AT ERIN TIRE TY INIT
Terms $2.00 4 Year, in Advance.
Bellefonte, Pa., August 22, 1890
P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Eprror
EE ———
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
For Governor,
ROBERT E. PATTISON,
Of Philadelpbia.
For Lieutenant Governor,
CHAUNCEY F. BLACK,
Of York County.
For Secretary of Internal Affairs,
WM. H. BARCLAY,
Of Pittsburgh.
For CoNGRESS.
J. L. SPANGLER, Esq.
Subject to action of District Conference.
For SENATOR.
P. GRAY MEEK.
Subject to action of District Conference.
$1. H. HOLT
Representatives {Jot T. MCCORMICK.
Sherif —WILLTAM A. JSHLER.
Treasurer —JAMES J. GRAMLEY.
Register.—JOHN A. RUPP. ;
Recorder.—~W. GAYLOR MORRISON.
fis GEO. L. GOODHART,
Commissioners. {F FRANK ADAMS,
\ B. TCHELL
Auditors. jiouy B. MIT it)
Mr. Kline's Declination.
We are sorry that Mr. S. F. KLINE, of
Howard, could not see his way clear to
accept the nomination for Auditor ten-
dered him by the Democratic county
convention. He would have made a
most intelligent and careful official,and
the fact that business and other mat,
ters compel him to decline the posi-
tion, is a matter that will be regretted
by all who know his sterling worth as
a citizen and his competency as an ac,
countant. His card will be found in
another column of the WarcumMan
to-day.
The “Mailed E Hand” Laid on the Senate
Boss Quay lays his “mailed hand”
on the United States Senate and tells
that august body to stop its nonsense
with the Force Bill upon which it is
wasting precious time, and put itself’
down to the practical business of pass-
ing the monopoly tarift bill. He issues
this edict not because he objects to the
iniquitous project of controlling the!
elections with the bayonet, but because
he believes that the bayonet bill and
the monopolists’ bill can’t both be
passed at this session, the one interfer
ing with the other, and that it 1s more
desirable. for party reasons that the!
measure which will farnish the cam-
paign boodle should have the preter- |
ence.
Spooner and others are on their sen-
atorial ears, as it were, over QUAY'S as-
sumption of boss rule in the Senate,
and even the Philadelphia Press puts
hand” being laid upon the Force Bill
from which so much is expected in
maintaining the Republican majority
in congress and electing the next Presi.
dent.
But the opinion of such objectors in
matters of this kind is but foolishness
compared with the sagacity of the Boss.
To what extent could fat be fried from
the manufacturers, to meet the neces-
sities of coming campaigns, if the Tar-
iff Bill should fail through the inter-
ference ofthe Force Bill ? If the mana -
gers have bitten off more than they can
chew isn’t it the part of wisdom to spit-
out a portion to facilitate the degluti-
tion of the balance ? The tariff benefi-
ciaries were promised that their bene-
fits should be enlarged by increased
tariff duties in consideration of the
handsome manner in which they came
down with the boodle that elected H ax
BISON, and if the present congress
should fail to pass the measure that
will compensate the monopolists, syn-
dicates and trusts for the liberal render-
ing of fat to which they were subject-
ed, the “grand old party” would find
an embarrassing shrinkage of its cam-
paign ammunition in the fature.
With the eye ofa praetical politi-
cian Quay sees that the party should
make sure of the Tariff Bill even if it
should have to postpone the use of the
bayonet at the elections.
———
Congressman Ricmarp Vaux
was among the visitors at the State
Committee's headquarters in Philadel
phia on Saturday and the veteran Dem.
ocrat entertained such optimistic views
of the Democratic prospect in wthis
campaign that he remarked to chair
man Kerr that“the gubernatorial bat-
tle was over already and that the Dem
ocrats had won the fight,” Mr. Vaux
is justified in believing that the Dem-
ocrats are going to be successful, but
the fight can’t be considered over until
itis won,and it will take a deal of hard
fighting to win it. 1t is a source of
encouragement to know that victory
can be achieved this year if we make
the proper efforts.
