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—CAMERON bids high, but Pennsyl-
vania is not for sale this year.
—DEeLAMATER’S pitiful floundering |
through the campaign additionally proves |
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the truth of the maxim that “the way of
the transgressor is hard.”
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
—The working people, under the new
VOL. 35.
NO. 41.
monopoly tariff, will see the cost of
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 17, 1890.
living go up, but they will look in
vain to see their wages going up with it.
—The increasing price of necessaries
ment, is dispelling from the public mind
any lingering doubt of the tariff being
a tax.
—The personal support of WILLIAM
A. WALLACE supplies a most beautiful
trimming to the Pattison campaign. It
The Clergy Opposed to Quay and His |
A Delusion Dispelled.
Man. TEN v
One of the most encouraging inci-
There are no people more fixed in ! gonts of the present campaign was the
their determination to overthrow the | yancter twin Democratic meetings held
demoralizing supremacy of Quayism
than those Republicans, including the
clergy, who have independently taken
a stand a zainst the corrupt sway of the |
Boss. Some of their meetings in Phil-
in Philadelphia last Saturday evening
in the Academy of Music and Horti-
cultural Hall, at which Governor Par-
TisoN and Hon, WiLLiam A. WALLACE
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is just lovely, and in consequence ine | adelpnia have equaled in enthusiasm | These were grand demonstrations show-
Democratic goose hangs high. | those of the Democrats. At one of | ing not only the enthusiastic spirit and
—Good JoHN WANAMAKER, in adver-
tising an advance in the price of tin-
these demonstrations, in the Working: { well organized condition of the Democ-
men’s Club House at Germantown, | ppay jy Philadelphia, but also the fra-
ware at his Philadelphia store, is the | One evening last week, such prominent | terng] feeling existing among the lead-
first to announce that the infant tinware | Republicans and citizens as FRANCIS | erg) ag was glemonstrated by the ap-
industry has already commenced suck-
ing the tariff nursing bottle.
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B. Reeves, Epwarp T. Srenrs, Urones | pearance of Mr. WaLLace who came
StrawBrIDGE, FRANCIS R. Corr, HEN- | 45 24d his voice to the loud acclaim
—There was a big display of red light
in the procession that escorted QUAY’s
little man to the Court House on Tues-
day night, but blue will be the prevail-
ing color among Mar’s followers on
election night.
—1It didn’t sound well for DELAMA-
TER on Tuesday evening to be bragging
about the big majority he is going to get.
Like HAsTINGs’ two acres of Republi-
cans outside of the Court House waiting
to be addressed, that majority will be
found to be an invisible quantity.
—-Many of the clergy have become con-
vinced that while corruption is on the
rampage in politics, religious and moral
as well as political interests are necessari-
ly injured. The State cannot be ‘cor-
rupted without affecting the church, and
society in general.
—A Republican stump-speaker named
MARTIN, talking for QUAY’S candidate,
said that PATTISON, as Governor, was
He declared
that although this charge “was a new
one, it was nevertheless true.”
tainly is very new--too fresh to be of
a tool of the monopolists
any account.
—The dignity of PATTISON’S speech
in this place was not marred by the men-
tion of the small individual who has
been transferred from the position of
agent for the Standard Oil Company to
that of Republican candidate for Gov-
ernor, Mr. Pattison’s ignoring him was
a clear case of “shoo, fly.”
—When DELAMATER was working
the “burial bill” on Tuesday evening
for all that was in it, Capt. Morris, if
he had been present, might have asked
him why he was so solicitous about the
burial of dead soldiers after he had al-
lowed his greed and treachery to reduce
a living crippled soldier to penury and
want ?
—The Press is greatly distressed in its
belief that the Democratic campaign is
not being handled by Democrats. Oh,
my, this is too bad! But still, whoever
may be doing the handling it is certain-
ly being well done. The Press, how-
ever, has more reason to be distressed
about the handling to which its candi-
date for Governor is being subjected.
—The Press encourages itself with
the hope that sympathy will be excited
in Delamater’s behalf by the ‘personal
attacks’ that are being made upon him.
But could it not just as well be expected
that sympathy would induce the jury to
acquit the criminal in the dock because
the prosecuting attorney in showing up
his misdeeds was personal”
remarks ?
