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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
— There is scarcely a doubt as to how
this Republican Legislatnre will wig-
wag on the U. S. Senatorial question.
’—The DELAMATERS have prudently
concluded that it is better to compro-
mise with their creditors than to go to
the penitentiary.
— With three opposition Governors
in Nebraska it isn’t probable that the
remarks that pass between them are of
the Carolina character.
—In reducing the wages of some of
his railroad men it is probably Jay
GouLDp’s intention to give practical en-
forcement to his “one coat’ theory.
—-Governor RusseLL, of Massachu-
setts, can use either hand in writing.
One hand, however, was enough to en-
able him give the people of his State
the unusual benefit of a Democra-
tic governor’s message.
—QUAY has put so much force in his
bill that there is ground for the suspi-
cion that he wants to force his party to
abandon a project which he is smart
enough to know would subject it to ir-
retrivable defeat.
—The Philadelphia Press mears
well, but it has underrated the size of
the job it has undertaken in trying to
overthrow Cameronism whose tap-root
has grown deep into the subsoil of
Pennsylvania Republicanism.
—1It can scarcely be believed that
Montana isso great a state that two Leg-
islatures in session at the same time are
required to make its laws. But the leg-
islative necessities of the wild West are
not to be gauged by those of the tamer
East.
—Senator QuAY’s new Xorce Bill is
an improvement on LoDGE’s in that it
provides not merely a bayonet behind
every ballot but & whole park of artil-
lery. If we are to have tbat sort of
thing there should be no half wayjmeas-
ure about it.
—Opposition newspapers should not
be too critical in commenting upon the
unsatisfactory statement of the finances
of the State in Governor BEAVERS
message. The Governor gave the best
that could be shown under Republican
financial management.
—Unfortunete as the present Indian
difficulty unquestionably is, it is never-
theless a perfect windfall to the dime
novelist, who will draw from it many
an incident with which to keep alive in
the youthful American mind the blood-
thirsty desire to exterminate the Red-
skins.
—Senator SQUIRE of the new state of
‘Washington is said to be rich enough
to spend $250 a day and not feel it. It
is a noticeable circumstance that man
who “ave the means of paying spot cash
for what they get have no difficulty in
getting the office of United States Sen-
ator in the new states.
—Joux D. ROCKEFELLER, the Stand-
ard Oil magnate, in a recent court pro-
ceeding testified that he couldn’t swear
to his exact fortune by at least ten or
twelve millions. How strongly con-
trasted his situation is with that of the
man who isn’t able to swear as to where
he is going to get the next square meal.
—The English Minister has stolen a
march on BLAINE by bringing the
Behring Sea dispute into the United
States Supreme Court. Probably itis
his intention to bind the Jingo Secre-
tary over to keep the place and let the
British lion’s tail alone. This would
certainly be better than going to war
about a lot of sealskins.
--The fellow who has been terrifying
the women of Astoria, N. Y., by catch-
ing and kissing them, has been appre-
hended and is languishing in jail. We
are not lawyer enough to know what
punishment the law provides for forci-
ble osculation. Is it high enough in
the scale of offenses to be considered
a rape of the lips ?
—There is a report that the German
government is going to make a mono-
poly of the Koch lymph and ped-
dle it out to unfortunate consumptives
at so muck per ounce. For downright
heartlessness this would not be any worse
than was the intention of making a tax
on quinine one the blessings of the Me-
Kinley tariff bill.
—1If it be true that the fish daily eaten
by a seal almost equals its own weight,
for the promotion of the fishery interest
it would be a public benefit to exter-
minate the seals even if future genera-
tions of women should be deprived of
the glory of wearing seal-skin sacques.
This is a feature of the Behring Sea
question that should not be overlooked.
--The House has passed a resolution
to appoint a committee to investigate
the charge that a Silver Pool composed
of Members and Senators had been
formed to make a profit out of the pas-
sage of the Silver Bill. It is hardly to
be believed that the committee will stir
up that pool to any considerable depth,
or with any intention of reaching the
mud at the bottom.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 16, 1891.
NO. 2.
The Jingo Secretary.
