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8Y PRP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The “8S. R. 0.” sign was hung out
in Chicago for sure on Monday,
—If Senator STEWART were only of
Hebraic parentage his talking could be
readily stopped by tying his hands.
~.One bushel of corn will make four
gallons of whiskey, which retails at $4.00
per gallon, or at the cost of home happi-
ness per drink.
—And now that the Senate is to sit
1n continuous session until the Silver
question is settled Stewart must wish he
had saved his wind for the freeze
out.
—At the rate the New England
woolen mills are resuming operation
there will undoubtedly be a shortage of
Republicen hard times yarns before the
Fall elections come.
—From the number of laws enacted
by the last Legislature that have since
been declared unconstitutional it seems
that Republican lawmakers are about
as great failures as Republican tariff
ideas.
—The down pour of rain on Ireland
day at the Fair, was looked upon by the
wearers of the green as a special dispen-
sation by which they could all get soak-
ed without paying Fair prices for
whiskey.
—The young Bellefonte cigar maker,
who got his jaw broken on Saturday
evening, during an altercation about
twenty cents over a poker table, will
hardly open bis own ‘“Jack-pot” for
some time,
—Mr. Heinz, the Pittsburg pickle
packer, who is charged with firing his
own ware-houses, will be able to realize
on himself by the time he gets out of
this trouble. He is certainly in u ‘‘pret-
ty pickle” now.
—A late St. Louis dispatch informs
the world that the silver people are go-
ing to organize anew party. Alas,
how fleeting must be the hopes of the
patriots who saw honor thrust upon
them by the triumphant Farmers Al-
liance.
—The Massachusetts Democracy,
when it could’nt persuade Governor
RUSSELL to accept a renomination, went
and hunted up another RUSSELL and
put him on the ticket. There is no use
in talking, those RUSSELLS are winners
in the Bay State and the Democrats
know it.
—The Vigilant succeeded in taking
three straight races from the English
yacht the Valkyrie. They sailed over
three different courses and under as many
climatic conditions and the Yankee boat
took ‘‘high, low, Jack and the game.”
Though the race on Wednesday was
not finished the Vigilant clearly out-
sailed the Valkyrie.
—Don’t think that because you know
nothing about yachting you should not
feel pride in the fact that our centre
boarder has beaten the English Valky-
rie. Put on a twenty-five cent yacht-
ing cap, even if you do live in the
mountains, and cheer until you are
black and blue in the face,’ for our de-
signers and sailors have triumphed over
England.
—One thing at the Fair that strikes
most visitors us being stangely incon-
gruous is the presence of the cannon
and other death dealing implements of
~war in the Transportation building,
“yet there is a fitness of things even there.
Do not those great guns transport the
soul from this world to the next? In-
deed many a soldier has ridden out of
this land on a cannon ball,
—Never say mean things about
your neighbor. If you don't like his
mode of living remember that the
world is wide ; you can let him severe-
ly alone and live on as if nosuch per-
son exists. Then you will not be called
a gossip and should your neighbor ever
become President and you want an of-
“fice you can refer to the proximinity of
your habitations without fear of the
consequences.
-—Editor GEorGE W. CHILDS, of the
Philadelphia Public Ledger, has pur-
chased the ideal Michigan camp “house,
which is part of the interesting logging
exhibit of that great lumber State at the
Fair, and will move it to his country
home, “Wooton’’, near the Quaker city.
Just what Mr. CHILDS wants with the
rustic little building is hard to imagine,
unless it is an appropriate retreat where
hecan “saw wood” when things go
wrong in newspaperdom
--The conviction of EMMA GOLDMAN,
the pretty young New York Anarchist,
who has been the companion of such
devotees of the red flag as Most, Tim-
MERMAN and BERGMAN, will meet with
the popular approval ot law-abiding
citizens everywhere. She enjoyed the
blessings of a free government and in
return encouraged ignorant, impulsive
foreigners to strike for the destruction of
the very government whose safety they
had sought. Nosympathy will be ex-
tended her, for sympathy could only be
regarded as an endorsement of Anarchy.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNIO
VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 13,
S93.
