Dems Yl
BY P. GRAY MEEK,
Ink Slings.
—~-The winter is getting exceedingly
“Chile” for Mr. Eca~ and other of Uncle
Sam’s boys whose fortunes have led
them to Santiago.
cman;
—The Republican newspapers of
Ohio have Governor CAMPBELL $150,-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
000 in debt, but that won’t keep him
out of the Gubernatorial mansion.
VOL. 36.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 2,
—Mother nature evidently didn’t
know that the G. O. P. had an infant
tin industry to nurture or she would not
have been so prolific with her fruit, this
8eason,
—-The CLEVELANDS have rather un- !
expectedly returned to New York to
await an event which will put the great
metropolis two laps ahead of the ‘Forest
city.”
-~An extra session of the Senate has
been called and now it will cost the
state at least $50,000 to find out which
-one of her officials has played the part
of Judas.
—Verily, if old DIOGENESE were
alive to-day and should again start on
‘hissearch for an honest man the oil in
his lamp would burn very low before
he'd find one.
—A recently enacted Mexican law
puts a tariff of seventy-five cents, a pint,
on our beer, They have a great lot of
“growlers’” down there, but they
“speak easy.”
—With BARDSLEY in the peniten-
tary, LIvseY a fugitive and McCa-
MANT in disgrace, boss Quay will be
equal to the emergency and take the
place of them all.
—The new whale back steamers may
bs all right for freight service, but it is
absolutely unkind to make ¢“Jonahs”
out of all tourists simply because some
passenger lines want to adopt the new
model.
An Extra Sesstfon Called.
By this time there are very few resi-
dents of Pennsylvania who have not
heard that Governor Pattison has call-
ed an extra session of the State Senate
to convene on Tuesday, Oct. 13th.
The recent investigations relative to
the affairs of Jou~ Barbsiey, late
Treasurer of the city of Philadelphia,
have uneaithed so much crookedness
in the offices of the State Treasurer
and Auditor General that the Governor
has found it incumbent upon him to
reassemble the Senate for the purpose
of probing the charges preferred against
these two state officials.
Whether the Senate will do its du-
ty in the investigation is a question
which time alone will answer. The
Democratic contingent, being so hope-
lessly in the minority, can do nothing
to help the Governor clear up the
scandal which threatenes to leave a
blot on the history of the grand old
Keystone, but itis to be hoped that
every member, irrespective of party
feeling, will turn in and lend his most
earnest effort to the ferreting out of all
the rottenness in our government.
Every Senator is cognizant of the fact
that to hesitate in this extremity is but
a betrayal of the trust which he has
sworn to keep.
The Stateis thoroughly aroused to the
call for an investigation and the quicker,
the thing is cleared up, the better. If
Mr. McCamant and Mr. Bover are
guilty of the grave charges preferred
against them, and every day new evi-
dence is being brought forward which
seems to indicate that they are, then
impeachment is the only resource.
Here the question arises, however, will
the Republican Senate lend itself to a
proceeding which will remove, in dis-
grace, members of its own party? for
already the too radical Republican
Press is trying to cover up its party’s
corruption by ascribing the whole thing
to “a Democratic greed for political
capital on which to ran this fall's cam-
paign.”
but one course for the Senate to pursue
and that is to cast partisan affiliations
to'the winds and goin for a full, fair
and impartial investigation,
The independent Republican Pitts-
burg Dispatch gives the following sen-
sible view of the situation : “The ac-
—T’is strange when, according to
McCaMANT, BARDSLEY and the city of
Philadelphia were so hard up, that he,
McCaMANT, should have the heart to
make the poor old man pony up with so
many neck ties.
—JoHN BARDSLEY sent him Onyx
clocks and neck ties too, and fattened up |
his bank account, Oh, how it grew;
and succeeded in getting him in a pret-
ty “How'd you do.” “That was Love.
That was Love."
—JOHNNY BULL will soon know that
we Americans are getting just a trifle
““too fast” for his people. © To think that
the Philadefphia criketers should have
the audacity (?) to defeat Lord HAWKE
and his team of gentlemen,
— Mrs. FirzsiMMoN'’s will have am-
ple time to theorize on the question “Is
marriage a failure ?”’ while languishing
behind the bars of an Allegheny county
prison, and all because she had taken a
murderer ‘for better or for worse.’’
