(istics of thehog, but it would be diffi- BY FP. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The men who nominated General HArRIsoN at Chicage isn’t now going around bragging about it. —In the Press teachers’ contest it looks as if the opponents of Miss GRANT for the first prize will be forced to ‘‘an unconditional surrender.” —QUAY must beat HASTINGS or ac- knowledge himself beaten. It is a square issue between the old State Boss and the young Boss of Centre county. —Municipal ambition is breaking out in rebellion against the census tak- ers all over the land, and disappointed citizens are clamoring for “a fair count.” —Now that “our Mary’ is married, it is to be hoped that she will bid John Bull good-bye and settle down in her pative land like a good American girl. —The New Yorkers are boasting of the wonderful growth of their city, as shown by the census, but they haven't a word tosay about the growth of the Grant monument. —Nothing but the expense of getting a now one deters Mr. HARRISON from discarding ‘‘grandfather’s hat.” It is by the practice of economy that his Ex- cellency intends to save at least three fourths of his salary. — After all, QUAY would be greatly missed if his enemies should sit down on him and squelch out his political entity. He supplies politics with a piquant flavor like that which sin im- parts to human existence. —The manner in which the Harri- soNs have become the owners of a sum- mer cottage presents an unfavorable contrast to the way in which GROVER CLEVELAND purchased Oak View and paid for it out of his own pocket like a man. —The way the Republican papers of Bellefonte talk is calculated to impress the uninitiated with the belief that Hastings is the only Republican can- didate for Governor and that Mar QuAY is a person of no influence in his party. —GrovER CLEVELAND has received another notice of his nomination for President by a college fraternity. When all the Professors are coming over to the Democracy it isn’t astonishing that the college boys flock in the same di- rection. —The clause in the McKinley bill that allows any one to bring into the country $500 worth of foreign-made clothing free of duty, is intended as a concession to the dudes. Another evi- dence of the Republican party’s friend- ship for the industrial classes. —The New York Sun just now is de- voting much attention to the character- cult for that paper to find anywhere a better illustration of the bestiality of that animal than is furnished by its edi- tor’s treatment of Mr. CLEVELAND: —The grass season is so plentifully supplying the White House larder with butter from STEVE ELKINS’ dairy farm, that the thrifty housewife of the execu- tive mansion is appreciably supplement- ing BENJAMIN'S salary with the pro- ceeds of her sale of that article to the cabinet families. —That our high tariff has stirred up the gall of the Gauls is evidenced by the imposition of a prohibitive tax on Indian corn by the French Chamber of Deputies. The protection afforded to their cabbages by the McKinley bill will hardly compensate the American farmers for the loss of their corn trade. —The unseating of Democratic con- gressmen is a sure way of getting rid of them, but it-is open to the objection of being too slow, and therefore the Re- publicans propese to improve upon it by passing a Federal Election law that won’t allow any Democratic congress- men to be elected at all. —Mrs. HARRISON is represented as having recently said that if Benjamin had taken her advice there wouldn't be a Democrat left in any of the govern- ment offices. This was very unkind in the lady of the White House, consider- ing the circumstance that for four years her Republican father got hi: bread and butter from a place which the forbear ance of Mr. CLEVELAND allowed him to hold on to in one of the departments under a Democratic administration. —We can’t entirely agree with the editor of the Oil City Derrick that in sending a letter with a remittance to an editor it isn’t necessary to begin it with the usual formula, “Please find en closed,’ as it doesn’t require any coax- ing to induce him to accept its con- tents. Isn't the look of pleasure that overspreads his countenance when he cpens the letter and gets the first glimpse of what it contains, evidence enough that the word “please” wasn't superfluously used ? VN) STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 35. BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 20, 1890. NO. 25. Don’t Want Ballot Reform. Pennsylvania is not the only State in which the Republican managers are opposed to ballot reform. Up mn Maine the party leaders are following the ex- ample of the Pennsylvania legislature in discouraging any movement to se- cure honest elections by the adoption of a reformed ballot system. The recent Republican State con- vention in Maine deliberately refused to put in their platform u resolution favoring the Australian plan of voting. While rejecting the only effective means of bringing about a fair and honest way of voting, they made a hypocritical declaration in favor of “an election system free from corruption and fraud,’ and indulged in the customary parti- san cant about “a free ballot and a tair count in national elections.” [t cannot be doubted that, unless there is true ballot reform on some such plan as is furnished by the