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Demorratc Watdmone
BY =>.
GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The real question now-a-days is:
Is it warm enough for you?
—The Japs are still plugging awey
at the Chinese and the latter are being
perforated about as rapidly as the
Mikado’s guns go off.
— Senator JONF's currency bill is des-
tined to newspaper notoriety only. It
begins to look as if it would never bein-
troduced into Congress.
—To-morrow evening Democrats
should turn out to their crucuses every-
where. We must be up and doing else
we will surely be “done.”
—The Japanese cry now is: On to
Pekin. Their foemen are giving
very
little attention to peekin just now, they : the instrumentality of an immense
find their whole attention taken up in:
making tracks.
—The Republican Legislators in
Pennsylvania are making a great stab
at fooling the people into thinking they
are going to do something. Enough
bills have intrecduced already to
plaster the Stato from one end to the
other.
been
——Anatomisls say that a woman’s
height should be six times the length of
her foot. Is this so? It ssems to us
Chicago women have never been noted
as being abnormally tall and as there is
no denying the size of their feet, they
must all fall more or less short of the
ideal conformity.
Hawaii is trying to enlist Uncle
SAM’s sympathies by letting on she is
afeaid of Japan. The revolutionists in
LILIOUAKALANI'S country are bound
that we get entangled in the embroglio
in one way or another. About the
gurest way for us to get out of it is to
keep away from Hawaii.
—There is an experiment in process
that has for its result the hops of com-
pressing wine in cakes. Should the
thing succeed there will be more ‘‘win-
ners’ than ever in the world, that is, if
every one who “takes the cake” would
be looked upon in the light of past in-
terpretation of the slang expression.
—Every time CLEVELAND looks at a
Senator or Congressman now-a-days it
ig said there is new financial legislation
on foot. He and JouN SHERMAN took
a drive together on Sunday and now ev-
ery one thinks the Ohio Senator is to
be numbered among the Cuckoos. As
if Grover would talk shop on the
Sabbath day.
—AMELIA BLOOMER died at Council
Bluffs, [owa, one day last week. She
was one of the first woman’s rights agi-
tators and is said to have been the first
to introduce reform garments for wom.
en, hence their name bloomers.
AMELIA has left a monument behind in
“ the bloowers that will attract more at-
tion than a statue of bronze would.
—The Brooklyn street railwaymen
who are on a strike have so completely
tied up the trolleys in the city of
churches that none of the lines are run-
ning and everybody walks. There is
one thing about a trolley line that is al-
ways sure of being let alone and that is
the electricity bearing wire. Strikers
need no instructions from the police to
keep “hands off’ of it.
—The fact that many of the ablest
constitutional lawyers in Philadelphia,
and among them several noted Republi-
cans, have declared that Governor PaT-
TISON is eligibla to the office of mayor
of that city is the best of evidence that
the best people of the city are combin-
ing to find 2 candidate who will nip
MARTIN'S embryo boss sprout before it
even sends out cotyledons.
—The poor department of the
borough of Bellefonte needs investiga-
tion. When the Danville insane
aslyum refuses to take any more of our
patients because we have not paid for
those already there it is high time to be
looking into matters, Mr. McCLURE,
there is something wrong. Why did
you lay a double millage in 1891 to pay
off all outstanding indebtedness if you
have not done it ?
—The great cry of distress that
comes from the destitute tarming re-
gions of Nebraska, where thousands of
heads of horses and cattle and many
human beings are actually starving to
death, is meeting with a hearty re-
gponse in the more prosperous parts of
the country. The great train loads of
provisions that are daily steaming
westward to succor the destitute, ere
beautitul manifestations of “man’s hu-
manity to man.”
—The question as to Governor PaAT-
TISON’s eligibility to the office of mayor
of Philadelphia seems to be a last straw
at which the new Republican combine
in that city is clutching for salvation.
The good people of the Quaker city are
rising in righteous indignation at at.
tempts of the MARTIN — PORTER combi-
nation to entrench themselves behind
the city’s public works, where they can
continue their peculations at will. PaT-
TISON’S election will save Philadelphia
millions of dollars.
