Ink Slings.
-—With free wool there should be
lots to pull over the eyes of the voters
this fall.
—The two cent duty on playing ecards
is not likely to disturb the ‘ante’ of
the game,
—The Republicans of Nebraska are
calling their Nationgl committeeman,
Mr. ROSEWATER, sweet-scented names
because he has bolted their ticket.
—MATT QUAY’s vote in the Senate
was largely responsible for our not hav-
ing free sugar to-day. Republican
stumpers will bear this in mind while
making up their orations for this fall’s
campaign.
—The chappies who persistin wearing
their trousers turned up while riding
on railroad cars do so possibly because
of the springs in the seats. Anything
that sounds like water makes them: af-
fect the London fad now-a-days.
—Bloody bridles WAITE, the freak
Governor of Colorado, was arrested on
Tuesday evening for violating the U.
S. postal laws. He opened some mail
belonging to a female and is likely to
get into trouble for his curiosity.
—A Republican slogan this fall is to
be ‘to work, to work.” Allthe party
workers the g. o. p. boasts can get to
work if they chose. All the laboring
classes are getting to work and the Re-
publican haranguers can work all they
please, but ’twill be to no profit.
—The very day the WILsoN bill be-
came a'law the Valentine Iron Com-
pany’s mammoth furnace at this place
went into blast after an idleness for
months. Does this look much as though
Centre county manufacturers are afraid
of the new Democratic tariff measure.
—The government is making money
off its employees. More than $20,000
have been realized by docking members
for absence. Now if there was only a
law to suspend scme of them without
pay it would not take future Congresses
long to get down to good work and stay
there.
—A Washington woman’s scheme
to blackmail Senator STEWART, by try-
ing to get him named as co-respondert
in a divorce suit was nipped in the bud
by the veteran Nevada legislator. He
believes in free silver all right, but not
when when it comes to shelling it out
to free and easy women.
—Dear, oh dear! Mr. QuaY demands
rest at last. Those select tariff readings
were too much for him and he is about
to fly to some secluded spot where he
will not be disturbed. It isa wonder
he did nou realize that the public needed
a rest long before he began droning off
those made to order speeches.
i
—The Populist congressional candi-
date in the Mercer-Lawrence-Beaver-
Butler district is a man by the name of
KIRKER. In order to help along his
campaign the KIRKER boys have organ-
ized a brass band among themselves
and have determined not to leave their
daddy to blow his horn alone.
—Czar REED's little boomlet, for the
Republican presidential nomination in
1896, was launched at Orchard, Maine,
last Saturday. The kind of political
fruit he might pluck from that Orchard
in the event of his candidacy will pale
into insignificance when the Damocrat-
ic bins are measured up next time.
—The Republicans are short of gub-
ernatorizl timber in New York. They
are continually prating about Demo-
cratic mis-rule in the Empire state, yet
they confess that their own party is so
corrupt within itself that they can’t
combine on any man who will pull for
all factions and lead them in a cam-
paign.
—Hge~NrY F. GrRiswoLD, the young
desperado who was arrested last week
for “holding up” a C. M. and St. P.
passenger train near Chicago, two de-
tectives having been killed in the at-
tempt to arrest him, has turned out to
be a son of a prominent New York life
insurance man. Verily the son took |
after the father. He went to taking |
lives.
—The WILSON bill is become a law.
For the first time in almost half a cen-
tury the country will have an oppor-
tunity of seeing what Democratic legis-
lation ean do for trade. The features |
of the WiLsoN bill mark a step in the
right direction, but there will never be a
wholesome stimulus to business until a
monstrous stride down the scale
taken.
is
—There is nodenying the fact that
advertising makes = everything boom.
Not long ago Coxey was tickled to
death if he could get any one who would |
sit still and listen to one of his wild |
speeches, and when he picked up 8 few |
coppers in the hat, that was usually |
passed afterwards, he deemed his wind |
highly appreciated. He has been ad-
vertised through the length and breadth |
of the land now, with the result that he
has more engagemants than he can fill
at $100 the night. :
| in regard to the tariff bill not farnish-
| gelist who after being pardoned from
| him off to prison "as fast as possible,
| The Buzzarp flew out of jail several
| times and they did not care to' run any
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“VOL. 39.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA. AUG. 81, 1894%__ NO. 34.
