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.
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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.