"BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
Socks which dress reform now claims,
Which on wash lines gaily blow
Will, e’re Christmas time obtains,
Into long-legged stockings grow.
—HiLL is giving the Southern legisla-
tors lessons in ‘peanut politics,”
—CLEVELAND’s last letter had a
slightly Braca adocio air about it.
—TIts a H-1LL wind that seems to be |
blowing throughout the South at the
present time.
:. — Yale has decided to open its doors
to women. The “Dickie” club has not
been heard from.
—Jack the Ripper has at last been
caught and White Chapel horrors will
probably cease for a while.
—The recent explosions of bombs in
Paris have not, as many supposed, been
caused by the grunt of the American
swine.
—The man who never wants any-
thing can get it by catching on to the
benefits scattered broad cast by the Mc-
KiINLEY bill.
HARRISON has at last sent for EcAN,
but everyone is afraid he might send
him up to straighten(?) out the Behring
seal trouble.
—Because some people have lantern
jaws, is no reason why they should be
expected to furnish all the light they
need within themselves.
—GROVER CLEVELAND is just fifly-
five years old to-day. Loug may he
live, happy may he be,but he’ll hardly
be our president in 1893.
—XKansas speculators are selling the
right to make rain, in that State. by
counties. Who ever heard of a water
making apparatus being patented.
— Presidential possibilities has come
to be aname for all the frayed out,
hanger on politicians who ‘can muster
enough followers to carry a banner to
Chicago.
—1892 bids fair to go down in history
celebrated as a ‘‘fake’’ year and the poor
old ground hog will probably have a
full page cut, after the awful blunderhe
made this season.
—The Standard Oil octopus is about
to loosen its hold upon the American
people. There will be no need of the
trust’s wasting any oil on the waves of
public feeling. They will calm them-
selves.
—-TECUMSEH SHERMAN'S death is at-
tributed,by his brother John, to the fact
that he carried a night key. How ter-
ribly guilty the man who invented
locks would feel if he knew this.
—If old St. PATRICK had seen the
Dutch, Hungarians, Italians and every-
body —but the English—wearing a
green ribbon yesterday he would indeed
have bemoaned the traducers ot the
Emerald Isle.
—Trolley wires should not be such
difficult things for Philadelpkia council
men to understand. The most of them
are on political wires all the time.
Both kinds work overhead and one is a
about as deadly as the other.
—The fact that Secretary FosTER
went to Europe on a Spree, and was on
it again on his return, will probably be
plead as the excuse for the foul slip his
tongue made, when he referred to
the people of Ireland as the “flannel
mouthed Irish.”
-~What do the labor organizations of
the State think of the stand their great
exponent T. V. PowDERLY has taken
on the railroad deal ? It was certainly
an embarrassing position for him, astride
such a corporation fence, but unfortun-
ately he fell off on the wrong side.
—The first gun of HARRISON'S
Behring sea war was fired when Lieu-
tenant HETHERINGTON shot RoBINSON,
the young English banker, who ran
away with his wife's affections, in Yo-
kohama, the other day, Will historians
please note so that there may be no dis-
pute about the matter.
—The short stockings adopted by
dress reformers bid fair to break up a
large percentage of Christmas business,
for they will not hold half so many
things as did the long ones our mothers
wore. Thev will undoubtedly be the
innocent cause of much “scrapping,” as
to ownership, between man and wife.
—If we could forgive our enemies as
readily as we forget our thieves, how
soon our animosities would cease and
our bitternesses be buried. It is but a
few months since he left for Canada
with his stolen boodle, and yet how
many persons there are who have almost
forgotten that WiLLraM Livsey lived
and was once a shining light,at the head
of the Republican procession, in this
State.
—Out in blizzard bitten Dakota,
where they haven't been able to see
their smoke houses or hen roosts for
months on account of the snow, they
are consoling themselves with the
thought, that after the next election they
will have the full sympathy of the Re-
publicans, who will then know how it
feels to be snowed under to a greater
depth than are the people of Dakota at
this time.
A ERR Er
“5 ATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 37.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,, MARCH 11, 1892.
