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BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
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— We have'nt a word to say.
—These nights surely come under the
head of moon-shiners.
—About all the backing MARKLEY
had was seen when he backed down,
—tHyery dog has his day.” Tuesday
was beyond a doubt that of the Repub-
licans.
—There was no snow in this section
on Wednesday, but it was plenty cold
enough.
—4Boss” McKANE will lose the
handle to his name when he gets into
Sing-Sing.
—The election is over and the wife of
the defeated candidate is wondering
whether there is enough left to purchase
her Easter bonnet.
-—Some men say that love is better
starved than over-fed, but a girl’s view
of it is quite different so long as Huy-
LER’s bon-bons are the articles of diet.
~- Rascals in prison look for a general
delivery with thanksgiving. It isneed-
less to say that the rascals turned out
of public office have quite a different
view of their fate.
—Nearly all of the World's Fair
buildings have been threatened with
destruction by fire since the close of the
Exposition. When once started the
flames soon gain headway under the
great blows of the Windy city.
—The rumors of a big naval en-
gagement off the Brazilian coast are
quite interesting but like all modern
engagements the contracting parties
prefer standing off and looking at each
other to an actual hand-to-hand
meeting.
—Gay Paris has become restless
Paris, and no wonder. So many
bombs are being thrown in the great
French metropolis that every one who
is forced to appear in the public places
walks as though he had some peculiar
nervous affliction.
—The death of JoskpH KEPLER,
Puck’s great cartoonist, removes from
the field of illustrated journaliem a man
whose work has had a world wide rep-
utation. His picture-sermons revealed
far more seriousness and food for
thought than could be given in col-
umns of print.
—1t is positively maddening to see Re-
publican papers accusing the Democrat-
ic party for gross mis-management in
being forced to issue bonds to raise $50,-
000,000 to keep up the gold reserve,
when the Republican party is alone
responsible for the exigency which
necessitated the resort to bonds.
— From the length of time it is taking
MuLEY HAssAN, the Sultan of Morocco,
to decide whether he intends paying
Spain’s claim for inderanity for soldiers
murdered by the Rifs, one is lead to be-
lieve that MULEY is quite the proper
name for the potentate of that North
African country.
-—Those who tried it say that rub-
bing with whiskey will stop the hair
from falling out. We don’t know how
efficacious the remedy is for invigorating
the scalp, but we seeone advantage in
it: It is kind of cure that can be ap-
plied either externally or internally and
reaches the head both ways.
—The New York Chinaman who
applied to the Court to have his name
changed from Sing Sing to Warble-
Twice, because the former had such a
barred sound, might have been an ex-
ample to the Gravesend ‘Boss’ who
should have thought twice before he at-
tempted to carry elections with such a
high-hand.
—Congressman SIBLEY, of this State,
and Governor SHORTRIDGE, of North
Dakota, have combined to try to legis-
late Russian thistle out of American
soil. As sheep can eat this weed it will
scarcely be long until the Republican
press will proclaim this movement to
exterminate a noxious weed as another
Democratic stab at the wool growers of
the land.
—The death of student LiNDER, of
Harvard University, on Sunday, after
five days unconsciousness brought on by
a blow from a fellow student, while box-
ing, will have a tendancy to starta
howl about the danger of boxing as an
athletic sport, Men are injured and
die from every conceivable means and
this instance ehould be locked upon
with no less disfavor than if the un-
fortunate boy had been killed on a
railroad.
—-The Democratic party has always
been recognized as being far purer than
corrupt Republicanism and its support-
ers are not at all worried over Tues.
day’s result. All good people make
, some sacrifices during the Lenten season
and the Democrats thought the greatest
thing they could do was to give up the
pleasure of winning on Tuesday. They
did it with a grace that was truly heroic,
but it must be remembered that Lent,
won't last until the Fall.
Diemer
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 39.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 23, 1894.
NO. 8,
Opposite Party Interests.
The two parties that are engaged, in
the contention about the tariff may be
credited with having a clear .under-
standing of their positions and of the
effect which the determination of the
question will have upon them.
