B8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
m——
Ink Slings.
—Who said that WaAsH REESE and
HARRY SCHREYER had decided not to
open that grocery store ?
—The Philadelphia dollar mark
candidates seem to have been a good
thing. If you judge from the way peo-
ple pushed them along.
— Bellefonte and Philadelphia are ap”
parently not quite ready for & reform in
councils. The time will come, however,
when the rascals will have to “git.”
—The time for an investigation of the
Bellefonte poor department is here. A
Democratic auditor must unearth the
rottenness that pollutes that depart-
ment.
—The spring elections are a thing of
the past and it is to be hoped that every
one will forget any unpleasantness that
might have found its origin in the con-
test of Tuesday.
—A Philadelphia amateur juggler
swallowed a hat pin just to show off be"
fore some friends. Doctors had to cut
him open to remove it and now heisn’t
as much stuck on jugglery as the pin
was on him.
—About nine days more and the fifty-
third Congress will have become a thing
of the past. Its history will haunt the
Democratic party like a horrible night-
mare and the disorganizing spectre that
it has cast over Democracy will hang on
to the party for years.
—4Qut ofthe frying pan into the
fire’ seems to be Governor HASTINGS’
predicament. If he vetoes the extrava-
gant appropriation bills that the Legis-
lature will send up to him for action he
will offend their supporters and if he
approves them the masses of the people
will kick.
--The increase in the percentage of
criminals admitted to the western peni-
tentiary last year leads some to conclude
that the hard times drove many people
to thieving for a livelihood. Would it
not be about as fair to say that it was a
desire to improve business for courts and
lawyers ?
—Statistics show that one person in
every 1,985,153 who travel by rail or
boat are killed accidentally. No facts
are recorded as to the casuality attending
travel by tramping, but by from the
number of tramps we have had to feed
this winter we imagine the rate is even
lower than this.
—The faculty of Harvard University
voted as its opinion, on Monday safter-
noon, that it would be well for the ath-
letic committee of that institution to put
an end to inter-collegiate foot-ball. It
is only an opinion, however, and wise
as it is there is very little chance of the
students concurring in it.
—McCLURE’s three hundred loaves
of bread all came back to him Tuesday.
His own election would have made him
happier, but when we saw that bread
bobbing up and down on the waters
that wrecked CHAMBER’S political
bark we recognized it at once as Jim's.
It was returning to him after twenty-
five days.
—-The defeat of S. A. McQUISTION,
for Justice in the South and West wards,
is a great misfortune to the people of
these precincts. And to those who are
cognizant of the corruption that
brought it about the filthiness of the
transaction is all the more apparent.
That a man of such a character as Mr.
McQuisTIoN should have been defeat-
ed for an office, which he is so emi=
nently qualified to fill, by a candidate
whose support was largely procured by
questionable methods, is a disgrace to
the wards that time can never efface.
—The returns for the borough of
Bellefonte give every indication that
people cast politics aside and voted for
the men they preferred, irrespective of
party affiliation. That this was the case
is evidenced by the election of a Demo-
cratic overseer and auditor in a Repub-
lican borough and of the election of a
Republican to council from the South
ward, where a Democratic majority of
eighty is generally conceded. Itis a
lamentable fact, however, in the latter
case, that Democrats seized this oppor-
tunity to even up political scores of.
long standing and while under the de-
ceptive covering of voting for the best
man they really had their motive in the
fatal partyism of “settling old scores.”
—An item of news from Albany,
where the Republicans are running the
legislative business, is to the effect that
“there seems to be a craze upon the
part of members of the Legislature to
create new offices, with large salaries
attached to them and requiricg big ap-
propriations.” In this account there is
a striking similarity to the information
we have from Harrisburg, where our
state Legislature displays the same
disposition to create new offices, in-
crease salaries, and appropriate money
for such enlarged expenses. Whether
in Congress or in state Legislatures, it
18 impossible for the Republicans to
restrain their inclination to squander
the public money.
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BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 22, 1895.
NO. &.
Philadelphia's Political Fanaticism.
