APS -can party found itself in the soup. -day the National capital has ever seen. for Americans or the Death of the Tar- ‘elect a president at least once a month. Demoreaic Wtf, BY PRP. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. . —The cabinet is full at last. We hope not too much so for utterance. —CBARLEY DANA, in his New York Sun can guy his funny name, but “Hoky-poky’’ SMmira, you bet, will get there just the same. —The convenuon of the electrical engineers of the country now sitting in St. Louis, Mo., will more than likely give that city a shock of some sort. —Representative NickeLL, of Phila- delphia, must have been in a decidedly sour mood when he introduced his bill to prevent the adulteration of vinegar. —For once in their lives the Demo- crats have come out on top. The ‘‘head I win, tail you lose’ game was played with both Populists and Republicans in Kansas and worked like a charm. —A beer trust which will be the largest organization of its kind in the country is about forming in Detroit. The price of hops will not be affected, but who can say so much as to that of tags)? — Whatever the condition of the Treasury the growth of the new navy shoald not be impeded. We should be able to get armored battle ships on cred- it for they assume the nature of a debt that will float itself. —-The fellow who invested his entire bank account in Columbian souvenir coins finds that there are three millions of them to be disposed of at ons dollar before his dreamed of speculation will begin to cast & material shadow. —The rice crop of the South reached two hundred and twenty-five million pounds last year, a gain of ten million pounds over any preceding year’s growth. Is it any wonder the Republi- ——To-morrow will be the biggest Thousands of people will be there to see the finale of the little play, America iff Robbers, in which they played such and important role last November. —TIt will take $166,600,000 to pay the pension claimants this year... Mr. Raum says $200,000,000 will be requir- ed next year, Itis to be hoped that something will have been done, ere ‘‘next’’ year comes, to relieve the coun- try of this awful drain upon its re- sources. —If the country could stand it it would undoubtedly be a good plan to Congress would then get something done because of so many adjournments. In the last four days more work has been put through than was accomplished all the rest of the session. : —TUncle JERRY RUSK 15 out with ad- vice to farmers to fatten their hogs for market , instead of selling their corn. | He forgets when he says a short crop of porkers is bound to make high prices, that to-morrow will mark the beginning of a period during which the market will be quickly overstocked by the por- cine specimens that have been feeding at the pubiic stalls for the last four years. —The cordial reception accorded ADLAI STEVENSON, all along the route he traveled from his home in Blooming- ton, 11l., to Washington, was fresh evi- dence of the place he holds in the hearts of the people. Few men indeed have met popular favor in a more successful way than Mr. STEVENSON and as presi- dent of the Senate, that strong individ- uality that has marked his career thus far will undoubtedly predominate to strengthen the faith reposed in him asa Democrat. ——To-morrow BENJAMIN HARRI- 80N will step down and out. His suc- cessor GROVER CLEVELAND represents a party that is pledged to reform the tariff, revise the pension rolls and regu- late the taxes to the uses of the govern- ment economically administered, He finds the country on the verge of a fi- nancial crisis, the Treasury drained to its last resource and its general business interest in a precarious condition. ‘What will four years of Democratic ad- ministration bring fortk? Who can say that it has not been well if the country finds itselfin 1896 as it did in 1888. ~The Republican press is having a great time in climbing the genealogical trees of the families represented in Mr. CLEVELAND'S cabinet. Mr. OLNEY, of Massachusetts, and Mr. SMITH, of Geor- gia, are both sticklers for it and not hav- ing found any vulnerable points in their ancestry it acknowledges its defeat by crying out ‘Who is this man OLNEY ?”’ “Who is this man Smita?” Though never having figured in public life they are none the less men of known repute in private affairs, in the communities in which they reside, and their practical ideas when put to service for tl.eir coun- try will soon answer the sneering ques- tions of the disgruntled press. Who was GROVER CLEVELAND before he be- Ce \ NRO) STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. “VOL. 38. BELLEFONTE, PA.,, MARCH 3, 1893. NO. 9. The South in the New Cabinet. To those American citizens who be- lieve that the Union has been fully re stored, and that sectionalism is dead and should be buried beyond the pos sibility of resurrection, it is a source of gratification to observe the number of Southern men who will be in President CLEVELAND's cabinet. Ever since the war the presence of a man from that section in a high position connected with the government was regarded by a certain class of politicians with af. fected alarm. They pretended to see great danger in the official recognition of Southern men, and assumed to draw from it the inference that the ‘Rebel Brigadiers” would soon be in the saddle. Of course this was done for political effect, but great injustice resulted from it to a class of our fellow citizens who in the performance of their duty to their country and government have been examples of honor and loyalty ever since the restoration of the Union. Mr. CLevELaND has put the seal of condemnation on such injustice by calling three citizens of the South to places in his cabinet, and they are men who will prove as serviceable to the administration as to the general interests of the country. Foremost among them is Senator CARLISLE, a statesman who is recog- nized as one of the very first among our public men in point of ability, while his probity equals the high order of his intellect. For the special pur- pose he is 1ntended to serve in carrying out the policy of tariff and financial re- form it would pave vein impossitle to have made a better selection, or rather it may be said that it is questionable whei'sw any other selection would have been as good. And where could the choice for Sec- retary of the Navy have more worthily and properly fallen thab upon HiLary A, Herserr of Alabama. We observe a Republican contemporary pretending to be horrified at the idea of the Ameri- can navy being put in charge of an ex. confederate. The poor, deluded sheet is probably igunorant'of the fact that the Alabama statesman, whom Mr. CLevELAND has called into his cabinet, has had as much to do with the re. storation of the navy as any other man connected with the government. As Affairs during CLEVELAND'S first ad- ministration he was the chief assistang of Secretary WHITNEY in rescuing our naval establishment from the dilapi- negligence and spoilation had re- duced it. In Mr. Hoke SmitH, of Georgia, the new cabinet will have a man of ex- cellent ability and high character, in view of which tact the idiotic ridicule of his name may be regarded with con- tempt. As in Mr. HERBERTs case, the sensitive Republican loyalists affect to regard his appointment with alarm, pretending to be shocked at the idea of the Pension Bureau coming under the jurisdiction of an ex-confederate Sec- retary of the Interior. But really the greatest danger to the pension system lies in the extravagance and profligacy of Northern politicians. No harm will be done the interests of worthy pensioners by a cabinet officer who, while recognizing their just claims, will also see that the government is not robbed. The ample recognition of the South by Mr. CLeveLaND in the make-up of his cabinet is one of the best features of its construction. It completely ig nores the injurious sectional feeling that so long prevailed. It entirely dis- cards the bloody shirt and consigns it to oblivion. The result of it will be the thorough disproof of the assump: tion, upon which the Republican party has done so much political banking, that it is dangerous to entrust South- ern men with responsible positions in the government. TS RC —— The bill which the late Senator NEegn, of Allegheny county, introduced in the Legislature, shortly before his death, which makes it a misdemeanor for any person to furnish untrue stories to newspapers for publication as news, will more than likely become a law, If such is the case the “practical joker and news fakir” will fiad themselves came Governor of New York? out of a job, Should Be of Beaten Brass. That commemorative occasions are not always in honor of some good act or the accomplishment of some noble pur- pose is evidenced by the fact that on the 25th of April next, the surviving members of the band of 306 political bummers, who would have forced GRANT upon the country for a third term and GRANT-ism upon it forall time, are to have a dinner in commemora- tion of the cause for which they strug- gled and the efforts that made them notorious. In the entire history of the govern- ment or of the political efforts connect: ed with it, there has been nothing as