BY PP. GRAY MEEK,
Ink Slings.
—CHARLEY WOLFE interjects into
this campaign the slogan of
Dinna ye hear it, Bosses ?
—1In the numerous fights which are
springing up among the Repub-
lican leaders it doesn’t matter much
which side Mr. HARRISON'Is on.
—If the Force Bill should knock out
the Monopoly Bill it would go to show
that the bayonet as a political instrument
isn’t an entirely unmitigated evil.
—YVice President Wass of the New
York Central Railroad displays an arro-
gance in his treatment of the strikers
that makes him appear as the Czar Rerp
of railroad circles.
—The flowery eloquence with which
young Mr. SwooPE dpened the Repub-
lican convention on Tuesday, failed to
enthuse the assembled delegates. Prob-
aply it was too rich for their blood.
—The pointed question which the col-
ored Republican put to candidate DEL-
AMATER at Chambersburg afforded
another illustration of the fact that the
colored brother has become a trouble.
some element in politics.
—The defeat of SAM Losu for con-
gress in the Schuylkill county Repub-
lican convention last Tuesday may have
been in consequence of Dick Quay
souring on him. In such matters Dick
reflects the acidity of his father.
—The Pinkerton detectives area dan-
gerous excrescence which should be rub-
bed off the surface of the body politic,
In this free country there is but little
use for a standing army, and one run as
a private enterprise is altogether obnox-
ious.
—The brickmakers of Philadelphia at
their picnic last Monday furnished a
specimen brick which serves to show
the character of the political structure
which the voters of Pennsylvania are go-
ing to erect this year. ' They took a vote
for governor which resulted in 916 for
ParrisoN and 305 for DELAMATER,
—The scheme of sending word out
from Bellefonte a few days before the
primaries that it wouldn’t do to nomi-
nate Capt. MoNTGOMERY, was a piece of
boss business that would hare done credit
to MAT QUAY. The chairman of the
Republican county committee is be-
eoming quite proficient in that style ot
political management.
—At one point in the proceedings of
the Republican convention last Tuesday
it looked as if business would be suspend-
ed until a telephone message could be
sent to Philipsburg inquiring whether
there were any more candidates lying
around loose in that enterprising town
who would be willing to take the bal-
ance of the nominations.
—We object to our lively neighbors
of Philipsburg moving the county
seat, with all the official appurtenances,
right away over to their thriving and
ambitious city. They, however, may
have the jail it they are willing to take
the present Sheriff along with it as an
encumbrance. That is the only condi-
tion upon which we are willing to part
with that institution.
—There is a report that HARRISON
and REED have become so angry at
Quay for his interference with the
Force Bill that they have a mind to
punish him by helping to defeat his can-
didate in Pennsylvania. It is to be hoped
that this is mot true. Such a display
of hostility on their part would excite a
sympathy for the Boss which that old
political reprobate doesn’t deserve.
—In nominating WoLr, whose can-
didacy was sprung on the party a few
weeks beforethe convention, and reject-
ing Capt. MONTGOMERY who was in the
field earnestly working for: at least six
months, the Republicans of this county
reversed the old maxim that the early
bird catches the worm. WorLr, how-
ever, by the time the campaign is over
will find that the worm wasn’t worth
catching.
—Our old friend, Jor Hoy, who is in
a better political humor than he was
Jast year, can’t resist cracking a joke at
the expense of the Republicans. He
says they have a Beaver for Governor,
have nominated a Wolf for Sheriff, and
have Kunes on their ticket for Com-
missioner, and he brings the laugh in
by saying that the Democrats will
enlarge this collection of animals by
giving them a skunk in November.
CuarLey WorrE stated an un-
deniable fact to the Union county farm.
ers when he told them that Republi-
can supremacy in the State means the
rule of the corporations ; and he knew
whereof he spoke when, on the other | Why increase the cost of the people's
hand, he said to his agriculiural audi-
ence that “Governor Parrisox had the
“ honesty and courage to stand by the
“hoodwinked and oppressed farmer
“ against the chicanery and oppression
“ of corporate power.” Mr. WoLrg will
state many telling facts pertinent to the
issues of the campaign before the con-
test shall close in November.
