BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—A wet spell—rain. ;
—Civil serve us at the “pie counter”
begets good manners among public of-
ficials.
—The question now evolves, witl the
CoxEY army march home again or con-
clude to camp permanently at Wash-
ington ?
—Such a thing as the disgrace which
has befallen Illinois justice in her tar-
dy disposal of murderer PRENDERGAST
would hardly be possible in Pennsylva-
nia.
—Gov.
war in South Carolina again, just be- |
cause he is afraid WAITE, PENOYER and
ATGELD, the other gubernatorial celeb-
rities, will get ahead of him.
—The Newberry philosopher who re-
marked, “the most effective way to get
owt of polities is to go to jail,” possibly | lieves itself to be agrieved by existin
Pp g Jai," p Yi > g
had just ¥oncluded reading the biog-
raphies of those Gravesend, N. Y. bosses.
—Sugar pills are certainly growing
in popularity. Seventeen years age
there was but one homeopathic physi-
cian in the United States. Now there
are thirty thousand prescribers of those |
sweet tasting pellets among us.
—The whiskey rebellion in South
Carolina is vying with the Coxky ar-
my for first place in the minds of the
people. If the Commonweal hobos
were only down there with TILLMAN
the whiskey part of the rebellion would
soon be downed.
—Dr. BROWN-SEQUARD, whose ‘‘elix~
ir of life’ was intended to make old
people young—but didn’t—died in Par-
is on Monday. His discovery caused a
great flurry in this country some time
ago, but the doctor turned out to be too
much of an Aleck-sir for bis own good.
—I. B. R. T.stands for Gov. TILL-
MAN, of South Carolina, but the good
people of that State find sufficient
grounds for objecting when he tries to
put his initials into force by setting
himself up as the soul source through
whose approval they can take their
tag,"
—Our friend J. Mires KrpHART
started off to Philadelphia, on Monday
evening, to look through the U. S.
mint down there. He has the
promise of a good job under Dr Town-
SEND, the superintendent, ' and will
more than likely return with the brevet,
grand chief inflater of the currency.
— Representative Brack, of Illinois,
former Commissioner of Pensions, has
just put himself on record as believing
that the high water mark of pension ap-
propriation has been reached. The late
President GARFIELD said something of
the same sort when he was in Congress:
and then the pension oppropriations
amounted to only $13,000,000.
—A measure that pleases the gold-
crats of the great money centres is hard-
ly the thing for the laboring classes.
Republicans and Democrats alike, who
cater to the gold speculators, are prais-
.ing the President for having vetoed
the Seiguniorage bill. We have heard
nothing of the sort from the masses of
the people and what's more there is no
danger of it either.
—The reply which speaker Crisp
made to Gov. NorTHERN'S offer to ap-
point bim a U. S. Senator to fill Sena-
tor CoLQUITT’S vacant seat was a dif:
fereat kind of a one than many expected.
Itis a great temptation for a man to be
offered a seat in the Senate, but Mr.
CRISP has risen above ambition and will
stay in the House of Representatives
whare he knows his party needs him.
—If the leaders are leaders why don’t
they lead, instead of encouraging every-
body to kick and making Representa-
tives and Senators, who were heretofore
docile, as rambunxious as the. March
winds. If we had not a host of so-
called leaders in the Senate the WiLsoN
bill would have been passed long ago.
The trouble with thé Democratic flock
is that the bell wether never runs in
the right direction for the rest of the
sheep.
—Mrs. ZeLra NicoLAUs, the A meri-
can adventuress who succeeded in doing
up several of New York’s more wealth
than brains aggregation, is filling an en-
gagement in a New York theatre at
$150 per week. She does a thinking
part in the second act of an opera play-
ing in the big city. As her manager
didn’t contract as to what should fill
her mind during the act, she will per-
haps think what an easy thing it was to
“do” Groree Gourp for that forty
thousand dollar check.
—1It is true that the coke and coal
workers of Pennsylvania are receiving
lower wages than they have ever been
paid for the same amount of work, but
the advisability of striking is a debatable
question, when the condition of the
country and the laboring classes .are
considered. Work bas been scarce dur-
ing the winter and the miners are poor.
