BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
High on the shelf lies J. G. B.
Out of the muck and the mire
In November poor Bex and Grandpa's hat
Will be laid a little bit higher.
--What will Chicago do ?
—Every one knows what REID came
home for now.
—Five June days
honored 1892.
—HARRISON's pole knocked the per-
simmons and of a necessity must be the
longest,
—The peach crop like the Republi-
can party, promises this year to bea to-
tal failure.
—Oklahoma negroes who have been
outraging white women are {ruly
“boomers,”
—Republicanism has wrought many
changes since last Friday. Allto the
advantage of Democracy.
—Many a fellow who thinks he is
good, would find it a big job to show
others what he is good for.
—If “misery loves company,” what
a crowd of Republicans there will be af-
ter the next election, seeking new ac-
quaintances ?
have actually
—More protection, more pension
frauds, more HARRISON is what the
country needs to insure its further de-
moralization.
—The WATCHMAN of next week will
contain at its must head the name of the
next President of the United State.
Look out for it.
—The Democrats and Alliance people
of Kansas have “fused” on a state and
district tickets, and the trouble with the
Republicans now is to get it to “go off.”
—BENJIMAN went to church last
Sunday, but there is every reason to
suppose he would have gone to the deyil
had things not turned out as they did
at Minneapolis.
—Time will heal the breaches which
the cruel hand of fate has wrought, but
the same remedy will not effect the
breeches which the failor made too
taut.
—Albums in which young woman-
hood now registers the date and price of
the purchase of each new gown will un-
doubtedly play prominent parts in fu-
ture divorce cases.
—Engines to be worked by the wind
are now being made in Michigan.
‘What opportunities for Republican poii-
ticians to secure positions these engines
will open up ?
--Poor Levi P. found that “all that
glitters is not gold’ and we venture to
say that the glitter of his gold will not
dazzle floating voters next fall as it did
four years ago.
—The gaunt spectres that slipped
away from Minneapolis with the tag
end of the Plumed Knight's boom, have
some consolation in knowing that the
wan faces might have been caused by
the sojourn in a city where so much
flour is made.
--1t is evident that JoHN SHERMAN,
amounted to but little at the Minaeapo-
lis Convention, otherwise the heated hot-
ness that prevailed there, would not have
been experienced, nor would the ther-
mometer have prided itself in getting
up to 98 in theshade.
—While MILLER and PRATT were
iboth ‘‘outside the breast works” at
Minneapolis, the usual condition of oth-
er Republicans, showed that they were
generally outside of a good deal of very
bad whisky.
—CoL. OCHELTREE is elucidating on
temperance to London audiences. From
the number of attacks of gout with
which he is laid up one would suppose
that he could talk from experience.
—The smallest known insect, the
pteratomas putnamii, a parasite of the
ichneumon, is about one-ninetieth of an
inch in length. And this is bigin com-
parison to what the Republican party
will be after November next.
—By the time laboring men get
through reading candidate REID’s, views
on the “The villiany and wrong of or-
ganized labor,” they will conclude that
his title should be clear to remain at
home and take care of his ‘‘rat’’ printers.
—The alliterative genius will find no
trouble in making a Democratic ticket
at Chicago to suit his fancies as well as
the popular demand. It can read Par-
TISON, and PALMER GORMAN and Gray
or FLOWER and FULLER, just as may be
desired and it will give general eatis-
faction and win.
~-Some time ago Mr. HARRISON ex-
pressed the wish to Uncle JERRY Rusk
that he would like to have two ‘‘pos-
sums “as soon as the frost set in.” Last
Saturday he received them and is now
in consternation as tc how the old Wis.
consin farmer got so far off as to the con-
dition of the atmosphere. Never mind
BENJAMIN they will both be cooked—
the old Republican coon included—in
ample time. The November winds will
sound the knell of their parting day.
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a CNLIEL
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Sh
VOL. 37.
Wherein Is His Strength?
Since the nomination of HarrIsoN at
Minneapolis on Friday last, a class of
newspapers that make loud professions
of being better than the party in whose
interest they seem to be published,
have been exceedingly glib and persist-
ent in their efforts to have the public
believe that he is particularly strong,
as a candidate, because he is purer
and cleaner, than the crowd that at-
tempted his defeat.
In what particular he is better; in
what way he is purer or in what acts
or purposes he is cleaner than the
party he represents, or the politicians
who were against his renomination,
we are not told.
It is possible when this particular
class of Republicans, who are mostly
officials, get to specifying the acts of
the administration they claim to be
strong, because it is better than the
party that made it, they will find con-
siderable trouble in discovering a
single instance in which it had the
honesty to differ with the very men
whom they are free to denounce as
demagogues and corruptionists, or the
courage to defeat a solitary job, that
the ringsters and lotyists of their party
concocted and put through.
