Demareaic atc
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
I
Ink Slings.
— Westward the star of CLEVELAND
takes its way.
~—So Quay and IIARrrIsoN have
made up, have they ? Well!
--Unlike a boy’s, the seat of a dog's
pants cannot be repaired by patching.
- =0ld Sol can make more pants in
one day than all the tailors in the
world.
Taking everything into considera-
tion poppies should be a popular flower
with the fair sex.
—A grief stricken family never
knows how many real sympathizers they
have until it comes to eating the funeral
dinner.
—How BLAND is the smile that plays
on the countenance of the Missouri con-
gressman since the death of his pet
measure ?
---Jf some men were as big as they
feel, GorLiATH would be no where
when comparisons with giants are in
order.
—Democracy embodies all the funda-
mental principles of honest and success-
ful government. And Democracy will be
triumphant.
--GrEELY will have to stop those
awful storms they are having out west
or Uncle JERRY won't be able to get
his onion ‘sets’ stuck.
~The most laudable thing the pre-
sent Congress could possibly do, would
be to close the ports of the United
States to foreign immigration.
—The “boom’ of the HILL gun is
gradually growing fainter. Most of
them were breech loaders and their extra
charges were easily withdrawn.
—The exigencies of the times de-
manded that little “Rhody” should
elect a Democratic governor, but she
failed to save herself and her peo-
ple.
—HARRISON is afraid BLAINE is go-
ing to become renominated and is taking
vigorous steps to keep the Plumep
Knight in a state of innoxious desue-
tude. ;
—The silver bill has almost breathed
its last and how many of the willy-nilly
writers, who have either supported or
opposed the measure, even read its
preamble ?
—1If BENJAMIN has lost all hope of a
rumpus in the Behring sea he might
still get up a ‘scrap’ with JoHNNY
BULL over the ownership of ‘“Ta-Ra-Ra-
Boom-Te-Ay.
—The milliner’s ‘‘spring opening’
1s now advertised. They might in-
crease trade by distributing can openers
for their fair patrons to use on the wal-
lets of their husbands.
—1TIt is hardly probable that England,
would come over here and attempt to
lay waste our fields when she needs
$172,000,000 worth of our farm products
annually, to keep her alive.
MATHEW STANLEY QUAY knows
just exactly when itis time to begin
pulling wool over Republican eyes, but
he realizes that it is a slightly harder
job since the McKINLEY bill went into
effect.
—1If Italy is to be idemnified for the
deaths of her Mafia murderers, in New
Orleans, why not include a liberal al-
lowance to pacify her for Red Nose
Mixes loss. The one would be about
as justifiable as the other.
—The great object of a protective
tariff as understood by Republican pol-
* iticians, is to enlarge the Republican
campaign fund by favoring manufac-
turers, who are willing to have the “fat
fried” out of them for that purpose.
~-The Cincinnati Times Star, the
leading republican paper of Ohio, pre-
dicts that the “Buckeye state will go for
the Democratic presidential nominee
next fall. Some one said Maj. McKiN-
LEY had discontinued his subscrip-
tion.
—The Republicans might make a
great coup d'etat by protecting Ameri-
can babies with a tariff, Statistics
show that the foreign article is fast
crowding the home product out of the
market and something should be done to
protect our kids. Perhaps baby Moc-
KEE can be interested,
-~Mr. BaLrour says the United
States will soon suffer an influx of desti-
tute Russian hebrews. One consolation
we have, from the knowledge that the
immigrants will be of “hebraic dispensa-
sion,’ is that they won't be able to ser-
iously affect the laboring classes until
they learn to talk without the use of
their hands,
—-Street corners are already blocked
with loafers. The bridges are sprung
with the weight of weary pedestrians,
who rest their brains on the iron rai-
ings while the soft ri ple of the waters
sooth their strained nerves. Pilots are
in demand everywhere to guide strang-
ers through the floods of tobacco juice,
and the air is as blue as the vapors of
hades. Why? Times are hard and
high protection is a burden.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
YOl: 97.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 8, 1892.
A Republican State and a Negro
Hanging.
