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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The wind blows east, the wind blows west
The wind blows whence it may
But there's not as much wind, when it blows
its best
As in the tin plate blow of to day.
—Not surprising—the recent rise in
frogs legs.
--The new Kite shape trotting courses
seem to be making flyers out of all sorts
of horses.
—It is the buzz of the husking bee
that rejoices the heart of the country
lad and lassie this time o’ year.
—The Democratic clubs can properly
he considered instruments for the pur-
pose of beating republican rascals.
—The “Saratoga’’ anchored at Phila-
delphia on Saturday night and flooded
the city with a mob of young tar(s) (tars.)
---The cider season is on and now the
average small boy is as transparent as
glass. Due of course to the pain(e) in
side,
—It is no wonder the McKINLEY
forces in Ohio have become ‘‘rattled.”
A tin plate campaign would be nothing
if not a rattling one.
-—An American fleet has been ordered
to assemble 1n Chilean waters, but if
they are’nt pretty fleet there'll not be
fleet enough for Mr. EGAN is pretty
fleet himself.
—The oft’ quoted line, ‘not lost but
gone before’’—the rest of us, is now
attributed to State Treasurer BoYER on
discovering that his cashier, Livsey,
had fled to Canada.
— ‘Eternal vigilance is the price of
Liberty’’ for the ordinary citizen, but in
the case of a republican patriot like
JoHN BARDSLEY the price is believed to
be persistent silence.
—The Democracy of New York can
rest easy. The republican Fasserr
that has been open and running in that
state for the past month, has notas yet
succeeded in producing the least sign of
a political deluge.
—The fact that the McKINLEY bill
has made such an exceedingly uncom-
fortable bed for republican politicians to
lie in, is, in all probability, the principle
reason why they lie so persistently about
its beneficent results.
—What a great change the introduc
tion of electric light and steam heat has
made upon house building, but how
convenient it might have been for
BARDSLEY to “burn this letter” if his
office had had a fire place or gas.
—If Emperor WiLLiaM looks
‘glum’ at the CzAr, when he visits
‘Berlin, the Russian’s will say : “War”
and if he smiles they will think it
means peace. What is poor WILLIAM
to do since iv is said that he has no
medium ?
—BEN BurLER’s forth coming book
promises much of interest. Already
the different Boston publishers are en-
tering suit against each other for its pub-
lication, but BEN will come out on top
if he has to “put up’ all his spoons to
do it with.
—Literary Boston don’t know wheth-
er to feel honored, or not, over the pos-
session of the base-ball champions of
both League and Association. What-
ever she may affect now, she can’t deny
the questionable means she resorted in-
to getting them.
—Ti’s a pity baby CLEVELAND wasn’t
a boy, for when the time co.nes the
dailies ot dur land won’t be able to
startle the people with the awe inspiring
Liead lines, Baby CLEVELAND in pants,
as they did when the McKee youngster
got out of his kilts.
—Begging pardon of the Susquehanna
river for associating its name with that
with which we do, we cannot help
thinking how much like unto it, is the
republican party of Pennsylvania—both
continuously, determinedly and unal-
terably on their downward course.
— Geo, Francis TRAIN, upon being
hooted down while attempting to deliver
a lecture in the Grand Opera Houses
New York, on Mcnday night, exclaim-
ed : ‘Danm the American people any-
way. Henceforth I belong to the child-
ren.” It will take bigger babies than
the average American youngster to
make suitable playmates for GEorare:
~The perturbed condition of her
government and the constant tear of her
subjects has kept poor Queen LiLivu-
KOLANI'S heart so much fier mouth
that she must have chewed it, for now
she js dying becanse it 1s strained ; aad
ia
avaricious grasping, hard hearted Jons
BuLL is glad. He thinks his son who
is heir apparent will be King over the
islands.
—We hope that wicked people won't
think that because JoaN WANAMAKER
has compelled his saleswomen to dress
in black, that he bas gone into morning
for the loss of his friend BARDSLEY.
“WANNY” don’t mourn over other
peoples misfortunes. "What hit him the
hardest lately, was being forced to give
up his forged Keystone bank stock
without getting anything for it.
ETT I A NERC RE ET
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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NO. 39.