NO. 10.
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Could Accomplish More by Ploughing
in a Less Field.
It is strange what a disposition
there is in some people to make them-
selves sponsors for matters pertaining
to the state at large, while they leave
local and district concerns, that are
equally as important to the public
welfare, to be attended to by those
who are disposed to do so or to take
care of themselves.
For years back the Philadelphia
Press has been trying to educate the
people of the state, or rather the peo-
ple who vote the ticket that that paper
is always willling to support, to the im-
portance and necessity of electing men
to the United States Senate who will
do honor to the Commonwealth and
upon whom their constituency can rely
for representation that would be credi-
table to the people and the state. In
this endeavor it has the sympathy of
every Penusylvanian, who is not the
tool of a ring or the creature of a politi-
cal boss, and is as clearly right in its
efforts in this direction as the party
which it supports is wrong in keeping
in the United States Senate as repre-
sentatives, two men as unfit, unworthy
and useless, as are CAMERON and QUAY.
Conceding the good work the Press
is trying to accomplish and the neces-
sity of the change that is needed in the
character and capacity of the men who
represents this state in the United States
Senate, how much more consistent it
would seem, and how much more effec-
tive of good it might be, if it would
commence its reform in this line at
home and demand for the city that
sustains it and for the districts in which
its voice ought to be potential in the
selection of representatives, the same
measure of efficiency, ability and worth
in the law makers it sends to Congress,
that it does in those its party in the
state sends to the Senate.
We all understand and recognize the
incompetency, the utter, shameless in-
efficiency and worthlessness, as repre-
sentatives, of the two Republican Sena-
tors who have belittled the position
and dishonored the state, at Washing-
ton, for years.
We recognize the fact also, that
there are other representatives at
Washington, who have a voice in the
formulation of government policies,
and power to do and act for the people
just as these Senators have—represen-
tatives whom the Press has time after
time assisted to re-elect, and to keep
in congress until their names about the
bars and boarding houses of the capital
have become as familiar as “household
words.” "And yet who has ever heard
of their doing anything in the interest
of the public; for the welfare of the
people; for the protection of the honor
of their state; for the benefit of the city
that every two years, on the advice of
the Press, sends them back to congress
to draw their salaries, hunt for clerk-
ships for ward heelers and vote as some
more influential and active Republi-
can dictates.
Philadelphia has four congressmen,
for whom the Press is just as responsi-
ble as is any other power or individual,
and how much better or more influen-
tial are either of these as representatives
in the House, than is Camzron or
Quay in the Senate. Some of them
began representing that city, and its
opposition to Democratic principles,
when they were young men, and are in
the same capacity to day, grown old
and wrinkled in office, and has any
one ever heard of them originating a
measure, securing a benefit for their
constituency or doing anything that
would bring hoaor to their state, or
credit to their districts ?
They rise to the capacity of signing
a pay-roll once a moath aed securing
the appointment of an occasional clerk
or messenger, and with this ends their
labors, usefulness and influence.
And this is the standard of represen-
tative ability that Republican Phila.
delphia has set up. It is the standard
the Press has eulogized and supported,
in the interest of the party for which
it speaks, for years. [bt is the stand-
ard that party in the state has adopted
and admires, and we are at a loss
to find either consistency or honesty in
the Press's efforts to change it, so far
as Senators are concerned and to con-
tinue it in the equally important, though
less dignified, position of members of
the House. :
There is a smaller field in which the
Press could sow lits reform®iseed}with
much brighter prospects
one it is now ploughing in.
RE AREER
The Strongest Reason Why He Should
Not go Back.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, which
seems to be Senator Quay’s special and
particular champion, has discovered
one reason at least, as it thinks, why
he should be re-elected. It is, as Jthat
journal puts it, “that he savedithe Me-
KivLey tariff bill from defeat,” by
some proposition, the explanation of
which is not made clear, that secured
its consideration by the Senate and
thus insured its becoming a law.
It is always better to have some ex-
cuse, though it be a thin one, for sup-
porting an unpopular andj underserv-
ing candidate, than to have none at all.
