-
-
8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—1f the Republicans want to force
their fate they will pass the Force Bill.
—The man who raised the price ot
dry goods with his tariff bili is not the
ladies’ beau ideal of a statesman.
—The American people have reason
to he thankful that McKINLEY didn’t
mnke the turkey the subject of tariff
taxation.
—ToM REED’s situation in the next
congress will furnish a parallel to the
embarrassment of the clawless feline in
Hades.
— Prof. Koca’s consumption cure has
come just in time for the G. O. P. which
is being troubled with an alarmingly
bad cough.
—Mr. GLADSTONE is shy of giving
his opinion of the Parnell scandal. The
Grand Old Man knows a nasty thing
when he sees it.
—The McKinley tariff is an ogre
standing inside of every dry-goods
store. Itsugly form is particularly re-
pulsive to the femael purchaser.
—A little of Dr. KocH’s lymph in-
jected into the Harrison administration
might enable it to continue a precarious
existence for the balance of its term.
— A midst the encomiums which at this
season we are wont to shower upon the
succulent and savory turkey we should
mot overlook the modest merit of the
pumpkin pie.
—The “spirit dance’’ isn’t peculiar to
the Sioux. For years it has been popu-
lar wit the boys who believe that.a
little of the ardent accelerates the motion
of their heels.
—Short rations, more likely than re-
ligion, are at the bottom ot the Indian
ferment in. the Northwest. The sto-
mach of a Redskin is more sensitive
than hissoul.
—If the hostile Indians should invade
‘Washington SitTiNG BULL would have
the most extensive job he ever tackled
in lifting the scalp from President Har-
RISON’S ‘big head.”
——The large number of eligible
candidates for Speaker of the next House
testifies to the abundance and excel-
lence of the material that composes
Democratic statesmanship.
—To decide that congress can make
the congress districts in the different
states is to give the constitution a sever-
er wrench than that venerable document
was ever subjected to.
—The window glass Trust is easily
seen through. Such a transparent
monopoly could not exist if the oppor-
tunity to rob the people was not given it
by the McKinley tariff.
—The taste of crow which unpleas-
antly lingers on the palate of the Phila
delphia Press from the Emery-Delama-
ter incident, may possibly yield to the
savor of the Thanksgiving turkey.
— MAGEE, the big Injun of Alleghany
is not satisfied with having scalped
chief Quay, but is moved by a barbar-
ous desire to tomahawk him outright
and dance over his mutilated remains.
—An Indiana veteran has gotten a
pension for nervous shock due tio the
“stopping a cannon ball with his sto-
mach.” SHAKESPEARE couldn't have
applied to this soldier the remark : “He
who hath no stomach for this fight let
him depart.”
—Some one has started the foolish
rumor that an attempt has been made to
assassinate the President. The absur-
dicy of this report is made apparent by
the fact that politically President Hag-
nIsON has been a corpse for some
‘montbs past.
—Thanksgiving will answer more
than its usual beneficent purpose this
year. Roast turkey with its savory ad-
junts will go a great way in assuaging
the pangs of defeat from which our Re-
publican brethren have been suffering
‘since ‘the recent election.
—There is a remarkable case of a
man in Wilkesbarre who, although
alive, believes that he is dead. In our
opinion Speaker REED is the only man
in the United States who could enter-
tain such a halucination without being
much fooled by it.
It now appears to be the gener-
al impression that Governor HiLL will
‘accept the New York senatorship. He
can have it without asking for it, and if
hisacceptance should remove the antag.
-onism that seems to bespringing up in
New York over the next Presidential
‘nomination, it will be regarded with
much satisfaction by the Democratic
party. :
Notwithstanding the cloud under
which Mr. ParNeLL has brought him-
-gelf, his Home Rule followers refuse to
-desert him and have loyally re-elected
him to the Teddership of th&"Irish par-
‘liamentary party. It appears, though,
that Mr. GLADSTONE'S sense of proprie-
ty objects to PARNELL's leadership under
the change of circumstances which the
latter's conduct has broughtfabout.
