Ena IE ASE
BY | BB “GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—And now Mr. WANAMAKER i$
called upon to explain his explanation.
——How would Secretary of the Treas-
ury Foster do for a Presidental candi-
date, “at a pinch ?”
—-The crown Prince of Greece is in
New York. This ought to be a ‘fat
take” for the 400.
—The tariff liars have pulled wool over
the eyes of the credulous voter, and they
now propose to blind them with the
glitter of tariffed tin-plate.
—Why not dissolve the State Com-
mission and delegate the editors of the
Harrisburg Patriot to do the honors for
Pennsylvania at the Columbian Fair?
The Cincinnati Enquirer is op-
posing the renomination and re-election
of Governor CAMPBELL. Those Mc-
Leans never did like anything that
wasn’t rotten.
-—The manifesto of the Philadelphia
Republican reformers has a familiar
look. It displays the dull monotony
of repeated protests habitually disre-
garded by the Boss.
—Mr. QuAY can afford to smile at the
squeamishness of Republican reformers.
What do their kicks amount to as long
as the Boss retains his grip on the han-
dle of the machine ?
—The Harrison boomers are trying to
make the seals believe that they are in-
debted to Mr. Harrison and not to
Mr: BrAine for the vacation they are
having this'summer.
—The New York World says that
“Governor PaTrisoN is a Democrat.”
There was never occasion for entertain-
in a reasonable doubt about the
Governor’s democracy.
—The charge that Mr. CLEVELAND
is too fat to be President is one of the
inanities of the New York Sun's malev-
olence toward that gentleman. It
looks as if DANA'S wit is in the condi-
tion of CLEVELAND'S body.
—The tracing of a loan for which Mr.
WANAMAKER gave 1000 shares of the
Keystone Bank stock as collateral se-
curity, reveals a suspicious business re-
lation between the plundered bank and
the bigstore across the way.
—The Philadelpbia Republican re-
formers who are crying aloud fora re-
volution within the party, should know
that no political revolution will do any
good unless it shall revolve the disrepu-
table old party completely out of exis-
tence.
—INGALLS is going on the platform
with a lecture on the ‘Problems of the
Twentieth Century.” He might
solve a problem of the Nineteenth Cen-
tury by explaining how a tariff that
taxes every necessary of life can help
the Kansas granger lift the mortgage
off his farm.
—There is a report that good JoHN
WANAMAKER was in the habit, very
late at night, of visiting honest JOHN
BARDSLEY at the city treasurer's office.
Is it probable that the object of those
nocturnal conferences was the further
spread of the gospel, or the conversion
of the heathen ?
—Attorney General HENSEL may not
be able to hold Philadelphia responsible
for BARDSLEY'S embezzlement of State
funds, but he may give the responsibil-
-ity, if not the criminality in the: case, a
location that would bring it in ‘uncom-
fortable proximity to certain Rapubli-
can state officials.
—The Record announces that “for the
past ten days there has been a steady
decline in the price of brimstone.” Has
this any ‘connection with the heretical
doctrines that are breaking outin the
various churches of the country ? From
an orthodox point of view such heresies
should give the price of brimstone an
upward tendency.
-—-Queen VicrToria held her great-
grand daughter, the other day, while it
was being baptised, and by her com-
mand it was christened ALEXANDRA
VicroriA ALBERTA EDWINA Louse
Durw. That name drops down
to the Jevel of commonalty with a
sort of dull thud. Possibly itis called
Durr because iis grandfather, the
Prince of Wales, is something of an old
duffer.
--In addition to his Philadelphia job,
Attorney General HeNSEL has been
called upon by Mayor GURLEY to give
his oficial attention to an eruption of
ring roguery in Pittsburg. If the At-
torney General shall turn his batteries
on the Republican rascals at both ends
of the State he will certainly be a busy
functionary.
— After the first day of this month, by
the McKinley decree, there will be no
more foreign tin in this country. The
boundless expanse of metal that shall
hereafter roof the city houses, the materi-
al of the modest dinner pails, and of
the,useful receptacles that enclose the
housewife’s canned peaches and toma-
toes, will all be American tin made by
‘the Welshman and three boys” em-
ployed in NIEDRINGHAUS'S tin-plate
factory.
