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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
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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 ?
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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.
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~==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.”
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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.
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