BY RP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
In fashions the women copy we wen,
Still such fads will never be rousers—
Unless, perchance, when in London it rains,
They ape—as we turn up our trousers.
-—Talk of foot-ball elevens as you
will, the strongest line up is always at
the bar.
—Poor Dav, the farther away from
home he gets, the farther away from the
the truth his harangues become.
—-The Japs having invaded China
there is nothing left for the subjects of
Emperor to do but show their tails.
—After the election it is altogether
likely that we will see LEvi P., some-
where on the HILL, but he won't be
near the top.
—LEvr P., received official notifica-
tion from the bung-starters of New
York, on Wednesday, that they were
ready to tap his bar’l.
—Remember that tomorrow will be
the last day on which you can pay your
taxes. Don’t forget to look after this
important necessity if you want to vote.
—There is no reason in the world
why every Democrat should not vote
for the full ticket. It is made up of ex-
cellent men, from the highest to the
lowest aspirants.
--The CorBETT-FITZSIMMONS contro-
versy promises to change the wearer of
the pugilistic championship diamond
belt. In the event of a fight for it we
have dollars to coppers that it will miss
Frrz anyway.
—A war between England and
France it talked of on account of the
latter’s aspect with regard to Madagas-
car. If they should really get into a
first class scrap it would make busi-
ness boom in this country.
—Don’t let it slip your memory. Try
to see to it at once if you have not al-
ready done so. To-morrow is the last
day on which you can pay yonr taxes.
If you have not paid any within two
years you certainly can’t vote. Don’t
lose your vote on account of a few cents |
tax.
—The LExow committee, that has
been shaking up the New York police
force, has brought the charge of un-
called for merciless clubbing of citizens
against many of the officers of Gotham.
It does not seam strange that the police
after being whipped into line for every
election, should want to even up on
some one.
—The Democratic legislation against
trusts has showed its effects in a pleas-
ing way at Lancaster, where the large
umbrella factory is advertising for sev-
eral hundred more operatives. The
umbrella trust went up and now the
outside factories are running full hand-
ed getting ready to help keep the Re-
publicans out of the wet in November,
—General HASTINGS has made a
grievous mistake in his wonderful (?)
campaign tour. He ordered his speech
too soon. Had he waited until, say a
week before he was ready to start off be-
fore ordering it there would not have
been so much of the nonsensical calami-
ty bowl in it, no doubt. But then there
would have been a danger of DAN'S
not being able to learn a speech in so
short a time.
—When the Gazette says that Mr.
BowEgR treated Mr. AILMAN in any
other than a gentlemanly way daring
the recent granger’s picnic, it lies. It
was Mr ATLMAN, not Mr. Bower, who
offended, and to convince the people of
this fact we need only state that two
ladies of the grange, who were present,
resented Mr. AILMAN’S imputation that
a farmer’s wife is his only burden, by
upholding the women in convincing
speeches. The Gazette must not start
off lying under its new management,
the people expact better things from it
now.
—HASTINGS is a pretty fellow to be
using such words as these: ¢This is
the time for the best endeavor of pa-
triotism. If it shall grasp the great op-
portunity now presented the Rapubh-
can party will redeem the land from
that unscrupulous quality of demagogy
which seeks to array class against class,
capital against labor, and section
against section.” Whose party is it,
DANIEL, that waves its protection for
the laboring classes with ona hand,
while it tries to stop the legitimate busi-
that mocks its calamity howl, with the
other ? Whose party is it that supports
DAvENPORTISM, the Force bill, robber
tariffs and waves the bloody shirt on
every opportunity ? Whose party was
it that, in®a single year of operation of
its pet McKINLEY measure, caused more
failures and strikes than had been
known in any previous score of years ?
Whose party was it that cleaned the
federal treasury of the $153,000,000
surplus lefo there in 1888 by the Demo-
crats 7. ‘Whose party was it that dis-
honored the pension rolls and reduced
the honored veterans to a level with
bounty, jumpers and coffee coolers?
Answer these questions, if you dare!
