(HE,
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The embryo “buckwheat cake has
ripened in the autumn sun.
—Has the G. O. P. of Pennsylvania
degenerated into a ‘‘neck-tie” party ?
— Another hot wave has struck Ohio.
Governor CAMPBELL is making it warm
for McKINLEY.
—Bar Harbor isin Maine notwith-
standing that Maine is a state where it
is supposed there is no harbor for bars.
—-It isn’t proper treatment of an old
soldier for the bosses to select General
GREGG to be sacrificed at the head of a
forlorn hope.
—McKINLEY anxiously turns the
switch leading onto the Silver siding,
but the Tariff issue obstinately declines
to be side-tracked.
—Russia isn’t stepping around the
British lion’s tail with such a degree of
caution as would indicate that she is
afraid of treading on it.
--On account of the “favors” from
BARDSLEY, there is a disinelination on
the part of the public to take a favor-
able view of McCAMANT’s case.
—There should be no complaint about
the torrid capers of the thermometer in
these September days thai are hardening
the corn ears against the early efforts of
Jack Frost.
—The flowers that bloom in the spring
aren’t a priming tothe FLoWER that’s
going to bloom in November and dif-
fuse the fragrance of Democracy through
_ the entire length and breadth of York
State.
—By sending in his resignation as
cashier of the State Treasury by mail,
instead of appearing personally, LrIv-
SEY shows his prudence in keeping
nearer to the Canada line than to Har-
risburg.
—A telegram says that ‘cholera is
spreading in Asia.” As it is Asiatic
cholera there couldn’t be a more suit-
able place for it to spread. We are not
directly interested until it spreads in this
direction.
—A dog with a washboiler attached
to his caudal appendage couldn’t be
more embarrassed by the tin question
than are the Republican stump speakers
in the rural districts of Obio during the
canning season.
—The report to the Canadian Parlia-
ment exonerating Sir HECTOR LANGE-
VIN of the charge of public peculation,is
evidence that whitewashing has been
reduced to as fine an art in Canada as
in the United States.
—The grasshoppers are skipping over
the stubble fields in countless numbers,
utterly unconscious of the boon they
are conferring upon the human family
by their contribution to the savoriness
of the Thanksgiving turkey.
—There was a lively struggle at
Scranton over the questionable honor of
wearing the soiled mantle of President
of the Republican clubs, It is a gar-
ment which to an honest leader would
convey no desirable distinction.
—In Atchison, Kansas, the saloons
have been ordered to the second stories
of the buildings in which they are kept.
Probably the object of this is that the
course of the drinking man shall be up-
ward instead of in its usual downward
direction.
“The year’s best fruits shall duteous
rise,” sang the poet; but when apples
are selling at 10 cents a bushel, and oth-
er productions of Pomona at equally
low figures, there can be no question
that there has been a great fall in the
fruit market.
—-4Onyx clocks’ may be an improve-
ment on the old style grandfather’s
clock, but when such valuable time-
pieces pass as presents between offi-
cers entrusted with public funds, it
doesn’t indicate an improvement in of-
ficial morals,
— Affairs in Spain have been clouded
by the visitation of a great calamity,
but when Minister GRUBB, arrayed in
. the resplendent uniform of the Phila-
delphia City Troop, shall return to that
country, his presence will give a bright-
er aspect to the stricken Peninsula.
—In advising BARDSLEY to “burn
this- letter,” Auditor General McCaM-
ANT eviaced thesame reliance on epis-
tolary incineration that was displayed
some years ago by the tattooed states-
man of Maine. In both instances there
was unfortunate neglect in applying
the match.
—L1vsEY, by resigning, has set an ex-
ample which McCamaNT ought to fol-
low. In fact the cashier of the State
treasury in stepping down and out--
and off, for that matter—has done some-
thing which if imitated by his * party
would be highly beneficial to the
country.
—In the Robinson-Dalzell Republi-
can club contest, the Philadelphia Press
speaks of ‘mushroom clubs.” It can’t
be questioned that there is any amount
of “mush” in these party clubs, but
as to “room,” there shouldn’t be any
in this State or elsewhere for such ma-
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VOL. 36.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER 25, 1891.
