Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, November 30, 1894, Image 1
8Y.P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. * —The turkey ard the foot ball play- er both closed heir seasons yesterday. — Yesterday was a great leveler. Democrats and Republicans alike ate turkey. —We bad thought there would be some hope for STEVENSON 10 1896 until GorMAN and Brice declared for him. —If Germany draws the line on our dried apples we can retaliate by not al- lowing any more of her SNITZS to come over here. —If you think yourself better than anybody else just play eaves dropper sometime and hear what people have to say of you. —1t is readily understood why a good foot-ballist is called a crack player. Nune of them gain a reputation until they have bad a few bonus cracked. —Mrs. LEASE is running a paper oui in Kunsas sand she has named it the Agitator. It is such things as these that answer the question ‘‘what’s in a name ?”’ —Germany has decided to exclude American dried apples from among her list of imports. She bas given no rea- gon for discriminating against such swell products. —Thanksgiving day marked the sea- gons end for both foot ball and the tur- key. A cut was a propos too, the play- er got on his hair while the poor turkey got it in the neck. —Col. BRECKENRIDGE is going on the lecture platform, but he won't make a success of it, because the business he appears to know most about is the kind the people want to hear least of —-There are many who think the rheumatism in GROVER’s footis not a sufficient excuse for withholding it from the thousands of Republicans who are holding offices that Democrats are en- titled to have. —Boys don’t fool away your time. If you have nothing to do spend your idle moments in some library. The rise or fall of business interests can’t take the knowledge you have thus gained away from you. —A pew Eldorado has been foun in the State of Washington, but the gold miners there won't realize half so much out of it as the Wall street diggers will get out of the bond Eidorado lately un- covered at Washington, D C. —More than the usual demand for cabbage leaves is reported among cigar manufacturers as the time approaches wher the dear little wite begins to look for “a box of the best cigars’’ for ker hushand’s Christmas present. —General HasTiNgs returned home on Tuesday evening very much im- proved in health and possibly equal to the onslaughts of the pie counter tiends. Toe size of his mail is enormous but does not begin to represent the number of fellows who are out for jobs. —Turkey has excluded American newspapers from the country. She is doubtless afraid of the power of the press, which if once set to work against her for those Armenian outrages she will find herself so pressed that she will be glad to protect christians in the tu- ture, —At last the new Czar has been married and Princess ALIX is now his better half. Ifshe proves as speedy as ber great American namesake—ALIX tbe queen of the turf—Ni1cHOLAS IT will be led such a gait a8 no other ruler of the Russias has struck before him. —In Reading the old ‘‘Blue laws” are being hunted up for application to bakers who do not sell their bread by the pound. The law requires that bread must be sold by weight and not by the loaf and the bakers are ‘risin’’ them- selves against this weigh of doing busi- ness. —The assistant auditor general of the post (flice department bas reported an ecormous increase of fraudulent lottery and such schemes during the past year. This is easily explained by the great in- crease in the number of fuols in the country, a8 the recent election evi- dences. —The defeated Republican candidate for Governor of Nebraska who refused to contest the successful fusion can- didate’s right to the chair, because he does not want to figure ‘‘in an unseemly scramble for an office the right of which is in doubt,” has sat an example to men of all parties. If election boards are dishonest prosecute them, but don’t encourage this plan of prostituting the freedom of the ballot to unscrupulous partisan Legislatures. —The Newark, N. J., woman who is now trying to get rid of her eighth hus- band can indeed be charged with hav- ing tooled with ‘all kinds and manner of men.” She started off with an artist, but his society didn’t prove as at- tractive as he painted it up to be, so she got a lawyer and traded herself to him for a divorce trom the artist, and then tried musicians, bankers, and farmers until finally & base ball player caught | her on the fly and now wants to put her out becausa she is off her base. | election | it when the votes were cast at the re | cent election, STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. ow, Y-—-— ee &£ VOI. 39. BELLEFONTE, PA., NOV. 30. 