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«TGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
VOL. 35.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 28,
1890. NO. 47.
Revolting against Cameron,
It cannot be disguised that a strong
opposition to the re-election of Senator
CAMERON is springing up among influ-
ential Republicans in this State. Itis
seen cropping out in leading party
journals, and is freely expressed by
prominent leaders. The circular of
Senator KAUFMAN, of Lancaster coun-
ty, is one of the most open, as it cer-
tainly is the strongest manifestation of
‘| the anti-Cameron movement. CAMERON
unquestionably has the advantage
if a fight should be made against him,
for he contributed a large eum of mon-
ey to secure the election of a Republi-
can majority in the next Legislature.
This gives him a pecuaiary claim on a
body which will be of a character that
will readily acknowledge the binding
forceof the mortgage he has on it. But
there is a feeling among the more in-
telligent and independent members of
the party that his inefficient rep-
resentation of the state in the United
States Senate is not creditable to so
great a commczwealth as Pennsyl-
vania.
It can truly be said that of all the
States she has the weskest Senatorial
representatives. Both Cameroy and
Quay are absulately without influence
in the Senate. They are seldom in
their seats, but when they are there
they positively are nobodies compared
with the Senators of other States
Even a five minute speech is beyond
the orator‘cal ability of either of them.
and their incapacity being well known
advantage is taken of them by the abler
members of the Senate.
To the thorough-paced Pennsylva-
nia Republican the tariff is of the first
importance. Hence his humiliation
in seeing that when the McKinley bill
was before the Senate Pennsylvania.
the mother of protection, was dumb on
that subject. CaMeroN and Quay had
nothing to say, simply because they
were unable to speak intelligently on
the subject. Ca%izon could not make
a respectable speech on the tariff or
any other question, to save his life
He hasn't the capacity for such an ef:
fort.
No wonder that Pennsylvania Repuh-
licans, who have respect for themselves
and their State, and to whom encour-
agement has been given by the recent
successful revolt aziinst bossism, are
hecoming res*ive under such represen-
tation as is furnished them by their
two Senators. They can’t help but admit
that Pennsylvania has been practically
without representation in the Sen-
ate since WiLtiam A. WALLACE oc-
cupied a seat in that body,and itis nat-
aral that they should want a different
order of affairs more creditable to their
party. But they can hardly hope for
more respectable senatorial represen:a:
tion. CAMERON'S money was the chief
factor in giving the party a majority
in the State Legislature, and his claim
on that which he bought is not likely
to be successfully controverted. The
party must for awhile yet endure the
gall and wormwood of incompetent
and disgraceful bossism.
——Among the many Democratic
victories of the 4th inst. none was more
complete and gratifying than the one
in Montana thatadministered a sting-
ing rebuke to the political highway-
men of the Republican persuasion who
managed tosteal that state with the as-
sistance of unprincipled partisans in
congress and the ready aid of a compli-
ant administration. The party that
could steal the Presidency of the Unit-
ed States found means to defeat the
wishes of the people upon the ad
mission of Montana; but the election of
DixoN, a Democratic congressman,
isa rebuke to those who usurped the
political control of that new state, and
vindicates the right of the people to
self government.
——There is not much heard about
the proeeedings against the violators of
the election law in Philadelphia, but
there is assurance that preparations are
being made to bring them to justice
and to inflict upon them the full penal-
ty for their transgressions.
ers are in a large measure election of:
‘ficers who were ‘bribed to“vitiate the
ballot box. The evil they did in violat-
ing the trust reposed in them as sworn
officials far transcended the worst work
of the ordinary rounder. Their pun-
ishment should be in proportion.
The offend- :
It Should be Resisted.
If an attempt shouid be made at the
fag-end of the present discredited con-
gress to pass a new apportionment bill
it should be resisted by all the power
that can be brought to bear by legiti-
mate opposition. There is sufficient
evidence that the census, which will
supply the basis for a re-apportionment,
was a fraudulent piece of work, and
the parties to the fraud should not be
allowed to derive an advantage from
it.
