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—FostER and SCHOFIELD expect
every Democratic vote next Tuesday
and they should get them too.
—HasTINGS’ calamity wailer’s and
CoxEY’s common wealers are bands do-
ing about the same business in the same
way.
_SINGERLY’S campaign tour has
proven beyond the peradventure of a
doubt that the people are sick and tired
of the calamity wailers.
—The times are better. Damocrats
you have saved the country. Republi-
cans howl calamity no longer and they
thus acknowledge an improved business
condition. Vote your ticket straight,
Democrats.
—Judge RILEY has already served a
term on the bench and his record dur-
ing that time has been such that every
one can approve it. His course has al-
ways been fair and impartial. Vote for
Tuos. F. RiLey, of Harris township,
for Associate Judge.
—Tt behooves Centre county to roll
up a big vote for THOMAS COLLINS.
This can be done by getting out the full
vote. See that everyone is at the polls
before they close and you will have paid
our candidate for Congressman-at-large
a pretty compliment.
—The story told in last week’s Ga.
zette about the way AARON WILLIAM'S
crawled out of a Court House window to
escape the miners subscription paper is
absolutely untrue. Mr. WILLAAM'S is
not that kind of a man. He has always
been charitable and we venture the as-
sertion, without fear of contradiction,
that to-day he is helping more people
financially than any man of the same
means in this Congressional district.
—The Chinese Empire is in imminent
danger of final dissolution. Since the
war with Japan begun the Chinese
have not won a single triumph, the in-
vading Japs being practically unhinder-
ed in their course as conquerors. Their
ultimate destination is Pekin and evary
thing now points to the conclusion
that they will reach and capture the
city in the event of which China must
fall.
—MATT SAVAGE should receive the
solid Democratic vote for State Senator.
He is the regular party nominee, but
through the chicanery of a Republican
court and a political renegade he has
been crowded out of his regular place on
the ticket. Vote for him in the column
headed “Citizens.” A cross mark-
ed at the top of the Democratic
column and one marked at the top of
the column in which his name appears
will vote the entire ticket.
—Don’t believe Republican cock and
bull stories that certain Democrats are
going to trade your friends off to make
sure of the election of particular friends
of theirs. Such stories are being circu-
lated with the hope of demoralizing the
Democratic organization in the county.
Every Democrat who is a Democrat
will vote a straight ticket this Fall. Our
candidates are better men, every one of
them, than their opponents and will all
be elected. There will be no cutting.
— When such Republicans as Hon.
TroMAs V. COOPER, who has been in
the State Senate, been Collector of the
Port of Philadelphia and State Chair-
man of the Republican party, lead a
movement against the re-election of a
Republican Judge in Delaware county
are there not some, who are men enough
to come out and state that Love is not
fit to be elected in this district. In
Delaware the Republicans realiza that
the judiciary should be beyond reproach
and we are sorry there are not some in
this county who have the courage of
their convictions.
—WOMELSDORFF, must have a fine
conception of what constitutes a work-
ingman’s friend. He has been running
over the county asking for votes because
he is the friend of labor. If this be so
it certainly isn’t Centre county labor
that he befriends, for it was his vote that
knocked a Centre county brick works
out of sharing in the contract to furnish
brick for paving the streets of Philips-
burg. The Centre county made bricks
had stood the test of the inspectors, but
WoMELSDORFF thought they were'nt
pretty enough so he voted to give the
whole order to out-siders. This is the
way he befriends Centre county labor.
—TIt took a whole column in the
Philadelphia Press on Sunday to prove
that in the Quaker city bread 1s sold
cheaper than in any other place in the
United States. This same Press, in the
same issue, berates the Democrats for
cutting down wages and not making
corresponding reductions in the necessa-
ries, If bread is not a necessary then
man has nothing that is absolutely
necessary for his subsistence. The Dem-
ocrats have not been the cause of a
cents reduction in wages anywhere and
we defy contradiction for this state-
ment, so with the Press’ confession that
bread is cheaper ir. Pailalalphia than it
has ever been it gives itself the lie as to
the harmfuloess of Democratic suprem-
acy.
