BY oe. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—In the Press prize contest Miss
GrANT will “fight it out on that line if
it takes all summer.”
Colonel BAYNE couldn’t have rais-
ed a bigger hubbub if he had thrown a
STONE into a hornets’ nest.
—Trom the report that a cracker
trust has been formed it would appear
that even hardtack can’t escape the grip
of the monopolist.
Quay and DUDLEY wink at
each other when the claim is made that
a Federal Election law is intended to
secure honest elections.
__Tt was very reprehensible for those
wicked Delamater men in Chester
county to attempt to oust Brother HAsT-
(~xGs from the amen corner of the Meth-
odist church.
—We don’t know whether there is
any relationship between Miss GRANT
of Sunbury and the illustrious ULYSSES
S., but it looks as ifshe is at least
going to imitate his example by having
an Appomattox.
——To the average Oregon voter an
appropriation is vastly more interesting
than the economic intricacies of the
tariff question. And heis not particu-
Jar abcut having “the old flag” accom-
pany the appropriation.
—The way the other Republican
lenders of Ohio are disposed to jump on
FoRAKER since they have got him in a
hole has the appearance of an intention
on their part to make aim serve the vi-
carious purpose of a scapegoat.
— President Harrison is going to take
up his summer quarters at Cape May,
but it is doubtful whether a Jersey
mosquito that meant business would
consider it worth while to try to get
any blood out of his Excellency.
—Congressman WALKER, of Massa-
chusetts, during the hot spell last week,
took his coat off in the House in dis-
cussing the silver question. If it had
been the gold question who knows but
that he might have shed his shirt.
—Two Altoona papers are having a
dispute as to whether SWINBURNE is an
English or an American poet. Some
people of pretty good poetical judgment,
who have read his productions, are in
doubt as to his being a poet at all.
—Generals BANKS was always more
of a politician than a soldier. Tt is pro-
bably for his, political services that the
Republicans will continue to ‘stick to
Banks” by putting him on the retired
list as a Major General with a big
salary.
—A New York heraldry expert was
employed by R. B. Haves to do a job
of heraldic work for him and has been
compelled to sue for his pay. Per-
haps he wanted to work oft on him a
Shanghai rooster rampant as a suitable
coat of arms and it wasn’t satisfactory
to the Ohio fraud.
—1In view of the fact that one hun.
dred and fifty white tiles, furnished by
Hastings, will cover the delegation
that will go to the State convention
from Bellefonte in his interest, it will
be a superfluous question to ask any
one of them on that occasion ‘where
. did you get that hat gin
—1It is said that the Postmaster Gen-
eral has protested against the nomina-
tion of DELAMATER and will throw his
influence to another man. Probably
Mr. WANAMAKER, who has a decided
preference for religious characters, has
heard that our DAN is a leading member
of the Methodist church.
—You can join the Hastings club by
going to W. I. FLEMING'S and putting
your name down for the trip to Harris-
burg. A white hat will be furnished
you. The boys intend to “whoop her
up” for the handsome General, and will
no doubt do some red painting while
booming his cause at the State Conven-
tion. !
—The McKinley bill is gayly walta-
ing through the Senate, but after it
shall have been finally passed it will
give the consumers of the daily neces-
saries of life a dance that will not be
quiteso gay. But the sooner it shall
come on the sooner will a disgusted peo-
plecall a halt and stop the fiddlers. «So
we say, “On with the dance !”
—Envious of the big money that Terra
Haute is making out of the races that
are coming off there, an Indianapolis
paper complains of that city’s want of
enterprise in not establishing a track
and getting a share of the boodie. But
if the Indiana capital wants a first-class
gambling concern why doesn’t it hold
out inducements to the Louisiana Lot-
tery which is now looking for a new
location ?
—The Bellefonte Band is industri-
ously practicing “Annie Rooney,”
which they intend to play when they
start with the Bellefonte delegation that
is going, down to Harrisburg to boom
the nomination of General Hastings.
‘Tt is to be hoped that when they return
they will not have occasion to play
“Down Went McGinty.” But it may
be prudent for them to prepare for con-
ingencies by also practicing that tune.