Aus- tralian system, the work of those whose business is to corrupt and pervert elec- tions cannot be checked. The Penn- sylvania legislature was fully impress- ed with this fact when at its last ses- sion it declined to give ballot reform on the Australian plan any considers- tion whatever. And the Maine Re- publicans acted from the same motive in omitting an Australian ballot plank from their platform. “The grand old party” doesn't want to dispense with the crooked methods and appliances by which it has'been in the habit ot carrying elections, ee ——— Taxing Medicine. It was with the greatest difficulty that the outrage upon the pablic health in the imposition of a tariff on, quinine, wag terminated by putting that medi- cine ou the free list. The McKinley bill contemplates a similar offense to the sick people of the country by rais- ing the daties on such important medi- cines as sugar of milk and codliver oil. Why they should not be free is diffi- cult to be seen by any except those who are crazily determined to tariff everything. The President of the New York Board of Pharmacy pro: tests against increasing the expense of sickness by the Republican policy of increasing the cost of medicines. But it may be believed that the raised du- ties on sugar of milk, codliver oil, me- dicinal waters and other medical ar- ticles are intended to favor syndicates that have control of them in this coun- try, as was the case with quinine un- til the tariff on it, maintained for the benefit of a few monopolists, had to yield to the adverse pressure of popular indignation. ——Some of the foreign countries which will be injured by the McKinley tariff bill are preparing to make repri- sals. Mexico's silver lead ore will be shut out by the bill and Mexico ‘has advaneed the duty on our corn in re- taliation. Holland is going to increase the duty on our kerosene in return for McKinley's prohibiting the importation of her Sumatra tobacco, and the French propose to double the duty on our maize on account of the new tariff’s un- friendliness to French importations. Other nations will also hit back, and the American farmers will be the ones that will suffer most in consequence of these foreign reprisals. Sensitive Cities. Both Chicago and St. Louis are dis- satisfied with the census. The news- papers of the former city declare that a great number of families within its limits have not been enumerated, and that it is likely that the omissions have been go extensive as to make the enu- meration little better than a farce. This ig, of course, an exaggeration, and is probably intended to answer as an explanation why the population of Chicago does not appear to be as large as that of Philadelphia, it being the ambition of Chicagoans to outrank the Quaker City in size. In St. Louis the people are boiling over with as sumed indignation over the work ofthe census men, it being charged against them that they did not count more than three fourths of the people of that city. It isn't hard to understand that St. Louis finds it necessary to have some excuse for being badly bzaten by Chicago ir point of population. The western cities are all very ambitious and very sensitive. Dangerous as Well as Disgraceful. The passage ot the Disability Pen- sion bill, which will add a hundred millions annually to the already im- mense expense involved in the payment of pensions, furnishes additional evi- dence that a reckless majority in con- gress have made up their minds to pay their election obligations and continue their hold on the soldier vote by using the treasury surplus for that purpose, regardless of consequences. The extreme to which this pension business is being carried is a scandal and disgrace, not only to those who as politicians and members of congress are directly responsible for it, but also to the people who tolerate it, and par- ticularly to the soldiers who are made to appear as huckstering their patriot- ism for a share of the plunder of the public treasury. The history of noother nation ever preseated anything more shameful and dangerous. Nowhere else bat in this Repulic was there ever adopted a deliberate plan to corrupt a large class of people for a political and partisan object, and nowhere else was the public treasury used with such a design, These pension bills do not emanate from a sense of gratitude for theservices which the soldiers rendered the coun- try. That sentiment .has nothing whatever to do with the passage of pension laws which make no discrimi nation as to the uecessities, or the character, length or value of the ser- vice, of those who are made the recipi- ents of this public bounty. It has no other purpose than to purchase the political support of those who are benefited hy this wholesale and indis- criminate pension system, and for this reason it presents a danger which should alarm every prudent and patri- oticcitizen. The demoralization of pub- lic sentiment that is involved is more to be deprecated than the waste of the public money. » State Convention next week, and a Harrisburg dispatchistates that he “has engaged his old room at the Lochiel Hotel.” That room is associated with the political career of the Boss. It was there that Cris Magee found him in a state of mind bordering on distrac- tion through fear of the consequences of his raid on the state treasury, and uncertain