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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Sing -
—Our DAN has greatly enlarged his
stock of political experience during the
past week. :
—The Republican party of Pennsyl-
vania ought to blush, but it has got
past that.
—It isn’t safe to judge the strength |
of a gubernatorial candidate by the
number of brass bands that toot in his
cause.
—What has WrLLiam A. WALLACE
done to DANA that justifies the New
York Sun in knifing him with its
praise?
—The citizen who finds that the pop-
ulation of his town hasn’t doubled with-
in the last ten years considers the census
a failure.
—State Treasurer BOYER'S preparing a
plank in the platform especially to
tickle the farmers, has about it titillation
enough to make every body laugh.
—J im BLAINE is one of the most pro-
mising scholars in Professor CLEVE-
LAND'S tarift reform school. He always
was a bright lad.
— BERNHARDT came near making an
angel of herself the other day by taking
an overdose of chloral. In an angelic
form SARAH would be a celestial curios-
ity.
—It would be just like Harrison if
he should strain at a $27,000,000 river
and harbor gnat and gulp with ease and
complacency a $150,000,000 pension
camel,
—Boss Quay was not in Harrisburg
on Wednesday,but a telegraph wire from
his house in Beaver was the umbilical
cord that connected him with his con-
vention,
—-The Democrats of Pennsylvania are
under obligations to Col. Quay for the
masterly manner in which he has put
things in shape for the election of a
Democratic Governor.
—Did the Hastings supporters at
Harrisburg adopt the four-leafed
clover as their emblem in anticipation of
the neat and speedy manner in which
their favorite would be sent to grass ?
—The Western towns show a wonder-
ful increase of population. It may hive
been caused by the farmers moving
townward in quest of that home market
which the protectionists talk eo much
about.
—If the strawberries and cream story
of the New York Times should prove to be
founded on fact it wouldn’t be necessary
to go further than the sanctum of the
New York Sun to find the boss hog of
110 period.
—The employment of the electric wires
in making a Republican State conven-
tion wig-wag is an improvement on the
way old man CAMERON used to do it
without the aid of such scientific ap-
pliances.
—While the Philadelphia Record and
the Pittsburg Post are keeping up the
eastern and western ends of the Patti-
son boom, the Harrisburg Patriot is
humping the Wallace cause in the cen-
ter of the State.
—D1ck QUAY answered just as well as
the old man in managing the proceed-
ings at Harrisburg. The party has been
reduced to such unquestioning obedience
that the control of the Boss over the
convention could be safely delegated to
his son.
—The newly fledged free trader at the
head of the State Department can hard-
ly be racognized as the person who but
" two years ago got off such oracular de-
liverances in favor of a high tariff from
the top of Mr. CARNEGIE’s tally-ho
coach.
—The esteemed Philadelphia Press
may be measurably correct in saying
hat “protection was the pivotal ques-
tion” in the last Presidential election,
but how would the thing have worked
if the pivot hadn’t been nicely greased
with the fat furnished by Joan Wawna-
MAKER ?
—A member of the royal family took
his seat in the English House of Lords
the other day with great ceremony.
There wasn’t near as much parade in
the American House of Representatives
some months ago when so royal a per-
sonage as a Czar was seated in the
Speaker’s chair.
—The Philadelphia Press speaks of a
noted Republican statesman as ‘‘the
light-headed BrA1r of New Hampshire.’
Is this a proper kind of language to
apply to the great senatorial educator
whose chief aim in life is to dispel the
illiteracy of thecolored people who con-
stitute the bulk of the Republican
party ?
—The syndicate that proposes to buy
upat low figures the Hastings white
hats for bee-hives should be a little cau_
tious about geing into such a specula-
tion in view of the fact that the guber-
nato.ianl bees that buzzed around them
at Harrisburg couldn’t be induced to
light, a circumstance that makes it
doubtful whether they could be utilized
for apiary purposes,
Vora
fic Wale Rie
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 35.
The Defects of the Census.
