Dever fit
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Summer is here.
—-The man with a stove in his hat is
liable to a sun stroke.
-—DALzELL must surely know that
QUAY is boss, by this time.
—Something recently come to the
surface— Womens’ suspenders.
—The cost of base ball cranks is not
affected by the McKinley bill.
—If Congress sits long enough it
surely ought to hatch something.
—Inconsistency is no name for tke
Republican attempt to parade recipro-
city and protection as planks of its plat-
form.
—A corner in corn is the latest Chi-
cago sensation. There were a number
of fellows squeezad, but no ears were
pulled,
—If HARRISON would put his Secre-
tary of Internal Affairs to work on
BrAINk he might be able to get some-
thing out of him.
—Settling tke color question in South-
ern G. A. R. posts seems to be quite as
difficult a task as settling the silver
question in the west.
—The good book says that ‘there is
a time for every thing,” butso many
forget it when there subscription to the
county paper is due.
—Several of the Minneapolis dele-
gates have died during the past] i week,
we suppose, from brooding over the faw-
ful work before them.
—The Kkite-like tails we see stream-
ing out from the back part of my lady’s
hat will have a tendency to make a
“fly” woman out of her.
—One of those touching little epitaphs,
which MAX ADLER has given to sor-
rowing humanity, might read well on
BENJAMIN'S head stone after Tuesday.
-—Scientists have proven conclusively
that the number of red headed people is
fast diminishing, and since we come to
think of it white horses are rarely
seen,
~—Faithfulness in small things finds
its reward in recognition in larger ones,
sighs BENJAMIN as he thinks of how
strenuously he has held on to Raum
and the Grand Army.
—A man was arrested in Philadelphia
the other day for fast walking. It seems
as though everything progressive in the
Quaker city is bound to be caught up,
The trolleys for instance.
—Lieutenant TorTEN probably mis-
took his bearings as to the end of the
world, The end of the G. O. P. is slat-
ed for this fall, but there’ll still be some-
thing left from the corrupt chaos.
—The “anti-snap’’ convention of the
CLEVELAND democrats which was held
in Syracuse N. Y., on Tuesday was con-
ducted with a GRACE that should put to
shame the riotous manipulators of that
Hiru gathering.
—If you want to find out just how
you stand with the people, go home
some night, with all sails set, and quote
the following, as you crawl up stairs on
your hands and knees: ¢I’m-lord-o-
-dish-h-stablishment.”
— California treated the National
Editorial Association to an earthquake,
but we fancy that half the editors there
were so well loaded that they were’nt
able to distinguish between the earth’s
quaking and champagne popping.
—The Williamsport Gazette and Bul-
¢:tin wants the weather “reduced to a
state of uniformity’ and if its wish is to
be gratified we hope the uniform adopted
will resemble Eve's garden outfit. Its
hot enough now to do without any.
—“ Little drops of water, litt’e
grains of sand, make the mighty ocean
and the wondrous land.”” Thus far, this
spring, the ocean is away ahead and un-
less some one furnishes a litile sand it
will have the earth entirely submerged.
—Don’t be deceived into believing
that the monument unveiled at Rich-
mond, Va,, on Monday, was erected in
honor of Davip B., it was for another
gentleman named HILL, One who left
Lis light under the bushel until others
saw it.
-- Congressman MILLIKEN, of Maine,
has decided that BLAINE must have a
say in the construction of the Republi-
can platform, but from present indica-
tions he'll try to turn itinto a springing
board from which Second Term can
dive into political oblivion.
—It is time to call a halt when
feminine fansy appropriates masculine
suspenders. We will not deny woman
the supreme domination in questions of
suspense, but when it comes to suspen.
ders, then everything from man has been
stolen but his natural disinclination to
gossip.
~—It is rumored that HARRISON has
requested uncle JERRY Rusk to
put off testing rain making machines
until after next week. Every time
BeNsAMIN hears one of those infernal
bombs going off he imagines it to be the
birth of 2 new boom-let for Braing
and has tbe shakes for a day in conse-
quence.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 37.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 3, 1892.
If Cleveland Should be Nominated.
