JERHEND
Demorralic
8B8Y RP. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings,
— The summer days are coming on
With blossom, bud and shoot,
When the kid, who has outlived his skates,
Will succumb to unripened fruit.
—1If you want to get along well with
the world remember that there are oth-
ers in jt besides yourself.
— Miss Gould, that was, is a countess
at last and her husband has become a
counter ; since marrying her pile.
—There is nothing in this world so
much to be despised as a man who poses
as a man and is but a demagogue.
—The Governor has vetoed the bird
book bill and now the ‘country mem-
bers”’ will have to advise their constit-
uents to content themselves with look-
ing at their scare crows.
—Cuba has an embryo revolution on
its hands. It is not altogether likely
that it will amount to much but it will
give Spain a little more to do than
spend her time watching bull fights.
— Inasmuch as the central Pennsyl-
vania Methodist Conference will con-
vene at Tyrone next week we deem it
quite a propos to enquire as to whether
that town has any gubernatorial timber
to boom ?
—A New Jersey man boasts that he
can manufacture gas for thirty cents a
thousand and “have a picnic,” pecuniari-
ly speaking. That's nothing. There
are plenty of Bellefonte men who can
manufacture it for nothing and have a
picnie too.
—It desn’t pay to be a Queen after
all. Poor LILIUOKALANI has been sen-
“tenced to’pay a fine of $5,000 and go to
jail five years, merely because she tried
to get back on her throne in Hawaii,
after some American usurpers had estab-
lished a republic on the islands.
— We sincerely hope the world has
seen the end of the VANDERBILT scan-
dal. Mrs. “WiLLrg” is divorced and
dare marry again, if she wants to, but
her recreant spouse has been deemed by
the court to have had his share of con”
jugal bliss and must live by himself 1n
the future.
—The fellows who bought Reading
railroad stock last spring and danced
with glee when it jumped to 14 in two
days time, are dancing with something
else now that there is a likelihood of its
mortgages being foreclosed. Of course,
if that is done all of the stockholders
will be left without a cent, for the prop-
erty isn’t worth enough to pay the
bonds.
—TromAs BRACKETT REED’s action
in refusing to vote with his colleagues,
in thanking speaker Crisp for his ser-
vices during the sitting ot the 53rd Con-
gress, was one that will hang to him, to
his discredit, as long as he lives. If he
hoped to curry favor with his constit-
nents by it, be failed, and if it was in.
tended to make Mr. Crisp feel badly it
was equally as much of a failure.
—Davip B. HiLL's late assertion
that he is “not a monometalist’’; seems
to have been right in line with that
noted saying “I am a Democrat.” Our
party must stand for bi-metahsm or it
will fall. The tariff will be lost in the
money question of future campaigns,
and the party that will stand for the
use of gold and silver, and maintain
their parity, will be the dominant party.
—After thirty flve years of public life
Congressman HoLMAN has come to the
conclusion that there is no money in it.
On the floor of the House, the other
day, he advised young men to stay out
of politics. It has long been an accept.
ed fact that a man without means
should haveno business with politics
and we are surprised that Mr. Hor-
MAN banked so heavily on that little
106 acre farm of his out in Ohio.
—The idea ot making LINCOLN’S
birthday a national holiday is being
agitated and seems to be meeting with a
great deal of favor. It is an excellent
plan to recognize, in some fitting man-
ner, the services of those who have done
so much for their country, but to make
nagional holidays to commemorate them
is wrong. We have more legal holi-
days now than are good for the country
and again the practice of making more
of great patriot’s birthdays is in vogue
there will not be any time to get our
work done.
—Princeton has declined to meet the
University of Pennsylvania on the ath-
letic field in the future, giving out,
as her reason, the statement that the
contests between the two institutions
engender too much bitterness. Such a
flimsy excuse for trying to place herself
beyond the reach of a competitor, that
has proven worthy her mettle, will be
locked upon by the college world as
unbecoming an institution like Prince-
ton. If the day has come when her
athletes can no longer boast superiority
over those at the U. of P. and her back-
ers are no longer dead sure of ‘‘swipin”
good Quaker money, she would act
with greater honor by taking occasional
defeats instead of playing baby and cry-
ing, we won't play with you any more,
you're getting so big we can’t lick you
every time now.