Not to be Deceived.
If the Republican papers of Pennsyl-
vania could only make the public be-
lieve that the tariff, silver or some other
question that has nothing to do with
the administration of the Auditor Gen-
eral’s or State Treasurer's office, was
the real issue in the campaign this fail,
they would be happy for the time at
least. Unfortunately for them, the
rottenness and corruption of the ring
that has ruled the State, through the
Republican party, these many years,
has become so notorious, its thieving
so apparent and its conspiracy to rob
the people so palpable, that the masses
will not be blinded longer, and public
opinion demands attention to State
matters. They see this as readily as
others, and for the past two weeks
have given up the effort to make
some outside question the issue,
and have labored incessantly to have
it appear, that to the very ring that
has been doing the robbing; to the
very power that piannedjand perpetrat-
ed the thefts; to the very people who
are responsible for the disgrace that
hangs over the city of Philadelphia
and the Commonwealth to-day, is due
the credit of exposing and punishing
JouN BarpsLeY and of uncovering, so
far as they have been uncovered, the
crimes and rottenness of the Republi-
can State officials.
We admire the “sand” an intelli-
gent man must bave, who will stand
upand attempt to make an intelligent
people believe that JonN Barbsuey
was convicted and punished, or that
the rottenness and rascality of the Au-
ditor General's and State Treasurer's
departments, so far as found out, have
been uncovered by Republicans, be-
cause (it was right) or they wanted to
do so.
Admitting the fact that a Republi-
can District Attorney prosecuted and
a Republican Judge sentenced Jonx
BarpsLEy, for his connection with the
great conspiracy that reaches through
every office under the control of the
Republican ring of this State, the peo-
ple do not lose sight of the other fact,
that this prosecuting and sentencing
was not done until such astounding de-
velopments torced themselves into
light through the failure of the Key-
stone bank, that the crimes could
neither be explained nor covered long
er. It was no effort on the part of
any Republican leader, to secure hon-
est administration in the offices held
by members of his party that brought
JouN BARDSLEY to the bar of justice;
it was the simple fact that a Demo-
cratic Governor had been installed in
place and a Democratic law officer had
taken charge of the Attorney General's
office, and there was no hope of furth-
er covering up the robberies he had
committed that indaced him to confess.
Had Governor PartTisoN not been
elected last fall Jory BarpsLey would
not be in the Penitentiary to-day, nor
would the people of the State know
aught of the shameful manner in
which the Auditor General's and State
Treasurer's offices have been ran.
DeravMaTER, the Keystone Bank,
Barpsrey, McCamant, Boyer and the
whole Republican ring would have
been tided overand taken care of so
long as there was a cent in the State
Treasury or a dollar of State securities
to be put to use.
Almost a summer has passed since
the Keystone Bank crash brought to
the surface the real condition of affairs
in the offices held by creatures of the
Republican State ring. BarDsLEY’S
confession has passed into part of the
history of Republican ring rule and
his cell in the penitentiary has become
used to the echo of the shoes the State
furnishes him, but what in all these
months has the Republican party,
its leaders or advocates, done to discov-
er, expose or punish the other rascals
who stood in with him? Its commit
tee of councils, appointed ostensibly to
ascertain what became of the stolen
money, hag frittered away a summer
and discovered nothing; the expert
accountants under the control of Re-
publican officials were stopped the
minute their efforts promised to unrav-
el the mysteries that surrounds the
missing millions and those who had
profited by their disappearance; a Re-
publican committee of the Senate, ap-
point to investigate the matter, refus-
ed for months to meet, until ¢rxmpelled
to do so by the action of the Demo-
cratic minority, and since its meeting,
noone can point to a single question
propounded or to a solitary effort
made by any Republican member of
that committee, calculated to discover
anything in relation to the information
wanted, or to make plain a single
transaction connected with the great
scandal. Five leading Republican
newspapers, (all of which are now
vigorously claiming credit for the Re-
publican party's zeal in unearthing
that which has been unearthed in con-
nection with the mal-administratiop of
the offices in question,) that assisted a
Republican City Treasurer and a Re-
publican Auditor General to defraud
the State of forty per cent of the cost
of advertising the mercantile appraise-
ment list, refused, point blank, to an-
swer any questions or to tell anything
they knew would throw light
upon this or any other transaction con-
nected with these Republican official
theives; and to cap the climax of Re.
publican opposition to a thorough in-
vestigation of the manner in which the
State offices have been and are now
run by members of that party, Gen.