Among the foolish provisions of the
law regulating the taking of the eleventh
census, was the one forbidding the
enumerators from divulging the result
of the count and keeping the people in
ignorance of the population of their
localities until it shall be officially an-
nounced from head quarters at Wash-
ington. The people have a natural
and justifiable curiosity in this matter,
and no injury to the object of the cen-
sus could be done by the enumerators
gratifying that curiosity as soon as the
count is completed. It seems to be
Mr. Porter's intention to throw
around the census a veil of impenetra-
ble secrecy until he shall be pre-
pared to burst upon the country with
the full result of his management ot the
census bureau.
Yet he does not appear to be suc-
cessful in this intention, as the papers
of the cities and large towns are pub-
lishing the census of their localities in
figures that look so much like offi-
cial figures that the enumerators must
have been giving their secret away.
Thus it is announced that New York's
population is 1,627,227. This re-
turn, so precisely stated,
have come from very near an offi-
cial source. The Philadelphia papers
claim to know enough about the result
of the enumeration in their city to
warrant the statement that its popula-
tion is 1,040,449. Such publications
make it sound strange to the residents
of the country districts to hear their
enumerators declare that it would be
about as much as their heads were
worth if they should disobey the
injunction of secrecy in regard to the
result of their enumeration,
If there is absurdity connected with
this business, there also appears to be
much inaccuracy. In Philadelphia
complaints are made of the loose man-
must
ner in which the enumerators did their |.
work, The fllowing, taken from a
paper of that city, gives an illustration
of the inaccuracy complained of :
Colonel Samuel Bell, Clerk of the United
States Circuit Court, called at the Census Office
yesterday and demanded some blanks. “I am
a citizen of the United States,” he said, “and
want to be put on record. There are seven
members in my family, and none of them have
seen an enumerator. Neither has my next-
door neighbor nor two other families living
close by. Altogether in these four houses no
less than thirty-five persons were missed.
What will the population of Philadelphia be,’}
continued the Colonel, “if such negligence has
been the rule throughout the city? For my
part I would like tosee the city step in and
canvass her own district after the Govern-
ment is through with it.”
It was the ambit ous
make this the most complete and com-
prehensive census ever taken. Trying
to cover too much, it is likely to be de-
fective and inaccurate in the most es-
sential feature of a census—the enu-
meration of the people.
intention to
Preparing an Unsavory Dish for
Themselves.
A Philadelphia paper that is sup-
porting Mr. Warrace for Governor
with more zeal than discretion, tries to
make a point against him by saying
that WiLniam L. Scorr, who is said to
be for Mr. Partison.once asked CHAUN-
ceEY Depew for a free railroad pass. Iu
entirely forgetsto mention that when Mr.
Parrison was Goyernor he declined to
accept passes from any railroad com-
pany, thus presenting a commendable
contrast to ail the Republican State of-
ficers who from the Governor down
have their pockets full of passes.
No Democratic Governor of the right
stamp would put himself under such
obligation to any railroad company.
We have evidence that Governor Par-
r1soN wouldn't do it. We believe that
Mr. WarLLACE, as Governor, would not
consent to be the beneficiary of such
railroad favors. That is the view the
Warcnyman is disposed to take of these
two honorable gentlemen. Tt has no
disposition to pull either of them down
for the benefit of the other, « If some
of the overzealous journals we gee
slashing away on either side of this
contention, would follow our example,
they wouldn’t be running the risk of
finding themselves in a mighty tincom-
fortable position after the nomination.
We would remind them that crow is a
very unpalatable kind of diet, and crow
it will be for some of them in the event
of the nomination of either Mr. WaL-
LACE or Mr. Parison, one or the oth.
er of whom is most likely to be the
nominee.
3
The Farmers’ Alliance in Politics.
The farmers of Minnesota are show-
ing great dislike for the McKinley
tariff pill and general hostility to the
principle of monopolistic protection.
The Alliance in that State have called
a convention to put a State ticket inthe
field, and among other declarations in
their call they refer to ‘‘the monstrous
growth of protection and class legis-
lation,” and speak of the McKinley
bill as a measure in which “protec-
tion has gone mad in the advance
of the prohibitive duties.”