Senator McPHERsON, of New Jersey,
referring to the refusal of the Secretary
of the Interior to even listen to demon
strated errors, expressed the right view
of the treatment the census fraud
should receive, when he said :
The first thing for congress to do after its
re assembling is to investigate the way the
census of New York was taken. No reappor
tionment bill must be passed until it has been
satisfactorily proven that the recent census
was correct, or if not correct, until the taking
of another census which will be correct. It is
vitally important that the census of the inhabi-
tants of this country should be as accurate as
possible, for upon its result depends the repre-
sentation of the States in the nationai house of
representatives and in the electoral college.
Other Democratic Senators and Rep-
resentatives also favor an investigation.
It is altogether probable that the Force
Bill wi'l be abandoned and the ef
forts of the Republican congress will be
centered upon the passage of a partisan
apportionment bill ; but it is scarcely
possible that it can be done in the face
of determined Democratic opposition.
Beginning to See Into It.
There is evidence thal some of the
Repuhiican newsp pers understand the
siznificance of the recent elections in
their bearing upon the tariff’ question.
For ex mple, two of them, the Pitts
bu: Times and Press, urge the imme-
diate and total repeal of the duty on
tin-olzte. One of the reasons assigned
for this outrage on the consumers of
tin was that protection would build
up rin-plate industries that would
give employment to 50,000 workers,
velopment.
Lv has now become evident that this
wisa fraudulent assumption. There
is ao truth in the assertion that tin
mines have been discovered in this
conntry. American tin manufacture
m terial upon importation from abroad,
and the heavy duty put on pig-tin is
an impediment rather than a eacour-
agement to an infant industry that is
intended to be fostered. If the t riff
promoters had allowed this raw mate-
rial to come in untaxed there would
hive been some sense in their claim
that they wanted to encourage the
m wnufacture of tin plate in this coun-
try. But their treatment of the tin
schedule is a gratuitous injury to con-
sumers, unrelieved by any industrial
benefit.
Natural Gas Playing Out.
The supply of natural gas has under-
gone such diminution that it is no
longer a fuel that may be depend-
ed upon for large manufacturing
purposes. When it was first discover-
ed and applied to the various uses
which made it the most complete and
desirable fuel ever used by man, there
were enthusiasts who believed that the
supply was inexhaustible,and that coal
would be dispensed with in the regions
which nature had favored with the
volatile fuel. But there were others
who doubted the inexhaustible charac-
ter of the gas deposits, and itis being
proved that their doubts were well
grounded.
The gas bubble has bursc in Pitts-
burg. Six years ago the manufactur-
ers of that city and neighborhood be:
gan to discard coal as a fuel, substitu
tuting the subtle combustible that
could be so conveniently brought to
their furnaces through pipes, and there
was general congratulation among its
inhabitants that Pittsburg had ceased
to be the Smoky City. But the relief
from the smoke and soot ot a past
period was but temporary. The mana-
facturers have received formal notice
from the gas companies that they must
find another fuel, because the supply
is not great enough to justify its con-
; tinued sale on the wholesale plan ; and
! private consumers have notice of in-
creased prices that place the. cost of
gas so considerably above that of coal
and it was said that Piusburg would ,
be (he center of this new industrial de-
must depend for its most important |
| tory
ag to make it a luxurv to be enjoyed
only by the well-to-do. The conse-
quence is that the fires of the
factories are being readjusted to the
use of coal, and Pittsburg will soon be
as smoky and dirty as ever.
It is natural to ask the question
whether this change will materially af:
fect the prosperity that was so greatly
extended by the new fuel ; but it is be-
lieved that the return to coal will not
retard the progress that has been
made during the natural gas era. Hu"
man ingenuity is quick to adapt itself
to a change of circumstances and situa-
tion.
Rumors of a New Pension] Commis-
sioner.
General Raum has not proved satis-
factory as a Commissioner of Pensions.
Although not as noisy and demonstra-
tion as TANNER, he has other defects
that make him even more reprehensi-
ble than his blatant predecessor.