SR ET TR eT rm ey
Ad CN
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VOL. 86.
A Question of Honest Ele
ions.
The Legislature of Pennsylv
entitled to but limited credit for th
sage of laws calculated to purify Qur
elections. It passed a ballot bri,
but. not until it had cut out most
of the features that would have
made it effective as a reform mea-
sure. Singularly enough it enacted
a law that will ensure a better, more,
thorough and more correct registration
of voters, and in that way be coiducive
to fairer and more honest elections by
preventing those from voting who have
no Sout to vote, or who may want to
vote. ‘‘early and often.” Although
passed by a Legislature from which so
good and opportune a measure could
scarcely have been expected, there is
no honest Democrat that cannot ap-
prove ofit ; yet the Harrisburg Patriot
makes this law the subject ; ‘of severe
condemnation:
. We were constrained to reprove it
for this, and in its reply it takes the
position that the new law is unneces-
sary and expensive. To substantiate
the first clause of this proposition it cites
instances of country districts where de-
fective or improper registration is not
practiced. But what has it to say
about Pniladelphia? Ceriainlyla pa-
per of its intelligence knows that the
padded lists of voters, the viciously doc-
tored registries in that city, have been
the prolific source of a corrupt influ.
ence and power that have injuriously
affected notonly its governmeat,but al
so the government of the State. The
abuses that have sprung from dishon-
est registration in Philadelphia have in-
jured the citizens of the rural districts
as much as the residents of the city
in thegeneral effect ot fastening bad
government upon the State, filling the
Legislature with corruptionists gready
to do the bidding of the corporations
and the money power, and placing the
coutrol of public affairs in the hands
of corrupt bosses and venal riogsters.
Many a time in its really Democratic
days has the Patriot thundered against
the evilsthat have sprung from this very
source. As in Philadelphid,so,in a less,
yet dangerous degree, has the abuse of
dishonest registration prevailed in other
cities, in all the large towns, in the coal
regions and the manufacturing centers.
Wherever large masses of people of
dabious identity exist, this evil has
existed, requiring a remedy. The new
registry law is intended to supply this
and it will do it so faras it can
practically be done.
It is true, there are rural districts in
which the registers of voters may
stand year after year without being
vitiated by an improper name appear-
ing upon them—without a rounder or
personaor presenting himself at the
poles to take advantage of false regis:
tration ; but the law was made for the
many populous lgcalities where this
offense is committed at every election—
where thousands of votes are cast in
personation of false names on the re-
gisters. The remedying law can’t be
of a special or local character; it must
be general, including the good districts
with the bad ; but all will be equally
benefited in the better government
brought about by the suppression of
false and dishonest voting that springs
from false and dishonest registration.
We think we have shown the neces-
sity for this reformed registry law.
Then next for consideration comes the
Patriot's chjection that it is too expen—
sive. But we will leave it to a jury of
honest freemen—to patriots different
from the Harrisburg Patriot—whether
on a question of honest elections the
cost should be counted? ?
If our Harrisburg contemporary can
show that the registry law will do no
good—that it will tail to accomplish
its object—then, of course, it will
establish its position that the new
measure is not worth the money it will
cost.
Democrats have reason to be aston-
ished that a law that will interfere
with the business of the rounder, the
repeater and the personator could be
squeezed through a Republican Legis-
lature, but, notwithstanding their as-
tonishment, they will accept it without
criticism.
May it be believed that the Pa-
triot objects to the new registry law
because Governor ParrisoN signed it ?
Perish the thought!
remedy,
——Suabscribe for the WATCHMAN,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 3, 1891.
NO. 26.
Too Remote a Cause.
In a letter to Bradstreet's Mr. Eo-
WARD ATKINSON imputes the dullness
of irade which is complained of in
many branches of business to the
strong disposition manifested in Con-
gress to insist upon free coinage of sil-
ver. One this subject the Philadelphia
Recordisays: “As long as the threat shall
be held over the heads of the people that
the dollars they have earned and the
dollars they may wish to invest will be
repaid to them in dollars only worth
75 cents each in gold, there will be lit-
tle disposition to ventare in trade be-
yond arm’s length.”