~The little tool of the bosses who is
traveling through the State asking to be
elected to an office in which Boss Quay
would “own’’ him, had quite a time in
the Court House on Tuesday evening
wrestling with the tariff. He evidently
considered it better for his case to
overlook the fact that the question of
State government is involved in the is-
sue,
—Abuse of Governor PATTISON,
which MAT’s little fellow resorts to in
his speeches, won’t draw public attention
from the fact.that he cannot face Ru-
TAN’S charge that he sold himself to the
Standard Oil Company for $65,000, and
EmEery’s proof that as a State Senator
he was guilty of the misdemeanors of
bribery, perjury and forgery.
endeavors to dodge these Republican
shots by pitching into the Democratic
candidate.
— With the object of making a. little
capital out of Governor PATTISON’S veto
of the bill that provided pauper graves
for deceased soldiers, the Philadeiphia
Presssays : “The old soldiers, to whose
comrades Robert E. Pattison, when Gov-
ernor, refused decent burial, will have
a great time at the funeral when they
help to bury Pattison, November 4,”’—
Wouldn't it add to the solemnity of
the occasion if Captain Moris, of Mead:
ville, should be present and make a few
remarks ?
RY S. Pancoasrt, the large German- |
town manufacturer, CoNYers BurToy, |
and scores of other Republicans of al-
most equal prominence, took part in
the proceedings. Among the speak-
ers was Rev. Cares Woop, IN. D,,
Pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of Germantown. He said:
Of the 114 names attached to the appeal of
the Lincoln Association fully twenty were
clergymen. They were enlisted not by ap-
peals, but they have sought the opportunity to
enroll their names. Rev. J. De Wolf Perry
and Rev. Mr. Benson also signed the appeal.
I have not a doubt but what nine-tenths of the
clergy of all denominations are in favor of
this movement. A minister in politics looks
to some people as though a bull had entered a
china shop. This is a moral issue. I am
pledged as a minister to take a part in every
moral question. If I was the only Republican
in the State I would have to vote against Dela
mater. A man must be loyal to the truth if he
is in God's Church. What are we going to do
about the situation? I have been feeling all
along as though we could not do anything
but it now looks, judging from the enthusiasm
exhibited here to-night, that we can do some-
thing. The truest men the Republican party
has to-night are on this stage and in this hall:
Why should we not take this man Pattison by
the hand and vote for him ? I hope he will
sweep the State.
This is largely the feeling of the
clergy of the State on this question.
Morals as well as religion is within
their provinge, and to them it is obvious
that the condition of politics and of
public affairs brought aboat hy the
control of the most corrupt politician
of the age, is detrimental to personal
as well as to political morals. As
teachers of morality they can’t endorse
the supremacy of a treasury thief as
required by the Republican platform.
They Don’t Want Ballot Reform.
State Chairman Kerr gave the Re-
publican State managers a chance to
prove that their professions of a desire
for ballot Reform is something more
than a sham. The Democratic chair-
man, in the interest of secret and un-
trammeled voting, proposed to the Re-
publican chairman that it should be
arrauged to have the State tickets of
both parties printed alike, so that in
appearance one could not be distin-
guished from the other. This would
be adopting by mutual consent the
leading principle of the Australian sys.
tem—the secrecy of the ballot. It
would measurably protect the voter
from any one knowing by the appear-
ance of; his ballot how he intended to
vote or had voted. This offer ofChair-
man Kerr has not been accepted by
the Chairman of the Republican com-
mittee. No notice whatever has been
taken of it, thus plainly showing that
the Republican ‘managers prefer the
style of ballots that will enable them
to use to the best advantage the expe-
dients ,of intimidation and bribery.
This accords exactly with their rejec-
tion of an Australian ballot bill at the
last session of the Legislature. And
yet their platform, their speakers and
their organs impuadently claim that
they are in favor of ballot reform,
Worthy Master RuonE, of the
Pennsylvania State Grange, is specific
in stating the number of Republican
grangers who will vote for Parrison
and where they will come from. He
says he will get 300 in Huntingdon,
150 in Blair, 300 in Bedford, 500 in
Mifflin, 300 in Union and 200 in Sny-
der, and the other interior counties will
contribute their share, These Repub-
lican farmers will vote against DEra-
MATER, not because they have left their
party, hut because they cannot support
the man who deceptively promised to
vote for the tax equalization bill, and
then helped to defeat it. As grangers
they notified the party managers that
they would oppose DELAMATER it he
were nominated, and they are now go-
ing to do it.
