Sw————— Bemoratic Wadd 3Y RP. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. Convention day *has come and went” And there never was a minute, In all the fuss for harmony, That Jimmy Kerr was in it. —TRILBY feot-wear will soon be in style for small boys. —As oil goes up the Baltimore man, who says he can make two-cent gas, grows apace as a coming benefactor of humanity. —Though the whiskey trust has gone to smash there is nothing to indicate that the spirits will go down any further than they have always done. —The speculator who hangs on to the oil margins too long will find how nice- ly the Standard company has greased the slide when the stock begins to turn. —China and Japan have signed a treaty of peace the most important fea- ture of which is the enormous piece of Chinese possessions that the Japs ap- propriate to themselves. —From the turn things took at Har- risburg, on Wednesday, it looks very much as if the much talked of disaffec- tion in the Democratic party in the State is confined to Mr. KERR alone. —JoE S1BLEY was in Denver, Col. on Tuesday night and made a free silver speech, as a matter of course. JOE isa dandy, but CAMERON will never let him steal the silver people in any such a contest. —CLEVELAND’S sound money letter to his Chicago friends is a sound letter indeed. The President showed his wis- dom in not having said anything that his Chicago readers would not fully coincide in. --The proposed legislation to elimi- nate the cause for the use of the ¢“S. R. 0.” sign in theatres will deprive mana- gers of nearly as big a channel of ad- vertising as the annual story of stolen diamonds amounts to. -—The Cuban revoluti onists have suf- fered their death blow and Spanish tyranny will continue to grind, under its oppressive heel, every blossom of liberty that the fair islands shoot forth, unless some stronger people unite to help them throw off the yoke. —The bill to pension judges has been passed finally in the Legislature and now Republican partisans will have the pleasure of explaining what kind of public good is served by creating a civi] pension list at the expense of state hos- pitals and public schools. —The unanimous nomination of RoB- ErT BE. WRIGHT to the chairmanship of the Democracy of Pennsylvania is evidence supreme that the disaffection in the party ranks out of which disor- ganizers tried to make so much trouble existed only in their minds. —QCountry school districts that laid down on the State, when the $5,000,000 appropriation was made to the public schools, will have to get up and pay a little tax after the Harrisburg salary grabbers have knocked off $2,000,000 to make ends meet during their extrava- gant legislation. —“What are we here tor’ FLANA- GAN, ex-collector of the port of Chicago, has been arrested at El Paso, Texas, on a charge of having helped to smuggle twenty thousand sheep over the line from Mexico. If Mr. FLANAGAN and his pals get what they deserve for such an offense there will be no need of his asking any of them his favorite question, ‘what are we here for ?”’ —Jimmy ELVERsoN, the youthful manager of the Philadelphia Inquirer, has at last been married to ‘‘Princess Bonnie,” ELEANOR MAYO, and now that paper can hope for a little more of his - attention than he found time to give it when Miss MAyo was on the road in comic opera. Notwithstanding he made one of himself in getting her he determined to play “Guy’’ for her off the stage and he has succeeded. —About the most unfortunate part of the shortage of state funds, brought about by the reckless salary grabbers at Harrisburg, is the fact that so many needed appropriations will have to be cut down or refused altogether. It isa disgrace indeed that such institutions as The Pennsylvania State College and the Cottage Hospital, at Philipsburg, should be in danger of suffering from want of the funds that have been turned from these useful beneficiaries to make fat salaries for the heelers who are now get- ting their pay for last fall’s work. —The patriotic (?) Senator from this district, who wanted to see a flag, made out of the American grown wool of Amer- ican grown farmers, floating over every school house in the State, has continued his patriotic (?) work by supporting fur- ther legislation for the schools. He wants the school book trust to control things, so that small publishers will be out stripped by the monopoly. Had Mr. McQuowN exerted himself against such a squandering of public funds ag will cut the school fund short at least $2,000,000 he would have been thought more of by his constituency. Vo XS STATE RIGHTS AN D FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 40 BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 19, 1895. NO. 16. Cowardice or Hypocrisy—Which? Evidently we have reached a state of affairs that shows the hypocrisy that has been rampant for the past year, or else a large number of people an neglect- ing their duties and allowing their pa- triotic (?) impulses to die within them, while the country, according to their teachings, is going to the “divil” at a pace that should make a race horse blush or put an express train to shame. When we come to consider that it is now almost three weeks since the salary of superintendent of public grounds at Harrisburg was increased, the emoluments enlarged, and the ap- pointment given to a catholic—a Ro- man catholic by a Republican Gover- nor ; and then remember that nota word of disapproval has appeared in any of the patriotic (?)