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Is there Cause for a Republican
Stampede ?
The Philadelphia North American
makes the following remark :
The Democrats of Pennsylvania profess to
believe that there will be a stampede of Repub-
licans to the Democratic ranks this fall be-
cause John Bardsley was crooked. If they
are sincere in their belief the Democrats ex-
pect that which they know has never happen:
ed in their own party with the condition of
circumstances reversed. Within the past two
years Tate, of Kentucky; Archer, of Mary-
land; Polk, of Tennessee; Noland, of Mis-
souri; Vincent, of Alabama, and other Demo-
cratic State Treasurers, Lave defaulted, but it
was observed that their conduct hasn't had
much to do with changing the political com-
plexion of these states.
The North American's argument is
not applicable to the question. The
Democrats were never placed under
circumstances similar to those which
surround the Republicans of Pennsyl-
vania at this time. If Tate of Ken-
tucky, Arcuer of Maryland, Pork
of Tennessee, NorLanxp of Missouri,
Vincent of Alabama, &c., were de-
faulters, their dishonesty and default
did not compromise the integrity of
the party to which they belonged. The
discovery that they were defaulters,and
their punishment as defaulters, were
brought about under and by the party
whose confidence they had betrayed
and whose reputation their conduct had,
a tendency to injure. They were iso-
lated cases, promptly followed by cor-
There was no effort to con-
ceal them. JomN BARDSLEY'S case is
not an isolated and individual
stance of official corruption in his par-
ty. It has its widely ramifying connec
tions. It isa segmentof a circle whose
corrupt periphery comprehends the en-
tire Republican management of public
affairs in this State. It is an incident
of a system of official debauchery that
has pervaded every department of the
State government.
It is impossible for any party to pre-
vent individual dereliction; scamps may
be found in every party; but when such
general demoralization exists that
scampish practices are the common
practices of a party's leaders; that
treasury embezzlement and misuse of
public funds are systematically adopted
as a principle of party management,
with the scamps not only unpunished,
but shielded and put into official places,
endorsed by the party platform, and
elevated to the position of party boss:
es, then it is that the honest members
of such a party should “stampede.”
I'he Democrats never had occasion to
stampede for such a reason. But who
can say that there is not ample reason
for honest Republicans to withdraw
their support from their party while
under such corrupt management as it
is found to be in Peuusylvania at this
time ?
rection.
in-
——-There isn’t a Republican lawyer
in the Ubion-Snyder-Mifilin judicial
district that has the sand to run
against Judge BucuHEr for President
Judge. His second term is about ex-
piring and the Democrats of the Dis-
trict haye nominated him for a third
term. The Republicans would like to
run somebody against him, but they
can’t find any one willing to stand the
defeat that would surely attend his run.
ning against Judge BucarRr. Such being
the situation down there, the Republi
can are arrogating a great deal of credit
to themselves for not bringing the judi-
cial question into a party contest. If
there was any show for them what:
ever you would see them trotting out a
candidate for Judge. Their virtue in
this matter is the virtue of necessity.
—The wind blows peacefully through
the moustache of JoNES who ‘‘pays the
freight.” His ire having subsided, he
has concluded not to run for spite as
an independent candidate for Governor
of New York.
We greatly regret to learn that
the Governor of Kentucky has ordered a
reduction of his staff, which will neces-
sarily reduce the number of Colonels in
that State, and consequently diminish
one of the most picturesque features of
the Blue Grass region. Everybody has
a warm feeling for the Kentucky Col-
onel ; there is no character anywhere
more affable or chivalric ; not even the
Virginia Majah surpasses him in this
respect, and when his fine traite are
brought out with full effect by the ex-
hilerating influence of his fayorite bev-
erage, he 1s truly an interesting char-
acter. Kentucky will be a great loser
chine organizations.
in losing her Colonels: In fact it will’
be a loss to the whole country.
There Can Be No Reform Within a Rot-
ten Party,
After JouN BarpsLey, last week,
positively refused to open his mouth as
a witness in the suit against officers of
the auditing and treasury departments
in which they were charged with being
connected with his malversation, it 18
said that Auditor General McCaMANT,
who was present as one of the defend-
ants, appeared like a man who felt chat
a great load had been taken off his
shoulders. The chief witness against
him had shown his determination to
keep his mouth shut. Liveey wasn’t
there, but if he had been, there is no
doubt that he would have experienced
the same sense of relief.
