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Demorwalic atc
8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—This will not be a Republican year
in Pennsylvania if the Democrats are
alive to their opportunity.
—GLADSTONE must be feeling the ef-
fect of his years since he can no longer
chop down a tree to sharpen his appe-
tite for breakfast.
—TEke Republican State convention
made the usual fair promises to the
farmers in its platform, but declined
to put a farmer on its ticket.
—This year the peach crop has been a
failure on account of it being so enor-
mous. The producers are disgusted
with the small prices they are getting.
—Prohibitionist NEAL Dow wants
the rumsellers of Maine to be punished
at the whipping post. After forty years
of prohibition is it possible that there
are any rumsellers in Maine ?
—Senator CAMERON is set down as
worth $6,000,000. This is the qualifi-
cation which so admirably adapts our
senior Senator to a place in the collec-
tion of millionaires known as the Unit-
ed States Senate.
—There is nothing slow about the
climate of these great United States.
To keep up with it the thermometer
has to hustle. Thus, in Iowa, last
week, it jumped in a few hours from 90
degrees down to 85.
--Political experts are hopelessly en-
deavoring to discover the meaning of
the Silver resolution in the Republican
State platform. They pronounce it to
be a curious but entirely incomprehensi-
ble “What Is It?”
—A Lieutenant Governor at the
head of a Quay State Committee, dele-
gated to assist in electing a Quay ticket
with the usual Quay methods, is a
striking illustration of the Republican
idea of civil service reform.
--Tt is proposed to consolidate all the
farmers’ associations, societies and alli-
ances in Kansas into one big syndicate.
This would be a more gigantic combine
than any of which the farmers have so
bitterly and justly complained.
—Pearl buttons are more heavily tar-
iffed than any other article on the Me-
Kinley schedule, and just, to show how
this tax has encouraged American labor,
the officials of the Auburn (N. Y.) pri-
son have set the convicts to work mak-
ing pearl buttons.
—Indjana bad a lynching Saturday
night, and Ohio militia have been put
under arms to prevent the hanging of
the Columbus Grove bank robber and
murderer. It no longer becomes the
Republican editor to point to the South
as the land of lawlessness.
—The well-heeled WILLIAM ASTOR
is described as “a portly gentleman of
some 50 years whose hair has been whit-
ened by time’s frosty touch.” It cer-
tainly hasn’t been whitened by the care
which results {from not knowing where
the next meal is to come from.
—A broadcloth coat that had been
measured for President ANDREW JACK-
soN, and returned because it did not fit,
sold for $350. How different this gar-
ment was from the illustrious personage
for whom it was made, who was never a
misfit in any position he ever occupied.
—Governor CAMPBELL is sick in bed,
but 1t was that sort of preliminary that
preceded the election of Governor
HoADpLY some years ago. Still, we
don’t believe Governor CAMPBELL fan-
cies being in bed at this juncture. But
after the election it will be McKINLEY
that will be on his back.
—The President, in one of his New
York speeches, spoke of ‘‘the great mer-
cy of God” that gave us big crops and
crop failures in Europe. It was quite a
concession for Mr. HARRISON to give
Providence the credit. It is a wonder
that he didn’t claim that it was §due to
the McKinley bill.
—A colored preacher in Kentucky
has made himself very popular with his
congregation by declaring that Adam
was a colored man and that the fruit
with which he was tempted was a wa-
termelon and not an apple. He might
make kimsell still mace salid with kis
people by maintaining that the first ani-
mal created was a possum.
—The Republican State convention
adopted a resolution calling for §the re-
peal of all State mercantile taxes. Is
this intended as a radical preventive of
mercantile taxes being stolen gby future
BarDsLEYs? Wouldn't the cure be
more effective if the “grand old party”
were prevented from putting men of
the Bardsley stripe into office ?
—Mr. HENRY CLEWS, of New York,
an Englishman who came over to this
country a few years ago and went into
stock jobbing on a small scale, claims
that he did a business of one billion of
dollars last year. This shows how rap-
idly the United States is becoming a
billion dollar country for some people.
But, notwithstanding the blessing of a
McKinley tariff, for the average work-
ingman itis scarcely a hundred dollar
country.