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A Bugle Blast from Charles S. Wolfe.
We had no doubt as to the side on
which CoarLes S. Worre would be
heard in the contest in which RoBEerT
E. Parrisox is pitted against the can-
didate chosen by the corrupt Boss of
the Pennsylvania Republicans.
Earlier in the season the Delamater
organs announced with well feigned sat-
isfaction that Mr. WorLre and others
of the old Independents were going to
stultify the position they took in 1882
against bossjdictation and machine rule
by supporting a candidate who is the
offspring of the perfection of bossism,
in comparison with which that of 1882,
objectionable as it was, might
have been considered decent and
tolerable. The organs claimed that
Mr. WoLre was going to subject
his honorable independence of eight
years ago to such stultification, but
we didn’t believe it.
At the Union county farmer’s annu-
al pic-nic last week he proved that he
isn't that kind of a man.
On that occasion he arraigned with
his usual force the bosses and machine
men who for years have been
using the Republican power in this
State for the benefit of the railroads
that have discriminated against the
interests of the farmers, and who, for
the promotion of corporate interests
and the aggrandizement of corporate
power, have prevented the enforcement
of those provisions of the State consti-
tution which were intended to shield
the people against corporate encroach-
ment and usurpation. He was quite
plain in expressing bis opinion that
Mr, DeLaMATER represented this ma-
lign influence.
Mr. Worrg gave an illustration of
the complete subjection of the Republi-
can leaders to the railroad power.
He further arraigned them for che
failure of the Revenue Law designed to
benefit the farmers by an equalization
of taxes, which in its passage from the
Speaker of the Senate to the Governor
was 80 mysteriously manipulated that |
it vanished entirely from human sight. |
He also charged that when Governor
Parrison had the courage to bring
suits against certain corporations for
establishing freight pools, coal combi-
nations and other abuses, the corporate
power thus righteously assailed had
no other escape than “to elect a Gov-
“ ernor who would discontinue the liti-
gation.”
If under Beaver the corporations
have been allowed to have their own
way, what would they not be permitted
to do if the servant of the Standard Oil
Company and the choice of M. S. Quay
should be made Governor of the
State ?
The campaign against the abuses
which so long have injured and op-
pressed the people of Pennsylvania
could not have been opened more forci-
blyjand effectually than was done by
Mr. Worre at the Union county farm-
ers’ pic nic.
——JoHN D. RoCKEFELLER,the head
of the Standard Oil Company, denies
that he is going to endow a Baptist
nniversity with $20,000,000. The Bap-
tists can consider themselves lucky in
not becoming the recipieuts of such a
‘questionable benefaction. Money ac-
quired by the methods of a grasping,
heartless monopoly is not the kind of
stuff to put into institutions intended
to promote religion and morality.
A Choice of Alternatives.
Mr. James DossoN, the great woolen
manufacturer of Philadelphia, who
has been a very Trojan in upholding
the high tariff exactions, in a letter
urging the immediate passage of the
McKinley bill gives a pitiful descrip-
tion of the present condition of the
woolen industry. He says: “The wool:
“en trade all over the country is in a
“ worse condition now than for years,
‘ and we certainly need either greater
“ protection on the finished goods or
“freer raw material.”
Why not adopt the remedy of “freer
raw material’’ which he admits to be
one of the alternatives in this dilemma ?
clothing, already too high, by another
turn of the tariff screw, when free raw
materials, as recommended by Grover
CreveraNp and advocated by the
Democratiay party, would relieve the
woolen menin their embarrassed condi-
tion and at the same time reduce the
cost of one of the prime necessaries of
civilized life ?
NO. 33.
Delamater Pleads Not Guilty.