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BELLEFONTE, PA. NOV. 2, 1894.
NO. 43.
Why Every Democrat Should Vote.
For a party that boasts that it is go-
ing to carry the State by a majority of
hundreds of thousands its arrange:
ment for the perpetration of stupend ous
frauds in Philadelphia has the appear-
ance of superfluous rascality. It might
bear the construction of being unnec-
essary corruption if it was not becom-
ing evident that the party managers
are not as sure of a colossal majority
as they pretend to be. The revival of
business is an embarrassment to their
campaign spell-biaders. It is a source
of uneasiness to the leaders. They
would be happier if there was more
business distress. They would be more
confident of their majority if the peo-
ple were less confident of better times.
Things have taken a turn that may
make the size of the majority depend
on the amount of fraud that may be
perpetrated.
While there has been general pad-
ding ot the registry lists in Philadel
phia, it is found that the largest num-
ber of fraudulent names are on the as-
gessors lists in the Third Congressional
district, where the Republican purpose
is to defeat the candidate in the only
Democratic district in the city by an
avalanche of illegal votes. Every avail-
able tramp, bummer, repeater and
rounder is to be called into service for
the vindication of McKINLEYISM by
carrying that district it it can be doue
by such foul means. They will also
count in swelling the majority for the
Republican State ticket, which the
leaders are beginning to see is not go-
ing to come up to their claim.
Ot course much of the intended
fraud in Philadelphia will be discount-
ed by Democratic vigilance and deter-
mination in that city, but the most
effectual way to counteractit in the
general result is for every Democrat,
in every part of the State, to go to the
polls and cast his ballot.
There was naver a stronger reason
why Democrats should vote than there
is now.
The policy and principles of their
party are on trial and it is their duty
to sustain them by their suffrage.
Their own personal interest is an in-
centive for them to confirm by their
ballots the return of business prosperity
inaugurated by a Democratic tariff.
They owe it to their pride and digni-
ty to humble an insolent and overbear-
ing enemy.
They are obligated to the support of
a courageous and unselfish candidate
for Governor who has made personal
sacrifices in leading them in this con-
test, and it is due from them also to
stand up like men for the other excel-
lent candidates on their State ticket.
Particularly are they called upon as
faithful Democrats to make every exer-
tion for their congressional candidates,
nor can they, if they are true to their
party, neglect their county tickets.
Let such a fierce determination to do
their full duty pervade the Democrats
of this State that every member of the
party, who is able to walk or ride, will
be at the polls and cast his vote next
Tuesday.
With such a determination on the
part of Peunsylvania’s Democracy Re-
pablican fraud will be discounted.
A AERA ASTARSCTTS.
Hastings’ Silence Gives Consent.
When candidate Hastings arrived
in Philadelp hia last week, after his
protracted effort to spell bind the State
by his calamity tour, he found himself
confronted by the discovery of the
mest astounding frauds proposed to
be practiced in the coming election in
that city in the interest of his party.
Did he, like an honest man, a good
citizen and a true patriot, raiee his
voice in denunciation of this atrocious
conspiracy against an honest ballot?
Did he offer bis assistance in purging
the registry of the thousands of fraudu-
lent names that had been put on the
assessment lists, and in bringing to
justice the scoundrels who had perpe-
trated this crime ?
Not a bit of it! DaNIgL is silent in
regard to this colossal iniquity, His
silence evidently gives consent to his
reaping the advantage of such political
rascality. [tis not uatair to believe
that he is in conference with the ring-
gtars who are frying to prevent the
courts from ioterfering with the con-
summaticn of this fraud.
——Vote your ticket straight,
Hastings’ Idea of ‘“Cleavness.”’
The Republican candidate for Gov-
ernor in one of his ronnding-up speeches
near Philadelphia, the other day, said
that “he was glad that the contest is a
clear one.”