A first-class scandal has been the re-
su't of his peculiar methods of admin-
istration, rendering the call for his re-
moval imperative. There is a report
that President Harrison intends to re-
lieve him and will appoint Governor
BEAVER, of Pennsylvania, in his place.
It may bea question whether the
Governor would not consider it too
much of a descent to come down from
the chief executive office of a great
State to a third class position at Wash-
ington. The Pension office is one of
great responsibility, in which a good
man can do important and valuable
gervice. Yet in dignity it is below the
governorship of a State. But should
it happen that Governor Beaver should
be placed at the head of the pension bu-
reau, his incumbency would be a great
improvement on anything that this ad-
ministration has had in that position.
He is fully competent ; the work would
be congenial on account of his m'litary
affiliations, and he is honest, a quality
absolutely indispersable in the .perfor-
mance of duties involving the expendi-
tare of millions of money.
It is a circumstance well worth
commenting upon that during the
Cleveland administration the business
of the pension office was conducted |
without a scandal being connected with
it, and that the distinguished veteran
who took charge of it at the beginning
of Mr. CLEVELAND'S term filled out the |
full four years with credit to himself, | will be remarkable in ite Democratic
justice to the pensioners, and benefit to
the public service, while in the two
years of the Harrison administration
the management of the®pension bureau | ! ;
' Republicans, and 17 Alliance members.
has been such as to require the remov-
al of two incumbents.
RRR I
A Doubtful Remedy.
It is believed by a} certain] class of |
Republican statesmen that silver may
do something to ccunteract the disaf-
fection that prevails so extensively in
the West in consequence of unsatisfac-
tariff laws, and therefore
some lively silver legislation in the
next session of congress may be expect.
ed. A free silver coinage bill, it is
hoped, will take the string out of a
tariff bill that has goaded the western
Republicans into a revolt, the calcula-
tion being to give them plenty of mon-
ey to pay the increased cost of living
inflicted upon them for the benefit of
protected manufacturers. Such Silver
Senators as JoNEs, Stewart, TELLER
and PLumB say that unless the western
farmers are given a silver sop that will
relieve the increased cost of necessaries
it will be of no use for the Republicans
to try to elect the next President. But
such an expedient will prove a doubt-
ful remedy,as it 1s calculated to excite
more opposition in Eastern business
circles than it will placate among the
Western farmers.
——The failure of the old and well-
known banking firm of BARKER
Broruers in Philadelphia last week
was a real surprise. §It was considered
one of the most substantial and con-
servative firms in the financial circles
of the country, and it was given addi-
tional destinctior by having for one of
its members Mr. WHARTON BARKER,
the noted Independent Republican and
political reformer. But notwithstand-
ing its reputation for conservatiam, i!
appears thatthe firm indulged in ex-
travagant and dangerous speculation,
and exhausted its resources in endeav-
oring to bolster unprofitable advent
ures. A collapse was the inevitable
result. ne
A Suspicious Catch.
We would advise caution in accept-
ing the truth of the report that the
log-book of CoLumsus has been discov-
ered. It will be remembered that when
the illustrious navigator was returning
{rom his great discovery he was over-
taken by a storm in which the expedi-
tion came near being swamped, and
the admiral’s log-book, containing the
incidents and experiences of the voy-
age, was lost.
It has always been a cause of regret
to navigators, historians and geogra-
phers that so interesting and important
d cument met with such a disaster. It
is therefore interesting to learn that
this long lost log-book has been found,
it having been fished up out of the sea
on the coast of Wales by a Welsh fish-
erman. Four hundred years have
passed since it suffered the fate of Me-
GINTY in going tothe bottom of the
briny deep, and that it is in as good a
state of preservation as reported must
be on account of the preserving effect
of the salt in the sea water.
The circamstance of the discovery of
this relic of CorumBus fits in nicely
with the circumstance that the enter-
prising city of Chicago is getting up a
World's Fair in celebration of. the
great discoverer’s achievement, which
wouldn’t be complete without having
his log box on exhibition. It would
be so like Chicago enterprise to have
hired the Welsh fisherman to fish for
the article which will be the most in-
teresting of the exhibits at the fair.
