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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Its the prudent housewife that
“puts up and shuts up”’ — during can-
ning season.
—The business blight seems to have
struck the VERAGUE fund project in
the early bud.
—The greatest enemies Home Rule in
Ireland has to contend with are its own
fool friends.
—It is generally a ‘blow’ to the
chap who wakens up to realize that he
“blew in his money.”
—If *'silence is golden’’ it is not to be
wondered at that both Pennsylvania
Senators, in Washington, are rich men,
— Strange as it may seem the more
‘‘tears’” a tenant has the more cause he
has to worry over a shortage of “rents.”
--Mr. CLEVELAND ought to be in-
dependent of the newspaper people when
he gets his HORNBLOWER on the Su-
preme bench.
—There would be little financial or
business trouble in this country now if
the panic had struck the Republican
campaign mills in the right spot.
~—The man who predicted the exhaus-
tion of natural gas, in this country, had
little conception of the flow that would
be struck in the United States Senate.
—-The condition of the Presidential
jaw may be troubling some people. Its
the vigorous activity of the Senatorial
jaw that is adding to the tribulations of
the public.
—General Resuraption seems to have
rallied his demoralized forces the past
ten days, and has put the tatterdemal-
lions supporting General Calamity on
the dead run. :
—It is but just to the average Con-
gressman to state that only the ignorant
believe the recent cyclones, in the vi-
cinity of Washington, are attributable
to congressional blow.
— While this Republican panic has
been able to paralyze almost all kinds of
industries, we dont see that it has in-
tefered in the least with the activity of
the business end of the wasp. ;
—Doubting THOMAsES who discredit
STANLEY'S stories of EMIN PAsHA’S
toughness can possibly ascertain the
truth by inquiring of the Manyemas
who had the last whack at him.
' —So far the Republican calamity how.
ler has failed to charge the Democratic.
administration with the failure of the
bank at Monte Carlo. We fear some
people are missing an opportunity,
—The coming campaign in Pittsburg
promises to be one of fusion on one side
and con-fusion on the other, with the
chances very slightly in favor of the
candidate who gets the most votes.
—The laugh in the back pews of the
Republican tabernacle, over the speaker’s
jokes about Democrats ‘still voting for
JACKsoN,” will not be so loud during
this fall’s caripaign as in former ones.
—One of our exchanges in speaking
of the characteristics of people tells of a:
man who was so slow that he had never
“caught a cold.” It isscarcely neces-
sary to say he was from Philadelphia.
—There is nothing like being pre-
pared for the worst. The Iowa Prohi-
bitionists have nominated a COFFIN
as their candidate for governor, and the
other parties are sure they can put them
in it.
~—That the fool killer is neglecting
his duties is evidenced by the fact that
the “Executive Committe of the Irish
National League of America,” has been
spared to issue its idiotic denunciations
of GLADSTONE.
—Brewer city in Maine boasts that it
has an Alderman the exact counterpart
in appearance of ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
The counterpart may be all right, and be
something to boast of, but we doubt if
there is any bragging about the fellows
beauty.
—Ohio papers are congratulating the
people of that State tbat, so far, they have
«escaped the terrible wind storms that
have caused such damage to other sec-
‘tions. In this they are correct, but
then, FoRAKER bas not been on the
stump yet.
—New York Republicans think they
¢an carry the state this fall. Very like-
ly they do. Its an old think that they
have thunk many times, and while there
is no crime in thinking it, it can still be
held responsible for the sickening disap-
pointment that comes to the thinkers
with each falls election returns.
— Public Confidence, like the prodigal
son, has got back or at least 18 expected
soon, and we suppose the crowd that
hopes to do business on credit will kill
the fatted calf and have a high time
over the return. But after all, we still
have a lingering idea that many will
discover that thesaid p. c. will not have
the power, to either fill empty bellies or
cover naked backs, that a pocket-full of |
the much derided “dollars of our dad-
dies’ would.
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Aemaratic
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEP. 15, 18
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937
NO. 36.
No Civil Service Humbuggery About
Them.
