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BY RP. GRAY MEEK.
Demoreaic aca,
Ink Slings.
—It is all right for a young lady to
take a gentlaman’s arm on a slippy side-
walk, but in a sleigh, never.
— A man isn’t in much danger of be- |
ing believed to be cutting ice, now-a-
days, simply because he has a skate
on.
—The Chinese have grounds for
glorying in the fact that the Japs
have'nt been able to carry their entire
empire off yet.
—Statistics show that most widows
and widowers remarry. Doubtless the
human desire to do better prompts them
to hitch np a second time.
— Yesterday was St. Valentine's day,
but the weather was so cold that cupid
froze his wings before he brought any
love messages for our devil.
—Don’t be fooled into thinking your-
self better than every-one else, if, per-
chance, fortune has been a little more
lavish with you than your neighbor.
—Clearfleld political agitators can set-
tle down to the pros and cons as to how
it happened now since Mr. Broom has
walked off with the post-office plum.
— Next Tuesday the regular spring
elections wiil be held in all parts of the
county. Vote for the best men for
every office and you will be voting for
a Democrat.
—The post-office department has suc-
ceeded in putting a stop to the opera-
tions of the “blind pool” sellers, but all
the authorities in christendom can’t
stop the blind pool buyers.
—1If Senator HoAr would retire from
public service and join forces with
DANA on the New York Sun what a
fine brace of scolds they would make on
the editorial staff of that paper.
—LILIvoKALANI, Hawaii's deposed
black queen, is to be tried for treason
against the young republic. Of course
they will accord her a trial by her peers
but who will they be, the Hawaiian
jingoists ?
—The man who makes information
against a blasphemer and invokes the
law to have him properly punished,
does us much, and more, for the good of
the people by that one act than ten ser-
mons from a pulpit on the third com-
mandment.
—Duluth, Minnesota, turned a
political somer-sault and went Democra-
tic at the election last week, after hav-
ing given the Republicans four hundred
majority last fall. Such spring results
cut a good bit of ice for Democrats who
are still snowed under.
—ELBERT KNAPP, of Rochester, was
taking his morning bath on Friday and
to keep warm had moved the tub close
beside a stove. When he had finished
washing himself he went to step out, but
slipped and sat square down on the red
hot stove. It is needless to say he got
up as soon as possible.
—The obligations of speculative inter-
est in the United States to foreign coun-
tries, that is stocks, bonds, ete., upon
which we are paying interest, amounts to
more than $3,000,000,000. A sum that
exceeds all the national, state and county
" debts combined. Truly might we be said
to be mortgaged to Europe.
—Only fourteen days remain for this
session of Congress to do its work, but
few as they are there will be more than
enough in all probability. Since it has
refused to do anything in the way of
financial legislation to relieve the coun-
try it would have been better had it
never reconvened after the holidays.
—A number of the Legislatures in
various States are greatly exorcised over
the question. as to the rights’ women
have to wear big hats in theatres and
places of public amusement. Talk of
legislation against such head gear is
about as silly as to say it would be right
to tax men for having ‘big heads’ at
such places. The one is just about as
bothersome as the other and quite as
much in vogue.
—-The Harrisburg Star Independent
is responsible for the statement that the
first telescope ever used in this country
is now among the curios in the Depart-
ment of Internal Affairs at Harrisburg.
It was BEN FRANKLIN'S old glass and
though he found it powerful enough to
bring the heavens to him in his astrono.
mical research of long ago, its greatest
length will not bring the balance in the
State Treasury within the range of vision
when the present Legislature adjourns.
—It seems decidedly out of place for
the Philadelphia Republicans to call in
Governor HASTINGS, a resident of this
county to preside and talk at a polit-
ical meeting held in their city in furth-
erance of Republican chances ot success
at a municipal election, Next Tues-
day’s contest in Philadelphia should be
a purely local affair, but to HASTINGS
it means something awful. He cast his
die with MARTIN and his ring and it is
but natural he should lend a hand to
make it turn up head. If MARTIN is
downed, whither will Hastings’ bark |
drift?