--If Mr. ELLIS and his rain making
machine would only explode, a few
bombs over some of Pennsylvania's cor-
rupt officials, and give them a thorough
cleansing, the stench arising from our
public offices would probably be abated.
—It is said that McCAMANTS’ favorite
neckwear was always in the check pat-
tern, but if things continue to heat up-
as they have been doing for the last cou-
ple of weeks, he might be called upon to
help “HoNgsT JoHN” cultivate a taste
for stripes. ;
—1It has been said that some of those
who sit highest in the seats of govern-
ment have long since forgotten how to
pray. We'll gamble that the Plumed
Knight sent up a fervent “Thank
God |” when hie read of the death of br,
BURCHARD.
special session of the Senate with re-
State Treasury management rises far
above politics. It simply presents the
question whether the public interests
shall be protected and honesty and fair-
ness in the management ot the public
funds ensured, by investigation and
punishment where there is reason to
suspect crookedness,
In taking this step the Governor has
done nothing more than to discharge a
public duty. Ifafter the the primal in-
dications of crookedness that have been
produced, the constitutional methods
for disclosure and removal, if the
charges are substantiated, were not re-
sorted to, there would be no check up-
on the action of dishonest officials, nor
postmasters, crack the whip over the any reason why the plunderers of public
fu I i ,
heads of the other post office officials, in a ndss i, a HE The
their county, is quite in accord with his | 0 6rP0r does nothing more than is
usual long headed policy to keep tas | P ainly imperative upon him in calling
fnaehine well in hand, the Senate together to do its part by
! investigation and appropriate action.
—Poor, old ForAKER is not getting |
much of a: chance to. blow his horn in | It ought to bugplain to all minds, not
Ohio this fall ; McKINLEY'S boat sails | | bound up by mere partisanship, that
ititbother thie the discordant fog | the issue thus presented rises far above
horn and then many unwittingly fall | P politics. Besides the question wheth-
into the very place where Jom’s con- | er the fiduciary duties of those entrust-
stant toot waraed thew off Quriag (le ed with the public fands shal) be haa-
last campaign. estly performed, and whether any
‘charges of breach of duty shall be
promptly investigated, the surpremacy
| in the State offices of one party or the
iv auerly uatmportaats
ever political results may ensne will
result naturally from the state of facts
exposed, and from the willingness of
poilticians either to investigate fairly
or (0 cover up ‘crookedness, For aii
such political effects the condition of
things and not the Executive who calls
for investigation will be responsible
Goyernor Parison has done his du.
ty in taking the first step for investiga-
tion. The Senate should perform its
part of investigating and acting on the
facts exposed with equal promptness.
FE —
— WANAMAKER'S scheme to have his
political henchmen, the county seat
—The peanut crop is a partiel failure
probably because McKINLEY did not
increase the tariff on them sufficiently.
re increased the duty on apples {0
fifty per cent. and just see what a crop
we had. © The daty on agricaitural pro-
ducts made nature expend her energies
on the crop. But as he did nothing for
peanats, ualure, MCKINLEY'S hand
maiden, did likewise.
oiner
—The suicide of BouLANGER relieves
the French Republic of a political bom- |
bast whose egoism was a constant
menace to that government. About the
only good thing his career inspired was
the composition of a very pretty piece
of band music. There is not much dan-
ger, however, of the angel choir having |
to practice the BourLancer March for
his reception as good old St. Peter will
undoubtedly say “A bas BouLANGER I’
when the gay Frenchman trips up to
the gates.
——It will be worth far more than
$50,000 to know who stole the $1,300,
000, for then the voters of the com-
monwealth will find out whose fingers
are too long.
Whatever the result, there is |
ference to the charges concerning the |
What
Are Political Clubs Beneficial ?
The recent telegram sent by GrovER
CLEVELAND to HENRY Brun, president
of the Democratic clubs of Washing
ton, and his congratulations and words
of advise read before the convention, at
Spokane Falls, on September 24th, as
well as the great publicity given the pro-
ceedings of the recent Republican con-
vention at Scranton evolve the question:
Are Political clubs beneficial ? or to
be more specific. Is the organization
of clubs, by either party, either bene-
ficial to the party effecting their organi-
zation or to the individual member-
ship thereof ?