Since his lucky escape from the em-
barrassment in which testimony from
BarpsLey would most likely have
placed him, Auditor General McCay-
ANT has been before the legislative
committee as a witness on a subject
similar to that which the court was
trying to get to the bottom of. When
asked why BarpsLey had been allow-
ed to retain liquor license money to the
amount of thousards of dollars long
after it was due the State, the Auditor
General replied that he had frequently
been urged to pay up, but he would
“get angry” when thus impor-
tuned, and consequently payment was
not insisted upon ; besides BarpsLey
assured him that “the State funds were
perfectly safe and there was no occa:
sion for alarm.” So it appears that
this custodian of the State's interests
would get scared when a delinquent
got mad at being dunned, and could be
satisfied when an officer unlawfully re-
taining public funds told him that he
need not trouble himself about it, as it
was safe.
At the very time the Auditor Gener-
al represents himself to have been bull-
dozed by BarpsLey, there is evidence
of letters of thanks from him to the
embezzler which might be charitably
accepted as merely acknowledgments
of his obligation to BArpsLEY fcr hav-
ing done shopping for him in the pur-
chase of “neckties and handkerchiefs,”
as Mr.
there was not at the same time the evi-
dence of BarpsLey’s check book ‘that
the Auditor General had favors of an
for.
Mr. McCanMaxT is a fair sample of a!
respectable Republican office-holder.
When he was nominated nothing
could be said against his personal re-
putation ; and that reputation was the
shield of the bosses. Who could
doubt that every thing would be safe
with a man of such fine personal
character in the auditing department?
His case shows the utter inpossibili-
ty of reform within a party that is rot-
‘ten from the top down—particularly
at the top. Another person of excel-
lent private character has been nom-
inated by the Republicans for Auditor
General—another shield for the bosses
and machine managers to get behind.
Is it unreasonable to believe that, if
elected, the same power would exert
its control over GREGG that ruled the
respectable MoCamanT, and that he
too would submit to superior influence
and become scared when prominent de-
linquents should get mad for being urg-
ged to pay up?
RA SSS PRT
-—There is something amusing in the
fussy little Emperor of Germany calling
the great NAPOLEON a parvenu. Apart
from the absurdity of such an expression
as applied to the greatest and most illus-
trious sovereign Europe ever had,
WiLLiAM appears to have forgotten
that “parvana’ was the term which the
HarsBURGS at Vienna, and the BoURr-
BONS at Paris, at a comparatively recent
date, contemptuously applied to the ob-
scure HMONENZ0LLERNS when they were
essaying to have recognized as a kingdom
their disjointed patches of territory
which VoLTAirk sarcastically said
looked like @ pair of gaiters.on the map
of Europe.
——The gixteen page industrial is.
sue of the oY county Democrat,
which was published on the 17th inst.,
teems with the natural advantages and
business worth of West Chester. It is
a very creditable publication indeed,
and marks the success of a live journal.
Such papers scattered broadcast over
the country do a world of good to the
interests of a town, but they are of no
value whatever unless the citizens co-
operate with the publisher to make
them a success,
McCamant explained it, if
An Interstate Misunderstanding.
Interstate interests of the first impor-
tance demand that amicable feelings
should be maintained between Govern:
or Jackson, of Maryland, and Govern-
or Parrison, of Pennsylvania, and that
friendly relations should continue be-
tween the two States. Unfortunate:
ly something has occurred that has ex
cited the anger of Maryland's execu-
tive and may lead to hostile demon-
strations from the south side of Mason
& Dixon’s line.
It appears that an offender, of the
name of MARSHALL, eluding the hand
of justice that was about to be laid up-
on him in Pennsylvania, sought refuge
within the confines of the State ovep
which Governor JACksoN exercises
gubernatorial jurisdiction. When the
fugitive got over the border the pursu-
ing myrmidons of Pennsylvania law
should have stopped at the historic
line which separates the ‘two sover-
eignties, but in their zeal for the ap-
prehension of the offender they forgot
the respect that is due the soil of a sov-
ereign State, and, regardless of the con-
sequences of such an invasion, contin-
ued the pursuit and captured jhim
under the very gis of “My Mary-
land,” returning with him to Pennsyl-
vania and lodging him in the Holh-
daysburg jail.
