Demoreaic Alaa
SY PP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The Spanish situation thickens, but
all the while the American blood is go-
ing up.
—The Easter bonnet will soon be here
to trouble man and detract from the in-
terest of church services.
—Chickens are stocking up the mar-
ket with eggs that will be colored on
Easter day and blamed on the rabbits.
—Emperor WILLIAM of Germany,
having presented BISMARCK with a gold
sword, will doubtless imagine himself at
liberty to talk the new Reichstaag to
death as soon as it is con vened.
—Germany will soon remove the pro-
hibitive restriction on American cattle,
having satisfied herself that they are
free from disease. The dutchmen are
tired living on frankforters and weiner-
wurst, we suppose.
—The Bellefonte Presbyterians are at
war among themselves. Verily the
churches of the town are hot beds of
dissention and wickedness. When con-
gregations can’t keep peace in their gov-
ernment the devil orders a few extra
tons of coal.
—The Slatington girl who waited in
vain fora husband to be, on Saturday
night, did’nt seem to realize that a bird
in the hand was worth a dozen in the
bush, until the hour for her wedding ar-
rived and there was no one for her to
get married to.
— McKINLEY is off on a southern
tour. Booming his presidential bee, no
doubt, but after having said that he
would desert his party if it declared for
free silver, we'd like to know what he
intends talking about to the silverites of
the South and West.
—The [two robbers who were sum-
marily ushered into eternity while
trying to hold up a train near Chatnoo-
ga, early Wednesday morning, had bet-
ter not pull their guns on old ST. PETER
if t hey get up there, for in such a game
he has a great opportunity of doing ef-
fectual firing himself.
—HENRY GEORGE, the great Ameri-
can residuary legatee,has’nt been a single
taser for nothing. It has given him
prominence among men and nearly every
week some one who dies remembers
him in their will. It isthus he has
been dubbed the great American resid-
uary legatee.
—The fight for the chairmanship of
the Democratic State Central Committee
seems to be a veritable case of dog eat
dog. KEither Mr. WriGHT or Mr.
KERR'S man, who will more than likely
turn out to be Mr. KERR himself, will
do very well. What the State wants is
so me assurance that the fellow who gets
left won't kick.
—The faction makers in the Demo-
cratic party of the State are still at work.
Every day some new story is put in cir-
culation as to the President’s wishes re-
garding matters political in Pennsyl-
vania. If Mr. CLEVELAND is really as
solicitous about us as Mr. KERR is
making believe why don’t be address a
letter to Pennsylvania Democrats ?
—The shooting of Lt Hung CHANG,
the Chinese peace envoy to Japan, was
a most unfortunate occurrence for the
Japanese. Though the Mikado’s gov-
ernment is in no wise to blame for the
work of a murderous fanatic, yet such
acts are always accompsnied by un-
pleasant circumstances that will live
forever in the mind of an unfriendly
country.
—The St. Paul would’nt slide out of
her stays at CRAMP’s ship yard in Phila-
delphia, on Monday, consequently the
steamer could’nt be launched. The
reason that the tallow, with which the
ways had been greased, had frozen was
given out as the excuse. If a few ba-
nana peels had been slipped under hep
we’ll bet she would have slid. Some
pretty big barks have gone down on the
latter already.
—The Magnet thinks Bellefonte min-
isters are not doing their duty because
it knows a man who has lived here
many years and has never been asked
to go to church. Such a condition of af-
fairs is not at all strange. That man
has known where the churches are and
also that any of their services are free
and if an invitation is what he is wait-
ing on St. PETER won’t take much
stock in such an excuse when this slight.
ed individual knocks at the Golden Gate
and tries to slide in.
—1It is said that HARRIETT BEECHER
Stowe flies into a perfect frenzy when
ever any one mentions her book, “Un.
cle Tom’s Cabin,” in her hearing. We
are not surprised that she is tired hearing
of Tom being clubbed to death and of
little Eva winging her weary way
heavenward, but then if she would see
some of the many ‘great, double,
mammoth, allegorical’’ theatrical pro-
ductions of it now before the public she
would either wish herself eaten up by
the ‘ferocious, man eating, Siberian
blood hounds’, or would straightway lie
down behind the ass on which MARKS
makes his debut and pray to be kicked
into eternity.