—flag-flaunting eagle screaming—catholic defying— Republican newspapers that have been howling themselves hoarse over the appointment of an occasional catholic post-master, by 2 Democratic President, weare led to wonder what kind of a grip the greatly denounced and much despised pope has upon these pa- p23. afta all, tay t they are so silent over this last evidence of his power (?) and success (?) Surely there is something wrong some where, or something very rotten about the professions of some people, when a Republican Governor can give to a catholic, like JoEN C. DELANEY, one of the fattest offices in the State, and one promising a richer harvest from thefts than any at his disposal, and not a word of denunciation is heard from either the orders or the newspapers that have undertaken to ostracise all who believe in the catho- lic faith, and to down the Democracy because it would not join in a church crusade against them, ‘What is the matter? Isitrottenness oa the part of these secret orders, back of the anti-catholic movement ? Is it cowardice on the part of the organs of these orders, or is it the political hypocrisy of both that seals their lips and paralyzes their peng, as to the pro- priety of the appointment of DELANEY ? Patriotic sous ! Prostituted press! Political demagogues ! We listen, but no voice is raised to warn us of the danger to the ‘Ameri can flag,” or of the disgrace to the “American eagle” in consequence of the eelection of this catholic. We, hearken in vain for your denun- ciation of the power of the pope since the appointment ot DELANEY ! Why, O why, this silence ? —————————————— Are We To Have a Civil Pension List? The evident disapproval of the pen- sioning of retired judges, which has generally manifested itself among the people, should have had the effect of causing its supporters in the Legisla- ture to abandon such a scheme; but the project of imposing an additional and unnecessary expense upon the State by creating a class of pensioners to be composed of retired office-hold- ers, 18 in keeping with the other at- temptslof the Republican Legislators to increase the burden of the tax-payers. In this endeavor they propose to imi- tate the English example of establish- ing a civil pension list by which a class of super-annuated officials are sup- ported at the public expense. For the initiation of this abuse of the pensioning power the judges have been selected, but there is no justifica- tion for it when it 18 considered that their pay is sufficiently liberal, it be ing in most cases more than they could make in the practice of the law. Such a provision for retired judges would be an entering wedge for the claim of other officials, who had spent a portion of their lives in holding office and in consideration of such public ser- vice should be a charge on the State for the balance of their lives. This is the theory of the English civil pension system which our lawmakers propose to introduce by beginning with the judiciary. A etart is all that is neces- sary to establish such an abuse, pensioning of judges are of a specious character. It is said that aiter a judge has spent the best years of %,is life in the service of justice it is n ¢ right to send him back a poor mar © rive life. This is but an ap’ alee | sympathy. Many a fara yek- ingman would be glad to retire on such poverty. But if a judge retired in an impecunious condition it is largely his own fault. If he had continued his practice, instead of drawing a liberal annual salary as an incumbent of the bench, is it likely that he would have been any richer? There may be exceptions, but this question will apply to the average of retiring judges. Bat the fear of such supposed pover- ty does not deter the lawyers from ecrambling for the judicial office. They are so little afraid of coming oft the bench impoverished that it has be- come the custom to resort to pot-house political methods to get onto it. It is considered a desirable prize without the attachment of a pension after the expiration of the official term. If in addition to the present desirableness ot the judgeship it were provided by law that judges upon leaving the bench were to be pensioners for the balance of their lives, after having for years been handsomely salaried, it would only increase the scramble for the office, and induce the practice of stiil more reprehensible means to obtain it. There is already demoralization enough in the contentions for the judge- ship without additional incentives. Deficiency of State Revenue. From the way the present Legisla- ture is increasing the state expenses it might be supposed that there was an abundance of revenue to draw from, and that the resources of the state treasury were inexh austible. Even if this were true it would be no excuse for making new offices that are not needed, increasing the pay of officials who are already sufficiently compen: sated, snd resorting to other extrava- gant means of wasting the money drawn from the tax-payers for the sup- port of the state government. But instead of there being an abund- | travagance, there is an alarming indi- cation of a deficiency in consequence That measure is found to be insuffi- cient to meet the increased state ex- penses, and to remedy this deficiency a vew tax bill has been prepared by the ways and means committee ; but it will be impossible to pass a revenue measure at this session. The situation that