Secretary BLAINE, after all his blus-
ter in the Behring Sea difficulty, is
shifting around to the position taken
by Secretary Bavarp on the same
question, The latter statesman took
no stock in the assumption that the
sea in question was a “closed sea”
which we had purchased from Russia
along with Alaska, and into which no
other nation had a right to intrude.
Mr. BAYARD saw that such a position
was untenable, and lize a sensible and
practical statesman he did not attempt
or pretend to hold what couldn't be
held. The position he took, however,
was that if everybody hunted seals ina
sea in which, from i‘s open character,
everybody had a right to huat them,
they wouldn't last three years, and
therefore he proposed that the United
States, England, Germany, Russia and
Japan should enter ints a joint agree
ment for the protection and perpetua-
tion of the seal fisheries. The other
nations concerned readily assented, and
the question was in this situation
when Mr. Bavarp went out of office.
Then Mr. Brae came along, blus-
teringly asserting the ‘closed sea”
theory and rejecting any arrangement
with the other interested nations.
The English government ignored the
Blaine claim that thc northern end of
the Pacific Ocean was the private pro-
perty of the United States, subject to
being “closed” against all other na-
tions, and intimated that it would fizht
before it wouldsubmitto English sailors
and sealers being excluded from it.
This is the English answer to the
jingo claim of the Secretary of State,
who, after a sufficient time for reflec-
tion, replies that all the evidence is in
favor of the “closed sea” theory, but
that our government does not assert
that theory, and never did, and that
the question is susceptible of amicable
adjustment.
Now, if Mr. BLaiNe really believes
that Behring Sea belongs exclusively
to the United States, which is the gist
of the “closed saa’ theory, he is repre-
hensibie in yielding an inch in this
controversy. But he is no more con-
vinced of the tenability of sach a
claim than Mr. Bavarp was, and all
the fuss he has been making was mere-
ly to create the appearance of extraor-
dinary zeal in maintaining American
rights. It is one of Mr. BraiNe's
characteristic displays of Jingoism.
Those who are interested in the
infamous Force Bill, regarding it as a
party measure of the first importance,
are not disposed to let it give up the
ghost. It was made to give way last
week to the Silver Bill, but it is be-
lieved that that measure will be dis-
posed of in the Senate this week, and
an effort will be made to get the Force
measure off the side-track upon which
1t was placed to get it out of the road
of financial business. Those who are
respopsible for it are pertinacious in
their purpose, and as it is regarded as
indispensable to future Republican suc-
cess it need surprise no one to see
further efforts made to pass it.
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Delamater Charged With Embezzle-
ment.
The financial complications in which
GEORGE W. DELAMATER finds himself
involved followed hard upon the politi-
cal disaster that overwhelmed him at
the late election. His business failure
seems to be complete in its disastrous
character, the liabilities being far be-
beyond the capacity to pay, In addi-
tion to this collapse the DELAMATERS
composing the banking firm have been
arrested on the charge of embezzle-
ment brought against them by the out-
going Commissioners of Crawford
county who allege that the firm re-
ceived deposits from the County Treas-
urer amounting to upwards of $30,000,
they knowing themselves insolvent at
the time, and which amount has been
lost in the wreck of the bank. This
charge is of a criminal character and
together with the conduct of Grorce
W. Dgramater in Philadelphia in
raising money on worthiess checks
about the time of his failure, gives a
shade of dishonesty to the circum-
stances of the disaster which has over-
taken him. The developments that
have been made since DELAMATER'S
financial collapse give the people of
the State great reason to be satisfied
with the result of the election that pre-
vented such a man from being their
Governor:
The Great Democratic Anniversary.
The anniversary of the battle of
| New Orleans, which occurs on the 8th
| of January, is one of the greatest and
| most time-honored Democratic festivals
| and is usually celebrated all over the
| country by Democrats who are strong
| in the faith. It being associated with
| one of the most brilliant military vie-
| tories in American history, the fact
that the hero of that victory was
the staunchest champion of Democra-
cy gives the anniversary additional in-
terest to patriotic Democrats. This
year it was more generally observed
than ever before, for this year the Dam-
ocracy of the country have, had great-
er reason than ever before to rejoice
over the triumphs of the political
principles of which ANDREW JAcKsoN
was the great exponent.
