flit
Seevve
3Y RP. GRAY MEEK
Ink Slings.
—The man who stands hard times
best is the one who sits down at the
free lunch counter most.
—Mr. QUAY has declared against ‘‘a
greater Pittsburg’’ and straightway the
Smoky city has declared for a lesser
QUAY.
—The CARLISLE currency bill met
its death blow soon after its being pre-
sented in the lower house of Congress,
HiLL goes on fighting the income tax
law and the Democratic demoralization
is complete.
—The Bethlehem, Pa., iron works
have received the contract to furnish the
armor plate for two new battleships for
the Russian navy. What say you to
this, Republicans, who bowled ageinst
the WiLson bill ?
—The Japs celebrated their many
victories over the Chinese at Tokio on
December 9th. There is every reason
to believe that the vanquished China-
men were equally delighted that the
celebration was held at home snd not
on their soil.
— WARWICK is a formidable name,
but just wait guntil the Democrats of
Philadelphia get a whack at the fellow
who is running for mayor down there
and all the traditions concerning the in-
domitable old English earl will be
knocked as high as GILROY'S kite.
—The fall of the French cabinet was
the sensational event on Monday. It
went down under a dispute on the
money question, but, thanks to the re-
cuperative powers of the French people,
a new one will be formed and the Re-
public wiil flow on as if nothing had
happened.
—The other evening, during a |Meth-
odist revival in Tyrone, the smell of
brimstone became eo strong that the
meeting became very panicky. The
members said they thought the place
was on fire, but we rather think the
smell of these satanic fumes, during &
strong Methodist sermon, was the cause
of their alarm.
—BiLL Cook, the western out-law,
was no sooner arrested than he began to
protest his innocence ot all the crimes
charged to him. Any lies on the part
of WILLIAM, at this juncture of the
game and in the face of western justice,
will only tend to hasten the day when
he’ll be consigned to a region where
he2’lljlearn whats in bis name.
—A Seaford, Del, man has written
the Philadelphia Record suggesting
that it advocate the abolishment of the
income tax and the adoption of a
tax on all unmeurried men. The idea is
not altogether & new one, but we'll bet
dollars to doughnuts that that fellow
has married the wrong girl and wants
to get even with bachelors, whom he
envies.
—1It is now Hastings, MAGEE and
MARTIN combining to down QUAY and
CaMERON. You can see it sticking out
everywhere among HasTINGS’ friends
who hope to give him ascendency in the
State overjthe two Senator bosses. Re-
lief from QUAY rule would certainly put
the people of the State under many
obligations to the new combine, but the
question arises : Will it be any better
itself ?
—Council is just as important a body
to Bellefonters as Congress is to the
United States. It should be seen to,
therefore, that the right men are elected
next month. A new member
must be elected from each ward.
‘Would it not be a wise plan, since so
many men in whom the people have
banked have fallen into bad ways after
their election, to choose new members,
whose residences are not on streets al-
ready represented in the municipal
body ?
—In his address before the students
of Cornell University, on Founder’s day
at that institution, CHARLES A. DANA,
editor of the New York Sun, took about
an hour in telling how a great newspa-
per is made. During the course of his
remarks he statedithal there are two
classes of newspapers : “One edited for
fools, the other for wise men.” Mr.
Dana, parenthetically remarked that it
required just as much brains for the one
as for the other. This statement was
doubtless made to set at ease any lurk-
ing suspicion his hearers might have
had as to the condition of the old man’s
ming.
—Senator J. P. S. GoBIN is receiving
the censure he so thoroughly deserves
for having introduced a resolution in
the Senate to postpone section on the
confirmation of several appointments
Governor PATTISON recommended just
before he retired. GOBIN is remember-
ed as the man who defeated the bill, of-
fered ut the request of the Grand Army
posts of the State, to prohibit the sale of
liquor on Memorial day and when his
character is viewed in the light of that
action it is readily seen how he could
become go little as to block the appoint-
ment ofimen to cffice, whose only dis-
qualifications are that they are not Re-
publicans.
