Ink Slings,
—New York’s request of congress to
appropriate $250,000 for her Grant
monument is another illustration of her
monumental meanness. i
— President HARRISON'S refusal to en-
gage in baby kissing at Pittsburg may
have been for thereason that the McKee
kid has given him a surfeit of the baby
business.
—Nobody will charge INGALLS with |
having plagiarized his Gettysburg ora-
tion.. Tt bore marks of its’ paternity
that couldn’t be attributed to AAssir-’
LON,
—The census taking is getting along
pleasantly notwithstanding PorTzr’s
intention of making it, disagreeable to
the people. He had, however, to revise
his intention.
—The mention of W. U. HENSEL as
a compromise Democratic nominee for
Governor is suggestive of a campaign
whose brilliancy would be a sufficient
warrant for its success.
—The rowdy students who painted
Harvard red in celebration of a baseball
victory over Yale, will find blue the pre-
vailing color by the time the faculty
shall get through with them.
—There is an evident intention on the
part of the Republican leaders to work
the rebel flag asa supplement to the
bloody shirt, the old garment of gory
hue having lost its efficacy 4s a politi-
cal factor.
—The Philadelphia Press expects
that the party managed by Quay will
carry Delaware at the next election.
The domain of “the Blue Hen’s Chick-
ens’ is small, but not small enough to
surrender to such a party.
—The New York census enumerator
who committed suicide at the end of his
first day’s work must have been dis-
couraged with his job. Probably he
couldn’t stand the indignation of the
old maids whose ages he wanted to find
out. |
—dJune has so far behaved in a man-
ner that by comp rison should make
the skittish maiden May ashamed of her
unbecoming conduct. But, then, there
is no telling how soon June may kick
over the traces.
—It is remarkable how the fancy of
men who have grown rich through mo-
nopoly runs in the direction of establish-
ing charitable and literary institutions.
Is it a way they have of trying to com-
pensate the public for having fleeced it?
—The census men should be in com-
plete possession of their senses. It will
greatly aid them in the performance of
their duty, particularly when they come
in contact with people whose senses are
deficient as to the purpose of the census.
—1It is to be hoped that the lady teach-
er who shall draw the’ Philadelphia
Press prize and get the trip to Europe,
will not bring discredit upon the Amer-
can educational system while abroad by
marrying a German baron or an Italian
count.
—The chairmanship of the Republi-
can National Committee will’ not be
changed. © As the head manager of the
Republican party, the fellow who got
away with $260,000 of the Pennsylva-
nia State funds is the right man in the
right place.
—The Bucks county farmer, who, in
reply to the query from Washington :
“What effect des the tariff have on your
welfare?’ replied, “It raises h—I11,"
gave a pretty good description of the
crop which tariff taxation is producing
in the farming districts.
—The Republicans are not only satis-
fied with the Quay rule asit now exists,
but they show a desire to have it perpet-
uated by nominating the Boss’s son
Dick for the Legisleture with scarcely
a ripple of opposition. They seem to
think that they can’t have too much of
a bad thing.
—About the time the Germuns are
relenting in their persecution of the
American hog the French government
has determined to lay an embargo on
the pork of this country. This is an
unkind cut from a sister Republic, but
the French may point to the illiberal
character of the American tariff as a rea-
son for their proscription of our swine,
—1It has been observed that in the
orations delivered at Gettysburg the
MEADE of praise is seldom given to the
General under whose command the Un-
ion soldiers won the battle which made
that locality celebrated. The average
Gettysburg orator talks as if GRANT,
SHERIDAN or SHERMAN commanded on
that and every other battle field ofthe
rebellion. LE
—1It is a circumstance well worthy of
making a note of, thatthe Louisiana
Lottery, notwithstanding that it has
at its head two such ex-rebels as Ju-
BAL EARLY and BEAUREGARD, is a Re.
publican machine, chartered by a Re-
publican carpet bag legislature during the
reconstruc#ion period when the incursion
of Northern scallawags belonging to
the party of “high moral ideas” tempor-
arily suspended honest government in
the South.
VOL. 35.
