Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, June 12, 1891, Image 1
8Y P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The tin-piate liar heads the proces- | sion of high-tariff falsiliers. -—A gambling “kit” is hereafter to be recognized as a necessary part of the royal outfit of England—as indispensa- ble, in fact, as the crown. —The English baccarat scandal ought to furnish very interesting read- ing for the American heiress who is desirous of marrying into the English nobility. —1If investigation could be thorough- ly and honestly pushed it might be dis- covered that the Bardsley deficit had it start 1n 1888 when money was needed to elect HARRISON and save the tariff. — Senator QUAY 1s again indulging in his annual habit of declaring that he will “positively take no part” in work- ing the coming state convention. Hv- erybodv understands this little pleasant- ry of the Boss. | -—BARDSLEY has pleaded guilty to the | seventeen indictments against him, in- volving so long a term of imprisonment | that when he gets out, if he ever] shall, Republican rule will be nothing but a nasty memory. —1It has been discovered that BArDS- LEY took charge of the Philadelphia treasury without taking the oath as treasurer ; but it isn’t supposed that aco oath even of the iron-clad variety would have kept kim from stealing. . Ls — 230 think very lightly of the officer at the head of their government, but what would they think of a President who should travel over the country with a lot of gambling baggage in his train ? American people sometimes | -—Since under this Republican ad- ministration bank examiners don’t ex- amine, the people have lost confidence in the national banking system. «Key- stone Bank’ rottenness was impossible under the careful and honest rule of GROVER CLEVELAND. —When it was found necessary to discharge young RauyM from the pen- sion office on account of official misbe- havior, he was allowed to resign and thirty days extra pay was given him. Was this intended as evidence of dis- tinguished consideration ? Mr. HarrIsoN was ridiculed a good deal for traveling through the country with a trunk full of ready-made speech- es, but it would have been much worse if he should bave had it packed with gambling implements, after the style of the Prince of Wales. --The surrender of the Iwata to the United States authorities withcut unnec- essary kicking, was about the only sen- sible thing connected with the Chilian revolution. Even the South American revolutionist is impressed with the dan- ger of fooling with the United States. —A deficiency of two million dollars has been discovered in the Peter's pence fund by the Pope’s auditing committee of cardinals. As this money is not handied by Philadelphia financiers the deficit may be attributed to some other cause than municipal crookedness. --I{ is said that Mr. CLEVELAND'S new summer home in Bergen county, N.J., is “the healthiest spot in New Jersey.” DANA, of the New York Sun, would be better satisfied if the ex-Presi- dent wera located in a Jersey swamp full of malaria and alive with mosqui- toes. . —~-The Prohibitionists of Kentucky, having raised a fund of $400, are talking about making a rousing campaign. This is rather a small sum for political operations in the Blue Grass region, but as the Kentucky Prohibitionists will in- vest no money in ‘old Bourbon,” $400 may be enough. --If a Democratic President had been elected in 1883 there would not now be national officers trying to hide the crookedness the Philadelphia Keystone Bank. That crookedness would have been exposed before it reached its disastrous culmination, by a Democratic examiner who would have examined. in —To the foolishness of being galled by the tariff cry at every election is to be attributed the plight in which the Philadelphians find themselves with a plundered treasury. BARDSLEY and that class of roosters could always get into ofllee on the cry that the tariff was in danger and that its saivation depend- | tricts, allowing three to each. S - \ V7 Ny Mm % STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. | | NO. 23. or. 16, | The Constitutional Convention ull | Under the Bill providing for a con- : stitutional convention, the voters will | decide at the coming November elec- | tion for, or against, the convention, | At the same time they will vote for | delegates to compose the convention, in case the voters decide in favor of one. The whole number of delegates provided for is 177, of which 27 are to be elected in the State at large, and the remainder, 150, by Senatorial dis- In the t cage of delegates at large, as no voter will be allowed to vote for more than 18, the election will resnlt in the majority party electing 18, and the minority party 9 Inthecase of district delegates, no voter can vote for more than two out of three, and this me- thod of voting will give the Democrats one in each Republican district, and the Re publicans one in each Demo- cratic district. This will allow the minority party in each district to have la representative in the convention, which seems a very fair thing to do. If the people vote against the conven- tion, it ends there for the present; but if they vote in favor of it, it becomes the duty of the Governor, under the law, to issue his proclamation calling the convention and announcing the delezates; the convention to meet in the Hall of Representatives, IHarris- burg, the first Tuesday in December, 1891, at, 12 o'clock, noon. The pay of delegates