It was entirely too much to expect
that the Republicans of Philadelphia
would overcome their party fanaticism
for thesake of good municipal govern-
ment. When the alternative was pre-
sented to them of reforming the most
evident city abuses, or maintaining the
party machine that 18 the prolific
source of the mal-administration from
which the city suffers, the immense
majority they gave the “combine’s”
candidates last Tuesday showed that
their civic virtue and conscience are
paralyzed by a fanatical spirit that
places partisan success above the con-
sideration of good local government.
Ia the canvass they did not attempt
to deny that the city was badly gov-
erned ; that the people’s money was
lavished upon a set of favored and
avaricious contractors ; that the streets
were kept in bad coadition, the water
supply of the worst quality, and the
gas deficient. There was no pretense
of denial that corruption prevailed in
every department of the city govern-
ment, and that there was the most ur-
gent need of civic reform. Every citi-
zen was conscious of the existence of
venal extravagance in municipal man-
agement when he saw the annual ex-
penses mounting up in eight years
from $17,000,000 to $33,000,000, with
nothing to show for it but the increased
wealth of a ring of machine politicians
and city contractors. These damaging
facts were met by no other argument
than an appeal to the partisan spirit of
the majority, exciting a fanatical pref-
erence to be robbed by ringsters of
their own party rather than be pro:
vided with better government under a
Democratic mayor. Even the tariff
was invoked to protect CHARLEY Por-
TER’s contracts and to enable DAVE
MarmiN to continue amassing & for-
tune at the expense of the city tax-
payers,
Those who entertained the hope that
after the example of civil reform set by
New York it would be followed by the
suppression of the ‘‘combine’” of pol-
iticians who have converted Philadel
phia’s city government into a means
of personal plunder, miscalculated the
disposition of the fanatical majority,
who would sooner have their city rob-
bed than that their party candidates
should be defeated, and willingly sub-
wit to being misruled and plundered
in their local affairs for the sake of
the tariff.
A Law Against Lynching.
Texas bas made the first move to
stop the lawless and barbarous practice
of lynching by a bill now pending in
its Legislature, which provides that
any county in which a lynching
occurs shall be liable to the heirs of the
victim to the amount of not less than
$3,000, and that a Sheriff who shall
allow a prisoner to escape shall lose
his office.
This is not a very long step towards
stopping the uncivilized lawlessness
against which such a measure would
be aimed, yet it is a step in the right
direction. A good effect will be pro-
duced by making a county pecuniarily
liable for the breach of law that at-
tends the act of lynching, as each citi-
zen is thereby made personally inter-
ested, as a tax-payer, in preventing it,
but the liability should be heavy enough
to be appreciated by the tax-payers.
The preventive, however, can not be
thoroughly effective without the per-
sonal punishment of the lynchers, who
should be adjudged guilty of an offense
of no less degree than manslavghter,
and punished accordingly.
Lynching is a stigma upon the civi-
lization of this country, a form of law-
lessness whose frequent repetition is
creating a contempt for the regular
process of the law. No State is exempt
from this demoralizing irregularity. It
is not confined to the South or the wild
West. Ohio has had three or four
lynchings within the last few years;
New York has had one, and the re-
cent lawless execution of a prisoner by
a mob in Monroe county, this State,
remains unpunished. There is not a
State in the Union that should not
have an enactment on its statute books
sufficiently effective to prevent lynch-
ers from taking the law into their own
hands. The reputation of our country
calls for such a vindication of law and
order.
‘What They Could Have Expected.
The two bills iatroduced in the House
at Harrisburg for the suppression of
pluck-me stores have been reported
negatively by the committee to which
they were referred.
The labor advocates, who had these
bills in charge, are said to be very in-
dignant over the way they were dis-
posed of, but what else had they a
right to expect? At the last election
the Republican leaders ignored State
issues, among which pluck-me stores,
semi-monthly payment ot wages, and
other labor questions were involved,
and insisted upon running the campaign
exclusively on the tariff issue. No
doubt the parties who are at Harris
burg pushing the pluck-me store bills,
last fall voted for the McKINLEY tariff,
the only issue offered them by the Re-
publicans, who did not claim to have
any other. Why, therefore, should the
labor advocates now be surprised that
a Legislature of that party ignores anti
pluck-me store bills and other labor-
measures ? They certainly have'nt a
right to be mad about it. The issues
of the last Republican campaign didn’t
include such matters.