The friends of Mr. CLEVELAND, all
over the country, who have gathered
together the results of the different
State conventions and the presidential
preference of such gatherings feel sure
of his nomination and base their claims
onthe returns from the following States,
all of which have instructed for him,
after the first complimentary vote has
been cast for a home candidate :
ATIZODA ours crervssisss 2/New Jersey.......... assem
California .. .18{ North Carolina.
Connecticut...
Delaware ......
Dist. Columbia.
Geurgia......
Illinois...
Indiana...
Kansas... |
Kentucky... ...1Z/Tennessee..
Maine... ....... ... 2|Vermont.
Massachusetts......... irgini
Minnesota .. oe
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Wyoming ......
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In two or three of the States, where
tke conventions have not been held the
Congressional district instructions have
been counted and in others, as Ken-
tucky and Indiana, just those delegates
who have expressed CLEVELAND as
their second choice have been counted.
Though the above estimate includes
Pennsylvania whose delegates go un-
instructed the percentage of CLEVE-
LAND votes will still be enough to nom-
inate him.
The Hin delegates from New York,
Massachusetts, Virginia and probably
Colorado will foot up to 88 while the
other anti CLEVELAND instructions will
be about as follows ;
Iowa (Boies).....ccueee 6| Virginia
Nebraska..... .16{Idabo....
TOA. cesreiressl ars esiaresintisct remus ass sinren 0)
Now in the above list Idaho's dele-
gation cannot be counted against
CLEVELAND because it goes uninstruct-
and Nebraska's likewise. There are yet
192 delegates to be named and it is
probable that Grover will receive a
fair percentage of them, yet his friendg
claim enough instructions already to
secure his nomination.
Should Mr. CLeveLaND become the
party’s nominee it will be a question as
to who will make the strongest man to
run with him* For upoa the Vice
Presidential nomination much more
depends than we naturally imagine.
Mr. CLevELAND'S position on the silver
question has materially affected his
hold upon the West, though most of
those States supposedly for the measure,
have instructed for him. The West of
course would object to sending both
candidates east, but none of its men
are available to run as seconds, and
here the question arises: Is CLEVELAND
strong enough in himself to be elected?
Taking the most liberal view possible,
let uslook at his strength in former
campaigne. It is a question with
which we mast deal impartially and if
our party would be trinmphant we must
look to its best interests.
It will be observed that in 1884
Crrvenasp carried New York state by
only 1047 plurality. A change of 524
votes would have elected Braing in-
stead of CLEVELAND.
It will also be observed that in 1888
he lost New York by 13,002.
Aud Indiana by 2348 ;
And carried Connecticut by only 340;
And West Virginia by only 552;
And Virginia by only 1539, and lost
the Presidency.
With that year the Billion Dollar
Congress began its depredations on the
treasury and tried to force a bayonet
election Jaw upon the people, so far
loosing the confidence which sent
it there that the honse was quickly re-
stored to Democracy. These two
things alone, without the iniquitous
McKinrtey law, have weakened the
Republican party to such an extent
that victory for us is almost a foregone
conclusion, but the knowledge that
such is the condition ot things shoald
not lead the National Convention to
jeopardize the party’sinterests by nomi-
nating a ticket which does not satisfy
all sections,
CLEVELAND, Parison, Bois, Camp
BELL, PALMER and GORMAN ave about
the most available men, yet how are
they to be paired.
—— Nearly six months of good
Democratic reading can be had by
sending 50cts to the WarcaMaN and
becoming a campaign snbsecriber. Be
gin at once. The sooner you ctart the
more you will get for your money,
Congress Can Take Care of Itself.
