Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, November 20, 1891, Image 1
ii afte emer ITO re Tey Ink Slings. If turkeys and chickens were {o vote, next week, For Benny’s re-election boom We're afraid he'd feel, when the returns come in, Like the boy who fell out the balloon. —Gamblers all love their anties. —Itis notto be expected that the saucy girl is the sweetest. —When in your early childhood days at school, did you ever pars(e)nip ? __Tts always chilly for those who receive the returns from the North poll. —Onecan see a Beech’s bark but when it comes to sea dog’s bark, why then its quite a different thing. —The President killed a duck, on Tuesday. Ifit had been a goose, JIM Brave would have cooked it for him in good style. —There was a deal of appropriateness about the place of the last meeting of anarchists in Chicago. It was in GRIEF’S hall, —1If society would unburden itself of the number of calves it seems wont to nurture, nature would give them dress in the cow slips. ..-Its a queer condition of affairs, yet it nearly always happens, that the man who “goes up” in business gets very low in financial standing. —Maay a chap who never served an hours apprenticeship as a pressman, thinks he knows all about the business, when it comes to pressing a kiss. —Czar REED will soon have a chance to see that the MrrLs of Texas, grind slow, but exceeding fine. Congress will convene next month and then we’ll all see. — Brazil is a trifle too warm for dicta- tors, and in fact for most any kind of ‘taters, but if FoNsEcA was only a lit- tle sweet ‘tater he might do better down there. —The ‘politicians who insist on presi- dent HARRISON playing second fiddle to BLAINE, are the ones who complain loudest about him being out of tune with his party. —Ohio Longshoremen are praying for rain and the old Fog Horn is toot- ing as hard as ever. Mayhaps its so- norous sounds will echo through the U. S. Senate chamber ere long. —8. CoLEMAN DRAYTON who has just separated from his wife becaue she loved society and he desired quiet, will go to Philadelphia to live. It is evident he knows where to find what he is long- ing for. ‘ —The New York dude who wears a coat of mail beneath bis ordinary cloth- ing, lo shield him from the wrath of his girl's father, would doubtless findjample protection by wearing a pad on the seat ot his pants. --Because Treasurer elect MoRRISON has been appointed to follow LivsEY, as cashier of the treasury, people should not expect that he’ll go to Canada at once. They should at least give him a chance to ‘‘get his hand in.” — After all, the difference between the republican Senate of Pennsylvania and the unbeliever is but slight. The one believes there should be no punishment forits official theives here; the other, that there is none for them in the here- after. —An effort is being made at Wash- ington to freeze out all applicants for door keeper of the House by presenting IcemaN TURNER as a candidate for the position. The name may be very frosty butit don’t seem to chill theardor of the other aspirants a bit. —The fact that all the big rascals from the leading western cities have started east, to plead for the national re- publican convention, is all the explana- tion necessary to relieve the minds of the good people out there about the wonder- ful fall in the thermometer. —Auditor General McCAMANT esti- mates the expenses of the extra Senate session at $60,000. By adding to this the losses of the state through the BARD- SLEY stealing the people will have a very fair idea of what “onyx clocks” and “neck ties” for a republican official, costs them. —Down in Brazil, FoNsca’s declar- ation that the people had “no jurisdic. tion” caused a revolution and raised merry hell. Among us liberty boasting Pennsylvanians, the enforcement of the same doctrine only caused an increased republican majority and raised the hopes of official thieves. But the Brazilians never fully understood the benefits of a A real republican government. —The Philadelphia Press wants the republican papers to second its sugges- tion that Mr. Hewirr tells all he knows about the sale of the Louisiana electoral vote in 1876. ‘Whats the use ? After the facts would be furnished, these same papers would hide the shame of their party under the plea of ‘no juris- diction,” and then denounce him for the the time expended in exposing the criminals, ere. A Poiater tor Philadelphia. Spasmodically for years the Phila delphia newspapers waken up tothe fact that there is something radically wrong somewhere about that city; either in its accommodations, its surroundings, its condition, its morals or its some- thing