BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Is it possible that Uncle SAM shall
have to take his hat off to the man with
the hand organ and monkey ?
— Tulips are now the favorite flowers
of the belles. Two lips, if of the ruby
variety, have always been favorites of
the beaux.
—The Forepaugh and the Harrison
combinations go on the road about the
same time, The latter has the advan-
tage of having a Jumbo with it,
—The Republicans will pass a ballot
reform bill if QUAY shall consent, and
it is easy to imagine what sort of ballot
reform the Boss will consent to.
—TIt can’t be expected that the Presi-
dent will extend the periphery of his
circle into Mexico. As it is intended
exclusively for a political object, Mexico
isn’t in it.
—The citizen can’t put a spoonful of
sugar into his coffee without a realizing
sense of the benefit which the free trade
feature of the McKinley bill has con-
ferred upon him.
—Bankruptey is knocking out old
Pennsylvania Dutch business firms
in Lancaster county which for years
were considered as good as Lancaster
county wheat.
—Gentle April showers attend the
starting of Mr. HARRISON'S electioneer-
ing journey. The thunder storm that is
in store for his administratior will
come next year.
—If Farmer INGALLS should begin
his spring work with digging post-holes,
he would be likely to experience an
ungovernable desire to get into one of
them and draw it in after him.
—1It is said that the President started
on his trip with a yalise full of extem-
poraneous speeches which he will fling
at the people from the back platform of
his car in the most off-handed manner.
—The Democrats in the Legislature
are not responsible for the deficiencies of
the Baker Ballot Bill ; but they will
vote for it, not because it is as good as
they want, but because it is the best
they can get.
—At this season of muddy roads the
prudent farmer will note the chuck-hole
where his wagon went in hub deep,
bearing it in mind as a spot where the
operation of the proposed new road law
would do the most good.
—The attention that is being paid the
Presidential excursion shows that the
people have an inherent respect for the
Presidency even when the office is oc-
cupied by a small character who is mak-
ing a spectacle of himself.
-—The circle which BEN HARRISON has
commenced to swing around will in-
clude a wider circumference than ANDY
JoaNSsoN’s did, but in the end it will
strike the same tangent that run ANDY
clear out of the White House.
—PEFFER is proud of his whiskers,
which so far have been dallied with by
Alliance zephyrs ; but before the ter-
mination of his senatorial service he may
find the whirlwind of granger disappro-
bation blowing through them.
—The latest news about Tom REED,
who is now in. Europe, is that he is
hurrying on to Rome. It is probable
that he is impelled in this movement by
the belief that his reputation as a czar
will awe the Italian authorities into
good behavior toward the United States.
—The inventor of the ‘pigs in clover
puzzle” made $300,000 out of it, when
its sale suddenly ceased. But he was a
pig that wanted more clover, and in
consequence most of the money he had
made was spent in continuing to supply
an article for which there was no de-
mand.
—RuDINT, who cannot be supposed to
understand the necessities that govern
the movements of American Presidents
who want to be re-elected, may not be
willing to suspend the controversy be-
tween Italy and the United States until
President HARRISON shall have gotten
through his political tour.
—MuRAT HALS TEAD, in trying to
spread himself too extensively on the ed-
itorial nest, has found ‘hat one of the
eggs which he couldr’t cover in Cincin-
nati while he was in Brooklyn, has
chilled on him. The directorship of his
old newspaper, the Cincinnati Commer-
cial Gazette, has been taken from him.
---JoHN BuUrNs, the London labor
leader, has openly cailed the Prince of
Wales a gambler, and is still at large.
Greater liberties can be taken with the
reputations of royal personages in
England than were allowed in the be-
ginning of the century when Legian
Hunt was sent to jail for calling the |
Prince Regent “a fat Adonis of fifty.”
—Looking from our window on Wed-
nesday morning, the array of fishermen
along Spring creck angling for trout, af-
forded us a pleasant sight. They were
paying the first compliments of the sea-
son to ‘‘the speckled beauties,” and it
was quite clear that the beauties didn’t
sDpreciaie the attention that was paid
them. One fifteen incher in particular
wiggled a vigorous protest against the
summary manner in which it was tak-
en from its native element.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL. 36.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 17, 1891.
