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= BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Women seldom turn up their
nose at the person they see in & mirror.
—@Gas was first made in 1739 and,
with all these years of progress, it is stil
gas.
— Woman's sphere is generally filled
in saying “no’’ after she has said the
first “yes.”
—The bread-winner,who desires a fair
harvest of prosperity, should sow his
eed on the 8th of November.
--New York and Indiana are un-
doubtedly pivotal states, but GROVER
knows which way to shove them.
—The zephyrs which deflect the poli-
tical “straw’”’ are Time’s breath whis-
pering to GROVER that all is well.
—A man will tunnel through a
mountain of his own faults to ‘blow at a
speck of dust on his neighbor’s character.
— Campaign boonis will be suspended
to-day so that the army and navy ean
have a chance to fire a few guns for
CoLuMBUS.
—You might as well fall in line and
have a good time to-day for you'll nev-
er see another centenary anniversary of
CorumBUS day.
—As arule actors are not given to
gunning. In factthereare few of them
who could ‘hit a flock of barns,” yet not
infrequently some of them bring down
a house. !
—The greatest depth of the Atlantic
ocean is said to be about five miles, but
it isn’t half as deep as some minstrel
jokes that are being sprung on an all
suffering public.
—Mr. BLAINE’S speech—There was
so little said, and so half heartedly said
that it’s good he did’ntsay any more.
At least that is the way the Republicans
must feel compelled to review it.
—Philadelphia’s claim to being a
frugal city is substantiated by the recent
purchase of 50,000 votes with $25,000
in tax receipts. It is brotherly love,
you know, that prompts such things.
—4Mr. BLAINE'S speech last week
wasn’t a very long one, but it was full
of points,” Altoona Tribune—Yes, all
points towards the fact that he has
naught but a half hearted sympathy for
BEN.
—The marching club has about dis-
appeared as a factor in inspiring party
enthusiasm during a campaign. The
policeman’s club will still be used, how-
ever, to tap off exuberance on election
night.
— MR. BLAINE says these are ‘jolly
good times,” but for the life of us we
can’t see where hehas any room to
laugh. Unless the discomfit of the man
who caused kis downfall is the source oy
merriment.
—The campaign, which we thought
would be one of careful education and
truthful discussion, is fast developing into
a battle of lies and boodle. Because o
Republican inability to meet the clean
cut issues of Democracy.
-—CARNEGIE will doubtless retain the
stub of that check for $100,000 which
he contributed to the Republican cor-
ruption fund, for if HARRISON should
be elected be can present it and demand
its return in tariff benefits.
—JonNxY DAVENPORT has perhaps
done his last dirty job for the Republi-
can party. The congressional commit-
tee is after him hot shod. Look out for
developments “when JOHNNY comes
marching home.”
—Itis a costly kind of virtue the
Republican party possesses. This year
it will cost that party over $2,000,000,
to make people believe there is any vir-
tue in it, and itis doubtful if at that
price it can hire the public to longer
trust it.
~In preferring to go to a horse race
rather than to attend Lord TENNYSON’S
funeral, the Prince of Wales has lower-
ed himself in the estimation of the En-
glish people. His conduct was not sur-
prising, however, for one who has so
little sense cannot be expected to mani-
fest grief at a loss which the whole
world should mourn.
~—CHRIS MAGEE sat around so long
trying to patch up a fusion between the
Republican and Populists parties, down
in Alabama, that all his “patchin’ pro-
pensities were used up in getting his
own apparel in shape to come home
with. By the time the Alabama returns
are coming in he will want some one to
kick those patches real good too.
--ANDRBW CARNEGIE evidently
wrote the paragraph : “Look where you
will, there is but one truly prosperous
country inthe world, and that is the
Republic of the United States. God
bless her,” before he heard that the con-
tract for armor plate had been taken
from his Pittsburg mills and given to
the Bethlehem steel company. His pro-
fit on the contract would have been $3,-
600,000. The loss of such a haul would
more than likely have changed th
“bless” to a word beginning with d .
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Demaeralic
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL. 37.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 21, 1892.
NO. 41.
Oh, How They Lie !