Such nonsense as this is frequently
met with in disquisitions on the causes
affecting the condition of business.
The doctrinaires are never at a loss to
explain what is wrong with trade, ‘and
they are sure to trace the difficulty to
some departure from their pet theories.
Free silver coinage may have an in-
jurious effect, but it is absurd to say
that the apprehension of it is throwing
its shadow ahead and exercising &
malign influence upon the business of
the country. The American people
are not tha kindito borrow tronble so far
in advance. When free silver coinage
shall be made the established policy of
the goverament, if that shall ever oc-
car, there will then be ample time to
discover what effect it will have on trade,
but the mere prospect of it is having no
effect at all. {There are other causes to
which the existing dullness of trade is
to be attributed.
In this conneciion we may allude to
similar nonsense that has been indulg-
el in concerning the injury alleged to
have heen done by proposed reductions
oft! i. Like Mr. ATkINsoN in
the mutter
advocates have been able to see “dull-
ness of trade’’ resulting from tariff re-
There wasn't a tariif
he tar
form agitation.
howler in the campaign of 1888 who
did't ascribe the prevailing business
stasnation to the Morrison and Mills
propisitions to reduce the monopoly
tariff. That taritf has been fully es-
tablished and the stagnation hasn't
been in the least relieved.’ Tariff agi-
tation never injurionsly affscted busi-
ness,and the same may be said of silver
agitation, Mr. ATkiNsoN to the contrary
notwithstanding:
The Shepherds and the Tariff.
The McKinleyites will go into the
Oliio contest badly handicapped on the
wool question. If there is any inter.
est that the Ohio protectionists particu-
larly take in the tariff question it is
that which involves the price of wool.
The Ohio sentiment, was aroused in fa-
vor of the McKinley measure largely
because it was going to bring a bonan-
za within the reach of the Ohio shep-
herds. The backs of their sheep were
to be covered with golden fleeces. But
market prices show that the best Ohio
wool is to-day ,under the McKinley tar-
iff, bringing but 313 cents a pound,
when a year ago it brought 34 cents,
and two years ago 35 cents. When the
wool raisers are called upon “to whoop
her up” for McKinLey at the next
election they will ask themselves in
what way has McKiNLey benefited
them ?
He Doesn't Want it
Ex-Governor BEAVER, in an fntens
view at Harrisburg, the other day, put
his foot down positively on the reports
that connect him with the Pension
Commissionership as the successor of
Raum: He said :
“The talk about my being a candi-
date for commissioner of pensions is
quite absurd. The pension commis-
sionership 1s one of the hardest places
to fill in the government service, being
all work, little pay, and no glory. Be:
sides, I don’t believe that General
Rauym will relinquish the post.”
The Governor made a mistake in
saying that there is but “little pay”
connected with the Commissionership.
The Raums have made a pretty gocd
thing out of it in a pecuniary way,
But there certainly would be no mon-
ey in it for such a Commissioner as
Governor Beaver wouldimalke,
——The Pennsylvania Prohibition -
ists will meet at Harrisburg, August
16, to nominate a State ticket. The
proceedings will be earnest if not c¢n-
thusiastic.
- of free silver, the high tariff |
|
Governor Pattison and the Allegheny
Boss.
That the Governorishould have enter-
tained amicable feelings toward Curis
Mace, the Republican leader of Alle-
gheny county, was quite natural. It
was a heavy tug to elect the Governor
last fall against the usual big Repub-
lican majority, and to the success of
that tug M acer’s defection contributed
largely. . It: was an assistance that
could not but be gratifying to Mr.. Par-
TsoN. From this circumstance cer-
tain parties, who for personal reasons
are adverse to the Governor and -are
Opposing him in a petty way, have en-
deavored to construe an alliance or
fraternization between Lim and the Al-
legheny Boss. But now it turns out that
however much the Governor may have
been pleased with the assisance which
Macue gave toward his election he did
not consider it as constituting a claim
strong enough to influence his official
action. Hence when this Republican
Boss had certain bills passed which
did not meet the executive approv-
al they promptly received the Govern.
or's veto. This ‘was very much like
Parrizon, who does not allow personal
considerations to affect his action as an
officer, and it should end the attempt
of two-penny antagonists to create the
impression that there was some sort of
a checle-by-jowl arrangement between
Governor Parrison and Curis MAGEE.