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Demacrali
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. 22
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BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 8, 1895.
NO. 10.
Politics in Local Elections.
The public mind is beginning to ask
why politics should have anything to
do with municipal government? The
absurdity, and, in fact, the actual
harm, of making the election of city
and borough officers a party question,
are becoming too obvious to be con-
cealed from ordinary discernment,
Local government is intended to regu-
late local affairs and to promote the in-
terests of the locality. That it should
be made a political matter, involving
issues of party policy, and be converted
into an object of coatention in party
lines, is certainly a gross perversion of
its legitimate purpose. :
Nothing could be more ridiculous
than the assumption that a municipality
should be under the control of one po-
litical party or another. Municipal gov-
ernment embraces interests entirely
separate and different from the policies
with which political parties are con-
cerned, and to mix it up with the con-
tentious of such parties not only in-
troduces a disturbing element into local
affairs, but subjects them to influences
and agencies that cannot be otherwise
than harmful.
The business of those who have
charge of the government of boroughs
and cities is to lay and expend the local
taxation, afford police protection, pave,
light and repair the streets, preserve
the public health by sanitary regula-
tions, furnish a sufficient water supply,
maintain the public schools, and ren-
der other service pertaining to a well
regulated community and necessary
for its local advantage. Can it be made
apparent that this function is better
performed by one political party than
by another, or that it isin any way
affected by high tariff or free trade,
or by any of the principles upon which
national parties are divided ?
And yet upon such irrelevant issues,
having nothing whatever to do with
local affairs, it has become the practice
of politicians, for their own advantage,
to conduct municipal elections. The
party organization is employed to keep
them in positions in which they grow
rich at the expense of the local tax-
payers. By invoking the partisan feel-
ing of the majority party, and utilizing
its machinery, they manage to main-
tain a prolonged enjoyment of mu-
nicipal epoils.
This misuse of party politics in city
and borough elections, bringing into
them issues which in no way pertain
to municipal affairs, has been practiced
by both parties, to the great detriment
of local interests as well as to the de-
basement of party principles. But the
worst instance of this abuse was pre
sented in the recent Philadelphia city
election, where the hold of a thievish
combination of Republican politicians
on the city government was defended
on party grounds; partisan feeling was
appealed to in support of corrupt city
government, the tariff was brought
into service to stimulate partisan zeal,
and a Republican Governor introduced
into the contest to increase the party
enthusiasm in support of candidates
nominated by ringsters whose occupa-
tion has been the looting of the city
treasury.
Bad local government must neces
sarily be the fruit of such practices.
The only hope of reform in the admin-
istration of city and borough affairs is
in the entire elimination of politics
from municipal elections. When the
people fully understand this fact the
needed reform will be brought about.
——A bill is before the New York
Legislature for the adoption of the
whipping post as a means of punish-
ing brutal characters who inflict .vio-
lent personal abuse upon the victims
of their brutality. This of course
would include wife-beating and the
abuse of children by a brutal parents.
The bill is supported by the sentiment
of some of the best newspapers of the
State, which express their conviction
that imprisonment is not sufficient to
prevent such outrages, and that the
brutes can only be deterred from their
inhuman conduct by punishment that
will make them squirm under its in-
fliction. A fellow who should get an
adequate number of lashes on the
bare back for beating his wife or vio-
lently maltreating his children wouldn’t
fancy rendering himself liable to an-
other dose of such corrective medicine
by repeating his brutality.
What the Administration Has Had to
Encounter.
The disorder in which Republican
legislation and management left the
financial and business condition of the
country necessarily made it difficult
for the Democratic administration to
meet the monetary exigencies imposed
by the requirements of government
conjoined with a depleted Treasury. A
Republican tariff had not only impair
ed the industrial situation, causing a
general paralysis of business which be-
gan to manifest itself about the close
of the Harrison administration, but
also, on account of its inadequacy as a
revenue measure, it left an insufficiency
of tunds to carry on the public business.
