BY P. GRAY MEE.
ok « Stings.
—The tin-pan is is rattling through the
Ohio campaign.
—Some very puzzling questions'about
wool are being put to Major McKINLEY
by the Ohio shepherds, 4
% --The newspapermen think that the
proposed Type Trust would be a trust
of a very bad type.
—The Jersey birds are chirping a
farewell to Mr. HArrIsON. Those that
he missed will not miss him.
§ BARDSLEY locked his jaws probably
to prevent a lock from being] turned on
prominent Republican officials.
¢ 1 —It was German hunger and not Re-
publican diplomacy that opened the barg
for the American hog to come in.
—1TIt isremarkable how the Ohio Re-
publicans ignore the tariff question and
insist upon giving the campaign a silver
lining.
—There will be lots of corn this year,
and by the process of a well-known evol-
ution there will consequently be lots of
Democrats.
—An earthquake shook up the Chil-
ians on Saturday, but after the revolu-
tion they had gone through, an earth-
quake wasn’t much of a shake.
—A pea-green African elephant is the
latest freak, What a combination it
would make for a menagerie in com-
pany with a sky-blue rhinoceros.
—Hayti has more Generals to the
square inch than any other country in
the world, but in’ ‘the matter of Majahs
itisaway behind the southérn part of
the United States.
——England, which compelled China
to open'her ports to the opium trade, is
virtuously indignant at the Chinese for
persecuting missionaries engaged in
spreading the gospel.
—BALMACEDA got away from Chili
with his silver ‘without the aid of a
silver ‘bill. The way he managed
that affair ‘clearly indicates that he
is in favor of free silver.
—1In rejecting WHITE as their candi-
date for Governor the Republicans of
New York gave notice that no “literary
feller”. need apply. A fellow with a
barrel suits their purpose better.
—1In consequence of Ohio baving an
Australian ballotlaw,the fat whichis be-
ing liberally furnished by the tariff bene-
ficiaries will be found to have lost, in
a large measure, its lubricating quality.
—Ttaly declines to attend our Fair,
not because she is mad at us, but'because
she-is not in the habit of going to fairs.
She is excusable,but we should be great-
ly obliged if she would keep her Mafia
at home,
—The President greatly enjoyed gun-
ning for reed-birds and bagged a num-
ber of them, but wait till the Democra-
cy opens & fasilade on the g. 0. p. in
November, and then you'll see the
teathers fly.
—The arrested Philadelphia Mercan-
tile Appraisers have employed the best
x
legal talent of that city for their defense,’
relying upon the well-known ability of
the Philadelphia lawyer to cheat the
penitentiary out of its due. T2250 alii
§@--American eagles recently made [a
flight to Great Britain, landed upon her
effete shores, and came back without so
much as even a pinfeather ruffled. They
had been sent over to settle balances
and were returned in the original pack-
ages. i1 ;
—The late census of Canada jshowed
that she had a less population than
Pennsylvania, but she can point’to Pre-
mier MERCIER’S embezzlement ot $175,-
000 as evidence that the Keystone State
is not much ahead of her in
peculation.
—The anchor which CoLuMBUS used
when he landed at San Salvador is said
to have been discovered. It could be
utilized at Chicago just now where the
Columbian Fair seems to be at .sea.
BLAINE also ‘could make use of it in
casting it to windward.
—VaN MoLTKE is said to have been.
able to hold his tongue in a dozen giffer-
ent languages. BARDSLEY can’t equal
this, but in his examination before the
court last Tuesday he showed that he
could hold his tongue in the English
language with remarkable sbstingey.
—A colored lawyer of Baltimore Has
been denied admission to the Allegheny
county bar. Intense as Allgeheny
county republicanism; is, it. finds itself
compelled to draw the line at colored
Jawyers. In this it follows’ the example
of the Republican party which shows its
repugnance to the negro by drawing the |
line at colored office-holders.
Notwithstanding that immense
quantities of tin-plate were run into the
official
‘purpose pervade the
sYATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 18, 1891.
"NO. 36.
_ VOL. 36.
It Should be Crushed,
The Philadelphia Public Ledger in
its leading editorial the day after the
Democratic State convention, said :
It is indispensahly necessary that the
‘spoils’ system shall be struck by a crushing
defeat in Pennsylvania.