is fixed at 31,500 and mile: age, with an allowanue for stationery. This Senatorial district, the same as all others, will be entitled to three delegates, and as it is a Democratic district the Democrats will be able to elect two of the three. Oar ambition should be to send qualified men, for it is no light affair to properly frame a fandamental law for a free people. A Defective Banking System, The case af Bank Examiner Drew presents the curious spectacle of an ex- aminer who didn’t (examine. The ob the condition of national banks by per- sonal examination, determine whether they are conducted according to the law regulating such institutions, and fee that the public is not injured by their mismanagement. Examiner Drrw has been forced to admit that he dia not perform this part of his duty in the case of the Keystone Bank; that he was aware of the irregulari-- ties which the bank officers were com mitting; that he did not interfere with after he knew it was rotten, and allow- ed the city and citizens to deposit their money init when, from 1ts insolvency well known to him, they were sure of losing the amounts they deposited. The very object of his functions as an officer was to prevent such a wrong as this, and yet he deliberately failed to carry out this object. Ie wasunfaith- tul to his official trast. Such a situation as the one in ques- tion is calculated to shake public con- fidence in the reliability of the nation- al banking system. That system has been gradually depreciating in the es- timation of the people. Its opponents have been increasing in number among 4 large and intelligent class who do not believe that the national banks are giving the public adequate benefit for the privilege and advantage they en- joy, and just such cases as that of the Keystone National Bank, ana such conduct as that of Bank Examiner Drew, the opinion and strengthen the position of the enemies of the national banking system. confirm A shrewd farmer down in Ten- nessee has discovered a practical ob- jection to the subtreasury scheme that is so popular among the Alliance peo- ed upon the Republicans carrying the city elections. —~After the party bosses have been plundering Philadelphia for vears, and Jorn has heen detected and YARDS brought to justiea by no movement on their part, bat rather in spite of their efforts to conceal his rascality, it is amusing to see the remark of the Press that “the Republicans of Philadelphia have the bahit of putting their rascals in jail.” When one of them gets in jail the retributive episode sends a shiver LY of apprehension through the machine managers who remain outside the prison walls, but kncw very well that they ought to be inside, i ple. He thinks that if the govern- { ment had a store-house to locate in a | particular locality all the farming ! townsin the surrounding country would proceed (0 ent their neighbors’ throate in order to securexdt. There would be such a fight as usually springs up iu the question of locating a government post office building. Every town wants one, and those that do not get them are down on the administration. IIence the subtreasury buildings in the rural regions would be a source of political weakness, rv ——————— ead the Warcina for political and general news, ject of such an officer is to inquire into the bank being kept open for months Twin Calamities. the English sparrows similar to that which the United States is having. . In 1860 fifty of these prolific and perni- cious birds were taken to the island continent for thé purpose of propaga- tion, under the impression that their presence would be beneficial. This, however, proved to be a delusion. ‘In the thirty-one years since the sparrows were taken to Australia they have 1n- creased to countless millions, and in- stead of being a blessing they are nn 5 All kinds of vege- by them unmitigated curse, table produ and it is said that they do nothing to cts are destroyed abate the spread of noxious insects. But there was some excuse for bring- ing the sparrows into Australia, which was comparatively a birdless country and its people natarally longed for the presence of birds. Bat there was no reason for bringing them to America. We were abundantly supplied with na- tive birds that were sufficiently capa- ble of dealing with our native insects. The sparrows are driving away our na- tive songsters while the insects are not disturbed by them. The extent of of the calamity which has been trought upon the conntry by the intro- duction of the sparrows is only in the first be stage of development. It will n fully felt after they have fully occupied the country, The Great South. 1 he Manufacturer's Record gives an rr { iL article from the pen of Epwarp ATxIN- sox on the undeveloped resources of the Soutl, in which he says: In the very heart of the eastern part of the United Sites is an area nearly as large as 4 with more varied resources, than any other similar 2 limits of our common cour try, parsely settled, and until a few y known to New England ate ale, years a ¥ peoyle. The time has now come for men to wrahend that there lies at our door a very : com; area of alinost unoccupied territory, ca- pable of being made the home of millions of intelligent and industrious families. It is a | territory capable of supplying meats, fruit and vegetables in almost measareless abi ndance, where yet a large part of the grain and meat i is imported from the West. | No part of our great country has a i | more encouraging future than the { South. So far hardly any of her vast | resources have been developed, She is rich in all the resources that contribute | to the wealth and material progress "of a country, to which may be added the best conditions of soil and climate. When these are developed she will dis- ‘pute the field of production with the Middle and New England States. If | the people of the South in developing | their natural resources exhibit but half | the energy and courage they displayed i on the field of strife, there can be no question of their success. In so doing they can illustrate the waxim that | “Peace hath her victories no less re- nowned than war.” The case of Professor Bricas has raised a disturbance in the Pres- byterian denomination that is not be- ing easily aliayed. This is unfortu- nate, as no one who tak es any interest in religion would wish to see that staunch old church disturbed by dis- sentions. The unpleasantness of the complication is increased by the action of the Union Theological Seminary whose directors are almost unanimous in their determination to stand by Prof. Briaas, ignore the veto of the General Assembly, and defy its author- ity. The directors do not consider this rebeliion, for they say “that the veto was a usurpation of powers never giv- en nor intended to be given to the Gen- eral Assembly, and that, since the voto was illegal, the appointment stands.” WHARTON BARKER, in a recent letter to Colonel Henry A. DuPoxr, ‘of Wilmington, Delaware, on public af fairs, says : “The benefits of Protection are to my mind, as to your own, unquestion- ed, it the Protective system is to be what its ardent advocates have intend- ed it to be, but if it be made the shield for capitalistic greed, then plainly we must either dislodge those who abuse its purpose, or give up the fight for its maintenance.” That is just what the modern Pro tective System is, “the shizld for capi- talistic greed.” ——PFine job work of ever discription at the Warcaman Office, Antralia has had an experience with A Sign of Deep Portent. “There are signs in the political sky that are calculated to make the Repub: lican leaders uneasy. To them the most portentous sign is the Third Par- ty, and they do not speak of it with the pleasantry they indulged in at first, According to a Washington dispatch «a member of the administration only a few days ago said on this subject : “The present is a period of doubt and new interest. I cannot say it is one improving in hopefulness. It will not do to dismiss the new party movement with the flippancy cer- tain of our newspapers deal with it. The Re- publican party itself grew out of what was not wholly unlike the present action of the agri- cultural and other dissatisfied classes of the voting population. We should be ished.” admon- The meaning that can be collected from this is that the leaders are alarm- ed at the attitude of the dissatisfied voters in the strong Republican states of the north-west, which appears as a handwriting on the wall. It should be alarming to them, considering the fact that the Third Party movement has developed chiefly the States that give the Republican party its pre- ponderance in every victory. But what makes the movement particular- in ly alarming is that most of the leaders as well as the rank and file of this new party, until they recently split off, be- longed to the Republican party. Under this condition of things it is natural that the faith of the leaders ih the future of their party is shaken. Aud this doubt has even entered the White House, as it is said that the see that infln- ences are at work that are likely to make liis re-election an impossibility. A contemporary is of the opinion that the Republican party, seeing that its overthrow is impending, will ul- President is beginning to timately throw itself into the arms of | And why should | The Republican party | its mission is end. | breach of duty in not passing a sena- the, Third Party. this not be so ? has Tun its course ; ed, When formed, thirty-five years ago, its cardinal principle and founda- PA., JUNE 12, 1891. Tho Senatorial Gerrymander Still Maintained. Although the constitution of the State of Pennsylvania requires that the Legislature shall “immediately after ezch United States decennial census” apportion the State into Senatorial dis- tricts, “as nearly equal in population as maybe,” yet the Republican party of the State, by direction of its leaders, has refused to obey this command of the constitution, both under the cen- sus of 1880 and of 1890. The present Senatorial apportionment was made under so remote a census as” that of 1870. A lapse of twenty years, extend- ing over two enumerations of the people, makes it irregular and unconstitution- al. In addition to is illegality, the Sen- atorial apportionment,as it bas been al- lowed to remain, is marvelously unfair and unjust. The districts which the requires to be ‘nearly equal in populagion as may be,” range from 48,000 population in the Leban- on Republican district to 201,000 in the Luzerne, Democratic. Twelve dis- tricts have an average of 68,000 and 12 other districts an average of 154,000. The design of making this iniquitous apportionment perpetual is to enable the Republican machine bosses to maintain their control of the Senate, a body in which corporate power and the money interest have entrenched themselves, It is there where the de- mand for just and equal taxation, for constitution { an honest ballot, and for legislation fa- vorable to the