It is an admitted fact—admitted
even by these supporters of HARRISON,
that the Republican party with the
Quays, the CLARKSONS, the Prarrs
and the DubLEYs at its head deserves
neither the confidence nor support of
the people.
In what particular is it better with
Harrison at its head ?
He accepted the high officehe holds
knowing it had been corruptly secured,
through the liberal use of money rais.
ed by JoaN WANAMAKER.
He gave positions to those who had
subscribed the most liberally to the
corruption fund that secured his suc-
cess.
He has violated every provision and
principle of civil service to,appease
the demands of those he expects to sup-
port his re-election.
He haskept Raum and other theives
m office, knowing they were using
their official positions for personal
gain, in order that he might have their
influence aud support for a continuance
in office.
He has outjingoed Jingo Jiy, in
his efforts to create difficulties with
foreign States, that he might profit
through the excitement of war, and
that the acts of his adminisuation
might be forgotten in the bluster and
prejudice that a resort to arms would
bring.
He wiped out the surplus inthe
Treasury by approving every bill the
Billion Dollar Congress, passed, under
the lead of the Quavsthe Rurps and
others he professes to despise.
He stood ready to give his signature
to the infamous aud outrageous force
law, that even Quay revolted at, and
the conservative sentiment of his party
refused to endorse.
He approved of the monopolistic
tariff bill that was passed to satisfy
the demands of those who had contri-
buted to his own corruption fund, and
has endorsed every subsidy measure
the jobbers and speculators of his party
have presented him.
He has schemed to secure a re-elec-
tion, and has stooped to acts that the
corruptionists who control his party,
would hesitate to commit.
In no instance has he risen higher
than his party, or at no time has he
shown a disposition or the courage to be
other than a tool to carry out its
behests.
Why then, orin what particular is
he better than those who were against
him at Minneapolis, or in what way
is he purer than the corruptionists
whose favors he has accepted and
wiose echemes he has approved of ?
Tell us, oh, ye hypocritical whiners
about a clean administration ! in what
instance has he been better than the
worst element of his party, or in what
way has he proven that higher pur-
poses or motives actuate him, than
those that control the Quays and
Dupreys of Republicanism ?
——There is no one who feels like
kicking a man when he is down, con-
sequently you hear but httle of Jingo
Ji, since the Minneapolis convention.
, As a back number he will doubtless
' prove a great success.
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Better Policy.
One of the indications of & return to
Democratic methods, with advantage
to the country, is the recent admission
of - foreign built steamships to Ameri-
can registry. A special act has been
passed to allow two of the Inman line,
English buils, steamers to come under
American registration and fly ‘the
stars and stripes,
The policy of Republican navigation
laws is to exclude, from the list of
American ships, such as may have
been built abroad, although by Ameri-
can capital, for American owners.
This is intended to ‘‘protect” and en-
courage the ship-builders of this coun-
try, but it has not had that effect, the
only result being that it has made the
stars and stripes a rarity on the ocean.
American ship-owners went to England
where they could get their ships the
cheapest, and as they were thereby ex-
cluded by our navigation laws from
American registration, their ships
were entered on the English registry,
were sailed under the English ensign,
and were for all practical purposes
English ships.
A more liberal and rational policy
in this matter has begun to show itself
in the recent case of the two Inman
steamers. It isa step towards bring-
ing the merchant marine ofthis coun-
try back to the condition it was in
when Democratic administrations rul-
ed the country, and when the Ameri
can flag was seen on every sea. The
next step is to reform the tariff so that
ship builders hall have the advantage
of cheap raw materials and be able to
build ships as cheaply as their British
rivals, These American ship owners
will have noinducement to go abroad
to have their vessels built, and there
will be no occasion for them to sail
their ships under a foreign flag.
——The Democratic House has
been very liberal in providing for the
payment of the. pensioners. Such pro-
visions, as well as other outlays which
the previous Congress made it impera-
tively necessary to meet, was the cause
of the Democratic appropriations as-
suming such large proportions. And
yet with all the liberality in giving
money for the pensions, it appears that
$135,000,000 appropriated for the pres-
ent year will be $7,000,000 too short.
