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Ink Slings.
—BRECKINRIDGE wants a new trial.
If he gets it he should have another
$15,000 dose with it.
— With signs of anti-CAMERON Re-
publicans being successful and QUAY
turned worse than Populist what are the
Republicans going to do for some one
to run thew.
—Pennsylvania Democracy’s new
leader, JAMES A. STRANAHAN, will |
possibly soon begin sending out search-
ers for the Democrats who took to the
woods in February.
— After next Tuesday the general de-
bate on the WiLsoN bill will end in the
Senate. Then the renegades will get in
their work of destroying its Democratic
features by taking it up, paragraph by
eparagraph, for amendments.
—There is one thing gratifying abeut
the Commonwealers. There are not
enough of them to wear out the roads
over which they tramp and they cannot
be accused of making a place for the
$500,000,000 appropriation they are
after.
—The Guardsmen of Pennnsylvania
are to have new knapsacks. The old
canvas bags are to be replaced with
leather ones, at a cost of $25,000. When
the soldier boys come to strap them on
they will find something to get their
backs up about.
— After drilling the CoxEY ‘‘hobos’
and getting them into a manageable or-
der it seems too bad that the “Un-
known” should have been banished,
simply because BrowN and CoxEeY
couldn’t bear seeing him absorb some
of their glory.
_-The Hon. CHAUNCEY DEPEW, of
New York, thinks he would like to be
the next President and has announced
himself a candidate for the Republican
nomination. There is a vast dif-
ference between the qualifications neces-
sary for an after dinner speaker and a
President of the United States.
—The miners in Pennsylvania will
goouton a general strike to-morrow
and the Lord knows where their suste-
nance is to come from during the suspen-
sion. Many of them have nearly star-
ved this winter, because of scarcity of
work, and now when they voluntarily
quit doing the little there is todo we are
indeed pained to think of the misery
that must befall them.
—The growing tendency for mobs fo
mete out summary justice is a grievous
blow at American equity and right. If
the law is not to be respected, except in
the treatment of cases of slight impor-
tance, then the objects and aims of our
constitution are lost. No matter how
grave or outrageous the offense ’tis bet-
ter to let the law take its course than
pervert it by the interposition of mob
violence.
—HEeNRrY S. Ives, the young ¢“Na-
poleon of Finance’ who died at Ash-
ville recently, was alone in the charac-
ter he possessed. No other man has
ever enjoyed a notoriety for similar ac-
tions and his trifling. with millions,
while a boy member of the New York
stock exchange, was a proceeding cal-
culated to turn the heads of gamblers
seered by years of experience. His end
was the natural sequence of such a life.
All his later day speculative schemes
having failed.
—MADELINE PoLLArD got $15,000
damages from Congressman BRECKIN-
RIDGE, which represents the extent to
which the jury thought she had been
wronged. If she really had any char-
acter before she met the Kentucky colo-
nel and was ruined, then no price that
could have been given would have re-
paired her loss. The fact that the jury
found for her is not evidence that she
possessed chastity before meeting
BRECKINRIDGE.
-—The set-back which the senior Sena-
tor and boss of last appeal for the Re-
publican party of Pennsylvania re-
ceived in Lancaster county, on Satur-
day, will bave a tendency to make him
begin to look about. Such a thing as a
CAMERON candidate being beaten for
the nomination of his party for State
Senator seems almost incredible, yet it
is the fact, none the less. What would
Dox do if there should happen to be a
general breaking away all over the
~ State ?
—The Easton Argus writes under the
caption “It is an ill wind that does not
blow some good.” The farmers for sev-
eral years past have found it difficult
to secure enough hands to house their
harvests. This year there are many
men out of employment and the harvest
and haymaking work will be eagerly
sought by them.” We take exception
to such a statement and believe that the
facts will in time verify us in saying
that when the time comes for needing
harvest hands the farmers will find the
same trouble in securing them that they
have always had. The laboring element
that is out of work to-day is not of the
class that seeks employment very hard
—espocially in harvest fields.
Demacrali
RONG
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL. 39.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 20, 1894%
NO. 16.