Such impractical statesmen as Hoar,
Was it Machine Work or Not. ?
Curtin township is one of the pre-
cincts of the county that lately ex-
perienced a good dose of ring rule. The
little cabal of would-be politicians in
this place, who get their inspiration
from the offices of Gov. Beaver and
General Hasrixos, sent out orders to
Constable Packer of that precinct that
he should’come to the Republican con-
vention ag a delegate uninatructed if
possible; if not uninstructed, then he
should use any means to secure _in-
structions for Worre for Sheriff. Pack.
ER,it seems, had charge of the election.
When the voters assembled he discov_
ered that a majority of them were ‘fer.
nenst”’ the bosses, and would instruct
their delegates different from what the
“ring” had instructed him to do. After
doing all he could to change the
opinions of his neighbors, and finding
that they were determined to do as they
thought best, he deliberately closed the
election: and went ‘off in search of
voters who would do his bidding. Tt is
alleged that he staid away until many
who attended the primaries were com
pelled to leave without voting, and that
latelin the afteraoon, after a number
of those present had become disgusted
and left, he returned, opened the polls,
allowed those he had induced to come
with him to vote, and then declared the
result to be just as the orders from
Bellefonte had indicated. Packrr was
a delegate here on Tuesday. He voted
just as Browx, Hastings, Cosurx &
Co., told him to, and it so happened
that his voie was cast for every man
nominated on the Republican ticket.
Would you call work like this “ma-
chine work,” or what was it ?
——1If you want to know the opinion
of Mr. HENRY StEVENS, of Half Moon
township,a respected and repatable Re-
publican, as to the veracity of Major
Worr the Republican nominee for
Sheriff, ask him. He had no hesitancy
on Tuesday evenin g in stating public-
ly that Worr had deliberately lied
| to him, without cause or without justi-
fication, and that to Ins falsification
and treachery was attributable his
defeat for the nomination for Commis*
sioner, and Kuhn's success.
A Temperance Setback in Huntingdon
County.
C. R. McCarthy, the anti-license
associate judge of Huntingdon county,
was curbed in his cold-water eareer by
the action of the Huntingdon county
Republican convention last Tuesday.
4s a candidate for re-election he was
| presented to that body for renomina-
| tion.” He should have had plain sail-
ing in a convention of a party that pro-
fesses friendship for the temperance
cause, and his successshould have been
additionally guaranteed by the circum:
| stance that the preachers of the county
got together some weeks ago and not
only endorsed him, but invited all oth-
in a wordy protest against the “mailed | candidates for the associated judge:
o 1
ship to get off the track so that he
might have a clear course down the
home-stretch.
But it appears that other candidates
wouldn't get off the track, for no less
than nine contested Judge McCartaY'S
| claim to a renomination,and the license
advocates were so strong in the con-
vention that the model associate judge
of the temperance people, and clergy-
| men’s favorite, was forced to withdraw
to avoid an ignominious defeat. A side-
judze with liberal views on the license
question will be elected, and as Judge
Furst has declared his willingness to
grant licenses, the thirsty people of
Huntingdon county will soon be able
to get their tipple at the old stands,
———
~~—1If the Bellefonte ring did not seg
up and nominate the Republican ticket
on Tuesday last, why was it so anxious
that delegates should come to town un-
instructed? Ask Squire SropE, of Boggs:
what knocked all hopes of success out
of him, the last week of the canvass,
if it wasn't his meeting at everys
turn the order of the bosses to send
delegates uninstructed 2
An Important Decision.