But if the passage of the McKINLEY
bill with all its iniquities and oppres-
sions; the increased taxes and the de-
creased business it has brought; the
reduced wages and want of employ-
ment it has caused; the tight times
and increased number of failures that
of raap-
ing a fair harvest-of success, than the
i unkind enough to think, that after he
has followed its enforcement, and the
general depression in all kinds ot busi-
ness that is directly traceable to its per-
nicious principles, are, in addition to
all his other sins as a politician and
short comings as a representative, to
be saddled upon him, we fear the poor
fellow will have more to bear," and a
rougher row to hoe, in getting back to
the Senate than he or his friends im-
agine,
It is bad enough, the Lord knows, to
have a senator without character, abili-
ty or disposition to do anything for his
constituency ; bnt its a great deal worse
to have one, who when he does attempt
to accomplish anything, does it in the
interest of a policy that robs the many
to benefit the few and inflicts such
evils upon the people as they have
suffered under the operations of the
robber tariff of the last Republican
congress.
EE REST
Would Do the Wind Work.
Mr. PowpERLY comes to the front
again, and tells the public through a
column and a half article in the Scran-
ton Truth, what he would do with the
“Reading deal” it he was governor.
There is no doubt that Mr. PowpEerLy
would do a great deal—with his mouth,
but what he would effect is quite an
other matter.
There are plenty of people who are
had wasted his wind in professions of
devotion to constitutional obligations
and the interest of the people, he would
quietly subside into a subtle tool for
Mr. Quay and the corporations that
control him, just as he did in the elec-
tions of last fall.
In accomplishing anything for the
masses, or the good of the state, Mr.
PowoERLY'S name, at this writing, is
“Dennis.”
I LAREN
Against the Women.
Although we have not been especial-
ly interested in the women question
that is now agitating the Methodist
church, we were somewhat surprised
to learn that the Central Pennsylvania
conference, that held its annual meet-
ing at York, last week, had voted 58
for and 108 against the admission of
women as delegates to the general con-
ference, not that Methodist ministers
are more progressive or liberal minded
than other men, but after the vote,
which expressed the sentiment of the
church at large stood 71,000 in favor
of the admission of women, it was gen-
erally supposed that the preachers who
have to depend so largely on the
“clinging vines’ for support would at
least favor justice. Unfortunately we
have not studied Dr. BuckLey's arti-
cles on the subject, or we might believe,
with the learned divines, that womens’
sphere in church work is limited. How
ever we can not understand why they
want co-operation in the moral and
financial department, if they do not
need it in the executive, We do not
say that women should be eligible to
membership in the general conterence
because they are wiser or even better
than men; but because they are differ-
ernt, and this difference needs to be rep-
resented.
SE
——1If you want printing of any de-
scription the WATCHMAN office is the
place to have it done.
This is New York's Democratic Year.
Republicans who are trying to en-
courage themselves, in consequence of
the senseless and unseemly factional
fight that has developed between the
followers of ex-president CLEVELAND
and the admirers of ex-governor HILL,
should remember, before counting too
much on what New York will do for
them, that there are various reasons
why that state ought to be, and why
it WiLL BE Democratic at the next elec-
tion, notwithstanding the local dissen-
sions among Democrats that are far-
nishing to the enemy such an amount
of satisfaction.
In the first place, if these factional
fights between New York’s candidaces
continue, neither of them will be “in it,”
when the time for nomination comes.
And with both of them set aside, there
will be no cause for trouble, and these
political divisions will disappear.
Then the Democracy of that state
have a clear majority of 25,000, which
at the last election, through Republi-
can dissatisfaction, was increased to
45,000. This we have to start with,
and under any circumstances is an ad-
vantage not easily gotten over.
Then for the first time in twenty
years, every department of the state
government and all of the local patron-
age is in the hands of the Democracy.
Another advantage the full meaning of
which republicans will readily under-
stand.
In addition to this condition of affairs
is the recorded fact, that at no time
since 1864 has New York state cast its
electoral votes for the same political
party in two successive Presidential
elections. In 1864 it went Republican,
in 1868 Democratic, in 1872 Republi-
can, in 1876 Democratic, in 1880 Re-
publican, in 1884 Democratic, and in
1888 Republican.
1892 is New York’s Democratic year.