The industrial classes in America were nev.
er as well'off as they are to-day. As a whole
they never had as good wages, never as ful]
employment, never as much cheap living, nev-
er as much prosperity as now. We assert and
defy contradiction that the rewards of labor
never before brought so much of the comforts
and happiness of iife. ’
The above we get from an editorial
in the Philadelphia Press of Tuesday.
If the workingman will take the troub-
le to read it it will doubtless be news to
him. Certainly it is to everybody else.
With our high-ways filled with
tramps ; our towns and villages crowd-
ed with unemployed laborers; strikes
against a reduction of wages, or lock-
outs, in nearly every manufacturing
centre exciting the public and caus-
ing trouble ; with a bill of $600,000, the
ink of which is not yet dry, in the
bands of the auditing department of this
State for militia expenses for protect-
ing protected industries while they
beat down the price of labor; with
more reductions in wages, the past year,
than has been known in any two pre-
vious years ; with more silent}factories,
fireless furnaces and closed up mills
than have been seen at one time in the
past decade, and with the products of
the farms of the State bringing less in the
markets of the country than they have
ever before sold for, the paper that could
deliberately assert “that the indus-
trial classes in America were never as
well off as they are to-day,” can have
neither respect for the truth nor regard
for the intelligence of its readers.
If the editcr of the Press will core
here to Bellefonte, and it 1s located in
one of the richest and should be most
prosperous sections of the State, he can
see a nail works, that four years ago
was giving employment to 275 men, as
silent as a cemetery; he will find one
of tke best equipped furnace plants in
the entire country, and which under a
Democratic administration furnished
labor to over 300 men, without fire
enough in its stacks to roast a potato;
he will discover a glass plant that run
continuously during CLEVELAND'S term
of office, and paid high wages to over
100 skilled workmen, deserted and
nailed up; he will see an axe fac-
tory that has run continuously for over
fifty years, and furnished steady work
at good wages to from 30 to 50 employ-
ees, closed down and silent ; he can see
ore mines in our valleys and coal mines
in our mountains, that were operated
and * furnishing work to hundreds
of hands less than two years ago, with-
out sign of life or workmen about them.
In addition to these hecan find work-
ingmen at every corner who are out of
employment, and honest laborers by
the score who know not where the
means are to come from to buy bread
for their families or coal for their cook
stoves during tbe winter that is just
upon us.
And to cap the climax of the “pros
perity” to which the Press so boastfully
points, as being enjoyed by the indus-
trial classes; he can see farmers com-
pelled to sell their wheat at 70 cents
per bushel, and pay a higher price for
every stitch of clothing and every arti-
cle of househould goods they buy than
they did before the McKINLEY bill
went into effect.
This condition of afiairs, is, as we
have said, to be found right here in
Bellefonte, one of the richest and possi-
bly one of the most prosperous sections
of Pennsylvania. As it is here, so is it
elsewhere.
If this is the kind of “prosperity”
the workingmen, farmers and others
like, they can continue it by continuing
in power the party whose policy has
closed down our mines and mills,
thrown our people out of employment
and fixgd the price of the farmer's
wheat at the figures it is now com-
manding.
It seems to be the kind of ‘prosperi-
ty’ that the Press and the advocates of
Harrison, Rem and Protection, are
satisfied with,
A
— If the masses are not tired pay-
ing taxes to enrich operators like Car.
wEeciE & Co. they should continue vot.
ing the Republican ticket. That party
always did believe in taking care of the
rich and letting the poor take care of
themselves, and its protection policy is
run on that basis. It protects the rich
with tariff taxation, and the poor with
Winchesters in the hands of PINkER-
TON detectives,
It Is Upon Money They Rely.
That the Republicans have no faith
in their power to fool people into the
belief that their policy of protection se-
cures prosperity, or that their adminis-
tration is deservinglof endorsement and
continuation in power, is evident from
the fact that they have given up all
hope of succeeding only through the
power of boodle—the convincing argu-
ment of cold cash.
There is no longer a pretense on their
part that popular sentiment is with
them, or that public approval of the
policy of their party will secure them
success.