whether to get out of the scrape by cutting his throat or jump- ing into the Susquehanna river. The associations of that room render it a fit place for the Boss to receive the gang of office-seekers, party dependents, ma- chine politicians and political adven- turers that will compose the bulk of the Convention. Petty Vetoes. The President has again exercised his negative power by putting his veto toa bill for a public building in a townsomewhere down in the Southwest. His Excellency however, is not much disposed to interfere with the action of this model Republican congress. It can do almost any outrageous act without exciting his disapprobation, but when money is appropriated for a building mn some Democratic Southern town he feels it his duty to draw the line. But there are other acts of this con- gress which Mr. Harrisox could more creditably make the subject of his negation. The Disability Pension bill ‘is a measure which he could disap- prove of with great advantage to the country. it will assist in swelling the total cost of pensions to the enormous figure of $150,000,000 a year, and for no other object than to secure and re tain for the Republican party the sup- port of a certain class of voters. Mili- tary service to the country is thesmall- est consideration in the transaction. Votes are its chief object. In fact, its purpose is for politics only. There could not be a more proper subject for a veto than such a scheme to use the public treasury as a means of increasing the Republican vote. But disapproval of such a party expedient could not be expected of a man of Mr. Harrison's mental and moral caliber: The vetoing of bills for government buildings in Democratic towns is in size, he 8 i ini ves some of the most noted incidents in | sibly to preserve and protect the politi better proportion to a character of his’ Mischievous Partisans, We can not commend the taste or temper of the Democratic journals that are trying to introduce an element of enmity in the contest between Mr. Warrace and Mr. Parrisox for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Fortunately there are not many of these extreme partisans, but the few there are seein to be doing ail they can to array the Democratic party of Penn- sylvauia in two hostile camps on the Governor question. They carry their personal attachment to their favorites to too great a length, There is no oc- casion whatever for the introduction of such warfare. Nothing could be in worse taste than for a Democratic journal to assume that it opposes ParrisoNy because he is Quay’s candidate, or that it objects to WirLace because he is favored by the corporations. Yet we find extremists indulging in this mischievous kind of foolishness. Neither of these charges is true. Mar Quay is far from want ing to see ParTIs0N nominated, and the corporations expect no favors from Warrnace. In fact, each of them has an element of strength peculiarly his own. Mr. Parison could draw the larger support from the opposite party; Mr. WaLrace could more thoroughly or- ganize the party that would nominate him. Which of them would afford the greater advantage to the party m a contest with the enemy is the question to which the convention should address itself, without giving consideration to any other object than success. prm———— ——Mr. Vaux has made his maid- en speech in Congress. Its subject, did not relate to tariffs or any of the finan- cial or political questicns that usually furnish the burden of congressional harangues, but it was about the public and private services and virtues of his predecessor, Samurr J. Rawvarr. The new representative of the famous Third District is a modest man and ' will not launch into party questions un- ——Itis now definitely announced i til he shall have been longer in his that Quay will attend the Republican | seat. vy Where It is Most Needed. While the Republicans are preparing ! to enact a Federal Election law osten- cal rights of the citizens, it may not be out of place to consider where some" thing of that” kind is really needed and would operate with good effect. In fourteen northern States 3,386,399 Republican voters elect 126 Republican congressmen, and 3,074,- 165 Democratic voters elect 47 Demo- cratic congressmen. The same is respectively the case with Presiden- tial electors. Now, although there is the merest fraction of difference be- tween these two political forces, yet the one elects nearly three times as many congressmen and electors as is allowed to the other. These figures show that at least a million and a half of northern Democrats are disfranchised, so far as federal elections are concerned—de- prived by Republican gerrymandering of the representation which their num- bers entitle them to. Is there anything in the alleged dis- franchisement of the Southern negroes that can be compared to this? Yet the political desperadoes who have committed this wrong upon Northern Democrats are arranging to bring the congressional districts of the South al- so under their control by means of federal election laws the machinery of which they propose to keep in their own hands. Things have got to such a pass that any kind of legislation, however disreputable or obnoxious, can be pass- ed through State legislatures. Of course the passage is facilitated by the lubri- cating effect of boodle. Thus there