else; that there is some great reason why it is not as prosperous, progressive, go-ahead and busy as other ¢ ities having fewer natural ad- vantages and less wealth, Jost what that something is, none of them seem to comprehend, or if they do, have not the courage or manlmess to acknowl edgeit. In seeking for the cause, they lay the responsibility upon all manner of needs, except the right one. One paper alleges that it is for want of rap- id transit; another that it is the need of better hotel accommodations ; anoth- er that asphalt streets wonld remove the cause; another that enlarged parks and more expensive drives would gecure additional trade; others that the Sunday laws are too strict, and so on through the entire catalogue of what seems to be the special want or desire of the interest or individual, seek- ing to enlighten the public on just what Philadelphia needs to make it a modern city. That it needs something, something that will bring new life, new ways, new methods, new business, everbody knows. At present it is scarcely recognized in the business world. It may push and strive, and promise all it pleases, its efforts go unrecognized, and it is known more as a sort of a cemetery, where people are buried before their corpses’ are ready to wear the grave clothes, than as a place of business or of im- portance to the business interests of the country. There is no question that Philadel- phia should be a differert city from what it is, speaking from a business STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. "VOL. 86. BELLEFONTE, PA. NOVEMBER 20, political lie, no matter how improh- able or horrid, that reflected upon the intent, the honor or the courage of the Southern people but was taken’ up and paraded as a fact, by Philadelphia newspapers, aud no effort on the part of any Southern state, to secure respec- table representatives in the general government or respectable home rule for itself, that was not twisted and dis- torted in every conceivable way to the discredit of that entire section. It is to this cause, more than to all other causes combined thatcan be at- tributed the loss to Philadelphia, of the trade of the south, and to that loss can be assigned the reason for the busi- ness condition of which the Philadel phia press and business interests, now so loudly complain . A Cowardly Scheme, : What looks at this distance very much like a well planned conspiracy to excuse the trial and punishment of the indicted mercantile appraisers, of Phila- delphia, and throw the responsibility for this miscarriage of justice upon the democrats, has just developed 1n the republican papers of that city. It is nothing more or less than a long sensational story about persons con- nected with the democratic organiza- tion of that city, procuring and distri buting bogus tax receipts, and the as: surance that their names are known to other day, from the tiresome drudgery the district attorney, who intends push- ing the matter to the utmost limit, and that to save the exposure of these democrats, it is possible that an ar- rangement will be made that will drop both these and the cases against the republican mercantile appraisers. {ts a nice scheme if it works, but no democrat wants to see it succeed. Ot the truth or falsity of the bogus tax receipt story, we know nothing. But we do koow that no trading of ras cals whereby crime isto be condoned, I= point. Its principal trade now is from the west, with which section it only | stands on an equal footing with New | York. What it wants is the Southern | trade. This it should have. This be- | longs to it geographically and by every business reason that could be advanc- ed. And yet, although a hundred miles nearer to every important busi ness centre of the south, the entire trade of that section passes through Philadelphia and goes on to New York, preferring to loose four hours time in going and coming, and the additional cost of transportation and freightage on purchases, rather than buy the game goods at the same prices of Phil- adelphia merchants. ; There is some reason for this state of affairs, other than a want of bigger hotels, elevated rail-roads, asphalt streets or observance of Sunday laws. Philadelphia at one time controled the entire trade of the south. And it was not because it had better personal ac- comodations, more amusements, or looser laws than New York. It was because of its location, and the treat- ment its customers received. It has the same location and offers the same practical advantages to-day it did then, but why, since the war, has it practic- ally been without any of the southern trade ? Dare we tell