VV’
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 40
BELLEFONTE, PA. JAN. 25, 1895.
NO. 4.
Pattison for Mayor.
The nomination of ex-Governor Pat
mison for Mayor by the Democrats of
Philadelphia offers to the people of
that city a chance to overthrow the
ring of politicians who have managed
to plunder the city taxpayers through
partisan wajority from which they
derive their civic authority.
Party feeling is the sentiment which
these ringsters have taken advantage
But
the large majorities that have been at
ot to keep themselves in power.
their command have made them reck-
less in converting the municipal gov-
ernment into a source of personal profit,
and encouraged them to assume the
right to distribute the offices among
their retainers.
The city for too long a time patient-
ly submitted to their organized system
or spoliation, but when at their last
powinating convention they displayed
in an unusually offensive manner their
determination to have the offices filled
exclusively by incumbents who would
be serviceable in carrying out their
policy of plunder, a revulsion of feel-
ing was produced in their own party
which will array thousands of Repub-
lican voters againet the ticket set up
by the machine politicians and the
street railway and other corporations
that have entered into a corrupt com-
bination to control the city govern-
ment and use it for their mutually
mercenary advantage.
Indignation and disgust have been
excited even among the Republicans
of the city, who are usually influenced
by the claims of party allegiance, and
in such a revulsion of feeling it some-
times happens that a man is presented
suitable to the emergency. That man
in this case is Roserr E. PATTISON.
The people of Philadelphia remember
how he was called to the Controllership
when the city treasury was being made
the spoil of jobbers; how he exposed
and corrected their corrupt practices,
and conducted that branch of the city
government upon the principles of pub-
lic honesty and for no other object
than the public service. They aleo
know that in the high office of Gov-
ernor his conduct was directed by no
other motive than to so administer the
State government as to promote the
general interest of the people.
The corrupt condition of the Phila-
delphia city government calls for such
a men in its highest office to correct
the prevailing civic demoralization.
The Democrats have presented him for
this emergency, and we believe that
enough Republicans to elect him will
vote for Roperr E. ParrisoN from a
conviction that he is needed in the
Mayor's office to relieve the city of the
bad government by which it has been
too long afilicted.
The Dark Cloud at the Inauguration.
It was rather an inauspicious coinci-
dence that at the very moment Gov-
ernor HasTINGs was being inaugurated
his party in the city which gave him
the biggest majority it ever gave any
Republican candidate. was being ripped
up the back by a bitter feud among its
leaders. This coincidence was of a
sufficiently gloomy character to cast a
shade over the inaugural festivities,
and to fill the gubernatorial mind, at
the very threshold of his administra-
tion, with forebodings of future trou-
ble.
That such a spectre should have ap-
peared at the feast was a sad com-
mentary on the instability ot political
situations. The new Governor's sky
had been tinted with uo other than the
rosiest colors ever since the election.
His cup of political happiness was as
tull as a 240,000 majority could make
it. Never before was everything as
lovely or the goose hung as high for an
iccoming Governor, and he looked for-
ward to his inauguration with no rea.
son to fear that anything of a dis
agreeable nature would mar the pleag-
ure of the occasion.
Very much, therefore, like a dark
cloud the Philadelphia rupture intrud-
ed iteelt upon the inaagural horizon.
It presaged the breaking up of the
party machine in that city. It fore-
shadowed the overthrow of a supremacy
which through corrupt means had
added thousands to the Republican
majority inthe State. It indicated even
a possibility of the Democrats carrying
the very strong-hold of Pennsylvania
Republicanism. These were premoni-
tions that were calculated to detract
from the pleasurable emotions of the
new Governor at the movement of his
official exaltation.
Reforming Democratic Rules.
The Democracy of Philadelphia are
to be congratulated oun the movement
they have made towards allaying the
tactional differences that for some years
have divided them.
Much of the discontent that disturb-
ed and weakened the party in that city
came from objectionable features in the
rules that governed the organization.