Good'
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNIOlD
VOL. 36.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 28, 1891.
NO. 33.
Works Beget Popularity and
Popularity Is Public Confidence.
During the last session of the Legis-
lature applications for appropriations
of different amounts were received
from nearly all of the State's benefici-
aries, and among them that of the
Pennsylvania State College for $150,
000, which sum 1t needed for the com-
pletion of a line of work already begun
at that institution. Inasmuch as the
College had received quite liberal ap-
propriations from the preceding Legis-
lature, and, further,because the Pattison
administration in '85 had placed a
negative upon granting money to it,
this bill excited more than usual inter-
est when it went before the committee
on appropriations.
Several districts throughout the
State, in which institutions doing a
professedly similar work are located,
sent petitions against the granting of
more money to the State College, and
members of the House of Representa-
tives made bitter speeches against
it, all of which seemed but to in-
crease the public interest, and as a
result the House sub-committee and
the entire Senate committee on appro-
priations, visited the Institution, ex:
amining every detail of its work and
organization. So flattering were the
reports they carried back to Harris
burg, that a general curiosity party was
made up, and many of the persons an-
tagonistic to the College visited it with
the express purpose of finding flaws in
its work, but so surprised were they
that they returned converts to the idea
that the Pennsylvania State College is
an institution of which this grand
commonwealth can justly feel proud.
The result was that its bill passed the
Senate without a dissenting vote, and
the House with but few votes against
it, and the Goyernor, seeing the confi-
dence it had inspired in the Legislature,
could not but affix his signature.
Most of our readers are well ac
quainted with the College, its beautiful
buildings, ground and location, as well
as with the fact that it has developed
into one of the leading technical insti-
tutions of the country. Nevertheless it
has determined to push other lines of
work to the front, and is now making
a strenuous effort to extend, improve
and create a greater interest in its
course in Agriculture. To this end
there has lately been issued a pamph-
let showing the facilities and methods
of instruction, with the course of study
in agriculture at the institution. The
subjects are taught in the field, garden,
orchard, vineyard, green-house, cream-
ery and laboraiories, as well as in the
class-room. Fifteen hours a week are
given to classroom exercises, and ten
hours to practicams. There is a four
years course of study, which is com-
plete both from a practical and scien-
tific standpoint. The course trains
young men for the largest possibilities
in agriculture and for the highest du-
ties of citizenship. Besides the regular
course of instruction, arrangements
have beea made to give an extended
course oflectures on strictly agricultural
subjects during the winter months, be-
ginning January 7, 1892. They will
be of a wholly practical character and
as serviceable to adults as to youth.
The lectures will ;be open to all who
desire to enroll themselves as attend-
auts, and no examination or fee will be
required for admission.
A Disadvantage.
In these days in Pennsylvanit it is a
disadvantage for a politician and candi-
date to be 100 well known as a hench-
man of the bosses. MyLIN's case is
an illustration. He had the friendship
and the preference of both Quay and
CaMeron, and they could easily have
nominated him if they had said the
word. He has served in the Senate for
vears, where he has taken his crders
from the bosses with obedience and
submissiveness. But these qualities,
while endearing him to the managers,
made him in 1891 ineligible before
the people of the State Quay. rejected
him as unsuitable in the present junc.
ture, because so well known a hench-
man would have been objectionable to
the majority of voters in their present
temper. Greece would serve better to
conceal the directing hand of the
manager, So it is (tree instead of
MrywriN, but the purpose is the same.
——TF'ine job work of ever discription
| at the WarTcaMAN Office.
Imposing on the Chinese.
The latest advices from China since
the beginning of the riots in that coun-
try in which the Christian missionaries
suffered, agree in the statement that
the disturbances were precipitated by
members of secret societies, whose ob-
ject was to embroil the Chinese govern-
ment with foreign nations in the hope
that a rebellion would thus have some
chance of success. All the civilized
governments are in possession of the
facts. And yet England and Germany
are manacing China, notwithstanding
the fact that her governmentis doing
all it can to suppress the riots and
protect the missionaries. The Eng-
lish and Germans could not adopt a
more effective way to aid the rebellion,
and it would almost look asif their
purpose is to increase the confusion so
that they may take advantage of it.