In addition to this embarrassment, the
financial situation was seriously de-
ranged by the Republican silver policy
and currency laws.
No administration ever came into
power embarrassed by such difficulties,
resulting from the delinquencies of its
predecessor. It had not only to meet
this trouble but had also to encounter
the unscrupulous opposition of those
who were responsible for it, and who,
for political effect have endeavored to
coutinue it by opposing every move-
ment to relieve the financial situation
and retrieve the public credit. Noth-
ing being so desirable to them, for a
partisan object, as that the Treasury
should remain in the depleted condi-
tion in which they left it, that design
has arrayed them against every mea’
sure proposed for the relief of its
financial embarrassment.
Under these circumstances the ad-
ministration has had a hard struggle
to secure the means of meeting the
public obligations and maintaining the
national credit, but relief is at hand.
The new fiscal laws are bringing in
money at a rate that warrants Secre-
tary CARLISLE to announce with rea.
sonable certainty that by the end of
the current year the tari{l and internal
revenues will exceed the government
expenses by at least $23,000,000, with.
out taking the returns of the income
tax into account.
It will be the glory of this Demo-
cratic administration that it repaired |
the wreck left in its hands by the Re- |
publicans, and did it too in spite of all |
their efforts to prolong the ruin they |
had wrought. |
Unnecessarily Scaved.
The machine politicians who man-
age the Philadelphia city elections have
been surprised and embarrassed by the
completeness of their recent job. They
find that they most decidedly over did
it. That the scamps were scared and
apprehended a rebuke, which they were
conscious ot deserving, was evidenced
by the unusual efforts they made for
the election of their candidates. They
were uncertain as to the support they
would receive from their own party.
Ordinarily their rapacious misgovern-
ment should have outraged and dis-
gusted any party. They knew this and
they feared it. But the result of the
election proved that their apprehension
was groundless. Philadelphia's ‘‘grand
old party” rallied “nobly” to the sup-
port of the plundering ringsters who
fatten ou the spoils of the city govern-
ment, giving the rascals so full a party
support that they find that the ten
thousand fraudulent votes which they
managed to poll was just as much su-
perfluous rascality. They could have
easily done without them.
The magnitude of the Republican
vote for mayor is the clearest evidence
of fraud. It was 21,184 more than
was polled for HARRISON in an election
when it was certain that every Repub-
lican vote was polled. The difference
could not have been made up from
Democrats voting for Warwick, for
Parrison’'s vote was within 5,600 of
that which was cast for CLEVELAND.
Admitting that this number of Demo-
crats voted for Warwick, and adding
5,000 secured by the understanding
with the organized liquor interest,
there remain at least 10,000 votes
which can be accounted for in no other
way than that they were fraudulently
returned. That they were unnecessary
was shown by the zeal with which the
Republican majority came up to the
support of their municipal thieves. The
rascals should have better understood
the temper of their party and not al
lowed themselves to have become un-
necessarily scared.
-promotive of the iron trade. The chief
The Passing of the ¥ifty-third.
Congress adjourned at noon on Mon-
day and tbe country is glad. But why?
Not because it squandered public mon..
ey, for it used over a half-tillion dol-
lars less than its predecessor ; not be-
cause it made unsatisfactory laws, for
it did too little in legislation ; but mere-
ly because it failed to restore prosperity
to a country that had been bolstered
aud pampered by Republican legisla-
tive nourishment until its business
collapsed with the suddenness of a
bubble.
This is the reason those fanatics,
who blame everything oun the party in
power, threw up their hats at noon on
Monday. Yet not one of them can give
a sensible cause for having expected
Congress to relieve the country at once.
The same tidal wave of public indig-
nation that swept the Republicans out
in 1892, because of their ruinous poli-
cies, was turned against the Democrats
in 1894, because of their apparent in-
competency. And thus it will ever be
unless people are brought to think
more and stop jumping at conclusions.