The Republicans know that if they
should be able to defeat the WiLsoN
tariff bill it will be a political advan-
tage of vital importance to them. Or
should they be able to force such
changes in it as would diminish the
extent of thereform intended by its
authors, it would be a result measura-
bly important to their party interest ;
or it they could postpone its passage
they would profit politically by such
delay. :
It is for these reasons that they are
employing every means of opposition
that lays in their power, for they
know, on the other hand, that if the
bill should be passed with all its pro-
visions for tariff reform their party will
receive a blow from which it will take
a long time for it to recover. It would
dispell the impression that has so long
prevailed in the minds of a large num-
ber of people that a high tariff is nec-
essary for the prosperity of the coun-
try ; it would “bring about industrial
conditions that would convince the
people that high tariffs have done
more harm than good, and it would
clearly prove the falsity of the present
Republican contention that the pro-
posed Democratic tariff changes pro-
duced the present industrial collapse
and business stagnation.
These are certainly sufficient politi-
cal reasons for the Republicans to
make every possible exertion for the
defeat, emasculation or delay of the
WiLson bill.
Ou the other hand the Democrats
gee the political interest of their party
that is involved in this contention.
The eftect -of the successful passage
of the Wirsox bill which would be so
disastrous to their political opponent,
would be proportionately advantageous
to them,
But its failure would bring discredit
and disgrace upon their party. It
would impress the people with the con-
viction that the Democracy are unable
to carry out their pledges. It would
make the party an object of derision
and contempt by displaying its inabili-
ty to pass a reform tariff bill after hav.
ing tor years asked the people to in-
trust it with that duty, and failed when
full power was given it by a great
majority of the popular vote. - Tt
would be a weak and foolish loss of the
opportunity of proving to the full con-
viction of the people that the Republi-
can tariff policy bas been injurious
and oppressive, and that the industrial
interests are best promoted and the
country made more generally prosper-
ous by the lower duties and free raw
materials of a Democratic tariff:
The two parties are undoubtedly
conscious of the party interests oppo-
sitely involved in this question. Can
there be any wonder that the Republi-
cans are fighting the WiLson tariff bill
with tooth and nail? Wonld it not be
wonderful—disastrously and disgrace-
fully wonderful—if a Democratic Sen-
ate should not pass that bill in every
essential particular ? And to the full
limit of the tariff reform promised by
the Democratic party and demanded
by the people?
——On Monday President CLEVE-
LAND sent to the Senate the nomina-
tion of U.S. Senator Epwarp Dove-
Less Waite, of Louisiana, to be justice
ofthe Supreme Court of the United
States. The Senate having refused to
confirm the nominations of Messr’s
HorxsLower and PrckHAM, the two
New Yorkers previously presented by
the President, that body immediately
went into executive session and con-
firmed Senator Waite. He is the
youngest justice on the Supreme bench,
only 48 years old, and is a Catholc,
the second man of that denomination
to hold such a position. The nomina-
tion gives general satisfaction, as Mr.
Waite is known to be a man of mark-
ed ability and integrity. He had for
years previous to his election to the Sen-
ate been on the Supreme bench in
Louisiana and besides carrying with him
the healthful influences of a vigorous
intellectuality will give to the higher
court a famiharity with the conduct
of the Jower branches which it bas
. stood in peed of for some time.
Fulfilling Its Pledges
In spite of tremendous opposition the
Democratic Congress is making pro:
gress in performing what the party
platform said should be done, and what
the people, by a great majority, ex-
pressed their desire to have done.
It was promised that the financial
policy of the Republican party, which
has been so disastrous in its effects,
should be corrected and this has to
a large extent been fulfilled by
the repeal of the SmerMan sil:
ver purchasing enactment which
exhausted the resources of the
government and produced a general de-
rangement of business. The benefits
of this repeal have not been as
fully experienced as they ‘would be
if the country was not laboring under
the disadvantage of a Republican
tariff policy which is now the object of
Democratic reform in conformity with
the pledge of the party platform.
One of the abuses which the Demo-
crats conspicuously promised to cor-
rect was Federal interference with the
elections by the repeal of the law
which allowed forcible control of the
ballot box by Federal power. This
pledge has been gloriously fulfilled by
the repeal of what was odiously known
as the Force bill.