NO. 40.
They Will be Mistaken.
The Republican journals which ex-
pect that the prevailing business de-
pression will be of advantage to their
party at the coming election in thie
State, are likely to find themselves
greatly mistaken, A prominent paper
of that political persuasion, which we
have before us, expresses the belief
that such an object lesson of the de-
structive effects of Democratic rule has
been given the people since a Demo-
cratic administration came into power,
that they will hasten to record their
disapprobation at the polls, and that
as a consequence, the party of tariff
extortion will roll up as large a majori-
ty as usual in Pennsylvania at the
next election, if not larger.
This is a very pleasant expectation
to be entertained by our political oppo-
nents, but it is based on an erroneous
estimate of the public intelligence. If
it could be arranged, for the Republi-
can advantage, that the people should
lose their common sense and could be
made to believe that the effects of
many years of Republican rule were at
once obliterated by the fact of a Demo-
cratic President being in the White
House for a few months, then such an
absurdity as the people holding the
Democratic party responeible for the
business depression might be looked
for. But there is a very large stock of
good sense in this country and
nowhere is it more fully developed
than among the plain citizens of this
old commonwealth,
There has already been some public
expression in regard to the prevailing
bard times and the causes that have
led to them, as voiced by meetings of
workingmen in Philadelphia. These
plain men gave evidence of a clear
comprehension of what brought on the
stoppage of manutacturies and the pros
tration of industry. They rebuked the
tariff beneficiaries who were crowding
the Ways and Means committee room,
asking for a continuance of the Mo-
KiNLEY tariff, by reminding them
that several wage réductions have oc-
curred since the enactment of that
measure, and that the shutting down
of mills is not unusual when the stim-
ulation of excessive protection has en-
couraged an overproduction of manu-
tactured articles. They recognized
such a condition in the existing situa-
tion, and ascribed it to its proper
cause.
The people are not to be fooled in
this matter. They know that any law
that can have any present effect upon
the business of the country has been of
Republican origin. They have sense
sufficient for them to understand that
the country cannot feel the effects of a
new administration until the influences
of a former one, of the opposite char-
acter, are removed. They demanded
by an immense majority that those in-
fluences should be removed, and sure-
ly they have discretion enough to de-
termine whether the party to which
they have intrusted the new manage-
ment of affairs has yet had the time
and the opportunity to fulfill its trust.
The people at this juncture are not
disposed to come to a foolish conclu-
gion simply for the benefit and conven-
ience of Republican politicians.
Attention is called to the fact that a
great decline has taken place in the
iron ore industry of ‘Eastern Pennsyl-
vania, it being stated thal between
Reading and Allentown, where some
years ago large quantities of ore were
shipped, the trade has almost entirely
stopped within the past few years, and
that a business which employed some
700 men has dwindled to insignificant
proportions. This has occurred under
a Republican tariff that bas protected
American iron ore with a high rate of
duty on the imported article. It
should be observed that this decline of
the Eastern Pennsylvania iron industry
had taken place before a Democratic
administration came into power, which
the howlers say has brought calamity
npon the country. The experience of
the Pennsylvania iron miners is simi-
lar to that of the Ohio wool raisers,
the products of both of them having
declined under the McKINLEY tariff.
——Children play with fire and get
buroed ; they rarelly doit again, The
people of Centre county tried a Repub-
lican Sheriff in 1887 ; they will hardly
do it again.
A Discouraged Party.
There are indications that the Re-
publican managers in this State are
not as confident of the result as has
been customary with them previous to
the former elections. Apathy is ap-
parent at the headquarters of the State
Central Committee, and a feeling ot in-
difference has unnerved the rank and
file of the organization. Much of this
no doubt is due to the depression nat-
urally produced by so overwhelming a
defeat as that of last year, but there is
still greater discouragement in the en-
tire absence of animation in the party
movements.
It often occurs that after a great
party has sustained a defeat its moral
stamina remains unimpaired, with un-
diminished vigor for a renewal of the
fight. But this is not the condition. in
which the Republican party has been
left by its recent disaster. There is no
probability of such a vindication of its
policy as will restore it to the people.
