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—The approach of Thanksgiving is
sending turkeys higher. Tha: is on the
roost.
—A race war in the South will hardly
materialize, though nonecan say there
are not clouds down there.
— Senator CAMERON would like to be
a Democrat, if it was'nt for the pleasant
task of running the G. O. P. machine.
—Independence in a man is always to
be admired, but the Republicans don’t
seem to appreciate the kind Mr. CaM-
ERON recently displayed.
—A Wisconsin man owns a
horned pig. It must be a descendant
of those swine into which the legion of
devils were sent out of that possessed
Gadarean over eighteen hundred years
ago.
— There has not beer a fair, a picnic,
a convention or any other resort of
pleasure of importance in this State,
this season, that does not report better
patronage than ever before. ‘Why cry
of hard times when such facts are
known.
— GEORGE WALKER, of Rockland,
Rhode Island, perhaps the largest man
in the United States, died on last Wed-
nesday. Sines his death there has nat-
urally arisen considerable discussion as
to who is the smallest man, and strange
to say no one has thought of CAMERON.
—EpisoN advances as as argument in
favor of his compressed wheat cake
dollars that in times of urgent need they
can be soaked and eaten. Such an ad-
vantage is not alone with wheat dollars,
for a fellow can “soak’’ most anything
he wants to now-a-days as long as there
is a three ball shop in his vicinity.
Tt is said that ex-Mayor FITLER,
of Philadelphia, has eighty pairs of
trousers and fifty suits of clothes in his
wardrobe for wear this winter, and he
is the man the Republicans talked of
running for president only eighteen
months ago. Good gracious, how glor-
jous, if some one would only talk of
running us for president.
—Tt surely must be a source of much
gratification to Senator MURPHY, of
New York, to see those papers so out
spoken against his election now Lrying
to make amends, when they see that the
man whom they heralded as a ward
politician and heeler of too small a
stripe for the Senate, materializing as
one of its brainiest and most conservative
members.
—Epison’s idea of compressed wheat
cakes for useas money might be all
right in dry weather, but if such mon-
ey would once get wet there is no tell-
ing the proportions it would assume.
Then too his idea of issuing certificates
on iron or steel would be taking an un-
fair advantage of those who have * been
born with a silver spoon in their
mouth.
—The Philadelphia councils will prob-
ably vote an appropriation of $15,000
for the maintenance of the Zo-ological
gardens which are not self supporting
yet an attractive feature in the Quaker
city’s beautiful resort, Fairmount Park.
Their councils can well afford to give
something toward the support of the
Zoo monkeys when the Republican
gorillas down there have been living off
the city for years.
—One of the greatest draw-backs to
success is the foolish idea that has got-
ten into the heads of so many young
men of to-day that the moment they
get loose from their mother’s apron
strings that they are fit for positions
commanding enormous salaries. If
more of them were content to begin
where their fathers did there would be
more happiness and genuine prosperity,
and the police courts would have fewer
forgers and absconders to deal with.
--It has just been found out that
:StEvE ELKINS, the Secretary of War
under the HARRISON regime, was a play-
mate of the YOUNGER boys, the notor-
ous train robbers and out-laws. From
the record of the last administration it is
a question whether the YOUNGERS or
STEVE made most out of their oppor-
tunities. Of course the former have car-
ried off lots of plunder in their various
-jobs’’, but 1t is nothing in comparison
to the piles the latter's crowd wade
away with when they were running the
government.
—To be president in one of those
South American republics just now is
an honor to which no ordinary mortal is
likely to aspire. If they don’t like
their officials down there they shoot
them and we find very few statesmen
now-a-days who are willing to run the
. chances of being thus summarily usher-
ed into eternity for a few days seat in
the presidential chair. Since Mr.
‘STEWART stiil persists in talking Un-
cle SAM might kindly present him to
.one of his South American sisters, for
with STEWART it is merely a question
of talking himself to death and he
might just as well run the risk down
‘there.
Demacralic’
BO
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 6, 189%,
Two Different Cases.
