cleat ~ BY P. GRAY MEEK. A Ink Slings. On Tuesday March came roaring in Like a lion off its pegs ; But out ’twill go—Iltke Mary’s lamb, With tail between its legs. —Umbrellas and your spare change will find no trouble in keeping Lent. It’s a trifle old, but we can’t resist the temptation. SIMMONS, —What a fearful dose of reciprocity young Mrs, BLAINE gave her illustrious pap-in-law—that was. —HILL's convention is a thing of the past, but the rural districts of Pennsyl- vania are beginning to be heard from. — Embracing opportunities, especially when it comes in the form of a pretty maiden with a snug inheritance, is pot such a bad job after all. —If the hordes of immigrants still continue to flock to our shores they will have our poor old eagle squeezed clear off his perch of arrows and the olive branch. —Sir JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, the Brit- ish minister and JAs. G. BLAINE have patched up the Behring sea trouble for an arbitration committee. Some one will be skinned. -~-REED at last has some consolation. The Supreme court has sutained his ar- bitrary counting of a quorum. Mr. Crisp will never take advantage of the precedent however. —New York papers should adopt Volapuk. Then the denizens of the conglomerate American metropolis could all read the news of their own city with- out the need of interpreters. —Some writers, they say, wield facile pens; but simply portray the state of their livers. We're different, you know: for when troubled that way, we simply resort to our scissors. —JAY GourLp has bought $10,000 worth of the road to glory stock, and if his health don’t improve he intends se- curing a controlling interest and will then run his own train right up, ——To the romantic young woman whose ambition it is to have exalted lov- ers, we would suggest the placing of a tack in the seat of the parlor chairs. "Twill not take long to make he rose. —BLAINE'Ss diplomatic career has come to an inglorious end. When blarneying nations Jingoism worked all well and good, but when it came to a hapless female ‘twas quite a difterent thing. -~HaArrsoN will doubtless be a staunch supporter of the six year presi- idential term bill, but it will all be work for another fellow. Help it along BEN- XY for we want a3 long a pull. as possi- ble when we get in . --One year ago the Emparor ot Ger- many couldn’t even raise enough hair on his face for an imposing beard,but hs has suzceeded in raising the devil with his subjects since the hopes of a hirsute appendage wera blighted. —1It was indeed no wonder poor MAH- ER was so badly whipped, on Wednes- day night. The fact that he actually threw up a battle and a sponge, into the bargain, is evidence enough that his trainer did not allow him a proper diet. —TALMAGE’S Brooklyn Tabernacle is tobe taken from him by the unpaid contractor and it is highly probable that the lanky divine will have to “put up” some of his cargo of relics which he brought from the holy land three years ago. -~Fossil pumpkin seeds 2000 years old have been found in a mound out in Illi- nois. What a great boon it would have been to biographers of the HARRISON family if they had only been tound in Indiana. Taere would have been no trouble in tracing its origin than. ——Thealpha and the omega of the third party is its platform, but the planks are not thick enough to bear the weight of all the fanatics who will want to crawl onto it. There will be lots of room underneath, however, without much danger of any light being hid un- der a bushel. -=The Art committee of the World's Fair commission might find it advan tageous to gather up the wall flowers found nightly at the social gatherings thoughout the land, and use them for decorative purposes. Perhaps none of them would object to being pressed into éarvice--with the accent on the prassed. —The Senate has decided that it would be altogether propar for our gov- ernment to return the Mexican flags captured during the war with that coun- try. What justification they can find in giving up tbe honorable trophies of war we cannot, sed. Perhaps thay would like to give: Texas back to the ‘igreasers” too. —DYRENFORTH, tha government rain-making superinteadent. has recom- mended a continuation of his exp eri ments in order that his report can be made more conclusive as to tha substan- tiation of his claims. ‘A faw anarchists, ani theirare lots of then out of wirk now, might give him valuable assistance in making and exploding his bombs. MAHER couldn’t Fiz |. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 37. BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 4, Dont Overlook Us. seer. The politicians and president mak- ers, who for months back have been speculating on the chances of carrying certain states, and considering the strength or weakness of the different candidates, named as probable nomi- nees, seem to overlook many contin- gencies that may arise during the cam- paign and many opportunities that stand waiting for Democratic accept- ance. The New York World last week con- tained an article on each of the States of Towa and Illinois, and after show- ing an encouraging outlook for each of these going Democratic, asked “What is the matter with Iowa?’ “What is the matter with Illinois ?”’ We know that if any one would pre- dict that Pennsylvania, under certain conditions, might be classed as doubt- ful in the coming presidential contest, he would be laughed at by outsiders as a political fool." But outsiders some times do not understand just what they are talking about, and often base their opinions more upon public impression that substantial facts. Pennsylvania of course ie a republi- can state, and under ordinary circums- stances, in a presidential fight, can be counted on for a Republican majarity, ranging anywhere from 25,000 to 75, 000. But “ordinary circumstances” will not be met with in the coming cam- paign, and the results heretofore re- corded were give away majorities— conceded before the campaign opened and allowed the Republicans without an effort to overcome them, simply be- cause such an effort was considered hopeless, and Pennsylvania influence and Pennsylvania funds were demanod- ed and used to carry other States, that showed better prospects of success at the opening of the contest, tion to-day, and should not be counted out of the struggle in 1892. Tt is nota certain Republican State, under exist- ing coaditions. . Elements; that have been at work for years, have produced results that make it ground for a hope- ful contest. In no other State in the Union is the Republican party so broken and dis- rupted by boss rule. In no State has the Republican nominee—who will be BENjaMIN Har- RISON——30 few earnest friends or active admirers. In no State has the Republican tarift been so bitterly disappointing in its ef- fects, and no where in the entire coun- try has its evil influences been so dis- astrous to the welfare of the farmers and the workingmen, who expected to profit by it. These three causes alone : the Quay senatorial fight ; the unpopularity of the proposed nominee, and the paralyzing effects of Republican tariff legislation, will make Pennsylvania Democratic if the proper course is pursued and the fight is not given up in advance. There are 450,000 Democrats within the State ready to do their best in the interest of principles they bold dear. There are 20,000 Republican farmers who have paid tribute to other interests through tariff taxes, until they have grown tired of this robbery and are ready to vote for the relief a change of administration would bring. There are 30,000 honest and independent Re- publicans, who, to rebuke Quay and defeat his infamous bossism, will re- fuse to vote the ticket, if its success is to continue his power as distributor of patronage and dictator of nominees. And there are thousands of creatures, who follow his lead and do his bidding, ready to vote against it, if this is not to be the result of that ticket's success. Then there are tens cf thousands of workingmen whose bellies are as hol- low as a June shad’s and whose backs are as bare asa shorn sheep, from the effects of a Republican tariff, who have heretofore voted the Republican ticket, believing its policy of protection was for their benefit, but who have discov- ered that it brings them nothing but want of work, want of food and want of clothes, who will be against Hag- risoN and the “protection” he will be compelled to’ advocate. Pennsylvania Farmers are crying to get from under the harrow of unholy taxation, Pennsylvania Workingmen are out of employment or existing on the most beggarly wages. Pennsyl: vania Republicans are faction-torn and boss ridden, What is there to prevent it being carried by the Democracy ? The people want a change. That is the way they will get it. Pennsylvania Democrats, have since the new constitution went into effect, less than twenty years ago, carried the State five different times. Do you know that Geo. W. DErLa- MATER received more Republican votes in this State than any man ever placed upon that ticket,except Jas. G. BLAINE and BexyamiN Harrison, and yet Par TISON beat him 16.554 votes ? Do you know that BLAINE was