There was a time when the tom-
“| toolery of Civil Service Reform was
unknown, or if any body was acquaint-
ed with it it was allowed to rest in
innocuous desuetude. It was the times
when our good, old, Democratic fore-
fathers held their political meetings
along the shores of the Mediterranean
and stumped it through the sand plains
of Palestine—the same good, old,
Democratic forefathers, who, as bible
believers, we have all been taught to
consider the pinks of pertection, morally,
socially, politically and otherwise,
and who, when they had charge of the
administration, run things without the
aid of either a Civil Service Commis
gion or a Board of Examiners.
Away back in the days when Moses
was a reporter, the party in power
“gathered in thespoils” during the day
and “at night divided them’. Poor old,
afflicted Jos, took comfort in “plucking
spoils’’ out of the very “teeth” of the
opposition, and SoroymoN, who was
fully as wise as the average civil service
reformer, had no hesitancy in ‘dividing
the spoils,” coming with his successes,
among those of his advocates who
were “proud” to receive them. Davip
“tarried at home,” (there was poor
fishing in that country) until he got the
“gpoils” properly distributed, and DaN-
IEL “scattered them’ among the boys
every time his side won. IsA1am’s people
“rejoiced” when they had “spoils” to
divide, and BexsaMiN “raved” round
all day, we suppose getting in the voters,
in order that he might have “spoils”
to “distribute” among his followers “at
night.”
It is possible that the present Dem o-
cratic administration has failed to read
this early record of the “spoils” ques-
tion, and we only refer to it in order
that ‘those in power may look the
facts up and ‘learn that the good, old,
Jeaders, to” whom we have referred,
never thought it was a sin to stand
by their friends and followers in the
“distribution of gepoils,” or in the
apportionment of patronage among
those who had worked to win it.
Another Pension Stopped.
5 send
Here is an apportunity for a Repub-
lican howl—the chance of a life time
for the G. A. R. toshow up the ingrati-
tude of Hoke Smitn and the Pension
Bureau toward the old soldier. Out
in Clearfield a traveling medicine com-
pany, some months since, stocked up
the county with its cure-all. As soon
as it had disposed of all the stuff it
could and while the matter was red
hot, it set about getting certificates of
the healing powers of the mixture.
For these certificates as high as $5 was
paid. Recently the book of testimo-
nials was printed, and one old soldier
who had taken jthe fee for testifying
to the merits of the medicine had his
picture printed inthe book over his
signature, certifying that he was a
sound and well man from its use.
Some kind neighbor found the picture
and certificate and sent it to the pen-
sion commissioner at Washington. In
a few days the man who had certified
to his excellent physical condition and
perfect health received notification
from the pension office that his name
had been dropped from the rolls. He
is now asking his neighbors to de-
nounce the Democratic administration
for its treatment of the old soldiers.
——Our Democratic neighbors over
in Huntingdon county have made the
following excellent choice of a ticket to
be voted for in November next: asso-
ciate judge, GeorGE M. CRESSWELL, of
Petersburg ; prothonotary, Bruce Bor-
ING, of Huntingdon ; “commissioners,
JACKSON GROVE, of Shirley, and PETER
Kran, of Alexandria; auditors, A.
WesLey WricHT, of Calvin, and Geo.
W. Yocuym, of Huntingdon. With the
dissension and divisions there are
among the Republicans of that county,
and the onerous taxation, republican
control-has fastened upon its people,
there should be no trouble in electing
a large part, if not all, of the above
ticket.
——Wheat varies in price from 58
to 65 cents according to quality and
location. But there is no variation in
the McKINLEY tariff bill. It still pro-
tects (?) the farmer to the tune of 25
ceuts per bushel. What a price-raiser
it is tor the products of our farms!
He Wants Another Term.
There is a pretty well grounded sus-
picion that BenyamiN HaRRIsON enter-
tains the hope of being elected to an-
other term of the Presidency, as the
successor of GROVER CLEVELAND, ap-
pearances indicating that he is working
to that end. A person who has such
an exalted opinion of his own merits
as he has, is naturally unable to un-
derstand why he was go emphatically
turned down by the people at the end
of, his first term. Regarding that
result as a mere freak of popular
gentiment, for which there was no
substantial reason, he has had no
difficulty in assuring himself that the
people are already sorry ‘for it and will
show their contrition at the next elec-
tion by calling him again to the Presi—
dential chair.