Some of the oracular newspapers of
the so-called independent brand are al:
ready urging Congress to an early ad-
journment and pretend to anticipate
great harm to the Democratic party
if the session is prolonged. There are
no very convincing reasons given for
this gratuitous advice to Congress and
the impression is conveyed that the
idea is based more on the inimitable
inclination of the oracular editors to
find fault than on any well-settled anx-
tety for the well-fare of the party. The
truth is that the average, so-called in-
dependent, editor bas very little con-
cern about the prosperity of any party or
anything else except his own collossal
egoism, and Congress will do well to
pay very little attention to what his
paper has to say,
If the business of Congress is com-
pleted by mid summer an adjournment
would be the logical as well as the
proper thing. But legislation should
not be hurried or neglected in order to
get an early adjournment. It is the
business of Congress to attend to the
legislation of the country in a delibera-
tive and orderly way, and there would
be infinitely more harm in railroading
the pending bills, and passing imper-
fectly considered measures than in pro-
tracting the session to within a few
months of the Presidential election.
The appropriation bills should be care-
fully considered, intelligently discussed
and deliberately passed, and there is
nothing to lose by doing this, however
late it may make the adjournment,
There are some very intelligent and
patriotic gentlemen on the Democratic
side of both branches of Congress, and
they are quite as likely to know what
is good for the party as any of the in-
dependent editors, who are without po-
litical convictions or party rating. The
Democratic party has trusted to these
gentlemen the custody of its legislative
interests and it is to be hoped that they
will attend to their duties without re-
gard to the gratuitous advice which
has been and no doubt will be given to
them. The Democratic party is in a
most healthy and vigorous condition, at
the present time, and in the debates in
Congress during the thermal season are
likely to fare about as well as the op-
position. We are not frightened on
this point.
———When Senator Hoar unwitting-
ly admitted, on the Senate floor the
other day, that the federal treasury
was practically bankrupt he little
thought of the effect, his acknowledg-
ment would have on the masses.
CLevernaND left an overflowing treas-
ury, while his successor will go out of
office with the surplus all gone and
perhaps humiliated by having had to
repudiate some of the debts coatracted
by his Billion Dollar Congress or draw
on the green back reserve.
The Waronmay, the best Demo-
cratic weekly in Central Pennsylvania,
will be sent to any address, during the
campaign, for 50cts. Subscribe at
once.
The Anti-Snap Convention.
The State Convention of the New
York Creveraxp Democrats which
was held at Syracuse, on last Tuesday,
did far more injury than good for the
cause of the ex-Precident, Had the
Convention merely assembled and ex-
pressed its contempt ot the manner in
which Mr, HiLL secured the State
delegates, without having determined
to contest their right to seats at the
Chicago Convention, it might have
stood a better chance of securing the
friendship of Mr. His and his follosw-
ers. Asitis the Senator will doubt
less fight to the better end, while the
CLEVELAND people have no claim what-
ever to represent New York. The
Philadelphia Times speaks of the situ-
ation as follows :
While most Democrats throughout
the country will sympathize with the
Syracuse Convention and those it re-
presented, there will ba some question
of the wisdom of this action. No hon-
est man of any party can defend the
snap convention and the manner in
which it was called. But there is no
doubt that it was called regularly and
that its work was done under the re.
gular party rules. Its delegation will
go to Chicago bearing the regular par-
ty credentials and it will be folly to
contest its right to admission oh the
ground of irregularity.
NO. 29.
An Important Question.
There is much opposition to the
keeping open of the Columbian Fair
on Sunday for the reason that it would
be a desecration of the Sabbath, and
it is proposed to make the $5.000,000
government appropriation to the expo-
sition conditional on the understanding
that it will be kept closed on Sunday.
There must be some deference shown
in this matter to the religious senti-
ment of the country if itis to be ex--
pected that the exposition will be a
success. That this will be done is
shown by the offer to devote one of the
largest buildings on the ground to re-
ligious exercises, on Sunday,and by the
disavowal, on the part of the Directors,
of any intention of keeping the entire
Fair open on the Sabbath. The only de-
partments they propose to open to gen-
eral admission being the art galleries
and exhibits of that kind. That the
machinery and other features sugges
tive of labor should be in operation on
that day is not suggested.
It is to be hoped that an understand-
ing may be arrived at on this subject
that may not injure the real interest of
the Fair and at the same time may not
shock the feelings of those who attach
a sacredness to the observance of Sun-
day.
EEE —
The English Don’t Fancy It.