A Clean Campaign. |
The Philadelphia Times is gratified
in believing that we are going to have
a thoroughly clean State campaiga.
It is to be hoped that it will be clean,
and we are sure that it will be, so far
as the influence of the Democratic can-
didate for Governor can be exerted in
giving character to it. Mr. SINGERLY
has never sanctioned a low order of
politics. The tone of his newspaper
has always been high; its treatment
of political questions has always been
as fair and dignified as it has been for-
cible, and it has never been guilty of
personal abuse. Such being the dis
position and babit of his paper, what
else could be expected than that its
editor will require that cleanliness shall
characterize the side of the campaign
on which he is the candidate ?
There are better arguments to be
used in candidate SiNGErLY’s behalf
than the abuse of his opponent. The
principles represented by his candidacy
are of the highest interest to the State.
He is the opponent of an economic
gystem that in the long ran has done
Pennsylvania more harm than good—
a system whose defects and abuses
have repeatedly been the subject of ex-
posure in his newspaper, and against
which his election would be a protest.
he was among the first to combat a
false and pernicious tariff policy that
has had the effect of enriching a class
while withholding its benefits from the
generality of the people, and under
which the State has seen the present
prostration of her industries brought
about, and her working people reduced
to an unremunerative rate of wages.
He has been untiring in his efforts to
dispel the delusion that industry is
promoted by restriction, and that a
people are made prosperous by taxa-
tion. The collapse that has attended
the high-water mark of protection in
the McKINLEY tariff has verified the
correctness of his position, and-entitled’
him t> the confidence of the people in
whose interest he has spoken and acted.
Pennsylvania has had her share of the
injury resulting from the high tariff
delusion, and will partake of the bene-
fit that will come from the better
economic system, just inaugurated,
which Mr. ,SiNGerLY has so largely
assisted in indacing the people to ac-
cept.
A candidate that has such a claim to
the gratitude of those whom he helped
to disenthrall from the incubus of an
oppressive and injurious tariff, has no
occasion to resort to low methods of
obtaining votes, among which personal
abuse of opponents is the lowest. Such
a public service as he has rendered in
the tariff reform movement, together
with his high personal character and
irreproachable business reputation, is
all sufficient in commending him to
the people, requiring the employmeat
of no questionable campaign expedient.
Most of all would personal abuse be
unnecessary and undesired on his eide
of the controversy, and as for the other
side, they have no point upon which to
attack the Democratic candidate per-
gonally.
——The hold which CLEVELAND has
on the people is showa in various forms
of expressions, but it makes itself partic-
ularly manifest in Democratic couven-
tions. Wherever the Democrats have
ootten together in convention their ex-
pression of confidence in the President
has amounted to enthusiasm, Doubt
may be entertained as to the fidelity of
other leaders to the principles of the
party, but the rank and file—the peo:
ple, have an abiding faith in the hones-
ty and faithfulness of CLEVELAND.
Amid the dissatisfaction that prevails
ing the full measure of tariff reform,
the people are convinced that: the
President did his utmost to tulfili ‘the
pledges of the party, and that if there
has been any short coming it has been
no fault ot his.
—ABE BuzzArD, the out-law evan-
the eastern penitentiary for many crimes, |
is back again behind the bars. He was
convicted in Lancaster a ‘few days ago
for thievery and the authorities hustled
more risks with him.
——Subsecribe for the WATCHMAN,
The Lynching of Negroes.
The English papers are giving much
attention to the lynching of negroes
that is too much practiced in the
southern States of this country. The
earnestness with which they condemn
it is no doubt strengthened by their
general inclination to take advantage
of anything that may be derogatory to
the United States, yet it can pot be
denied that thereis ground for their
strictures. :
The Loudon Spectator, speaking of
the lawless violence with» which negro
offenders in the South are treated, en-
deavors to give a cause for it in its
statement that “in the minds of the
white population there is implanted
the unextinguished jealousy of a race
once subject, afterwards almost master
and at all times either hated or dis-
pised.”