The Alliance is developing great
strength in Minnesota, every day gain-
ing the accession of men who entertain
such views as the above in regard to
the leading policy of the Republican
party. The Secretary of the commit-
tee which has the farmers’ campaign in
charge says that there are 1,500 Allian-
ces in Minnesota with a total member-
ship lately increased from 30,000 to
40,000 and growing so rapidly that it
is believed it will be at least 60,000 by
the time of the election. Hz also says
that this “formidable uprising” is due
to the McKinley bill, and adds:
“When itis possible that a congrass
can foist such an outrageous law
upon an intelligent people it is time
the people interrupted the sway of the
party that is responsible for it.”
Verily, the campaign of education is
going briskly forward in the North-
west.
The Republicans have lost the
next House of Representatives, without
the possibility of their being able to re-
tain it by theft thronch a Federal Elec
tion law. No form of rascality will
help them in this emergency.
Democr atic Par tisans hip.
The Democratic newspapers that are
taking a partisan stand in the gover-
nor contest are doing some fine figur-
ing for their favorites, They have no
difficulty in giving figures to prove
that the particular candidate they
support will be nominated on the first
ballot, or at least after a few ballots
have been taken to let the other can-
didates down easy. It is wonderful
with what sanguine expectation they
await the resalt that is going to con-
firm the correctness of their prognos-
tications. The Pattison papers indulge
in the most flattering figures. The
leading one in Philadelphia, with the
facility of a ready reckouner, counts up
enough delegates to nominate the Ex-
Governor on the first ballot, with one
to spare. With the breezy confidence
that attends a certainty it claims that
Mr, Parrison will have practically a
walk over in the convention.
On the other hand the journal at
the State capital that bas taken the
heft of the Wallace campaign on its
shoulders, deals in figures that teil a
different tale, and it vouches for their
authenticity. It counts 210 of the
delegates elected who are opposed to
the nomination of Mr. Parrison. It
will take 187 to nominate, and this
zealous journal sees no difficulty in
getting from the 210 who don’t want
Parrison enough to put WaLLace
at the head of the ticket,
In truth, the figures, so far as they
can be ascertained with any certainty,
present so small a margin between the
two leading candidates that the sup-
porters of neither of them is justified in
claiming to be sure of his nomination.
And the funny part of this business is
that stter the nomination has been
made these fussy journals that are just
now pulling in such opposite directions
will turn in and give a loyal support to
the nominee, regretting, perhaps, the
indiscreet expressions they made while
booming their favorites.
otwithstanding the extreme
liberality of the pension bills passed,
the agents are dissatisfied, and write
from Washington an address to the G.
A. R.comradesgiving them the distress
ful information that *‘no service pen
sion bill, no per diem bill, no prisoner
of war pensioner bill and no arrears
bill. will be passed at this session of
Congress.” Tc 'is true that the Depend-
entand Disability bills that have been
passed by this congress will knock
more than ‘one hundred millions av-
nually out of the surplus, but in neg-
lecting to pass the other bills above
mentioned, the national law makers |
aave been shamefully neglectfnl of the
cretion.
interesfs of the claim agents.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 27, 1890.
NO. 26.
Blaine’s Economic Summersault.
What is all this we hear about Broth-
er Barve? Is it really true that he has
turned to be a free trader? Very cir-
cumstantial reports are to the effect that
he regards the McKinley tariff bill
with distavor. Thus, it is said by a
Washington correspondent, who may
be reliable, that
While Mr. Blaine was before the Senate ap-
| propriation committee, advocating certain ap-
propriations, he delivered a lecture on politi-
eal economy to Secretary Allison.
The Democratic member of the committee,
Mr, Blackburn, was delighted with the tone of
Mr. Blaine's review, and at an opportune mo-
ment he is reported to have said: “I wish you
were not Mr. Secretary, and were in this sen-
ate to raise your voice against this McKinley
bill.”
Mr. Blaine replied : “I wish so, too. 1t is
the most dangerous, if not the most infamous»
measure that was ever concocted by any party”
The men who vote for this bill will wreck the
Republican party. IfI were in the senate I
would rather have my right arm torn out of its
socket than vote for this bill.”