The suggestion of Premier Salisbury
to modify the free trade policy of the
English government by the imposition
of moderate tariff duties, meets with
but small favor from the generality of
English statesman. They regard is as
turning back the dial of commercial
progress.
Under ite system of free trade Eng.
land has attained a supremacy in com-
merce and manufactures which places
her ahead of all other nations. The
world has nothing to show that will
compare with the advance she has
made since she adopted her present
liberal commercial system. Not only
has the wealth of her capitalists been
enormously increased, but the wages
of her working people are higher than
they were under the old restriction sys-
tem, which Conpex and his coadjutors
overthrew.
These being the facts, Salisbury’s
tariff proposition is calcutated to star-
tle the business interests of Great Brit
ain. He evidently wants to retaliate
on the United States, but such revenge
would cost the English people too much
for them to approve of it.
~~—The Hollidaysburg Register at-
tributes to the Patriot a position which
it lost years ago when it refers to the
Harrisburg paper as “a representative
organ of its party.” The Democracy
of Pennsylvania does not care to be
identified with a sheet which finds its
principal delight in berating an admin.
istration, the like of which, for integri-
ty and straightforwardness the Key-
stone State has never known a super-
ior. When the Patriot comes to real:
ize that it cannot dictate its narrow
minded ideas and have them respected
by those so far above it,and when it
voices other sentiments than those of
mugwump journals we will not dispute
its right to be called a “representa
tive’ of its party.
—— QUAY spent $25,000 to defeat
the DarzuLy candidates for Legislature,
in the Second district of Allegheny, and
now Rurax is after him “hammer and
tongs.” A suit is to be brought
against the junior senator, State Treas:
urer MorRrIsoN and ex-State Treasurer
Boyer all of whom, the defeated as.
pirant claims, are guilty of malfeas-
ance in office,
: The WarcamaN during the cam-
paigu for 50cts.
PE —
—— The scare that is bein g raised
as to the condition of Mr. BrLaINE's
health and the long and startling ac-
counts of his depleted mental condition
which appeared in yesterday's daily
papers are of very little interest to those
who have been watching the trend of
things political. Perhaps it isa last
“boomerang” hurled from the HARRI
SON camp, but even if it is not to be
traced to BeNsaMiN’s outposts, and is
true, it makes no difference whatever.
The Republican party can just as well
afford to run a wooden man as any
other for either kind will be knocked
into a cocked hat.
ers to be protected.
The Same Man.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
In the silver convention in Washing-
ton, D. C., on Friday, R. K. Thomas, a
farmer of Pennsylvania, made a speech
in which he said rather than yote for
Grover Cleveland (as it seemed®that he
would be the logical candidate of the
Democratic party) with his British free
trade and simple gold standard ideas,
he would vote for Queen Victoria or
gome other old lady. He paid his re-
spects to the Republican party by say-
ing that rather than vote the ticket of
that weak-kneed, hypocritical party he
would vote for Cleveland; but, thank
God, he added, he was not compelled
to vote for either.
This Mr. Thomas, we trust, is not
the R. H. who engineers the grangers’
picnic at Williams’ Grove. He must
be a back-woodsman.
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We Await Its Answer,
From the New York World.
The Tribune sustains the Force bill
outbreak of a Republican Congressman
with a repetition of the old talk about
the “suppressed Republican vote” in
the South. The almanac issued from
the office of our esteemed contemporary
will show it that the Democrats elected
a majority of the present House without
counting a single member from the
South. “And while on this subject will
the Tribune tell what the Republican
party or its administration have done
for the colored people since the days of
Lincoln and Grant that should cause
the negroes of the South to vote as its
chattels or to wish to sustain it?
——
Even Blind Men Can See It.
From the Columbia Independent.
There is a tariff duty of about 400 per
cent. on imported pearl buttons; but
the girls who are employed in the pearl
button sactory in Detroit have been ob-
liged to strike against a reduction of
wages. It would appear that an abso-
lutely prohibitive tariff rate is not suffi-
ciently persuasive to induce the main-
tenance ot a moderate wage rate. In
the light of such facts the Jaborer can
see without eyes the hollowness of the
pretense that high duties area guarantee
of high wages.