For reliable news read the WaTcumAN,
that is heard on every hand in favor of
the honest candidate of the Democracy
and of the people.
It was the hope of DELAMATER'S mana-
gers that there existed a coolness be-
tween the friends of WaLLace and the
Democratic nominee for Governor that
would prevent the former from support-
ing the State ticket, and this imaginary
antagonism appearei to be a source
of hope and encouragement to the
supporters of Quay’s candidate. There
was never any reason for their enter-
taining this delusion, and the appear-
ance of Mr. WaLLace at the Philadel
phia meetings last Saturday evening
showed how they had fooled themselves
in believing that the Democratic forces
were divided.
Mr. WarLrace availed himself of the
first opportunity upon his return from
Europe to declare his support of the
Democratic ticket and to rally his fol-
lowers in the fight against the corrupt
and base rule of the Republican Boss.
The honest and patriotic Republicans
who have declared their hostility to
Quayism can be fully assured that their
revolt against the debased condition
of public affairs 1s this State will be
made a success by their co-operation
with the united and enthusiastic Demo-
crats.
The Firemen Won't Be Humbugged.
The littleness of the campaign that
is being made by the Quay politicians
is shown by the small expedients to
which the desperation of their cause
compels them to resort. Thus their
State Committee has issued a circular
to the firemen of the State in which
Governor ParrisoN is charged with be-
ing an enemy of the firemen because
he vetoed an uncontitutional bill which
granted them a State pension of $8 a
month and $100 in case of death from
injuries received at fires, Governor
Parrison never vetoed a bill without
giving, a constitutional reason for it.
This circular, which is intended to set
the firemen against the Democratic
candidate, of course omits mentioning
that substantially the same bill was af-
terwards vetoed by the Republican
Governor James A. Beaver, for the
same reason of unconstitutionality.
He Won't Face the Proof.
The Republican candidate for Gov-
ernor, in his general denial of the many
charges against him, which is taking
up most of his time, denied at Bradford,
one night last week, the responsibility
of the Rutan letter in which he is
charged with having got $65,000 for
aiding the Standard Oil Company in
killing ‘ the Billingsley free pipe-line
bill in the Senate. But Rurax is not
going to allow the servant of that big
monopoly to shirk in this way the con-
sequences of that shameful and dishon-
est deal. He insists upon the truth
of the contents of his letter in the fol-
lowing statement over his name, dat-
ed October 9:
Senator Delamater' is reported as stating at
Bradford last night that I am not responsible
for the statements contained in my letter to
Colonel Dick. His statement is false, as he
‘well knows. Iam respopsible in every way
for every word contained in that letter. Every
line and word written is true and I challenge
him to put me to the proof.
Putting his accusers to the proof is
the last thing that Depamarer will
do. Emery has been challenging him
since last April to face the proof that
in his senatorial capacity he was guil-
ty of bribery, perjury and forgery, and
Ruran will be equally unsuccessful in
getting him to face the facts about
his deal with the Standard Oil Com-
pany. Both of his accusers are Repub-
licans.
In reply to DrnamaTERr’s assertion
in his Bradford speech that Rurax’s
charge about his $65,000 deal with the
Standard Company is “false and mali-
cious,” that gentleman replies as fol-
lows:
I have his own [Delamater’s] letters to prove
that he is a demagogue, a falsifier and the
holder of stolen goods. I sincerely hope he
will prosecute me for libel in order to enable
me to justify myself. His organized body of
liars and thieves cannot in the end shield him
from the punishment he so richly invites. My
thirty years’ service for his maker [Quay] will
not prevent me’ from telling the whole truth,
now that he has forced the way.
Thus the Republican candidate has
the chance to sue for libel both Exery
and RuraN, two very prominent Re-
publicans. He is afraid to tackle eith-
er of them in court.
Deserved Praise.