NO. 15.
Governor Pattison and the Military.
Governor Parrison has acted admir-
ably the part which the constitution
compelled him to take in the matter
of the Westmoreland coke riots ; and
yet fault is being found by some
for his selecting the militia regiments
nearest the scene for the purpose of
quelling the disturbance. The objec-
tion is that these militia men, being
themselves to a large extent miners
and cokeworkers, sympathized with
the strikers. But if this sympathy
really existed, did the result show that
it was attended with a bad effect? Did
it interfere with their efficiency in acting
a faithful part as the preservers of the
peace and defenders of life and proper-
ty in their capacity as guardsmen?
Events have proved the wisdom of the
Governor in trusting that law and or-
der could be safely entrusted to a sol-
diery composed of workingmen, what.
ever their personal sympathies might
be. On the question of economy the
Governor was also right in employing
regiments that were nearest the scene
of disturbance. The expense would
have been much greater in transport
ing guardsmen from distant parts of
the State.
Another set of quibblers rather feebly
contend that he made a mistake in
not calling out the troops sooner; that
if he had done so the loss of life in the
Morewood collision would have been
prevented. But these objectors over-
look the fact that the constitution, by
which the Governor must be governed,
does not allow soldiers to be factors in
such questions until the civil power is
shown to be clearly incapable. There
was no evidence of such incapacity un-
til the sheriff's deputies proved to be un-
ableto manage the hostile demonstration
of the strikers. Troops can’t be moved
around the State at the threatening of
eyery mob, otherwise we might as well
have a military government. The con-
ditioas for their employment exist only
when the mob gets the upper hand,
showing such strength that the civil
authorities, represented by the sheriff,
can’t withstand it.
A contemporary which measurably
gives the Governor credit for his ac-
tion, thinks that if he erred in any
respect it was in calling out the
posse and strengthening the civil au-
thorities without resorting to military
power, If there hadn’t been any con-
stitutional obligation in the matter the
Goyernor might have used his discre-
tion; but it wasn’t a discretionary case.
Arming a sheriff's posse at the stage
which the disturbance had reached
would have furnished just enough pow-
er to have encouraged further collision.
When the Whisky Insurrection broke
out in the same region,more than three
quarters of a century ago, presenting a
difficulty which the civil authorities
could not successfully meet, President
WasniNGTON did not tamper with the
disturbance by the half way measure
of arming a sheriff's posse, but he sent
such a strong military force to the
scene of the trouble that order was at
once restored, and not a life wag lost
after the appearance of the soldiers.
This was done strictly in conformity
with his constitutional duty, and Gov-
ernor ParrisoN followed his illustrions
example.
The Young Republican Club of
Philadelphia, the most active political
organization in that city, last Friday
night gave a banquet at wkich the
feelings and sentiments of Pennsylvania
Republicans were freely expressed.
Numerous speeches were made, but it
was a remarkable and significant cir-
cumstance that, with all this talking,
not a word was said in favor of Ballot
Reform. From what was said on that
occasion a listener would have been
perfectly ignorant of the fact that an
Australian ballot bill was pending in
the Legislature. Evidently the young
Republicans are as indifferent about
honest elections as the older ones have
proved themselves to be.
—One of our local Republican con-
temporaries, in an article devoted to the
abuse of GROVER CLEVELAND, calls
him “the Stuffed Prophet of Wall
Street.’’ Ifit is necessary, for that jour-
nal to resort to the blackguardism of the
New York Sun in criticising Mr.
CLEVELAND, it should correctly quote
the abusive phrase invented by Dana's
ingenious malevolence.
nations than the continuance of such
{a peace as now exists.
troops at all, and that he might have!
done better by arming the sueriff’s !
| the duty from
European War Clouds.