remains but little doubt that the Lou. isiana Lottery gamblers will succeed in inducing the Louisiana legislature to give their charter an extension of twenty-five years. The lubricant that will be used to slide this nefarious measure through the State legislature is the huge bribe of $1,000,000 to be paid the State annually, with, no doubt, personal compensation to such mem- bers as shall be induced to vote for its passage. The legislative virtue of Louisiana does not seem to be a bit higher than that of Massachusetts where a fund of $100,000, in shares of $10,000, was receatly used to. assiet in getting a railroad bill through the State Senate. A Tempting Field. A meeting of the State Board of Agriculture which took place in Wells- boro last week, wasattended by alarge number of representative men, includ- ing Governor BEAVER, Supreme Judge H. W. WiLLiams, and other persons of prominence. The farmers of the neighborhood, however, thought that there was too much of a representation of lawyers and politicians at the meet- ing, and therefore did not give it much countenance. It may be that they were not mistaken in believing that there is getting to be too many “professional” farmers whose interest in agriculture is just now being prompted by the design of making it the source of political ad- vantage. “Farmers’ Alliances” and the different granger organizations of- fer a very tempting field ot activity to the political manipulator. —— Senator Hoar has introduced a resolution for an amendment to the constitution to make postmasters elec tive. Such a measure in some respects might be beneficial, but it would be likely to produce a large proportion of poor postmasters. It isn’t always the case that the character of public offi- cials is improved by their being made elective. Judges made at the ballot box hardly size up to those that usen to be made by appointment. a AERA . More ‘Presidential Gift Taking. The gift-taking that was such a blemish to the Grant administration, has been revived by the peoplelwho are now connected with the Presidential of- fice. A seaside cottage presented to Mrs. HarrmoN by JonNn Wana! makur and other wealthy Phila- delphians, bears an unpleasant resemblance to the presents which were accepted by President Grant and members of his family while they oc- cupied the White House, and which contributed so largely to the stock of i scandals that clouded the Presidential reputation in thoee days. Gaft-taking by the head of the nation, or those in near relation to him, was discontinued -after the Grant regime, particularly while the executive office was occupied by Grover CLEve- LAND, who, whether he needed a span of horses, a carriage, or a cottage, ob- tained it by regular purchase, paying its price in hard cash like an honest and honorable man and conscientious and high-minded public officer. But one of the most scandalous practices the chief officer of the nation can engage in is resumed by Mr. Har- RISON who at the very beginning of his administration put himself under obli- gations to a western carriage manufac- turer by aceepting several of his vehi- cles as a present, and is now indebted to a set of wealthy Philadelphians for valuable property at Cape May, which cannot be made to appear in any other light than as a gift to the President un- der cover of a deed to his wife. Imperfect Census Work. Complaints of the inaccuracy and in- completeness of the census are heard from every quarter. In Philadelphia the defective work has attracted atten- tion and aroused public indignation. It is charged, upon good authority, that persons have answered the scheduled questions, or not, at their own discre- tion, schedules left with parties to be filled out have not been’ called for by the enumerators, and still others have not been visited at all by the census takers. Itis a known fact that some enumerators, having neglected their work, are prepared to make improper and incomplete returns, in many in- stances omitting scores of names. Un- der these circumstances there is a set- tled conviction among the people of the city that the census of Philadelphia will be a botched job and entirely un- | reliable. The same complaint is heard from other quarters. There is everywhere eviiences of incomplete and slovenly work. But it is not entirely the fault oi the enumerators. Those who cat out the work loaded it with superflu- ous, senseless and offensive questions which were obnoxious to a large class of people and inclined them to give the enumerators an unfavorable and even hostile reception, If the work of the enumerators had been confined to such matters as legitimately come within the scope of a census, more per- feet and satisfactory results would have been obtained. Spawls from the Keystone, 2 —— Boks iy —Gypsy women tried to kidnap'a child, at Carlisle. : gy —Lancaster county grapes have been dam- aged by hail. 3 a8 —Strawberry pickers near Haurisburg. went on a strike. —A powder magazine at Mount Hope was burglarized. —The oats crop of Pennsyluania will be nothing to boast of. —“Annie Rooney” was arrested. in a Pitts- burg speak-easy. ; —A girl in Pittsburg has just passed a law student's examination. t —Light strawberrles picked in Lancaster county weighed a pound.. : —In one portion of Reading there was a shower of toads last week, i : —The Postmaster