Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, November 23, 1894, Image 1
3v RP. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Western Pennsylvania is wonder. ing when its share is to be laid on the Harrisburg pie counter. —1In six days there will be the be- ginning of the fall season in which the turkeys are go stylish. —The Knights of Labor will have to Jook out for & new SOVEREIGN else their organization will go down with a flop. —Governor-elect HASTINGS showed great wisdom 1n making up his cabinet before the place hunters bad bored him to death. —If that Salt Lick company don’t soon strike oil it will kave to buy some to calm the troubled waters that the stock- holders are likely to stir up. —The women of the land who are fussing because ships are christened with wine should not be uneasy for the boats usually take to water soon enough. —Laugh at everything that amuses you. Don’t make the world a grave yard in solemnity for fear some one will talk about you being light headed. —When the Chinese read the result of the recent elections in the United States they will more than likely ex- claim : Dlemoclats all le samee likee us— Licked likee hellee. —The Bellefonte patriots who expect a bowl of government pap to be set out for them at Harrisburg will be running around here chewing sour grapes, e’re long, when they say they didn’t want anything. — When Rubinstein’s spirit knocks for entry to the spirit world poor old St. Peter will be confronted with an- other perplexity. The more artists, the more the danger of a scrap in the choir. —Tf the late Czar, ALEXANDER III, of all the Russias, bad been conscious of the time and fuss it took to get him buried he wonld doubtless have given some one—the very thing he lived in constant dread of --a blowing up. —The latest idea which Japan has advanced in extenuation of her per- sistence in warring with China is that she wants to insure herself permanent peace. Now China is not nearly so sel- fish—she would be satisfied with a few days let up of hostilities. : —As a piece of political trick furni- ture HASTINGS cabinet will not please Republicans who ape the mysterious. The only trick that comes out of the new cabinet is the one that has been worked on the Allegheny county bosses by leaving them out in the cold. —1It is funny how northern Repub- lican writers devote column after column in editorial excoriation of supposed ballot frauds in the south, when they have to wear clothes-pins on their noses to keep out the awful stench consiantly arising from such a city as Philadelphia. —1I¢ has turned out that the Mexican General ANTONIO EZETA, who was re- cently beld a nominal prisoner in San Francisco, is not so much under the ban of Mars as of Cupid. He is back ' again to marry a lady who had apartments on the same floor of the hotel at which he was imprisoned and ‘with whom he fell in love. —Seventy thousand women voted in the State of Colorado at the last election. More than ten percent. over the half of the entire vote polled in the State. Not one fight is reported to have oc- curred among them and nary an elec- tion officer did they talk to death. Such a truly remarkable occurrence should not go unnoticed. —The lobbyists about Washington are very much concerned about the fate which the Nicaragua canal project is going to meet at the hands of the ad- ministration. If the truth were known it is not so much the proposed ship way they are solicitous about as to whether the canal will run from uncle Sam’s strong box into their pockets. —An “art” that makes it possible for one pugilist to kill another with a “light slap with the back of his hand” and is called “manly’’ should be treated with about as much leniency at the hands of the law as the guise under which the anarchist hurls his deadly homb and ex- cuses himself by thinking he is helping the cause of humanity. —~The Bedford ecunty justice of the peace who in four years term of office, has just returned his first case to court for adjudication is a pearl, whether he be Democrat, Republican, Prohibitionist | or whatnot. Such a man should be kept in that office for life and would that Centre county had many like him. Few people have any idea of the amount a conscientious justice ean save the coun- ty by settling petty cases without carry- ing them up to court for the sake of fees. A glance at the criminal lists in every! sitting: of our. quarter sessions court will, revedl' many cases brought here to contest over amounts rarely es- | ceeding a few dollars and involving much expense to the county, all beonuse a justice, rather than “settle it, sends it up 50 he will get the regular fees. i - . . , chrouic state'of dissontent—wlio can- cans VOL. 39. STATE RIGHTS AN D FEDERAL UNION. % BELLEFONTE, PA., NOV. 23, 1894. NO. 46. Attorney General Olney and Organized | Labor. The Brotherhood ot Trainmen have asked the Circuit Court of the United i States, sitting in Philadelphia, to re- | strain the receivers of the Reading railroad from discharging members of the Brotherhood from the employ of the company on account of their being connected with that organization. In the case growing out of this applica- tion to the court Attorney General OLNEY has furniched a paper in behalf of the Brotherhood for which he is en- titled to the thanks of those interested in organized labor. His argument starts with a state- | ment of the object of this organization, as