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STATE RIGHTS AN
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BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 29, 18935.
NO. 13.
The National Honor Safe in Democratic
Hands.
Among the many commendations of
the administration for its prompt and
vigorous action in calling Spain to ac-
count for the firing upon an American
steamer by one of her cruisers, was an
expression of Republican Senator HALE
that had in it a tone of surprised ap-
proval, asif it were something that was
not to be expected. What else, in such
a case, could he have looked for ? Has
it ever been the custom of Democratic
administrations to let a national insult
go unrebuked ? All the instances of
spirited action in calling foreign na-
tions to account have occurred under
Democratic administrations, including
the celebrated case of France eating
humble pie, in the claims question,
upon the insistence of President Jack-
soN. We can assure the mackerel and
codfish patriots of Maine and Massa-
chusetts, who have been parading their
cheap-jack patriotism and clamoring
for the American eagle to engage in
dirty business in the Sandwich Islands
matter, that the honor and flag of the
nation can be safely committed to
Democratic hands.
It is hard for a Democratic admiris-
tration to satisfy the Republican Jin-
goes. It would have been much more
to their liking if Secretary GRESHAM
had overlooked the Spanish insult.
How eagerly they would have used it
for political capital. And when Spain
shall be compelled to make all the
reparation which the laws of nations
"require, in such a case, which she cer-
tainly will be forced to do, these Re-
publicans patriots will still find some-
thing to carp about. This, however,
will in no way detract from the credit
that will be due the administration for
maintaining the national honor.
Political Judicial Districts.
The evil effects of mixing party pol-
itics with the election of judges are be.
coming more apparent every year.
Thoughtful men, who comprehend and
evil and wish to restrain it. In dis"
judges on strict party lines has not yet
made to prevent such contamination of
nominations of judicial candidates, but
such districts are rapidly disappearing
under the pressure of partisan demands.
Under such discouraging circum-
stances, threatening a deplorable deg-
radation of the judiciary, is it not
astounding to see a Legislature delib
erately and recklessly endeavoring to
increase, intensify and perpetuate this
evil by an appointment of judicial dis.
tricts with the direct and avowed ob-
ject of making the election of judges
susceptible to political influence? The
fell epirit of partisanship never inflicted
a greater injury upon the people than
would follow a judicial apportionment
made with special reference to the
politics of the districts and with the
special purpose of securing the election
of partisan judges. It would be a dis-
tinct announcement that the judgeship
is a political office, and an object of
party contention. It would be a dec-
laration by the lawmaking power that
the ermine is to be included among the
political spoils, the capture of which
would be facilitated by a partisan ap-
portionment of the judicial districts.
Many harmful things have been
done, and are proposed to be done, by
the worthless and pernicious body that
now constitutes the lawmaking power
of Pennosylvania, but such a partisan
judicial apportionment bill as is in con-
templation, if it should be enacted,
would surpass all of its other acts in
harmful intent and effect.
——Governor HASTINGS appears in
the unexpected role of a vetoer of
peusion bills. He sent to the House
| his disapproval of a bill granting a
| pension to HamirtoN SyiTH for injury
| received in the service of the State.
The Goveruor based his dissent upon
the fact that it was difficult to establish
| the claim, inasmuch as more than
{ thirty years had elapsed since the
alleged injury was said to have been
sustained. It is evidently the Gov.
ernor’s impression that there should be
a limit to such claime, and he may be
correct in such a view ; but it is to be
regretted that some weeks previous his
mind was not led to the conclusion that
there should be a limit to the Standard
Oil Company’s claim to a monopoly of
Pennsylvania's oil products.
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fear its consequences, deprecate this,
been adopted. well intended efforts are | oo, impassive to this encroachment
the Judieiary hy securing mov pariiean | and only set the eagle to screaming in
English Encroachment.
