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GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The discovery that the McKinley
bill protects goat's hair does not im-
prove the odor of that enactment.
—The Canadians every day are be-
coming more outspoken in their desire
for annexation, but Bre’r Jonathan he
lay low.
Robins were seen in our town this
week. If their appearance was intend-
ed as a harbinger of Spring it was cer-
tainly a case of misplaced confidence.
- -INGALLS is said to . But what’s
the use of saying anything more about
INGALLS ? The recollection of him is
but a dream that isn’t even iridescent.
—The chasm across which CLEVE-
LAND and HiLw shook hands the other
day wasn’t as bloody as the enemies ofthe
Democracy would like to make it ap-
pear. :
—QConsidering the cold snap that
followed the ground hog’s appearance
last Monday, it is tobe regretted that
when he came out and saw his shadow he
wasn’t sun-struck.
.—CAMERON is still master of the Re-
publican situation in Pennsylvania,
and it is the first time in his political ca
reer that his mastery is based upon ac-
tion that can be commended.
~The inglorious termination of the
resolution in the State Legislature last
Monday, censuring Senator CAMERON
for his opposition to gag rule in the Sen-
ate, was enough to make Dox lay
back and laugh.
—Parrr is reported to be seriously
ill. Itis to be hoped that Death may
not enforce the definite and final fare-
well of the divine singer with no
chance for her to bub up serenely again
with another tour.
-—BERNHARDT arrived in New York
last week with more than a hundred
trunks. If she intends to go back
with them filled with American dol-
lars the necessity for passing the free
coinage bill becomes apparent.
—Senator RoBINSON, of the Chester-
Delaware district, will go down in his-
tory with the bad notoriety of wanting a
bayonet behind every ballot. And just
to think of it ; this advocate of warlike
weapons at the polls represents a Quak-
er district.
—The vicorous manner in which
Rev Sam Jones acquitted himself the
other day when attacked by a Texan
Mayor should warn those who may
be disposed to tackle the renowned
revivalist that his religion is of the
muscular variety.
--The announcement by Chief Jus-
tice FULLER that the court sustains the
motion of the British counsel in the
sealskin case brought before that tribu-
nal, is assurance that although we have
a Jingo Administration we don’t have a
Jingo Supreme Court,
—1If they could get their steamship
g1bsidy swindle through, which, if pass-
ed, would despoil the public treasury of
$200,000,000 in the next ten years, the
Republican leaders would be happy yet,
you bet, notwithstanding the failure of
their bayonet project.
--The Philadelphia Inquirer says:
“Tf the tariff is a tax it does not seem to
be paid by the consumers.” That is
characteristic of all indirect taxation.
To those who have to pay it it does not
seem to be a tax, but it gets in its ex-
tortionate work all the same.
— Senator ALDRICH, in speaking of
the Force Bill, of which he was one of
the chief engineers, says ‘‘the bill is
dead without the hope of resurrection.”
For the good of the country it is to be
hoped that it is beyond the sound of Ga-
BRIEL’S trombone.
—The appearance of Governor PAr-
T1soN the other day at Harrisburg as
prosecutor in an action for libel against
an offender who assailed his reputation
at the late election, showed that, unj
like the slippery man from Maine, he
didn’t bring his suit merely for a cam-
paign purpose.
—If Mr. HARRISON is in & quandary
:about the appointment of a Secretary of
the Treasury we would kindly help him
out of the difficulty by suggesting
MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY as the sue-
cessor of Mr. WinbpoM, deceased. Mr.
QuAY’s experience in handling treasury
funds has been so well ventilated that
the public know all about it.
—The New York Sun, with unparal-
leled effrontery, says ‘‘the Democratic
party was betrayed in 1838.” It was
indeed betrayed, and the fact that Dax
is still alive and kicking is evidence
that the man who was chief among the
Judases of that campaign didn’t follow
the example of his treacherous proto-
type by hanging himself.
— Krupp, the German gunmaker, is
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VOL. 36.
Pattison Fires a Shot at the Force Bill.