is thus presented | is largely increased state expenses which are to be provided for with a greatly decreased revenue. In this dilemma one of two things is proposed — either to call an extra session of the Legislature to pass a revenue bill that will raise enough money to meet 1hese lavish expenditures, or to increase the State debt by issuing bonds for the same purpose. Another suggestion is to decrease, to the amount of a million dollars, the appropriation for the pub- lic schools. The cause of education would thus be made to suffer in conse- quence of the extravagant measures of this Republican Legislature. Such an expedient would be a disgrace to the State and a shameful example of the effects of profligate government. An Example That Should Be Imitated. Suk Governor Hastings and the Repub. lican Legislature of this State might, in one particular at least, have taken ex- ample from President CLEVELAND and the last Democratic Congress. If they had done so, the people of Penuosyl- vania would have been greatly benefit ed. The Governor and his Legislature are enlarging the number of public officers and increasing their salaries, while President CLEVELAND and his cabinet have reduced the civil service expense by cutting off the offices at Washington by the hundreds. The Legislature is piling up the state ex pensee to such an extent that new sources of revenue will be necessary to pay them, while the Fifty-third Con. The arguments in support of the! | gress cut down government expenses ! more than $47,000,000, as compared | with the appropriations of the last Re- | publican Congress. i It is true that Pennsylvania is a rich | State, but that does not justify the { Governor and Legislature in robbing | ber taxpasers. They should follow | the Democratic example of economy. ——— ~==Do you read the WATCHMAN, ance of revenue to support this ex- | of the steadily decreasing financial | product of the BoYER revenue law: The Promised Short Session. When the State Legislature conven- ed at the beginning of the year it was given out that it was going to have a very short session. The flattering announcement; was made that after nec: essary legislation had been attended to, which some said could be done at least by the first of March, there would be a final adjournment and the law- makers would go home to receive the plaudits of their constituents. Those who knew what kind of ma- terial the majority of this Legislature was composed of placed no confidence in the promise of a short session. They bad reason to expect that much time would be devoted to the enactment of partisan measures. They couldn’t doubt but that the demand for more offices and larger salaries would em- ploy so much of the attention of such law-makers as to prolong their stay at Harrisburg. Instead of the promised early ad- journment the middle of April finds them still in session, with nothing to show for the substantial interest of the people, but a great deal done that will prove to be a public detriment. The expense of running the State govern- ment has been increased by enlarging the official service. New offices and bigger pay have been conceded to greedy place hunters. Time has been consumed in attending to the demands of oath-bound fanatice clamoring for sectarian legislation and the persecu- tion of foreign born citizens. Corpora tions like the Standard oil company had to have their interests attended to, occupying the time and attention that ghould have been given to legislation asked for by the wage-earners. Thelo- cal claim of Philadelphia, to an appro- priation of State funds for the improve- ment of her harbor, is given promi- nence as a legislative measure that must be considered. New courts and more judges are urged as necessary ad- ditions to the judicial machinery. Provision for party hirelings of the DELANEY order requires attention that { helps to consume the session, and much time and figuring are necessary | in making up apportionment bills that | will defeat, as far as possible, the ob. { Ject of fair and equal representation, | and convert the judiciary into a politi- cal machine. This is the kind of business that has | prevented the promise of a shortsession from being realized. In all probabil- ity the month of June will find the Legislature still at Harrisburg with no revenue bill passed to supply the defi- ciency in the Treasury caused by ex- travagant Republican legislation. Reflux of the Tidal Wave. political tidal wave ot last year would suddenly subside, but elections recent- ly held in some of the States show that a turn in the tide has at least commenced. This is particularly notice- able in Ohio where in many towns and cities the Democrats made large gains, carrying localities which last year were swept by the Republican cyclone. This is significant in a State like Ohio, which is peculiarly susceptible to political reactions. A change in Ohio is a pretty sure indication of a turn in the tide. The aggregate result of this spring’s elections in that State indicates a subsidence of the ‘‘calam- ity” influence, and is anything but encouraging to McKINLEY’S presi dential aspirations. It indicates a re- turn to a common sense view as to the causes of the business depression, and a conviction io the public mind that it was not attributable to the reductions that have been made in the tariff. When ounce the people fall into this right way of thinking, as they appear to be doing in Ohio, the