It would not be the first instance of
China being made the victim of the
grasping and avaricious disposition of
Europeans. It is remembered that
Eogland—Christian England from
which so many missionaries are sent—
went] to war with China and at
the mouth of the cannon forced her to
admit English opium into her ports.
The Chinese government had made
every effort to prevent the spread of the
deadly opium habit among its people,
but the English were largely interested
in the production of opium in India
and did not hesitate to use force in
opening a market for the deadly drug
among the Chinese. The interference
of the English and Germans in the
present instance has no doubt a grasp-
ing commercial purpose.
—1It is stated thatin Chicago one of
the big merchants gives $25,000 per
year 1n charitable enterprises, and at the
same time his employes are kept on
This conduct is sim-
ilar to that of tariff philanthropists of
the Carnegie order, who furnish public
libraries and employ the Pinkerton force
to keep down their workmen when th:
want mere pay.
starvation wages.
A Speech from Jerry Simpson.
JERRY SI1MP30N, the sockless mem-
ber of Congress from Kansas, was at
the farmers’ gathering at Mt. Gretna,
on Friday, and made a speech. The
people were so anxious to hear him that
they could not wait for the band to
play ; so the Kansas man arose and
“pitched in.”” His listeners were dis-
appointed, but rather admired his
picturesque style. Here's the sub-
stance of his little speech, as reported :
1 don’t belong to any party, said he. I want
the party to belong to me. If I don’t find such
a party, I intend to start one. 1 take no stock
in the G. O.P. Those letters once stood for
Grand Old Party. Now they mean Great on
Promises.
Well, when our people selected a Congress-
man, last fall, eight of us farmers went up.
Only one man wore a collar. They stood
us in a row like a lot of crows, and then
tried to pick out the white one.
if the Alliance were to die to-day, it would
go down in history as a great movement. We
removed INcauLs. He is a first rate fellow in
some respects, but he hasn’t any more heart
than you can make out of brains.
They told me not long ago that if I went
down into Arkansas I'd be mobbed. It I was
sure of that I'd go. Ithink a mobbing might
be the making of the pup.
They ask us how we are goicg to arrange
our Sub-Treasury. We don’t intend to make
the details. Congress has got to think them
out.
There is nothing very profound in
these remarks. If JERRY isto be judg-
ed by this effort no onecan believe
that he is going to make much of a
statesman, or that he will equal Cray
in eloquence or JEFFERSON in political
sagacity ; and yet it can’t be denied
that he made a good hit in what he
said about the G. O. P.
——1In the campaign that is now be-
ginning to warm np in Ohio, the voters
of that State, when they bring them"
selves to a calm consideration of the
issue, will remember that it was JAMES
G. Brain who said that candidate
McKiviey's bill ‘‘would not open a
market for a single barrel of pork or
bushel of wheat, The population of
Ohio is largely agricultural.
——1t is announced that some of the
legislation for which the Farmers’ Al-
liance of Texas is responsible will di-
vert trade from Galveston to New Or-
leans. After awhile the farmers of the
whole country will awake to the fact
that it doesn’t pay to follow the lead
of demagogues. It isto be hoped this
will happen before muchigharm is
done. :
The Tin Plate Deception.
The National Provisioner, a New
York journal which is acknowledged
to speak for the provision dealers,
butchers, grocers, and the various can-
ning industries, has been investigating
the tin-plate question in behalf of the
interests which it represents.
The Provisioner bad: been in receipt
of information from a firm in Philadel-
phia stating that they were engaged in
the manufacture of tin plate. These
letters were published in the Provision
er and their publication brought forth
numerous epistles from parties advis-
ing a more thorough investigation of
the subject. A representative of the
Provisioner accordingly went to Phila-
delphia and last Tuesday he asked per-
mission of the firm in question to in.
spect its tin-plate works. Such per-
mission was not given, but from the
questions propounded by the Provis-
ioner representative and hesitatingly
answered by the spokesman of the firm,.
it was plainly demonstrated that the
establishment was not a tin-plate works
in the proper acceptance of the term.
