Deworeal Jat BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The man who catches the largest fish is not necessarily the biggest liar. -—Itis only the lawyer who can re- joice over a multitude of trials in this life. —Col. Tom OcHILTREE has the gout and you can all look out ror some big stories now. ! —If nature had never brought forth cloves woman would be a far less sus- pecting creature. —“BLAINE IS not a candidate.” It might be quite a propos to say the same of Davip B. HiLL, —Some farmers are far more interest- ed in building roads to wealth than in paving their way to glory. —Sizzled tripe is away below par up at Greensburg just mow, A Jewish synagogue burned down last week. —Allegheny’s election, under the Baker ballot law, was another excellent exposition of its cumbersome working. —The Ways and Means committee certainly had (sweet work on Wednes- day. They were considering the free sugar bill. —Don’t get excited, dear people, QuAyY and CAMERON are both back in ‘Washington. But they have'nt regis- tered as yet. > --When Maine instructs its delegates for HARRISON, jit leaves the BLAINE boom very much in the condition of a bursted balloon. —Gov. GRAY will no doubt have it in for the organ grinder who plays ‘the picture that is turned toward the wall” within his hearing. —An exchange remarks that there are 3000 stitches in a pair of hand sewn boots, but it forgot to make ¢he product for Chicago an exception. —If the building committee of the World’s fair would exclude wooden statuary, poor HARRISON wouldn’t dare show himself on the grounds, -—They tell us that HARRIsoN is strong with his party, but from the way many of the Republican conventions have turned away from him, it must be the kind of strengtha raw onion gives to a fellow’s breath. —The Harrisburg Patriot says: ‘free silver coinage has not the right ring” and we will thump the nail right on the head by saying that, as a Democratic journal, the Patriot is troubled with the same complaint. —The limbs of the trees, ballet dancs ers, etc., hampered the working of the Philadelphia firemen, at the Central Theatre conflagration, on Wednesday night. 'Tis strange that such a com- plexity of limbs should have had a de- moralizing effect on the firemen. —We never had a very high opinion of New England Republicans, and from the price paid for Republican votes in Bangor, on Tuesday, we rated them higher than they do themselves. 50cts was the ruling price all day. --Young BURROWE came nearer shooting ‘‘Modoc” Fox in the head when he blew a hole through his coat tails than he promised before the affair of honor came off. The only mistake was that BURRowE forgot where Fox's brains are evidently located. —Generally the chap who talks loud- est about being bossed, is the one who has some one’s collar tightest about his neck. With most of such people it is not so much a matter of following the bell sheep as it is which particular mem- ber of the flock shall carry it. —A Cambridgeport benedict shot himself and his bride, on Monday, be- cause she discoverad that he had a cork leg. It is evident that she had not pulled it for ice cream j as the average sweetheart would have known of it long before their marriage. —A Cambria county cow gave birth toa calf which has two perfect tails and six legs. The mother bovine must have wanted her offspring to be a little “fier” than common calves and it is plainly evident, also, that she intended there should be “no flies on it.” --The only thing that was wanting at the laying of the corner stone of the GRANT monument, in New York, on Wednesday, was a speech from DubLey He has his hand in now and itisa shame that he was slighted, for “blocks of five’’ might help the monument fund amazingly. — Whether the Chinese exclusion act holds good until ’95 or not, it is time it | should berescinded, or something done to prevent theinflux of undesirable foreign- ors which now threatens this country. It is a question whether Chinamen who never intend to become citizens 2an do the country as much injury as do the “scums,’” ot other countries, whose sole | object in attaining the right of free speech isto excite citizens to anarchy and revolt. No, if the felons, of every | foreign prison, are t) be admitted, the in- offensive Chinese + should not be ex- cluded. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. © o> «® td VOL. 37. BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 29, : pd 892. NO. 17. It Wont Effect the Result. There is trouble within the circle of the Republican organization. A deep soul-harrassing, liver-paralyzing trou- ble, One that boodle, false counting, official patronage or fraudulent returns wont reach, and itis causing a heart ache that is distressing and a despon- dency that is demoralizing, among the leaders of the party. It is the fact, that North Dakota Republicans, have practically dicfranchised themselves at the coming election by failing to pro- vide by law for the election of presi- dential electors. The result will be a loss tothe Republican candidate of three electoral votes, which under cer- tain contingencies might be necessary to secure his success, The fact that the legislature of that State had neglected to provide for the election of electors was not discover- ed until last week, and as there is no way by which a legal election can be arranged for, appearances indicate that North Dakota's vote for president will not “be in it,’ next fall, and the three votes certain that Mr. Harrison counted on from that State, will not be there to be counted when the time comes. The fact that the people of Dakota have practically disfranchised them- selves is not a matter that any good citizen will rejoice over, although the fault lies at their own doors. Had they elected men as representatives, to put the machinery of their State in working order,whohad a wider knowl edge of the necessities of a new com- monwealth than the narrow-minded, bigoted, Republican crowd they select- ed had, their political situation would not be what it is to-day. It is to the fact that the voters cared more for politicians than statesmen ; more for partisan than public interest, that legislators © who would over look this more important matter were elected, and if the situation does no other good, it may, to a certain extent, teach the Republicans, of that part of the country, a lesson that will hereaf- ter induce them to choose, as represen- tatives, men who are fit for the place and whoknow what the needs of their State require. In the meantime we want to encour- age our Republican friends, who are so much cast down in consequence of this matter, by assurring them that it won't make a particle of difference in the result whether North Dakota votes or not. The country will be Democratic next fall and the next president will be a Democrat, even if they had a half doz- en North Dakotas to add to the few States there is a prospect of them car- rying. : A Double Teat. The McKINLEY bill turns out to be a kind of a double ended teat for the fav- ored few, for whose benefit it was pass- ed, to feed from. We have shown time and again that the._biggest mon- opolies and fattest manufacturers were the parties whose pockets protection filled to overflowing, by increasing the price of everything they had to sell. It makes millionaires of men like Car- NEGIE and‘ then on the adornments that only these favored few can pur- chase it reduces the protection prin- ciple to thelowest point and give: them every advantage to make their pur- chases at the lowest possible price. The poor men of the country buy clothing and upon this the government taxes them 80 per cent. to protect the manufacturers. The rich men buy diamonds and McKinney and his Republican | tariff bill only taxes them 11 per «cent. Thus, while Mr. CARNEGIE and oth- i ers who are the special wards of the government, are secured in charging just what ever figure their greediness may demand, for the manufactured ar- iicles they furnish the people, they are also allowed the privilege of purchas- ing their diamonds and other costly ornaments in a market, that is only protected by an eleven per cent. duty. Would it be more than justice to close one of these teats at least, and | allow the poor people of the country i to buy the clothing they must have vith as low a rate of tariff upon it, as (is imposed upon the “‘gew-gaws" and diamonds the rich take pleasure in displaying ? Running Away From the Issues. It is quite evident from the fact that committees of colored men have lately been calling upon President HarrisoN, in order that opportuni- ties may be afforded "him to air his opinions as to the condition and rights of the colored people, that a systema- tic effort is to be made again, to bring the race question into. prominence in the coming campaign, and to use the darky and the sympathy that is sup- posed to exist for him, for all it is worth, for the benefit of the Republican party. We refer to this matter not that we fear the resultin November, but as a pointer showing how hopeless Repub- lican success must appear, to those who have the management of the af- fairs of that organization in their hands, if the contest is made upon the issues now most prominently before the public. There is no closing of eyes to the fact, that the leaders