Ohio is a Republican State 20,000
strong. It has a legislature so strong-
ly Republican that it has no scruplesin
gerrymandering its congressional dis-
tricts so that the Democrats will have
but fire of its twenty-one Congressmen.
It has Foraker and McKINLEY, JOHN
SuErMAN and Foster, and possibly
more Republican office holders than
any State in the Union, It has the
Lincoln University for colored people,
and its politicians have made more fuss
about the condition of, and more pro-
fessions of friendship for, the negro of
the South than any class of people
anywhere on God's green earth.
Last week, in one of the little towns
of the interior of the State, a sim-
ple minded, partially demented darky
made his appearance. He sat around
the front door stoops of the place. He
gazed wistfully at the tempting food,
that could be seen on well filled tables.
He looked longingly into warm
rooms and comfortable kitchens. He
peered innocently at passers by, and
rested his tired frame against gate
poets and yard fences. He did no one
harm. He offered no offense,
He committed no wrong. He was
found guilty of no impertinence. But
be was a darky and 1n a section of Re-
publican Ohio that boasts that no col-
ored man shall find home among them,
and to make good that boast the poor
fellow, after freezing about the streets
for a couple of days, was deliberately
taken to the outskirts of the town and
hanged until dead.
There was no offense of any kind
charged to him. No fear that he
would commit a crime or perpetrate an
outrage. But he was a darkey, a
poor weak-minded, doless, half starved,
friendless darkey, aimlessly and iano-
cently wandering about the country,
and Ohio people—a people that boasts
of their civilization, their Republican-
ism, their christianity and good deeds,
seized him and hung him to a tree, be-
cause he was a darkey, and that is all
there was of it.
What columas of denunciation this
would bave brought forch from Repub-
lican papers had this outrage been per-
petrated in the South? What cam-
paign thunder it would have created
for Harrison and Republicanism had
it ocenrred across the river in Demo-
cratic Kentucky ? What a God send it
would have been tothe party now in an
hunt of an issue and in need of a senti-
ment, had it been the wo k of Demo-
crats in Mississippi or _Georgia ?
But it was not.
And because it was not, because it
was an Ohio—Republican Ohio—crime
we hear but little of it through Re-
publican papers and by the time the
campaign opens, the facts of this hor-
ribly brutal act, as well as the poor,
black victim of the prejudices and pas-
sions of these people, will have been
forgotten, by these pretentious sympa-
thizers with the colored men when
their votes are needed to carry elec-
tions.
———Senator PEFFER, the long whis-
kered representative of the Kansas
Farmers’ Alliance, shows that he is a
man of good judgment by predicting
that if Harrison and CLEVELAND are
the presidential nominees, that CLEVE-
LAND will be the president.
It must have been the supposed
ignorance of his hearers that ex Czar
REED was banking ou,in Providence,0a
Saturday night last, when he asserted
that the balance of trade with Europe,
that now figures up in our favor, is
due to the operations of the MoKINLEY
bill. Mr. REED possibly labored un-
der the impression that the people he
was talking too, did not know that a
good Lord and a favorable season
blessed this country last year with oae
of the most bountiful crops ever gather-
ed and that it was the demand for the
products of our farms, caused by the
failure of crops all over Europe, that
puts the balance of the trade in our
favor, in place of Republican tariff leg
islation, Cerfainly a man of Mr.
REED's capacity must be bard up for
an argument when he will attempt
such a palpable falsehool, to have
people believe that which is not so,
and which every man, with intzlli-
gence enough to understand the ques-
tion, knows to be incorrect.
Don't Do It.
Whether or not the Democractic
State Convention, which meets in Har
risburg, on Wednesday, will assume
the power to instruct the delegates to
the Chicago Convention to vote asa
unit we do not know. We hope it
will not. While we recognize the
fact that the sentiment of the Demo-
crats of the State, is overwhelmingly
in favor of the nomination of Mr.
CLEVELAND, and while we feel that
that sentiment should be voiced by the
action of those who will be named to
represent the different districts of the
State, as well as by those chosen to
represent the State at large, we are un-
alterably opposed to the anti-Demo-
cratic idea of a State Convention re-
quiring district delegates to do its
bidding.