Abnormally “big-headed,” his high
appreciation of his own merits renders
it easy for Mr. HarRrIsON to be conving:
ed that if GROVER CLEVELAND, whom
he considers a much less worthy person
than himself, could be re-elected after
the intervention of a Republican ad-
ministration, between his first and
second terms, an occurrence, in his
opinion, more due to luck than to
merit, there must certainly be a great
popular movement in his favor to
repair the injury which the country
has sustained by so unaccountable a
phenomenon as the preference of
CLEVELAND to a person of his superi-
ority.
The mental make up of BeNsaMIN
Harrison isof a character to encourage
such a process of reasoning, and ac:
cordingly we see him moving for
smother term, The part he took in
Indianapolis may be considered as a
step in the programme which he ha
and his criticism of the managemen
of the Pension Bureau, hy the present.
administration, was a bid for the sof
sharks, of the advantage ‘they enjoyed
under his administration when Tan-
NER and Raum managed the pensions:
There can be no doubt that Mr.
HarrisoN is solid with those parties
to whom the pension system has been
a mine of wealth, and who would like
to have the practices of Raum restored.
But the people at large are not inter-
ested in the restoration of pension
methods which robbed the Treasury
and brought into discredit a system
intended for the benefit of deserving
soldiers, and to which no smirch of
corruption should ;belong. He will
find the pension issue an unprofitable
one with which to!go before the people
on the Presidential question. The
management of the Bureau under his
administration has not left a savory
odor in the public nostrils, Raum’s
regime is not a fragrant memory.
The people are not averse to such a
weeding of the pension rolls as will
drop those whose claims are a fraud
upon the government, and by the time
the next Presidential election shall
come round, the reforms that will have
been established in [dispensing the
pecuniary gratitude of the government
to its deserving defenders, will have eo
commended itself to the appreciation
of intelligent and honest citizens that
Mr. Harrison's candidacy on the basis
of Raumisy will be an object of con-
tempt. The effects of Democratic tar-
iff and financial reform will also have
go favorably impressed the people that
none will be found to faver the restora:
tion of Republican policy with Har-
RIsON or any other member of that
party as a candidate for the Presi-
dency.
A Question as to Their Motive.
The newspapers that exercised their
ingenuity in picturing President CLEVE-
LAND asfa physical wreck, giving plau-
sibility to their misrepresentations by
circumstantial. accounts of the efforts
of the doctors to rescue him from the
grasp of a dangerous malady, have
| found that their zeal in furnishing sen-
saticnal news has subjected them to
the suspicion that they were actuated
by a partisan purpose, intending to
_injuriously effect the financial situa-
| tion and intensify the business derange—
| ment by calamitous reports about the
President’s health, It was their own
' faults if their conduct had the appear-
“ance of an effort to produce a practical
effect, and it stands them in hand to
the recent Grand Army proceedings at |
make such defence as they can against
the charge that, in this matter, they
have acted the part of reckless parti-
sans, willing to dieturb the public mind
and sacrifice the public interest for the
sake of a party advantage, which at
most could be of but short duration.
A dental operation performed to
relieve the President of a troublesome
tooth was a glender basis upon which
to build the@larming story about the
surgeons cutting and hacking at his
jaw, with all the details of such an
operation as is performed for the re-
moval of a cancerous growth, and with
doubts, as to its ultimate efficacy su-
peradded,to complete the embellishment
of the fiction. That there was a
modicum of fact, so far as the tooth
pulling was concerned, did not excuse
its enlargement into an operation such
ag is resorted to only in desperate oases,
His vigorous reappearance at his post
of duty, without any evidence of bodily
impairment, after having been repre.
sented as having undergone such a
surgical ordeal, makes the situation
rather awkward for those who invented
the details of that alarming operation.
We shall not enter into an analysis
of the motives of those who have taken
such liberties with the truth in regard
to the President's health, and risked
the danger of increasing the financial
embarrassment by representing the
President as being overtaken by a
disease that would be likely to render
him incompetent to perform his official
functions at a critical financial junec-
ture. It may not be injustice to say
that their object{was to promote the
business “calamity’’ about which they
were “howling.” .