They have favored certain classes of
industries to the extent of taxing every
comsumer in the United States for their
benefit. They have oppressed the
masses to enrich a favored few,and it is
to the industries they have benefitted
by preventing honest competition, and
the few they have favored by robbing the
many,that they look too for the means
that they hope will purchase success.
Itis to be a victory of boodle and
not of principle, if Republicanism is to
win this fall, The fact that they rely
upon money for success is proof to the
people that they have neither confi-
dence in the policy of the party nor
faith in the professions they make, to
secure the votes of the people.
That they can get the money with
which they hope to debauch the voters
and to buy a longer lease of power, is
further proof of the favoritism they
have shown to the protected few, upon
whom they rely for the amount needed.
It the policy ofthe Republican party
benefitted labor, money would not be
needed to buy the vote of the masses to
continue it in power. If it benefitted
the farmers they could be relied upon
to vote for its continuation, without
pay, and if it was not in the exclusive
interest of the few, that few, who are
the lucky recipients of the benefits of a
robber tarift, would not willingly shell
out two million of dollars for the purpose
of corrupting voters, in order to fasten
this same policy upon the country for
four years longer.
These are facts.
The Republican national committee
boasts that it will expend $2,000,000 to
carry the election.
Every cent ot this enormous sum
comes from the owners of protected in-
dustries, except the little that is raised
by assessments on office holders.
It isthe Republican party’s portion
of the proceeds of the robbery its tarift
policy inflicts upon the people.
It robs the public to enrich the few,
and the few who are benefitted turn
round and put up the money to pur-
chase a continuation of that robbery.
This is the situation.
Are the people venal and blind
enough to allow such efforts to succeed
and such a policy to be continved ?
——————————————
$110,000.
One hundred and ten thousand dol-
lars isa fairly large sum—a pretty good
sized fortune—an amount that but few
can earn or save during a lifetime. It
is an amount that if divided up would
make many poor people happy and
contented, or if added to the wages of
the workingmen would increase the
comforts and opportunities of very
many of them.
It is a big amount, and yet is is the
sum thatthe owners, of the Homestead
mills, who hired PiNkERTON detectives
to shoot down their own workmen be-
cause they refused to accept a reduc-
tion of wages,contributes to the Repub-
lican campaign corruption fund.
Of this amount CARNEGIE, the boss
highwayman uader the robber tariff
rule, gives $100,000 and his firm
$10,000. It would have been more
possibly, on the part of the firm, but
for the fact that a number of them are
in the hands of the court, indicted for
murdering their owd employees in an
effort to reduce wages, and they do not
know what the expense of getting
through safely may be.
It is enough, however, to show the
people and particularly the working:
men and farmers of the country, where
the benefits of protection go and who
are its recipients.
Its enough to open the eyes of every
honest voter ta the infernal hy pocrigy of
a party that is eternally prating about
honest elections and maintains an op-
pressive tariff for the sole purpose of
enriching the greedy few, who, in turn
| for its benefits, contributes of their ill
, Botten gains, to debauch the voter and
oorrupt the ballot box
Prepare to Get Out the Vote.
Democrats, it is but a little over
two weeks until the election. Are you
making arrangements to have the full’
vote of the party polled? Three weeks
ago we predicted, speaking from a
knowledge of facts that we could not
make public, that if the full Democrat-
ic vote of the State was polled, that
a Democratic House of representatives,
a Democratic Senate and thirty-two
Democratic electors would be chosen
in Pennsylvania.
We have every reason to-day to ex-
pect the fulfillment of that prediction,
if Democratic workers and Democratic
voters do their duty. The situation is
even more hopeful to-day than it was
then, and the opportunity for placing
even rock-ribbed Republican, Pennsyl-
vania in the Democratic column, is
much greater than the most hopeful
anticipated or than four-fifths of the
party can conceive of.
Why it is so we are not at liberty to
say. We can only encourage our peo-
ple by assuring them that such is
the fact, and let the future to show the
truth of our predictions.
But it will require work. It will re-
quire every Democrat to be atthe polls,
and every oppouent of Quay-Republi-
canism and oppressive tariff-taxation,
to his duty.
Bothering about the result in other
States ; wondering what New York
and Indiana will do; talking about
our chances elsewhere, will not accom-
plish the work needed or aid in secur-
ing the State for the Democracy.