A Forecuast of the Gubernatorial
Nominations.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Record, who has been giving some at-
tention to the contest for the nomina-
tion for Governor on both the Demb-
cratic and Republican sides,and has at.
tempted an analysis of the result,
gives his view of the situation as it ap’
pears at present. ‘
Of the 204 delegates who will com-
pose the Republican State convention,
62 have been instructed for DELAMATER,
20 for Hasminas, 15 for StoNEg, 22 scat-
tering, 22 not instructed but ‘claimed
for DELAMATER, and 63 not yet elected.
The choice will depend upon the votes
of 103 delegates. Of this number
Duramares has 62 sure and his friends
claim for him 22 more, making, in all,
84 of those elected. On the other side
the opposition marshal 57 sure against
him. Putting the Philadelphia dele-
gates down for Hastings, there will he
24 left to be disposed of, and to make
his nomination. DELAMATER must get
19 of them, which the correspondent
thinks he can not do. If the fight was
left in this situation he would be de-
feated. But if Quay really wants his
man nominated “he can go into the
Philadelphia delegation and get the
necessary number to put DELAMATER
through,” for the Philadelphia dele-
gates are for Hastings merely theoreti-
cally.
Of the contest for the Democratic
nomination the correspondent thinks
that the situation at this time is favor-
able to Ex-Governor Pattison. He
says: “Mr. WaLLace wrapped him-
gelf into fancied security so long that
he has lost the adyantage which he
once had, and the friends of Mr. Par-
TION appear to have more basis than
is usual in such claims tor their confi-
dent assertion that their candidate, to
use the vernacular of the turf, has
taken the pole away from his competi-
tor.” There is, however, an appearance
of bias on the#pasrt of the correspond-
ent which may warp the correctness of
his view. He gives the following fig-
ures as showing the relative strength of
the candidates with the delegates al-
ready “elected: For Pavrison, 117;
Warrace 93; Rickerrs 8. Of the 154
yet to be elected, he makes the follow-
ing estimate: For Partrison 47; WaL
LACE 53 ; Brack 10 ; doubtful 44. The
votes of 187 will be necessary to nomi.
nate, for the making up of which num-
ber the above showing gives Pattison
164 and WALLACE 146. If the above
calculation is correct Mr. WarLLace
will have to get a much larger pro-
portion of the 44 doubtful delegates
than the ex-Governor to secure his
nomination. But in estimating the re.
liability of this forecast, as between
Warrace and Parrisox, it should be
understood that the Record inclines
toward the latter in its preference.
tne TT
Democratic Regard for an Honest
, Leader. {
Ex-President CLEVELAND continues in
a wonderful manner to maintain his
hold on the esteem and confidence of
the members of his party. There is
no parallel in the case of any other ex-
President except Jackson. Almost
every party movement is subjected to
the test of its relation to Mr. Creve
LaNp. Thus in Pennsylvania Demo:
cratic sentiment will not be satisfied
until it is assured that the candidates
for Governor are friendly to the recog-
nized leader of the Democracy, and
wherever there is a gathering of Dem-
ocratic people the expression of the oc-
casion is not considered complete with-
out some word from the great represen-
tative of the Democratic principle of
tariff reform. .
Even up in Vermont where the
Democrats have had very little en-
couragement to be demonstrative, their
State Convention showed its high re-
gard for the ex President by declaring
that the campaign of this year shall
be fought on the lines laid down by
Mr. CLEVELAND two years ago, and in
their platform they “submit to our
“people the contrast offered by the
“present life of our great fellow
* citizen—at work at his desk—mag-
“nificent in his private capacity—a
“ Democrat in everything — GirovER
# CLeyeLAND—to the spectacle offered
“by the holder of the presidential of-
* fice, as he day by day does the will of
“the corrupt ex-treasurer of the State
‘ ot Pennsylvania.”
. —R. B. HAYES, who retired from the
fraudulently obtained = Presidency a
comparatively poor man, is said to be
now worth a million of dollars. His
| ehickens must have laid golden eggs.
A Reminiscent Sentiment.
