= Ink Slings.
—Pay your taxes before it is too late.
If you are a Democrat pride will make
you vote this Fall.
—The butchering season is here and
from all indications they are at it in
good shape in Corea.
— Last week the preachers prayed for
rain. This week the grangers, at Cen-
tre Hall, got it and swore about it too.
—Lxvr's bar’l is in the political fray
again, now let the Republicans look
around for something that wiil bring
BEeN’s hat out.
—Every Democrat should remember
that his vote will be needed this Fall.
If our party turns out in the county
there will be no question as to the suc-
cess of the ticket.
—A Chicago astronomer asserts that
he has discovered several green spots on
the moon. This recent revelation can
be accounted for as a lunar reflection of
HasTING'S much talked of Irish wit.
—The best of evidence that oratory
is on the decline is to see a public in-
structor stand up and read an address
from notes, as if it were a select read-
ing. A pretty example to set others.
—-Hastings is not a very calamitous
looking object to be running around
over the country preaching hard times.
His pockets are well filled and from all
appearances his stomach is in ihe same
condition.
—The advance in the price of wool
looks very much as if the tariff of '94 is
going to have the same effect on that
product as the low tariff of ’57 did, when
growers received the highest prices ever
given for their shearings.
— With the A. P. A,, the; anti Boss
PrATT element and the western part ot
the State all after the Republican candi-
date for Governor in New York the
Democrats ought to be able to elect
most any one they care to.
—The Empire State Republicans are
determined that ex-Vice President LEVI
P. MorTON shall be their candidate for
Governor, but there is a FASSETT in the
road that promises to draw heavily from |
Levr's bar’l before the campaign i8
over.
—The honorable Levi P. MorToxN is
boss PLATTS candidate for Governor in
New York, but ‘de boss” ain’t on very
good terms with the people as was proven
when CLEVELAND defeated his candi-
date some years ago by the overwhelm-
ing majority of 192,000.
— BRECKENRIDGE has been defeated
in the primaries and now there is no
chance for his returning to Congress.
After all his immorality he has given the
lie to those who charged him with being
devoid of all honor by his determination
to support the ticket and§ his successful
opponent.
—Wool was bought here last sum-
mer, under the glorious (?) McKINLEY
high tariff, fog 12 cts. per pound. The
WiLsox reform bill has been in effect
three weeks ani already the market
price of wool has jumped to 24 cts.
‘What thinkest thou of this, Rapublican
calamity howler ?
—The ease with which editor Kinsloe,
of the Bituminous Record, jumps from
the support of one candidate to another .
changes the name of his publication and
places the editorial control of it in dif-
ferent persons hands can readilyjbe ac-
counted for in the fact that light things
are easily unbalanced.
—1If, as the Bitumwnous Record would
have the miners believe, HASTINGS is
such a great friend of the coal workers,
why did his company, the Sterling, re-
fuse to pay its striking miners 45 cents
a ton and then attempt to hold its trade
by paying 50 cts, to Westmoreland op-
erators for their oug put?
—From the way WOMELSDORF, the
Republican nominee tor Legislature, was
standing around in the rain at the
Granger’s picnic, on Tuesday, lots of Re-
publicans even made up their minds
that he didn’t know enough ‘‘to get in
out of the wet.” Possibly PHIL. was
getting used tu the soaking he will get
in November.
—Li Hune CHANG, the great Chi-
nese viceroy, is being hauled over the
coals because his countrymen are
getting licked in Corea. The Emperor
blames the great L1 for it all and has
deprived him of his three eyed peacock
feather decoration. According to celes-
tial customs it is a question whether he
will even be a living Li1jfor long.
—The Philadelphia Public Ledger
has the courage to acknowledge that
its party has gerrymandered this
State's congressional districts in an
outrageous manner and advises the
election of McALeer to Congress from
Philadelphia, but that great journal
acknowledges its selfishness when it
proceeds further and states that Mec:
Auer could bave more done for the
city than a Republican. Will the
Ledger use its influence and demand a
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
v
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BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 21, 189
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NO. 37.
Perfect the Organization.