Gonin, the Republican president pro-
tem of the Senate,—the discoverer,
mouth-piece and friend of the would-
be-new Auditor General,—raises the
question, that the call of the Governor
for a meeting of the Senate, to consid-
er the criminating evidence he has ob-
tained against the State Treasurer and
Auditor General, is without authority
of law, unnecessary and useless, So
far does he go in his opposition to any
further exposure of his friends that he
adviges his party to appeal to the
courts for some process that will pre-
vent the assembling of the Senate, for
the purpose called by the Governor.
With these facts, plain, blunt and
undeniable, staring them in the face,
republican papers and republican,
politicians have the audacity to prate
to a thinking people, of the efforts they
have made to “turn on the light” and
to expose to disgrace and punishment
the men they have placed in power.
Is there a voter in the State foolish
enough to helieve them ? Is there one
pig-headed enough to be deceived by
them? The Republican ring that has
chosen Grease and Morrison to fill
the positions which will be vacated by
MoCamanr and Boyer on the first of
May next, if not sooner, know who
Barpsrey's “pals” are; kaow where
the millions of State funds, lost, went
to; know the manipnlation of the Au-
ditor General's office, and the methods
of the State Treasurer's, and could tell
if they would. They won’t, however,
and they ask co retain these offices in
the hands of two of their own creatures,
in order that the real condition of af-
fairs in them may never be known to
the people.
DEER TTS
——1It will be a matter of great sat-
isfaction to the honest friends of tem-
perance all over the country, to know
that the per cent, of drunkenness or
“alcoholism, as it is termed by the
physicians, in the regular army dur-
ing the past year, averaged but 40.73,
per thousand, as against 41.43, for
1889, and 56,68 average during the
previons decade. Brother ZieGLer
who heads the temperance forces in this
county, can take courage from showing
and feel that though his “party” is
not making an overwhelming show at
the polls, there is a something some-
where or other that is getting in a lit-
tle quiet work for its professed prin:
ciples.
An Unused Illustration.
What's wrong with Br'er McKIx-
LEY's head ? He seems to have forgot-
ten the strongest potats in favor of his
protective doctrines. All fall he has
been traveling up and down over the
State of Ohio, picturing the peace and
plenty, the properity and happiness,
the ease, and comforts, and blessings
that fall to the lot of those who are
lucky enough to live in a tariff protect:
ed country, but we don’t remember
that he has once illustrated the truth
of his teachings by pointing to the over
flowing prosperity(?) that is just now
rejoicing(?) the hearts of the people of
Russia—the best protected country on
the face of the globe. Rub your head
Br’Er McKiNrLey and let us have a lit-
tle about Russian times, tariffs
starvation.
bev ————
and
—Subscribe for the Warcavay,
Ireland’s Great Leader Gone.%O
As we go to press on Thursday, the
morning papers bring the intelligence
of the death of Ireland’s great leader
and patriot, CHARLES STEWART PARNELL.
The sad event occurred at his home in
Brighton, on Tuesday evening, the
immediate cause being congestion of
the lungs, complicated with an attack
of acute rheumatism. He had been
ill but a few days, and neither his
physician nor friends anticipated a fa-
tal ending of the attack. The last
time Mr, PARNELL appeared in} public
was at Creegs, in Ireland, on Septem-
ber 27th, when he delivered a long
speech upon the attitude and alleged
inconsistencies of Messrs. DirLoN. and
O’Brien. Upon that occasion he stat-
ed that he was speaking in defiance of
the doctors who were attending him,
and who had expressly ordered him to
keep to his room. While talking at
Creggs it was noticed that he was very
pale, and that, in other respects, he
was not the same man he had been in
the past. It addition to his pallor,
which seemed to dencte failingj health,
Mr. PARNELL, upon the occasion re-
ferred to, carried his left arm in a sling.
His friends, upon asking him the cause
of this, were informed that he was suf-
fering from rheumatism. :
Io his death the Irish people jlose
their best known and greatest leader.
