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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—We have honest money, now let
us have work wherewith to earn it.
—Cranks, manufacturers of firearms,
undertakers. Can there be collusion ?
—We suppose there is a face in
‘Congress that has not been as BLAND
as of old, since the passage of the Re-
peal bill.
—There is a glorious halo of success
lingering over the closed World’s Fair
gates that thrills every "American with
honest pride.
—4Politics make strange bed fel-
lows” murmured SMITH as he crawled
out of the dog house the morning after
the grand mass meeting,
—Some one has said that ‘‘it takes a
crank to make the world go,” t6 which
we add without fear of contradiction, it
takes a crank to make the people fly.
—CLEVELAND held them to it with a
firm hand and the Senate at last passed
the Repeal bill. The question is now
will it have the desired effect on the
country ?
—Money that does not work
makes loafers of men who would will-
ingly work if money would do its
share. Working money makes work-
ing men,
—There can be no election under the
laws of the United States that is not of
importance to every citizen. It is your
duty, therefore, to exercise your citizen-
ship at every opportunity.
—There is nothing that encourages a
man so much as an occasional word of
commendation. The most energetic of-
ten become disheartened when there is
no one to say a good word of their ef-
fort.
~—We have heard of fool killers of
various sorts, but the neck tie that
caused a Williamsport dude hostler to
suicide, because he couldn’t get it on
properly, is the best one on record thus
far.
—There can be no excuse tor Demo-
crats to cut their tickets next Tuesday.
You are called upon to support as fine
a lot of candidates as ever were nomina-
ted by any party and if youdo not do
your duty you are not Democrats.
—The Repeal bill is passed and the
country is saved. So say the repealers.
But still we have faith in the people and
even had those Senators been given a
longer opportunity to exercise their
lungs the “dogs” were still a long way
off. ‘
—Philadelphia is blowing because
there is a young woman living in that
city who has corn sprouting from her
ear. That is nothing. Why right here
in Bellefonte we have scores of girls
with scores of corns full grown on their
toes.
—dJaMEs J. CoRrBETT, the champion
American prize fighter, has given up
all claim to his title of “gentleman Jim’
by trying to stir up bar room fights in
New York. It appears he is tired play-
ing the role of a gentleman and has let
the brute in him dominate.
—The recent discovery that many of
Uncle Sam's boats are top heavy and
consequently unseaworthy is not at all
surprising. Most everything the Re-
publicans have undertaken for years
has been top heavy and needs consid-
erable ballast to get it straightened up.
—Those war clouds are gathering all
over continental Europe again and just
at the dawn of a possible era of peace
there is an appearance of awful rapine,
burning and slaughter. ; An appearance
only, mark you; for we still have hope
that the clouds will turn out to be noth-
ing but wind as they have done so many
times before.
—=Some one has said that the muscles
are the engines of the body. If this be
so we find as many varieties of engines
in human beings as there are known in
mechanics. For instance, the muscles
of Senator ALLEN'S jaws would be
known as a gas engine, while all the
muscles of the corner loafer would prop-
erly.combine to make a stationery en-
gine. :
—1It has taken twelve weeks to undo
that Republican measure, the SHERMAN
bill, which threatened to break the gov-
erment’s credit, but Congress will not
fool so long with the tariff when it once
gets to work on 1t. Something will be
done whereby working people, will have
more savings when they are turned out
of work. The cost of necessaries will he
reduced and our people will be the better |
able to withstand hardships.
—The Republicans are making a
great cry that fear of a reduction of the
tariff’ has caused manufactories to close,
thereby throwing thousands of workmen
out of work. They follow such state-
ments up with pittiful tales as to the
suffering in the humble home of the
honest, though unemployed laborer, Do
they tell any such stories about the
owner of the manufactory ? No, because
he is rolling in wealth that protection
has given him at the espense of his
workingmen.
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STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 38.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOV. 3, 1893.
The Tariff in This Campaign.