A colored man at a Republican
meeting at Chambersburg last week
was instrumental in forcing candidate
DELAMATER to break the silence which
he solong maintained under the dam-
aging charges brought against him by
ex-Senator EMERY,
The Republican candidate was ad-
dressing the meeting and was having
smooth sailing in his exhortation to his
hearers to stick to the ticket and main-
tain inviolate the blessed tariff by the
election of the candidates furnished by,
the Boss, when suddenly and unexpect-
edly, in the midst of his harangue, a
colored brother arose in the audience
and expressed an uncontrollable desire
to hear something about the Emery
charges,
The colored gentleman, no doubt,
had heard enough about the tariff and
wanted to get down to business that
had some connection with the cam-
paign,and it is altogether likely that the
speaker, so startlingly interrupted,
had he dared to express his opinion of
that ebeny Republican, would have
called him an impertinent nigger.
But having to face the interrogatory
about the charges which represent him
to be guilty of bribery, forgery and per-
jury, as a matter of course he pleaded
“not guilty.”
What less could he have done? It
is the plea almost invariably putin by
every culprit arraigned before a court
of justice, but the court doesn’t im-
mediately order an acquittal because
the prisoner eays the indictment isn’t
true.
rr Twat)
Congressman Kerr Should Be Renomi-
nated.
Democrats all over the State teel an
interest in Hon. James Kerr's being
sent back to congress for another term.
They are interested in him not only
for the reason that he has made an ex-
cellent representative and an earnest
and active supporter of democratic
principles in the treatment of all the
| measures that have come up in the
House since he has been a Member,
but also because the position in which
be has been placed at the head of the
Democratic State Committee requires
of his Democratic constituents that they
show their appreciation of his service
and their acknowledgement ot his worth
by the endorsement of a renomination.
While he is attending to the business
of the State campaign he should be en-
couraged in the work by the approba-
tion of the Democrats of his district
which would be expressed by making
him again their candidate for Congress.
On this subject the Philadelphia Re-
cord expresses the sentiments of the
Democracy of the State by the follow-
sensible and well-timed words.
Representative James Kerr, Chairman of
the Democratic State Committee, will have no
opposition in his own county of Clearfield for
renomination to Congress. He should have
none in the other counties- Clarion, Forest,
Elk and Centre—which with Clearfield make
up the Twenty-eighth district. With the pos-
sible exception of Forest county the whole
district is strongly Democratic. A Democratic
nomination is equivalent to an election.
Whilst Mr. Kerr is lending his whole time
and best efforts to insure Democratic success
in the State, his fellow-Democrats whom he
has reputably served at Washington should
see toit that his necessary absence from his
own camp shall do him no injury. Itis the
custom to elect a faithful Representative for a
second term. 1t would bea still better cus-
tom to elect faithful Representatives as long
as they shall be faithful. But in Mr. Kerr's
case, standing as he does now as the represen-
tative of the party throughout the State, it
would be not only a mistake but a mishap not
easily reparable to cut him off with a single
term.
The moral effect of not giving him a
renomination while in his position as
hairman of the State Central Commit-
tee and manager of the campaizn,would
be damaging to the Democratic cause.
This is something which, in this con-
nection, should be taken into account.
That Centre county will throw no
obstacle in the way of Mr. Kerr's re-
nomination is a fact well understood.
The people here are for him, the candi-
date of the county—CoL. SPANGLER—
is for him and he has had the manli.
ness to so declare publicly, His confer-
ees are warm KERR men, and political
trouble takers outside of the district
need have no fears, as to the final re
sult. Mr. Kerr will be renominated,
and elected by a much larger majority
than was given him two years ago.
—Probably the reason why Speaker
REED doesn’t want to have CooPER on
the Raum inwestigating committee is
that he is afraid he might put a head on
the Commissioger of Pensions.
ELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 22, 1890.
Edmunds in the Role of a Kicker.
Who would ever have thought that
Senator Epmunps would be a kicker
against even the most iron-clad party
regulations? But it is a fact that |
after the Senate caucus last week he |
expressed his dissatisfaction with the
arrangements that had been made to
keep the Republican Senators down to |
the line of duty prescribed by the man- |
agers. He inveighed against the crimi-
nal extravagance of passing the river
and harber bill when there is a deficit
of $40,000,000 and $50,000,000 staring
congress in the face, and the obstinacy
with which the members of the Fi-
nance Committee are trampling down
matters of important legislation in or-
der to rush through the tariff bill. As
friendly as he is to the Force Bill he
does not want the Tariff Bill disposed of
without a full debate, and he charged
its managers with having handled it
for the benefit of special interests and
in entire forgetfulness of every prin-
ciple of right and justice.