At a dinner given in New York last
Friday night in honor of General JRog-
ER A. PRYOR, upon his being elevated
to a judicial position, there was a col-
lection of men of unusual distinction,
among whom were Grover CLEVE
LAND, General SHERMAN, CHAUNCEY M.
Depew, Josep JerrersoN, and others
prominent in the higher departments
of life. Among the speeches there was
of course one from Depew, who, after
paying a high compliment to General
SHERMAN, calling him “the most force”
ful character in American life,” used
the follow language in speaking of
GROVER CLEVELAND :
But if I am to name the typical American,
the man who loves and believes in his country
beyond everything else; the man who, deter-
mining once in what direction his duty leads,
cannot be swerved from the path; the man
who is doggedly persistent in what he be-
lieves to be right; the man who thinks not of
self, but of his country and its needs, I would
name Grover Cleveland. What he has accom-
plished is the very highest tribute to the pos-
sibilities of American citizenship. A country
lawyer in the city of Buffalo, he shed lustre
upon the high profession which he had chos
en. As the Mayor of his adopted city he pre-
sented as his record a clean and economical
administration. Coming into the highest posi-
tion in the land without previous experience
and with scarcely a precedent to guide him in
the conditions which surrounded him, the won
‘the affection of his party and commanded the
respect and admiration of his opponents. I
find myself in one of the proudest positions
of my life in being permitted to present to you
Grover Cleveland as the typical American.
Coming from a political opponent of
the character and intelligence of Mr.
Depew, thisis high praise indeed, and
every unprejudiced American will
agreethat its object is entirely worthy
of it. If Mr. Depew should have oc-
casion to epeak ofthe little functionary,
holding a high position, who is now
engaged in traveling through the West
trying to shape a boom for his re-elec-
tion, what could he have to say of
him ?
——The census of New, York city
which is being taken by the police,
shows the defective character of the
count made by Porter's federal enu-
merators. When the police enumera-
tion is completed it will be shown that
PorTER’S was nearly 150,000 short.
Much of this deficiency is due to inef-
ficient work on the part of the enu-
merators, but as New York is a Demo-
cratic city, and the census was to a
considerable extent intended to ensure
a political purpose, there is gronnd for
the suspicion that the intention was to
omit about enough names to take one
congressman from the city’s appor-
tionment. :
His Love for the Soldier.
The managers of the Republican
candidate -for- Governor ‘are counting
upon his receiving the slipport of the
old soldiers. They claim that he isa
better friend of the veterans than the
Democratic ‘candidate is. But there
are ‘old soldiers who would like to
know what kind of friendship it was
that DerLamaTer showed for Capt. JorN
F. Morris, a crippled soldier who a
few years ago was a Republican candi-
date for treasurer in Crawford county,
and whom he helped to defeat. With
that keen eye for the profits which ac
tuates DELAMATER in all his undertak-
ings, political, legislative and otherwise,
notably in his $65,000 deal with the
Standard Oil company, he wanted
Capt. Morris to promise to deposit the
county funds in the Delamater bank,
and when the Captain declined to con-
cede to such an arrangement, the grasp-
ing banker, who is now Quay’ candi-
date for Governor, opposed ani helired
to defeat him,although he was the nomi-
nee of his own party. In this conduct
DeraMarer showed that he had more
love for filthy lucre than for crippled
soldiers.
Why the Farmers Will Support .Pati-
tison.
There is good reason why the farm-
ers should support Parrisox for Gov-
ernor. In his gubernatorial capacity
he proved himself friendly to their in-
terests by recommending an equaliza-
tion of taxes that would relieve them
of much of the burden by which they
are unduly oppressed. He urged this
in his messages, and if it was not
brought ahout it was not because his
official influence was not exerted in
that direction. On the other hand
DEeLAMATER, in his senatorial capacity,
assisted in defeating the tax equaliza-
tion bill presented by the grangers af-
ter he had promised to support it. To
this fact we have the testimony of
leading grangers who had that bill in
charge.
