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Demorelic Wace
MEEK.
BY PRP. GRAY
Ink Slings.
—-Spring is billed for the 21st of
March.
—This is ST. PATRICK'S day.
you green enough ?
—A patriot indeed is the Democrat
who isn’t looking for something.
Are
—-For the next four years, at least
Republicans will have the opportunity
of finding the plums that grow on this-
tles.
—If the Spring continues so back-
ward we will be overwhelmed with
poetry, grind organs and circus posters
all at once.
—My, ob my, won’t some of those old
Republican fixtures (?) about the Sen-
ate hump when they get their yellow
envelopes.
-~There is only one class of people
who grumble at Democratic govern-
ment, and that is the one to which the
High Sheriffs belong. Good Democrat-
ic times make poor business in the
Sheriff's office.
—Philadelphia, not satisfied with dog
shows, horse shows, chrysanthemum
shows, and food shows now proposes
- holding a candy show. If many young
ladies visit it the candy will not have
much of a show we fear.
-—It is a source of the greatest concern
to political gossips to know just what
transpired between CLEVELAND and
HILL the other day, but in all their
talk we’ll bet neither one of them con-
fessed that he regretted the past.
—-The Building Commission fight is
still going on in the Legislature at
Harrisburg and if the Commission is
abolished a great many Republican
lieutenants in the Quaker City will loose
their commissions also.
-—Slang hus it that there are “‘hatchet
faced” individuals and there are
“chicken faced” individuals, and verily
we believe, it for we see a composite
photo of both in many of the ministerial
physiognomies that are now in Belle-
fonte.
—Poor Frunce—Internal dissension,
scandal and state enemies have shaken
the very foundations of her Republican
institutions. It is not her form of gov-
ernment that has caused her demorali-
zation. It is ber impulsive, unthink-
ing people.
—There is no use beating around the
bush about it the WarcaMaN frankly
tells the five thousand fourtn-class post.
masters who have sent in their resigna-
tions to Mr BISSELL that their lately
conceived idea that they are no longer
needed does them credit.
— With ten thous.nd people in the
city of Washington, alone, suffering
from disease brought on by exposure
at the Inauguration it would not take
long to thin our population dowa to
any desired figure if the same percent
age of fatalities results. All we would
need, would be to have the clerk of the
weather play his cards into the under-
taker's hands.
—A report from the Philadelphia
mint, 1s to the effect that there is stored
in its vaults bulliva amounting, in val-
ue, to $150,000 000 added to which there
is $50,000,000 in minted silver there for
safe keeping. In face of all the public
theivery, which has included every-
thing from public funds to ballot boxes,
in that city it is a question whether
such an immense amount of silver i-
safe down there.
—The contemplated iron ore trust,
which had about formed 1n the Lake
Saperior region to deprive the consum-
ers of the benefits which will necessari-
ly arise from the recent ore tinds, has al-
ready met its champion in Democracy
It was the intention of the would be
trust to keep the prices of ore up and
pocket the diffrence in mining, but
Democratic legislation, in the prospect
of putting iron ore on the free list, has
nipped their flower in the bud.
—Governor PATTISON might call the
attention of the Legislature to the fac
that this great commonwealth has bu
one representative in the upper house
of Congress. A successor to Mr.
QUAY should be elected. His name is
not on the Senate roster and as he pre-
fers having a good time in Florida to
serving in the office he had himself
elected to, his party should take promps
action on his apparent resignation.
—The scare that newspaper men were
not to be favored with public offices un-
der the present administration turned
out to be only a scare, and now every-
one is looking for the source whence
such buncombe eminated. Surely there
is nct one class of men who labor more
zealously for party success than the edi-
tors of party organs and if they were to
be denied office, simply because they |
would be therefore under particular ob-
ligations to the administration conferr-
ing them, we would like to know, if
every other good Democrat would not
find himself in the same position. A
Democratic paper will be Democratic,
whether in or out, and knows but one
ambition and that, party success,
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VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,, MARCH 17. 1893.
NO. 11.
Postmaster General Bissell's Policy.