Thursday of last week was a great
day in Richmond, Va., the occasion
being the unveiling of a monument to
Lee. Large numbers of people from
aJl parts of the South assembled there
to participate in the demonstration in
honor of the great military chieftain of
the late rebellion, and among them
were many suryivors of the confederate
armies. As a matter of course this oc-
casion has been severely criticised by
the Republican press which would like
to have it regarded as an outcropping
of the old rebellions spirit. People of
sense will not allow this Southern de-
monstration to give them any uneasiness.
There was nothing in the proceedings
at Richmond that made them dis-
loyal or unpatriotic, they having
no other object than to pay a tribute
to Southern valor, something of which
men of all sections of the country have
reason to be proud. If the Southern
soldiers hadn’t been so brave there
would not have been so aruch honor
and glory to the Union soldiers for
having eventually conquered them.
The erection of a monument to Lge
was the expression of a sentiment hon-
orable to those who erected it. Men
who fought as bravely as they did, no
matter what their canse was,are not the
ones to be ashamed of their leader or
afraid to pay a proper tribute to his
memory,and brave and generous men of
the North respect them for it. The con-
federate flags that were displayed at the
unveiling of the monument appeared
merely as reminiscences harmlessly in-
separable from such an occasion; but
the Stars and Stripes predominated as
the flag of the Union to which the South-
ern people are as firmly and loyally at-
tached as are the people of any other
section...
A Republican Judge on State Rights
The declaration of Judge Ewixe, of
tiie Allegheny county court, that he
would not recognize the binding force
of the decision of the Supreme Conrt of
the United States that a package of
liquor, spirituous or malt, can be sent
from one State into another to be sold,
is a bold stand for a Republican
Judge to take in defense of State
rights. It is evidently the opinion of
the learned Judge that the States have
a right to establish laws for the regula-
lation of their internal affairs which no
United States court has a constitutional
right to annul. His position is a re-
bellion against the centralizing tenden-
cy which has set-in so strongly under
the legislative and executive manage-
ment of his own party. Maybe this
Allegheny Judge is right. Maybe the
United States Supreme Court has no
right to dictate what the State laws
shall be, but his position antagonizes
the drift of Republican doctrine and
policy. .
An Appropriation for the West Branch:
Congressman MoCorMIck, of the
Lycoming District, did a little work for
“bunkam’ when he offered an amend-
ment to the River and Harbor bill for
the improvement of the West Branch
of the Susquehanna, representing that
embankments for the restraining of the
waters of that stream were necessary to
prevent overflows, and asking the gov-
ernment to apply some of the “sur-
plus” to such improvement.
It isn’t likely that any of the public
money will be directed to this purpose,
but in asking it to be done Congress-
man McCormick probably intends to
impress his constituents with tiie be-
lief that he is looking after their in-
terests, But as River and Harbor bills
are now made up, we really can’t see
why the West Branch should not come
in for a part of the superfluous cash as
well as some other streams that, as
channels of commerce, are of no more
importance than it is; although the
practice of spending money on
streams that are not navigable is con-
trary to the legitimate object of riv-
er and harbor appropriations. : At all
events the West Branch is as much en-
titled fo have some of the public mon-
ey expended on it as was the Kiske
winetas for which Congressman Waite
got an appropriation through a Riv-
er and Harbor’ bill a few years ago;
and it has been a joke ever since. Con-
gressman McCormick may not intend
his proposition as a joke, but the Ap-
propriation Committee arc likely tolook
at it in that light.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 6, 1890.
the Confederate General Roserr E..
Constitutional Law,
The “original package’ decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States has
stirred up the cranks and zealots
who think they know more about
constitutional law than the Supreme
Judges, and who, if they were on the
beuch, weuld decide questions of law
according to the bias of their personal
opinions and prejudices. One of this
class,a meddlesome Methodist preacher,
gome days ago undertook to overhaul
Justice MiLLer for the “original pack-
age” decision, criticising the action of
the court on high moral grounds. The
Justice took enough notice of the im-
pertinent critic to lay him out by the
following reply :
Many people like you, I think, have the idea
that the supreme court is only bound in its de-
cisions by the views which they may have of
abstract moral right. But we are as much
sworn to decide according to the constitution
of the United States as you are bound by your
conscience to a fuith in the Bible, which you
profess to follow. If my views of the true
meaning of the constitution of the United
States, in a question before me as a judge of
one of the courts of the country, should compel
mb to differ from the whole world,I slyuld do
it courageously.