Was 1t any wonder that under such
high-handed circumstances Governor’
JacksoN's wrath boiled over? Would
he be worthy of being the Governor of
a sovereign State if be should not be-
come incensed at seeing its sovereignty
treated with so little respect? But
Governor JACKSON is an executive offic-
er who fully fills the gubernatorial
bill. He understands what is due the
dignity ot his State and knows how to
act when confronted by an urgent emer-
gency in her behalf, Therefore he has
demanded the return of the person by
whose arrest the dignity of Maryland
was insulted, and if that person is not
returned, he, as her chief executive of-
ficer, will know the reason why.
History records a similar misunder-
standing between the two Carolinas,
An emergency arose in which the Gov-
ernor of South Carolina was compelled
to demand from the Governor of North
Carolina reparation similar to that
entirely different kind to return thanks |
which the Governor of Maryland finds
‘himself forced to require of the Govern-
or of Pennsylvania. Many diplomatic
| .
i notes passed between the two Carolina
governors, There was much threaten-
ing on one side and evasion on the
other. When the difficulty had reach-
ed a point at which there was every
appearance that a hostile collision
was unavoidable, the two Governors
got together and it didn’t require a
long time between drinks for them to
arrive at an amicable and satisfactory
understanding.
If the difficulty between Governor
Jackson and Governor PArTisON can-
not be composed in any other way, we
would advise them to try the Carolina
method of diplomacy.
William L. Scott Dead.
The death of Hon. WiLL1aM L. Scorr,
which occurred at Newport, R. I., last
Sunday night, was not unexpected, as
his health had been in bad condition
for some time, his friends having rea
son to fear a fatal termination of his
disease, which was a complication of
heart affection and gastric disorder.
Mr. Scorr had [for years occupied a
prominent position in the business and
political circles of the State. He com.
menced life in humble circumstances
and by force of his naturai abifities at
tained wealth and pablic distiaction.
A boy from Virginia, he was . employ-
ed as a page in the House of Represen-
tatives at Washington. Subsequently
he was attracted to Yrie, Pa., where he
engaged in the sale of coal which grew
into extensive operations in both an-
thracite and bituminous enals in this
and adjoining States, and also in the
Fventually he
manufacture of iron.
became connected with railroad inter-
este and at one time managed a larger
number of miles of railroad than any
other man in the United States. The
vast fortune he accumulated amounted
to $20,000,000. He, as a Democrat,
represented the Erie districc in Con-
gress for several terms, although its us
ual majority is largely Republican.
He stood high in the councils of his
party and will be missed by those with
whom he had been politically asso
ciated.
NO. 37,
Balmaceda Suicides.
The tragic termination of BALMACE-
DA’s career has taken the world by
sarprise. It was thought that the dis-
comfited Chilian dictator had succeed:
ed in getting out of the country, taking
with him a large amount of plunder in
the shape ofsilver,ibut this impression
is dispelled by the startling announce-
ment that, despairing of making his es-
cape, and terrified at the prospect of
the punishment he had reason to ex-
pect, he ended his trouble by killing
himselt in his place of concealment.
He had taken refuge at the legation of
the Argentine republic in Santiago, the
capital of Chili, and when he became
assured of his inability to escape from
the country he shot himself through
the head with a revolver, the suicide
occurring last Friday morning.
BaLmAcEDA was one of the ablest
men that Chili ever produced. Enter-
ing public life at an early age he oc.
cupied some of the most important of-
ficial positions in the government:
He enjoyed great popularity and had
the confidence of the people on account
of his ability as well as for the reason
of the success and fidelity with which
he had performed his public trusts. In
1886 he was elected President of the
Republic. His ambition to succeed
himself as the head of the government
led him to the commission of arbitrary
acts which brought him into collision
with congress. The congressional par-
ty rebelled, a civil war ensued, such as
is easily excited in South American
countries, Baryacepa was defeated,
and he is now a dead man.