TILLMAN bas stirred up a |
Be
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_VOL. 39.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 6, 1894.
NO. 14.
Mob Influences on Congress.
One of the most dangerous rigns
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of the present time is the'disposition of
crowds to assemble in Washington to
influence the action of Congress. It
is a symptom of the lawlessness that is
showing iteelf everywhere, in this in-
s'ance taking the form of coercing the
legislative branch of the government.
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' ject proposes to affect the deliberaticns
operators who by reason of short orders, |
are not disposed to operate their works
even under the preseut scale of working
prices.
In the Coxgy movement is seen an up-
rising of the tramp element, which be-
economic conditions which it wauts
Congress to correct, and with that ob-
of that body by an imposing display
of force at the seat of government.
The supporters of the McKiNiLey
tariff policy are moved by a similar
purpose when they call a convention
of tariff supporters, to the number of
many thousands, to be assembled in
Washington, Their design is to exert
an intimidating influence against the
pending tariff bill.
This is the beginning of a moet
dangerous practice. . It is the inagura-
tion of the power of the mob in con:
trolling the action of the national legis-
lature. If in these first efforts the
mob influence shall meet with success
in its coercive purpose to influence
Congress, it may be expected that event-
ually at every session the national
capitol will be invaded by organized
forces intent upon intimidating the
legislative body into the enactment of
such measures as they may demand.
The founders of the Republic, fore.
seeing the danger of such mob ioflu-
ences, wisely determined that the ua-
tional capitol shouli not be located in
any large city, and theretore placed it
beyond any such control, as they
thought, by establishing iv at an out of
the way place on the banks of the
Potomac, and surrounded it with sn
area of territory that would be exempt
from the control of any State,
But it is seen that the desperate sup-
porters of’ a monopoly tariff system
propose to disregard this intended |pri-
tection of Congress against extraneous
influences by invading Washington
with a high tariff mob.
Will the representatives of the peo-
ple, in their congressional capacity,
resent this effort to soere their action ?
Democratic Indignation.
If the leisurely Democratic Sznators,
who have been wasting precions time
on the Wirsox tar ff bill, had' a better
knowledge of the fee'ing ot the Demo-
cratic party concerning their dilatory
conduct, it might have the effect ot ac-
celerating their movements,
The great. party of tariff reform,
which two years ago gave Congress its
popular instruction by sweeping the
country with an immense majority for
tariff reform, is not sending clamorous
mobs to. Washington to reinforce that
instruction, but jt is terribly dissatis®
fied with the manner in which the
trust committed to its representatives
is being delayed in its execution. The
hearts of the Democracy are being
moved with indignation at seeing the
most important of their party meas-
ures subjected to obstructive tactics by
its enemies while those who should be
its alert and zealous supporters permit
this trifling to go on.
Much injury has been dove, not
merely to the Democratic party, but to
the country as well, by the way this
tarift business has been allowed to lin-
ger along when so much depends upon
prompt and decisive action. Enough
time has elapsed since the bill was
started in the special session last sum-
mer, to have passed it months ago,
wi th the effect of giving both the party
and the country the benefit that may
reas onably be expected to result from
such a measure. But instead of that,
it is seen to be made the subject of
disheartening procrastination, kept in
suspense between the purpose of its
Republican enemies to encompass, its
failure, and the selfishness of Demo:
cratic Senators whose support is con-
ditioned upon its being made to con-
form to local interests for which they
are concerned.
It is the conduct of the latter that is
now stirring the indignation of the
Democracy to its very depths, and it
is’ they who will be visited by the |
ly prepared to begin a battle with the. wrath of a betrayed party if through |
their default this great measure of re-!
form shall fail, or suffer diminution in!
the resalts which the party has aright
to expect of it, |
“enforce his foolish’ and arbitrary regu-
Foolish Kicking Agaiit Cameron.