The learned Judges who decided
that Judge Murzer was regularly and
lawfally elected President Judge of the
Lycoming District, also made a de-
cision in connection with the main
question which is of interest to politi-
cians and election managers. They
decided that the payment of poll-tax
by.one party to enable another party
to vote is not such a payment as will
make the.other a qualified voter. = In
other words, the gift of a tax receipt
is not a payment of the tax within
the contemplation of the law, The
learned Judges have no doubt made a
correct decision in this matter, There-
fore the practice of party committees
paying poll taxes in the lump and giv-
ing the receipts to voters who should
have paid the taxes themselves, is ille-
gal, and does not entitle such voters to
the right of suffrage that is dependent
upon tax payment. \
Why 2?
> -_—
the victory of the Bellefonte ring, tel]
us, ye who profess to know better,what
it was ? Why was Jack DaLE, now
chairman of the Republican committee, :
sent to College township to secure 1m.
structions for the ticket just as it was
made ?; { Why did DaxieL KELLER, a
member of the ring,go to Harris twp., to
set it up for the men who were finally
nominated ? Why were orders issued
from Chairman Brown's headquarters
to War. Packer of Curtin twp., and
others,tosend their delegates uninstruct.
ed,and, it that could not be done, to se-
cure instructions for Worr, MarTERY
and FRYBERGER in any way that could
be done? Why was whiskey, beer and
cigars sent from Bellefonte to Miles
burg and Boggs, with the orders that
those districts must be carried for Wop
at allf hazzards ? Why was Fieprer
sent down Pennsvalley, tengdays before
the convention, to inform the faithful
that neither MoNTeoMERY nor Dunps
was satisfactory to the “leaders,” and |
that it possible delegates should come
from that section uninstructed ? If it |
wasn’t a victory of the bosses,what was
it ?
—It was a tight fight for the ring to
knock MoxtcoMERY out in College and
Harris townships. In the former Mr, |
JNo. M. DaLg, who is one of the crea:
tures of the town ring and has been
made chairman of the Republican com.
mfttee, conducted the fight in person; |
and succeeded in securing Worr in-
structions by a majority of one vote, In
the latter Dan’'r, KeLver, Esq., of this
place, a member of the ring,had charge
of the contest and succeeded in beating
MoNTaoMERY two votes. It was ga
desperate fight but the bosses here were |
bound to win, and win they did. Tt is
a question now whether the Republi-
can people of the county will endorse
the efforts used and the
methods resortel to by would-be
bosses here in Bellefonfe, to force upon
them a ticket agreed upon in the office
of Hastings & ReEDER, and nomi
nated at the dictation of the chairman
of the Republican county committee ? |
The Republican County Nominations.
The County ticket nominated by the
Republicans on Tuesday is one that
is far from giving the party unalloyed
satisfaction. It wasn’t gotten up in a
way that will tend to harmonize the
conflicting elements. Boss workman-
ship can be traced through its entire
construction. :
In the nominations for Legislature, one
waslgiven to allay the] wound of a defeat
inflicted by:the people at the last elec-
tion, and the other was intended to pla-
cate a candidate whom the bosses had
slaughtered in the convention last year,
and who kicked on account of his dis
appointment.
In the selection for Sheriff the best
material was rejected under the mis.
taken notion that the locality of the
nominee would add to his srength. So
strongly were the machine managers
impressed with this idea that although
Worr had made up his mind to be a
candidate at the eleventh hour, he was
preferred to an aspirant who . for
months had been working in good
faith for the nomination and was in
every way worthy of recognition.
Awpther candidate of equal merit was
also stood aside to make room for the
eleventh hour aspirant from Philips-
burg.
The big fight for the Commissioners
nomination will result in nothing more
than what the limit of the law allows
a minority party in a contest for that
office, but the antagonism developed in
the scramble for that small prize has
increased the general bad feeling that
prevails in the party.
The Republican party of Centre
county can’t go before the peop'e with
any hope of success with such dissatis-
faction disturbing its ranks.