If a Democratic Legislature had
been elected, and the Governor were
now pamed SINGERLY instead of Has-
TINGS, there could be no question of the
passage of laws that would put an end
to the infamous extortion of pluck-me
stores ; but a Republican Legislature
has capitalistic interests to attend to,
and the Republican Governor is per-
sonally interested in coal operations
with which a company store is con-
nected.
mm ————
The Superintendent of State
Printing has been comfortably provid-
ed for by an annual salary of $2,000,
to which figure it was raised some
years ago from $1200, The latter was
considered amply sufficient compensa-
tion for the duties he had to pertorm,
and when it was increased to $2,000
he was a very liberally paid: officer.
But in comformity to the disposition to
increase salaries all around, a bill has
been introduced in the House to raise
the pay of the Superintendent of State
Printing from $2,000 to $3000. This
is within a fraction of what the sala-
ry of the Governor used to be, but the
lature is disposed to distribute its
wealth among the office holders.
——When the state constitution pro-
vided for the separation of general and
municipal elections, by requiring them
to be held on different days, at a coa-
siderable interval, its intention was to
separate the questions of local govern-
ment from the influence of party pol-
itice. This being the object ot the con-
stitution, what is to be thought of the
highest officer under that constitution,
the Governor of the State, going into
the leading city of the State and advis-
ing its citizens to conduct their munic-
ipal election on strictly partisan issues?
Did he not thereby purposely and delib.
erately violate the object of that con-
stitution which he issworn to observe
and uphold?
The state Legislature is devel
oping a paternal disposition. Among
the bills passed by the House is one for
the protection of persons who are un-
able to take care of their own property.
There are persons of this kind, who
would be benefited by a law affording
such protection, but the persons who
suffer from the kind of legislation
usually passed by Republican Legisla-
tures are far more numerous. The
wage-earners have entirely failed to be
benefited by the paternalism of the
law-makers at Harrisburg, who have
given their paternal attention chiefly
to the interest of capitalistic employ-
ers.
Senator KAUFFMAN pathetically
calls upon the Republicans of the Legis-
lature not to dump such a load of ex-
travagant bills on the Governor, which
be will have to take the responsibility
of either signing or vetoing. Such an
appeal, however, will not stop the flow
of reckless and profligate legislation,
and the Governor will find himself con-
fronted by a sterner duty than object
ing merely to junkets. The entire
course of legislation appears to be con-
ducted on the junket principle, and we
shall see to what extent the backbone
of the Governor will enable him to
interpose his veto.
Inconsistent Propositions.
A resolution has been ictroduced in
the House at Harrisburg calling for an
investigation of the charge that aliens
are employed at the insane asylum at
Weruersville, and a number of Repub-
lican members have spoken with “pa-
triotic’’ fervor demanding that these
foreigners be removed. The represen-
tative from Union county was particu-
larly eloquent in appealing for the ex-
clusive right of Americans to hold such
places. It is not charged that these
aliens, at most but few in number, are
incompetent to perform the duties that
devolve upon persons connected with
such an institution. 1t 1s not claimed
that natives, more competent, are
thereby excluded from a service which
would be better performed by them.
The sole motive for the resolution
seems to be the disposition to cater to
the Know Nothing spirit which has
been so largely developed in the Re-
publican party. It isa concession to
the intolerance of the A. P. A.
But these narrow minded and bigoted
partisans should be consistent. The
same day oun which the resolution
against the aliens at Wernersville was
introduced, another “patriotic” Repub-
lican member offered a bill for an ap
propriation to erect a monument to
LAFAYETTE on the field of Brandywine,
where he was wounded in defence of
American independence. Do these mis-
erable legislative pimps, who object to
aliens occupying even the humblest
positions in a public institution, know
that LAFAYETTE was an alien? Are
they aware of the fact that as a for-
eigner he had no personal interest in
the American cause, but generously of-
fered his service, as did bundreds of
other foreigners, for the defence of that
liberty with which the American peo-
ple are especially blest?