brazen as this proposed commemora- tion, or as impudent as will be its carrying out. It is simply intended, and will be, the glorification of an effort, on the part of office-holders, government-con- tractors and big and little treasury rob- bers to perpetuate for all time the ruin- ous rule of the few who then con- trolled the power and patronage of the government and to rob the people of the authority to choose their own rulers or to dictate ard enforce that government: al policy that best suited their inter- ests. It will be the “honoring” ofa combination of all that was venal in a most venal administration to perpet- uate venality; the’ commemoration of a combine of corrupt persons, for cor- rapt purposes and that they, them- selves, might reap the benefits of that corruption. These were the purposes, and the efforts to attain these ends are to be commemorated by a dinner! Shades of all that is pare in politics! honorable in design! or patriotic in purpose! What brazen impudence? What unparalleled effrontery ? ; And yet, possibly it is the proper thing to have this commemorative din- ner; to keep alive a recollection of the designs of these conspirators and cor- ruptionists and a remembrance of the disgraceful defeat that followed their efforts. As'a warning to others it may be well not to forget the purpose for [ which this combination was formed, or the dishonor that followed those connected with it. And so the dinner should proceed: It should be held with all the eclat possitle and along with the original badge ot membership, chairman of the committee on Naval | dated condition to which Republican | that each participant will wear, indi- cating that he ‘was a member of the gang, should be another badge of beaten brasey; symbolical of the disgraceful de- feat that crowned their efforts and the brazenness of their attempt now to hon. ora conspiracy, which, had it been successful, would have sounded the death-kuell to the hopes ofa free peo- ple and the future of our Rzpublican form of government. Let the dinner go on, and hereafter let the badge of the 306 be of “beaten brass.” : Clean Up for Spring. March with all its bluster, slush and mud is upon us, It is the beginning of that season which proves so uncer: tain and unhezlthful to humanity un- less the greatest care is taken to guard against its sudden changes of tem pera- ture. With the first warm days will come an inclination, on the part those who are heedless of nature's demands, to lay off the heavy underwear and com. mit those little indiscretions by way ot lighter clothing which so often termi- nate fatally to foolish people. March 18 fitful in the extreme, and the past has taught us that the mercury is kept continually bobbing up and down and with it will come as usual spring mud and slush. All the back yard accu. mulations of the winter are now begin- ning to thaw out and the germs of dis- ease are spread upon the air. The general cleaning up should be begun as early as possible, for there will be lots of it to do. Be careful to get the rubbish in the back yard all cleaned up. Ventillate the cellar properly, carry cut any ashes or other dirt that may have accumulated in: it during the cold season and apply the white-wash freely. There 1s no better disinfectant than lime and do not be afraid to apply plenty of it. One of the principal instrumentali- ties working against the health of our people is 1m propersan’tary regulations. They must be looked after now, for with the home poorly drained of its filth there is bound to be sewer gas and consequent sickness, All these things demand the im- mediate attention of those who hope to preserve their physical strength and disobedience to nature's demands means untold misery and large doctor bills. That dread scourge, cholera, will, in all probability, invade our country just as soon as the warm weather begins and to be “forewarned” is to be “fore- armed.” Let our readers all of them begin the work of cleaning up just as soon as the weather permits. No time should be lost and remember that the thriftiest and cleanliest people are the healthiest. Cleveland’s Inauguration. At noon to-morrow Grover CLEVE LAND will be sworn in as President ot the United States. The ceremonies it issaid will be the most elaborate that have ever been celebrated on a similar occasion. The military and civic pa- rade will be at once imposing and gor- geous. From the White House to the inaugural stand at the Capitol Mr. Harrison and Mr. CLEVELAND will ride in the same carriage, Mr. CLEVE- LAND sitting at Mr. Harrison's right side. Oa the return their positions will be just reversed. The President and his daughter, Mra. MoKkg, will remain in the White House to welcome Mr. and Mrs, CLEVELAND, but immediately after the ivauguration they will proceed, by an early afternoon train, direct for Indian- apolis. = Thus will Washington have seen the last of Mr. HarrisoN in the capacity of chief executive of ‘the land. His administration in one respect has been a signal failure—in that he was not politic enough to pave his way to the second term he so dearly longed for.