Ink Slings. -—The more the Hawaiian wood-pile is investigated the more niggers will be found under it. —Reading stock has been much lower than it is now, but the company has never been in such desperate straits. —Alas, and did poor Kansas bleed, and did the Pop’lists die, but they’ll be found in ’96, with many fingers in the pie. —That “to the victors belong the spoils?’ does not seem to be as much of a question, as to which victors they be- long to does. —~Senator QUAY's assuming the role of reformer seems to give color to the rumor that he is in a precarious physi- <al condition. —Jack Frost's spinal column seems to be unusually flexible this winter. It was supposed to have been broken sev- eral times, but it stiffens right up again. —With the Philadelphia politician and the repeal of the Building Commis- sion the matter is not so much as to the amount the people of that city are being robbed, as it is, who shall share the booty. —Philadelphians are very much ex- orcised over the dirty streets in the big Pennsylvania town. Can it be that dirty politics, make dirty streets ? If so they should know how to effect a speedy remedy. —Two Wyoming legislators have agreed to fight a duel. The new State would not miss such statesmen (?) if they should do something after the style lately adopted in Kentucky and each kill the uther, —The newspapers throughout the land are the most energetic in the cry for sound currency, yet there is not a business that would beso little affected if the whole Treasury would go to smash to-day. — While there’s cabinet apprintments to be made, to be made, and office seek- ers have him on the run. There’s no denying the assertion when it’s said, when it’s said: GROVER CLEVELAND'S lot is not a happy one. —When the Quay legislature gets through apportioning the State, the Democrats will be given the districts that Republican gerrymandering could not take from them. And these will be about all they’ll have. —A few more days and the imagina- tions of cabinet guessers will be set at ease. Thus far the announcements have been a decided surprise, In fact £0 much so that no one bas the least idea who will fill the remaining port- folios. Rest assured, however, that the same good judgment that has been his guiding star thus far will continue to point the way of success to GROVER CLEVELAND. —The Spring elections throughout the State were another satisfactory test of the Baker ballot system. The voting was quiet and the general cutting was evidence that the people are already getting an excellent understanding of the ballot. The inclination to call for instructions before trying a sample ballot seems obnoxious, but Judges should ex- ercise a greater discretion in allowing helpers to enter the booths with voters. —The Washington Star says that some of the U. S. Senators want to wear silk gowns while in session, The Williamsport Times says: “Why not inflate themselves by putting hoops un- derneath ?"’ The Bellefonte WATCH MAN approves the suggestion because it believes that some of those fellows who have either machined or bought their way into the Senate would then be- come great in one sense at least. —The SAYRE election bill which has just passed the Alabama Legislature is the greatest step toward reform in elec- tion’s that has ever been taken in the South. The Australian system has been adopted and an educational quali- fication made. The person who cannot read his own ballot and mark intelligi- bly thereon is denied the franchise. The new law will disqualify at least for- ty-thousand voters, butit tends to eu- courage a higher standard of education. —The most disastrous “slump” in the stocks of the Reading rail-road last week was an excellent illustration of how vulnerable a one man corporation is. The whole organization of the great Reading system was suspended on & thread which J. PIErPOINT MORGAN, head of the great New York Banking firm of Drexel,” Morgan & Co., held and found pleasure to snap asunder. The country realized the situation with the invariable result that Reading stocks were thrown on the market from all quarters, they depreciated millions in value, in fact swamping the road, forcing it into the hands of receivers; The Reading is a great system ‘and has shown a marvelous growth within the last few years, but it cannot inspire the confidence it has lost until it has more than on? whimsical man at its back. AL 3 od emacralic HO STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. Fe) 2 or VOL. 38. BELLEFONTE, PA. FEB. 24, 1833. man; NO. 8. A Retiring Wreck. It is a damaging commentary on the management of the Harrison ad- ministration that it is about to retire with an empty Treasury and a disorder- ed condition of the finances. This state of affairs is more discreditable from the fact that when it assumed power four years ago, as the successor of a Democratic administration, it found a surplus of about a hundred millions in the treasury, and the fi- nances, both national and commercial, on a sound basis. There certainly must have been bad management to have produced the present unsatisfactory situation. When the Secretary of the Treasury finds that there is no longer a reserve upon which to draw, and is forced to the contemplation of aloan to meet the current liabilities of the government, there is presented a contrast to the situation which existed at the close of the last administration that is any- thing but creditable tothose who have since managed the national affairs. And surely there is no excuse for the present straightened condition of the Treasury, for never in the