The complaint was that there was not
allowed sufficient popular expression
in the nominating conventions.
was not close enough connection be
tween the voters and the power that
made the nominations.
Here in the country the Democrats
in every voting precinct hold their
primaries and elect their delegates who
go directly into the conveations and
carry out the will of their constituents.
The party rules in Philadelpbia made
no provision for such direct representa
tion, There were no delegates going
directly from the voting division to the
convention, The voters of the divis-
ions were allowed representation in
intermediate ward conventions, and it
was the latter that selected the del
‘egates that nominated the party tickets.
There was an intermediary power be-
tween the voters and the nominating
function, giving, cause for the com-
plaint that it was too often perverted
to boss purposes. It was certainly con-
trary to the Democratic idea of popu-
lar sovereignty, and if there was rea.
son tor dissatisfaction in the party in
Philadelphia it was not necessary to go
further than this to look for it.
This, however, is to be all changed,
and it is certainly high time that it
should be. The factions have gotten
together and agreed upon a change of
the rules, There will be division repre-
sentation, There will no longer be
intermediate manipulation of delegates
by ward bosses, as the voters will take
a direct hand in choosing their repre-
sentatives in the nominating conven:
tions. This is onthe reform programme,
and it is to be hoped that it will be
perfected, for not only the party in the
city, but the Democracy of the entire
State has suffered from the bad shape
in which the organization has been in
Philadelphia.
Infant Protection.
In the resurrected circular which we
published two weeks ago, issued iu 1842)
by Pennsylvania iron mannfacturers
asking Congress to promote their in-
dustry by tariff coddling, they put the
amount of protection they needed at
the modest figure of 20 per cent. ad
valorem.
Surely if an industry ever needs tariff
protection it needs it most in its in-
fancy, and those old ironmasters
thougnt that their infant could get
along very well with a sucking-bottle
of moderate size. And it did thrive
and became strong and lusty under the
low tariffs of those early days. The
greatest proportionate development of
the iron business, and of every other
branch of industry in this country,
was made under a moderate Democratic
revenue tariff.
But eventually the requirements of a
war period called for higher fiscal
duties. Iron manufacturers, as well as
others, began to taste the sweets of 40,
60 and even 100 per cent. protection,
as the Republican Congress kept on
increasing their bounties, and they
grew fat and saucy upon the rich prov-
ender they fed on until they contracted
the presumptuous belief that the only
duty of Congress was to pass tariff laws
for their benefit. The ironmen of 1842,
in the infancy of the business, asked
for what they no doubt considered
amply sufficient for their protection—
20 per cent ad valorem. The ironmen
of to-day, with their business endowed
with all the advantages of full maturity,
are scarcely satisfied with anything
hort of prohibition duties.
It is hardly necessary to say that
duties above 20 per cent. for the pro-
tection of any industry is unwarranted
largess to a favored class and an im:
position upon the public. It is the
purpose of the Democratic tariff policy
to prevent such favoritism and to ter-
minate such imposition.
In another part of this paper
will be found the Democratic county
committeemen for 1895. It is not too
soon. Let us get together and make our
organization invulnerable.
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Personating a Dead Veteran.
The frauds practiced under the pen-
gion laws are of varicus kinds accord
ing to the circumstances that furaish
the opportunity for that method of
swindling the government. Among the
many cases of this form of traud the
{one which the Northumberland county
Democrat mentions as having been re-
cently discovered in that county, dis
plays unusual boldness on the pari of
the fraudulent claimant, and astonish-
ing carelessness in those whose official
business it iz to prevent the success of
dishonest pension claims.
it appears that in 1862 JosepH CoN-
RAD, & young man belonging to one of
the townships of that county, enlisted
in the military services, and after hav-
ing served bis time at the front was
honorably discharged; but scon after
his return home down
with smallpox and died. His remaine
were interred in the cemetery of the
neighborhood of which he was a resi-
dent.