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VOL. 40
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 15, 1895.
NO. 1.
Now is Their Chance.
The fellows who had to hang up
their proposed raids on the State
Treasury during Parrison’s adminis
tration, knowing that he would come
down on them with his veto, now feel
themselves relieved from such an ob-
stacle and are as frisky as catbirds in
consequence. Legislation at Harris:
burg is actually bubbling over with
their schemes for the creation of new
offices, for the increase of salaries, and
for the appropriation of money for use-
less purposes.
We have already mentioned how ad-
ditional departments are to be added
to the State government, with a num-
ber of high salaried officers; how the
capitol grounds and buildings are to
be converted into a gorgeous and lucra-
tive branch of the public service, and
how the salary of members is to be al-
most doubled. These eccentricities of
extravagance are to be supplemented
by the creation of additional Judge-
ships which are uncalled for as needed
additions to the machinery of justice.
Many bills have been introduced for
this purpose in spite of protests that in
the districts for which they are asked
the business of the courts does not re
quire such an increase of the judiciary.
This is unquestionably the fact, but it
is not likely to prevent this Legisla-
ture from turning out a batch of su-
perfluous judges.
A bill has also been introduced with
a view to producing a crop of sealers
of weights and measures for the afflic-
tion of Philadelphia which but recent-
ly got rid of that kind of official
leeches. The only object of the bill is
to provide places for party henchmen,
with salaries of $1500 each.
These are samples of the measures
that are being prepared at Harrisburg
for the absorption of the public funds.
There is no longer a Governor to put
his foot on them, and it is likely that
everything will go.
A Veritable Political Tom-Tit.
One of the first official acts of Sena-
tor McQuownN, of this district, was to
ask the body of which he is a member
to refuse to confirm the appointment
of editor BumiLLER of the Millheim
Journal as Notary Public, because he
is a Democrat. This is the first time
in the history of the district, that objec-
tion has been made by its Senator to
the confirmation of any one named for
notary. At the present time more
than half the persons holding commis-
sions as Notaries, within the counties
comprising the district, are Republi
cans who received their appointment
from & Democratic Governor and were
confirmed by the Senate on motion of
a Democratic Senator; so that this prec-
edent for petty partisanship and Sena-
torial littleness can be credited solely
and alone to the only Republican rep-
resentative this district has ever had or
ever will have in the State Senate. It
is a fair illustration, however, of the
“magnanimity” of Republicanism, and
should be an object lesson for that
class of Democrats who assisted in dis-
gracing the district with a Senator of
80 little calibre and of such pitiable
political smallness.
In addition to their party ran-
cor, there is another reason for the bit-
ter opposition of the Republican pa-
pers of Philadelphia to ex-Governor
ParrisoN’s candidacy for mayor.
Some years ago when through the con-
nivance of Republican officials they
were allowed to steal a large amount
of money from the State, by means of
dishonest bills for advertising, Govern-
or Parison interfered and compelled
them to return their plunder. The
amount which the Press was made to
disgorge was $10,926.02. Is it any
wonder that that virtuous sheet heads
the Republican crusade against a can-
didate for mayor who, as Governor,
evinced a determination to stop adver-
tising raids on the tax-payers’ money.
——1It is being reported around
town, by those who wish to accom-
plish the defeat of S. A. McQuistioN
for Justice of the Peace, that if elected
he will have his office in his carriage
shops on Thomas street. Mr. McQuis-
TIoN called at this office yesterday and
said that he had no idea of having his
office there and the report was started
with the hope of injuring his canvass.
He has a right to the election and it
will be a grievious wrong on the part of
the party if he is not.
Gripsacks on the Rise.