history of the government have the people poured money more lavishly into the Treasury through the medium of taxa- tion than they have during the past four years. The highest tariff the country has ever known has heen in operation during that time, levying contributione from every class of con- sumers for almost every article of ne- cessity. There has been a steady stream from the pockets of the people into the coffers of the government, but there hasalso, at thesame time, been an equally steady stream going out of the Treasury in the form of extrava- gant expenditures which has not only exhausted the immense revenues col- lected by the present administration, but has conrumed the savings of its more economical predecessor. It is scarcely necessary to mention the ex- pedients by which this extravagance was effected. The record of a billion dollar congress, the subsidies granted to specially favored interests, and the manifold abuses of the pension system tell the tale. There would almost appear to have been a settled determination on the part of the HarrIsON administration to wreck the Treasury, and it is evident: ly the intention of the Republican managers to hand this condition of af- fairs over to its successor as an em- barrassing legacy. In the face of a very serious financial situation ; with a depleted treasury and an actual neces- sity for a loan ; with a dissipation of the gold reserve required to assure pub: lic confidence, and with the public credit endangered, the administration falters with the situation, and the President goes off duck-shooting as se- renely as it his indifference to the fi- nancial emergency, together with the obstructive policy of the leaders of his party designed to embarrass the incom- ing administration, was not inviting serious financial complications, if not actual disaster. It looks as if the Republicans are digposed to ruin if they are not allowed to rule. Intruding Upon Mr. Cleveland's At- tention. There should exist the closest and most friendly relations between the President-elect and the Democratic party. It will be largely due to the mutual confidence and good will be- tween them if the measures of his ad- ministration, looking to reform, shall be successfully carried out. Mr. CrevevLaxp in his past public career has given his party every rea- son to haye confidence in his future course. During his first administra- tion the principles of Democracy were closely observed, and Democratic measures were carried out as nearly as could be under the hampering circum: stance of a Republican Senate. Under his direction the first movements to- wards tariff reform were made, which, although fruitless at that time, and postponed by temporary defeat, were grandly vindicated by the receut elec- tion which, after the 4th of next month, will have restored the Demo- cratic party to power and placed Ggro- VER CLEVELAND again at the head of the government, That he greatly desires the success of the measures of reform that are expected of his administration cannot be doubted, and they will be -| successful if he shall have the full con- : fidence and united support of the great party which elected him. Therefore, everythingshould be done to keep the party and its President as close together as possible. Mutual confidence ‘should be sedulously pro moted, and nothing will have so happy an effect in that direction as a recipro- cal understanding between President and party that they are going to stand by each other. What made ANDREW JAcKsoN’s administration the most suc- cessful of any in the political history of the country ? It was such because he recognized the fact that the work of a Democratic administration could be suitably and effectively done only by Democrats. It was also because he did not keep himself aloot from the rank and file of the party, and did not consider it an unbecoming intrusion for any class of Democrats to ask for a share of the rewards of victory. We are led to make the foregoing remarks, not by any apprehension that there will be unsatislactory relations between Mr. CLEVELAND and his party, but because we observe that there are some Democrats, putticg themselves forward as advisers, who want him to keep the party at a distance, and to regard those who may approach him in regard to official preferments as venal and eelfish office-seekers. This is certainly bad counsel. It isan un- warranted intrusion of advisers who themselves are not above the suspi- cions of having an itching desire for official preferment at the hands of Mr. CrLeveranp, while they aftect to be incensed at the intru- sion of the common run of office seek- ers. The tenor of their uncalled for letter if carried into practice by the President-elect, would have the effect of placing him in a position of antag- onism to Democratic custom and tra dition and to excite discontent among the rank and file of the party. Itisin spirit and intent a slander on honest aud hard working Democrats by repre- senting them as acting from a seifish and venal motive where they ask for wat is no more than due them in the way of official consideration. We believe in the long recognized party doctrines that “to the victors be- long the spoils.” To those whose po- litical sensibilities have become abuor- mally delicate this safe old partisan maxim may bave a harsh sound, but it is only a forcible way of saying, with justice backing the expression, that those who have done the work of a party, and have been faithful to it in storm as well as in sunshine, and upon whom it must depend not only for the support of its principles, but