There must be something very palpa-
bly wrong in Republican management
when a veteran party man like Ebp-
MUNDs is compelled to kick,
“Goodby to that corpulent old
Treasury surplus if your Uncle Bex
BurLEr ever gets a whack at it,” re-
marks the Philadelphia Press. But
the corpulency of the surplus is being
so rapidly reduced by the Republican
treasury raiders pegging away at it,
that by the time BeN’s turn shall come
there will be hardly a shadow of it left
for him to whack at. 1
——— ———
Diplomatic Impudence.
No American Minister abroad ever
did any thing as cheeky as that which
Minister WaireLaw Rip is now do-
ing in France. The government of
that country has excluded the import-
ations of American pork, its purported
object being to protect the French
pork raisers from the competition of
foreign production. Mr. Riep has en-
tered a protest against this, expostulat-
ing with the French authorities for
pursuing a policy so injurious {0 Amer-
ican interests and unfriendly to a peo-
ple who have always been on such
good terms with the French.
To read the long expostulation of
the American Minister, which has
been republished in the papers in this
country, one would almost be led to
believe that the American government
has been the most liberal in the world
in allowing importations from foreign
countries, and had a right to complain
of illiberal trade regulations on the part
of other governments, when, in truth,
at the very time when Minister Rip
is calling the French authorities to ac-
count for laying an embargo on Amer-
ican pork the congress of the nation
he represents is engaged in increasing
the tariff restrictions on foreign impor*-
ations alriost to the point of prohibition.
Surely the French have a reason to
regard our Minister's action in this
matter as a remarkable case of diplo-
matic impudence.
It is unfortunate that France can jus-
tify her exclusion of American pork by
pointing to the American tariff which
imposes restrictive duties on French
productions. It is also unfortunate
that other foreign governments are
adopting the same method of retalia-
tion by excluding the agricultural pro-
ducts of the United States. It is
rough on the American farmers,but the
American government should not com- {|
plain about 1t, for it is only applying
to her the treatment which she accords
to other nations.
The struggle for sheriff is causing
an ugly snarl among the Republicans
of Philadelphia which is likely to de-
moralize their entire campaign. The
report that Quay was going to take
upon himself the authority of determin-
ing who should be nominated” for
sheriff raised a storm of angry protes-
tation, and now the opposite report
that he has concluded to take no part
in the fight is greeted with derision by
those who are best acquainted with his
disposition to manage all the details of
the party machinery. They remember
the promise he made to Mayor FirLer
that he wouldn't interfere with the
Harrisburg convention, a promise
which he kept by sending his son Dick
to the convention to carry out the or-
Some Census Facts.
Enough is known of the result of the
census to give a definite idea of the
relative growth of the different States
in population. New York State still
keeps the first place, with a population
of nearly six millions, but the percen-
tage of her increase during the last ten
years has not equalled that of Pennsyl.
vania which easily continues to be sec-
ond, with a population of about five
million three hundred thousand. The
difference between these two leading
States in 1880 was about 800,000; it is
now not more than about 600,000.
The increase in New York State in
the last decade was made principally in
the two great cities of New York and
Brooklyn, the other districts having
grown very little, if any, in population.
In Pennsylvania the growth of Phila-
delphia was disappointing, the great in-
crease of nearly a million in the popu-
lation of the State having occurred out-
side of its leading city, principally in
the coal districts.
We have seen the returns from bat
one of the coal counties, that of North-
umberland, which shows a population
of 75,000, an increase of over 50 per
cent. in the last ten years. No doubt
the others have done as well, and we
may expect to see equal gains in Schuyl-
kill, Carbon, Luzerne, Lackawanna,
and the bituminous counties of Clear-
field, Jefferson, Indiana and the Con-
nellsville and other coke regions. Bi-
tuminous coal as an element of growth
has vastly developed since 1880.