The heavy defeats which the Demo-
crats have sustained in Pennsylvania
in recent years have been largely due
to the stay-at-home disposition of the
Democrats on election day. There is a
normal Republican majority in the
State, and itis a pretty large sized
one, but when it mounts up toward
a hundred thousand its enlargement is
not due to an increase of the Republi-
can vote, but to a shrinkage of the
Democratic, on account of Democrats
not coming to the polls. The recent
election in Maine showed a similar ef-
fect of Democratic abstaining from vot-
ing. An apparently great Republican
victory was due to the fact that 30,000
Democrats abstained from voting while
but 10,000 Republicans staid at home.
The large Democratic absence from
the polls at Pennsylvania State elec-
tions, that has given the Republicans
their big majorities, has been largely
owing to defective organization, fac-
tional bickerings, and also to the dis-
couragement resulting from repeated
defeats. In the present contest there
is less reason for these causes to oper-
ate, and every effort should be made
to remove them entirely. The party
seems to be better organized, but the
organization should be perfected, which
can be done by good management, and
by active and vigilant leadership. Fac
tional differences appear to be allayed,
this being particularly the case in
Philadelphia where all the factions
have united in sapport of the State
ticket. These are circumstances which
put the party in better shape than it
has been in for some years past, and
when to this is added the fact that the
head of the ticket has in himself un-
usual elements of personal strength,
there is reason to expect a Democratic
attendance at the polls much larger
than usual. But the effort should be
t> bring out the entire votz, and to that
end the diligence of every county,
township, ward and precinct chairman
should be directed. Practically there is
more to be gained by this than by work
intended for the conversion of the
enemy.
OR ARE RT
Singerly and the Colored Voters.
The State Journal, a paper that is
the organ of the colored people of
Pennsylvania, gives reasons why they
should favorably regard WirLriam M.
SINGERLY as a candidate for Governor.
It says that he has a large personal ac-
quaintance among the colored people,
and that they owe him a debt of grat'-
tude for his many humane and chari-
table acts in their behalf, “which were
done when no return was looked for or
expected.”
It further says: “No colored church,
no colored worthy institution, when in
digress has ever appealed to Mr. SiN-
gerry and beea denied. Such kind-
nesses are likely to be remembered.
Not only has Mr. SINGERLY given free-
ly to worthy institutions, but it is
known that such has been his friend-
ship that many colored employees have
been upon his pay roll for years.”
The fact is that the charitable and
humane element that so largely pre-
dominatesin Mr. SINGERLY’s disposition
makes no distinction of color, extenl-
ing its benefits to black as well as to
white beneficiaries, No other than a
benevolent motive, a desire to help the
needy irrespective of race ani color, in-
duced him for years to underg> the
trouble of supplyinz the poor of Phila:
delphia with cheap coal, without a
cent of profit in return. This broadly
humane disposition on the part of Mr.
SINGERLY justifies the State Journal in
saying that it knows from reliable in-
formation that “the money expended
upon and donated to colored people by
him is considerably greater than his
personal living expens2s per annum.”
For this reason the organ of the col:
ored people of Pennsylvania says that
WiLniam M. Siveerry “will poll an
extremely large colored vote, not only
in Philadelphia, but throughout the
State,”
EA
——Do you know “Bob” FostER,
as the boys call him ? If yoa do there
is no doubt as to who you will vote for
for Representative at Harrisburg. He
is making frien 1s of all who meet him
and the majority that will be run up for
him, will open the eyes of sme of the
fair apportionment at the hands of its
party next year?
“lungs” who are talking of carrying
the county against the De:mocracy.
Its Only Significance.
There is but little significance in a
Vermont election. Republican preju-
dice has such complete control of a
large majority of the voters in that
State that it would be a misapplication
of the term to say that they are
governed by political convictions,
Their voting the Republican ticket 1s
a habit, the force of which even the
plainest evidence of the rottenness of
the old party and the viciousness of its
policy are unable to impair, furnishing
another example of the almost in-
superable nature of bad habits.