The clubs we have reference to
are not the “mush room,” temp-
orary organizations for campaign
ing purposes, but the regular as-
semblages of members of the same
party forthe purpose of effecting per-
manent organization. The ‘torch
light” and “drum corps” clubs which
spring up everywhere on the eve of a
campaign are of no real value, to the
party to which they adhere, other than
to catch the few non-thinking voters
who are attracted by the gaudy uni-
form and flaming torch, while those
organizations of men which we see
springing into existence every day,
whose aim and intent is to furnish a
means whereby their members can co-
operate in the discussion of political
issues, are the ones to which a party
can look for strength and support. In
the membership of such clubs can al-
ways be found names prominent in the
community in which they are located
and it isin this way that men who
have not the time nor opportunity to
keep themselves apace with the issues
of the day receive valuable informa-
tion on matters of vital interest to
themselves.
"Tis true that many wrong ideas are
conceived from the erratic harangues,
delivered by bigoted parusans, on
meeting nights, but they are not to be
compared with the world of good and
enlightenment that is received from
the quiet and friendly discussions into
which men naturally enter when
thrown together for an evening or a
few hours during the day.
If every town and township in the
United States had a permanently or-
ganized club, of the members of the
tion of Governor Pattison in calling a | Democratic and Republican parties,
there would be less deception practic
ed by candidates and stump speakers
and more judgment exhibited by vot-
ers than we find to he the case to-day,
and from the concerted action of such
organizations there would evolve
broader and purer politics, and the
mechanicism of our government, sim-
ple though it is, would not be con-
tinually clogged at the hands of party
bosses and corrupt officials.
In this issue of the Warcaman
will be found a partial statement of
the accounts of the Overseer’s office,
over which the Gazette is making so
much fuss. Mr. ScHoFIELD'S state-
ments seems to be perfectly straight
forward and will doubtless satisfy the
citizens of Bellefonte that he has been
grossly maligned. However, we are
somewhat at a loss to understand why
it is ‘necessary for him to publish a
statement of the accounts at all, for
anyone can see by a perusal of the ar-
ticle which appears in the Gazette that
every order that was paid was_present-
ed by parties meriting help, and surely
Mr. ScHOFIELD is not to be held respon-
sible if our town has more poor to be
kept during one vear than another. If
any crookedness should be discovered
in the orders, or the payment thereof,
then it would be becoining the Gazette
to try to unearth it, but the idea ot a
Journal's irnmping up such bosh, with
which to deceive the people, is abso-
lutely silly.
Sesageewsetu eens ees.
———Governor WiLLiaM Eustis Rus-
sun, of Mussachucetis, has received
his fourth nomination to head trinm-
phant Democracy in the Bay State,
The confidence which the New Rng
landers have reposed in Governor Rus-
SELL, even though he is but thirty four
years old, is a handsome testimonial of
their appreciation of his honorable re-
cord. The great revolution which has
taken place among the young men of
Massachusetts,and the change in their
political views, is a sure indication
that it is only a matter of time until
Democracy will be victorious o'er all
New England,
1891.
NO. 38.
The Dilemma of the Bosses,
Day by day the situation with re-
8pect to the defrauded Treasury of the
State of Pennsylvania, and the direhet
conduct of the accounting officers of
the State grows more interesting. The
publication in the public prints, of the
correspondence of the Auditor General
and the State Treasurer with the con-
viet Treasurer of Philadelphia, was
speedily followed by the proclamation
of Governor Pattison calling a special
session of the Senate to take action in
the premises. Among all classes alike
without regard to party affiliations,
mea who think, were convinced by a
perusal of this correspondence that the
accased officials were guilty of grossly
improper conduct, although there
might be a question as to whether the
proof was sufficient to convict them of
their misdoings in the courts of justice.
In striking contrast with the diplo-
matic conduct of District Attorney
Grama and the Republican managers
in Philadelphia who had original con-
trol of the case, is the conduct of the
fearless Democratic Governor in apply-
ing the heroic remedy to this malady
which has brought the body politic
nigh unto death. The situation is ex
tremely alarming to the Republican
leaders of Pennsylvania. They con-
trol the Senate by a large majority.
