8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Crinolines promise quite a bustle
in the feminine world,
—Let everything keep Lent but your |
umbrella and your quarters.
—There can be no doubt that Con-
gress is nearing its end, but what has it
finished ?
—If HARRISON had begun appoint.
ing Democrats to Federal offices four
years sooner, it is hard to conjecture
what would have been the status of
things to-day.
—The Populists must have control of
the Kansas rail-roads too. Under a late
ruling by the companies in the Sun-
flower State ministers must pay full fare
if they want to ride.
—Scientists are still at sea a3 to how
many volts of electricity are required to
put a man’s light out. It is not likely
that they will find out from any of
their subjects either.
—-S1. VALENTINE will have his day
next Tuesday and in view of the fact
that GEORGE WASHINGTON was never
sainted, old PATRICK will be the next
patron to have his inning.
—1TIt has just leaked out that Mr.
Frick built that high fence around the
Homestead mills last summer to keep
his striking employes from stealing the
hams out of the pig iron in stock.
—1Tt is really amusing to hear Repub-
licans talking about political BURCH-
ARDS now. ’Tis true that a BURCHARD
figured as a cause of their defeat in 1884,
but the Lord knows no one man effected
the land-shide of ’92.
—1If the Quaker City police don’t
look a little out some of the audacious
thieves down there will be carrying them
off and be holding them for a ransom.—
Who do you think would offer it, the
City or the speak-easy proprietors ?
--With Governor FLowkR after La-
bor Commissioner PECK and a congres-
sional committee determined to oust
JoHNNY DAVENPORT they might in-
deed be looking for the intervention of
the hand that tempers the winds to the
shorn lamb.
— American industries are something
to be proud of. Just think of it even
the little honey bees turned out $20,-
000,000 worth of products last year. Tn
the language of tke street urchin
they’te “hot stuff,” especially the busi-
ness end of them.
—The hosts of newspaper correspon-
dents who are embarking for Hawaii
should remember that ‘‘discretion is the
better part of valor,” for if the natives
should run them into the sea they will
have a long, damp walk ere they reach
the sunny climes of California.
—Queen LILIUAKALANI evidently
has a much longer head than the aver-
age newspaper man gives her credit
with possessing. If her monarchy had
lasted she would never have had to face
a $150,000,000 pension bill so long as
she kept her standing army down to
sixty men.
"Tis a pity that a man’s good points
are never discernible until after his de
mise, political or otherwise. President
HARRISON has won more praise by his
appointment of Judge JACKSON to the
supreme bench, as L. Q. C. LAMAR’S
successor than he did in all rest of his
experience as head of our government.
—Representative TuBss, of Missouri,
has jumped at the conclusion that we
want the Sandwich Islands and has
presented a measure, in Congress, tavor-
ing their annexation. If Uncle Sam
acts favorably on it and we get into
trouble with any foreign powers over
the matter, we’ll launch the Missouri
congressman along with our naval tubs
and let him fight it out.
—General BaLriNeToN BoorH, the
head of the Salvation Army in America,
is in Omaha, Neb., carrying on a great
revival. In a recent interview he ex-
pressed his desire of colonizing chris-
tians in this country as they have done,
with such good results, in Europe. If
the General has any doubts as to the
most effective methods of colonization
we would refer him to the ex-Republi-
can campaign managers.
—MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY has in-
deed turned a reformer. Not content
with laboring for the Sunday closing of
the World's Fair he has even gone so
far as to let the Inquirer undertake the
work of reform in the Quaker City. In
its Sunday issue it actually said: “In
two weeks there is to be an election for
Councilmen. If better and cheaper
gas is wanted vote only for the best
men, regardless of party.”
—Never fail to take the advice of a
man who doesn’t practice what he
preaches, forit is invariably the case
that bitter experience has made him wise
in the course he aims to point out for
you, and weakness of purpose alone has
made it impossible for him to keep on
it himself. The drunkard, though he
continues in his bacchanalian orgies
ani knows his life is lost, will always;
tell you to leave alcoholic drinks alore.