These alleged American tin-plate
works, whenever they are investigated,
turn out to be thorough frauds. It is
impossible for them to nse American
tin, for there is no American tin. The
iron plates are imported, the tin by
which these plates are coated is also
imported, and so are the Welsh work-
men by whom. this work is done. The
increased tariff on tin-plate makes this
a very profitable business to the pro-
prietors, but it adds little to American
industry, and the American consumer
has to pay an increased price for an
article of extensive and indispensable
use.
——The principal accusation against
the Chinese is that they refuse to be-
come citizens. It is charged that they
come here, make alittle money and re-
turn to their native land to spend it.
Thesame is true of the bulk of the
| Italians and Hungarians who come
{ here as laborers: They do not bring
their families with them. They have
no thought of becoming citizens and as
soon as they have accumulated a little
surplus give place to new hordes. Why
not exclide them also ?
What They Should Do.
The Hon. E. C. WHEELER, of Tip-
ton, Ia., who has always voted the Re-
publican ticket, authorized the publi-
cation in his home paper of this an-
nouncement : “[ will tell you what I
intend doing on election day. I will
rise early, take a bath, shave myself
with unusual care, put on my best suit
of clothes, and before the sun is an
bour high I am going to the polls,
pick out the longest Democratic ticket
I can find and vote it from top to bot-
tom, and wish it were longer.”
This Iowa Republican will set an
example which might with profit be
followed by Republicans of Pennsyl-
vania. When asked to vote a ticket,
the election of which would endorse
the corrupt management of the party
bosses, the best thing they could do
for their own reputations and the
credit of the State would be to shave
themselves with unusual care, put on
their best suits of clothes, and go to
the polls and vote the Democratic
State ticket. By so doing they would
show that they repudiate the Bosses
and the BARDSLEYS.
The Government has finished
the publication af the first series of the
“Records of the Civil War,” consist-
ing of sixty-five volumes; and two
more series are yet to follow. Un-
less the officials having this matter in
charge shall expedite their work the
first generation of descendants of the
men who fought in the war of the re-
bellion will have passed away before
the latest events of the conflict shall
have been officially chronicled.
——MIiLLER Purvis, lecturer for the
Alliance in Ohio, and a life-long Re-
publican, says that fully 50,000 Re-
publicans of that State believe ‘a tariff
for revenue is all anybody should ask,”
and that fully half of them will vote
for CAMPBELL as against MOKINLEY.
Certainly the wool-growers among the
Ohio Republicans have ample cause to
rue the day that McKinley “protec
tion” fell as a blight upon their cheep:
folds,
A Charge That Does Not Fit..
An effort is being made to show that
GtrovER CLEVELAND has grown rich in
public life, after the manner of James
G. BLAINE, JouN SHERMAN and other
thrifty statesmen who had no other
means of accumulating except through
the chances offered by their public po-
sitions. A scurrilous article is going
the rounds of the Republican papers
in which it is said that “plain people
would like to know" how Mr, CLEvVE-
LAND became possessed of a magnifi-
cent residence in New York, a valuable
sea-side cottage, and other property, un-
less by dishonest means. JEANNETTE
GILDER, of the Century Magazine, who
knows as much about the private af-
fairs of the CLEVELANDS as any other
person, says in a letter to the Boston
Transcript, a Republican paper :
In the first place, let me say to these puz-
zled “plain people” that Mr. CLEVELAND does
not own a house in New York. He rents a
house in New York, and his landlord is Mr.
Hesry G. Marquanp. He did buy “a coltage
by the sea,” but it is not an expensive cottage.
Every reporter who has been to Gray Gables
knows that good taste, rather than meney, has
made the place attractive. It does not com-
pare in costliness to Mr. JEFFErsoN's place, for
instance. Then everybody in New York also
knows that while the CLEvELANDS live com-
fortably and hospitably, they do not live ex-
pengively or ostentatiously. Either of the
partners in his law firm lives equally well.
