Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, March 17, 1893, Image 1
\ 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, 3 %, ba STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. yma , 2 Zn 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,