The more candid members admit de-
feat 1n advance. They ridicule the
fine work attempted by the machine
which resulted in bunching the best
offices in one pa: ticuiar locality. They
freely criticise the defective habits of
some of their leading candidates, and
many of them are open in their de-
claration that a ticket vitiated by such
material and made by such methods
can’t have their support. :
——A campaign of education on the
tariff question was started among the
farmers of Perry county last week at
the big grangers' pic nic near Green
Park, About 3000 of them listened fo
instructive comments On a system that
imposes a heavy burden upon the ag-
ricultural people in order to increase
the profits of a protected class which
through its rapidly accumulating wealth
is being enabled to assume a baronial
position in, American society. They
also heard some wholesome talk about
the unjust discrimination by which ag-
ricultural industry is compelled to pay
tribute to corporate greed.
A HN PUTT VOT TTT
If the work of Tuesday last was nog
; that the honors of the party should be
ee
Why They Got Together.
Horny handed citizers of Mercer
“county are allowing their minds to be
pervaded bya line of ideas that is calcu-
lated to give trouble to the politicians
' who run the Republican machine.
Last week they held a joint conven-
tion of Patrons of Husbandry, Knights
of Labor, Farmers’ Allliance and Tail
ors’ Union at Youngsville, which was
attended by representatives of 9 grang-
es, 2 alliances, and 4 assemblies of the
Knights of Labor. The grievances
that impelled them to the movement
"which brought them together were
| clearly and definitely defined by the
following declaration :
We find that productive industry through-
! out the whole country is sadly depressed and
"the wealth producers growing daily poorer.
| We believe the main cause of this untoward
| state of affairs to be utter disregard for the
| fundamental laws of the land whereby the ag-
| gregations of monied capital are enabled to
| appropriate the earnings of labor.
{ Therefore, as a natural result of
"such a sentiment, they declared it “to
| “be the duty of all citizens to support
“only such candidates for office as will,
| if elected, work and act for industrial
4 reform.”
{ And as the nccessary corollary of
i such a resolution they endorsed Rop-
ERT E. Parrisox for Governor.
| ——
Emery Will Bec Heard From.
Candidate DeraMaTER having been
| accidentally forced to deny the charges
| against him made by ex-Senator Ewg-
| RY, that gentleman has sent the follow-
ing telegram to the Philadelphia
umes :
I propose at atime and piace not yet de
| termined upon, to give the public a bunch of
| facts as undeniable as Mr. Delamater’s Cham-
| bersburg denial was broad and inexplicit. The
day in which unscrupulous politicians could
| sweep away with a wave of the hand stains of
corruption with which they are tainted has
gone by with me and should be with every
thinking and well-meaning citizen in the
State. Lewis Emery, Jr.
The plea of “not guilty,’ drawn from
the Republican cardidate by the color-
ed gentleman at Chambersburg, is not
going to end this interesting case, by
any means. Every will now have
his innings, and there is every proba.
bility that he will handle the bat with
vigor and effect,
The Magnificent Growth of the
Republic.
Thestalwart growth of the Great Re-
public excites the wonder of the world
and the pride of every patriotic Ameri-
can citizen, It is a hundred years
since the population of the straggling
States extending along the Atlantic
coast and just then bound together by
a more perfect Union, was first enume-
rated. The following Sgures of the
enumerations that have been made at
each succeeding decade, show with
what grand strides the growth of the
Republic has progressed :
1790...... ccm stsisenssscsnsssisniesiensennns 3,930,000
wee 5,308,000
vere 7,240,000
we 9,633,000
.. 12,866,000
«.. 17,070,000
.. 23,192,000
we 31,443,000
. 38,558,0.0
50,155,000
. +. 64,000,000
Such an exhibit is calculated to in.
spire every American with patriotic
pride, and should strengthen his deter-
mination that so magnificent a Repub-
lic shall suffer no permanent injury at
the hands of politicians who .would
make its industries subsidiary to the
interests of the monopolists and its
elections sabject to the control of the
bayonet.
——1It it hardly probable that Mr.
W. I. FLeMiNG, or WiLL Gray, Esq.,
will tear their shirts much in their ef.
fort to give Guyer MaTTERN a good vote
at the fall election. Last fall he was
one of the chaps who aided indirectly
in giving them such a defeat as was
never before known in the county.
