Demoraiic atone
8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
__On the 17th Mr. QUAY’S - represen-
tatives, at Harrisburg, will meet to do his
bidding. :
— Forsyth, Missouri, is fifty years vld
and never has had a church. What a
peaceable community it must be out
there. No choir fights, festivals or
starving preacbers.
—The men of these United States
chewed eighty-five tons of tobacco last
year. The woman will hold up their
hands in holy horror— at least till the
chewin’ gum statistics come in.
—Hexry Canor Longe will succeed
Senator DAwEs as United States Senator
from Massachusetts. Thank the Lord,
the wrong party will be in power to en-
dorse his infamous Force measure.
—Chicago wants a gigantic pavilion
elephant and it is likely to get it. We
are of the opinion that again the Windy
city gets through with the Fairshe will
have had all of the pachyderm kind she
cares to handle. '
—The five WALLIS boys, of Princeton
Ky, who played highwaymen, the
other night, and ‘held up” a friend—
“just te see him run’’--found him quite
a handful. They were all carved to
mince meat and are hardly expected to
recover.
—Philadelphia Democrats and their
friends did honor to the memory of “Old
Hickory”? on Tuesday night at their
Jackson day dinner. Though it is
reasonable to suppose that ‘old rye”
came in for his share of the glory ere the
night waned.
— With the prospect of paying $150,
000,000 out for pensions during this
year it behooves tax payers in general,
to make special supplication to the God
of War. Ignominious as it may seem
’tis better for us to turn tail than end
is bankruptey.
—Philadelphians are making a
much fuss over the possible advent of
electricity for street rail-ways as if the
Quaker city had never known what
wires are. Her councilmen at least
can’t answer, *‘not guilty”, to the charge
of acquaintance with them.
-—TIt is said that Hon. Jerry SIMPSON,
the Kansas congressman, is being con-
stantly importuned, by letter writers, to
save the country. It is evident that his
* correspondents do nct appreciate the
sacrifice he is making in behalf of the
sheep by not wearing socks this cold
weather.
—Jack RoBinsoN, the Deleware
county Republican leader is evidently
effected with a dose of swelled head. Not
content with having been a State Senator
and Representative in Congress, both
at the same time, he now imagines he can
knock out QUAY for a seatinthe upper
house of Congress.
—The present cold snap has revived
the hopes of the “is it cold enough for
you” fiend, and his invariable saluta-
tion meets about the same blue response,
on the face of the half frozen pedestrian,
as met the fellow who last fall saluted
his Republican friends with, “Well, how
does it suit you ?”’
—The acquittal of Dr. BRriaes isa
practical admission from the Presbyte-
rian church that the time for harmo-
nious co-operation in the ministry has
come. The Church at lurge, would do
a far nobler and effective work if de-
nominations would forget their creeds in
one united effort for the suppression of
sin.
—Forty years ago Boston had more
newspapers than she has to:day. The
falling off may be ascribed to the cu-
pidity with which the wsthetic Boston-
ese devour the contents of things an-
tique. They find more pleasure in read-
ing of their ancestry, in files ot papers
almost a half century old, than they do
in following the prize fights, elopements,
murders, scandals, toot and base ball
news which fill modern journals.
—One would have thought that the
recent uncovering ot the Panama caral
scandal in France and its unpleasant as-
soziation that attached to our lower
‘house of Congress would have sufficed
for some time to come. But, even be-
fore there is time for an investigation it
rushes right in and begins agitating a
great ship canal from the great lakes to
New York. Possibly this old scheme is
being resuscitated as a counter irritant.
-—The country sympathizes with Hon,
JAMES G, BLAINE in this his hour of
seeming fatal illness. After having suf-
fered more misfortune in his latter days
than man is usually called upon to bear
he is nearing the end of an illustrious
and wonderful career. One of the great.
est statesman who has ever honored the
Republican party with his support—
certainly the most vindictive and crafty
politician ; he can die with: the con.
sciousness that though the dream’ of his
life was never realized, his magnetic in-
fluence on the political kListory of. our
country will bea’ living ‘monument to
his memory while that of presidents,
whom he made, will be cherished only as
creatures of his political success.