expressed by its constitution. Its purpose as therein clearly defined is to conduce to the general welfare of its members, and advance their social, moral and intellectual interests, to protect their families by the exercise of systematic benevolence, and to pro- mote a good understanding beiween them and their employers. The Attorney General declares these objects to be ‘‘laudable in the highest degree and deserving the approbation and support of every good citizen.” He moreover takes the position that they are in strict conformity to an act of Congress which expressly authorizes working people to organize for their mutual protection and ben: fit. With euch a right clearly guarau- teed to workingmen by a law with which the object of the trainmen’s or- ganization closely conforms, the Attor- ney General takes the unquestionable | position that neither the Reading, nor any other railroad company, is justi: fied in coming between them and the law by denying them the enjoyment of that right. The legal right inthis case cannot be questioned, but what is equally ap- parent is the injustice and hardship of forcing these men from their connec- tion with an association in whose re- lief found they had invested their money, from which they expected a benefit to themselves and their fami- lies in cases of accident, sickness, death, or inability to continue their la- bor. Not only what they had paid in would thereby be lost, but they would be deprived of the expected benefit. Nothing could be more un. just and tyraunical,and upon this point alone the Attorney General could base the equity of his position in behalf of the Brotherhood. The object which the Readinz au- thorities say they want to secure by their arbitrary measure is the preven- tion of strikes, which, in their yiew, are promoted by the organization of their employes. But the At. torney General exposes the error of this position by showing that the restrictive provisions of the consti- tution of the Brotherhood are really an impediment to strikes. There is cer- tainly a great restraint upon useless and unreasonable movements of that kind on the part of the membership when their constitution provides that a strike cannot take effect until ap. proved, first by the local grievance committee ; second by the general grievance committee ; third by a board of adjustment, and fourth, by the general master, with the consent of two-thirds of the members involved while striking, or ingiting to strike, ex- ceptin accordance with these rules, is punished by expulsion from ‘the Brotherhood. Nothing could be more conservative than these regulations which in ‘their purpose and effect are calculated to prevent precipitate and unreasonable strikes. But when the situation is changed by forcing these men from their organization, degrading their {sense of manhood ‘and outraging their feelings by denying them a right which they deem essential to their wel- fare and protection, and which is real- | ly theirs by act of Congress, conditions f are produced that must naturally be | more productive of strikes than when employes, whose self-respect has not | been degraded by arbitary coercion, ‘are governed by the restraint of rea- sonably directed urganization. The Attorney General ia correct in ‘saying that etrikes are most to be ex- pected “irom employes who smart un, «der a sense of injustice and are in a nol help noting that organized capital is. not so restricted,” i Ata time when Republican politi- cians are working upon the credulity of laboring people with the preteoss of protection, the benefits of which are monopolized by organized capital, while the wage-earners are handed ov- her to the mercy of capitalists who em ploy cheap foreign laborers and run “pluck-me’’ stores, it is refreshing and encouraging to hear a Democratic At: torney General declare that “whatever else may remain for the future to de: termine, it must now be regarded as substantially settled that the mass of wage-earners can no longer be dealt with by capital as s> many isolated units. The time has passed when the individual workman is called upon to pit his feeble single strength against the might of organized capital. There is more encouragement to the workingmen in this declaration than in the sham protection offered them by the Republican party. Successful Rascality. The infamous political “combine” that has debauched the politics of Philadelphia felt so secure in the prac- tice of their frauds that the exposure of what they intended to do, and the effort to restrain them by the action of the courts, bad no effect in deterring their rascality, They were assured that they were backed by their party, encouraged by their newspaper organs aud countenanced by the municipal authorities, and with such support they carried out their programme Of fraud with reckless audacity. That the padded lis:s of voters were utilized to the fullest extent of the villainous intention was apparent in most of the voting districts and is shown by the abnormal majority. How long this condition ot politics is to continue in Philadelphia there is no telling. So long as ballot frauds are encouraged by the dominant party, and go unpunshed by her legal au- thorities, they will continue to pollute her elections. The fanaticism of Philadelphia in the maintenance of “protection” accepts such practices as a justifiable means of 8 yelling tariff ma- jorities, but by