The contest for the election of the
Governor of a State can have no other
legitimate issues connected with it than
those of State administration. The peo-
ple want to know whether the State
laws will be properly and honestly
executed ; whether the State constitu-
tion will be enforced ; whether corpo-
rate influence and party rings will or
will not control executive action ;
whether the State administration will
use its influence for the equalization
of the tax burden and the prevention
of State funds from being used for pri-
vate benefit ; whether executive effort
will be made to secure fair and honest
methods of paying the wages of labor,
and such general matters as are con-
nected with the relation that exists be-
tween the Governor and the people of
a State.
These are the only issues that have
a right to be brought into a contest i for
Goveraor, but Hastings totally ignores
them, and placing himself upon the
tariff question, upon which, as Gov-
ernor, be would have neither the op-
portunity nor ability to exert the least
influence, and befogging the issue with
a frightful array of calamity bugaboos;
he declares that “he is glad that the
contest is a clear one.”
Dax’s idea of clearness in public
questions is not surprising in a states
man of his mental ealibre,
A TERE RR
The Benefit of a Good Name.
A good name is of more value than
a gold mine. This is as-true in poli-
tics as in private life. To-day, in the
present political contest, the Democrat:
ic party of this State is deriving an
incalculable advantage from the high
character and excellent reputation of
the Parricon administration. Its good
name is a tower of Democratic
strength.
In point of efficiency, bonesty, and
conscientious regard for the trast com-
tate to compare it with Republican ad-
ministrations which have had no other
policy than the promotion of corporate
interests, and no other object than to
maintain the supremacy .of political
bosses.
The Parrison administration has
taught the people of the State what
kind of government they can expect of
a Democratic executive, amd also
brings to their minds what they escap-
ed by preferring it to a DELAMATER ad-
ministration.
A similar choice is again presented
to them. Will they have SINGERLY
and another Democratic administra-
tion like that which they now have, or
will they have Hastings, who is on
the Republican ticket for no other ob-
ject than the use which the ringsters
and bosses of his party will be able to
make of him if he is elected.
Marr Savacg, of Clearfield, is
our regular nominee for State Senator,
though his name does not appear on
the regular ticket. Remember to vote
for him. Tf you do not unierstand ex-
actly how it is to be done ask some
one. Don’t run any risks we need
every vote we can get for SAavace lo
down the perfidy of so called Demo-
crats who are supporting CALDWELL.
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Sheriff Condo Is Not for Caldwell.
A story is being set afloat to the ef:
fect that sheriff Jonn P. CoNpo, of this
county, is a supporter of Woops CaLp-
WELL, the Clinton county usurper, who
wants to be elected State Senator.
Sheriff Conpo has authorized us to
deny the statement most emphatically
and say to the voters of the district
that while he was a friend of CaLD-
WELL before the convention he recog-
nizes it as having been properly con-
ducted and is pleased to give his hearty
support to Mr. Savace the regular
nomin ee.
Mr. Coxpo expr2sses great regret
that a man whom he had judged as
honorable as Mr. CaLpwEeLL should act
in the way he has and assures us that
he has nothing but contempt for such
actions, He will attend the Loganton
meeting Saturday night and tell the
i Democrats of Clinton county’ lexactly
CAE
mitted to it, Democrats need not hesi- |
» what he thinks of CALDWELL.
A Choice for the Voters to Make.
The plain question is put to the vot-
ers of Pennsylvania whether they pre-
fer to have, for the next four years, a
State administration as honest, repu”
table and efficient as the present one,
or a management of executive affairs
such as DeLamaTeER would have sup-
plied.
There is not a citizen of the State
who can justly withhold his approval
of the manner in which Governor Par-
TisoN has administered the State gov-
ernment. There is not a citizen who
can not easily and correctly imagine
what kind of State government we
would have had if Decamater had
been elected.
The same crowd who whooped up
the cause of DELAMATER four years
ago are now engaged with Hastings
in yelling calamity. The same bosses,
the same corrupt rings that would
have used Deramater for their tool
will use Hastings, in the event ot his
election. It is the same old crowd
that for years have perverted and abus-
ed State interests, which their present
candidate shirks and igoores on the
stump.
With SiNcerLY as Governor could
there be any doubt that he would ex-
ert his executive influence to the ut-
most for the enforcement of the provis-
ions of the constitution against cor-
porate encroachment and usurpation ?
