8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Imm
Ink Slings.
—SINGERLY is the man.
—Is it
—As for SINGERLY’S Record. It is
certainly good enough for any one.
for you.
--Next month the dog will have his
day—-but humanity won’t take water.
—REED's chances for the presidency
are up the flue. The Republicans can
never afford to run a man who has
creased his trousers at the sides of bis
legs.
—The able editor of the Philadelphia
Record is our candidate for Governor.
Let us show him how we appreciate his
work for the Democracy by working,
heart and soul, for him.
——1T¢ is a little early to be figuring
on such matters but it doesn’t look just
now as though the Republican presiden-
tial lightuing has any idea of running
down the tail of McKINLEY’s kite.
—If they had only tarred and feathered
Gov. WAITE, ot Colorado, instead of his
Adjutant General the Populists would
have hada dandy looking bird to im-
press on that new money of theirs—
when they get it.
--The Democrats will vote a straight
ticket in the fall, if ever they voted one
before. They have men on the ticket
who are in every way qualified to fill
the offices they seek ard they want the
party’s support.
—The latest is to the effect that China
and Japan are likely to go to war over
Corea. If this be true and they come
to actual engagements there will be no
danger of failure on the part of the Chi-
nese because of lack of cues.
-——The harmony that prevailed at the
State convention on Wednesday sent
the Republican two hundred thousand
majority dreamers sailing inthe air.
They expected to see the Democrats all
split up, but SING’E-RLY enough, they
didn’t.
—Miss NELLIE TITUS is the first wo-
man to be admitted to the practice of
law at the bar of New York. Inas-
much as a number of other female ap-
plicants have been denied that privilege
it is reasonable to suppose that Miss TiI-
TUS is & mute.
—If a few energetic Democrats would
get at and clean out the Republican or-
gans that are continually shaking the
bloody shirt they would possibly have
good reason {0 helieve vuae couLIvHBaLISil
wwe svt wt mm amd got. and undoubtedly
they would be happy afterall.
—1In the assassination of CARNOT an-
archism has invited an enemy thai will
never rest until the red flag is made still
more crimson with the blood of its own
defenders. When the President of
France was killed a blow was struck at
Republicanism that lovers of free gov-
ernment will certainly avenge.
— When the members of the State
‘and National editorial association hear
that there is not a licensed house—and
few ‘speak easies,” in Asbury Park,
they will feel like killing the committee
that arranged their excursion to go to
BRADLEY'S town by the sea. The
women don’t wear fancy bathing suits
down their either.
—The son born to the Duchess of
York the other duy is an heir presump-
tive to the throne of the United King-
dom, but by the time VICTORIA quits,
and then that illustrious (?) sen of hers
gets a whack atit and the others, that
are ‘next.’ have a reign too the embryo
Duke of Kent will be lucky if he is on-
ly an ordinary member of the angel
band. ’
—FRED A. BELL, of the firm of coal
operators of BELL, LEWIS & YATES
went to Europe, on Tuesday, for the
benefit of his health. It is to be hoped
that he will recover his accustomed vig~
or and with a renewal of the physical
man there will come a more healthy
view of what labor merits at the hands
of such a corporation as the one he is in-
terested in.
—What will the pension sharks and
defamers of HokE SMITH think of his
determination to introduce an era of re-
form in the clerical conduct of his de-
partment ? He says if civil service is to
be made to affect all applicants for office
it should be tenable likewise to those al-
ready installed and he is going to bring
all men under him up to the full re-
quirement of he law. Such heads of
departments are economic investments
for a government.
—The difference between presidential
lightning and the kind that does busi-
ness for mother nature is very marked.
‘While the latter never strikes twice in
thesame place —mostly because the place
is rarely left after one visitation of the
electric bolt—the presidential lightning
seems to be attracted to those whom it
has once struck. Now BENJAMIN
HARRISON —notwithstandinz his tales
to the contrary —has a first class light-
ning rol sticking out throuzh the crown
of that ba’ o’ his'a.
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VOL. 39.
Hill’s Motive and Mistake.