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VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 10, 1893.
NO. 6.
Improvement of the New Ballot Sys-
tem.
The Australian ballot, adopted in a
number of States with various modifi-
cations, has fully vindicated the excel
lence of its main features. It has
thrown around the right of suffrage a
protection which it never had before,
It has limited the opportunity of those
who would coerce volers, or corrupt
them. It has removed most of the in-
fluences which heretofore have, to a
large extent, perverted the expression
of the people at the polls.
These good results have been effect
ed in most of the States which have
adopted the reformed ballot system,
with consequences which proved that
the purer and less affected by improper
influences the ballot is kept, the larger
the Democratic majorities are, and the
more fully the principles of Democra-
cy are vindicated and enforced. It
cannot be doubted that to the reformed
method of voting much of the Demo-
cratic success at the last election was
due, and that it was a powerful factor
in securing the election of CLEVELAND
and in solving the problem of tariff re-
form. With the new safeguards to
the secrecy and purity of the ballot in
New York and Indiana the agencies
which carried those States for HARRI-
soN in 1888 were powerless at the last
election.
Pennsylvania has a modification of
the Australian system. It had its
first trial at the last election, and
while its good points were clearly dem-
onstrated, some deficiencies were al-
so manifested. The defects in the law
were pointed out at the time of its pas-
sage; they proved themselves to be
such when the system was put into
practical operation, and the Governor
in his last message recommended the
correction of such defects in the elec-
tion law as were made apparent at its
first test in November.
A bill for this purpose has been in
troduced in the Legislature, the pro-
visions of which, if passed, will make an
election law as perfect as it can be
made under the new system. It re
quires that the mark indicating the
choice of the voter shall be put oppo-
site each candidate he shall vote for.
The method practiced last fall in using
but one mark to include an entire
group, led to frequent errors; besides
it interferes with those who wish to
split their tickets. The aew bill also
provides for greater safeguards in the
cases of those who require assistance
in marking their tickets, They must
make oath that they require such as-
sistance, and the parties who may be
called in to render it must be sworn
that they will perform that service in
good faith and with no fraudulent in-
tention. The name of the assistant is
to be endorsed in the ballot to fix bis
responsibility in case there has been
any crooked business in the transac-
tion.
These are the principal amendments
and if the bill imbodying them is
adopted, it will make our elections as
safe against fraud, corruption and im-
proper influences as elections can be
made.
What ‘the Country Members” Will Do.
The Philadelphia Record makes pub-
lic a report which it claims is current
to the effect that the ‘country mem-
bers” of the State Legislature will be
made the cat’s-paws by which the
Philadelphia Public Buildings Com-
mission will be pulled out of the fire.
Such an expression is altogether un-
warranted at this stage of the proceed-
ings and whatever the out come may
be the Record can make up its mind
right now that the “country members”
will have voted just as the majority of
the Philadelphia members did. If the
members from Philadelphia, who are
supposed to represent the sentiment of
their Districts, vote against the disso:
presumptuous for those from other
parts of the State to step in and say
how a thing, which they know noth-
ing about, should be ran.
If the Commission is continued it
will be simply because a majority of
the Philadelphia members vote that
way, and the very fact that they have
done that will be face evidence, at least,
that their people wanted it continued.
[t Philadelphians can’t trust their own
representatives they should not expect
thcee from other Districts to make up
for the short-comings of the men they
| have sent to look after their interests.
lution of the Commission it would bey
President Harrison’s
prise.
Agreeable Sar-
President Harrison certainly treated
the American people to a pleasant and
gratifying surprise in going outside of
his party for a successor to the late
Supreme Justice Lamar, who was a
Democrat, and, in consequene of his
having been such, propriety required
that his place should be filled by a
Democrat, under the conditions now
existing in the political apportionment
of the Supreme Court.
But the proprieties are not always re-
garded in the exercise of the appoint
ing power, and President HARRISON
particularly has shown a disregard for
them in some of his past appointments.