The Postmaster (General's announce-
ment that he is not disposed to give the
post-offices to bu~iness men will meet
tha approval of those who look at the
official questions in the right light.
The reason assigned for this conclusion
i3 that, as a rule, when a business man
is appointed to a post-office, or any oth-
er office, for that mauer, he delegates
some irresponsible, and often incompe:
tent deputy or clerk, to pertorm the du-
ties. It is natural that this should be
80, for his business will not allow him
to give personal attention to the office.
A business man has enough to employ
his attention in attending to his busi-
ness. If his attention is divided be-
tween an office and his business one or
the other is neglected, and it is usually
the otfice that suffers.
Some of the most indifferent office
holders that can he found in the civil
service are business men whose appoint-
ment to official positions is supposed
to be so elevating and beaeficial to the
service, while, the most vigilant, pains-
taking and efficient incumbents belong
to the class of party workers who have
been given office as a reward for politi-
cal service. Take the Philadelphia
post-office as an illustration. The ap-
pointment of WiLLiam F. HArrITY to
the postmastership in that city, io the
first CLEVELAND administration, was a
reward for party work and it could be
considered in every sense a political ap-
pointment. The city never had a bet
ter post master. He gave the office
his per=onal attention and its business
was conducted carefully and with a thor-
ough regard to the public accommoda-
tion and benefit. As a politician it was
Mr. Harrity’s ambition to make a
high official record for himself, and to
him in office. OO. the other band, the
great business man, Jou~ FIELD, is now
post master of Pailadelpnia and tnere
has been continual complaint of ne-
glect, bad management, and indiffer-
ence to public accommodation, since
he has been at the head of that office.
Mr. F1eLp has so much business of his
own that he cannot give his undivided
attention to the business of his office,
and consequently has handed it over
to his subordinates.
Post-master General Bis<eL’s decirion
should explode the nonsensical idea that
business men are fitter for official
statesmen than politicians. Usually
the party worker is the fittest man to
hold an office. He has time to attend
to its duties and an incentive to perform
them well, for his own reputation and
tor the credit of his party. The fact
that be takes an interest in politics
shows that he is a public spirited man,
for what is politics but the manage-
ment of public affairs without which
government could not go on ? That he
is not as honest, and as competent for
official duty, as the average business
man, is a delusive idea entertained by
high-flying theorists.
A Plea for the Keeley [ustitute.
The rapidly increasing number of in-
8iitntions which Mr. KegerLey has been
es ablishing in the cities of the United
States has brought forth considerable
comment on the prospective (uture
of his work as evidenced by the effect
the bichloride of gold cure for intem per-
ance has had gp those who have already
taken it. The pessimist calls ita “take,”
tue rival specialist calls it the money
making scheme of a quack and the
friends of the habitual drunkard, who
has gone back to drink atter a KegLey
course, vents their disgust in abuse ot
the man who compounded the anti-
drink mixture.
The institutes have been administer-
ing the gold cure for four years now,
and in that time eighty-six thousand
people have taken it. Of this great ar-
my, afflicted with the terrible curse.
but five per cent. has relapsed to the
habit. And when we remember the
many stages of the patient and the com.
parative age of the treatment this show-
ing seems wonderful. The mosL san-
guine can not expect pertection in such
a short time. Experience alone will
bring thatsuccess which Mr, KeeLey is
laboringly so zealously to obtain. Even
should he discover improvements for
his method of treatment it is not at all
probable that the percentage will be
perceptibly lowered, for five per cent.
of failures is as low as skeptics should
demand.
reflect credit upon the party that put |
Why do people condemn the treat:
ment in the face of its apparent suc-
cess? Think of nearly eighty-two
thousand persons cured of the awful
habit of using opiates and liquors;
think of the happiness brought back to
homes which have been desolate for
years; think of the wives’, childrens’,
wotners', fathers’ hearts gladdened at
the sight of the loved oues reclaimed ;
think of the welfare of communities
and the country and revise your opin-
ion of the KEELEY institutes.
The injury that has been done them
thus far can, nearly all of it, be traced
to those miserable wretches who have
no principles and no mind, who took
the cure merely to bloat themselves
with the “surfeit” rum which it aliows
and then to condemn it because of their
meuntal and moral idiocy.