It is impossible for Senator Davip
B. HiLL to disguise the motive of his
peculiar action on the tariff bill. He
may claim to be honest in his opposi-
tion, but he cannot be credited with
honesty of intention. His animus
sticks out in every speech he makes on
the subject. His flings at CLEVELAND
expose the enmity that prompts him
to embarrass the CLEVELAND adminis
tration by opposing its leading measure.
He displays a willingness to betray his
party for the gratification of his per-
sonal spite.
The trouble with Senator HiLL is
that he unfortunately allowed himself
to become politically big-headed. A
man of but ordinary ability, he was
placed by a political accident in a posi*
tion that gave him an undue appre
ciation of his importance and encour-
aged him to contract an ambition that
was out of proportion to his calibre.
Conceit led him into & miscalculation
as to what should be the effect of his
being Governor of New York. He
erred in the idea that as that office had
conduced to the elevation of CLEVE-
LAND to the presidency it should have
the same effect in his own case. His
mistake consisted in leaving the fac:
tors of reputation, ability and public
confidence out of his calculation, the
consequence being that his presidential
endeavor was a ridiculous fiasco. As
a competitor of CLEVELAND he cat an
extremely absurd figure. Heuce his
ill-will toward the Democratic leader
against whom he foolishly put himself
in competition, and that ill-will he is
small-minded and malevolent enough
to gratity even if in doing so he is led
to sacrifice Democratic measures and
is ready to cut the throat of the Demo-
cratic party.
It would profit theSenator if he were
to take a more correct view of himself
and recast his estimate of his import.
ance as a public character. But he
can never reirieve the 10juty he bas
done himself in showing bis willing
ness to injure the Democratic party on
account of a personal grudge. If Dave
HiLw shall be remembered as an actor
in the political arena, it will be but a
sinister remembrance ensured him by
his spiteful and foolish opposition to a
leading Democratic measure. The
party which he endeavors to betray
will go on enacting its measures and
perfecting its policy. It will triumph-
antly proceed in its career, and he will
drop out, dispised, if not forgotten.
Notwithstanding his boastful exclama-
tion about his Democracy, the experi-
ence thay is in store for him as a dis”
credited and discarded politician may
eventually incline him to the impres-
sion that he was more of an ass than a
Democrat.
Anarchy’s Exalted Victim,
The assassination of the President of
France is the latest and the most
alarming manifesitation of the spirit of
anarchy that is disturbing our modern
civilization, There is something terri-
ble in such a crime, showing the deter-
mination of these enemies of law and
order to strike at the heads of govern-
ments and disrupt society by the re-
moval of its rulers. Their demonstra-
tions are becoming frightfully frequent,
but until this last and greatest offence
their efforts were aimed at less exalted
victims. The murder of President
Car~or 1ndicates a more desperate de-
termination of the avarchists to re-
move those to whom the duty of gov-
ernment is entrusted and upon whom
the good crder of society depends.
As this crime has assumed national
proportions in the fact that the head
of a nation is its victim, it should be
an incentive to the governments of
civilized npations to band them-
selves together for the suppression and
entire extirpation of avarchism.
There has not been sufficient concert
of international action in dealing with
this form of crime that menaces exist:
ing social order, and disgraces our
modern civilization. There should be
no refuge, for anarchists anywhere.
A new form of legal and punitive treat-
ment, suited to this new criminal
' manifestation, should be adopted by
all nations and mutually enforced by
them, When government and society
are brought face to face with such an
enemy they should not etand long up
on the order of procedure in dealing
with it.
A Plundered Municipality.
Philadelphia presents a good exam-
ple of the plight which a city finds it-
self in when its government is in the
bands of a ring of party bosses and po-
litical jobbers who run it for the mon-
ey they can make ont of it. The fel:
lows who have gained control of mu-
nicipal goveroment by controlling the
machinery of the dominant party, raid
the city treasury and bleed the tax-pay-
ers with the cool persistence and the
unsatiable voracity of horse-leeches,
and with about as much conscience.