Among the demonstrations on the
8th inst., the one that exceeded all
others in notorjety and brilliancy was
that of the Young Men's Democratic
Association of Philadelphia whose
banquet al the Academy of Music in
that city drew together distinguished
Democrats from all parts of the Union
to celebrate the Jacksonian anniver-
sary in connection with recent Demo-
cratic victories, and give expression
to Democratic sentiments. GROVER
CLEVELAND was the principal guest.
His presence was greeted with more
than usual enthusiasm and his address
emphasized the doctrines which give
him the front rank among contempora-
neous Democratic leaders. Pennsyl-
Governor-elect, Roserr E.
ParrisoN, was a conspicuous guest, as
vania's
were also such prominent Democrats
as Bavarp, of Delaware, BRECKIN-
of Xentucky, RusseLL, of
Massachusetts, and others. It was in
every respect a glorious tribute to the
RIDGI,
memory and principles of the great
Democratic chief whose staunch char-
acteristics won for him the title of Old
Hickory.
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Senator Wallace’s Financial Condition,
The report that was sent out to the ef-
fect that the assignees of Hon. WirLiam
A. WaLnace were unable to furnish
bonds and consequently the property of
that gentleman would be forced to a
gale that would leave hima complete
bankrupt, appears to have been erro-
neous, if it was not actually prompted
by malice. The bond of the assignees
has been accepted and was approved
by Judge Furst last Saturday and or-
dered to be filed. The inventory shows
assets amounting to nearly a million
of dollars in value, overlappiag his lia-
bilities by more than $300,000. There
will be no such forced sale as would
drive the Senator to the wall, and with
the relief that attends a judiciously
managed assignment the Senator will
come out of the difficulty solvent, al-
though considerably reduced in pecuni-
ary circumstances.
Farmer Taccarr is the man
with whom the Republican opponents
of Cameron would like to defeat the
senior Senator. He is a good Repub-
lican and therefore should not be ob-
jectionable on the score of politics.
Moreover he belongs to the agricultur-
al persuasion and therefore |should be
acceptable to the granger element in
the Republican party. It would be a
great compliment to the farmers to
have Dox's seat filled by a man who
has hayseed in his hair. But the
chance of Farmer TacearT beating
CaMERON is mighty slim. It can
scarcely be cli ssed among the remote
possibilities. Dox has a mortgage on
this Republican Legislature, as he and
his father have had on many previous
ones, and he will foreclose it when the
time comes for his re-election.
——The Alliance people of Kansas
are likely to concentrate upon Judge
PEFFER, editor of the Kansas Farmer
at Topeka, as the candidate with whom
they propose to beat INGALLs in the
contest for the United {States Senate.
They can do it it they are determined
in their purpose. There are 165 mem-
bers of the two houses, 83 being the
| number necessary to elect a senator.
The Alliance party hasa total strength
of 92, the Republicans 64, and the
Democrats 9. From this situation it
would seem that there is a strong pro-
bability that INcaLL's candidacy will
| turn out to be nothing but an “irides-
! cent dream,”
A New Monopoly That Will Affect the
Farmers.
So soon after the passage of a tariff
bill that was represented to be protec-
tive to the interest of the farmers, it
looks bad to see the formation of a
Trust to control the output of harvest
machinery for the entire country. The
first official act of the American Har-
vester Company of Illinois, a consoli-
dation of the eighteen harvester com-
panies of the United States, with
headquarters in Chicago,will be to dis-
charge about 10,000 employes whose
services are rendered unnecessary by
the consolidation of eighteen separate
and distinct companies into one mon-
opoly.
Ten million dollars per annum is
expected to be saved in wages alone
through this consolidation. But
while this profit is made by the Trust
through the discharge of this large
number of workmen, the farmers can-
not expect a corresponding decrease in
the price of machinery, for the very
purpose of the consolidation is to break
down competition, if not to increase the
prices. This new monopoly, which
will cantrol the output of the harvesting
machinery of the entire United States,
and a large European trade, has a cap-
ital of $35,000,000.