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BELLEFONTE, PA., JAN. 13, 1893.
NO. 2.
An Obsequious Body.
Never before did the majority in the
Pennsylvania Legislature show such
ready and implicit obedience to boss
power as at the two short meetings it
has held of the present session. They
appear to have gotten together for no
other purpose than to obey Quay’s
orders, and when they shall have re-
elected bim Senator they will regard
themselves as having accomplished
the chief object of their legislative duty.
In the organization, particularly of
the House, the only objective point
was the Senatorial interest of the boss.
Even the Philadelphia henchmen,
who brought the Legislature such a
large force of QUAY supporters, bad to
yield their claim to the speakership,
and be content with a clerkship and a
few posters and folders, because il bet-
ter suited Quax’s purpose to difterent-
ly dispose of the speakership.
This abject submission, however, in
point of subserviency did not equal
the alertness with which the Quay
programme was carried out in the seat-
ing of Anprews. Legislative prece-
dent, the constitution, the law, com-
mon sense and common decency were
all violated by the manner in which
the claimant was hurried into the seat
that did not belong to him. The
Chiet Clerk, who owes his place to the
favor of Quay, was the direct iustru-
ment in the perpetration of this out-
rage, backed by the supple and subser-
vient Boyer who is playing the distin-
guished role of chief whipperin and
head henchman of his Senatorial mas-
ter.
And what is there to justify this ag-
gregation of compliant tools in, these
high-handed proceedings ? Surely
they cannot be encouraged to such a
course by the fact that the Republican
vote in the State last fall; suffered a
most decided cut. Nor have they the
assurance that if the question were left
to a vote of the rank aud file of their
party Quay's candidacy would not be
condemned. The majority in the
Legislature have entered upon a course
which not only makes their sapport of
a corrupt and unscrupulous boss the
more coniemptible, but is also calculat-
ed to weaken their party, for which
latter circumstance they are entitled
to the thanks of the Democrats.
Unlooked for Church Dissension.
The startling intelligence of a threat.
ened disruption in the Catholic
church, in America, which bas just
come to light through grave charges
preferred against Rev. MIcHAEL AvGus”
TINE Corrigan, Archbishop of New
York, by Most Rev. JomN IRELAND,
Archbishop of St. Paul, has aroused
more than a passing interest in both
press and public. The general impres-
sion that in the Catholic church there
was 80 perfect a centralization of pow-
er that such a difference, as that which
has arisen between these two eminent
American prelates, seemed a practical
impossibility to those who koow the
church only by its harmonious exterior,
This trouble which has just come to
light, arises from the aspirations of
both of the principles tor the new
American Cardinalate, which itis said
will be conferred at the approaching ju-
bilee. But the seeds of the antagonism
between these two leaders of the Amer-
ican hierarchy were germinated nearly
five years ago, when Cardinal GiBBoNs
and Archbishop IRELAND united against
archbishop CorricaN in his representa.
tion to the Vatican on the question of
ex-communicating the Knights of La.
bor.
The surprising part of the whole dif-
ficulty is the openness with which the
one prelate charges the other with
treachery and it can end only in the
downfall and possible punishmeunt of
one of them, Coming, as it does, just
on the eve of the great jubilee it au-
gure ill for the anticipations of the
church in America.
RS
——The fact that EnwArRD MurprHY,
Jr., received eighty-five of the ninety
votes cast, in the Democratic caucus
beld at Albany, Tuesday night, for U.
Empire state,
——For the first time in her history
4 Democratiz nominee for president a
ghare of her vctwe, HARRISON re-
geived nin2 and CLEVELAND four,
Rainbow Chasing.
The House committee of congress,
which has been appointed to investi-,
gate the condition of the Treasury and
ascertain if possible whether there will
be funds to meet the necessities of the
government until the Fifty-third con-
gress will have been organized, has be.
gun its work, but from present indica:
tions the time will be thrown away.
For when the investigation is finished
it is altogether probable that neither
the committee nor congress will know
any more about the condition of the
Treasury than is to be learned from Sec-
retary Foster’s annual report, made in
December.