Several Republican newspapers, one
in Pittsburg and the other in Scranton,
assume a rather amusing air of inde-
pendence in speaking upon the subject
of Senator CaMERON’s re-election. Next
fall there will be an election of a num-
ber of State Senators who will be call-
ed upon to take part in choosing a
United States Senator upon the expira-
tion of CAMERON'S present term, and
these papers advise Republican Sena-
torial candidates to give assurance of
their opposition to Cameron if they
want to be successful in their aspira-
tions,
Nothing could be more nonsensical
than thie. In all probability the
Senatorial aspirants in question will
scramble among themselves for, Came:
RON’S support, and those who shall
give him the strongest assurance of
their allegiance will be the ones who
will be nomicated and elected in the
Republican districts.
It is foolish to think that a party
that has been so thoroughly drilled by
its bosses, and been brought so com-
pletely under their rule, as the Repub:
lican organization in this State has
been, is prepared to lay off either the
CAMERON or the QUAY collar, or that
it entertains any desire to do sg. The
rank and file of the party has long
since ceased to have anything to do
with the choice of its higher officers,
accepting the machine made article,
without question, as it is furnished
them.
It may be taken for granted that
Senatorial candidates pledged to Came
rON will be nominated, receiving their
nominations ou account of such pledge.
That is what the wachiue is for. The
idea that he has lost his grip on the
party in the State is ridiculous. He
and Quay understand each other,
playing their game together, and have
the machinery as much under their
control as they ever had. The few
simple newspapers that seem to think
that an effective opposition can be got.
ten up agaioet the Senior Senator on
the ground of his infidelity to the
principles of the party on the silver
q testion and other points of Republi-
cn policy, ought to know that an or-
ganization governed by a machine is
not moved by principles, The whole
thing has been designed and regulated |
for spoils, and not for principles, and |
it has been so thoroughly organized |
that nothing but a total and permanent |
defeat of the party organization, which
will come some time, can destroy the |
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combination ‘of bosses that rule Penn- |
sylvania Repablicanism. The Came-
RON and Quay domination is indeed
disgraceful to the State, but it mill be
an uprising of the people outside of the
Republican organization that will
overthrow it.
Crackbrained Governors.
Oue of the most unfortunate things
that can happen a State is to have a
fool Governor. When a crank 18 in-
vested with its executive power there
is sure to be trouble, :
An illustration of this fact is furnish-
ed by the conduct of governor Warr,
of Colorado, whose crazy administra-
tion of the government of that State
has been a prolific source of disturb-
ance. Governor TILLMAN, of South
Carolina, furnishes another instance
of the trouble that may be brought
upon a State by having a fool in its
gubernatorial office.
TiLyan’s scheme of controlling the’
liquor traffic by making the State the
sole dispenser of ardent spirits, sub-
jecting the community to a spy system
that authorized his minions to invade
the privacy of every household, met
with bitter opposition from the start,
and has at last ended in resistance
which amounts to an insurrection, re-
quiring him to call out the militia to
lations. The peace of the State has
been disturbed, blood has been shed,
and the citizens subjected to military
interference, all on account of the State
having a Governor who has been fool
enough to attempt to enforce the prac:
tice of temperance by intemperate
means.
The people of a State cannot be too
careful in ‘avoiding the selection of
crackbrainedindividuals for their chief
executive office.
, on the tariff bill shall be taken
—— Subscribe for the WarcaM aN.
The Wilson Bill in the Senate.
After a delay that has exhausted the
patience of the Democratic party, as
well as of the people at large, the Sen-
ate of the United States commenced
its deliberations upon the Democratic
tariff bill last Monday. The bill came
from the House weeks ago. All this
time has been spent in making changes
in the bill that have diminished the re-
formatory character of that measure
and in showing courteous deference to
the minority of the committee whose
chiet desire in the matter was to delay
action as long as possible for the polit-
ical advantage of their party.
After this protracted display of piti-
ful weakness on the part of the ma
jority, the bill is at last before the Sen-
ate for its action, and the question 1s
how long a time will that majority al-
low to be fooled away: betore they
finally act upon the measure? The
policy of the Republicans 1s to protract
it indefinitely. Their political interest
is served by continuing the depression
that attends the unsettlement of the
tariff question. They want it to last
until the next election, if they can pos-
sibly prolong it for that length of time.