Senator Davip B. HILL goes consid-
erably out of his way to find reasons,
or rather excuses, for his hostility to
the Democratic tariff bill. In his re-
cent speech in the Senate he censured
the Hawaiian policy of the administra-
tion ; found fault with certain appoint-
ments made by the President, and con-
demned what he considered delay in
calling Congress together to meet the
exigencies of the financial situation.
Democrats can have po sympathy
with such subterfugés. Their only
sympathy in this issue is for a great
Democratic measure which they see in
peril. They cannot at this juncture
join in the feelings of the Senator in
regard to past mistakes of the adminis-
tration, if there have been any. The
Democratic tariff bill, to which the
party is pledged, is the issue that en-
gages their immediate attention, and
they are in a mood to tell the dis-
gruntled Senator that if he does not do
his duty on that point, upon which
hinges the very highest interests of the
Democracy, they will have to regard
him as a traitor to his party.
He claims that there has been a
grievance in the President's putting a
Republican in his cabinet. Probably
a more satisfactory selection might
Lave been made, but what has that
got to do with the passage of a Demo-
cratic tariff bill 2 Secretary GREsHAM,
although a Republican when be was
called to the cabinet, is not doing any-
thing that is inimical to Democratic
measures, while Davip B. Hii, the
boasted Democrat, is delighting the
enemies of Democracy by his opposi-
tion to a measure whose failure will
bring disaster upon the Democratic
organization.
The critical Senator also assails the
President for not calling Ccogress to-
gether sooner for the relief of the coun-
try. Convened, as it was, early last
August, there has certainly been quite
sufficient time for all the action that
the situation required, had it not been
for the obstructionists. And who is
doing more to obstruct than this Sena
tor who is blaming the President for
not convening Congress earlier? Has
there not been ample time for him to
show his loyalty to a great Democratic
measure, if he were so disposed?
If a mistake was made in not getting
at this work sooner, ought it not be the
duty of Senator HiLL, as a good Demo"
crat, to try and amend that error by
expediting the passage of the tariff
bill, instead of putting obstacles in its
way ?
That he is fully conscious of the
great party interests involved in that
bill is evidenced by the expression he
makes in his speech when he says:
“The failure of tariff revision, at this
time, means the defeat, the demoraliza-
tion, if not the division and annihilation
of our party.
The disaffected Senator admits his
‘knowledge of this fact, yet he is pur-
suing a course that may bring about
such disastrous results. He may try
to justify himself by finding fault with
the administration, and by seeking
for defects in the WiLsox bill, such as
he claims the income tax to be, but
Democrats will allow him no excuse
for helping to involve the party in dis-
asters which he knows and says will
attend the failure of the tariff bill.
They will ascribe to bis course no oth-
er motive than the factional hostility
and personal dislike he entertains to-
ward the head of the administration, a
motive that will render his treason
doubly odious if he shall persist in ad-
verse attitude toward a measure the
defeat of which, as he admits,
“means the defeat of the Democratic
party.”
Receiving Their Punishment.
We agree with the Pailadelphia
Press in some of the remarks it makes
about the recent strike in the coke re-
gion. Itistrue that ‘“‘the strikers are
the most ignorant and brutish class of
foreigners that seek our shores ;"’ and
it is also true that “if the coke trade is
disorganized by this strike it is due
primarily to the reckless introduction
of ignorant foreign labor.”
| Bat if the facts connected with the
introduction of this ignorant foreign
i labor are examined, it will be found
that while the coke operators were
having the benefits of a high tariff
' heaped upon them, they were introduc-
Party Treason Cannot Be Justified. | ing this cheap labor as an additional
: advantage. The claim was that “*protec-
tion’’ was intended to increase Ameri
can wages, This was the theory, but
the practice of the coke millionaires
bas been to bring into the country this
“most ignorant and brutal class of for-
eigners’’ to compete with and keep
down the wages of native labor for the
protection of which the Republican
tariff is said to have been designed.
There is not a brutal Hun, or Slav, now
disturbing the coke region, who was
brought there for any other reason
than the low wages for which he would
be willing to work in a “protected” in-
dustry.