The new method of book-keeping
which Las been introduced in the treas-
ury department during the present ad-
ministration is an enigma to everyone.
While it is generally known that mon-
ey has been pouring out with a greater
flow that it bas been going in, Secreta-
ry Foster’s books show that there is a
balance in the Treasury. How much
no one knows, nor is he disposed to
have them find out. Just what Mr.
Foster's determination to hide its true
condition from the congressional
investigation committee finds its
incentive in, is a matter of general ia-
terest at this time.
There is but one conclusion for one
to arrive at and it is, that Mr. HaARrRI-
sox and his appointees have fully de-
termined that the country shall not
know of the extravagant expenditure
of public funds until after the close of
his administration. As to what has
become of the $130,000,000 surplus, in
thie Treasury when his administration
came into power, only the record of
such continuous recklessness and prof-
ligacy of partisan officials like Raum
will remain to tell of the avenue
through which it escaped.
The expenses of the government
are now far in excesss of its revenue
and just what is to be done is a ques.
tion which the next congress will have
to baltle with, The investigation
which is now going on will more than
likely end in mere investigation and
no ene will be the wiser. Republicans
are hound to cover up the evidence of
their guilt and all the committees in
christendom can’t find them out until
the advent of Democracy turns them
out.
——The first number of the Will:
iamsport Zlmes, the new mid-day daily
of the Lumber city, has reached our
desk and sizes up to our anticipations
of it. It is a twenty-eight column four
page journal well filled with general
and local news and bids fair to ably fill
the sphere into which it has been
launched. Under the editorial direc-
tion of Jorn F. MEGI1NNEss thatdepart-
ment will surely be carefully looked af.
ter, while NewroN S. BamLey wili en:
deavor to make it a leader in its local
columns. Though its appzarance can-
not be compared with that of its con
joined partner, the Philadelphia Z'imes,
we trust that when the vexatious prob-
lems incident to the inception of such
an enterprise have been solved the two
will appear hand in hand as syno-
nyms of perfection in modern journal-
ism.
The Philadelphia Times Alma-
nac for 1893 is out, and a careful ex-
amination of its contents shows it to
be a most valuable publication of the
kind. Like the paper it represents, it
geeks to be correct and furnishes infor-
mation that all classes of people need
daily. Its matter is condensed. into
such space that the busiest man has
ample time to find and read what he
wants, and taken as a whole, it isa rec
ord of facts and events so concise and
containing so much that everybody
needs, that we do not wonder that the
demand for it is past all precedent.
—If the papers and statesmen (?) who
are jumping into president CLEVELAND
because he merely expressed an opinion
‘on the New York senatorial question
"knew as much about what they are do
S. Senator seems like conclusive evi. |
dence that he suits the people of the |
ing as Mr. CLEVELAND does they would
more than likely keep their mouths shut.
—1It is not likely that a controversy
| between a banana peel and a strip of icy
4s a state Michizan, cn. Mon lay, gave |
pavement would’ result in much satis-
faction to tha pedestrian who had ex-
perienced the downing properties of
each.
The Conduct of the Electoral College,
In view ot the fact that the electors
of the forty-four States of the Union
have just completed the work for which
they were chosen, on the 8th of last
November, it might be interesting to
know just how the electoral college is
conducted.
The constitution demands the selec-
tion of President by electors. Each
State being entitled to as many electors
as it has senators and representatives
in congress. These electors in most of
the States are chosen by the delegates
to State conventions from the several
congressional districts of the State
which they represent, and the choice is
afterwards ratified by the different par-
ty conventions, at which time the elec-
tors-at-large—one for each senator in
congress to which the State may be en-
titled—are chosen. The people vote di-
rect for the individual electors, thus
making it possible to elect all electors
of one party or any faction thereof.
Congress has fixed the time for the elec.
tors, who have been chosen to repre-
sent a State, to meet and cast their bal-
lot for President. Formerly they did
their work on the first Wednesday in
December. It was under the old law
that the electoral votes were cast for
Mr. CLEVELAND, in 1884, but a new law
fixing the date on the second Monday
in January was passed by the Forty-
ninth congress and approved by CLeve-
LAND in February, 1887. In abeyance
of it they met last Monday in the capi:
tole of their respective States and voted
by ballot for President. After the bal-
lots were taken the electors of each
State signed three copies or records of
their actions, one of which they sent to
the president of the senate, by mail,
another they sent him by a special
messenger, and the third was given to
the United States judge of the district
in which the respective electors met.