thous- ands upon thousands of votes stronger, with the Republicans of Pennsylvania, than any possible nominee of that party ean be, and yet he had but 9,693 more votes as a candidate for president in 1884, than was given to ParTISON in 1888. BLAINE is out of the way. Quay will be busy enough in taking care of Quays senatorial chances. ‘I'he tariff has proven a failure. Harrison is without friends who can manipulate, or workers who are in earnest. The Democracy WiLL be united. What is the matter with Pennsyl- vania ? A Blighted Prosperity. Down at Danville, which at one time was one of the busiest and most prosperous iron towns within the State, the same blight that has struck Belle- fonte buziness, seems to prevail. The Intelligencer,in referring to the condition of trade, says ‘“‘our streets are filled “with 1dle men, the sills are working “with half force, many families are “continually pressing the Poor Direc- “tors for outdoor relief and store keep- “ers stand listless behind their counters “waiting for customers.” And as it is | ce 3 Yomi Pennsylvanigs in a different condi- | there and here, so is it in every other town, where labor seeks employment, or the populace depends upon manu- ‘factories for the wages ‘that furnish bread. Under the operations of the McKin- LEY bill there are more farnaces out of blast, more mills that are silent, more manufactories that have ceased work, and more unemployed labor, more begging, tramps and destitution, than has ever been kaown before. Had it not been for the bouatiful crops that a productive soil and merciful God, gave us last season, how much better oft would we be to-day, with all our op- portunities and possibilities, than the starving Russian peasantry is? ~ And yet we are told that a protective tariff,such as the McKINLEY bill gives us,is a blessing and insures prosperity. Nothing Due It. One of the Republican organs of Tioga county, we do not remember which one, has an article in last week’s issue under the heading : “what the Republican party owes itself.” We read no further than the caption, and do not know what particular claim that organization seta up against it- self. The Republican party may be indebted to the Republican party, to any extent it sees proper to cook up and acknowledge claims, but certainly no one else is. No government, no state, no principle, no interest, no peo- ple anywhere in this broad land owes it a farthing or a good wish. Under every circumstance in which it has been placed it has promptly drawn its pay in advance for all that it has done. It has at no time left any- thing stand to its credit. When it worked for a president and could not elect one it stole the office. When offices were its reward,and it had the power, it took all there was of them and made as many more as pos- sible. When money was the object for which its efforts were put forth, it cleaned out the treasury of the billions of dollars it contained, and increased the tariff taxes onthe people, that it might have more. When power was what it was after, it was willing to rob the people through the indefensible operations of an infamous election bill. When it assisted thieves it demanded its tall share of the booty. When it aided corporate monopelies it was prompt to see that it received its por- tion of their profits. When it built up favorite interests, it bled them freely for election expenses. And 80 on through the entire history 1892. NO. 9. of its every act, effort or purpose, it has at the time demanded and received the lion’s share of whatever of glory, pow- er or profit there was in it. So far as claims are concerned it has none. It has been paid in full by every one,—individual or interest—for all that it has done, and whatever account it may have against itself, is a matter in which the public has no concern. It should settle with itself at once, and retire from business. How Desperately They Clutch at the Lezst Vestige of Hope. The Republican press of the country is still in desperate straits over the tin plate dilemma, into which the McKix- LEY bill has plunged its party. The boom which American industries were to have received, has failed to materi- alize and now the supporters of the measure find themselves face to face with the fact, indisputable, that tin plate, which before the passage of the McKINLEY law sold at $4.40 a box, now stands at $5.60, and as soon as the enormous stock, imported just before the new duty was placed upon it, is exhausted it will still go higher. The infant tin manufactories of America have utterly failed in their attempts to bring an American