He fairly won the reputation of being
a close partisan, and it was reasonably
expected that at the heel of his admin-
istration, regardless of the better right
of his successor to make the appoint
ment, he would embrace with avidity
the chance of putting another Repub-
lican on the Supreme bench. But he
has not done 80; he has not availed
himself of this partisan opportunity,
and hence the very great and pleasant
surprise he has given the people in his
appointment of Judge JAcksoN ; hence
the thanks that are due him for his
liberality and fair-mindedness in this
particular case.
But even the best acts will arouse
the carpings of habiwal fault-finders.
The President is condemned for this
excellent appointment by some of the
Republican mossbacks who can’t ap
preciate a high-minded and wron-parti.
san action and are disgruntled because
Mr. Harrison did not do so improper
a thing as to hurry through the ap-
poiniment of a Republican Justice at
the close of his administration. Such
partisan fau't-finders would be better
satisfied it every seat in the United
States Supreme bench was filled by a
red-hot Republican put there for the
especial purpose of making partisan
decisions.
There are also some Democrats who |
are not exactly pleased with President |
HaRrrIsoN's proceedings in this matter.
Probably it would have been more cor:
rect to have handed over to a Demo-
cratic President the appointment of a
Democrat to the Supreme Court, but
in choosing Judge Jackson for that ex-
alted position Mr. HarrisoN made so
excellent a selection that in our opin-
ion there 18 no room for the fault find-
er to get in his ill-natured strictures.
The President selected an excellent
Jadge, a man of the purest personal
character, a Democrat whom Presi-
dent CLEVELAND had previously ap-
pointed to a Judgeship, and what bet-
ter could he have done?
——The present tax collector S. D.
Ray aspires to re-election. He has
not complied with the law with regard
to settling the duplicate. Elect some
one who will. Vote for Huga TayLor
one of the most energetic young men
in our town,
Hazleton wants to be a county-
seat and has cropped off bits of Luz-
erne and adjoining counties to make a
district for itself. The Plain-dealer ad-
mits that the taxes would be high for
a while but the increased valuation
about Hazleton would make up for
that. The would-be-county will be
called Hazle, but we fear its only a
witch-hazle that is goading the pro-
jectors on.
——Council pas Pasner run in Se inter-
ests of private concerns and individuals
jong enough. Vote for SecHLER. Vote
for Kirg. Vote for Busa. They are
the people’s candidates ‘and are not
tied down by obligations to anyone.
If ice jams were as palatable as
they are dangerous, humanity would
find little trouble in putting up enough
provender now to do for several sea:
80N8.
—— Let Bellefonters’ live under a
Democratic mayor, a Democratic sheriff,
a Democratic governor and a Demo-
cratic prositeny Vote for MEYER.
On Tataday 4 the U. S. Senate re-
fused to consider the repeal of the SaEr-
MAN silver bill by a vote of 42 to 23.
—1t looks very much as though old
BorEAs is trying to corner the ice
market.
Hawaiian Annexation.
Since the last issue of the WartcH-
MAN, when we gave our preliminary
views on the Hawaiian question, events
ir connection with this emergent issue
have rapidly advanced. The delega-
tion from Hawaii, invested with the
right to offer us the sovereignty of the
islands, were then on their way to
make the momentous presentation,
their intention having been telegraph-
ed ahead. They are now in the na-
tional capital ; they have opened their
headquarters and are ready for busi-
ness ; the flag of their provisional gov-
ernment has been unfurled to the
breeze in the capital city of this Repub-
lic, and they announce upon what
terms they are willing to give Uncle
Sam the exclusive ownership of the
fairest gems that stud the bosom of
the Pacific.
Their terms are easy and very flat-
tering to the American government,
They want to be a part of the Repub-
lic. They desire association with no
other powers. They offer to us the
exclusive sovereignty of the most de-
sirable islands that lie in the commer-
cial highway between the shores of
Asia and America. It is for the Unit
ed States government to determine
whether it shall accept the maguifi
cent offer, and it is hardly possible
that it will be declined. In our opin-
ion the annexation of the Sandwich
Islands to the United States is mani-
fest destiny, to be followed in due time
by the acquisition of Canada and Ca-
ba. The wings of the American eagle
are adjustable to a broader spread.