After Senator CameroN had voted to
set aside the the gag reso'ution in the
Senate to make way for the Apportion-
ment Bill, whereby the Force Bill re-
ceived what appears to have been ils
final quietus, the radicals %in the State
Legislature showed great indignation
over his action and talked loud about
passing a resolution demanding his
resignation. They, however, couldn't
muster courage enough for that, but
satisfied themselves with a resolution
calling on Pennsylvania's representa
tives in the Senate to support the feder-
al elections bill, more popularly known
as the Force Bill. This was passed by
a party vote, and was sent to the Gov-
ernor for his signature. Bat upon
this subject he didn’t have the same
impression as that which actuated the
Republican legislators, and consequent-
ly he vetoed the resolution, returning
it to the body from which it emanated
with some interesting remarks, of
which the following are the leading
points :
I assume that the measure is intended to
favor the bill now pending in the United States
senate, to amend and supplement the election
laws of the United States, popularly known as
the force bill. I am not willing to give my
assent to any declaration in support of that
measure, for it taikes away local sovereignty,
which is the essence of our free government.
In contemplating the work of the wise men who
made the federal constitution it was both im-
pliedly and expressedly reserved to the people
of the several States to choose their represent_
atives, and their legislators are entirely com.
petent to prescribe the places and man-
ner of holding eleztions.
There is no popular demand for legislation
which seems to invade this right ef the people
and to transfer the choice of their representa-
tives trom State io federal regulation. The
proposition to invest the executive and judi-
cial branches of the federal government with
the power to appoint agents to control the
election of the legislative branch is a most pre-
posterous and dangerous one. The device to
this end, which this resolution approves, in-
volves the expenditure of many millions of
dollars and the creation of enormous federal
patronage in regard to the judiciary, as cum-
bersome, inquisitorial and expensive, as it is
unnecessary and unconstitutional. Such a
plan will not tend to secure free and untram-
meled suffrage.
On the contrary, it will destroy the purity
and disturb the tranquility of elections ; it will
awaken sectional discord, breed distrust and
endunger business prosperity. Sound moral,
material and political considerations alike de-
mand that such a measure should be repro-
bated and not encouraged. Convened, as the
general assembly of Pennsylvania is, to cons
sider matters of State concern and to jealously
protect the rights of its citizens, I ean see no
virtue in the approval of a measure which
would yield to Federal interference and super:
vision what fairly belongs to the people of the
State s, and what is constitutionally guaranteed
to them. I believe thatanoverwhelming ma-
jority of the people outside of our own com.
monwealth are heartily opposed to the fea-
tures of the bill. I cannot, therefore, consis-
tently or conscientiously join in a request to
the Senators of Pennsylvania to favor such an
enactment.
This was excellent treatment of a
partisan measure which proposed to
create political disturbance in the
country for the sake of a party advan-
tage. As chief executive of Pennsyl-
vania, Governor ParrisoN could never
conseat to having the control of its
elections taken from the hands of the
State authorities and handed over to
the aroitrary management of a central-
ized federal government, and what he
would not want for his own State he
certainly would object to having fasten-
ed upnn any other State.
Mine Protection.
The terrible mine disaster near Scott-
dade last week was a calamity that
needs investigation, with a jview to the
prevention of such calamitous occur-
rences. The business of mining is
necessarily attended with dangers, but
unavoidable as they are to a certain
exteat, no effort should be spared to
lessen their number and to shield the
miners as far as possible from the
perils of their calling. It is, therefore,
tor a commendable purpose thata com-
mission appointed by the Legislature
is inquiring into the facts and circum-
stances of last week's terrible accident
and taking testimony that will discov-
er the cause of the disaster with a
view to fixing the respousibility,if any,
said to acknowledge that he has been
responsible for the death of 650,000 men
on the battle-field. He unnecessarily
magnifies his responsibility. There
haven’t been that many men killed out-
right in battle within the last hundred |
years, and he is far from having made
all the guns that did the shooting in
1hat time.
and devising further safeguards if those
already existing can in any way be
improved upon,
—
——Probably it wouldn't be so
mach ofa calamity if the Republicans
should effect their project of eradica-
ting the only Democratic congressional
district in Philadelphia. It would
leave the factions Damocrats of that
city less to wrangle about and less cap-
ital with which to carry out disgraceful
deals.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 6, 1891.
