BY P. GRAY MEEK.
r Ink Slings.
—The tariff bill bas been entirely lost
sight of in the excitement over the great
PuLLMAN strike. :
—Grain must be awfully sensitive
stuff. It gets shocked just because the |
farmer walks through the fields.
—The American people are-getting to
"be very much like the Frenchmen,never
happy unless in some sort of turmoil.
—An exchange remarks that grass-
hoppers are over-running Perry county.
It is strange that grasshoppers should
do any running at all.
—Four bands of music and thousands
of admirers received Jim CORBETT on
his arrival in Dublin on Sunday. It
pays to bea ‘good man’ in any pro-
fession.
—While president DEBS, of the A.
R. U,, is ordering men to quit work
everywhere we wonder if he has ordered
his own salary cut off. It is hardly
probable.
—The idea of a labor war is ridiculous.
The American workingman has too
much sense to entertain such a thought
and none but the agitator and alarmist
ever dream of it.
—The rail-road men of Pittsburg who
flatly refused to strike without cause
displayed more sense than DEBS, SOVER-
EIGN, ATGELD and all their cohorts of
trouble makers.
—The glorious fourth is a thing of
the past and there will not be reason-
able excuse for any one to get drunk
until next year——unless, perchance,
the Democrats sweep the country in the
Fall.
—The summer will be gone before
people realize that it has been here.
Those who have spent part of it at the
seashore will need only to look at their
pocket books if they get to wondering
where “it has went.”
—The way the members of the Senate
joint committee are acceding to the con-
gressional desire to cut down the in-
creases made by the Senate on the WiL-
soN bill, shows that they are desirous of
getting the thing through.
--There will be one good out come of
all these strikes and internal dissen-
sions that the country has been suffer-
ing from during the past two years. It
will teach western States the necessity
of electing men, not asses, to fill their
gubernatorial chairs.
—-The intent of the military people
in Congress to move for the increase of
the regular army should be promptly
sat down upon. We have no need for a
larger armed force than we have at
present and a less desire for an army
tax like the one that oppresses Germany.
—The labor element is crying out
now. We are not responsible for al
this destruction of property ! And it may
be true, but unfortunately they have
furnished tke cover under which it has
been done and must suffer the condem-
pation of law abiding citizens in con-
sequence.
—The determination of the French
ministry to transfer the trial of Anarch-
ists from the assize courts, where a jury
sat on their cases, to the correctional tri-
bunal will have a tendency to lessen the
value of Anarchist necks. The faster
they are cut the better the whole world
will be off.
—The Republicans who are cackling
away about president CLEVELAND'S
having transcended his powers in send-
ing federal troops to Chicago will change
their minds when they read his pre-
decessor’s, Mr. HARRISON'S, view of the
matter. The ex-president is noted for
his thorough interpretation of disputed
points of law and his opinion in this
matter is that of an eminent jurist.
—One of the surprises that have come
out of the great rail-road strike is the
finding out that EuceENe V. DEss,
president of
Union, is a lately cured KEELEY sub-
ject. 1tis not remarkable, but rather
creditable for him, but we are surprised
that such a powerful organization should
have taken up a man only recently re-
formed and endowed him with such a
mighty influence over men.
--Governor ATGELD, of Illinoise, bas
made a pretty spectacle of himself, in
his attempts to call the Presideat down
for sending federal troops to Chicago
to protect United States property. If
the Governor, who seems anxious to class
bimself with WArrE, PENNOYER and
those other asinine specimens in the
West, has such correct ideas about
State rights what business had he send.
ing the Illinoise militia into Indiana
to suppress the riot at Hammond.
—Some of our exchanges say the pub-
licis clamoring to know how RICHARD
CROKER, the ex-TAMMANY chieftain, be-
came 80 rich in a fow years as head of
the great New York political organi-
zation, and demand that he tell where
his money came from. Mr. CROKER'S
wealth is no one’s business but his own,
and if tho paopla of New York think it
was ill gotten thay can prefer charges
of theiving azainst him. Until they
do that others hal better keep quiet.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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BELLEFONTE, PA. JULY 13, 1894.