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Fearfully Dangerous to the Republic.
A telegram from Washington last
Friday stated that when Senator QUAY
appeared in his seat that morning he
received many cordial greetings from
his fellow Republican Senators, and
was subsequently overwhelmed with
callers at his home in the evening,
those who paid their respects being,
of course, prominent in the councils of
his party. It was also stated that the
next day he was to have an interview
with the President by appointment.
From this it appears that QuaY’s
position at the head of the Republican
party has been in no way impaired by
the indisputable evidence that be is the
greatest political rogue that this age
bas produced. He doesnot deny the
charge that he was a party toa theft
of a quarter a million of dollars from
the treasury of Pennsylvania which he
lost in speculation, and that the dis-
covery of the crime would have
brought upon him the punishment dae
an embezzier if the stolen money had
not been made up and restored, not by
himselt, by another person. The com-
mission of this flagrant crime is not
denied by him, yet his fitness to be the
head manager of his party is not ques-
tioned; senators and prominent lead-
ersof that party crowd upon him to
tender their congratulations; his house
18 thronged by his party followers, and
the President, who owes his high
office to the dishonest methods ot this
unparallelled political scamp, has a
meeting with him by appointment.
There is a moral in all this, and a
very bad one, too. When a party has
become so debased as to accept with
approving avidity the leadership of
such a character, and looks: to his
management for the means of its future.
success, does not the existence of that
party constitute a danger that fearful:
ly menaces the Republic?
S———————
Grasping Too Much.
The protected glass manufacturers
continue to show a desire to increase
their profits by employing cheap im-
ported labor. Some days ago seven
Belgian glass-blowers, who arrived
at New York as part of an invoice of
illustrate the beauties of the protective
system as adjusted to suit the interests
of the tariff beneficiaries, were detain-
ed on account of their having been
imported in violation of the con-
tract labor law, and will be sent back.
*There is no class of manufacturers
that are more favored by tariff duties
than are the glass producers. Under |
the present law their protection is of
the highest, and the new bill proposes
to give them a still larger benefit.
The duties it provides will be almost
prohibitory. But instead of being sat-
isfied with this, and letting the em-
ployes have a share of the bounty;
they display a determination to have the
additional advantage of pauper labor.
And, furthermore, assured of the pass
age of the McKinley bill, they are
about forming a more thoroughly or.
ganized Trust, by means of which they
may more completely pillage the help-
less consumers of their product.
Educational Paternalism.
The Republicavs of Wisconsin have
gotten educational affairs in that State
in a complete muddle by the passage of
an offensive compulsory educational
law. ‘A bitter opposition has sprung
up against it, not because it is a meas-
ure designed to promote education, but
on account of its arbitrary and’ oppres:
sive character. Protestants and Cath:
olics are included among it opponents-
The Lutheran convention held in Mil-
waukee, at which more than a thous.
and intelligent representatives were in
attendance, made a strong protest
against the compulsory features of the
law, declaring that its purpose was to
deprive the parents of the control of
their children. The Catholies also
have pronounced against the substitu.
for parental care and authority in the
education of children. « Both ‘of those
large religions » odies object to compul:
sory education that is to be enforced
without regard to place, manner and:
character of the instruction. In every
field of its activity the Republican par-
ty is trying to ‘establish systems of
paternalism, governmental and educa-
tional, that can not help but be of:
' mon use by the people. In treating this
fensive to a free people.
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Not a Tariff Victory.
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There was an election in Oregon last |
week that was somewhat singular in’
its result, Democratic Governor Pex-
NOYER was re-elected by a satisfactory |
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majority, while the only member of |
congress the State is entitled to, was.
elected by the Republicans. The papers
of that party are cackling over his elec: |
tion as an endorsement of the Republi- |
can tariff policy, but it really had no |
significance except as showing the ayp-|
preciation of congressman HERMANN'S
success in getting appropriations for |
his Oregon constituents. The tariff
question very naturally had no weight |
in the contest, as Oregon is so much to
one side as to be outof the reach of the
questions which agitate other sections
of the country. Congressman HERMANN
admitted this himself the other day
when he said : “The election in Ore-
“ gon was quite remarkable. It seems
“to have been non-partisan to a large
G extent. Districts supposed to be
¢ Democratic and which gave PENNOY-
“ pg [for Governor] two and three hun-
“dred Democratic majority, turned
“ground and gave me as much the
“other way. This was particularly so
“up around the mouth of the Colum-
“ bia River, where I had secured liber-
gal appropriations for the improve
“ment of navigation.”