In a political point of view nothing
laid out for the attainment of his objects] ab thi
'| be entirely incapacitated for the per-
dier vote and a reminder, to the pension |
| would be gained by the enemies of
Democracy even if GROVER CLEVELAND,
is early period of his term, should
formance of executive duty. It would
be a great loes to his party; it would
be equally as great a loss to the coun-
try; but the cause of Democratic
reform would suffer no detriment and
sustain no check, since the succession
which the constitution provides would
place the chief magistracy in the hands
of an equally reliable Democrat. But
80 far as human foresight can penetrate
the future, the great work of Democrat-
ic reform will be consummated under
GROVER CLEVELAND, who has the
physical vigor, as well as the mental
and moral qualifications, to enable
him to complete that noble task.
1
More Cash and Less Confidence.
We may talk about a restoration of
confidence as we please, the facts are,
when sifted out, that there has been
entirely too much confidence in the
business transactions of this country,
What is wanted is more cash and less
confidence.
The man and firm that “anteed up”
when they bought anything, and re-
quired others to do the same when
they sold, don't care a continental
bob-ee for the panic or loss of confi:
dence, and are sailing along as smoothly
and as prosperously as if every thing
was booming.
* Confidence is nothing but credit. In
business, credit means nothing if it is
not to assist in creating indebtedness.
Indebtedness is the bane of all enter
pricesand the night mareof all buei-
nese,
What good then in talking about a
restoration of confidence ?
Baukers and money lenders may
desire its restoration, for confidence
begets credit; credit begets indebted—
ness); indebtedness begets borrowing;
borrowing increases interest, and in-
creased interest is what bankers and
lenders desire.
But,this is not what the needs of the
people demand. They require more
cash and less confidence; more facili-
ties to pay as they go,and fewer reasons
or excuses for asking credit.
Let congress enact such legislation
as will insure sufficient money to
transact all the business of the country,
and we will bedone with panics, created
by the “confidence games’ the Repub—
lican party has been playing on the
people during the past thirty years.
Give us more cash and let confidence
to take care of itself.
—— If you want printing of any de-
scription the WaArcEMAN| office is the
place to have it done.
Should Take Down Their Sign.
From the Doylestown Democrat. :
_ If we are to Judge from what is tak-
ing place, daily, in the business world,
the occupation of the calamity howler
is gone, and gone to stay. As there is
no more use for him, why does he not
‘| go in his hole and pull the hole in af.
ter him? The great industries are ve-
suming all over the country, and a
cheerful tone prevails everywhere
among business men. Pittsburg re.
employs 5,000 men ; the Pennsylvania
Steel Works at Harrisburg are ready
to take 2,000, who were laid off some
time ago. The same cheering news
comes from Allentown, Reading, Prov-
idence R. I; Chicago, Johnstown, and
a thousand other places. The city
dailies speak in the most encouraging
tones of the outlook for the fall trade.
This information is obtained by a visit
of their reporters among mercantile
houses, which without exception, say
the business scare is over, and that
there will be a large fall trade. The
calamity howler will show his good
sengey if be have any left, by taking
down his sign and quitting business.
His business is rapidly quitting him.
Hopefulness that Should be Contagious.
From the Williamsport Times.
_ Chairman Harrity is reported as be-
ing not wholly in doubt about the ina-
bility of the Democrats to carry this
State this fall. This is the stuff.
There is no reason in the world why,
because of previous defeats, Democrats
should allow an election in this State
to practically go by default. We hope
Chairman Harrity’s reported doubt
will be contagious and that Democrats
will plan for a good fight this fall.
There is a good deal in the example of
the boy who wouldn't stay “licked” and
finally “cleared out” the crowd, which
Democrats of this State can contem-
plate with profit. j
S———
Their Day of Grace Gone By.
