on Friday. While placing a wheel in
position the timbers gave way, and he was
precipitated to the bottom, a distance of sever-
al hundred feet.
—Catharine Mavgroff, who arrived in New
York a few days ago on the steamer Mannheim
destined for Easton, has not reached the lat-
ter place, though her trunk arrived on Thurs-
day night. Her absence causes uneasiness
among her Easton friends.
—The fair given by the ladies of St Francis
Catholic Church, Lenni Mills, terminated last |
week, and over $1900 was realized. A gold
watch valued at $90 was voted to Samuel Sty-
er, the veteran coon hunter of the Lenni Coon
Club, he having turned in $147, to $125 for the
next highest.
—Mzr. Victor L. Harbaugh, of Hagerstown,
was arrested on Wednesday by a Deputy Uni-
ted States Marshal from Baltim#éte, charged
with fraudulently representing himself tobe a
United States Pension Agent. Co mmissioner
Hager held him in default of $3000 bail for a
hearing on Monday.
—Mrs. Catharine Brown, an old lady of
Port Providence, Montgomery county, died on
Friday from blood poisoning. Seven weeks
ago, while in the cellar, she was bitten in the
hand by an insect. The hand and arm at
once swelled to double their natural size, and
from this the blood poisoning originated.
—William Overdorf, of South Pottstown, met
with a horrible accident while engaged in tar-
get practice at Monger’s mill on Saturday.
The gun was evidently overcharged. It burst,
and a piece an inch and a half in length,
known as the breech block, imbedde d itself in
his head through the frontal bone. The piece
was taken out. It weighs nearly six ounces.
The man is still alive.