you? Because Philadelphia has driven it away by its everlasting vilification of the people, the practices and purposes of that section; bv its indecency in politics, and its readiness at all times to aid or encourage any movement cal- culated to be-little, degrade or cast re- flection upon the people of the South. Its representatives in congress, with one single exception, are now and have been, the bitterest enemies the south has had among the law makers of the country ; its merchants and manufac- tures have emptied their pocket books times without number, to secure the election of men to the presidency and to congress, whose avow- ed purpose was to humiliate the South and turn the control of its public af- fairs over to the ignorance and vicious- ness of negro rule; its people and press have been formost in denouncing every movement calculated to benefit that section, and at all times and under all circumstances, Philadelphia has stood up as the open, avowed, loud-mouthed opponent and indecent denuinciator of every ides, effort or purpose of the South, to rebuild its shattered fortunes, or regain standing and influence in the goverment of which it is a part. No will meet with’ the approval ot ‘the democratic masses, If any democrat, i stand he high or low in the councils of his party, has been guilty of farnish- ing bogus tax receipts or committing any other frauds, in the interest of par- ty success, it is the demand of the democratic people that the charges be- proven and that punishment to the utmost extent he meted out to him. All through the campaign the re- publican press boasted thatit was the purpose, as it was in the power, of the republican courts of Philadelphia to punish its own official wrong doers. It paraded this boast, and aired this pre- tended purpose, upon every oceasion. Let it show its honesty and courage now by going ahead and preforming, that which it promised it won'd do. But in the name of all that is just, and honorable, and courageous, if it is now proposed to drop the indictment against the republican mercantile appraisers because they are republican officials, or that their trials might incriminate others who are prominent in the delib- erations of that party, let it be done boldly, and not under the cowardly and lying plea thx! these people escap- ed justice, to insure immunity to my- thical democratic criminals. Let the republican courts and the republican authorities of Philadelphia have the fairness and manliness to as- sume the responsibility of their acts, and not try to slink away from them, by leaving the impression that their work is down at the dictation of those who had no voice in their decissions. —— The Association of American State Colleges is certainly to be con- gratulated on its wise choice of a chair- man for its committee on the World's Fair commission. In Dr. Grorce W. ArHERTON, president of the Pennsylva- nia State College, the association has recognized a man peculiarly fitted to fill the honored position to which he has been chosen, and whose executive powers will prove invaluable in the work incident to a creditable exhibit at the Columbian Exposition. Dr. ATHER- ToN is recoguized as heading the list of presidents of our colleges founded by the National Land Grant and is emi- ently qualified to preside over such a committee on 80 important an occasion, The war in Brazil, ifsach the trouble down there can be called, is nothing in noise, and confusion, and wind compared to the Ohio Senatorial contest, now on hand between Sug Rr- man and Foraker. In fact the latter is a regular delerium-tremens contest, in which every fool in the state ima- ines he sees all kinds of horrid things in the movement of the other side. Close Them Up. The Warcumax 1n its beliefs and ef- forts is neither hide-bound nor puritani- cal. It believes in the largest liberty consistent with public good, and would neither dictate too nor attempt to. con- trol the acts or opinion of any, so long as they were within the bounds of com- mon decency or recognized morality, yetifit had a vote in the matter of keeping open or closing up the big show, to be known as the Columbian Exposition, on Sanday, it would vote unhesitatingly to close it up. There is no reason why we shonld so far forget the recognized customs of the country, as to obliterate entirely the Sabbath day. Whether it is need- ed in a moral sense, those who make {a business of teaching morality can | best determine. That itisa necessity to every man who labors, none will deny. What we want in this country is more rest and less bustle and business. More enjoyment and less greed of gain. More happiness