It will take earnest, active work
right at your home, It will require
arrangments to have every Democrat
at the polls, and the securing of a fair
proportion of the doubtful voters. It
will cost untiring action from this time
until the polls close.
What you as a Democrat want to
know now is, not what New York,
Connecticut or Indiana is going to do,
but what your own election district
will do. How many of your voters
are away and need to be gotten home
for the election! Who will furnish
wagons! How this man is to be got-
ten to the polls and who will see to
that doubtful voter !
These are the matters that should
interest you more now, than anything
else. Other States and other districts
will neither be helped nor hindered by
your bothering about them. It is
your own district that needs your at-
tention,
Turn your efforts to it. Poll your
full vote, and then tell us we told you
an untruth if our prediction is not ful
filled.
C——————
Squeezing Out the Fat.
It is a matter to be remembered to
the disgrace of Harr1soN’s administra-
tion and the shame of the country, that
on Wednesday cf last week, the an-
nouncement was made that the con-
tract with the CARNEGIE company for
steel armor plates for government w:r
ships, had been transferred to the Beth-
lehem Iron company, as a’result of the
Homestead mills failing to furnish the
plates in the time specified ; that on
Thursday, the CARNEGIE managers
were called to Washington to make
explanation ; on Friday it was officially
published that the explanation was sat-
isfactory and the order transferring the
contract to an other company had been
annulled, and on Saturday the fact
that CARNEGIE had contributed $100,000
and his partner $10,000 to the Repub.
lican campaign corruption fund, was
made public.
Put these facts together, honest voter,
and draw your own conclusions.
——Gen. SickLEs, from whom the
Republicans hoped for go much in the
way of influencing old soldiers to vote
for HaRRisoN, is out himself, open
earnest and active, for CLEVELAND, and
is appealing to every man who ever
ware 8 uniform, to vote with him, for
a change, not only in the general poli-
cy of the government, but particularly
to secure a change in the pension de-
partment, that has been disgraced
with the scandals that Raum has
brought upon it and that has paid
more attention to the claims of un-
deserving politicians than to disabled
and deserving soldiers.
—==JouNn HAMILTON may want
the earth but it is certain he won't
haye a fence around it.
SDSS TNS HL ssp cen Ga id
Facts That Should Not be Forgotten.
From the Delaware County Democrat.
Previous to the last Presidential
Election the Republican party, besides
others, made two distinct promises.
First, To the Protected Manufactur-
ers they said “Vote for Harrison and
give us of your ‘fat’ to elect him and if
we elect him you shall come to Wash.
ington and fix whatever Tariff rates
you please to tax the people for your
benefit.” ”
Second, To the laboring men they
said “Vote for Harrison, and if we
elect him you shall all have continued
work at increased wages.’
Harrison was elected. The votes
and the money of the Manufacturers
and the votes of the “protected” work-
ig men elected him. Then the Man-
ufacturers made up the schedules of the
McKinley Bill and put the heaviest bur-
dens of taxation the world has ever
seen on the people. And the protec-
ted laborers got their wages reduced,
and were shot down by Pinkerton de-
tectives.
A Suspicious Movement.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
After all the hullabaloo over the wild
tale of a Democratic plot to steal the
State by controlling the ballot, print-
ing this news of a Republican move
against their own ballot reform law is
significant. Perhaps that story was
pushed forward as part of a definite
campaign plan for the overthrow of a
law which was never meant to be any-
thing but a fine looking paper promise
—-a bone thrown to quiet the howl for
ballot reform. Everybody knows that
real ballot reform would never suit the
irrepressible Quay, and under the cir-
cumstances we are justified in inquiring
what he and his friends may have to
gain in the coming struggle and why
they should be moving so vigorously for
the overthrow of the Baker law.”
RT
They Knew by Experience.
From the Meadville Messenger.
No longer can the Republicans pull
the wool over the eyes of the farmers.