The body of the veteran had been
peaceluliy resting in the grave for more
than twenty-five years when it occurred
to a cousin of this defunct hero, whose
name was also Josepn CoNrap, that
the military record of his deceased rela-
tive might be turned to pecuniary ac-
count in the shape of a pension. As a
living soldier he had been of service to
his country. As a dead soldier why
shouldn't he be ot service to his sur-
viving relative 2 Such, no doubt, was
the view of the case taken by the liv-
ing JosepH, and acting upon it he con-
cluded, about two years ago, to per-
sonate his departed cousin and reap a
reward for service done oa the field of
battle by-one who had long since gone
to the eternal camping ground. He
applied tor a pension as Josep Con-
RAD, & member of Company C, 131st
Pennsylvania Volunteers. The pen-
sion authorities at Washington found
that a person of that name had been a
memberof that company and had been
honorably discharged, and accordingly
supplied the claimant with the nec-
essary blanks.
The personator had the address to
he was taken
secure witnesses who identified him as | find a parallel in China.
Josepu CoNraD, which was correct so |
was concerned. A
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far as the name
justice of the peace was unsuspicious
or indifferent enough to fill out his
papers, and he was entirely successful
in passing the ordeal of the medical
pension board at Sunbury, although he
lived but a few miles from that town in
the country where all his neighbors
knew that he wasn’t the Jor CoNrAD
who had fought for the old flag, and
would have been greatly surprised as
well as scandalized, if they bad learn-
ed that he was applying for the pen-
sion of a veteran, as they bad never
known him to have done even as much
as pull a trigger in his country’s cause.
His claim was allowed at Washing-
ton ; one hundred dollars back pay was
the immediate compensation he re.
ceived from Uncre Say, with the al-
lowance of $18 for each month there-
after for the term of his natural life.
The bogus veteran was in clover until
his neighbors began to discover that
he was drawing 2 monthly remunera-
tion, for military service which they
knew he had never performed. Then
there was a fuss in that vicinity. He
was exposed as a fraud who had passed
himself off for the soldier CoNRAD,
whose grave had been decorated an-
nually for a quarter ot a century, and
it wasn't long before this false claimant
upon the gratitude of his country found
himself nnder arrest. He is now in the
Sunbury jail awaiting such action as
the law provides for such an offense.
We allude to this fraudulent pension
case on account of some of ite peculiar
circumstances ; but in point of fraud
it is no worse than thousands that have
occurred under loose pension laws that
actually invite dishonest claims.
In an argument proceeding held
before Judge Love, on Mooday, that
official made a ruling on the “Howard
church case” that seems to those, who
understand the complications arising
from this litigation, to be characterized
by exceptional favoritism. = The
new Judge had been an attorney in the
case before his elevation to the bench
and that he should make a ruling in
favor of his colleague in the case so
goon after his advent as judge leaves a
suspicion that there may bave been
considerable partiality in the ruling.
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Don’t Deface the Ballot.
from the Lock Haven Democrat.
In the contested election case for
“Spawls from the Kovstone
—Caught'by conveyorsat Cameron Col-
liery, near Shamokin, Richard Gillam
was mangled to death.
—While Edward Plutto, of near Hunt-
ingdon, was coasting his sled ran into a
stone fence and his skull was crushed.
—The Elk tanning company has pur-
chased the Everett tannery, for many
years owned and operated by M. D. Barn-
dollar.
—Congress Monday passed the bill ap-
priating £62,000 for a public building at
Pottsville, Pa. This city is in great
luck.
—William Lane, of Bradford, was
crushed to death between the coal shute
and the tender while coaling an engine at
Lane’s Mills.
—Clearfield county will have four weeks
of court during the February term and
school directors, appealed from the!
quarter sessions of Lawrence county, |
the supreme court, in an opinion by:
Chief Justice Sterrett, has settled an |
important question as to the manner
in which persons, who are not named
upon the official ballot, may be voted
for.
The facts are these : At the elec
tion held in Lite Beaver township, in
February, 1894, many of the electors
procured printed bianket slips contain-
ing the names of the persons to be vot-
ed for, the titles of the offices, ete.