This is not a sufficient explanation,
The general treatment of the blacks in
the South does not show that they are
hated by the white population. The
ordinary relations between them are
friendly, and since the war there has
been a remarkable disposition on ‘the
part of the superior race to improve
and elevate the inferior. This has
been shown by the large appropria-
tions in every southern State for the
education of the negroes, and by the
encouragement that has been given
them in every department of industry.
There is no element of hatred or ill
will in such a disposition.
But the fact is that lynching is a
method of punishment too much prac:
ticed in every part of the United States
for certain kinds of oftences, particu-
larly tor criminal assaults upon fe-
males, and it happens that crimes
which are considered lynchable by
lawless and undiscriminating mobs are
more frequently committed by the
blacks than by the whites. This is at
least oue of the reasons why eo many
‘We would by no means excuse the
violent and lawless punishment of col-
ored oftenders in the South. Whether
such treatment is inflicted upon whi tes
or blacks, it has a demoralizing ten:
dency and is a disgrace to the civiiiza-
tion of this country. Itshould be sup-
pressed everywhere.
Quay Responsible for the Tariff on
Sugar.
After all the Republican fuss it ap:
pears that the one-eighth of a cent dif-
ferential in favor of the sugar trast,
which is the only defect, though a vital
one, in the tariff bill, is chargeable to
a Republican source. The Philadel
phia Times, in stating how it got into
the bill, shows that it got there by the
casting vote of Senator Quay, the Re-
publican leader ot Pennsylvania. The
Times says : :
When Senator Kyle moved to strike out
this differential duty of one-eighth of a cent
on refined sugar it was lost by a vote of 35 to
34, Senator Quay having voted for the differ-
ential sugar tax and thereby gave ita major-
ity of one. Had he voted to strike out this
feature of the bill, which levies a tax of one-
eighth of a cent on sugar solely for the benefit
of the sugar trust without paying one dollar og
reveuue into the treasury, it would have been
defeated.
Those who read the proceedings in
the Senate on the tariff bill will recog:
nize this statement as being as true as
gospel: The duty differeatial to the
trust would have been struck out of
the bill ifit had not been for Quay’s
vote. The Republican leader of Penn-
sylvania interposed to conserve the in-
terest of the sugar monopolists.
QuaY's entire conduct in this tariff
business has been of but’ little credit
either to himself or the State he repre-
seats. Without having the ability to
make an effective impression upon the
question, he assumed a sort of jump-
ing-jack aciivity in the controversy.
His speeches, inflicted upon the Sen-
ate on the installment plan, were read
from the manuscript that had been
prepared for him whenever an oppor-
tunity to obstruct the progress of the
bill presented itself, He was, more-
over, detected in having speculated in
sugar etock while the bill was pending
and didn’t appear to be ashamed of it,
| and when it required but one vote to
maintain the differential on refined
sugar which the trust was fighting for,
he furnished that vote, Nevertheless
Republican newspapers that wear the
Quay collar are clamorous about the
sugar schedule in the tariff bill.
IMS SSRI
——10 you read the WATCHMAN,
Government Protection from High
Water.
Whenever a river becomes unruly
and overflows its banks, doing damage
to people living along its borders, it
has become the custom to seek relief
from the general government. Thus
it is seen that the population of the
Susquehanna valley, particularly those
of the West Branch region, have ap-
plied to Congress for an appropriation
of money that will furnish the means of
protection from the floods.
It is remarkable how strong has
grown the disposition to take advan-
tage of the paternal care of the govern.
ment. The people are looking to
Washington for relief from almost
every difficulty and the appropriation
bills are the means by which they seek
to obtain most of the desired help, with
the result that mach money is devoted
to uses that'were not contemplated in
the original design of governmental
expenditure. When the founders of the
government authorized the appropria-
tion of public funds for the improve
ment of rivers and harbors they had no
other object than the facilitation of
commerce, and the present disposition
to obtain money froin the public treas-
ury for protection against inundations
springs from an unfortunate impression
that has taken hold of the public mind
that the government owes a paternal
duty to the people.