No doubt there has been a considera-
ble increase of population in the oil
counties, but not near as much as
would have taken place if the benefits
of that great natural resource of this
State had not been diverted to other
States by the Standard Oil Company
which has been assisted in robbing
the results of its petroleum production
by such agents as DELAMATER, the
Republican candidate for Governor.
The census returns show that there
‘has been little, it any, increase in the
strictly rural counties of Pennsylvania,
some of which have, in fact, diminish-
ed in population. This is a bad show-
ing for districts which were erroneously
believed to have been benefitted by a
tariff-furnished home market.
——A local Republican paper,
speaking of the Democratic county con-
vention of last week, said: “The con-
vention last week was a fair sample of
the power and rule of bossism.” This
haphazard assertion was indulged in
for want of something else to say. In
what way did bossism make itself man-
ifest on that occasion, and who was
the boss? The paper that makes this
foolish charge gives a willing support
to a State ticket which is admitted
even by Republicans to have been the
handiwork of Boss Quay.
A Republican Protest Against the
Tin Plate Robbery.
It was an interesting set-to the Re-
publican Senators had over the tin-
plate extortion in the tariff bill. Sena-
tor PruMB, representing the anti-tariff
Republicaas of the prairie states, beg-
ged his Republican colleagues “not to
‘fuse an increase of duty on all'the tin
“ware used in the country, on every
*“ tin cup, on every tin plate and coffee-
“ pot, and on every yard of tin-roofing
‘in the United States.”
The protesting Kansas Senator in-
dignantly declared that “not one single
‘ consumer of tin plate had asked for
“the increase of the duty on tin,”
which will make every housekeeper
and fruit-canner pay increased tribute
to a pampered syndicate controlling
the tin trade, for whose benefit, he said’
his colleagnes had permitted themselves
“to be urged into overriding public
“opinion and disregarding the great
‘“ mass of consumers.”
A Democrat of the Cleveland stamp
could not have employed stronger
terms in denouncing this tin-plate rob-
bery than were used by the Kansas
Senator. But what availed his protest
in the interest of the western farmers,
housekeepers and fruit-canners as
against thé demands of an infantindus-
try whose promoters want to become
millionaires with the rapidity that is
ensured by tariff extortion?
A ——————
——HasriNgs, Brown, Coburn &
.Co., couldn’t have put things in better
shape for the success of the Democratic
ders he sent from Beaver by telegraph.
county ticket,
Pennsylvania of the larger portion of
Spawls from the Keystone,
—A cat at Renovo kills 50 sparrows a day.
—Clinton Schneck, who murdered Louisa
Brunst, died in Montgomery county Jail.
—A 36-year-old horse died at Springfield
township, Chester county, a few days ago.
—Corn and potatoes are plenty in Berks
county, but the fruit crop is a dead failure.
—The August term of the Criminal Court
opened at Lancaster on Monday with 166 cases
en the trial list.
—At a rat-hnnting match at Minersville a
young man was shot in the breast and killed by
a companion.
~The wheat thus far thrashed in Lancaster
county averages from fourteen to eighteen
bushels to the acre.
—The dwelling of E. C. Savage was robbed
on Wednesday night at Bloomsburg of £500
worth of jewelry.
—Lewis Derr, of Lebanon, dangerously
wounded Charles A. Gronon while shooting
sparrows on Thursday.
—At Readinga man in a drunken stupor
laid down on the pavemeni and two bull-dogs
kept guard over him.
—Black diptheria has broken out among the
children at Miner's Mills. Three are dead
and twenty-two are sici.
—Just as a Pittsburg minister had pro,
nounced him a husband Thomas Davis was ar-
rested for beating his mother.
—In one single night recently R.J. Mills, of
Pottsville, rescued a woman from ruffians and
was himself held up by tramps.
—Harvey Dougherty, a boy, while hunting
birds near Johnstown, accidently shot and
killed Mollie Mangus, 15 years old.
—A race to be run at night under the elec-
tric light is a feature talked of by the man-
agers of the Cumberland county fair.
—Some Harrisburg Nimrods are hunting for
a big animal supposed to be a panther that
has taken up its residence near the city.
—Five Italians have been committed to
prison at Reading, charged with inciting to
riot and threatening to kill their foreman.