The English are furnishing another
illustration of the grasping and bully-
ing disposition for which they are
noted 1n their attempt to seize and oc-
cupy territory that clearly belongs to
the republic of Venezuela. The land
upon which they have encroached and
lay claim to is Venezuelan territory by
right of succession to the Spaniards
from whom that republic won it by
successful rebellion and revolution.
The treaty by which their independence
was acknowledged admitted their claim
and right to it. There was a clear line
of demarkation between their terri-
torial limits and those of adjoining
British possessions, which was general-
ly recognized and was not disputed by
the English until eventually they saw
an advantage in making encroach:
ments. Valuable deposits of gold were
found in adjoining Venezuelan districts
which excited English cupidity, in
consequence of which a claim was
trumped up, founded upon pretexts ut-
terly untenable in point of fact. The
only right that England hasin that
region came from Dutch ownership to
which she succeeded by treaty, The
Dutch never owned a foot of the terri.
tory upon which this encroachment is
being made.
The weak South American republic
that is thus being imposed upon has
made every possible resistance in the
way of protest against this imposition,
but of course is unable to prevent it by
force. She has over and over again
offered to eubmit the matter to the
arbitration of friendly powers, but
England, knowing that her only right
in the case consists in her weight, and
that her only reliance in the issue is
brate force, refuses to submit the ques-
tion to arbitrament which would turn
down her claim as a piece of impudent
and overbearing assumption.
While this outrage was being prac-
ticed upon a helpless sister republic the
Republican administrations which con-
trolled the government of the United
States for more than a quarter of a
: °° | century made no objection to the wrong
tricts where the practice of electing |
and no protest against so flagrant an
infractionof the MoNroE doctrine. They
| of the British lion on American soil,
such petty jingoism as the miserable
Hawaiian business. They have allow-
ed the English to go on unchallenged
until they have within their grasp the
vast valley of the Oronoco river, with
all the commercial advantages it will
confer.
In contrast with this supineness, the
action of Ambassador Bavarp, under
the instruction of the CLEVELAND ad-
ministration, is the first official step on
the part of our government to halt the
trespass of the English upon Vene-
zuelan territory, and gives the Ameri
can people encouragement to expect
that means will be adopted tbat will
insure a weak republic its right, and
command European respect for the
American doctrine that this continent
belongs to the Americans.
General Walter W. Greenland.
It is to be regretted that the inexor-
able hand of death makes no distine-
tion in cutting down its victims. It
seems that oftenest the most useful are
called. The death of General WALTER
GREENLAND, which occurred at his
home in Clarion, on Saturday evening,
after several month’s’ illness, removes
one of Pennsylvania’s noblest sons. A
true hero was he. His war record was
emblazoned with deeds of the greatest
heroism and the side of his life that
the public knew was so bright and clear
as to inspire more than admiration. It
made the State honor him as its
Adjutant General. In his funeral,
which occurred Wednesday, the simple
eolemn services, attended by men of
prominence from all over the State, the
silent town in which all manner of
business was suspended, and the many
honest tears that were ehed for him,
told all too well the place he held in
the hearts of those who knew him.
General GREENLAND's death is to be
regretted, not alone as that ot an bhoo-
ored man scarcely past the prime of
life, but more, 8s being one of those few
which occur by which there is a place
left vacant that can never he filled.
“Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither atthe north.wind’s
breath,
And stars to set,—but all
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O
death.”
Decreased Government Expenses.
Whatever may have been the short-
comings of the last Congress it must be
said for it that it was comparatively
economical. If it authorized the ex-
penditure of public money it was not
done extravagantly or recklessly, the
expense being required by obligations
previously imposed upon the govern-
ment. Upon a complete figuring up of
all the outlays authorized, the appro-
priations made by the Fifty-third Con-
gress are shown to have been $36,765,
856.85 less than those of the Fifty-sec-
ond Congress, and $45,341,418.90 less
than those of Toy REED’s notorious bil-
lion dollar Fitty-first Congress. This very
appreciable reduction was made with-
out injurious cheese-paring, as no less
than $20,000,000 was allowed for the
necessary and patriotic purpose of
strengthening the naval defence of the
country.