In upholding the treatment a gradu-
ate recently said : “KEELEY can’t re-
move mouatains, nor can he put prin-
ciples in men. Why bless your dear,
pious soul didn’t oue of the apostles be-
tray his Lord? You would not, there-
tore, say there was no efficacy in there-
ligion of the Bible, would you? But
this degenerator was one in twelve,
while the KeeLEY retrogrades are but
one in twenty. There was one com-
mendable thing about Judas, however ;
he went and hanged himself and that's
what our back sliders ought to do also.
Their friends would then be relieved of
a burden and their community would
sutier no loss.”
There is far more truth in this ex-
pression than we care to acknowledge,
but betore we condemn Mr. KEELEY
{ and his gold cure it might be well to
give him a fair chance. What matters
it what the cost may have been it one
soul is saved from adrankard’s grave ?
Republicanism, What Art Thou Coem-
ing to ?
No one has cared to deny that cor-!
[ ruption has teen the sole means hy
' which the Republican party has been
"heid together for years, but it has re.
week to disclose
rottenness
mained tor the past
‘the most monumental
government that has ever disgraced a |
This last monstrous pro- |
in
free people.
ceeding, by which all torme- arbitrary
| actions which have characterized tnat
| party ever since its orzauization pule
“into insignificance, is one of the most
damnable and aliogether disreputable
| undertakings in its history.
In order to steal a constitutional ma-
jority in the State Legislature they
have traduced the will ot the people of
Westmoreland county, of Crawford
county aud are now going to try the
neiarions work in Lancaster and
Montgomery counties, where they will
unseat Democratic members ot the
Legislature and put in enough Repub-
licans to give tnem a two-thirds ma-
jority with which to pass their bills
oyer the Governor's veto,
The looted State Treasury, the one
man Legislature. and the stolen Paila-
delphia ballot boxes are bat naught in
comparison to this last crowning in-
sult to the people of the common-
wealth,
Fearing that the Governor would
not sign their bill to gerryman-
der the State apportionmnents as suits
their parposes they have effectually
dislodged his prerogative and pervert-
ed the wishes of the people. Not con
tent with unseating Mo:ssrs. Wavga
ymaN and BarNHART, of Westmoreland,
they have infamously disgraced the
State by giving ANDREWS, of Crawford,
a seat in the Legislature to which he
is no more entitled than a Fiji Islander.
Then they propose extending their
manipulations iato Lancaster and
Montgomery counties where they have
two puppets who are willing to impose
themselves on the people through the
chicanery of a disreputable organiza-
tion,
What the end of the whole thing
will be is a query, but it is evidently
the last kick of a dying party, for sure-
ly the people of Pennsylvania will not
countenance sach proceedings, It is
time to stop such high handed work
and the way to put an end to it forever
is to quelch the party that has gives
it birth.
——The determination of the Read-
inz to pay only five per cent. to stick:
holders of the Lehigh Valley, unless
the latter railroad earns a larger divi-
deni will materially improve the coa-
dition of the insolvent road.
The Dispesition of the Offices.
It cannot be doubted that under the
present administration there will be a i
fair and equitable disposition ot the of-
fices among those who are entitled to
them under a Democratic President.
There is necessarily some delay at the
beginning of the term when so many
things have to be considered and ad-
justed, and so many conflicting claims
have to be compromised. An obstacle
lo immediate changes is presented in
ezrtain civil service rules which have
come to be recognized as part of the
law, and which cannot be disregarded.
Miny of the appointive offices have
fixed terms attached to them and they
must be allowed to run their full terms
unless causes affecting the integrity or
fitness of incumbents may justily ear-
lier removal. This rule, grafted on the
civil service law within the past decade,
affects all the important appointments,
outside of cabinet officers, and accounts
for officials of opposite politics to an
administration holding their tenure
over into the term of that administra-
tion. Many of the appointees of CLEVE:
LAND'’s first term held over for a con-
siderable length of time in the succeed-
ing Harrison administration, which,
consequently throws the tenure of their
Republican successors into the present
CreveraNp administration, The rule
if observed makes this unavoidable.