District delegates are not the creat-
ures or representatives of the State
Convention. They are chosen by rep-
resentatives of the district, and are ex-
pected to represent the views of the
Democrats of the district from which
they are selected. The delegates at
large, are the representatives of the
general sentiment of the State, and
should be required to voice that senti-
ment, but to deny to the representative
of any district the right to speak its
opinion or cast its vote in accordance
with the views and wishes ot the De-
mocracy of that district, is to curtail
Democratic rights and stifle Demo-
cratic sentiments,
If instructions how to vote are to be
given district delegates to Chicago, it
should be done by the district conferees
who elect them. They are the power
that make them. They represent the
voice of the district, and that 18 the
voice that should be obeyed.
In this matter we hope our State
Convention will be wise enough, to see
the right course and pursue it. No
blind infatuation for any individual,
should be allowed to sway it from the
true path of Democratic duty, and no
desire for the success of any candidate,
should lead it to deny to the Democrats
of any district, the right to name and
vote for the candidate of their choice.
We say this, not in the interest of
the few factionists, who, because they
are hopelessly in the minority on every
question that bears upon the nomina-
tion or success of the party, desire to
see a divided delegation to Chicago,
but as one whose wishes are, and ef-
forts will be, to have a united force
and unanimous vote for GROVER
CLEVELAND, from Pennsylvania, un-
less circumstances clearly and unmis-
takably prove that his nomination
would be useless and suicidal.
Rhode Island.
The election,on Wednesday,in Rhode
Island shows that that State is still
dominated by Republican influence
and controlled by Republican boodle.
Since 1852 it has never cast a Demo-
cratic majority in a presidential year,
and it refused to break its record on
Wednesday. Returns as far as receiv-
ed at this writing, Thursday morning,
indicate that neither of the candidates
for governor were elected, both failing
toxeceive a majority of the votes cast,
that the legislature will be Republican
insuring the re-election of ArLpricH to
the United States Senate, and the elec-
tion of the State officials,who are chos.
en by the legislature in the'case ot fail-
ure to elect by the people.
Expecting His Reward.
A telegram, on Wednesday, from
Harrisburg to the Philadelphia papers
state that : *“Austiy L, Taccarr, the
“Granger candidate for Congressman at
“large, was in Harrisburg a short time
“to-day and spoke very hopefully of
“the outlook, so far as he is concern-
ad.”
“So far as he is concerned’ That's
about the extent of Mr, TAGearT's in-
terests and efforts. Daring the last
session of t:e legislature he paraded
himself as the opponent of Quay and
hig ring and the special champion of
the Grangers’ tax bill. Before the
session was over Quay and his crowd
owned him body, breeches and boots,
and when the session ended TacearT
went home with the promise of politi-
cal preferment and the grangers, whom
he professed to represent, with nothing
but a “fake” tax bill and a record for
inconsistency, on the part of their
mouth: piece, that years will not efface.
’
NO. 14.
Well Paid.
One thousand dollars per day is a
preity large salary to pay for any
man’s services, and particularly is-it a
large salary to be paid for such ser-
vices as Senator Quay has rendered
the State, as its representative, in the
Unit:d States Senate. And yet this is
the amount that has been paid him. for
the time he has spent in pretending to
watch ths State's interest on the floor
of the Senate.
Five years ago, on the 4th of March
last, he took his seat as a United
States Senator. During these five
years the Senate has been in session
twenty-eight months, and of these Mr.
Quay has been absent, fishing or on
his own private business, over eighteen
months, making the actual time he
has been present to attend to his duties
and represent the State's interests, less
than ten months. For this he has
drawn $25,000 salary, an average of
of one hundred dollars a day, for each
working day of that time.
As he has never been known to do any
committee work, prepare,a bill or orig-
inate a resolution, and as the Senator-
ial session averages but three hours a
day for five days of the week, it jwould
make the actual time he has devoted
to the State's service, since taking the
place, but six hundred hours, or about
twenty-five days, all told, making] his
pay at the rate of one thousand dollars
per day, for each day he has been pres-
ent and in a position to attend to the
duties for which he was elected.
People will say that much of his
time was spent in’ looking up places
for constituents in the various depart-
ments, True, but when Mr. Quay
spends his time to get any one a posi-
tion, he does it for Mr. Quay’s indi-
vidual benefit, and not for the State he
is expected to serve, so that that [time
is not expended for the good of
the State's interests, but for the pri-
vate or public purposes of the Senator
himself.