of the Republican party well know that not an intelli- gent vote is made for the candidates of that organization, by an appeal to the people on the question of the condi- tion of the negro in the South. It is equally well known that the race ques: tion, if left alone, will settle itself’ much better and in a much shorter time than if political prejudices are aroused and political lines drawn in that section of the country in which the colored vote is the most numerous. in every instance in which this ques- tion has been brought to the front, that the more in it is agitated and used in political campaigns, the worse it is for the negro and the farther apart the two races get. So that in attempting to make the colored citizen —his condition and prospects—a question in the presiden- tial election, the Republicans are not doing it as a matter of benefit to the negroes of the country, or in the hope of securing the support of the intelli- gent voters, but as a blind to’ attract the attention of the unthinking thous- ands {rom the real question at issue. This movement is an admission that the record of the Republican party— its force bill, its Czar ReEp, its bil- lion dollar congress and its McKINLEY tariff legislation—is not such as will command the support and secure the endorsement of the people. It is an acknowledgement, that the intelligent presentation of questions effecting the welfare of the masses, is to be aban- doned in the coming campaign, and that the prejudices, sympathies and sentiments of the voter is to be relied upon, for whatever strength the Re- publican party may show. It is, in fact, “showing the white feather’ on the tariff question and an attempt to hide the wrongs and the rotten record of the Republican party behind the black skin of the Southern negro. Would be Deeply Interested. The Pittsburg Times is exhibiting a sample voting bootn to show, to the curious the workings of the new elec- tion law. If its proprietor, Mr. Curis. Maczg, would give his audiences an occasional illustration of the methods used in obtaining {the needed results, by false counting, to which his party resorts at nearly everv election, and with the minutiz of which he is per- tectly familiar it would add an interest to his show that would throw some other parts of it far in the shade. 3 Che Democratic legislature of New York has passed ja new Tegisla- tive and senatorial apportionment bill for that State, which on a political ba- sis,as indicated by last fall's election, will give ¢the Democrats a majority in three senatorial and six legislative dis- tricts, Based on a Democratic major- ity of almost 50,000, at the last elec- tion, to make a legislative apportion: ment that insures them but nine ma- jority on joint ballot,is an exhibition of political fairness on the part of the New York Democracy, that should put to blush the work of Republican gerrymanderers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere. ——1If you want printing of any de- scription the WATCHMAN office is the place to have it done. Pulling Wool. The hardest job to accomplish that our Republican friends have undertak- en for some time is to pull the wool over the eyes of the people on the ques: tion of the benefits of free wool. Todo this seems an almost impossible work, but the organs of that party stick to it, as if the life of that organization de- pended upon the wool question alone, and the hopes of Republicanism were a8 closely allied to the sheep as is the tick that sticks to it the year round.’ The great trouble with them is that the facts prove just the reverse of their statements. In place of free wool des- troying the industry of sheep-raising, the census shows that during the only time there was no tariff on wool—from the organization of the government to 1824—that there were more sheep raised in this country, in proportion to the population, than there has been at any time since. Another stubborn truth that they will not or cannot explain is, that in “free trade” England, where there is not a penny of = protection offered. to wool growers, and where land ' com- mands the highest price, more sheep are raised in proportion to the popula- tion, than in this country with its high protection and millions of acres of cheap lands. Another is, the acknowledged fact that since the duty on wool was increas ed by the McKiNvLeY bill that the price {'of domestic wool has decreased and the And it is also an admitted fact, proven ' farmer or sheep grower has been and is to-day, getting less for his wool than he did before the provisions of that bill went into effect. These are three positive, admitted, and undeniable