This year, it is true, there is a some-
what larger Republican majority in
Vermont than usual, but this is to be
accounted for by the fact that the
Democratic tariff has removed the
government bounty on maple sugar,
and in that way has disturbed and of-
fended “the communism of pelf”’ with
which the sugar producers of Ver-
mont were connected by the bonus
which the McKiNLey tariff provided
for their product. The Vermont farm-
er who produces a quantity of maple
sugar has no more right to a govern-
ment premium for it than a Pennsyl-
vania or Illinois farmer would have to
a similar bonus on his corn or pota-
toes, but in the distribution of the Me-
KiNLey favors which, in the mat-
ter of the sugar subsidy, cost
the American people about $15,000,000
a year. Senator EpMuNps succeeded
in gaotting the Vermont maple sugar
boilers included among the McKINLEY
beneficiaries along with the Louisiana
planters, and it is the removal of this
inequitable favor by the reform tariff
bill that has inzreased the Republican
majority in Vermont this year. If
there is any significance at all in the
Vermbnt election it is to be found in
this illustration of “(hz communism of
pelf.”
In this connection it is not out of
place to mention that the sugar plan-
ters of Louisiana held a convention in
New Orleans last week and declared in
favor of an alliance with the Republi-
can party on national issues, This ac-
tion is entirely natural on their part.
They want the subsidy, and they will
support the party that will satisfy
their greed.
—— Dor KivsLog turned a political
somersault last week and he and his
Bituminous Record are now backing
HasTING3, notwithstanding the fact
that the head of his paper still reads :
“an independent Democratic paper de-
| voted tothe best interests of the Demo-
cratic party.
CA ORCA SSAA
Wanting to Hold Back the Business
Boom,
The manufacturers of Philadelphia
are being interviewed by newspapers
of that city and but few of them fail to
acknowledge that their businees is im-
proving, with rare exceptions they ad-
mit that the depression has passed its
worst point, and brighter prospects are
ahead, even some of them who are
wedded to the McKiNLey policy and
have stubbornly persisted that a
Democratic tariff would ruin the
country, are forced to admit that the
outlook is favorable. One of them
gave it as his belief that work “would
rather increase than diminish as the
season advanced, but made the sig-
nificant remark that there would be
no great increase in business before the
middle of November.”
It is not difficult to interpret this re
mark. It wouldn't do to make busi-
ness too brisk before the election, as
most of the manufacturers are interest:
ed in Republican success. What
would become of the Republican State
campaign with the industries in active
operation ? What sort of a spectacle
would candidate HasTiNgs present go-
ing through the country with his set
speech about industrial ruin while the
mills were answering him with their
busy bum, and factories rendering
him ridiculous by the rattle of their
machinery ? It is therefore expedient
for Republican manufacturers to re-
strain the impetus of the coming boom
83 that there shall be “no great in-
crease in business before the middle of
November.” The election will then
be over, and the Republican party re-
lieved from the danzer of being hurt
by the restored prosperity of the
country. What a party it is that must
look to public misfortunz for its suc:
C288, °
Trylog to Nullify a Good Intention.
There are a good many Republicans
who are inclined to vote for WILLIAM
M. SiNGerRLY on account of his per-
gonal qualities. They regard him as
an excellent citizen, an enterprising
and liberal employer of labor, a chari-
table man, and a person who has done
much good in his association and rela-
tions with his fellow men, and laying
aside his political predilections, they
are disposed to support him on this ac-
count,
This tact ia knowa to the Republi
can leaders of the State and is giving
them considerable uneasiness. They
are therefore trying to counteract it by
representations that may nullify the
effect which the good personal quali-
ties of the Democratic candidate are
calculated to have on a large ciass of
Republican voters. With the object
of exciting party feeling against him
to a degree that may obliterate per-
sonal considerations, they represent
that he runs as the Democratic candi-
date for the governorship at the re-
quest of President CLevELAND. They
propose by this representation to draw
the party lines against him. Their
purpose is to create the impression
that CLEVELAND will get the benefit of
every Republican vote that may be
cast for SINGERLY.
That the President is pleased with
the nomination of Mr. SINGERLY there
can be no doubt, but it was the Democ-
racy of Pennsylvama ani not Mr.