Is itany wonder, after paying this
kind of a price for Senatorial services
at Washington. that the people, of the
State are beginning to ask what they
have gotten in return for it? As [yet no
one has discovered that he has done
anything to merit a continuation in the
position and it is left for the few who
are willing to wear his collar as a boss
and those whom he has been instra-
mental in placing in fat positions, to
insist that he should be returned.
It is these interests alone that de-
mand Mr. Quay's return, and these
are the controling elements of the Re-
publican party.
——The Quav literary bureau seems
to be getting in its work in fine style.
This week’s Gazeite contains no less
than four columns prepared expressly,
and sent broad cast over the State, to
the papers that wear the bosses collar,
for publication, and as our uptown
contemporary is among that number,
it publishes what is sent it without
questioning its truth or considering the
infliction such stuff must be upon its
readers.
Where They are and What At.
General GurHRrig, who was Adju-
tant General during the former admin-
istration of Governor Parrison, is liv-
ing quietly in Pittsburg, and takes his
usual interest in the success of the
Democratic party.
Hon. W. S. SrteNGER, Secretary of
State at the tine, is practicing law in
Philadelphia and devoting his spare
time to organizing and promoting
Democratic feuds.
“Holy Joe,” or Dr. Everts, as he
calls himself, who was the Governor's
Methodist private secretary, is preach-
ing for the Lutherans and making
stamp speeches for the Republicans
when they'll give him an opportunity
of doing so.
Col. Hayes Grigg, who served as
superintendent of public printing, has
been again appointed to that position
and entered upon the duties of his of-
fice on the 1st inst.
~—~The Democrats of Union coun-
ty have instructed their delegates to
the State Convention to support CLEVE-
2axD for president, and Senator HARRY
Arvin Harr for delegate at large to
the Democratic presidential Conven-
tion.
without instruction, will doubtless vote
the same way.
The Way They Go.
From the Columbus Post.
The political race is usually “onward
and upward.” At least a good many
candidates are gone up at the close of
the campaign,
RE RE
No Service Obstacle,
From the Philadelphia Times.
The new Third Parly continues to
promise to differ from third parties in
general in that the other two interested
parties are not likely to find it very much
in the way.
A Voice From West Virginia.
From the Wheeling Register:
The New York IForld thinks that
Governor Robert E. Pattison, of Penn-
sylvania, “comes near to being person-
ally an ideal candidate for President.”
We beg leave to second the motion,
Pattison’s candidacy would make the
Keystone State’s 80,000 Republican
majority look weary.
Will Willingly Be Rediculous.
From the Sunbury Democrat.
Will those Republicans who vote
against;Quay in counties where insurrec-
tion ballots are being cast, earry their
fight to the general election against the
candidates for the Legislature in coun-
ties where Quay is the victor? If they
don’t do so why did they precipitate
these test elections ? To drop the fight
now would make them supremely ridi-
culous and inconsistent.
———
A Glorious Day That is Sure to Come
From the Philadelphia Herald.
The benefit of “free wool” would so
tavorably impress the people that they
would soon be demanding ‘free wool-
ens.” While our duty would be main-
tained on manufactured goods sufficient
to cover the difference in wages between
this country and Europe, the advantage
of untaxed raw material should enable }
our woolen manufacturers to make big-
ger profits than they are now making,
and at the same time give our people
cheaper woolens. It will be a glorious
day when -the clothing on the back of
the American citizen is free from taxa-
tion,
The Way It Works.
From the Clearfleld Spirit.
Everywhere shops are either closing
indefinitely or big reductions in wages
are being announced which the employ-
es must accept or lose their places. The
trouble seems to be most in the various
iron industries and one would hardly
expect this pitiful situation to exist un-
der the blessings of a high tariff on iron
as we have it under the McKinley bill.
Business in tannery circles continues to
boom and wages are stillup to the
where labor asks that they shall stay
and the strange thing about itis that
employer and employe seem to be mov-
ing along without the discontent and
unrest that characterize the iron indus-
tries and all this too because hides are on
the free list. Strange, isn’t it ?