This is an excellent remark. It is
an observation exactly suited to the ex-
igency of the situation in this State.
The spoils system has ruled Penneyl-
vania for years. I.has made its gov-
ernment the prey of a combination of
political sharpers. It has used its of-
fices for the purpose of private spoil.
It has employed the financial depart-
ment as a medium through which the
money of the treasury has been used to
enrich machine managers and reward
party workers. It has set up a treas:
ury raider as the party boss and made
him the dispenser of offices and politi-
cal preferments.
The spoils system still exists and its
promoters and supporters ask to have
it continued by the election of a ticket
nominated by the influences. which
have so long corrupted every branch
of the State government. The stream
cannot rise higher than its source.
The State officers put into place by
such infinences cannot be’ better than
the source from which they derive and
to which they are indebted for their
positions.
The Ledger is right in saying that
the spoils system should be struck by
a crushing defeat. The stroke will be
made effectually crushing only by the
thorough defeat of the ticket, nominat-
ed by those who are interested in
maintaining this system, and who
would bé brought” to punishment by
the exposure of the rascalities that
have been practiced under it:
EASTER AT T.
Intelligent Labor.
England 1s ahead of any other na-
tion in the completeness and efficiency
of its Jabor ‘organization. This is ow-
ing to the great advance which labor
has made, both in condition and intel-
ligence, under the liberal and enlight-
ened economic laws which have been
in force in that country during the past
half century. There has recently oc-
curred a remarkable illustration of this
fact in the meeting of the represen-
tatives of organized labor at Newcas-
tle, the greatest of its kind that the
world has ever seen. This Trades
Union Congress mat to consider ques-
tions of interest to the class with whose
welfare it was identified and for which
it was delegated to act. The intelli-
gence and conservatism displayed, and
the confidence in the object of the con-
ference that was evinced in the pro-
ceedings, clearly exhibited the progress
which labor has made in enlightenment
and toward an improved condition in
a country which has discarded high
tariffs and restrictive industrial regu-
lations.
The obstacle in the way of effective
labor organization in the United States
has been found in the fact that its pow-
er has been set at naught by the ignor-
ance, venality and factions disposition
of some of its leaders, and also of some
of its members. A different spirit and
movement in
England, as evinced by the proceedings
of the Newcastle Congress, which
represented an organization of 1,500,
000. The men who are the leaders of
‘this movement are not ignorant crea-
tures whose animal necessities are the
sole object of their 'solicitude. + Most
of them are passessed af aa intelligeace
which elevates their action above the
ill-directed endeavor which too. often
in this country characterizes labor or-
ganization. In its general features the
Neweast{e Congress was as digaified
and as orderly in its proceedings as
are similar gatherings of any of the pro-
fessions. It displayed its wisdom by
avoiding complication with politics.
Th this respect the lnglish labor lead-
ers steer clear of the rock upon which
the leaders in the United States are
l'too much inclined to strand the labor
movement.
Joe a consistency deserving of
country before the increased tariff went {a better fate the Prohibition party will
into effect, the price was run
UP 104 down to its usual defeat next fall.
$1.10 a box immediately after the “pro- Tt would seem an appropriate move for
tection’” barrier was shut down. This
robbery. was practiced simply because
the “tariff furnished the opportunity.
The consumers are paying this tax. It |
is idiocy to suppose that the foreign pro.
ducers paid it when the tia was brought
in.
{ our cold water friends to resolve that
the prohibition of liquor is not at pre-
sent a practical issue, and disband
{ their organization until affairs are more
propitious. There is no use in advocat-
ing an impossibility.
The True Issue.
The campaign this year in this State
properly includes home issues only.
Tariff issues are out of place. Silver
fancies are irrelevant. ‘War memories
are chestnuts that could be made to do
service at a former period but are now
stale and flavorless. These cannot be
employed as issues except in the in-
terest of treasury robbers to divert at-
tention from the exposure and punish-
ment which are their due.
Investigation of treasury frauds is
the great object to be attained by the
results of this campaign. In that lies
the issue. It is well said by a corres-
pondent of the New York Zvening
Post; writing about the political = situa-
tion in Pennsylvania: “An honest
and earnest investigation promises to
reveal a condition of affairs equal to
that which prevailed under the Tweed
regime in New York.”