NO. 2%.
Law and Order Must be Maintained.
There is no class of people in this
country so much interested in the
maintenance of law and order as the
working class. Therefore when any
part of them engage in demonstrations
that break the law and disturb the
peace, they are doing themselves an
injury, causing more harm to their
own interests than to any other.
Grievances which they may consider
themselves subjected to by existing la-
bor conditions cannot be remedied by
violent and lawless proceedings.
Nothing could be more thoroughly
wrong in its motive, object and method
than-the movement that developed in-
to the riotous and destructive strike at
Chicago and other points on a widely
extended railroad system. In this case
the object was to force a company that
manufactured a certain kind of rail:
road cars to pay its hands more wages.
That company, or rather that indi-
vidual, as PuLLMaN is virtually the
company, was not connected with the
railroads except in the circumstance
that it made cars that are used on the
roads. The railroad hands were not
involved in any regulation of wages
made by that company. Yet, to com-
pel it to pay itsemployees higher
wages, or to punish it for not doing so,
a boycott of its cars on the roads was
enjoined for the enforcement of which
compulsory process thousands of men
employed on the railroads, at wages
concerning which they expressed no
diesatisfaction, were ordered to stop
work, resulting in a strike that blocked
the avenues of transportation, par
alyzed the internal commerce of the
country, tied up the products of agri-
culture and manufacture on their way
to market, deprived the cities of their
supplies of sustenance, violated the
laws of Congress that guarantee free
inter state communication, interrupted
the paesage of the United States mails,
and culminated in riot, bloodshed and
destraction of property.
It would be monstrous if so un-
reasonable, disorderly -and destructive
a movement should succeed. for the ex-
ample and precedent. it would set
would reduce the future business and
industrial situation to a condition of
anarchy. It would invest the mob
with supreme authority.
All the power that the government
can exert, and all the influence that
law abiding citizens can bring to bear,
must be brought into co-operation to
prevent the success of all such violent
demonstrations which, in consequence
of their subversion of law and order,
menace the public welfare, and are
particularly injurious to the interests of
the working people.
Above all things order must be
maintained and the law enforced.
Where Hill Has Landed.
Senator Davip B. HiLL, when vot-
ing, as the only Democrat in the Sen-
ate, against the tariff bill, attempted
to be very impressive in performing
that act of treachery to his party. In
announcing his vote against it he said
be was pursuing *‘a course of duty and
consistency that was as clear as the
noonday sua.”
To the public comprehension it is a
good deal clearer than HiLi's view of
duty and consistency that he was
prompted toa maliciously mischievous
course in regard to the tariff bill by
his personal animosity towards CLEVE:
Laxp. Nobody will give him credit
for having been actuated by a sense of
daty, or by a regard for consistency,
in this matter, and there are but few
Democrats who would not rather have
had him vote against than tor the bill.
Some satisfaction might have been de-
rived from seeing him whipped into
voting for it, but the party is the gain-
er by his taking a course which has
landed him outside the Democratic
breastworks.
--The Doylestown Democrat is com-
plaining because agang of local gam-
| blers are blighting the fair name of that
{town by “skinning” every stranger
they can get a hold of. It is perfectly
right for the Democrat to complain at
the authorities for tolerating gambling,
i but when it sympathizes with losers at
{ the gaming board it plays the wet dog.
The Democrat knows, as well as every
one else, that both players can’t win in
a game cf poker and the fellow who
goes into the game deserves to lose,
1
The Two State Platforms. r
The Democrats of Pennsylvania
have as much reason to be proud of
their platform as the Republicans have
to be ashamed of theirs’. The latter is
but a loosely jointed assortment of
shaffling expedients, a parade ot words
without an expression of principle and
with no:other object than to beguile
the voters. The “calamity howl” is
introduced as it it had not already been
discredited, and as if it were not cer-
tain to be thoroughly disapproved by a
return of industrial activity and busi-
ness prosperity after the passage of the
tariff bill.