1894, . NO. 47. Incorrectly isserted. In speaking of the action of the ma- jority of the people at the recent elec- tion the Philadelphia Times has noth- ing better or more truthful to say than that ‘they (the people) deteated the Democrats overwhelmingly because they (the Democrats) well merited the disapprobation of the country.” This may be taken as a specimen of inconsiderate and perfunctory editorial expression. It appears to have been indulged in merely for the sake of gsomethiug to say. Is it true that the Democrats merited the disapprobation of the country? What are the facts con- nected with the question ? As regards the tariff, with the various shades of interest involved, which more than anything else affected the recent elec tion, the Democrats thought their rep- resentatives in Congress did their ut- most to carry out the party promise of reform. The WiLson tariff bill, which in its original formulation fully met that purpose, passed the House by an almost unanimous vote of those who represented the Democracy in that body. Were the Democrats to be censured because a handful ot Senators wearing the Democratic livery, but misrepresenting the Democratic pur- pose, betrayed the party by diminish- | ing the measure of reform provided by | he original bill? Was not this, treachery consummated in defiance of | the well understood s:ntiment of at least ninety-uine out of every hundred | Democrats, and in spite of the earnest : appeal of the President and the disap- proval ot every member of the Demo- | cratic administration? What then was the fau't ot the Democrats in this matter that “well merited the dis- approbation of the couutry ?” It was the business depression and consequent hard times that aftected | the popular votes. Were the Demo- | crats responsible for that depres«ion? {t we are not mistaken the Times, dur ing the campaign, very properly repre- sented that the slump in business and the stringency in financial matters were chiefly caused by i jarious Re- publican fiscal leg slation and extrava- gant expenditures. According to its own argument the Democrats were not involved in the resporsibility for thig sination. They did their utmost to remedy this defective condition. At the earliest po-sib e moment they re- pealed the SmerMaN law that had helped to drain the treasury and had deranged the finances of the country. With commendable prompiness snd | with all the vig r they could com- mand, they pushed the passage of a reform tariff bill ; but if the reforma- tory provisions of that measure were curtailed and it was so delayed that its passage was not effected unul late in the Summer instead of early in "he Spring, it was because four or five Senaturs, whose action was repudiated by the sentiment ot the entire party, were traitors to the measure and the Republicans resorted to every obstacle that could possibly postpone its enact. ment. These being the facts connected with the situation that presented itself to the people for their verdict, what sense is there in the declaration of the Times that the Democrats “well merited the disapprobation of the country ?”' Such a loose assertion does not become a journal that claims to be a medium of correct political int rmation, —— Among these who are giving reasons for the Democratic defeat is Congressman HoLmaN, of Indiana who is himself one of the defeated. He presents rather a unique combina- tion of causes for the disaster, which he says were CLEVELAND'S Hawaiian policy, the hard times and the unpar- donable delay of Congress in passing the tarift bill. The third cause as- signed may be merged in the second, which was really the substantial cauce of the defeat. The times would not have been as hard at the time of the if the tariff bill had been passed last As to CLEVE- LAND's Hawaiian policy, itis doubt- ful whether anybody even thought of winter, What the average ve- ters had in their minds at the time they put in their ballots was the hard times, and too wany of them were made to believe that the Democratic party wag the cause of them. Paid Dearly for a Dinner. Now that the election is over, with the defeat of Hon. WiLLiam L. WiL- soN a8 one of its most unfortunate re- sults, that gentleman has time to con sider what it cost him to accept the hospitality of the London Chamber of Commerce. The dinner at which he was entertained