Investigation exposed Twrep and
brought him and his gang to retribu-
tion. Tt ;was done by a Democratic
Governor, SAMUEL J. TiLpEN. There
are no Pennsylvania Republican lead-
ers to bring the Pennsylvania Tweeps
to account, for they are themselves the
Tweens. Keep your eye on the true
issue. It is embraced in the three
words: ~ Investigation; Disclosure;
Punishment.
——F assert, who has been nomin-
ated for Governor by the New York
Republicans, has adopted a new way
of touching a sympathetic chord in
the hearts of the voters. When he
was nominated at the Rochester con-
vention and made his appearance on
the platform, turning aside from the
men who were pressing. around to
shake hands with him, he went to his
wife who was sitting in a front seat,
and then and there, in the presence of
the multitude, dehberately kissed her.
Kissing one’s wite is a proper thing to
do, but the urgent necessity of doing it
in the presence of a crowd of politi-
cians and party wire-pullers iswot ap-
parent. It looks as if Fasserr kissed
his wife for campaign effect.
——
* Conglomerate Politics.
A movement for a new political or-
ganization in Michigan has material-
ized and taken definite form. Its ele-
mentary parts are certainly compre-
hensive,as they include the Knights of
Labor,Farmers’ Alliance, Patrons of In-
dustry and the Industrial Brotherhood.
Last May at a conference between re-
presentatives of these orders an address
was issued to the subordinate lodges re-
questing them to vote on a proposition
looking to a union for political action
independent of the two old parties,
As the returns showed that ninety per
cent. of the members were in favor of
such action, these representatives met
last week and issued a call invit.
ing all industrial and reform organiza-
tions tc send delegates to the State econ:
vention to be held in Detroit the last
week in December for the purpose of
confederating these organizations into
a united political movement,and to elect
delegates to the National convention,
to be held in Washington, Febrasry 22,
1891.
——The Democrats have scored the
first victory of the season. Last week
there was a municipal election in
Newport, Rhode Island. It was con:
ducted on strict party lines and re-
sulted in the Democrats, electing their
whole city ticket, the first time they
ever did such a thing {a the history of
Newport. This is very gratifying, not
only in that it shows the direction
which the political current has taken,
but also in that it shows that when elec-
toral restraints are removed, as they
have been in Rhode Island, the peo-
ple expressthemselves on the side of
Democracy.
——LWe have not lately. beard of
anything more gratifying than the
manner in which public’ decency sat
down on the theatrical enterprise o
the alleged Mrs. RoserT Ray Hamir-
ton. This woman thought that she
could make money by appearing on
the stage in a play in which the most
scandalous incident of her abandoned
life would be the leading feature.
True, she was encouraged ‘in this ex-
pectation by the success which has
unfortunately too often attended his-
trionic immorality, but her case was 80
repulsive that when she essayed to ex-
hibit herself the public turned away in
disgust.
Wholesale Stealing.
City Treasurer WricHT, of Phila-
delphia, the appointee of Governor
Parrison in place of Barpsiey, has
forced the prosecution of the swindling
Mercantile Appraisers in spite of the
obstacles that were thfown in his
way by Republican ringsters who have
reason to fear the consequences of
such proceedings. Auditor General
McCanant didn’t: favor such action,
but he was compelled to yield and the
suits have been instituted.
This movement is in the direction of
clearing out the jobbers, embezzlers
and thieves who have so long been
quartered in the public offices of Phil-
adelphia. The conduct of the Mercan-
tile Appraisers has been especially cal-
pable. In thelast two years they as-
gessed, at 62} cents a name, 58,274
persons alleged to be doinga meércan-
tile business. Of this number 20,700
paid the tax as assessed; 19,155 were
exempted, their names having been
put on for no other purpose than to
swell the list and i increase the Apprais-
ers’ fees, and suits were brought
against 17,400 alleged delinquents.
This business was to a large extent a
conspiracy among a number of inter-
ested parties. The Appraisers got 623
cents a name; the ring newspapers
$1.50 a name for advertising, which
they divided with BarpsLey and State
officials; while the magistrates before
whom the delinquent suits were
brought got over $60,000 from ‘the
State,in costs and fees, for collecting less
than $6,000. It is believed t%e mag-
istrates also divided with the ringsters.