It will be difficult to make a tariff
victory out of such a result. Its only
significance is that the people of Oregon
have a weakness for fat appropriations.
~The High License law in Balti-
more is found to be working well in the
interest of temperance as well as of the
taxpayers. Since it went info opera
tion it has closed 2000 saloons and in-
creased the city revenue about $600,
000, leaving enough saloons to reason-
ably satisfy the thirst of the citizens.
These are more practical results than
have attended the prohibition laws of
Maine and Kansas.
A ESATA
The Right Kind ot Talk in Mainc.
The Democrats of Maine didn't:
mince matters in making their decla-
ration of principles at their State con-
vention last week, They reaffirmed
the cardinal doctrines of the party
which constitute the basis of a true
republican government, and they de-
clared against that system of class leg-
islation which places the mass of citi-
zens under tribute to a favored few, de-
manding the reduction of tariff taxa
tion upon the necessaries of life in com-
~
momentous subject they were naturally
led to an endorsement of the wise and
honest administration of GROVER CLEVE-
LAND, and to high praise of the coura-
geous statesman ‘who first aroused or-
ganized opposition to the Republican
policy of making millionaires at the ex-
pense of the common mass of citizens.
One of the planks of their platform
makes the following arraignment of
the person who now occupies the Presi-
dency, and of the congress that is con-
trolled by the monopolists :
At the last presidential election the Demo-
cratic candidate’s majority of 100,000 was set
aside by the corrupt purchase of the floaters in
New York and 1ndiana by the Quays and Dud-
leys, and Harrison is in the chair as the
result of this purchase. Since his admission
to power he has shielded the bribers, rewarded
the men who farnished the corruption funds,
and muzzled the press by subsidizing its edi-
tors with the large offices, and the Republican
leaders in congress propose to enact a tariff
act not for reyenue,nor even for protection,but
as a job to procure means with which to pur-
chase the next election at the polls.
In view of such a result of dishonest
elections the Maine Democrats very
properly included in their platform a
demand for ballot reform.
———C————————
——A Williamsport paper gives a
sweltering picture of the three astute
Judges to whom has been committed
the task of unraveling the mysteries of
the Lycoming judicial contest, grap
pling with that interminable case dur-
ing the hot weather of last week,
Judges Bucnrr, MAYER and ROOKEFEL-
LER are pictured with their coats off and
the perspiration running from their
learned brows while tackling the con-
tents of the ballot boxes that are to be
overhauled before it can be determined
who was elected Judge last fall a year.
It was a sweaty job for the judicial tri:
umvirate; but the tax-payers of the
county will be made to sweat a good
deal more in paying the expenses of
this Republican attempt to annul the
| their contents relating
__ BELLEFONTE, PA.. JUNE 13, 1890.
NO. 24.
An Attempt to Get Free Newspaper
Service.
We are in frequent receipt of circu-
lar letters from the census bureau at
Washington requesting us to publish
to the census,
which is represented as intended to fa-
cilitate the collection of information re-
quired to complete the census returns.
| Most of it relates to statistical infor-
{mation about disease and matters
| pertaining to the public health, If we
{should publish these circulars they
(would take up much space in our
columns, and as there is no suggestion
of compensation, we are compelled tore-
gard such a request for free advertising
as rather cheeky ou the part of a great
big government that has so large a sur-
plus in its cash box that it is at a loss
to know how to squander it.
The enumerators and others connect-
ed with the census work are not work=
ing for nothing, and we can’t see why
the printers, if their papers can be made
useful in perfecting the census, should
no be paid for such service. The mat-
ter already sent us for gratuitous in-
sertion would, at our regular advertis-
ing rates, amount to several hundred
dollars. We are not willing to do ser-
vice of that value gratuitously for an
individual who is as well heeled as
Uncle Sam. For such service we
think we should be offered a little of
the “surplus.”