Ever since the McKinley tariff bill be-
came a law the price of wool has stead-
ily declined. But this is not all. What
the farmer loses in selling his wool, he
is also a loser in the purchasing of his
supplies. Genuiue woolen goods have
increased in price. Even shoddy cloth-
ing, made out of old woolen rags, cow
and dog hair, moss, étc., are higher in
price. The tariff does not raise the
price of what the farmer has to sell,
but it does increase on articles the far-
mer buys.
En ————
The Apathy of Discontent.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Ex-Speaker Keifer says politics is al-
together too quiet in Ohio, The indi-
cations point, he says, to an extremely
light vote. This apathy, according to
the ex-Speaker, prevails also in Indi-
ana. Congressman Caldwell, of Ohio,
has strong hopes of Republican suc
cess in his State. “The only thing,”
he says, “is that the people are not
worked up.” This is significant. The
Democrats have usually won their
great successes in years when the Re-
publicans were not “worked up.” Keep-
ing quiet is not a good omen when the
sacred policy of protection is at stake,
A RASTA,
General Sickles Defends Cleveland.
From a Speech by General Sickles in Utica.
Now as to President Cleveland’s re-
cord in behalf of the soldiers. They
charge that he has vetoed a good many
pension bills. So he has. I have
read his vetoes. Iam a soldier. I
love my soldiers. Had I been Presi-
dent and a congress passed such bills for
my soldiers, I should have vetoed every
oue of them, too. They were mostly
all frauds and shams, and I had no
frauds under me. Any right-minded
man, sworn to discharge his duty, would
have signed those vetoes as President
Cleveland did.
Suggestive Straws.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Straws show which way the wind
blows. There was a straw in Maine.
There was a straw in Vermont. There
is a whole haystack of straws in Ar-
kansas, Florida and Georgia. Reduced
Republican majorities here, increased
Democratic majorities there, surely no
thoughtful man can think that such
manifestations, so general and wide
apart, mean nothing. They are bound
to mean that the wind blows with the
Democrats. The Democraticsail is full.
The Republican sail wilts and flaps to
the mast.
It Would Be a Real Surprise.
From the Butler Herald.
It would be poetic justice if the col-
ored men of the North would defeat in
November tha patsy which has fooled
them so woefully these last twenty-sev-
en years. And it looks now as if there
were some surprises in store for some-
body with regard to the vote of the col-
hii | man.
Whistling to Keep Their Spirits Up.
From the New York Sun.
Brother Carter's organs wouldn't
howl about free trade and the currency '
if they were as sure as they pretend to
be of the re-election of General Harri-
son. They are whistling to keep their
spirits up.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Diptheria is epidemic at Boyertown.
—A mad dog bit six people in Lancaster.
—Berks county’s official. ballot will be 22
by 33 inches.
—An artificial ice plant will be constructed
in Lebanon. : LAT
—There are fifty cases of diphtheria in the
town of St. Clair.
—An electric car cut down Joseph Schaufner
a Williamsport lad.
—Commissioners ordered 1,000,000 ballots
for Allegheny county.
Coke works at Connellsyille are closing on
account ofthe drouth.
—Williamsport preachers officially denounce
Sunday milk dealers,
—Only 45 canal boats ply between Port
Clinton and Philadelphia
—Survivors of the famous Durell . Battery
held a reunion in Reading.
—Two furnaces of the Reading Iron Com-
pany will be lighted in a few days.
—Six thousand school children will parade
in Reading, to-day, Columbus Day.
—DMen, boys and two dogs killed 300 rats
Tuesday in one old shed in Reading.
—Burgess Blosser, of Newville, fell from an
apple tree, sustaining critical hurts.
—Car inspector John Barry was killed Mon-
day at Harrisburg by a passing train.
—Since its organization 11,495 persons have
been treated in the Reading Hospital.
—It is possible to step across the Schuyl.
kill River above Port Clinton, dry shod.
—DUnited Brethren at Lebanon decided to
hold their next conference at Steelton.
—Coal gas almost made corpses of Laura
and Clara Shultz, Baley, Berks County.
—A jury at Mauch Chunk indicted Mike
Dudor for the murder of Mike Gallatta. ;
~The body of an unknown man was found
in the Susquehanna River at Highspire.
—The Governor said Saturday he would not
reply to Thomas W. Price’s open letter.