The coke operators who are doing
all they can to defeat the WiLson tarift
bill, are responsible for introducing
the ignorant element that is now giving
them trouble. The Republican party
is also responsible for it. During the
many years in which it was enriching
the coke kings with tariff benefits, it
never turned a hand to prevent the
barbarous immigration which, while it
was intended to beat down American
wages, has proven to be a curse to the
greedy employers of this brutish
labor.
Congressional Pay.
A resolution has been introduced in
the House by Representative GEORGE,
of Mississippi, providing for the reduc:
tion of the salaries of Congressmen.
He urges that in view of the business
distress prevailing in the country the
lawmakers at Washington should not
be drawing the amount of pay they are
now getting. It ought to be scaled
down according to the stringency of
the times. This is the theory of the
resolution, but when Congressmen
come to voting on it, the difficulty of
putting it into practice will present it-
self. Men who have control over their
own emoluments are not likely to re-
duce them. :
Bat in regard to Congressional sala.
ries, the country would be satisfied to
give the members what they are now
getting if they would fully earn it by
faithful atiention to their official busi-
ness. But when they draw big pay,
but are so remiss in attending to their
duties that the work of legislation is
often stopped in consequence of there
not being enough members present to
carry it on, no question can be enter-
tained that under such circumstances
they receive much more than they
earn.
The government, however, could af-
ford to give them all they now get
should they earnestly apply themselves
to business and expedite the congres:
sional work. If there is to be any re-
form in the matter of salary, a general
reduction in the pay of Congressmen
would not answer as good a purpose as
would be effected by a proportionate
dockage for all cases of inexcusable ab-
sence from their post of duty. A faith:
ful Congressman may be regarded as
earning all that is allowed him,
Senator Hill's Democracy.
“I am a Democrat” was the excla-
mation with which Davio B. HiLi,
with rather bad taste, paraded his po-
litical affiliation, as if there could be
a question that a man who was receiv-
ing official honors from the party,
and had been eatrusted with the
maintenance of its interests, should be
anything else than a Democrat.
What should have been taken for
granted hardly needed to be announced
with so great a flourish. But notwith-
standing this parade of his Democracy,
the Senalor’s conduct in the tariff issue
looks like an intention to stab the
party of which he has claimed to bea
pre-eminently shining light.
It ill becomes a Democrat to oppose
the most important measure of his
party, a measure to which it is pledged
and which has been demanded by a
great majority of the people. It looks
bad for a Democrat to adopt a course
which excites the commendation and
applause of the Republicans, It looks
doubly bad for a Democrat to assume
an attitude that 1s calculated to defeat
a measure whose defeat will be disas-
trous to the Democratic cause.
If Senator HiLL shall continue his
opposition to the WiLson tariff bill,
the Democracy will not take him at
his word that he is a Democrat. Ac-
tions speak louder than words, and
from his action they will adjudge him
as having treacherously betrayed the
confidence of his party.
A McKinley Mob Wants tojInvade the
Senate,
No one capable of thinking can fail
to comprehend the evil that is sure to
result from outside interference with
the action of Congress. If legislation
is to be influenced by such means in
one instance there is reason to expect
thatin other instances the same pres-
sure will be brought to bear, and event-
ually congressional legislation, will be
bat a mere reflex of the will of those
who may meet in crowds at the nation-
al capitol to affect the lawmaking
body by a display of numerical force.
The Coxe movement is a step in
this direction. The McKINLEY mob
that is called to meet injWashington in
the form of a convention proposes to
move on the same line. Its programme
was announced by Quayjwho introduc-
ed a resolution in the Senate to permit
this mob to intrude itself on the floor of
that branch ot Congress. This was
asking permission for the presence of a
force that had no other object than to
overawe by a display of overwhelming
numbers. Almost any outrageous
proposition can be expected of the Sen-
ator who misrepresents Pennsylvania,
for even if he is competent to under-
stand the orderly processes of govern-
ment he has not sufficient political
morality to respect or conform to
them; but fortunately there was
enough sense of propriety in the Senate
to reject the request that this intrusion
be allowed, there being but nine Sena-
tors, all of them Republicans except
Populist Perrer, who were reckless
enough to favor the presence of this
mob in the Senate chamber.