After the convention which defeated
him for the office of Prothonotory he
sulked and kicked until his friends con-
cluded that the Republican ticket as,
made up was unworthy their gupport.
To pacify him Hasrrves promised to
make him a Post Office Inspector, and
from that time on he was quiet, allow.
ing the ticket to take care of itself. He
did not try to fix up the friends his
coinplaints had made crooked, nor did
he doa thing to help either Fleming
or Gray out of the hole he assisted to
place them in. How much they will
bother this fall to help him, remains
to be seen.
——The Lycoming county Democ-
racy did a good thing in nominating
our young friend C.B. SggLgy, Esq., of
the Jersey Shore Herald, as one of
their candidates for the Legislature. In
addition to being fully qualified to
make an intelligent and influential
representative, Mr. SEELEY is both de.
serving and popular, and will add great-
ly to the strength of the ticket in old
| Lycoming. Ttisto workers like him
tendered.
Tha Miners for Pattison.
Plain Talk by President Ra: of the
Miners’ Union.
PrrsBure, Pa., August 17. —John
B. Rae, President, and Robert Wa‘ch-
orn, Secretary of the United Miners’
Union of America, were in the city
to-day. Speaking of the attitude of
the miners of Pennsylvania on the
Governorship, Mr. Ras, who is a‘Re.
publican, said: “I have spent three
weeks among the miners of Bedford,
Huntingdon, Blair, Clearfield, Cam-
bria, Jefferson, Westmoreland and Fa-
yette counties, and the sentiment
among them is strongly in favor of Pat-
tison.
“Their reasons are that his chief re-
commendation for the office comes from
his known attitude against corporate
monopolies which tried to subordinate
the laws and Constitution of the State
to their own purposes. I found many
farmers and business men in these
counties also favoring Pattison largely
for the same reasons.
“In the counties of Bedford, Blair,
Huntingdon and Cambria the people—
miners included—were staunch Hastings
men and had he been nominated the
position as regards parties would have
been reversed. Delamater’s active busi.
ness connections with the Standard Oil
Company and other monopolistic cor-
porations have been such that it is fair
to assume that they will have to fear no
law that may be passed by the Legisla-
ture while he is Governor. Tt is just
here that the miners particularly see an
opportunity in the election of Pattison,
“There are certain laws that we as
miners want to see passed, and we pur-
pose to cast our votes solidly for those
candidates who will give us undeniable
assurance that they will co-operate with
us in the passage of the laws Necessary
for the protection of the lives of miners
while in the mine, and to prevent min-
ing companies employing men who
know nothing about the dangers that
may encompass them in order to defeat
Charles S. Wolfe for Pattison.
The Independent Leader of 1882 again
Advocates Reform.
At the annual harvest home picnie of
the farmers of Union county last week,
Hon. Charles S. Wolfe, on the invita.
tion of the committee of arrangements,
delivered one of the addresses, his sub-
ject being “The Relation of Farmers
and Taxpayers to Politics.” Speaking
of the discrimination that has been
made against tha agricultural interest
in this State, Mr. Wolfe said 2
“But it is not only from the indirect
taxation of the tariff and grossly un-
equal and unjust direct taxation that the
farmer and real estate owner generally
suffers. The Pennsylvania farmer, in the
outrageous diserimation made by our
own railroads against him and in favor
of the Western farmer in marketing his
crops, is still further ground under the
heel of corporate oppression. The Con-
stitution of our State prohibits this dis-
crimination, and makes it mandatory
upon the General Assembly by appro-
priate legislation to make such prohibi-
tion effective. But our railroad corpora-
tions are above the Constitution. They
defy the Constitution. They trample
it under foot. They spit upon it.