From the New York Sd hay
It is too late for the figh
been despoiling the grea majority of
the American people to reform. They
should have reformed earlier, paid bet-
ter wages and removed all doubt that.
spoliation was an advantage to the.
people. In 1890, in 1891, in 1892, be-
fore the election, there might have
been a chance for their protestations to
be listened to and their change of
heart to be believed. It is too late
now. The doom has been spoken.
The people have decided that protec-
tion 18 robbery and a form of robbery
that must cease. Repentance should
have come before the prisoner was in
the dock.
{
who have
A Surprising Fact.
From the Philadelphia Record.
We raise a tremendous quantity of
wheat in this country; much more
than we need for bread. But we do
not raise enough to pay our Federal
taxation. It is a fact that we do not
get out of our fabulously productive
soil enough of any one thing—silver,
gold, cotton, wheat, oil or iron—suf-
ficient to pay the expense of being pro-
tected against ourselves. It has been
said that the price of liberty is eternal
vigilance; but eternal digging is also
necessary.
Good Times When the People Want
Thero.,
From the Detroit Free Press.
The recovery promises to be as rap-
id as the decline, and the Senate can
hasten the restoration of healthy con-
ditions by doing without delay the
work which it is bound todo in the
end. Meantime it is an assured thing
that the right will prevail and the peo-
ple of the countrv should govern them-
selves accordingly. Times will be
good as soon as the people say that
they are good and proceed to do busi-
ness a8 though nothing had happened.
He Wasn’t the Man.
From the Punxsutawney Spirit.
We had the pleasure of going
through the Philadelphia Mint, the
other day, and seeing the wonderful
process of making silver coins, The
guide told us that they had just re.
ceived an order to make thirty-five
million dollars’ worth of gold coin
which they would begin work on the
next day. For fear our readers might
misconstrue this, we would add that
we did not leave the order.
An Acknowledgement of the Truth.
From the Lancaster Examiner. (Rep.)
As the banks are beginning to pay
out cash without trouble and currency
is bringing little or no premium, with
the news every day that important
manufacturing establishments are be-
ing started, it looks very much as if
the cold weather would find the country
without any sign of distress, confidence
fully restored and reasonable prosperi-
ty sitting at all our gates.
AREA CS
Nothing Down to a Science.
From the Chester News.
Some people are now complaining
that they not ouly have no money
hid away in a stocking, but have no
stocking to hide it in.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Dogs are killing many sheep at Durham,
Bucks county. :
—Boys are fined $10 each for playing ball in
Reading streets.
—Peter Philips’ boat capsizzd and he drown.
ed in the Susquehanna River at Muncy.
—A rock fell in the Hickory Ridge colliery,
Shamokin, and brained Eckley Deitman.
—Incendiaries are terrorizing- the property
owners of Deleware and Chester counties.
—The Asbury Methodist Church, Scranton,
which cost §30,000, was dedicated last Sunda;
—A colony of Italians near Jenkintown ste
toadstools for mushrooms and all nearly
died.
—A charter was granted on Saturday to the
Edinburg and Erie Railroad, Capital $200,«
000.
—Rev. David B. Jones, for 40 years a metho*
dist minister has turned JEpiscopalian in
Pittsburg.
—Nine assemblies of the United Mine
Workers in Clearfield region have bolted
from the union,
_ —A derrick struck William Masters, knock.
ing him to the bottom of a Pen Argyle quarry,
causing death.
—After taking a big dose of morph ine, Dan-
iel M. Geiger shot himself to death in a corn.
field near Muncy.
—John Plowfield has identified the man in
Reading Jail as the murderer of his brother
William at Birdsboro.
—Delegates representing 70,000 - railroad
workmen will meet in convention at Harris.
burg September 17.
—Meyer Rothstrein jumped from a ‘Pennsy
train at Altoona before it stoped, lost a leg and
now sues for $25,000.
—After being terribly beaten by strangers
Thomas Brennan, of Pottsville, cut his own
throat and nearly died.
~—A 85,000 barrel oil tank, near Washington
is being drained to see if the body of Harry
Lane is at the bottom.
—The $100,000 estate of the late President
Lamberton, of Lehigh University, goes en.
tirely to the widow and children,
—Btricken with apoplexy while on a trestle
40 feet from the ground, John Seiler, near
Easton, met instant death by the fall.