by that body of Eng: lish businessmen proved to be a dear dinner to him, for there is scarcely a doubt that the use that was made of it in impressing the humbugable class ot West Virginia voters with the be- lief that Mr. WiLsoN had done some- thing highly inimical to American io- terests on that occasion, had the effect of turning enough votes agains: him to produce the small majority by which he was defeated. Hereafter Democratic statesmen should be shy of English dinners Re- publican leaders like BLaiNe and De PEW may put themselves around Brit. ish viands with impunity, but a Demo- crat of prominence accepts public bos" pitality in England at the risk of being charged with hostility to American in, dustry and ccnspiracy against the star spangled banner. When Mr. Witson received his in. vitation to that London dinner he should have sent his regrets in a note explaining the circumstances of his candidacy for re-election to Congress as a tariff reform Democrat He should have informed his would-be entertain- ers that his appearance at their board would set every Republican organ and spouter in the United Siates to work on the fool class of voters who could easily be made to believe that hs at- tendance at an entertainmeat given by London merchants was a surrender to British free irade, with such embellish- | ments #8 to the atrocity ot his conduct as conld be added by representing that tre had been bought with British gold. Ot course it would have been d:ffi "ealr to make those Englishmen under- ftan1 how such rot could atfect Ameri- | can votes, but every eleciion in which | the taritt i= involved proves that it has ! its effect, and Mr. WiLs N, considering the smallne-s of the majority against him, might have saved his election by declining the E ghsh entertainment, That dinnér wus a dear one to him, but it involved much more of a loss to the American people who have heen temporarily deprived of the service of one of the ablest and purest public characters that this conatry has ever produced. Dirty Gerrymandering. It is an unusual thing for a Repub- lican paper to condemn a bad practice that is an advantage to its party, but the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the lead- ing Republican journal of Missouri, does this unusual thing when it says that “gerrymandering is a dirty busi- ness,” and adviscg its party not to be encouraged to g» too heavily inta, that “dirty bus ness” by its recent sweep: ing victory. The Lancaster Examiner, another Republican paper endorses this expression, saying that in the long run gerrymandering does not pay, as the mass of the American people love fair play and justice, and have more than once upset a gerrymander. This 18 very pretty editorial senti- mest, but it is not likely to be carried out in Republican pr.ctice. At the last election the Republicans of New York actually engrafted this ‘dirty business’ into the State constitution by a provision that makes their present gerrymander unalterable for the next ten years, and no one need be surprised if some of the dirtiest work that was ever done in that line will be done by the Republicans at Harrisburg next winter, Already they are gloating over the opportunity of wiping out the only Democratic congressional district in Philadelphia, and it will be a mira- cle if in the passage of the apportion- ment bills they shall restrain their usual inclination to avail themselves of every mean advantage within reach. Their big majority will be easily con- strned by them as a justification for the “dirtiest” gerrymander that ever defeated the object of popular repre: sentation, —The Doylestown Democrat asks it- gelf “ean bank robberies be prevent ed ?”” Of course they can. Employ non churchmen and gamblers to run them. The modern embezzler is always reported as ‘a home mun, a church member who was not given to specula- tion.” _ An Edifying Spectacle. There was something interesting as well as instructive in the gathering of Republican State and local bosses in Philadelphia immediately after the election. Chief Boss Quay promptly made his appearance in the city which had outdone itself in rolling up a mam- moth Republican majority, and his ar- rival was the signal for the attendance of the more prominent ringsters who compose the Pailadelphia combine. The chief did not encourage too close an approach of the miscellaneous gang of understrappers, but withdrew to the geclusion of Dave MARTIN'S country seat, a short distance from the city, where only those henchmen most en- titled to his confidence