It is amusing to see the uphill work
which the Republican politicians are
having in trying to work the tariff into
the exceedingly dull campaign that is
going on in this .State. Not much in
this line is being tried outside of Phila-
idelphia, but we observe that meetings
have been held in that city with the ob-
ject of inspiring the working men with
apprehension as to the tariff changes
proposed by the Democrats. A meet-
ing of this kind was held in Kensing-
ton, a district of the city where many
of the factories have been closed and
much distress prevails among the work-
ing people. This circumstance was
taken advantage of by the speakers,
who represented it to be the effect of the
Democratic tariff policy, attributing
the prostration tothe fear of the man-
ufacturers that the Democrats are
going to expose them to the ruinous
effects of foreign competition. The
usual slang-whang was indulged in
about Democratic “free trade,” and,
with the object of firing the hearts of
the workingmen, they were called up-
on to make such a demonstration with
their votes at the polls as would evince
the popular determination to maintain
the protective system, and serve as a
warning to the Democrats as to what
they might expect in the way of public
indignation if they dare to lay their un-
hallowed hands upon so sacred a thing
as the McKINLEY tariff.
What foolish proceedings such meet-
ings are. In the first place, the work-
ing people who are intended to be af-
fected by them have as a rule too
much intelligence to be influenced in
that way, knowing as they do that
causes in no way connected with the
prospective Democratic action on the
tariff have brought about the industrial
depression. They are accustomed to
seeing collapses under the highest
tariffs, and they recognize thisas one
of them. They have seen at least two
cuts in wages since the MoKINLEY
law went into operation and before
this Democratic administration came
into power.
of holding these meetings with the object
of inciting the working people against
the Democratic party
for being the
cause of their present misfortune. Ex- |
perience, enlightening their common
better than that. Besides, can it be
expected that the Democrats will be |
deterred from pursuing their intended
policy, on the tariff, or any other ques-
tion, by the demonstrations of their
opponents? The Democratic party
submitted the question of tariff reform
to the people at the last election, and
were authorized and directed by an im-
mense popular majority to go ahead
and reduce the excessive duties of a
monopoly tariff. It was for this pur-
pose that a Democratic President was
elected, a great majority of Democrats
were sent to the House of Representa-
tives, and the Senate was converted
from a Republican to a Democratic
body. The Republican politicians
may kick and squirm as much as they
please, and hold foolish meetings at
which their followers are enjoined to
protest against a reduction of the Mo:
KiINLEY tariff, yet they may rest as-
sured that there will be such an over-
hauling, and reforming of that tariff as
will eliminate from it the elements of
monopolistic plunder that have made
it oppressive to the people and injur:
ious to ‘the real interests of industry,
Democratic tariff reform will surely
be carried out, and after it shall have
been fully in operation, and given a
full exhibit of its effects, the Democrat-
ic party will be entirely satisfied to
have it submitted to the criticism of its
enemies and the judgment of the peo-
ple. But what the Democrats now
hold in sovereign contempt is the effort
of mousing Republican politicians to
make it appear that an industrial slump
which has taken place under the Me-
KixLey tariff is chargeable to the
Democratic tariff policy that has not
yet been subjected to the congressional
action necessary to make it operative,
——0One mark is all a good Demo-
crat will need to make on his ticket.
The people of the Bald Eagle
Valley are sensible, reasoning citizens
and as such are not slow in rebuking
the outlandish lie which an irre-
sponsible black-guard tramped up
, against Joux Q. Mines, one of the re-
spected residents of that valley,
An Amusing Assumption.
The esteemed Press, of Philadelphia,
has made the discovery that the repeal
of the Silver purchasing clause of the
SHERMAN act came within an ace of be- |
ing a failure in consequence of a faint-
hearted disposition of the repealers to
show the white feather atthe crucial
period of their movement. The Press
can hardly be considered the best
authority in regard to Democratic mo.
tives and purposes, but it professes to
know all about theintentions of the Dem.
ocratic leaders at that pointin the con-
troversy when the compromisers were
trying to get in their work, and informs
its readers that at that juncture not only
Senator VoorHEEs, Secretary CARLISLE
and the Democratic Steering commit’
tee, but also the President were ready
to throw up the sponge of uncondition-
al repeal and yield to the temporizing
policy of the compromisers.