NO. 5.
Dead Issues.
Mr. Barrerr, Republican Speaker
of the Missachusetts House of Repre-
gentatives, is beginning to see what is
the matter with the party which,
though old, is not as grand as it use to
be. Dead issues, he thinks, is what
is troubling it. In addressing the
Norfolk club some daysago, he said :—
“ We are split up as a party, because
“ we are not bringing to the front ques-
“tions in which the people are interest
“od; because westand on the issues
“that were popular twenty or twenty-
“ five years ago, and are making these
“ old issues paramount.”
Mr. BARRETT is entirely correct in
his diagnosis of the Republican dis-
ease. It is suffering terribly from
dead issues, and its ailment is in-
curable and bound to be fatal, for all
the live issues are in the possession of
the Democrats, there being none avail-
able for the Republicans to take hold
of for the intusion cf new blood into
their moribund party.
The great dead issue, whose carcass
hangs around the neck of the Repub-
lican party with peculiar offensiveness,
like the boly of the albatross around
the neck of the Ancient Mariner, is al-
laded to by Mr. Barrer in the follow-
ing language: “The McKinley bill
“was not popular in the last election.
“The majority of the people in this
4 State did not believe in it and do not
“ believe in it now. We can well af-
“ ford to let thejmatter rest for the pres-
ent.”
Rest, no doubt, is what the “grand
old party” would lise to have, for it
self and for its issues, but there is no
rest for the wicked.
should prevail in the
D:mocratic ranks in New York since
Crevenanp and Hiun have met at a
public dinner and exchanged compli-
Mr. CuLeveranNp praised the
administration ‘of public
affairs at Albany, and proposed his
health, which was drank amid great
apolause, and in retarn for this com-
pliment the Governor spoke in high
terms of the ex-President’s aiministra-
tion, calling it a model example of
Democratic government. Sach cor
diality between the leading Democrats
of the State should allay the hostile
teclidiz between the factions.
CHE T——
—-Peace
men’s.
Governor's
Already Enough.
The Apportionment bill whieh has
passed both Houses of congress and no
doubt will be signed by the President,
may not be chargeable with the inten-
tion of being partisan in its effect, but
it is objectionable in that it continues
the increase in the number of Repre-
sentatives that has been made after
every census to keep up a proportion-
ate pace with the increase of popula
tion. There must be a time when this
must stop and there could be no better
time than now.
The House of Representatives is al-
ready a large body, and if the increase
is to go on every ten years it will grow
to be an unwieldy collection of law-
makers. The present number is 356,
quite enough for the purpose of repre-
sentation and legislation. Six hundred
could not do the work any better, but
probably would do it worse. There
is nothing in the organic law that re.
quires the number of representatives Lo
be of a certain proportion to the total
population. If that were required it
would take a small army to constitute
the lower house when we shall attain
the hundreds of millions of population
to which Americans look forward with
patriotic pride. Tt is to be hoped that
this is the last decade in which it will
be thought necessary to give the gov-
ernment an additional supply of con-
gressionat law-makers. Quantum suf
ficit.
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——The G. O. P. people of Pennsyl-
vania are in a bad way with their
United States Senators. A large part
of them detest Quay, having no respect
for either his integrity or his ability,
while another large part are mad at
CameroN and would like him to re
sign. But neither of them cares much
about this hostile sentiment. It is
said that when CaMEeroxN left Washing.
ton for Fortress Monroe last week, to
recuperate after the effort of helping to
kill the gag resolution, he said
friend : “I am in for six years more
and my critics can howl all they
want.”
He Will Hardly Try It.
There is a report that Senator Quay
is going to reply to the personal and
official charges that have been made
against him. He is represented as
having prepared a detailed and circum-
stantial refutution of the damaging
things which his enemies have said
and published about him, which he
will read in his place in the Senate and
thus clear his record in the presence of
his senatorial associates, When the
Senator was under fire during the re-
cent State contest it was claimed by
his friends that he couldn’t afford to
take notice of the charges of his ene-
mies while they had their guns trained
on him. It would be beneath his dig-
nity and in conflict with his sense of
self-respect. That emergency is now
overand the public would be much in-
terested in anything the Senator may
have tosay in vindication of his assail-
ed reputation and as proof that he had |
been slandered and vilified,
It was unfortunate for him, however, |
that bis defence was delayed. If he
could have proved during the last cam-
paign that he never raided the State
Treasury and never got himself into
aifficulty by losing the public funds in
private speculation, the political mis-
fortune which overtook him in the
last State election might not have oc- |
curred, or might at least have been |
mitigated.