It is speciously represented that
these demonstrations are popular
movements, and that the people have
a right to bring their influence to bear
upon their representatives. The con-
stitution and the principles of orderly
government recognize and permit no
other form of popular expression than
through the ballot box, supplemented
by the right of petition upon due occa-
sion, any other method is disorderly.
The collection of crowds in Washing-
ton to affect the action of Congress is
subjecting the government to mob in-
fluence,
Ind ignation from the Northwest.
Iv is refreshing and encouraging to
hear the expression of Minnesota Dem-
ocrats in condemnation of those Demo-
cratic Senators who appear to be help-
ing the Republicans to wreck the WiL-
sox tariff bill.
After picturing the overwhelming
victory for tariff reform two years ago,
these loyal and earnest Democrats of
Minnesota deplore the present situation
in which the vict8rs “present the ap-
pearance of a defeated party, while our
opponents, routed in the battle, wear
all the airs of victory.” This astound-
ing humiliating and disgraceful change
has been brought about, not by any-
thing which the open enemies of the
Democratic party were able to do, but
“by malignant and treacherous in-
fluences, allied with weakness or cow-
ardice, within our owa ranks.”
After thus plainly stating the cause
of this lamentable situation, the Min.
nesota Democrats proceed to mention
individually the persons on the Demo-
cratic side of the Senate, who through
local interests, personal grudges, or
predisposition to political treachery,”
have thus brought dishpnor and shame
upon our great party.”
It is time that these treacherously
delinquent Senators should know what
the Democratic party thinks of their
paltering with its highest interests,
and how it regards their playing into
the hands of its enemies. The great
party that is thus betrayed has been
entirely too backward in giving vent to
its indignation while the enemies of
Democracy, and tariff-pampered inter-
ests and monopolies, are rejoicing over
the help they are receiving from a re-
creant Democratic service.
The protest from the Democrats of
Minnesota is the first open and em-
phatic expression that is heard in con-
demnation of this sacrifice of the Dem-
ocratic cause. The feeling that has
thus begun to give itself expression
will grow to such volume as can leave
no nncertainty in the minds of would-be
traitors that if their treason is con-
summated they will be repudiated and
cast out by the party they will have
betrayed.
Whose Hard Times Are These?—Re-
publicans’.
From the Columbia Independent.
Following is the way in which Thom-
as G. Shearman brought home the
fact to the workmen of Paterson N. J.,
that our present hard times have oc-
curred while McKinleysism is in full
force :
What laws are in force ?
Republican laws.
Who, when the panic began, held
nine-tenths of the offices through which
those laws were administered ?
Republicans.
Who hold most o those offices today ?
Republicans.
Who passed the tariff now in exist-
ence ?
Republicans.
Who passed all the tariff laws which
have been in existence for the last thir-
ty years?
Republicans.
Is there more or less protection to
American industries in force to-day
than there was in the first year of Har-
rison’s administration, when we are
told that everything was so prosper-
ous?
More by about one third to one-half.
The protection on woolen goods is about
fifty per cent. higher; on cotton goods,
forty per cent. higher, on iron and steel
fifty per cent. higher ; on silk, eight per
cent. higher; on flax, sixteen per cent.
higher.
What have the Republicans been tell-
ing us for the last thirty years was the
cause of American prosperity ?
The Morrill tariff
Is there more or less protection given
by the tariff to-day than was given by
the great and wonderful Morrill tariff?
More by 100 per cent. all around.
More on woolen goods by 200 per cent.,
more on iron and steel by eighty per
cent. more on silk by sixty per cent.,
more on flax manufactures by 100 per
cent.
Our New Leader in the State.
From the Altoona Times.