For people in their position, the CLEVELANDS
can hardly be considered rich, notwithstand-
ing the fact that to Mr. CLEVELAND'S savings
and earnings as a lawyer since his retirement,
in one of the most successful firms in New
York, may be added the inherited fortune of
his wife. To attack Mr. CLEVELAND as 8 man
who has made a private snap out of a public
trust is as ludicrous as it is false. His ene-
mies, if they want to hurt him, must get hold
of acharge that they can sustain better than
they can this one.
Mr. CLEVELAND'S statesmanship is
not of the thrifty character that has
made BraiNe and SHERMAN million.
aires.
——The New York Would acts very
foolishly in repeating its suggestion
that Grover CLEVELAND should run
for Governor of New York to test his
strength in that State. It would be
no test at all. The people wouldn't
want to have good Presidential ma-
terial wasted on a governorship. There
are thousands who would vote for
CLeveLanD for President, but would
not favor his being pat in a position
that would be a descent from the high
place he filled so well at the head of
the government.
Assumed Happiness.
Now that the Republicans have
placed their State ticket in the field
there is an attempt by the party organs
to make believe that everybody is
happy and positively, overflowing with
enthusiasm for Gree and MorRISON:.
The Boss says he 18 satisfied, but
would have preferred Price as his.
candidate for State Treasurer. Pricn's
friends have not yet been heard from,
but the party organs jamp to the con-
clusion that they also are contented
and enthusiastic.
But all this loyeliness is merely as-
sumed. It will be remembered that in
the convention three of the five dele-
gates from Berks county were opposed
to GREGG, and yet we are assured: that
everybody is satisfied and ecthusiastic.
Certainly, the candidate who canuot
secure his own delegation is not over-
whelmingly popular at home, and yet
we are calmly assured that Berks
county voters of all political faiths are
fairly gushing for the opportunity to
vote for General GREGG.
Notwithstanding the Republican or-
gans are all harping upon the same
strain, there is nothing like enthusiasm
in the Republican ranks and the party
is far from being harmonious. The
political bosses and the bread and but.
ter dependents are satisfied. But with
these the satisfaction ends. The
masses see that the ticket bears the
stamp of M. S. Quay and no .candi-
dates thus marked can win in Penn-
sylvania this year.
It should be remembered that
under the new law providing for the
registration of voters, any citizen whose
name has been omitted must make per-
sonal application to the registration
assessors to have the error corrected.
Now, don’t read this, throw it aside,
and when you realize a month hence
that you have not been registered, de-
clare that you didn’t know the law had
been changed, Only a few days yet
remain in which this matter can be ate
| tended to,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Three counties report potato-“rot.”
—Secarlet fever is epidemic at Hamburg.
—Three of a West Hazlelon family died in a
day.
—A Lebanon policeman was: fined for prae
fanity.
—Three new market houses are in prospect
for Lebanon.
—A Hughesville man was: robbed of $400
while at church.
—Thieves mowed a Germyn meadow at night
and took the hay,
—D. K. Yolton has been appointed Postmass
ter at Candor,
—St. Stephen’s day was- celebrated by the
Poles at Shenandoah.
—An Allentown man getidock-jaw and died
from crushed fingers.
—A MecConnellsville maw. broke his neck
carrying a keg of beer...
—An 80-year-old Emaus man: got fatal gan
grene while cutting a corn. -
—A Greensburg man was wi ys way
to get a marriage license. | :
—Six furnaces are out of blast in Lebanon,
and the others are stacking their iron.
—Twenty persons were converted: at the anti
Bowmanite camp meeting last week.
—Northampton’s medical soeiely reports
that the county’s health is very good.
—Otto Meyer, an AHentewn butcher, was
seriously injured in a runaway. accident,
—The Prohibition: State Convention will
meet at Harrisburg and name a State ticket.
—Isaac Stilts, of Royer’s Ford,.was killed by
falling from a freight . car while handling pig=
iron.
—Isaac Bryson, of Chester county, was shot
by his 9-year old son in the arm. and badiy
hurt.
—The Cornwall Anthracite furnrce- went out
of blast last week owing:to depression in the
iron trade.
—Crazy George Ehman attempted to commit
suicide near Ashland by throwing himself une
der a train.
—A statue of Lord Baltimore, seven feet in
height, for Calvert Hall, Baltimore, will be
dedicated.