and smaller fortunes, To turn the only day of rest we recog- nize into a crowding, hurrying, busy, money making day, at the great show, is only to take a step towards its abol- ishment entirely, aad who is there, who would listen to such a proposition ? If it was necessary to keep the show open on Sunday in order to give an op- portunity to those who can spare no of earning a living, to"see what could bejseen, there would be some excuse for it. Bat the poor people about, and in the neighborhood of Chicago, will have abundant opportunities to witness all that is to be seen on week days. It will be a matter of months and months, and no one within a days travel of the grounds will be so constantly employed as not to find one day off for the Expo- sition, Those who live at a distance and are not able to lose any time but Sunday, will not be there at all. So that the class of people to whom Sun- day is the most needed for recreation ar ty isnot the one that would be benefited by Sunday exhibitions at Chi- cago, When the commission from this State meets next month toconsider this question, we hope it will honor itself by honoring the Sabbath, so far as to recommend to the general Commission, that it keep the doorsof the great Ex- position closed on Sundays. Er ——— ET — ——-Quax’s libel suits don’t seem to be rushing along at railroad speed since the election. Possibly the brakes have been put on to give him a chance to revise the figures he flrst fix- ed as the amount of damage done. A hundred thousand dollars, come to think of it, is a very high price for a character that would smell worse than a dung hill, if dumped on the shoul- ders of any other living being. De ———————————— Only So It Is A Dollar. Politician quacks and newspaper people, who have not had enough of financial ability to keep themselves out of the clutches of bankers and money shavers, are just now engaged in trying to open the eyes of the public to the evils of too much silver money. It these parties knew more about the mat- ter of which they talk so glibly, they would possibly have less to say about it. The fact is, the people don’t care a bobee what kind of money they have, go they get of it what properly belongs to them, and that it has the same pur- chasing power that any other money has. So long as five dollars in silver or five dollars in paper will pay for the same amount of flour, orfood,or cloth- ing, or any other necessary of life, that five dollars in gold will buy, the people will be just as well satisfied with the one as with the other. Bankers, brokers and money gam- blers, who hope that by a crusade, on the silver dollar, they can lessen the volume of money, corner the currency market, and run gold up to a premium, as was done during the war, may talk all they please about the necessity of restricting the coinage of silver, the fact will still remain the same, that while one dollars is just as good as an- other, the great question with the peo- ple will be how to get enough of any kind. It is not what the dollar is made of near ag much as how to make the dol- lar, that bothers the masses just now. Of this fact politician, should take note. _ “1891. NO. 45. The Issues for 1892. From the Philadelphia Record. The next battle for the Presidency will be fought On the issue of Tariff Reform, no matter what candidates may be in the field. Nothing can be accomplished in the way of legislation before the election of 1892 that will shift the battle to’ other issues. As the Democrats are in control of the House of Representatives, it will be in their power to make the position of their opponents more intolerable by the passage of a bill to put wool, iron ore, coal, salt, lumber, fiax, hemp and cotton ties on the the free list, and re- pealing that clause of the McKinley act which empowers the President to reimpose duties on sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides in certain contin- gencies of which he is to be the judge. A bill of this kind should be sent to the Senate; and upon that body or the President should be placed the onus of a refusal to pass or approve it. Such a bill would be strengthened by a provision making a twenty per cent. reduction of the tariff rates upon manu- factures of wool, iron, flax and hemp, as an equivalent for untaxing the raw material, It woul? not be worth while for the House at the coming session to nnder- take a thorongh revision of the McKin- ley tariff. Such a scheme might be perfected ana carried through ; but the labor would be lost. The bill would fail in the Senate, or be vetoed by the President. It would be better to go to the people on the issue as it