product into the home markets in competition with the foreign manufactures even though fostered by an iniquitous tariff. At a recent meeting of the canned goods paclzers, of this country, held in Chicago, Mr. Stanford, manager of the American, Tin Plate Co., at Elwood, Indiana, made the following remarks : “I may state that uniil recently I “was one of the tin plate monopoly of “South Wales, where I spent about “twenty years in that particular trade. “[ came to this country about four “months ago with a view of ranking “with the pioneers of the American tin “plate industry. The more I see the “more I learn of the country the more “I like it, and also the more I am con- “vinced that America is going to manu- “facture her own tin plates, and at a “very near future, and at a lower cost “than they have ever been made.” He did not attempt however to ex- plain why the price of tin has taken such a wonderful jump within the past few weeks neither did he tell his audi- tors why he left his monopolistic con- freres in Wales and came to be an = American manufacturer, “one of the pioneers of the’ American tin-plate industry.” We are not so easily deceived as to believe that the glory (?) to be derived from being a pioneer #n such a business brought Mr. StaNForD here, nor are we com- pelled, like the Republican press, to accept such statements ‘of future possi- bilities as justification for an exorbi- tant duty, but we are rather led to sup- pose that the hope of reaping the bene- fits from such a tax was the lode-stone which drew Mr. Stanrorp and others of his class to our shores. American tin mines cannot begin to supply the demand in our home mar- kets and it is unjust that we should be compelled to pay such a duty simply | to support a few 6x10 plants which English capitalists have been shrewd enough to start. ——JaMEs G. DBraiNe has again demonstrated the fact that he knowns | when and how to take the public into his confidence, if he would have its sympathy, and that he can display the same tact and diplomacy in domestic affairs that he does in political. For weeks the papers have noted aod com- mented on the progress of the divorce proceedings at Deadwood, S. D.; but nothing could have given the case more prominence, than his story of his son’s unfortunate marriage, that was sent out, Monday morning, by the as- sociate press as the chiet topic of the day. Coming as’ it did, when no im- portant matters occupied the public, it has created no little surprise aad eriti- cism, for Mr. BLAINE has been perfect- ly silent all through the disgraceful af- fair. However, it is well to hear’both sides of a story and no one could read the testimony at the Dakota Court and not be prejudiced against Mrs, BLAINE, the ‘elder. Mr. Blaine is justi- fied in denouncing Father Ducky; for no priest or preacher has any right to sanction and aid the secret marriage of a boy not eighteen and ‘James G. Braixg, Jr.,. was only that when he married Miss Marie Nevins, Sept. 4th, 1886. ; Fen ——Subscribe for the WAToaMAN, Nothing Like Tariff Pictures. From the Lebanon Report. : By the way, Germany is a strongly ‘‘protected’’ country, not only a military but in a commercial sense. The people ought to be contented. Surely a stand- ing army and a high tariff ought to make a country very peaceful and heav- enly, Quay’'s Chances. From the Louisville Courier Journal. The anti-Quay men of Pennsylvania are enthusiastic and think that the Boss cannot be elected, as the best men are against him. But best men are often scarce in politics and Mr. Quay’s friends are confident. All the Republican jury- men in Pennsylvania stand by him any how. ‘Will Soon make the Discovery. From the N. Y. Herald. About the time that attempts are made to instruct State delegate for Fres- ident Harrison the Republicans will discover that they have trouble enough at homo to keep them from giving so much unnecessary attention to the cus- tomary contentions of the victory-com- pelling Democrats. The Price of His Liberty, From the York Gazette. Itis reported that Gideon W. Marsh, the fugitive president of the Philadel- phia Keystone bank, is living in good style in Buenos Ayres. Very likely Marsh could live almost anywhere in safety, in Buenos Ayres or Philadel- phia; for the fact remains that he was permitted {0 escape in order to shield from publicity the complicity of others in the Bardsley scandals. Marsh could doubtless tell more of the inside history of that atrocious thievery than can any- body else, not excepting Bardsley him- self. But it pays Marsh to be silent. Expensive for the People