Answer them if you relish giving your-
self the lie.
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VOL. 39.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 5, 1894.
NO. 39.
Business Distress as a Political Factor.
The Republican party pressnts the
rather repulsive aspect of a party
whose chance of success depends upon
the continued distress of the country.
Ruin and calamity are required to
bring victory to its banners, and its
speakers and newspapers are doing their
utmost to prolong the depressed con-
ditions that are needed to help it at the
polls. This is not a very pretty pic:
ture to be presented to the people who
believe that the prosperity of the
country should not be subordinated to
the success of any political party.
Already, since the passage of the
new tariff bill, do we see on every
hand the indications of a business re-
vival. Mills and factories have either
resumed operations, or are preparing
for a resumption of their former activi-
ty. Business on the railroads is visi:
bly increasing, showing that trade is
again employing the channels of trans
portation. Every department of in-
dustry is beginning to feel the thrill of
new impulses after a long period of de-
pression. Working people are becom:
ing encouraged by the prospect of
steady employment for their labor,
and the shopping women and general
customers at the stores experience the
first beneficial effects of the new tariff
in finding the prices of goods marked
down to conform to the lower cost of
necessaries and the cheaper living
promised and secured by a Democratic
tariff.
In the midst of the encouraging
prospect and assurance of better times,
when the people are thrilling with new
hope and are rejoicing that the busi-
the Republican politicians appesr up-
on the scene, demanding that the re-
vival shall be suspended in order that
they may have another calamity
whack at the voters. They want to
keep up a disturbance for the purpose
ot preveating the country from feeling
the beneficial effects of the new tariff
before the next election. It is a delib-
trees.
will meet with the condemnation of
class of well meaning voters want the
new tariff to have a fair trial. They
know that it must stand for some years
and they see that no good can result
from this howl against it before it has
been given time to show its effects,
They know that nothing that can be
done at the coming election can effect
that tariff and have seuss enough to
understand that all this clatter is in-
tended to secure a temporary political
advantage for the Republican party.
ETT
Reducing Wages for Political Effect.
Doran & Co., an intensely Republi-
can manufacturing firm of Philadel-
phia, lay themselves open to the sus-
picion that they have a political object
in reducing the wages of their work-
men at this time. There is no reason
for such a reduction except to give the
appearance of reality to the Republi-
can calamity howl about the Demo-
cratic tariff being injurious to wage-
earners, and thereby to contribute to
the success of the Republican cam-
paign. The firm is evgaged in the
manufacture of woolens, which, if they
are afflicted by the reduction of tariff
duty, are more than compensated by
free’ raw materiale. Therefore the
only reason they can have for re-
ducing wages is a political one.
There was much significance in the
remark of a Philadelphia manufactur-
er who, upon being interrogated some
weeks ago about the business pros-
pects, said that an improvement could
not be expected beforefthe middle of
November. Manufacturers interested
in McKinLeyisy will be careful not to
help the Democrats by allowing busi-
ness to become too lively before the
election, and if they can help the Re-
publican cause by restraining their
operations, or cutting the wages of
their workmen, for the political effect
it may have, it may be expected that
they will do it.
If Hastings would explain to
the miners of the State his real reason
for gattinz out of the coal business—
until after the campaign only—their
eyes would open wider thin they've
ever done before,
ness depression is about to be relieved,
erate attempt to gain a political advan” |
tage by a prolongation of business dis- |
Such a desiga is really criminal and |
all right thinking people. The larger |
Hill’s Cyclonic Nomination.
The nomination of Senator HiLw for
Governor by the Democratic conven:
tion of New York was the most inspir-
ing occurrence in American politics.
It was an inspiration springing from
intense Democratic feeling. The
nomination had been offered to a num-
ber of prominent Democrats, who for
personal or other reasons declined to
assume the momentous duty. While
this was in suspense there wae a pent
up feeling in the convention that was
waiting for an outburst. Itcame like
a cyclone when a delegate pronounced
the name of Davip B. Hin as the
leader into whose hands should be
placed the Democratic banner in the
pending contest.