A Chicago paper interviewed Secre-
tary Rusk about the newly-formed
reaper and mower trast, and the farm-
ers’ candidate for the Presidency talk-
ed with a good deal of heat about this
combination against the farmers. “I
had an opportunity to take some stock
in the combination,” he is represented
in the interview as saying, “and know
what inducements were offered.” He
added :
An investigation will show that this same
combination is now selling or offering to sell
machinery in Russia and Australia and other
wheat-growing countries at a lower figure than
they do in this country. This won’t do and I
need not offer any argument to] prove the
weight sr truth of the assertion. The first
thing thie farmer will do when he is acquaint-
ed witfl these facts will be to make a howl
against trusts and protection that does not pro-
tect: Whether justly or not he will charge it
to the Repuhlican party. Iam as certain as I
can be of anything that this mower and reaper
trust will cost the Republican party hundreds
of thousands of votes at the next Presidential
election unless it takes a firm stand against it
and trusts in general.
Well, the farmer is bound to find
out that the agricultural implement
makers sell their goods cheaper in
Russia and Australia whose wheat
keeps down the price of American
wheat, than they sell them to "the
American farmers who have been
voting to keep up the tariff for the
benefit of the manufacturers. If they
won’t believe Democratic speakers or
the representation of Damocratic our-
nals, they wlll aot refuse to believe so
eminent a Republican and farmer as
Secretary Rusk.
was written the
to thank a wo-
Since the above
farmers have reason
man for preventing their robbery
by a heartless monopoly. It was
a woman's hand that strangled
the American Harvester Company,
the name that was assumed by
the mammoth Trust that, with a
capital of $35,000,000, was preparing
to monopolize the production and sale
of the most indispensable and costliest
of agricultural implements. This wo-
man is Mrs. McCormick, of Chicago,
the widow of the great reaper wmanu-
facturer, whose son, Cyrus H., was
president of the trust. Mrs. McCor-
MICK was always opposed to the trust.
She is the heaviest stockholder in the
McCormick Reaper Company, and
takes great pride in the mammoth in-
stitution founded by her husband. She
demanded that the McCormick com-
pany withdraw. It withdrew and the
trust went to smash. The farmers of
the country are indebted to Mrs. Mo-
Cormick for a valuable service in
their interest.
The employees of the Pennsyl-
vania Steel Works at Steelton have
been notified that after the first of Feb-
ruary their wages will be reduced 8 or
10 per cent, or to the point where they
were before the advance in November,
1889. This is another example of the
way in which the McKinley tariff does
not give the promised increase of wages
to the workingmen, But there is no
question that it has ‘ncreased the
prices of articles necessary for the dai-
ly living of the working people,
They Don’t Like an Honest Ballot.
Republican Governer Hovey, of In-
diana, entertains no liking for the new
reform ballot law of that State, and
there is a good reason for his an-
tipathy. At the last election it gave
the Democrats an easy victory by in-
terfering with the purchasing power of
the blocks-of-five system of corruption.
He therefore in his message attacks
the election law in its vital feature,
the provision which requires all ballots
to be printed by the State and prohi-
bits the voter from writing
on the ballot, or putting
guishing mark upon it.
names up-
any distin-
This provi-
sion is intended to secure secrecy, and
secrecy interferes with the work of the
briber and the bulldozer. As an ex-
tinguisher of the Dudley and Dorsey
practices it naturally excites the enmi-
ty of the Indiana Republican leaders.
The Indianapolis Sentinel claims to
have information that the Rzpublican
managers depend upon the supreme
court to set aside this provision of the
election law before the election of 1892.
If this be done the doors will be
thrown wide open forthe bribing of vot-
ers, and Dudleyism will again flourish
in Indiana.
More Bayonets.