by reason of superior service and efficiency ia run. ning the machine, were allowed to confer with him, No better place could have been se- lected for this symposium of machine politicians than that raral retreat to which MARTIN retires tor rest and recuperation when exhausted by the arduous duties which devolve upon the municipal ring that manages the city government for the personal profit of its members. An edifying spectacle is presented in the circumstance of Boss Quay, reputed to be a millionaire with no visible resoarces but such as are supplied by politics, calling his henchmen together at the suburban mansion of Dave MARTIN, who has no other apparent means of accumu'ation than those turnished by the opporiuni- ties of a machine politician. It was there that the head ringsters of the combine met to determine the use that should be made of the great popular verdict which, more complete- ly then ever, has placed the State and city governments in their hands. The business that then and there occupied their attention was the selection of the men who should compose the person- nel of Hastings! adminivtration, the choice of the officers of the next State Legislature, and the assignment ot candidates whom the citizens ot Phila” 'delphia will be allowed to elect at the , next municipal election. The incident is one that should fur- | nish food for edifying reflection to the | people of the State and the residen 8 of . Philadelphia. i Mistake of the Temperance Women. It is to be regretted that ladies en- gaged in 80 good a cause as that in which the W. C. T. U. are enlisted should display a lack of good sense in "treating the incident of Mrs. CLuve- LAND'S christening the ship St. Louis with a bottle of wine. It was a mis. taken zeal that prompted the temper- ance women to ask her not to use the liquid customarily vsed on such occa: gions, for she had been invited there not to introduce something new in the been the custom to haye it done ever since ships have been launched. She could not be expected to dictate to the shipbuilders that water should be substituted for wine in the ceremony. To ask her to do so was an attempt to put her in an awkward position. If this request received no recognition from her it was because it was unrea- sonable, and it is equally unreasonable for those who made it to become of- fended because no notice was taken of it. It there was a practical evil involv- ed in the christening of ships with wine the matter would be different, hut toe evil of liquor is entirely in the use that is made of it. Itis harmful to drink it, but is any harm done by spilling it over the bow of a ship? In tact the act of smashing a bottle of wine suggests the wmaaoner in which temperance people think such stuff should be treated. Mrs. CLEVELAND really typified the doctrine of the W- C. T. U.and yet they are unreasonable enough to be mad about it. ~—The Bellefonte man who had been home to vole, may not have been so far off after all when in his good Democrat- ic enthusiasm he swore ‘by heavens everybody up there's goin’ to vote for SiNGerLY. They certainly didn’t vote for HILL. LA TIA SCSI CIR. ——Now that the election is over prepare for winter and subscribe for the Warcauman, method of ship christening, but to do her part in the performance asit has working in New York State and came . In Times of Peace Prepare for War, From the New York Sun, In bis annual report, this year, Mr. Herbert has advieced Congress to au- thorize the construction ot three new battle ships and twelve torpedo boats. cure the favorable attention of Con- gress. Reckoning the Maine as a bat- tle ship, there are now built or build- ing two second-class and four first class battle ships, whereas the paval pro- gramme contemplates twelve as being necessary for the counry’s defence. was that of eupplying one of these bat tle chips at each ses-ion of Congress. For the last two years, however, no armored ship has been authorized, so that even it three were now ordered it would be only making up for arrears. Again the two great armor-produc- ing plants, the B:thlehem aud the Car- negie, established at much cost, have now nearly finished their contracts, and will have wholly finished them during the coming year. It is wise to continue armor construction now, s'nce sooner or later it must come, rather than to cause the ecatterinz ot the skilled workw.en ani the turning of the special appliances into other chaonels The same may be said of the great shipyards. As to torp-do boats, every new war, Cnilian, Br.zl- ian, or