stands, giving the administration the opportu- nity to extend the free list, or forcing it to go on the record as opposed to further modification of the most out- rageous tariff ever imposed upon the country. The repudation of the McKinley legislation of last year by the election of an overwhelming majority of Repre- sentatives opposed to it would appearto necessitate such action on the part of that majority as would give the Repub- lican Administration the opportunity of responding to the desire of the country. The test can be made on free raw material. That is the begin- ning of Tariff Reform ; and there is no doubt of the issue of a new appeal to the people based upon that strong ground. Have We a Constitution. From the Reading World. Wouldn't it be a wise movement to have an investigating ‘committee ap- pointed to ascertain whether or not we still have a Constitution? Possibly this also has disappeared with the State funds, or left the State in com- pany with those who went away with- out saying good bye. If itis anywhere within jurisdiction that fact ought to be made known to the people. Anarchy in Chicago. From the Harrisburg Patriot. There is a marked difference of opin- ion between the Chicago papers as to anarchy and anarchists in that city. One denies that there is anarchy there and insists that the police that arrested a few beer-drinking speech-muakers the other day committed a flagrant breach of the law by arresting innocent per- sons. Another says there are anar- chists in the city and that the action of the policemen in breaking up their meeting was commendable. They agree in the one point that the anar- chists are in a hopeless minority and cannot excite revolution. Notwithstanding these differences of opinion it may be accepted as an assur- ed fact that wherever there are anar- chists there anarchy lurks. It may never be able to rise its horrid head out of the dust into which the law has trampled it, butit is there, just as crime lurks where criminals congregate. They will never be able to execute a re- volution, of course, but they are al- ways able and often willing to commit crime. The true status of affairs in Chicago is known to the country generaly only through what is found in the columns of the newspapers of that city. A few days ago all these papers detailed the arrest of anarchists. Therefore there are anarchists in that city, and they meet together to discuss their rabid doctrines, just as they did before the Haymarket riots. Many of these pro- fessed anarchists know the foolishness of their avowed belief and are danger- ous only in the probability that their “arangues may lead some reckless neophyte to the commission of murder Juan police interference would be too ate. A meeting of such men, for the dis- cussion and advancement of their doc- trines is not an innocent gathering of citizens nor are the men innocent, for their intentions are evil and always a mensce to the community. Police- men ought to be empowered to break up these meetings whenever possible, although there may not be sufficent evidence to imprison the holders of them for any specific infraetion of the law. Ifthe meetings of these men be suppressed the danger ofthe dissemina- tion of their belief, and possible resul- tant mnrder will be removed. There- fore seems to one not on the scene that their suppression is necessary aud to be commended. Spawls from the Keystone, —The new MeDonald oil field is paying $30,- 003 per day. —Frame buildiing must go, says the Reade- lect Council. —Dead defaulter Bard, of Reading, bad his i life insured for $10,000. —Pittsburg expects a $500,000 deficit in re ! turns from this year’s taxes. —A rock flew from & blast al Hazleton and al« most killed James Wall. —-Cumberland county Teachers’ Institute at Carlisle on November 30. Berks —Charles Heckman, of Earlville, [ county will have a 2000- gallon cider barral. —The fate of Straitiff, charged with murder at Carlisle, is now in the hands of the jury. —A country printing office near Carbondale was opened. with prayer. The “devil” was there. —Reading conductor J. B. Hartman fell un. der the cars and was beheaded at Stony Creek. —Coke traffic is now so great. as to hinder passenger travel on Western Pennsylvania railroad. : —Charles Keller, who escaped from a Potts. ville officer at the jail door was recaptured at Ringtown. —P.esident Wilbur, of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, banqueted the Farmer’s Club at Bethlehem. —High school boys at Reading have almost raised a revolution by throwing shot at Profese sor Yardley. —Failure to send the rails caused the re- cent Mount Penn Gravity