facts that stand in the way of the wool pulling business, on the part of Republican politicians, and will stop it completely until theyican explain, why under seventy years of protection the sheep raising industry has never prospered as it did, when it “had no protection ; and] why under the highest, protection it ever had, domestic wool commands a less price than when it had less protection ? Doing As He Pleases. Just as those who best “know him thought he would, General Grrce is already kicking over the Republican traces and refuses to trot in political harness under the crack of Mr. Quax’s whip. It is said that to the surprise and dismay of the ring, he purposes making his own appointments and, has .gone Bo tar as to choose a chief clerk, promote a relative, and to knock Joun GLENN'S influence all into smithereens, by turning him out of the position of corporation, clerk. Certainly General Davip McMur- TRIE GREGG has mistaken the pui poses tor which he was elected, It wasn't to do things right in the Auditor Gener- el’s office, as he seems inclined tojthink it was, but to do the bidding of, and be of service to Mr. Quay andjhis ring. Really, if he don’t waken up to the ac- tual situation soon and quit making such mistakes, as putting Quays friends out and men whom he thinks he can trust, into the position he bas to give, he'll be denounced by his own party as a political traitor. It was not the State or the people he was elected to serve, it was Quay and his ring. Evidently he don’t understand the situation. A Republican Prediction. Evidently Senator WasHBURN, of Minnesota, has had a vision of the fu- ture. He sees the hand-writing on the wall, and warns his party of the dan- ger ahead in the tollowing manner : “We are in a dangerous position. There is no enthusiasm anywhera for Harrison, but on the contrary there is a generally prevailing impression and opinion that his nomination means defeat, provided the Democrats take advantage of their opportunity and nominate a strong man. The people have decided in many elections that they want a new presiden, every four years. That mandate has all the power of a constitutional provision, and a fail- ure to recognize it is likely to bring down the people's judgment in. a way to enforce their decision. With CrarksoN and Quay and Fog- AKER, and Duprey, and Prarr, and WasHBURN, all openly against him; with the tens of thousands of hungry republicans, for whom places could not be made, rallying around their standards, and with the weight of the MecKiNLey bill pressing him down, WasHBURN correctly sees defeat in the nomination of Harrison, aad has the courage to gay £0. The Highest Republican Ticket. From the St. Louis Republie. Under the Republican tariff system the average taxes on the woolen cloth- ing of the people are higher than the average taxes on any other class of ar- ticles whatever. “The following table showing this to be the fact is from the eighth page of the introduction to the Treasury report on imports, issued by the Harrison administration for 1891: Average Ad Valorem Rate Collected, Per Cent. Manufactures of Wool...........iveis) ans Tobacco and manufactures of.......... or Spirituous and malt liquors and wines........ Earthen, stone and chinaware.......... Glass and manufactures of..... Silk, manutactures of...... Cotton, manutactures of... Flas mannisvtares of. Leather and manufactures of. 33,23 Iron, steel and manufactures of. +.33,03 Chemicals, drugs, dyes and med 30,50 Fruits and nuts... sronsam 7,85 As it stands, this is an ugly showing for Republicanism, for it demonstrates that Republicanism taxes the flannel shirt of the worker higher than it does: the champagnes, the fine brandies, the silks, the diamonds, the pictures, the statuary, the bric-a-brac of the protected millionaire. Butit is only part of the truth. It does not show the full extent of the Republican tax on the ‘people’s clothing. It shows only such taxes as yield revenue--not such’ as entirely pro- hibit imports. The McKinley bill differs from any other tarift bill ever p#sed in this coun- try in that it openly adopted this princi- ple of prohibitive taxation and applied it as a means of cutting down the rev- enues of the Government by shutting out certain articles altogether. The rule of the McKinley bill is to put the lowest taxes on articles used only by people of means; the highest taxes on articles of clothing and every- thing else in common use. Hence the tax on woolen clothing averages over seven times as much as that on rubies, sapphires, emeralds and other precious stones, and it is 30 per cent. higher ihan the tax on silks. Working Another Job. From