The situation is now quite different
from what it was under the old civil
service regulations, when the end ot an
adminisiration ended the terms of all
officers holding places ended that ad-
ministration, and there was a regular
turning out of all who were not in ac:
cord with the policy of the incoming
power.
was about the fairest and ost satisfac-
torv arrangement, and it cannot be
shown that under it the official duties
were not as well performed as they
now are under the more fine-spun civil
seryice theories, But new rules,
backed by law, are in existence, and as
they must be observed 1t is unreasona-
ble to be dissatisfied with the slower
movements in mu king official changes.
The Course Defined.
The course which President CLEVE-
LAND intends to pursue in regard to
the federal appointments is now clear-
lv understood. Of course a great pres- |
sure has been brought to bear upon
| him, and there is a great concourse of
office-seekers at the national capital,
but it is not greater, nor is it as greedy
as the horde that beset HARRISON four
years ago to get back into the places ot
which they had had the exclusive enjoy-
- ment for a quarter of a century.
Mr. CLeveranD is candid in letting
the applicants for office understand
what they have to expect.
ance of the civil service rules which
will canse delay in making the changes
which Democrats have a right to ex-
pect, and which should take place un-
der a Democratic administration.
But it is reported as the determina-
tion of the President not to favor with
re-appointments those who had the
benefit of the offices under his first ad-
ministration. If the President is re
ported correctly there is to be a new
deal in the giving out of the offices.
There may be exceptions in cases of
persons of eminent ability, whose ser-
vice to the government is desirable, but
as a rule there is fairness and justness
in the President's determination not to
heap favors on the same set of men.
Such favoritism tends to create dissat-
istaclion, and it moreover has a ten-
dency to build up an office-holding
class, which is objectionable under a
popular form of government,
——Among the bills lately introduc-
ed in the Legislature none will meet
with the heartier approval of the mer-
cantile classes throughout the State
than the one presented the other day by
Sanator BrowN and Represenative
Dusss. If it should become a law all
the gelling, hawking or peddling of
merchandise over the country by ped-
dlers without a license would at once
be stopped and the farming classes thus
relievel of an interminable nuisance
and the regular merchants of a horde
ot irresponsible trade killers,
After all, ic strikes us that it |
There is
nothing in his expression that is to be
understood that the places will not be
filled by Democrats, but itis evident
that present incumbents will be allowed
to fill out their full terms, unless there
is cause for their removal, an observ-
The Conditions are Different Now, You
Kaow.
{ From The Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
| It has been eaid that Judge Gresh-
am isin favor of the annexation ot Ha-
waii, and that be expressed the hope
that the Senate would ratify the treaty
negotiated by President Harrison. If
‘this ia true of the Judge in his capaci:
| ty ot a private citizen he does not seem
| disposed to commit himself to the same
position in his capacity as Secretary ot
State, In an interview with the Sand-
wich Island Commissioners yesterday,
he was, if correctly reported, anything
but enthusiastic in favor ot annexation.
He distinctly told the Commissioners
that this matter was one to be thought
over with deliberation, and so far from
being ready to ratify the treaty, even if
it had not been already withdrawn, he
considered that the first requirement on
the part of our Government was to
know more about the business than we
now know. That is to say, in the
opinion of the Secretary of State, the
ratification of the treaty placed before
the Senate would have been premature.
We are not ready for annexation as yet,
and do not propose to make up our
minds on the subject until we learn
more about it. There is no occasion
for haste, We can well afford to act
deliberately ; and as to the Hawaiians
—well, they must practice the virtue
of patience.
ES CARCI,
The Dress Suits the Woman,
From the Philadelphia Times.
The fashion ot women’s dress, with
its constant changes and the frequent
recurrence to former types, cannot be
entirely accidental or capricious. It
always bears some relation, however
otiscure, to social conditions and ideals,
It is easy to trace, for example, the
imitation of classical forms out of
which develped the gowns of the Em-
pire, and the chanze trom these to the
tashions of the restoration anil the
Romantic period, which are more
nearly the model of what are common:
lv called “Empire gowns” todav.