At this dangerous crisis of the ques-
tion, according to the statement of the
Press, it was JouN SHERMAN that res
cued the cause of repeal, preventing it
from ending in a surrender to the com-
promisers by a speech which “riddled
their measure.” Having, likea gallant
knight, broken their ranks by the force
of his charge, he restored confidence
to the repealers who were about to ac-
cept an ignominious compromise. ;
This is certainly an interesting reve-
lation, and a most decided surprise to the
public, which has been under the im-
pression that it was the untiring devo.
tion of VooruEEs, the vigilant solici-
tude of CARLISLE, and the steadfast de-
termination of the President, that kept
the repealers in line during the most
trying phases of the contention. But
it would appear from the statement of
the Philadelphia organ that the
man who originated the Republican
measure that has had such a disastrous
eftect upon business and the industries,
is the individual to whom the country
should be indebted for its repeal, and
the real hero in the contest.
Whatever may be thought of this as-
, sumption of the Press, it certainly
Hence the supreme folly '
cannot be said that it is devoid of the
element of humor, It is indeed a very
fanny claim, well calculated to excite
merriment. If our esteemed contemp-
orary shall keep on in this vein we
ehall not be suprised to hear it claim,
sence, has taught them a good deal !
after the country Las been relieved of
the McKINLEY tariff, that to Tox
REED, or even to Bi. McKINLEY him-
self, should be given the credit of
having brought about that relief. It
would not be any funnier than the as.
sertion that SmeryMAN was the chief
factor in unduing his own work.
———
——Vote your ticket straight.
A ———
A Protection For Them,
It is a stinging commentary on the
benefits protection furnishes the labor-
er to see the number who are out of
bread as soon as the factory, mill, or
mine in which they are employed
stops. If the tales of woe that are told
of the condition of the textile workers
of Philadelphia, who have been out of
work a few weeks, are true, these high-
ly protected industries must have paid
their employees a pittance only suffi-
cient to keep soul and body together
while they worked. None had a penny
over when the mills shut down. Pro-
tection had furnished them nothing
but the seantiest living, and as soon as
their hands ceased to labor the public
was called upon for bread to feed
them.
Surely if protection insured good
wages, these men employed by the
highest protected industries in the
country, would not have been paupers,
the moment they were out of employ.
ment.
—— Vote for Goopnart and Apams
for Commissioners.
—Mr. CoNDO continues becoming
popular among the people with whom
he comes in contact. He has been trav-
eling over the county carefully meeting
everyone whom it has been possible for
him tosee. If he has not calledon yous
dear reader, do not be alarmed for he ex-
pects your vote all the same. Give it
to him any way. You are a Democrat’
and will never have cause to regret it.
——Vote for Rover and BickLe for
Auditors.
A N—————
——Vote for MiLrs for Treasurer.
Unnecessary Apprehension.
It is hardly possible that the Repub:
{lican alarmists who have used the
| “Iree trade” bugaboo for political ef-
fect, had any belief whatever in what
they said about the intention of the
Democrats in regard to the tariff. That
they knew they were misrepresenting
can hardly be a doubt. The Democrat-
ic tariff declarations have been so
clearly stated that they cannot be mis"
represented with any degree of plausi-
bility. Their purpose is a reduction of
unnecessary and burdensome duties,
and this they propose to do by limiting
the tariff to the object of revenue.
Their intention is not to effect such ex-
treme and violent changes as will shock
the industrial interests. A revenue
tariff can be made entirely compatible
with a reasonable degree of protective
encouragement to such industries as
are affected by foreign competition,
and there is nothing in Democratic de-
clarations on this subject that can be
justly construed as having any other
intention.
Senator HiLL, in his recent Brook-
lyn speech, gave an outline of what
the Democrats intend to do to the
tariff, which should dispel the fears of
those who have been made to believe
that Democratic “free trade” is going
tosweep the manufacturing industries
off the face of our country. President
CLEVELAND, in all his declarations
on the subject, gave sufficient assurance
that such harm was not going to be
done, yet those who are fearful should
be additionally assured by Senator
HiLn that in making the necessary
and salutary changes in the tariff there
will be neither recklessness, precipita-
tion nor vindictiveness in the execution
of the work, and that the changes to
be made will be such as will concede
as much as possible to the interests of
industry, without sacrificing the right
of the people to protection against the
exactions of monopoly. Of course the
first object to be kept in view is the
raising of revenue. , The protective
benefit is incidental,
SS
—Vote the Democratic ticket from
start to finish. >
A Late Lie That Won’t Stand Daylight.