It is right that the illustrious alien
and defender of American independence,
LAFAYETTE, should have a monument
on’ the battle field where he shed his
blood for our liberty, but is it becom-
ing that the bill for the erection of such
a monument should come from a party
that has adopted the persecution of
aliens as one of its principles ?
——Governor Hastings, by the ex-
mE : 7% ercise of his gubernatorial authority,
State is rich and a Republican Legis- |
has removed the Democratic members
of the Commission for the promotion
of uniformity of Legislation in the
United States. They were ex-Senator
CuarLes R. BuckarLew, Mr Ovip M.
Jounsox and Mr. RoBerr E. Mona:
GHAN, who were appointed by
Governor PartisoN and are three of
the ablest lawyers in the State. At
the same time Judge AGNEW was ap-
pointed as a Republican member of
the Commission. The Commission is
really of not much account, but it
gave the Governor an early oppor-
tunity to display his partisan spirit by
removing the Democratic members
and substituting Republicans in their
places. There was no such display of
partisanism during the PATTISON ad-
ministration.
——Bills introduced in the state
Legislature for the taxing of building
associations has excited the alarm of
the members of those useful organiza-
tions, and steps will be taken to pro-
tect their interests against such injur-
ious legislation. Building associations
are generally composed of men of lim-
ited means, striving to secure homes
for their families, and were treated
with such encouraging consideration
by the Democratic Income Tax bill as
to be entirely exempted. But. a Repub-
lican Legislature, which concedes all
kinds of exemptions to corporations,
proposes to tax poor men who are en-
deavoring to get roofs over their heads.
Io its zeal for the multiplica-
tion of offices the Legislature is en-
gaged in making some remarkable ad-
ditions to the state government,
Among other bills creating new de-
partments and new official places to be
filled by partisan retainers, is one that
designs to establish a Bureau of Plumb-
ing and Drainage. With such an ar-
rangement every bousehold using wa-
ter pipes would be subjected to the in-
quisitorial invasion and arbitrary
regulation of a state plumber, or his
subordinates. That would be the ef-
fect, but the real purpose of the bill is
to enlarge the number of salaried of-
fices under the state government.
Making It Easy for Pattison.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Mr. Pattison accepted the flag of
reform and bore it heroically and de-
fended it eloquently in every ward of
the city, and he emerges from the con-
flict prouder of his cause than is even
Mr. Warwick of his victory. He is
more the leaderof the friends of honest
government in both city and State to-
day than ever he was before, and while
heated partisans will shout over his
assumed political annihilation, his con-
siderate opponents will well understand
that he must be a more dangerous foe
of political misrule in defeat than he
could have been had he not made the
brilliant record of the campaign just
closed. There are vanquished who
are victors, and Robert E. Pattison is
one of them.
A Compliment That Will Tackle Motz-
ger Too.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The nomination te-day of Solomon
S. Metzger, as postmaster at Bedford,
Pa., ends a lively contest between
Assistant Secretary of the Inter-
ior Reynolds and County Chair-
man Horn. Judge Reynolds indorsed
Mr. Metzger, who is an old soldier and
a business man. Chairman Horn’s can-
didate was George Bush, who held the
office under Cleveland’s former adminis-
tration. Some weeks ago a primary was
Leld at ; Bedford to find tke preferences
of the Democrats for postmaster, and
Bush received the highest number of
votes. Notwithstanding this, the presi-
dent nominated Metzger, mainly as a
compliment to Judge Reynolds.
A Happy Ending.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
The war, that was likely to break
out between Mexico and Guatemala’
“hath smoothed its wrinkled front,”
and peace will now reign again between
these two almost belligerant countries.