Upon these, with their puffed sleeves
rand full ~kirts, came the lace and
flounces of the middle of the century,
and the growing fulness of the skirts,
that went along with growing luxur-
iousness of lite, brought about in time
the crinoline and hoops of the second
Empire. Then came the *‘debacle,”
the gradual simyplifi sation of costume
and again its gradual decoration and
the revival of the fashions of the ear-
lier halt of the century. Apparently a
point has now been reached when
crinoiine is coming into nse again, and
there is a kind of panic lest hoops
shall follow.
CL AE
No one to Win it Now,
From the Williamsport Times.
There is a custom 10 France of
awarding prizes by the government as
“rewards of goodness,” These prizes go
as near as can be ascertained to those
most deserving of sucn recognition.
As an evidence of faithtul distribution,
the report shows that seventy two out
of eighty-four go 10 women most of
them poor. struggling daughters who
bave added to their own burdens the
care of helpless parents, brothers or
others near ot kin. Could not such a
custom be adopted with good results
in other countries ? France shows in
this friendship for the poor and tried.
ROAR BTC
Editor Magee Evidently Isn't After an
Office.
From the Perry County Democrat.
That President Cleveland is one of
the most prudent men that ever ran
for and was elected to a high office in
this Republic is clearly demonstrated
by the withholding of his estimate of
the value of the political services of
editors until after he was nominated,
elected and inaugurated President of
the United States,
All In the Fold.
From the York Gazette.
The Hon. David Bennett Hill has
called upon President Cleveland. The
senator doubtless did not care to be
the only Democrat not satisfied with
Cleveland’s election, and he promptly
gets into line.
We guess the Democratic party is to-
gether now,
RE REI
Right in His Line of Business.
From the Westmoreland Democrat.
No fear need be entertained that Sec-
retary Gresham will not oust Republi-
cans from office. He did all in his
power to aid in jolting Harrison ont
and it will be a real pleasure for the
Secretary to also bounce Benjamin’s
friends and appointees.
We Don't Want the Old Coats It's the
Oftice We want.
From the Connellsville Courier :
The Pennsylvania politicians who are
casting lots for the raiment of Repub-
lican office-holders in this State, should
not entirely lose sight of the fact that
they are only clerks in the clothing
shop, and that Grover isthe head of
the firm.
The Heads Will Fly.
From the Philadelphia Evening Herald,
There is every reason to believe that
Maxwell will handle the axe well,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Lancaster tobacco growers complain of &
dull market,
—Labachsville is suffering from an epidemic
of diphtheria.
—By falling down an elevator shaft at Beth-
lehem, Jacub Schwerin lost his life.
—A charter was issued Friday to the Pitts-
burg Trust Company, capital $50,000.
—An order was given on Friday in Reading
to vaccinate every pupil of the public schools.
—Things are 0 slow in Pittsburg that a pris-
oner, J. P. Fix, was taken to jail in a hearse.
—The alleged Leechburg bank robbers,
now in Kittanning jail, were tried on Wednes-
day.
—Mayor elect John B. Hinkson, of Chester
Saturday appointed J. R. Bagshow Chief. of
Police.
—Edward Brennan, Shamokin, was Friday
appointed mine inspector of the anthracite
district.
—Ata public sale in Reading ofS. C. Frame’s
effects, 100,000 cigars were knock down for
$22,000.
—Over 25,000 acres of Woodland were sold
by the Economites to Wheeler & Dusenbury,
Oil City.
—E. W. Ciark & Co., of Philadelphia, are
pehind the big Traction Railway movement in
Reading.
—The headless body of Terrence McCarthy
was found alongside the railroad track at
Wyoming.
—The trait crop in the State will ba big, say
the farmers in their reports to Cyrus T. Fox
of Reading,
—About $100 worth of stamps were stolen
from the Mt. Woif, York County, post office,
Monday night.
—A tachuical error in letting a sewer con-
tract cost East End property owners in Pittse
burg almost $50,000.
—Falal injuries were sustained by Mra.
Alexander Baxter, of Braddock, by falling 80
feet from a bridge.