The junior Senator from Pennsylva-
nia has introduced a bill in the Senate
which he intends as a substitute for
the original Lodge bayonet bill. Tt
differs somewhat in its details from the
original, but in the matter of force it 1s
even more stringent and consequently
more objectionable. The following is
the section in which the bayonet makes
its repulsive appearance :
When itshall appear to the satisfaction of
the President of the United Stated that (in
any locality) the provisions of this law cannot
otherwise be executed, it shall be his dnty,
and he is hereby empowered, to suspend there
the writ ot habeas corpus and to employ the
armed forces of the United States, naval and
military, for the enforcement and for the pro-
tection of the officers whose duties are herein
provided for.
There are various surmises as the
Quay's object in introducing this meas-
ure. He was known to be opposed to
the Lodge Bill as inexpedient and mis-
chievous, and therefore it is the opin-
ion of the radicals that he wishes to
make, by the extreme provisions of
this bill, the idea of military force at
the elections so odious as to cause it to
be abandoned entirely. There are
others who think that, finding himself
losing favor with President HarrisoN,
he aims at restoring himself to the
good graces of the head dispenser of
official patronage by introducing a
force measure exactly suited to the
Harrison taste. But it is difficult to
understand the motive of so wily a
politician as Quay.
—— During the month of December
last there were granted by the pension
bureau 9,521 increase cases, 3,599 or-
jiginal invalid cases, and 5,182 cases
under the dependent pension act of
June last. The pension agents’ fees in
these cases amount to $236,985. At
this rate the fees of these agents would
amount annually to $2,843,820. When
it is considered that the pension agent
renders no legitimate service that the
ex-soldier could not perform for him-
self, the waste and iniquity of this an-
nual swindle carried on uuder protec-
tion of the laws, is at once apparent.
An Extra Session Possible.
It wouldn't be surprising if there
should be an extra session of the Fifty-
second congress following upon the
heels of the Fifty-first, which is so far
behind with its work that it may not
be able to get through by the 4th of
March. There are scarcely 40 work-
ing days remaining for the present cou-
gress and not one of the appropriation
bills has yet passed the Senate. The
Silver question is to be settled and
there is a strong desire to have the
Subsidy Bill passed. These are mat-
ters that will take time, and if the lead-
ers should be determined to ‘make an-
other effort to pass the Force Bill there
would be but little if any time left for
such legislation as is necessary for the
actual running of the government. In
such an event the Democratic House
would have to be called together to
supply the deficient action of the pre
sent Congress. If the Republicans
wish to prevent an extra session they
can do so by devoting the balance of
the time to such business as is actually
needed.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—E ie city is terrorized by thieves.
—A Pittsburg couple eloped on skates.
—A child was born ona train just: outside of
Pittsburg.
—A $10,000 ice machine is being ereeted in a
Pottsville brewery.
—The tax rate in Berks county has been
fixed at 214 mills.
—The tax-rate in Lancaster county is fixed
at 2 mills.
—A new township.in Berks county is to be
known as “Cleveland.”
—The daughter of an Easton hotel keeper
baked 6723 pies during 1890.
—The new Lehigh Valley station at. Allen-
town will cost $125,000.
—The Doylestown public schools have adopt-
ed the saving-fund system..
—Mrs. Sarah Hall, of Johnsville, Bucks coun-
ty, bas 104 living descendants.
—Nineteen persons lost their lives by acci=
dent in Warren county last year.
—A 16-year-old girl secured a divorce in the
Pittsburg Courts a few days ago.
—Since the Factory Inspection law went into
effect 2087 factories have been visited.
—The Americus Club ot Reading will attend
the inauguration of Governor Pattison.
—The message of the Mayor of Allentown
was longer than that of Governor Beaver.
—A Kennett Square road machine company
has refused to join a trust now forming.
—DMrs. Ornauer. of York, who swaifowed car-
bolic acid by mistake, died on last Thursday
night.
—Veterinary surgeons in session at Erie
want more legislation enacted for their pro-
tection.
—Simon Clouser, of Shanesville, is the proud
owner of a carriage tongue which is 125 years
old..
—The Democratic Central Club, of Wilkes-
barre, will attend Pattison’s inauguration 150
strong.
—An expressman at Pittsburg was crushed
to death by a piano. falling one him which he
was moving.
—The fees of constables and Justice of the
Peace in Chester county Jast year amounted
to nearly $40,000.