CLEVELAND that nominated that gen
tleman for an office which he did not
seek, and for which he himszlf would
rather have had some one else nomina-
tad. While the political convictions
of the Democratic nominee for Gover-
nor coincide with those of President
CLEVELAND, he is the fitting represen-
tative of State issues which are in no
wise involyed in national politics.
There are abuses in the State govern-
ment that need correction, and no as
surance is wanting that as Governor,
Mr. SincErLY would make every effort
to correct them. This is something
t2 be taken into account that is of far
more importance in a Goveraor's elee-
tion than any consideration of national
politics, which the Republican leaders
would like to hang on to the State is-
sue for the purpose of scaring off well
meaning Republicans who propose to
vote for Mr. SiNgerLY. Their purpose
in representing that his nomination
was made at the instance of President
CLEVELAND is quite obvious,
The movement that furniched the
Democrats of Pennsylvania with a gu-
beroatorial candidate in this campaign
was a spontaneous inspiration which
entered the minds of the State Democ-
racy with no particular influence di-
recting it. It came from a general
conviction that in this emergency no
other nominee would be as suitable—
that in no other candidate could be
found so many elements of deserved
popularity, The WarcamaN claims
some credit for having been the first
public organ that proposed his name
in connection with the nomination,
and the Democratic convention of Cen-
tre county was foremost in endorsing
him as a gubernatorial candidate,
This was done before Mr. SINGERLY'S
name was publicly mentioned in con.
nection with the office, and it may be
believed that it was previous to any
knowledge that President CLEVELAND
may have had that a movement wae
on foot to make the editor of the Record
the Democratic candidate for Governor
on Pennsylvania. The President, of
course, cannot be otherwise than well:
gatisfied with the choice which the
Democrats of this State have made in
the nomination of their leading candi-
date. !
—— “Hard - working,” “good na-
tured,” Jia ScmorieLd are the cogno-
mens given to the senior Democratic
candidate for Legislature by those
who know him. The better you get
acquainted with him the more certain
you are that he is deserving of all the
good names and good words that can
be given him.
TMT
——TIt will cost you but little troub-
le now to arrange your taxes so that
you will have no fear of securing your
vote. [It will cost you long time re-
grets if you fail to attendto this and
| should lose the right to cast your bal-
' ot.
Hastings Don’t Know What He Is
Talking About,
From the New York Mercury.
General Hastings, the Republican
candidate for Governor of Penunsylva-
nia, knows some of the things he is
talking about, but not all. He is far
from the truth when he says that the
bank deposits in the banks of this city
are less than they were in 1892. They
are more than $75,000,000 greater than
they were in the fall of 1892, and they
exceed those of September, 1893, by
the enormous sum of $212,000,000.
What we want now is to get most of
this out of the banks aud into circula-
tion, and, under the beneficent influ-
ence of the revised tariff and the great-
er encouragement it offers to producers
to put forth their best efforts to build
up and extend our trade and com-
merce, that is just what we expect to
see done. There's plenty of money in
the banks, There would be less of it
there and more of it in general use and
in the pockets of the people but for the
disasters and panics that logically fol-
lowed in the wake of thirty years of
Republican misrule.
The Veterans Are Getting too Old to
March.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
The question of discontinuing the
procession and marching feature of the
Graed Encampment of the G. A. R,,
was mooted at Pittsburg, but we fail
to see that it was acted upon. We
think it should have been; and the
voice should have been unanimous in
favor of its discontinuance. A large
number of the men are too old, or too
feeble by wounds or disease, to tramp
through the streets for two or three
hours ; but they are ambitious to keep
beside the comrades with whom they
marched a third of a century ago. In
all such ceremonies, the fatigue should
be measured by the ability of the
weakest to bear it and not the strong-
est. A large percentage of the best
soldiers cannot stand these marches
and they should be discontinued.
The ranks are being thinned rapidly
enough without the G. A. R. pursuing
a course that will hasten it. No more
marching !