Scarcely had the WiLsonx bill, the
one product of the Fifty-third, become
operative, before the party that had
framed it was voted out—e’en before
those who had directly condemned it
by their suffrage had had an oppor-
tunity to watch its effects. No political
power under the sun could possibly
have filled the expectations the pub-
lic unthiokingly hoped to realize from
the change of administration in 1892
However the Democrats are not wholly
pardonable on the ground of - impossi-
bility. There can be no doubt of the
fact that the last Congress was lamen-
tably weak in leadership and without
any organization to speak of iar less
was accomplished by it that could rea-
sonably have been expected.
When united action was necessary
to pass the WiLsox bill, in its original
form, the party fought and quibbled
within itself until the country saw its
pledges broken and its utter inability
to make laws on the line of its plat:
form. That was the beginning of the
end. Failure to adjust the differences
between the gold and silver interests
and guide the government safely
through the monetary crisis were other
charges laid undisputed at the Demo-
cratic door. These, together with the
lack of push in apportioning to Demo-
crats the offices they had a nght to |
expect, combined to bring about the
revulsion of feeling that bas made a
Democratic Congress give way to an
opponent.
Thus it happens that the Fifty-third
has passed into history and the coun-
try breathes with a relief that is be-
gotten by the thought that if no good
can be done, there will be nothing to |
fear, at least, from Washington.
Next December the Republicans
will take hold, but meanwhile the new
tariff will have wrought its good re-
sults and the income tax will have
replenished the treasury depleted by
Republican mal-admistration of former
years. Then comes the query: Will
the credit be placed where itis due.
Will the Democrats be given approba
tion for the good work, or will the Re-
publicans steal the reward of Demo-
cratic laws as they saddled the blame
of their own on the Democrats last
fall 2
——No less than thirty-three fur:
naces have been abandoned in the
Schuylkill Valley within the last fif-
teen years, and the Lehigh Valley
shows an equal decline in the produc-
tion of pig iron. These furnaces were
out of blast before the last election of
CLEVELAND, their abandonment hav-
ing occurred under Republican tariffs
that were claimed to be particularly
cause of this decline was the scarcity
and cost of iron ore, which might have
been supplied them advantageously by
the removal of the duty on imported
ore. Such free raw material, furnish-
ing a kind of ore that cannot be sup-
plied by the ore-beds of this State
would have kept these furnaces going,
and given employment to hundreds of
workmen,
--With all its sins of omission and
commission the fifty-third Congress be-
came a thing of the past at noon on
Monday. However little it did of good
to the country, less than a half billion of
dollars can be charged up against its
expenditures.
The New Post-Master General,
From the York Gazette.
It is doubtful whether Mr. Cleveland
has made any appointment since his
inauguration which gives more genuine
satisfaction to the real Democrats of the
country than the appointment of Will-
iam L. Wilson as post master general.
Mr. Wilson has earued a reputation
for honesty and fearlessness and devo-
tion to Democratic principles, and bas
the implicit confidence of everyone,
friend or foe.
When he fell in the struggle last fall
which proved so disastrous to many of
the leaders of the democratic party there
was a universal feeling of sorrow and
regret. Tariff reform lost a doughty
champion on the floor of the House, and
the Democrats of that body a trusted
and skillful leader.
It was hoped then, and the hope has
not proved groundless, that Mr. Cleve-
land would not permit so strong a
Democrat to pass into retirement but
would}in some wise way secure for the
party and people his invaluable ser-
vices. In calling him into his immedi-
ate political family the President ob-
tains a trusted adviser, a man who
measures public acts by the golden rule,
a man whose sympathies are with the
people, not with the monopolies or the
money power. The cabinet is stronger
for his presence.
Mr. Bissell, whom he succeeds as post-
master-general, has filled the office most
capably, and leaves his great depart-
ment working smoothly and according
to strict business principles. Mr. Wil-
son finds no demoralization to correct
and can proceed without the handicap
of past mistakes.