It may be doubted that he went so
far as this in denouncing the pet meas-
ure of this Republican congress, but he
is a shrewd politician and a sensible
man, and, as such, there can be no
doubt that he fully comprehends the
dangerous character of the McKinly
bill and is able to foresee the wreck in
which it will involve the party that
will be responsible for it.
Although there may be uncertainty
as to what Mr. BraiNe really said
about the tariff bill, there is nothing
uncertain in the communication he sent
to congress recommending free trade
with the Spanish-American countries.
Notwithstanding that he gives it a
sugar coating of “reciprocity,” it is
vevertheless a bitter pill for the high
protectionists to swallow. What is
reciprocity but free trade? The propo-
sition of limiting it to certain nations
does not do away with the fact that to |
that extent it is an abandonment of the |
protective principle.
Some of the high tariff papers, in
thying to ease the effect of Mr. BLAINE'S
proposition, say that it extends merely
to countries that would reciprocate with
raw materials useful to our manufac-
tures. But did Mr. CLEVELAND or the
Mills bill ask for free trade in anything
but raw materials for the benefit of our
manufacturing industries ? They asked
this while seeking to maintain a rea-
sonable—not prohibitive—tariff on for-
eign manufactured goods for the ade-
quate protection of American labor.
It is gratitying to see that Mr.
Brag is coming over to the Cleve-
land position on the tariff question.
Who in 1888 woald have thought that
this could occur? American politics
is full of surprises.
——The Democratic committee of
Lycoming county met at Williamsport
last Saturday and elected Hon. R. P.
Arex, Hon. W. W. Harr, W. C.
Giuyore, W. J. Stewart and H. R.
MenrLiNG as delegates to the State
convention with instructions to vote
tor WiLriam A. WaLrace for Gover-
nor. ‘the vote stood 40 for Wallace
and 3 for Pattison, while 11 refrained
from voting. instructions. This, like
that of Blair county, was an unfortu-
nate case of the county convention not
selecting the state delegates, allowing
it to devolve npon the county com-
mittee, but it is unjust to infer that in
either case the committee assumed un-
due power, or that improper influence
was exerted in bringing about the
election and instruction of the dele:
gates.
Rather Indiscreet.
Does the Harrisburg Patriot really
believe that Ex-Governor Parrison is
not in favor of ballot reform on the
Australian plan? It certainly can
not entertain such a belief,and is acting
disingenuously in trying to create the
impression that in a gubernatorial ca-
pacity Mr. Parrison would oppose the
adoption of the Australian ballot sys-
tem in thie State. All the Democratic
candidates for Governor should be
treated + ith equal fairness. Mr. WaL-
LACE is in every way worthy of the
earnest support of the newspapers that
are friendly to him, but we do not be-
lieve that he wants them to go for the
scalps of any of his rivals for the nomi-
nation in the ferocious manner of the
Patriot. Me is too good a Democrat
for that, It would be well for the
Harrisburg organ to revise its dis
Quay’'s Convention.
Mar Quay and his son Dick had it
all their own way at the Republi-
can State Convention on Wednesday.
The Boss sent his orders by telegraph
from his home in Beaver, while the
boy was on the ground at Harrisburg
to see that they were properly inter-
preted and fully carried out.
The shameless old party has held
many boss-ruled conventions in this
State, but she never before held one
that responded with such eager readi-
ness to the wires manipulated by the
Boss. dt was Quay’s convention in
every sense of the word. It recognized
nojother authority and yielded to no oth-
er influence. From the moment the
first delegates struck the “sacred soil”
of the State capital where machine
government has so long been entrench-
ed, until its streets swarmed with the
venzl henchmen and willing tools of
the ‘treasury raider who holds the par-
ty reins, ne other expressions were
heard than “Will Quay be here?”
“What does Quay say?” “Who does
Quay want?” “Evervthing depends
upon Quay!” “We will know what
to do when we liear from Quay.” The
dirtiest politics this country ever pro-
duced can show no parallel to this
convention's low-lived subserviency
and abject obedience to a corrupt poli-
tician whose whole public life has con-
sisted of a series of offences against
political morals and official honor.