—The 150th New. York Infantry Regiment
at Gettysburg dedicated their granite monu.
menton Culp’s Hill. .
—A fall of twenty feet from an ice house re-
sulted in fatal injuries to twelve-year-old Adam
Kecnan, of Lebanon.
—Reading’s coilleries, near Pottsville, have
been operated more extensiveiy of late than
for some months before.
—Mrs. Klein and her three children
were poisoned by dried beef at Mahanoy City,
Two of the children may recover.
—A colored campmeeting opened up at
Stoverdale Saturday. Fred Douglass has pro-
mised to be present this week.
—The Cameron, Buck Ridge ani- Henry
Clay collieries, near. Shamokin, were drowned
out by the recent. heavy storms.
—Mrs. Hannah Kersher, of Wayne township,
Schuykill county, who is 77 years of age, works
ed in the harvest field last week.
Four Pinkerton dectectives from Philadel’
phia are guarding the Pottsville Steel and Iron
Company’s mill, where a. strike is on,
—Allegheny City has a.typhoid epidemic
Fifty-six . cases have been taken to one
hospital in two weeks from East street.
—A great reunion of Reformed Church peo-
ple is expected on Angnst 27, at Bethany Ors
phan’s Home, Wormelsdorf, Berks county.
——DBenjamin Johnson was fatally injured
on Saturday at the Danielsville slate quarry.
near Allentown, by a box of slate falling upon
him.
—Littie Louis Rosser died from the effects
of injuries received in being pushed against
the school-house steps at Morea, Schuylkill
county.
—Simon Thomas, one of Shenandoah’s new-
ly arrived European miners, aged twenty-sevs
en, committed suicide by taking pure
alcohol.
—Charters were granted at Harrisburg
to. the Quaker City Morocco Come
pany of Philadelphia, with a capital stockof
$100,000.
—Mrs. Catharine Rothe, of Sha mokin, fell
down a flight of stairs at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. C. T. Waters, in Shenandoah
and will die.
—For maintaining an op:n and dangerous
sewer in Altoona, Mayor Burchfield and severs
al members of that city’s council have: heen
arrested.
—Wealthy John Carnahan, residing near
Greensburg, does not believe in banks. He
hid $4,000 in a chest. While in the field thieves
carried off the money.
—Matthew Bickel, a farmer near Williams
sport, was bitten by a rattlesnake on Saturday
He found the reptile in his feed bin, Itis
thought he will recover.
—Robert Naugh, of Plymouth, Pa., has de-
serted his wife and run off with another woe
man. He took with him all his savings, and
leaves his family destitute.
—The Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad will
make inducements for the Stoverdale Camp-
Meeting Assaciation to hold all its future
meetings at Mount Gretoa.
—Patience Hinke, a. 16 year-old, Pottsville
girl, who eloped with William, Bender after he
had betrayed her older sister, has been sent to
jail on a charge of incorrigibifity.
—Pelix Wasniski, aged 20; is dying at Moun
Carmel from a blow witha baseball bat in the
hands of Otto Schultz (who.is in jail) whila
trying to separate two fighting players.
—«J, F, Pettingiill, of Philadelphia,” got §30
trom thirty citizens of Pottstown on a cosopers
ative purchasing scheme. Then he left his
empty sachel at a hotel and departed.
—The application for a new trial for Charles
Cleary, the Renovo. youth who slew Qfficer
Paul, was argued before Judge Mayer at Lock
Haven. Cleary has been twice convicted of
first degree muxder.
— Sheriff Davis, of Irwin county, Kan., isin
Bucks county armed with a warrant, in search
of Benjamin Frantz, an alleged Mennonite
preacher who is wanted for forgory and em-
bezzlement.
—Two castings, 85 and 150 tons in weigh t,
were successfully cast in the ordnance works
of the Bethlehem Iron Company's plant on
Saturday. They will be used in the big steam
hammer building,
—The Pennsylvania Monument Comm isgion
at Gettysburg approved the memorial of the
Seventy-second Infantry and Hampton's Bat-
| tery, and located the position for the Twenty «
first Cavalry memorial on the Baltimore pike,
near the Lightner house,