When Joe NoBrg, who seems to be
a rollicking sort of a ringster, and
notoriously connected with Philadel:
phia machine politics, gaily appeared
in his place in council, of which he is
a member, and declared that he had
traveled a hundred miles expressly to
vote for an investigation of the charge
that councilmen had been bribed by
shares of the stock of the Mutual
Automatic Telegraph company, be was
merely shamming. A real investiga-
tion—one that would go to the bottom
of that particular rascality—was the
last thing that NoBrE or any of his
associates wanted. The alacrity with
which they declared their desire to
have the thing probed was a bluff that
wretchedly collapsed when the probe
was applied.
When the investigation was pushed
they did every thing to make it abor-
tive. The smartest combine lawyer
was employed to frustrate its purpose ;
documents were concealed and wit-
nesses spirited away. But in despite
of everything that was done to prevent
developments, the damaging fact has
been disclosed, the stock book of the
company telling the tale, corroborated
by other conclusive proof, that shares
had been distributed among council:
men as bribes for voting away a val
uable franchise. The most interesting
feature of these developments is that
of this swag Dave Martin and CHAR-
LEY PORTER, the leaders of the com-
bine who are responsible for WaRr-
WicK's nomination for mayor, each
got 1525 shares.
In consequence of the way in which
matters are being developed, a panic
has overtaken the Philadelphia ring-
sters, affecting Jor NoBre's exuberant |
and apprehensive imagination to such
an extent to as cause him to declare that
if Parrison should be elected mayor
there would be a wonderful rise in the
price of gripeacks. More truth than
fancy presents itself in this observation.
Should an honest mayor be elected, |
who would force an investigation of
Philadelphia’s municipal corruption,
scarcely enough gripsacks would be
found in the market to supply the
thievish ring politicians whose escape
from the penitentiary would depend
upon their speedy departure for parts
unknown.
——Councilman Byram, of the
Frankford district in Philadelphia,
who has received the Republican
nomination for re-election, is a candi-
date with a personal reputation such as
excites the protest of clergymen and
causes the opposition of the women,
The decency of the district is arrayed
against him; but a committee of
councils, having taken his case in
hand and subjected it to exculpatory
investigation, hand him back to his
constituents with a brilliant coat of
whitewash, It is tobe seen whether
the voters of Frankford will be satis-
fied with the committee's kalsomining.
Inland Towns Interested.
It is with no idle curiosity that peo-
ple in the country watch the munici-
pal contest in Philadelphia. The eciti-
zens of inland boroughs are interested
in the movement for the reformation
of municipal government which has
developed in the large urban centres,
and is likely to extend to towns of les-
ser maguitude. .
Defective civic government is the
weak point in American public life,
The cities have been allowed to fall in-
to the hands of men who have ad-
ministered their affairs for the money
they can make out ot them. Some of
the great centres of population, con-
spicuously New York, by the volun:
tayy assistance of its political majority,
have overcome their municipal
thieves. Philadelphia is now en"
gaged in a deadly struggle with her
governing plunderers, and outsiders
are greatly interested in the result.
There is not a town of any size in
the interior that has not suffered from
bad municipal government. Most of
them have been pillaged, more or less,
by rings and combines that have se-
cured control of their municipalities.
It is on this account that their citizens
are interested in the fight for good
government in the larger cities, for
success in that quarter will encour-
age them to move for reform nearer
howe.
Reverses Their Decision in the Savage
Case.
The consistency. of the opinion of
the Dauphin county judges is of that
kind that will be better for the
country to have bottled up and pre-
served as an evidence that the courts
are not always above political preju-
dice, rather than to be used as an ex-
ample to be followed by others wear-
ing the judicial ermine. Last fall
when these two judges believed they
could assist the Republican party, in
the election of a Senator from this dis-
trict, by prohibiting the Democrats
having a candidate upon the ticket un.