—By an explosion of powder at Mahanoy
City, John Kienzie was burned to death.
—Three hundred Pennsylvania Baptist .
preachers met in association at Franklin.
—While riding in a train near Susquehanna
Heinrich Daniels, of Ontario, shot himself.
—Over 400 rattlesnakes were killed during
the summer in Stone Valley, Dauphin county.
—The colored people’s State Fair, at Harris-
burg, opened Monday with over 400 exhibits.
—The life of Lawrence Burrs, Gilberton,
was erushed out by a fall of coal in a colliery.
—The Coroner's jury at Pottsville decided
that Constable Ziegle killed William Kepley.
—The latest revision of coal land assessment
in Schulkill County makes the total $20, 000
000.
—Falling from a freight car at Lansdale,
Isodore Schreppe suffered the loss of both
arms. :
—Faska William colliery, one of the Middle-
port region, was permanently abandoned Sat-
urday.
—A Pittsburg inventor says he can make
fuel gas from oil that will be cheaper than na-
tural gas.
—The body found in Tulpehocken Creek
was identified as that of Conrad Krebs, of
Reading.
—One hundred cigarmakers at Dunn & Co.'s
cigar factory, at Ephrata, have struck for highs.
er wages, ;
—A rope broke, letting John Johnson drop:
60 feet from a Pittsburg bridge to [meet death
in the river.
—A cable, towhich was hanging a buc ketful
ofmud in an Altoona sewer, broke, killing
John Young.
—Engineer John Buchanan fell from his lo,
comotive at Mahanoy Plane and sustained fa,
tal injuries.
—The National Bank of Corry, capital $100,-
000, has been ordered by the comptroller to be
gin business.
—A large number of Homesteaders returned
to work Monday at the Carnegie mills on the
company’s terms,
—To promote “divine healing by faith” the
Mennonites are holding their annual holiness
convention in Reading,
—In the Pennsylvania Railroad yards at
Harrisburg an employee named gDiem was
run over and killed.
- —Three-fourths of the inhabitants of the
town of Possum Hollow, near Beaver Falls
are sick with typhoid fever.
—The jolt at a curve threw Brakeman Pat.
dick Leahy from his train near Shenandoah
and his skull was fractured.
—Chief Clerk W. W. Gearhart of the World's
Fair Board, set out for Chicago to prepare for
| Governor Pattison’s reception.
—The Delaware, Susquehanna and _{Schuyl.
kill Railroad Company will increase its capital
stock from $600,000 to $1,000,00 0.
—The men who were converted to temper-
ance by Francis Murphy, 16 years ago, held a
reunion in Pittsburg Sunday night.
—The assignees of the estate of John Roach
the Chester county shipbuilder, will get $74,
162.25 commission for their labors.
—Foundation walls for four wards are com.
pleted at the mew State Hospital for the
Chronic Insane, ner Wernersville.
—It is expected that all the new appliances
for voting booths and annexes will be deliver-
ed this week to the Stete author ities.
—A Luzerne county candidate for the Leg-
islature promises, it elected, to introduce a
bill to pension the Homestead sold ier.
—Badly decomposed, the body of Samuel
Flack, of Baltimore, Md., was found Monday
in his room at Allegheny. His death is a
mystery. i
—John A. Potter resigned as superinten-
dent of the Homestead Iron Mills, and will be
ucceeded by D. M. Schwab, of the Edgar
sThomson works.
~The body ot John Campbell, a Fairview
farmer, was found on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at Chester, Saturday night. He had
been struck by a train.
—About 2000 Houtzdala miners believe that
their work is unfairly divided, and a delega-
tion went to Philadelphiato complain to the
Berwind-White company.
—Though arrested for murdering William
Kepley, at Pottsville, “Reddy” Zeigler slept so
soundly next morning that he had to be forei-
bly awakened for breakfast.
—-A 6-year old daughter of Isaac Barclay,
Madison township, Perry county, was so ses
verely burned in extinguishing a fire at her
parents’ home that she died.
—A verdict of $1050 was given to Catherine
Sayre against the city of Reading bacause she
was injured by a fall:in an alley. The Judge
vetoed an annuity verdict of $130.
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