1f the subject matter which is re-
quested to be published were such as
would benefit our readers we would
aot for a moment hesitate about giving
it free insertion in our columus. But
most of it is intended to assist in se-
curing health statistics which from
their very nature will be unreliable
and delusive. No assurance given by
these circulars through the medium of
the newspapers that information about
physical and mental defec!s will be
treated as strictly confidential by the
census bureau, will induce people to al-
low the census enuinerators tofake an!
inventory of their bodily and mental
ailments. We would regard the room
occupied in our columns for this pur-
pose as so much waste space so far as
practical and useful results were con-
cerned ; but of course we would insert at
regular advertising rates.
—Quite a number of Philadelphia
Democrats are being heraided over the
State as having declared for PATTISON
‘or WALLACE. Now if, after the nomina-'
tion is made, they could only be induc-
ed to declare for the ticket, and steik to
thier declaration, there wouldn't be any
60,000 Republican majority in that
politically rotten city, and the country
Democrats would for at least once have!
reason not to be ashamed of Philadel-
phia’ Democracy.
Why They are Leaving.
The Philipsburg Wage-Earner no-
tices the large number of miners from
that region who have recently left for
England, where they originally came
from, many of them returning to their
native country with the intention of re-
maining there. The causes operating
in this matter are not hard to de-
tect. Nouwithstanding the - “protec-
tion” afforded by a high tariff the wage-
earners in the Pennsylvania coal re-
gions tail to’ find their finances in a
plethoric condition. They are even too
poor to venture on a strike, although
they have good and sufficient reason
for such a movement, but know that it
would bring only additional poverty
and starvation. Under such circum-
stances it is not strange that English
miners employed here should be at-
tracted homeward by the flourishing
condition of the miners in England
whose wages have been raised 47 per
cent within the past two years. Itisa
nice commentary on tariff protection
that workingmen abandon its alleged
benefits and go'to a free trade country
to improve their condition;
During the current fiscal year
there has been already paid out for pen-
gions $109,257,535, with a great many
rusty old claims on the lists of the pen-
gion agents yet to hear from. Last
year the amount of pensions paid was
$87,624,779. In thie great land of ours
peace is almost as expensive ‘as war,
Tannver was removed because his lay-
ish disbursement of pension money was
attended with too much jaw. = Ravm
holds his jaw, but in disbursing the
the election of a Democratic Judge.
cash he gets there just the same.
Hastings’ Religious ' Reputation
Assailed.
They had a fierce fight in Chester |
county for the gubernatorial delegates | |
10 the Republican State convention. |
The contention was between HASTINGS |
and Deravarter, whose supporters
went into the fight with a degree of
personal acrimony unusual 1m such a
contest. The Delamater wing of the
contestants was led by congressman
DarringroN, while Major McCuaLey
headed the Hastings forces., The per-
sonalities that made it a nasty fight
were directed cliiefly against the Centre
county candidate, the object being to
break down Lis religious reputation and
impugn his standing as a church mem-
ber, with the hope that it would discredit
him among that class of voters gwho
want to have pious men in office.
The effort that was made by his ene
mies to creale the impression that the
(ieneral is not a christian statesman
was £0 bitter and persistent that his
supporters were compelled to write to
his pastor in Bellefonte, Rev. Mr.
Houck, of the Methodist church, for a
certificate that would confound. the de-
signing and wicked partisans who were
trying to impair his character as a
christian and a church member. That
Mr. Houck furnished Brother Hastines
with the right sort of a document there
can be no question, for the contest re-
sulted in the complete defeat of his op-
ponents by the triumphant election of
his delegates. In carrying Chester
coanty the-General has not only made
an encouraging stride toward - a: nomi-
nation, but the result has fully vindi-
cated his standing as a pious member
| of the Methodist church. The people
of Centre county were not cognizant of
the extent of the Génerl’s piety, but as
it has been vouched for by his pastor
and endorsed by the Republicans of
Chester county, there can be no ques-
tion that if he should be elected his
christian statezmanship would at least
| equal BEAVER'S.