From the start it was evidentto even
the ordinary observer that the candi-
dacy of any other than Quay’s candi-
date was the emptiest by-play, intend-
ea by the Boss to amuse such members
of the party as professed to be inde-
pendent in their preference. Such ean-
didates as Hastings and others were
but puppets who served a purpose in
the game. The Boss's programme did
not include the slightest chance of the
nomination of any one of} them, The
party workers whom he could rely on
to carry out his designs were attached
to him by the cohesive power of public |
plunder, and they went to Harrisburg,
headed by brass bands and bearing
i banners, eager and able to do his work.
Will a majority of the people of
Pennsylvania endorse the wretched do-
ings of this collection of political
menials and personal dependents of
a corrupt leader? The old State has
suffered many disgraces in recent years,
but we trust she may be spared: the
shame that would attend the election
of Quay’s candidates.
— The Federal Election law, devi~-
ed by the Quays, the DupLeys, the
CHANDLERS, the REEDS, and other such
like pure political characters, aided by
JonNNY DEvENPoORT's valuable assis-
tance, is a pretty production for a meas-
ure that has “no other purpose than to
provide for an honest and full expres-
sion of the will of the voters.” For
the carrying out of this exalted purpose
it provides for 330 Republican partisan
returning boards which, under the
management and direction ot the im-
maculate chairman of the Republican
National committee and the incorrup-
tible originator of the blocks-of-five
system of voting, can, of course, have
vo other object than “an honest ballot
and a fair count.”
Serviceable in Private Life.
The eminent ability and sterling in-
tegrity of GROVER CLEVELAND are as
much recognized since he has retired
to private life as they were while he
was at the head of the nation. Demo-
cratic assemblies, reform associations
and college fraternities are eager to
draw from him his opinion on the
great public questions of the day, and
his services are in demand in the
settlement of points of controversy in-
volving great interests.
Thus,he has lately been intrusted with
another very important duty as an ar-
bitrator in the settlement of the Vir-
ginia debt question, in which he will
be associated with his recent Secretary
of State, Hon. Tomas F, Bavarp, his
recent Minister to England, Hon. Ebp-
waRrD J. PHELPS, together with Messrs.
GEORGE S. CoE, President of the Ameri.
can Exchange Bank, and G. G. WiL
L1aMs, President of the Chemieal Bank
of New York city. They will act in
concert with representativ es of foreign
bondholders. Virginia is determined
to bring her debt question to an equita-
ble conclusion,and she can get no better
man than Mr. CLEVELAND to preside
over the deliberations that will have
that end in view.
(attempt to arrest, at ‘Sunbury,
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Bueks county farmers coraplain oa
FA
scarcity of labor. # $9 2 i
—Dickinson College, last week, had its 107th
commencement. .. nad
—Two kinds of stone~are ht “ome
quarry at Doy lestown.
—James W. Hanna, of Latrobe, a groom of
three months, is missing.
—A man named Tchlichter ‘challenges the
State to a mouth-organ contest.
—B. C. Mitchell, a Chester county dairyman
has “dehorned” all his cattle. ?
—Kutztown has & 15-year old boy who is an
accomplished chureh organist.
—Many farmers are plowing up their oats,
as the crop will not be worth gathering.
—In a Pittsburg Police Court a 16-year-old
boy proudly gave his occupation as that of a
thief,
—Itis claimed that a primary election in
York county by the Crawford county system
cost $25,000. *
—“The Darby Ram,” an individual of Del-
aware county, has been arrested for stealing
a Chester lamb.
—Mrs. David Lewis, of Wilkesbarre, was
buried last Friday on the first anniversary of
her wedding.
—The Trustees of Framklin and Marshall
College have decided to charge no tuition fee
in the future.
—The State Prohibition Convention will meet
in Harrisburg on August 20 and 21 instead of
July 45 and 16.
—A colored man bought a double handful
of “Catawba” pills for 1 cent at 4- Doylestown
sale on Friday.
—0il is said "to" HAVE Besir “found on the
farm of William Eisenheart, in Butks ‘county,
near Doylestown.
—Young Misses of Bristol held a fair and
took in $100 for the benefit of the Country
Week Association. ;
—A freight (rain at Lancaster struek a ‘team
and, lifting it from the ronal) eared it
nearly 200 feet away. t
—A bride and groom, both deaf and dumb,
were eyed with curiosity at the Pissshure de-
pot a day or two ago.