The attempt to attach corruption to
the appointment of Mr. VAN ALEN to
the Italian mission, in which the Re-
publican papers have displayed more
than their usual amount of partisan
zeal and untruthfuloess, has turned
out to be a contemptible failure.
There is not even a semblance of fact
to support it, and it has been dis-
proved by the words of men whose as:
sertions carry with them the force of
truth, Since Mr. WHITNEY's state:
ment of the circumstances under
which Mr. Vax ALEN made his con:
tribution to the Democratic campaign
fund last year, clearly disproving the
charge that it was given with the un-
derstanding that it would be repaid by
an official appointment, the Republi-
can libelers have considerably modified
the directness of their aspersion, but
they still assert that such liberal cam-
paign aid could not haye been made
without an arrangement for its being
rewarded in case of Mr. CLEVELAND'S
election,
They undoubtedly judge of Mr. Vax
ALEN's case by that of Mr. JoaNn WaN-
AMAKER, and assign the same motives
for the one appointment as for the
other. Mr. WANAMAKER notoriously
obtained the Postmaster Generalship
in consequence of the immense cam-
paign fund he raised in the interest of
Harrison. There could not have
been any other reason for his election.
When there were many Republicans
prominent as politicians and party
leaders, to any one of whom the ap
pointment would have been more suita-
ble and would more naturally have
gone, the choice of a man in private
life, a storekeeper who had never be-
fore been connected with political
movements, for so important a place
as the postoffice department, could be
viewed in no other light than as a con-
sideration for his contribution to the
campaign fund. All the elements of a
bargain and sale were present in the
transaction.
But how different are the circum-
stances under which Mr. VAN ALEN
received his appointment. It is true
that he contributed liberally to the
fund required for the campaign, which
be had a right to do; but it cannot be
made to appear that men more capable
for the position and more conspicuous
in the party were set aside to insure
his preference, which would have indi-
cated that the place was given him as
a consideration for what he had done
pecuniarily., It is koown that the
Italian mission was offered by Mr.
CLEVELAND to others, who declined it
on account of the expense it would en-
tail. Uuder the circumstances what
could have been more graceful and ap-
propriate than for the President to of-
fer the position to one who had shown
disinterested friendship for him in the
election, and whose wealth was suf-
ficient for the requirements of the mis-
sion, which poorer men had declined
to encounter for prudential reasons?
It is impossible to make a WANAMAK-
ER case out of it. It is devoid of the
features which made the appointment
ot President Harrison's Postmaster
General an evident purchase.
———————————————.
— We notice by the Cambria Free-
man, whose editor, Mr. Hasson, was
an applicant for the post-office at
Ebensburg, that the brother of our
worthy townsman, Mr. HArRrY FENLON,
received the appointment, and as a
consequence brother Hasson exhibits
no little disappointment. While we
know nothing about the circumstan-
ces that brought about the result, and
fully appreciate the claims that Mr.
Hasson had to this recognition, yet the
conditions cannot be such as to justify
the unkind fling he makes at Governor
A. G. CurTIN in this connection, The
governor for over halfa century has
been a warm friend of the appointee’s
father, and we understand took more
than ordinary interest in young Mr.
FexLox’s success, but because he did
80, is no reason why our contemporary
should hold him up as being responsi-
ble for the result or charge the appoint-
ment to outside influences. Without
home backing or the endorsement of
business men of Ebensburg, the young
man would never have been heard of
in the contest. It is to these influen-
ces and not to citizens of this place,
that the Freeman should address ite
complaints,
A Proper Location of the Blame.
The responsibility for the present fi-
nancial and business disorder could
not have been located in more graphic
terms than it was through a recent
correspondence between two western
cattle dealers.
It appears that Mr. S. E. WRIGHT,
a Republican of Iowa, in the cattle
business, heard that Mr. JAMES SKER-
vING, a Democrat of Nebraska, had a
desirable lot of animals which he
wished to buy. Accordingly he wrote
to the Nebraska cattle man, of the
Democratic persuasion, stating his de-
sire to purchase, but qualifying his of-
fer to buy by saying that ‘‘as these
are Democratic times, the figures to
be paid for the animals must be in ac-
cordance.”