der the head of “Democratic,” they
bad neither hesitancy nor scruples in
deciding that the Baker ballot law
forbade a candidate using any
word to designate his candidacy that
wes used as an appellation at the head
of a regular ticket. By this decision
Mr. SAvaGE was estopped from having
bis name printed upon the ticket
either as an “independent,” ‘citizens,’
or any other kind of a “Democratic”
candidate—unotwithstanding the fact
that upon that ticket there was no name
for Senator under the head of “Demo-
cratic.” Last week a similar case
involving exactly the same questions,
but affecting the election of a Republi-
can councilman in Harrisburg, came
before this same court, and it took it
only about twenty-five minutes to de-
termine that there was nothing in the
law prohibiting the use of the words
“independent Republican,” to desig-
nate a ticket, although there was a
regular “Republican” ticket in the
field. The one decision was to assist
in the defeat of a Democratic caadi-
date for Senate ; the other to assist in
securing the election of a Republican
councilman—showing a ‘‘consistracy’
that consists chiefly in its ¢fforis to be
“consistent” only in furthering p..rti-
san ends.
! —e—
Lawyers in a Bellefonte council
have proven expensive luxuries. North
warders take warning. Don’t foist
another costly experiment on the tax
payers of the borough but elect sound,
practical, Morris Cowprick. He is a
Democrat, to be sure, but what mat-
ters that in a municipal election when
| you are called upon to choose between
a visionary lawyer candidate and a
thoroughly practical mechanic.
What Bellefonte needs is a reorganized
council and it will get it if Messrs
Cowprick, Garman and Kirk are
elected.
If You Want It, Ask For It.
That séemingly never ending steal
known as the “Bird Book,” shows
every indication of coming out “cat
bird,” during the present session of the
Legislature and will of course receive
the signature of the Governor. How
soon the bill will get through and the
book be ready for distribution we do
not know, but those ot our people who
want their part of the “swag,” in the
shape of a copy, ought to be making
application to the members from the
county or the Senator from the dis-
trict to whom they will be furnished
for free distribution. It has been a
long time since the average Republi
can voter, hereabouts, has had aright to
demand much in this way, and now that
the opportunity offers we have no
doubt that they will be ready to ask
for all they can get. The “Bird Book”
is a free gift from the State and there
is no reason why the “deserving” in
this section, should not get their full
share.
~——A striking specimen of A. P. A.
sham patriotism 1s presented in the
bill introduced in the State Legislature
requiring that above every public
school building hall float an Ameri-
can flag, made of American wool,
grown by Americans, and attached to
flagstaffs of American wood constructed
by American workmen. The Ameri-
canism embodied in this proposition is
entirely too intense to be real. It isa
sham intended to cover an illiberal
nationalism, and to pervert patriotic
feeling to partisan designs. The pre-
tenders who make all this parade of
devotion to the American flag would
likely be maligners of it if they would be
called upon to defend that flag against
a foreign foe, and if drafted into the
military service would, in all proba-
bility, be found among the coffee-cool-
ere.
No Financial Legislation from the
Democrats.
From the York Gazette.
The House of Representatives at
Washington has rejected the plan of
the administration for affording the
treasury the financial relief it so badly
needs.
Yesterday by a vote of 135 to 162,
the Springer bill, which provides for
the issue of $500,000,000, three per
cent. fifty year gold bonds, was lost on
third reading. This will be accepted
on all hands as a final determination
of the matter. It means that nothing
can be expected from the House. The
prospects in the Senate have never
amounted $0 anything, So Mr. Cleve-
land finds the responsibility rests on
himself alone. He has done all that
lay in his power to have Congress
solve the problem and do its duty inor-
der to preserve the national credit.
The message which he seat them the
other day stated the situation so forci-
bly and clearly that no one can pre-
tend to be ignorant of the condition of
the treasury and of his determination to
maintain the national credit.
It is evident now that Congress nev-
er intended to enact any currency legis-
lation at this session. Whatever pre-
tence may be maintained that this has
been or is now a party question
amongst the members is dissipated.
It has been from the beginning of the
session a siruggle between gold and
sound credit on the one hand, and sil-
ver and fiat money schemes on the
other, and from the start it has been
apparent that the silver influence was
in both branches predominant and
that the division is made by no means
on party lines.
One of two things is now proven.