City Treasurer WRIGHT estimates
the yearly loss to the State by the neg-
ligent and corrupt acts of the Apprais-
ers at nearly or quite $400,000. This
loss was incurred in order that a set
of thieving ringsters might put money
in their pockets. | The officers under
whose management this rascality was
perpptrated have been called to ac-
count, by tLe institution of criminal
Fnithed if the resources of Republi:
can politicians and State officers fail
to throw obstacles in the way of justice.
——The number of fatal accidents
in the coal mines of Pennsylvania last
year was 378 in the anthracite and 146
in the bituminous, or a total of 524
lives lost. There were 1,388 persons
injured by non-fatal accidents. = As a
result of the accidents there were 275
wives made widows, and 813 orphans.
From this it would appear that it costs
an awial loss of life to furnish the
great mineral staple of Pennsylvania.
There have been important battles
| fought withouta much greater destruc-
tion of human life than is every year
required to put Pennsylvania coal into’
market.
" Loud Jonttenant Governor Foxes, of
New York, is ‘an eccentric sort of a
political individual. Everybody has
heard of how he brought himself into
notice by his’ willingness to “pay the
freight,” and the fame of his mous-
tache is worldwide. Having been
Lieutenant Governor, his ambition is
| to go a step higher and be Governor,
and with this object he has been push-
ing his candidacy, but the Democracy
of his State don’t seem to think that he
ought to be promoted. JoNES differs
with them in that impression and
threatens to run as an independent
candidate if he should not be nominat-
ed, which be certainly will aat be, If
he should ‘conclude to do so foolish a
thing it would not materially hurt ‘the
Democrats, but it would be bad for
JoNEs.
The New York Democratic Nominations.
The New York Democratic State Con-
vention, which assembled in Saratoga
on Wednesday, was a most harmonious
gathering of the representatives of the.
party. Roswers P.FLowEr was nomin;
ated for Governor with scarcely a show
of opposition: There wasa compliment-
ary vote given to ALFrED C.. CHAPIN,
but the vote for FLowsr was practical:
ly unanimous, as it stood 334 to 43.
WitLiaM F. SHEEHAN was nominated
for Lieutenant Governor by acclama-
tion. The remainder of the ticket was
also nominated by acclamation. The
convention furnished an excellent plat
form for their candidates to stand on.
CE
——Subseribe for the WaATORMAN,
The Difference.
The Philadelphia Ledger, whose,
opinion is always worthy of high con-
sideration, says of the Democratic can-
didates for Auditor General and State
Treasurer that they “are men of mark-
ed ability and perfectly clean charac:
ter, and were nominated just as Gener:
al GREGG was nominated for Auditor
General by the Republican State Con.
vention—not because either of them
sought for or desired the nomination,
but ‘because the nominétion sought
them as belonging to the style and
type of men that are in the strongest
degree needed for the offices named—
and which are at this time imperative-
ly demanded by all opponents fof the
‘spoils’ system of State Government.”
This tribute to the ‘Demoeraticiiean-
didates is greatly ' to ‘be ‘appreciated,
coming from the source it does, Ac-
companying it is the Ledger’ s estimate
of General GrEGa, personally consider
ed, but'the difference in’ the Greneral’s
case as a candidate i§ that’ ‘he. repre-
sentg a, party which would be politi-
cally injured by a full disclosure of the
rascalities that have been perpetrated’
in the financial department of the
State government, and if elected he
would have tosbield his party. Every
consideration of party allegiance and
party dependence would force him to
do so. The superior influence of abler
and more dishonest politicians. would
be too strong for him to; resist. Gen-
eral GREGG as an honest ‘private indiv-
idval is one thing; bat as the head of
the auditing a of the State,
surrounded and influenced by ‘machine’
politicians who would bé'ruined by in-
vestigation, he would ‘be something
entirely different. The, people have
discernment enough to see the differ-
ence.
. ——The managers of the Republi
can campaign in this’ State give out!
‘that there is'a great stringency in ‘their’
financial resources, and they do not
know where to look for money... That
is strange. Can’t they get on the
track of the million and ‘a half of
Stale money BARDSLEY got away with
and no oneis able {to locate. - Possibly:
ex-State Treasurer Livsey could give
some information on the subject.’