SoA hn en —————" de
-—The free library which Mr. CARNE-
¢1E presented to the Scoteh city of Ed-
inburg was opened this week with ap-
propriate ceremonies. How much of it
was paid for by the proceeds of the ten
per cent. reduction of wages which ‘his
Braddock workmen unsuccessfully kick-
ed against some time ago, would be an
interesting problem for the high-tariff
political economists to cipher-out.
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The Blair County Misunderstanding. ©
The Democrats of Blair county favor-
able'to the nomination ot ex-Governor
Pattison for governor held a conven-
tion in Hollidaysburg last Monday to
protest against the choosing of Wallace
delegates by the county committee and
to counteract that action by the elec-
tion of Pattison delegates. The con-
vention consisted of representatives
from most if not all of the districts
of the county, and the speakers:on the
occasion claimed that they represented
the great mass of the Democrats of the
county. A resolution was passed con-
demning the action of the county, com-
mittee as an usurpation of power, and
delegates instructed to vote for PATTI
soN were elected. :
This is an unfortunate situation.
The wishes of the Democrats of Blair
county should be properly represented
in the State convention, and it is to be
regretted that there should be a conten-
tion as to what the wish of the majority
is as regards the gubernatorial
nomination. This not being a time
for irreconcilable - division among
the Pennsylvania Democracy, every
effort should be made to secure
an amicable and satisfactory under-
standing in such cases as that of Blair
county. Coercive and underhanded
measures should be avoided, for it is
essential to success that when the
nomination of the State ticket is finally
made a general consciousness should
prevail that it was fairly and honorably
brought about,
Both the leading candidates, Messrs,
WaLLace and ParrisoNy are gentle:
men of such high repute that any im-
proper means employed to effect the
»omination of either of them would be
out ot place, and would be repugnant
not only to their individual feelings,
but 10 the sense of fairness and honor
that pervades the Democratic masses.
Either of them on the ticket, or any of
the other gentlemen spoken of in. con-
nection with the nomination, would, be !
entitled to and would receive the united
Spawls from the Keystone.
ova
—Montgomery county oats has! den | a
tacked by lice. F
—Reading dealere have agreed, to. sel no
oysters out of season.
—A visiting opera company lefta trained ? pig
behind them at Laneaster. :
—The body of a man was found among the
logs of the Williamsport boom.
—Stephen Henry Rice, of Potterville, is 75
years old and engages in foot races.
—A large stuffed hawk does yeoman duty as
a scare-crow on a West Chester farm.
—A Columbia county postmaster was sus-
pended for selling postage stamps on time.
—While picking coal along the Reading
Railroad recently a Hungarian woman lost
$400. ft ;
—Two vicious dogs at Mineral township
Venango county, have killed sheep valued at
$1500.
—Dunkard “lov e-feasts™ are in progress’ ‘st
Richland, Schaefferstown and qthier” points in
! the State.
—Tramps make a HEALY} rendezyous of the
school-house at East Whiteland, Chester
county.
—Bristol boys shot a dozen wearer auiies
tiie other day as they basked in the sun beside
a stream. : : js
—Eli Treager, a professional roach exter-
minator, has sued a Pisburg proprietor for
his bill.
—A barrel of porter on a freight platform at
Lancaster exploded a féw days ago and drench-
ed several persons.
—Frank Vice, an Hyenraold lad ‘of Bristol
ran away from his home the other day ‘instead
of going to school.
—Mrs. Mary Hibshiman,, of Ephrata, aged
89 years, has just paid her62d annual Subserip:
tion to a local paper.
—Because of a strike: among Hingmithe a big
| roof in Pittsburg is being; tinned: by employ
ers themselves, ; r {
—At Hartsville raid a Horse belonging to
Andrew Myers ran a shaft Fetoosh his side.
He bled to death.
—An Italian crawled into a séwer at Pittston
and disappeared. A search was’ Yikle; but’ he
could not be found.
—Andrew L. Shirk is on trial at hbenon
for shooting and killing ‘Chief of Police Me-
Cord while resisting arrest.’