Will the majority accommodate them in
this purpose and allow them to consume
all summer with their speech making
and obstructive manceuvers ?
Admitting that the bill is going to
pass eventually, the MoKiNLEYITES
have no other purpose in prolonging
the discussion than to prolong the bug-
iness distress and the public dissatis-
faction until it shall culminate in an
overwhelming Republican victory at
the coming congressional election.
Will the majority be foolish enough
to allow this ? Will they be guilty of
such treachery to the interests of their
party ? They should know that it will
not be the Republicans that will be
censured for this delay. The responsi-
bility will rest with those who were |
given the power to pass this measure
promptly, but allowed themselves to
be balked and “trifled with by an ob-
structive minority.
Among the dispatches from Wash-
ington announcing that the Senate
cominenced its work ou the tarift bill
‘on Monday was oue to the effect that
the Democrats in that body are not
sanguine that a final vote can be reach. |
ed in six weeks, while ‘no Republican |
is willing to fix a period of less ‘than |
two or three months within which a |
vote can be had on the passage of the :
bill.”
It there is to be ‘any such lubberly
business as the allowing of the Repub-
licans to fix the time when a final vote
in the.
Senate, they will surely give that time
a limit that will run far'into the sum-
mer. Bat is it possible that this thing
will be allowed 2 When Republican
opponents of a Democratic bill resort
to a prolonged discussion of the meas-
ure, and employ means of delay that
may be used if not prevented, haviog
00 other than a dilatory purpose for a
partisan advantage will the Democratic
majority, who can cut this thing short,
be imbecile enough to let it go on ?
A disgusted Democracy would like
to know whether itis the Republican
minority in the Senate that shall fix
the time when a vote is to be taken on
a Detocratic tariff bill 2
Ira C. Mr
ul ‘'Esq., has re-
turned to this - Ater an absence of
many years 4 dé practice law at
the Centre coun'y bar. For several
vears he has be:n the pasior of the
church of Christ, at Troy, Pa., but has
given up the pulpit for his old profes-
sion, the law, and his return here will
recall the years from ’56 to the begin
ning of the war, wheq he was recogniz-
ed as one of the leaders at the Centre
county bar. Such a statement as we
have just made carries some signifi-
cance with it too, for in those days the
practitioners at our courts were listed
among the ablest attorneys in the
State.
——Republican ~~ Judge MarTIN
BeLr, of Blair county, made a great
increase in the number of licenses
granted over the number granted last
year by Democratic Judge LAxp1s. In
Altoona alone there is an increase of
tweuty licensed places. Next Fall the
Prohibitionists = will ‘all turn in and
vote the Republican ticket as usual,
Something for the Senatorial Pipe.
From the American Carpet Trade.
It is clear there is'a breaking away
from the gloomy waste of calamitous
chronicles which have so long blurred
the trade record ; mills have resumed,
there is a natural look about the ship-
ping departments, and as a consequence
the great army of unemployed is
dwinding and buyers sre yielding to
their natural trading instinct.
It is not necessary to imquire at what
cost resumption of activity has been
obtained, suffice it to enjoy the bene-
fits of emerging from the murky dark-
ness of long suspended industries.
Meantime all look Washington:
ward. Shall the nerveless halting of
the Senate jeopardize trade for the fall ?
Its dilatory indecision and inapprecia-
tive dignity may be correct, but ‘its
inaction menaces the future of vast in-
terests. Be it remarked, the present
improvement is the outcome of neces-
sity, and an early and permanent re-
turn to continued activity depends
upon a prompt and wise solution of the
existing uncertainty. With the fall
trade paralyzed, what will be the win-
ter outlook for 1894, when the people
will have had so little chance to re
cover from their depression 7?
Who Will Pay for the Seeds and Con- |
{ gressional Records,
From the Philadelphia Times.