—The slim showing of Alleglieily county, on
Pennsylvania Day at the World's Fair has
made the Smoky City envious of the rest of
the State.
Judge Schuyler, of Easton, has decided that
a liquor license belongs to the hotel, no mate
ter if it be made out in the name of the lessee
or proprietor. ‘ Fo Vl
—Reading’s Board of Trade has asked
Berks county school directors to set apart
November 2 as “Conrad Weiser Day” in hon-
or of the great pioneer.
—The news in Scranton that the Choral
Union Choir had won the. $5000 World's Fair
prize set the people of that town wild and a
big reception awaits the singers.
--The Lehigh Valley shops, which hava
been running five days a week, commenced
on full time on Monday. ' Indications are that
the suspended men will soon be put to work,
—The People’s party of Lackawanna county
held ‘a’ convention at Scranton on Saturday
and placed a full ticket in the field. Reports
don’t say whether “Doty” Rynder was there
"10 run it or not. ' :
~The Hughesville Mail is authority for the
statement that J. F. Strieby, Charles J. Reilly
and Walter E. ‘Ritter will be candidates ta
succeed Grant Herring; as Senator from the
Lyecoming-Columbia district next year.
—The ‘smallest baby that ever lived in
Montgomery county was born to Mrs. Davia
Wachob at Battle Hollow, on ‘Saturday last.
The mite of humanity weighed but a few
ounces overa pound, butit is strong and
healthy.
—The oldest married couple in Chester
county is supposed to be Mr. and Mrs, Wood-
ward Brown, who were married on December
18,1832. Mr. Brown, who is an active carpens
ter, was born in 1807. They have iwenty-sev,
en grand-chiidren and twenty-five great.
grand-children. :
-—Rev. George B. Kegarise, a prominent
Dunkard preacher, and one of the best known
men in Bedford county, committed suicide
on Monday by hanging, at his home, near
Salemville. Mr. Kegarise was 60 years of age.
He held services last Suuday and was in par.
ticularly good spririts.
—Two Lancaster county farmers reached
the railroad station near their place about the
same time one day last week. One had a
load of wheat and the othera load of corn.
Both the corn and wheat were sold at the
same price—60 cents. It is probable a similar
case never before oceured in that county.
—Fannie Siddone, the insane girl, who es.
caped from her guardians last week after
being removed from the Danville Asylum, is
still at large. On Sunday a hundred persons
were out upon the mountain in the neigh
borhood looking for the lost girl, but she
was not found. It is believed that she has
jumped into one of the lakes or has starved to
death.
—The Erie car works were sold at Sheriff's
sale and the Second National Bank, holding
a judgment for $95,000 against the plant, bid
it in at $35,000. This covers the whole cone
cern, izcluding five acres of land, boarding-
houses, shops of all kinds and the yards. It
is said that there is some kind of an under-
standing behind the deal by which the works
will be operated by arailroad company, buf
specific information is not obtainable.
—Adam Light, residing on the Old Forge
road near Jonestown, determined to get
rid of an unsightly bedge fence by satu’
rating it with coal oil and burning it down.
He tried this,and found it burned like tinder
Unfortunately it burned towards the Evan.
gelical Church, adjoining his property, and it
soon was also wrapped in flames and destroyed
with all its contents except the organ and
stove. There was no insurance.
—The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette says
that Andrew Elliot. a prosperous young far-
mer, killed & blacksnake while on his way to
the McKeesport station with milk, and that it
was the largest snake he ever saw, but declar-
ed he would not give dimensions and be called
a liar. Investigation led to the finding of
seven half-grown turkeys, which had been
swallowed by the reptile. The size of the
snake may be judged by its ability to swallow
such fowls.
—The Berks county Republican convention
was held st Reading on Saturday and was un-
der the control of A. A. High, the county
leader and a faithful lieutenant of Senator
nay. The petition signed by about 80Q.
ny en Rebablicans, asking in the interest
of General Gregg, that the delegates to the
next state convention go uninstructed, did
not see the light of day, and instructions for
General Hastings for governor and Leader
High for secretary of internal affiairs were
rushed through.