Ra ——————————
Blaine’s Gastronomic Propensities.
From the Phila, Record.
Attorney General Miller is confident
that Mr. Blaine will not eat his own
words. Yet such implicit confidence in
Mr. Blaine’s abstinence from generous
fare is by no means widespread ; for
simultaneously, Mr. Quay is recorded as
having said that Mr. Blaine’s only ail-
ment is that he occasionally eats too
much. In one of these occasional lapses
from asceticism the “Plumed Knight”
might easily bite off a corner of his own
correspondence and hold it.
——
The Truth of the Matter,
From the Williamsport Sun.
All attempts to divert the attention
of the people from the main issue of the
campaign will fail. Tariff reform takes
precedence over all other questions
and the campaign of 1892 must be
fought on this issue alone. It is a
fight of the people against monopoly,
and the war or the silver question are
but side issues.
SR ————
Trials of the Stars and Stripes.
From the Kansas City Times.
John Sherman's Senate bill to for-
bid the use of the nation’s flag for ad-
vertising purposes has met with an ad-
verse report from the committee. Since
the campaign of 1888, when neckties
and handkerchiefs were made out of
bunting, the impression has gained
ground that nothing can desecrate our
colore.
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He is Not Likely to, Either.
From the New York World.
And now Secretary Foster has seat
out another interview in defense of the
President and in aid of his renomina-
tion. Evidently Mr. Harrison feels
the situation to be serious when he
converts his Cabinet into a combined
literary bureau and campaign tooting
committee. By the way, Mr. Blaine
has not yet made a plea for his chief.
He Prefers to be Alone With His
Thoughts.
From Harrison's own Determination.
WASHINGTON, June 1.—The presi-
dent finds that the state of public busi-
ness will not justify his leaving the city
at present, so he has been compelled,
much against his wish to abandon his
contemplated vigit to Gettysburg.
EE RE EE TAT ASTERITCU.
An Annie Rooney Consort.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
Mr. Harrison should buy him $2
worth of magnetism before he hangs |
out his second term sign, His gran’- |
daddy’s hat is a last year’s bird’s nest, i
politically speaking. $
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What is Sauce for the Guose is Sauce '
for the Gander, |
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From the London Times,
If protection be beneficial, farmers’
are equally entitled with mznufactur- !
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Spawls from the Keystone,
—Diphtheria is raging in Wilkesbarre, ~~
—Wilkesbaire is troubled with too many
dogs.
—Wilkesbarre will erect a new city hall, to
cost $80,000.
—A fall of coal in a Plymouth mine killed
Joseph Farosevo.
—An express train Sunday ran over William
J udy, at York. 4
‘=There was a big firemen’s parade in Read.
ing Monday. ev
—An electric railway now happily joins the
two Bethlehems,
—Carlisle has borrowed $20,000 with which
to improve the town.
—Reading is without a proper officer to look
after its police patrol system.
—The Reading Water Board will issue no
more fishing permits until September 1.
—Bethlehem citizens have risen to destroy
the toll bridge across the Lehigh river.
—R. C. Seldomridge’s store at Euphrata,
Lancaster county, was burglarized of $200.
—W. L. Lake, professor of physical culture
at Dickinson College, Carlisle, resigned.
—A new Lutheran Reformed church was
dedicated at Slatedale, Lehigh county, Sun-
day.
—Melancholia led Mrs. Andrew Hartwaithe,
of Milton, to the canal and she drowned her-
self.
—Andrew Rohrer is in jail at Tamaqua,
charged with attempting to kill his whole
family. :
—The Philadelphia and Reading is having
1000 freight cars built at Berwick for the Le-
high Valley.
—Richard Kane was fatally stabbed at Cen-
tralia and Patrick Gallagher is in jail upon
suspicion.
—The line between Ross and Lake town-
ships, Luzerne county, has just been definite-
ly located.
—While trouting near Sham okin, Monroe
Geary espied a blacksnake seven feet long
and lassoed it.
—Caught between two cars, Brakeman
Thomas Condron, of Shenandoah, was perhaps
fatally injured.