It has been found impossible to
shake off their hold on the public
buildings which for more than twenty
years have been made to serve the
purpose of jobbery, and, although
more than seventeen millions of dollars
have been spent on them, they are still
capable of being made a source of prof-
it to these political crooks who have
grown wealthy on the plunder which
that job has afforded them. They
have held on to the public buildings
in gpite of the protest of the tax-payers,
the censure of the press, and the action
of the Legislature, until the pillaged
citizens have been forced into helpless
submission to the gang whose thieving
schemes appear to meet with no im-
pediment which they cannot overcome.
No wonder they have grown so bold
that they deliberately plan another
raid on the city’s resources in the
boulevard scheme, which will cost un-
estimated and indefinite millions—a
project intended to serve no public
necessity, having no immediate object
other than to furnish more jobssand
contracts to the Republican ringsters
who for years have been bunkoing the
city government.
The majority in both branches of
council who in the face of the most evi-
dent public disapproval passed the
ordinance for the boulevard, have dis-
played the purpose of thieves who, hav-
{oa gaidshairpiage deliberately proceed
scheme is intended to be a gigantic,
steal, its main object being to furnish
more plunder to the managers of the
political machine, and the characters
with whom they are allied. That the
legislative branch of the municipal
government should coolly pass an
ordinance with an intention so evident,
shows the demoralization that has at-
tended the rule of the Republican ring
in Philadelphia.
Why He Has Changed His View.
To party pressure and a disposition
to oppose a Democratic measure is to
be attributed Senator JoHN SHER-
MAN’s change of view in regard to an
income tax. In 1870 when the Re-
publicans, with the object of strength-
ening their monopoly tarift policy, were
in the act of abolishing the tax on in"
comes, SHERMAN had some strong
words to say in tavor of that method
of taxation. He said that to remove
the tax from the iacomes of the
wealthy, and to substitute for it taxa-
tion by means of tariffs, was a dis:
crimination against the poor man in
favor of the rich. He said, with great
truth ; “The income tax is the only
one that tends to equalize these bur-
dens between the rich and the poor.”
But now since taxing of incomes has
been made 'a Democratic policy and
part of a Democratic tariff bill, the
honorable Joux finds a reason for go-
ing back on the good opinion of an in-
‘come tax he once entertained, and op:
posing it as he did in a speech last
week, because of its being, as he al
leged “a vicious form of socialiem.”
It seems to have occurred to the Sena-
tor at this late day that the tax, which
in 1870 he lauded as equalizing the
burden between the rich and the poor,
has become socialistic in its tendency
since it has been adopted as a Demo-
cratic measure. If that is really the
case, such socialism commends itself
to the generality of the people.
OAS ——
—— Congressman JERRY SIMPSON,
1 who is a picturesque figure in Populist
{ politics, has been ont of the public
gizht for some time on account of sick:
| ness. We are glad to learn, however,
that he is rapidly recovering, the best
| evidence of his returning health being
. the fact that he has gained nineteen
| pounds in nineteen days. It is not
stated whether he had his|’socks cn
when weighed.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 29, 1 t.
The Greater Loss.
Newspaper strictures on the bitumi-
vous coal strike are profuse in their
estimate of the loss which has resulted
from that labor disturbance. The asser-
tion is made that it has cost the country
$20,000,000, divided between the loss
of wages to the workmen, the interrup-
tion of trade, and other incidental
injuries. There is a disposition to
charge this loss chiefly to the men who
engaged in the strike.
It is certainly unfortunate that the
situation wae such that the men em-
ployed in mining soft coal were com-
pelled, as a duty to themselves, to de-
mand and strike for better pay. The
general pecuniary loss has indeed been
great. Twenty millions may not cov-
er it, but it does not equal the loss
which the country has sustained from
the system of coal traffic practiced by
the mine owners and productive of an
effect upon the rate of wages which
forced the miners to strike. In their
greed for gain the operators have been
actually eacrificing the natural re-
sources of the country by furnishing
coal at prices below the proper value
of the product—prices which compelled
them to resort to robbery of their
workmen for their profit. Contracts
were taken for the supply of steamship
companies, and others requiring large
quantities of coal, at figures that left
no margin to the operators unless the
wages of the miners were reduced toa
starvation basis.