It is obvious that WricHT, the Re-
publican, not only proposed to get the
cattle at a reduced price, but he also
intended to 1mpress his Democratic
correspondent with the idea that the
tightness of the times sprang from a
Democratic cause, and that it was the
fault of his party that cattle had to be
sold at a reduced figure. He seemed
to gloat over the opportunity of putting
this at the Nebraska Democrat, and
took delight in rubbing it in.
But what had the latter to say in re-
ply? In true Democratic style he sat
down and wrote to the effect that he
had as fine a lot of steers as could be
found in Nebraska, but as they ate
Democratic cattle they are not finding
any fault with the Democratic times ;
go I do not care to sell them until the
present administration has had time to
wipe out the Republican rottenness,
when I think the cattle will bring
more money than they will at present.”
Could anything have been more neat-
ly put? Could trath have been stated
with greater force? [tis Republican
rottenness, in finances, in monetary
measures, and in tariff policy, that has
caused the stringency of the times, aod
when a Democratic administration
shall have wiped out that rottenness,
and relieved the country of its blight:
ing effects, not only the cattle business,
but every other business will be im-
proved.
The Voice That Will be Heard.
That the House committee of Ways
and Means has closed its hearings in
regard to proposed changes in the tar-
iff, indicates its determination to get
down to bustness. It was customary
with Republican committees, which
had in view the increase of tariff du-
ties, to spend months in listening to
the pleas of the various monopolies
that asked for tariff favors. But it is
not the purpose of the Democrats to
cater to such favorites. The commit-
tee of Ways and Means believes that
it has accorded sufficient time and op-
portunity to those who may have had
special representations to make on the
subject, and it will now allow no fur-
ther interruption of the business it has
in hand.
It was entirely natural that those
who have been the pampered benefi-
ciaries of the McKINLEY system
ghould want to have it continued.
Their eagerness to come before the
committee in support of their interests
was not at all strange. There were
millions in it for them if they could
prolong the tariff robbery. But their
voice is not the one that requires most
attention on this subject. The people
have spoken in regard to the tariff.
The issue was made up and presented
to them a year ago, and they deter-
mined by one of the largest majorities
ever cast, that “the tariff must be re-
formed. In view of such a verdict, the
appearance of protected monopolists
before the committee of Ways and
Means, pushing their special interests,
was an impertinence. The mighty
voice of the people, and not the inter"
ested representions and persuasions of
a benefitted class of tariff favorites, is
the influence that will govern the ac-
tion of a Democratic Congress on an
economic question affecting the general
interests of the country.
—— To-morrow, October Tth, will
be the last day on which you can pay
your poll tax. Democrats don’t forget
to do it.
——Your vote this Fall means an
endorsement of CLEVELAND and his
administration. See that you poll it.
Senator Cameron's Position on Silver.
After delaying so long in giving the
for Senator CAMERON to make a speech
‘that has had no other effect than to
expose him to ridicule and censure.
He would better have maintained a
silence for which he had acquired a
reputation, than to have ventilated
opinions that have damaged his repute
as a level-headed public man.
It was well known that he enter
tained liberal views in regard to silver.
No one could object if he wanted to
supplement the gold coinage of the
country with a reasonable allowance
of the less valuable metal as an aux-
iliary. There are many sound finan-
ciers who entertain such views in re’
gard to silver, believing that the cur-
fency is strengthened and the business
interests are benefitted by its use in ju-
dicious proportion to the coinage of
gold. But it was thought that he un-
derstood the injury that attended the
compulsory purchase of silver bullion
by the government, for which it has
no use, and which can serve no other
purpose than to drain its resources by
depleting the supply of gold it is re-
quired to have on hand. Therefore it
was believed that he would vote for
the repeal of the obnoxious purchasing
clause of the SHERMAN law. But
Senator CauuRroN’s speech dispels this
impression, placing him among those
who would abuse the use of silver,
running into extremes in its employ-
ment as a monetary agency. It is evi-
dent that be has cast his lot with the
silver mining camps, whose only object
is to force the government to furnish
them a market for their product, re-
gardless of an over supply of what
they have to sell.