The natural inclination of a Demo-
cratic Congress is in the direction of
economy. If it is seen authorizing
large expenditures it is quite certain
that it has been compelled to do so by
the exigency of the government's liabil-
ities. Tne last Republican Congress
drew down upon itself popular con-
demnation tor authorizing expenses to
the astounding amount of a billion dol-
lars. Great satisfaction was expressed
by the Republicans when the appro-
priations of the succeeding Democratic
Congress amounted to almost as much,
Bat the fact was thatthe Republican
Congress had established permanent
liabilities which its Democratic suc-
cessor could not avoid providing for.
It was culled upon to meet great ex-
penses, largely increased pensions, for
example, and other obligations imposed
upon the government by Republican
legislation, which it was bound to take
into account when making its appro-
priations. Yet notwithstanding this
legacy of liability, the frait of previous
extravagant legislation, it managed to
make a considerable reduction in ap-
propriations as compared with those of
the Reep Congress. The Fifty-third,
which succeeded it, has done still
better.
It will be a long while before the
country shall get over the evil effects
of the profligacy of the last several Re-
publican Congresses, particularly that
‘corder' of the city,
of the Fifty-first. The obligations they
imposed will Jong be a dead-weight up-
on the government, and their extrav-
agance depleted the Treasury, ex-
hausted the financial reserve, impaired
the public credit, and led to the mone-
tary and industrial disorders which
were made still worse by tariff laws
that deranged and ultimately prostrated
the industries, and by currency laws
that destroyed financial confidence and |
ended in a general collapse.
This was the situation which a
Democratic administration and a
Democratic Congress had to encounter,
and there are rascals who say, and
fools who can be made to believe, that
the Democrats are respousible for it.
——Among the many freaks for
which the present state Legislature is
chargeable is the introduction of a bill
that is intended to establish petty
criminal courts in eyery neighborhood.
It proposes to authorize Justices of
the Peace to try certain cases of crime
before juries of six men drawn by the
justices, and empower such officers,
upon the conviction of the accused, to
sentence the offenders to jail or the
penitentiary. It is said thatthe object
of such an extraordinary judiciary is
to make the administration of justice
convenient for the farmers. The
Grangers are represented as demand-
ing it. Nowhere would such judicial
dogberrys and rump juries be more of
a nuisance than in the rural districts
where they would incite to prosecu.
tions that could be avoided and lead to
the disturbance of neighborhoods. The
existing legal machinery is amply
sufficient for all the ends of justice.
——After signing so many bills for
the creation of new offices, the increase
| of salaries, and other lavish expenses,
Governor Hastings might ae well have
put his name to poor HamiLTON
Sara's little pension bill and let that
small expense go with the others.
' What's the use of concentrating guber
'patorial attention upon the spigot
"while the contents of the barrel are
allowed to run out of the bunghole ?
Dan Don’t Practice as He Preached.
From the Greensburg Democrat.
Daily news from Harrisburg runs in
this strain: “Bill apportioning the
state into judicial districts and provid-
ing for six new judges has passed the
house.” “The bill proposing to retire
and pension judges after a certain per-
iod of service will be passed.” “Com-
munications were read from the gov
ernor notifying the house of his ap-
proval of the bill providing for the elec-
tion of additional officers and the ap-
pointments of additional employes of
the house.”
It will be remembered that the pres-
ent executive and legislature were elec-
ted on the calamity and poverty wail.
The manner in which new offices are
being created almost daily, and the
numerous extravagant schemes rushed
through for draining the public treas-
ury, are without parallel in tHe his-
tory of the commonwealth. The hol
low insincerity of the poverty campaign
of last fall, in the light of the free-
booter methods now in vogue at Har-
risburg, ought to be apparent to and
have an awakening effect upon a good
many of the deluded taxpayers ot the
state.
Death of a Prominent Man.
From the Doylestown Democrat.
Richard Vaux died at his residence,
Philadelphia, Friday morning, after an
illness of about a week, in his 77th year.