While the inhabitants of the Sus:
quehanna valley are asking the gov-
ernment to protect them from the rav-
ages of high water, it is refreshing to
see an exception in the case of the
town of Sunbury which has concluded
to protect itself and for this purpose its
authorities have appropriated $15,000
for the building of a levee that will
keep out the water, and a contract for
the work has been awarded. The peoc-
ple of Sunbury are to be commended
for not depending upon the paternal
care of the government, and the other
'Sutyuehanna towns subject to floods
i hardly be true.
ehould follow her example of self pro-
tection.
Something about Cuckoos.
“No other President can hope to be
surrounded by flocks of cuckoos,” says
the Cincinnati Tribune.—This can
In all probability
| there will be future Presidents who
| will be faithful to the principles of the
{parties that elected them, and" will be
surrounded by supporters faithfully
| sustaining them in the honorable dis-
charge of their trust. . These may be
called cuckoos by the malignant and
foolish enemies of the principles sup-
ported by them, as is found to be the
case to-day.
JEeFrERsoN had his unfaltering sup-
porters who were reviled for their at-
tachment to him when he ingrafted in-
to our institutions the true principles
of Democracy. The silly term cuckoo
was not used against them, but other
opprobrious terms were employed.
Jackson also had his faithful followers,
who stood by him through thick and
thin in his fight with the enemres of
democratic government, and although
they were not called cuckoos, they had
equally spiteful terms applied to them.
Whenever a' President shall ' be
found faithtully and honorably main-
taining the principles he was elected to
carry out, he will be surrounded and
sustained by a class of followers such
as fools are now calling cuckoos,
whose service in behalf of honor,
principle and the public good will be
remembered by a grateful people long
after their revilers shall have passed
away with the rubbish of time.
——The Republican Altoona 77ib-
une says that “the Hawaiian republic
is 80 much of a fraud that we cannot
understand why a ‘fellow feeling’
doesn’t make the Democratic party
‘cotton’ to it warmly and immediate
ly." Because it is so much of a fraud
is the reason that it received so little
countenance from President’ CLEVE-
LAND, and is beld in low estimation by
the Democratic party. Probably that
is the reason why it (is favored by the
Republicans.” A republic whose con-
stitution has been framed by a ring of
foreign residents, and whose Presidents
are not to be elected by the people, but
by an oligarchy governing the legisla-
ture, is a kind of republic not calculat-
el to excite the. admiration of the
Damocracy.
Better Times In Sight—And This CUn-
der Democratic Rule. :
From the New York Tribune. Rep.
Although the uncertainty respecting
the tariff continues, business men are
breathing more easily. They koow
that settled conditions are close at hand
and they are already feeling the tonic
effects of a restoration of confidence.
The Gorman bill will either be vetoed
before the week ends or it will be al-
lowed to become law with or without
the President's signature. In either
event the industries of the country will
have release from the uncertainties
which have been paralyzing their ac-
tivities. Business men will know what
is before them, and with that faculty
for adapting themselves to circum-
stances, which is a marked character:
istic of Americans, they will make the
best of the situation. They share the
feeling of Arctic navigators when the
floes have parted and released the ship
which has been nipped and imprisoned
in the ice. They have the assurance
that open water will soon be ahead of
them, although they may not yet know
the direction in which it will lead them.
Democracy Is the Only Antidote for
Such Poison.
From the Seattle, Wash. Telegraph.
“Neverin the history of the demo:
cracy of this state was the opportunity
more favorable to win a victory at
the polls. The people of the state are
sick of republican mismanagement of
state and county affairs. If the in-
genuity of the framers of our state con-
stitution and fundamental laws had
been exerted to devise something
which would be cumbrous, unsatisfac-
tory and needlessly expensive, they
could not have done better than set up
a system under which the state now suf-
fers. We are governed to death, and
yet it would be almost impossible to
suggest'in what respect the affairs of
the people could be worse attended to
thay they are nox. Taxation is too
high and the whole machinery of our
government is so designed that it fails
in a conspicuous degree to accomplish
the purposes for which it is intended.