the Philadelphia Record. A little bit of a job has cropped up in the Senate under the pretext of promot- ing the culture of the silk worm in the United States. A bill has been intro- duced to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture to establish five experimental stations in different re. gions of the country for raising silk worms, and to appropriate for each sta- tion the sum of $5000. There is also to be a Superintendent of Silk Culture, to be attached to the Agricultural Depart- ment, with a salary of $2000. Eachsta- tion is to be provided with an overseer, who is to see to the culture of the silk worms. This propusition does not threaten to involve the Government in anything like the expenditure which the morus multicaulis mania cost many individu- als a generation ago. But instead of erecting these stations and fastening an- other Bureau of the Circumlocution Off- ice upon the taxpayers of this country, a few Chinese women could tell Secretary Rusk all about raising silk worms at very littlecost to the Government, Trav- elers give interesting accounts of the ten- der methods of the Chinese women in nourishing the silk cocoons without the help of Government experimental sta- tions. Instead of cultivating silk worms, the evident purpose of this job is to rear, at public expense, a few more choice specimens of the genius of crustaceans known to natural and political history as Tite Barnacles. The Evangelization of Dudley, From the Indianapolis Sentinel. Some of the newspapers of the country think it the “climax of impudence’” that ‘W. W. Dudley should have made an address at the laying of the corper-stone of the new Episcopal church in Rich- mond. Why so? Mr. Dudley has been “vindicated,” and the Judge who vin- dicated him has been rewarded. The President who rewarded the Judge will be renominated by the Republican party and all religious people will be asked to vote for him because he is a truly pious man. Mr. Dudley is the corner-stone of the Republican edifice of morality. The chief trouble with Mr. Dudley’s re- Ligion is that he has ‘not been working at it,”’ and we are gratified to see him at- tending to church duties. Deserving Defeat. From the Pittsburg Post. The Republicans, under the lzader- ship of ex-Speaker Reed, broke a quo- rum of the house,on Saturday, by refus- ing to vote, and repeated the perfor- mance yesterday. These are the pa- triots who waxed furious last session over filibustering of this sort. But with their large majority, it the Demo- crats cannot keep a quorum in the house for business they richly merit all the annoyance: the ex-czar can, invent for their edification, Mrs. Christopher Columbus. From the Arkansas Traveler. Who ever thinks of Mrs. Christo: pher Columbus? Yet to her the great discoverer was indebted for encourage: ment, She was a Miss Palestrello, of Lisbon, the well-educated, brilliant daughter of a navigator with whom she made hazardous voyages, and who gave her as a dowry a valuable collec tion of charts, maps and important memoranda made during his voyages, Spawls from the Keystone, —Altoona has been flooded with counterfeit money. ‘ —There are 125,000,000 feet of logs in the Williamsport boom. —Wednesday General Gregg became a resi- dent of Harrisburg. —Easton business men are endeavoring to organize a Board of Trade. —Tower City isto have anew hosiery mill that will employ a hundred hands. —The First Reformed Church of Lebanon will celebrate its centennial on June 5. —George Huber, a Pennsylvania Railroad track-walker, was killed at Harrisburg on Sun- day. . —Sanitary experts are unable to explain the cause of ‘typhoid fever at Chester's Military Academy. —Mrs. John Petticoffer, of Wowelsdorf, has a priceless heirloom in the shape of a 300-year old tea set. —The Kutztown State Normal School has 700 students and the buildings are crowded as never before. —In a free fight at Wernersville, Berks county, Samuel Schaeffer lost his nose. It was bitten off. —Berks county farmers will plant an in- creased acreage of potatoes, even if they _ean't get much for them. apy —Adjutant General Greenland has issued an order disbanding Company G. of the Thir- teenth Regiment. —A young man calling himself George Stew- art has'been passing forged checks for small amounts on Reading grocers. —Alexander Matthews, of Lancaster, is missing, and his father-in-law accuses him of forging his name to five notes. ~—Forest fires at Klapperthal Park endang- ered the Neversink Mountain House and it was only saved after a hard fight. ~ —Eight men ‘of Bethlehem have together ;subscribed nearly $200,000 to a compeny which will purchase manganese mines