Z
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Whitty
BELLEFONTE, PA., JAN. 18, 1895.
NO. 3.
What Two Months Have Brought About.
No one would have ventured to pre-
dict that within two months from the
time when the Republicans of *Phila-
delphia rolled up their biggest ma-
jority the leaders would get into a
fight among themselves that would
endanger the success of their party at
the next municipal election. Looking
from the standpoint of an 80,000 ma-
jority such a “calamity” scarcely ap-
peared to be within the range of pos-
sibility, and yet it was not unnatural
for the seeds of disruption to be contain-
ed in that big majority. It made the
leaders reckless aud contentious over
the prospective spoils of such an exces-
sive supremacy.
There are various theories as to the
cause of the disruption that made itself
boisterously manifest in the bitter fight
over the mayoralty nomination in the
city convention. The action of MAaRr-
iN and Porter is seid by some to
have had its motive in their determin"
ation to protect their interests in cer-
tain jobs with which they are person-
ally connected, PorTER being a part-
ver io the company that has control
of the asphalt paving bonanza. PEN-
ROSE, whom they turned down, was
not in sympathy with their jobbing in-
teres's; besides the course he took in
the Legislature for the abolishment of
the plundering Public Building’s Com-
mission made him objectionable to the
political contractors who hope to be
able to continue working that source
of municipal spoils, and in other re-
spects he has not the confidence of the
politicians whose living depends upon
the pilliage furnished by the different
departments of the city government.
There are $35,000,000 to be spent dur-
ing the coming year, as planned by the
lavish projects of the municipal ring.
sters, and with such a vast expenditure
supplying liberal percentage of pick-
ings and stealings, it wouldn’t do for
those practical politicians to run any
risk as to the Mayor that would best
sult their purpose. They didn’t have
cenfidence in PENROSE.
The nominating convention showed
how completely the Philadelphia Re-
publican organization is under the
control of its worst element as repre-
sented by Dave Martin. Two days
before the meeting there was every ap-
pearance that the sense of the party
was almost unanimously in favor of
Penrose. In one day Martin, Poz-
TER and a few more of the old com-
bine, for interested reasons, reversed
the popular choice and brought into
the convention a following of ward
workers sufficiently numerous to nom"
inate their man Warwick by a large
majority in spite of the howling, hiss-
ing and swearing of PENRO3E’s sup-
porters.
Here appears to be a breach in the
dominant party in Philadelphia that
offers the Democrats their opportun-
ity, and it would seem that the har-
monizing of the Democracy in that city
has been brought about just in time to
take advantage of this Republican dis-
sension,
——C. D. Ames, the newly elected
Republican Legislator from Clearfield
county, has introduced a bill into the
Legislature providing for the appoint-
ment of a State board of mediation for
the settlement of differences between
employers and employees. The prin-
cipal teature of the act seems to be the
creation of a commisgion of five men
who are to draw a salary of $3,000 per
annum and a secretary to do their
work for $2,500 per annum. Under
the bill witnesses would get $1.50 per
deim and 5 cents mileage, Mr. Amgs’
bill would be a great boon to the
horde of Republicans who have not
found a place yet, but it the Legisla-
ture, of which he is a member, would
enforce the semi-monthly payment law
and the abolition of company stores
there would be no need for it.
——The Philadelphia Press, having
lost its head over the Jdefeatof PENROSE
for the mayoralty nomination in thay
city, can’t get down to good support of
Warwick, but keeps within the traces
by trying to scare the Democrats. The
Press bugaboos will hardly save the
corrupt ring that is sacking support
from the Q uaker city.
—A full treasury at Harrisburg and a
full Republican Legislature. How long,
oh Lord, will the former last ?
Decreased Immigration,
The influx of the foreign element,
into this country is materially falling
off, the returns showing the number
of immigrants last year to have been
285,600, the smallest in fifteen years
and there are indications of a further
decline during the coming year.