Something might be done! in the way
of cash for campaign use if communica: |,
tion could be opened with Livsev.
Italy Declines to Be at Chicago.
The Italian Government has given
official notice that it “will not partici-
pate. in the Chicago World's Fair, It
‘might be thought that she ie actuated
in this matter by bad feeling caused
by the New Orleans difficulty, but the
Italian authorities explain their. deter-
| mination: not to take part;in the Fair by
| saying that it is owing to a prin ciple
adopted by the government long ago
not to, officially participate in any in-
ternational exhibitions; that it declin-
ed to take part in the French exposi-
‘tion held in Paris in 1889, and ‘that
the refusal to be represented at the
Columbian exhibition is in consequence
of this rule never before departed from,’
which should not be interpreted as an
act of hostility to the great enterprise |
or a desire to prevent the Italians |
from exhibiting. There is reason to |
‘regret that Ttaly should adhere to her
rule in the case of an exhibition in-
tended to honor her illustrious naviga-
tor, CurizrorHER CoruMBUS. It is es-
pecially intended to commemorate the
| great achievement of one of Ttaly's
greatest sons, and she should bejpromi-
neat on the occasion,
RTE,
—Itis quite evident thatithe Re-
publican State officials and party man-
agers don’t want to assist inSldiscover-
ing and showing up the frauds that
have been. practiced in the {collection
and handling of the State taxes. Re-
publican organs complain that the
Democrats are giving a partisan . char-
acter to the investigation of these
frauds and are seeking to make party
capital out of it.
that the Democrats have this adyant-
age? These evils must be corrected.
Those who have been guilty of them
are naturally averse to disclosure and
punishment. But is that a reason why
the Democrats should refrain from ex-
posing the rascals who have stolen the
public funds? Isn't it childish ito in-
terpose the objection that the motive
is a partisan one ?
Bat whose fault is it
—
Spawls from the Keystone, a
s
Lansdale.
—Edward, Curran, of Catasauqua, was, cut in
.two by a train,
last Tuesday night.
—Lebanon’s largest of funerals was’ that of
ex-Mayor Peter L. Weimer, last week.
. —Select Castle Knights of the Mystic Chain
will hold next year’s session at Scranton.
—Albert Smith, of Columbia, fell’ from a
horse chestnut tree and was killed.
‘fa —Wsank Anderson will be tried at Lebanon
next week for atternpting to commit suicide,
—Emaus, Lehigh county, is in darkness, itg
“| electric light plant having burned down.
—With 5000 entries and large attendance the
Berks County Fair has opened at Reading.
—The, registry ' lists of ‘Lancaster : county
show 38,022 voters, a loss since last year of 589,
—Thieves took $400. worth: of watches and
jewelry from S. 8. Vogle’s Mount Carmel store
—Governor Pattison will open the State Fajy
at Bethlehem on September 23.
—A vinegar vat to hold 1000 barrels is being
constructed at 'Fnckerton; Berks county.
—Hiram Smeltzer, of Bethel, walked out of
a second-rtory window in his sleep’ gnd escaps
ed unin jured.
—RicHard Muse, of Pittsburg, has been
elected Select Commander of the Knights of
the Mystic Chain. *
Christian Kline, t Jail for thirty days for
drunkenness.
—Work will, by order of Court, be resumed
in the insolvent Demorest ‘establishment at:
Williamsport. .
—Adam Light, of Light's Rolling i, Hohe
anon, lost his’ sight and a Part of one hand by
atorpedo’ s explosion.
—Lovers half a century ago, Wider. William
Zitz, of Huntsville, .and Miss Mary De Long +
have just been married at Plymouth.
—Thirty-one Reading citizens have sued the
city for $5000 altogether for damages caused
by defective sewers during the recent flood. |
—Clerk of the Courts John J. Toole, of Potts.
ville, has been indicted for assault and battery
upon County Commissioner ariel By De
Turk. He
—Governor Hill, of New York, has dectindy
an invitation to be present at the Alertowe
Fair.
, —A piece of meat eaten at supper by Forres
er Ephraim Buss, of Nazareth, choked. him to
death. ois
en into and ‘thieves secured sacred. vessels
from the alter.