Since the report of his intended self-
vindication before the Senate has been
cirenlated, the Senator is said to have
been asked about 1t, but he maintained
his accustomed reticence as to whether
it was so ornot. It isn’t probable that
he will venture upon the hazard of a
vindication.
——The resident. of the United!
States under all circumstances should
behave with decency; yet HARRI: |
son has shown that when his feelings
are ruffled he can withhold decent
treatment from those who come into
his presence. The defeat of his pet
Force Bill was the cause of one of his
displays ot boorishness. A couple of
Pennsylvania Republican State Sena-
tors called on him immediately after
CaMeroN had assisted in defeating the
force scheme, and he veuted his spleen
on them by reproaching them for hav- |
ing aided there-election of the offending |
Senator, curtly turning his back upon |
It is cowardly
them after the reproof.
for a man holding his position to in- |
dulge in such bad manners, as he
knows that his exalted office protects
him from being treated in return with
the same rudeness. It is cowardly as
well as unmannerly.
em———
State Money for Road Purposes.
One of the provisions of the new
road law, to be acted upon by the State
Legislature, is for an appropri-
ation of about $1,000,000 by the
State to the building ‘of permanent
This, it 1s said, will be distrib-
manner
roads.
uted to the townships in a
similar to the public school appropria-
tion, and is to be given with the hope
that townships will contribute from
their local taxation additional sums for
permanent macadamizing. For this
purpose the bill will probably permit
townships to borrow money up to the
constitutional debt limit. In each
township three supervisors are to be
chosen, who will serve without pay,
and who will employ foremen to over:
see the gangs of road laborers. In
each county an engineer will be elect-
ed to pass uason the road work in all
the townships.
Mr. DiNerey, of Maine, has
introduced a bill in congress the pur-
pose of which is to prohibit absolutely
the sale of intoxicating liquors in the
District of Congress. It might im-
prove the general average of congres.
sional legisiation if the legislators were
deprived of their usual supply of ‘cold
tea,” but Mr. Divgrey should have
learned from the example of his own
State that passing prohibitory laws is
one thing and enforcing them is quite
another.
—
—1Tt is a nice little scheme for the
Republicans to attempt. to leave a big
deficiency to encumber the Democrats
of the next congress, but it is a
0 al
| everybody to see through it.
scheme whose transparency allows
It will
| be generally known who squandered
the money and whose mismanagement
Mr. Kerr for Clerk of the House.
We are glad to see that congressman
KERR, present Representative from
this district and Chairman of the
Democratic State Committee of Penn-
sylvania, has consented to become a
candidate for Clerk of the next House
of Representatives. In addition to the
local feeling which we may have in
this matter, we are sure that the
Democrats of the entire State would be
highly gratified by Mr. Kerr's elec-
tion to this important and responsible
position. IIe is bright, able, cool-head-
ed and alert; just the man for the office.
We see a strong argument advanced
in Mr, Kerr's favor as a candidate for
the congressional clerkship in the fact
that he comes from a section of coun-
try which has no candidate for Speak:
er, and his candidacy can, therefore,
not interfere with the election of that
officer, Then the office of clerk to the
House of Representatives has been
held by Pennsylvania almost since the
founding of the Government, and there
is now no reasons for departing from
the time-honored custom, The present
clerk, ex-Congessman McPrEersox, is
a Pennsylvanian, and he has held the
office for many yeaps when the House
has been in the control of the Republi-
cans. Now that Pennsylvania has
gone Democratic in a year in which the
Democrats carried the lower house of
congress, it is argued by the friends of
Mr. Kerr that Pennsylvania is more
than ever entitled to the place, and,
! above all men in the State, he should
be elected.
i would be repaying but a small portion
of the debt the majority party owes to
The fifty-second congress
one of the staunchest Democrats in the
country.