Democrats Should Be Proud of This,
|
| From the Pittsburg Post.
| The “Chronicle Telegraph” rejoices
over the Louisiana sugar growers going
lover to the Republican party. We
wish the Republican party joy of its re-
'cruits. They cost too much for the
| Democrats. The “C. T.” praises the
bolters, and says “itis fair dealing and
honest politics.” This is amazing. It
| was simply a matter of bargain and sale.
| McKinley gave the 587 licensed sugar
| growers of Louisiana last year out of the
| national treasury an average of $19,195,
| 66 for every blessed one of them, or al-
| together $11,114,289. This was a bribe
{ direct. The Democrats repealed the
bribe, and the bribed pack their bag
and baggage and go over to the Repub:
lican camp. And the “Telegraph”
calls that—heaven save the mark—
“honest politics.” It was an encour-
agement to every socialist crank in the
Union. If this immense sum of money
should be diverted to a particular inter-
est, why should not others have a
share? Is not Coxey entitled to a
slice ?
FS EIS
Hastings Reception In Lock Haven a
Disappointment to His Managers.
The much talked of campaign tour
of Hastings and his lieutenants began
on Monday morning with the trip from
this place to Emporium where they
were booked for a meeting that night.
The party stopped at Lock Haven en
route and remained there six hours or
more, in the hope of taking some ad-
vantage of the supposed Democratic
dissatisfaction, but with all the riding
around the streets that could be done
ers couldn’t stir up more than twenty-
five people.
The following communication from
Lock Haven will give you an idea of
how flat the affair was :
DemocrATIC WATCHMAN : — Your “Dan” ar-
rived this a. m. as advertised, accompanied
by his colleagues on the Republican State
ticket H. Hall, Ed. Ball, W. C. Kress and
Senator Bill Reed met them at the depot upon
the arrival of the 10.20 train from your city:
Two hacks were procured and they were
driven to Alderman Harris’ office, wherein
was Samuel Christ, App. Wilson, Graf. Harris,
Judge C. A. Mayer, and constable Bob Martin.
Alderman Harris being absent on a most im-
portant road view out in “Whipporwill.,” Up-
on the arrival of the aggregation at this point,
red’ headed constablz Dad Myers, of the first
ward, thrust his ham like hand at Dan and
seemed to be particularly pleased. Consta
ble Bob Martin of the second ward, who was
locking out of the office window, was con:
siderably chagrined at this act of the first
ward constable in getting ahead of him. but
Judge Mayer notified Bob by saying that he
would request Dan to give him five dollars.
At this juncture W. C. Kress gave his seat in
the hack wherein Dan was seated to his
Honor, C. A. Mayer, who added dignity to the
party, while on their visit to the Central State
Normal school and return to the Fallon house.
The whole proceedings were a very tame af
fair. Not at any one time were there twenty-
five spectators assembled. [It was something
like Mike Stout’s frolic there was no one
there and Mike was not there himself.
WW. L.A.
—=Do you read the WATCHMAN,
with propriety the Republican boom-
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Presbyterians at Warren are building
a $60,000 church.
—A break has been discovered in Lan.
caster’s mew reservoir.
—The Mahanoy Valley Fair opened on
Wednesday at Lavelle.
—Jonas Smoker, 6) years old, was killed
by a train near Gordonville.
—Luzerne County Jail is so overcrowd-
ed that three prisoners sleep in a cell. -
—Shenandoah had an industrial holiday
and business men’s parade on Thurs-
day.
—The Eagle valley tanneryat Ridgway
js working full force and crowding
hard.
—A Chester trolley car seriously injur.
ed baby Mary Doran, of No. 321 Franklin
street.
—The engine for the power house of the
Lock Haven electric street railway has
arrived.
—James Patton, aged 55 years, commit-
ted suicide at his home, at Gelberton,
Monday.
—Fish dams and nets in the Susquehan «
na River were torn out by Deputy
Sheriffs Monday.
—John P. Roberts, whose home is No.
9221 Pine street, Philadelphia, was killed
by a train at Pittsburg.
—A postoffice has been established at
Pentz, Clearfield county, with Donald
McDonald as postmaster.
—A draught of carbolic acid, taken in
mistake for gin, killed Thomas B. Young,
a Wellsboro restaurant keeper.