~—A hawk took up its residétice in the cel-
lar of an Elk Hill (Susquehanna county)house
and cleared the place of rats. PA 3
—The 11-year-old daughter of N. 'H. Bream,
of York Springs, attacked ‘and’ killed a' bald
eagle, which she mistook fora Hawk.
—Sinee April 1it is computed that ‘not ‘less
than 100 saws have been stolen from the un
finished houses «t Lansdown &nd vicinity.
—A Lebanon woman has beén arrested for
deserting her child in an empty Bouse; wiers
it laid several days without nourishment.
—What is declared to be the biggest find of
fire-brick clay in the couptry has just’ been
made on a farm at Fritztown, Berlts county.
—The Survivors’ Associstion of Hampton's
Battery will erect a monument at Gettysburg s
the fourth memorial shaft raised by this asso-
ciation.
~The Lebanon County Court; fas decided
that the dehorning of cattle i is not cruelty, and
has acquitted Joseph Horst, a ‘wealthy farmer
arrested for that offence.
—Miss Moore, of Sunbury, paid a ST
vigit to her lover, Harry Sarvis, to warn him of
the murderous threat of a rival, and early the
nextmorning the pair eloped.
—Martha Welsh, of Sandy, Run, aged 2
years, a guest at the Mansion] House, rs
Chunk, was suffocated on Tuesday night by
blowing out the gas in her room.
it
—Arrested for running a speak-easy, a Pitts-
burg woman pleaded poverty, but her state-
ment was discounted by the fact that 8610 was
found in her house. by the police.
—Eighteen thousand blank cartridges will
be used by the Eighteenth and Fourteenth
Regiments, of Pittsburg, on the 15th inst.
when a sham battle will be fought.
—A'swarm of bees alighted in the window
of a drug store at Lancaster one evening last
week, and, the druggist locked them up
over night. In the morning they were all
dead. ‘
—Two young men who display a remarkable
knowledge of religious affairs have been trav-
eling around the country about Honesdale,
robbing houses where théy could obtain
board. y
—Patrick Gorman’ alieriptoly suicide: on
Friday night at Easton by swallowing lauda-
num because his wife hed deserted him and
two babes. Prompt Testoratives saved his
life.
—Coroner Klump, of ln: is investi-
gating the death of Benjamin Moyer, a weak
minded farm hand of - Weisenburg township,
Lehigh county, who died on Monday last after
drinking intoxicants to excess.
The evidence is very strong against Anx
prew L. Shirk, on trial at Lebanon for shooting
and killing Chief of Police McCord. It is un-
derstodd the defense will be that the accused
was insane from excessive drink.
—Jacob Schultz, Jr., of Lancaster, left for the
West on Thursday morning, telling his friends
that he would not return for five years- Upon
rerching Harrisburg he had an attack of.
homesickness, and returned on the next train
—Benjamin Moyer, a weak- winded man of
34 years, living in Weisenburg township, Le-
high county, died on Wednesday of a beating
sustained at the hands of unknown persons
‘who induced him to drink intoxicants to | wex-
cass. 1
— Frank Moore, a young Englishman in the
employ of Frank Comly, in Abington township,
Montgomery county, was seized with cramp
while bathing in a pond near that place on
Tuesday night, and drowned in full view of
three companions.
— Harrison Wagoner, the aged pedestrian,
trundling his wheelbarrow, and who left his
home in McConnellsburg, O., twenty two days
ago, reached Hagerstown last week after hav-
ing traveled 448 miles in twenty-two iil
Mr. Wagoner is 89 years of age.
— Within fifteen hours, three prominent citi-
zens of Montgomery county were officially de-
clared insane: Charles Streeper, a wealthy
| resident of Springfield township ; Christian
Beener, a wealthy butcher of Norristbwn, and
John Con: ard,a farmer of W hiteplain township.
—While assisting another negro in an at-
‘ tempt early Friday mor ning to rob the, store
and dwelling of J. G. Goterols, in Lower Provi
dence township, Montgomery couuty, James
Lloyd, colored, was pt oppered with shot by Mr.
Goterals, captured and lodged In jail at Nore
and enthusiastic support of the Penn-
sylvania Democracy.
ristown. Lloyd's accomplice, he was armed
escaped.