A Joy That is Common.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The best thing that can be said of the
adjourned Congress is that it has not
made an extra session of the Fifty-
fourth Congress necessary. It passed
all the necessary appropriations bills—in
fact, appropriated the people’s money
quite too liberally—and vanished with
the sincere regret of nobody.
The people at large may not be so
boisterous in their demonstrations of joy
over final adjournment as the members
of the New York Stock Exchange, who
gave an hour to unrestrained boyish
hilarity after the noonday hour yester-
day, but that is about the way every-
body feels about it.
The country hopes to enjoy a good
nine month’s rest from crank Congress-
men, and that is occasion emough for
some very heartfelt thanksgiving on the
part of those who must get their living
by minding their own business.
Ingenious Advertising.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
It is said that the most ingenious ad-
vertisers in the world are the English.
Evidence of their use of the coupon
scheme is given in this item from Paris.
A letter addressed ‘to the statue of
| the Venus de Milo in the galleries of
the Louvre’ was received by the
authorities ot that national museum of
France a few days ago. The letter was
addressed in English in an unformed
hand-writing and it proved to be from a
little girl of London whe enclosed a
number of coupons cut from the bill
heads of an English commercial house.
The coupons showed that for twenty
five of them a photograph of the Venus
de Milo might be obtained from the
J firm from whose bills they were cut.
The little girl had misunderstood the
matter and addressed the letter to the
statue.
Will They Obey the Manifesto.
From the Clearfield Republican.
Catholics must leave the lodges.
Archbishop Corrigan has sent to every
Priest in the State of New York the
following letter : “A recent decree of
the holy office, confirmed by the sover-
eign pontiff, instructs the bishops of
the United States to advise the faithful
committed to their charge against affil-
iation with societies known as the
Odd Fellows, the Sons of Temperance
and the Knights of Pythias, with the
further injunction that if Catholics,
after such admonition, persist in their
connection with any of these societies
and will not give up membership there-
in, they cannot receive the sacra
- ments.”
Declining Like Wheat.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Cotton Facts, a periodical edited by
the secretary of the sub-committee of
the Senate Committee on Agriculture,
urges the cotton-growers to raise food
crops, and to make cotton their sur-
plus or money crop. Can it be that
King Cotton is about to join the line
of monarchs that totter on their
thrones ?
The Scholar is Usually to Blame.
From the Butler Democratic Herald.
A Sharon parent has gone to law for
his child who was whipped by a teach-
er with a chunk of a board. We pre-
sume the boy needed a clubbing and
the only mistake in the matter probably
was that he didn’t get hoarded at home.
When a teacher takes a board there is
generally a need for a club.
——GrorGE Gourp declares that his
family did not buy Count CASTELLANE
for his sister and talks as if it was a
pure love affair. No doubt it was, but
a love of money.
Spawls from the Heystone,
—Kutztown is 80 years old.
—Reading’s are lights cost $105 each.
—Two poor boxes in St. Peter's Cathe-
dral, Allegheny, were stolen,
—A coal oil lamp exploded at Reading,
burning to death Mrs. Lydia Coldren.
—Aged Mrs. Bridget Coyle, of Leban-
on, fell from a chair, fracturing her leg.
—Over 1,80 dogs have been reported
tor registry and taxation in Harrisburg.
~The discharge of a single man closed
the American match factory at Lebanon.
—Jolted from his ear at Columbia,
Brakeman John H. Seward's head was cut
off.
—No more small coal cars will be used
on the Wyoming division of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad.
—The McKeesport Zimes says all Al-
legheny County is opposed to the Greater
Pittsburg scheme.
—Jacob Young, a Lancaster County
farmer, residing near Rothsville, hanged
himself Monday.
—The big air-brake factory at Wilmerd-
ing will resume operations on Monday
after long idleness.
—While arguing a case before the Reg-
ister, ex Judge M. C. Herman, of Carlisle,
was stricken with paralysis.
—George Drumheller was hurled 250
feet down a chute at Buck Ridge mines
Monday and instantly killed.
—Harrisburg Presbyterian ministers
were entertained at Lebanon Tuesday
night by Rev. Craig B. Cross.