In this respect the Senator is incon-
sistent in his assumed advocacy of sil-
veras a legitimate and useful adjunct
10 the volume of the circulating me-
dium, for no measure of public policy
has bad so great an effect in discredit-
ing that metal as has the Republican
lax which makes it an article of pur-
chase forced upon the government con-
trary to its actual need for it. It has
prostrated business, it has deranged
the monetary condition of the country,
it has brought in the trouble that has
been falsely and foolishly charged to
the prospective change in the tariff, and
for these reasons it has given the
monometalists a plausible opportunity
of decrying the value of silver asa
monetary material. Senator CAMERON
will occupy a contradictory position as
an advocate of a legitimate use of that
metal as part of the circulating me-
dium if he shall oppose the repeal of the
SuermMaN law, which, judging from
the tenor of his speech, he intends to
do.
His position is in conflict with the
sentiment of his State, and he misrep-
resents when he says that Pennsylva-
pia has not suffered from the effects of
the SHERMAN measure. The business
interests of the State are almost unani-
mous for its repeal. The conventions
of both parties within her borders bave
condemned it. Politics does not seem
to have made a division of opinion as
to theinjury it has done. How, there:
fore, can the Senator justify himself in
saying that in Penusylvania there is
no appreciable adverse feeling to a law
that has done so much mischief, and
is the object of such general condemra-
tion ? i
As to the scheme which proposes to
unite the interest of the silver kings
with that of the tariff beneficiaries,
having its origin in the cranky brain
of WHARTON BARKER, and said to be
favored by Senator CaMERON, there
could not be a more objectionable
combiaation of obnoxious interests. It
is his object to iucrease the volume of
money in the hands of the people only
that their robbery may be more profita-
ble to the protected trusts and mopbopo-
lists? Silver in its monetary function
authorized by the constitution, is able
to stand on its own merits as a-.useful
help to the people in their business
transactions, but its usefulness in its
legitimate capacity is subjected to in-
jury by such measures as the SHERMAN
act and such schemes as complicate it
with tariff spoilation.
EC TI A CTT
for as good a county ticket as has ever
been named be sure to see that your
poll tax is paid. To-morrow will be
the last day.
Senate and the country a specimen of |
his oratory, it was hardly worth while |
-——Democrats it you want to vote |
NO. 39.
: Something for Farmers to Think Over.
From the Walla Walla, Wash., Statesman.
The East Oregonian says: Some
' geientist has figured ‘out that wheat
from the time it is threshed will shrink
two quarts to the bushel or 6 per cent.
in six months, even under the most
favorable circumstances. Hence it
follows that 94 cents per bushel when
it is first threshed in August is as good
as $1 the following February. Corn
shrinks much more from the time it is
husked, 100 bushels of ears from the
field in November being reduced to
about 80. So 40 cent per bushel for
corn as it comes from the field is as
good as 50 cents the next March.
Potatoes shrink so much that between
October and next spring the loss to the
owner who holds them is nearly 20 per
cent.
Last Fall's Campaign Stock Dropping
Out.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The permanent closing of the tin-
plate works in the vicinity of Elizabeth.
N. J., as announced Saturday ina
dispatch from that city, should not be
classed among the business failures of
the season, of which there are more
than enough of a legitimate sort. The
plant in question was nota commer-
cial venture, hoping to thrive by nat-
ural laws, by an artificially hatched
olitical infant without a chance for
ife save by a reversal of all economic
principles; and when the intelligence
of the country condemned such rever-
sal as folly the weakling was foredoom-
ed to pine away.
Undoul tedly a Farmer’s Dollar.
From the Williamsport Republican.