Is there any doubt that he would do
all he could for the passage of an anti-
discrimination law ; for the perfecting
of an emasculated ballot law; for the
protection of the State funds against
BarpsLEY raids; for a more just equal-
ization of State taxes; for the enforce-
ment of semi-monthly wage payments,
and for the relief of labor from the ex-
tortion of “pluck-me’’ stores ?
There can be no doubt as to SINGER-
LY's action in thosz matters, for his
character and convictions are well
kaown, and moreover his course would
bain line with the principles of his
party.
It is for the people to determine
whether they will bave such a Gover-
nor, or prefer one who has been allow-
el to be a candidate for no other pur-
pose than to sarve the corrupt party
rings and bosses that have so long
misgoverned Pennsylvania,
A Calamity Which Hastings Dodges.
The Philadelphia Ledger, in com-
menting upon the circular issued by
the Business Men's League of Denver,
showing how both public and individ
ual credit has been impaired in Color-
ado, and business paralysed in that
State by the monetary vagaries of the
Populists, says that such a result
“should convey a lesson to those who
have been toying and coquetting with
Populistic doctrines in their platforms,
in shuffling and evasive deliverances
upon the silver coinage issue, and in
arbitrarily fixing the per capita limit
of the circulating medium, and in oth-
er ways sapping and undermining the
foundations of public confidence.”
There is no difficulty in seeing to
what party’s platform the Ledger's re-
mark applies, but it should have been
more specific in saying that the ex.
travagant $40 per capita currency
plank in the Pennsylvania Republican
platform, if put into practical effect, is
calculated to produce all the evils of
an inflated currency which that con-
gervative paper deprecates.
This plank was inserted in the plat-
form either to catch the Populistic
vote by a deceptive promise, or with
the earnest intention of pledging the
Republicans to a reckless and perilous
monetary inflation. In either case it
is to be condemned.
What have the businessmen of
Pennsylvania, who are interested in a
solid and safe monetary system, to say
about it? The Razpublican candidate
for Governor, who has gone through
the State howling calamity, had noth-
ing to say against the calamity of a
depreciated carrency. He offers no
objections to putting the currzocy up-
on a wild cat basis.
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~——The Democrats should remem-
ber that though stalwart Jor Hoy, of
Marion township, is the tail ender on
the ticket this fall he is in no wise the
tail-ender in point of merit. Ionest
and true he asks for votes along with
the rest of them and there is no doubt
about his gatting a handsome majority.
Have the Democrats Increased the
Price of Sugar?
If the Republicans accuse your party
of havin~ increased the price of sugar
show them these figures taken from U.
S. government statistics. The figures
are taken from the official records and
quote the price of sugar on the Ist of
September for the past four years as fol-
lows : :
1891—4 3-10 cents a pound.
1892—5 cents.
1893--5% cents.
1894 —5 cents.
On the 15th of the same month, each
year, the quotations were :
1891—44 cents.
1892—5 3-16 cents.
1893 —5% cents.
1894—5 cents.
The circular calls particular attention
to the fact that the new law went into
operation August 28, and that on Sep-
tember 15 sugar was 5 cents a pound,
whereas on October 1 the price had fal-
len to 4 11-16 cents a pound.
He Must Be a Lulu.
From the New Yor k Sun:
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, was remarkably
happy last week. Bounding Bill
Springer, the War Horse of the Sauga-
mon, pranced his prettiest and neighed
his loudest there, and he was followed
by the First Assistant Postmaster-Gen-
eral, the Hon. Frank Halcyon Jones.
Mr. Jones is still regretfully remember-
ed at New Haven as the possessor of one
of the sweetest tenor voices that ever
entranced the Glee Club. Birds. would
drop dead from the elms to his feet, and
all the pianos in the dormitories would
tune themselves. He has the voice now
only he applies it to nobler uses. His
speeches are as melodious as his songs,
and to hear him after Mr. Springer
must have been as refreshing as small
beer in the desert. There are few ora-
tors with mellower movements in their
throats that the Hon. Dandy Jones has.
Wompelsdorff’s Perfidy.