demoralization thus encouraged an injury is being done trom which its citizens will soon be calling for relief. The same ballot frauds that swell Phailadelphia’s ma- jorities for tariff Presidents and Gov- ernors are employed to fasten upon her the rule of the municipal thieves who are robbiog her tax-payers. ——This thing of telling Bellefoute workers that there are no places to give them down at Harrisburg is not calculated to promote a very harmo- nious feeling among them when every one of them can pick up SmuLt’s band- book and see that there will be two bundred and forty-nine vacancies, not incladiog heads of departments, as soon as a change in the State ‘ad ministration is made. A Burlesque In The Pacific. The movement to establish an inde- pendent and popular government iu Hawaii is displaying its burlesque character. It is assumed, to be based on the will of the people, but at the last advices from the islands, of the date of May 31st, the provisional gov- ernment had gotten together a consti- tutional convention elected by but a fraction of the population, and repre-! genting no other interest than that of the foreigners who provisionally hold the offices pending the adoption of a constitution and the planters who con- trol the sugar trade. The anomaly is presented of a movement to form a popular government from which the native population are entirely excluded: The sugar planters are reported to be in complete control of the constitu- tional convention. They are in alliance with the listle military oligarchy that overthew theold government with the assistance of the American Minis: ter Stevens under the Harrison ad ministration. ; This is a. rather dis- couraging outcome of the attempt to make the Pacific ocean resound with the screams of the American eagle and toextend American institntions by'a revolutionary conspiracy in a country where four-fifths: of the. people didn’t want to revolutionize. ! aren a ————e— The way of tbe Tepublican transgressor is—towards the political Leadership Unjustly Blamed, A good deal is being said about the inefficiency of the Democratic organi- zation in this.State, and blame is be- ing thrown upon the party leaders for there not being a larger show of Dem- ocratic votes at the polls. We doubt whether under present cir- cumstances the wost ekillful leader- ship could avail in waking a better ‘show against the overwhelming pre- poaderance of the Republicans in this State, therefore it appears to be unjust to blame the leaders for not producing better results. Thisis a State which has become thoroughly demoralized by the high tariff fallacy and influence, and until something shall occur to dispel that de- lusion, of which the Republican party has the full advantage, nothing can be done to overcome it. At this time par- ticularly, when = distress prevails among the working people of the State, political ingenuity can easily blame it on the Democratic administration, a charge readily accepted by the un: thinking who have not sense enough to trace the business trouble to its origin in the financial and tariff policy of the Republican party. When a large proportion of the voters are in such a deluded frame of mind it would be too much to ask even the best Demogratic leadership to reduce the Republican vote, or to even maintain their own lines intact. A lesson must be taught that will dispel the false notion that the pros- perity of Pennsylvania depends upon Republican tariffs, and then more en- couraging results of Democratic lead: | ership in this State may be looked | for. 8 | ——The Bloomsburg Board of Trade | paid $2,000 for: a ‘page advertisement in a recent issue of the New York World, which in all probability will do ‘that town very little good. If the money had been invested in home print shops and the country flooded "with home papers the capital of Co: lumbia county might have realized something from ‘the investment. One inch in a home paper is often worth more than a column in a foreign one. which has no more interest in its re- sults than the monzy that accrues trom it. y | Two Blighted Hopes. The inofficial announcement ot Gov- ernor elect HasTINGs that ex Coogress- man MoCoruyick, of Williamsport, is to | be his Attorney-General and that Mr. Louis E. BEITLER, of Philadelphia, has has been selected as his private secre tary, will be a wet blanket upon the budding hopes of two of Centre coun- ty’s aspiring Republicans, ex-Gover- nor Beaver, and Mr. WitBor T. Ma- LIN. These gentlemen both confident- ly expected to be fitted into the new cabinet to fill the places that have gone to Williamsport and Philadel- phia, and deep will be their disappoiut- ment as well as that of their friends over the result. However, what is one’s loss is gen- erally another's gain, and the turning down of Beaver and Marty will only inerease the chances of the other four ty-one applicants for positions at Har- risburg from this county. For weeks it has been whispered round among the knowing ones, that out of the entire list of expectants, four at most would be given recognition. Two of these— Col. J. L. Seancrer and Col. W. F. Revnoup’s who have here tofore and in ail probability will here- after be kaoown as Democrats—are to be upon the new Governor's staff. The other two positions most likely to to come to the county, it i8 said, are to be filled by the appointment of QUIN MiLus, of this place, as a messenger, aad a younz