That outrageous measure was pass-
ed under the pretense that it was
necessary to secure free and honest
elections, but its purpose was to bring
presidential and congressional elec-
tions under the control of the ‘Republi-
cans, who were in power when it was
passed and who expected to continue
their rule by such means. Its effect
was that form
known as DAVENPORTIS 1.
This has been wiped out by the re
peal of the so called Federal Elections
law, and another pledge of the Demo-
cratic piatform has been fulfilled. Buf
its greatest fulfillment will be by the
passage of the Winson tariff bills
The Free List Should Stand.
Whatever changes the Senate may
make in the tariff bill as passed by
the House the free list embraced in
that measure should be allowed to
stand. The untaxing of raw materials
for labor te work with and convert in-
to manufactured articles is the very es
sense of tariff reform, and expresses in
the fullest sense the Democratic pur-
pose of relieving industry of unneces-
sary and injurious burdens.
Free wool has long been a leading
object of tariff reform, but to let it
stand alone on the free list will be far
from accomplishing all that is desirable
in this contention and necessary to fill
the measure of benefit that a Democrat.
ic tariff should furnish. It certainly
will be a great gain, but if the Senate
should so change the free list of the
WiLsox bill as to make coal, iron ore
and sugar subject to the duty from
which that bill would relieve them, the
result would be far from fulfilling the
pledge of the Democratic party, and
far short of the benefit which the peo-
ple have a right to expect from a tarift
reform measure,
Particularly should there be free
sugar. It will not only reduce the
price ofan article of general use, but it
will help to necessitate an income tax
which in all respects is the fairest tax
that can be laid, and it will do more
than anything elseto break down the
sugar Trust.
The Reason of Tuesday’s Slump.
A combination of unfortunate
circumstances is entirely accountable
for the overwhelming defeat of Demo c-
racy last Tuesday. The party assumed
control of the government just when it
was on the verge of national bankrupt-
cy and suffering with overstocked mar-
kets, the production of the McKINLEY
bill. Immediate changes were an im-
possibility and Congress therefore has
felt its way cautiously with the WiLson
bill, whieh it is hoped will bring about
the desired effect of re-establishing the
governwent and the country on the firm
foundation from which Republican mis-
rule began to drag it in 1889. Salutary
effects have been felt since the action on
the Silver bill, but the floating voter
who blames his unpoverished condition
on the party in power, however incul-
pable, is the man who did the business
on Tuesday.
——Do you read the WATCHMAN.
of political abuse
Advice and Threats Wasted.
We do not wish to make invid-
ious distinction between the differ-
ent Democratic Congressmen from
this State in regard to their sup-
port of the tariff bill, for with
one or two inconsequential excep:
tions their action in this matter has
been admirable, showing a conscien-
tious support of the principles of their
party, a decent regard for the instruc-
tions of the majorities that elected
them, and an intelligent comprehen-
sion of the benefits which the country
will derive from a reduction of the ex-
cessive duties of a Republican tariff.
Whether that Democratic representa-
tive came from the manufacturing city
of Philadelphia, or from some of the
interior coal, iron or lumber districts,
he showed the same intelligent and con-
scientious determination to stand by
the pledge of the party and to act for
the ultimate welfare of the people that
is to be secured by tariff reform.
But in this connection it affords us
pleasure to speak particularly of Hon.
S. P. WoLvERTON, of the 17th District
upon whom the McKiNLEYITES of his
District, in a peculiarly meddlesome
manner endeavored to use intimida-
tion, persuasion and cajolery with the
object of turning him against the tariff
policy of his party. We have had an
opportunity of observing the foolish
efforts of the Republican organs of the
District to impress him with the con-
viction that it waa his daty to vote for
what they called the protection of the
industrial interests ot his constituents,
and to frighten him by picturing the
political retribution that would over-
take him if he should support a ‘free
trade” measure. The Republican or-
gan at Sunbury was particularly silly
in its attempt to instruct Mr. WoLvER-
ToN as to his duty in this matter, re-
sorting to the folly of representing last
Fall's election as an expression of pub
lic sentiment on the tariff question, and
‘counseling him to shape his caurse ac-
cordingly.