The declaration of the Democrats
reaffirms the high purpose of tariff re-
form, and it is wisely aggressive in
emphasizing the necessity for such re-
form by charging the Republican tar-
iff with having been the chief cause of
the industrial prostration and business
depression recently precipitated upon
the country, but from which it will re-
cover under a reformed tariff and
through the better influences of Demo-
cratic administration. The logic of
apparent facts fortify the platform dec-
laration that the business collapse was
in the largest measure the effect of the
McKINLEY tariff, and this charge will
be pushed energetically and effectively
against the party which, after having
brought the industrial and financial
situation to a paralyzed cpndition by
its tariff and fiscal regulations, had the
effrontery to blame it on those to
whom this wreck was handed over as
a relic of Republican mal-administra-
tion.
One of the best points of the Demo-
cratic State platform is the rebuke it
gives the Republican $40 per capita in-
flation scheme, a proposition as decep-
tive in its political intent as it is un-
souad and mischievous in its financial
tendency. The declaration of the Re-
pablicans on that subject shows the
breakiog up and floating apart of the |
basic principles of their party. Con-
scious that their tariff policy is about
to undergo a terrible discount, they
are feeling around for a new issue with
which they may practice deception
upon the voters, by offering a $40 per
capita circulation to the people with
pretty much the same object as that
which induced their carpet bag prede- |
cessors in the South to offer $40 and a
mule for the enticement of the South. |
ern negroes.
The Democratic convention did not |
consider it necessary to wander away
off among the islands or the Pacific
ocean for an issue to be used in a
Pennsylvania State campaign. It
found nearer at hand asubject of home
importance in the labor difficulties,
which the Republican convention
shirked, either from cowardly motives,
or because it did not consider the
struggle of labor for better pay as be-
ing of as much consequence as the af-
tairs of Samoa and the Sandwich is-
lands. The Democrats found a fitting
and timely subject for denunciation in
the importation of cheap labor by
those who, while they clamor for pro-
tection to American industry, avail
themselves of every opportunity to se-
cure cheap labor by the importation
ot low priced foreigners—a subject
closely related to existing conditions in
Pennsylvania under McKivLey's high
tariff,
There is not a declaration or propo-
sition in the Democratic State plat-
form that does not relate to live politi-
cal issues, or has hot & logical connec-
tion with the present political neces-
gities. There are no platitudes, make-
shifts, evasions or deceptions. Among
its best features is the reaffirmation of
the old and ineradicable Democratic
hostility to political proscription and
religious intolerance. At a time
when a new manifestation of religious
bigotry is beginning to assume the
form of an oath-bound political con-
spiracy there is an imperative call for
the action of the old party which forty
years ago crushed under its heel the
dark lantern conspirators of the Know
Nothing organization.
Surely the Democrats of Peunsylva-
nia have reason to be proud of their
platform, but there is not an intelli-
gent and self respecting Republican in
the State who can help blushing at
the miserable conglomeration of eva-
sions, stultifications and misrepresenta.
tions which their convention has fur-
nished as a declaration of principles,
An Excellent State Ticket.
In all respects the representatives of
the Democracy of Pennsylvania, dele-
gated to form a State ticket and fur-
nish a declaration of principles, have
done their work well. We have else:
where spoken of the platform and of
the head of the ticket in suitable terms,
The momination for Lieutenant Gov-
ernor has given the second place on the
ticket to Mr. Jou S. RiLring, of Erie,
a young Democrat who has made him-
self prominent and useful in sustaining
the cause of the party in .the north-
western section of the State. He is an
able lawyer and a highly esteemed citi-
zen. His being on the ticket not only
givesit the benefit of his acknowledged
high character, but adds to its geo-
graphic strength.
The nominee for Auditor General,
Davip F. McGEE, is a Democrat whose
quality has been tried in the crucible
of Lancaster county Republicanism,
and has been made the stronger by
battling with the enemy in their strong-
est hold. His experience as a lawyer,
and his general ability, well adapt him
to the duties of the office for which he
has been nominated.