Thus terminated the career of a
presidential officer who was ambitious
of being his own successor against the
will of the people. In the United
States, when a President gets big head-
ed and wants to hold on to his office
for a longer period than the people
think his merits deserve, there isn't
a revolution, but the voters go
quietly to the polls and put him out
with their little ballots. This is the
way they will dispose of BeEnyaMiN Har-
RISON, who, upon finding that he has
lost his presidential hold, will not be
likely to blow out his brains as BaL
maceDA did, but will take them along
with him to Indianapolis and use
them again for all they are worth in a
second-class law practice.
—When it is remempverea that the
fear of arrest and punishment for elec-
tion rascality prevented W. W. DUDLEY
from returning to Indiana for more
than a year after the last Presidential
election, his appearance at the head of
the Indiana delegation to the next Re-
publie:n national convention will go to
show that manifest rascality isn’t
anytbing of a backset toa Republican
leader. That fact, however, needs no
special illustration.
Livsey Resigns.
Almost simultaneously with the re-
turn of State Treasurer Boyer from
Canada, where he had been tempting
the elusive trout with the delusive fly,
a letter reached him from the fugacious
Livsey, tendering his resignation as
cashier of the Treasury. The letter
was dated at Milwaukee and stated
that on account of “circumstances of a
domestic nature’ his return to Harris-
burg was a matter of the indefinite future:
He resigned in order, as he said, to re-
lieve Treasurer BoYER of official incon-
venience. Mr. Livsey ough’ to be in
Harrisburg where there is a highly in-
teresting investigation going on, and it
is to be regretted that he 1s prevented
from contributing to its interest by be-
ing kept away by ‘circumstances of a
domestic nature.”
——At last the great clatter that
has been going oun for more ther six
months over the election of a President
of the Republican State clubs, has ter-
minated in the election of Jack Ros-
INsoN, It was done at Scranton on
Wednesday almost as speedily as you
could pronounce the distinguished
name, the enunciation of which has al-
ways been regarded as the synonym of
celerity. The clubs assembled in con-
vention—including the “mushroom”
as well as the semi-pure variety—and
said “Jack Robinson” with an empha-
sis and speed that took away the
breath of Jack Darzeiun and Major
WarreN. After deluding himself for
six months with the impression that he
was in it, DaLzeLL has discovered that
he wasn't to any appreciable extent,
Spawls from the Keystone,
--~Malignant diphtheria at Altoona.
—Erie will build ships for the great lakes,
—Reading expects to have cheap air gas for
fuel.
—An express train killed Mrs. Hunnol, aged :
62 years, at Allentown. :
—Ex President Grover Cleveland will attexid
Hon. W. L. Scott’s funeral at Erie.
—Paralytic Mrs. Kate Blank, of Allentown
fell down stairs and killed herself.
—MecMillan, the murderer, was sentenced]tq
be hanged at Wilkesbarre Monday.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad is to concen®*
trate its lake coal and iron trade at Erie.
—William Wilson, of Pittsburg, aged 25, has
been arrested for abusing his wife, aged 73.
—E. Foster of Bustleton, has picked a peach
from one of his trees weighing half a pound.
—The Lehigh River needs four new bridges
in Lehigh county, and they will cost $250,"
000.
—The dead body of Miss Amelia L. Glose, of
Friedensburg, was found in a brook near her
home.
—An explosion of 1200 pounds of dynamite
near Catasauqua shook the county for eight
miles.
—Valentine Andes, of Leacock, Lancaster
county, has made 50,000 gallons of cider this
season.
—Bigamy and the purloining of $1400 is the
charge that landed John Bodnark in the East.
ton jail.
—Brakeman William Oliver was found
dead on top of his car at Sugar Notch. Ap-
poplexy. :
—Mrs. Adam Wuchter, the famous White«
hall faster, is being nourished to graduate as
a freak.
—%“Wheatland,”” ex-President Bnchanan'g
home, near Lancaster, is to be converted into
a cemetery.
—The new school building at North Cornwall
Lebanon county, was set on fire twice on Mon
day night.
—Governor Pattison has found Warren Asya
lum and Morganza Reform School overs
crowded.