The fact that they have settled their
little trouble without blood-letting is a
big pointer in favor of a peaceful solu-
tion of all difficulties between nations.
The world will get there after a while,
when the new-fangled guns and can-
non, etc., will be **hung up as a braised
monument.”
He Will Know Just What to Do.
From the Hollidaysburg Standard.
There is a marked contrast between
the poverty and calamity wails, on
which Gov. Hastings made his cam-
paign, last fall, and the jobs that are
being pushed through the legislature
for creating new offices and squan-
dering the public moneys. When these
bills come before him for his signature,
citizens will be better able to see just
what kind of a reputation Governor
Daniel is entitled to for sincerity and
integrity.
Tis Well You Did Forget the Farmer's
Name—Such a Lie.
From the Clearfield Public Spirit.
A Pine township farmer whose name
we have forgotten was surprised last
Friday morning when he went to the
barn to “tend the stock.” In-the cow
shed he found three deer and in the
horse stable a black bear and a cat-
amount. The deer ran at his approach
but bear and catamount were so badly
frost bitten that he dispatched them
both with a heavy oak water bucket.
So Could Bellefonte.
From the Osceola Leader-Courier.
Robert McKinney, storekeeper for
contractors Collins & Martin at Kit-
taning Point, made information one
day last week before Alderman Ray-
mond in Altoona, charging Peter; Sail-
or with uttering ten blasphemous
oaths. The defendant paid $11 fine,
including costs. Osceola could stand a
few arrests of this kind and break up
this heathenish practice.
A Traveler's Risk of Getting Killed.
From the Wilkesbarre Sun.
According to the government rail-
way statistics, it is just a bit safer to
travel by water than by rail, though
the difference is not great. In 1894,
700,000,000 were carried by steam-
boats, and of this number 255 were
lost. Railroads carried 593,560,612
passengers, and of the number 299 met
death by accident. Itis a very low
percentage—one person in 1,985,156.
The Original Trilby.
From the Atchison Globe.
The first Trilby known to history
arose in prominence in Kansas in the
year of our Lord 1892. His occupation
was that of an humble politician, and
his name was Jerry Simpson. He was
an apostle born too soon ; though he
went in his bare feet tor years, their
praises were never sung.
Men Must Live In One Way or Another,
From the Huntingdon Globe.
The warden of the Western Peni-
tentiary says that the number of in-
mates has increased thirty per cent. in
the last two years, and he attributes
this to the hard times, theft having the
highest percentage in the list ot crimes.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN,
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Martin Johnson was frozen to death
in his shanty at Easton.
—Allegheny City proposes to. borrow
$400,000 and build water works.
—Falling in front of a train at Ashland,
John Stanus was gfound to pieces.
—The man found fatally frozen at Ti-
tusville has been identified as John Foss
—A State conference @f Christian Mis-
sion workers was held Saturday at Har-
risburg. .
~The jury at Scranton acquainted Jo-
seph Reminiski, on trial for the murder
of August Gans,
—On her way to visit a sick neighbor,
Mrs. Lucretia Irvin was killed by a train
at Kittanning Point.
—A block of ice 37 inches thick in the
Williamsport Sun office shows how frozen
things are down there.
— Williamsport last year ;shipped 19,.
850,000 feet of lumber , a decrease of 78,150-
000 from the previous year.
—Gas that escaped from a furnace
nearly killed three members of R. E.
Wenrich’s family at Reading.
—Burglars, after beating Robert Boland
broke into Hawley post office, Wayne
county, but secured no booty.
—Brigade Commanders of the National
Guard will fix the time for the annual in-
spection by Inspector General Morrell.
—Julia Ann Thompson, the oldest per-
son born and raised in Pottstown, cele-
brated her 9th birthday anniversary
Monday.
—O0il men at Pittsburg have subscribed
$50,000 for the new company organized at
Bradford to oppose the Standard Oil
Company.
—The Mill Creek hotel at Mill Creek,
wasentirely destroyed by fire Saturday
morning. The loss is $8,000 covered by
insurance.