The scene that followed was the
most dramatic, the most impressive
and the most significant that was ever
witnessed in a nominating convention.
The man, who was using his utmost
endeavors to get some other unexcep-
tionable Democrat to take the nomi-
nation, was made the nominee for Gov-
ernor by a perfect avalanche of unani-
mous approval.
This can mean nothing else than
Democratic victory in New York.
When Democrats of every shade of
opinion and of every faction in that
State—when those who disapproved of
Senator HiLr's course on the tariff
bill and those who approved of it—
when *soappers” and anti-snappers,
CLeveELAND men and anti-CLIVELAND
men, TaMMANYITES and anti-TAMMANY-
TEs unite, for the sake of Democratic
success, in accepting the nomination
of HiLL as “the best thing that the
convention could have possibly done,”
success is assured.
When to this circumstance is added
the facts that New York is a sure
Democratic State whea the party is
united and aroused, and that Davip
B. HiLw is the best organizer in the
State, there is the next thing to posi-
tive assurance that the Democracy
will wipe up the soil ot New York
with Boss PrLat1’s monopoly party and
I his millionaire candidate.
Auspicious Harmony.
When President CLEVELAND tele
graphs his approval of Senator HiLL’s
| nomination for Governor of New York,
| saying that the convention had done
| the best thing possible, the incident
| furnishes a spectacle of harmony that
| presages Democratic success. The
| President and the Senator have not
I pulled together for a long while, but
both of them now recognize the neces-
| sity for united action to ensure the
triumph of Democratic principles.
This feeling has taken hold of the
entire Democratic party. The enthu-
giasm with which all the recently con-
flicting divisions of the New York
Democracy have come together for the
support of HILL for Governor, is one
of the most inspiring occurrences in
the history of the Democratic party,
and the example it sets will have a
wonderful effect in harmomzing the
Pennsylvania Democracy and stimula-
ting their efforts for their State and con-
gressional tickets.
— The York Gazette has flaunted
the red flag in the face of the Blue law
christians of that town and is now a
daily paper—Sunday not excepted.
This departure was made several weeks
ago and is adding to the marked suc-
cess of the Gazette. It is fortunate in
starting off with a fight with the clergy
on its hands, for no better advertise:
ment could have been wantad., The
Gazette bas always been a clean cut
paper and we trust ‘the residents of
York and vicinity appreciate it as it
deserves to be.
-—Plain, everyday, honest AARON
WirLiams is getting around through
this congressional district and making
a most favorable impression. When
people meet him they are pleased with
his frank, open maoner. There are no
skeletons in his closet to be concealed.
His past life is open and he.does not
fear that the people will be shocked at
knowing his history.
——Bos Foster, the Democratic
candidate for the Legislature, is gain-
ing ground every day. The more he
gets around among the people the
more friends he makes. He a
young man whose excellent business
qualifications at once recommend him
to the intelligent voter a3 just the man
for the place.
18
The Senatorial Trouble.
It seems that CaLpweLn, the man
whom Clinton county has set up for the
district’s candidate for State Senator,
on the Democratic ticket, is determin-
ed to make trouble. He has filed ob-
Jections to SAVAGE's nomination at the
State department, in Harrisburg, on
the ground that it was not made under
the rules of the party and consequently
is null and void. At all events Mr.
SAVAGE received the unanimous vdie of
two counties, a clear majority, and if a
majority does not have the right to
rule how then are we to have any es-
tablished method of procedure. In the
face of the fact that the nomination
was made not only by a majority of
the counties, but by a majority of the
votes of the entire district Mr. CaLD-
WELL shows himself not much of a
Democrat in this attempt to over-ride
their will and foist himself on the people
of the district as their candidate.
Now that he has assumed a position
of antagonism to the regular nominee
he takes to himself the power to make
offers of an adjustment of a trouble,
which has no right to exist. He wants
to appoint the chairman of Clinton
county, have Mr. SavaGe appoint a
man and then let those two appoint a
third, all of whom shall act as arbitra-
tors to decide whether Savage or CALp-
WELL is the nominee. Such an as-
sumption falls little short of impu-
dence, Mr, CaLpwELL has no stand:
ing, whatever, if the fundamental
principle of government of all parlia-
mentary bodies, that majority rules,
has any weight in the 34th district.