Republican, ot Philips- burg, to a clerkship in one of the de- partments. Whether. auything else can be squeezed out lor any of the oth- er expectants is very much in doubt and depends entirely upon the amount of vigor and. earnestness that is put {riends. ME TES STAT ER TIE. —LThe alacrity with which’ BiLu Cook and his bani of outlaws ‘hold up trains and everythiog else out in In- dian | territory and Cook everyone's ‘goode who dares to baffls them is evi- dence supreme that as a Cook ‘the ban- flesh pots, dit leader 13 a great s133eds. into their. efforts by themselves and] There Own Greatness Will Consume Them. From the York Gazette. The more the result of the election is considered the more it ‘becomes ap- parent that the Republicans -have won an empty victory, and that they have on their hands a very grave responsi- bility. Itis a very dangerous thing fora party to have a large majcrity in Con- gress. Large majorities are hard to manage. Large majorities are not con- tent to do nothing but are always anx- ious to show their power, and almost invariably use their power foolishly. Of course with Cleveland ready to veto any foolish or unwise legislation, there is no danger of the country suffer- ing from the unwieldy Republican majority in the House of Representa- tives, but there is great danger of the Republican party suffering very badly from this majority. The Republican Congress must do something. To do nothing would mean to the country at large that they ap- prove of what the Democrats have done and if this be so, the voters will ask why they should go back to the Republican party ? Then the party leaders cannot afford to lose the opportunity to make issues for 96. They must propose legislation even if they know that Cleveland will not allow it to get on the statute books. They must make a record. In them is the full responsibility of whatever legis- lation does reach the President, and their acts of any sort are bound to have a very material influence in the cam- peign of '96. What will the Republicans do? What will they try to make an issue for 96? It is not believed that they know themselves what they will do or what they will want to do. It is believed that they are totally at sea and are with- out a defined policy or an acknowledged leader, though they have a number of would-be leaders and a number of sug- gested policies, They really don’t know what to do, and they will be very fortunataif they manage to get through the first session of the new Congress withcut making some monumental biunder. What Col. Watterson Says, In a recent interview with Col. Waterson editor of the Louisville Cour- ier Journal and the staunchest absolute free trader in America to-day -% @ gave the following answers to the questions asked concerning the result of the elec- tion “Who is to blame for Tuesday’s de- feat, Colonel Waterson ?”’ “Why, Cleveland, of course,” said Mr. Watterson. ‘More than any other man. It is all his fault.” “And what's to become of the Demo- cratic party ?” “I don’t know I'm not certain Tariff reform has got to go down to the foot and start over.” “Do you mean that the Democrats most abandon the issue ?”’ “No, on the contrary, if I could make the platform in 1896 I would merely repeat in yet stronger language the platform of 1892. But a tariff for revenue only must be advocated here- | after, only by men who are honest enough to keep their promises and brave enough to put the principle into law when the people have given them the power. The Wilson bill was not a Democratic measure, either before it left | the hands of its author or after it had been mangled and distorted by the Sen- ste. I am sorry for the fate that over- took William L. Wilson last Tuesday, but I cannot repress the thought that he accomplished his own defeat by listen- ing to the counsels of others less coura geous than he and not daring to stand firmly for the pledges of his party.” Between Two Fires. From the Philadelphia Record. The reply of Governor McKinley to the open letter of inquiry from Whar- ton Barker isstill awaited with much interest. But why should Mr. Barker have singled out Governor McKinley as a victim of his catechism when ex: President Harrison and ex-Speaker Reed were so near by ? Should the standard he will offend all the Popu- lists of the West. Should he speak for free silver coinage all the gold men of the East will be ready to throw him overboard to the quiet satisfaction of Harrison, Reed and other rivals. Had Mr. Barker reflected a moment he was serving the Ohio statesman. What A Noble Sentiment. From the Walla Walla, Wash. Statesman, The advice given by King Charles of Sweden to Gustavus Adolphus is worthy repeating, and it can do as much good if carried ont by every boy and girl, as by the King of Sweden ; der to thy sisters, be gracious to thy inferiors, trust all men fairly, but only entirely when thou hast learned to know them." The few native ‘and naturalized citizens in the employ of BELL, LEwis & Y ATs, coal operators out in Jefferson county, voted the Republican ticket at the late election to insnre “better wages and steady work.,”' On Saturday last they were compelled to accept areduc- tion of five cents per ton or havé no work. "They are now wondering wliere | victory comes i Vidi Governor say that gold 18 the only would have seen what a bad turn he. “Honor thy father and mother, be ten- Spawls from the Keystone, —Lebanon county