Rumors that a war was on the eve
of breaking out in Europe have been
so frequently repeated within the past
few years that very little attention has
been given them. We again have re-
ports that the situation is threatening
and that the long expected collision be-
tween France and Germany is about
to begin. The Emperor of Germany
is said to have treated the French am:
bassador in a way that will require
the dignity of the French government to
recall him, and that will mean war,
It is remembered that the last difficul-
ty between these powers began with a
tiff between King WiLLiam and the
representative of the French Emperor.
The feelings of the two nations have
been in a condition for a fight for some
years past, nothing restraining them
butithe fear of each other's strength.
France has completely recovered her
military power, and Germany has
maintained hers to the fullest extent of
her great resources as a nation. It is,
impossible to say which is the strong-
er. With such ample preparations,
with a sufficient cause, and a decided
inclination particalarly on the part of
the French, there is no reason why the
conflict shouldn’t break out at any
moment. The French appear to have
gained an ally in Russia which has
her own ends to serve by hostilities,
and with such backing they can face
with confidence Germany allied with
Austria and Italy.
In fact a war would really be a gain
to these great powers. They have bur-
dened themselves with the expense of
their immense preparations, and if
they should fight out the differences be-
tween them, which can’t be settled
without a fizht, they could then reduce
their vast military establishments and
relieve the people of the burden of sup-
porting them. But such a reduction
can’t be made until there is a solution 4
of ditferences by actual warfare. There-
fore a war would be better in the long
ran for the people of these antagonizing
As was to be expected, the reve-
nues on imports have declined since
the 1st of April when the duty was tak-
en off sugar. That commodity is one
of our heaviest imports, and removing
it seriously ; affects
the revenue. It is well enough to give
the people free sugar, but where is the
money to come from that is required
to pay the expenses of the Billion Dol-
lar Congress? If the revenue is to be
cut down, the expenses should be re-
duced ; otherwise there will be an em-
barrassing deficiency.
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The Work of a Great Organizer.
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In reorganizing the Democratic con-
gressional campaign committee some
of the best features of Representative
KERR'S plan of operations were adopt-
ed, and it is gratifying to obserye
that the ideas which he advanced for
more clesely organizngithe party and
continuing the campaign of education’
during the summer, have been acted
upon and put into effect bythe Nation-
al Association of Democratic Clubs.
One of Mr. Kerr's ideas was to start a
Democratic club in every voting pre-
cinct in those States which are in any
way doubtful, and establish regular
communication between these clubs
and the national organization. Ia this
way the Democratic voters wouid be
kept in connection with the party
leaders and in full accord with the par-
ty policy. In many States this has
been done to a large extent. In the
Northwest, especially, the organization
has been almost perfected, and great
results are expected from it.
Mr. KEgR, as chair of the Democra-
tic committee of Pennsylvania, proved
his capacity for executive work by the
result of last year’s campaign, and
that] his ideas are inflaencing Demo-
cratic orgauization throughout the
country gives assurance of good re-
sults in the approaching Presidential
contest
—T'hat hustling Virginia statesman,
General MAHONE, is laying his wires to
get back into the Senate,and if he should
succeed he will in one session impart a
greater variety ot features to the pro-
Breach of Faith Brings on a Deadlock.
The Republican Senators have re-
fused to confirm three of Governor
Parricon’s appointments because the
Governor has not issued commissions
to appointees of Governor Beaver who
were confirmed after PArrison’s inau-
guration. This is a breach of faith
with the Democratic Senators with
whom an agreement had been made
at the beginning of the session in rela-
tion to confirmations.
The fact is that the Beaver adminis-
tration acted unfairly in making ap-
pointments that justly belonged to the
incoming Democratic administration,
and were made simply for the reason
that it had the opportunity to take
this unfair advantage. Because these
Beaver appointments have not yet
been followed by commissions from
the Governor the senatorial majority
refuse to confirm appointments sent in
by him for confirmation® There is no
reasonable justification for this, as there
is no assurance that the commissions
withheld will not be forthcoming in due
time.