also for the winning of its victories, are enti- tled to and should have its honors and emolnments. It means in brief terms, that a party is better served, by being in the hands of its friends than of its enemies. lt is the doctrine which, strictly put in practice, made the Dem- ocracy so vigorous and victorious under ANDREW JACKsON, and which, we trast will make it equally so under Grover CLEVELAND. SET LES. Popular Election of U. S. Senators. The State of California leads off in the movement for the election of Unit- ed States Senators byjthe direct vote of the people, its Legiclature haying passed the necessary legislation sub- mitting to vhe general electors an amendment of the State constitution to that effect. It is altogether becoming that this movement should begin in a state which has done more than any other in making the United States Sen- atorship a prize that may be attained in the way in which a merchantable article is procured—by purchase. The Senate was comparatively free from the presence of men who had intruded themselves by means of their wealth, until the bonanza magnates of the Golden State, moved by Senatorial ambition, nsed their money in induc- ing a venal State Legislature to make United States Senators of them. Since this corrupt and demoralizing practice has been adopted in California that State has had a couple of million- aires in the Senate all the time, to the exclusion of men who, with less money but with more brains, would more cred- | itably and usefully represent the State in the higher branch of the national | Legislature. So bad an example was imitated by | the new “roiten borough’ states which the Republicans admitted into the Un- ion to insrease their political power, all of which, with scarcely an excep- tion, have alloted their senatorial : sade. honors to bonanza millionaires who had mouey enough to buy them. Since this vicious practice has been in progress in the gold and silver min- ing States, weathy men in other States have resorted to the pecuniary method of getting into the Senate, their money making amends for disqualifications that should bar them out, the result being that the higher branch of Con- gress has largely assumed the charac- ter of a millionaires club. The only remedy is to invest the people with the right and’ power of electing United States Senators, and it is evidently fitting thal the movement for its correction should be started in the State where this evil was first de- veloped. It cannot possibly be allowed to continue without seriously impairing the character of our free institutions. With the Senate dominated by men who get there by their ability to pur- chase State Legislatures, or through machine influence in manipulating legislative votes, as is the case in this State, that body which was intended to check improper, impure and injurious legislation, is made the very bulwark of abuses practiced in the interest of monopoly and practiced wealth, Itis in the Senate composed largely of mil: lionaires who buy their seats and boss leaders who control State Legislatures by machine power, that the Republi cans have been enabled to maintain their policy of tavoritism to tariff bene- ficiaries, subsidy receivers, and all the abominations of special privilege and class preference. It is time that the people dislodge such abuses {rom their senatorial stronghold by taking the election of United States Senators in their own hands. Restricting Immigration. While there can be no doubt that too much immigration intojthis country has been going on, and that arestriction pat upon it would havea good efiect, yet care should be taken that the re- straint should not be unreasonably stringent. The avenues of ingress could be closed to such a degree ol ex- clusion as to do more harm than good. This remark is induced by notice of a new secret organization which is said to be arranging for “an aggressive crusade against immigration.” Such an organization is likely to run into extreme measures. ‘‘Aggresive cru- sades’ are seldom directed by the mod- erate counsels which produce the best results. Uncalculating zeal is more of a factor in such movements than prac- tical discretion, and failure is the usual consequence. Known Nothingism was an aggres- sive crusade against immigration,” and what did it accomplieh ? Its dif- ficult to find a man who is willing to admit that he took part in that cru- It is impossible to point to a single good result that eminated from it; and yet this new movement seems to be patterned after that old dark- lantern organization. Itis said to be a “secret order.” But what occasion 18 there for secrecy in the treatment ot any public question ? How can an object be better attained by going for it under the cover of darkness—by sneak- ing toward its accomplishment, after the manver of the jusily despised Know Nothings ? The question is a public and open one. It should be treated publicly and openly. nor is there any occasion what- ever for making it a political question. The evils thatattend the unrestricted influx of foreign immigrants are obvi- ous to every reflecting citizen, and the remedy is equally plain, But it is not to be secured by extreme measures. The introduction of contract lahorers to compete with and undermine our native workingmen is an outrage on the right and interest of American labor, and should be prevented. The importation of pauper and criminal claeses is a great wrong to the Ameri- can people and should be rigidly and severely prohibited. It is suicidal fol- ly to allow the incoming of anarchists, ifit can be