He went into convention with the
conferees of Clearfield and Centre and
helped crganize it without taking an
exception to its make up. What did
he do this for, if it was irregular ? He
acknowledges himself a party to what he
terms an irregular proceeding and then
presumes to say that he is the regalar
nominee of the party. His offer to
arbitrate is asridiculous as his attempt
to make ‘himself the nominee of the
district.
Judge McPueErsoN has set next
Monday as the day on which he will
hear the arguments on the objections.
The Shopping Women,
When the Republicans were over:
taken by defeat after the passage of
the McKinLEY bill Toy REED said the
shopping women did 1t. They found
the price of household necessaries in-
creased by the McKincLEy tariff, and
what they had to say about it of
course had its effect.
The feelings of the shopping women
are again becoming excited on the
subject of prices, but not in the same
way as in the McKINLEY case. They
are ofa more pleasurable character.
The shoppers find that under the new
tariff the prices of goods are going
down. Ifthey ventsd their displeas-
ure upon those who by an increase of
tariff duties increased the cost of their
shopping, they will just as surely com-
mend the change in the tariff that has
already reduced, and will still further
reduce their household expenses. The
shopping women are again going to
have a hand in the result of the elec-
tion and it will again be to the disad-
vantage of the high tariff party. Tox
REED can be sure of that.
——CaLviN M. Bower is the candi-
date for president judge of the 49th
district, who should receive the support
of every man who wants to see the
judiciary raised above the filth and
muck ot political intrigue. The kind
of a campaign Love's people resorted
to to defeat Furst, at the primaries,
should be a warning not to vote for a
man who would countenance such a
degradation of the exalted office of
judge.
——The Lock Haven Democrat is
harping away about the unfairness in
the 34th Senatorial district nomina-
tion in one breath, and in another
says : “one working Democrat for the
ticket is worth more than 100 kick-
ers.” It is evident that the Demo crat
don’t think much of CALDWELL and
his followers, or possibly it don't think
much of what it says.
——Look up ScuorFIELD'S record as &
member of the House of Representives
and then see if there is any reason why
every Democrat should not vote to re-
turn him to Harrisburg for another
term.
The Petti-Coats In the Campaign,
From the York Gazette.
No one can have forgotten that it
was asserted in 1890, when the Demo-
crats won their tremendous victory on
the issue of the McKinley bill, that
the women had done it, and it is no
doubt a fact that they were very po-
tential in bringing about the result
that year.
The McKinley bill raised prices for
them and they felt it when they went
shopping ; and just how they ‘exerted
their influence is a matter of no conse-
quence as it is perfectly evident that
the McKinley bill was condemned
chiefly because it did compel the con-
sumers (0 pay more for what they
bought.
Will not the women be a factor in
this campaign ?
The pew tariff law has already af-
fected prices to lower them and espec-
ially the prices of those things which
women buy, and it will be only natur-
al to expect that if the raising of
prices insured the enmity of the wo-
men of the land toward the McKinley
bill, the lowering of prices should win
their friendship, for the Wilson bill.
This is not a visionary idea. The
only way in which a voter can tell the
effect of the tariff is through his pock-
et book ; and if the voters find more
work and steady work under the new
order of things and if their wives tell
them that they can purchase what
they need for less money than before,
there can be little doubt how they will
vote when they go to the polls in Nov-
ember.
ET STIR
They Should Have Followed Judge
Mayer’s Precedent.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Which one of the three Judges of
the Schuylkill county courts naturaliz-
ed the forty aliens on Saturday last,
who immediately went from the court
to the political headquarters of the
party that had effected their naturali-
zation and started a riot in which a
number of officers and rioters were
seriously injured ?