From the Bituminous Record.
«Little Phil” attended the Republi-
can primary election in the First Ward
last Saturday evening, but did not vote.
What his motive was can only be con-
jectured, but it looks as if he tried to
put himself in a position which would
enable him to say that he did not vote
against the man that would bz nomi-
nated for Judge. It was an attempt at
artful dodging which many of his party
| despise, because they think that a man
who has political aspirations should
| have pluck enough to vote for one or
the other of the candidates tor an office
which was being as hotly contested as
was the Judgeship in this county.
A RTT —
The Work in the State.
From Candidate Singerly’s Own Paper.
The Democratic State canvass moves
along like an avalanche. It gathers
weight and momentum as it progresses.
The outrun of shouting and working
Democrats yesterday in Schuylkill and
Berks counties fairly outdid the gsather-
ings of the day before, although such an
access of enthusiasm was not deemed
possible.
If the voting on Tuesday next shall
come up to the promise of this week's
demonstrations interior Pennsylvania
will resume its ancient place as the
steady bulwark of Jacksonian and Jef-
fersonian principles.
AT BOT ITS,
The Boomerang Turned Back.
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
The dullness in the iron trade, in ac-
cordance with the ideas of Republican
calamity shouters, must be attribu-
table to the fear of Republican success
in this and other states and the conse-
quent attempts to reopen the high tar-
iff question in Congress. If the Re
publican party be shown to have been
deceived in its hopes of success the
iron business will reach the sold basis
already reached by other industries
and resume in fall.
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Every Man's Duty.
From the Milton Record.
This is one of the years that Demo-
crats want to be Democrats. An honest
citizen who fails to turn out on election
day and register his convictions at the
ballot box, not only neglects an impor-
tant public duty, but he deliberately
aids the opposition. Turn out and give
at least one-half day to the interests of
the Democratic party, through which
the best permanent good may be se-
cured to the whole people.
——————
Make Your Vote Straight.
From the Altoona Times.
Don’t botch matters by trying to vote
a split ticket next Tuesday. Every one
of the Democratic candidates is deserv-
ing of your support and should have
it. Just mark a cross in the circle at
the head of the Democratic column
and you will never have occasion to
regret it.
A Yeerless Genoral.
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From the DuBoise Express.
The only engagement in which Gen-
eral Hastings ever fought was the bat.
tle with the starving miners of Sterling,
who were struggling for a living wage
in 1892.
TE ETC
—-Don’t think that because Centre is
a Democratic county your vote will not
be needed, for it will. What we want
is a full turn out. Something that will
discourage the Republicans effectually.
S.A eee
Spawls from the Keystone,
—A locomotive ran over and killed
Michael Tolan at Tamaqua.
—The new iron bridge across the Clarion
river at the mouth of Toby will cost $13,-
000.
—Wihile attending a funeral near Scran-
ton, Mrs. J. C. Clark dropped dead in the
cemetery.
—Everett furnace will shortly be put
in blast, the coke ovens having started
up this week.
—Police of Allegheny City and Pitts
burg threaten this week to raid all the
gambling dens.
—Five men, said to be implicated in the
Roaring Springs Post Office robbery, are
in Altoona jail.
—The collection of German manufac:
tured products has been added to the
State College museum.
—There are no less than thirty appli-
cants for the vacant pulpit of the Ambler
Presbyterian Church.
—Punxsutawney citizens are interest-
ing themselves in the establishment ofa
crockery plant at that place.
—From January 1to October1 John R.
Gossler, Treasurer of Lehigh county, paid
out $123,285 for county expenses.
—A large tannery is being built at
Medix Run, Elk connty, and there is pros-
spect of a paper mill near Benezette.
—The Altoona Mechani¢s library now
contains over 21,00 volumes, embracing
all the standard literature of the world.
—Rabbi Weil, of the Beth Zion Hebrew
church at Bradford, has been asked to
resign because of his liberal views on
religious matters... «
—Armed with a revolver, Mrs. Cath-
arine Richardson, of Scranton, was land.
ed in jail, being accused of a threat to kill
Mrs. George Smith.