It is easy to see what a loss the
country was being subjected to by such
a reckless waste of one of its chief
mineral resources. The difference be-
tween a fair price for the product and
its sacrifice in the competition to sup-
ply the demand, which could only be
supplied by starving the workmen, has
amounted to a loss far greater than
that which the country has eustained
NO. 26.
X What the Record Thinks of It.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The Record, candidate Singerly’s
paper, will say editorially of the action
of to-day’s Democratic State conven-
tion : “The ticket is admirably die
tributed, giving, as near as possible,
every part of the state a representative.
The candidates are with two excep
tions young men in the vigor of maon-
hood, Mr. Singerly and ex-Judge
Bucher being the only veterans.
In choosing Mr. Singerly by accla-
mation as their candidate for Governor
the Democrats of Pennsylvania put up
a handicap on the utterances of this
journal. At the same time they laid
their mandate upon Mr. Singerly him-
self in such a complimentary and com-
manding way that he cannot disregard
it. Because his democracy is broad
gauge he feels bound to lead where he
has besought other men to follow, He
represents no faction and would not ac-
cept the call of a faction. He despises
faction and condemns it ; but the spon-
taneous desire of the whole party in a
time of doubt and distress admits of no
denial. If the democracy in Pennsyl-
vania was in a position to elect the
next governor of the state Mr. Singerly
would feel it his duty to insist upon a
stronger and more experienced. candi-
date for the governorship.
But there is such a thing as making
a losing fight in its ultimate result a
winning one, The names of the other
gentleman on the state ticket give it
strength and coherence. The resolu-
tions show that a party will stand by
its guns, It is fight on the part of the
mioority, for honest money, for fair tax-
ation, for uucrippled trade, for con-
stitutional and settled government. In
such a contest there is no occasion for
mud throwing. If Democrats cannot
win on the merit and soundness of the
politics which they support, victory
will be without credit or satisfaction.
Defeat in the advocacy of right brings
no dishonor and leaves behind no
sting.”
But They Didn't See It That Way in
Clarion.
From the Bituminous Record.
‘We want to say this of Congressman
Kribbs : That he was one out of four
in consequence of the strike, and if it!
ehall turn out that the resistance of |
:* - mipers to having their wages ad-
Hae cut-throat prices for coal, will
their product at figures nearer its nat- |
ural and intrinsic value, which should
be required in every legitimate busi. :
ness, the substantial gain to the |
country will in the end amount to ¥ast-
ly more than the loss from an occa-
sional coal strike, however extensive
it may be.
—— The facility with which the an-
'| archical assassin took the life of Presi- |
dent Carnot painfully impresses the
American citizen with the fact that the
lives of the Presidents of this nation
are equally insecure as against the at-
tacks of such miscreants. The kingly
rulers of Europe are closely guarded by
soldiers, making it almost impossible
for the assassin to carry out deadly
designs against them. The President
of France, the ruler of a Republic, went
among his people as unguarded, as our
Presidents do, and easily became a vic’
tim to the villain who sought his life,
Should there not be some provision
made for the better protection of our
Presidents ? Two of them have already
been murdered and precaution should
be taken against further tragedies of
that kind.
—— It looks as if Senator Dox Can-
ERON is actually a candidate for Presi-
deut and is working the eilyer racket
in support of his candidacy. When he
cut loose from his Republican asso-
ciates in the Senate last summer on
the silver question, and displayed a
Populistic aversion to the goldbugs, it
was wondered what he was up to, but
it would seem that his movement was
to ingratiate himeelf with the silverites
and the Populists, with a view to the
presidency, and it is now claimed that
he can carry every State west of the
Mississippi. DoN’s presidential candi:
dacy may have had something to do
with the insertion of the “forty-dollare-
a head” currency plank in the Pennsyl-
vania Republican State platform.
——The Governor of South Carolina,
has been having such harrassing ex.
periences lately that should he make a
remark to the Governor of North
Carolina or of any other State, it would
ba likely more profane than hospitable.