Mr. Edison suggests that we make
our money out of compressed wheat
instead of silver. Theidea is splendid
and ought to become popular in the
senate. If wheat don’t suit make it
compressed cabbage, compressed pota-
toes or compr pumpkins, The ad-
vantage such money would have over
silver would be that a man who got
over into Europe with & pocket full of
compressed pumpkin or compressed
potato dollars and could not trade them
off to advantage could get even with
himself and everyone else by eating his
money.
One Way of Beating the Geary Act.
From the Doylestown Democrat. . i
Lieutenant Whiting, of the United
States Navy, is engaged ta be married
to a Chinese girl of Honolulu, a Miss
Ah Fong, the daughter of a rich opium
merchant. This is a practical way
of settling the Chinese question, and if
peace cannot be established through
“hls shane] it cannot be established
at all. :
EE ETT
Keep Your Weather Eye Open Daniel.
From the Chester County Democrat.
The Hastings men who think they
have Quay with them this time had
better watch the Beaver Boss. They
had better watch also Congressman
Charles W. Stone and Mayor Stuart, of
Philadelphia, either of whom is far
more likely to become a Quay candi-
date than Hastings is.
There Are a Great Many “Fake” Edi-
tors There Too.
From the Connellsville Courier.
The World's Fair management have
cut off passes to country editors. The
latter have done the puffing, they can
now whistle for their reward. There
are a great many uukilled hogs in Chi
cago-
There Are Many Father's Just Like
Him.
From the Northampton Democrat.
A New York father boasts of having
whipped his nineteen-year-old daughter,
and that it did her good.
If a girl needs a whipping at nine:
teen the father evidently needed it
when she was ten.
CE RETA,
Consolation of a Questionable Na ture.
From the Williamsport Republican.
Democrats do not appear to be find-
ing much fault with Senator Quay and
his work in the senate just now. Re-
publicans keep right on admiring
him.
CI R————
How Dare You Call Leonard Such
Names?
From the Williamsport Republican.
The Centre county grange wants free
silver too, and God love the dear old
moss covered thing, it onght to have it
—in the ueck.
ETI
They Dare Not Whip Their Boss.
From the Philadelphia Evening Herald.
Even Republicans are nearly mad
enough at Cameron to give him a little
free raw material in the shape of cow-
| hide.
ETI
——1If you want printing of any de-
"scription the WATCHMAN office is the
place to have it done.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Pittsburg has no morgue.
—Typhoid fever is epidemic at Pottetown.
—Chestnuts are scarce in Northern Penn’
s ylvania.
—There are 198 cigar factories in the Read”
ing district.
—The natural gas supply of Johnstown is
completely exhausted.
—According to the directoyy, Altoona’s pop-
ulation at present is 33,756.
—John Larkin, the the first Mayor of Ches-
ter, was 89 years old Tuesdsy.
—Louis Lawrence, a Priceburg colliery em-
ploye was cut to pieces by an engine.
—Alderman C. M. DeLong, of Scranton, was
Friday indicted for receiving illegal fees,
—In a fight with Thomas Kellyat Girard
ville William Lloyd was seriously stabbed. ?
—Reading’s new Memorial M. E. Church
which cost $100,000, has just been dedicated.
—There is but one Justice in Montgomery
county whose fee is increased by the new law.
—A robber held up Miss Emma Morningred
in Altoona, but she pluckily fought herself
free.
—While fishing near York, John Yeaple
was drowned. His mother discovered his
body.
—Pastor Gerdson has gone from the pulpit
of the Lebanon Moravian Church to New
York.
—The first open air farmers’ institute ever
held in Berks County is in session at Joanna
Heights.
—A negro, supposed to be W. M. Addison, of
Philadelphia, was killed by a train, Tuesday
near Media.
—Falling in front of the gravity carsat
York Farm colliery, Stephen Bondeusky was
cut to pieces.
—Candy, cigars and chewing gum rewarded
thieves who broke into the Union News stand
at Lebanon. ’
—Doortender John Libey,aged 16, was kill-
ed under a trip car at the Allangowan Mines,
Shenandoah.
—SBuccessful tests with air brakes on col
trains have been made on the steep grades
near Frockville.