It is evident to all that it will require
but a little time to prove the injurious
character of iis tarift system and the
pernicious effects of its general admin-
istration,
The leaders are conscious of this
and are consequently discharged.
That there is division among them is
shown by the circumstances that while
the State convention requested the
Senators from the State to vote for the
repeal of the SHERMAN law, the State
leagues declined to censure CAMERON
for opposing the repeal of that meas-
ure. There is as little unity of senti-
ment on other questions as there is up-
on this, while aspiring candidates for
the Governorship are adding an ele-
ment of discord by ‘their intrigues for
the nomination. The old party is ary-
thing but in a good shape for the ap-
proaching election, and the managers
koow it.
——1If you are a Democrat it will be
your duty to go out and vote on elec
tion day. Don’t ‘stay at home using
for your excuse, ‘oh, there'll be
enough without me,” for what if five
huodred others in the county would
‘do the same thing? Run no risks.
This is not a time when we can afford
i to take any risks.
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:He Testified Too Much.
Even so dull and prosy a business
as the proceedings of the Ways and
' Means committee on subjects pertain-
ing to tariff, can be enlivened by
laughable incidents. This happened
one day last week in the testimony of
a person from Pittsburg who appeared
before the committee in the interest of
“protection.” He stated that imme:
diately after the passage of the Mc:
Kixvey bill, in 1890, the steel industry
was stimulated to increased activity,
and its prosperity was greatly promo-
ted.
This remarkable witness appeared
to have overlooked the circumstance
that the duty on steel rails and structu-
ral steel was so extravagantly high un-
der the tariff previous to the MoKin-
LEY bill, that the steel manufacturers
made no serious objection to ite reduc-
tion, and McKINLEY reduced it about
$7 on the ton. So according to the
evidence of this testifier to the benefi-
cent effects of protection, the steel in-
industry was benefitted by a reduction
of duties. It is unecessary to say that
such testimony had no effect in con-
vincing the committee that the way to
promote the industries of the country
is to keep up a high tariff,
The Northwest News, which our
esteemed friend W. R. BierLy has
found pleasure and profit in publishing
at Grand Forks, North Dakota, fin
ished its second year on Saturday and
from its “Retrospective” we learn that
the third of its life has been begun
with a cheerfulness and hopefulness
only begotten by a consciousness of ap-
preciated labor. The News merits the
position of independence it holds and
while wishing it continued prosperity
we trust the third year of its life will
be the charm to a place with the lead-
ing journals of the land.
——The Magnet says, “JARED Har
per will be elected if he gets enough
votes.” The Temperance organ has
evidently never heard of the fable of the
dog and the rabbit,
os,
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They Calllta Conspiracy! <
Among the points that were a
mined by the last election was the re.
peal of laws passed by the Republicans
to influence the elections by federal
authority. This issue was as squarely
presented to the people as was that of
tarift reform, and was just as emphat-
ically decided by the great majority of
the voters.
In compliance with this popular de-
mand, the present Congress has before
it a bill for the repeal of enactments
by which such agents of Federal pow-
er as JoHN DAVENPORT, and deputy
marshals appointed for the especial
purpose, have been empowered to in-
terfere with the election of Presidents
and members of Congress. The peo-
ple have declared against federal in-
fluence ; yet the Republicans are de-
nouncing the bill that is intended to
put a stop to such undue and unconsti-
tutional influence at the elections, stig-
matizing it as if it were an outrageous
measure. They even go so far as to
call it a conspiracy, committing the
absurdity of representing the majority
in Congress as conspiring when they
attempt to carry out a policy which
had the endorsement of the popular
vote at the last election.
The platform upon which a Demo-
cratic President and Congress were
elected a year ago, declared in emphat-
ic terms that DAVENPORTISM and all the
electoral force, fraud and corruption
which that term implies, should be
stopped. The people endorsed that
declaration, the Democratic, Congress
is acting upon that endorsement, and
the Republicans call it a conspiracy.
This is the first time that representa”
tives have been called conspirators for,
enforcing the popular will.