On this question Justice MiLLur
takes exactly the position that justified
the Dred Scott decision over which the
critics of Chief Justice Taney raised
such a howl ‘during the time of the
slavery agitation. A decision of the
United States Supreme Court should
not be a matter of sentiment or of ah-
stract morals, but it should be an ex-
pression of what ie the law under the
constitution. The “original package”
and Dred Scott decieions were noth-
ing more nor less than that.
Pr —
Mr. Georee W. Cuirps has
come into possession of many rare ar-
ticles of bricabrac and curious relics,
among them being the harp of Tom
Moore, the celebrated Irish poet, which
he kindly lent to the Scotch-Irish
congress recently held in Pittsburg.
Tligremarkable instrument exhibited
there was an object of great interest,
but it was somewhat out of place on
that occasion and in that company, for
it was a striotly Celtic harp and be-
longed to and was played by a poet who
would have scorned to be considered a
Scotch-Irishman, Tow Moore, who
sang of Tara's halls and was a thor-
ough Catholic, had no sympathy for
the Scotch Presbyterians of Ulster
from whom came the people known as
Scotch-Irish in this tountry who have
added such splendid material to the
population of the Great Republic.
Emam CTT
A Thrifty Set.
A remarkable specimen of fine work
has been developed in Bedford county
in which the official to whom was
committed the business of selecting the
census enumerators, showed his fine
Roman hand. There were 36 positions
to be filled in the county and there
were 300 applicants, to each of whom
the dispenser of this special pap confi-
dentially intimated that it would be well
to purchase a fountain pen for which
he was agent fora New York firm:
This was taken by the applicants as a
delicate hint that they would find the
pen useful in taking the census, and
they each bought one. All but the
thirty-six who got the places now
find the fountain pens dead stock on
their hands. The same game was
played in Erie county, and there is rea-
scu to believe that there was an exten-
sive understanding between the fellows
who had the giving out of the census
appointments and the manufacturers of
the fountain pens. Truly the Repub-
lican party managers are a thrifty set.
DE —
——The Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad management has been guilty
of an arbitrary and unjustifiable act in
giving the conductors in its employ the
alternative of either quitting the Broth:
erhood to which they belong, or quitting
the service of the company. This is in
line with the despotic policy which
some time ago compelled the other
Philadelphia and Reading employes to
abandon the labor organizations with
which they wereconnected. Itisobvious-
ly the intention of this company to bring
its men completely under its control
and leave them no choice in any ques-
tiou in which their rights and the com:
pany’s interest may antagonize. So
far it has been quite successtul in es-
tablishing its system of industrial serf-
tom,
An Erroneous Idea.
In was thought by some that the
meeting of the Republican National
Executive Committee, which was to
have taken place some weeks ago, was
delayed on account of dissatisfaction
with its chairman, M. 8. Quay, on the
part of the more decent element of the
party, and that a movement was on
foot to have him resign. This was al-
together a mistake and was attributing
too much to a sense of decency which
imagination erroneously pictured as
still lingering in the ‘management of
the party.
The meeting not only came off, but
was held at Quay’s private residencein
Washington, and wound up with a
sumptuous feast at Quay’s dinner ta-
ble. Dorsey was there, and so were
Crarkson and the rest of the gang com-
posing the Executive Committee, and,
with their legs under the Boss's well-
loaded table, they no doubt laughed at
the report that he would be compelled
to resign the chairmanship of the Na-
tional Committee on acconnt ot such a
trifle as the undenied charge that he had
rifled the State treasury of Pennsylva-
nia and committed other acts of public
and private rascality. The Executive
Committee had an elegant time, and in
addition to enjoying themselves at the
chairman’s bountiful board, did some
important business in cutting ont work
for the present Congress, directing that
it should pass a Federal Election law
whereby the elections could be controll-
ed by the party in power, and enact
other legislation that would strengthen
the Republican hold on the govern.
ment. The idea of Quav’s resigning
the chairmanship! The “grand old
party” couldn't get on without him.