—About 174,000,000 feet of logs have been
floated from the boom and sawed in William,
sport this season.
—More than 1500 people Tuesday followed
to the grave the remains of Rev. 8. K. Gross,
of Sch lictersville.
—A lamp explosion in Pittsburg caused the
fatal burning of Mrs. Nettie Johnson and Rob-
ert Madden, a boarder.
—John and Godfried Stoltz, young machin-
ists of Reading started, Wednesday, to walk
to Washington on stilts.
—John Hildebrand was buried under sand
in a Lancaster quarry for 20 minutes and was
dug out badly injured. ‘
—In a freight wreek on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, near Lancaster, conductor Benjamin
Seercher was badly hurt.
—Elaborate arrangements are being made ag
Reading to welcome the State Christian En-
deavor on the 13th instant.
—Since the beginning of the smallpox
epidemic in Reading there have been 500
cases and only a dozen deaths.
—It required 103 ballots for the Foster
township (Luzerne County) School! Beard to
elect Joseph Brisbin a member.
—Robed only in her night clothes, Mrs.
Jessie Jones, of Soranton, strangled herself in
the street with a strip of muslin.
__Her dress caught fire while she was boil~
ing apple butter, at Huatingdon, and Mrs,
George G. Steel was fatally burned.
—The Sixth Pennsylvania cavalry had a
campfire at Gettysburg Saturday night, and
will look over *he battlefield Sunday.
—Rev. Dr. George Hodges, of Pittsburg, has
been thought of for dean of the Episcopal
Theological School at Cambridge, Mass.
—Kutztown’s White Oak Street Scheol was
dedicated with addresses by John Bland and
State Superintendent Scheffer on Sunday.
—Putting a shotgun to his forehead, Wil
liam A. Hake, a Gettysburg farmer, pulled the
trigger with a ramrod and blew out his
brains.
—As the result of anold fued Luke Kash?
Friday shot Paul Lazzar, at Beaver Mea*
dow, and the victim's condition is eritl
cal.
—TFive professional burglars, who have been
operating in Easton, Catasauqua, Hokendan®
qua, Coplay and Stemton, have been captured
at Easton.
— Children cried and saved John A. Snyder's
family from suffocation in their house at
Stowe, which had been fired by burglars, who
got away with $63.-
The Oliver Iron and Steel Company’s em-
ployes in Pittsburg, all but the puddlers, who
struck, have gracefully accepted a necessary
reduction in wages.
_It was decided at Scranton to send 160
Welsh-American singers to Wales next year
ta represent the United States at the Inter®
national Eisteddfod.
While visiting the World's Fair, Colone}
James Young, the prince of Pennsylvania
farmers, purchased 132 cattle for his great es”
tate at Middletown.
— President Garland, of the Amalgamated As-
sociation headquarters, in Pittsburg, says the
association won’t consent to any reduction in
its sheet or car iron scale.
__A Methodist Conterence meeting in Alle.
gheny county petitioned Congress {0 repeal
the Geary Chinese act, as a protection to
American missionaries.
— Lock Haven is to have a new supply of
water for their town and extensive works will
be built. The new plant is to be completed
by the first of next January. *
—1n attempting to kindle a fire in the stove
while their parents were absent, the children
of Enos Woodraw, of Big Spring, Cumberland
county, burned down the house.
__A cage of sunstroke on his own part is the
excuse which Thomas McHugh, a divoreed
husband, gave Judge Endlich at Reading for
failure to support his two children.
J.D. Flynn, mavager of the Western Une
jon Telegraph Company at Pittsburg, has been
made superintendent of the Bight district
Eastern Division of the company.
—Car shops of the Philadelphia and Read.
ing Railroad Company at Palo Alto and
Schuylkill Haven have been ordered to oper-
ate ten hours a day and to take on more men.
—0C. J. Guetling, of Pottsville, who wheeled
a keg of beer to the World's Fair, but failed ta
make a fortune, is disgusted and wants to sell
the wheelbarrow and the doz that }itrotted al}
the way by his side.
I IEA,