They may beable to delay investiga
tion in the case and postpone and pos-
sibly avoid eatirely, final action upon
it, but the great tribunal of public
opinion will pass judgment upon the
party which they represent, and it will
be no longer an individual or two who
will be held responsible for the wrong,
but the party itself will stand convict
ed of attempting to cover up the crimes
of its representatives and to save itself
at the expense of the public weal.
Itis to be expected in this trying di-
lemma, the Republican managers will
raige the cry that this is simply a piece
of political clap trap on the part of
Governor ParrisoN and his advisers,
and that the special session is part of
the political campaign now being wag-
ed by the Democratic party, but the
fact still remains that Governor Parri-
SON is too well known to the people of
Pennsylvania for them to believe that
unless he was convinced by a consci-
eatious sense of his duty, and impelled
to action by higher motives than those
which inspire the partisan, he would
have ever called into play the machin-
ery of the office which he holds. Rec-
ognizing that the best interests of the
people lay in this direction, he has not
hesitated to act. Knowing the signifi-
cant character of the evidence which
has already been presented and is like-
ly to be brought out, the defenders of
the accounting officers of the common-
wealth are already beginning to put 1n
the plea of confession and avoidance.
They can not help but admit that there
has been gross negligence on the part
of these officials, but they are charging
that it has been the custom of the ac-
counting officers, in the past, in this
particular. But the law which has
been laid down for the guidance ot the
Auditor General and State Treasurer is
a.plain one, It was the duty of these
officers to see to it that no county of
ficial charged with the coliection of
State funds, failed to report the amount
collected by him quarterly, and to
make payment to the Treasury of the
State of all moneysin his hands on
this account, quarterly or oftener if the
accounting officer saw fit to demand if,
The friends of the State Treasurer
are naturally very much incensed that
he also has been included in the pro-
clamation of the Governor, but no oth-
er consistent course lay open. The
same law which applies to the Anditor |
General, applies to the State Treasurer.
If the ane was direlict in duty, the oth-
er has been so also. Herein lies a lit
tle history which dates back to that
period in the financial affairs of Penn-
sylvania when the once powerful
Mackey and Quay ring were first ob{
taining a foothold in political affairs.
It was found convenient when the An-
ditor General of the State was not will-
ing to be a party to all their schemes
to devise legislation which gave to the
State Treasurer equal powers with him,
and so it was that as time went on,
the State Treasurer came to have full
power to compel settlements from coun-
ty and other officials with that possess.
ed by the Auditor General. These
“chickens have come home to roost.”
It is unfortunate now that the State
Treasurer has been clothed with equal
power with the Auditor General, for it
would be a most convenient way of es-
cape for him to simply claim that he
was but the custodian of the funds, and
that the Auditor General was the col-
lectory.
Taken all in all, the "Republicang
are in a dreadful dilemma. Which
horn they will seize, they are at a
loss to determine. If they cast ob-
structions in the way of investigation,
they will be crushed by the condem-
nation of the public, If they conclude
to make a sacrifice of the Auditor Gen-
eral, they loose their political power,
It remains to be seen what course in
their wisdom they will pursue.
———
It Would be a Valuable Acquisition.
The various newspaper comment
concerning the feasibility of annexing
the Sandwich Islands, forming the
kingdom of Hawaii, to our government,
is arousing snivaril 1nterest among
public men. Noone seems to
think that these little islands, eight
in all, covering a territory of 6000
square miles and enjoying a temperate
climate, with natural resources, rich
and prolific, would not make a valu-
able addition to the United States.
Lying as they do in the middle of the
Facific and about half the distance
from San Francisco that they are from
Melbourne, in Australia, and Canton,
in China, they afford a most conven-
ient haven for repairing merchantmen
and whalers that traverse the ocean.