—Protected DoBsox has a queer
way of protecting American industry.
The other day he discharged a number
of native workmen from his Philadel-
phia carpet factory becauss they refused
to prepare material for foreign weavers
who had been put in the places of
Americans. At the next call for cam-
paign boodle Dossox will be ready to
render his allotment of “fat” for the sal-
vation of the ‘“proteetive’’ tariff.
Philadelphia’ 8 Accountability.
Whether Poiladelphia can be held
responsible for Jonny BarpsLey's theft
of State funds that came into his hands
to the amount of $1,200,000,is an inter-
esting question. It will be decided by
the Supreme Couct upon the action
which Attorney General HeNsEL is tak-
ing to recover this embezzled State
money.
Philadelphiafinterests are contending,
in this controversy, that BarpsLey, as
the appointed agent of the State, gave
bounds for the faithful performance of
his trust ; that it devolved upon tle
State Auditor General and Treasurer to
see that the agent made settlements at
proper intervals and paid over the
money in his hands and due the State,
They contend that his remissness was
due to the carelessness or collusion of
these State officers whose business it
was to know that Barpsrey was be:
hind with his payments and was noi
acting up to the requirements of his of-
ficial ‘duty. The remedy therefore
would be to proceed against the bail of
the dishonest city treasurer and of the
two careless or otherwise culpable
State officers.
If not ‘legally, Philadelphia is cer-
tainly morally responsible for BaRrDSs-
LEY’S embezzlement of State fands,
Her citizene, through their slavish sub-
mission to the control of dishonest poli-
ticians, have allowed a condition of
public affairs to exist that has produc-
ed such officers as JouN BARDSLEY,
and in that way has contributed to
causes which have brought about eo
serious a loss to the State. Such moral
responeibility, however,is not taken in-
to account by the courts. But the At
toroey General may show legal reasons
why the city should be held accounta-
ble for the money which the State has
lost in the Bardsley default.
re————
There was a brilliant display of
diamonds and other precious stones at
one of Queen’ VicToRrIA'S recent, draw-
ing rooms, it being estimated that their
combined value was $6,250,000. The
Queen herself was loaded with $650,
000 worth of this valuable sort of ew-
bellishment. When it is considered
that abject poverty prevails among a
large class of the Queen's subjects, and
that a majority of them have a hard
struggle to gain subsistence, such a
display among the ruling class far
nishes a sad illustration of the differ-
ence that exists in the condition of the
two extremes of English society. But,
through theinfluence of laws that favor
monopoly, it is getting about as bad in
this country.
His Enemies Assert Themselves.
Brother Harrison is meeting with
various kinds of enemies in his own
State of Indiana, who are doing all
they can to prevent his renomination.
A combination of the best element in
the party was formed some weeks ago
and held a meeting at which a plan of
operation was formed, the- friends of
Brain and Gresnam taking an active
part in’ the movement. ‘It includes
some of the most influential men in the
State. And now it appears that the
colored Republicans of Indiana are se-
cretly organizing against HARRISON'S.
renomination. The movement has
been going on for several weeks and
extends to Fort Wayne, Terre Haute,
New Albany and Jeffersonville. They
seem to be in favor of Grusmay, but at
all events against Harrisox.. A lead
ing colored politician of Indianapolis
declares that they are now ready to noti-
fy Mr. Harrison that if he wants the
renomination he must get it without
the colored people's assistance. The
organization is formidable because the
negroes hold the balance of political
power in Indiana, they being more
numerous in that State thap in any
other Northern State in ipiSpostion, to,
population.
There can be no question about Hag-
RISON’S unpopularity in. his own State.
He never had much of a hold on the
aftections of the Ioosiers, and many
things which he has done, or failed to
do, since he has been President, have
diminished what little friendship they
may have had for him. His complete
ignoring of the colored members of the
party, both ia Indiana and elsewhere,
has caused him to lose the favor of
that element of republicanism.