prevented. To the extent of excluding such classes as these there should be “an aggressive crusade against immigration’ —not by a secret and sneaking movement, but by an open and determined action. But there is a class of industrious, honest, “self-supporting immigrants whose com- ing among us is a benefit to the coun- try, and American interest wants no dark lantern Know Nothing interfer- ence with their immigration, The Star-Eyed Goddess Cheers, From the Louisville Courier-Journal. If Mr. Cleveland wished to shirk any issue made for him by the National Convention that nominated him, or promulgated by himself, he could not do so either in safety or honor. But there is not the least evidence that he bas the wish to do so. On the eontrary, the selection of Mr. Carlisle for Secre- tary of the Treasury isa guarantee to sky-blue Democrats that his flag is still there, and this selection of Judge Gres- ham for Secretary of State means that he proposes, by re-enforcing the strong- est Democrat of sound opinions with the strongest Republican of sound opin- ions, to say to the great body of right- thinking Americans: “The Democrat- ic party is a party of brains, conscience, and convietions, and big enough to hold every man who, sick and tired of sec- tional and sentimental politics, seeks to turn his back upon the past, his face to the future, and to stand side by side and shoulder to shoulder in an enlightened contest for sound economies,” In this light, and on these premises, the Cour- ier-Jowrnal says : “Hurrah for Cleve- land, Gresham and Carlisle !"’ The Senate Now Certain, From the Philadelphia Times. North Dakota has elected a Sena: tor at last. His name is William N» Roach, and heis of the Democratic faith, having been elected by a coali- tion of the Democratic and Populist members of the Legislature. Senator- elect Roach has served as a member of the Legislature of Dakota Territory and twice ran as the Democratic candi- date tor Governor of the new State, scoring a defeat each time. He isa living illustration of the truth of the maxim thatall thiogs come to him who can wait. The election of Mr. Roach is chiefly significant in adding one to the Democratic Senatorial column from a State that bas been counted in both the Democratic and Populist columns, and makes Demo- cratic supremacy in the Senate alto- gether certain. We're All After the Almighty Dollar. From the Pittsburg Post. That the chief justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania should vacate his place to take the receivership of a bankrupt railroad company under the appointment of a federal judge comes in nature ofa surprise to thé people and the bar. probable chat the matter has been un- der advisement by him for some time, as a move of this importance is not likely to be taken on the impulse of the hour. The receivership offers illimitable opportunities of financial gain, but of curse Mr. Paxson will not avail himself of these. The resigna- tion was sent to the governor on Mon- day evening, after the receivership had been fixed up before the United States judge at Philadelphia, sitting in cham- bers. The Case Would Have Been Different Had Hawaii Been Fleeing from England. From the Philadelphia Times. The protest of the deposed Queen of Hawaii against the summary confisca- tion of her kingdom and somewhat pathetic appeal that comes to-day from the young Princess, will probably have no effect. Yet they do raise a doubt whether the haste with which the treaty of annexation has been concluded with the “provisional” government—that is, the government provided for this pur- pose--is entirely worthy of a great na- tion like the United States. More Cabinet Guessers, From the Pittsburg Post. 1 Attorney general and secretary of the navy are all that remain to com- plete Mr. Cleveland's cabinet. If one is taken from the North, the other will probably come from the South. Ifthe navy goes to the South, the indications point to George A. Jenks for attorney general. But this arragement would leave New England out of the cabi- net. The pecple up there, however, are not supposed to care for office. It is the home of the civil service re- former. I RR A. Yes and Need Them Badly. From the Fulton, Mo., I'elegraph. It was formerly the rule to flog an urchin for telling tales out of school. It is now the rule for indulgent parents to hear eagerly every story a spoiled pet can invent and then join in a crusade against the teachers, What the coun- try needs is some educated parents, Another Threatened Burden, From the Chicago Herald. * Our pension system has some ob- jectionable features already, but what ! will the American democracy ‘say to Ben Harrison's attempt to place the royal family of Hawaii on the'roll for $20,000 a year. : It Fatigues the Imagination From the New York Tribune. There are some feats which fatigue the imagination. : For instance, try to estimate the amount of extra hard swearing which the appointment of Gresham has occasioned in old-fagh- ioned Democratic circles. Mr. Paxson is of eourse the judge of the proprieties. It is’ | Spawls from the Keystone, —Birdsboro wants an amaleur minstrel troupe. —Hazleton will build a $36,700 school hovse this year. —Small-pox'has broken out again at Gough lersville, Bucks county. —The jobs of fighting forest fires cost Blair county $93.55 in 1892. —The snow blockade has been raised on the railroads in Eastern Pennsylvania. —1he bill for the maintenance of - Blair county's insane in 1892 foots up $1,822.17. —West Newton's electric light plant was put in operation recently. It cost $12.000. —Lancaster’s