—Quite a delegation of Tyrone citizens
went to Huntingdon on Friday evening
to get the benefit of Prof. Northrop’s lec-
ture on villiage improvement.
—War veterans of Centre County are in-
dignant over the effort being made in
other parts of the State to erect the
mounument to War Governor Curtin at
Harrisburg.
—A Philadelphia syndicate is negotia.
ting for the purchase of the Reading
and Perkiomen turnpike as a step to-
ward the continous trolley line from
Reading to Philadelphia.
—The suit of Mrs. E. M. Byers, of Pitts-
burg, against Dr. Tallman and other Chi-
cagoans to recover her insane husband,
now ina Philadeiphia asylum was dis-
missed in the Windy City Monday.
—Colonel A.'B. Colt, whose regiment re-
cently shot into a mob at Washington
Court House, O., and who has been in hid-
ing in Western Pennsylvania, has gone to
New York State to escape mob violence.
—S8. B. France a drummer for a Pittsurg
house, is said to have been attacked by
highwaymen, near Pine Run, Westmore.
land county, Thursday night and robbed
of $153. He was knocked down and badly
beaten.
—David Wills, the Republican candi-
date for Judge in the Adams-Fulton
district, and a very prominent lawyer
died suddenly at his home in
Gettysburg on Saturday afternoon, aged
63 years.
—Speaking of the new counties, the ef.
fort of Carbondale to achieve county seat
honors is to be strengthened, it 1s said, by
a vigorous advocacy of the separation
idea on the part of the new morning daily
which is soon to appear in the pioneer
city.
—Richard Smith, who lives at Grove
Chapel in Rayne township, raised the
largest crop of buckwheat heard of this
season. He had twenty-five acres outand
he threshed Tuesday &fternoon, when
the measure showed 428 bushels, says the
Indiana Times.
—At present there is6)0 Indians in the
Indian industrial school at Carlisle.
These represent 64 nations or tribes. The
Apache rank first in numbers having 42
Indians, Onedias second with 46 and the
Chippewa, third with 35. There has been
one death since the last report in Au-
gust.
—In Mt. Pleasant township, Westmore-
land county, a young man named Phen.
ton with his best girl, drove to a county
s+hool house the other night to attend a
literary society. At the conclusiou of the
exercises it was discovered that some-
body had stolen his cart and harness,
leaving only the horse behind.
—In York county last year the total
cost, exclusive of building and better.
ments, for the maintaining oft 262 inmates
in the Almshouse, was $13,738.02, of which
$2,735 was for out-door relief. The aver-
age per inmate in York was $71.69; in
Adaans county, $24.26, or over two and
one-half times greater in Adams than in
York.
—The residence of Solomon Shaffer,
Pine Creek township, Clinton county, was
entered several days ago and two watches
and several dollars in cash stolen there -
from. Robbersalso entered the railroad
station at Nesbitt, same county, a few
days ago, during the temporary absence
of theagent and stole $24 in cash from the
drawer.
—Constable Me¢Feely acting as a. special
detective under U. S. Marshal Walker
arrested in Snyder county John Zimmer"
man and Wilsop Ferry on the. charge of
counterfeiting and having mounldsin their
possession. They were taken. to Altoona
and will be given a hearing before United
States Commissioner Grafins. Zimmer.
man is said to be a wealthy farmer.
—The Pittsburg Times says that what is
considered the largest and most perfect
vein of bituminous coal in Central Penn:
sylvania has been developed at Sterling
No. 11, at Spangler. The coal is eight feel
high, and remarkably free from defects
or dirt. The remarkable height of the
vein has been maintained for a considera.
ble distance, and gives every indication
of being permanent.
—While Isaac Donner, of Newlin, Ches-
tor county, was at the World’s Fair at Chi-
cago, he secured a few grains of peculiar
white grained corn, which came from
North Dakota, and brought it home. He
planted it last spring and two stalks were
the result. One bore two ears, but the
other makesup for the loss of the other
grains which did not grow by bearing
nine large and fully-developed ears. Mr,
Conner will save the corn for planting
next season, when he hopes Lo raise &
large crop.