Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, June 27, 1890, Image 1
ot 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. :