A Plain Case of Robbery.
From the New York World.
It is time to put refined sugar on the
free list, to stop the robbery of the
American people by the sugar trust.
Here are the facts:
The sugar trust now owns every ac-
tive sugar refinery in the United States
except three. Those three are owned
by large stockholders in the trust, and
are operated “in harmony” with it.
The trust has, therefore, and actual
monopoly of the business in this coun,
try.
The actual value of the plants it
controls is less than $35,000,000, but
the trust is capitalized at $85,000,000,
and it will pay this year 34 per cent on
that false capitalization, or 73 per cent.
on actual investment.
It was extorting less while it had op-
position, but since it bought up the re-
maining opposition it has deliberately
added three eights of a cent a pound to
refined sugar. Inother words, it has
levied an additional tax of $22,500,000
a year upon the people of the country
who consume sugar.
This is extortion, pure and simple.
There is nothing whatever given in
return for the money taken, and the
trust is enabled to take it solely by vir-
tue of the tariff duty of one-half cent a
pound on foreign refined sugar. Even
if foreign sugar were on the free list the
cost of bringing it here— about one-
eighth of a cent a pound—would enable
the trust to undersell foreign compet-
itors. The additional tariff duty en-
ables it to extort more than $20,000,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Joha Zerby, tumbled into Graffins’ Run at
Williamsport and was drowned.
—A gang of unknown villains at Pottsville
beat John Swaiving almost to death.
—The increase of the Pennsylvania oil pro-
duction for March was 1618 barrels.
—Reading gets $63,630 of the $99,000 which
lignor licenses yield to Berks county.
—One of the twins born to Mrs. 0. Green, of
Camden, in the Allentown jail, has died there.
—A new hosiery factory at Reading is to be
erected by Louis Weber & Co., and will employ
450 hands.
—James Dunn was scraped off the top of a
train by abridge at Mahanoy Plane and was
k ited. :
—Three children of Amos L. Ebert, of Roy.
,ersford, have died within a week from scarlet
gever.
| —Charter was granted to. the Penn Chemica]
Company, of Susquehanna Station, capital
$150,000. ?
—The Reading Iron Company shut down its
sheet and rolling mill at Reading for an inde-
finite time.
— Levi Farber, a Lebanon laborer, fell from
a 35-foot trestle, breaking his leg twice an
fracturing his skull. .
— By resuming work to day, after a month'g
idleness, the Mapl e{Hill Colliery will give em-
ployment to 400 men.
—The resignation of Alderman Frederick
H. Printz, of the Third ward, Reading, has
been sent to the Governor.
—More than 20 robberies are charged up to
the account of “Poorhouse’’ Christ Miller and
Edward Galloe, of Lebanon,
—George Cunliffe, an aged farmer, was
struck and killed by a royal Blue express at
Felton Station, near €hester.
—Diphtheria and scarlet fever have joined
their grim forces and are mowing down the
children of Cumberland county.
—An explosion of gas in the Chickies Iron
furnace, near Marietta Lancaster county,burn-
ed John Grosh to a crisp Saturday.
—The victim of Tuesday’s fatal railroad ac-
cident at Easton has been identified as the
son of M. A. Ryan, of Boston, Mass.
—A pillar in the Short Mouniain Colliery, at
Tower City, crushed Reuben Zimmerman’s
skull, and wounded two Hungarians.
—Citizens at Annville blew up with dyna-
mite the residence of a penitentiary prisoner,
so that he cannot return to that place.
—Nathan Miller, an Allentown war veteran:
has lived through two recent strokes of apo-
plexy and five fractures of his limbs.
—Reading has run against a legal snag ia
carrying out its $100,000 sewerage scheme and
work has been indefinitely postponed.
—Endeavoring to mount a coal train at Shen-
andoah, Daniel Igo, a popular young man fell.
under the wheels and was decapitated.
—A respite has been granted {o Murderer
Edward McMillen, of Luzerne county, who
{| was to have hanged April 7, until June 6.
—Senator Peffer, the much bewhiskered
statesman of Kansas, is visiting his brother at
the o Id family homestead near Canlisle, Pa.