Sm ——
——Mr. Georce D. Herserr has
taken editorial control of the Evening
Herald, the only avowedly Democratic
newspaper in Philadelphia,and is mak-
ing it the medium of excellent Demo-
craticdoctrine and the vehicle of trench-
ant political expression. Mr. HegperT
is an experienced and vigorous” writer,
and in addition to this essential quality
he has scarcely an equal in the knowl-
edge of Pennsylvania politics and ac-
quaintance with the people who com-
pose the Pennsylvama Democracy.
This, aside from his editorial ability,
makes nim a power as the jhead of a
Democratic journal. We predict suc-
cess for him in the responsible position
he has assumed and which he is so ca-
pable of filling.
——
They Will Sit Down on It,
It appears that the members of the
Ways and Means committee of the
House, irrespective of party, agreed to
sit down on the Farmers’ Alliance gov-
ernment ware-house bill. They con-
cluded to do this in the interest of com-
mon sense and for the discouragement
of demagogy. There are a set of “pro-
fessional” farmers, who have no agri-
cultural interest whatever, but have
taken up the farmers’ cause for what
they may be able to make out of it,
politically and otherwise. [tis these
fellows who are urging upon Congress
most extravagant and nonsensical
schemes for the relief of the depressed
condition of the agriculturists. Butin
comparison with others this ware-
house bill takes the cake for unparal?
led and unmitigated foolishness. It
is seldom that the members of a legis-
lative committee of opposite parties
agree upon any point, but with re-
gard to the ware-house bill there was
a commendable consensus of opinion
that it was a mischievous scheme in-
tended to be worked by designing dem-
agoges. When Mirrs and McKixn-
LEY unite in thinking so it must be
about the correet conclusion.
The Republican primary elec-
tions held last Saturday had a decided
Hastings complexion, his friends claim-
ing that he carried one delegate in
Perry,two in Lebanon, two in Dauphin,
and one, perhaps two, in Huntingdon.
StoNE may get one in Huntingdon, and
two of the Dauphin delegates may go
for DerayaTer. The sixteen delegates
from Allegheny will go for MoNTooTH
as first choice, but the Hastings claim
is that when they settle down to mak-
ing a nomination as between Hasrinas
and DsLAMATER, they will go for the
young warrior of Centre county. It
looks encouraging for Da~nr, but the
way the cat shal! jump is a matter that
will be determined by the Boss.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Armed with a pitchfork Mrs. Elwood Shaf-
fer, of Pike county, drove away six tramps
from her barn.
—A box of 150 snakes was recently shipped
to New York over the Honesville branch of
the Erie Road.
—Frank Tener, aged 21 years, was drowned
in the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg on
Saturday night.
—The delinquent taxpayers of Bristol have
been somewhat rufilgd by the publication of
their names by the City Sehool Board.
—A company is about to be organized in
Berks county for the culture of sisal grass,
used in the manufacture of cordage and ropes.
—Henry Hall, of Mercer, who recently re-
ceived renomination for the Legislature, is
making an active canvass for the Speaker's
chair.
—The farmers of Berks county are complain-
ing abont the ravages of the Hessian fly and
the appearance of rust on the wheat. All crops
look backward.
—A “pet” snake owned by Albert Carsell, of
Scranton, entwined itself around the neck of
the baby as it slept in the cradle. It was dis-
lodged with difficulty.
—The body of John Hagan was found float-
ing in the Susquehanna River at Pittston on
Sunday. He was drowned on Tuesday at
Scranton while bathing.
—Alfred Weibel, a widower, committed sui-
cide at Copley, it is believed, because of a quar-
rel he had with a married woman with whom
he had been intimate,
—Miss Laura Ott feli down a well at South-
ampton, Bucks county, a days few ago. She
trod on a trap door and it gave away. She was
rescued after a good ducking.
—Orders have heen issued for the resump-
tion of work on full time at all of the Reading
collieries in the Mount Carmel district. A
dozen mines are affected by the order.
—J. I". Fasnacht, of Lancaster, aged 19 years,
went swimming in the Conestoga near Rocky
Springs Sunday, and wasattackkd with cramps
and drowned. His body was recovered.
—Keyner Kemmerling, of Greensburg, cut
his throat one day recently in the presence of
his room-mate, whom he covered with a re-
volver while the self-murder was executed.