It was to be expected that on the eve
of the election Republican campaign
lies would be started thick and fast, but
no one imagined that party so hard up
as to give currency to the silly reports
they are now attem pting to use for the
benefit of their candidate Harter. The
last one we have heard comes from the
friends of the Republican aspirant for
Sheriff and is to the effect that Coxpo op-
posed the election of Jas. A. McCrain,
twelve years ago because he was a |
Catholic. Of all the stories circulated '
this Fall this; is the thinest and basest
fraud. Twelye years ago Mr Conxpo
was not in this county. He was a clerk
in a country store at Booneville, Clin*
ton county, and knew nothing about
the candidates or campaign conse-
quently this report is a lie from the
foundation.
In addition to this Mr. CoNno is not
a bigot in religion, He isnot like his
competitor, joining secret societies that
ostracise men on account of their re-
ligious belief for the purpose of obtain-
ing the vote of members of these or-
ders. This Harter has done within
the last three weeks. Mr. Coxpo is a
broad-guaged, liberal minded] citizen
who believes that each individual has
a right to entertain such religious be-
lief as to him seems best, and as such
should receive the vote of every citizen
who believes that every man in this
country has a right to worship God ac-
cording to the dictates of his own con-
science.
—If Mr. HARTER thinks “the in.
telligence of the country is in the Re-
publican party’ he will undoubtedly
think that Centre county is made up
of a vast army of fools after next Tues-
day’s returns come in. Democrats
would rather be called fools than vote
for such a man.
——Vote for Dr. Frank for Coroner.
Vote for Conxpo for Sheriff.
No one can say that he ever in-
sulted the people of the county as
did Harter it he said “the intelligence
of the country isin the Republican
party.” Democrats are not fools, nor
will they be deceived by the blandish-
ments of such a hypocrite,
- NO. 43.
Democrats Think About It.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
Democrats, what has been done and
what are you doing, to get the vote out
on election ? Have you made
all needful arrangements, and left
nothing undone that should be done,
before the day of election? These are
simple questions but important ones.
and the Democrats of every district
and borough in the county should take
it under advisement. If the “full vote
be gotten out the day is ours: if a con-
siderable per cent. of it be left at home
the day will belong to the enemy.
What are the views of the Democratic
candidates on these momentous ques-
tions? We repeat the query: have
the Democrats made all needful ar-
rangements to get the vote out next
Tuesday, rain or shine? Think about
it but get done thinking in time to do
the work that has been left uadone, if
any.
ES —————
Office Seeking Mania—Its Fruits.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The office-seeking insanity is one that
alienists in the United States should
carefully study. There are many men
like Prendergast in the country who,
when they do not get the places'in the
public service they ask for or consider
themselves entitled to, are ready to make
their resentment dangerous, President
Garfield might have stopped Guiteau’s
bullet with a place in the custom’s ser-
vice. Carter Harrison might have been
alive this morning but for the delusion
of his murderer that he had a claim to
a place on the police force which he was
entitled to vindidate with a pistol. The
drift of the spoils system in politics is
towards the form of mania which con-
firmed office seeking breeds in unbalan-
ced minds such as that of this Chicago
assassin,
Ny
Must We Then Wear Feathers and
Brown Paint.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
A young gentleman of Williamsport,
who was notably neat and correct in
his dress, although occupying the
somewhat unfashionable position of
hostler, committed suicide on Satur-
day night, because his necktie would
not fit. Many who will smile at the
absurdity of this self slaughter will yet
be able to understand the extreme ir-
ritation of this young man of Wil-
liamsport over so small a matter.
Collar buttons and neckties and" shirt
studs, and shoe lacers and other small
articles of attire are responsible for
lots of profanity and anger. They
ought to be abolished.