The Republicans have taken an un-
eafe position in this controversy. It is
true they can prevent the confirmation
of Governor ParrisoN’s appointments,
and keep the appointees out for some
weeks, but when the Legislature ad-
journs their power ends, and then not
only the persons nominated by the
Governor can‘be inducted 1nto office,
but Democrats can be put in the
places of the Republicans whose com-
missions have not been issued. Since
the majority have forced this question
by their want of faith they may find
the controversy ending with this re-
sult, and themselves forced to take the
hot end of the poker.
——While the Democrats carried
Rhode Island at the late election, the
Republicans got the offices. This
would not be much of a loss if the
holders of public places represented the
will of the people. The Democratic
majority is 1,200. This should be
enough to give the winners the politi-
cal control of that little State, but it
does not, and never will under the pre-
sent unfair system of elections. The
same is the case with Connecticut and
New Hampshire. These three States
have never had a Republican form of
government, and the Republican party
is now holding control in them by
means as fraudulent as if actual frauds
were committed at the ballot box.
Blaine to Be Put on the Track.
~The Blaine boomers are maturing
their scheme to bring out their favorite
as a Presidential candidate. They are
determined that the track shall not be
left entirely to Harrison. That the
great Jim should be eclipsed by soin-
significant a character as Bex is
not to be tolerated. Therefore they
are arranging a programme the begin-
ning of which will require BLaINg's re-
tirement from the cabinet not later
than next fall. This will emancipate
hit from the Harrison influence and
control. Then, to counteract the effect
of the political tour which. the Presi-
dent is now making through the
South and West, BLAINE is to make a
similar one, only on a more extensive
scale. The Blaine tour will comprise
10,000 miles of travel, as against the
6000 embraced in the Harrison itiner-
ary. Itis to swing much further around
the circle, and is intended to eclipse in
every respect the trip of his rival. The
object is to “bring the Western farmers
as much as possible in contact person-
ally with the man who has been en-
deavoring to get a foreign market for
their ‘barrel of pork’ and ‘bushel of
wheat.’
BrAINg's retirement from the cabi-
net, followed by such a tour, would be
ample notice to Mr. Harrison that mn
the great Reciprocity promoter he has
a rival for the Presidency, and that it
will require all his official appliances
to meet so formidable a competitor.
——BisMARCK is going to be elected
a member of the imperial legislature
known as the Reichstag. There can
be no doubt of the influence he will be
able to exert, and he will be sure
to be on the side of the opposition,
where he is likely to make things
lively for the imperial administraticn.
But it is certain that he will never do:
ceedings of that august body than Ebp-
MUNDS was able to furnish in the whole |
course of his senatorial career.
anything that will detract from the
honor and glory of Germany.
The Kind That Will Be Passed.
Some days ago Hon. James Kgrg,
Chairman of the Democratic State Com-
mittee, was in Harrisburg and gave
his views in regard to what the State
Legislature is doing. What evoked
his remarks particularly was the fail-
ure of the majority to fulfill its party
pledges in relation to tax equalization,
and its evident inclination to disregard
the constitutional requirement con-
cerning apportionment. Mr Kz
condemned this state of affairs and
said it was largely attributable to the
influence of Senator Quay who under-
stands the disadvantage to the party
that would result from the fulfillment
of those pledges.
But it is said that for prudential
reasons Quay favors the Baker Bill,
and that upon his giving the word to
put it through it will pass. It wouldn’t
be good policy to excite the indignation
of the people by failing to enact some
kind of a ballot bill after it had been
so distinctly promised. That would
be bad politics; but something can be
passed that will answer the purpose of
diverting the voters without contain-
ing reform enough to injure the party
interests. It is this kind of ballot re-,
form that Quay will advise the majori-
ty to give the people.
It Looks Like Retribution.