Board of Health has ordered everybody in that place to be vaccinated. —Falling 65 feet from a roof at Reading Sat- urday, James Strouse died in five minutes. —A bill providing for a $100,000 house sew- age system in Reading is now before Councils. —While going to the mines, near Ashland Saturday, Michael Nisko was killed by a loco- motive. —Lackawanna liquor license applications: number 551, against 534 last year, of which 504 were granted. —The Lancaster County Court at the March term will have to pass upon 346 appli¢ations to sell liquor. | ' —Neighbors rescued Mrs. Elizabeth Was- bers, of York, unconscious from the effects of inhaling coal gas. -—A highwayman tried to hold up Thomas - Purcell at Tamaqua, but he was run down by the latter’s horse, —Drivers and runners at two of the Susque- hanna Company’s shaftsat Nanticoke still maintain their strike. —A leak in the open hearth furnace at. the - Standard Steel Works, Chester, caused sever- al thousand dollars damage. —At New Brighton, a reception was “held by the art class of Miss Emma W. Patton at the residence of Mrs. Samuel Kennedy yesterday. —At Allentown, Mrs. Thomas Schlicher, wife of a motorman, became the mother of four children Monday. All died shortly after birth. —Berwyn has lost one of her familiar char- acters, Benjamin Page, a negro, whose body has been found on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. : —Charles Reed, of Benton City, Mo., former ly a well-known architect at Reading, has been found dead on the railroad tracks near his home. —The Pennsylvania Railroad Saturday car- ried, free of charge, the 75 members of Sidney Drew’s theatrical company from Lancaster to Philadelphia, —The Bessemer mill of the Bethlehenr Iron Company started on Monday after an idelness of eight weeks, giving employment to twelve hundred men. —A Uniontown company has purchased the Warren glass works at that place. The plant is expected to start September 1, after being idle two years. —Sehuylkill County Republicans strongly petition Governor Pattison to send ex-Digtrict Attorney Koch to the bench to succeed the late Judge Green. —George F. Titus, of Superintendent Byrnes secret service staff, isin Scranton, looking up testimony adverse to Carlyle W. Harris’ appli- cation for a new trial, —The Democratic candidate for Mayor of Chester, John B. Hinkson, was expected 'to re_ duce the Republican majoriiw: of 600 to 200, if not to defeat Dr. D. W. Jefteris. —At Latrobe, Fred A. Hartman, formerly of Pittsburg, a bartender at the Mehans House, and James Wherry, clerk of the same hotel have been arrested for embezzlement. : —Wilkesbarre, J. B. Rhoades, one ‘of the depositors in the Rockafellow bank, having commenced criminal proceedings against the banker, several others are about to follow his lead. —A pine tree was cut dawn in Liberty town - ship, Tioga county, a few days ago, which was literally a giant of the forest. It was 105 feet in height, and the lumber which it. yielded was sold for $100. —Engineer Thomas Low and Fireman Thom - as Poole, of au East Penn fast freight traim, were injured by a collision with a shifting en- gine at Allentown, Monday morning, owing to an open switch. —Thieves, who evidently were familiar with Hunter Brothers’ bookstore at Chester, secured a bag containing $150, which had.been hidden in rubbish, but overlooked $175 in a tin bex and the cash in the register. —The neighborhood of Bushkill, Pike coun- ty, has been full of wildcats or catamounts this season. Six of these animals have been killed. It is thought that the recent mild winters have filled the woods with gray rab- bits, the natural prey of these animals. —The Forrest-Fran klin election inguiry was resumed in Lancaster on Tuesday. Franklin closed his side. A motion was made for an amendment to Forrest's answer, so.as to show that voters were purchased for Franklin, Ar- gument wil} be heard to-day on that point. —Jesse Jones, aged 102 years, died some days ago at the Armstrong County Poor Farm. He was originally froma Westmoreland county, but for many years has been a charge on Arm- strong county. He is said to have served im the war of 1812. The cause of his death is. at- tributed to old age. i —It is more than likely that a pension fund for the superannuated will seon be established in connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s Voluntary Relief Association. The seventh annual meeting of the Relief Associa- tion was held recently. The report of the pension fund committee was more encourag- ing than it has been heretofore, and this led the officers to think that before the yesr is- out the fund will be established and in good working order. : —George Stengel, a German. fasmer near Brush creelz, heard of the run on the Econo- my, Bank at Bsaver Falls, and as he had some money in the institation he hurried and got it. He had several thonsand dollars in his possession when he left the bank at3 o'clock and started for home at nighttall. When ahout half way to his home he was stopped by two masked men, and while one of them held his horses the other demanded his money, Steugel fought so hard that the highwaymen had to knock him senseless. Just as the ‘old fellow fell, a rapidly driven wagon approached the scene. After one hurried effort to get the money, the robbers fled. The men in the wagon were neighbors of Stengel. They lift- ed the unconscious man into his wagon, drove him home on a gallop and called a doctor. His skullis said to have been fractured, rand, ho is now lying in a critical condition.
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