—The Pottsville Water Company will re-
build their large r2servoir above St. Clair,
which burst last June.
—A Coroner's jury decided that J. M. Hill
killed his companion, Mrs. Rosa Rotzler, in
an Allegheny City para.
—For falsely causing the arrest of Jacob
Snyder, Reuben Shultz, Lancaster, has been
sued for $5000 damages.
—Scarlet fever in the Pottsville Children’s
Home has carried oft little Doilie Rich, and
another child is dangerously low.
—Accused of having robbed Harry Smeck’s
store, William Wentzel, his wife and daughter
were arrested near Reading Saturday.
—Four widows of miners drowned in the
Lytle colliery at Primrose last April have
sued the company for $10,000 damages.
—A mammoth engiae, weighing 150 tons
will be putin one of the Philadelphia and
Reading company’s mines at Pottsville.
—The largest run of coal in the Reading
Railroad Company’s history, 67 trains, has
just been hauled from the Gordon Plane.
—A barbette for the Amphitrite weighing 756
tons and worth $50,000 was’ shipped from the
wethlehem Iron Works Friday to Sorte
—The Blair county Ag iculture Society held
an important meeting Saturday ai Holli-
daysburg, and eisctzu T. J. Russ president.
—It has developed that Professor Stephen-
son, who recently fl:d from Williamsport,
forged the names of several people on notes.
—The Bartram family, of D:laware county,
arranged Saturday for a re-union of the de-
scenaoants of the great botanist, John Bartram.
—Conductor William Rath, at Easton, of the
New Jersey Central Railroad, stepped from Lis
train in froat of another, and had both legs
cut off.
—In trying to dig out an ice jam in Chap-
man’s Quarry mill race at Bethlehem, Charles
A. Camp was overcome by the flood and per-
ished.
—The street car company in Williamsport
has discovered that its conductors have col-
lected a number of counterteit nickels and
quarters.
—Berks County Democrats will hold their
convention Junes, and noue but aeclegates
aud reporters will be allowed in the conven-
tion hall,
—I'hree robbers bound and gagged the
watchman of the Hackett Coke Company's
store at Fialeyville, Washingtoa County, and
stole $200.
—Charles Welderhold, of Pottsville, who
was robbed of $200 at the inauguration, has
identified the pickpocket at Wilmington, Del.,
and recovered all but $3.
—Captain Pharos Brubaker, who was ime
prizoned in Honduras, has notified his brother
at Lime Rock, ancaster County, that he is
free and on his way home,
—'There isa lively railway s:rimmage in
Harrisburg, where the Philadelphia and Read=
ing is trying to prevent the Citizens’ Electr 6
Railway from crossing its tracks.
—William H. Cutforth, of Eddystone, has
entered suit against the Pennsylvania Rail-
road for damages for injuries received at the
Chester station about six weeks ago.
~The People’s Party Executive Committee
will, on: March 22, at Franklin, fix a day for the
State Convention, when Congressman J. C.
Sibley will be nominated for Governor.
—“Uncle” John Cessna, of Bedford, says
that from thirty to forty Republicans will join
him in voting azainst tha seating of William
Andrews in the lower house of the legislature.
—Ande Ferdinand, a laborer on the Frank,
ford branch of the keading Railroad, was stab-
bed in the breast early Monday morning by a
fellow workman during a quarrel over some
food.
~Littls Mamie Ramsey, daughter of Sam-
uel Ramsey, Hatfield, Montgomary Countrg
died suddenly, but the coroner Friday found
tat her death had resulted from a natural
cause.
—Dispatcher John R. Rupp was placed on
trial, at Norristown, Monday morning on the
charge of having caused the recent Rose
Glen disaster on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad.
—Alexander Maxwell, of Shamokin, who
was injured, together with a number of young
ladies last October by a Reading freight train
colliding with his carriage, instituted suit
against the Reading Company Monday for
$10,000 damages.
—Celia Cavenaught, the young colored girl
who abandoned her infant in the snow at
bwarthmore a few weeks ago, plead d guilty
to the Charge of manslaughter Monday in
Judge Clayton's court at Media, and was. sen-
tenced to two years in the County Prison,