——The Lock Haven Express thinks
that if a Democratic House should un-
seat congressman Hopkins and give
the place to congressman Ervior, it
woul i result in HopkiNs' renomination
and election by a great majority. Well,
suppose it would. What ot it? The
congress that would be called upon to
inquire into the crookedness by which
Hopkins got a small majority this year,
would have no occasion to consider
the majority he might get at same fu-
ture election,however large it might be.
That is entirely a different question.
| Sutficient unto the future is the evil
thereof. For the present, the evil in
h and is sufficient.
Decidedly Democratic.
The next House of Representatives
complexion. According to a com-
pilation of the clerk of the present
House, himself a Republican, the new
House will stand 222 Democrats, 92
Tae Democratic majority will be 130
over the Republicans, or 147 if the
Alliance men are counted as Demo-
crate. It is likely that another Demo-
erat will be added by the member wno
is yet to be elected in Rhode Island:
Two districts are so close that the re
sult is doubtful, but if they should re-
turn Democrats the majority, accord-
ing to Democratic figuring at Wash-
inzton,would be 161. This is much the
largest majority any party has ever
had in congress since the tormation of
the government. It is twenty-four of a
majority over a two-thirds vote, which
will allow the Demograts to suspend
the rules at any time and pass any
measure they desire. Of the 17 Alliance
members elected all are Democrats on
the tariff question. On the leading
point of Democratic policy they muy
be counted every time as against
the monopolists.
——Thereisn’t that harmony among
the Republican papers on the tariff
question that should exist in well regu-
lated political journalism. The elec-
tion that happened lately is largely re-
sponsible for this derangement. The
leading party journals in the West,
taking their cue from the prevailing
public sentiment in that section, insist
upon a modification of the McKinley
act. Some of them go as far as to de-
mand 1ts repeal. But in the Hast the
leading papers, influenced by a consid-
eration for the protected interests, want
‘the bill to remain intact,being impressed
with the idea that it hasn't yet had a
chance to show the good that’s in it,
and that the people will like it when
they understand it better. This con-
tention is likely to be followed by re-
sults similar to those that gave celebri-
iv to the Kilkenny cat fight.
——You can get this paper and
keep booked up for $2 per year,
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Farmer's Alliance is growing in Berks
county.
—Many Montgomery county springs are
drying uy.
—Two blindfolded girls ran a foot race at a
Reading fair.
—Profanity will not be tolerated on William-
sport's streets.
—Music will be taught in the Reading
schools hereafter.
—Diphtheria is prevailing to an alarming
extent in Lancaster.
—C. P. Blatt, of Pittsburg, breaks horse shoes
as if they were wood.
—Pittsburg push-carts must use the streets
and not the sidewalk.
—Westmoreland county’s Grand Jury has
condemned the county home.
—The Conshohocken Pipe Works are ship
ping their product to England.
—Green glass-blowers at Pittsburg will pro-
bably leave the Knights of Labor.
—Florist Darlingtown,of Doylestown,shipped
1200 carnations to Philadelphia last week.
—Four huge opossums were caught in Henry
Stackhouse’s barn at Tullytown on Thursday.
—A thieving tramp at Farmersville was over-
taken by a posse and given a severe flogging.
—William H. Rote, 50 years old, a well-known
citizen of Altoona, fell dead on the street last
Friday.
—Roast pig suppers are popular in Bristol.
The ladies of many churches have gotten
them up.
—Jacob Ecker, of East Coventry, is 81 years
old and has just swallowed his first dose of
medicine.
—An ulcerated tooth was the primary cause
of the death of James Kerr, the Stroudsburg
druggist.
—The “Two-Fifty Club,” of Pittsburg, is
composed of bicycler, who can do a mile in
that time.
—Over 150 hogs have died within the past
fow days at the Kelton (Chester county)
Creamery.
—A prisoner escaped from the Sullivan
county jail, at Laporte, by burning the lock off
the cell door.