What We Needed Was a New Capitol.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The improvements which have been
made in the old Capitol at Harrisburg,
together with the erection of a new
building for the executive departments
and State library, are most desirable ad-
ditions to the structures on Capitol Hill.
Most of the State departments have
been too long kept in unfit and shabby
quarters, but a few months hence there
will be no longer any complaint on
that score, while the new ball of the
House of Representatives, besides hav-
ing greater capacity, will not be open to
the serious objection of the past that it
was health-destroying on account of
poor ventilation, or what was practical-
ly no ventilation at all. It was much
better for the State to make these im-
provements as it has than to enter upon
the expensive and almost endless job of
constructing a new capitol.
—————
It Is Consumption, Not Protection, That
Stimulates Business.
From the Wayne County Herald.
The general expression of opinion
among the leading manufacturers of
the country as to the effect of the new
law is, that while there may be some
reduction of wages in a few 1nstances,
there is likely to be a great increase of
business. We will soon be in shape to
export and can compete successfully
with any nation upon the globe. There
is ‘still an adundance of protection left
upon our manufactures; twice as much
at least as there was between 1850 and
1860, which, the census shows, was
the period of our greatest real pros-
perity.
Give It a Chance to Boom.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
The new tariff bill became a law at
twelve, midnight, last night, and went
into immediate operation. The
treasury officials have been preparing
sometime to put the law in force, and
importers will now have to pay duties
according to the new schedules. There
is every prospect of a boom in 'busi-
ness, and we hope the enemies of ithe
new tariff will let it be fairly tried = be:
fore denouncing it. ~~ Our calamity
howlers will please suspend business
for a few weeks.
‘ a ——————
Iv Is Money More Than the Pole They
Ave After.
From thie Milton Record.
Mr. Wellman’s “dash for the pole”
is postponed until next season. None
the less it is good news to know that
he and his companions are all safe,
and are again within the limits of civ-
ilization. Of course he will lecture
this winter. The arctic explorer takes
10 lecturing ‘as ‘naturally as the prize
fighter takes to the stage.
SU — ———
Do They Fear Him,
From the Williamsport Sun. :
Oar Republican friends are very
much worried over Judge Bucher’s can-
didacy, and would be pleased to see him
refuse to'be a candidate for ‘congress-at-
latge,. Judge Buchet is too. good .a
Democrat to care to please the Republi-
can leaders, and all talk of his declining
to remain on the ticket is folly. i
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Shenandosah is on a hdlf water allow.
ance, $v id :
—Fires are destroying mountain forests
at Tamaqua. .
—With a rope George W. Sisco ended his
life at Scranton. .
—Hazleton may tap the ILchigh River
for a water supply.
—A grand jury recommends anew Cour?
house at Towanda.
—Typhoid fever i3 responsible for four
deaths in two days at Pottsville.
—The Patriarchs Militant, 1. 0. O. F,
broke camp at Williamsport Monday.
—Easton’s new $100,000 high school build -
ing will be dedicated on September 12.
—An express train on the B.and O, at
Robbins, crushed J. C. Price lifeless.
—While fishing at York, Millie Ford
tumbled into the water and drowned.
—A horse kicked and crushed the skull
of Mrs. Catharine Yingst, at Annville.
—Anti-Bowmanite Evangelicals opened
big camp meeting at Catasauqua Mon.
day.
—While riding a bicycle at Media, Isaac
Labue was badly stabbed in the leg by a
boy.
—Coalport has a newly organized pro-
hibition club which started with 24 mem.
bers.
—Thrown from his wagon at New Trip
oli, George M. Schellhammer met instant
death.
—A valise containing $250 was stolen
from George L. Foote, a Wilkesbarre col.
lector,
—A dog bite inflicted a month ago has
brought William Joyce, of West Chester to
his bed.