— As a man he is practical, much learn- ed, and was in every way qualified to make an illustrious name for: himselt bui the bitter partisanship, and abso- lute domiuveering of his political meth.’ ods, the support of the imfamous force bill and his studied determination: to place party above couniry, at all times, makes him a man whose official life will beremembered with littie else than contempt, though his personality was truly that of an honorable, upright citizen. He was unfortunate in having been called to the head of the government just when the country was undergoing ove of its regular periods ot depression and of a necessity as such tuings al- ways appear was held respounsible for the hard times that have prevailed ever since CLEVELAND'S last term. A ———— A Novel Method of Voting. In a number of the towns of the State of New York, when the Spring elections are held this year, there will be a very novel scene. Each voter will walk into a little room with a wall of sheet-iron, will see before him a neat array of bright knobs—to each of which is attached the name of a candidate for office, the whole num- ber including all the names placed in nomina- tion—push in the knob for every name he wishes to vote, and will pass out, having taken, according to the experiment in Lockport last year, less than forty seconds. By the machin” ery thus employed every vote is securely and secretly recorded, and every voter can cast one vote, and no more, for one candidate for each office. There is no printing of ballots re_ required, there is" no chance of misprinted names, or of miscounting, accidental or intend. ed, or of changing the returns. The election held in Lockport in the Spring of 1892 was very favcrably reported on by those who watched it, and the like’ elections this year will be closely studied. If the machinery does in all places what it did in Lockport, it would seem thatthe ingenuity of the Yankee inventor had settled the vexed question of ballot ref rm, and by a voting-machine had destroyed much of the viciousness of machine-voting. The Australian system, for which so much energy and ink has been expended, can at best only secure secrecy where the voter is bent on hav- ing it, but this machine seems to eompel sec. recy, and to make the various phases of elec- toral crime and abuse physical impossibilities: The saving of money is said to be very great, but the saving in political demoralization and corruption must be, if the machine works uni- formly ana continuously well, simply inecalcu- lable. The above we get from Harper's Weekly ot the 18th inst, The voting machine to which it refers as being so ingenious, efficient and valuable, is the inyention of a former well known citi- zen of this place, Mr. J. H. Meyers. There is no question that it doubly dis- counts all other known methods of se- caring fair aad secret elections as well as an honest count and the speediest re- turn of resulis.” It 1s the method of the futare, but uclackily for Peuvnsyl- vania, her Constitution, which requires all voting to be by “ballot,” will have to be ehanged before this ring-ridden and machine bossed commonwealth can reap auy of the benefits, of any perfect system of voting and counting resultsy Harrison’s Final Blunders. From the Chicago Herald. The prospects of Hawaiian annexa- tion are fading perceptibly away. The hasty action of President Harrison's Administration has a tendency to awaken distrust. Nothing should have been done without the most ample knowledge on the subject and in rela- tion to every condition of affairs in- volved in the negotiation. If the pre- sent Administration had moved in earnest to dispose of the silver question and had left the Hawaiian question for deliberate action the blaze of glory in which it hoped to disappear would have been a more distinct illumination. In dodging the silver question and rushing the Hawaiian question two mistakes were made. ' Both are grave mistakes, and involve President Har- rison’s last official days in a shadow of discredit. Young Blood in the Cabinet. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. The new cabinet ,brings into public life a new element; it represents a younger generation of men; it is made up not of worn-out party “backs,” bat of vigorous, progressive, determined men, men of conviction, whose faces are turned to the future, not to the past. The Cabinet is something of a surprise to our Republican friends, but it is rep- resentative of the very elements which surprised the same gentlemen at the polls last November, and it is certain that it commands the entire approval of the people who elected Mr. Cleve- land President; for it gives them full assurance that the promises of the platform are to become living realities. Who and What He Is, From the Pittsburg Post. A. C. Beckwith, the new Democratic senator from Wyoming, was not a candidate before the legislature, and was chosen by the governor for that reason. He built the first house in Cheyenne 30 years ago; and now lives in Evancton, a town near the Utah line. He owns a “ank, many square miles of land, the cattle upca many hills, coal mines and coal ‘and timber lands. His hobby is horses, and he breeds trotters on the finest farm in the mountains. | He is a native of New York and is 60 years old, = | The Martin Can Fly Home Again: From the Philadelphia Times. Bleeding Kansas bleeds no more, The war is oyer. = The populists have surrendered, The members who were elected have taken their seats in the legally-organized House of Representa- tives, and those who were not elected are apparently left out in the cold, It would seem also as though the Gov- ernor was rather badly left, to say nothing ot Senator-elect John Martin, who was voted for by the House that is now dissolved. Fortunately, the or- ganization of the Senate is not depend- ent upon him, He Would Have Appreciated it More. From the New York World. The dinner to be given to Vice-Presi- dent Morton to-night, by the Senators ot both parties, is a deserved tribute to what they call his “constant fairness, signal ability and uniform courtesy.” So far as the Republicans are concern- ed, the compliment would have materi- alized more justly in a renomination at Minneapolis: And would it not have been quite as well forthe ticket? They Miss Him. From the Charleston News and Courier. From the way in which the republi- can organs are still howling over the commission of Mr. Gresham we' think the old party teels that it is going to miss him very sadly. ‘By the way, as we nave said before, who is the great- est living Republican now? Not counting Mrs. Lease, of course. It Was Ever Thus. From the Williamsport Times, The expiring hours of congress is. when ‘‘crooked” work is made most ef- fective. Taking advantage of the rush and turmoil, such creatures ‘snake’ through bilis carrying in their trail schemes which benefit a few at the ex- pense of the many. Borrowing Gold to Buy Silver, From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It will be bad finance and worse sense to buy silver with borrowed gold, but the continued absorption "of the white metal, after we sell bouds to ac- camulate some of the #yellow metal, will practically amount to this very thing. Things Are Pacific as Usual, From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Teleg raph. It looks as though ‘the Sandwich Is- lands would not be annexed just now, There is no hurry. The islands are not trying to get Hawaii. The Coming Time. From the Chicago Tribune. A time is coming, Mme. Lilinokala- i, when $20,000 will be more than enough to pension all the crowned heads in the world. Spawls from the Keystone, —The coal thiners’ strike at Nanticoke is growing. —Chester’s trollery will be extended to Ed" dystone. —Banker F. V. Rockafellow, of Wilkesbarre, 18 gradually sinking. —A runaway car killed Charles Winters at a Minersville colliery. —A tall of rock Friday in a Shenandoah col- liery crushed John Wiley. —Tha 114 prisoners in Lancaster county jail were vaccinated on Sunday. —The body of a female infant was found in a stream near Northumberland. —The Bowmanite Conference Sunday or- dained nine ministers at Reading. —Cars at Delano Friday night fatally squeezed Brakeman Frank Draper. —Both the daughters of John T. Kinney, of Braddock, eloped on Saturday night. —Pittsburg is following Philadelphia in an endeavor to lessen the water waste. —A lump of coal tumbled from a car at Ash- land, fatally injuring Lyman Berger. —While talking with his parents at Shenan- doah, Timothy Scalley dropped dead. —Ill health induced Jacob Honicker, of Lo- cust Gap, to snuff his life out with a pistol. —An unprecedented number of empty hous- es make Pittsburg real estate dealers glum. —Coal trains