The laws of Pennsylvania defining
the duties of Judges in naturalizing
aliens are clear and explicit. They do
not in aoy degree conflict with the
fundamental laws of the nation on the
subject, and it goes without saying that
had the Schuylkill court exercised the
degree of care that the law contem-
plates in creating citizenship, this
horde of ignorant, brutal aliens would
have failed in the effort to become citi-
Zens,
It is not the fault of the law but it is
the fault of the courts that our State is
now disgraced by tens of thousands of
brutal aliens who are strangers to our
laws, without sympathy with our in-
stitutions and ignorant of every prin-
ciple of popular government and obedi-
ence to social order, and it is high time
ta call a halt upon such abuse in con-
ferring the highest privilege that can
be given to a person in any county.
Dan Is Getting Away from the Truth.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
A big crowd assembled in the court
house Monday evening to see and hear
the much talked of General Hastings.
A big crowd went away very much dis-
appointed. The general is not an ora-
tor, he is not even a well informed
speaker. His remarks bristled with
errors of fact which must have been
apparent to many of his audience, as
when he said that Senator Hill voted
for the tariff bill while Senator Brice
voted against it. He ought to have
known, as most of his hearers knew,
that Senator Hill's vote was the only
Democratic vote recorded against the
measure and that Senator Brice voted
for it.
Down on His Feet Again.
From the Pittsburg Pest.
We are glad to hear from the Phila-
delphia Zimes that “Colonel Singerly is
serene again’’ after his recent bad break.
It thinks that within a couple of weeks
tthe Democracy of Philadelphia may
be following his lead with enthusiasm,
and poll the largest vote they have cast
for years.” Itis to be hoped so. To
err is human, but to persist in error is
nonsense. Field Marshal Singerly, on
his magnificent war horse, in full feath-
er, wielding his glittering blade against
the common enemy, recalls the bridge
of Arcola. That is much more inspir-
ing than the first Bull Run. ’'Rah for
Singerly.
What a Great Difference There Xs.
From the Pittsburg Post.
McKinley howling calamity at Galli-
polis, O., on the same day Chairman
Wilson was telling the London cham-
ber of commerce that the new tariff
bill was essentially an American bill
and would advance American inter-
ests, and warning the Britishers they
would hereafter have to compete with
the United States for the commerce of
the world as well as the ocean-carrying
trade, marked the difference between
the charlatan and the statesman.
LC CRA
Let Bad Enough Alone, Sez You.
From the Altoona Tribune.
The statement is made, but hardly
seriously, that Congressman John B.
Robinson, of Delaware county, is prob- |
ably the fittest person to contest the
genatorial nomination with Senator
Cameron. That would be the heighth
of absurdity.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—A train at Ashland beheaded an un.
Known man.
—Max Shundy lost both legs on the rail.’
road at Shamokin,
—There were 3000 entries for the Berks
County Fair, which opened Tuesday.
—A thief drove off with William Wit-
man’s horse and buggy at Nazareth.
—Levi Gaengina was found dead in the
road near Gibraltar, Berks County.
—Captain R. H. Savage was thrown from
a carriage at Reading and dangerously
hurt.
—By a fall of rock in a Mahanoy City
colliery, Patrick Dwyer was crushed to
death.
—dJoseph Tritt was so terribly crushed
in the Homestead steel mill that he can"
not recover.
—The citizens of Shenandoah are agita-
ting the project of erecting a soldier's
monument.
—An incinerating furnace for garbage
is being considered by Steelton’s health
authorities.
— Alfred Getz, anegro, is in Lancaster
jail for outraging Mary Steffy, an 80-year-
old woman.
—A train struck the team driven by
Casper Hildebrandt at Lancaster injuring
him seriously.
—In playing at Pottsgrove, Montgom-
ery County, little Harry Stetler knocked
out one of his eyes.
—The annual State convention of the
Directors of the Poor will be held at
York on October 10.
—Three locomotive engineers were fined
$10 each at Braddock for blowing whistles
within borough limits. :
—John McCoolick, who killed a child at
Mill creek, Luzerne County, goes to the
penitentiary for 18 years.