Corean, sdds practical proots of their value, and our country has but three of them built, and three oth- ers planned Ax to the question of expense, what- ever is needed for the country’s pro- tection should be supplied. Bat, be. sides, it happens that, after the next fiscal year’s needs for ship coustruc- falling oft ot over twelve millions the succeeding year. That resuls trom the tact that all the large ships bus one will have been finished. Hence Congress would be pertectly justified in authoriz nz two or three battle ships, nary payments on them for the tol lowing session. That course of post ponement may not be necessary ; but it unavoidable, there is precedent ror 1¢ in the case of our very last battle ship, the Towa. At all events, the work af rebuilding the navy, well carriel on luring the last twelve years, must not now be checked. Mr. Debs aud the People’s Party. From the Easton Sentinel. The People's party is here to stay, and in two years more will be tully equipped for the national contest. The Democratic party will never vet into power again as long as you and I live, It had its golden opportunity. It sur rendered to and did tne bidding of the money power, and the people ot this generation will not trust it again. [ "expect nothing from the Republican party. It is notoriou=ly the party of { plutocracy and the ghld bugs will I shape its policy and dictate its legisla- | tion. Tue People’s party is the only ‘party in which all the reform elements { ean unite and pull together. We have all got to put in our best efforts, and now is the time ro begin. The Political Weather Vane. From the Columbia Independent. Four years ago the Republicans were defeated in nearly every Northern State, and in the entire South with a popular maj rity of over a miliion against them. . In 1894 the Democrats have suffered a defeat of equal proportions, and no in telligent and dispassionate observer of political currents can to-day form any judgme t as to the verdict of the nation in 1896. The people have become cy- clonic in politics, and the socner the leaders of all parties learn that defeat must ever follow forfeiture of public confidence the sooner will parties be equipped to protect themselves against disaster. How Pennsylvania Voted on Coungress- men, From the Philadelphia Times. The officially received vote for the va- rious candiaates for Congress at the re- cent election in this State, as compiled at the State Department and sent out Saturday, gives the Republicans 574,- 778 of the whole number of 903,592 cast and the Democrats 828 819, a Republi- can plurality of 245954 The Prohibi- tion party polled 2480 votes less for candidates f.r Congress than for Gov- ernor, Hawley receiving 23,443 votes, and the People’s party Congressional vote is 6,292 less than that given Ail- man for Governor. Still Democrats Down There. From the Pittsburg Post. Sugar doesu’t count much in Louisi- ana when it comes to voting. The full returns ot all the congressional districts of the state at the late election show a Democratic majority on the total vote of the state ot 41,469. This was over the Republicans and the Populists. The lowest Democratic majority in a dig'rict was 5,644, and the highest 9,567. There was a light vote in three districts, but in the others, in and about New Orleans, the largest vote for years was polled. ——If you want printing of any dee- “cription the Warcnuan office is the " place to have it done. Such a recommendation should se- The policy adopted several years ago tion have been met, there will be a | and leaving most or all of the prelimi. Spawls from the Keystone, — Erie will havea new opera house. —Williamsport’s first toboggan slide is scheduled for this winter. —The Lehigh Valley Eisteddfod held its convention at Allentown on Thursday. —The State Treasurer has received $30 from some conscience-troubled per- son. . —The new Evangelical Schuylkill Semis nary will probably be located in Myers. town. —The new Lehigh Lutheran and Re. formed church, at Alburtis, was dedicated Sunday. —Two brothers named Sanders were . killed near Allentown on the Lehigh Val- ley road. . =—After quarreling with his mother-in. law, Charles Huey, of Reading, blew ou , his brains. ’ —W.K Mohler, of Allentown, is a lead. ing candidate for State Grand Warden of Odd Fellows. ; —Charles M. Leibensperger, aged 58 | years, of Maiden Creek fell from a trestle . and was killed. —Dubsite Evangelicals laid the corner stone of the new St. John's church, at Bethlehem, Sunday. —Daughtersof Liberty met at