“But you ask how can these things
be? How can they continue uncorrect.
ed, much less unchallenged ? Well, it is
because your creatures have become
your masters, and have played on your
partisan prejudices and passions so
successfully as to induce you in your
blind partisanship to bind the fetters
upon your own limbs, by placing and
keeping them in power, They exercise
a constant vigilance in the selection of
legislators acceptable to them. You
elect your supposed representatives.
They become their servants. The
Constitution says no railroad company
shall issue a free pass, They tender
your representative a free pass. He
takes an oath to obey, support and de-
fend the Constitution. . He perjures
himself by accepting and riding on a
the efforts of experienced miners from
securing living wages.
“With such laws passed by the Legis-
Pattison would sign ‘them.
no such faith in Delamater,
self a Republican, and am stoutly so
on National affairs, but I shall vote
for Pattison, and urge others to do so
I expect to see Pattison elected by a
majority of from 5000 to 10,000.”
At 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon |
the most terrible storm that ever visited
that section struck Wilkesbarre.: The
heavens were as black as night and the
wind blew with a most frightful vel)ai-
ty. Whole rows of trees were blown |
down. Following this hundreds of
houses were unroofed, partially blown
over or completely demolished, and
worse of all the visitation of death ‘was
sent upon 4 number of people. How
many were killed is not known at this
time. Large districts in several sections
of the city are in absolute ruin and wo-
men and children are in the streets cery-
ing and wringing their hands in absolute
dismay. The damage will reach hund-
reds of thousands of dollars.
Passenger trains and locomotives at
the depot were blown over and every
wire in the city, electric light, telephone
and telegraph, is down. The devasta-
tion is to be compared with nothing
in the memory of the oldest inhabitant,
The total death loss so far ascertained
is twelve. Four men are known to
: will secretly betray them.
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Another Pennsylvania Cyclone. |
| Anti-Discrimination law in accordance
Two Hundred Houses Demolished and a |
Number of Persons Killed at |
: I trick of corporate power, and cowardice
Wilkesbarre. f
have been killed in Hazard’s wire rope
works. A house on Scott street occu-
pied by miners, who had just returned |
from work, fell in and three of the fn. |
mates were killed. The high: stack of |
the Kytle planing mill fell on two men
and two horses and all were killed. A
little colored girl was killed by a fall-
ing building on South Main street. Two
men suffered death by the falling of a
portion of Stegmaire’s- brewery, and a
third incurred the same fate through
the almost complete demolition of
Brown’s brick business block on Fast
Market street. There are undoubtedly
fifteen or sixteen others killed. Re-
ports are coming in to that effect. It is
Impossible at this time to give names
or particulars.
Many people have suffered heavy loss
and it will be months before ail the |
damage can be repaired. One hundred
tin roofers have been telegraphed for
and building mechanics of all kinds
can find work here for weeks to come,
as it is already known that fully 200
buildings have been blown down or
otherwise damaged. . Many of the
structures were of large size and great |
value. |
At 7.30 p. m. reports come from Su- |
gar Notch that the destruction of prop- |!
erty is terrible and that fifteen persons |
were killed at Parson’s and Mill Creek, |
Coal breakers in all directions have |
been more or less damaged. The names
of some of the killed, as far as’
known, are: Eva Martin, a baker; |
John Fritz, laborer in spool mill at |
Hazard's works; Bunell Bendenmeyer,
salesmen for Hartles & Co, grocers;
Samuel Rouse, machinist at Hazard's |
works ; Peter Rittenmegyer. Joseph
Kern, a prominent milkman, was blown |
from his wagon. He was found 200
yards away lying on the Lehich Valley
railroad with his head crushed. Adam |
Frantz, who was struck by flying tim-
ber, died this evening.
Mayor Sutton to-night issued a pro-
clamation calling on the members of
the Ninth regiment to assemble at the |
armory early to-morrow morning to
aid in police supervision of the city.