figh at Pottstown. will be aottled by a newspaper ballot. —"“Penny-in-the-slot” machines have crea- vad a dearth of pennies at Pottstown. —John Still, of Leopard, aged, 82 years, is about to marry Ella James, aged 26.. —A Mount Carbon woman discovered an in- truder in her room by a flash of lightning. —A gang of forty men scoured the woods at Honeyurook searching for Elisha Fitch. —John Richberg, of Greensburg, died of overloading himself with whisky recently.. —The mind of Charles Cheerman, of Easton, has been unbalanced by-cigavette smoking, —The nineteen public schools of Harrisburg will each be presented with a flag on July 4. —In one hour 153 rats were killed in. a Doylestown shed which was being demolished. —George A. Engle, residing at Pottsville, has a Mexican cactus which bears 200: blos- S0ms. —Harrison A. Henry, of Lynnport, fell un- der a mowing machine and was terribly man- gled. Jaa —An electric car at Harrisbnrg was: struck by lightning and the apparatus was burned out. —Burglar Wilson, in the Pottsv Ye jail, made a key out of a buckle and unlocked his shackles. bd —A concert given recently at’ Reading was listened to in Philadelphia and Washington by telephone. bd 010 J —The old Boose farm, at Bristol, for nearly a century controlied by the same family, was sold last week. : ‘ —Mrs. Margaret Walter,of Westtown,Chéster county, has a rose bush which contains 1000 roses in full bloom. Mi —J. K. Suyder, of Centreville, while eamp- ing, had the experience of a rattlesnake erawl- ing up his trouser leg. La —John Brun, of Annville accidentally, shot hiraself in the head while handling 3 musket, and it is feared he will die. —The amature editors of a ciass paper at Lehigh College were censured by the Presi- dent for satirizing the professors. —Mayor Frichey, of Harrisburg, had issued an order to his police to arrest all persons caught betting at baseball games. —John T. Gross and J. B. Hendrieks, of Norristown, captured 200 frogs along the banks of a Bucks county stream in one night. —Harry Shinton, 8 years old, was struck by a shifting engine at Shawnee Furnace, Colum- bia, on Friday, and fatally injured. —A great mass of worms, measuring three feet in length and one foot through, was' seen moving along over the ground at West Chester. —The annual inspection and parade of the Allentown Fire Department took place on Sat- urday afternoon, when nearly 1000 men were in line. 3 —William B. Wolf, proprietor ot the Bricker ville Hotel, near Litiz, died reeently of stings received while trying to capture a swarm of bees. —A Hungarian, while picking coal on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at South Bethlehem an Friday afternoon, was run over by cars and cut in pieces. —At a birthday celebration at West Chester all the guests brought the host a present of a pitcher. She received eighty-one of these articles. i —The corner-stones of the Reformed church at East Berlin and the Lutheran church af Mount Joy were laid no Saturday with appro. priate exercises. : —William Osman, of Allentown, atte mpted suicide on Monday evening by hanging himself in the attic of his house. He was dis- covered by his wife and cut down when half dead. —Miss Reeser,of York, was walking bare- footed through the orchard when a snake bit her on the toe. The girl experienced no inconvenience, but the snake was found dead on the spot soon after. —William Remaly, a Moore township (North- ampton county) farmer, hanged himself with a handkerchief and rope to the limb of a tree on the outkirts of Nazareth, on Thursday even- ing. No cause is known. —Two of Bristol's citizens have got stakes up on the population of the town, one betting that she will count up to 8000, while the other thinks 7000 will be the limit. Brislol’s popula- tion at her last census was 5000. —A straw vote on the gubernatorial question taken at the Pharmacutical Convention at York resulted as follows : Hastings 58, Pattison 36» Delamater 7, Wallace 5, Montooth 4, Black 1° Osborne 1, McCormick 1. > —The Reading Railroad Company having announced that employes in Reading will hereafter be paid by check after bank hours on the day of payment, the employes will pe- tition for payments in cash enclosed in en- velopes. —The farmers in tha vicinity of West Grove do not seem to be mu~h in favor of the Nation- al Farmers’ Alliance. A meeting was called for Wednesday evening, but it was so slimly attended that it was adjourned without organ- ization. —The fifty-four silk ribbon | weavers in the employ of Fichter & Martin, of Bethlehem: are on a strike against a reduction of 10 per cent. in wages. The weavers have offered to arbitrate, but the firm wants it done through the foreman, which the weavers refuse. —The wharfmen at the Glendon Iron Works who struck some time ago for an increase of pay, are being taken back because the men sent to take their places are unable to do the work. The strikers are now earning, by work- ing on percentage, $2 per day instead of $1.30 —Alexander Curatz, a Hungarian, aged 22 years, on Tuesday attempted to wreck a train on the Lehigh Valley Road by placing obstruc- tions on the track between Black Ridge and Tomhickon. He had been ejected frem a train for failure to pay his fare. The obstruct” 1ons were removed in time to prevent an ac cident.
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