Pittsburg and resolved to form a State Council in Philadelphia yesterday. . —York is trying to raise $35,000 to secure a $6,000 textile mill, backed by Philadel- phians and to employ 2/0 hands, | —Governor Stone, ot Missouri, will *re. move Charles 8. Owsley, the fraudulent Recorder of Voters in Kansas City. { —Bishop Bowman conducted quarterly conference services in Emanuel Evan. ! gelical church, Catasauqua, Sunday. | —T.E. Tinney was Monday appointed fourth-class postmaster at Miles Grove, ~ Erie County, vice L H. Dailey, removed, | —George J. Brodbeck, of Tamaqua, res cently discharged by the Lehigh Coal Company, committed suicide by shoote ng. | —War Veteran John H Rice brooded over the suicide of hisson a year ago, at Reading, and on Saturday shot himself and died. One of the handsomest churches in | Central Pennsylvania —the new Metho- | dist edifice,ut Ashland —was consecrated Sunday. | —A boiler explosion at a Blackwood colliery Monday seriously injured Fire ma George Copeland and John Sherlock slightly. —T e Connellsville Brewery propriee ' tors seek to monopolize beer sales in Fay- ette county by arresting local agents of outsides breweries. — Fifteen hundred employes of the New York and Cieveland Gas ¢oal Company in Western Pennsylvania have been granted an increase in wages from 55 to 62 cents & ton. - Only four Esherites 'were left at Mohnsville to worship in the church that fell to them by the Supreme Court decise ion, and they have rented it to the School Board . —Ex Senator Kellogg of Louisiana. hag writien a caustic letter to the speech de. livered by W. 8. Parkerson, of New Or® lea », ut the Home Market Club banquet in Boston. —Ronert H White, a cabinet maker in the service of W. B. Crook, Williamsport, suddenly dropped to tie flyor of the workshop on Saturday morning, expiring almost instantly. —The bar-room of the Cambria house, at Ebensourg, kept by A. E. Bender. was entered by burglars Thursday night of last week and sone money and a quantie ty of liquor stolen. —Normal College Principal Walter H. Butler, of Oiew sin, La. has m,steriousl y disappeared. He is known us ‘Pansy Biossomn” Butler, having originated the idea to muke the pansy the national flower. —*I'll dare you to shoot!’ exclaimed William Young, colored, at whom Bob Key, a companion, .ad pointed an empty gun, in Bristol. Key put in a cartridge of shot and fired, shooting Youn in the arm and head. - Itis expected that the Everett blast furnace will be rea ly to start up abous the first of next month. A large amoun of coke, limestone and iron ore is on the grounds and everything is in readiness for the blowing in. —Frank Baill aged 17 years, son of David Ball, of i learfield, lett home Octo- ber 31, and up to the present his parents have no information concerning his whereabouts. He wore a dark suit, brown hat and shoes well worn. —Rev. Cornelia Rutser Lane, Ph. D. died Saturday morning at 5 o'clock, at his home in Chambersburg, atter being ill tor a week from pneumonia. Dr. Lane was porn in P uckamin N J., June 27, 182) s0 that he was in his 75th year. —P. J. Dietrick, the well known hard. ware dealerof Carrolltown. made an as- signment on Thursday, Joseph A. Gray, being appointed assignee. Mr. Dietrick’s embarrassment is said to have been caused by the hard timesand his inability to colleot outstand accounts, —A fire 'n Osceola on Wednesday night, of incendiary origin destroyed the oil and merchandise warehouse of Henry Liveright, the livery stable of P. Gallery, the private stabie of Dr. F. B Read, be- sides doing damage to the Episcopal church and nearby buildings —Dickinson college, at Carlisle, i3 to have a new building which will have about eight large and commodious recita- tion rooms, a hospital ward. several exece utive offices, a gymnasium for the young ladies who attend Dickinson and three finely furnished rooms for literary socie- ties, —On a Saturday while T. J. Bri:gs was putting a new roof on his home in Shir- leysburg, Huntingdon county, he acci- dentally left his hatchet fall and t struck his daughter Annis. who was in the yard, on the right arm, inflicting an ugly gashe 1t was a narrow escape trom death, as the hatehet fell within a few inches of her head. —Jacob Stoltz, a well known citizen of Chest township Cambria county, who on Friday night of last week suffered a para. lytic stroke died at his home at St. Boni fuceon Friday, aged about 67 y ears. He had been tor years a prominent farmer but not long ago sold his farm and moved to St. Boniface, where he had since lived re | tired.