This decrease is owing to various
causes. The depression of the indus-
tries in this country last year did much
to deter foreign immigrants from com-
ing this way, turning their attention to
other fields of employment. On this
account the stream set in the direction
of Argentina, South Africa and Aue-
tralia, where special eftorts were made
to attract it and in addition to this the
law againet undesirable immigrants
was more strictly enforced. There was
a closer watch kept on paupers, crim-
inals, anarchists, contract laborers,
and persons of that prohibited class
trying to emuggle themselves into this
country.
In a general sense the country will
be the gainer by a diminution of im-
migration. A very undesirable ele-
ment took advantage of the liberality
with which the American people wel-
comed all comers. Our hospitality
has been abused by a class who were
not calculated to make good and useful
citizens. Much of the labor trouble
sprang from this source. The thou.
sands of cheap workmen that were
brought here and put in competition
with American labor to increase the
profits of protected capital, have con-
tributed more than any other cause to
the conditions that have prodaced con-
tention between the employed class
and their employers, and they have
been the most troublesome element in
such distur bances.
The elimination of this kind of im-
migrants from the foreign influx is
something for which the country has
reason to be congratulated. We can
well do without them.
both an industrial and a social evil, as
well as an injurious political influence,
The country could not afford to sufter
this injury for the benefit of a limited
number of favored operators who
wanted the advantage of cheap labor
in addition to the advantage of tariff
protection. It is to be hoped that we
have seen the last laborers brought in.
to this country under contract to do
cheap work.
Quay Feels Aggrieved.
The feelings of the Boss have been
hurt, His former faithful henchman
Dave MARTIN has betrayed his confi-
dence ; in fact has broken entirely
away from his control, and his lamen-
tation about it is heard even in the
United States Senate.
Of all the understrappers whom
QuAY had to assist him in running his
Penngylvania machine none was con-
sidered more reliable than MARTIN,
and that he, after being so obedient a
tool, should now act contrary to the
will of the Boss, is a revelation calcu-
lated to astonish the public and excite
the anger of his discarded chief.
In the remarks which Quay’s indig-
nation impelled him to make in the
Senate on this subject he intimated
that Dave had become demoralized by
his connection with a corporation to
which he was bound by pecuniary ob-
ligations. The Senator was not explic-
it in naming the corporation that had
this pull on his disaffected subordinate,
but he may be supposed to have meant
the Philadelphia Traction company.
Though the case is onethat givesthe
Senator reason to be incensed, it serves
a purpose in showing that even with
the most skillfully arranged party ma-
chinery the cog wheels and pullies are
liable to get out of order.
In cutting loose from Quay and set
ting up for himself as boss of Philadel:
phia Dave MARTIN exhibits the effect
political power has had in swelling: his
head. His upper story has been ab:
normally enlarged. His importance
has increased with the affluence that
attends the machine method of ran-
ning a city government. Asphalt has
been too rich for his blood. He exalts
his horn above his fellow ringsters
and claims the allegiance of hench-
men who heretofore knew no other
master than Quay. No wonder the
chief Boss feels aggreived, and it will
be interesting to see what he is going to
do about it.
They involved
State Rights.
The Philadelphia Zimes, in trying to
be complimentary to President CLEVE-
LAND, makes a bad break when it says,
concerning his sending troops to Chi-
cago at the time of the railroad strike,
that “he was brave enough to extin-
guish in one hour the lingering dregs
of State rights.”
The President's action on that occa-
sion did not have the effect ascribed to
it by the Zimes, nor was it intended to
have such an effect. Mr. CLEVELAND
is too good a patriot, and has too clear
an idea of what is due the States in
their sovereign capacity, to entertain the
design of extinguishing State rights.
His action had no other object than
to give the mails that protection and
the interstate commerce law that en-
forcement which were not afforded by
the authoritfes of the State of Illinois,
and in doing this he acted within the
limit of his constitutional power, with-
out infringing upon the right of the
State.
How then can it be said that his ac-
tion in that instance extinguished
State rights, and what sense is there
in using the epithet “lingering dregs,”
as if the quality of sovereignty, which
from the very nature of our federal
government belongs to the States,
were an evil to be gotten rid of ?