But Pleasant for the Senators. From the Walla Walla (Wash.) Statesman. The enormous cost of sustaining Unit- ed States Senators in luxury seems to be exceeded only by the expense of bury- ing them in dignity when dead. Thus the onlv chance of relief while the senseless senate is tolerated is, cut off, The enchanting vision of all this Orien- tal luxury, that goes in free with a seat in the Senate,may have something to do in making those seat: worth so much money. John Sherman, for instance, after lounging about in a $60 Turkish leather chair, toasting his "dignified corns on a couple of $30 ‘brass fenders, while knocking the ashes from his Hav- anna on a $220 Wilton rug, or lolling on a $120 green leather sofa, gazing across the room into a $100 mirror that is delightful if the reflection is not beau- titul —after thirty years of this sort of thing at the expense of the people—is it any wonder that John should object to being turned out in his old age to dig in the dirt for a living? It is not strange that he should spend thousands to stay where heis. He has a “snap.” Forone who loves luxury the senate is millions better than Mansfield. Yet if the senators would pay less for their seats and more out of their own pockets for their luxuries the people would be better satisfied. SAPERTIRREES SR. A New Ticket. From the Grand Forks Dakota News. Chicago Times. “Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania has been looking into the Read- ing coal combine and has directed the attor- nay-general ‘'to take such action as will en- force the constitution and bring all who have violated it within its control’, The democrat. ic governor of Pennsyvlania has it within his power to render to the people so greata ser- vice as will make his name fall with a fa- miliar and a graceful sound upon the ears of the cohorts that gather in Chicago in June.” Every principle of Pennsylvania poli- tics, as measured by the Quay and Wanamaker rules, would have insti gated Pattison to let the Reading com: bine alone. The cast iron and copper- lined stomachs of Pennsylvania repub- licans will hold any kind of soup that the corporate Mephisto may shovel down their throats. Pattison was largely elected by the friends of the Reading and Lehigh valley railroads, as enemies of the Pennsylvania mo- nopoly. So, applying to the Pennsyl- vania R. R. its own plaster, be might consistently with politics as preached, prayed and practiced there let the com- bine alone, constitution or no constitu- tion. He would have had as a pallia- tion the ethical ejaculation of that emi- nent saint of republicanism. deus Stevens who once shouted con- temptuously . “Constitution! We have been outside the constitution all the time I’ Eut Pattison is not one of that eminent class of politicians. He has been asked to take the same course that he took in a former administra: tion to prevent the consolidation of the Pennsylvania and South Penn., when his attorney general was Lewis C. Cas: siday. Pattison. is a man of the peo- ple. Healone was true to the people in the matter of the Pacific railroad robbery, when all the rest from the President and Justice Field down, were either ignorantly or corruptly on the otherside. If the Pennsylvania leaders | of the democracy were patriots first and ‘| puisne politicians Iast, they would bring a solid delegation to Chicago for Pattison and Peck. . eo Thad- |! Spawls from the Keystone, —Shanesville has a scarlet fever scourge. —Berks county clover is frozen to death in the main. —Constable Augustus Libber was arreste - for bigamy at Reading. n —State fire insurers have been fixing upa new form of policy at Reading. —St. John’s Lutheran Church, Allentown raised $200 for Russian relief. : —Visiting Elks had a banquet and a gay old . timeat Bethlehem Monday night. —Tramps held up Dr. Werwick at Shamokin but he fought his way to liberty. —A fall of rock killed Patrick Duffy, a Luke Fidler miner, near Shamokin. —The New York Match Company, of York, has sold its $50,000 plant for $200,000. —Williamsport’s Lumber Exchange will protest against a reduced tariff on lumber. —The Mahanoy Valley Ministerial Associa- tion (Methodist) was at Pottsville Monday. —Car bumpers crushed the life out of Brake- man John Showers near Lancaster Junction. —Mrs. Elmer J. Werley, of Weisenburg township, Lehigh county, has {riplets—all girls. —Four hundred miners went to work again at the Glendon Colliery, Mahanoy City, Tues day. a —The McDonald oil field has dwindled from a production of 30,000 barrels per. day to 26,000. —Tramps and burglars are making life