He had his faults and weaknesses, bat
they were not those that vaciilated or
hesitated when the cause of his people
were at stake, or the good of the! land
he loved,demaunded;courage and action.
IER RS
—— As an interesting bit of political
history we would call the attention of
our readers to the fact that ex-Post-
master General, JayMes CAMPBELL,
though not yet eighty vears old, has
the proud distinction of being the
oldest ex-cabinet officer in the United
States. He is the one survivor of the
cabinet of FRANKLIN Pierce and was
a member of Governor BIGLER'S cabi- |
| at Harrisburg, and from “jucts that
| they have learned, through sources we
net away back(in the fifties.
A Truth Republicans Have Forgotten.
Our Republican friends, who, to get
out of an unpleasant dilemma, that a
vicious and monopolistic tariff measure
has placed them in, insist, when talk-
ing with a manufacturer, that the tariff
does increase prices and are just as
positive that it does not when speaking
of its benefits to a consumer. These
double-sided tariff explainers have evi-
dently forgotten a truth LiNcoLN once
asked them to remember—“You can
‘fool all the people some time, youjcan
“fool some people all the time, but you
“can’t fool all the people all the time."
A recollection and observance of jthese
facts, would to some extent secure a
little consistency in the advocacy of a
weak cause, and if it didn’t win, would
at least, prevent some people and some
papers from making] consumate asses
of themselves—a thing they seem ‘de-
termined to accomplish. Every man
in the country with brains enough to
distinguish a tariff-bill from a tar bar-
rel, knows that if a tariff does not in-
crease the selling price of an article, it
is no good, and if it does, the consum-
er must pay that increase.
em —
——Read ex-President CLEVELAND'S
letter and make up your mind to vote
for a Constitutional Convention and
ballot reform. By the time you have
had one trial of the cumbersome, fraud-
ulent election law, enacted last winter,
and see haw elegantly it works {or (he
briber, bulldozer and boss yon will be
willing to have a half a dozen consti-
tutional conventions to wipe the infer
nal fraud out. There is no hope of
anything fair or honest abont it. It
puts every working man at the mercy
of his boss, and gives the wretch who
is willing to befbribed, the opporwanity
he wants of proving to his purchaser
that he votes as he is paid tor doing.
It is said there will be three va.
canl seats in the Senate that
body meets in extra session next week:
The Chester district, formerly repre
sented by Senator Harray, who re-
signed-to accept an appellate court
justiceship: the Lawrence district,
whose members, is Senator MEeuarp, is
reported dangerously ill with typhoid
fever; and the Schuylkill district, re-
presented by Senator Moxasuan, who
will be performing the more pleasant
and pressing duty of getting married,
when
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 9,. 891.
Reducing the Republican Majority.
There will be three Republican votes
short in Lawrence county this fall, un-
der any condition of party affairs.
Messrs. Tare, Downing and SHAFFER,
three patriots(?) belonging to the g. o.
p., believing that everything was right
that could be made to win, undertook
to bribe the delegates to secure the
nomination of their choice for congress
last fall, and the other fellow’s friends
found it out. They were prosecuted,
found guilty and sentenced to jail for
three months and to pay a fine of $500
each. They appealed from the action
of the local Judge and carried their
case to the Supreme Court, which on
Tuesday last, refused the appeal and
ordered the appellants to deliver them-
selves forthwith into the custody of the
Sheriff of Lawrence county. To-day
they are looking out through the bars
of the jail at New Castle, wondering
how it comes that no Republican ever
thought it to be a crime to beat the
Democracy by bribery and bulldozing,
but that'as soon as an effort is made to
get ahead of a Republican competitor
by resorting to these means, the harsh
hand of the law has to come down on
them. They will continue to wonder
and worry while honest men outside
will go to the polls and vote for hon-
est officials and a party that’s not made
up of bribers, hosses and bulldozers.
-In the New York “Club
Houses,” as the gambling places are
now called, bets were offered on Mon-
day “last of $100 ‘against $30, that
Pennsylvania would go Democratic at
the fall election. The persons. offering
these odds were not politicians, but
men who make a business of betting
for the sake of winning. If they be-
lieved the Republican ring was going
to win again, they would just as 800n,
and possibly sooner, stake their money
on its success, but they have made up
their minds that the honest Rapubli-
cans in this State want to see a change
know nothing of, are convinced that
the ring is to be “downed” this fall and
asa . consequence are oflering the
odds above named.