Congressman Henderson, of North
Carolina, as’ chairman ef the House
committee on post offices, believes the
sustaining, but return a hundsome reve-
nue as well. The estimated postal rev
enue for this year isgiven at $84,427,748
and the estimate of expenditures is
placed at $87,470,599. This indicates
the close approach to a self supporting
system. A single item of proof showing
how the government losses as an express
carrier is set forth in the 87,000,000
pounds of free matter, which if paid fir
at regular rates would yield $7,173,764
The refuse room of any of the larger
Post Offices amply demonstrates what
this heavy free bulk amounts to and |
how useless and cumbersome’ it is, as it
is never called for. :
They Are All We Want.
Irom the Atchison, Kan. Patriot.
It is a fundamental principle of the
Democratic party that the government
has the constitutional right to collect
duties for the purpose of revenus ; and
such duties should be limited to the
necessities of the government, honestly
and economically administered, and
tstrictly in accordance with the original
Wilson bill. It has been the policy of
the Democratic party from the days ot
. Jeflerson, through the long- and illus-
trious line of his successors in Demo-
cratic leadership, from Madison to
Cleveland, to support tariffs for revenue
| only.
The Kind of a Man We Want.
From the Lebanon Star;
Speaker Crisp’s home paper has a
ticket for 1896. It is Stevenson: and
Crisp. As the platform it suggests :
Put none bat straight Democrats on
guard ; no gulboggery, no mugwum-,
pery, no skullduggery.
The speaker was born in England ;
it will not be necessary, therefore to
consider any further objections.
Reid's Praise of Cleveland.
From the New York Tribune. - jaa
The President's veto of the Seign-
iorage bill has saved the country trom
great disgrace and great disaster. The
financial world expected no less of
President Cleveland, and has perhaps
been not quite. ready enough to give
him as much ' credit as he really de
gerves for an act which required ex-
traordinary power of resistance to the
aemands of his own party.
Kicking Over the Traces.
From the Altoona I ribune,
The successor of Senator Cameron in
the United States genate ought to'be a
republican ; one who is in favor of
hooest money and who stands squarely
tor 1epublican principles. That par
ticular seat has been “a private snap”
quite long enough.
Very Similar in Appearance. But Not
Sprung from the Same Root.
From the York Gazette.
Prof. Garner says that his pet gorilla
was killed by tobacco smoke. Yetthe
genus dude still survives in spite of cig:
aretts. All of which goes to show that
the dude and the monkey are not as
vearly related as hag been supposed.
hg AR
Where the Liquor Business Pays.
From the Altoona Times.
Altoona will receive over $18,000 as
its share of the liquor license fees.
This will be a considerable relief to
local taxation, and not a cent of it will
come from those who do not patronize.
the saloons.
You Can't Lose Me Charlie.
From the Steubenville, Ohio, Gazette.
Maybe Coxey’s *‘unknown’
long-lost Charlie Ross,
—=wsRead the WATCHMAN.
is the |
Spawls from the Keystone.
—A rich vein of slate has been discover-
ed at Kutztown.
$3000 gymnasium,
—Pennsylvania - Lutherans will = con.
vene at Harrisburg on June 25.
—In a Salvation Army row at Middle-
town. Mayor Duffin was stoned.
—An oratorio society, with 60 voices,
has been organized in Pottsville.
—Walking delegates induced nine silk
weavers to quit work in Columbia.
—Congregationalists will hold a State
convention in Johnstown on May 15.
—All houses in which scarlet fever pre.
vails, at Pottsville, are quarantined.
—Falling from his wagon, at Catasau-
qua, Farmer Frank Deily was fatally hurt.
—Bakers in many Pennsylvania towns
have reduced the price of bread 20 per
cent.
—By the explosion of gg4s in a Pittsburg
furnace, John A, Joyce was roasted to
death,
—Schuylkill miners’ wages this month
are fixed at1 per cent. below the $2.50
basis.
—Mgr. Satolli attended a celebration at
St. Joseph’s Convent near Greensburg
Monday.
—Chester’s fine new Public Library
building was formally opened Monday
evening.
—A syndicate of Schuylkill Countians
will purchase big timbertracts in North
Carolina.
—dJohn Himmel hammered a rival lover,
Frank Bush, near Wilkesbarre, and was
fined $25.