in the néighborhood of Potts- ville are still greatly handicapped by the snow. —The Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Asso_ ciation held a convention in Harrisburg Tues. day. —The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Compa- ny is to elvevate its tracks over Fifth street, Darby. —Caught in a snow drift, John Edler,of Al- lentown, was so badly frozen he may not re- cover. —Her clothes taking fire from a grate, Eliza- beth Barr, near Washington, was burned to death. —Both of James Dolan’s legs were cut off Saturday by a train at Locust Summis, and he died. —One of a nest of six boilers st Tyler, MecTurk & Co.'s colliery, near Pottsville, ex- ploded. —The Security Building and Loan Associa- tion, capital $1,000,000 was organized Friday in York. —Pittsburg labor organizations oppose the proposed $10.000 appropriation for a trade school there. —Mayor-elect Shanaman, of Resding, has, since Tuesday, received 1200 letters of con- gratulation, —By falling down the stairs of his. restau _ rant at Mauch Chunk, Leopold Reis received fatal injuries. —An hour after returning from his child’s funeral Friday, Julius Dunio, of Lancaster, dropped dead. —G. A.R. men at Pittsburg will indorse €ap- tain John Taylor, Philadelphia, for national commander. —Tucking himself snugly in bed at Pitts burg, W. B. Fullz, a traveling salesman, put a bullet in his brain. —The body of James Griffith was buried for five hours under tons of coal in a Shenandoah colliery, Friday night. ! —Two fine horses belonging to T. F. Gor- | min, Mahonoy" City, ran upon the railro: track and were killed. ‘ —A party of people from Western Pennsyl vania will soon start for Colorado, to establish an Economite colony. ? : —Crane Iron Company notified its furnace men at Macungie that on March 1 wages will be reduced 10 per cent. —Some of the striking coal miners of the Monongahela Valley returned to work Monday at the company’s figures. —The body of John F. Flattery was washed ashore on the river near Pittsburg, and it is s1pposed he killed himself. —The site of Pittsburg’s old post office, at Fifth avenue and Smithfield street, was sold, atauction Friday for $435,500. —To save himself from the flames which en- veloped him, J. E. Sm ‘th, a Delta, York county merchant, rolled in the snow. —Ten deacons and eleven elders were or- dained Sunday night by the Dubbs Evangeli- cal Conference at Bethlehem. —A burglar threatened to shoot Gotlieb Stahley, at Gendon, Sunday night, if he did not vacate his own shoe store. —Cumberland County Commissioners will ask the Supreme Court to decide whether or not Dickinson College is taxable. —Ice carried away a portion of the Susque- hanpa River dam near Columbia, and now shad will be able to get up that stream. —The tariff is given as a pretext for closing Moorehead & Cos iron mill at Sharpsburg, which Friday discharged 600 men. —Stepping from his cab near St. Clair at night, Engineer Casper Medevick, of Palo Al- to, was cut down by an unseen train. —It was reported at the Bowmanite confer- ence, in Reading Monday, that the total val. ue of their chucch property is $683,900. —Edward West, of Homestzad, reputed to ba worth $100,000 was Saturday sent to prison for six years for assaulting a colored girl, —A rumor that a reservoir was leaking on the mountain above St. Clair made the people prapare for a hasty flight Saturday night. —In a wreck onthe Cumberland Valley Rail- road, near Cleversburg, Brakeman John Syn- der was badly hurt and eight cars smashed. —Young James G. Blaine Monday went to the Monongahela Valley, presumably to sell the large tract of land owned by the family. ~The Bowmanite Evangelical Conference, at Reading, advised young ministers to pre- pare to preach in German as well as English. —Brakeman C. W. Bull, of the Northern Cen. tral Railroad, fell from his train near York Saturday, and had both arms and a leg cut off. --Judge Lyons, of Juniata county, decided Friday that Dickinson College and Metzger Female Institute, at Carlisle, are not taxable, —A commission was Monday issued by the Adjutant General to Colonel Edward de V. Morrell, of the Second Regiment, Philadel phia. —A freight engine collided Friday with a passenger engine on the Pennsylvania Rail- road at Pottsville and both locomotives were wrecked. : : —Damages amounting to $541 were awarded the Ahl estate, Carlisle, against the Crescent Pip2 Line Company for laying a pipe through timber lands. —At ‘the United Brethren Conference in Harrisburg Saturday, A. H. Rice, of Charbers- burg, and J.C. Knipf, of Baltimore, were elec - ted tructees of Lebanon Valley College.