Of the total vote at the Clarion
county primaries Krisp3 received 1474
for the Congressional nomination, while
members of the delegation from this
| State who has been present in Congress
every day ; that he dodged no votes ;
that he was a firm supporter of the
National and State admiofStration ;
16r8 froui~i18 Covt.in_ans§ That ‘ue
looked carefully after the interests of
pensioners and all others; that no
representative from this district was
more attentive to his duties, and that
| these considerations are sufficient to
have entitled him to a re-nomination.
RSE
Reform Striking Everywhere.
From the Easton Argus.
Grabbers of illegal fees should take
heed from the fines of $250 and $100
imposed by Judge Endlich of Berks
county upon an alderman and a con-
stable respectively. The mere fact
that they were the first to be convicted
out of a large number known to have
been engaged in mulcting the county
of fees, saved them from imprisonment
besides. This should serve as a timely
warning to all aldermen, justices of the
peace, and constables who load the
criminal list with cases simply to pile
up fees for themselves.
We Could All Honor the Grand Old
Man.
From the Doylestown Daily Democrat.
A letter of invitation to William E.
Gladstone, to visit the United States
has been prepared, and is being numer-
ously signed by Senators and leading
citizens, and will be forwarded to him
at an early day. We hope the invitation
will be accepted, and that this great
English statesman may come across
the Atlantic and take a look at the
wordings of Republican institutione.
He would receive the most flattering
reception.
There Is 1 ne Argument in This.
From the Georgia Madisonian.
Unconditional free coinage of silver
is the law in Mexico, and it would seem
from the published experience of one
of the Georgia editors, during their
recent trip to that country, is an argu
ment against free coinage in the United
States. He says that a dinner in
Mexico costs one dollar in Mexican
money, and if an American dollar is
tendered for the meal a Mexican dol-
lar is given in exchange.
There is Not Much Labor to be Affected
Now.
From the Grand Forks, North-west News.
The supreme court. of Nebraska has
handed down a decision declaring the
eight hours a day labor law uncon-
stitutional. This decision is put upon
two grounds—first, that the discrimi-
pation against farm and domestic la-
borers is special legislation ; and sec-
ond, that the constitutional right of
every citizen to contract as he pleases
with reference to compensation is
denied.
IT ————
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Sarah Bernhardt never owned a pair
of corsets, yet she is considered one of
the most graceful women in the world.
his opponent, J. M. Fox received 1851.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Soft coal isagain shipped into Read-
ing.
—Reading brews about 45) barrels of
beer a day.
—Mayor Garrett will permit no fire.
works in Lebanon on the Fourth.
—Burglars stole $200 cash and $100 worth
of stamps from. the Mifilinburg post office,
—While bathing in the Schuylkill near
Pottstown, young Harry Palsgrove
drowned.
—Peter Moore, at York, tumbled from a
cherry tree and expired almost imme.
diately.
—Falling 50 feet from a buildihg at Lan.
caster, Robert Kneezel was eritieally
hurt.
—Il1 health led Albert Sehoeh,a young
man of Hamburg, to shoot himself to
death.
—A Cleveland Commonwealer, A. Hoff.
man, was killed Monday at Johnstown by
a train.
—South Chester declares herself at the
limit of her borough debt and unable to
issue bonds.
—Mistaking chloroform for whisky,
Martin Cressley took a drink and barely
escaped death.
—The second victim: of smallpox, Ja-
cob Diller, Monday died in the Cumber-
land County Almshouse.
—While bathing in Chester Creek 13
year-old Walter D. Leary was drowned in
sight of his companions.
—A new military organization with 60
members and called Jackson Guards, has
been formed at Myerstown.
—Ten-year-old Paul Lougenderfer made
the journey from California to Reading
alone, arriving there Saturday.
—Mrs. Maria Griess, of Nantnieal, who
was stunned by lightning in Monday's
‘storm, is lying at death’s door.
—Several tons of coal and slate sudden.
ly buried alive John McHugh, a married
miner, in the Locust Gap colliery.