He was the son of Robert Vaux, a well
known philanthropist, and had been a
conspicuous figure in the social and po-
litical life of his native city for more
than half a century. He had filled
divers public positions; including that
of Secretary of the Legation at the Court
of St. James, when a young man; Re-
C 1842-7; Mayor,
1856-8; President of the Board of Pris-
on Inspectors for many years ; represen-
ted the Third district in the 51st Con-
gress ; and besides being a prominent
Democrat was high in Masonic affairs,
being Grand Master in Pennsylvania,
and the author of several volumes. He
was an agreeable man personally, and
attached to his friends as with hoops of
steel. His death was received with re-
gret by a large circle of personal and
politieal friends.
Why Bill What Could You Be ?
From the Philadelphia Record.
Governor McKinley, who is the
guest of Mr. Flagler at St. Augustine,
Fla., is reported to have declared that
“if the Republican party should declare
for free silver I would decline to be-
come its candidate, and I would quit
the party forever.” Of course, the party
will not declare for free silver. But
the currency bank in its national plat-
form may, and probably will, have an
iridescent finish, with a silvern lustre
when held up in a Western light, and
a strictly bimetallic gleam when seen
from other points all "round the rest of
the compass.
Democratic State Central Committee
Meeting.
Headquarters Deinocratic State Centrai Com-
mittee, 15 and 16 South Market Square.
In accordance with the provisions of
Rule V, Section 2, of the rules of the
Democratic Party in the State of Penn-
sylvania, I hereby give notice that the
members of the Democratic State Cen-
tral Committee will meet in Harrisburg,
on Wednesday, April 17, 1895, at 12
o'clock, in the Committee Rooms,
14 and 16 South Market Square, for the
purpose of electing a Chairman for the
ensuing year, fixing the time and place
for the holding of the State Convention.
and for the transaction of such other
business as may be properly presented.
JAMES A. STRANAHAN,
Chairman.
Colonel Robinson Is Public Printer.
HARRISBURG, March 25.—Governor
Hastings has appointed Colonel Thomas
Robinson, of Butler, superintendent of
public printing, vice Colonel W. Hayes
Grier, of Columbia, resigned. Colonel
Robinson was formerly engaged in the
newspaper business at Butler. He is a
friend of Senator Quay and has been for
many years one of the formost Republi-
can leaders of Western Pennsylvania.
He will assume his duties April 15.
Muruaga to go Home.
The Spanish Government Has Accepted His Res-
ignation.
W asHINGTON, March 25.—Senor Mu-
ruaga, the Spanish minister was ad-
vised by his government this evening
of the acceptance of his resignation.
A Rebel Defeat.
Spanish Troops Repulse 500 Cuban Insurgents.
HavANA, March 25.—Colonel Santos-
cildes, who commands the government
force at Mansanillo, reported that yes-
terday troops under Colonel Araoz at-
tacked and dispersed rebel bands 500
strong. Fiteen rebels were killed and
many others were wounded. The gov-
ernment force lost one officer killed and
two privates wounded.
The same government troops also dis-
persed a party of rebels on March 22,
losing one officer killed and three pri-
vates wounded.
A report from Holguin says that in-
surgents are approaching that place.
The force is 300 strong and well armed.
Spawls from the Kaystore.
—York has organized a vigorous histor-
ical society-
—Coal in large amounts is being stored
at the collieries.
—Ashland and Centralia expect to be
connected by an electric road.
—Mine cars at Locust Gap crushed life-
less Elijah Yarnall.
—An effort is being made to reduce the
pay of Northampton County’s Treasurer:
—Nothing but stockings and brushes
will now be made in the Berks County
Jail.
—Plans are shown for the new United
Evangelical Church, at Reading to cost
$40,000.
—All the old liquor licenses in Monroe
County—63 in number—were renewed -
Monday.
—Montgomery County’s liquor license
Court opened Monday there being 16 new
applicants.
—The Reading Iron Company’s works
at Reading arenow running full-handed
with 2000 men.
—Judge Scott has put his foot upon the
transferring of liquor licenses in North-
ampton County.
—Thousands went to the Wilkesbarre
depot to welcome homefrom Europe Rev.
R. A. McAndrews.
—Reading has awarded a contract for
Welsbach street lights for five years, at
$30.50 per light per year.