It is remarkable that these dunces
should have so misunderstood Mr.
WoLvERrTon's character as to have
ventured to use such slush upon him.
What hope could they have had that it
would have any effect upon oue of the
clearest heads in Congress, that com-
prehends at a glance the fallacies and
abuses of the Republican tariff
system, and ucerringly foresees the gen-
eral benefits that will result from re-
lieving the country of the load of tariff
taxation that has been a clog upon the
industries while it has at the same time
been an oppression to the people ?
And moreover there is something
amusing in the foolishness of their
imagining that either advice or threats,
coming from such a source, would have
any effect upon one of the staunchest
Democrats in this Commonwealth.
——The temperance workers of
Bellefonte displayed their asinine na-
tures on Monday by sending out a cir-
cular on which they had printed the
names of all the Democratic and Re-
publican candidates for the various
borough and ward offices filled at the
election. The names of those men
whom they endorsed and advised tem-
perance people to vote for, were print-
ed in bold types while the names that
did not suit them were in small types,
thus classifying the candidates of both
parties as either enemies or friends of
the temperance cause. If the former,
they must necessarily be men of intem-
perate habits and it was this point that
the Prohibition politicians tailed to see,
for they had men’s names in small
types who are known never to have
touched a drop of liquor in their lives.
On the other hand there are names in
the bold letters, who year after year,
present liquor licenses and help the
traffic in other ways. e
We do not see why the old grannies,
who are always cacklin’ around about
their temperance work, did not put a
ticket of theirown in the field, then
they would not be the subjects of ridi-
cule and condemnation for a policy
that as a political dodge is a monument
to its dumb originators, and as an “ad-
vice to voters’ was so apparently inspir-
ed by favoritism that,it failed sadly in
its mission.
—-If you want printing of any de-
scripton the WATcEMAN office is the
place to have it done.
A Man Who Says Democracy, Not He,
Has Won the Honors Accorded Him.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Internal Revenue Collector Kearns
has found out that the times are im-
proving and thereby demonstrated a
title to a piace among the meek who are
going to fall heir to the earth. Indeed,
his modesty is such that he not only
gives away to the business revival a
great honor which he might fairly claim
for himself, but promises for an indef-
inite future to deprive himself of much
just official credit in order to pile up
glory around the Wilson Bill.
This is the way of it. The collections
of his office last month were larger than
in any equal period of its history.
Many a man would ‘point with pride,”
andsay : “See what my administration
has accomplished.” Collector Kearns
says instead : “See how the times are
improving.” Next month and for sev-
eral months to come he is confident of
footing up still larger results, which are
to indicate a regular boomin trade and
then the Collector has agreed with him-
self to say ; “Behold the fruits of the
‘Wilson bill I”?
The total collections last month, as
shown by the report finished yesterday,
were $487,409.48 distributed as follows :
List, $1,153.23 ; beer, $36,967.65 ; spir-
its, $383,869.20 ; cigars, $56,773.05 ;
snuff, $1,044; tobacco, $5,555.85 ; spec-
ial, $2,034.50.
“These collections,” said the Collec-
tor yesterday, ‘show to a certainty that
an unusually large amount of whisky
has heen purchased, and not only is the
amount taken out of bond and placed on
the market very large, but the distil-
leries have kept right up with the pro-
duction, or rather increased it. There
are 18,715,447 gallons of spirits in bond
in the district. I anticipate that the
collections next month will not fall
short of $550,000, and that the collec-
tions for the fiscal year, closing June 30,
will be at least $5,000,000.
“The improvement in the liquor busi-
ness is to my mind a certainty that busi-
ness generally is on the mend, and after
the Wilson bill is passed ‘and things fix-
ed on a definite basis 1 feel confident
ths the improvement will be very ra-
pi RE
Mr. Dana’s Manner of Sarcasm.
From the New York Sun.
Gen. Lew Wallace of Crawfordsville
and Constantinople avers that» ‘‘the
works of Dickens will not outlive the
centuries, because they deal for the moss
part with trifling, frivolous, or bad,
cheap people.” - Gen. Wallace shows
novelists how to outlive ‘the centuries.