As to the particular method by
which the ownership of Hawaii shall
be aquired, that is something to be
settled by the wisdom of our states
men. As the question has been
sprung in the expiring moments of the
Harrison administration, it will have
to be exclusively determined by Presi
dent CLEVELAND and the Democratic
| cabinet and the Congress that will have
control of affairs under his administra-
tion. It can be left to their determina.
tion with full assurance that American
honor and interests in the case will
not suffer at their hands. There ap-
pears to be no other alternative than
direct annexation, but whether as a
State or a Territory is a reserved ques-
tion. There are grave objections to a
protectorate, as it would not invest our
government with the sovereignty that
would give it effective control of the
islands. The Hawaiian delegation ex-
press a preference for such a govern-
ment under the United States as is ex-
ercised over the District of Columbia,
their object being to avoid the poly-
glot suffrage which a State or Terri-
torial form of government would con-
fer upon the hybrid races that com-
pose the larger portion of the popula-
tion.
We last week alluded to the agricul-
tural, commercial and strategic advan-
tage of the possession of these islands.
But the great object of their acquisi-
tion is to prevent England from get-
ting them. It is fortunate indeed that
this question was not preciptated when
our navy was in the low condition in
which Republican mismanagement
had placed it. A Democratic admin-
istration put new life into it, and it is
due to the policy inaugurated by Sec-
retary WHITNEY, under President
CLEVELAND, that we now have a navy
strong enough to make arrogant old
England restrain her disposition to in-
terfere with our annexation of islands
that are of the first importance to our
Pacific commerce and indispensable
for the protection of our coast border-
ing that great ocean.
———Newspaper piracy has come to
be such a common thing with the
press of our country that when a real
ly good article appears, the reader hesi-
tates to give credit to the editor whose
journal publishes "it, for the simple
reason that in the next column his
eyes might fall on an article which he
has read before in another paper to
which credit is not given. This thing
ot appropriating the work of others is
bringing our newspaper standard to a
very unreliable state.
—- Statistics show that the average
life of a lawyer is 52.1 years or just 4.8
years longer than that of a mechanic.
This is because the disciples of BLack-
sToNE have such a fat thing of it,
The Sherman Act Should be. Repealed.
From the New York World.
There are the strongest business rea-
sons for a repeal of the Sherman act.
It is a measure ot unnecessary taxa-
tion. The Treasary is compelled to
pay out nearly $2,000,000 each month
for silver which it does not want. This
is a monstrous wrong upon the taxpay-
ers for the sole benefit of the silver-
mine owners.
It1s a losing investment. Since the
compulsory purchase of silver began in
1878 the Government has bought 418,-
401,497 ounces st a cost of $432 372.-
907. The present market value of this
silver is only $351,457,257, represent-
ing a loss of $80,915,650.
It is reducing the United States
aloe of the great industrial and com-
mercial nations to a cheap-silver basis.
Gold is steadily flowing out of the
country and being hoarded in Europe.
The *‘tree gold” in our Treasury—the
amount above the reserve fund for the
redemption ot greenbacks—is only
$8,000,000. This is a danger-signal
which no prudent business man can
disregard.
It has failed of its avowed purpose.
It has not sustained but rather depress-
ed the price of silver. It has not made
money more plentiful in the pockets of
those who have no acceptable equiva-
lent of labor or product.
Include Chewing Gum and Let’er Pass.
From the Philadelphia Times.
The bill to prohibit the manufacture
and sale of cigarettes in Pennsylvania,
which has passed the House ot Repre-
sentatives with only eighteen votes, is
about the most violent piece of sum ptu-
ary legislation attempted in this Com-
monwealth during the present century.