These slips they pasted on the right
hand column of the official ballot,
which was devoted to blank spaces,
and when thus pasted they obliterated
all the titles ot offices, the directions
for marking. etc., upon the official bal-
lot and substituted like matters which
were printed upon these slips. Cross
marks were also made opposite certain
names in this eolumn.
A contest arose and the court below
decided that the ballots so pasted and
marked were illegal. An appeal was
then taken to the supreme court. In
sustaining the lower court, Justice
Sterrett quotes extensively from the
ballot law, and in the substances de-
cides that while the use of stickers is
legal they must not be so large as to
conceal the matter printed upow the
official ballot.
LRTI TLCS
Immigration Falling Off.
From the Altoona Times.
It is a very easy matter to rail
against congress for refusing to modify
the Jaws regulating immigration into
the United States, but those persons
who think there should be a modifica-
tion ought to be gracious enough to
let us know what changes are wanted.
For our part we think that little
change is needed. The inflax of for-
eigners into this country is not exten-
sive at the present time and, while it 1s
true that the falling off has been pro-
duced by the hard times prevailing
in the United States, it is not likely
that the immigration figares will ever
again attain such large proportions as
they have been in the past. Further
than a rigid inspection of ail those
coming into the country and the exclu-,
sion of paupers, criminals and similar
undesirable classes what other restrie-
tions can be imposed ? Ts Bodblute pro-
hibition of immigration asked? We
do not believe that a majority of our
people desires anything of the kind.
It would be a barbarous regulation: and
a species of legislation that could best
We want
good immigration laws the same as we
want good laws on every other subject,
takes the advice of the eranks who are
always ready to offer their crude
views.
ETAT GOS RR
The World 1s Full of Such Fellows.
From the York Gazette. :
We publish in another column an
interview with Edison, the great in-
ventor and electrician, on the subject
of electricity as a profession.
His wise words, however, apply to
all professions and eallings, Perbaps
the best of all the good advice he gives
is when he says : “Obtain an educa-
tion in a live concern at anything and
never mind the clock.”
Success is not for the boy or man to
whom work or effort is irksome, who
drops everything at the stroke of the
hour and grabs his hat and runs, who
is afraid that be may possibly be do-
ing too much work for his wages or
salary.
Such a man will always work by the
hour and after a time wili find employ-
ment only after men who “never mind
the clock’ are taken care of.
Mr. Edison has compressed the
secret of success into these four words.
Dana Is Right in This.
From the New York Sun.
When the Brooklyn trolley men
prove that their strike is a strike, and
not = riot, then the public may be able
to consider their statement that the in-
tolerable outrage of a stoppage in
Brooklyn's street-car traffic must be
ascribed to the companies rather than
the strikers. While an extra policeman
or a single soldier has to be on duty to
keep the peace, all other questions and
sentiments must stay swallowed up in
indignation at the threat of violence.
rn TE ————
Jaw Breakers For You,
From the Student.
Below are the nine longest words in
the English language at the present
writing :
Subconstitutionalist.
Incomprehensibility.
Philoprogenitiveness.
Honorificibilitudinity.
Anthropophagenarian.
Disproportionableness.
Velocipedestrianistical.
Transsubstantiationableness.
Proantitransubstantiationist.
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Right You Are, Mr. Gates.
From the Bellefonte Daily News. :
Representaiive Lawrence, of Wash-
ington county, thinks the State College
too highly favored with state appro-
priations, If Mr. Lawrence could visit
the College he might change his atti-
has had sixty-seven divorce eases in three
years and a half.
—Uwing 10 the prevalence of scarlet
feverand diphtheria at Huntingdon Fur-
nace, Huntingdon County, the town has
been quarantined,
—Brakeman Harry Brandt, aged 25
slipped under the wheels of a car at
York and had both legs cut off. He died
a few hours later.
—The Pennsylvania State College EXx-
periment Station, is trying to ascertain
means of raising tobacco in such a way as
to improve its flavor.
—Owing to a difference between the
Mineral Mining Company and the: Penn-
gylvania Coal Company, the new shaft
at Scott, 450 feet deep, has been aban-
doned.
—Patrick Elliott. who stole three silver
and two gb6ld watches from Thomas D.