In the Same Boat,
The Gazette and Bulletin along with
a few Republican followers, down at
Williamsport, are giving ex-Congress-
man McCorymick bal-la-hoo for voting
with Quay at the Minneapolis conven-
tion. We have read the Gazette for
years, and have never known it to do
anything else than to support, to the
full extent of its ability, any ticket that
Quay might dictate. Its Republican
friends who are now howling with it
have done likewise, and just why their
late representative to Minneapolis
should be hauled over the coals and
be denounced for doing just what every
other Lycoming Republican has been
abjectly doing for years, is one of the
inscrutable mysteries of West Branch
politics, that an outsider cannot
fathom. ¢
It was no worse in McCormick to
support Quay’s man for-president than
for the Gazette to support his man for
governor two years ago, and his man
for State Treasurer last fall, or for it to
try to elect four Republican representa-
tives to Harrisburg, this fall, every
mothers son of whom, will vote for
Quay for United States Senate.
With Quay’s collar secure about its
own neck, there is but little consistency
or manliness in our Williamsport co-
temporary, crying out about others
wearing it. It has ever been as servile
to the dictates of the'‘boss’’ as his most
sycophantic henchman, and the abuse
of others for doing just what it does
itself, is only evidence of the cowardice
that keeps it doing wrong, where its
better instincts and a manly independ-
ence would indicate another course.
Or————————
——Silver is a goed thing to have
around. It is handy in the shape of
change, and an important auxillary to
gold in swelling the volume of the cir-
culating medium. But it isnot going
to be the factor in the Presidential
campaign that was expected. The
real interest in it is confined to the sil-
ver States. The country at large finds
more to interest itin the reform of a
monopoly tariff.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 17, 18
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Protectivetariff McKinley.
Snes,
Some people fall very flat when they
do fall, but no fellow ever went down
with a more death-like thud, than did
Mr. Protectivetariffi McKINLEY, at
Minneapolis last week. He went there
the idol and hope of his party. He
went away the envy of none and about
as badly a battered and bruised politi-
cal wreck, as was saved from the ef
forts of the mobs that held high car-
nival there. I
As a presiding officer he proved a
a most miserable failure ; as a friend
of both Harrison and SHERMAM, he
proved untrue and unreliable, and as a
leader of men, a nonentity. Asa con-
sequence he retires to his home having
pet the friendship of those who have
always aided his ambitious; the re.
spect of those who admire open manly
action ; the confidence of the public,
and the office he secretly schemed to
obtain.
McKiNLEY may be a big enough
man to be governor of a State that
won't trust its chief executive with the
veto power, and may have suffi-
cient capacity, to be the daddy of a
Republican protective tariff measure,
but he'll never be president of the
United States: Minneapolis has un-
covered him. It has shown what he
is, and people now see a pigmy in one
whom they once thought a giant.
——There is something to recom-
mend the proposition to tax incomes
for the payment of pensions, Doesn’t
it look more like the fair thing to
make the millionaires foot this item of
govérnment expense than to raise the
means of paying it, by taxing the nec-
essaries of the poor man’s daily living
through the medium of an unjust
tariff ?
An Important Question.
There is much opposition to the keep-
ing 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 gov-
ernment appropriation to the exposi-
tion 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
departments they propose to open to
general admission being the art galier-
ies and exhibits of that kind. Z That
the machinery and other features sug-
gestive of labor should be in operation
on that day is not suggested.
It is to be hoped that an under-
standing 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 ot Sunday.
Should Not Be Fooled.
Before the campaign is over the Repu-
blican party, with an effront¥ry “that
should shame the devil, will be} parad-
ing itselt as the specialiriend and cham-
pion of labor, and scores of hard-fisted
labor—marked men will be parading
and shouting for it, just as if it was
what it pretended to be or its chief
mission was to protect and care for the
workingmen,
Intelligent laborers, however will
not forget, that this same party is the
creator and supporter of that system
of government that has given birth
too, and fostered monopolies of every
kind.
That it has enacted legislation to
protect the rich by taxing the poor, for
every bite of food and every stitch of
clothing their families must have.
That it has favored the importation
of the cheapest labor European coun-
tries can furnish, to crowd our work:
ingmen out of employment.
And to cap the climax, of its opposi-
tion to honest, sorganized labor, it has
! placed upon its ticket for vice president
' a man, who for fifteen years has refus-
“ed to employ a workingman who be-
longed to any of the trades Unions.
NO. 24.
- Not Encouraging.
No
From the N. Y. World.
The coldness with which President
Harrison’s renomination is received in
various parts of Indiana is not sur
prising.
Mr Harrison has made many more
enemies than friends in his own State
during his present term. He is charg-
ed with ingratitude, favoritism and
coldness,
His plurality in 1888 was but 2,348
against - 6,512 for Cleveland and Hen-
dricks in 1884. In 1891 the Demo-
‘érati¢ plarality on the State ticket was
19/529, ‘and “on Congressmen ° over
22,000. Hg. :
Last spring, in the local elections,
the Democrats retained their lead and
carried the President's own city and
ward by handsome majorities.