As it was introduced by a Democrat,
who presumaoly believes in personal
liberty, the bill was generally regarded
as a joke, a burlesque of the meddle
some enactments that camber the stat-
ute books otso many States. The vote
in the House would indicate that the
members still take this view of it, siuce
there must be more than eighteen men
who recoguize its absurdity, But the
joke has now been carried far enough
and it will be necessary for the Senate
to put an end to it. Perhaps an easy
way to do this would be by amend-
ments extending the prohibition to
pipes, chewing tobacco, peppermint
drops and various other things more or
less obnoxious. It the Legislature is
going to regulate conduct, it should not
stop at half-way measures.
Senatorial Inequalities,
From the Phila. Record.
There were not as many votes polled
in the State of Nevada at the recent
Presidential election 2s were polled in
the Twenty-sixth ward of Philadelphia
Yet this inconsequential rabble of halt-
starved mountaineers have been put in
a position to balance the weight of five
million people in Pennsylvania by the
votes of their two Senators! This is
the outcome of the policy of dilution
which has sought to keep control of
the Government by weakening the au-
thority of populous States, and filling
the Senate with political titmice and
the Electoral College with obedient
puppets. The disgraceful squabbles
that are going on in the election of
Senators by the Legislatures in some
of these mountain fastuesses show that
they are turning against the party that
is responsible for them, and furnishing
a new proof that the devil sometimes
gets burned with his own fire.
It Doesn't Enter the Hawaiin Question.
From the Philadelphia Evening Herald.
The Richmond 7%mes says it has al-
ways “regarded the Monroe doctrine
as the most preposterous proposition
that ever emanated from a sensible
man.” The value of that doctrine de-
pends entirely upon the strength which
the United States may have to enforce
it. Itit can’t be backed by sufficient
power it is certainly preposterous. But
we believe that Uuncle Sam has the
requisite muscle.
His Sins Have Found Him Out.
From the York Gazetfe.
The people who saw Senator Mat-
thew Stanley Quay at Harrisburg Tues-
day, were amazed as they look upon
him. The Senator has grown thin,
cadaverous and week, and a sickly pal-
lor overspreads his face. He looks like:
a dying man.
Put to a Profitable Use.
From the Louisville Courier Journal.
Should we annex Hawaii we can
perhaps, turn an honest penny by hir-
ing out the Queen's army of sixty men
to serve in the chorus of some comic-
opera company.
When He Takes a Step Everything Goes,
From the Brookville Jeffersonian Democrat.
Governor Hogg, of Texas, evidently
does not belong tothe “razor back”
breed. Heis 39 years of age and
| weighs 375 pounds.
—1If you want printing of any de-
scription the Warcamax office is the
| place to have it done,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Small-pox has broken out at Werner
ville.
—Bcthlehem has set its heel
crossings.
upon grade
—Dick inson College will erect a new $25,000
building.
—Cars crushed to death Michael Vernato at
Milnersville.
—Painters in Reading demand 25 cents
more wages a day.
—All the Clear Spring Colliery hands are on
a strike at Pittston.
—The Girard estate will build a $75,050 mine
dam at Girardville.
—There is an ice flood in the West Branch
of the Susquehanna River.
—Rev. Covert’s endeavor to indict cfficers of
Solon, at Pittsburg, flunked.
—Thieves stole 400 cigars from Samuel
Gunter’s store, at Shenandoah.
—An ordinance is pending in Williamsport
Councils to abolish street fakirs.
—Owing to dull marketthe Birdsboro Nail
Works closed Saturday temporarily.
—Struck by a train, George Die, expired at
his home at Marysville, York County.
—A prominent Ashland politician, Valentine
Depner, died in bed Monday morning.
—Bristol will borrow money to construct
sewers as a means to prevent typhoid.
—Jeremiah Roth was re-elected president of
the Lehigh County Agricultural Soeicty.
—Jack Clifford, the Homestead siriker on
trial for murder, will try to prove an alibi.
—Four of Reuben Smith's children, at Eas-
ton, have died of diphtheria in nine days.
—Tec a shortage of natural gas is attributed a
great many pneumonia deaths in Pittsburg.
—Jacch Mumma, a Hanover recluse, aged 74
who has lived secluded in a cellar since 1847, is
dead.