A chance like this is what our gov-
ernment has long been looking for and
it should be worked us hastily as possi-
ble. There was some talk that Queen
Liviovkarani favored the English, but
itis in error and even if she did she
could nct hold outlong against the
overwhelming sentiment of her sub-
jects. There is a deep underlying senti-
ment in Hawaii in favor of annexation
to the United States. Even the native
Hawaiian paper Ka-Seo is pronounc-
ed in its favor. It would be going too
far tosay thatthe sentiment,as a whole,
is in favor of annexation, but there is
a very strong undercurrent, and it is
growing. It is believed that so far as
the sugar business is concerned annexa-
tion would bring the islands under
benefit of the bounty law. Our sugar
interests have been so demoralized by
the McKinley bill, involving as it also
does our labor neovlem, that there is a
feeling that something must be done.
“It it not thought that annexation of.
the islands would be in any way an
infringement of the Monroe doctrine.
Hawaii is directly in the path from
San Francisco to the Occident and a |
straight line drawn from the end of
the proposed route of the Nicaragua
Canal to Hong Kong strikes the island
square in the center. All the papers
received from the islands and inter-
views with persons just arrived from
‘there seem to indicate that the
sentiment for annexation is growing
and there:seems to be a definite opin-
ion that it is sure to come.
i ——————
Private Let Her Be. ;
Some of the citizens of Michigan
have urged Secretary Tracy to inflict
the name Grand Rapids upon that
pride of our new navy, the triple-screw
cruiser No. 12, popularly known as
the Pirate. Perhaps to the minds of
these Michiganders there is something
peculiarly suggestive and appropriate
in this application of the terms Rapids
aud Grand (0 the high speed and otfier
great qualities of our fastest cruising
war ship. But such a designation
would be about on a par with some
names that have been given to horses
whose exceptional speed deserved a
better fate.
The citizens of Chattanooga, also,
who have no false modesty about their
town, suggest that its name would look
very well on the Pirate.
ently this vessel, under existing laws,
should have the name of a State, as
she will be of the first rate, her ton-
nage displacement far exceeding: what
is required for that purpose.
If Secretary Tracy can induce Con.
gress to modify the existing statute in
regard to naming the ships, there can
be no better ‘ solution of the question
than to allow Cruiser No. 12 to carry
into service the name which popular
affection and interest has already at-
tached to her, Why should she not
sail as the Pirate?
But apnar- |
ered his.children from C.
——
Spawls Hous the Keystone,
—Reuben Bolig Jowacd himself at Sunbury
Monday.
—Dipitheria_ in ‘alarmingly prevalent in
Wilkesbarre.
—Huntingdon county cattle show signs of
Texas splenic fever,
—A burglar shot at Mrs: John Easling, in
Reading, but she dodged.
—Full time is the order of ‘the day in th Qe
Connellsville coke regions.
—Annie MéElroy, while picking coal. at’ Ale
lentown, was killed by a train.
Moosic mountain black bears are raiding
South Canaan farmers’ pig sties.
—The Coroner's jury at Bristol declared that
John Chase killed James Mahan.
—A 2-year-old daughter of Frederick Dotter,
Lebanon, ehoked to death on a walnut.
— Wounds received in the war have just kitis
ed Peter T. Philippi, a Reading Alderman.
—Henry Binkley, stonemason, of Shefferse
town, fell from a house and smashed his skull,
—While chestnutting near Harrisburg Ames
Becklinger fell from a: tree and: broke his
neck.
—Home-grown strawberries have: sold: for
fifty cents a quart at Reading within the: past
few days.
—A squeeze occured at Marvine Shoot. near
Scranton, but all the workmen escaped withe
out injury.
—Charles W. Dean has been elected. princi»
pal of the Indiana normal school, to succeed
Dr. Snyder.
—The 25 Reading collieries in the Shenan-
doah Valley started yesterday, with 500 hands
on full time. ¢
—An Elk county jury found Charles Sprague
guilty of assaulting Lewis Van Vliet, with in.
tent to kill,
—Presbyterians at Reading are building g
$50,000 hurch, and the Baptists will build one
to cost 30,900. .
—Luzerne county’s three Judges yesterday
decided that all county officials are -affected,
by the Salary law.
—Mrs. Susan Shelly, of Springfield; Bucks
county, was found dead in bed, appoplexy be.
ing the cause.
—A charter was granted to the Athens Elec.
tric Light, Heat and Power Company-of Brad.
ford county.