He also requested all idle workingmen
to report to "him for labor in clearing |
the debris, the city to pay for the same, |
Additional deaths are : George Hamil- |
ton, an employe for twenty years in|
| Stegmaier’s brewery ; Mamie Thomas, |
aged 6 years, blown against a house and i
instantly killed. George Hamilton, John
Kleindauff and a Huncarian entered a |
barn for shelter. The large double !
doors were blown in, killing Hamilton |
instantly and fatally injuring the other
two,
free pass. Such a small trip could not
influence his legislative action, you say.
v | Some would even decline to accept a
lature we have every confidence that | pass were it not that such action 1S at
We. have | once construed
Iam my-|
unless something now unseen happens.
|
into hostility to the
railroad interests and the fear that their
constantly organized, ali-pervading and
potent political power will speedily cut
short such public careers Your represen-
tative will not place himself 1n open
aatagonism to your interests ; but he
“Year after year, since the adop-
tion of the Constitution in 1878, have
efforts been made to envade an effective
with the requirements of the Constitu-
tion. - Year after year, by every vile
and treachery of legislators, represent-
ing even agricultural constituencies,
has it been defeated. They have sat
mute in their seats when they should
bave spoken in tones of thunder, or
they have been absent at the critical
moment when their presence was most
needed.
“Republican and Democratic farmers,
if you do nothing more, you should ex.
act of your party candidates for the
House this fall that they shall decline
to perjure themselves by accepting the
bribe of a free pass from any railroad
company, and that they shail be on
hard and outspoken in your interests
when any measure affecting yon is
pending.
“Four years ago Mr. Hulings, a
former Republican member of the House
from Venango county, in the Republi-
can State Convention offered a resolu.
tion pledging the party to the simple
enforcement of the anti-discrimination
provision of the Constitution. The
Convention refused to adopt the resolu-
tion, thereby showing their complete
subjection to the railroad power. Six
weeks after the close of the last session
of the Legislature, after a Revenue bill
had passed both Houses that gave very
substantial relief to the {armers, the Gov-
ernor of the Commonwealth happened
to discover that it lacked the signature
of the President of the Senate, and
therefore could not become a law.
‘With his knowledge of the way in which
things are done at Harrisburg, he was
quite sure it was no accident. Just
what official or officials were responsi-
ble, he could not say, but was quite
sure that it was the fault of a Repub-
lican official, and done at the dictation
of high and unscrupulous power.
“When Mr. Pattison was Governor
he had the courage to obtain an_injunc-
tion against the Pennsylvania Railroad
in its purpose to buy up and absorb the
the South Penn Road. He had the cour.
age to take by the throat the’ freight
pool and coal combination. They were
unable to face the proceedings pend-
ing against them in the Courts, Their
only escape was to elect a Governor who
would discontinue the litigation. He
would like to ask Governor Beaver what
had become of those suits ?
“In all his official acts Governor
Pattison had had the honesty and the
courage to stand by the hoodwinked
and oppressed farmer against the chican-
ery and arrogant oppression of corpor-
ale power, and thereby had incurred
their bitter hostility. The Republican
leaders have been the especial guardians
of the corporate interests,and while pro-
fessing to have very great concern for
the farmers have been duping him and
feeding him on husks.”
In conclusion he challenged anyone
present to stand up and refute any
Statement he had made. What he had
said was true, and he would be glad
to meet Mr. Quay or Dr. Delamater, or
any other Republican and discus: with
him, Letore the voters of Pennsylvania,
. the question of the complete domina-
‘tion of the Republican party in Penn-
I sylvania
by corporate power. The
very best evidence of their real atyi-
tude towards the farmer is the fact
that the Republican party bas been in
| power in Pennsylvania all these years,
and such has been the reliet the far-
mer has had at their hands, he said,
| that the farmer and taxpayer would
show his wisdom and political sagacity,
not by voting for any man simply be-
cause he was the candidate of his politi-
cal party, but because he was the can-
didate who was most likely to honest.
ly aid in rescuing him from injustice
and oppression and securing to him his
equal rights before the law ; and that
any farmer that had not the sense to
do this deserved to suffer,