It having been generally believed
that the difficulty with Italy had sub-
sided, and that negotiations reasonably
protracted would result in satisfying
that irate power, the surprise was great
last Saturday upon learning that the
bumptious Italian prime minister had
renewed his demands for immediate
satisfaction in a way that indicated
that if there was longer delay Italy
would resort to means that would ex-
pedite the dilatory movements of om
government. The reports of this re-
newed urgency of the Italian authori
ties were indefinite, but they left no
doubt that Rupint had re-elevated his
back in a sudden and surprising man-
ner.
It scarcely can be believed that this
renewed bullying on the part of Italy
is in earnest, and that its government
means war if its demands in regard to
the New Orleans lynching are not
promptly complied with. By some it
is supposed that the bold front it as-
sumes toward the United States is in-
tended to serve the necessities of an
embarrassing political situation at
home. Its ministry may hopeto retain
popular favor by displaying a vigorous
and domineering policy in the treat-
ment of a foreign power.
It is certain that RupiNr wouldn't
adopt this course if he didn’t know
that in naval strength Italy is greatly
superior to the United States. There-
fore nothing could be more humiliating
than the evident fact that with all our
wealth, resources and natural strength
we must stand this bullying because
we are not in a condition to resent it.
A third rate power with a competent
navy can venture to pull the nose of
the great but defenseless Republic.
It has something of the appearance
of refribution that Mr. BLAINE, the
great Republican satesman, should
find himself embarrassed in getting the
country out of this scrape with some
show of decency, after his party
wrecked our navy by making it the
prey of plundering navy contractors
and political ringsters that had to be
fed with naval spoils. But it is an
outrage that the honor and pride of
the country must suffer for such a rea
son.
——BarNUM was a living illustra-
tion of the benefit of advertising. It is.
estimated that within the last twenty-
five years he spent $3,000,000 in keep-
ing his business before the public
through theagency of printer's ink, and
as a result of this vast outlay he died
worth $5,000,000. It was a good
thing for the printers, but a better
thing or BArNUM.
——A misunderstanding has sprung
up between two wings of the Republi-
can party in Tioga county that is cal.
culated to lead to much trouble in the
future. The Quay Republicans insist
that the anti-Quay voters shall not be
permitted to participate in the next
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Scranton is promised six new indusiries.
—Altrona has nine societies of Chris tian
En deavor.
—Seed potatoes command $1.45 a bushel at
Newton.
—Measles are knocking out Carlisle (Pa.)
Indians.
—Spotted fever killed seven persons in Pitts-
burg last week.
—Lewistown Masons have decided to build
agrand Temple.
—Tramps wrecked a freight car on the Read-
ing Road at Shenandoah.
—John F. Koltman, of Easton, fell down
stairs and broke his neck:
—A thirty-six room addition is being made
to the Glen Summit hotel.
—The Geiser company, of Waynesboro, paid
$40,000 in dividends last year.
—A naturalized Chinaman at Wilkesbarre
has been sent to the poorhouse.
—A Lancaster county farmer is in jail for
robbin g his neighbor's grain barn.
—The remains of Anarchist Frick, of Pitts-
burg, were cremated in a red flag.
—Pottsville ministers have joined hands in
the interest of Sabbath observation.
—Carroll Grier, 12 years of age, was drowned
in the canal near Waisontown on Tuesday.
—Mayor Clark, of Lancaster, has redeemed
a §3 certificate issued by the city in 1837.
—A Welsh congregational musical conven -
tion is to be held in Wilkesbarre on May 9.
—Two Pittsburg boys found a can of giant
powder, put it in a fire, and were blown up.
—An Allentown boarding-house mistress las.
been arrested for beating one of her boarders.
—It has been discovered that politics enter-
ed into the distribution of Lancaster county
alms.
—Daniel Lloyd's 3-year-old son David fellin-
to a tub of scalding water at Ashland aud will
die.
—A famous “pow-wow” doctress, Elizabeth
Entner, of Lexington, Lancaster county, is
dead.
—A fall from a third-story window of the
Cooper House, Lancaster, cost Patricle May
his life.
—South Greensburg nut and bolt works
have shut down for want of natural gas to
run them.