Either there has not been and is not
now an honest money majority in Con-
gress or some of the Republicans,
whose votes are needed to make the
honest money majority, lack patriot:
ism and rather than eee any carrency
legislation enacted for the benefit of
the country which incidentally might
benefit the Democratic party, are wil-
ling to see the country suffer and the
national credit attacked.
Fortunately for the country there is
an honest money man in the presi-
dential chair; a man in whose eyes
fiat money schemes, whether they con-
tain the promise of political advantage
for his party or not, find no favor; a
man whose uniform adherence to
sound currency principles has won
him the absolute confidence of the
best men of all parties and makes him
today the one hope of the nation in
this crisis.
It was this confidence in him and in
what he says that made the simple
announcement by him, that in case of
an adverse vote in Congress he would
issue bonds, sufficient to check the out-
flow of gold and avert a threatened
panic.
The Philadelphia Times s. #., Series
Among the Rest.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Nearly every newspaper has a pic
ture of the Lia Gascogne. The Phila-
delphia Press has one of her as she
entera the New York harbor covered
with ice. Asthe boat had not got in
when the Press went to press, and was
only sighted about thirty miles out
from Sandy Hook at sundown, it is
evident that the Press has a very enter-
prising artist and long distance cam-
era, or else a lying publisher.
A boat is a very handy thing of
which to have a picture in a newspa-
rer office. It will do duty for so many
boats ; just like a horse picture. Peo-
ple like to see pictures of boats, horses
and even men, though they only have
masts or legs, in common with the
name printed under them. A picture
seems to give a realizing sense of sub-
stance to the story ; and so any picture
goes,
They'll Make the Money Fly.
From the Pittsburg Post.
A decrease of the state revenues is
expected of $2,000,000 for the next
two years, for which this Legislature
makes appropriations. The total is
not expected to exceed $19,000,000.
The regular and special appropriations
increased salaries, new offices, ete.
give promise of $30,000,000. At least
that is what is asked. Of course con-
siderable pruning will be necessary,
but the indications are every penny
will be gobbled that can be reached.
A Simple Way to Hold the Gold Re-
serve.
From the Steubenville, Ohio, Gazette.
One gleam of common sense was
shown in the House yesterday when
Mr. Brosius, of Penusylvania, recom-
mended thal until the present exigency
be passed “redemption” of greenbacks
that do not stay “redeemed,” be stop-
ped. This of itself would stop what
has been called the “drain on the
Treasury gold,” and when once tried
would prove so satisfactory that the
“redemption” humbug would never be
resumed.
The bird book bill has passed
the House and Senate and is now in
the hands of the Governor. Itis geo-
erally supposed that he will sign the
act, although it is just as generally
known to be an unmitigated and inex-
cusable steal. :
Spawls from the Kaystore.
—Bedford county is to have a new jail.
—All Danville stores are now closed in
early evening.
—Luzerne County’s lawyers Saturday
condemned the Quay County bill.
—Thomas Reynolds, of Reynoldsville,
fell dead on thesidewalk Wednesday.
—The ice is gorged in the Juniata river
at Mt. Union to the height of ten feet.
—Rev. E. P. Swift, who died recently in
South Pittsburg, left an estate of %185,.
000.
—A students’ congress will be held at
West Chester to discuss school ques.
tions.
—West Chester’s smallpox scare has
died out, as there is not a genuine case
there.
—Wilkesbarre people will build a rink
and try to revive the roller-skating
craze.
—Lehigh County paid $61 last year to
keep its bad boys in the Huntingdon Re-
formatory.
—The Altoona ministerial association
has been discussing ‘The Young Man and
the Church.”
—Thereis a place in the ground near
the heart of the city of Altoona thatishot
enough to boil water.
—Lawyers of Schuylkill Countyare pre
paring to oppose the Orphans’ Court bill,
pending in the Legislature.
—Friday at noon the First Methodist
church at Johnstown was damaged by
fire to the amount of $10,000.
—Remonstrances were flled against on.
ly four out 1012 applications for a liquor
license in Luzerne County.
—Warming herself by the fire at Glad-
stone, Fayette County, Mrs. Elizabeth
Brown was burned to death.