laboring class, may be successfully resisted, and the Republi- can bosses will not surrender the ad- vantage of such a position by allowing a fair senatorial apportionment that would reduce their numerical strength in that body. A Republican contetaporary at- tempts to excuse the Republican ! torial apportionment, as required by tion stone were the abolition of negro | slavery. that issue ceased to exist, and, since then, the party has had but a single With the close of the war! bond ot union, the *‘cohesion of public | Governor would have been compelled plunder; but party organization can- not long be sustained by this. The verdict of last November is evidence that the party is about to go to pieces, and the howl ot dissatisfied voters is heard from ocean to ocean, Nothing would be more natural under the cir- cumstances than for the Republican party to glide into the embrace of the Third party, endorsed its principles, and with these heterogeneous odds and end proclaim itself the “People’s party” in ’92. The political condition in the camp of the opposition to the Democracy is very analogous to that of 1854, when the Know Nothings swallowed the Whig party. It made the K. N.’s sick at the stomach, and they spewed out their new friends, but they came together two years after- ward under another name. The Re- publican party is in a condition to make a similar dicker now, and they who live until "92 may see it, ——-Children will have to pay more for their whistles than they did before the McKinley tariff commenced to shed its benefits upon the American people. On this subject the Providence Journal , a Republican paper, says : “It is a serious and solemn fact that one of the leading manufacturers of toys in the country, located in New Bedford, is complaining bitterly that the cost of his chief raw material, tin plate, has risen nearly a third since the passage of the McKinley bill, and is putting a heavy drag ong his busi- ness,” In the entire vange of tariff benefits Uncle Sam is “paying too much for his whistle.” ——>Sotme of the religious denomdn- ations are being agitated by differences on question of faith to” an extent that threatens serious Consequences, Lhis is unfortunate in view of the material- istic infidelity that is getting too much ofa hold on popular belief. In view of this alarming situation, Dr. Mc CosH, in an address to a body of minis- ters, expressing the belief that “we are on the eve of just such a rationalistic overflow as flooded England a century ago,” said that the only way to "checks it is to abandon theological hair- * splitting and go to work. | to disapprove of it? the constitution, by saying that if one had been passed it would have been vetoed by Governor Parrison, Is it to be inferred from this that the bill would have been so unfair and unjust in the division of the districts that the It can not be rea- sonably contended that if a senatorial apportionment had been made that would have given each party its fair representation, the Governor would have vetoed it. But the truth is that the Republican bosses have determined that their own personal and political interest, as well as the interest of the corporations, cap- italists and monopolies which are the objects of their service,are best promot- ed by maintaming the infamous sena- torial gerrymander made under the census of 1870,. which, from present appearance, is to remain the perma- nent arrangement of the Senate dis- tricts, in defiance of the requirement. of the constitution. ~——Nothing so clearly exhibits the effect of bad government as the de- minution of the population of lre- land. The last census, just taken, shows that there is 468,674 less peo- ple in the island than there was ten years ago, the population being but a little over 4,000,000, which in 1841 was nearly 8,000,000. Repressive laws have had the effect not only of keep- ing down the natural increase, but also of driving hundreds of thousands of the inhabitants out of the country. Most of these have come to the United States, so that what has been Ireland’s loss has been America’s gain. We have no better citizens than those that have 1rish blood in their veins. The Emerald Isle has contributed an excel- lent element to the American popula- tion. There couldn't be better or more patriotic citizens of the republic. The ! fact is an Irishman is half an Ameri- can before he reaches our shore. A ——— A demand tor an increase in the currency of the country is very great, | and it is within the range of probabili- ties that the Secretary of the Treasury will issue certificates on the amount of silver bullion remaining after the regu- lar monthly issue of coin—that is on the difference between the value of the coin and the amount of silver it will purchase. If the treasury resorts to this expedient it will increase the cur- rency to the extent of between $15,000, 000 and $20,000,000. ! Spawls from the Keystone, —Hessian flies and blight are devastating Berks county wheat fields. { —A Williamsport boy took offense at a re- mark of his father’s and ran away. —Twenty-five coal trains per. day pass through Reading over the Reading Road. —Dr, Samuel L. Kurtz, of Readlng, has been elected President of the State Medical Society. —The halt, lame and blind are swarming to Allegheny to benefit by Father Nollinger’s miracles. —Albert Sweigert broke his nose falling from the second-story of Mrs. Bennitch's house in Reading. —W. J. Rainey, of Butler county, was picked up by a vicious horse and