There could not possibly have been
a better nomination than that of Wat-
TER W. GREENLAND for Secretary of
International Affairs. He has given
proof of his fidelity and efficiency as an
officer while discharging the duties ot
the Adjutant Generalship, a position
in which he has had no superior. He
is one of the most deservedly popular
men in the State.
In choosing two candidates for Con-
gressman-at-Large, the convention
made an excellent choice in nomina-
ting ex-Senator SLoaN and ex-Judge
Buorer., They are both exceptionally
good men, both able lawyers and good
speakers, and as representatives in the
national legislature the Staté would
have reason to be proud of them.
The convention did well in nomina-
ting these candidates. Now let a
united and enthusiastic party do
equally well in electing them.
Mischievous Partisanship.
Scarcely had the railroad difficulty
broken out in Chicago before the mis-
, chievous Philadelphia Press began to
find fault with the President for not
rushing government troops to the scene
of the disturbance for the suppression
| of the rioters, its evident purpose being
to gain any partisan advantage that
| mighg ‘possibly be gleaned from this
public mistortune.
Every sensible and good citizen will
give the President credit for the pru-
dence and firmness with which he has
met the delicate and trying duty which
this wide-spread and unusual disturb-
ance required him to perform, and
can have nothing. but contempt for
partisan newspapers which, when a,
“calamity” presents itself, whether in
the shape of a riotous mob or a collapse
of business, hasten to turn it to party
advantage: by misrepresentation. Ac
tuatéd by such a motive the mischiev-
ous Press would have been the first to
condemn the President if he had been
precipitate in sending troops against
the rioters.
——The Bucks County Mirror is un-
able to see how any. honest Democrat
can consistently vote against WiLLram
M. SiNGERLY. But there is no occa-
sion for uneasiness about Democrats
voting against him. That isn’t on the
programme. He will of course get the
full party vote, for that is what he was
nominated for, and that will be the
effect of his nomination. But where
the great encouragement presents it-
gelf is in the fact that honest Republi-
cans will vote for him in large numbers.
This fact renders it reasouable to be-
lieve that he hasa chance of being
elected. Honest men of both parties
have an incentive to work to that end.
——The Democratic Senators are
sald to be thinking seriously about
reading Davin B. HiLu out of the par-
ty. It is hardly worth while to do
that. HiLr, by his own act, has put
himself out of the Democratic ranks
and is straggling toward the camp of
the enemy. Let him alone and he
will gravitate where he belongs. By
his desertion the enemy will gain about
as little as the Democrats will lose.
— Subscribe for the WaroamaN.
Where Does the Farmer Come In ?
From the Columbia Independent.
In all the commotions that are for-
ward just now there is one important
person who is left out of consideration,
the American farmer. The public
lives on him and by him. Yet he is
the last one to receive a thought when
ructions are raised in the national and
state legislatures for the comfort and
advancement of mankind in general and
of trusts and politicians in particular.
The farmer pays protected prices for his
tools, clothes and household goods.
Then he sells his product at unprotect-
ed rates. Just now a large class of men
has combined against him. The rail-
road hands, without intending any ac-
tive hurt, have closed the market to his
crops; and his vegetables and fruits are,
or will soon be, rotting on his hands.
This fact brings its own punishment, to
be sure, for already, in cities like Chi-
cago, that are under the fist of the rail-
road anarchists, the price of food has
goneup and will continue to go up. The
ones who will suffer most are the people
who have thrown themselves out of
work and, having no wages, are un-
able to supply their families with the
necessaries of life.
If the farmer derives any satisfaction
from this economic vengeance he ought
to be allowed to nurse it, for it is little
other consolation that he gets out of the
existing state of affairs. Again, the
farmer is no longer able to get efficient
help. The craze for aggregation is
emptying the county, and he can only
get assistance from men whose assist-
ance is not good for much. When that
big: humbug, the Coxey army, was
parading across the country the farmer
offered work to the tramps who carried
banners demanding work. Did they
take it ? Not atall. They preferred
to be supported without it. The legis-
lator cares nothing for the farmer, the
public eats his potatoes and never gives
him a thought.
Dana’s Paper Loyal to the Government
at Least.
From the New York Sun.