—Lytle Colliery, on the New Minersville
Branch, near Pottsville, has resumed oper-
ations.
—The coal mine near West Newton in
which Jacob Newton was lost is burning like.a
furnace.
—While waiking on the railroad track near
Christiana, Joseph Beckman was run down by
a train.
—The Vigilant Fire Company, of York, cel-
ebrated the 113th anniversary of its organai_
zation.
—Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle
proposes a big church forall workingmen in
Pittsburg.
—Water from the city’s trench undermined
and wrecked a new house of William Shode
at Reading.
—Cyrus T. Fox, of Reading, will have
charge of Pennsylvania's display of fruit at the
World’s Fair.
—Commissioner Bowes, of Schuylkill Coun-
ty, surcharged $1500 by auditors, has appealed
to the Court.
—A red hot hook seared a hole through the
hand of Jacob Billet, employed atthe York
rolling mill.
—Elijah Dillon is in Berks County Jail ac
cused of breaking the rib of Ed ward Gautz's 3
year-old-child.
—Lehigh county auditors Friday began an
investigation of the accounts of the County
Commissioners:
—Injuries sustained by falliug from the roof
of Allentown hotel resulted fatally to Annie
Adams, a servant.
—Safe robbers got $100 and other booty in
Joel Wenger & Son’s office, at Brownstone,
Lancaster County.
—The baby of Mrs. Morris Yosty, Lebanon
nearly died from drinking ammonia given to
it by an older child.
—Gum boots caused blood poisonin the leg-
of Mrs. Daley’s little son, at Pittsburg and am -
putation is a necessity.
—For embezzling $5000 of the Wilk esbarre
Deposit and Savings Bank, Charles Voight
goes to jail for 15 months.
—A conference of the Pennsylvania State
Woman Suffrage Association will be held at
Harrisburg, February, 28.
—Smallpox has broken out at Wernersville
and Millmont, in addition to the farming di s.
tricts in Western Berks.
—Sixteen-year-old Emil Wagner, of Phila
delphia, a Nazareth Military School truant, has
been captured in Allentown.
—The new Lalance.Grosjean bar and sheet
iron plant at Harrisburg, employing hands,
began business on Saturday.
—Bishop Esher told Reading friends that he
will shortly go to Japan, to organize the first
Evangelical Conference there,
—Mrs. Hannah Leib, mother of Carriage-
maker George C. Leib, of Ashland, was found
dead in bed Monday morning.
—The coal monument 50 feet high built for
the World's Fair by the Lehigh Valley Com
pany, at Shenandoah, is completed.
—The Pennsylvania i.ines west have order-
ed 1000 gendolas to be delivered by May 1, to
be used in the coal and coke traffic.
—Twenty-eight dozen quail have been taken
to Washington County from Tennessee, and
will be released for breeding purposes.
—The Philadelphia and’ Reading Company,
will be sinking a new shaft near Minersville
the output of which will be very great.
—W. H. Dech, of Lincoln, Neb., the reeently
defeated Populist candidate for Congress, who
attempted suicide, was a former Allentown
man,
—All the mines of the Delaware Lacka-
wanna and Western Company, employing
13,000 hands, were put upon on eight hours a
day.
—In a eollision of coal trains om the Dela-
ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, at
Ninevah, Engineer Andrew Histed was
killed.
—Suit will be brought against the bondsmen
of ex-Treasurer Obold, of Reading, to recover
the deficit amounting to several thousand
dollars.
—Tom Brown, accused of the murder of an
other negro named Robinson, at Ebcrvale, has
been arrested at Niagara Falls and taken to
Wilkesbarre. :
—County Treasurer Pepper, of Pottsville
wants that part of the Auditor's report set
aside which charges him with the Court House
commissions.
—Stricken with paralysis and unable to call
for help, Hotelkeeper W. A. Eby, of Shamokin
was frozen to death within sight of his home
Sunday night.
—At the same shaft and in the same manner
but at different times Friday Thomas Moran
and John Thomas, driver boys in Wilkesbarre
mine, were fatally squeezed.