—John S. Tomb & Son have stocked
their mill at Cedar Run, Lycoming
county’ with 3,000,000 feet of pine and
hemlock logs.
—Leonard Armstrong, a farmer living
near Blairsville, Thursday caught an ea-
gle measuring seven and one-half feet
from tip to tip.
—The Reading Hardware Works, at
Reading, one of the largest industrial
plants in that city, willgo on full time
next Monday.
—Judge Yerkes of Bucks county, de-
clares he will revoke the license of any
saloon keeper who sells drinks to prison
inmates or paupers.
—Benjamin, the 2-year-old son of Mrs
Isaacman, of this place, was roasted to
death by his clothing catching fire while
playing near the stove.
—About 125 wage claims, aggregating
$3000 have been filed against Contractor
F. J. Amweg for work done on the Wern-
ersville Insane Asylum.
—Three miners, John Condy, Andrew
Kajeck and John Townsky, were badly
burned Saturday at the Hazleton mine
where a fire raged, unabated.
—Harry Huff of Lock Haven, aecci-
dentally swallowed a tack from an eight
ounce pack the other day. As yet the
foreign substance has caused no trouble.
—The body of the man found in Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad at Mingo
Sunday morning has been identified as
David R. A., son of Milton Detweiler, of
Oaks Station.
—A 4.year-old son of David Kitner, on
the Henry Shaffer farm in Centre town-
ship, Perry county, swallowed a cent one
day last week and at last accounts was
seriously ill.
—Owing to snowdrifts, Mrs. Fergus Mec-
Dermott, living two miles from Altoona,
only reached that town Saturday with the
news that her husband froze to death
eight days ago.
—Mrs. Hugh Neish, an invalid woman,
residing near Kifertown, fell against a
grate Sunday and was so badly burned
that she died in great agony yesterday.
She was 50 years old.
—A Clearfield man sent twenty-five
cents to a New York party for informa.
tion in regard to keeping hydrants from
freezing and was advised to digit up.and
take it into the house.
—The plant of the Sunbeam Publishing
Company, at Annville, was sold by the
Sheriff Monday to satisfy numerous judg-
ments. H. M. Kline, of Lebanon, purchas-
ed the plant for $3,890 30.
—Samuel B, Smith, a member of Com-
pany G, N. G. P., died in Lewistown last
week, from the effects of a cold received
while attending the inauguration of Gov-
ernor Hastings, at Harrisburg.
—Ellis B. Reed, ot Hastings, Cambria
county, has been arrested and taken to
jail at Ebensburg, charged with outrag-
ing the 14-year-old daughter of Edward
Spencer, whose home is near that of
Reed’s.
—This week will be the most prosperous
one that the Homestead Steel Works, at
Homestead, has had for a long time
Every department of the big plant is in
operationgfor the first time in the past six
months.
--Frank Snyder, of Palmyra, was Mon -
day accidentally shot in the hand by his
friend, Harvey Heilman, who was care-
lessly handling a revolver. The wound is
an ugly one and serious complications
may result.
—A state conference of Christian Mis:
sion Workers was held in Grace Metho.
dist Episcopal church at Harrisburg.
Rev. Senft, of Altoona, presided. The
sessions were devoted to discussions of
methods of work.
—W. F. Jordan, editor of the Harrisburg
‘Sunday Telegram, and his business manager,
Miss I. E. L. Hills, were arrested Monday
on a charge of libel against Miss Gertrude
Free, of York. The defendants entered
bail for a hearing.
—The first cure effected in Allegheny
by the use of the anti-toxine remedy is
reported in the case of Minnie Oerman,
daughter of Herman Oerman. The girl,
who is 6 years, was dangerously ill with
diphtheria, but after being inoculated a
wonderful change was observed in a day,
She will recover.
~The tuneral of Mrs. John A. Weber,
of Pottstown, well known in Catholic cir:
cles, took place Monday at her home at
that place. Among Philadelphia priests
and taking part in the service were Rev.
W. A. McLoughlin, Rev. Engene Murphy
Rev. Gerald P. Coughlin and J. P, Shan.
ahan.