change of sentiment will be strongly in favor of the Democrats. We shall see more of it at next fall’s election, and growing stronger with the general restoration of industrial activity and prosperity, it will be overwhelmingly in evidence at he next presidential election. —— The verdict against the Phila- delphia Times of $45,000 in the libel suit brought by ex-mayor WiLrLiay B. Swyirh, will bardly scare the veteran editor of the Times from his commend- able crusade for political reform in Philadelphia. Col. McCLURE bas been on the side of right and knows that justice, and not himself, has been tra duced. It was too much to expect that the | Death of R. Bruce Petriken. From the Altoona Times. Major R. Bruce Petriken, of Hunt- ingdon, died in Philadelyhia, on Sun- day night, from an affection of the throat, which had developed into can- cer. He had been under treatment for monthe and his death was expected. R. Bruce Petriken was one of the most prominent lawyers in this section of the state and had a distinguished career. He was born in Muncy, Pa., onthe 12th of September, 1826, and was, therefore, in his 69th year when he responded tothe call of death. He received a collegiate education at Lafayette college, and his early train, ing, supplemented by later studies- earned him the deserved reputation of being a fine scholar. In his youth he removed to the town of Huntingdon, and in the year 1847 he began the study or law in the office of Andrew P. Wilson, of that place, Mr. Petriken wasadmitted to the bar in 1849 and almost immediately at- tained a lucrative practice as an at- torney. At the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as a private and was elevated to the rank ef major. He served with distinction and at the close of hostili- ities resumed the prace of the law. Elected to the state senate in 1870, Mr. Petriken held the office for three years with much credit to himself and with benefit to bis constituency. He was a Democrat in politics. Mr. Betriken was a member of the Presbyterian church, the Masonic fra- ternity and the Grand Army of the Re- public. His remains will be interred in Huntingdon this afternoon. Oh Me, Oh My, How Democratic Legislation Helps Things. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. English shoe manufacturers are showing considerable alarm over the importations of American shoes, A correspondent of the London 7Zimes, writing from Leicester, quotes a man- ufacturer at that place as saying that three-fourths of the leather used in the Leicester trade is of American tanning, and that a certain cheap shoe import- ed from America would cost in making in Leicester about oneshilling per pair, whereas it cost in America but eight pence. The United States not only has the home market for its shoe trade, but, by reason of improved machinery, skilled labor and free hides, it is en- abled to enter into competition abroad. TE ET, Sacrificing Education to Political Heel- ers. From the Clearfield Public Spirit. The attempt of Gov. Hasting and his hungry office-holders to take $2,000,- 000 off the appropriation from the Pub- lic Schools of the State and apply it to paying the salaries of a lot of new of- ficers, whom ex-Governor Pattison and his cabinet got along well without either the added clerks or expense, seems and indeed is & blow very little expected by the friends of the Common Schools which are looked upon as the bulwark of our free institutions, and the boon of the poor man’s child. The professions of candidates during a campaign too often count for nothing after the elec- tion is over and the glib politician is se- cure in his seat at Harrisburg. High Tariffs Do Not Keep [Away Ca- lamity. From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Canadian revenues seem to have fall- en off worse than our own this year, Canada has no Democratie Congress and nobody has been tinkering with her tariff, which is strongly protective, but business bas been poor over there ,and the treasury faces a deficit. The loss in March was about $800,000, while for the year ending July 1, the deficit will not be less than $5,000,000. Last year on April 1, there was = surplus of over $4,000,000 but the year ended with a deficit of over a million. The financial showing in Canada this year is said to be the worst in her history. This 1s Common Sense. From Cleveland's Chicago Letter. “It is utterly impossible that any one in our broad land, rich or poor, whatever may be his occupation and whether dwelling in a center ot finance and commerce or in remote corner of our domain, can be really benefited by a financial scheme not alike beneficial to all our people, or that any one should be excluded from a common and universal interest in the safe character and stable value of the cur- rency of the country.” ft ————————————— Everything Propitious. From the Philadelphia Record. The Easter flowers and the orange blossoms are harmonizing their tints and commingling their scents. Easter- time is marrying time; and with low prices for everything except beef and lamp oil, and no income tax to speak of, there has rarely been a better year for folks to marry in. Only a Nominal Difference. From the Butler Democratic Herald. Oscar Wilde stands in a fair way to serve a term in prison, for thinking he lived in Sodom instead of London, but then after all the difference in the two places is not so much in fact as in name and in date, Spawls from the Keystone, —Pittsburg