in Cuba. —Eddie Dunkle, the fifteen-year-old-run- away of Reading, has returned hime. Atmer Dean, his companion, left him at Memphis. —The pall-bearers at the funeral of a little Hungarian girl, at South Bethlehem, earried lighted candles to the church and cemetery. ' —Drillers boring the two artesian wells at the Pennsylvania Agricultural Works, York have already penetrated 75 feet of solid rock. —The fifth annual convention of the Harris. burg district, of the Young Men's Christian Association closed on Sunday, at Gettysburg. —By a landslide Mrs. Thomas Curtain was crushed to death at Yatesvllle while picking coal. Several others narrowly escaped the same fate. —Charged with kidnapying 14-year-old May Hendrickson, a preacher’s daughter, whom he married, Harry E. Robinson, of Bedford, was sent to jail. —The mangled remains of Samuel Foltz, an assistant foreman of the Pennsyivania Rail- road, were found scattered a'ong the track near Conewago. —The First Defenders’ Memorial Assoecia- tion, with the object of erecting a monument to the Ringgold Light Artillery, has been formed in Reading. —Through the efforts of Rabbi Max Lupen, of Philadelphia, the warring Hebrew congre- gations in South Bethlehem have settled their differences and united. —The committee of Lancaster's City Coun- cils appointed to build a new city water reser- voir has instruzsted the Mayor to effect a loan of $150,000 for that purpose. —The First Presbyterian Church of Hous- tonville, although but little more than three years old, has 204 members, 36 of whom were received during the past year. —A stranger, supposed to have been Rich- ard Smith, a printer, of Washington, D.C., was yesterday run over by a train at Christia= na, Lancaster county on Monday. —J. B. G. Kinslee, of the Lock Haven Repub- lican, celebrated his seventy-second birthday last week. Seventy-two, and yet he is as bright as one less than half that age. —Elijjah Bull, of West Nantmeal, Chester county, is dead. He had been a Justice of the Peace for forty-five years, receiving his first commission from Governor Shunk. —George H. Imes, one of the projectors of the State fair for colored people to be held at Harrisburg, says that every town of 1000 peo- ple in every country in Pennsylvania will make exhibits. —The Allentown Shirt Company is at pres- ent engaged in making a large quantity of white shirts for the, United States Govern- ment for distribution among the soldiers of the regular army. —John Keith, a colored resident of Holli- daysburg, called John Bentley a rebel and qualified it with a very impolite adjective. Bentley flattened a bullet against Keth’s head and then went to jail. —Michael Toole, o f Fayette county, commit. ted suicide by drowning, on Monday. Toole’s wife was killed on the railroad at Braddock two years ago. He worried over this and fam- ily matters, and was almost demented. —Jethro Martin, a former resident of {Wash- ington county, has been arrested at Martins- burg, Mo., for the murder of his father, Rev. Thos. Martin, last January. His attorneys will enter a plea of insanity at the trial, —A farmer of Chester is much puzzled over the fact that every day he picks up fifty eggs from his hennery and there are ony forty-nine hens and a rooster. Either the rooster lays eggs or some ona of the hens lays two eggs. —In making a division of the liquor license money, which amounts so far to $9,275,8Schuyl. kill county will receive $16,995; the boroughs and township, $67,980; the State, $14,330. Shen- andoah leads the list with over $10,000 and Pottsville $7,000. —Elmer Bruner, the murderer of Farmer Reese, was se' enced by Judge Parker, at Ebensburg, lo... veek, to be hanged by the neck until dead. His motion for a new trial was refused. The prisoner showed no signs of weakening when the sentence whs pronounced. —Alfred J. Patterson, who' died at his resi- dence in Mifflintown lately,” was the Demo- cratic candidate for Congress in that district in 1884 and for the Judgeship of Perry and Juniata last fall. The New Bloomfield Advo- cate says: ‘‘It is believed the travel and worri- ment of that contest told on a constitution never to robust and hastened the complica- tion of diseases which ended his life. —A wedding in Franklin township, Chester county, was the last chapter of a peculiar ro- mance. George T. Dance was to have been married just a year ago to Miss Armstrong, daughter of James Armsirong. She contracts ed consumption and soon died, but on her death-bed she secured a promise irom her lov- ev that he would marry her sister Florence. That promise was kept on Wednesday last.
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