——Voters of Centre county, you
have bad all the experieace with Re-
publican officials you can afford. The
Sheriff, whom you elected six years
ago, besmirched the highest office with:
in your gift. The Commissioners, to
whom you entrusted the county's buei-
‘ness at the same time, made away ‘with |
a neat surplus and ran the county in
debt. Do you want to try it again ?
Political Jackass-ism,
McKINLEY and his party are engag-
ing in some queer antics in the Ohio
campaign. They have put State is
sues entirely out of sight, and are run-
ning the campaign wholly on the tariff
question. The burden of McKINLEY'S
argument is that the business of the
country has been prostrated by the
Democrats getting into power, and the
banners bear such inscriptions a3 this :
1892, prosperity, money and labor;
1893 hard times and poverty.” Do
the political jackasses, who are making
such campaign displays, think that the
people can be made to overlook the
fact that the same tariff—the McKiN-
LEY tariff—that was in force in 1892 is
still in force in 1893, and that if it pro-
duced prosperity in the one year it
should have the same effect in the oth-
er? There has as yet been no change
in the tariff and financial laws passed
by the Republicans, and the country is
suffering from their effects.
——The vote of every good Demo-
crat in the county will be cast for JorN
P. Conpo on the Tth of next Novem-
ber. Not only because he is the Demo-
cratic nominee for Sheriff, but because
he is a man who will fill the office to
the credit of his party and the satisfac-
tion of the people.
—— The great storm that swept over
the South with such frightful fatality
last week, has placed the region of the
Gulf under the same ban of uncertainty
a8 to climatic conditions as is that of
the Mississippi valley and the territory
west to the Rockies, where cities and
towns have been swept from the earth
without other warning than the light-
ning approach of those funnel shaped
storm clouds. The list of dead from
Louisiana numbers over twenty-five
hundred souls, which is perhaps the lar-
gest known in the annals of disaster in
our country. Commerce on the Gulf is
prostrated and the destitution that pre-
vails is said to beggar description. It
is gratifying, however, to note that our
people, with that great open hearted-
ness that has always been characteris-
tic of them, are responding liberally to
the succor of the unfortunate.
Democrats Who Are Democrats.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
According to the Atlanta Constitu-
tion the way to paralyze Southern
Democrats is to let the banks and the
Eastern goldbugs dictate financial leg-
islation. We do not recall any in-
stauces since the war when the South-
ern Democrats have been afllicted with
symptoms of paralysis. They have
been shot, carved with bowie knives,
shaken out of their boots by ague chills,
scourged by deadly fevers, knocked
about by cyclones, storm swept by
ocean and gulf, driven to madness by
Populists and disgraced by moonshian-
ers and savages with masks and ropes,
but in spite of every drawback they
come up smiling after each election
with the same old solid front. In view
of these facts we refuse to believe that
they are susceptible to the wither
ing influences of paralysis in times of
peace, and must pronounce the bright
Constitution in error. Let the editor
banish the goldbug hallucination from
his mind for a few days and then guess
again.
The Country Has Been Keely Cured.
From the Chicago Herald.
“Suppose we stop howling ‘hard
times.” The cry has become monoto-
nous, aad as a matier of fact it isn’t
true any longer, even if it were ever
justified. People have been crazy and
badly scared—that's all. Men of
wealth have run just as hard and
yelled as loud as the savings bank de-
positors have. Wages have been cut
down and men have been discharged
in anticipation of a commercial disas-
ter that has not occurred. Money has
been drawn from savings banks and
put into old stockings because of an
unreasoning distrust. Currency is be-
ginning to circulate freely. The Sher-
man law is on its last legs. and will
soon be knocked over the ropes entire-
ly. There is no obstacle to a resump-
tion of business except the lingering
remnants of the financial deliriam tre
mens from which we have been suffer-
ing. Start the wheels whirring again.
Choke off the yawping. Get sober.
The spree is over.”