After all this red tapein the States, the
two houses of congress meet in joint
session, on the second Wednesday in
February to publicly count and declare
the result of the vote.
“No eenator or representative or per-
son holding an office of trust or profit
under the United States shall be an
elector.”
This is the way in which we chose
our president, the electoral college hav-
ing been adopted as a recognition of
the eupremacy of the State, rather than
of the people. The system has grown
old with many other sach institutions
of our government and the question of-
ten arises as to its present efficacy.
It is a much mooted subject. Some
writers holding that the electoral col-
lege is the only judicious way of con-
ducting the election for president, be-
cauge it makes the ballot less of a
weapon, while others maintain that
the present system is not ouly faulty—
as evidenced by the fraudulent election
of Mr. Haves, in 1876—bat that it is
also a practical disfranchisement of
thousands of our voters. This latter
class of thinkers is being augmented
every day by men who are unable to
see the reason why the 452,264 Demo-
crats, who voted in Pennsylvania last
fall, should be disfranchised by a sys-
tem which gives them no voice in the
election of president, and why the
wish of members of either party, in a
| State in which their party is in the mi-
nority, should be similarly disrespected.
The system which has been adopted
in Michigan, that is to have each con-
gressional district elect its own elector,
aims to give a more liberal recogni-
tion to the voice of ‘the people, while
at the same time it adheres to the doc
trine, that the general government is
the creature of the State, and not' the
representative of the people as a whole.
'“— Philadelphia is at last to’ have
a rival. A corporation of Friends will
coon lay out a Quaker city in Oregon.
However, the rivalry will exist in name
only, for while the big Pennsylvania
town continues in her ways of wicked-
ness and governmental corruption her
name-sake on the Pacific will be ¢char-
acterized by everything thatis right
eons. Churches are to displace saloons
and statesmen, ward-heelers.. We fan:
cy that when they come to vote cut
there there won't be twenty five thous
and Democrats disfranchised ‘beesause
their taxes have not been paid while
their more opulent brethren gorge
themselves at Jackson day feasts either.
This Will Give Some One a Pane.
From the New York Times.
It is reported in the trade journals
that the manufacturers of window glass
have completed the plan of a kind of
trust, and that they have sought dili-
gently to devise a scheme that will
not expose them to prosecution under
the anti-trust law. It cannot be that
they fear any attempt on the part of
the present administration to enforce
this statute. Probably they expect
that Mr. Cleveland's Attorney General
will cause their scheme to be inspected.
If it provides for a suppression of com-
petition in prices they have not evaded
the terms of the law, and they may
expect such a reduction of the tariff
duties on window glass as will inter-
fere with the success of their project.
It is Altogether Probable,
From the Philadelphia Evening Herald.
A good deal of fuss is in progress
over the pending United States Senato-
rial election in New York. Some say
that the President-elect went beyond
his province in expressing his views on
the Senatorial subject. Others say
that Ed Murphy is not the right kind
of a man for United States Senator.
This is a free country and everybody
has the privilege of his views, and no-
body has a right to suppress anybody’s
opinion. But as much as sentiments
may vary and conflict on the New York
Senatorial question, there is no possi-
bility of ignoring or eradicating the
fact that the next United States Sena-
tor from the State will be a Democrat.
A Eong Abused Commission.
From the New York World. :
Officers of the army do not seem to
be eager to act as Indian agents under
the law of last July. They are no
doubt convinced of the necessity of
charging eoldiers with this: duty, but
they are unwilling to serve as the sub-
ordinates of civil officers who have
heretofore shown their fitness for car-
ing for the Indians by sending cut
agents who robbed and starved the na-
tion’s wards. The act should be so
amended that the Indian agents will
be transferred to the care of the army.
Centre County Needs More of it Too.
From the Kansas City Star.
There is getting to be too mueh fool-
ishness about the courts, anyway.