Of late years it has grown to be the
custom to speak of the States as if
they no longer had any sovereign
rights. There is a growing idea that
they are mere provinces belonging to
and controlled by the centralized pow-
er of the general government. The
old intention of the founders that the
States should retain an autonomous
sovereignty, with all rights and powers
reserved except those specifically
granted to the federal authority for
the purpose of general administration,
is being looked upon as obsolete.
Even the Zmes seews to look at it as
a “dreg’” that should be ‘“‘extinguish-
ed.” But it makes a mistake in as
cribing to President CLEVELAND an in
tended violation of the principle upon
| which our federal government is found-
ed. Heis not that kind of a Presi-
dent.
——The Republicans having secur-
ed control of the Legislature of West
Virginia, the election of a millionaire
to the United States Senate from that
State is the natural result. The sena-
torial position is given to Steve Er-
KINS, the richest man in the State,
and one of the leading plutocrats of
the party. No difficulty whatever
was experienced by the Republican
legislative majority in handing over to
him the high office which he had pur-
chased by frequent and liberal contri-
butions of campaign boodle, and also,
no doubt, by a judicious expenditure
of cach among the Republican mem-
bers for their individual pecuviary ad-
vantage. The latter is a part of the
programme that is usually observed in
the process of elevating a millionaire
to the United States Senate. If the
Repnblican custom of selling the Sena-
torial toga is not checked the upper
branch of Congress will soon be chiefly
composed of men who have the money
to make the purchase.
—— The disruption that has occur-
red in that gang of municipal plurder-
ers known as the Philadelphia com-
bine is said to have been brought
about by a misunderstanding in regard
to the street paving epoile. Some of
the gang became jealous of others who
had control of the asphalt job out of
which they were accumulating wealth
that was calculated to excite envy.
There were other stealings the appor-
tioning of which among the confeder-
ates did not.render satisfaction. When
such a thievish alliance as this exists
its dissolution is only a question of
time. A fight over the swag is pretty
sure to break it up, affording another
illustration of the maxim about thieves
talling out.
——-The Altoona Tribune accuses
its party of making an ass of itself in
permitting such a condition of affairs
that there should have been eight
thousand applicants for the thirty four
offices at Governor Hastings’ disposal.
The Tribune takes a sensible view of
the affair, but we are surprised that it
has not awakened to the fact long ago,
that Republicans are only in politics
for what they get out of it.
Another Currency Bill and What Dana
Thinks of It.
From the New York Sun.
The Currency bill which has been
concocted by Senator Jones of Arkan-
8ag, as a substitute for the detunct Ad-
ministration measure, is a decided
change for the worse. Instead of in-
flation by paper it would give us infla-
tion by silver ; and if it becomes a law
it will prove equally fatal to the main-
tenace of gold payments.
Mr. Jones, imdeed, proposes to fund
the legal tender notes into interest bear-
ing bonds, and thus to retire them from
circulation ; but since he also proposes
to supply their place with an equal
amount of bank notes based upon the
bonds, he leaves undiminished the
volume of paper money liable to de-
mand for redemption in gold, and only:
transfers the burden of redeeming the
notes from the broad and strong
shoulders of the national Government
to 3,750 puny little banks scattered
over the country, and acting not as a
united organization, but in positive an-
tagonism, to each other. On top of
this he would create an indefinite
amount of paper representing silver
dollars, which unless they are kept at
par with gold will drive it out of use as
money altogether.
How enormous a financial disturb.
ance would be occasioned by an at-
tempt to carry this scheme into effect
it is impossible to compute. It would
upheave our present currency system
from its very foundations. The fund.
ing of $500,000,000 of greenbacks and
Treasury notes is of itselfa gigantic
task, and the coining of an indefinite
amount of silver dollars opens an illi-
mitable vista of monetary revolution.
The substitution of silver certificates
for all the paper now in use of a less
denomination than $20, for which the
scheme also provides, would be a less
evil, but it still would, for a time,
cause coneiderable trouble.