This is one of the reasons why the
agricultural voters are going to give
Governor Pattison such a big support
at the coming election. When he was
at Centre Hall, this county, last week,
Hon. LroNarp RuoNE headed a large
number of farmers who gave the Gov-
ernor a most cordial greeting. Of the
feeling of the agricultural class of voters
toward the Democratic candidate for
Governor, Mr. RHONE, speaking as the
head of the granger organization in
this State, said to one of the newspaper
reporters who accompanied the Gover-
nor's party :
The reports that had been made to him by
the granges all through the State showed that
30,060 Republican grangers had pledged them-
selves to vote for Pattison. They were doing
only what they had threatened to doin the
event of Delamater’s nomination. They were
solidly arrayed against Delamater, he said, be-
cause he had sacrificed their interests when he
accomplished the defeat of the bill to equalize
taxation, which had been introduced at the in-
stance of the grangers. Mr. Rhone stated that
Centre county would give Pattison fully 1,500
majority. He addzd that he had personal
kpowledge of the fact that in Mifflin and Suse
quehanna counties there were 500 Republicans
who were pledged to vote for Pattison.
As the farmers have a substantial
reason for opposing Deramarer and
voting for ParrisoN, their force alone
is sufficient to reverse the large party
majority upon which Quay depends
for the continuance of his personal rule.
A Challenge to Honest and Patriotic
Voters.
There is something startling in the
announcement that Don CaiutEroN has
put $100,000 in the hands of the Re-
publican State Central Committee to be
used in the campaign. The matter-of-
course manner in which this immense
contribution, so suggestive of boodle,
is made, shows the depth of demoral-
ization to which public sentiment has
been reduced by the corrupt methods
which have been so long practiced by
the managers who control the “politics
of the State. This immense sum of
money given by CAMERON is intended
to improparly influence the result of the
election. Ia addition to the large fund
which is being contributed from other
interested sources—the offerings of cor-
porate wealth to the party that pro-
tects 1ts interests—CAMERON'S contri-
bution swells the sum total that is
intended to buy the election of DEeLa-
MATER and a majority of the Legisla-
ture, if money can effect that result,
It is a cool, deliberate dependence upon
the influence of money to overcome
and neutralize the honest votes of the
people.
This is a challenge to every conscien-
tious, independent and patriotic voter
in the State, be he Republican or
Democrat. The machine politicians,
who are desperately determined to
maintain their hold on the State gov-
ernment, know that their candidate for
Governor will be defeated if the un-
bought vote of the people is allowed to
have its expression. To prevent this,
preparations are being made to use
money more lavishly than it was ever
before used in a State contest. So
shamelessly is this being done that the
amounts contributed to the corruption
fund are openly announced, and consti-
tute the ground upon which the Boss
and his henchmen hope to be successful.
There are enough honest and patriotic
voters in the twc parties to prevent the
success of this corrupt intention and re-
buke the corruptionists who would make
the public offices and the State gov-
ernment mere articles of merchandise.
Our free institutions and popular form of
government are at stake in this issue.
TEA TIE RO
-——Read John Morris’ affidavit in
another column of to-days paper.
oe
Spawls from the Keystone,
—The State fair at York has been very suc-
cessful.
=A runaway steer was elnbbed to death at
Lancaster by four men.
—Thieves steal the growing produce from
farms near Pottsville.
—A mauriage ceremony took place in the
Reading jail recently.
~The largest pumpkin raised ir Lancaster
county weighs 100 pounds.
—John Andre, a rose-grower of Doylestown,
ships away 3000 buds per week.
—A snow-white squirrel was recently eaptur-
ed by a hunter at West Newton.
—Judge Weand thinks crime is on the in-
crease in Montgomery county.
—A Uhlertown farmer filled his pig with
buckshot, thinking it was a chicken thief.
—Timber lands in Berks and Lehigh counties
command a higher price than farm lands.
—The son of Thomas Henry, of Doylestown,
lay all night ina cornfield suffering from
spasms.
—Cleveland’s name was applauded at the re.
cent Republican Convention of Montgomery
county.
—After years of watching Butcher Trey, of
Easton, has finally captured. a cent dated
1857. ;
—A three-foot vein of pire coal was struck
at Newton, Lackawanna county, ata depth of
960 feet.
—Hugh Cotton, a Lawrence county school
teacher, has been held for cruelly whipping a
pupil.
—Two Linwood citizens -at the recent Re-
public an clam-bake at Elwyn disposed of 760
clams.