Mr. Jay Ewing, the United
State consul at Vancouver, British
America, is making a dunce of himself,
With the object of displaying his pa-
triotic spirit he recently refused to re-
spond to a toast to “Queen VICTORIA
and President I arRIsoN,” because the
latter was not named first: Admitting
that a President of the United States
is as good as a sovereign of Eagland,
the Queen, in this case, as a lady, was
entitled to the first place. The Presi-
dent himself, as a gallant gentleman,
would give her the preference. Consul!
Ewina should temper his patriotism
with a little common sense.
The Fight Will Be Aggressive.
From what we learn of the prepara-
tions for a vigorous Democratic fight,
the members of the party will certain-
ly have no reason to blame the nation-
al committee if they do not this year
win in every state ‘where there is a
fighting chance for. the party. Sena-
tor Gorman, with headquarters at
Washington, isto take charge of the na-
tional committee during Senator Bricn's
absence in Europe, and he proposes to
work largely in conjunction with and
through the National Association of
Democratic Clubs, at the headquarters
of which. Hon. Cumauncey F. Brack,
president, and LawreNcE GARDNER,
secretary, will be permanently located.
Notwithstanding its being an off year,
Senator GORMAN proposes to make the
fight aggressive from the start, and the
officials of the association of clubs will
ably carry out his orders and second
his efforts in all directions, and it only
remains for the rank and file of the
party to become imbued with the same
spirit to make victory certain in every
State that is not hopelessly Republi-
can, and few of them are that way
since the people have begun to wake
up to the eaormities of the Republican
tariff system, the extravagance of Re-
publican management, and the general
danger that is threatened the country
by Republican rule.
——1It is asserted by the Republican
newspapers of Kansas that the leaders
bave concluded no loager to recogaize
Prohibition in the party ‘platform, in-
dicaling their,disposiuon to accede 10
the demand of the Resubmissionists to
let the prohibition question go to the
decision of a popular vote. This indi-
cates not only that the Republican
temperance position in Kaneas was
merely a matter of expediency, but that
the prohibition experimentin Kansas
has not been a success. The reaction
that took place in Lowa some time ago
is now apparent in the sentiment of the
Kansas people inregard to a prohibi
tory liquor law.
ee
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Lancaster is shipping brick machinery to
Brazi'.
—Reading’s Common Council opposes pub-
lic baths.
—A gun to fire under water is being con-
structed at Bethlehem.
—Lebanon is agitating and subsertbing fora
nonesectariau hospital.
—Five robberies have been reported at
Washington during as many days.
—A six-year-old child was run over and kill.
ed by an electric car at Scranton.
--Rose Boust,of Warren, says that Father
Mollinger restored her speech. »
—David Horst’s Jersey cattle at Cornwall
Lebanon eounty, have pleuropneumonia.
—Susan Warfel, of Lancaster, was severley
burned by flames from a gasoline stove.
—Max Keller, a tramp, sued M. A. Krause
of Reading because the latter's dog bit him...
—Sharpers have been defrauding gullible
ministers at Pottsville with a pathetic tale.
—Mayor Noell, of York,has a pitcher brought
to America in 1624 by the Standford family.
—Miss Mary Marsch has left Lancasterfor
Southern California for Indian J missionary
work.
—Two cows of J. J. Barney, of {Cornwells,
Bucks county, ate a bucket of paint and had to
be killed.
—Jeremiah Hennesy, aged 7g years,fel from
a hay-wagon at Ironton, Lehigh county, and
was killed.
—The Huntingdon Manufacturing Company -
hasshut down, and may remove ; its plant ta
Tenuessee.
—William M. Baird, of West Chester, jwon.
the cadetship appointment in the Sixth dis
trict contest.
—Mrs. Charles Rettew, wife of a farmer: liv]
ing near Manheim, had her arm broken: by a
hay rake last Saturday.
—Burglars entered the residence of City
Treasurer Blevins, at New Castle, securing
considerable plunder. :
—A West Chester man who has been .in the
business twenty - years announces; he is a
“natural auctioneer.” ?
—The remaius of James Dodson, the last of
the victims of the cyclone at Mt. Carmel, were
found under the debris.
—Clayton Yost, the little Spring, township
(Berks county) lad gorged by a hull last
week, died of his injuries.