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It Was His Own Dishonesty All the
Same. =
From the Wellsboro Gazette: {
The first news: from ex-State Treas
urer William Livesey, of Pittsburg,
singe’ he fled from Harrisburg
ip. 1891, while holding the «posi-
‘of State Cashier under Preasurer
Boyer, was disclosed by State Insur-
ance Commissioner George Luper, who
was in Philadelphia last week. Mr.
Luper freely chatted with a reporter at
the Girard house about how Liveey
had put in an appearance and sur
prised him at the World's Fair in Chi-
cago recently. Livsey talked rather
freely, and said that he was ‘only
making a scapegoat” when he cleared
out so suddenly after the Governor
had called the special session of the
Senate to investigate the offices of
State Treasurer Boyer and Auditor
General McCamant.
A Judge of Sound Mind.
From the Chester Delaware County Democrat.
Ex-Judge Edward Campbell, of
Uniontown, Prohibition candidate for
Judge in the Fayett-eGreen district,
has declared that Secretary Hoke
Smith’s pension rulings are right,
and further, that if he (Campbell) is
elected Judge he will grant every ap-
plicant who complies with the law a
license. He holds that when the law
requirements are fulfilled the Judge
has no discretion.
Chicago the Wonder City of the World.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Chicago exhibited dramatic insight
in having her “day” at the World's
Fair on the anniversary of her great
fire. The result was a spectacle for
the admiration of the world in the
wondrous demonstration it gave of the
city’s unexampled growth and great
ness, and in the impressive contrast it
suggested with the apalling scenes of
22 years ago.
It Would Soon be Blown off Its Pins,
From the Columbia Independent.
There is said to be an African tribe
which “requires public speakers to
stand on one leg during their orations,
when then they become exhausted
their time has expired.” If this cus-
tom prevailed in the United States
Senate the silver debate soon would
not have a leg to stand on.
The Unkindest Cut of All.
From the Columbia Independent.
A bill has been introduced in Con-
gress authorizing New York to hold a
world’s exposition in 1900 to com
memorate the beginning of the twen-
tieth century. The surplus of the
Grant monument fund might be used
as a starter for it.
CE ETRTT——
And the Wind Will Sigh,
From the Somerset Democrat.
What a fine pair Peffer and Bryan
will make for the Populists. Peffer
, will furnish the whiskers and Bryan
the wind to blow through them.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Allentown business men will build.a gold
sanitarium.
—Mrs. George Gibbs is mysteriously miss-
ing from Yaraley.
—Chimney sweeps have disappeared from
Eastern Pennsylvania.
—A horse threw cadet Dennis, at Chester,
injuring him seriously.
—The Kights of Honor of Pennsylvania met
Tuesday in Williamsport.
—There will be a public meeting in Reading
to discuss the new $600,000 loan.
—Forty-four horses have been stolen in
Clearfield county within two months. +
—The jury in the Dietz divorce case, at
Media, has balloted in vain for 72 hours.
—The city of Chester has rescinded its
$500 gift for a free library in that town.
—The Pennsylvania German Society held
its annual meeting at York on Wednesday.
—P. R. Dillon has been appointed general
manager of all the Carnegie iron and steel
mills.
—Delaware county public school teachers
claim to haveone of the best associations in
the State.
—The property of the “Fair Rebel” theat-
rical company was seized at Pittsburg by a
creditor.
—Mrs. Emma Maine, of Norristown, awoke
in the morning and found her child dead
in her arms.
—A Tioga county farmer dug over five hune
dred bushels of potatoes from [two and ones
fourth acres.
—During his wife's absence at market,
Charles Eberhardt, of Allegheny city, shot
himself to death.
—For killing Caroline Wayland, Augustus
Coleman has been sentenced at Pittsburg to
ten years’ imprisonment.
—Elmer Whetstone, ticket agent of the
North Penn Road at Jenkentown, was ac
quitted of the embezzlement of $90:
—In a fight between a big cat and Joe Me-
Donald's fox-hound, near Ephrata, the latter
was killed in less than ten minutes.
—Coroner Quinby is investigating the sud-
den death of baby Esther Wood, who was
taken at Chester by a woman to rear.