—A Wilkesbarre hatter has
champion straw hat. Its
feet in circum ference. 1
—The convention of the Pennsylyania Sab-
hath-School Association will be held at New
Castle on September 29,
made the
brim is fourteen
—“No flowers” is inscribed in the eorner of
the invitatlon to the West Chester . Normal
School commencement.
—Five seconds only are: raguined by an
Allegheny fire company to hiteh up and start
off in answer to an alarm.
—Miss Jennie Wertz, a young lady of Keat-
‘ing, had her foot jerked off while jing on
and off a railroad turn-table.
—A famous old hotel at Mainland, Montgom=
ery county, which was at its best during the
Revolution, is about to be torn away.
—A Bristol young lady mourns the loss of a
$12 bonnet, which fell from “her head when
she was on one of the river steamboats.
—By the efforts of Pennsylvania Railroad
officials several “speak-easies” ‘have ibeen
broken up at St. Cl Borough and Conway
Yard.
. —Solomon Moyer, who, for many years was
designated as “the man who never lost a law-
suit,” died at his home near Williamsport on
Sunday.
—A colored thief at Br idgeport jumped into
the canal, audthe policeman who was chas «
ing him followed suit and arrested him in the
water,
—The Williamsport Sun has made a canvas
of the county Democrats on the Gubernatorial
fight and found 236 for. Pattison and 824 for
Wallace.
—The ninety-sixth annual commencement
of the Linden Hall Seminary, Lititz, was held
last week, and sixteen young ladies were
graduated.
—While Mary Burns was standing in front
of her home at New Brighton, a woman in
black came up behind her and snipped the
girl's hair off.
—Zinc ore has been Qiteororeds on a thact of
land three miles West of Bloomsburg, Colum-
bia county, and workmen are mow Asking out
several tons daily.
"WN -
~Pisquale Doyee, of Bristol, white frenzied
with bad whisky, brutally assaulted his 10
year-old son. He was arrested, but ml fined
for drunkenness, Oe
—A fourth woman claiming 0. bes the long
lost Mary Sheehan, of. Sharpsburg, Allegheny
county, for whom an estate of $75,0001i8 wait-
ing, has appeared at | Hannibal, Mo,
, —Frank P. Foster, a young theologian, was
arrested at Allegheny, for robbery, bus was
quickly discharged, and his aceuser, Joseph: D
Elliot, is suspected of ‘having Romito; the
crime. .
—The Grand Jury ab Pottsville Fri day even
ing returned two more true bills —one against
exPoor Direstor German, for bribery,and anoth-
er.against Director William Yeininger; for the
same offense.
—The main roadway AAA Hazleton
and Beaver Brook collapsed, and over two
acres of ground went down to a considerable
.depth, Eight houses were ‘wreelted, but no
one was injured. { sels
—Jacob Bose, aged 91 years,” who died re-
cently in York township, Yori county, left
$3000 in gold and silver, two-thirds'of the sum
in half-dollars and querters hidden in various
places about, his dwelling.
~In the trial of George Moss, at Wilkesbarre
for the murder of his wife Rhoda, the 14-year.
old son of the prisoner testified to having seen
the shooting, and the defense setup insanity
Moss denying all recollection of the tragedy.
—Rev. John K. Fisher; a member of the Cen _
tral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal,
Church, who was stationed | at ‘Shippensburg.
Pa, died Friday at the residence of his’ father
In rk, Josigh Getile, in Lebanos. He was 40
years ald. VA :
+ —Constable Ginter thade an untnceessful
the excursion
party of the Baltimors Coal aud Iron BEx-
change, who were chavged with muliciotis niis-
chief at York, but! the affair was! compromised
by the excursionists Paying for the damage
done,
—The jury in the case of Rey. M. I, Fritch,
the ex-almshouse chaplain, alleged to be. in-
sane, but charged with stealing knives from
Bard, Reber & Co., came into Court, at Reading
Friday evening, after having béen out all day
and announced disagreement. They stood
10 to2 for conviction. :