It is said that the Administration |
favors the passing of this new bill in!
preference to the passing of none at
all. After the exhibition it has made
of its folly and incompetence in regard
to the subject, its commission of such a
fresh act of foolishness is not improba-
ble. But what will the Democrats in
Congress and throughout the country
say to it ?
A Good Man is Always Needed Some-
where.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
The Philadelphia Times brings out
ex-Governor Pattison as a candidate
for Mayor ot that ringriddeu city,
and announces that the tax-payers
turn to him to save them from the
ballot and municipal thieves. We
think this the proper thing to do, aud
ifthe citizens know what's good for
them, they will nominate and elect
him, This would be the first step toward
municipal reform, and a “Lexow Com-
mittee” would follow just as sure as
the sun is to rise, We shall wait and
gee,
They Are Safe at Least.
From the Clearfield Raftsman’s Journal.
Ao unexpected, though not large,
item of expense has arisen in the In-
diana County judicial contest. It is
thought now that the ballot boxes,
which are locked in a cell of the jail,
cannot be obtained iu time for the
Fevruary elections, and the Commis-
gioners have made arrangements to
purchase new ones for all the districts
in the county.
Some Party Must Do It.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The President is reported to have said
to a Democratic Congressman a few
days ago that, reluctant as he was to
call an extra session and have Republi-
cans deal with a question the Democrats
themselves should dispose of, he could
‘see no other way out of it,” provided,
of course, all attempts at action by
Democrats failed.
Build Up The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege Then.
From the Pittsburg Times.
Gov. Hastings hopes to see the day
when every boy and girl in this State
can have a “thorough preparation for
any calling or profession as free from
cost in the higher branches as are the
rudiments now in our township
schools.” Amen, brother !
arr —————
A Trio of Advantages.
From the Easton Argus.
Alliterations have blasted the hopes
of several great men. Congreesman
Sibley’s three B’s—*brains, belly and
brass,” are not liable to result in any-
thing serious nor outlive the mowmen-
tary sensation, but surely that is not
his fault.
He Wants to Get Even Some Way.
From the Easton Sentinel.
In his anoual message Gov. Waite,
of Colorado, recommends the abolition
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Pittsburg’s $4,000,000 bond issue will
be voted January 26.
—John Murphy, of Ashley, was proba=-
bly fatally stabbed in a free fight.
—Reuben Blakeslee,a well known young
man, of Plymouth, has been missing for a
week.
—Ephraim Hetrick, aged 70, was killed
by a train near Klapperthal, Berks
county.
—At Milton the United Evangelicals
bought one of their surrendered churches
for $800.
—Allentown plumbers have organized
for mutual protection and the regulation
of prices.
—Easton has decided not to increase its
indebtedness by constructing its own
waterworks.
—Out of 159 applications for licenses in
Clearfield county Judge Gordon granted
95 on Saturday.
—The wife of ex-Judge Sadler, of Cum-
berland county, died on Thursday, after
a short illness.
—After having been thoroughly remod
eled. the English Baptist church, of Shen.
andoali, was reopened Sunday.
—The Juniata county farmers’ institute
will meet in Mifflintown Tuesday and
Wednesday, February 12 and 13.
—Judge Doty, in Greensburg, Monday,
sentenced to death John Good who shot
Mack Slaughter at Alice Mines.
—John Mack, aged 65, a track repairer,
was stricken with apoplexy in the yards
at Mt. Carbon Saturday and died.
—William Webber was sentenced to
death in Reading Monday. for the murder
of his father-in law, Justice Klemmer.
—The Lehigh Valley Newspaper Writ.
ers’ Club held its winter meeting and
banquet in Allentown Saturday night.
—John A. Warner, of West Reading,
was arrested at Pottstown on a charge of
bigamy and committed tojail in Reading.
—Mechaniesburg Council, for $500, has
granted a company the privilege of
stringing wires for introducing electric
light.