There is nothing trifling or frivolous
about him or his characters. He picks
out gods, heroes, conquerors, princes.
He writes with diamonds upon the panes
of history. Tiaras and towers and proud
processions, and strings of gorgeous and
illustrious people, and property princes
arise when he stamps his foot upon the
tessellated pavement of his palace.
‘Once the Sultan came to see him at his
Stamboul mansion by the Elevated
Gate. “Tell him I am busy,” said
Gen. Wallace to the proud porter. “I
have put on my scarlet robe and am
composing a piece. I can’t be bothered
by frivolous persons.” And all night
the Sultan lay upon his face before the
portal, and the dogs of the quarter
sniffed and howled. A Sultan is some-
what of a potentate, but he isn’t big
enough to crowd into the select society
of Gen. Wallace's characters.
With a Prize in Each Bag to Make it
Sell.
From the Doylestown Daily Democrat.
If it be true, as contended by the op-
ponents of the new tariff, that the Wil-
son Bill will have the opposite effect of
the McKinley Bill upon the industries
of the country, then the quicker it
comes the better. The latter has knock-
ed out so many of our industries that a
new law to put them in good shape
again ought to come in on express time.
At all events it ought to get here before
the present tariff sends wheat down to
the price of peanuts—¢‘“two bags for five
cents.”
It Is Painfully Apparent.
From the Dayton, Ohio, Times.
Gentle reader, have you noted the
stupid effort of Republican organs to
not say a word about the restoration of
confidence and improvement of busi-
ness ?
Have you noticed that the same or-
gaus have sought every possible oppor-
tunity to discourage business by calam-
ity howling ?
It probably does not hurt any one
very much, but have you noticed the
effort ?
The End of the Lease.
From the Altoona Tribune.
Instead of glorying over her great
victory Mrs. Lease'has been remarkably
quiet during the last few weeks. It is
believed that there has been an agree-
ment between this energetic lady and
Governor Lewelling to put an end to
their quarrel, since neither will now say
anything against the other. Mrs. Lease
is coming east to deliver some lectures
and the rumor that she is going to re-
tire from politics is revived.
A Party That is Always Right.
From the Montesano, Washington, Economist,
It was once said by Zack Chandler
that the Democratic party could always
be depended to blunder at the right
time. If Zack were still living he
would say that they blundered all th
time. :
Spawls from the Keystone,
—S8everal persons were Sunday baptized in
the river at Reading. a
—Mrs. Joseph Abel, of Altoona, swallowed
morphine and perished. .
—The 5000 border raid claims filed at Har-
risburg are being classified.
—Northampton county farmers are holding
an institute at Nazareth. :
—There were 460 applicants for liquor li-
cense in Berks Counts, : :
—Rev. G. A. Cure, a Scranton Methodist di’
vine, is pitching into the theatre-goers.
—The Simpson Methodist Church, at Erie,
costing $22,000, was dedicated Sunday. x
—Berks County Commissioners now demand
an itemized bill of costs in all Court cases.
—Baby Joe Hatton, Allegheny City, who is
only 20 months old, sings a dozen pcpular airs.
—There is a movement in Pottsville to have
the bank half-holiday on Saturdays discontinu-
ed.
—Three of the Weber family, at East Ash-
land, died of gripand kindred ailments in two
weeks.
—The State Agriculturist Society exceeded
its appropriation of $2000 last year by just?
cents.
—Chambersburg people feel hopeful now of
securing the payment of the border raid
claims.
—A cable railway, a mile and a half long, will
be built from Reading to the top of Neversink
Mountain,
—No trace has yet been found of John W.
Elkins, the Bethleham lad, who disappeared a
week ago.
—Little Bertha Shenk, daughter of 8. S.
Shenk, at Hummelstown, was fatally scalded
by co ffee.
—A gasser that produces 200 barrels an hour
was struck by the Carnegie Gas Company at
Finleyville.
—There are 20 applicants now for mine in-
spector at Pottsville, and the examination is
not yet ended.