—A wedding at New Alexandria had {to be
postponed because the Clerk of the Courts had
omitted to sign the license.
—A bascball game was interrupted at Johns
town a few days ago by the discovery of the
skeleton of a flood victim.
—Harry Ammon, Philadelphia and. Reading
employe, was nearly killed by beingj dragged
from an engine near Pottsville.
—The Reading summer toboggan. and mer
ry-go round must rest from ,their labors on
Sundays. The Mayor says so.
—Boys playing with a horse pistol at} Brad.
dock’s gave it to Willie Creighton. The wea
pon burst and tore out hisjentrsils.
— William Miller, of Bradenville, while om
his way to buy a coffin for his dead child, was
run over and Killed at Greensburg.
—Harry Fauschet, who made a meal on ona
of John Wahl’s ears two months ago, is in jaik
at Lebanon, charged with’ mayhem.
—Mrs. McKeown, the ‘widow of the later oil
millionaire, John McKeown, will erecta $25,-
000 vault in the Washington feemetery.
—Charles Shoemaker, of Allentown, had a
chip fly iato his eye while dressing [stone.
Both eyes soon became affected and he is now
blind.
—Concussion of the brain andjinternal ing
juries resulted from the headlong fall of Mrs.
Isaac Miller out ofa cherytree at Mounk
Etna.
—A good sized row took !place ata Sunday
school picnic at Hezlep's grove, | near Monon”
gahela City. Several girls fainted, but no one
was seriously hurt.
—Nearly two-thirds ofthe 100 men employed
by the Douglassville Rolling.Mill} {Company
have typhoid fever or kindred Zailments, and
the mill has been closed.
—William Robb, aged 17, off Philadelphia
was arrested at Pittston, charged with robbing
his uncle, William Robb, of Scranton, of dia®
monds and jewelry.valued at $700.
—Charles Peiffer, George Elliott, William
Gordon and. another workman fell from an
eighty-foot scaffold at Pittsburg’s new Davis
Theatre on Tuesday, and may die.
—Three chiidgen of John Lutz; of Potisville,
named Frederick, Dmma and Mame, were
poisoned last Friday by eating candy. There
were slight hopes of their recovery. ‘
—The injunetion served upen the Reading
Railread Company .to: prevent them from
crossing the Lehigh Valley. turn-pike near
Silver Brook has been removed by Court,
— State Farmers’ Institute at Rutiand Park,
near Lancaster, on August 7 and 8. “The
Causes of. Sickness” will ba discussed by
President Groff, of the Board of Health.
Two rabbis of Lancaster went to Reigart’s
landing, on Conestoga ereek, to bathe. They
¢laim that both of thera were robbed, by boys
who were swimming in the same locality.
—1In order to avoid a reputition of the mis-
chief done by the guardsmen on their way to
camp last year General Gobin has ordered
that the men shall not leave the cars this year
—An insane siz-footer convict from Utah?®
James Steele, who escaped from prison at
Easton a month,ago, and has been a terror to
the vicinity ever since, has just beenlrecap-
tured.
—A man giving the name of Lewis but sup
posed to be William Lelia, was caught eh”
bing guests at the Campbell League Hotel,
Pittston, Monday. He had pockets full of
watches, ete.
—Acting as if she was more than half demen-
ted, Liounisa Curran, aged 19 years, claiming to
hail from Twenty-fourth and Brown streete,
Philadelphia, has been arrestedas on aimless
wanderer at Laneaster.
—Judge White, at Pittsburg, declined’ to
charter an oxganization of wealthy women .
whose aim is to check such habits of men and
women as make public conveyances and Daosa
disguting and unhealthy.
—Judge Harry White has instructed the
constables of Indiana connty that all’ kegs of
beer and jugs of whisky shipped into the
county to minors and persons of intemperate
habits is a violation of the law, and that the
wares of the shippers should be returned.
—Insane and having tried to murder her .
sister with a knife, Miss Mary Ruth, aged thire
ty years, has escaped from a room in Boyer=
town, and has been wandering for many days
and nights in night robes all over that section.
She tried to kill Mrs, Horace Boyer with a
| chair,