—Ninety employes of the National Bolt
and Nut Works, Reading struck Monday
against a reduction of wages.
—Sixty-two insane patients from the
Norristown Asylum were Monday taken
to Wernersville Asylum Monday.
—Wages of Schuylkill district miners
for the present month were Monday in-
creased 1 per cent over last month.
Footpads knocked down J. P. Smith al
Lebanon barber, but he fired his revolver
and they fled without robbing him.
—A wagon containing a ton and a half of
ice ran over little Jennie S. Landis’ body
at York, and she was but little hurt.
—While gunning for rabbits at Sha.
mokin, Thomas Wilkinson was shot dead
by the accidental discharge of his gun.
—A horse she was riding at Media stum-
bled and fell upon Helen Lewis, daughter
of J. H. Lewis, Jr., injuring her serious-
ly.
—A swindler gave bogus checks on the
Camden (N. J.) National Bank to Lehigh
County farmers for 60 bushels of pota-
toes. '
—Survivors of Duvell's battery held a
reunion Saturday at Allentown, and elect-
ed 0. D. Griffens, of that place presi-
dent.
—Mayor Alexander Richardson, of New
Castle, has been sued by Louis Tordelli
for the recovery of $150 alleged to be due
the latter.
—Seven families at Ellwood have been
poisoned withina week by eating toad-
stools for mushrooms, but the! victims al
recovered.
—Miss Norah Wilton, assistant post.
master at Argenta, Ill, has been arrested
for intercepting letters before delivery to
addresses.
—A sufficient number of hands could not
be procured at Manheim to operate the
Brever Shirt Factory, and it was remov-
ed to Lebanon.
—The National Convention of the non-
partisan Women’s Christian Temperance
Union will be held at Washington, begin”
ning November 13.
Thieves stole several hundred dollars’
worth of soap from Dr. B. W. Stauffer’s
drug store at Lebanon, but afterward
abandoned their plunder.
—J.H, Myershas been appointed post-
master at Tanoma, vice 8. H. Koontz,
dead ; and C. R. Cunningham, Torpedo,
vice H. E. McConnell, removed.
—Western Pennsylvania iron men say
that the Mahoning Valley, Ohio, and not
Allegheny County is now the chief iron
producing community in the country.
—While the family of Ben. Olson, of Du-
Bois, were watching the circus parade in
that place Thursday a thief stole $250 in
cash and notes from that gentleman’s
house.
—Pennsylvania traveling salesmen have
been informed that Chauncey M. Depew
will deliver the address at the laying of
the corner-stone of the Commercial Trav «
elers’ Home, Binghamton, N. Y. on Octo-
ber 9.
— William Shinefelt died at his home in
Allegheny township, Blair county, on
Wednesday of last week e.ged 63 years. In
early life he was a boatman on the Penn-
sylvania canal, and almshouse steward
from 1871 until 1876. :
—A boy named Learich, of Woodland
stole $150 from the trunk of his uncle, and
taking a companion named Duran with
him, went to DuBois where they spent
over #100 before they were detected by
friends of the parnnts.
—Burglars entered the postoflice at
Jersey Shore on Wednesday evening of
last week blew open the outside door, but
failed to get through the inner door.
They secured $10 in change from the
money drawer and fled.
—J. C. Dorman found a stone tomahawk
head on one of the old Dorman farms in
Miffiin county, that it is well shaped and
beveled very accurately to a blade edge,
rounding at the top. ILis composed of &
flint or creek stone and is very smooth
and weighty. :
—A Somerset county administrator
made the following endorsement on the
back of a doctor's bill: ‘This claim is
not verified by affidavit asthe statutes re-
quire, but the death ofthe deceased is
satisfactory evidence to my mind that the
doctor'did the work.”
—Two men escaped from the Hunting:
don reformatory Thursday afternoon
last. Both were five feet saven inches
tall, medium build. ‘Both had gray uni-
forms and caps and heavy shoes. $25 re-
ward for each of them. Arrest and tele-
graph, T. B. Patton, general superintend-
ent.