—Mrs. Mary Booth, who has registered as a
law student, is the first to do se in Delaware
county.
—A Pittsburg girl became infatuated with the
merry-go-round, and her mind beeame un-
balanced.
—Doylestown people are endeavoring to
have the New Lehigh Railroad run through
their town. -
—The Pennsylvania was the first of all the
railroads of the State to fila its annual report
at Harrisburg.
—John Naylor has just been released from
the Eastern jail after serving a year for stealing
a horse blanket.
—At Pottstown, the Chronicle says, the effect
of the Tariff bill has been to force up every
thing but wages.
—A fox loosed for a chase at Pottstown suc
ceeded in evading sixteen horsemen and nineg
ty-seven hounds:
—A Norristown thief cut the fine lace from a
lot of underclothing in the yard ofithe house
of Mrs. Marshall.
—The Juniata Valley Camp Meeting’ Asso=
ciation in boring for water at Newton Hamil-
ton struck oil.
—Stephen Goheen and his wife recently
celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their
marriage at their home in Media.
—Reading brickmakers, after an output
of about 20,000,000 bricks for the year, expect
to suspend operations in a few days.
—News of the death of Captain Janes Haz-
lett, at Tarentum, Sunday, was carried fo But.
ler, 22 miles distant, by a carrier pigeon.
—Thieves ransacked a house at Roberstown
and found $100 in a cupboard, but overlooked
$3500 more in the same closet.
—Geologists and anthracite authorities have
been surprised by the finding of pure anthrag
cite in Newton township, Lackawanna county.
—A monument will soon be dedicated at
Newville to William Denning, who castthe
first cannon used during the Revolutionary
war.
—Albert Bowman, aged 50 years,a saddler
of Ephrata who had been depressed by finane
cial troubles, committed suicide on Saturday
by shooting.
—Walter Scott, of Easton,a veteran. of the
rebellion, recently secured an increase of pen-
gion and soon after all traces of his disease
disappeared.
Seven members of the Roesch family of
eleven are ill at Nazareth with typhoid fever,
contracted from another member, who died a
few days ago.
—Judge McPherson, of Lebanon, decided
that soldiers, licensed as such to peddle, etc.,
were not entitled without extra license to sell
goods at auction.
—John Koons, of Philadelphia, was attacked
by footpads in West Bethlehem on Thursday
night and beaten and robbed of $27. The rob
bers escaped.
— vrs. Maria Metzger, an aged lady, died
Sunday at Lancaster from injuries received in
falling from a window to the ground, a distance
of only five feet.
—The indignation of a Lan cas ter Judge was
vented on a Magistrate who returned to Court
for trial an assault and battery case which ine
volved two 12-year-old boys. :
William McHale of; Carbondale, took the
total abstinence pledge from the famous
Father Mathew himself fifty-three years ago
and has never violated it.
—Martin Rudy, of Lancaster, has been held
in $1000 bail for trial in the United States
District Court for using the mails for the pur-
pose of committing a fraud.
‘A Reading songster gavea street fakir a
$5 gold piece in payment for a song sheet and
while he was reading it the fakir sneaked
away without giving him any change.
—The Republican candidate for Prothono-
tary in Monroe county has a covered wagon on
which is painted his nameand the office which
he seeks, moving through the county con-
stantly.
——The Unicorn silk-mill at Catasauguar
has shut down indefinitely be cause of
the plush silic weavers’ strike and an as-
sault upon fivestrikers who had returned to
work.
—TIt is understood that the Reading Railroad
Company will utilize the bed of the old Union
Canal fora line of railroad from Reading to
Bernville, where it will connect with the South
Mountain Road.
—Wejls that have never before been known
to fail have gone dry at Jenkintown in spive
of the unusual fall of rain lately. The
borough's new 175-foot artesian well is believed
to be, in part, the cause. .
—Adam L.Horton, of South Easton, a crippled
watchman at the Lehigh Valley depot in Phil«
ipsburg, N.J., had a benefit ball in Easton on
Friday night to help purchase an artificial leg,
and Saturday morning his body was found
floating near a canal-boat in the Lehigh River
and his crutches on the wharf near by, Itis
| thought he may have been murdered for the
ball receipts.