—Insane from illness, Samuel Haas, of
Shamokin, hanged himself to a tree at
Halifax.
—Huff’s Church at Seisholtzville, Berks
County, was robbed of its communion
service.
—Survivors of the 128th Pennsylvania
Regiment will reunite September 17, at
Allentown. :
—Eight-year-old Willie Pudleiner was
beheaded by a train while he was picking
coal at Reading. !
—Little Edward Bowin, near McKees,
port, poured o1l into a lighted lamp and
was burned to death.
—At the shooting tournament at Wopso-
nonnock on Wednesday, E. D. Fulford
broke 198 out of 200 targets.
—Thirty six employes have sued the
embarrassed Diamond Drill Company for
#4000 in back wages, at Reading.
—Firemen on the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road object to the introduction of bitum-
inous coal on the locomotives.
—In a freight wreck at Erie, Brakeman
William Rehr was dangerously hart and
an unknown ride-stealer killed.
—Little Yetta Moore, daughter of
Joseph Moore, Pottstown, who was burn-
ed while playing in the street, is dead.
—The Johnstown Fire Insurance Com.
pany, an assessment mutual concern, has
been reorganized as a stock company,
—Myron Osborne was appointed post-
master at North: Rome on Monday in-
stead of Mrs. Fanny McCabe, removed,
—While attending an open-air Indian
medicine show at Easton, William G.
Roseberry dropped dead beside his wife,
—Ex County Auditor Lockard’s wife
dropped dead of heart disease, in the
road at Richmond, Northampton County,
—Boys threw alighted cigarette und er
St. Bernard's Catholic Church, Bethle.
hem, and it narrowly .escaped destruc =
tion.
—The body of an unknown man Was
found in W. C. Hallman's barn near
Norristown, lie having been dead for
weeks,
—James H. Cummings, of Williamsport,
who accidentally shot himself on Tues-
day, died on Thursday evening from the
wound. X
—Nineteen-year-old William Rupp, Jr.
has been mysteriously missing from his
home at Onset, Lebanon county, since
August 10.
—Mrs. Margaret Albright had to arrest
her young son, William, at Reading, for
striking her in the face she forbade his
stealing apples.
—A divorce was Saturday granted at
Reading to the young wife of Rev. U.S.
Glick, who disappeared after their mar-
riage in 1887.
—Several hundred dollars worth of sil-
verware was stolen from Milton Heidel.
baugh’s Lancaster residence during the
family’s absence.
—Suspected of being the hotel beat
wanted at Allentown, Easton and Beth
lehem, M. F. Meyer, of Chicago, was Sat.
urday caught at Stroudsburg.
—The annual reunion of the survivors
of the Fifty-seventh Regiment Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers will be held at Ulster,
Bradford County on September 22.
—¥or the third time in a few months
robbers looted S. B. Rushby’s variety and
jewelry store at Reading, on Monday
night. They got goods worth $1000.
—Itis said that peaches are being ship.
ped from Mifflintown station in: large
quantities, and:ishippers are realizing bhet-
ter prices than they have done for
years.
—Daniel Reed, of Penn township, Ly-
coming county, who was badly hurt on
Tuesday and underwent an operation in
the Williamsport hospital, died in that in.
stitution the following day.
—A large wild cat that has been prowl.
ing about in the yicinity of Haneyville,
Clinton county, for some time, was shot a
few days ago by Tom Mullen, The ani.
mal was one of the largest that has been
killed in that section.
—The Ninth Regiment's rifle team to
compete ‘at Mt. Gretna comprises: Ser:
geant Frank W. Innis, Company Cj Ser.
geant Arthur Everett, Company E ; Pris
vate John Leidner, Company F ; Private
James VW. Burns, Company C; Private
Alfred N. Mahon, Company C.
—Jacob Waterman, of Lock Haven, is
the owner of a Continental bank note of
the denomination of ‘two thirds of a
dollar.’ Mr. Waterman found his money
on the street at a sea shore resort several
years ago, and has been offered a consid.
erable sum for it but prefers to keep it in
his own possession as a relic,