_—Judge Brubaker has called a halt up-
on Register of Wills Joseph Reeser, of
Lancaster, for charging excessive fees.
—The mangled remains of William W,
Hubbell, a inoulder at Chester, was found
on the railroad near Thurlow Sunday.
—The Edgar Thomson Steel works, of
the Carnegie Company, at Braddock, em.
ploying 1500 men, have resumed in full,
—A corn on one of the toes of Rev, W, G.
Laitzle, at Lebanon, has developed into
gangrene, and his recovery is doubtful.
—Judge Clayton surprised Clifton
Heights Republicans by appointing Wil.
liam Shillingford, a Democrat constable,
~—Thejolt of his train pitched Brakeman
William Fisher from a Lehigh Valley ear
at Delano and he sustained fatal injury,
—The heat caused aged Benjamin Kurtz
of Richland, Lebanon county, to tap his
wrist, and he may not survive the loss of
blood,
—Mrs, Annie Muckle, of Ephrata, hung
herself to a barn rafterin a fit of melan-
choly, but was cut down in the nick of
time.
—The contract for a new $18,000 alms.
house at Laurytown has been awarded by
the directors of the middle cecal fields poor
district.
— Complete paralysis followed a fall
from a cherry tree near Reading, sustain.
AuUvras. ia
—Having taken refuge in a store quarry
at New Castle, C Sagers and John Cun.
ningham were struck by lightning and
terribly burned.
—A convention of Pennsylvania Luth.
erans met Monday at Harrisburg for the
purpose of promoting friendship among
the congregations.
— Suffering from consumption contract.
ed in the mines, Peter Sarpolia leaped
from a third-story window at Schuylkill
Haven and perished.
—The Shenandoah Herald Building was
sold to the Sebuylkill Hat Manufacturing
Company, and several hundred men will
be employed in the factory.
—Asa preventive medicine for a spell of
sickness whieh he felt sure he would soon
have, Farmer Joseph Miller, aged 59 years
of Hamburg, hung himself.
—Mistaking a horse preparation of
hartshorn, turpentine and calomel for
wine, little Willie Zeigler, of Rehrersburg
drank almost a fatal draught.
—The Valley Forge jury to assess dam.
ages for the land taken by the Park Com-
mission beard testimony Tuesday reduc.
ing claims over $100 per acre.
—In the wreck of his spring house by
lightning, James T. Morley, of Chester,
was so stunned by the bolt that he could
not speak nor hear for an hour.
—Henry Greggs, employed on the new
city hail, Williamsport, was badly burned
on Saturday by molten metal, which
splashed into his face and on his arms.
—Aged Luvcetta Fauber; of Lebanon,
deliberately placed herself on a trackin
front of a trolley car Tuesday afternoon
and was only removed after a struggle.
—The stockholders of the Bethlehem
Iron Company yesterday re-elected the
old Board ot Directors. The board organ.
ized by re-electing Robert P. Linderman
president.
—A black bear supposed to weigh 600
pounds made its appearance in South
Renovo last Friday evening. Several men
shot at tlie animal but it ‘escaped to the
woods unharmed.
—After a wild Western experience,
Herman C. Hoy, a youth, crazed by dime
novels, has returned to Lebanon and been
jailed for robbing his grandmother, Mrs.
Reifine, of $8).
—The case of Sheriff Britten, of Craw.
ford County, accused of making strong
ante-election promises, was argued Mon.
day before Attorney General Hensel, who
reserved his decision.
—At Pensacola Mills, Cambria county,
some four miles southwest of Ebensburg,
one Joseph Krutendorfer was assaulted
last Saturday night by a neighbor named
Juke Holtz 1tis said that Krutendor.
fer's skull was fractured and that he was
otherwise dangerously hurt.
—Bidders for the furnishing of supplies,
fuel, ete., for the several departments and
the Senate and Housu yesterday crowded
the reception room inthe executive des
rtment at Harrisburg, in which the
ids were opened. No awards will be
made today because of the time required
to properly classify the proposals,
——a