Mr, James A. Stranahan, as was an-
nounced yesterday, has been elected
state chairman to succeed J. Marshall
Wright. The new official bas long
been prominent as a Democrat, and as
a member of the party has become
familiar tothe Democrats throughout
Pennsylvania. He bas been a member
of the state legislature and was a dele-
gate to the national convention in 1876,
when Tilden was nominated for presi-
dent. Since 1891. he has been deputy
attorney general. There is a great op-
portunity betore Mr. Stranaban to
show what he can do. The Democrat-
ic party in Pennsylvania it sadly run
down and there is a chance for a mas-
ter hand to distinguish himself in the
reorganization. We believe from the
ability which has heretofore charac-
terized the new chairman that he will
be found to be the man for the place
and that under his leadership the Re
publican majorities of the recent elec-
tions will not again be recorded. That
he is well acquainted with the situa-
tion none can doubt. It is not an easy
task, however, which the new chair-
man has assumed,as at no time within
the present generation has there been
such a disheartening condition of af-
fairs. Mr. Stranabhan will need the
support of every Democrat, but this,
we believe, he will secure. The Demo-
cracy, however, has good reason to
congratulate itselt that there will be no
incompetency’in its management and
that, if the party is to be defeated, it
will not be on account of incompetent
leadership and the lack of executive
ability.
If We Only Had More of His Kind.
From the Gettysburg Compiler.
Hon. Patrick Walsh, the newly ap-
pointed Senator from Georgia, has ar-
rived in Washington and taken apart-
ments at the Metropolitan Hotel. He
held a long conference during the after-
noon with Speaker Crisp, at which the
tariff bill and its prospects in the Senate
were discussed. Senator Walsh is
heartily in favor of early action upon
the measure. In the Senate he will
side, it is understood, with the free-trade
element. He is opposed to the tax on
sugar and, it is said, would like to see
the Wilson bill pass the Senate just as
1t came from the House of Representa-
tives.
Such Fellows Will Make Good Fuel
for the Devil.
From the Everett Press.
Political prayers are getting to be an
abomination.
has been parodized by some political
shyster who seemed to regard gross
blasphemy as sparkling wit. The first
one that came out had the merit of or-
iginality, was amusing, and was the
least offensive of any. Since then the
matter has been carried to the extreme,
and having no longer the charm of
novelty, has come to be absolutely dis-
gusting.
A
Their Sins Will Find Them Out.
From the Altoona Times.
There is probably no man in the Uni-
ted States to-day who is more despised
than Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge.
His wrong doing was not the crime of a
moment. For years he led a double
life. Outwardly he was a respectable
man, the representative of his people 1n
Congress and an advocate of sound mea-
sures. But he was nothing more than
a whitened sepulcher. There are many
more like him, a large number perhaps
worse,
Even the Lord’s prayer
Spawls f rom the Keystone,
—A Harris burg electric car killed Sam-
uel Thornton, a colored lad.
—The Normal School pupils, at West
Chester, will be examined on Juue 4,
—In one hour Monday, Judge Albright
at Allentown, granted over 200 liquor li-
censes.
—Schuylkill County’s Pen and Pencil
Club elected J. S. Foster, of Pottsville,
president.
—Schuylkill district Lutheran Sunday r
schools were in convention at Schuylkill
Haven Tuesday.
—Eight ministers have just graduated :
from Lincoln University’s theological
school, at Oxford.
—!“Nabe” Jones, a miner, dropped dead
in a field in a Scranton suburb after ex-
cessive drinking,
—Michael Hook was jailed in Pittsburg,
charged with stealing $1400 from Thomas
Morris, of Bradford.
—Bishop Mullen, of Erie, Sunday laid
the corner-stone of St. Mary's Polish
Church, at DuBois.
—A charter was Monday granted tothe
People’s Mutual Aid Association, of Pitts-
burg, capital $1,000,000.
—The last of Harry Sheet’s four children
to die of scarlet fever within 10 days, at
Lebanon, expired Tuesday.
—As a memorial to his dead wife, Henry
Fisher, a farmer, gave a $2000 organ to
Kissinger’s Church, at Bern.
—The Williamsport Republican, a daily
newspaper, has suspended publication,
after an existence of five years.
The Pennsylvania Chautauqua will hold
its summer meeting at Mount Gretna
during the whole month of July.