—A couple married by Rev.J. R. Bell, of
Huntingdon, haggled over the fee for an hour
and finally paid $2.
—A fall froma a second-story window at Als
toona ended the career of John Sullivan, a
Lynn, Mass., shoemaker.
—Delegates were elected at Allentown toa
convention of Anti-Bowmanites to be held at
Philadelphia on September 30.
—Bethlehem: stable thieves carried off all
of Stableman William King’s clothes and left
him naked to sound an alarm.
Stepping out of the way of a coal train neay
Slatington, Lehigh county, Mrs. Daniel {Huse
sel was killed by an express.
—The mammoth pumping engine, President
at the Friedensvi'le Zine Mines, broke one of
its 22-ton walking beams and is disabled.
—William Webster Trimble, a civil en.
gineer from Camden, N.J., was killed on the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Huntingdon.
—Columbia was shocked recently by the
sight of a 65 year-oid man and his 14-year-old
boy both in a beastly state of intoxication.
—Freddie Ferriman, aged 13, played with
his papa’s pistol at Pottsville. He seems to be:
dying now with a bullet in his addomen.
—Samuel A. Davenport and Charles G: Olm,
stead will represent the Erie county Repub=
licans in the Constitutional Convention.
Burglars got $2000 in money and goods from’
the residences of Thomas Robinson and James
Conn, George's township, Fayette county.
—New Cumberland’s School Board was dis
missed by the Court for a deadlock in the
choice of a teacher. A new Board will try it,
—Joseph Mather, of Johnstown, had
Foreman John T. Lowry, of the Cambria Iron
Mill, arrested for intimacy with Mrs. Mather,
— Ex Governor St. John, of Kansas,addressed
a crowd of Prohibitioaists in Garfield Square,
at Pottsville, Monday, and opened the came
paign.
_In a murder trial at Wilkesbarre Judge
ward has ruled that familiarity with newspaper
accounts of a homicide does not disqualify a
uror.
j —Car Inspector Jefferson Haddon, of Allen«
ton, was killed while clearing away the debris
from a triple wreck on the Lehigh: Valley
Railroad.
William W. Shearer,aged 84, of Reading,
has just died in the almshouse, as a.result of
falling down a Philadelphia elevator shaft 23
years ago.
_John Arleges, colored, who killed John
Crown a year ago, has been locked up at Read,
ing for assaulting Bartender Steigerwald with
a beer glass.
—The Parkesburg town treasury is empty
and a meeting was held on Saturday evening
to. consider the best means to provide agains§
total collapse. :
—George Spangenberg, of Jefferson towns
ship, Lackawanna county, is looking for hig
wife, who has eloped with John Wood, and
who took his money.
—Harry A. Flshe, of Brooklyn, threw hime
self into the canal at Harrisburg and was
drowned. He was on his way home and fears
ed to face his mother.
—Seventeen-year-old Albert G. Wenrich, of
Vinemont, Berks county, is under arrest for
assaulting Mrs. Mary Weaver, of Reading, and
robbing her of $5 at pistol point.
—Ex-Coroner William Silbert, of Bristol
and Johh Fabian, of Tallytowa, deat the reed
bird record on Saturday. They bagged 144 af
Scott's Creek in a few hours.
— The residents of Lebanon have discovered
the cause of typhoid fever and dysentery in
their town to be the city water supply, which
is polluted at the storage rese rvoir.
— Mrs. M. D. May, of Scranton, recently rails
roaded to the Danville Asylum, has been
legally declared perfectly sane, and released
to take charge of her own property. ;
— West Goshen has been treated to a bull
fight. The animals belonged to Miles Finegan
and Frank Green. After tearing down the
fence which separated them they fought for an
hour before they could be separated.
—Governor Pattison and Deputy Attorney
General Stranahan on Monday heard argus
ments for and against the extradition of AA.
Marshall, Altoona’s alleged embezzler,who was
recently kidnaped from Maryland and legally
released.
—J. W. Cornell, a Langhorne butcher,
hanged himself on a meat-hook while
hanging up some’ meat. The stool on
which he was standing slipped, and the
hook pierced his arm, He was suspended for
quite a while befor
him,