—A gang of tramps near Lancaster formed a
camp and had sentinels out to warn them in
case of a raid.
—The Altoona Tribune calls upon the Legis
lature to take some step to diminish the tramp
nuisance.
—There were thirty-seven fires and alarms
of fire in 1890 in Easton, and the total loss did
not reach $2000.
—Mrs. Sarah Keyser, of Macungie, received
a pension of $17.0 and died three or four days
afterward.
—The first day’s deposits of seventy pupils
in the Doylestown School Saving Fund
amounted to $172.
—The Reading Railroad authorities have or-
dered that no brakeman shall be allowed to
work upon an engine.
—John Price, a colored man, of Bristol, is a
candidate for the position of Messenger to
Governor Pattison.
—It is probable that the fight over t he Read-
ing postmastership will be settled by the se-
lection of a dark horse.
—In the fight among tramps at Lebanon on
Friday night William Hawkins, of Brooklyn,
received fatal wounds.
—The Young Men's Temperance Society of
South Bethlehem has cleared $3500 on a bazar
held to raise funds to build a hall.
—In six years over $900) has been realized
from an acre of stone and sand quarry at
Mount limothy, near Doylestown.
—Doylestown is becoming a great centre for
mushroom culture, and the produet is. con~
signed to the New York markets.
—A child at Allentown placed a piece of red
paper in the window, and her act led to.the re-
port that there was smallpox in the house.
—Drillers for oil at Nockamixon, Bucks
county, at a depth of 1360 feet, have passed
through a nine-fcot vein of anthracite coal.
—A drove of eleven pigs belonging to J.
Cooper at Bensalem, were killed. by some one
maliciously throwing them poisoned corn.
—A Pittsburg charlatan advertises to cure
drunkenness with the aid of the spirits and
two or three applications of a harmless powder.
—An Italian has been arrested in Rittsburg
for swindling another. Hesold his daughter
for $120, and then the young woman. fled with
another more desirable suitor.
—A Northampton county farmer who had
some turkeys killed by degs has made a claim
upon the School Board. for. damages because
the Board receives the dog tax.
—A cook employed at the house of ex-Judge
Thomas Butler, of West Chester; suddenly be-
came insane and threatened to.kill the mem.
bers of the Judge's fam ily:
—Professor Lovern, of Scranton, who had
part of his book collection stolen from him a
year ago, has just resovered: his property, and
the thieves have been arrested.
—Mrs. Susanna. Bolenger returned to her
home in Doylestown recently, after an ab-
sence of thirty years in tre far West, and she
found most of her relatives dead,
—William Canavan, a wealthy young man of
Oakland, Lugerne county, was thrown from
his sleigh on Friday night near his: home and
killed, his neck having been broken.
—An enraged cow, belonging to Daniel Kem.
merer, of Alsace, broke both her hind legs by
falling, and with the bones protruding through
the fleshishe walked 500 yards.
—John. Rhoads, Harry Keirn and Harry
Barrett, of Newport, skated on the canal from:
that place to Harrisburg on Thursday. The.
distance is twenty-eight miles, and they cov
erad it in four hours.
~The faneral of ex Sheriff John T. Simpson
occurred at Doylestown on Wednesday. Simp-.
son, who was a kinsman of General Grant, bore.
a, remarkable resemblance to the greut soldier,
and was known far:and wide as “General
Grant.”
—A tramp built a fire in Darby lock-up to
keep from freezing, and early in the morning
the cell canght fire and the door. had to be
battered down by the citizens to save him
from heing burned alive.
—This is the centennial anniversary year of
Trinity Lutheran Congregation at Reading,
and the Teachers’ Association of the Sunday-
school is contemplating the erection of a
handsome Sunday-school memorial building
on the site of Trinity Chapel.
—Grant Vansickle, ayoung man from Cata-
sauqua, was laken handcuffed by a Constable
into the Catasauqua Rolling Mill on Thursday
to get money to settle a case for which he was
under arrest. Vansickle gave the officer the
slip, severed the chains of the handcuffs with
a pair of steam shears and made his escape,