—James Patterson and George Stark, ‘actus.
were acquitted.
* —Jonas Hoats, a rich Allentown bachelor
dropped dead’ and $3000 worth of notes’ were
found in his’ Poskers. AL
‘of Pittsburg,” was arrested in Witkesharre for
trying to steal cigars and liquor.
—Dr. T.P. Walker, of Danbar, was convicted
rence, a typewriter, of Uniontown.
—There are 270 cases for trial before the
Barks County Criminal Court that opened on
Monday.
—Samuyel Stoner was arrested at Lancaster,
charged with robbing Sellars’ Mennonite
Church. Sitiie ad
—Kinparts & Shank’s general store at. Anne
ville, Lebanon county, was robbed "Monday
night of $600 worth of goods.
must bereincorporated, haying lost its yrigt-
"nal charter.
—Thomas Fogel, a 70-year-old 1oiiiint of
Allentown, fell twenty-five feet off a pear tree
and was but slightly injured.
. —Johnstown business men and seventy-two
carloads of friends went ona picnic to Nine:
‘veh last week.
—Organist William.C. Keller,of Zion Church
Alsace, Berks county, has been arrested for
forging notes for $1250.
is charged with embezzling $1300 belonging ta
A. B. Donaldson, of Pittsburg.
—William Church’s4-year-old son was killed:
burg.
—Dr. A.8. Reiter, of Myerstown, Lilanog
| county, was arrested for practicing medicine
‘without registering with the Prothonotary. E
—A party of boys nearly stoned Joseph
Williams to death near Lancaster Tuosisgs
because he attempted to assault a woman.
roof to the ground and was killed. -
—William Hefflefinger, of Lebanon, while
digging a ditch was buried under eight feet of
ground by a cave-in, and his his’ shoulder
‘ broken.
almshouseé, will become first assistant physi-
| ¢ian in the Harrisburg Insane Asylum. on Oe
| tober 1. x
| Governor Pattison has requested ‘thd
| Board of State Charities to investigate the
| charges of abuse at the Harrisburg insane
F Asylum. i
—Pittston merchants have been system atis
cally robbed, and Maria Balthan and Bridget
O’Brien have been arrested, a big Lot of goods
being found in their home.
—James Sloan, ‘aged 83. years, a fhrnior. 0
East Nottingham, was killed by falling off his
mowing machine Frasaay and his head was.
nearly cut off.
—Mary Diehl and Mary Graver, of Salisbury
township, Lehigh county, have sued James He
Meitzler for $5000 damages for false imprison.
ment for alleged chicken stealing.
— Mrs, Anna Maria Young, of Easton, widow
of the late Captain Jacob Young, of Revolus
tionary fame, was 98 years of age Wednesday,
She is next to the oldest resident in the
county. '
—Rev. T, N. gn for the past fifteen years
pastor of the Reformed Churches at Salisbury,
Macungie and Trexlertown, Lehigh county,
has been requested to resign. He declares
that they all owe him salary.
—Expressman James M. Hes adly , who i is now
‘under $200 bail at Chester for non-support and
desertion, and $3500 for adultery, was again ar
rested and put under $200 bail for threatening
kins.
—0Once It Dr. J. .G., Sperling, of
Wilksbarre, is in jail, unable to pay alimony
decreed in favor of wife No. 1, from whom he
migtakenly supposed a Western divorce had
fotesyed him, an d'adjudged a’ debtor to wife
No. 2, whowas not his legal wife at all, to ‘the
extent of §80p0 for trespass.
-
\—Robbers are opera ng in the vieinity of
—The thermometer, was ab ai in Lebanon on
—St: Peter's Cathedral, Scranton, was broke.
ed of murdering young Roberts, at Johnstown, :
!' —A drummer giving his name as aaltaghed 3
of malpractice in the case of Miss Lida, Law. 4
, —The borough of Fleetwood, near Reaing,
=A. A. Marshall, insurance agent of Altoona,
under a North street electric car in Harrise
| Frederick /Grasser, a plasterer, while res!
pairing a.chimney at Ashiand, fell from the
‘—DPr. R. B. Schulze, of the Bérks county
bodily harm to his brother-in-law, Albert Hos
—Mayor Clark, of Lancaster, -sent Constable
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