The Government at Washington
lives, and the people of the United
States are behind it, sixty odd millions
of them. Anarchists and fools not reck-
oned. The representative ana executive
of the Nation’s authority, majesty, and
power is President Cleveland. He stands
at this moment for all that loyal Ameri-
cans live for, hope for, are. That he
stands firm to his obvious duty no man
can now doubt. The Administration is
doing its duty with respect to the peo-
ple. and the people must do their duty
with respect to the Administration. The
color of a citizen’s political opinions is
of no more consequence at sueh a time
than the color of his eyes or hair. As
a citizen, as an American, he owes first
of all his unqualified, unquestioning, un-
limited support to the chosen man who
took into his hands on March 4, 1893,
the responsibility for the administration
of the Nation’s laws, and swore then to
turn the Government over to his suc-
cessor as he found it.
They May Vote for Him Too.
From the Clearfield Republican.
The Republican organs seem to be
much affected over this subject toward
which they have coutributed so much
in the past. The Harrisburg Tele-
graph fixes Hastings’ majority at 300,-
000, and then goes on to say that the
“empty dinner pail brigade” will turn
out in full force to greet Mr. Singerly
at the polls in November. If the
“empty dinner pail brigade” only
knew the real reason of their empty
dinner pails there would be little doubt
of the result in November, and 300,000
would not measure the majority the
other way. But more than likely the
“empty dinner pail brigade” will be
bamboozled another tinve into voting
their pails empty, as they have been
doing for thirty years. The time is
coming, however, and it is not far off
when men will look back and marvel
at the delusion which so long held
them in thralldom.
Who This Man Debs Is.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Eugene V. Debs was born in Terre
Haute in 1855, His father kepta gro-
cery, and the son helped wait on custom-
ers by day and studied by night. When
he was old enough to learn a trade he
went to work in the paint shop of the
Vandalia railroad and atter a iime was
transferred from the shop to the tender
of a locomotive on the same road. He
served as fireman for some time and
when the Brotherhood was formed was
sent as a delegate to the national con-
vention. There his ability was recognized
at once, and he was made secretary serv-
ing continually thereafter till, feeling
that the Brotherhood had done its work,
he resigned to form the union. Per-
sonally he isa pleasant taced, agreeable
mannered man, neat of dress and quiet
of speech. He has been city clerk of
Terre Hauteand has served in the In-
diana Legislature.
How Very Fine This Is.
From the Bloomsburg Columbian.
Concerning the tariff question, it is
quite true that there are a set of men
who think it more profitable to con-
ciliate a few interested and rich indi-
viduals who are always seeking high
protection for their particular wares,than
to so reform protective duties as to con-
ciliate the great majority of the Ameri-
can people by a genuine tariff-reform.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—The town of Warren wants more
dwelling houses:
—In the Oil City Tube Works, John
Lang was shocked to: death by electric-
ity.
—Anton Stenowiez was strack by a
train at Shenandoah and dangerously
hurt.
—C. L, Magee, of Pittsburg, who has
been in Europe, is expected home this
week, ’
—The annual reunion of the famous
Bucktails will be heid at Kane August 23
and 24,
—While visiting at Hazleton eemetery
John Sezmick tumbled intoa ditch and
was killed.
—Of the 104 graduates of the normal
school at Lock Haven, thirteen were from
Clearfield county.
—Government employes at Federal
buildings throughout the State are being
removed for economy.
—By a premature blast inn the Vulcan
Colliery at Shenandoah, John Welds sus-
tained fatal injuries. »
—The death warrant for Noell Maesson
Allegheny County, fixes his day of execu.»
tion on September 6.
—The Coatsville Y. M. C. A. contem.
plate the erection of a public’ bath house
on their new grounds.
—Horse thieves have stolen a valuable
horse and buggy from George Backman,
of Durham, Bucks County.
—William M. Griscom, of Berlin, Ger-
many, has added $1000 to the Reading Y,
M. C. A. building fund.
— The poor board of Williamsport re.
ports 427 persons relieved in that city for
the quarter ending June 30.
—There is war among the Williamsport
bakers and “full weight’’ bread is on the
market at four cents a loaf.