—Madison Quay, of West Pikeland, Chester
county, still carries his hand in a sling, the re-
sult of an acciden; sustained five years ago.
—Joseph Toner, of Derry, in attempting to
jump from a freight train struck his head
against the ties and half his scalp was torn off.
—There is an impression in Pittsburg that
murderer Smith can be hanged in spite of the
order of Courtto send him to an insane
asylum.
-—A Langhone man is fitting up a pigeon
house to accomodate 100¢ birds. Thig wilk
be the largest flock of carrier pigeons in the
country.
—At a Sheriff's sale of a farm of eighty-two
acres in Solebury township,Bucks county, last
week, it brought only $50 above the mortgages
on it,
—A horse drawing a wagon loaded with small
boys ran away a few days ago at Lancaster
and scattered the youngsters all over the
street.
—The members of a quarrelsome family
at Williamsport have preferred charges and
counter-charges against each other until they
are all in jail.
—Alleged violations of the Child Labor law
willgrésult in the arrest of a number of Read”
Ing mdaufacturers in order that test cases
may 4 made.
—Lima oil certificates were dealt in for the
first tite on open board at Pitteburg Tues-
day. The Standard Company has issued 8,000,+.
000 certificates. :
—The 14-year old son of Joseph Klinger, a
well-known farmer of Bethel township, Lebans.
on county, fell from a straw stack on Wednes«
day and was killed.
—Thursday evening's hail . storm = did a
great deal of damage to the tobacco crop in
the southern part of Lancaster county. The
loss will be very large.
—Mrs, John Bartlow was killed and seven
others seriously injured by being run down
by a freight train, while walking on a railroad
bridge near Hyndman.
—William Keller, of Rockland, while on his
way to campmeeting on Sunday was killed by
the train on which his daughters were being
carried to the camp grounds.
—James Bishop, of Mount Joy, who ran away
from home 15 years ago, was recently recog-
nized by friends among the regular army
men stationed at Mount Gretna. '
—John Gallagher, of Allentown, was so
pleased because his wife and mother-in-law
were going to California that he got drunk and.
on Friday was found dead in bed.
—Mrs. Martha Cook and Miss Mary Stack.
house, of Wrightsville, Lancaster county,claim,
to be the oldest living twins in the United
States. They were 88 on the 29th of J uly.
—Mrs. Wucehter, the Whitehall faster, has
passed the 136th day of her enforced fast. She
seems to be getting somewhat stronger, and
the doctors think she will live another week.
—Fred Babner, of Reading, suddenly expe
rienced a loss of weight from 156 to 86 pounds,
and a few days ago found the cause of it to be
five lizards that had been living in his stom-
ach.
—Nicholas Brandon, a dissipated character
was burned to death in his house early Moh,
day morning at West Hazleton. It is SUppCs-
ed that he upset a lamp while he was intoxi
cated.
—Little Katie Rau, of Reading, is dying
from injuries received by being tossed by a
vicious cow, whose owner, John Stark, hag
since been arrested for allowing the animal to.
roam at large,
—Because a South Bethlehem Hungarian
with a weakness for singing would not desist
in his warbling of “Lil An Rooney,” on Sunday
night, his boarding boss knocked him insensi=
ble with a flat-iron.
—A Ityear-old son of William Irwin, of
Marysville, was buried between fourteen feet
of dirt and stones while helping his father
about an old well. He was dug out after four
hours, conscious and only slightly bruised.
—David Thomas,aged 12 years, of Shamokin *
who was arrested for burglary a few days agoy
was subsequently discharged from custody bes
cause of the social position of his parents. He
has since been rearrested on another charge.
—Impnre drinking water is said to be the
| cause of the typhoid fever that has attackeg
' the family of William Fike of Douglassville.
| A grown son and daughter have already died
! and Mrs. Fike and four children are in a crit
ical condition.
—Thomas Philips, of Carbondale, was foun&
! dead on a railroad track at Scranton Sunddgr
morning. His head was crushed in and his
pockets were emptied of their contents.” The
| bellef is that he was murdered, and Coroner
Gardner has set about to unravel whateyet
mystery is connected with the death,