Smart lawyers are continually taking
advantage of the law to shield open
violaters of the law and Judges permit
it. A lot of sensible men, who don’t
know a mandamus from & nebular
hypothesis, should be elected judges,
with instructions to laugh at the shy-
stering practitioners when they tried to
shield “well-known criminals.” A lit-
tle more justice and a littleTess law is
needed in the courts of the country.
EAS SA.
“Good Riddance of Bad Rubbish.”
From the Western Press, Mercer, Pa.
The official footing of the returns in
the late election point very clearly to
the decadence of the Republican party,
In New York, Ohio, Indiana, Wiscon-
sin and Kansas Mr. Harrison got fewer
votes in 1892 than hedid in 1888. In
Wisconsin his 1892 vote fell 6,200 below
his 1888 vote and in California for the
same years there was a falling off of 7,-
060.
Two of a Kind.
From the Wilkesbarre Union Leader.
Mr. Cleveland is a great puzzle to
the Republicans. His courage and
common sense make him conspicuous-
ly great, but the Republicans deny
his greatness, and talk of his luck and
his ponderosity and all that eort of
thing. If Lincoln was great then
Cleveland is great, for their leading
characteristics are decidedly similar.
A Frank Republican View of It.
From the Huntingdon Semi-Weekly News.
The Republican House of Represen-
tatives made a very bad beginning in
not opening the session of Legislature
with prayer, and in giving ex-State
Chairman Andrews the seat that be-
longs to Wilbur P. Higby. In all fair-
ness the Republican members should
undo the action of the chief clerk and
let Mr. Higby 1n.
All Wheels Will Fly Ere Long.
From the Columbia Herald.
The anoouncement of the establigh-
ment of a new tin-plate mill at Balti.
more is hardly in harmony with the
theory of the Republican organs which
affect to believe that no new industries
will thrive during the administration
of Mr. Cleveland.
Hence-forth Let us Arbitrate.
From the Providence Journal. :
It cost about a million dollars a day
to carry on the war for four years, but
it cost halt a million dollars a day for-
ever to ‘provide for the pension list.
Peace has her triumphs as well as war,
but they are more expensive.
They Want a Moses for that Wilderness.
From the Lebanon Report. i
What the Republican party needs! is
a blunt and honest Cleveland who will
protest against the election of an unfit
man a United States Senator (rom
Pennsylvania, :
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Williamsport has decided to build a City
Hall for $70.000
—Coyle’s Maryland Cavalry held a reunion
at Gettysburg.
—Reading police are waging a systematie-
war upon tramps. *
—Braford Democrats will nominate J. M.
McClure for Mayor.
—Reading is to have a new National: Bank
with a capital of $200,000.
—Twenty inches of snow didn't stop the
trolly cars in Bethlehem.
—A big shoe factory is about to remove from
Allentown to Port Carbon.
—Widower Albert Jacobs, of Johnstown, Mon-
day attempted to kill himself.
—The repeal of the Sherman act is demand-
ed by Boston's Stock Exchange.
—There are five cases of smallpox at Home-
wood, an Allegheny County village.
—An express train killed Valerio Jarmino,
a railroad employe, near Harrisburg:
—Robert Tomlinson was almost cut in two
by a train at Wrightsville, York eounty.
—District Knights of Labor met in Reading
Sunday to transact important business.
—To constructa town hall, Mount Joy, Lan-
caster County, decided to borrow $10 000.
—A live deer was the trophy that Lancaster
county marksmen shot for at Engleside.
—A train ran over John Filder, a Phi'adel-
phia and Reading brakeman, at Gilderton.
—Atter falling from a freight car near Read-
ing, Lucian Matthias died in a few hours.
—Rival electric railway companies are fight -
ing for the possession of Marietta’s streets.
—Captain Frank O'Brien, a tipstave at Pitts-
burg, dropped dead in a crowded street car.
—About 1000 tons of ice are shipped daily.
from East Mahanoy Junction to Philadelphia
—Workmen at the Homestead mill do-not :
yet know if the new scale of wages is-in effec
—All departments of the Reading Iron Com
pany, at Reading, resumed operations Monday-
~—Two railway cars collided in State street
Harrisburg, and Motorman Clifinger was in-
jured.