railroad disaster near Reading. —Frank Engle’s runaway team threw him Plum Creek at Shoemakersville ; but he swam ashore. —A piece of oil pipe fell 160 feet, at McDon- ald, and pierced John Byers, down through the head and side. —7T0o cut sizort his ill health young Herman Nochtern hanged himself near Rocktown, Sckuylkill county. —A Wilkesbarre photographer serves either hot tea or coffee to patrons before setting them in range of the camera. — McDonald residents will organize a Vigi.. lance committee to save the bonanza oil town from fire bugs and robbers. —Heury Fisher, of Lancaster, was too drunk to kill his wife, at whom he shot; so he. was locked up. A surgeon’s seven stitches mended the face of Henry Hartman,of Monoeacy, Berks county, where a mule had kicked it. : — Prothonotary Hartman and his deputy, John Miller, of Lancaster, will be indicted for taking illegal fees. —A fall of {wenty feet from a Lancaster church seaffold resulted in severe injuries to Henry Teiler, a bricklayer. —The Bowmanite war waxes hot at Reading, where Rev. J. H. Shirey, an “anti,” has been ordered out of his pulpite — Prisoner Ben Strailey made himself crazy for a day in the Williamsport jail with an over dose of Jamaica ginger. — Horse thief Herbert Spencer Darwin tried to hang himself at Williamsport with a sling from his wounded arm. : —The “Pennsy’s” new Philadelphia and Erie passenger car and paint shop, at Renovo, will measure 138 by 238 feet. Nearly 100 boys fought a battle with stone® at Pittsburg, and one of their missiles fatally hurt aged Thomas Wearings. —Benjamin Gardner, of Carbondale, once proprietor of the Wall Street Hotel, stepped in front of a flying train and was killed. into —A wandering steer was driven off the road by William Clinger, near Lancaster, and he was arrested for larceny by the owner. —Pennsylvania hemlock lum berman have. met at Ridgeway and taken steps preliminary to the formation of a Trust,on January 1. — Having taken commissions from a nursery firm on iraudulent ordeis, 70 year-old Levi M,. Coover, of Shippensburg, hanged himself. ——Confronted with the murder of John Sile- vetski, in April, Jacob Hevna, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, at Wilkesbarre, Tuesday. —Postmaster Pott, of Jersey Shore, .is $400 poorer than he was a few days ago, burglars having plundered his office Saturday morning. —Safe robbers had their trouble for their pains when they blew open the Reading Beef: Company's empty safe Wednesday morning. —The fragrance of a nice big muskrat in William Leifer’s cellar at East York made his whole house as odorous as a country barber” shop. —A hundred acres of land in Lehigh eoun- ty are to-be converted into a peach orchard by Samuel and Oscar Brant, the Jersey peach growers. : — From Saventeen acres Farrer William G ,. Moore, of Womelsdorf, harvested 1709 bush ols of shelled corn and beats all Berks county records. : —Bangor’s Borough solicitor gave an opin, jon that a girl who couldn’t see a mortar-box,. but: walked into it, even ab night, could re= cover no damages. —TFireman William Emery, of Philadelphia, fall from his Western express lecomotive ' on. the “Penn~y” east of Harrisburg and had his | skull rushed. —The twelve mile extension of the Perry : county Railroad, from Landisburg to New Bloomfield, has been completed to within a mile of Loysville. —A gang of robbers who have been operate ing at various towns, blew open the safe and plundered the store of Sprohl and Bastings, at Atglen, Tuesday morning. — While robbing pillars in a mine at Girards= ville, yesterday morning, a fall of coal buried Jere McCormick and J. J. Naughton; but the latter dug Limself and companion out. —The son of Benjamin F. Brate, of Pitts. burg, kidnapped by gypsies fourteen years ago, has just returned home, having in the in- terval been one of Emin Pasha’s rear guard in Africa. —The same grave Sunday received the bodies of Rev. William Lloyd and his wife, aged 72 and 68 years respectively, of Ebens- burg, the former of whom died on Friday and the latter on Thursday. -Rag Peddler B. Friedman is in jail at Seranton for stealing the Robinson Brewing Company’s kegs from its customers and gets ting a reward of 15 cents apiece for returning them as lost kegs. _John Roth, of Wilkesbarre, who married his old housekeeper and liked her while sina gle, alleges in a divorce petition that “Marriage has made her boisterous, blasphemous and dangerous.” y —Captain William Auchenbach has sued A, G. Lochenmayer, of Norristown, fer false ar- rest because the latter admitted that he had no incriminating evidence after having the tormer arrested for selling maltone,