Bergan, of Pottsville, and pawned them
in Philadelphia, was arrested at Tren-
ten, N. J.
—DBishop O’Hara’s circular, embodying
the views of the Pope on Catholics be-
longing to seeret societies, was read in
all the Catholic churches of the Seranton
dioeese Sunday.
—At Mt. Pleasant four little giris went
throngh the ice and Anna Baker, aged
6, was drowned and the other three, chil.
dren of Hirman Pritts, were almost ex.
hausted when rescued.
—Haney Williams, an aged bachelor,
who lived alone in a shanty above Cur-
wensville, was found dead a few days
ago. Haney was quite a character and
was a familiar figure at all the eounty
fairs, eircuses, harvest homes, ete.
—Every voting district in Clearfield
county must elect poor overseers next
month just as in other years. The coun.
ty home will not he ready for some time
and the local officers must transaet the
business until such time as the county
officials are ready.
—Brookamire, who murdered Cunning-
ham in Indiana county a year ago, and
has since been at large, is said te have
been discovered by some hunters in a
forest cave in that county a few days
ago, but escaped. A reward of $500 is of-
fered for the capture of the murderer.
—The Franklin newspapers told this
story recently : When John Hanpa was
excavating near the Franklin reservoir
one day last week, he came wpon a
blacksnake six feet long imbedded under
twenty feet of earth, The snake was ap-
parently dead when discovered, but
soon liwened up and was killed by the
workmen.
- —A citizen of Altoona recently took
$110in ten and twenty dollar galé pieces
to one of the city banks for deposit. The
coin was very much soiled and the bank
officials declined to receive it, believing
it to be spurious. The owner, knowing it
to be good, took it to a jeweler and had it
polished, when he had no trouble in get.
ting the bankers to receive if.
—The Pennsylvania = State College
makes a very good showing this year, the
students enrolled numbering 336, of which
35 will graduate this year. The faculty
has also been increased from. 45 to 48. The
| new dairy school now contains 54 stu”
dents, nearly all of whom are from this.
state, one being from Canada. Auditor
General VMylin is one of the students in
the school. :
—Among the resolutions passed by the:
teachers of Indiana county’ at their re-
cent annual institute, was this one : That
the title “professor” belongs only to
those persons who fill or have heretofore
filled eheirs of our universities and col.
leges and that we, teachers of Indiana
county, will not use this title in address-
ing any other than those persons.
—Among the pupils. of one of the pri.
mary schools in Lock Haven is a woman
54 years of age who did not have the op-
portunities for obiaining an education
in her childhood days which the boys. and
girls of today have. She is making rapid
progress in her studies and her example
many other people might follow. A per-
son is never too old to learn.
—On Saturday evening, September 29,
1894, John C. Young and Miss Gertrude
Bender left the residence of the bride's
parents, in Altoona, saying they were
going to attend a party at the residence
of EQ Young on Fourth avenue, They
didn’t put in an appearance at the party,
however, but instead, went to Camden,
that night and the next day were mar.
ried. They returned home the following
day but kept their marriage a secret un-
til last week.
—T.ast week Miss Amande Barkman, of
Bedford county, took her life by using
coal oil to saturate her clothing and then
setting fire to it with a match. She used
about a gallon. The work was done in
an outhouse. When found the unfortu"
nate woman was burned beyond recog.
nition. She was about 40 years of age.
For more than a year past the girl's
mind has been worked up on religious
matters until at times she was quite de:
mented.
—In the United States senate Monday
Mr. Quay introduced a bill providing for
the creation tor United States judicia
purposes of the northern judieial distrie
of Pennsylvania, to be composed of th
counties of Wayne, Pike and Monroe de-
tached from the eastern district and the
counties of Susquehanna, Lackawanna,
Luzerne, Columbia, Northumberland,
Montour, Lycoming, Sullivan, Bradford,
Potter, Tioga, Wyoming, Clinton, Union,
Snyder, Centre and Cameron detached
tude.
from the Western district.
and determination to acquire knowledge.
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