A —————
Idle Working Men, Look Here.
From the Greensburg Argus.
Idle workingmen, look here. Ifa
reliable employer should ask you to go
to work for him to-morrow, would you
| refuse, and remain idle, for fear wages
next year might be lower? No,
you are not 80 crazy. Yet that is the
position republican organs would have
you believe the mill owner occupies.
Are the mills kept idle because their
products may command lower prices
next year or the after? Do you not
believe they would run day and night
if they had orders to fill ? Beware of
buncombe and humbuggery.
Trying to Pull the Wool Over Some
One’s Eyes.
From the Grand Forks, North West News.
The immortal Webster Flanagan of
Texas, wno in the Grant-Garfield re-
publican convention of 1880, made the
famous query : “What are we here for,
if not for the offices 7’ has just been in-
dicted at El Paso, Texas, for fraudulent-
ly passing sheep free of duty as collector
of that port. Webster waited so long
for his office that he bad to ‘farm it,
according to all the most approved mod-
ern civil service reform rules, for the
facilitation of pet commerce.
Se —
And That Things Are'nt Worse.
From the Chambersburg Valley Spirit.
The Republican papers which have
grown witty in asking the question
“What will Cleveland have, to ask
thanks for in his Thanksgiving procla-
mation,” are now on the hunt for some-
thing else to make funny paragraphs
about. The nation will unite with the
president in thankfulness for the repeal
of the Sherman silver law and for the
firmer establishment of the principle
that the majority must rule in this
country.
Never! He Must Hang.
From the Williamsport Republican.
The murderer of Mayor Harrison
knew enough to buy a revolver with
which to shoot, knew enough to go to
the house of his victim and use it, and
knew enough to run away after his
deadly work was finished. He knows
enough to be hanged for the commis
sion of the crime, but we suppose At-
geld will pardon him if he is convicted
and sentenced.
I
A York County Assertion That is Ap-
plicable Here.
From the York Gazette.
Democrats will be utterly blind to
their own interests who will vote to
keep a single man on the Democratic
ticket out of the office for which he is
named. Every vote cast againsta De-
mocratic nominee will be hailed * by
your party enemies as a vote in condem -
nation of the Democratic administra
tion,
| Spawls from the Keystone,
—The Kidd Theatrical Company disbanded
at Shamokin.
—Elijah Dechert was fatally injured by a
train at Lebanon.
—The fight in Pottsville on the city charter
question is red hot.
--Mt. Carmel and Shamokin, ten miles apar?
will be joined by trollery.
—By a premature blast in a Pittston colliery
James Patten was torn to pieces. H
—The railroaders’ Grievance Committee
was in session Monday at Bethlehem.
—8late in paying quantity has been discov-
ered at Millersburg by David H. Stoever.
—The corner-stone of the Salem Evangel-
ical church at Audenried was laid Sunday.
—Shuylkill region miners will this month
receive wages 3 per cent. above the $2.50 basis.
=A thousand Hallowe'en masqueraders
turned outin parade at Chester Tuesday nignt.
—At Schuylkill Haven, Brakeman J. D*
Binckley was crushed to death by a pusher
engine.
—Governor Pa itison has appointed Albert
C. Harrick Alderman of the Ninth ward at
Williamsport.
—Benjamin Thompson, of Altoona, is in jail,
charged with criminal assault upon his 9-year-
old daughter.
—A charter was granted to the Taylor-Mec-
Coy Coal and Coke Company, of Gallitzin, capi.
tal $60,0¢0.
Irwin Riegal, who is wanted at Easton to
answer charges of fraud and forgery, is now in
jail there.
—The death warrant was read to Angelo
Zappe, at Pittsburg, who will be hanged De-
cember 14.
—A stranger who slept in John Hartman’s
barn, near Fleetwood, was found dead Satur-
day mornthg.
—While in a bar room at Red Lion, York
county, John Weaver, of New York State,
dropped dead.
—It is feared that John Prowell, of New
Cumberland, who disappeared five days ago,
was murdered.
—Lehigh Valley Brakeman Patrick O'Mal-
ley was squeezed to death between the car
couplings at Pittston.