—South Bethlehem National Bank has
moved into one of the finest new bank
buildings in the Lehigh Valley.
—Minnie Geyer was reprimanded by a
Wilkesbarre Justice for sending, it is al.
leged, an old-maid valentine to Miss
Burkhardt.
—The Lancaster County Agricultural
and Horticultural Society has asked the
Governor to veto the bill creating the
Department.
—Bishop Dubs preached the ordination
sermon Sunday at Schuylkill Haven
when several young men became full-
flelzod ministers.
—Conrad Albright, a school teacher in
Codorus, York County, has been arrested
as one of the robbers who raided Adam
Albright’s home.
—State Senator S. J. M. McCarrell was
re-elected at Harrisburg Wednesday
president of the Clearfield, Conemaugh &
Western Railroad.
—Judge Clayton made a decree Monday
that unless exceptions was flled by March
14 the sale of the Willman Iron and Steel
plant would be confirmed.
—Reports from the northern and east-
ern sections of the state show that com.
paratively small portions of the snow
which fell this winter have melted.
—About 3000 men are employed at the
Westinghouse air-brake factory, Wil-
merding, which started up on Monday
full hours, the first time in four years.
—Only one ten.gallon keg of whisky has
been purchased for the Schuylkill Coun=
ty Almshouse since the scandals were re-
cently investigated by the Auditors.
—Berks County taxpayers have peti.
tioned the Auditors not to sanction the
fee bills presented by the County Com-
missioners, claiming they are exeessive.
—Dunbar, Pa., has had no licensed sa.
loon or hotel for ten years, and the cit-
izens of the place are making a strong
| fight against the granting of license to a
hotel.
—Pugilists are being closely watched by
the police in all parts of the state, the de-
termination being to prevent all such
encounters in every section of Pennsyl-
vania.
—A horse stolen from Liveryman
Michael Cronin, of Chester, nearly three
years ago, was recovered Monday after
haying been in the possession of proba-
bly a dozen persons.
— The breaking up of the heavy ice on
the Susquehanna has resulted in a great
gorge ten miles in length, forming above
Lock Haven. The jam extends from
Queen Run te Glen Union.
—A man named Hotfman was seriously
wounded near Huntingdon, Pa., by a self-
acting gun, which J. Howard Womelsdort
had fixed at the door of his chicken yard
as a protection against thieves.
—Judge Gordon, of Clearfield County
handed down a new rule Monday, requir-
ing all proposed license transfers to be
published in the county papers at least
three weeks before the sitting of the
Court.
—The Cambria iron and steel company
will begin the manutaeture of structural
beams on March 15. It willbe an ac-
tive competitor of the Carnegie steel com
pany. Two large contraets have just been
closed.
—On Wednesday night last thieves en-
tered the pig sty of William Showalter,
at Latrobe, and butchered two of his
hogs and carried away the meat without
leaving any clue as to their identity. The
animals were valued at $20.
—Meadville Republican: In making an
excavation last week, some workmen
unearthed the fact that the ground was
frozen to the depth of over four feet.
This is the greatest depth that the frost
has penetrated in this section for many a
year.
—A movement has been inaugurated to
thoroughly examine the mountains north
east of Mifflinburg for eoal, says the Lew-
isburg Journal. Traces of coal have been
found in that section and itis generally
believed that there is an abundance of it.
A fund has been raised, miners engaged
and the search has been commenced.
—A child about four days old was found
in the Juniata river at Spruce Creek
floating in a sealed jar. From its appear-
ance it had evidently been strangled to
death and there was also & little tiny hole
in its right temple which looked as
though it might have been made with a
darning needle. There is noclue to the
perpetrator of the foul deed.
—While watching the gasoline tank at
the axe works at Lewistown on account
of the high water Friday night, Oliver
Buyett and Frank Francis, both French _
men, held the lantern too near the man.
hole and an explosion followed. The top
of the tank was blown off and Francis had
his hand and arms badly burned. Bujyett
had all the hair burned off his head and
was seriously burned on the upper part
of the body, hands, arms and face.