——Wi ith the certainty of another
term Senator Cameron can afford to
treat with contempt the impotent
| wrach of his enemies who denounce
him for doinz, by voting against the
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gag rule, what he had a clear right to
do in the discharge of his official lity.
He was under no obligation to vow for
a measure which his better judgment
condemned aud which his discernment
enabled him to know was not wanted
by either a majority of his party or of
the people of his State.
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Partisan Dewviltry Frustated.
It is now pretty generally understood
| in Washington, gathered from semi-of-
ficial expression, that no further effort
will be made in the senate to enforce
the gag rule and pass the obnoxious
Force Bill. Two unexpected obstruc-
tions thrown in the way of the revolu-
tionary measure has so delayed the
action of the bayonet Senators that
they now find scarcely sufficient time
left for the completion of indespensa-
ble legislation with which they dare
not allow further consideration of the
Force Bill to interfere. They are com-
pelled to lay aside their partisan
scheme in order that the end of the
session may not find necessary business
unfinished, and that there may not
be occasion for the new cougress to
meet in extra session. The country
has reason to rejoice that the partisan
deviltry of the Repablican leaders has
been frustrated.
CS CET CAEN.
—— Secretary of the Commonwealth
Harrity bas made two very good se-
lections in the appointment of T. Rir-
TER VANDYKE, of Lewisburg, as Assis-
tant Corporation Clerk, and Hon.
James North, of Pattison, Juniata
county, to a clerkship in the State de-
partment. The appointments under
this State administration are of the aps |
proved Democratic stripe. *
anrCmT—TG——
A bill is before the State Legis-
lature to legalize the Saturday half-
holiday, from the 15th of June to the
15th of September, for all employes
in operations thut will admit of inter-
ruption. This boon, granted volunta.
rily by merchants and manufacturers of
Philadelphia to their employes, has
been so acceptable and beneficial that
an effort will be made to make it gen-
eral and obligatory throughout the
State by a law to that effect.
mT ————
~The 700 iron-workers who have
been locked out at Pottstown because
they would not accept a reduction of 25
per cent in their wages, will have am- i
ple leisure to study that branch of eco-
nomics connected with protective tar-
is responsible for the deficiency.
iffs.
spawls from the Keystone.
—Lafayette College has 322 students.
—A bogus Masonic lodge has been exposed
in Scranton.
—Mount Carmel Colliery top rock fell and
killed John Hanlon,
—A Scranton Judge has decided that piano
playing is manual labor.
—During the late floods a Montclare man
shot eighty-one muskrats.
—A casesof small-pox at Erie has been traced
to a letter carried from Texas.
—There are 400 idle houses in Williamsport
due to the high rents demanded.
—During the past year 473 buildings, valued
at $1,214,844 were erected in Scranton.
—Eighteen divorce cases were acted upon
in the Tioga County Courts at the last term.
—The old fashioned spelling-bee is under-
going a revival through the country sections.
—Chester county's three alleged fire-bugs
were acquitted after a trial that lasted three
days.
—Ex-Brakeman Charles Sheifer is in jail at
Norristown as a car burglar who stole tobacco
and rum.
—Noah Leibert, a Pennsburg farmer, was
fatally kicked in the bowels by a horse he was
grooming.
—Ice in the river at Lock Haven went out
on a five-foot flood Friday without causing the
damage anticipated.
—DMrs. John J. Watson, of Middletown drop
ped dead beside her husband in their cai-
ziage on Thursday,
—G. A. R. Men at Schuylkill Haven would
not permit a comrade’s body to be buried in
the Potter's Field.
—Mr. Campele, agent of the Indian schools
at Carlisle, is visiting the Indian boys employ«
ed on Bucks county farms.
—Commissioners of Lehigh county require
all tramps committed to jail to crack stones
from morning until night.
—John Robbins, a porter of the United
State + Hotel, at Easton, attempted to rob the
wine eellar, and is now in jail.
—A Jersey Central engine killed Widow
Harrt while she was picking coal on the track
at Upper Catasauqua yesterday.