—A fall of rock in an Ashland colliery
badly injured John Barrett and Frank
Kowans. :
—John Andres, of Tamaqua, is in jail
for catching trout, the:season not having
opened yet,
~The two branches of Harrisburg
Councils are’ divided as between a 7 or
8 mile tax rate. 37
—For catching a squirrel, near Mon.
ocacy, Berks County, Warren E. Koch
‘was fined $9.29.
Fire on the Welsh Mountains, Lancas-
ter County, destroyed several hundred
‘acres of timber.
postal service cannot only be made self- |
—As'the result of wounds reeeived in
a fight a week ago at Carnegie, Perry Ben-
nett has died.
—Park Colliery, No. 2, at Mahanoy City
' that was burned on Friday, will be rebuilt
at a cost of $6,000. :
—~William Eyrich was arrested in Read-
ing, charged by his wife with attempting.
to burn their home. i
—A reduction toaneight-our day went
into efféet in the Lehigh Valley ear shops,
at Easton, Tuesday
—While transacting business in a York
lawyer's office, John. Schuyler, of Golds-
boro, dropped dead.
—Thieves who blew open the safe im
Hoch Brothers’ office, at Lyons, were re-
warded by a few cents.
A
—In a drunken carousal at Pittsburg,
Patrick Rowan murdered Thomas Con =
nors a litelong friend. }
—aged Farmer Michael Schultz fell and
was trampled to death by his horse on the
road near Willinmsport. : !
:=Several score of Indian pupils left th e
Carlisle school Saturday for various farms
in Eastern Pennsylvania.
—0il magnates have wasted ' $75,000 on
the 19 wells in the Grubb’s pool in the Fin-
leyville field'near Pittsburg.
~Internal Revenue Colieetor Herring
Monday appointed Alton D. Brader store-
keeper and ganger at Scranton.
—The State fishery, mear Allentown, has-
this season sent out 600,000 trouts and 1,-.
000,000 more will be distributed.
—A cave-in under: the Lehigh Valley:
Railroad tracks at Shensndoah Tuesday-
stopped ‘trains for several hours.
~Re=cuers bave not yet found J. eremiah.
Krighbaum, who fell. into an abandoned.
mine, near Shamokin, on Monnay.
Postal Clerk John Lambercon, whe
fell from a Lehigh Valley train, near Hag-
léton, Thursday night, is dead.
—His wife having married another man
Dominic Cassarto, of Hazleton, demands
$1209, which he claims she took.
Fifty Pennsylvania Canal, boatsare
loading coal:at Nantieoke, and they will,
soon be gliding toward tidewater.
— Banks will be asked to bid for the
$250 000° of Allegheny City’s school: de-
posits, if & test suit in Court wins.
— Secretary of the Navy Herbert, in-
spected the Government work at the
Bethlehem Iron Works Wednesday.
—Other children turned the het-water
spigot upon the little son of Parcoast
Miller, Lebanon, scakiing him fatally.
—Alocomosive and 17 freight ears on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Tomhick-
on, were smashed in a wreek Friday
night. : ¥
—John Baldridge, of Braddock, is en-
deavoring to corral a $6,000,000 estate sald
te exist in Ireland for him and a few rela-.
tives. :
~The tvovernor Saturday commission.
ed these Philadelphia notaries: Robert,
Thomas, William H. Keanedy, George =,
Potts. i :
~The State Fish ‘Commission's car is
leaving hundreds of thousands of speck-.
led trout in Blair County mountain
streams. ui
—Station Agent James E. Moore, of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railwead, at
Robesonia, Moray shot himself through
the Heart. i
—Twenty tens of metal can be melted,
at one time in a new galvanizing kettle
just placed; in, the Reading Iron €om-
pany’'s Works, at Reading,
~The marriage Tuesday cvening' of
| Rev. Charles M. Rarnitz’ and Miss Mazie
A. Frank, daughter of John J. Frank,was
ome of the social events of York.
—The Times is the name of & bright lit-
tle afternoon daily newspaper that made
its bow to the Stroudsburg public on
Monday. Its editor and publisher in
George €. Hughes, :
—The Pottsville Y. M. C. A. will builds