Teachers’ Institute: met Monday. | EEE —Farmers’ institutes flourish in Schuyl= kill county. —Thieves looted three residences : at . Drehersville Sunday night. —The price of bread at Pottsville has been redueed 23 per cent, —Forests in Sehuylkill county are being stocked with guail and rabbits, —Bishop Bowman, of Evangelical war fame, is touring the coal regions. —A free library boom struck Erie and the volumes are coming in rapidly. —Lawyers will organize a State Bar As. sociation at Harrisburg in January. —Falling from a railroad trestle at St, Clair, Charles Whetstone was killed. —Secranton’s Board of Trade wants a Fire Marshal to catch the eity’s firebugs. —Falling coal killed Miner James Burns at Girard Mammoth Colliery, near Ash- land. —William Yardy was smothered to death by a sudden rush of coal at Shenan. doah. —Harry Brooks has been arrested at Erie for the alleged murder of Henry C. Young. —Jacob Hershey, one of Fulton county’s oldest citizens, is dead in the 8th year of his age. —The Schuylkill Electric Railway Company will erect a $100,000 power house in Pottsville. —Dr. George W. Earnest died at his home in Bedford a few days ago, aged vearly 48 years. —A flash of powder disfigured, and per- haps fatally blinded, L. F. Metz’s son, Charles, at Pinedale, —Rev. Addison B. Collins, of Philadel. phia. has been installed a pastor of Lewis burg Presbyterian church. : —An old pensioner, Owen O. Jones, cut his throat with a razor and died at But. tonwood, Luzerne county, —Dickinson college athletes at Carlisle are disgusted at their inability to win, ‘and so will abandon football. —John C. Partner, a well-known citizen of Milford township, Juniata county, died recently in his 44th year. —Two bodies are probably still buried beneath the “Pennsy’s’” wreck at Lari- mer. Three have been recovered. —Heirs of the late John Barnum began suit at Pottsville to recover %15,000 from Levi Miller & Co., tor coal royalties. —Recent deaths in Milroy, Mifflin county, were James W. McNitt and Mrs. Kate Aurand, wife of W. E, Aurand. —Connellsville people want Postmaster Harry Marietta, recently convicted of aiding coke rioters, dismissed from office. —There is talk of changing the county seat of Bradford county from Towanda to Athens before the new court house is built. —United Evangelicals at Tower City will reoccupy their abandoned edifice. There are no Bowmanites in the town to take it. —The wife of Jefferson Seashaltz and three children, at Pottstown, were badly poisoned by eating a wild root, but all will recover. —As two pastors claim the Trinity United Brethren Church pulpit at Leban- on, the trustees fear a clash and perm it no services. - A mammoth plant to wash the coal from the big culm banks, at Morris Ridge Colliery, near Centralia, is to be erected within a few weeks. . Bedford county has a justice of the peace who has been in office for four years, and yet he has just returned his first case to court. —Illness caused by eating an apple in- duced Mrs. Edward A* Prodell, of Leban- on to vomit, a blood vessel was ruptured and she bled to death. —Attempiing to rescue live stock from Henry Washeim’s burning stable at Eas- ton, Policeman Herman was overcome by smoke and nearly perished . —Bishop Nicholas, of the Russian Gree k church, arrived Sunday at Wilkesbarre from San Francisco and celebrated Mass for the dead Czar and his successor. —A DuBois boy while hunting in the woods near that place on Friday, shot a large black bear which is said to be the largest killed in the state for many years. —Suit tor $24,000 has been brought by S. H. Barrett at Pottsville, against the Pennsylvania Railroad for damages done in the building of the Shenandoah branch. 2 —Judge W. Easly, one of the best known citizens of Cambrie, county, died at the home of his son, James C. Easly, at Carrolltown, on Wednesday last, aged 84 years. --Sixteen sheep were buried in a grave both wide and deep at Homer City, ln- diana county, the result of being in the way of the evening train as it was hurry- ing along. : —Samuel Gists died last week from the effects of a kick in the stomach. He had been working in the woods near DuBoise and was kicked by a horse. His Lome was near Gettysburg, Indiana county, where his family still reside. —$1,100 in gold coin was found in a cellar at Johnstown by a boy who was digging a post hole. A dispute, which will likely end in court, has arisen over thé money, which is believed to have been hidden by aman who perished in the flood. ? —William R. Moore, a merchant of South Fork, while on a visit to Johns- town on Thursday, and soon after having: several teeth extracted, ‘was prostrated by heart trouble and, for a time, was be- lieved ‘to be ddad. Subsequently he re. covered, —Thursday night robbers broke into the office of the Atlantic Refining com pany at Johnstown and ransacked all the drawers and scattéred papers and books about, the room. The door: of the safe was closed, but not locked, and no dams age was done. i —Thursday morning Judge Harry White went into the American house, at Indiana, to write some lotters, when he and Martin Earhart, the proprietor, had some words about the judge refusirg him a license ten years ago. The judge says Harbart called hum a liar and he struck hii in the month. Itisstated that Ear. part will ‘have the Judge = arrested. their’ benefits’ in the big Republican | The atfair created a good deyl of excite. / ment,