—It is said that Northampton County Com-
missioners conduct their official deliberations
in Pennsylvania Dutei:.
—Dolington, Bucks county, has a preaching
station, thanks to the good people of the Epis-
copal Church of Newtown.
—The first incandescert electric light plant
established personally by Edison isto be sold
by the Sheriff at Sunbury.
—Allentown’s two oldest women—Mrs. Bene
jamin Morris, aged 93, and Mrs. Ellenor Dubbs,
aged 88 years—died on Friday.
—For the first time in the history of the
Farmers’ Institute at Atglen no.papers by wce
men were read at the last meeting.
—J. M. Glick, one of Girardville’s prominent
citizens, has received an old-time Molly Ma-
guire notice to leave the town,
—George Hoffman, of Carlisle, serves green
corn on his table all winter, much to the as-
tonishment of his guests. He presrves it in a
pickle.
—A girl in Huntingdon township, Luzerne
county,who walks four miles to Sunday-school,
has only missed three Sundays in twelve
years.
—A grave prepared at Macungie for Peter
Heilig was found to be full of water, and the
interment had to be postponed until the hole
was pumped out.
—Williamm H. Moon, the well-known Backs
county nurseryman, of Morrisville, has been
elected President of the Pennsylvania State
Horticulture Society.
—Voluntary manslaughter is the verdict
from which Policeman William Weathers, of
Pittston, will appeal. He killed Coal Operator
J. W. Davis in October.
~ The jewelry store of John F. Schmitt, at
Homestead, was robbed on Saturday of $2000
worth of diamonds and watches during the
proprietor’s absence at supper.
—Edisor Smith, of the Punxsutawney Spirit,
is a naw legislator. He writes home that” new
members are tolerated in the Legislature be-
cause there is a law against murder.
—The mangled body of Johan Koons, a clerk
in the City Treasurer's office at Harrisburg,
was found on Sunday near West Fairview,
where it issupposed he was struck by a train.
—Dr. Melntosh, of Harrisburg, says he visit-
ed a town ims this State where no one could un-
derstand his English, and he saw working-
men’s notices postzd in four different lan-
guages.
—William: Maris pulled the trigger of his
shotgun at Luk ‘ns Quarry, near Chester, on
Sunday night, and a black citizen ran howling
away to the woods with only one of the 150
pullets.
—St. John’s Evangelical congregation at
Shamokin passed resolutions not te recognize
nor support the suspended Bishops Bowman
and Esher in any attempt to organize a con-
ference.
—William Wolf was buried by caving, earth
thirty feet down in a well he was digging in
Spring Garden township, York county. Res-
cuers dug so rapidly that,though they got him
out unconseious, he lived.
—While Joseph Cramer and Frank Ault,
two Lancaster boys, were playing with a revol-
ver Saturday the former pointed it at Anlt and
discharged it, inflicting a wound. in, the head
that may prove fatal.
—Joseph and Edward Gorman, proprietors of
the Washington Hotel, Allentown, are in cus
tody for maintaining a dog fighting pit in their
cellar, for prize-fighting and for seiling liquor
to minors and on Sunday.
—No more bodies have been recovered from
the wrecked Mammoth mine near Youngwood
and the number of dead still remams 107. Fif-
ty widows are left at Mammoth ard twelve in
Europe. Ninty-six children have been orphan-
ed.
—At Montrose Philander Brown was sentenc
ed to imprisonment in the county jail for one
year and six months for swindling Paul Hill
out of sever:z1 thousand dollars on a plea that
Murs. Hill wanted the money for use in heaven.
They were refused a new trial.
—The United Mine Workers, in convention
at Pittsburg, passed a resolution petitioning
the Legislature to enforce the Gallagher min-
ing law in the bituminous regions. Another
| law is also asked, which shall make the opera:
tor or the State responsible for mine disasters.
—Jacob Staup, twice convicted of murder at
Uniontown, who escaped from jail whilst await-
| ing a new trial in May, 1874, was captured and
| again lodged in the Fayette County Jail. One
of his sons made a death-bed confession in
1886, that it was he, and not his father, who
killed Alpheus Glover, and Staup, whois now
nearly 70 years of age, is confident of praving
his innocence.