—Bucks County Detective Association
will hereafter serve warrants, landlord
warrants and subpceenas.
—Metzgar Institute, the young women’s
seminary at Carlisle, wants to become a
college and confer degrees.
—A branch of the Commercial Trav-
elers’ Home has been started at Reading,
with W. J. Ewart president.
—Pneumonia and grip killed six people
at Pottsville on Sunday, making the big-
gest death rate for two years.
—Allegheny County patriotic orders fa-
vor a more stringent compulsory educa -
tion bill than the Farr measure.
—An injunction has been asked for to
restrain Meadville from increasing its
indebtedness to buy water works.
—An injunction has been asked for to
restrain Meadville from increasing its in-
debtedness to buy water works.
—Proceedings by Lancaster County to
recover $75,000 from Lancaster city will
be begun immediately at Lebanon.
—The Williamsport Boom Company
expects between 180,000,000 and 200,000,600
feet oflogs to float into its boom this
spring.
—Street railway employes at West
Chester loudly complain because they
have not been paid for nearly two
months.
—The wealthy Honeybrook tarmer, C.
H. Buchanan, who has been in Norristown
Asylum two years, although sane, was
set free.
—Allegheny’s Court Monday ordered
Pool-dealer George M. Irwin to hand over
his books for inspection, and the order
was obeyed.
—Aged Elijah Yarnel was crushed to
death by the too rapid hoisting of a mine
wagon, at Locust Gap Colliery, near
Pottsville.
—A prisoner named Michael Sadd made
his escape from the Huntingdon reform-
atory Saturday last, but was rezaptured
the same day.
— A stir was created at Berks County
prison Monday when Warden Smith re-
fused to instruct his successor on the
duties of his office.
—Mrs. Josiah Harmon, aged 68 years,
and Mrs, Catharine Norton, aged 75 years,
two well known citizens of Newton Ham-
ilton, died last week.
—Under the voluntary dissolution of
the Monroe County Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company, Charles B. Staples has
been appointed receiver.
—F. A. Diffenderfer, of Brooklyn, has
been ordered to go to Lancaster to be
tried for the alleged embezzlement of
$10,000 from his brother John.
—The very successful series ot revival
meetings in the First Methodist Episco-
pal church at Huntingdon closed with a
jubilee meeting Monday evening.
—Suit for $10,000 damages has been
brought at Lebanon, by J. A. Miller
against the Lackawanna Iron Company
under whose employ he was injured.
—Pleading the protection of the Inter.
state Commerce law, four men arrested
at Lancaster for peddling Rhode Isl and
wringers without license will seek re-
lease.
—The Sunbury mill will be started the
1st of May and employment will be given
to sixty-five or eighty-five men and boys,
The monthly pay roll will be from $2,300
to $3,500.
—The State Department has authorized
the New Haven Copper Company, of €on-
necticut, and American Concrete Con.
struction Company, of New Jersey, toes.
tablish offices in Philadelphia.
—W. A. B. Little, a prominent mer
chant of Loretto, Cambria county, has
made an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors. He was engaged in merchan-
dising. The extent of his liabilities is not
known.
—Rev. R. A. Fink, D.D. ied at his
home in Johnstown Monday morning at
the age of Sl years. For twenty-four
years he was pastor of the Franklin
Street Evangelical church in that city,
and until his health began to fail him
ten years ago he was an active church
worker.
—The newly elected board of directors
of the Pennsylvania Railroad company
met Wednesday afternoon for reorganiza-
tion: No changes were made in the per-
sonnel of the organization and PresiGent
Roberts was unanimously re elected. The
total vote cast at yesterday's election for
directors was 913,623, the largest ever poll:
ed. Last year the vote was 783,338 shares.
—William R. Louer, aged 30 years, son of
William Louer, one of the oldest residents
of Hummelstown, met witha fatal acci-
dent atv Brownstone quarry Wednesday
afternoon while attempting to couple a
train. His foot caught in a frog and
threw him down, the engine and entire
train passing over him. He was taken to
Harrisburg where he died at 9 o'clock.