—Pottsville and Reading ministers: have
joined hands in the interest of Sabbath gb-
servation.
—The First National Bank of Catawissa has
been authorized to begin business with a eap-
ital of $50,000.
—John H. Hummel, of Hummelstown, has a
dyed Easter egg that has been in his posses.
sion since 1828.
—Rev. Earthquake Jones, of Carlisle, pre-
‘dicts an upheaval of the earth soon that will
lay Chicago low.
—The funeral of the late George Smali,at
York, on Tuesday, was the largest ever seen
in that borough. .
—Charles Lewellyn, of Washington county,
aged 3 years, is said to solve difficult mathe
matical problems.
—The expenditures of the Harrisburg and
Gettysburg Railroad for the past year exceed
the receipts $3000.
—Bowmanite and Anti-Bowmanite Evangeli-
calsat Bethel, Berks county, will worship a
quarter of a mile apart.
—Reading’s W. C. T. U. has condemned Sun-
day papers and protested against opening the
World’s Fair on Sundays.
—Honesdale Citizen says that nearly all of
the seventy-five lakes in Wayne county are
still covered with ice. .
—Dan W. Smith, alleged accomplice in the
Strominger murder, is writing his autobio-
graphy in jail at York.
—Dizziness while stealing; a ride on a co l
train at Freamansburg caused Edward Mec-
Gonigle’s fall and fatal injury.
—Berks county’s License Court granted 450
licenses, seventy-two of which have not yet
been taken fromthe Clerk’s office.
—An owl that has preyed on the chickens.
near Pottsville for years was killed by a small
boy with an airgun, loaded with a nail.
—The National Convention of the Young:
Women’s Christian Temperance Association
will be held in Scranton on April 23 to 26.
—Within a few days 130 Indians have been
shipped from the Carlisle Training Scheel to
private homes in various parts of the State.
—An Allentown builder won a contract.on
the strength of a diffsrence of one cent be
tween himself and the next lowest bidder,-
—Theodore Hartman, a 66-year-old: pen”
gioner, shot himself at the North Liebanon
House, Lebanon, Pa, Tuesday. He has rela’
tivesin Chester.
—In the month of March there. were
eighty-nine persons in the Blair county jail,
and their - average cost of keeping was
$7.48 per month.
—The entomological collections of.the ate
Dr. Rathvon; of Lancaster, numbering 12,000
specimens, have been deposited in Frandlin
and Marshall College.
—Becative the railroad company - refused
to pay him for his cow Kkilledyon its tracks,
Johnathan Marks had seventeen laborers. ar
rested for working on Sunday.
—The engineer of the Roller Flour Mills,
near Manheim, Lancaster county, mever re-
fuses a sheltering place to tramps, and on an
average five a nignt stop at his mili.
—Kissing the typewriter is a crime in Pitts«
burg, especially if she objects, as Miss Mary
Lyons did, and her employer, J: H: Andrews,
is under bail for indecent assault.
Justice Burnett, of Stroudsburg, has de-
cided that the law which compels that prefer-
ence should be given. to old; seldiers in filling
public positions does not apply to school
teachers.
—A Corry lady; injured: by a fall due to a
poor sidewalk, offered to settle her suit against
the city for $200, but the eity officials insisted
on the case going to cours, and the lady won a
$2500 verdiet:,
—John Mooney and an unknown man were
killed, and John Kerns, of Philadelphia, had
both feet cut off, white the three tramps were
asleep under a sidetracked freight-car at Pitts.
burg; on Friday.
. —Upon being discharged from a hospital
after a long siege of sickness, Martin Meth-
baugh, of Pittsburg, went home to find that his
wife had deserted him in the meantime and
took all their household effects
—The Baltimore and Ohio railroad company
has a corps of eleven engineers at, work s ur-
primaries. If this policy should be
insisted upon throughout the State it
would cut the old party in twa.
veying for a new railroad, beginning at a point
near West Newton and running through
! Arona, Adamsburg,Penn and Jeanette to Punx«
sutawney, a distance of about ninety miles,