——The Republican wiseacres who
took the- people to be idiotic enough
to believe them, and insisted that the
prosperity that came from abundant
crops of grain and fruit last season——
the result of certain climatic conditions
—was due to the effects of the McKin-
LEY bill, {could employ their time now
explaining why that all-benefitting
measure permits the infliction of the
miserable weather we are at present
experiencing. An explanation of this
point, would be about as sensible as the
| former assertion was truthful.
A Philadelphia Statesman,
Since the death of the lamented Ran-
DALL and of the Hon. WirLiam D.
Keriey, Philadelphia congressmen
seem to amount to so little, that when
one of them does the most trivial thing
that requires his name to go upon the
record, it is heralded broad-cast as
though he had accomplished some
great purpose. On a half a dozen oc-
casions, singe the present congress con-
vened, we have read dispatches from
Washington stating that one of the
members from that city had introduc-
ed a bill appropriating a considerable
sum for the , improvement of
League Island. We have never
heard of the appropriation getting
any farther nor have we seen that the
member who introduced it has made
any effort to secure its favorable con-
sideration.
On Saturday last an other member
from that city, it has five of them al
though the public is not aware of the
tact from anything they do, distinguish-
en himself, or thought he did, by pre
senting a petition for the passage of an
act excluding pauper emigrants. No
sooner had the document reached the
clerk's desk, than the public was in-
formed of the fact through a twelve line
“special,” to all the papers that would
take it, and from the tone of the tele-
gram and assumed importance of the
act, the country was left to believe that
pauper labor would be excluded at
once, because a Philadelphia congress-
had presented a petition to that effect.
Thousands upon thousands of the
same kind of petitions have been for
warded from every district of the state to
their representatives in the House, who |
have duly presented them to the clerk |
in charge of such papers, bat none of j
them thought it important enough to |
inform the world by special message |
that be had done so. This was left |
for a Philadelphia statesman. It is
about their size. About the extent of
their capacity.
i that it will be filled.
Need A War Tonic.
From the New York Telegram.
This Harrison administration must be
at least as sick as poor Mr. Blaine. It is
perpetually standing in need of a war
tonic to set it on its pins.
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He Missed The Royal Road.
From the Louisville Courier Journal.
The author of the book showing
“how much harder it is to spend a mil-
lion than to make it” has evidently nev-
er been in Washington while a Repub-
lican Congress was in session.
A Sensible View Of It.
From the Evening World.
There will be no Behring Sea war
with England. Neither nation concern-
ed will suffer loss of dignity by a peace-
ful settlement. and to neither one is all
the sealskin available worth a drop of
soldierly blood.
Has Knocked the Lite out of Them.
From the Philadelphia Herald.
The McKinley bill isn’t showering
benefits on the wage-earners of Allegh-
eny county to any great extent. On
Tuesday puddlers, machinists, finishers
and other employes is some of the lead-
ing iron works in that tariff-blessed
section of the State, were notified of a
reduction of 10 per cent. in their wages.
They knew there was no use to kick
and they accepted the cut. There is
something parhetic in the fact that the
“tariff benefits” have taken the spirit of
resistance out of the ‘protected’ work-
men, and they meekly resign themselves
to their fate.
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Ignoring That May Not Work.
From the Montrose Democrat.
The Republicans, in their anxiety to
carry Michigan in November, propose
to ignore the law compelling the elec-
tion of Presidential electors by districts
instead of by general ticket.” As this
law has not been successfully challeng-
ed and stands on the statute books, 1t
is hard tosee how it can be gotten
around or over. To ignore will not
nulify it, and the electors chosen under
it must be counted in the Electoral
College.
are equal to any emergency ; to ignore
a State statute is a small thing com-
pared to gobbling the Presidency.
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Goes Back on its Own Record to Catch
Votes. -
From the New York World.
The Republican politicians never
hesitate in sacrificing their professed
principles for success. In Iowa Mr.