—A freight on the Pennsylvania Railroad
was wrecked near Conestoga, and ten lumber
cars were smashed.
—Horace Mercer, a well known Shamokin
politician, was arrested upon a charge of rob.
bing an intoxicated Pole.
—Highwaymen attacked A. J. Geiger, who
was riding a bicycle at Reading, and the vie-
tim was terribly maltreated.
—Burglars stole all the carpet from the Epis-
copal church in Lancaster, and the supposed
culprits have been caught.
—The 150th anniversary of the founding of
Bethlehem will be celebrated with imposing
ceremonies on June 24, 25, and 26.
=A rock weighing 45 pounds was hurled by
a pbdwder blast clear through 'H. S. Kerns’
house at Landisville.
—The Brown segmental gun, at the Birds-
boro gun factory, was satisfactorily tested by
Government engineers.
—Flourishing his pistol in taking aim at a
bird, Everett P. Van Mater, a Lehigh, Uni-
versity freshman, shot himself in the arm. :
—Falling from a freight car to the track at
Lancaster, Charles J. Otto lay still and the
train passed over him without a scratch,
—The county residence of Daniel 8hill, on
Bear Creek, nine miles from Wilkesbarre,
was robbed of $2060.
—Mayor Merritt, of Reading, has protested
to Councils against the further use of crushed
limestone for paving.
—The work of grading the new Baltimore
and Harrisburg Railroad has been begun near
Thomasville, York county.
—The trial of “General Siegel” Miller for
the murder of old man Hochstetter began at
Somerset Monday.
—Five thousand Greek Catholics saw their
new church at Pleasant Hill, near Hazleton,
dedicated Sunday.
—Thirty heirs of Israel Gilpin, who reside
at Indianapolis, lay claim {0 600 acres of land
in West Chester and vicinity.
—Demented Farmer Fetzger, of Beaver
Falls, thinks he is a railroad magnate, and
wants to build a railroad around his farm.
—President Harrison, in his observation ear
speech at Williamsport on Saturday, said that
his mother was a Pennsylvanian,
—As Frank Sypherd, of Morgantown, Berks
county, failed to name a wedding day, Miss
Alberta Liggett has sued him for $5000.
—Laura Trescott, of Hazelton, is wrestling
with Blackstone and will soon become the
first woman lawyer in that part of the State.
—Deputy State Superintendent of Public
Schools Henry Houck, of Lebanon, “was badly
hurt in jumping from a train at Girardville. .
—Surveyors are laying out the route for a
link to connect the Reading and Lehigh Val-
ley Railroads at Nordmont, Sullivan county.
—The handsome new Christ Lutheran
church at Lancaster was dedicated Sunday,
the dedicatory sermon being preached by
Rev. B.8ehamuck, of Lebanon.
—A convention of the non-partisan branch
of the Woman’s Christian Union was held in
the Central M. E. church, Wilkesbarre, Mon_
day.
—Manager Carpentier, of the Csrpentier
Steel Works, Reading, says the plant started
up Monday with work enough on hand to last
four years.
—The ejectment case of the New Castle
Northern Railroad against the New Castle and
Shenango Valley Railroad was dismissed at
New Castle.
—The McKinley law wiil not prevent two
large pig iron furnaces of the Reading Iron
Company at Reading, from going out of blast
in two weeks.
—Lancaster county assessors have complet-
ed their returns and place the county’s real
estate at $85,000,000, and money at interest
nearly $23,000,000.
—A bullet was fired by an unkncwn person
through the door of the Manheim Sun office
and passed over the chair just vacated by Pro-
prietor D. M, Martin.
—Dr. D. L. Schultz and A. K. Frederick,
leading citizens of Auburn, Schuylkill county,
were arrested, charged with conspiracy to de-
fravd Hattie Sowers out of a piece of land.
—Noithampton county Commissioners ap-
pointed Charles Brodhead, of Bethlehem, to
represent that county at the Tax Revision
Conference to be held at Harrisburg June 1,
—For assaulting a fellow workman at the
Columbia Rolling Mills who re‘used to strike,
Michael Burk was captured Sunday after a
long chase and gent to jail for five months,