Indiana is a doubtful State with a
Democratic leaning. Under ' the new
election law Dudley can no more work
his block-of-five game. With an ac-
ceptable ticket the Democrats would
pretty certainly carry the State.
. IAC ET RE
A Death Bed Repentance,
From the Pittsburg Post.
For 20 years, since good old Horace
Greeley ceased to be on the New York
Tribune and Whitelaw Reid took his
place, the Republican candidate for
vice president has been the most ag-
gressive and untiring enemy organized
labor in the Union. The Tribune, be-
fore Reid, was its friend. The fact
that it was made a condition prece-
dent of his nomination for vice presi-
dent that he should reverse his posi-
tion, and that hedid so under this
pressure a few hours before his nom-
ination, will only fool those working-
men who have a fancy for being fooled.
Mr. Reid would have commanded
more respect if he had not flopped so
suddenly, and for a purpose apparent
to every one. to
' No Election.
From the Washington Herald.
A good-looking well-to-do and popu-
lar young bachelor of Silverton was
being teased by the young ladies of a
club for not getting married. He said :
“I'll marry the girl of your club whom
on a secret vote, you elect to be my
wife.” There were nine members of
of the club. Each girl went, ipto a
corner and used great caution ifipre-
paring her ballot and disguised the
handwriting. The result of the yote
was that there were nine votes cast,
each girl receiving one. The young
man remains a bachelor, the club is
broken up and the girls are all mortal
enemies, united in one determination
that they will never speak to that pasty
man again.
A Job For the Fool Killer.
From the Peiladelphia Times.
Judge Tourgee is another of the
idiots who are advising the blacks in
the South to kill off the whites as the
only way of securing their “rights.”
On the line of this advice he is cheer-
fully predicting “massacre such as has
not been paralled since the French
Revolution.” It is unnecessary to add
that Tourgee left the South some years
ago and is now firing.off his mouth in
Minnesota, where the black population
is inconsiderable: Still even that dis-
tance would not protect him if the
fool-killer ever really got down to work
in thie country. That would be a
massacre indeed.
The Kind of Hair-pin He Is
From the Altoona Times.
Whitelaw Reid, the nominee of the
Republican party for the vice presi-
dency, has for years been the bitter foe
of union labor, and his paper, the New
York Tribune, was placed under a
boycott by the New York Typographical
union. This man will now pose as a
friend to American industry, but the
workingmen, if they are as intelligent
as we take them to be, will know just
what value to place upon the pretea-
sions of Mr. Reid.
What He is For.
From the N. Y. World.
The function ofa Republican can-
didate for the Vice-Presidency is to
furnish money for the campaign. Mr.
Reid was nominated by acclamation
to do this, because there was nobody
else who could be depended upon to
pay nearly so much for the distinction
of being beaten by triumphant De-
mocracy.
ATER ARTS EATETRs
Its Rodent Stupidity.
From the Philadelphia Herald.
Rats are traditionally believed to leave
a sinking ship ; therefore it is more
than a little remarkable that the editor
of a “rat” newspaper should venture
on a sinking political ship in the
capacity of second helmsman.
Mr. Blaine’'s Future.
From the New York Advertiser.
Mr. Blaine will have plenty of time
on his hands this summer to go to
circus and eat peanuts. And it always
pays to go to the circus, and peanuts
in moderation will hurt no oue.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Ida Huey, of New Berlinville, aged fifteen
years, is missing.
—A great strike is threaten at Carnagie's
Homestead Iron Mills.
—Reading’s Mayor has cleared the sidewalks
of that city of ail pavement stands.
—Strawberries are so plentiful in Berks
county that they are down to four cents.
—Lightning-rod agents are charged with
having swindled numerous people at South
Williamsport. ’
—The handsome new First Methodist
Church at Lancaster which cost $83,000, was
dedicated on Sabbath last.
—Two of John Fowler's children, at Ansonia
Tioga County, fell in Marsh Creek and were
drowned.
—A delayed explosion of a blast in” Shenan-
doah City colliery tore Joseph Selebe’s body
to shreds.
—An expert has condemned several hun-
dred wells in West Chester on the ground that
the water has caused much sickness.
—A trust and savings bank is to be organiz-
ed in Muncy, owing to the recent collapse of
the First National Bank of that place.
—The Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers is still considering the wages
scale at Pittsburg.
—The new line of the Pennsylvania Rail
road between Pottsville and Minersville was
opened yestered.