Clarkson has been trying to get them
to abandon prohibition, and a sufficient
number of Republican Senators joined
with the Democrats to pass a local
option bill, only to have it indefinitely
postponed by one majority in the Re-
publican House. In Illinois the Repub-
lican State Committee has resolved
unanimously 1n favor of a declaration
in the party platform favoring the
repeal of the odious school law which
its party passed in 1889 and defended
in the legislative session of last year.
“Principles be hanged-—what we want
is votes,’’ is their motto.
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What a Vacuum it Has Averted.
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
Alger has made his war record pub-
lic, and a more or less interested peo-
ple can now breathe more freely.
What if he had had no record. Shades
of the mighty dead, what a calamity!
No more waving of the bloody shirt;
no more cries of secession; no more
spread eagle speeches ; no more bloody
chasm; no North and no South; no
more yawping about traitorous North-
erners marching in the same parade
with confederates; no more informa-
tion about the spirit of rebellion kept
alive; no more glorification of Alger;
no more “nothin.” What a danger
has been averted by the doughty sol-
dier who Custer said should have been
dismissed from the service.
An Industry that Don’t Materialize,
From the Pittsburg Post.
The Tin Plate Consumers’ Associa-
tion, which numbers more than 250
members, including the packing and
canning firms which are the largest
ccnsumers of tin plate in the country,
some days ago asked its members to
report as to the quantities of domestic
tin plate bought by them. Tnus far
replies from 115 have been received,
and 100 of these firms say that they
have bought no domestic tin plate.
Some of them report that they have
been unable to findany, and the testi-
mony of the majority is that no at-
tempt to sell domestic tin plate to them
has been made. One firm says that
it ordered a carload on December 3,
butit will now cancel the order be-
cause there is no immediate prospect
Fifteen firms re-
port they have bought domestic tin
i plate to the extent of 665 boxes, but
were deterred from more extensive or-
ders by the high price of the domestic
article. In comparison with this do-
mestic product of 665 boxes the quan-
tity of tin plate imported annually be-
fore the imposition of the higher duty
was equal to about 7,000,000 boxes.
——Subscribe for the WAToHMAN.
But the Republican bosses.
rf in Ap er
EA CY BE PIS CE I LR
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Lehigh county has 238 applicants for li-
c2nses.
—Oil has been struck at{”Mapletown, Green
county.
—Steelton is terrorized by an army of
tramps.
—Bethlehem has a 15-year-old habitual
drunkard.
—Williamsport saloons have now orders to
close at midnight.
—Williamsport is to have a new agricultural
implement works.
—A mad dog at new Berlinville, bit Howard
Bauer and thirty dogs.
—Mud has practically shut off supplies from
the McDonald oil field.
—John Maloy, a Wilksbarre miner, dropped
dead from heart disease.
—George Lecoski was killed by toprock at
the Sterling mine, Shamokin.
—Lebanon objects to an over charge of $3300
per year for electric light.
—Reading’s somewhat doubtful
Board has been dec lared legal.
—Rufus Wagner, a Lehigh county pauper,
hanged himself to a barn rafter.
—Allegheny county butchers will prosecute
all local oleomargarine dealers,
—The next Pardon Board meeting will be
held on Thursday of next week.
—Maybury George was squeezed to death by
a car in a North Ashland colliery.
—Berks county has asked for 450 liquor 1i-
censes and only three are opposed,
—Murderer Wall, who was hanged at Tunk-
hannock, had tried to dig out of his cell.
—Ten thousand men and gizls are making
ribbons and silks in the thres Bethlehems.
—A train cut to pieces Michael Laughlin,
aged ten, at Park Place, n ear Mahanoy City.
—The Plymouth Coal Company is piping
culm or coal dust for fuel at old workings,
—The Monitor Colliery, Locust Gap, has
shat down, throwing over 300 men out of work.
—Great quantities of Southern ore are pour-
ing into the iron mills in the Lebanon Valley.
—M ilton H. Bickel was a policeman for one
day only at Lebanon. He drank, and re.
signed.
—Two logs crushed together on woodsman
Neil McKinnon's foot at Westport and cut off
all his toes.