~—A charter was granted Monday tothe Chi-
cago and Erie Stone Company, of Erie ; capi-
tal, $200,000.
—Aged Harry Hoffecker, of East Nantmeal
Berks county, was found dead in his barn be-
side his horses.
—Thomas Reedy fell in a fit of epilepsy and
perished in the snow near Newmanstown,
above Reading.
—A pickpocket seized John = Berholder's
purse and $60 while walking on ihe street at
Hazleton Sunday.
—Gettysburg has finally been chosen as the
place for the National Guard division encamp-
ment next summer.
—What is thought to be a rich vein of silver
ore has been discovered on Jacob Grumbine's
land near Lebanon. )
—A 38-year-old daughter of Fred Redfuss, of
Pottsville, fell into a bucket of hot water and
was fatally scalded.
—Edward Gramm, prisoner in the Dauphin
County jail, Saturday cut his throat and die
in a few minutes. ’
—The Grand Jury at Carlisle dismissed the
charges of malfeasance against Poor Directors
Mentzer and Rhoads.
—The State Superintendent of Public In-
struction Lolds that any School Board can en-
force vaccination.
—George: Freeman, of Philadelphia, = has
leased the Neversini Mountain Hotel at
Reading for five years, :
~The Hampden Fire Company, of Reading?
on Saturday distributed three tons of pro-
visions among the poor.
—Two more alleged counterfeiters. Harry
McFarland and John G. Stegers, making nine
inall, have been seized at Altoona.
—State Boiler Inspector F. J. Manley in-
spected 2267 boilers last year, of which 68
were dangerous and seven past repair.
—George Heller and Rufus Clause were
killed at Shenandoah collieries, and Michael
Coakley on the railroad near there.
—Attorney General Hensel Saturday heard
argument in the Jackson & Wooden Manufac-
turing Company store case, of Berwick.
—A Pennsylvania Railroad freight engine
was derailed at Morris Junction Saturday
night, blocking the road for four hours.
—The G. A. R.,0dd Fellows and American
Mechanics will unite in a big demonstration on
Washington’s Birthday at New Bloom field.
—Superintendent Schaefer has ordered
public schools in the State closed where a con-
tagious disease exists to a considerable extent,
—Secret Service officers Saturday arrested
M. A. Smith, George W. Graves, L. C. Staller
and C. D. Smith, in Altoona, for counterfeiters.
—Governor Pattison and ex-Congressman
Vaux, of Philadelphia, were guest of the
Reading Masons at a banquet on Weduesday
night. }
—Governor Pattison will name about 2¢
Pennsylvania veterans of the Antietam to help
locate the positions on that hard fought battle-
field.
—Curiosity led Anthony Laberetto to his
door, in Hazleton, while a street fight was pro-
gressing, and he was accidently shot in the
side.
—Recently convicted of murder in the first
degree for killing George Ochs, at Pottsvills,
Henry Manired was sentenced on Monday to
be hanged.
—A neighbor recklessly practiced with an
airgun, and sent two bullets through a win-
dow just over the head of E. A. Seifert, at
Reading.
—Reading Railroad workmen, at Reading.
are receiving only $65,000 as their January pay:
When the machine and car shops run in full
the amount is about $100,000.
—The Sheridan iron furnace property, at
Sheridan, owned by William M. Kaufman &
Co., has been transferred to the Sheridan Iron
Company for $100.
—The Bowmanites have been declared legal-
ly entitled to the Evangelical Church, at Beth «
leliem and Rev. H. D. Schultz, the Dubsite
pastor, is ousted.
—Dr. 8. M. Brown, of Franklin County, and
J. B. French, of Springfield, Huntingdon
County, were Monday arrested on a serious
charge made by Miss Rohrer, who is dying.
—The Dauphin Court decided that the in-
surance policies of J, M. Rettew, J. A. Chal-
font and W. K. Sinclair, in the Lancaster
County Live Stock Insurance Company, are
nor-assessable.
—A tripartite agreement, by which W. N.
Kurtz, John H. Eisenhart and C. W. Rowe,
prominent young business men at Shamokin
were to wed within three months of each oth-
er, has just been made binding onthe other
two by Kurtz's marriage.