—The 150 anniversary of the Leacock Pres-
byterian Chureh, in Lancaster County, will be
celebrated next month.
—The Criminal Cou1t of Berks County open-
ed Monday with the smallest number of cases
in a number of years.
—William A. Dean has been appointed
sheriff of Northumberland county, vice Robert
Montgomery, resigned.
—A Trenton horse-thief was tracked to Bris
tol, but the wily purloiner of steeds escaped
the detective, but left the horses behind.
—The Sons of Veterans, in convention at
Easton, decided to erect a monument at Johns-
towu to the memory of Past Commander-in"
Chief Arnold.
—W. H. Boyd and C. W. Greenleaf, two old
soldiers, started May 15 to walk from Boston
to Washington, D.C. They arrived at Bristol
Friday.
—Samuel Walton, living near Belmont and
a brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
was cut to piece’s on the track at Columbia on
Sunday. :
—The Williamsport Sun has discovered that
their has never been a Vice President of the
United States whose name began with “R"—
which is a bad omen for Whitelaw Reid.
—Two suits for conspiracy have been enter _
ed against members of the Pittsburg Builder
Exchange. They are both the result of the
recent bricklayers’ strike.
—The trial of the cases against W. W. Kain
Otto Wand and George K. Bambo, the election
officers of Collingdale borough, Delaware
Sonim has been postponed until next Mon-
ay.
—Simon Brown, aged 31 years, a miner
who worked in the Newport mines of the Par-
sh Coal Company at Wilkesbarre, was in stant-
y killed Monday by a fall of coal.
—Attorney General Hensel and Charles I,
Landis have been elected, by the Lancaster
bar as delegates to the National Bar Associa-
tion, which meets in Washington in August.
—The Lancaster Classis of the Reformed
Church has adopted a resolution in favor of
the Federal union of the Dutch and German
Reformed Churches, now under considera
tion.
—The annnal session of the Supreme Castle
of the Ancient Order of the Knights of the
Mystic Chain will convene in Pittsburg on
Tuesday. Forty States are represented.
The session will last about four days.
—Contracts have been awarded for the con.
struction of sixteen miles of railroad between
Clearfield and Dubois, to be Luown as the
Clearfield and Mahoning Railroad, being par
of the link connecting Beech Creek with the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad .
—In the case of William F. Slingluff, ex-
cashier of the Montgomery trust company
charged with embezzling the funds of that in-
stitution, the Jury returned a verdict acquit-
ting the accused.
—Rufus Gleaves was fined $100 and costs at
Beaver on Monday and sentenced to the work-
house for three months for buying a pint of
whisky for A. Barker, a man of intemperate
hahita. Barker, lately returned from a Keely
cure institute.
—Albert Bischel, a native of Coffrane»
Switzeriand, died at the Clearfield house,
Lock Haven, on Sunday, aged 27 years.
The causa of death was pneunionia. His
parents and a sister, all in Switzerland, sur,
vive him.
--On Monday ia little Dauphin eaunty quar
ter sessions court, Lewis Hoyt was sentenced
to four years’ imprisonment in the Eastern
penitentiary for stealing from railread freight
cars.
—The clergymen and lay delegates in at-
tendance upon the Lutheran Ministerium of
Pennsylvania, at Reading, united Sunday in
celePrating the 100th anniversary of the lay.
ing of the cornerstone of Trinity Lutheran
Chureh, in which the session of the Minis-
terium are being held.
—Annie, a 12-year-old daughter of Louis
Pascoe, of Johnstown, died, on Sunday from
the effects of a sun stroke. She had taken
part in the Children’s Day exercises at the
Franklin Street Methodist Episcopal church
and was on her way home whon she was
stricken.
—The safe in the railroad station at Hast-
ings, Cambia county, was blown opén Sunday
moraing, the thieves seeuring $50. The build-
ing was badly wrecked by the explosion. The
work was evidently that of novices. Two men
have been arrested on suspicion,
—Delegate H. C. McCormick, of the Six-
teenth district, disobeyed the expressed
wishes of the Republicans of his district by
voting for MeKinley at Minneapolis, and the
leading Republican paper there wants to kucw
why he did it.
—The body of little Joseph Machen, of New
Cumberland, who was drowned on Thursday
while in swimming, was foundon Saturday
evening near Newmarket by two Harrisburg
fisherman. The body had lodged along the
shore between arock and some driftwood.
—During the ceremony attend ing a Hun-
garian christening Saturday night at the Nel-
lie coke works, six miles west of Connellsville
the gnests filled themselves with liquor and
participated ina free fight which resulted in
the killing of one of the number and the ser-
ious wounding of several more. Five of the
principals have been captured.