—1It is said that the Board of Charities will
not meet again to investigate the Harrisburg
State Lunatic Asylum.
—The Standard oil company is- erecting
tanks for 750,000 barrels in the McDonald pe-
troleum field west ot Pittsburg,
—A stray cat, probably mad, flew at Henry
Blank, of Upper Sawcon, Lehigh. county, and,
bit him. He fears hydrophobia.
—At New Florence, sixty men employed. by
the Pennsylvania railroad company, were are
rested for workiug on Sunday.
—Twenty-flve acres of abandoned:coal worlg.
ings on Leggett's Creek, near Wilkesbarre,
caved in, and 400 employes are idle..
—Shippensburg claims the only flag signal
service of the weather bureau in Pennsylvania
outside of Philadelphia and Harrisburg.
_ —Twenty-three freight and coal cars andan
engine were wrecked in a collision. on’ the Lge
high Valley railroad near Catasauqua.
—Dr. Neygus, of Binghamton, N. Y., recov.
C., Long, at. Homes
stead, and exploded an abduction story.
—Paul Harvey, a 4-year-old, climbed into his
father’s:buggy, at Philipsburg, with a match
set himself on fire and burned. to death. .’
—Charles Stappen, 11, years old, died at his
home in.Philade!phia, on Sunday, of a conges.
tive chill, the result of excessive bathing.
—A.young man, giving the name of I.L.
Johnson, was arrested ia. Lebanon the other
night for insulting little girls, and was fined
—A.committee of citizens and officials of
Lebanon inspected the water supply dams, of
that city and found nothing pol'uting’ the
water.
—Fred W. Porter, who runs a hack line af
Swavthmore, has been arrested for setting fire
to cotton in the station. of the Pennsylvania,
at that place.
—Preston R. Dry, of Lyons, Berks county,
writse to say that he isnot the Chester suicide
who was identified. as being the well Racks
school teacher. ;
—Mrs. B. B. Myers, of Strasburg township,
of Lancaster county, was fatally burned Satur.
day morning: Hen elothing caught fire fou a
kitchen stove..
— Bertha Beck, aged 9 years, of Lancaster,
who three years ago was abducted into the
woods and found nearly dead, died of diphthes
ria yesterday.
—John Giroc, a Hun, living at Silver Brook,
Schuylkill county, died the other day, after
confessing to a priest that he had killed threa
men for plunder.
—James Howells, aged 18 years, and Robert
‘P. Owens, aged 22 years, were instantly killed
in the mines, at Laflin, yesterday by a heavy
fall of coal and rock.
—“God be with you till we meet again"
sang a party of Allentown preachers as they
start for the Bowmanite Evangelical Convene.
tion in Indianapolis.
—Benjamin Franklin Valentine died at his
home, near Kenneilt Square, Saturday, aged
seventy seven years. The deceased was a
prominent Republican politician.
—Judge Metzger, of Williamsport, has de.
cided that the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Come
pany of Hughesville cannot collect assess.
ments from Joseph Sill to keep up the eetnes
tery.
—While endeavoring to separate two. men
who were fighting, Benjamin Fritz, a Bort
township, Lancaster county, farmer, was fatal.
ly cut iu the head with an axe by George Sent
man.
—The Methodist Episcopal conference at
Uniontown, Fayette county, in which 200
clergymen represent 43,000 members, a vote
will be taken on Wednesday oa the admission
of women as lay delegates to general confer.
onees. :
—Two thousand persens have been invited
to attertl the Birdsboro marriage ceremony of
Miss Annie Clymer Brooke, of Birdsboro, to
Blair Lee, of Washington, on Thursday. Spe-
cial trains will be run from Philadelphia and
Washington.
—Judge Rockefeller refused to grant natur-
alizing papers at Sanbury to a number of
aliens, on the ground that they were not famil«
iar with the Federal Constitution. The for.
eigners will make application for their papers
in another court.
—Miss Nellie Williams, a young woman of
Nanticoke, who recently eloped to England
with J. B. Shearn, a mine operator, while there
was paid by Shearn’s father enough money to
educate herself in music at the Boston conser
vatory, while Shearn left her and returned ta
his family,