—Reading firemen are hustling to cap-
ture for their city next year’s convention
of the State Firemen’s Association.
—The Piqua Malt Cempany, of Ohio,
has secured permission to open branch
offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburg.
—Car Inspector Edward Auman’s son
and namesake was killed and mangled by
a train at Reading, on Monday night.
—Although totally blind, Leroy McDon-
ald, of McKeesport, will soon start on a
journey across the continent on foot.
—Rev. M. J. Firey, D. D., of Akron, 05,
has been called to the pastorate of the
English Lutheran Church of Pottsville.
—After bitter opposition the contrac-
tors have broken ground for the pipes of
the new water supply for Shenandoah.
—Her clothes having caught fire, Jennie
Stoller, while picking coal along the rail-
road near Pottsville, was burned to death,
—For trying to float bogus $10 bills,
Martin Balen, Joseph Schmidtand Joseph
Samack were sent to jail from Shenan-
doah.
—William E. Hain, who escaped from
the prison at Michigan City, (Ind.) on
March 5, was captured Monday at Mauch
Chunk.
—With 12 gold and silver watches on
his person, Morris Ginskey, a Shamokin
peddler, was killed by a freight train
near Tyrone.
—The Roman Catholic Church of Our
Lady of Mt. Carmel, at Bangor, was Mon-
day dedicated by Dr.J. F. Loughlin, of
Philadelphia.
—Melting snow caused a flood in the
west branch of the Susquehanna River,
and logs are being rapidly floated to the
Williamsport mills.
—Prison Watchman Fallon, of Wilkes-
barre, has been hauled up by the Commis.
sioners on a charge of cruelty, made by
several jail inmates.
—Michael Cunningham, a Sugar Run
(Clinton County) man, was mysteriously
robbed of $759 in gold coins which he had
hidden in his house.
—The Anti-Bowmanite Evangelicals
Monday applied for an injunction, at
Carlisle, to keep the Bowmanites out of
the church at that place.
—The First, Defenders’ Association, at
Pottsville, Wednesday celebrated the
thirty-third anniversary of their response
to President Lincoln’s call for trcops.
—Death warrants were issued Monday
by the Governor for James N. Hill, of Alle-
gheny, and James B. Carpenter, of Junia.
ta, both of whom will be hanged on June
14.
—For an injury to his young son’s hand,
received nearly three years ago. Mich-
ael Murphy, of Scranton, has sued the
Delaware and Hudson Railroad for $25,-
000.
—JYifteen cases of smallpox at Lee,
Luzerne County, have resulted in closing
the borough schools, shutting down the
mine and side-tracking all local freight
cars.
—Sandy Thompson, a student at Car-
lisle College, was struck, pinned to the
ground and almost killed by a big
limb sawed from a sycamore tree on the
campus.
—Attorney General Hensel says that
the Noatum Worsted Company and Mer-
rick Thread Company, foreign corpora-
tions, are illegally doing business in this
State.
—Aged B. M, Seli, a business man at
Allentown, was Monday fined $5000 and
sent to jail for six months for having had
had criminal relations with 15-year-old
Mamie Schlough.
—Pottsville printers have again been
ignored, and the Schuylkill County Com-
missioners haveawarded the contract for
printed supplies to the Welt-Prote Pub-
lishing Company, of Allentown.
—At a dance Tuesday night at Cross
Forks, James McMillan, a lumber dealer,
was stabbed to death in a row. James
Kepler is accused of the crime and is in
jail. His son William, also implicated, es
caped,
—The heads of the State Board of
Health, State Agricultural Society and
Fish Commission conferred with Govern=
or Pattison and his Forestry Committee-
ment in Harrisburg Tuesday to devise
means to prevent the destruction of Penn«
sylvania forests.
—Another murder took place in Clears
field county Tuesday night at the mining
village of Grass Flat near Peale. The
cause of the quarrel is not known, but it
issupposed to have grown out of jealousy.
The murdered man is John Ellison,
aged 25 years, his assailant being Swam
Milgren, aged 35 years. Milgren confess.
ed to having done the shooting and was
arrested and lodged in the Clearfield
county jail,
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