—The body of Authur Davis, 10 years; was
found floating in the Susquehanna River near
Berwick. Young Davis was drowned at Ed-
wardsville during a heavy rain-storm last
week.
—The members of the General Synod of the
Reformed Church, in session at Lebanon,made
an excursion to the Cornwall ore hills and
Mount Gretna as the guests of Robert H.
Coleman.
—James Martin, of Reading, employed as a
brakeman on the Schuylkill Valley branch
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, had both
legs cut off by a pusher at Phoenixville on
Tuesday evening,
—Warrants have been issued at Reading for
the arrest of the young men who assaulted
and insulted Mrs. Henry and Mr. Feranda
Trump just outside of that city recently while
returning from a drive.
—John M. Whittaker, a carpenter employed
in Horsham township, fell dead on Monday
night after indulging in a “stag dance” with
some friends. He was 50 years old, and for-
merly lived in Philadelphia.
—The New Jersey State Monument Commis-
sioners are at Gettysburg inspecting their
memorials in accordance with an act of Assem-
bly donating $1000 yearly to defray expenses
of im provements and repairs.
—George W. Hall was committed to jail at
Williamsport to answer for the death of Jacob
Konkle, of Montoursville, whom he struck on
the head with a fence rail two weeks ago
and who died on Saturday night.
—Oliver G. .Mangle, of Wilmingtom, Del.,
formerly a waiter at the Fountain House,
Doylestown, was arrested there on the charge
of atlempting to produce an abortion by the
administration of poisonous drug.
—For fifteen years past an old lady has eall-
ed every year at the office of Alderman Barr,
of ‘Lancaster, to secure a flag to put on the
grave of her son, a soldier whose body is buri-
ed in a country cemetery outside the city.
—Deputy United States Marshal Baring, of
Wilkesbarre, captured Richard @. Folk at
Sunbury on Saturday in the act of swindling
victims by the ‘‘green-goods’’ game. In_de-
fault of $2560 bail Folk was committed to jail.
—M. J. Kline, a merchant and assistant
postmaster of Ashland, Northampton county,
has’ disappeared, and his store was seized by
the :Sheriff Monday and sold to pay claims
of $6000 made against him by fellow mer-
chants.
—Mrs. Morris Kirkpatrick, sister-in-law of
Attorney General Kirkpatrick, who was marri-
ed three weeks ago, died suddenly at Easton
Saturday night of inflammation of the bowels.
She contracted the illness while on her wedd-
ing tour.
—Richard G. Folk, of Lykens, has been ar-
rested at Sunbury by a United States Marshal
and held in $2500 bail for passing counterfeit
money. He admitted that he lived off the
proceeds of counterfeiting for the past eight
years.
—Mrs. H. M. Morse, of Allegheny, died from
the effects of Paris Green, taken with suicidal
intent because of jealousy of her husband
caused by an alleged flirtation with a young
woman at Beaver Falls, with whose mother
he boarded.
—A farmers’ picnic was given at the grove
near Wernersville last week under the au-
spices of the Grangers of Berks county. Speech-
es were made by State Senator Girard C.
Brown, of York county, and W. M. Benninger,
of Northampton county.
~The 143d annual Synod of the Lutheran
Ministerium began at Bethlehem last Friday.
The synod embraces 167 clergymen and 410
congregations with a membership of 120,000
people. The session was attended by 400
clerical and lay delegates.
—Frank Adams, a farmer of Greenwich
township, went down a fifty-foot embankment
with his six-horse team. The horses fell in a
heap, with the wagonload of stone on top; but,
singularly enough, were only slightly injured.
Adams escaped with slight bruises.
—Charles Silverman, of Leechburg, the first
man in the State to test the original package
question, appealed to Judge Acheson, of the
United States Court, for his discharge, but that
Judge remanded him to be tried in the Arm-
strong Cirenit Court under Pennsylvania law.
—James Shaughnessy, aged 25 years, who
has been in jail at Wilkesbarre since January
last for abusing his wife, was released a few
days ago, He went to his home and was re-
fused admittance. He stepped out on the
sidewalk, drew a revolver and shot himself
fatally in the abdomen.