—In a mine chute at Buck Ridge, near
Shamokin, Jesse Bamford had his neck
broken.
—The Lackawanna County Clerks have had
their tax statistics returned four times for cor
rection.
—Accused of using the mails illegally, Max
Reese,a Shenandoah business man, was ar
rested.
—From injuries received a week ago.in a
mine, Charles Corrigan Tuesday expired at
Ashland.
—While picking eoal along the Reading
tracks at Reading, 7-year-old George Shade
was killed.
—The Philadeiphia and Reading Company
has ordered 1000 tons of ice tobe stored in
Williamsport.
—The State Democratic Committee will meet
at Harrisburg, January 18, to elect chairman
and secretary.
—Staggering intoa hotel at Shamokin, Reese
Watkins, a well-known citizen, dropped to the
floor and expired. {
—The Slate Fish Commission met at'Scran-
ton and decided to fit up a hatchery to exhi-
bit at the World's Fair.
—Hugh Dempsey, the K. of L. leader at
Pitisburg, was tried Monday for complicity in
the Homestead poisoning.
—A splendid team of horses owned bp John
Marks, of fremont, was horribly gashed in
the stable by an unknown fiend.
—The Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Girard-
villeand Ashland Street Railway will be begum,
January 15, to extend six miles.
—The Braddock Wire Works, of Rittsburg
has set its 75 employes at work again after a
five weeks’ shut down for repairs.
—A bright, handsome, Independent Demo-
cratic daily newspaper called “The Times” is
now issued at noon at Williamsport.
—The smaiipox epidemic at Homewcod was
only in the mind of a policeman who will be
discharged for circulating the rumor.
—Shot through a coal shute and buried for
two nours under the coal, Charles Edmunds,
of Brookside Colliery, was rescued alive.
—The end of a quarrel s&' Connellsville, be-
{ween Samuel Heffley and Ross Balsley was
the almost fatal stabbing of the latter.
—A blast of dynamite at Lancaster fired a
shower of small rocks through the windows of
a Franklin and Marshall College building.
—Chester county Commissioners refuse to
pay Jury Commissioner L. B. King, on the
ground that his bill for $475 is exorbitant.
—Peach yellows and plant diseases will oc~
cupy the time ot the State Horticultural As-
sociation meeting at: Harrisburg, January 18,
—The Atlantic express upset a delivery wa.
gon, horses and driver atthe Walnut street
crossing, Harrisburg, hurting only the wagon -
—Berks County Agricultural Society Satur.
day elected James McGowan president, and re-
elected Secretary Cyrus Fox for the 18th time.
—Chinamen of Luzerne County held a se-
cret meeting and resolved not to register or
have their photographs taken for Uncle Sam.
—John Brown, William O. Boyle and Patrick
Cummings are on trial at Pottsville, charged
with committing many robberies im that seca
tion.
—The trial of Isaac Rosenweig, indicted with
Harris Blank for the murder of Peddler Jacob
Marks, last March, has begumat Tunkhans
nock. { a4
—Superintendent George Creighton, of the
Sarbury division of the Pennsylvania Rail.
road has had a serious fall off the Sunbury sta-
tion steps.
—Matthew Kayle, ‘of ‘Mauch Chunk, was
found unconscious in New York city suflering
with pneumonia, the resalt of starvation and
exposure.
—James Slumming, whe from papers found
is supposed to have had friends at Freeland,
Luzerne county, died worth many thousand
in Trinidad.
—In attempting to assist in shifting freight
cars at Carlisle, Passenger Conductor William
Givler, of the Philadelphia, Harrisburg and
Pittsburg Railroad, slipped and had a leg
amputated, :
—According to the verdict of a Board of
Viewers, the Lancaster and Columbia Electric
Railway will ‘pay the’ Lancaster and Susque-
hanna Turnpike Company $25,000 for space cn
the turnpike." f A
—To escapes collision with a runaway car
near Mahanoy Junction, John Fiedler jumped
from his engine, but the runaway car was
switched upon the track where he alighted,
cutting him to pieces,