miserable for the people of Middletown and vicinity. —John Jarret, consul at Birmingham, Eng. has resigned his $4000 berth and will return to Pittsburg. —Burgess D. B. Williams, of Nanticoke wants $500 from Thomas Gaffey for calling him a “boodler.” State Bank Superintendent Krumbhaar wants the bank -reports-to-be- made out up to February 29. —Returning from a friend’s wedding, Pau; Dense, of Mt. Carmel wes decapitated by a locomotive. —W. H. Barnes has been elected president of the reorganized Allegheny Valley Railroad, at Pittsburg. —Reading, Lancaster and Baltimore Rail- road projectors have personally driven over and viewed the route. —Brakeman W. F. Miller was killed Zin a wreck at Lehighton, and an unknown man by a train at Slatingion. —James Rogers, an itinerant umbrella re. pairer of Lancaster, was struck by an electric car an d fatally injured. —Market Clerk Hastings, of Pittsburg who pocketed the fees, will pay 6 cents fine and re - main in jail 8 months, —Nine of the puddle furnaces at Pheenix- ville have resumed operations. The other nine will soon follow suit. —George Loepple broke his arm in two places in putting an objectionable guest out o f his bar room at Allentown. —An opponent hid in Father Januskiewiez's house at Reading while the church war was discussed. He was arrested. ~The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad isto en” ter Ebensburg, and a monster new coke plant is to be located near there. 3 —Thomas Wilson shot Francis Kilrain in the back by accident while returning from a pigeon match near Branchdale. —The stone work of the new M. TfChurch- on North Fifth street, Reading, is crumbling and the high tower is in danger. —Joseph Resord and John H. Resord, of Philadelphia, are about to establish a brewery at Uhiersville, Northampton county. : Burd 8. Patterson, formerly a newspaper man of Pottsville, has been arrested on a charge of forgery and embezzlemen t. —Layette Collage Freshman imprisoned the Sophomores in McKean Hall, Easton, betore the former proceeded to their banquet. 0. C. Perry, the New York Central train robber, got $100 on a bogus check at Scranton before he began his more desperate work. —Huns and Slaves fought at Leisenring Coke Works, near Uniontown, and Joseph Haas died with a stab turoagh the breast. —Reading’s Polish Church war has resulted in the holding of Simon Baronoski, a factional leader, for disturbing a religious meeting. —Secranton must hereafter pay 25 per cent. more insurance on all buildings wired for electric lights, Too many electric fires. —Disappointment over his defeat at the polls has killed 72-year old John 3Ingraham, of West Newton, who ran for Justice of Peace. —Lockjaw, due toa wound in the cheek with a stick in her little brother's hands killed John Weirieh’s 4-year-old daughter at Mé. Zion. —At York Farm Colliery, near Pottsville, William Eaty and Roberts Nelson, both colcr,, ed, were burned almost to death by an explo- sion. —John Mierby, of Huntingdon, may lose his County Commissionership because hs was a councilman whan elected to the higher office. —For selling oleomargarine without fodera! license or stamp, grocer H. R. Zimmer.man, of Harrisburg, has bzen held in $1000 bail at Lan- caster. ' —Dr. Bridge, State Veterinarian, shot four of J. W. MecOCleary’s horses that had glanders, near St. Thomas, and another man's horse near by. —Two Shamokin Poles have sued Spiritual istic Medium John Cheritz, of Shamokin, for telling that they robbed Paul Smith's store when they didn’t. —Rev. John Herr, of Myerstown, caught and outwitted two neighbors who were robbing his smoke-house then forgave them when they begged for mercy. —With judgment of the court against her for $100, converted funds, Mrs. Catharine Bourize went down into her stocking and pro- duced the cash, in court, at Pittsburg. —Failing to sever her head with a razor two weeks ago, Mrs. Barbara Long, Sunday threw herself out of a second story window at’the Lancaster [nsane Hospital, but was’ unnuré. —Ex:Mayor James G. Wyman, of Allegheny City, who was recently convicted of extortion , was refused a new trial yesterday by Judge Kennedy. He will ba sentenced onSaturda —Safe-crackers got very little for all the pains and noise in the post offico at Slatington_ But the concussion scared the neighborhood M. Sh mers’ shoe store at Walnutport was robe bed of $350 by the same band. Assistant Superintendent Brennan | had aleg broken and, the laborers were slightly hurt by the fall ot a seaffuld at the Luke Fid- dler, Mine, Shamokin. Five hundred wagon ‘loads of rock fell at the same colliery, ia