—Dr. J. H. Jenkins, of Oneida, was struck
by a Delaware and Susquehanna express and
dangerously hurt.
—A vicious horse knocked down Harry
Frey, of Lancaster, and trampled upon him,
inflicting critical injuries.
—Twenty-eight residents of Reading have
sued the city because their cellars were flood-
through defective sewers.
—The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
contemplates important changes that will
benefit the Easton car shops.
—The three unknown victims of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad wreck at Harrisburg were
buried there in the potter's field.
—Having disappeared eight yearsago, Chris-
topher Hershey's estate at Lititz was disposed
of and now Hershey has turned up.
—John Fritz, for 33 years superintendent
and recently made consulting engineer of the
Bethlehem Iron Company, has resigned.
—The Supreme Court, sitting at Pittsburg,
decided that Linn, of Clarion county, was not
a common nuisance simply because he used
oaths.
—George B. White, a prominent tanner of
Bedford, is to be taken to Boston to amswer a
charge of obtaining money under false pre-
tense.
—James Toolan, oi Brooklyn street, Carbon
dale. on Saturday began an action in trespass
against the Carbondale Traction company for
$10,000.
—President Cleveland has pardoned F. Hull,
of Lancaster, serving a five years’ sentence for
aiding in looting the Lincoln National Bank of
$40,000.
—The wife of A. J. Dress, imprisoned at
Reaaing, has mortgaged her property to a citi-
zen of that place in order to get him to go her
husband’s bail.
—Having left behind him in Easton debts
amounting to $10,000, Irvin Reagle fled {o
Watertown, Ia., whither an officer has gone to
capture him.
—Miss Louisa Brosius and Arthur McCurdy»
of Sunbury, were quietly married at Elmiras
Wednesday. The event was a surprise to
their friends.
—Prisoners James Sylvester and Charles
Bowers were caught by Underkeeper Lerch
Monday in the act of digging their way ou t of
the Harrisburg jail.
—Dr. I. N. Kerlin, the superintendent of the
Pennsylvania Training School for feeble min d-
ed children at Elwyn, near Media,’is in a pre”
carious state of health.
—Goshenhoppen refused to dismiss the St.
Stephen’s Reformed church, of Pottstown, to
the Philadelphia Classis, and to make it a Ger-
man Refermed church.
—In a head-end collision of freight trains on
the New York and Lake Erie Railroad, near
Honesdale, Fireman Peter’ Haddock, of Port
Jervis, N. Y., was killed.
—Rev. Dr. Wiiliam C. Shaeffer, pastor of the
Huntingdon Reformed church, has received a
call from Catawba college in North Carolina to
fill the chair of theology.
—Mrs, Katharine Manoney, living along the
way steer, and itis feared that her injuries
are so bad that she will die.
—Congressman Brosius, of Lancaster, is one
of the few Representatives in this State who
selects his cadet to West Point Military Acad e
my by competitive examination.
—The Scranton aud Pittston Traction Com”
pany, recently incorporated, has executed a
mortgage with the Union Trust Company of
Philadelphia as trustees, for $525,000.
—Seventy-year-old George Van Cam p, sur-
vivor of the Delaware Canal Company, jumped
into the canal at Lambertville Monday and
rescued little Robert Philips from drowning.
—The five extra policemen, whom Mayor
Hinkson, of Chester, appointed above the fix-
ed number of 17, have won their suit for five
weeks’ salary, but Controller Hawthorne will
appeal.
—Lewis Slocum, a prominent citizen of
Woodcock township, near Meadville, dropped
dead from heart disease Monday. He was a
brother of Charles R. Slocum, prothonotary of
Crawford county.
—Four hundred secret society members at-
tended the funeral of John C. Gilliland, at
South Chester, Monday who died of blood"
poisoning because he would not have his
crushed feet amputated,
—Mayor Shanaman, of Reading, has issued
a proclamation for the ringing of all the bells
and blowing of all the whistles, on Friday, to
greet the home-journeying Liberty Bell, and
an escort of citizens and police will meet it.
Sugar run road, was gored Saturday by a runa- '
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