—Lycoming county’s net cost for main.
tenance of prisoners in the western peni.
tentiary last year was $2,171.39.
—Professor C. L. Doolittle, of Lehigh
University, has resigned and will go to
the University of Pennsylvania.
—Being caught in the belting of a ma.
chine at Wernersville State Asylum,
Alyin Ludwig’s arm's were broken.
—The Punxsutawney glass works have
resumed operations again thus giving
about 100 men and boys employment.
—State Printer Busch has leased E. K.
Meyers’ printing house at Harrisburg,
and will print the Legislative Record.
—Wilkesbarre’s Board of Trade will
have a committee at the State Capitol
to-day to oppose the Quay County bill.
—Burgess Larger, of Birdsboro, drove
out an engineer corps that attempted to
survey lines for an unauthorized trolley
road.
—The Cambria county poor board sat at
the Grand Army hall Saturday distribut,
ing funds to the poor and needy of Johns-
town.
—Selwyn Hall Military Academy of the
Episcopal Diocese of Central. Pennsyl-
vania, at Reading, has closed for lack of
students.
—A diphtheria epidemic in McKean
County has closed the schools at Sawyer
City, Dallas City, Corwin Centre and Platt
Hollow.
~The extreme cold weather has com.
pelled Emporium to discard gas for street
lights so as to have sufficient for domes=
tic use.
—A traveling salesman, Z. R.. Keller,
lost a satchel at Reading containing
notes and papers valued at several ;thou.
sand dollars.
—A dog fell hundreds of feet down
Neilson shaft, at Shamokin, smashing a
mine cage and narrowly missing several
workmen.
—A wildeat has killed a number of deer
in Hall & Kaul’s Trout run park, Elk
county, this season. A trap was set and
it was caught.
~—Reports of over 200 steam railroads in
Pennsylvania were among the valuables
destroyed by the State Printing Office
fire at Harrisburg.
—The Methodists of Tyrone are making
elaborate preparations for the conference
which convenes at that place March 13th.
It will continue one week.
—Judge Schott decided that County
Treasurer Hemingway is entitled to
commission on South Bethlehem’s liquor
license fees paid by dealers. .
—Every newspaper in Allegheny Coun-
ty, outside of Pittsburg and several in
the Smoky City, strongly oppose Senator
Flinn’s Greater Pittsburg bill.
—The Pennsylvania railroad sent hun-
dreds of men from its carshops at Altoona
to the mountains. A snow shoveler or
the mountain is reported killed.
—A goose 34 years old, owned by Mrs.
Haines, at Westport, Clinton county. died
a few days ago. It is not often that a
fowl of this kind reaches that age.
—A farmer’s institute will be held at
Utahville on Wednesday and Thursday
next Some prominent instructors will
be present from neighboring counties.
— The residence of George Leipold, op:
posite the Allegheny house, at Clearfield,
was destroyed by fire Friday morning,
the family having a narrow escape from
death.
—At Waterville, Clinton county, on
Tuesday, a man named English, while
hauling logs, was crushed to death by the
grab chain breaking, which permitted the
heavy logs to roll on him.
—The churches of the Evangelical asso-
ciation in Pennsylvania are nearly all
minus congregations and many of them
are being purchased by the United Evan-
gelical church at very low figures.
—Mrs. Romig, of Selinsgrove, widow of
Isaac Romig and mother of Charles
Romig, who were killed in the accident
at Kreamer, intends bringing suit against
the Pennsylvania company to recover
damages. She will ask for $50,000.
—The Lock Haven Democrat is author
ity for the statement that snow drifts
near Luthersburg are piled so high along
the road that a person can stand on some
of them and reach the telehone wires
strung between DuBois and Curwens:
ville.
—Millic Jackson and Mary Brawley,
aged 18 and 19 years, of Cresson were
nearly frozen to death while out with a
sledding party Tuesday evening. They
had to be carried from the sled into the
house and are yet under the care of a
doctor.