shaken till his arm was broken. —A pike four feet long and weighing twene ty pounds was caught in Bemustown dam near Meadville. —DMargaret Long, of Pittsburg, aged thirty. six years, died from the effects of excessive alcoholism. — Two boys discovered the carcass of a bull. dog in a Wilkesbarre well, used. by a large number of people. —Two Johnstown women engaged in a fierce fight over the right of one of them to obtain water from a hydrant. —Sixty-seven old prosecutions and 65 new ones will keep the Berks County Criminal Court busy for a while. —A son of Amos Miller, of Reading, who lost his speech after being struck by a carriage on Saturday, is able to talk again. —A cow belonging to John Moore, of Vane port, fell into a cistern, but was rescued by the digging away of the.side walls. —A mule stepped on - Stephen Botts’ toe at Williamsport. Stephen amputated the toe and made unbiblical allusions to the mule. —A $5 reward for the arrest of electric lamp globe breakers at Reading resulted in a small boy being twice hauled up for the offense. —The Funeral Directors’ Association of Pennsylvania will hold their tenth annual meeting at Williamsport, beginning June 18. —Adam Kammler, a well-to-do butcher, of Butler, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn. No cause is assigned for the deed. —Edward Stevens, of Altoona, was run over by an engine, the wheele passing over his left arm. The arm has been amputated at the elbow. —With his feet tied, and the rope hitched to a tree, Dr. John Thompson, of Linesville, Crawford county, jumped into a creek and was drowned. —Diphtheria is raging in southern Berks county. Samuel Stotzfus, a farmer, lost two children in one day, and there are numerous serious cases. —Philip H. Gahle was elected Secretary of the Shenandoah School Board by a trick. His salary was reduced to $25 per year from $200 in consequence. —An Allentown clergyman’s Bihle fell into the Lehigh River, and he followed it a mile down stream, where it was rescued and his broadeloth suit spoiled. —Killed by a train at Scranton; Fireman John Keely, aged 27, was the second son that ex-Mayor Keely, of Carbondale, has lost in that manner within a year. —Colonel William Heins, of Bechtelsville, has been disappointed in seeking his lost son, Warren, in West Viaginia, wheye the boy was supposed to have been killed. —May returns to the State Board of Agricule ture give a promising crop outlook, especially with respeet-te wheat, which will bs above the average for the past twenty years. —Anthony Tartnoi, of Mahonoy City, appli« ed to the Pittsburg police for assistance. in finding Anthony Pasuansky, who had stolen $100 and Tartnot’s two children. —Squnire Figart, of Frankstown, Blair coupe ty, has in his possession a clock which was made in Vienna in 1641. It is said to be the oldest:;timepiece in this country. —David Allen, a colored bootblack of Allens town, missed the train at Norristown on Satur. day and stole a ride home in the firebox of a new engine, a distance of fifty miles. —The United Brethren Church of Allene town on Sunday celebrated the 117th anniver- sary of the founding of this congregation, whose first church is still standing at Balti* more, Md. —Mrs. P. D. Baker, wife of the Clerk of the Courts of York county, stepped upon a piece: of glass which severed two of the arteries of the right foot. The unfortnate woman neare ly bled to death. —Colonel Linton received the Democratic nomination for president judge cf Cambria. county at Saturday’s primaries by a majority of over 1,200. His opponent was Mayor Rose, of Johnstown. —Jennie Bruce, aged fifty-one, committed suicide near Ebensburg. A note left by her stated that she was tired ot life. Her brother, C. C. Bruce, killed himselz by shooting about three weeks ago. —The widow of Charles Aukenheil, the wells. known eivil engineer who was killed on the Philadelphia division of the Baltimore and Ohio about a year ago, has brought suit against the company for $100,000 damages, —Barney Keener, his wife and five children, of Greensburg, were out riding the other day, Their horses ran away and upset.the carriage. All were more or less injured, and, it is feared a little girl, aged about five years, will die. —The good people of Plymouth are horrifi. ed. The male members of the Young Men's. Christian Association of that town have accepts ed an invitatien from the Cincinnati Female Baseball Club to play a game-next Wednesday. —Many of the Berks county farmers have found that potatoes are the most profitable crop that can be raised. Many of them realiz- ed $135 per acre for their last year's crop of po- tatoes, whereas wheat yielded them only $20 to §25. —The Allegheny county court of quarter sessions will be called on to decide whether the state under the laws of 1794 has any juris. diction over the Sunday excursion steamers, whose owners have been sued by the law and oxder society. tear at Beaver and became so drunk that he gulped down a half pint of turpentine, under the {impression that it was whisky. It only served to make him more vicious and he was finally arrested and placed in jail. —Isaae Lee Young, the South Easton burg. lar who robbed stores to get food for his family goes to prison for eighteen months; Daniel Degrin,the ravisher, for three and a half years, from the same place, and Allen Thies, William Meyer and Robert Strong, the robbers of Bach» mann’s store at Freemansburg, the first two each three years, and the latter two years foy i “squealing.”