—Ex-Congressman Sowden’s case: against
the Lehigh County Commissioners tor alleged
waste of public funds will be in Court this
week. :
AMajor Barton D. Evans has been elected
secretary of the Board of Commissioners of
Norristown Insane Asylum, succeeding the
late Dr. Martin.
—A tract of 800 acres, near Franklin, has
been selected as the site for the State Home
for Feeble-Minded Children. The ground
will cost §24.000.
—A Doylestown man has a horse that ean
count ;the strokes of the elock. When the
town clock strikes the proper hours he pere
emptorily ealls for his oats.
—A team of crack marksmen of the Thire
teenth Regiment, N, G. P., at Seranton,will go
to Great Britain next June to compete with
the best sharp-shooters,of the world.
~The Providence Independent is’ authority
for the statement that the employes ‘of the
roller mills of that place caught an eel forty.
three inches long, weighing eight pounds.
—Alleged heirs from all ;parts of America
are now clamoring for a part of the proceeds
of the sale of the entire town of Lobachsville,
‘Berks county. The sale was a month ago.
—A new vein of coal four and one-half feet
in thickness has been discovered a mile wes;
of Blossburg, Tioga county. A tract of eight
hundred acres is supposed to cover the coal.
—Since the going into effect of the present
marriage license law in this State, in 1885, the
Clerk cf the Courts of Chester county has ise
sued four thousand licenses, or at the rate of
five hundred per year. Lehigh county, with a
population of thirteen thousand less than
Chester, issued one thousand more licenses in
the same eight years.
—The death of Dr. Waldo Messaros, a Pres.
byterian minister who in 1886 was considered
the leading divine of Philadelphia, occurred
in the German hospital in the Quaker city at
an early hour Sunday morning. His convivia]
habits and passion for women caused; his
downfall and his death resulted from pneumo-
nia, superinduced ‘by the Keely gold cure
treatment. He was a brilliant writer and was
well known in Bellefonte.
—The funeral of the Rev. Simon K. Gross,
Reformed pastcr at Schlichter’s Bucks coun«
ty, was very large, over fifteen hundred peo-
ple being present, among whom were thirteen
ministers of different denominations, There
were over four hundred carriages in line, and
about four hundred people took dinner at the
hotel at Schlichter’s, where entertainment
had been provided by the family of the de
ceased. Rev. Gross was killed by falling
from a car and being terribly crushed while
‘| returning to his hotel in Chicago after visit-
ing the World's Fair. He was in his sixty-
fourth year, was thirty-nine years in the Re.
formed church ministry, and thirty-five years
pastor at the church at Schlichter’s.
—The officials of the Reading Company have
made an important discovery at its Boston
Run colliery near Shenandoah. Extending a
distance of about a mile west from an old
slope of the mine is a row of old breaches
caused by the caving in of the surface. A few
days ago sparks from a mountain fire ignited
a pillar in one of the breaches and a force of
miners were put to work to extinguish the
burning section. It was necessary to strip
the surface from the pillar, and this laid bare
some of the finest anthracite ever mined in
this section. The officials say the bed is an
immense one and will produce at least 300,000
tons of first-class coal, all easily mined, as it
is near the surface. It may mean a clear mil
lion dollars to the Philadelphia and Reading,
—A farmer near New Wilmington, says the
Globe, named Clenmsn, made a curious dis
covery the other day while engaged with a
horse hauling corn fodder from a field pre
paratory to plowing. The fodder was in the
shock and Mr. Clenman’s mode was to tie a
rope around the shock and then withla hook
attach it to the horse and drag it off. He tied
the rope around a certain shock and had just
hit the horse with a whip. The horse started
off with the shock, when Mr. Clemnan heard a
fearful yell coming from the interior of the
fodder. This frightened the horse, which
started to ran. It only went a short distance
before it was caught. An examination dis,
closed the fact that a tramp had taken refuge
in the shock and that the rope when tightened
almost choked him to death. The fellow was
almost unconscious when he was rescued from
the perilous position. In the shock with the
tramp were a jug of cider, a loaf of bread, a
part of a chicken that had been roasted, two
pies and nine eggs. Mr. Clenman told the
tramp to leave and he did so.
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