—With fitting pomp and ceremony, the
Franklin Fire Company, of Chester, last
night housed its new $5600 engine.
—Many apple, pear and quince trees in
the vicinity of Allensville, Miffiin county
are suffering from “fire blight.”
—Some depraved wretch girdled a fine
apple tree belonging to Pr. J. K. Metz, of
Allensville, Mifilin county, killing it.
—Attaching a tube to the gas jet in his
Reading home, Edward Schuldt inhaled
enough to bring him to death's door.
—Governor Pattison has reappointed
Alexander Port, of Huntingdon, man.
ager of the Huntingdon Reformatory.
—Reading Railroad Section Boss Peter
Finnegan, aged 50, of Ambler, was killed
by a train on the Pennsylvania Rail.
road.
—Robert C. Branyan, an old-time citi.
zen of Perry county, died a few days ago
at his home near Duncannon aged 76
years.
—Struck on the head by a signal board
near Cornwall, John Garrett, a Cornwall
& Lebanon Railroad employe, eannot re-
cover.
—Having escaped the Chester county
authorities, J. W. Gyles, accused of sell.
ing a stolen horse, was recaptured at
Chester.
—Unalarmed by the strike, a party of
Chester County Christian Endeavor:
ers left West Chester Tuesday for Cleve, ;
land, O. ¥
—A Philadelphia & Reading express
struck and instantly killed Josiah Fle m-
ing, of Shamokin at Enterprise Tuesday
afternoon.
—While chopping wood a few days ago
Charles Hurley, of Sheaffer's valley,
Perry county, was unlucky enough to
split a knee cap.
—The tiger that escaped from Main’s
wrecked eircus at Tyrone a year ago is
supposed to be still prowling about the
mountains there.
—Fearing he might bea burden to his
family whenill, Frank O'Donnell, a black-
smith at Big Spring, Cumberland County,
hanged himself.
—The Pittsburg Leader has raised a
fund of $700 to erect 2 memorial to Direc:
tor Bigelow for his valuable services in
securing public parks.
—The commencement exercises of the
Danville Insane Hospital's Training
School for Attendants was celebrated yes-
terday, fifteen graduated.
—While bathing in Forney’s dam, at
Reading, Tuesday afternoon, Eddie and
Patrick Troy, brothers, aged 12 and 14
respectively, were drowned .
—After a prolonged wrangle between
Commissioners, Sherift and prison inspec.
tors of Lehigh county, it was decided to
execute Harry Johnson privately.
—Elmer Durin and Harvey Mitchell,
two long-fingered citizens of Carlisle,
are in trouble because they visited the
farm of Harry Handshaw the other
night and carried off thirty-five chick -
ens.
—The combined age of John Hefkin,
Samuel Baker, Henry Bowman and
Joseph Hare, of Monroe township, Cum-
berland county, is 277 years, yet in less
than a week they harvested thirty-seven
loads of wheat.
—Charles Kelley, a well known residen t
of Cambria City, a Johnstown suburb,
where he owns considerable property,
has been missing for almost two months
and his friends are becoming anxious:
concerning his whereabouts,
—John Batt, of Conemaugh township,
Cambria county, whose mind has been
affected forsome years, although he is
but 10 years old, was taken to the Dix-
mont asylum Monday having become so
violently insane that restraint was
necessary.
—A riot took place at the Central coal
works, near Greensburg Saturday. A
number of families attempted to move
into houses from which strikers had
been evicted and the former oecupants
gave battle. Three men, five women and
ten children were arrested.
—Saturday’s DuBois Courier says : The
company controlling the vast area of
hemlock timber on Medix run and its trib.
utaries is about to build a tannery .at
the mouth of the stream, at Medix Run
station. It was reported that work was
commenced on the building yesterday.
—The Johnstown Democrat gives cur.
rency to the rumor recently afloat to the
effect that striking miners from the Cons
nellsville coke region meant to go to the
pains of destroying the railroad bridge
of the Cambria Iron company at Mar.
relville, Itissaid tha bridge is guarded,