—An explosion in the West End Rolling
Mills, Lebanon, demolished a puddle fur-
nace and seriously injured Patrick Mur.
ray.
—Mrs. Esther McClain, of Saltillo,
Huntingdon county, widow of Samuel
McClain, died of paralysis a few days
ago. .
—Jefferson County farmers have abol-
ished horse racing at their annual fair
and will substitute manceuvers of trained
oxen,
—The September term of the Criminal
Court convened at Easton Monday with
a list of 144 cases, the largest in many
years.
—Governor Pattison has respited
George Dukocic from September 20 to
November 20. His mental condition will
be inquired into.
—The Ripans Chemical company of
Wilmington, Del, will erect a dynamite
magazine near Mapleton, to be used as a
distributing depot.
—Hon. John Davis, one of Lewistown’s
most respected citizens, died at his home
in that place after a brief illness on Mon.
day, aged 77 years.
—The Greensburg school board has de-
termined to enforce the law upon all per-
sons selling c.garettes to school boys un-
der 16 years or age.
—Mrs. and Mrs. S. ©. Brown, of Hunt-
ingdon, and their children celebrated the
fortieth anniversary of their marriage
one day last week.
—Tue family of Percival Hallman’
Zionville, is scourged with diphtheria.
Three cuildren have diedin three days,
any five more are sick.
rue Knights Templar Commandery
of Pittsburg has started an active move-
melt to have tue triennial encampment
of 1888 held in that city.
—Burglars dynamited the safe in Lun.
dy’s jewelry store, at Slabtown, Lycom «
ing County, and stoie several hundred
dollars’ worth ot watches.
—Charged with breaking into freight
cars, John Robert Corly, John Hennegan,
Hugh Hennessy, Wilbert Corly and John
C. Hopkins were arrested at Nanticoke.
—The freight car builders in the rail-
road shops at Renovo were ordered on thir
teen hours per day on account of the
great demand for cars for the road.
— Tired of life and wishing his wife
to get $20 insurance on his life, Hagh W.
McMurray, & Grand Army man of Find"
lay, O.. shot himself fatally at Pitts
burg.
—A meeting of the York Christain En.
deavor Society was held Sunday to dis.
cuss plans for entertaining the State
Convention of Endeavors to meet there
on October 17.
~—Not being able to get out of the
Smoky City after the Grand Army En-*
campment was over George Conway, of
North Conway, N. H, cut his throat Sun-
day and may not recover.
Miss Annie M. Marbourg, of Johns
town, who was found in her room last
Wednesday morning unconscious from
the effects of gas, never regained con -
sciousness and died on Saturday.
—The application for outdoor relief in
Blair county has been s0 numerous that
it has become necessary for the directors
of the poor of that county to make a per.
sonal examination into the condition of
the applicants.
—A compilation among the farmers of
Sinking valley made this week shows that
of the 124 cattle originally put out to pas.
ture on the Coleman Fox reservation, on
ly 43 are known to be living, the other 81
having died from anthrax.
—John E. Frieze, father of the family
stricken with small pox in Carroll towns
ship, Perry county, died from that dread
disease on Saturday morning and was
buried as soon as possible in a field near
by the house, but difficulty was experi.
enced in procuring help to inter thebody.
Four of the members of the family are
down with the disease.
—Several horses have been stolen in the
vicinity of Blairsville recently, and of-
ficers have been making diligent search
for the thieves. One of them has been
run to earth. Calvin Crissman, resi.
dence nowhere, was arrested at Harri.
son City Saturday forenoon and taken to
Greensburg, where he was lodged in
jail.
—At the session of the Huntsngdon
county court last week, Judge Furst di-
rected the jury to make a special investi.
gation of the charges against the sheriff,
The jury examined a large number of wit-
nesses and came to the conclusion that the
numerous escapes of prisoners are due to
the insufficient condition of the jail and
to the neglect of the sheriff to employ a
turnkey. As to the charges of drunken-
ness and of promiscuous intercourse be-
tween prisoners of poth sexes, and of in-
sufficient food, the grand jury finds them
who'ly unsustained by the evidence,