will have a 15story office building for lawyers. —Anthracite collieries will be operated only three days this week. —A fallof coalin a Mahanoy colliery crushed lifeless Andrew Dwyer. —A break in a main produced a serious water famine Tuesday at Pittsburg. —Little Madge Shrader was fatally in- jured at Washington by a locomotive. —Dr. W. F. Marks tumbled 15 feet down a well at Reading and was badly hurt. —Ex-County Treasurer Adam Dundore is dangerously ill at his Reading home. —Scranton horseshoers have combined to force poor-paying customers to settle. —Jail-breaker Peter Mattern, at Greens- burg, has been sent to prison 1or eight years. —John Fenstermacher, a farmerin War- wick, Lancaster County hanged himself to a tree. —Daniel Drawbaugh will build a tele- phone factory at Meyerstown to employ 50 hands, —Many Southern negroes have arrived in the Sharon district to work in the soft coal mines. —An incipient boyeott of Hamburg post office has been nipped in the bud by postal authorities. —Josephine Rosette, of Shamokin, is in jail charged with the murder of her in- fant daughter. - —There are 69 personsin the Ebensburg jail and 150 persons in the Cambria coun- ty Poorhouse. —After an idleness of three months the large Honeybrook mine, in Luzerne County, resumed. —Wilkesbarre’s Board of Trade will be re-organized to make a vigorous effort to secure new industries, —Thomas Berry, of Paterson, N. J., was caught between cars at Harrisburg and died from his injuries. —Assemblyman M. B. Lemon, of Alle- gheny County, is reported to be dying in a New York city hotel. Governor Hastings’ commissioners are up in Luzeane County to survey the pro- posed new Grow County. —The trial of E. K. Smith, the ex-banker -| of Columbia, for alleged embezzlement, has again been postponed. —The international convention of the Young Women’s Christian Assoeiation meets at Pittsburg April 18, —Many Slavs, who have been employee in York County, are going to Alabama and other Southern States. —One of the nest of boilers at Corbin Colliery, Shamckin, blew up Monday wrecking the boiler house. —1It is believed that the murdered man found last week at Dickson City was Michael Yancy, of Shamokin, — Western Pennsylvania soft coal min, ers declare that company stores are the greatest evil that afflicts them. —While on the way to visit his old home at Hecla, Schuylkill County, Stephen Greenwald dropped dead in the road. —Coal miners of Western Pennsylvania will hold a convention at Philipsburg to-day to discuss the wage question. —With a bullet hole in his head, the body of Vante Marchetti was found near Hazleton, being the victim of a murderer. —A hundred metal wheelers at Car negie’s Homestead steel mill struck Mon- day for an advance of 20 cents a day wages. —M. G. Van Wagner, of Greenville, who was chloroformed and robbed last week, was struck by an engine on Sunday and killed. —Hon. Charles R. Buckalew is slightly improved in condition, and the latest news from Bloomsburg is that he may recover. —Convicted of a serious crime at Waynesburg, Rev. Williams, a Methodist preacher, was sent to the work-house for six months. —Divers near Montoursville are search. ing for the body of John Powers, a woods- man, who was drowned by the breaking of a log jam. —Luzerne County Auditors: warn the Commissioners that they will not pass favorably on bills for a contemplated new Court House. —Milk dealers at and near Pittsburg have formed a combine similar to. that in Philadelphia, and will buy all the milk the farmers can produce. —Her clothing, upon which coal oil had been spilled, caught fire, fatally burning the little daughter of Wm. Brennan, at New Castle, Schuylkill County. —The triennial assessment values the seated lands in Clearfleld county at #7, 341,111, unseated lands at $2,917,582, coal right at $1,606,413, with an aggregate value on houses lots of $6,867,292. —Rev. Jacob Yeung, an Evangelical preacher, dropped dead in Williamsport, on Saturday afternoon of heart failure. Rev. Young was on Pine street near the Reading depot when he fell. —The hardware store of J. P. Degen. hardt, €. W. Sickles’s grocery, C. H. Krause's barber shop and W. L. Parry's confectionery store at Altooaa were de- stroyed by fire Thursday. The rooms over the stores were oceupied by people who lost all their household goods. —A shocking accident in which a young man named Will Boyd, of Johnstown, oe- curred Friday afternoon. Young Boyd raised up in front of a gun justas his com. panion, Victory West, aimed to shoot a duck. The gun was discharged at the very instant, theload taking full effect in Boyd's body. The vietim died in fifteen minutes. : —In West Liberty, near DuBois, Mrs. Nick VanDevender and her son Willie, Smith Lobaugh and Clarence Keel, were badly poisoned by eating sweet root which Mrs. VanDevender had pulled out of the garden, and which she thought was burdock. The timely arrival of a physician and the administering of anti- dotes, saved their lives. —The Huntingdon Monitor says the sight of a corpse that has lain under the ground for a long time is anything but a pleasant one. The other day a body that had been buried a long time was removed from one part of Riverview cemetery to another, and during the removal the face was ex” posed. Besides other chilling spectacles it wasseen that the hair continued to grow and had almost wholly covered the face. Ee ma TS TTR 0,
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