—Two passenger coaches were overs
turned and baggage master Woodfile was
severely injured in a collision at Connells
ville.
—Orders were issued on Saturday by
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
to close their shops at Connellsville until
February 1.
—The Schuylkill county Grand Jury
has found a true bill against Charles
Bowser, colored, charged with the mur-
der of Thomas F. Burke.
~The antikissing club that was organs
ized by some Clearfield young ladies is
now reduced to two members, and they
are of the opposite sex.
—The miners of Luzerne County will
petition the Legislature to have the two.
weeks’ pay bill so amended thata penal-.
ty will go with its violation.
—David Mussleman, accused of abe
sconding with funds of the York Cigar.
makers’ Union, of which he was treas-
urer, was arrested in Mary and Monday.
—William Martin and George Derr were:
overcome by gas while looking for a leak
in a South Sixth street residence in Read-
ing, and Martinis in a critical condition,
- Charles Rowe was knocked down on
North Queen street, Lancaster, and robe
bed of a gold watch and some money, and
the thief, William McClosky, was locked
up.
— Anonymous letters threatening death
by shooting, have been received by Dr
Thomas G Fox, ex-Prothonotary William
H. Ulrich and Lawyer Frank J. Shaffner,
of Lebanon.
—By the breaking of the billet shears in
the bloom mill in the Edgar Thompson
Steel Works, at Braddock, 2000 men are
thrown out of employment until repairs
can be made.
—The prize watch offered by Fish Come
missioner Ebal, for the largest salinon
caught during the season, was given to
Henry Coder, of Williamsport. iis fish
weighed 9 pounds 4 ounces.
—Ben Day disturbed a Salvation Army
meeting at Wilkesbarre by singing Bow.
ery songs, and in the fight which fol.
lowed an attempt to eject him, Day had
part of his right ear bitten off.
—dJohn Reim, district president of tha
United Mine Workers of America. has s
sued a circular calling on the anthraci. !
miners to send delegates to the conve
tion in Pottsville on January 25.
—Attorney General Hensel has applie:.
to the Dauphin county court for a rule
dissolving the Provident Bicycle Asso.
ciation. of Philadelphia, for doing an in-
surance business without a charter.
—Residents of Ralpho township, North.
umberland county, hanged School Direc-
tor McWilliams in effigy because he disre-
garded their wishes regarding the loca-
tion of the public schools in Elysburg.
—Superintendent Schwab, of the Car
negie Steel Works, at fiomestead, Mon.
day discharged 100 employees who on
Sunday attended the public meeting
which decided in favor of reorganization.
—James Burke, of Philadelphia,
smashed a plate glass window in the
store of Williamson & Foster, Lancaster,
Monday morning, and was in the window
providing himself with an outfit when ar-
rested.
—True bills have been found against
Supervisor Mason and Auditors John
Tray, James Conner and John Hagen, of
East Norwegian township, Schuylkill
county, charged with illegally drawing
large sums of money from the Treasury.
—Owing to the continued illness of
President Judge Pershing and the long
criminal list, Judge Savidge, of North
umberiand, will assist Judges Bechtel
and Weidman in trying cases this week
in the Schuylkill county court.
—Bassler Boyer filed a bill in equity I
Lebanon Saturday, charging Joseph }
Meily, one of the partners of the Unio
Brewing Company, with having appr
priated $20,000 to his own use while acti:-
of capital punishment, and says; “I
suggest s a substitute that the most |
hardened criminals be compelled to |
run as candidate for some State office.” !
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Get In the Field ‘Robert—We'll Be For
You Too.
From the Connellsville Courier.
Governor Pattison goes out of office
a bigger man than ever. He's big
enough new to be President.
as managing, receiving and disbursi
partner.
—Mary Geesey,
a demented woo
| who was formerly an inmate of the I:
county almshouse, but who had laut
, made her home with Seth Campbell,
| farmer at the foot of Brush
about four miles from this city. wander:
mounta:
away from her home Sunday during t
storm, and when found on the mount:
this evening was frozen to death.