—Fourteen-year-old Bertha Jones took poi~
son and tried to kill herself at Bethiehem be-
cause she was charged with trying to kill her-
self.
—Bernard Kelly, a Pennsylvania railroad
boiler inspector, of Philadalphia, was killed
and his body flung into the river by a train at
Reading.
—Anthony Shemeski, a madman, of Maha_
noy City, raced through the streets Sunday
and shot himself fatally when pursuers got
near him.
—A kettleful of boiling water was accident.
ally overturned upon the wife of Letter Care
rier Goffey, of South Bethlehem, and she was
terribly scalded.
—A sensation in the St.Mary's Polish church
at Reading has been eaused by an attack of
Rev. Father Januskiewicz upon the Polish
Democratic Club.
—While on his way to Altoona to get married
Conrad Houser, of Germany, was overtaken
near Lancaster by a Pennsylvania express
train and decapitated.
—One of the last acts of the Borough Coun-
cil at Hazleton was to increase the bonded
debt by #3500, which the new City Councils
will have to provide for.
—Henry Pickman, who was General Benja-
min Butler's gardener,at Fortress Monroe,fell
from a tree at shepherdstown, Cumberland
county, and was killed.
—A cruel hole was bored through the cheek
of Miss Gertrude Lane, of Osceola Mills, above
Williamsport, by the bullet of a toy pistol held
by her chum, Millie Davis.
—The State’s new $400,000 asylum for the in-
sane at Wernersville will be only two stories
high and will have no hospital as it is intend-
ed for chroric patients ocly.
—Palming himself off as a burglar, an East-
ern detective got in with a gang of robbers in
the LeRanon Valley and a vast amount of stol-
en property has been recovered.
—A fortune of mearly $1,000,000 has dropped
in the lap of Frank Ruigloeffer, son of a Bohe-
mian railroad contractor,who has just been re-
leased from the Pittsburg workhouse.
—While detecting a leak in the gas pipe in
Paul D. Millholland’s house at Reading, the
gas exploded, knocking tke plumber out of
the room and seriously burning him.
—Two new cases of small-pox have broken
out in the family of John Conrad, near Tower
City, and a rigid quarantine has resulted in
the closing of the Clark’s Valley school.
—Dr. David K. Seltzer, of Waverly, N.Y. :
eloped with Frankie Behman and got as far
as Lancaster, where the truant husband was
overtaken by his wife and meekly led home.
—Berks county auditors disallowed a $150
board and a $39 cigar bill contracted by the
Board of Prison Inspectors, and legal proceed-
ings have been begun to recover the amount.
—Professor S. C. Hartranft, principal of the
000 a year from the people.
The Government gives the trust its,
raw materials free. Nay, more; it
taxes the people to pay two cents a
|
The delegates from this county,
pouad of the purchase price ot all raw |
; sugar bought by the trust from Amer-
| ican producers. Why should the Gov- |
ernment also give the trust the means
! of extorting $20,000,000 a year over |
and above naturally enormous profits ?
! Why should their not be a bill present- |
' ed at once to put refined sugar. on the |
, free list, go that the sugar rust may
| be compelled tosel! at a reasonable
price and a fair profit? Why should |
an organization of enormously rich |
wouopolists be especially authorized by
law to rob the people 1n this way? . |
——Fine job work of ever discription !
at the Warcaman Office.
Watsontown schcols, over-exerted himself in
raising a flag and w as subsequently stricken
unconscious in a barber chair and will not re-
cover.
—Having died unattended at her Allegheny
City home, Mrs. Schuldie, aged 77, was so
faithfully guarded by her two pet dogs that
the police had to shoot the brutes to get into
the house.
—A. L. Langdon, general freight agent of
the Cumberland Valley Railroad, has been ap-
pointed interior Pennsylvania agent of the
Great Southern Dispatch, with headquarters
at Chambersburg.
—Fourth-class Pennsylvania Postmasters’
were yesterday appointed as follows: J. Wal-
ler, Convoy; N. P. Minard, Goodyear; J. H
Welkin, Harlansburg; J. M. Rauch, Manag
Hill; J. Hooper, Rundells; C. V. Stains Stains;
J. W. Watt, Hoosac Tunnel. !