Water
—Lebanon decided Wednesday, by a vote of
1169 to 191, to authorize Councils to erect an
electric plant.
—A gangof tramps beat William J. ackson
nearly to death, at Sunbury, robbed him, and
are now in jail.
—A blow received in a fight February 27
will surely cause the death of William Senes-
kie, of Mt. Carmel.
—William Pautsch, of Shoemakersville, has
been sued for breach of promise by Miss Mary
Heckman, of Pottstown.
—Manufacturers of bottles in Western
Pennsylvania are complaining of the great de-
pression in the glass trade.
Lastern Pennsylvania farmers are selling
their wheat. The shipments from the agricul.
tural district are very heavy.
—James Mills, charged with murder, who
escaped from the Butler jail, was recaptured
in afreight car by the conductor.
—One-armed James Sellers stabbed one-
armed Frank Darby in the lung, inflicting a
probably fatal wound, at Lancaster.
—N. P. Coleren’s general store at Newmans-
town, Lebanon county, was robbed of $300
worth of jewelry and merchandize.
—The father of Robert Taylor, the lawyer
who escaped from the Reading jail, has been
arrested for harboring the fugivive.
—John Bowes, a fitteen-year-old doorboy at
the Primrose Colliery fell on the track before
a trip of mine cars and cannot live.
—The body of John Gallagher, a Scranton
miner, was found near the river, and it is
thought he was killed for his m oney.
—While asleep Monday night, Mrs. Kelley,
of Duquesne Heights, rolled over on her six
months old baby, crushing it 10 death.
—Shenandoah, Mahanoy City and Hazleton
still want the Legislature to carve a new coun -
ty for them out of Luzerne and Schuylkill.
—Carson Sterling, of New Holland, has been
arrested, charged with causing the death of
Miss Naomi F. Rush, by criminal operation.
—DMiscreants at a Reading social and fair
rubbed into the face of many young men and
maidens bouquets of flowers full of red pepper.
—Having been fined $1.50 by the Mayor of
Wilkesbarre for the drunkenness, Joe An-
heiscr, a pensioner has sued him for dam.
ages.
—Four year old Johnny Marr, of Cranberry,
near Hazleton, drank carbolic acid on a tull
stomach and yelled till a doctor “bailed him
out,”
—Dick Cooley, one ot the famous Cooley
robber gang, was convicted Friday at Union-
town of highway robbery and torturing a pris-
cner.
—Relatives of the twenty-two victims buried
in the great caye-in at Nanticoke in 1885 were
non-suited by Judge Woodward, or Wilkes-
barre.
—A spark from John Muiliski’s lamp ignited
a keg of powder at Taylorville Colliery, Satur-
day night, and the Polander will die from his
burns.
—David Longs little son died of cramp, at
Lebanon, after being held under the dripping
eaves by schoolmates. It iss aid an investiga-
tion will be made.
—Luzerne county’s auditors are after the
County Commissioners with a sharp stick be.
cause an extravagant price was paid for paint.
ing the jail and court house.
—Miss Hannah Hummel, of Pottstown, was
the first bride in the new Trinity Reformed
church, where she was married Wednesday,
to Daniel Rhoades, of Pottstown.
—Harry Sherman, Harry Kelley, Jobn Dar-
rah, John Crawford and Frank Cleary were
severely burned by molten iron, which burst
from a flask in a Renovo foundry.
- vicf its Pittsburg and Western
Railroad route, the Wells-Fargo Express Com-
pany has taken to the Ohio River steamboats
toreach Ohio poinis from Pittsburg.
—The thieves who stole Lutheran Church
service cards at Zionsville, Lehigh county,
are probably church members, If so, they
will probably disrupt the congregation.
—Under a law passed in 1870, Allegheny’s
ex-Mayor, Wyman, can get out of Pittsburg
jail three days before the expiration of his
three months sentence, good behavior being
the only condition.
—Falling with a cigar store counter, on
which he had been dancing, young Michael
O'Hearn was scalped by a splinter of the coun-
ter, at Bethlehem. A doctor stitched the
scalp back again.
et. eee m—