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It Dwarfs Other Acts.
It is not alway the greatest deeds
that live the longest in the memory of
the people. War. H. KeusLE, the dead
Philadelphia banker, filled important
positions daring his busy life. He
was State Treasurer from 1865 to 1868
and for years was a recognized leader
of the Republican party in Pennsylva-
nia, He walked within the shadow of
the penitentiary in 1878, until Govern-
or Hovr and his parden board, par-
doned him for bribing members of the
Legislature to vote for the $3,000,000
riot bill. He built churches, and gave
to charities without stint, and in finan-
cial matters was one of the most influ-
ential and important citizens of the
Commonwealth. And yet of all the
acts of his bustling busy life, whether
of financial transactions running into
millions, of political manipulations
controlling a great State, benevolen-
cies that built churches or charities
that organized and maintained hos-
pitals and schools, none is so embedded
in the minds of the people or main-
tains such a hold on the recollection
of the public as his little five line in-
trodactory of Mr. G. O. Evans, the
“addition, division and silence” man,
It ran as follows :
My Dear Tririan:—This will introduce to youn
Mr. George O. Evans, who has a claim of some
magnitude against the government. Treat
him as you would me. He understands addi-
tion, division and silence.
Sp—
——The Pittsburg bar met the
otirer day and passed resolutions oppos-
ing the calling of a Constitutional Con-
vention. This is in accord with the
position of the lawyers all over the
State,and with that of the corporations,
The present Constitution with its mul-
tiphicity of Judges, ts hiberality to cor-
porate interests and its restrictions so
far as the people are concerned, is ad-
mirably suited to the needs of these
iwo classes. But unfortunately for the
public, that which suits lawyers and
corporations is not always best suited
to the people. The simple fect that
the opposition to a convention comes
from the sources it does, should open
the eyes of the masses to the necessity
of voting for one,
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Spawls from the Keystone,
—Eli Perkins will lecture in Wilkesbarre:
~Lynnport is selling potatoes at 25 cents a
bushel.
—Machinery for Seranton’s new lace factory
has arrived. .
—Woodward- Colliery, near Kingston, is idle
for repairs.
—Plymouth Brass. Band cleared $400 by
their recent fair.
—Pittshurg’s new post office
was opened to
the public last week. :
—Montrose expects electric lights and was
ter works in the near future.
--A stallion at the Carlisle Fair kicked ge
year-old Elmer Spath to death.
—Forest City, near Scranton, has thirty-two
serious cases of typhoid fever.
—Eighty-five students in the junior class at
Bloomsburg Normal School. :
—The Bethlehem Iron Company is making
big additions to its ordnance works.
—There are yet 25,000,000 feet of logs to be
rafted out of the bopm above Williamsport,
—St. Joha’s beautiful new Lutheran edifice
at Lancaster was dedicated last Sunday.
—The National Local Methodist Preachers’
Association is in convention at Harrisburg.
—Nearly 100,000 people attended the Allen-
town Fair, and the gate receipts aggregated
$17,000.
—Ten-year-old Charles Eby, of Campbells.
town, was trampled to death by frightened
horses.
—In the year ending October 1 there were
1159 marriage licenses granted in Lancaster
county.
—A bung from a cider barrel struck Emma
Wolf, of Myerstown, in the face and knocked
her senseless.
—Aged Thomas Feeny dropped dead at a
bar in Schuylkill Haven while reaching for a
glass of Hquor. !
—Aaron Flack, of Telford, Bucks county,had
a valuable horse ‘break through an old well
floor and killed itself.
—Reading Councils have passed a $150,000
Water Loan bill, and the Mayor has vetoed
the Trolly ordinance.
—Joseph Metsey, an enginzer at Stockton
Colliery, No. 2, Hazleton, fell on a steam-pipe
which burst and killed him.
—Philadelphia printers, Allen Lane & Scott,
attached the State Fair receipts at Bethlehem
to secure a $2000 claim.