—A youthful nimrod at Fairmount mistook
a fat ‘possum for a bear, and dropping his gun
ran for his life.
—On the farm of the late Josiah Nicholas
in Bucks county, there has been growing a
second crop of apples.
—~—Abraham Lincoln, a relative of the mar.
tyred President, still lives in Carnarvon town-
ship, Lancaster county.
—John Hand, of Thompson, has just brought
suit against the borough of Hyde Park to re-
cover $300 bounty money,
—Sucei, the New York faster, has a rival in
Dr. T. A. Herbig, of Minersville, who has eat-
en nothing for thirty days.
—The Coal Ridge Colliery, at Mount Carmel
which has been flooded for seventeen years,
has just been pumped out.
—An attempt to increase the flow of a spring
at the old May farm near Norristown resulted
ia its disappearing entirely.
—Pittsburg was in holiday attire a few days-
ago on account of the arrival of a llttle
elephant for its Zoological Garden.
—Dr. B. H. Warren, of West Chester, wants
some specimens of the Pennsylvania bears to
complete his collection for the State.
—A chopping mill and an acre of ground in
Whitpain township, Montgomery county, sold
for §1 ata sheriff's sale a few days ago.
—Levi Braxent, of Chambersburg, owns a
hog that weighs 935 pounds and is still fatten-
ing at the rate of three pounds per day.
—The minimum of taxation on farm pro-
perty in this State is in Northumberland
| connty, at a rate of five and a half mills.
—Carlisle telephone subseribers have threat-
! ened to boycott the company because of the
| refusal to replace a discharged manager.
—The sale of the new tobacco crop at Lan-
| easter has already begun, the prices for wrap=-
pers running from ,§ to 28 eents per pound.
—A Fallsington (Bucks county) man clipped
his pony the other day, but the cold weather
was toe much for the little animal and it soon
died.
—John Brown, a well-known hunter, acci-
dentally shot and killed himself at Lansford
on Thursday evening while examining his
own gun.
—A number of West Chester ladies are car
rying packages of red pepper about them as a
def-nece against the “Peeping Tom” that is an-
noying them.
—Bristol’s weather prophet predicts, from
his observations of animals, a cold winter. He
says the ice crop will be harvested before the
first cf the year.
~Students at Geneva College, Beaver Falls,
smeared the entire interior of one of the class-
rooms with blue paint. All of the furniture
was also painted.
—Benjamin Laub, an old hermit who has
been living for twenty years near Strausstown
in a hut made of rails and leaves, was burned
out a few day ago.
—The family of Zachariah Burns, a poor
Allentown carpenter, on Friday last, listened
to a tramp’s “tale of woe,” and he repaid the
kindness by stealing $20.
—A. C. W. Mathues, a compositor in the
Media American office, recently set up 13,020
ems of solid minion in 9 hours and 50 minntes.
This invelved the handling of abont 33,000
types.
—Susan Alspach, of Orwigsburg, died in the
Harrisburg Insane Asylum recently, and it is
said that her malady was contracted from an-
other insane person whom she nursed for
three years.
—H. P. Rush and his wife drove through
Chambersburg a few days ago on their way to
their Chester county home. They had ridden
all the way from Topeka, Kan., and had spent
$41 for toll.
—Of the 201 cases returned to the Lancaster
Quarter Sessions Court during the last week:*
over half came from the Welsh Mountains
and in nearly all these cases there were con
victions to jail.
—A Norristown girl, attacked with tooth
ache, left the theatre and called on a neighbor-
ing dentist, where the distressing molar was
pulled. Thenshe returned to enjoy the re"
mainder of the show.
—At Latrobe Frederick Garver was shot in
the hand by A.G. Saxman in mistake for a
burglar. The men selected a Board of arbitra-
tion which decided that the injured man
should receive $375 damages.
—Patrick O'Hara, aged 60, employed in the
Pennsylvania Coal Company's mine at Dun
more, Saterday fired a blast, and was return”
ing after the discharge, when the roof fell in
and crus hed the life out of him.
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