— William Cronenwett, a York coal “dealer,
wandered away from home on Monday, and
has not been heard of since.
—A hot-blast pipe burst at the Bethlehem
Iron Works and fatally injured. Thomas Doe
ran and Thomas Daley.
—DMrs. Theodore Tilton has just left Seran«
ton, where she was treated for a cataract thai
threatened total blindness. :
—Bessie and Gertie Shores, twins, not yet
9-years-old, traveled alone from Sidney, Neb,
to their home at Towanda, Pa..
—An unknown man of 23, with the name
Hilbert in a book in his pocket, was cut to
pieces under the cars near Emaas.
—Fugitive Murderer Fitzsimmons sent
back $1000 to his Pittsburg attorney and told
him to get a new trial for Mrs. Fitz.
—Pattison, Harrity and Hensel are to be the
names of triplets just bora to Mrs. Daniel
Michlejoe, at Rosstown, York coanty.
—Sixteen-year-old Maggie MacAvoy, of
Mount Carbon, was killed while walking on
the Reading Railroad near Pottsville.
—Only an excited Sunbury passenger who
jumped was injured in a Pennsylvania Rails
road collision near Tomhicken Monday.
—Burglars stole ten overcoats and other gar.
ments worth about $360 from the store of
Swigert & Son, Newville, Cumberland county,
—Burglars got away with $400 worth of
clothing from Goldstein & Co.’s Bristol store
before daylight the other day, and probably
took it in boats.
—Missing his footing while boarding a. train
to start for New York and Europe, 60-year-old
Peter Friskie was killed, as Mill Creek, near
Wilkesbarre.
—Richard McIntyre, of Laurelyille, Lancas-
ter county, chased his wife under the bed
with a revolver, and was arrested before she
dared crawl ont.
—Rev. Clinton S. Miller, of Salem. Church,
was exonerated by the United Brethren's
Conference from all blame in connection with
his domestic troubles.
—George Spancer, of Dallas, Luzerne county
was acquitted of the murder of his brother-ine
Jaw, Jacob smith, whom he killed with a stone
in July last in self-defense.
—While Ephraim Walters, of Allentown,
was slating the roof of the new Temperance
Hotel, at South Bethlehem, he fell sixty feet
to the ground and was killed. ’
—Feeble-minded Katie Ziegler wandered
away from the Carlisle Fair with her little
brother. They were found at Craighead’s,
five miles away, next day.
—The Cumberland Valley Railroad earned
an 8 per cent. dividend daring the past year,
and has $301,077.84 surplus after paying em.
ployes $118,135.32 in wages for the year.
—The sixteenth anniversary of Golden Eas
gle Knight's organization in Pennsylvania
was celebrated at Reading yesterday, with
Rev. A. G. Kynett, of Philadelphia, as the ora.
tor.
—Practical jokers hitched a very long string
to the clapper of the church bell, at Dravose
burg, $6 (id everybody who stumbled over
the string in the dark would “ring the town
bell.”
—Horse-thief Dr. H. S. Darwin, who took
three Williamsport horses and was captured
at Middleburg, Snyder county, after having
his arm shot full of huekshot, is believed to he
dying in jail.
—The Pennsylvania Telephone Company
has sued the Allentown Electric Railway Come
pany to recover for the thousands of dollars
damage done to the former’s lines by the lat.
tei’s trolley wires
—Epgineer Peter Steyery, of West Bethles
hem, one of the few passengers hurt in the
collision of trains at Tomhicken the ether
night, had been forty years atv the i1hrotile
and never before received a seratch.
—“Ting-a-ling,” sounded the burglar alarm
in Craig Bros.’ store, in Scotland, near Cham-
bersburg, the other night. “Bangety boom!”
went W. L. Craig's revolver frcm a window
overhead,and “pit-a-pat” echoed the two bu.g-
lars’ feet down the street as they disapeared.
—Fire Insurance Agent P. M. Ermentrout
failed to cancel the $1200 policy on W. H.
Scott's Reading hat factory, as instructed by
his principal, the Sun Company, of London, to
do. The factory burned, the company had to
pay the policy, and now a jury has awarded it
av rdict of $1800.44 against Ermentrout.